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This shouldn´t be a post about making money online, it´s more about some legal issues that I need to work on within my blog. You wonder what I´m talking about? No problem, I´ll explain it.

The first thing I´ll have to integrate into my blog will be some kind of Disclosure Policy. I´ve seen this on many blogs including the one from my friend Midwest. I feel I´ll need this by myself, not only because of helping my readers to understand what my blog is all about, but also because of some legal issues. In Germany, where I´m from, there are some laws that force me to provide some kind of disclosure policy.

The second thing will be a Contact Information (or an about page if you will). I have to add this mainly because of some german laws (if I won´t add these information, I may even have to pay a penality). So I´ll write some short “about me” to safeguard against any legal problems. But it´ll probably be more helpful to my readers to let them know who I really am.

The third and last thing I´ll add to my blog are some Terms Of Service, that´ll tell you what you are allowed to do on this blog (lets me feel like someone big and evil:) It´ll also have a disclaimer and a notice about outgoing links to other blogs and websites.

Please don´t wonder about my following posts, I´ll have to write each of those texts mentioned above in the form of a regular blogpost, that I can link to later on. I know it´s a bit circuitous, but Blogger doesn´t really support static pages, so I´ll have to do it in this way.

Goodbye,
Querblogger

Today I want to give you some information on my best paying sites I joined so far. This will probably help you to choose the right money making programs and it will also help me, because I get an overview about my earnings and if those programs are really worth all the work involved in it.

I regulary visit all the programs I´ve joined the last month to make some money from them. Sometimes it´s a really time consuming task to click all those advertisings or to write articles and forum posts to make some cents, so it would be nice to see on what programs you should concentrate. So today I checked the statistics from each of these programs to see how much I´ve earned from them and, much more important, to see how much time is involved for doing this.

It turned out that especially some of those PTC programs are really time consuming and won´t make you money fast. But you know, I don´t have too much time to complete my personal goal on making 100 bucks until April 1st 2008, so I have to “filter” my income streams (yes, it really isn´t an income as one would aspect Long story short, here comes my list with the best paying programs that I´ll further concentrate in and that would be helpful to you too:

Triond

If you like writing in general and also want to make money from it, than Triond is probably one of the best sites you can join. You can monetize your articles there and get monthly payouts from them. I personally like Triond, because there I can write about things that doesn´t deal about making money online (although I like it alot). I´m really interested in the web and all the things you can do there, so most of my articles deal about internet related things like Google Earth or free online music players for example. For this month I got $0.44 so far without publishing a new article there, those cents are all from ad revenues my articles generate each day. It isn´t that much, but it´s nearly free money and I think if you´ll write more articles, you´ll also earn more (especially if you make your name).

Subvert and Profit

That´s the evil part of my money making “career”. (@Midwest: yes, a running gag Subvert and Profit is a site that pays you for diggin other stories or favor them with StumbleUpon. I know it´s a bit of a black market I´m involved with, but I´ll definitely need the money in my first months. Subvert and Profit pays $0.50 for each task you complete (usually you´ll get 5 or more per month). It doesn´t mean I´m only digging stories I get from S&V, I usually do so for all articles I really like to read. I won´t go into detail about this program, check it out by yourself to see if it´s for your liking (and I´m a bit ashamed too because of using S&V ;-| )

Adbux

What I most like about Adbux is their new offers system, where you´ll get paid for choosing and completing different kind of offers. They started those offers last month and are constantly increasing the numbers you can choose from. I´ve already completed 4 free offers and I´m now waiting to get credited my earnings into my account (it takes 32 days for getting your credits). A good amount of such offers are free, you mostly have to take some sort of survey and that kind, it´s really easy to make some Dollars from them. Adbux has also a PTC program, but this usually doesn´t make me too much money, only some cents each day. But I like the offers and will look forward to complete more of them. Notice that Advercash now also has a offers program. I earned $0.50 for completing 2 of them. The best thing about Advercash is their better PTC program (compared to Adbux).

Bux

Bux is definitely the best paying PTC site I´ve joined so far! Really, I´ll usually get up to 8 advertising links I can click on each day. That makes me up to $0.08 each day (or around $2.40 for each month). As I joined Bux at the beginning of October I only got 4 or 5 ads per day. It seems they are getting more popular and more advertisers spend there money, which in turn will help me and you for making money online. If you´re about to join a PTC program I can really recommend Bux, not only because of the money, but also because of their clean and fast loading website.

Blogsvertise

This is my newest money maker. Blogsvertise is a site where you´ll get paid for reviewing (or only mentioning) others sites and services, I´ve written a short article about them lately. I hope I´ll get more tasks in the future and become a full member, at the moment I´m on Probation status because my blog is too young. So I “only” get $2.00 for each review I made, which could be up to $15 if my blog gets fully approved. I´ve heared from my friend Midwest, that he got $5.00 for the same service he reviewed and his (really great) blog is around one and a half month older than mine.

There are many other programs that I´ll regulary visit for the future. Mylot for example is a very useful social forum that pays you for writing entries or starting new discussions. The best thing about it is finding new friends, you can also promote your blog and help other people with problems they have (I really like that).

But I´m also looking for new (maybe better paying) sites out there that can help me achieving my goals. I think there are some hot links that are only waiting to be found…

Cheers,
Querblogger

In one post some days ago I mentioned that I published my first article on Helium. The articles deals about some facts and features about the new Google Phone. Today I checked how my article performed so far, I got $0.10 within 4 days only for that one article. Compared to other sites where you can submit your writings for monetizing, it isn´t bad at all, it´s nearly two times more than what I earn on Triond for example (compared to one published article). This is mainly because Helium is much more popular than Triond and therefore generates more traffic to each article published there. More traffic means more ad revenues that you´ll get paid. Yes, I know, 10 Cents doesn´t sound too good, but you must notice that I only published one article so far.

I will investigate Helium further while writing more articles there, then I can do some comparisons to Triond. If it turns out that I can make more money on Helium I´ll probably drop writing for Triond.

Btw, you may have noticed my first sponsored post (the last one)? My account on Blogsvertise got approved today and I´m now in Probation status, meaning my blog is still a bit too “young” to receive full payments for sponsored posts. But I still get $2.00 for each task I complete. When my blog becomes “older” I´ve the chance to resubmit it for a new approval (the blog must be at least 60 days old and regulary updated), than I´ll receive up to $15 for each review I post here. I hope those sponsored posts aren´t too annoying, I´ll do my best to give you quality information anyway.

Happy Surfing (on the Web
Querblogger

Update: I just earned $2.00 from my last review as it got approved by the Blogsvertise admin!

You may know that it could sometimes be really hard to promote your blog or website. I see it by myself, you have to spend several hours each week on promoting your blog and get better search engine rankings. You can do several things like choosing the right keywords, gain backlinks from other websites or web directories, doing search engine optimisation or even some advertising. But what if you don´t have the time to do all those work?

The short answer: Use an online marketing service like DiscountClick which will do all the hard work involved in promoting your blog/website.

Let me give you a short review. The company actually offers three services from which you can choose from. The first one falls into the search engine category, they offer Search Engine Promotion, SEO Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. Pricings start from $50 and go up to $3000 for the full program (I know those prices aren´t for fresh bloggers like me and you, but if you get successfull with your blog and have the money it´s really worth it They also offer Email List Management/Processing and Ad serving solutions. Put simply, they do all the work and you get all the benefits like much more visitors to your site and more ad revenues.

The company seems very reliable, even other well known companies like Philips belong to their customers. If you want more information I would suggest you to tak a look at DiscountClick, they have a lot of information about their services complete with pricings.

At the moment I don´t have the money by myself to actually use one of their services, but I hope I can use them later on (if I really make some bucks within the next months). I definitely have a lot of hard work ahead of me. I think this post will therefore especially be helpful to those readers that are already more “into the business” like I am and have their blogs/websites successfully running (and monetized I hope

Ciao,
Querblogger

Today I joined Blogsvertise, a really nice website that lets you earn revenues for completing tasks. Those task are actually really simple, all you have to do is to mention a product or service from an advertiser in one of your blog posts and you get paid.

I´ll describe it in more detail:

The first thing you have to do is to create a free account on Blogsvertise and submit your blog for approval. Your blog will be reviewed by the webmaster. If it gets approved you get the chance on making money (but notice, your blog must have some content on it to get approved). You´ll get tasks send to you via email, they show you a link to a product or service website. All you have to do is to integrate the link given to you 3 times in one of your blog post and mention the product/service (notice, you don´t have to endorse any service/product or review it). Your post should be around 60-100 words and you´ll get around $5- $15 per entry. After completing the task you have to submit your post for a next approval. If all works OK, you´ll get paid 30 days after completing the task right into your Paypal account.

So I submitted my blog today, let´s see if it gets approved. For young blogs like my own one, there´s even the possibilities to go into the Probation status, meaning you´ll get reduced payout rates (around $2.00). You can resubmit your blog later on to gain a “full” membership.

Blogsvertise definitely looks like a very interesting money making opportunity, I hope I can earn some Dollars from them.

Bye,
Querblogger

As I read my new mails today I noticed one from Google Adsense. I opened it and, tada, they banned me from their program ;-(

The reasons for the ban

My first thought was: “What have I done illegally?”. I read the whole mail and they stated that I have generated some illegal clicks/impressions from advertisements that show up on my blog. So they had to ban me from my account, because “click fraud” is against their terms of service.

My next thought was: “I know where those illegal clicks/impressions come from. Linkreferral!”.

Yes that´s right. Linkreferral is a traffic exchange program I joined at the end of October. It generates traffic for my blog if I visit other members site and review them. All in all a really nice and free way for driving traffic to your site/blog. But those programs are against the TOS of Google Adsense! Only “natural” clicks will count legally, but no “sponsored” clicks.

What I will do against this

My answer is that simple: nothing. I won´t do anything against this ban because of the following reasons:

1. At this time traffic is much more important to me than the money earned from Google Adsense. I get around 20 unique visitors each day from Linkreferral and some of them even have a deeper look at my blog. This is by far more important, because building a fellow readership will bring me more benefits for the future.
2. Google Adsense brought me nearly nothing so far, only around $0.30 since starting this blog. I think there are definitely better advertising systems especially for blogs like Blogvertise and that kind. So I´ll keep an eye on new advertising programs like contextual ads or text link ads.
3. I have more space for my blog posts. This will be helpful to my readers, in fact, advertisements can really be annoying sometimes.

So this is my opinion about this ban from Google Adsense. I personally want to promote Linkreferral and traffic exchanges in general anyway, they can bring you a fast start up amount on daily visits to your sites and blogs. But I´ll also warn all my readers who have integrated Google Adsense on their own blogs, be careful with those traffic exchange programs, you may risk a ban from Adsense!

Best regards!
Querblogger

Yesterday I told you that I´ve written a new article about the new Googles Phone. I also told you I will submit it on Triond. I´ve done this, but the article was declined by the Triond team because there was an similar article already published (that happens from time to time…).

So I searched for another paying publishing site and I found a nice one called Helium. I published my new gPhone article there without any problems. Helium is another nice site where you can write your articles on and get paid for that. It´s a bit different to Triond, because most times you´ll write your articles in channels that already have articles from other people (you write for a specific theme or niche and get a better chance for attracting readers).

Helium makes you money from ad revenues, each article you submit will be surrounded with some advertisments (mostly Pay-per-click). When a reader clicks on an ad, you´ll get paid. The minimum payout is $25 and they pay you via Paypal (notice that Triond has a payout limit of only $0.50!). You have even the option to donate your earnings and help other people.

At the moment I can´t say anything about how much I´ll make from this article (so far I didn´t find out how many people have viewed it already), but I´ll definitely keep you updated on that. I personally think I´ll get more readers than on Triond, because Helium is more popular and therefore attracts more people. But let´s see what happens

Odabo!
Querblogger

Today I´ve written an article about some facts of the new Google Phone. At the moment I´m waiting for the article to get published on Triond. I hope within the next days it will be published and generate some views (and money!). My last article on 8 uncommon ways for using Google brought me around $0.80 in one week, that wasn´t that great, but I´m very happy about that.

The best thing about Triond is, that all my articles I´ve written so far bring me some steady cents each day without doing anything. For this month I got $0.18 so far only from old articles I published earlier. Triond is definitely a good way to make money, if you write quality content it´s very likely that you´ll get some dollars each month. Triond actually pays it´s members (I got paid too), so don´t have fears about it being a scam.

I will keep you updated on when my new articles is published!

Ciao!
Querblogger