If you ever asked yourself whether NeoBux is a scam or not, I can calm you down. After receiving my first 2 Dollars around two weeks ago, today I received my second payment.

First of all, if you don’t know what NeoBux is, let me tell you in short. NeoBux is a fairly new PTC site, where you earn money for watching advertisements. Everytime you click on an ad, you get paid $0.01 ($0.02 as a golden member) after you’ve watched it for 30 seconds. You can also refer other people to NeoBux, where you’ll be paid for every click those referrals make ($0.005 per click as a standard member, $0.01 as a golden). After you’ve gathered 2 Dollars (the minimum payout level), you can request that money to your Alertpay account.

Instant Payments

Now for the best part, NeoBux pays instantely, meaning there’s no (not a single second) waiting time between requesting your money and receiving it in your Alertpay account. Now that I’ve tested it the second time, I can only say that it really works. I clicked the money request button while being logged in at Alertpay, then I refreshed the Alertpay page and the money was already there. Great!

Growing Referral Count

Since the end of April I have personally referred 22 people to NeoBux. I must admit that isn’t that much, because I haven’t done too much to promote NeoBux. Most of those refs came from my blog and my squidoo lens about NeoBux.

Just recently I started to promote my referral link on other PTC sites. I have one where I only pay $4 per 1,000 ad clicks, the site is called ShareBux. ShareBux isn’t that great for making money, but perfect for advertising. Today I ordered another advertising package, where I’ll get 100 new and quaranteed sign-ups for NeoBux for just $10! Check this site out for more details.

I hope I’ll get many more referrals in the future, because I tink NeoBux has a great potential to be a serious money maker! I’m also looking forward to see their new referral renting system, more on this feature later.

Happy Clicking!

See you,
Querblogger

Around 2 week ago I wrote about how I made my first sale from affiliate marketing. I told you that there’s some good work involved in setting up an affiliate site, e.g. filling it with content or promoting it in order to get more traffic. I also told you, that such sites most times pay off for themselves in the end. Well…my little niche site has brought me yet another $30 in my Clickbank account!

As I first started to explore the world of affiliate marketing, especially niche marketing, I thought it would be way too difficult to actually make money from it. Now I see that it IS possible to make money from it, which doesn’t mean it isn’t difficult at all. All you need is passion about your “job”, work toward your own goals and you’ll reach them! Mhmm, I already sound like a super affiliate…

Should be all for now,

Cheers,
Querblogger

A long time ago, as I was searching for new traffic sources for my blog, I came across a site called TNX.net. I didn’t care much about it, until I recently realised that I had missed a real great service. You may ask what such a great service could be? Let me explain!

To put it in simple words, TNX.net is a site where you can trade links in order to gain more link popularity for your site or make money by selling links, or even both. Below you’ll find some more details regarding the features this website offers. You can use it for advertising your own sites and therefore generate new traffic and you can earn money just from placing links.

Increase your Traffic

There are several ways to drive traffic to a website, but the best and most useful one would be to gain many backlinks to it. The more websites that link back to your site, the higher your link popularity will be. More link popularity means a higher value of your site and therefore higher rankings in the search engines. And good rankings are most times a quarantee for more visits.

On TNX.net you’re able to buy links pointing to your own website or blog from other sites that are also part of the TNX advertising network. You can buy such links with help of points, which you can either earn by selling links on your own pages (more on this later) or by buying them with good old cash.

Prices for buying TNX-points are reasonable and range from $0.85 to $1.70 per 1000, depending on the quantity of your order. With $25 for example, you’ll get 14,706 points that you can use for advertising. And trust me, that amount would be enough to gain some hundred backlinks!

I’ve personally bought some hundred link on TNX.net to increase my blog’s link popularity. And I’ve done it for free! Yes, you heard right, TNX.net offers new users 5,000 points for free. All you have to do is signing up at TNX.net, head over to this forum thread and leave a reply with your member ID. You’ll get your first 5,000 points in no time. As I’ve already said, I immeditaley bought several hundred links with those 5,000 points and it didn’t take too long until those links where placed on other sites in their network.

Buying links on TNX.net is easy. When setting up a new campaign, you first have to provide links that you want to place on other websites. Most times it’s better to not only link to your homepage, but also to several sub-pages or blog posts. This gives your site a more “natural” look in the eyes of a search engine. TNX.net even provides a tool to make your links look more natural, you can read more about it in this thread.

Right after that, you have to choose different categories that best fit your advertising needs. You can choose several categories your website’s content belongs to, like marketing for example. The last step before buying links, is choosing site categories on the basis of their ranking. You have the option to choose based on Yahoo Backlinks and the Google Pagerank, the higher the ranking, the more points you have to invest. Usually higher ranked sites have a bigger influence on your own website or blog.

After choosing all options, the TNX.net service will start to automatically place backlinks on sites in their network. You can see placed links in your statistics after logging in to your account. It will take up to several weeks before major search engines will recognize those fresh backlinks and start to give your website more value. But it’s worth to wait, I’ve personally increased my daily traffic with the help of TNX.net. Besides having a Pagerank of 2 now, I also have an increasing stream of daily visitors.

Make Money from Selling Links

Besides gaining better link popularity and increasing your daily traffic, TNX.net also offers the option to sell links on your own website or blog. With help of a small code snippet which you have to place on your site or site’s template, you can start selling links automatically. Unfortunately you can’t use this service when using a free host like Blogger for example, it’s required that you have either PHP or Perl installed on your server or hosting account.

After placing the code, TNX.net starts selling links on your site. If you place the code directly in your website/blog template, links can be sold on every page of your site. That means you can earn many more points compared to just placing links on your site’s homepage.

The amount of points you receive from selling links depends on your site’s ranking and how many links you’re willing to place on each page. In general, the better your ranking and the more links you place (up to 4), the more points you’ll get.

TNX-points can either be used to buy new backlinks to your site or you can sell them back to TNX.net. At the moment selling price is at $0.84 for 1,000 points, but the value is permanently increasing due to the site’s getting more poular each day and attracts more advertisers.

I personally have gained over 20,000 TNX-points from placing links on my blog since joining the site. That’s worth around $17 at the moment, not bad! And the best thing is that Google won’t recognize those links on your site and penalize you for selling links (Google hates that). Sold links are looking natural to search engines, thanks to the code TNX.net provides you for implementing in your site.

Conclusion

TNX.net provides a great and reliable service which offers you the option to buy links for better search rankings and sell links to either receive TNX-points or money. So far I’ve tested and used it, I have only seen benefits for me and my blog. I’ve gathered nearly 1,000 new backlinks (including deep links) to my blog, my Pagerank has increased (sure, not only because of TNX alone) and my traffic is constantely increasing the last days and weeks. I like it very much!

TNX.net also offers a nice partner program where you can earn even more TNX-points. Each time one of your referrals earns points from selling links, you too earn a certain percentage. For example, if a referred member earns 100 points from selling links on his site, you earn 10 points.

If you want to see more benefits from TNX.net, I can only highly recommend to sign up on their site, grab your free 5,000 TNX-points (see above) and start your first campaign and/or sell your first links. It’s definitely worth it, I have tested it by myself and I will stay with them for sure!

So long,
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!

After a long time without too many updates about my progress with Bux.to, I will give you some more in-depth details about my current situation with this nice money maker. I will give you some statistics about my referral count, click rates, earnings and current news about Bux.to in general.

Bux.to – The Best PTC Ever

I started my Bux.to experiment/career way back in October 2007, where I was a complete noob in terms of making money online. But, until today, I don’t regret joining this PTC, the most popular of all PTC’s at the moment (and probably for the future). I had many highs and lows with Bux.to the last month. First I thought it was a scam, until I received my first payment in February 2008 (not much btw, but proof enough for me to keep on using that site). Then everything seemed to work right, until all those statistic delays started and many members thought this would be the end of Bux.to. Well, they are still alive!

Just recently I was invited for the beta test of the brand new script that powers Bux.to. I was amazed after finding an invite for this beta test, because only 10,000 members were allowed to test the new script. Ok, 10,000 members sounds much, but note that Bux.to has over 5,000,000 members today! Maybe the staff has noticed that I rank number in the top ten in the Google search results for the term “Bux.to” and have some influence?!

At the moment the most annoying thing at Bux.to is the really huge payment delay. They are three month late with their payments. But there are reasons for that delay! First, they had some serious trouble with Alertpay, which had several errors in the payment processing on their own side. The problem is already solved, payments will be processed as regular. Second, and most disturbing fact is the audit time. At the moment they have to check each payment request for fraudulent activity (thanks to all those scammers and users of autoclickers). With several thousand cashout requests each month one can only imagine how long that would take…

But, with help of the new script, several things will change. First of all, they will include some kind of autoclicker detection. Sorry, I haven’t (and won’t give you) any details about it! I think it’s a good step for faster payment requests, because the account audit times will get shorter. Second thing is semi-automatic payment processing instead of manual doing those payments. After the release of the new script, payment will definitely arrive way faster than right now!

Ok, let’s head over to my stats!

My Bux.to Stats

Let’s first have a look at the stats directly from my Bux.to account:

You see, after joining the site nearly six month ago, I have done 3071 clicks by myself. I must admit, that’s not a high amount. I’ve seen users with way more clicks than I personally have. But I’m not below the average for sure.

So far I have a total of 72 referrals. 65 of them are purchased from Bux.to, the rest was done by promoting Bux.to on my blog. I personally haven’t referred many people…unfortunately. I’ve spent a total of around $80 for buying all those refs, luckily I’ve already made my investments back. Some more bucks I’ve invested were $65 for upgrading my account to premium status. That was the best thing I could do, not only because I get paid 25% more compared to standard members. It also increased the daily ad count from around 10 ads to sometimes more than 40 ones!

Now for the best part, my referrals have clicked a total of 12061 ads so far. In other words, each referral brought me around 167 advertising clicks so far. I have made my investments back!
I have a nice (or ugly) statistics graph where you can see the total amount of referral clicks since the beginning of January, where I bought my first referral pack:

You’ll notice the recent increase in my referrals click activity, that’s because I’ve bought another referral pack three weeks ago AND the statistics delay has gone (at least for me)!

So far I got paid $12.71 from Bux.to, back then to my Paypal account. So far I my account blance went up to over $168. At April 18th I’ve requested my second payout of $75 to my brand new Bux.to Mastercard. In my opinion the new card is another great step towards a more professional PTC. At the moment I’m still waiting for the payment to arrive.

At the moment I’m making around 3 to 4 Dollars each day, excluding my personal clicks on daily ads. That’s amazing for only 72 referrals, where around 10 of them are even inactive. I think about reinvesting most of my money (if it arrives some day) in new referral packages. If everything works right for the next month, I’ll see a huge increase in my overall monthly earnings!

Conclusion

At the moment you could have many doubts about Bux.to. Payments are late, statistics aren’t updating right, many people complain about this PTC already. Everyday there are new threads on the Bux.to forums from people that are waiting for their first money to come in.

On the other side, Bux.to has proven to be a professional PTC like no other. They have solved their problems with Paypal while searching for alternative payment processors. They have arranged a deal with Payoneer, a serious company providing the already mentioned Mastercard. They are currently working on a new script to give their members a way better experienece, not only moneywise.

I will furthermore support Bux.to as a real big money making opportunity (maybe I’ll get a higher ranking in the SERPS than Bux.to itself ). Sure, there are payment delays and one could arque about their real business model, but I think they have some good plans for running their business for a longer time in the future. So far they have proved to pay many people, sometimes several thousand dollars!

Bux.to is THE great site, nothing more to say…!

Bye,
Querblogger

My friend Tiberius Burciu, owner of My PPC Advertising, has just recently started a new project. He created a new website that deals about everything you want to know about domain names. It provides some good info and today I will give a short review on his new site and also talk about some money making techniques he is using.

The site I will review here is named Domain Names 101 and, as already stated in the post title, it deals about domain names. Well, you may have guessed it already?

Ok, today I had a deeper look at Tiberius’ site and I was really impressed with all the good content you can find on it. I don’t say this because we are friends and I’m only here for promoting his site, but because he has really invested a lot of time and hard work in it, and that should be worth a review on my blog anyway.

Design

Let’s go on. His domain name site has a quite clean and clear design. No fancy graphics and annoying popups, the whole page looks very “friendly” in my opinion.

The navigation is well done and easy to handle. I like the uncluttered navigation style, nothing is more annoying than those hyper-cool, javascript driven flyout menus and that kind. A navigation should be easy both for your site visitors and also for search engines, which can better navigate through your site.

Content

A website’s design doesn’t matter too much when it comes to creating a information-based site. What really matters is content, and Domain Names 101 has a lot of content!

Content is really important, both for visitors who are looking for it in order to get answers, and search engines who are permanently searching for new sites they can index. Domain Names 101 features a lot of quality content and provides usefull information if it comes to domain names.

The site contains nearly everything you want to know about domain names, from choosing domain names to selling them, from mobile domain names to free ones. I was amazed about all the info Tiberius has researched for his niche site! But he goes even more into the details, e.g. do you know what a homograph attack is? I doubt many people will know that.

It’s a great plus for his site to offer such specialized information, it will drive targeted traffic from search engines and therefore visitors who are looking for the right answers. Besides only providing the info to those people, it’s also useful for monetizing a site as I will explain in the next paragraph.

Monetization

Ok, let’s come to some monetization strategies Tiberius uses on his domain names site. I think it’s nothing wrong about monetizing such a content-rich site, on the contrary, it would be a bad idea not to do so.

In general, to make money from websites, you need traffic and the best traffic you can get is from search engines like Google or Yahoo for example. In order to get search engine traffic, you must provide unique and useful content. In other words, you must provide the answers to the user’s questions. If you do your job right, you’ll reap big fruits.

So, traffic shouldn’t be a problem with Tiberius’ site, although it will take a while before search engines index all the pages on Domain Names 101. But now it comes to monetizing that traffic.

One strategy he uses is contextual advertising. It’s a well known technique to monetize a site and it’s really simple to work with. All you have to do is to integrate a small piece of code in your underlying website template. That code snippet will “scan” your pages for keywords and show advertisements tailormade to those keywords and phrases. If somebody clicks on those ads, you’ll make money ranging from only some cents to several dollars. The amount depends on the keywords and how much advertisers are willing to bid on it.

Tiberius is using SpeedyAds as the advertising network of choice. It’s like Google Adsense and can bring you a nice amount of money if you have some good traffic. I’m personally using SpeedyAds too and so far I have had several clicks, including clicks on high-priced keywords.

Another money making strategy he uses are affiliate banners. Those banners are another nice way to make some real good money from your sites. Most times they are sale’s based, meaning that someone has to click on that banner and buy a product or service on the merchants page that the banner links to. You can make anything from some dollars to several hundred bucks (yes, really) from a single sale. But, as any other money maker, it higly depends on targeted traffic. People must be looking for a particular product/service you advertise via affiliate banners in order to make sales.

Conclusion

That should be all for my short review here. I think all I can say is that Tiberius’ site has a good potential to make him at least some bucks a month at the beginning. If search engines start to pick up his useful content, traffic will definitely grow and he should be able to make even more money.

Tiberius has done a good job on creating Domain Names 101, he has gathered some good information about domain names and created a great site. I wish you all the best Tiberius!

Check out his site and learn everything about domain names!

Cheers,
Querblogger