My Money Making Journey

I have been a member of adsense for some time now, but I have only recently began to utilize my ads more efficiently, in terms of placement, colors, channels, etc. If you are a member of Google's adsense program then I would highly recommend that you take some time and read the optimization reports and suggestions so that you can begin to take better advantage of Adsense ads. After a bit of testing and optimization, I am making around $3-4/day on average, and growing. Here is a screenshot of today's earnings up until about 2:00:


Today I am going to talk a little bit about Google adsense and ad testing. When internet marketers and advertisers talk about testing ads, they are reffering to tracking the performance of certain ads, altering their colors and placements to track changes in performance and then making the necessary changes so that their ads are fully optimized. There are the different ways in which you can test your Google adsense codes:

1. Color Testing
There are two ways in which you can feature the adsense code on your page. As a part of the page in the sense that the colors correspond or in stark contrast to your page. Featured on this page, you will see that the adsense code is colored as part of the page. The colors match the colors of the page and there is more seamless intergration. You can also try a color scheme that is contrasting to your page. For a site like this, I would perhaps try Adsense code that looked something like this if I wanted to try and test contrasting code:


2. Ad Placement
Adsense makes it possible to take advantage of any and every unused space on your page. But adsense overkill can be a problem, and finding the right places on your page that will help to drive visitors to click on your ads is important. Playing around with adsense position can help you to optimize your earnings. I have found that inserting small bits of adsense code at the bottom of some posts help my earnings because visitor focus is already at the end of the posts, so that the next logical step for them is to click on an ad that might interest them. Placement in the header, footer, or sidebars, or even all three places will help you to maximize your earnings, and altering the placement of the ads can change the way that you earn.

3. Ad size
Ad size goes a long way in your page formatting and adsense earnings. Large and bulky ads that are not properly placed can not only ruin the flow of your page, but turn visitors off from staying on your page and clicking on ads. Finding the optimal size of the ads that you place on your page can also have a profound effect on your adsense earnings.

In these three ways, you can begin to take control over your adsense earnings, and by altering your ad color, placement, and size you can do major damage, or damage control. Testing your ads can only help you, and once you have begun to understand what works and what doesn't, you will be able to make the most out of every one of your ad placements, whether they be Google or otherwise.

Hey everyone, this is going to be a short and sweet post. A while back I posted an entry about Megalido. A new auto-surf that is taking the internet by storm. While I am more adventurous than most people in that I will try a program that I want to invest in, without being constantly afraid, I was a little hesitant, especially as money has been tight with the economy and all.

But I did a test investment, and I am happy to say that I have been paid my Megalido! More than that, the admin is excellent at answering questions and is very involved with Megalido's members.
So if you were waiting for more proof, scared, or just wasting time. DON'T!! Join Megalido and begin to cash in!!

Hey everyone, this post is going to be a bit of a shameless plug, lol. Well I am discussing today, my new PTC site called CairoClicks (named after my niece). In my money making journey, I had reached a point where I said to myself: "I want to do something different, something more". So I decided to start a PTC site so that I could help other people who wanted to start out making money, while at the same time giving advertisers low cost options so that they could get their sites, and ads out to surfers. And in particular those surfers who were looking to earn some extra cash. I did a bit of research and then decided to jump in. I purchased a site and a script, 2 domain names (you can access the site from both cairoclicks.com and cairoclicks.info) and hosting and then began the tedious task of learning to use cPanel on my own to be able to edit the site. While I have added a bit of my design there is so much more I want to do, and will continue to improve the site as my knowledge grows.

Cairoclicks is a PTC much like any other including NeoBux and BuxOut in that they have similar payplans. Members are paid $0.01 for every ad viewed. But more than just PTC there are:

Link Ad Hits

200 - $3.6350 - $6.3500 - $91000 - $182000 - $365000 - $9010000 - $180

PTR Ads - $0.01.These Ads feature a small message box displayed before your website. The
message itself has a 10s timer so you can have a thank you note, a site explanation, or instructions for further earning. You can write anything.

Paid To Read Hits

200 - $3.6350 - $6.3500 - $91000 - $182000 - $365000 - $9010000 - $180

Paid E-Mail - just like it sounds

Paid Email Hits

200 - $6300 - $9400 - $12500 - $151000 - $302000 - $605000 - $15010000 - $300

Guaranteed Sign-Ups - $0.15. List any of your free to join programs and members who are not yet registered and are interested in your site will sign-up under you.

Guaranteed Signups

5 - $110 - $225 - $550 - $10100 - $20

More advertising options:

Featured Ad Views	12500 - $2.525000 - $550000 - $1075000 - $15100000 - $20150000 - $30200000 - $40250000 - $50300000 - $60500000 - $100750000 - $1501000000 - $200
Banner Ad Views 468x60	12500 - $2.525000 - $550000 - $1075000 - $15100000 - $20150000 - $30200000 - $40250000 - $50300000 - $60500000 - $100750000 - $1501000000 - $200
Featured Banner Ad Views 180x100	12500 - $2.525000 - $550000 - $1075000 - $15100000 - $20150000 - $30200000 - $40250000 - $50300000 - $60500000 - $100750000 - $1501000000 - $200
Featured Link Rotation	1 Month - $1.52 Month - $33 Month - $4.54 Month - $65 Month - $7.56 Month - $97 Month - $10.58 Month - $129 Month - $13.510 Month - $1511 Month - $16.512 Month - $1824 Month - $36
Memberships
Gold Membership (Info)	1 Month Membership - $22 Month Membership - $43 Month Membership - $64 Month Membership - $85 Month Membership - $106 Month Membership - $127 Month Membership - $148 Month Membership - $169 Month Membership - $1810 Month Membership - $2011 Month Membership - $2212 Month Membership - $24
Premium Membership (Info)	1 Month Membership - $3.52 Month Membership - $73 Month Membership - $10.54 Month Membership - $145 Month Membership - $17.56 Month Membership - $217 Month Membership - $24.58 Month Membership - $289 Month Membership - $31.510 Month Membership - $3511 Month Membership - $38.512 Month Membership - $42
**Upgraded members also receive cash each time the site receives a unique hit from their referral link** Referrals
Referrals	1 Referrals - $0.25 Referrals - $1

Now, I'm sure that everyone out there has heard of affiliate marketing. For those who haven't here is a quick rundown. Affiliate marketing involves advertising a product and then collecting some of the profit, this is the most bare definition possible. When you make a sale for the product's owner or company, you keep a part of the sale, termed your commission, while the rest goes to your parent company. In this way, the company makes more sales, the more affiliates it has, and you make more money the more sales you make. Everybody wins.

After you had decided to go into affiliate marketing, you may ask yourself, where can I get products to promote? There are tons of companies all over the internet that offer affiliate programs, but it can be extremely tedious to go through all of the sites on Google, checking for commission percentages, payout terms, etc. This is where ShareASale come in.

ShareASale is a affiliate marketers dream in that is consolidates thousands of affiliate programs from all over the net and organizes them in a way that is extremely easy to navigate. You are given the company's name, website, commission percentage paid, the cookie policy, etc. More than that, they provide stats for the past 7 and 30 days so that you can assess the trends of a particular company. They offer a wide variety of programs and the interface is very easy to understand.

So if you are into affiliate marketing and are looking for a one-stop shop for program that you might be interested in advertising for, be sure to check out ShareASale.com. You will find a banner in the right hand column on the page, so check it and out, and sign-up if you think you can benefit from this awesome service. Happy Advertising!

There are a number of auto-surf programs out there on the net. For those of you who have never heard of an auto-surf program, or have heard of it, but have never really taken the time to learn about what it entails, here is a little more information.

An auto-surf program is in a sense just a revenue sharing program. Members of the site can buy advertising to have their sites rotated, often times, the webmaster gets paid for a certain number of banner impressions, etc. that get displayed, so that the more that members surf, the more that the community as a whole earns, because it is these earnings that the community is sharing. What is great about these program is that this is an auto-surf, so that all you have to do is sign into your account and click on a link, the websites will rotate on their own so that you do not have to constantly click to go to the next site and your credits grow without any input from you.

In the case of Megalido and other auto-surfs, you can buy units, and this is where the real earning comes in. Each unit costs $6, and for this $6.00 and daily auto-surfing, you will earn a 12% return on your investment daily for 12 day. So that at the end of the 12th day you would have earned a total of 144% on your investment. You can purchase anywhere from 1 to 1000 units, so that you control your earnings entirely. As for me, I used the money that I earned from Neobux and bought 3 units (for a total spend of $18). Here is a picture of my back office so that you can see my daily earnings and become familiar with it:


As you can see, I am earning $2.16 daily for my 18 investment, so that by the end of the 12th day I will have around $26. This is just a test spend for me, but there are many others, who have invested much more and are seeing awesome returns. To see what some of the other people are earnings and to see some proofs of payment, check it out here. Another great income stream that Megalido allows is referral commission, that is that you will get 6% of the earnings that your referral earns, so you can have unlimited income based on the number of people that you refer.

If you are skeptical, I would suggest making a test spend as I have done, but there is tons a proof that this program is working and that it has paid. I will be making a larger investment soon!
If you are interested in this program, sign up here.

Here is a little update from my account at Neobux, I received my first payment from them. They pay through Alertpay and Paypal. Here is a picture of the payment:


I saw the funds into my Alertpay account about 3 minutes after I requested payment from Neobux, which is great, and a true sign that they have kept their word of immediate automatic payout. For those of who are looking to leverage the money that you receive for Neobux, check out the next newest post about a great autosurf called Megalido. If you are interested in this opportunity, you should be sure to request payment through Alertpay, if you do not already have an account, you can make one for free here. If you are lookin to make a bit of extra money online
with a a proven and trusted program, then I would suggest Neobux. Sign-Up Here

Everybody loves a little proof of payment, and for those of you who are curious about Neobux and whether or not they are paying, I want you to check out the forum for copious amounts of proof that people have been paid, and been paid immediately.
As for me, I have not yet requested payment because I am waiting to get to a nice and round $20. Now this may not seem like a lot, but this is actually extremely well for most PTC programs. Here is a screen shot of my home page. As you can see, I have been a member for a little over 2 weeks and I have rented 83 referrals. You can see that while I have only clicked on about 116 ads, my referrals have clicked on over 3,000 and it is great that I am able to earn off of all of these members that I did not have to personally refer. That is why I prefer Neobux over other PTC, this renting feature makes it easy to take advantage of referrals earnings, which are so hard to gain and maintain in online money making programs.

The direct purchases line refers to a dollar that I spent from my earnings to buy 11 lottery tickets for the money lottery that was being held. Neobux hosts jackpots for money and referrals, in the "mega", "mini", and normal variety. The total prizes for the next jackpot coming up is valued at $707.32
All in all, if you are looking for a PTC programs that has good features and has stability, I would highly recommend Neobux.

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