To make it short, within the next few days several money making programs will launch their services or introduce brand new features. It seems like April and May are very popular months for a fresh start.

Ok, the first service in the list is the Fair Ads Network. I’ve already reported about this advertising company that tries to compete with major players like Google Adsense for example. Until now FAN was in beta phase and will officially start at April 29th. Although I don’t use FAN on my blog at the moment, I’m looking forward to implement their advertising codes on my site again. I had removed them because the ad blocks didn’t show any ads at all for me (hence the beta phase). You can use FAN just like Google Adsense or Adwords for monetizing your blog/website or creating your own PPC campaigns.

The second site, that will open its doors on April 30th, is NeoBux, a brand new PTC site with some innopvative new features like instant payments for example. I’ve reported about them some days ago, you can find the post about NeoBux here (or have a look at my Squidoo lens I’ve just created).

The third site worth to mention is Adbux. Although this PTC is around for a long time, the Adbux staff is about to introduce exciting new features. Adbux will (re)launch on May 1st, so stay tuned and watch for some nice new features to make even more money online.

The fourth and last site in my list of (re)launches is Bux.to. The staff is working hard on implementing the new script, which should solve the statistics update problems and (hopefully) make payments faster. Unfortunately I can’t say the excact date when “Bux Reload”, like they call it now, will start. But most members (including the forum admins) bet on May 1st. Well, let’s hope the best!

Ok, that should be all for now. Feel free to check those sites by yourself!

Cheers,
Querblogger

On my search for fresh new money making opportunities on the net, I came across a new Paid-to-click (PTC) site called NeoBux. And I must say, I was immediately amazed as I took a first look on this site.

At a first glance, NeoBux looks like any other PTC site that’s currently on the market. You know, big PTC sites like Bux.to or Adbux.org with millions of members. But there’s a big difference to all those sites…the payments!

NeoBux tries to revolutionize the PTC market with payments within 48 hours! Compare this to Bux.to for example, where you have to wait 60 business days as a standard member (although Bux.to is best PTC of the world…yet). You see the difference?

Ok, but there’s even more. You only need to earn $2.00 for your first cashout. Yes, you heard right, only 2 bucks! Just click some ads, which are worth $0.01 for a standard member and $0.02 for premiums, earn those 2 dollars, click the cashout button and receive your first money within 2 days. Payments are processed via Alertpay. The next payout limit is then raised to 3 dollars, after that to 4 dollars and so on, until you reach $10 after your 9th cashout.

As most of the other PTC’s, NeoBux also offers a referral system. As a standard member you make $0.005 of each referral click, if you have upgraded your account you receive $0.01 plus 10% of each advertising that is purchased from them. You will also have the option to buy referrals if enough unreferred members have joined.

At the moment NeoBux is in pre-launch phase and it will go live at the end of April. The site already has over 20,000 members and some of them already got paid. Note, you may not see any ads at the moment, those payments were just tests to proove if everything works well.

Anyway, you can already join NeoBux and, as a bonus, you can take advantage of a special offer too. If you purchase advertising on Neobux, you’ll get a 50% bonus for your first purchase as long as the site hasn’t officially launched. That means, you’ll 50% more visits for paying the same amount of momey (at the moment $15 for 1,000 clicks). The following ad purchases will have 20% more clicks.

All in all, I think NeoBux looks like a very professional site. It has nice and friendly support (also via live chat). The company, which comes from Portugal as far as I know, doesn’t look like a scam to me. I have already joined them and I’m waiting for their official launch!

For further info on NeoBux, feel free to visit my NeoBux Squidoo lens!

See you on NeoBux
Querblogger

Today I want to present you another nice money maker called Amazon Mechanical Turk, which is kind of different compared to simple Paid-to-click sites and such. The service has been around since 2005, but so far I had no time to test it by myself. But some days ago I gave it a try and made some easy cents…

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a so called crowdsourcing service, meaning that a group of people has to fulfill an assigned task in order to solve a problem. Most times it is used to solve problems where machines, especially computers, reach there limits.

For example let’s assume the task is to translate a book from Chinese into English. With help of computers it’s indeed possible to do the translation, but the quality is most likely very bad (as most computer translations are today). But what about 100 or more people, knowing both languages, doing the translation a bit at a time? The quality of the translation should be way better than a computer one, for now humans are more intelligent as any computer in the world…as yet.

Ok, but what about making money with Amazon Mechanical Turk I hear you ask? No problem, read on!

By signing up with MTurk, you become a so called worker, meaning you are able to fulfill such tasks a stated above. The tasks are called HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) and at the time of writing there are around 15,000 available. Each time you have completed a HIT, you get paid a small amount of money ranging from some cents to several dollars. As a rule of thumb, the more difficult the HIT, the more money you will usually make. To give you some examples, I will tell about those HITs I personally have done already on Amazon Mechanical Turk to earn some money.

The first thing I’ve done, was to write a short article about registry cleaners. The person who requested the task seems in need of content for his/her personal website. So I only had to write about what came into my mind, the only requirement was to include the words “Registry Cleaner Windows XP” within the article. Writing that article wasn’t too difficult, it earned me $0.50 within only 5 minutes work.

The second task was to tag images. For each task I got paid $0.04. All I had to do was to look at three images and describe, in short words and tags, what was visible on it. If there was text, I had to write it in a special field below the image. This task was even easier than writing that article, but it paid far less (although it was more fun). The good thing is, that you can do each task after another, until you finally feel bored about it.

The last task I’ve done so far, was giving other websites a Stumble. I had to stumble 3 or 4 websites to earn another $0.05, easy “cash” for only some seconds work.

All in all, after only half an hour working for testing Amazon Mechanical Turk, I made $0.67 (yes, it’s peanuts…). But there’s more earning potential there, I have seen many task that pay $10 an up, most times you have to write a product or website review (much like writing sponsored posts).

I think, MTurk is a great service for earning some bucks online. You definitely won’t get rich from completing those HITs, but it’s enough to buy you at least a beer per month If you are an US citizen, you can cash out the earned money directly to your bank account. For international members there’s only the option to get an Amazon gift card.

I will use MTurk whenever I have some time (or get bored from the usual work), maybe I will make some bucks within the next weeks. Until then, have a look at Amazon Mechanical Turk and find out by yourself if this service is an option for you.

Greetings,
Querblogger

Everybody likes them, everybody needs them. Free Stumbles! You don’t know what I’m talking about? Ok, let me tell you in short and find out how to get free Stumbles from me!

First of all, a Stumble is comparable to a vote on a website or blog you like. If you have installed the StumbleUpon toolbar, you can rate any site you stumbled upon with a so called “Thumbs Up” if you like it. The more Stumbles a website gets, the more popular it will be for the online community and therefore receive more traffic. Sometimes it’s possible to get some thousand visitors within hours (as I’ve seen by myself on this blog).

Anyway, you may be interested in getting those free stumbles and can’t wait any longer? Well, read on!

Today I will start a nice “service” where you can receive up to 20 free Stumbles from me. All you have to do in exchange, is linking back to my blog from your blogs or websites. Easy, isn’t it?

Ok, all you have to do, is to provide a link back to my blog (http://www.makingmoneyexperiment.com) with the following anchor text (choose one randomly please):

• Make Money Online
• Money Making Infos
• The Making Money Experiment

The next step is to write a comment on this post. First you have to provide the website address where you placed my link, so I can first check it. Use the provided field in the comment dialogue where you can enter the address. Second thing is to write down up to 20 websites/blogs/blog posts you would like to have stumbled from me.

That’s all. I will check if you have set the backlink to my blog and then start stumbling your sites!

Another thing worth to mention is that you’re sites should already be stumbled at least on time (if there’s one link that isn’t already stumbled, I’ll “discover” it for you…but no more). You also shouldn’t remove the backlink immediately after I’ve stumbled your sites , I will give you a “Thumbs down” then. The best would be if you leave it there forever ;).

Ok, this should be all for now. You set the link, I will give you the Stumbles!
Querblogger

PS: Please allow some days before I’ll stumble your sites, I’m a busy person!

Three days ago I bought another 15 referrals from Bux.to and today they arrived and brought me the first clicks. Within only one day I got around $1.00 from these referrals and with my whole account balance I’m heading towards the $75 payout limit. I think I can make my first cash request to my brand new Bux.to card sometimes around Thursday or Friday when I reach those 75 bucks.

Bux.to is also about to release their new script within the next week or two. It’s very possible that, after the new script is released and working stable, payments become faster. Some people on the Bux.to forums (including admins) expect a new payment time of only 5 business days, instead of the 30 days for premium members now. Let’s hope the best, I’ll inform you!

That should be all, now I have to write some new articles for my first bum marketing project I’ve just started. I will report about it soon, so stay tuned!

So Long,
Querblogger

Today I checked my Paid.vg account again to see if my first payment has finally been sent to my Alertpay account. But, as I already expected, no money was sent. I’m waiting since February 25th on my first $13 payout and the Paid.vg TOS states that payments will be send within 30 days. So, even after 30 business days, I didn’t get paid. Many members, including premiums, were not paid too. But that isn’t the only problem that currently occurs on Paid.vg…

Today I also noticed a mysterious change in my accounts payment history. Some days ago the history showed me a pending payment of $13 (the money I’m still waiting for), but today…nada! It seems the Paid.vg admin has silently removed pending payment requests. And here I’m not the only one again. It looks like all members with pending payments have the same problem.

This is what lets me think that Paid.vg turns out to be a real big scam! Unfortunately I have to tell you that, my fellow readers. I know I have promoted Paid.vg many times (it has looked legit until the latest problems) and I feel really sorry to have done that.

I can’t say for 100% if Paid.vg really is a scam, but at the moment it looks like it is. We have payment problems, deleted payment requests, deleted forum threads (some people reported it), a bad support (the ticket system is useless cause nobody answers your questions) and members often times don’t get their ordered referral packages or they get it far too late. For me this looks like money is flowing into Paid.vg, but unfortunately not out of it as it should.

I will keep this post until those problems get resolved by the Paid.vg staff and I encourage everybody, who didn’t get paid yet or feels scammed, to spread the word about this possible scam. I personally will write more scam warnings if it should really turn out to be one.

If you want to join a real good PTC site in the meantime, I would highly suggest you to join Bux.to (reff). This site, with over 3 million members, is legit and already tested by myself. It has a nice support and the best part is, Bux.to really pays!

Ciao,
Querblogger

Today I got a mail from Adbux with some hot information that I will share with you, unless you have already got the same mail. Adbux celebrates its first birthday and the team is about adding more stunning features to their PTC program in May.

There are some really nice features to come to Adbux within the next weeks. Here are the new promised features as stated in their mail:

Revenue Share System

Adbux will offer a new structure for paying its users. Instead of getting paid directly, you’ll get shares from their company which you can sell back to Adbux anytime you want. So, for every click you do, for every offer you take, you’ll get shares. Their target share value is set to $1.00, which will rise if the company is doing well.

Get Paid for Knowledge

You may know Yahoo Answers, where you can answer (and ask) questions for other people? So, Adbux will be pay you for doing so in the future.

Get Paid to Search the Net

Adbux will start their very own search engine, where you also get paid for each search you do.

Get Paid to Play Games

Yes, you’ve heard right! In the future you will earn points/shares for playing games on Adbux. That’s quite an interesting feature in my opinion, making money while having fun.

AdBux Charity

Adbux will spend 5% of all the revenue that is generated on their site to charities. You will also have the option to donate by yourself!

New Payment Processors

It turns out that Alertpay is facing many problems lately. Several sites, including Bux.to, are reporting payment problems. To overcome those problems, Adbux will add new payment processors and, just like Bux.to, their very own debit card!

Multiple Levels

The referral system will get more levels. So, you will earn even more, not only from your direct referrals, but also from those members several levels below. The new system will be released during the next quarter.

Language Support

Easy, Adbux will support more languages in the future.

Daily Payouts

Premium members are able to receive daily payments.

So, let’s see if those features really get integrated within the next week/month. It would be nice to see such new additions and it would make Adbux a great PTC site again (at the moment I favour Bux.to).

Bye bye,
Querblogger

I feel sorry, but after moving my blog to a self-hosted Wordpress install, my feedburner feed has totally messed up. I’m looking for a fix, but it seems nobody can help me. Feedburner doesn’t accept my Wordpress feed, although it is valid. I don’t know the reason for this.

I hope I won’t lose all of my current subscribers…

See you,
Querblogger

You may have noticed that I’m working on a new blog design again. But this time everything is a bit different than my last design change some month ago.

At the moment I’m heavily working on porting my old Blogger blog to Wordpress (which I have already done when you read that post here). So I’ve finally taken the step to move “The Making Money Experiment” to a self-hosted account on Hostgator. I know have the money for doing that, because the first phase of my experiment (to make 100 bucks within six month online) was a full success!

I’m still working on the dirty little details here and there, but in general “new” blog should work now. At the moment I’m only facing severe problems with my RSS feed, it seems like Feedburner doesn’t accept my new feed address.

In general I try to heavily unclutter my blog design and remove as much advertising as possible (I won’t leave my blog naked, don’t panic!). I think, my blog should mainly focus on content in order to help my readers the most. I follow the KISS principle - “Keep It Simple, Stupid”…

So long,
Querblogger

Hi, I’m still alive! I must excuse for the lack of updates lately, but I’m very busy at the moment. I’m just working on my first niche website where I will promote a Clickbank product. Therefore I have to write some good articles for doing article marketing, set up a new website with domain and work on search engine optimization (SEO) to boost the search engine rankings for my targeted keywords. I can’t reveal more details yet, sorry.

The whole niche website story is part of my new goal for my Making Money Experiment, to make way more money than only $100 within six month. But, as already promised in my sixth month report, I’ll give you more details soon.

Till later,
Querblogger