Offerpal Payment Proof

I just got my first check from Offerpalmedia, so I thought I'd post it here. This is a company I just started using on a couple of my sites and I wasn't sure if they paid or not, but now that I know they DO pay I will be ramping up my promotions more for them in the coming weeks.

They payout in net15 terms, which is cool because I'll get money from them every 2 weeks, instead of having to wait a month or two, like you do for so many other networks. This Offerpal payment proof check image is for a 14 day period in the amount of $684.37 and is generated from social networking sites and Facebook applications, which is a hot trend right now.

I'll be writing more about trends, and how to take advantage of them, in a future post. For now I have have some more promoting to do...

Chat Roulette Money Methods

There is a new website called chatroulette.com that is quickly becoming the latest internet sensation. It's getting talked about everywhere, as well as being on the news several times as well. It's a live cam site that was first described as something like "webcam speed dating", but has since become a source of many funny pictures and videos, as people go on the site dressed as superheroes, and in other assorted weird costumes to play pranks on others.

When you go there you will see it is nothing fancy at all. No splash page or "Enter" button, or even any writing at all explaining what the site is! You will immediately see the chat roulette chatbox and the navigation buttons, where you can click "next", and each time you will be connected with a random stranger. The internet is a strange place...

This can get either boring or addictive, depending on your perspective, but the purpose of this post is to explain how to make money online with Chat Roulette because earning on the net is what I do! The first lightbulb that should go off in your head is the common method called "ewhoring", where you pretend to be interested in someone to get them to join your dating affiliate website (I recommend using Datinggold). You tell them you have a profile for them to check out and then give them your ref link to the site. Use one that pays you for free joins and you'll make a couple bucks for every person who signs up!

That E-whoring method is quite common, but can still be effective, if used correctly. However, I use a different approach with the ChatRoulette site where everything is automated so you can earn in your sleep. Rather than write it all out here (and also not to offend my readers who don't read adult content), I'll let you download the Chat Roulette Money Methods ebook and you can read it for yourself.

Don't be afraid to try anything unique! Be Creative!!

AdultAccessNow Site Has Officially Launched!!

I announced back in January that there was an adult version of Cpalead but that it was still in the beta stage and I was among the first chosen to test it out. Well, I can now let you know that the AdultAccessNow site has officially launched and is ready to accept publishers like yourself to make money using their widget on your content!

It's very easy to get started. Simply apply to AAN now and, when you are logged into your dashboard there, just create a widget to put over your adult content (movies, downloads, etc) and you will make money for every visitor who clicks it and fills out a survey! It's that simple!!

As always, anyone who signs up under my ref link will get my help and advice for free! Here's to your success!!

*** UPDATE: AAN has closed, but may open again in the future. If you're still looking for a monetization locker for adult content, then try Leadbolt instead.

Monthly Online Earnings Updated

Well, it's that time again where I add up what I made the month before, now that February is finally over (let's hope spring gets here soon!!). The reason I don't make these sorts of posts EVERY month is because it would get boring, as they are pretty much always the same, but I added a new program this time, so I thought I should update how it's going with the new sponsors in the mix.

So, here are my monthly online earnings updated from last month:

953.59 (I just started with Offerpal, but so far it looks good!)
659.04 (Cpalead - I earned more, but donated some of it)
344.48 (from online tech work and doing SEO for others)
286.93 (various affiliate program sales)
163.28 (secret shopper assignments)
72.78 (Ad space selling)
49.86 (Website Script sales)
41.67 (PTC earnings at Neobux)

Total = 2571.63

There are a few things to keep in mind here. One is that there were only 28 days in the last month, so the total is a couple of days less than normal. Also, I donated some of my income and the overall total would normally be about 3k, since I average $100 a day online.

Plus, some of the amounts are LESS than usual. This is due to the fact that I started working less hours since the beginning of this year. It was my New Years resolution to earn about the same, but spend less time in front of the computer (smarter, not harder!). So, I'm working less hours, but technically making MORE per hour!

This change is most noticeable in ad sales where I would normally make $200+ a month by offering deals on webmaster forums and taking the time to make sales threads, but this time I didn't do any. The $72 I did make was solely from renewals and not from new ad selling.

Also, the new sponsor amount is high because I put their CPA offers on my existing sites and just swapped the ads out, so the old ones were replaced with better performing ones. Always test your conversion ratios to see what ads perform the best for your traffic!!

You may also be wondering why I bother with PTC's at all when they pay so little. The answer is not in how much it pays, but how much time it involves. It literally takes me only 3 minutes a day to click a few links on the one site I use, so here's the math: That's 84 minutes total work in February for a 41.67 return. Making over 40 bucks for less that an hour and a half of work isn't so bad, is it? You can make a LOT more by building up referrals, but I let most of mine go because they were just too lazy to click for that few minutes daily and for "paid to click" sites to work you really have to put in that effort every day. That's the reality of it.

I'll be posting more checks as proof over the course of March, so feel free to grab my feed for updates! Have a great day!!

Make Money Online Scam

So, you've just discovered the concept of how to make money online and you excitedly look at all these wonderful, flashy websites with pictures of shiny new sportscars and expensive houses saying that you, yes YOU, can become the next internet millionaire in just 1 week!! "WOW", you squeal, "I want that!!", and then you proceed to get sucked into the most common online scam there is: How to get rich quick. The answer: You don't.

I'm disheartened whenever I see such ads with all the photos of hot cars, jewelry and giant homes because I know someone will get blinded by them. The cold, honest truth is that MOST people who try to earn some money on the interent will FAIL, and miserably. They either make nothing at all or they make a few bucks and end up quitting 3-4 months down the road because it's a waste of time for the amount earned.

The biggest part of the problem is not that you CAN'T make money (because, in fact, you CAN), but rather, that you've been lead astray by "gurus" and scammers into believing it's EASY (which it isn't). Most people are first introduced into the whole "making money online" concept by some catchy landing page for an ebook telling you how simple it is to make huge piles of cash in your sleep and the "proof" is always some garage full of cars and a beautiful woman holding a wad of cash. You DO know that's fake, right??

So, you're basically already set up for failure because of unrealistic claims of making $20,000 in 2 days or $1,000,000 by next Tuesday, before you even get started. If someone, like myself, had told you instead right from the start that it would be a lot of hard work with many hours put in every day, AND you probably wouldn't even make anything at all for at least 3 months, would you still be as enthusiastic? Would you even bother to try then?

I'm sick to death of all these false, totally unrealistic claims made by scammers just trying to con you out of your money and then leaving your dreams shattered on the floor. The really ironic thing is that you actually CAN make some money, if you do it the right way, but so many people start off by getting conned that they give up completely, without even trying something that could truly work out for them!

That's why I started this blog...to show you what can be accomplished, if you're willing to work hard for it. Am I rich? NO, of course not!! But I do own a house that's paid for, with no mortgage, plus a brand new Honda that is also paid off with no monthly payments. I make a living working from my own home, with no boss, and you can too!

Just be realistic in your expectations. Do NOT expect riches overnight and do not pay attention to any of those crappy ebooks that say you can earn in your sleep and "wake up to piles of cash" sent by "hungry buyers" while you do nothing. They're junk! Someone even put together a parody website to show everyone just how ridiculous these sites really are. Check out the buy my stupid ebook page!

Last month I was arguing with a woman in a forum about a sales thread she had made that claimed you could "Retire in 10 weeks" using her program. I asked her why she was making such wild claims and told her she definately would not be retiring in 10 weeks! Of course she got mad at me, and defensive, and said I didn't know what her network could do. Well, no, it's true that I don't know everything, but I certainly know hype when I see it, and while I explained that I never said her program was a "make money online scam", I DO think she was lying, misguided or misled into believing such over-the-top claims.

After further discussion she admitted that she didn't think she'd be retiring anytime soon, but that she had made SOME money with this company. Ahhhhh, see? That wasn't so difficult now, was it?? That's what more people should do! Instead of making wild, unrealistic claims that smell of online scams, they should just try being honest for a change. "No, I didn't get rich, but I DID make $XXX amount of dollars." I'd be MUCH more willing to join someone who was honest with me right from the start than one who is trying to pull the wool over my eyes from step one! Wouldn't you agree?

That's what I try to do here with full disclosure, including screenshots and actual scans of the checks I've received. You won't see me holding some fake check for $100,000 but you WILL see honest earnings proof from an average guy who earns a living working from home.

How To Backup Blog Posts

It's important to always make a backup of your blog posts EVERY time you post to save you from potential trouble in the future. As the saying goes "Shit DOES happen" and you have to be prepared for it. Your blog might get deleted or your host could go down or any number of technical difficulties.

I learned my lesson the hard way with a free hosted blog site where all the blogs there got hacked and everyone lost what they wrote. I had 6 months worth of blogposts there that were lost! While many people spent hours putting together the pieces of their broken sites, if we had made backups then it all would have been fixed in less than a minute!

So, here is how to backup your blogposts for the 2 most common ones, Wordpress and Blogspot:

- In WP you simply go to the left side of your dashboard and look under "tools" where it says import and export. Click on "export" and then download for ALL authors (to make sure you get everything) and save it to your computer. What you are downloading is what is called an XML file containing all your blogpost content, as well as the comments made by others for each post. Then, if you ever need to rebuild your blog, or if you decide to transfer to another host, it will be an easy move!

If you ever need to use the file to recover your website or restart again on a new host account, then simply click "import" wherever your fresh new blog is installed and pick "Wordpress" from the list. Then browse to where your XML file was saved and, like magic, your empty blog will be filled with all your old posts intact!!

You'll also notice there are many other blogging platforms listed under the import section. That's because you can transfer your posts from many other sites into your WP blog, including taking what you have written at blogger.com and importing it to a WP blog!

So, how do we get all the posts from Blogger/Blogspot?

- When logged in, go to "settings" and under the basic section you'll see import/export. To save all your blog posts as a backup file to your computer, just click "export" and then "download blog". You're done!

The "import" function works basically like described above. Just click browse and find your XML file and follow the directions.

Creating blog backups should never be a scary thing. It literally only takes 10 seconds just to grab the export after each post, so do it EVERY time you write something!! That goes with ANY website you have. Be sure to save website mysql database zips to your comp on a regular basis too. Don't wait until it's too late!!

Templates Vs Keywords

Ok, I know I've rambled on about the importance of keywords in other posts, but this time it's different, I promise!

I've noticed a disturbing trend lately of webmasters somehow thinking that flashy graphics are more important than words on a website. WRONG!! It doesn't matter how pretty your website looks, if no one sees it (yes, I've said that before). It's going to be your WORDS (specifically your unique, keyword rich content) that will bring the search engines, and their searchers, a' callin'...

Case in point: there is a popular script that many people are using right now to build their website that comes with only one default template. I've read site owners who are using it complain that everyone's website looks the same and they can't get sign ups because of it, so they scramble to change the look of it in hopes that their new graphics will attract more traffic.

The problem is that the template itself doesn't attract traffic...the words do. Search engines can't actually "see" what your website looks like! So then there were all these webmasters with now great looking sites who were still getting no visitors because the wording in the default template was the same and they were getting hit by duplicate content penalties left and right. Sure, they LOOKED different, but as far as the SE's were concerned they still all seemed the same, so they got buried.

My approach is the exact opposite. I use the default template with just a different logo, but I completely change the wording throughout the entire site. I make sure it is SEO'd for maximum effect with my keywords and that it gets indexed for the written content without any dupe penalties.

The result? While everyone else was complaining, I was getting 20 sign ups an hour when I first launched it. Even now, after things have died down, I'm still getting around 100 UV's a day of highly targeted traffic from the SE's looking for what I have to offer, and that adds up to $$$!

Conclusion: Don't get hung up about how your site looks to others (unless its REALLY ugly! lol). Instead, concentrate on writing good quality, original, content with keywords and phrases that people actually search for (always do proper keyword research first!). Good luck!