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