Surveys for making money online

I have probably been investigating making money online for about two years now, around the time that I started this blog in fact.
Originally I was interested in offering a service converting cassettes to CD's which is still active today, I started blogging in order to create some backlinks to my cassette to CD website. I then got interested in paid blogging and this was briefly very successful before Google stepped in to remove PR from blogs that engaged in providing paid links (what do they think directories do?).

Paid posting alone could net you a several hundred dollars a month in those days, but those that were doing paid posting are now forced to diversify. I have never been keen on 'paid to click' or paid to read' programs as I can't see any real benefit IE.. I wouldn't feel like I was contributing anything for the payment (also the pay sucks...). So my second stream has been paid surveys and I will talk through the schemes that I use or have used and rate them according to my experiences:

Ciao (rated 3/10)- I used to do these surveys and cashed out twice, but I became frustrated by the amount of times I would spend more than ten minutes on a survey only to find I was not eligible for the survey and would not get paid... The annoying thing was that it was always the same type of questions and if they paid any attention to my profile they would know full well that I would not be eligible for the survey - enough about them, I dumped 'em and will not be going back!

PureProfile (rated 7/10) - much better system where you get paid for filling out certain parts of your profile to start with and they use this data to filter the surveys you are sent. Not only this but they pay you a small amount even if you turn out not to be eligible to complete the survey. It may take me a while to reach payout, but the process is painless, no problems so far with PureProfile. My second favourite service at the moment.

dNeero (rated 8/10) - this is a great scheme and likely to payout quicker than other schemes. the surveys are always short and easy to complete occasionally requiring you to sign up for something, but nothing too onerous. They pay you a set fee for the short survey, then you can earn more by posting the survey widget on a blog based on the traffic it receives. Not only that, but you get paid a percentage of the earnings of your referrals. You get a referral when someone joins after clicking on a survey widget on your blog... like the one in the post below this one.. I think it will not be too much longer before I reach payout on this one. Two or three tier referrals are available I think which is a nice passive earner if you can get some fairly active ones...

YouGov (rated 6/10)- The lastest scheme have tried... Like Pureprofile, they pay a small amount regardless of whether you are eligible for the survey and mostly they send surveys which are geared to your profile. Like PureProfile, I think it will take me a quite while to get to payout (hence the lower score), but I have had no problem with this scheme so far...

get paid for surveys

dNeero surveys pay you for taking part in their simple surveys, you can earn more by placing the survey widgets with your answers on your blog....
watch this space for more about paying surveys soon...

Car Hire for you

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Citizenship survey

dNeero surveys are fun and easy to do, and you can earn a few cents doing them, and then a few more cents by blogging them too.
the latest one I have done is about US citizenship as viewed by Non-US citizens. Why not join the conversation?

Domain names

I have bought several domain names this year and one of the frustrating things about starting a new website is the 'sandbox' factor where Google does not attribute any pagerank to the site for several months until it can judge that the domain is being used properly.
Hence many people will pay higher prices for aged domains especially where they already have a good pagerank.
I came across an SEO website today which has a very well-written article about how important the age of a domain is, and the age of it's content and links in SEO terms.
The author of this site, Stephen shares a lot of his SEO knowledge with his visitors and offers a good deal of sound advice.
You would be well-advised to spend some time looking around his SEO website and picking up some hints and tips that you can use to promote our own site.

Free RSS widget

I recently needed to display an RSS feed of a forum on a website, so Googled for 'free RSS widget', up popped Feedflash. The widget is customisable for size and colours, and the widget-making page will even locate your RSS feed from just the URL of the site...
I have since created another three of these on separate blogs, each one promoting another one of my blogs. My thinking is that maybe the readers from one blog might be attracted by the stories on one of my other blogs...
I recently started a new site called TheCreditCruncher, here are the latest stories displayed using Feedflash:


So far, there are just a few posts published, but I have a couple more articles to be added this week, and should have no trouble adding to the content. I have customised the colours to match this blog and have widened the standard widget, this can all be done very easily - why not try it?

Make money online

So a few years on from the start of my first steps as an internet entrepreneur (!!) what have I learned? Has it been worthwhile? and more importantly: Is it possible to make money online?
I think I was always skeptical about how much could be made online, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that you can make a bit without selling your soul entirely... I run a service that ONLY has a presence online and am happy to report that I have been reasonably successful making a little money with that service. I really started blogging to promote this service and talk about my experiences creating a website.
I moved on then to create some more blogs, and then some more blogs as I started to examine the earning potential of different niches. Earnings from these have come in the form of sponsored posts and both static and dynamic adverts. Success rates with these methods vary according to the popularity of the site, the 'quality' of the content and especially with PageRank.
I get a certain amount of revenue for context-sensitive ads (say around $50pm), and an amount for fixed ads (around $45pm). Sponsored blog posts vary a lot for me, but have averaged about $150pm lately. I figure that means that with my experience and a few hours a week bashing at a keyboard, I can earn around $250pm if we take into account some text-link sales here and there..
Add this to the revenue that my website brings in and it is enough to stave off the worst effects of the credit crunch. I know of people who spend full-time hours with online earnings and the general conclusion would have to be that there is often no one single thing that is a big earner, but combining several different sources can provide earnings equivalent to a wage if you are prepared to put the hours in.
My resources are mostly contained in the following links:
The TurnOnePoundIntoOneMillion blog (Rachel makes a decent income from online earnings), and the online earnings pages at Livewyre.net which helps to sort out the scams from the real proven earners.

What happens if you lose PR?

The perceived 'value' of your site goes down, but that is because many, many people (too many people) use PR as an indication of value - I think the smarter people will start to look at traffic figures and readership as an indication of value.

I believe in the long run, your content is the most important element, and the less relevant PR becomes, the less people will use it as an indication of value.

I think what is happening now is that bloggers must rethink whether they are looking for traffic or monetisation, Google is making it difficult to achieve both, if you want Google's SERP you have to bow to their rules. However this is not the only means of getting traffic. If you don't require traffic from Google, then SEO does not matter THAT much.
If you are totally traffic-oriented then you must be absolutely topical or mine a niche very thoroughly.
I have made a post on my main blog which examines closely the effect of losing PageRank on a website, I have looked at the statistics to work out if the PR drop (unjustified as far as I can see since the site in question does not pay for links at all) from a PR of 3 at the start of the year to a PR of 0 right now...

I have two blogs with which I have been more SEO conscious and these are designed around two niche areas. Of these sites, one has a PR of 2, and the other one is yet to be ranked. For these, I will be very careful about the content ensuring that posts are strictly in line with the niche, and careful about how I link to other sites, only choosing on-topic links. This will enable me to do very specific on-topic paid blog posts, and also sell text-links to on-topic sites. This is the more subtle paid-blogging which will replace the more blatant forms that we have become accustomed to.

The reason for this careful behaviour is that for these sites, I will require Google to send me traffic organically, one in particular reports on current events, and will frequently attract search engine traffic. This is not true of all blogs, and the key is deciding whether you need to model your blog along PR lines, or whether you can afford to ignore PR and plough your own furrow. Remember PR is not directly linked to traffic, it is only linked to traffic from search engines.

Survey on Celebrities in Politics

The latest dNeero survey concentrates on the hotting up of the US Presidential election race. The survey is concerned with the celebrity endorsements of specific candidates. Does it help?, does is hinder?, can it even do the celebrity some harm??

Google polices the internet

I was using my Google webmaster tools today when I noticed a link that I have not seen before 'report paid links' is what it said (I'm not sure if this link will work if you don't have a webmaster tools account - but if you don't - get one!!). Curious I clicked on it and there is a form giving me the opportunity to 'snitch' on someone who uses paid links to gain PageRank.
This is a fantastic way to destroy the effectiveness of your competitors websites!! (this comment loaded with ironic sarcasm - I'm not sure that there is an emoticon for that!). Personally I don't pay for links to my main website although I have linked from wherever I can including my own blogs, yet mysteriously my PR dropped from 3 to 2 and then 0 recently. (Not a blog, but a 'proper' website offering genuine information and a service to my clients). Have I been targetted by a competitor?? I was getting good search results for keywords, so maybe I have? I think that PR changes lately are all related to perceived paid linking, so it does seem a bit odd that this site with good stable content (and no paid links) has suddenly dropped PageRank completely - and I don't suppose there is any point in me complaining to the big G!!

Pesquisando por papel de parede?

Um portal interessante que nós pesquisamos é o www.papel-de-parede.org, um site legal para encontrar informação sobre papel de parede. Todos os dados que você tem que ver sobre Papel de Parede voce pode achar neste blog , que publica textos atualizados diaramente sobre Wallpaper e fornece novidades para papel de parede. Encontrar informação a respeito de papel de parede pode ser às vezes difícil de encontrar na internet uma vez que nem todos os websites abordam temas como esses Wallpaper. Você pode procurar mais e registre-se no RSS para ter mais novidades Papel de Parede. Faça comentários a respeito do que você leu neste blog, desde que seja sobre Wallpaper. Por Final, queremos dizer que o www.papel-de-parede.org é um site completo que vale a pena a todos que se identificam com papel de parede.

Vocé também pode se interessar por um outro site que fala sobre papel de parede, que e sobre Crachas!

Procure também em outro portal sobre Wallpaper que pode ser bom também Cartao de Visita.

Regular updating

Updating has become easier with the new blogger 'future post' facility, and I will be taking full advantage of the function. Having said that I am currently managing two web-sites and four blogs with varying degrees of success despite (apparently) being employed full-time. I have other projects that I would like to get off the ground, but in order to do that I would have to prune some activity somewhere.
Future posts will help to be able to make a raft of posts and then have them published automatically at a chosen time on a chosen date without having to visit the blogger dashboard. I certainly plan to take full advantage and use every means I can to keep juggling all the sites that I manage.

Extra money in your pocket

A rebate is on it's way into the pocket of millions of Americans, whilst some Britons are feeling the benefit of the '10p tax' issue, others (notably the worse off) will be suffering. If you have some extra money to spend, on what do you spend it?

Who are you?

Latest survey on identity from dNeero.
This is concerned with the concept of identity, which is a crucial element of blog and website promotion as your readers/viewers/visitors may identify with the personality, stance or concepts put forward.

PageRank

There is so much activity with sites and blogs losing PR lately that it is becoming very difficult to know what is acceptable to Google in recent times. I am sure that all the recent changes are to 'punish' those who Google think are paying for links. This could have a profound effect on the blogging world and those who have sought to 'exploit' the blogging phenomenon to place adverts either subtly or blatantly. It also surely has an effect on ANY web advertising. There are countless legitimate industry 'portal' sites that obviously accept adverts and obviously charge for the privilege - in many cases these sites are run by industry magazine publishers familiar with the concept of paid advertising. Will Google then slap all of these portals and all of those traders who advertise with them?
Where does this end?
Sadly, this ends with Google losing it's business model in a monopoly row - I say sadly because Google has been a fantastic model of what can be achieved with the world-wide web, but you can't allow one commercial enterprise that has it's fingers in the pie of web advertising (Adwords and Adsense) to regulate the traffic that may be driven to competitor websites. Google is too successful with it's search engine to allow it to manipulate search results with the objective of devaluing web advertising when Google itself promotes it's own web advertising products.
With the speed of change that the internet brings, I will be surprised if this is allowed to continue for much more than another twelve months.

Surveys for charity

In case I didn't mention this before, dNeero surveys actually offer you the chance to donate some of your earnings to charity each time you take a survey. The trouble is that less people are doing this now. The survey below asks why, I believe that with the growing credit crunch, people are more desperate than ever for extra income. For myself, I think once I have been paid out for the first time, I will donate money from the very next survey...

Travel Blog

Traveling is one of my favourite pastimes, though with things being tight financially, it has been a few years since I have been able to grab my passport and head out into the world. You can read about my travels in my new blog 'Really Traveling'. I have employed my experience thus far to create a fresh new blog which I hope will be a vehicle for building traffic and furthering my blogging experiments and experience. Please take a look and leave a (do-follow) comment or even 'digg' a story for me. Thanks

Procurando informação sobre suplemento alimentar?

Um site interessante que nós visitamos hoje é o www.suplemento-alimentar.com, uma ótima fonte de informação sobre suplemento alimentar. Todos os dados que você tem que ver sobre suplemento alimentar voce pode achar neste blog , que oferece artigos diários a respeito de Suplemento Alimentar e fornece novidades para suplemento alimentar. Dados sobre suplemento alimentar na internet é complicado uma vez que nem todos os websites abordam temas como esses Suplemento Alimentar. Encontre mais e registre-se no RSS para obter notícias novas suplemento alimentar. Faça comentários a respeito do que você leu neste blog, sobre o tema de Suplemento Alimentar. Finalmente, nós insistimos em dizer que o www.suplemento-alimentar.com é um site completo que vale a pena a todos as pessoas que querem saber mais sobre suplemento alimentar.

Você pode igualmente gostar de outro portal que publica informação de suplemento alimentar, que e sobre Conscurso!

Faça uma pesquisa noutro site sobre Suplemento Alimentar que pode ser bom também Seguros de Vidas.

Join a forum

One of the most effective ways to learn about internet marketing, SEO or any subject you could possibly choose is to join an online forum. There are forums covering every subject you could possible be interested in for music to photography, soccer to swingball... Someone somewhere will have started a forum that covers your subject.
There are many reasons to join including the learning experience, and the social aspects, but also the opportunity to post links to your sites and build up visitor stats.
I have joined a few forums recently, some of them niche, but one in particular is a general forum as much for social reasons as for advice or help. I have been a member of mmmtalk forum for a while now, and it is the forum on which I am most active, most of the members and admin are involved in work at home schemes. If you are not a member of any forums, mmmtalk is a great forum to get started with, and if you are a member of niche forums, consider joining mmmtalk if only to meet a sociable bunch of people who are interested in seeing your work and visiting your site.

Buscando mais sobre seguro vida?

Um site interessante que nós pesquisamos é o www.seguro-vida.org, um site legal para encontrar informação sobre seguro vida. Tudo que você precisa saber sobre seguro vida voce pode achar neste blog , que publica textos atualizados diaramente sobre Seguros de Vidas e fornece novidades para seguro vida. Dados sobre seguro vida na internet é complicado uma vez que nem todos os websites abordam temas como esses Seguros de Vidas. Você pode procurar mais e acompanhe as notícias diariamente para obter notícias novas seguro vida. Pode deixar comentários sobre os artigos, sobre o tema de Seguros de Vidas. Por Final, queremos dizer que o www.seguro-vida.org é um portal essencial e achamos que você deve divulgá-lo a todos que se interessam por seguro vida.

Entre também em outro portal que publica informação de seguro vida, que e sobre Franquias!

Você também pode dar uma olhada em outro blog relacionado com Seguros de Vidas que pode ser bom também Suplemento Alimentar.