Wohaa, I’m slowly heading toward one year of doing my Making Money Experiment! Ten months are already over now and today it’s time again for another monthly update on my current progress and earnings.

In July I earned $278, that’s even $72 more than back in June. Although far from letting me quit my day job, I’m happy again. I can slowly feel how things start rolling and I’m now somewhat more fluid when it comes to spend some bucks for my hosting, software and other things I need to build up my small online business.

July was ruled, and my earnings show that, by my efforts in building a nice downline in NeoBux. You can read about it on my NeoBux Squidoo lens if you will. After directly referring a total of 120 people so far plus 220 rented refs, I now make around $5 each day. This month I made a total of $141 from NeoBux alone. It’s a great PTC, probaly the best PTC if you ask me. They pay instantely, introduce one new feature after the other and the earning potential is quite high. I have already upgraded my account to a Golden membership, something I would highly suggest everybody who wants to make some good money with them.

I also earned $50 from Bux.to, but to be honest, I more and more doubt that it’s really worth it anymore. Although they have promised to clear their payment backlogs, nothing special happend so far. Sure, current payment dates for premium members with a Bux card have moved to the beginning of April, but that’s quite normal in a near 4 week time frame… (insiders may know what I’m talking about, otherwise move on reading more interesting stuff).

This month I also made my fourth affiliate sale from my niche site, it brought me $30 on Clickbank. It’s quite good because I haven’t done anything with this site for several weeks now but I still earn some bucks.

Another $20 I made from writing some articles for a friend from Belgium. He actually wanted me to write articles about NeoBux in both English and German. It was a nice work and he already paid me, no problems, perfect! Thanks again Stijn!

Around $30 were earned from selling links on my blog (yes, I am that evil). No need to further talk about because I won’t get into trouble with Google, hehe.

The rest, around $10, came from contextual ads (Speedyads, Kontera) and several other minor activities like my articles on Triond for example.

In July my blog received 3,500 unique visitors and this number isn’t moving in any direction right now. My Alexa ranking is at around 180,000 and my Pagerank hasn’t changed after the last Google update some days ago (although my backlinks have increased, needs some time).

Ok, enough? I think so. I try to write some new posts the next week before I go on vacation for two weeks. Maybe I’ll write some more posts that will automatically published while I’m away, let’s see.

Thanks to all my readers for your support and commenting. Keep on reading, tell your friends about your findings here and have some nice days!

Bye,
Querblogger

Some days ago I discovered that eToro, a relatively new Forex broker with some exciting and new ways to trade on the foreign exchange, has an extremely high paying affiliate program. Their program is listed via Commission Junction and they pay $100 per lead!

First of all, eToro is a platform that enables you to trade currency pairs on the Forex market. I’ve already written about the huge money making potential from doing Forex several months ago, take a look at my introduction to Forex and some helpful resources. What makes eToro so special is the way they deal with trading the market. Unlike many major brokers which provide full blown analysis and statistic tools that help you making a trade, eToro offers a dead simple software where everybody is able to trade the Forex in a funny, amusing and easy way, which doesn’t mean they are not professional! You may download their software and open a free demo account to see what it looks like, simply follow my link (no, I won’t get paid any money if you only use the free version) and try it out.

Really interesting is the fact that they pay you, as an affiliate, $100 for new users that fund their (real) account on eToro. Funding an account with real money is easy, the minimum you need is only $50 plus you’ll get a 50% bonus of up to $200 for your first deposit (e.g. if you fund it with $400). After you’ve added funds, you’re immediately able to trade the Forex market with real hard cash (but be careful that you’ll also face a high risk unless you don’t have any experience with it).

eToro looks like a good program to make some nice affiliate commissions from. Because you get paid for every new user that adds a minimum of only $50 in their accounts, chances are quit good to make some money with their affiliate program. There isn’t such a huge barrier for new users and it gets even better because of the 50% bonus, it’s likely that a person interested in Forex trading will effort that amount.

Right now I’ve place a banner in my blog’s header and so far I got only clicks but haven’t earned any commission. I have a CTR (Click Through Rate) of around 2% and that shows me that at least some people have an interest in eToro. Anyway, I will leave it their for some more time to see how it will perform or not (yes I know that I’m actually not exactly in the Forex niche with my blog…).

Should be all for now.

See you,
Querblogger

PS: I’ve just joined a nice webmaster forum called Qdoos. Feel free to head over there where you can also find me and my friend Tiberius a.k.a. Midwest, who’s already a Junior Admin. Congrats Tiberius!

Last wednesday I immediately upgraded my NeoBux account to a Golden Membership because the owners of NeoBux have temporary tested the new Paypal purchase module, which is now fully implemented by the way. I paid $60 for the upgrade and I’ll now show you some results I got so far within the last 4 days.

Since last wednesday, meaning since the last 4 days, I made a total of $37 net profit from NeoBux. I’m completely beside myself with joy (ok, let’s say I’m really lucky) because of that. In other words that means that I’ve made already 61% of my investment back within only 4 days! It’s absolutely awesome, especially because I know that they really pay that amount of money (within seconds).

You may ask why I’ve earned that much the last days. Well it’s not only because of increased earnings from my referral’s advertising clicks, it’s mainly because I also earn 10% of every referral purchase like an account upgrade or advertising purchases. Just today I made over $7 from these purchases alone. As I already said, it’s absolutely awesome!

Right now I can say that my account upgrade to a Golden membership is probably the best thing I’ve ever done. One could even argue that it’s maybe too good to be true to earn that much (I’ve “only” 220 refs by the way), but it’s a proven fact that NeoBux is really paying. Look at their site and see their professionality and all the different income streams, I think they CAN pay all their members easily! If you have doubts about it, please join NeoBux now, do your first cashout and prove me wrong!

Ok, enough for that update. I’m now waiting for the Paypal cashout implemention which should be come very soon.

See you later,
Querblogger

Today there was a real big surprise as the NeoBux admin temporary enabled purchasing via Paypal in order to let people test this brand new function first. Normally you only have the option to purchase stuff like membership ugrades or referral packs via your account balance or Alertpay, but since today there’s also the Paypal option. But notice that this is only temporary and for testing purposes, the option will be canceled before the new Paypal system will be finally integrated into the NeoBux script!

As I’m a great supporter of NeoBux because of their professionality and stuff like instant payments, referral renting and such, I’ve only waited for that day to come and instantely upgraded my account to Golden for $60. Before I wasn’t able to upgrade it in such an easy and fast way because I didn’t have enough funds on Alertpay and the only way to add money to my AP account would be per check, which is a time consuming thing with some extra fees involved. My original plan was to invest my earned money into refs in order to get even more bucks to pay for that upgrade.

The benefits of having a Golden membership are amazing! Instead of making only $0.005 per referral you now make $0.01, doubled earnings! You’ll also get 10% of all your referrals’ purchases, e.g. when one pays for a golden membership which costs $60 you’ll get $6.00. Referral renting costs only $0.20 per ref and month instead of $0.30. You’ll get way more ads to click on, today I already had 15 ads that I clicked. I’ve missed some more benefits for sure, but in general you can expect to earn (way) more than twice the amount from your refs as with a standard membership!

Later tonight I will also buy rent another 50 referrals, I already have 70 rented and over 90 direct referrals from my promotional work here on that blog and different other things.

If you want to join a serious PTC site that really pays in time (within seconds), I can only highly recommend NeoBux. You can join under me by clicking the banner below (notice you can also see my earnings and some stats from NeoBux on it).

See you soon,
Querblogger

UPDATE 07/19/08: The Paypal purchase option is now finally integrated and you can buy your golden membership, rent referrals and purchase advertising packages via your verified (!) Paypal account.

Today I will write about Kontera’s ContenLink ad publishing network and how it may help you in monetizing your blog. I thought it was time to continue my “series” about blog monetization methods that I began in December 2007. Back then it presented three different money makers called WidgetBucks, Bidvertiser and Fair Ads Network.

Kontera provides a full-featured advertising network that offers in-text advertising, another attractive method for making money from your blog (and also your regular website’s) content. It’s really simple, you place a short code snippet in your blog’s template (they even offer an automatic tool for Blogger.com blogs) where you want those ads to appear. Whenever a page of your blog gets loaded, the code parses your content for particular keywords that different advertisers bid on and it highlights them just like a regular hyperlink. When your site visitors click on one of those links, you’ll make money. You may see such links while looking at my posts here on this blog, they are double underlined.

I’ve implemented Kontera’s ContentLink technology some days ago after I got accepted in their publisher network. I use their very own Wordpress plugin to make my life a little easier with integrating Kontera on my blog. So far I made $1.77 in four days with an average CTR (Click-Through Rate) of around 2.50%. The average click price is at $0.30, but I must admit that I only have stats for those four days!

It seems that this ad publishing solution does work real good for content sites, so far that’s the highest CTR I’ve ever seen from all those advertising networks that I tested here on my blog. To give you an example, my CTR on Speedyads is at 0.20%!

Kontera pays at a Net 30 basis, meaning they pay you 30 days after a month’s end. In order to get paid you have to reach $100 as the minimum payout limit. Payments are made via Paypal, Check and even international bank transfer.

Kontera’s ContentLink looks very promising and I’ll leave it on my blog for some more weeks to get some better and more realistic statistics. Right now I’m very happy with their network, earnings are quite good so far and I’m really surprised to see such a high click-through rate, which is a good sign for making good money. As always, revenues also highly depend on your blog’s or website’s traffic, the more the better.

Bye,
Querblogger