akabeezy.com - A regular scam with a touch of bling

One of the biggest scams out there today is claims that it is easy to get grants from the US government and that these "salesman" (can you call them that?) will show you exactly how to do it. Of course, there are just a few people behind this kind of offer but they need to present themselves in everyway possible so that people from all kinds of walks of life will feel they have something in common to the person selling the product.

In this case, it's the bling clad rapper look a like Beezy who clearly tries to pull a young audience with his use of slang. Stay away!

kevingotmoney.com - should be called kevin got money from a scam!

Any sites with a name and the word money in should be approached with extreme caution, having been on the look out for scams for some time, I can spot one from a mile off and this has scam spelt all over it.

The claims that you can make huge profits from posting links on google are false but a well used attempt to seperate you from your money. The template and positive feedback has all been used before on other sites and this website will probably be closed down eventually - in the mean time, stay away!

johnsincomeblog.com - google rapid profit generator scam

There are numerous hustlers out there trying to sell products related to earning money through google adsense, often what will happen is that you have to pay a fee and they give you a set website, which you are then supposed to post content with a high adsense CTR, in some cases they get an automated clicker to click on your ads to keep you happy at the beginning but adsense are quick to act and close you down.

One of the internet rules is don't mess around with google and if you get sucked in to these ridiculous "google cash generator", "google cashkit" or "google rapid profit generator", you are going to be worse off. These products are not affiliated with google. Stay away!

joejenkins.ws - Gdi Scam Artist

The Gdi Scams have been taking off on .ws domain names of late and one of the most advertised ones that I've come across so far is joejenkins.ws, when you click this link it forwards you immediately to the GDIgoldrush page with a referral ID.

Don't fall for this one - for more info on why you should be wary of GDI - check out this post

Saving Tips No. 1 - Cut baby wipes, cut the cost

Although not directly related to earning money online, I thought I'd start a new section called "Saving Tips" revolving around good ways to save money. After all, saving money is just as good as making it.

Recently, I became a father and like all babies - my daughter needs a fair amount of nappy changes throughout the day, at least one and sometimes two or three baby wipes are used at every nappy change, however the butt to baby wipe ratio is not exactly 1:1, so I often find myself folding over the baby wipes.

It occured to me that cutting them in half would save 50% of the cost on baby wipes and wouldn't effect the outcome of the wipe.

Andruchi.com - In depth info but definitely a scam

I generally warn against dipping into the world of casino, especially if you are looking to make a bit of money as it's a place you are more likely to lose money unless you have an amazing talent for poker.

There are loads of casino systems out there but generally the casino wins, Andruchi.com seem to own rouletteflaw.com as well which is a definite scam and a nasty one at that. This may win initially a little bit but over the long-term you are going to come out a loser, yet the owner of Andruchi.com makes money from the affiliate sign-up.

Stay away!

greendayreviews.com - An old scam in a new package

There are many sites which follow in a similar fashion to this one, he claims to be a powerseller on e-bay, they claim to have a flawless casino system and yet they are giving the information away - then below you'll see a supposedly convincing youtube video of doing well from it.

Don't believe the hype though, this casino scam is widely re-packaged and is only supposed to be attractive so that you sign up through the website's affiliate links with casinos which makes them a profit.

easycasinoprofits.com - A scam - the only person making easy profits is this site

This scam uses the famously simple and completely ineffective yet promising looking system that involves betting on high, middle or low depending on the sequence of results. It may look good onpaper but it honestly fails very badly in action.

This website has affiliate links for you to sign up to 888.com and RushmorecasinoUSA.com, his job is not for you to win but for you to sign up and deposit money with either of these companies, therefore it's his job to make the system sound like it will work. Don't be fooled!

casinoexpertonline.com - A scam, spin the wheel at your risk

Casinoexpertonline.com is one of the many roulette scams out there on the web. The saying "there's one born every minute" about people who fall for a scam is the basis on which these unwanted scam meisters operate.

A well known roulette system which works well in free play and often for a little bit on the regular tables but ultimately fails in the long-term and will result in you losing lots of money is recommended here. Don't believe the author of the site, he wants nothing but for you to sign up through his affiliate links which is where he makes the money.

Rouletteflaw.com - might as well call the site roulette scam!

When it comes to looking for money making opportunities on the net, it really pays to have a think about where the site is making money and to plug your brain in and to apply common sense, follow the old hackneyed rule "if it's too good to be true, it probably is". Like so many roulette sites out there, they claim that this sytem goes undetected by the casino and they are doing it just to help people. What rubbish, the owner of this site gives you two links to "exploitable casinos" and that's where he makes his money - you sign up to those casinos and he gets money as an affiliate.

The system works on paper but in reality it's far more complicated, the fact that you try it in free mode and works is the reason he's rich! Stay away from this.

earnontheweb.ws - A compilation of pointless products

.ws domain names seem to be all the rage today and you can be sure that they have nothing to offer you, this site leads you to numerous expensive products covering everything from forex products to clickbank ones, on top of that there's a fair bit of spyware/adware involved in some of the products he offers. Stay away!

Will Filtering Adsense Ads Improve My CTR?

You may or not be aware that there is an adsense tool called "competitive filter" which allows you to block up to 200 unwanted google ads.

If you find ads on your site which you believe either to be morally wrong, completely irrelevant or extremely low-paying (those niggly links which only pay 1 or 2 cents!) then you can right click over the link, copy the URL and add it to your competitive filter, the only problem is that if you have a blog in a niche with few relevant ads then it is likely that those ads will be replaced by irrelevant ads or worse yet nothing at all.

You have to be very careful with this tool but unless you are earning big bucks, it's definitely worth toying with it.

Why has my adsense CTR dropped and how can I improve it?

Those who rely on adsense will at some point of their life as a blogger see their CTR wane, it may be at the beginning, it may be later but there are a few things you can do to ensure that you get the best out of your CTR.

Since I changed my blog template, I suffered a drop in CTR and this is likely to do with the fact the black ads were contrasting the white background leading to a brash and bold ad which stood out too much. On your layout page, ensure that the adsense ads match the background.

Other things you can do is ensure that they are borderless, ensure that your keywords which have an effect on the content shown in the adsense ads are relevant. Make sure you place your ads where readers can see them, there's no point having them in a hidden corner. Last of all you can play around with the size of the ad, I have reasonable success with the vertical ad (120 x 600) but traditionally it has a low CTR and the large square (250 x 250) and rectangles (300 x 250) is where the money is.

Last of all and with a lot of thought, you can consider filtering ads - I've dedicated a post to it here.

Once again that's

Colour
Keywords
Borders
Ad Filtering
Placement & Ad Format

gdigoldrush.ws - A pyramid scheme scam

Don't be fooled by the promises on offer from GDI, unless you are at the top of the pyramid you are unlikely to make big bucks. Here's the lowdown on what happens:

There is no product for sale, the product is a website for $10 a month, they throw in some free advertising credits which are likely accumulated by spending a fair amount in the first place to get their site known. There's one guy at the top, who is paid $10 every time somebody signs up to GDI, he then pays the referral a small comission - say 10%.

Now, chances are people go out of their way to try to earn money with this scheme by giving it a brilliant testimony and trying to recruit by e-mail, forums, e-zines and the like all whilst filling the pockets of the person who gives you the measly comission. This type of scam has been around for ages and the interest you are likely to gather selling GDI schemes is likely to be waning today. Not surprisingly, I recommend you to invest your money elsewhere.

Think out of the Google Box - Approach the Non-English market

Snubbing the large Chinese, Japanese, Russian or even Polish and Czech market would be a foolworthy thing for any webmaster or blog owner to do. The fact that google is not the no.1 search website in numerous highly populated countries means that submitting your site to those websites and ensuring a good page rank on those sites is an essential part of your plan.

Baidu (China's no.1 search engine) is now big in Japan and even has plans to conquer the Korean and European markets. Submitting your site on there is extremely as it needs to be translated into Chinese, fortunately labour is quite cheap over there and it if you are serious about your site, it shouldn't cost to much to get it translated in to simplified Chinese.

European engines such as wp.pl, onet.pl, seznam.cz, atlas.cz, yandex.ru, rambler.ru are a little easier, often just needing one or two posts in the chosen language, sometimes even a proverb in their mother-tongue is good enough to get you on there. Use google translator to find your way around their sites. Many other countries are worth looking into as people opt for search engines that double as e-mail addresses.

India and China in particular are hugely growing markets and it's well worth spending time improving your SEO there.

Add URL's manually to improve traffic

Whilst some hosting and blogging services do this automatically for you and plenty of other services fight over your custom to submit your site to numerous search engines with a piece of software, the age old trick of submitting it manually is what you should do if you honestly care about your website or blog.

The search engine battle of the mid to late 90s is no more and the majority of English speaking sites have given in to MSN, Yahoo, AOL and of course google. Many of the old sites ust use results from the main 4 and there's no longer any need to submit your site to them if it is even possible. Blog Directories on the other hand are quite the opposite and another post wll cover that topic seperately.

Submit your URL to the following search engines:

Google
Yahoo.com
Msn.com - Livesearch
Comfind.com
Dmoz.org (open directory takes care of AOL searches too)

There are plenty of services that claim to add it to hundreds of search engines but the fact is that most of them are pointless meta search engines which just take info from these major ones.

Beware of a costly E-bay scam related to people buying vouchers

There's numerous reviewing services out there offering Amazon vouchers, there's only so much shopping someone can do on Amazon and if you are earning a fair portion of them, it won't be long before you look to sell them. Whilst it's against Amazon Terms and Conditions, E-bay seem to allow it. Unfortunately the scammers have also found an opportunity here. There are two methods.

1/ Someone buys the voucher from you, you send them the voucher code, they leave you positive feedback (or sometimes none at all), they then claim to have had their account hacked and no nothing about the deal. Paypal refund their money because there's no proof of postage (considering it's an e-mailed item). E-bay are not interested at all.

2/ Someone is genuinely hacked by someone hacking people's accounts to obtain voucher codes but it works the same way as no.1.

It's common for them to buy loads of amazon vouchers from all the dealers on there,so keep in contact with your peers. The best way to prevent this is when it happens to withdraw the money from paypal immediately and call paypal to inform them of what's happened - they should protect your sale. E-bay won't be interested at all though.

powerselleracademy.com - Not a scam but not worth your money!

People have been selling info on e-bay as long as e-bay has existed, especially on how to make money on e-bay. Most people seem to know how to make money on e-bay in their heart but by these books just for confirmation and yet still don't follow the methods. E-bay is quite hard work though and if you want to make a big profit, it reqires a lot of work, it's not for someone to do a few minutes of it a day. This book has nothing new - so do you really need to pay £100 a year for it?

Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO: Kingping.com

Another pinging service and one which has a wide range of directories is the website kingping.com, you must register to use it but the registration process is extremely quick, once you are registered you can still submit as many blog URL’s as you like, so this doesn’t rule out people who have more than one. The idea of this is to keep blog directories and search engines informed of your latest blogging activity and to ensure traffic and a more appropriate search engine position.

The website is straight forward enough, the free version is simple but adequate but they do have a more professional service where they charge $1 for the first month and about $17 there after. The service they offer is that they automatically check your feeds several times throughout a day and then ping them.

I’m not sure if this is necessary or worth the money but if you have are a prolific blogger then it may be of use. Kingping ping 60 directories for you covering the UK, US, Germany, Japan, China, Australia, Spanish and French. Once you’ve submitted your site, that’s it – there’s no information whether the ping was successful or not, this leaves me a little curious but may ease others minds.

This seems a reasonable enough service and it’s worth the second it takes to register.

Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO: Autopinger.com

Another useful website to ping your blog in order to gain traffic and readers is Autopinger.com, the website looks a little more scrappier with google ads and a sign up section but it’s essentially the same and just as useful as the two other services I have so far mentioned – Pingomatic.com and pingmyblog.com. Fill in your url and then send to all the checked blog directories (both English speaking and foreign) with one clock. The results page is a little awkward, personally I’m not fond of the circular loading action that takes place and the amount of inevitable red crosses and messages saying that your blog has not been successfully pinged looks a little bit worrying at the beginning. To be honest, this seems to vary each time and I’m not sure if it is a problem with their website, the url submitted or the fact that I may have already submitted the link through another pinging service without the website having been updated. Autopinger.com is my least favourite pinging service but mostly due to the website’s layout. I can’t say that it is any less effective, the amount of directories is not that large and by the time 50% of the pings come back negative, it might not be worth your time but considering it only takes a minute or so of effortless input, I tend to do it anyway.

Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO - pingomatic.com

Pingomatic.com

The aptly named pingomatic.com is a good resource to use for pinging, pinging is a method used to inform blog directories that your blog has been updated, whilst many blog hosting services do this automatically, they often miss out various services and if you use your blog for commercial use and want to improve traffic then pinging is a useful little trick.

Pingomatic is a simple website, all you have to do is put the title of your website, the url and the feed url if you want. Check the boxes and your website is pinged to the list of 25 or so blog directories in seconds. A report comes back immediately and the website remembers which directories you sent your blog to and the name and url of your blog so that you will never have to fill it in again, that is unless you want to submit numerous blogs in which case you will have to change it unless you have enough separate type of internet browsers to remember different websites.

Even if you do have to fill it in yourself, it only takes a few seconds to do. A useful little website. This is the quickest of the services out there, I’d say.

Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO - pingmyblog.com

I've recently reviewed the main pinging websites for some consumer review sites and thought that I would add the info to this blog as I'm sure it will come in handy to some of you:

Pingmyblog.com

For the readers who are not familiar with pinging, it’s an activity undertaken to allow blog directories know that you have updated your blog, it’s a useful source of traffic for a blog not as prolific as backlinks or social bookmarking but useful all the same. Some blogging services such as blogger automatically send pings to the main directories each time you update your blog. Pingmyblog is a collection of around 60 to 70 directories, simply submit your name and url, as well as your feed url if you like, click on “check all” and away you go – pings are sent to every blog directory in a matter of seconds. Japan, Netherlands, Germany and Russia are all amongst the mix and may help you improve international traffic. Pingmyblog.com is not the fastest and it seems a little bit outdated as about 50% of the links don’t actually work but it involves very little effort and takes a matter of minutes. I recommend using this along with another service or two, each time you post a new post.

Poker Star (onlinepokeradvantage.com) - A Poke in the eye with a pointed stick, scam alert!

The people behind pokerstar are having a laugh, they expect you to fork out $49 for information which is widely and freely available at www.pokerroomschool.com, unless you are an extremely good player - poker is no way to make money online and this system is not at all impressive. It doesn't seem to do as though it promises and on top of that there doesn't seem to be any money in at all except for the person who is selling the book and for the casino.

Breakroulette.com - A costly scam

Breakroulette.com is a unique idea if nothing else, in no way does it follow the footsteps of the usual roulette scams but instead involves a small application which is to be run alongside the roulette. This looks impressive as does their snazzy website complete with videos supposedly in "real mode" but it fails where it matters - the results are extremely poor and you will be losing money if you follow this. What's more is that this unconvincing piece of software comes at a cost of around $50!

Add a Digg button to your blogger blog posts and gain traffic

Digg and other social bookmarking networks are a trusty way of gaining traffic to your website, if the content is valuable or interesting, the chances of it getting digged and drawing readers is more likely.

To allow someone to "digg" your blog posts without too much effort, it helps to put a digg button next to your blog posts. Even for people without any technical skills - this is quite straight forward if you have blogger.

This works best in Mozilla Firefox, as the find facility doesn't seem to work on Google Chrome.

1/ Go to Layout

2/ Go to Edit HTML

3/ Click on the box entitled Expand widget templates

4/ Press CTRL + F to get up the search box

5/ Enter data:post.body/ in the search box

6/ Paste the code from this guys blog:

http://briancantin.blogspot.com/2007/12/add-digg-to-bloggercom-posts.html

7/ Preview it, if you want to change the size then edit the part which says 10px and if you want the button on the other side of the post change the Float:right; margin-left: to Float:left; margin-right:

8/Save it! Now every old post and future post will have a digg button alongside it.

Zml.com - A rip off scam of a film site or not?

During the current financial climate, it's to be expected that one of the ways of making money is by saving money and people will be looking to cut costs in every field. Renting or buying DVD's, is bound to be one of these and there are numerous website waiting to prey on people. There have been a few reports of people being charged for their "free trial" at zml.com, a website which supposedly offers you 10 full film downloads for $0.99.

Other zml users say that zml are reasonably fast to answer queries. Because people pay for the service they assume it is not illegal to do or that they won't be caught, however Zml.com's terms of service clearly states that they don't take any of the blame if downloading films is illegal in the user's country. Basically zml.com are just charging for film downloading which is free on P2P services. Personally I would stay clear of them.

Roulettewizard.com - What a scam! Stealing in the name of charity!

This website claim to have "set up a website for £20 knowing that lots of the winnings will go to charity"! This is a lie from the start, they are forking out money on google ads so there is a profit for them. The profit is clear, like lots of other faceless websites out there trying to make you believe that this simple yet ineffective roulette system works. The only ones making money here are the casino and the website through their affiliate banners and ads. Stay away!

Does Affiliano work or is it a scam?

It's a question that I've been asking myself ever since seeing a google ad for them, they claimed to make you $50 a day guaranteed. I can't see how they can guarantee anything, so I think that the advert is immediately misleading.

Although they say "he who dares wins", I'm a bit reluctant to fork out on the hostgator fee that these guys require. They give you a website for free, you choose a template and from then on all you have to do is bring traffic to your site which in turn refers them to affiliano. Affiliano have their tracks covered with numerous of the same articles on sites like ezine articles. A google search questioning whether they work throws up all sorts of irrelevant links.

As far as I can see, they are not really selling a product which must mean they are working in conjuction with hostgator. Perhaps the trick is that they get you to sign up to hostgator, where they themselves are an affiliate, then give you a template and require you to pay the monthly hosting fee which sends traffic to their site which in turn gets them more hostgator referrals.

Although relatively pointless, I suppose this could be profitable. If anyone could shed some light on whether it works, it would be quite good. In the mean time I will continue pondering over their authenticity.

Selling Your Twitter Account or become a dealer!

If you are inventive but lacking funds and don't want to risk buying and selling domain names then twitter accounts could be of interest to you. Twitter have made it big over the last year or so and there's a blooming market for selling twitter accounts with either good names or followings. They can sell from anything for a few dollars to thousands of dollars. This is nothing new but there's plenty of possibilities for good names which can then be used to broadcast news or send people to websites.

Go to Tweexchange.com and search for the name you desire, it will tell you if it is unavailable or available. Play around with this tool until you come up with something good.

Then go to Twitter and registered account - you'll need a different free web based e-mail account for each one you have(it's easy to set up quite a lot of them considering the competition available).

Then list on Tweexchange.com

Simple!

Why you should avoid twtad.com for the moment!

Ok, this is very contradictory as it was only a few ays ago that I was recommending twtad.com on here. There has been substantial changes to the website over the last few days though including a change in owner, the payouts altered to ridiculously low amounts and whilst they are back up for the moment - the rules have changed stating that you must post other things than ads on your twitter account. 5 normal posts between every advert and a limit to how many adverts you should put on over a certain period.

Not only this but there are several reports of people not having their earnings credited. The website might change their ways and the earning problem could be more of a technical issue. In the mean time though, I recommend you focus on something else and avoid running your good name through the mud by recommending it to others.

Oneverysimpleidea.com - A scam worth avoiding

Not every site selling a product is a scam but you just need to look at this pages layout to realise it is one of many similar sites, promising you enormous profits with it's latest way on earning money. Ask yourself, why the author is giving this info away. The fact is there is nothing new in there and they will make good money from the clickbank sale of a product with very little value after having bigged it up on their website. Stay away! All the information you need to get going is available for free on the net, don't begin paying for it!

Earn money with Photoshop

Personally I don't have the patience for photoshop, it's too fiddly for me and I can't seem to get my head around it. Some people are quite the opposite though and are able to play around with photos or edit graphics all day and the outcome can quite often be amazing. If you enjoy using and are good with Photoshop, you may be missing out on a very simple earning option. Edit photos, design graphics or website templates for others and start getting the ball rolling.

You may have to start off with menial offers at the beginning to build up your portfolio but if you are genuinely good at it, there's tonnes of work to be had and much of it reasonably paid. Put an ad on classified websites and scour similar resources to hunt out some work. It helps to be located near the person you are providing it for, so you can discuss ideas but it is not essential, so basically you can do this from anywhere in the world.

Protect your content and make a bigger profit - Stop content scrapers!

Autoblogging is all the rage these days and the chances are that your well-written thought out articles will be stolen and re-used by another blogger without them even lifting a finger. Because they will not have to think up anything, they can put their time and energy into ensuring they have a better page ranking and there's a chance they'll be making more money than you with your content. This isn't fair obviously and the firt thing that needed to be combatted are Content scrapers which are programs that scour the web for relevant content and then send them to the person running the programme.

There are 3 tools which can help combat people stealing your content.

These are:

Copyscape - A search engine which searches the internet for content which exactly matches yours. Go to www.copyscape.com and type in your URL. Then report any stolen content you find. You can also submit a banner of theirs to your site, which may ward off potential thieves.

Fairshare - This second tool is perhaps the most useful, the majority of content scraping is done through RSS feeds and this website hunts out any work of yours that has been stolen, all you have to do is go to the website www.fairshare.com, add your feed URL (if you are using blogger this can be found in the settings tab), sign up and wait 24 hours. You can then monitor it from then on.

Tracer - The last one is probably the most ruthless and also the most succesful but the efficiency comes at a price, it slows down your webpage considerably. To get this one to work you have to go to http://tcr1.tynt.com/ - then you have to add the java code in to your blog somwehere, this nifty gadget picks up on people copy and pasting or saving photos from your blog and automatically adds a link back to your webpage.

bigprofitfast.info - A very fishy possible scam

I was alerted to this website by an adsense ad and whilst it claims to be forex, the fact that it seems related to various other websites and promises large quick returns lead me to believe it is a HYIP. Whilst some people play games with HYIP's, hoping to get in and out early. I think that if you play with fire, your fingers will get burnt and this is not the answer to a stable online income at all. I would stay away, if I were you!

millionsinstore.com - Not a scam as such

Millionsinstore.com provides you with pages and pages of information which is relatively complicated to decipher, the information is widely available on the net for free but is just given a new face and collected properly here. They offer a $1 month trial, the thing to look out for is that they don't automatically charge your credit card for the next month at $29.99. Most people don't actually use the information that is available, the chances are you won't either. Answer this question. Did you really read all of that long pitch? If the answer is no, then the chances are it's not going to be your thing and therefore will be money wasted.

zarabiac.com - A Polish casino scam

Zarabiac.com is a Polish version of the common roulette scam, the website may be in Polish but the template is extremely similar to more international ones. This website makes you submit your details which will most likely be sold on to spammers, they then take you to a page explaining that you can earn 300 euros per day with a well-known roulette system that doesn't work, whilst smartly adding their affiliates to the webpage. That's how they make money. You won't!

make2s.me - Another version of the cash maker scam

Earlier on in the day, I mentioned the cash maker method website being a scam, well another one that I came across which suggests high earning possibilities through the information on its website is http://www.make2s.me/2956/0/en - this website is a carbon copy of cashmakermethod.com and also acts as a front for signing up via affiliates. Do not follow the casino related instructions that it relays to you. Don't even bother visiting the site!

www.martingale-roulette.fr/win - Another tiresome roulette scam

Roulette scams are plentiful on the internet, webpages promising to tell you a secret of betting odd then even or switching from one colour another or to stick with one and keep on increasing the bet. The fact is this simple system does not work, this website which is usually in French (www.martingale-roulette.fr) also has an English page which is being advertised through google ads at the moment. I recommend avoiding the information he tells you, it's merely a front so that you will sign up through the affiliates on his page.

Cashmakermethod.com - A posh website which boils down to a scam

Cash Maker Method have really done their utmost to avoid looking like the typical roulette scam site, their flashy pages and videos, promises to teach you techniques that will make you rich. What it really is, though is several roulette systems which should work on paper but don't work in reality. The only person making money here is this website through affiliates. Stay away from the online casino, if you want to get rich or earn money!

Build up your blog with reviews and earn money from Amazon affiliates

If you are one of many of the review writers on consumer sites such as dooyoo and ciao, then you may be overlooking a very simple and straightforward source of income. Cross posting has probably become a nice little earner for you but there's an additional way of earning more.

Here is the lowdown on what to do:

1/ Choose your niche - French films, Sony electronics, old computer games, books of a certain genre.. it can be anything.

2/Title your blog appropriately - both the title and the url should bear some resemblance to the topic.

3/Use an interesting template for blogger from btemplates.com

4/Begin writing posts designed around your site and then re-post them on review sites. Try to do at least one a day, preferably a few more.

5/Add adsense to the blog

6/Sign up as an amazon affiliate and begin including advertising links to the product you or reviewing, above, below or to the side of your review. They pay 10% of sales that come through your site and if you have enough traffic, this can soon mount up.

7/Treat the blog as your baby - do everything in your capabilities to fill it up with good unique content and gain traffic. Put thought in to your niche, layout and content.

Bux.to - A hugely succesful scam

I've come to the conclusion that bux.to has to be a hugely succesful scam, you still have numerous people claiming to have earnt well on there and I can't fault their claims but I think this may be one case of paypal seeing through them succesfully. It seems that because they have paid some people, they are

Personally as it goes for me - I withdrew money in February 2008 and it was supposed to have arrived in my alertpay account some months afterwards but I checked my alertpay account and saw nothing at all. I made another withdrawal of around £79 and there's no sign of that either. Having invested in the premium package for $59 and paid about $16 for referrals. This basically means they have stolen $75 from me. They refuse to reply to my e-mails, which at the best is unprofessional. If they do this to hundreds of members, they'll surely have enough to payout a few to keep promoting it and who defend bux.to because they've received a pay out, slagging off anyone who has been ripped off by them!

They change their terms and conditions as and when they like and actually write in their terms and conditions that they can do that. This basically means to me that if they want to change it to "people will not be paid their earnings" - they could.

I definitely recommend avoiding the whole pay per click world.