Welcome to another, admittedly short update on the progress with the brand new PTC called mbBux. There’s not too much to report about this new site yet, but trust me, the guys behind mbBux are working hard to provide us a great and innovative PTC. Some days ago they introduced a Private Messaging system, a feature rarely seen on other PTCs nowadays. It seems that even NeoBux is lacking behind the implemention of private messaging, although it is already announced to be implemented soon.

All in all most of the work currently concentrates on the forum and several contests to get a living community up and running and, which is even more important, to get lots of new members. There are members who already have more than 600 refs in their downline (notice, you’ll get 10% in commissions from all your direct ref purchases). All in all the whole site should now have more than 10,000 members in total (the last official number I heared was 5,000 2 or 3 days ago). One 50,000 members are reached, advertising deals will be handled out and the first ads may show up!

I personally have also done some refering work and somehow managed to get around 60 direct refs already. I advertised on different PTCs like NeoBux, BuxP, Fusionmails, HumanPTC or Advercash, either with banners or by purchasing clicks. On top of that I also created a Squidoo lens about mbBux to gain some more refs. Let’s see if I can win a prize in the referral contest…

Ok, enough said for now! Feel free to join mbBux right now to become a Pioneer member. I can’t repeat it often enough, but you’ll have lots of benefits from becoming an early member on mbBux (just like it helped me to get the ball rolling on NeoBux).

Cheers,
Querblogger

As reported yesterday, mbBux is now in Pre-Release phase and open to new members. I want to give a short update on what’s currently going on with the site.

Well, at the moment mbBux is still very new and most of all the announced features are currently disabled. It seems the two people behind the PTC are currently concentrating on the site forum. And in fact, the forum is looking better and better and it slowly fills with fresh news, information and member threads!

It is said that, once the forum is finished, the first features of mbBux will be released. I’m quite anxious to see what mbBux has to offer. Here are the things that I currently know about the feature list:

• Ad clicks are worth nearly the same amount as on NeoBux (around $0.01 per ad)
• You’ll get 10$ commission on your direct referral’s purchases
• You’ll get the Pioneer status when you join them in the early days (you’ll earn more than standard members)
• Referral renting and Recycling, including per referrral statistics
• Instant payments to Alertpay and Paypal
• Different membership levels
• Several games and jackpots to win cash prizes and referrals

I probably have forgotten some features, but I’ll give an update anyway once the offial features are avalable!

Right now I’ve already referred 6 new members to mbBux and I’m also participating in their first contest where you can win some cash, depending on the number of people you have referred. The contest ends at February 14th, so there’s a lot of time to build up a nice downline, eheh

Ok, enough for now. Feel free to join mbBux right today and see there progress with that fresh new PTC!

Bye,
Querblogger

Note: mbBux has started it’s pre-launch phase today! See below!

I want to inform you that a brand new PTC site is about to (pre)launch within the next few days. The admin, a New Zealand guy named Brendan who’s also a member on NeoBux, told that the site should be open at around 9pm GMT today!

I tell you that because I think the guys behind this PTC really impose with professionalism, although this might only be a feeling of myself. The features of his PTC will be nearly exactly the same as those found on NeoBux, which includes instant payments, referral renting, commissions from your refs and many more exciting things like games and such.

You should watch out for new information here on TMME to sign up with them as fast as possible (hopefully under my ref link) because you’ll get the Pioneer status, meaning you’ll get more benefits compared to regular members. According to Brendan this pioneer phase will only last 2 or 3 days, maybe even shorter!

I’ll give an update once the site opens its doors. Stay tuned!

See you,
Querblogger

Update: As promised mbBux is now in pre-launch phase. Although it itsn’t fully functional yet, you can already test out some of the features this promising PTC will give us when it’s officially launched. Feel free to join under me and get in early to receive extra benefits like the Pioneer status!

Update 2: You may face problems accessing the site since they are still working on the code. Those problems should be cleared soon!

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.

Yesterday I’ve written a post on how you get paid to search the internet. I joined a program called My Homepages Friends, which pays you up to $0.06 for each single search you do with help of their toolbar (well, basically it’s only a search plugin for your browser which redirects to their search page). At the moment they are using Google as their search “frontend”, so if you use Google anyway, it can only get better for you because you’ll now be paid for searching with Big G.

Anyway, now for my first stats after joining that site:

First of all, so far I’ve done only 17 searches with help of their toolbar. On the other site, those 17 searches could have made me my first dollar. Unfortunately my earnings haven’t updated yet. But there are reasons for this. Usually it takes up to 48 hours before your account balance updates. If there’s a weekend in between, it takes a little longer. I hope I’ll see some updates at the beginning of next week.

Second, I’ve already managed to get 4 friends (referrals) with help of my first post about My Search Funds. Much thanks for joining under me! My friends earnings (and therefore my personal revenue) will get updated a week after they have done their searches, so I have to wait even longer before announcing some more stats about it.

Well, that should be all for now. I keep you up to date with more information about MHFand I will also write a tutorial on getting referrals, so you can grow your referral tree and make some good cash too! If you’re interested in joining this site, feel free to use my referral link and become my friend!

Bye bye
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

The new PTC site called NeoBux has now gone live and I have already made my first cents from clicking. With help of 5 referrals (3 active ones), I made a total of $0.175. I know this doesn’t sound like much, but it’s not bad for a PTC site with only 5 refs, trust me on this.

If you want to know more about this site, check my post about NeoBux or my NeoBux Squidoo lens!

Till later,
Querblogger