Until I realized that they were all fake, at least when it comes to making money. I learned most of the stuff that I’m doing alone or by communicating with friends. It was mostly trial and error but I discovered, only recently, some websites that would have been invaluable for me if they would have existed back then and if I had known them. I want to introduce four blogs that make a difference, that are true money making blogs and I promise that you will learn more in one post at those blogs than you will in your lifetime at all those other blogs that I mentioned before.

The first huge difference that you will notice is that those blogs don’t sell you crap, don’t have an ebook that is full of affiliate links, don’t post pay per post articles and don’t do all the other fancy tricks that earns them money without teaching you anything that’s worth your money.

Blogger Unleashed is run by Vic. He is a helpful, honest guy with a big heart. He usually posts videos and not articles which is very entertaining. He swears a lot and his language might be inappropriate to minors but he is telling the truth. Some might complain about the language he uses but no one will ever complain about the message. He basically talks about Bans (Build a Niche Site) which is an automated script that creates eBay shops and ways to drive traffic to those websites. He is only talking about tools that he is using and that led to his success, nothing else.

His Challenge to get mad video was a first for me, someone talking about his inner feelings, about his past and how he was able to overcome that hard ship. I never before felt with someone on the Internet before. After watching that video you will know why he is getting mad at all those scammers on the Internet.

Challenge To Get Mad
Build a Niche Store BANS Review and Tutorial

Make Money Blogging is a relative new website which is somewhat connected to Vic’s Blogger Unleashed website. If I recall it correctly Vic did help Justin in the beginning and Justin decided to give back by creating his own blog. He talks about new aspects and is a great addition to Vic’s blog.

How to Make Money Online for Beginners is run by Griz, another honest blogger that is probably best known for his Make Money Using Blogs Lessons which is a series of articles that he updated over time that contain everything that you need to know. He loves to write long, very long articles that are great to read and contain tips that you won’t find at those A-Blogger websites.

Make Money Using Blogs – Lesson 1

Court’s Internet Marketing School is run by Courtney Tuttle. He is writing about nearly everything in the Make Money Online niche, about blog creating, keyword selection and SEO for instance.

Introduction to Keyword Sniping

If you read those four blogs you are set to become successful on the Internet. Since I’m experienced enough I can really say that. I’d like to thank those four guys for being honest, for posting great articles that really make a difference to the crap that you are reading elsewhere in this niche.

I will pay those that get accepted $1 for every tip that I use to write an article about. What I want are users like me, who know the Internet, who know where to get the latest information as the first and who can judge between top news and old news. This is not for someone who wants to post articles found at popular sites like Lifehacker, Gizmodo or Digg for instance but for those who are deep users who know the sources.

Here is a short description of possible topics:

• Software: A vast area. I only write about free software which means that your tips should point to free software only. Tips or tweaks for commercial softwares are fine though. I accept links to softwares that have not been written about at ghacks yet, software tips like performance tweaks or hacks.
• Gadgets, Hardware: If it has not been on the big Gadget sites it is good. Someone from Asia who is sitting right at the source would be awesome. If you could do pictures it would even be better. (I would pay more for that)
• Services: Links to new cool services. Does not really matter what they do as long as they provide something useful. Examples are mp3 searches, community sites, file hosts, privacy services aso. Should be free of course.
• Extensions, Add-ons, Plugins:Links to new extensions for firefox, add-ons for Internet Explorer, widgets for Opera, plugins for softwares like Winamp. Everything is fine unless it is old news.
• Security, Spam, Privacy: A big sector. I’m not that interested in the latest exploits but in the following. Ways to bypass web service protections, for instance how to view hidden comments on myspace, bypass rapidshare timelimits. That kind of stuff. New spam techniques, spam services are nice as well as are privacy related issues.
• Mobile Phones: New applications for mobile phones for instance
• MP3 Player: Tips for iPods, iPhones, Zune and the like.
• P2P:Latest P2P trends, new programs
• Games:Links to free games that I have not introduced yet.
• Advertisement, Commercial: News about advertisement opportunities, new Adsense ads for instance, tips and tricks, new programs.
• Everything else:Feel free to send me links about anything that could fit but that you are unsure about. As a rule of thumb: If it is new, which means that it has not made its way on the big news sites, digg, reddit or del.icio.us for instance it is fine.

Please use the contact form above if you want to apply for this position. I need some basic information about you, your age, a working email, your paypal email for the payments and if you are an expert in any of the topics mentioned.

Payments will be made weekly using Paypal.

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CashCrate seems to be different, at least for users from the United States, Canada and the UK. Everyone may join but the availability of surveys and offers depends on your location. If you live in Germany or India for instance you see two surveys and two offers to join a service to receive some money from it.

If you join as a American you get to literally chose from hundreds of surveys and two guaranteed daily surveys that bring in $1.60 per day if you complete both each day.

This means that you can earn $584 per year from just taking the daily surveys which is about $49 extra cash per month in your pockets. Minimum payout is $10 which means that you do get paid monthly if you take just the daily surveys.

You do have two options to earn more money. The first is to take surveys that are offered by other companies which bring in between $0.40 to $1.50 in average with dozens of surveys available currently. I would estimate that you could at least make $50 by taking those surveys as well in the month.

This would raise the monthly income to nearly $100 for just taking a few surveys. Now imagine that your girlfriend, friends or relatives sign up for the service as well.

There is a second way to earn money and that is by signing up to various services. Some require just a signup and some personal data such as your email or mobile phone number to reward you with money while others offer free trial versions or purchases.

Those bring in some serious cash. Want some examples ?

• If you signup at eBay for free and make a bid you receive $8
• A free trial at Vonage brings in $45
• A free trial membership at Netflix brings in $13.50

I can’t calculate all the possible earnings but I would think that you could earn at least $100 from CashCrate every month and even more if you take your time and evaluate all options.

Last but not least some offers award points instead of cash. This means that you do get a certain amount of points after completing a survey or other offer and can use those points to buy items in the prize shop. 300 points can be traded into a $15 iTunes gift card for instance and 6000 points into a Xbox 360.

Some surveys and free trials bring in around 300 points which is another great opportunity to gain something for free.

CashCrate is free to join, there are no hidden fees, a minimum payout of $10 and a monthly payout. What are you waiting for ?

CashCrate is also interesting for webmasters because it offers a two-tiered referral structure. You earn 20% / 10% by referring users to the site and an additional $3 whenever someone makes his first $10.

Take a look at several checks that a user received while using CashCrate, the last check shows more than $480 !

CashCrate Tips

• Visit the CashCrate Forum for a wealth of information and new monthly competitions
• Create a new email address at a webmailer and use it exclusively for offers. This way your main email remains unknown.
• Get a new free phone number from a company like Private Phone and use this one exclusively on CashCrate.
• Get a Visa Gift or Prepaid Card and use it in those cases where you have to enter credit card information.
• The best offers are the free ones that you do for free (most of the time surveys), you can sort all offers to see those at the beginning
• Make sure you cancel the trial offers during the trial period or you will get charged afterwards.
• Cookies: Cookies, being the number one cause of offers not confirming, simply must be cleared in between each offer. Why? Because companies track you through cookies, and for more than one offer from the same company, you need to clear them so you can be tracked again correctly, and so your offer will confirm.
• Email Recycling: Again, companies with more than one offer on the list track you with your email address as well, and if they already have that email in their database, then your offer will not confirm. Simply create 10 or more email addresses from any email provider, (The ones listed above are recommended) and change them up among offers. The more email addresses you have, the less of a chance you’ll submit the same email to the same company twice.

Filling out Offers at CashCrate

• Offers with the following descriptions have easier requirements than you think!
• “Participate in the Survey”, Without Questionare (Usually 60 cent or less payout): These offers only require you to provide your information, (usually on the first or second page of the “Survey”) once it seems like the offer has taken you into an infinite loop of “Yes”, “No”, or “Skip” offer pages, then you can exit that window, and submit the offer, and it should confirm. Even though you only have to submit your information, I always do the first 5 pages of these types of offers to be on the safe side.
• “Participate in the Survey”, With Questionnare (Usually 65 cent or higher payout): These offers will ask you to fill out your information, and then require you to do a 3 to 5 minute Questionnare. You actually do have to complete this, but you only have to go until it says “Done!” or “Congratulations, you’ve been entered!”, even though there may still be questions below the “Done!” or Congratulations!..”.
• “Complete at least the first two pages”: Obviously, you only have to fill out the first two pages. Most offers will tell you things like “your almost done!” or “last page”, you do NOT have to keep going after you complete the first two pages.
• “Fill Out the Form”: These offers are usually from $0.75 to $2.00, and you actually have to fill out the pages, and like the Questionare offers, you only have to go until it says “Done!” or “Congratulations, you’ve been entered!” even though there may still be questions below.
• IMPORTANT NOTE: On all of the free offers above, in the forms, questionares, and providing information, you only have to respond to the sections that have an ASTERISK ” * ” next to them, all other questions/sections are optional and do not need to be filled out.

The last tips were found at the CashCrate forum

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Just ask yourself the question if you would reveal what you earn with your job on your website. Would you do that ? I’m still able to write about winners and losers, changes that I made and how they effected the earnings and my biggest earners and programs that do not earn that much.

Without further ado, here are my blog earnings for June 2007, the numbers in brackets are the figures for June and May:

• Google Adsense (58,95% / 55,79%) – my biggest earner with more than 50% of all the earnings of this blog. I had a nice increase in earnings with Google Adsense this month mainly because of a rise in eCPM. What I really don’t like is that fluctuation from one day to another can be quite high.
• Google Adsense Referrals (2,79% / 2,83%) – as I pointed out earlier those are all Firefox referrals. These continue to work very well for my blog.
• Google Adsense Search (0,17% / 0,35%) – pretty disappointing. I will remove Google Adsense for Search and replace it with the best wordpress search available. It is not worth it and does not fit in my blog anyway.
• Tribalfusion (3,87% / 3,01%) – this one is on the rise and I think it will do much better in July. The last seven days have seen an increase of about 300% and I hope this continues in July. This will become my third biggest money maker. I did add a rectangle at the end of every article which seems to pay a lot better than those 468*60 banners.
• Intellitxt (22,45% / 23,94%) – what can I say. A great income resource and I’m eternally thankful that Everton recommended me. I’m able to recommend you and your website if you have at least 250000 pageviews a month with it. (blogs are fine but sites with not enough content like video sites and forums are not)
• Direct Ad Sales (0,64% / 0,80%) – not really worth mentioning. I might remove them together with the Google Search. I’d love to make some direct ad sales like Everton did but I personally feel that it is unlikely at the moment.
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