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I made my first 20 Bucks with PayPerPost! 2008-01-24 10:12:00 This info comes a bit late, but anyway, I´m happy to tell you that my first sponsored post from PayPerPost
got approved. I made $20 (as every new member will get for the first post) and I´m really happy with it.But it wasn´t that easy to get my approval. Actually the post got rejected before. I got a mail saying that the PPP team had to reject my submitted post because I´ve already written another sponsored one just before. The preceding article was about Pay-Per-Play and it wasn´t a sponsored one.So I wrote a kindly mail to the PPP support and got a response within hours. They apologized for accidentaly rejecting my post and approved it later. I just want to mention that here, because the support is really great, friendly people and fast responses!Bye,Querblogger
Adbux is down... 2008-01-22 13:15:00 ... at least for the moment.Currently there are many rumors on different forums and blogs, because Adbux, a nice PTC site where you can earn by clicking ads and doing free and trial offers, is down. Many people think that the Adbux team turns out to be scammers, especially members on Bux.to do some heavy discussions about that topic.Both mentioned PTC sites have a bad relationship since Adbux suspected Bux.to for stealing their website script. On the other side the Bux.to members suspect the owner of Adbux to be a big scammer, namely Chad French, who already scammed his members on Netbux (another PTC site that´s now down). There is a nice article on MrGPT about this topic.Personally I don´t see it a such a bad sign if a web server fails for some days. Usually this happens if there´s a t
10 Useful Affiliate Marketing Resources 2008-03-13 13:38:00 In order to make money online, and here I mean more than just some 50 dollars a month, you have to learn a lot of skills and techniques, especially about affiliate marketing. So, I can't help you by providing any in-depth knowledge I've already learned by myself (I'm still a noob), but I can give you some good resources from where you can start. The following list contains 10 useful (and free) resources to learn more about affiliate marketing. Beside many other resources, I personally use these tools and information I find them very valuable.1. WickedfireWickedfire is a real awesome forum that mainly concentrates on affiliate marketing. There you'll find a lot of good infos about the different aspects involved in marketing. It's also a great place to find ideas that you can easily adopt by Read more:Useful
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Get Free Backlinks with Directory Submitter! 2008-03-11 12:45:00 You may or may not know that website directory submission is quickly becoming a very popular and easy way to get quality, one way links to your website. The more backlinks you'll generate for your site, the higher your rankings in the search engines. These kind of links are exactly what the search engines are looking for. The websites with more quality, one way links are typically the sites that rank the highest.With that said, there are several websites dircetory submission programs on the market. But the best one I found so far was created by Brad Callen and is called DirectorySubmitter
. The software currently contains around 2200 website directories. And the best thing is, the free edition contains 350 of them! Imagine the impact on your search engine rankings for your blog or website!
The eBay Standalone Affiliate Program 2008-03-17 15:01:00 Weird post title? You're right, I haven't found a better one such fast. But the major news behind this title is great (at least I hope so)!Maybe you can remember one of my posts about becoming an eBay affiliate from outside the USA? If not, just let me tell you that it can be very difficult to register for the US based affiliate network if you resides somewhere outside the USA. But why eBay USA? Well, it brings higher comissions and a much broader target market then eBay UK for example.Ok, now the major news. eBay has just announced today that they will start their very own affiliate program by April 1st. That means, no more CJ.com registration is required to join their network. And the best fact, they will globalize (!) their program. According to their news release they state:"Easy glob Read more:Affiliate
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Bum Marketing Experiment - Intro 2008-03-19 13:43:00 At the moment I'm involved in investigating a really nice money making opportunity called Bum Marketing
. Basically, it's a way to make money online without investing a single cent. Therefore it's called "Bum" Marketing, because even a bum from the street could (in theory) start earning a nice income online without paying anything for it.The basic idea behind this marketing method is the following. First, you have to search a product you want to promote. It should be a niche product that people really want to buy. For example a uber-great ebook about magic methods for losing weight without doing any hard work on it (Ok, it's probably an ugly example... :)Second thing is keyword research. Look for long-tail keywords with high search volume and less competition ( Read more:Experiment
Paid.vg - Still Waiting for First Payments 2008-03-24 05:46:00 On February 25th I've made my first cashout request on Paid.vg, a really good PTC sites comparable to Bux.to. I've requested $12.50 nearly a month ago, but so far I didn't receive my payout. I've done some research in the forums and it seems some people already got paid the last days. I hope I will receive my first bucks too. My current account balance is now at $24, thanks to my 7 referrals who click eveyday. If it turns out that they really pay, Paid.vg seems like a very good money maker.See you,QuerbloggerPS: I know, it's only a short post. But there are Easter holidays here, henece the lack of updates...
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Bux.to Card Approved 2008-03-25 07:04:00 On March 7th I have ordered the new Bux.to Mastercard. Today, after waiting for nearly 20 days, I finally got a mail from Payoneer with those nice words "your card got approved" :)You may ask why I'm telling you this? Well, I will encourage all the people that are still waiting for their card to get approved. The Payoneer staff has a lot of hard work to do, because many thousand people are applying for the Mastercard. So, for some people it may even take longer before they'll get their card. But the card will come!Now I'm waiting for the card to be send to me by mail. I think it will take some days, because I'm from Germany and the card will be shipped from the USA. But, as long as I'll get the card, I'll feel happy.I'll keep you informed on further updates regarding the card!Ciao,Querblog
Ucash.in - Short Update 2008-03-29 07:30:00 It was exactly 2 month ago since I had joined Ucash.in, an URL shortening site that pays you for every click generated on one of the shortened links you provide to your readers. To find out more about the benefits of this service, you can read my short Ucash.in review first!Now it's time for a short recap about my earnings. But before anybody gets too excited here, let me tell you that I haven't made too much. It was only $0.60 in those 2 month...But (yes there's a but here), those earnings were mainly from my referrals alone. The last two month I was able to directly refer 12 people to Ucash.in. And by the way, you must know that there's a 10-level deep referral program and so far I only have refs on the first level. I'm still waiting for some more refs in the levels below.All in all I wo Read more:Short
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Experiment nearly over now - Drumroll please! 2008-03-31 14:13:00 Only some hours are left and my Making Money Experiment
will come to an end, at least phase one (more info will follow).I won't go into the details here, but tomorrow I will write my sixth month report, where you will find a big summary of my progress and some future outlooks. Don't think my experiment is completely over now, the first six month were only phase one, there's definitely more to come!Btw, this post was post number 99 and it makes perfect sense to end phase one with post number 100 tomorrow ;)Cheers,Querblogger
Sixth Month Report! 2008-04-01 10:40:00 It's over now, today I will close my Making Money Experiment and you'll never see me again. Ok, it's a real lame april fool I know ;) No really, phase one of my experiment is over now after six month. Now I'll enter phase two with my blog and set me some higher goals than only making $100 within six month. But before I'll present you my monthly statistics as usual.In March I made my second highest "income" on my whole blogging journey. I made $30, which only gets topped from my January earnings where I made 40 bucks. I'm overly happy about this statsitics, not only because I've reached nearly 150% of my initially goal. All in all I made a total of $145 which comes down to an average of $24 a month. It's peanuts I know, but I have learned some useful lessons while making those bucks.The bes Read more:Sixth
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I'm busy... 2008-04-06 07:06:00 Hi, I'm still alive! I must excuse for the lack of updates lately, but I'm very busy at the moment. I'm just working on my first niche website where I will promote a Clickbank product. Therefore I have to write some good articles for doing article marketing, set up a new website with domain and work on search engine optimization (SEO) to boost the search engine rankings for my targeted keywords. I can't reveal more details yet, sorry. :)The whole niche website story is part of my new goal for my Making Money Experiment, to make way more money than only $100 within six month. But, as already promised in my sixth month report, I'll give you more details soon.Till later,Querblogger
The new Adbux is on the way! 2008-04-10 14:31:26 Today I got a mail from Adbux with some hot information that I will share with you, unless you have already got the same mail. Adbux celebrates its first birthday and the team is about adding more stunning features to their PTC program in May.
There are some really nice features to come to Adbux within [...]
My Feedburner Link is down! 2008-04-09 09:26:34 I feel sorry, but after moving my blog to a self-hosted Wordpress install, my feedburner feed has totally messed up. I’m looking for a fix, but it seems nobody can help me. Feedburner doesn’t accept my Wordpress feed, although it is valid. I don’t know the reason for this.
I hope I won’t lose all of [...]
The Making Money Experiment is under construction! 2008-04-08 17:21:47 You may have noticed that I’m working on a new blog design again. But this time everything is a bit different than my last design change some month ago.
At the moment I’m heavily working on porting my old Blogger blog to Wordpress (which I have already done when you read that post here). So I’ve [...] Read more:Money
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Paid.vg Scam Alert?! 2008-04-14 10:39:27 Today I checked my Paid.vg account again to see if my first payment has finally been sent to my Alert
pay account. But, as I already expected, no money was sent. I’m waiting since February 25th on my first $13 payout and the Paid.vg TOS states that payments will be send within 30 days. So, even [...]
Will Stumble for Links! 2008-04-17 11:59:21 Everybody likes them, everybody needs them. Free Stumbles! You don’t know what I’m talking about? Ok, let me tell you in short and find out how to get free Stumbles from me!
First of all, a Stumble is comparable to a vote on a website or blog you like. If you have installed the StumbleUpon toolbar, [...]
Bux.to - New Referrals - Approaching the Payout Limit 2008-04-16 13:30:13 Three days ago I bought another 15 referrals from Bux.to and today they arrived and brought me the first clicks. Within only one day I got around $1.00 from these referrals and with my whole account balance I’m heading towards the $75 payout limit. I think I can make my first cash request to my [...] Read more:Approaching
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Amazon Mechanical Turk - Paid Crowdsourcing 2008-04-21 13:03:01 Today I want to present you another nice money maker called Amazon
Mechanical Turk, which is kind of different compared to simple Paid-to-click sites and such. The service has been around since 2005, but so far I had no time to test it by myself. But some days ago I gave it a try and [...]
NeoBux - Brand new PTC - Payments within 2 Days! 2008-04-24 15:26:00 On my search for fresh new money making opportunities on the net, I came across a new Paid-to-click (PTC) site called NeoBux. And I must say, I was immediately amazed as I took a first look on this site.
At a first glance, NeoBux looks like any other PTC site that’s currently on the market. You [...] Read more:Brand
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Big Launch Day Ahead! 2008-04-29 10:04:28 To make it short, within the next few days several money making programs will launch their services or introduce brand new features. It seems like April and May are very popular months for a fresh start.
Ok, the first service in the list is the Fair Ads Network. I’ve already reported about this advertising [...] Read more:Launch
Seventh Month Report! 2008-05-01 08:02:37 Once again it’s time for a new report. April is over now and I’m glad to say that it made me the highest monthly income so far. It’s also the first time I made an affiliate sale, I will tell about it in short.
Besides porting my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted Wordpress install, April [...] Read more:Month
NeoBux has gone live! 2008-05-01 06:56:03 The new PTC site called NeoBux has now gone live and I have already made my first cents from clicking. With help of 5 referrals (3 active ones), I made a total of $0.175. I know this doesn’t sound like much, but it’s not bad for a PTC site with only 5 refs, trust me [...]
NeoBux - I made my first Dollar! 2008-05-05 12:30:39 Some days ago I reported about NeoBux, a new and professional looking PTC site. They call themselve the “innovation in PTC” and I can only say that’s true. Compared to other sites where you make money from clicking ads, NeoBux offers some new and even better features like instant payments, low minimum payouts starting from [...] Read more:Dollar
Affiliate Marketing - How I Made My First Sale 2008-05-09 12:35:13 Today I will give you a real life example on how I made my first affiliate sale from a niche site. Before you read on, please don’t expect some secrets in this post on how to become rich overnight! If you really want to earn money online, you have to work hard for it!. Ok, [...] Read more:Affiliate
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NeoBux - Instant Payments are Real! 2008-05-12 08:25:08 Some days ago I joined NeoBux, a new and nice PTC site that just started on April 30th. So far I referred 12 new members to this site and, with help of their and my own clicks, I already reached my first minimum payout level of only 2 Dollar.
So, the NeoBux team promises to [...]
Domain Names 101 - Learn Everything About Domains 2008-05-15 13:17:08 My friend Tiberius Burciu, owner of My PPC Advertising, has just recently started a new project. He created a new website that deals about everything you want to know about domain names. It provides some good info and today I will give a short review on his new site and also talk about some money [...] Read more:Names
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Bux.to - My Current Stats 2008-05-19 12:56:03 After a long time without too many updates about my progress with Bux.to, I will give you some more in-depth details about my current situation with this nice money maker. I will give you some statistics about my referral count, click rates, earnings and current news about Bux.to in general.
Bux.to - The Best PTC Ever
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TNX.net - Increase your Traffic - Make Money from Selling Links 2008-05-22 14:59:05 A long time ago, as I was searching for new traffic sources for my blog, I came across a site called TNX.net. I didn’t care much about it, until I recently realised that I had missed a real great service. You may ask what such a great service could be? Let me explain!
To put it [...] Read more:Money
My Second Affiliate Sale, Yeah! 2008-05-26 10:41:37 Around 2 week ago I wrote about how I made my first sale from affiliate marketing. I told you that there’s some good work involved in setting up an affiliate site, e.g. filling it with content or promoting it in order to get more traffic. I also told you, that such sites most times pay [...] Read more:Second
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