Shaun asks:
"how long does it take to get your blog listed on the seach engines? You can send your answer to my new blog http://shaungymcycle.blogspot.com If you're wondering I picked this site at random. Thanks for any help. Shaun."
Well, I'm glad my blogs are listed on the random blog selectors. As for yours Shaun, you'll find that blogger takes a few weeks to list your blog in its search directory. If you've got Adsense putting Google ads on your blog will speed it up.
You could try notifying non-Google search engines directly. www.freewebsubmission.com or www.submitexpress.com will speed up the process.
Once you're listed to notify blog updates directly try http://pingomatic.com .
Hope this helps, Shaun!
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Where to from here?
I've been trying to make money online since April, with not much success at all.
The best survey site I've been using is Valued Opinions...with an $18 credit and $10.50 pending credit, I'll be able to walk away with $A30 in vouchers for my Christmas shopping.
Adsense has ended up best for advertising revenue on my blogs. Mainly because you can put it anywhere, and steadily reap the benefits. My current balance is $US18.21, pretty useless, considering I can't get the money until my balance reaches $US100. Its taken me six months to get this far, at this rate it will be another 2 years before I get paid!
So where to now? I've long since given up on getting traffic to my blogs from online communities like myspace and orkut. It was too time consuming, I got plenty of traffic, but no money. The next thing I tried was my own community search engines, Swickis like the one on this page. I've been getting a steady stream of traffic through them, but the income generated is still very low. I worked out I'd have to create 50 or more Swickis to get an Adsense cheque by next Christmas.
I'm heading for the job search sites. By my calculations they're a much better place to make some spare cash.
The best survey site I've been using is Valued Opinions...with an $18 credit and $10.50 pending credit, I'll be able to walk away with $A30 in vouchers for my Christmas shopping.
Adsense has ended up best for advertising revenue on my blogs. Mainly because you can put it anywhere, and steadily reap the benefits. My current balance is $US18.21, pretty useless, considering I can't get the money until my balance reaches $US100. Its taken me six months to get this far, at this rate it will be another 2 years before I get paid!
So where to now? I've long since given up on getting traffic to my blogs from online communities like myspace and orkut. It was too time consuming, I got plenty of traffic, but no money. The next thing I tried was my own community search engines, Swickis like the one on this page. I've been getting a steady stream of traffic through them, but the income generated is still very low. I worked out I'd have to create 50 or more Swickis to get an Adsense cheque by next Christmas.
I'm heading for the job search sites. By my calculations they're a much better place to make some spare cash.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
I Still Don't Get It.
I still don't get it. I'm just not making money out of this online venture. Not from Adsense, from Swickis I've created or from banner advertising.
I should explain what a Swicki is. Swickis are community search engines - you can target the results of the searches to go to the best sites for your topics. Immediately I created my first Swicki - the Joke Swicki, people suddenly started using it. The only problem was they didn't go anywhere near the advertising.
I think most people making money from advertising on blogs are cheating. Getting all their friends to click on their pages. I've been asking my friends not to click, but I'm still getting clicks in the last half of each month and not the first half. Are people trying to increase revenue in the second half to get paid at the end of the month? What's going on?
I should explain what a Swicki is. Swickis are community search engines - you can target the results of the searches to go to the best sites for your topics. Immediately I created my first Swicki - the Joke Swicki, people suddenly started using it. The only problem was they didn't go anywhere near the advertising.
I think most people making money from advertising on blogs are cheating. Getting all their friends to click on their pages. I've been asking my friends not to click, but I'm still getting clicks in the last half of each month and not the first half. Are people trying to increase revenue in the second half to get paid at the end of the month? What's going on?
Saturday, June 17, 2006
International Bloggers Day
Wednesday was International Bloggers Day.
To celebrate, I've decided to compile a list of my earnings to date.
1. Adsense. Current Balance $US2.65 . Google will pay only when the balance reaches $US100. Maybe I'll get a cheque in a few years.
2.
Clixgalore Affiliate Marketing. 40 Australian cents and 150 Indian Rupees.
3. Valued Opinions $AUS12.50 from three surveys. I can actually claim a $10 voucher!
4. Ciao surveys 1 survey @ about $4. Can't be claimed yet.
5. EmailCash 500 points, equivalent to about $AUS5. I need $31 to claim a reward. At this rate that would take a year. To be honest, EmailCash isn't really a survey site. Its a loyalty program. The best way of earning points from EmailCash is to buy things from their partner sites.
6. WhatDoYouThink 723 points, which can get me a $20 BBs coffee voucher. Otherwise I have to wait another year until I get above 1000 points for any other rewards. Anyone ever heard of BBs coffee?
And the winner so far is... Valued Opinions. What a pity they don't have an Affiliate program, so I can increase my revenue. Maybe its because they don't need one.
To celebrate, I've decided to compile a list of my earnings to date.
1. Adsense. Current Balance $US2.65 . Google will pay only when the balance reaches $US100. Maybe I'll get a cheque in a few years.
2.
Clixgalore Affiliate Marketing. 40 Australian cents and 150 Indian Rupees.
3. Valued Opinions $AUS12.50 from three surveys. I can actually claim a $10 voucher!
4. Ciao surveys 1 survey @ about $4. Can't be claimed yet.
5. EmailCash 500 points, equivalent to about $AUS5. I need $31 to claim a reward. At this rate that would take a year. To be honest, EmailCash isn't really a survey site. Its a loyalty program. The best way of earning points from EmailCash is to buy things from their partner sites.
6. WhatDoYouThink 723 points, which can get me a $20 BBs coffee voucher. Otherwise I have to wait another year until I get above 1000 points for any other rewards. Anyone ever heard of BBs coffee?
And the winner so far is... Valued Opinions. What a pity they don't have an Affiliate program, so I can increase my revenue. Maybe its because they don't need one.
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Making 12 cents with Adsense
Adsense wouldn't advertise on this Blog, so I created a new one. JokeVault . As soon as I started posting to it, people started reading! My free counter from Bravenet started ticking, before I had even told anyone it existed. It turns out that whenever its advertised as updated on blogspot, people come to read it.
Good, I have some visitors, now for the revenue. I reapplied for Adsense and was accepted. Contextual ads started appearing. Great. Only problem is, its not making any money. My google adsense account is currently listing about 600 page impressions (thats 600 times the ad has been viewed) and I've only got 12 cents in my Adsense account. To earn $10 I would need 50000 page impressions. To earn $1000 I would need 5 million ad views. Is it just me, or is there a problem here?
Good, I have some visitors, now for the revenue. I reapplied for Adsense and was accepted. Contextual ads started appearing. Great. Only problem is, its not making any money. My google adsense account is currently listing about 600 page impressions (thats 600 times the ad has been viewed) and I've only got 12 cents in my Adsense account. To earn $10 I would need 50000 page impressions. To earn $1000 I would need 5 million ad views. Is it just me, or is there a problem here?
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Not advertising with Adsense
Adsense is a wonderful scheme from Google for putting their advertisements all over everyone else's web sites at their advertisers' expense. Apparently the quickest and easiest way to get adsense is to set up a blog here on Blogger and apply from here first. I did, but Google refused on the grounds of "Page Type".
"Page type: We currently don't accept websites that offer incentives
(monetary or point-based) to users or third-party beneficiaries for
online activity including, but not limited to, clicking on ads or
links, performing searches, surfing websites, reading emails, or
completing surveys."
I changed the blog. Got rid of bits talking about exactly how much money you can make from resource-a-day. Got rid of a couple of other links. Applied again.
Same answer.
I give up. Google can keep their enormous adverising revenue away from this Blog.
"Page type: We currently don't accept websites that offer incentives
(monetary or point-based) to users or third-party beneficiaries for
online activity including, but not limited to, clicking on ads or
links, performing searches, surfing websites, reading emails, or
completing surveys."
I changed the blog. Got rid of bits talking about exactly how much money you can make from resource-a-day. Got rid of a couple of other links. Applied again.
Same answer.
I give up. Google can keep their enormous adverising revenue away from this Blog.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
A survey from Email Cash
28 April 2006
Just checked my EmailCash points balance. I have 131 points and 6 exp. At this rate I will have enough points to play their online guessing game in 4 weeks. In a year, I might have enough points to convert into a small voucher.
30 April 2006
EmailCash actually sent me a survey. It took about 15 minutes, and earned me 200 points, equivalent to about $2! Its not going to make me rich, but it is REAL.
Just checked my EmailCash points balance. I have 131 points and 6 exp. At this rate I will have enough points to play their online guessing game in 4 weeks. In a year, I might have enough points to convert into a small voucher.
30 April 2006
EmailCash actually sent me a survey. It took about 15 minutes, and earned me 200 points, equivalent to about $2! Its not going to make me rich, but it is REAL.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Paid Surveys
Pinecone Research
A few years back I responded to an ad asking for women 18-35 for online surveys. It turned out to be with PineCone Research in the UK. They sent me a survey every month or thereabouts, I filled it in for 20 minutes and I got a whole lot of vouchers for free lunches.
It was a fine scheme, and I've been looking for something similar ever since.
**Pinecone Research don't take sign-ups from their web page.
What Do You Think?
I signed up to www.whatdoyouthink.com.au about a year ago, thinking they would send me enough surveys to get a voucher or two. My PC broke down a few weeks later and I missed the only survey invitation they ever sent me. A year later I am still reading all their email ads, but still haven't built up enough points to get any reward.
Surfing around for other surveys, I found www.valuedopinions.com.au a few weeks ago. So far I've had one survey request, but didn't qualify for the full survey and don't qualify for any reward.
Today I found and joined EmailCash. It's a survey site too, but with 400,000 members, I'm not sure I'm going to get any surveys. Still, they do have some good discounts for online shopping sites.
A few years back I responded to an ad asking for women 18-35 for online surveys. It turned out to be with PineCone Research in the UK. They sent me a survey every month or thereabouts, I filled it in for 20 minutes and I got a whole lot of vouchers for free lunches.
It was a fine scheme, and I've been looking for something similar ever since.
**Pinecone Research don't take sign-ups from their web page.
What Do You Think?
I signed up to www.whatdoyouthink.com.au about a year ago, thinking they would send me enough surveys to get a voucher or two. My PC broke down a few weeks later and I missed the only survey invitation they ever sent me. A year later I am still reading all their email ads, but still haven't built up enough points to get any reward.
Surfing around for other surveys, I found www.valuedopinions.com.au a few weeks ago. So far I've had one survey request, but didn't qualify for the full survey and don't qualify for any reward.
Today I found and joined EmailCash. It's a survey site too, but with 400,000 members, I'm not sure I'm going to get any surveys. Still, they do have some good discounts for online shopping sites.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Resource-a-day
Ever heard of resource-a-day? The creators of this scheme are making money out of people's lack of ability to add. In theory you are rewarded for receiving advertising, but when you look at the fine print, you discover that you have to sign up 40 active members to receive a single cheque. The 40 members have to remain active for 2 months. If you read the fine print on the newsletter it says you have to click on two advertisements to remain active. 2 ads a day?
On the up side, there are a few good links to basic internet marketing information.
My verdict: There's no way I'll last 2 months membership with resource-a-day.
On the up side, there are a few good links to basic internet marketing information.
My verdict: There's no way I'll last 2 months membership with resource-a-day.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Some Freebies From Referralware
A week ago I got a pop-up which led to Referralware. They offered a 1 month free trial, so I gave it a try. I got some good freebies...a how to make money on ebay ebook, & a whole library of other ebooks, some business training, and a link to couple of free airfares on a site which doesn't exist.
What is Referralware? Google gave me a few links, including review, which says that the referralware business is just there to take your membership fees.
To continue with Referalware beyond the month I have to pay $50. Should I pay?
What is Referralware? Google gave me a few links, including review, which says that the referralware business is just there to take your membership fees.
To continue with Referalware beyond the month I have to pay $50. Should I pay?
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Paid survey sites for Australian residents
Ciao surveys. For non-Australian residents, go to their international site.
EmailCash
It's a survey site with 400,000 members, but it does send real paying surveys.
www.whatdoyouthink.com.au
I must be in the wrong demographic for this site & never get any surveys.
www.valuedopinions.com.au
EmailCash
It's a survey site with 400,000 members, but it does send real paying surveys.
www.whatdoyouthink.com.au
I must be in the wrong demographic for this site & never get any surveys.
www.valuedopinions.com.au
Paid Surveys for US Residents
NeilsenNetPanel.com
Entries in a quarterly sweepstake. 50 winners each quarter. No payment per survey.
SurveyNetworks.com
Sweepstakes entries.
Ecnresearch.com
Open to US and Canadian residents. Sweepstakes, coupons, offers and discounts. Signup to other survey companies. Website has a strange layout with multiple front pages. I would be interested to hear whether this site is really offering paid surveys.
Greenfieldonline.com
Non-US residents are sent elsewhere when trying to register.
Paid surveys waiting to be completed in the members area at Greenfield.
Your2cents
Accepts US and Canadian residents over the age of 18.
Payment of between $1 and $5 per survey.
American consumer opinion
All registered members participate in a monthly drawing to win $250 in cash awards, just for being a member. If you participate in a survey (a longer questionnaire), you will always receive some type of incentive (a free product to test, cash, a check, or a gift). Incentives typically range in value from $4 to $50, per survey or focus group, depending upon the length of the questionnaire and the time it takes to complete it. Simply fill out surveys for money. Participants in online focus groups generally receive more than $25.
Discount Coupons:
www.microsite.coupons.com
Offers discount coupons for grocery items to members.
Current sweepstake for free groceries for a year.
An affiliate program for referals from high traffice websites.
Entries in a quarterly sweepstake. 50 winners each quarter. No payment per survey.
SurveyNetworks.com
Sweepstakes entries.
Ecnresearch.com
Open to US and Canadian residents. Sweepstakes, coupons, offers and discounts. Signup to other survey companies. Website has a strange layout with multiple front pages. I would be interested to hear whether this site is really offering paid surveys.
Greenfieldonline.com
Non-US residents are sent elsewhere when trying to register.
Paid surveys waiting to be completed in the members area at Greenfield.
Your2cents
Accepts US and Canadian residents over the age of 18.
Payment of between $1 and $5 per survey.
American consumer opinion
All registered members participate in a monthly drawing to win $250 in cash awards, just for being a member. If you participate in a survey (a longer questionnaire), you will always receive some type of incentive (a free product to test, cash, a check, or a gift). Incentives typically range in value from $4 to $50, per survey or focus group, depending upon the length of the questionnaire and the time it takes to complete it. Simply fill out surveys for money. Participants in online focus groups generally receive more than $25.
Discount Coupons:
www.microsite.coupons.com
Offers discount coupons for grocery items to members.
Current sweepstake for free groceries for a year.
An affiliate program for referals from high traffice websites.
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