The first month of my Making Money Experiment is over now and so far I´m very happy because I earned more than I imagined. I will now show you some statistic like my earnings or blog visitor counts for October.

A lot of work was involved in building this blog and in trying to find all those money making opportunities that are actually worth to put my efforts in. At the moment I have 14 “income” streams which, put together, brought me 18 Dollars for the month October. That´s around $1.30 more than I would need each month to reach my goal in earning exactly $100.

Before I will show you my earnings statistic I will point out that those earnings are only theoretical so far, because I didn´t got paid yet and I can´t say for sure if I will get paid from every site I´ve joined. So I hope the best to reach the payout limits and see my Paypal inbox fill within the next month. For all who can´t wait any longer, here´s the October earnings statistic:

You see, my top earnings come from Adbux because they recently introduced their new offers system. Also Subvert and Profit is doing very well, especially because they are back since only some weeks now. The best PTC sites for this month were Bux.to, Wordlinx and Clixsense.

I hope I can increase those earnings with more referrals, at the moment I only have 5 spread over different programs which are nearly inactive (I think they miss nice money making opportunities…). In the hope of getting more of those referrals I joined Getref this month, but I was cheated twice (people claimed my credits, but didn´t join my programs). I won´t give up using Getref, but for the moment it hasn´t brought me anything.

I´ve done some advertising too. I joined a nice traffic exchange program, where I advertise my splash page which promotes the new paying social network Yuwie.

My blog got indexed by Google, Yahoo and MSN. I was very happy to see that I now have a Pagerank of 0 (yes, it´s zero – don´t laugh, before it was unranked!). My Alexa rating is somewhat below 2,000,000 (before it was over 3.5 million). Lately I placed a full news feed on my blog, which is powered by Feedburner. You can subscribe to it in the top right corner of my blog or do it here!

The traffic for my blog wasn´t that big, but I´m happy with it. I got 127 unique visitors with 204 pageviews from all around the world, especially from the USA, Canada and Israel. I hope my traffic rate will rise within the next month. Therefore I´ve joined a new traffic exchange program called Linkreferral, which brought me around 50 pageviews in the last 2 days.

All in all, I had a nice time so far, but it sometimes was really hard. Especially clicking all those ads has driven me nearly crazy sometimes, but I will stick with my goals. Next month I will keep an eye on my blog design and usefullness, write new in-depth articles to help my readers and try to find new money making opportunities waiting for me out there in the world wide web.

So far, all I can say is: Thank you my fellow readers!

Have some nice days!
Querblogger

Today I found a very interesting website called DealDotCom. Basically it´s a site where you can buy online marketing products. The best part is that they only show deals, meaning they will have the lowest price for each product they show on their frontpage. Everyday they offer one product that lasts there for exactly 24 hours.

DealDotCom seems to be no scam site, even John Cow has tested this site and got paid from them. Got paid you ask? Yes, the probably best part of this great website is its affiliate program. For each person you refer, you´ll get 35% sales commision and(!) 15% commissions from every second level affiliate you have in your downline. They will pay you via Paypal.

So if you want to buy great online marketing products like software or ebooks, please visit DealDotCom, you won´t find a better price on the web! If you´re an expert in getting referrals it´s a must that you take a look at this new money making opportunity.

I have a short update just before the first month of my making money experiment ends. Nothing really big, but worth to mention.

Adbux Offers

As I´ve written in my last article, Adbux now comes with offers for which you´ll get paid. Today I´ve completed my second offer which brought me $3.06 just for joining another website. Together with my last offer, which brought me $2.70, I now have earned $5.76 for doing nothing really special, only for registering on two websites. I now have to wait until next month, then these earnings will go into my Adbux balance. I you haven´t already, you can join Adbux here.

Wordlinx Paid Mails

Yesterday I got an email from Wordlinx with some infos about their new paid mail service. They told me that from now on everybody who receives their newsletter will automatically receive paid mails, which will bring up to $0.05 each. Notice, that you have to check the option for receiving such mails in your account settings. From now on one can get paid even more. Wordlinx is actually one of the best paying PTC´s in my personal list, so I´m happy to hear that news.

Subvert and Profit Tasks

This month I got 4 tasks from Subvert and Profit, which will bring me $2.00 to my balance. It´s really nice, especially because they are back again since only around two weeks now.

My first month with this blog will be over in 2 days, then I´ll present you my October earnings, some blog statistics like visitors or subscribers and some of my future goals. For now all I can say is, that I´m very surprised how far I got the last days. Be sure to check back on October 31st to see my results!

Until Wednesday,
Querblogger

The guys from Adbux have done it again! Beside clicking on ads, you now can make money for completing offers, a lot more than just some (micro)cents.

As I checked my Adbux account yesterday, I was very surprised to see this silently introduced new feature (no, actually they mentioned it some weeks ago, but I didn´t realise that). You are now able to choose between regular paid ads and offers, with the help of a new drop-down menu at the top navigation bar.

The Adbux team claims to have about 80 offers in 239 countries worldwide, so it likely that you´ll receive one of them. The amount of offers will definitely grow with time and it seems that there will be a huge income potential compared to just clicking some ads.

How does it work?

It´s easy. All you have to do is clicking the link provided with each offer and completing the registration or taking a survey (follow the instructions next to the offer link). After that you must click the submit button. Then it´ll take up to 3 days for getting approved (mine took only some hours). The money you´ve earned will go into your balance after 32 days, because Adbux has to wait for advertiser payments, which usually come in one month after completing an offer. For example, if you take an offer at October 1st, the advertiser payments will come in at November 1st. October has 31 days, plus the first November day, will add up to 32 days (easy, isn´t it?

How much can I make?

I took one offer so far, which brought me $ 2.70 just for completing a registration form for a survey institute (be sure to use a seperate email adress to avoid spam mails in your inbox).

The official anouncement states, that one can get up to $10.00 per free offer, sometimes even more. You get paid more for offers, where you have to purchase something or pay for a membership, but personally I wouldn´t take those, because no one can say for sure if all advertisers will actually pay Adbux and so pay you.

The best thing about the new offers system is the wonderful referral program. Guess what you´ll get for each of your completed referral offer? You won´t believe me, it´s 50% as a regular user and even 100% as a premium member! Not bad. You can even benefit from this if you live in a country that didn´t get any offers so far. If you have referrals from around the world, it´s very likely that you still receive commissions from your downline.

From now on it will be much easier to reach the $10.00 minimum payout at Adbux. Hopefully this will help me to achieve my goals for earning $100 within 6 month.

I suggest everybody reading this to join Adbux, it´s worth it (and yes, this is a referral link

Salut!
Querblogger

As promised in my last post, here I´ll give you a short overview about Traffic Exchanges and promoting your programs with it. First I´ve to say that I´m not (yet) an expert within this field of online advertising, but I´ll do my best to give you some useful informations.

It seems that most people have a somewhat sceptical attitude towards Traffic Exchanges. As I first have heard about it, I also noticed phrases like “this is a pyramid scheme” or terms like “Autosurf” or “Ponzi scheme”. As I´m sceptical too, I thought “Just give it a try and find out by yourself”. So I joined my first Traffic Exchange site some days ago to test if it works or not.

So far it doesn´t work for me, but I must admit that I was busy last days and don´t had the time to fully concentrate on it. What I can say so far is, that it brought me around 200 pageviews for my splash page (at the moment I´m promoting Yuwie), but unfortunately I got no signups.

Pageviews vs. Credits

But I know the fact why it didn´t worked so far. The first problem is the number of views. With only 200 views you won´t have much luck within a Traffic Exchange, simply because of the fact, that everybody who views one of your pages is actually doing this because of generating their own credits. Most people won´t take a deep look into the content of the site you promote. So you must have at least some thousand credits you can turn into views to generate enough “buzz” for your own sites (big advertisers say, in order to promote a product effectively, a single person must view an advertising at least 7 times to even remember it!). But notice, for generating some thousand page views, you also must gain the same amount of credits and you won´t get these with a ratio of 1:1, but most times with something like 2:1 or 3:1, meaning you have to watch 2 or 3 sites to get one credit for your own traffic exchange. Btw, it took my around one hour to get my 200 credits.

Be creative!

So what can you do, to get more “quality” pageviews, meaning that people are looking at your content and even sign up? My first thoughts went to TV advertising and I got it really fast, be creative! Earlier I mentioned using a splash page to promote your content, and that´s your way for being creative (so my splash is as creative as dry bread in a bread-bin so far…)! I think, but I don´t exactly can say for sure, that a nice designed splash page with good graphics and text can be a key in effectively promoting your programs and helps you to stand out of the crowd. I have some nice plans for a new splash page design and I will tell you more about it within my next posts.

Conclusion

So far Traffic Exchanges didn´t help me alot in my efforts for promoting my programs, therefore I´ll experiment with Traffic Exchanges for the next days (or weeks). Maybe I test some banner advertising or text links. I will also do some advertising on Paid-to-Click sites, where I can place targeted advertising, which hopefully will work better. As I said at the beginning, I´m no expert so far and I´ve to gain more experience.

If you have some tips, you´re very welcome to write some comments to help me and my readers to understand Traffic Exchanges better and make the most out of it.

See you at my next post,
Querblogger