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I started documenting my money making journey a little over a year ago, and while I don't always keep up with it (especially between school and work), I love to learn and blog about ways to make money online. I want to help others who are trying to make money online. Come follow me on my Money Making Journey! View the programs that have worked for me and see some earnings. Join Me!

Another Tid-Bit

With the way that the economy is going, more and more people have found themselves with free time on their hands to do things they never had the time for before: spending more time with family, cleaning out the garage, getting to all those movies you haven't had the chance to watch. But as for me, I've taken the time to really begin focusing my efforts on utilizing the internet for money making!

Adsense Earnings

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.

Megalido: Proof Of Payment

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!!


CairoClicks.com: New PTC!

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

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

Paid E-Mail - just like it sounds

Paid Email Hits

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

More advertising options:

Featured Ad Views
Banner Ad Views 468x60
Featured Banner Ad Views 180x100
Featured Link Rotation


Memberships
Gold Membership (Info)
Premium Membership (Info)
**Upgraded members also receive cash each time the site receives a unique hit from their referral link**

Referrals
Referrals


I accept payment through PayPal!, the #1 online payment service!


So, please check it out. And I would love if you all could help me in taking the next step on my money making journey. Thanks so much!

 
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