Warning! Bux.to has turned into a horrible PTC with payment delays of more than 6 months, a lame staff and forum mods that defeat Bux.to with their life although they even have not a received a single payment yet. I’m not the only one who didn’t get paid by them, thousands of users are complaining about this mess. The Bux.to staff are the most unprofessional people I’ve ever seen online for a long time (or maybe they are the best scammers I’ve seen, who knows…). I DON’T recommend joining them, there are way better PTCs on the market that even pay instantly, like NeoBux for example. There I already earned over $2,000 and got paid more than 10 times!

In my last article about breaking even on Bux.to I also mentioned to upgrade my membership to premium. I wanted to do this for different reasons, 25% more earnings for each click, faster payouts (only 30 days) and, last but not least, to show me and you if Bux.to really works as promised or if they scam us. There are two kind of people out there, the ones that praise Bux.to for earning many hundred dollars each month, and the ones that say Bux.to is a scam because of not receiving any payments.

So, to find this out and to accelerate the long payout process I upgraded my account yesterday and therefore “risked” $59. I won´t loose that big amount of money if I´m not getting paid from them.

Today I received the premium status and I´m already seeing the benefits. The daily ad count is now 34 ads (as a standard member it was around 15). Each ad is worth $0.0125! The Bux.to team also resolved their Paypal issues, you can now pay via Reg.net, which offers credit card payments and Paypal payments, think about it as some kind of middleman. The payments can be received via Paypal as usual.

I hope my membership upgrade will pay off like my investments in buying 15 referrals (I´m in the profit now with around $8!). I´ll keep you updated when my payments will arrive (hopefully around February 22th).

So long,
Querblogger

Warning! Before you read any further please note that Ucash.in seems to be a scam as reported by many of my fellow commentors here on TMME. It’s probably a good idea NOT to join Ucash.in right now until I can provide you with further details!

Yesterday I reported about a very nice moneymaker called Ucash.in, which helps you monetizing your regular website or blog´s hyperlinks. With this free service you can shorten your links and make money from each click by showing up some banner ads in the top frame of your users windows. You could even turn your whole website in a moneymaker by automatically converting all your links into paid ones.

I also mentioned the nice (10 level deep) referral program, which can bring you much more money than only from your own links. So, yesterday I took a look in my statistics and it showed me one new referral! I was very happy, not only because this happend really fast after writing the post about Ucash.in! The newly referred user (I don´t know his/her name or website) generated around 2,500 pageviews within one single day That alone brought me $0.09 within that ONE single day! Although it isn´t the big bucks, I´m very happy and trying to refer some more people.

Btw, I would also like to mention that Ucash.in is run by a well known (and serious) company which also runs Flixya, a video sharing platform that pays its users. (thanks for pointing that out Mr. Anonymous

Anyway, I would suggest anybody willing to make some bucks to join Ucash.in as fast as possible. I don´t want to spam here, I´m saying this because the service is still relatively young and there´s a good chance for referring many new people. If you are a first-mover, chance are good to make some nice bucks each month from your referral´s activity (notice the referral levels go down 10 levels deep).

I´ll keep you updated as regular!

See you!
Querblogger

Update:
My friend Midwest just joined under me too (I want to mention that to keep him calm

Warning! Before you read any further please note that Ucash.in seems to be a scam as reported by many of my fellow commentors here on TMME. It’s probably a good idea NOT to join Ucash.in right now until I can provide you with further details!

Yes, you´ve heard right. I´ve found a nice way to monetize your hyperlinks. And I mean every link you can imagine, be it blog or website links, affiliate links or links you post within forums or instant messengers. The service I discovered is named Ucash.in and provides you with different tools to turn your normal links into cash.

So, the whole thing is easy. Think about it as a service for shortening your URLs, e.g. turn an URL like this one into a simple one like this. Easy isn´t it? But there´s more. You can also turn your whole website links into paid links. You simply generate some Javascript code which you have to embed at the end of your html code (just before the tag). From now on all your links will be transformed into paid ones (unlike with single links your visitors can see where those links point to, so no URL hiding here).

So, I hear you asking “how much will I make?”, let me tell you! There are two different kinds of links you can generate, those with top banner ads (see example) and those with banner intermissions (see example). Basically banner ads will generate $1 for 4000 impressions (no clicks required) and intermission ads will pay $1 for 2000 impressions (also no clicks required). So, actually you get paid for showing advertisements. They´ll pay you every 15th of the month after reaching a $15 minimum payout limit. Payments are send to Paypal, Epassporte and Moneybookers!

There´s even more. They also have a 10 level deep referral program. You get a certain percentage from all your referrals earnings, e.g in the first level you´ll get 10% of what your refs earn, in the 10th level you´ll get 25%. Here´s a short example for monthly earnings, which maybe unrealistic in most cases but is still achievable with some work, it´s based on every referral is generating 100 banner/intermission views each day and referring 3 other people:

I think Ucash.in is a nice concept to make some money online. Especially if you have enough referrals you could make some good bucks just for providing your hyperlinks as you normally would. A negative aspect may be the annoying ad banners at the top of your sites or the ad intermissions (which I personally won´t suggest).

I have “transformed” my whole blog´s hyperlinks with some lines of code, so don´t wonder if there´s an ad banner showing up at the top of my blog and all sites I link to. I will test how much I can make and if it´s too annoying for my readers, I will remove it. Feel free to complain bitterly

Ucash.in is fairly new, so you have the opportunity on being a first-mover here. You can refer many people as long as this service is new (and make big bucks, hehe Feel free to join Ucash.in and start referring your friends!

Regards,
Querblogger

As you may know, I´ve created a publisher account on NetAudioAds at the beginning of January. I regulary check my stats, which show me how much views my blog and my referral´s blogs/sites generate. Although Pay-Per-Play, the new advertising system that delivers audio ads, is still in its beta phase, statistics were already counted. So far I´ve personally referred 2 other people who generated over 500 pageviews this month.

But since some days the stats were down and didn´t count a single view. My stats are sticking around 1500 views for the month January. But the company promises to get their database up and running until tonight. I´m really interested to see my new statistics. Btw, those views are really impressive in my opinion, especially when you consider that (nearly) every pageview will bring you commissions for audio ads played on your site. With 1500 views, each audio ad worth $0.02 (estimated) and 25% commissions, I would have earned $7.50 (if each single view would count). The best thing about PPP is that you´ll also earn those 25% in commissions from your referrals pageviews!

The Pay-Per-Play system goes public on February 1st and the first audio ads will be played. It will also be the time when they close their doors for the affiliate program, so if you haven´t already, feel free to join here and refer your friends for a lifetime residual income (if they generate enough pageviews with their blogs/websites

I´m really excited to see PPP going live in 4 days!

Ciao,
Querblogger

Update 01/29/2008:
For a short moment today I could have a look into the new statistics system. My statistics dropped from around 1,500 pageviews back to around 600 pageviews, a bit strange I know. At the moment the account login is disabled, because of (obviously) some problems with the new statistics. If you try to login you´ll receive the following message:

“We have received dozens of emails on three specific issues with the new statistics system.
The management page will be off-line until mid day today while we make some changes to resolve those issues. Your recordings will continue to play.”

I hope they´ll resolve those problems, especially because they´ll go live in 3 days. I´ll keep you updated!

Adbux

Last Tuesday I told you that Adbux is down and many people, especially from the Bux.to forum, made their jokes and thought they will never come back. It turned out that they are not scamming its users for the moment, because they are back. They resolved their problems with the hoster Aplus. You can visit Adbux as normal, everything is fine for now.

Bux.to

Since some days there were some problems regarding payments via Paypal. It seems Paypal doesn´t like PTC sites and so they stopped the business with Bux.to some days ago (as with many other PTC sites in these days). This doesn´t mean you won´t get paid to your Paypal account, that´s the same as usual. But you can´t do any payments via Paypal like upgrading to a premium membership or buying referral packs. At the moment Alertpay is the only option. But they are searching for a solution. I repeat, payments arrive as usual via Paypal!

Have a nice weekend!
Querblogger

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

… 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 too high load on the CPU and databases (or on bad web hosts), which in turn means there are a lot of visitors. Sure, on the first sight and with those infos about Chad French in mind, one would fear that Adbux went down forever, but I personally think they will be up again within a day or too (as they also state on their current website message).

If it would turn out, that they are really scamming its members, I would feel angry for sure. I will loose around $8 and I´ve promoted a program that actually wasn´t worth it. But who really knows beforehand…

Wish you all the best,
Querblogger

Warning! Bux.to has turned into a horrible PTC with payment delays of more than 6 months, a lame staff and forum mods that defeat Bux.to with their life although they even have not a received a single payment yet. I’m not the only one who didn’t get paid by them, thousands of users are complaining about this mess. The Bux.to staff are the most unprofessional people I’ve ever seen online for a long time (or maybe they are the best scammers I’ve seen, who knows…). I DON’T recommend joining them, there are way better PTCs on the market that even pay instantly, like NeoBux for example. There I already earned over $2,000 and got paid more than 10 times!

As you may know, I have bought 15 referrals for Bux.to on January 10th. I invested $16.98 for getting my 15 fresh referrals. Today, after only 11 days, I broke even because my referrals clicked a lot on all those daily ads Bux.to provides.

On average I made around $1.50 per day from these 15 referrals and from now on I´ll see profits, at least theoretical profits, because I´m still a bit sceptical if they will really pay. I´ve requested a cashout some days ago because I reached the $10 minimum payout level, but I have to wait until April to receive the money on my Paypal account. This is a very long time in my opinion, so I can only hope the best and trust all those members who got paid so far (at least they say it).

I´m trying to apply for a premium membership this week as they will create a special offer (hopefully at a lower price than $59). After upgrading you´ll receive a lot of benefits, increased earnings (25% more), more ads to click on and, probably the best thing, priority payments within 30 business days! I know that´s a risk especially because I mentioned that I´m sceptical, but I think I won´t find it out until I test it by myself. I won´t loose that huge amount of money if it turns out that they are scammers. But if they are not, I´ll be very happy for sure

If you like you can join Bux.to here, it´s free and you get an average of 15 daily ads each worth $0.01. You don´t have to invest anything like I have done, indeed I would suggest you to wait until I have a proof of payment. If they really pay, you can do anything you want to, I only don´t want you to get scammed in the worst case!.

Bye bye,
Querblogger

I´m currently gaining some information about different affiliate programs and networks. I also try to find out more about building niche websites and stores to make money from them (from what I´ve heard, it´s possible to make some hundred bucks each month). So I came across a nice website script called BANS, the short form of Build A Niche Store.

BANS enables you to set up an ebay niche store, you simply pick a category for products you would like to sell and the script generates your website store based on the template you choose. The script has got many good reviews from even well-known bloggers and it seems it´s worth the $97 you have to pay for it.

But that isn´t the problem here.

In order to use the script effectively, you have to be an ebay affiliate. That doesn´t seem to be a big problem as many countries, where you can access ebay, have such a program. But it IS a problem if you want to apply for the US-based program! Actually BANS requires you to have either a US-, UK-, Canada- or Australia-based ebay affiliate ID. This also makes sense if you want to target all those markets in the above mentioned countries.

So, if I personally would like to open an ebay niche store, mainly targeting those countries, I won´t have a chance because I live in another country (in my case it´s Germany). I´ve tested this by myself. To become an US-based ebay affiliate for example, you have to join the affiliate network Commission Junction. I´ve done that without problems and this company is really great and offers many high-paying products and services you can advertise on your website or blog. But as it came to applying for the affiliate program, I immediately got declined without any reasons.

I´ve done some research on that subject and it came out that this decline is because of being in the “wrong” country, namely outside the USA, UK, Canada or Australia. It seems there are many people complaining about this on different blogs, websites or forums, but nobody has a real good solution for it. Some people suggest to write the CJ team a kind email, showing that your personal site is mainly targeted at those countries (and therefore english-speaking people). But it seems, nobody has got a response after weeks of waiting. On the other side I´ve also heard that some people actually got accepted as international members, but I haven´t found a solution yet.

I´m really trying to find a way for becoming a US-based ebay affiliate, but it seems nobody can help me out. So I would like to ask you, my readers, if you have any experiences about this subject and please can help me out? I see many benefits for being an affiliate for ebay, they pay high commissions and are widely accepted.

Feel free to comment and give me some hints please!

With the very best regards,
Querblogger

In one of my last posts I mentioned that I´ve signed up for different programs that pay you for doing some sponsored postings on your blog. So today I got approved on PayPerPost and this is my first sponsored post worth $20, really nice! Yes, you read correctly, PayPerPost pays you just for writing about them. Immediately after your blog´s approval you´ll get the first opportunity.

It´s very easy to submit your blog for an approval, you must provide the blog´s title, URL, some tags and a description. You must also meet some minimum requirements for your blog, for example it should be at least 3 month old. After you´ve done that (and you got approved), you can login to the PayPerPost dashboard, where you can see your current earnings or open opportunities to write about. It looks really good in my opinion and it´s clearly structured, they also offer a nice Firefox plug-in to make it even easier for you to check your stats.

I hope I´ll get some good writing opportunities forwithin the next weeks. But I definitely need a better Pagerank from Google to get better paid tasks (notice, PPP also have their own ranking system caller RealRank). All in all, if this post gets approved 30 days after submitting it and I receive my first earnings (20 dollars), I´ve made a big step towards achieving my goal in earning $100 online within 6 month.

That should be all for now, I´ll tell you more about PayPerPost if their are any news or I´ll receive my payments

See you,
Querblogger