warning: this is a long post but please just keep reading, I NEED YOUR HELPFUL IDEAS!
i'm kind of surprised whenever some members in ciao, an online review site i joined send me private messages asking for help on how to make money online. well, i'm not claiming i'm a good online earner, i'm definitely not, not yet! lol! how i wish i am! but because of these newbies in online money making asking for any tips on what sites to join and what to do, i published this one in ciao community itself and was happy as well because there are those who appreciated what i have written.
i decided to republish this one here in my blog to ask you fellow bloggers on any other means to earn online aside from what i have written. i am kindly asking all of you to add any tips for the sake of all of us! hopefully you share a LEGIT, SURE-PAYING SITE!
please, i have one rule on what money making sites you can share with us, ONLY SITES THAT DO NOT ASK MEMBERS TO PAY JUST TO BE PAID! anyway, below is what i have already published in ciao..
I know home business does not necessarily mean online money making, this could also mean a small store you manage in your house and the like. But now, I want to limit this post to online earning alone based on my own online money making journey.
I started making money online last year through BLOGGING. It's not that easy to start monetizing a blog. It's not easy as one two three especially when you are just a beginner in the blogosphere. For example, at this very moment you decided to create a blog and eventually you posted your first blog entry, you can't immediately join paid-to-blog or paid-to-post sites then. Anyway, paid-to-blog or paid-to-post I mentioned are those sites that link advertisers and bloggers. There are advertisers who look for bloggers who are willing to write something about their website, their product or services and in return they pay the bloggers for that. To join sites like this one, say payperpost, sponsoredreviews, smorty, blogsvertise, we need to meet their requirements first before our blog will be approved.
Usual requirements include the longevity of the existence of your blog (usually atleast 3 months), well-updated blog (with a blog post atleast every week), good traffic, and the not-so-easy to earn Page Rank! If you have all these qualifications, then you can start joining paid-to-blogs then. But anyway, there are still other ways to monetize your blog like the very common adsense or bidvertiser. It may be easy to register for an adsense account but earning through it is really hard and I guess a matter of luck! It's just like you're waiting for somebody to click the ads in your blog so you can earn cents. It's easy but difficult. Easy because you don't do anything, you just have to insert the html code of adsense in your blog and that will only take you not more than 30 seconds to do! But well, it's hard because not everybody who visits your blog will have the initiative to click your ads! But oopps, you can't ask them to click your ads, it's a NO NO and you can't click your own ads as ell, that's against the TOS and a big violation that will possibly cause a suspension of your account! Google can trace adsense cheaters and if you ask me how, well, I don't know, it's Google's secret! haha. Aside from paid-to-blog and adsense (bidvertiser, etc.), text links are also "in" in the blogosphere. With text links, advertisers will make a deal with you so they could post their link in your blog roll may be and you will be paid monthly or annually. I don't know exactly how to join that, in my case, advertisers just happen to visit my blog and and left a comment in one of my entries and from there, we communicated and made a deal! hehe.
Too much said on blogging, so let's jump to another means to earn online and this time, the REVIEW SITES like ciao! Actually at first, Ciao is kind of complicated. I heard of this one few months ago but can't understand how it works so I ignored it. What a slow-minded me! Anyway, now I get it, we just have to review products, we need to have an honest review that we hope can help the consumers and possible buyers of a certain product. Our voice, our views from our own experiences using a certain product can help others decide whether or not to purchase the product. Simply speaking, we make an ease to the consumers to decide! So I guess, it's really important to make a good quality review and of course an honest one because our reviews might affect the purchasing activity of the people who happen to read our so called "based on experiences" reviews. Other review sites that pays include reviewstream and compared by us.
The third one I'll introduce is the discussions and forums that allow us to participate in discussions whether we start a discussion, we respond to others' discussion or we comment back on some responses, sometimes we call it PAID-TO-POST. When we join some sites like this one knowing the fact that it pays, we tend to focus ourselves to earn money. We don't care to post something stupid, something senseless, something out of this world topics just to earn cents. I have joined such kind of community, yes, it pays, not that much but guaranteed real paying site! But actually after a year of being a member in such community, I tend to look at it more of a "mind-feeding" community where we share senseless discussions to discussions with real substance, and not just a money making site! But well, I can say there are really so many members there that join for money and it's one of their online money making! Example of this site is myLot and size of paper.
Another way to earn online is ONLINE PUBLISHING where we can submit our self-written original articles, essays, poems, and any other kinds of literature in sites like Associated Content, Triond, Helium. But again, it's also not that easy. You have to write something, let the site approve it and let other members read and rate it. If you are good in driving visitors to your articles, then it would be a good way to earn money online for you. And of course, if you are fond of writing then you can try your luck there! I've joined AC and Triond before but seems I'm getting lazy to write articles. As much as I want to have something to post, my mind just get empty. So it would be better if you really have the passion to write. hehe. But those sites surely pays! Before you get paid, you have to put on your effort first and reach their payout.
And the last and yes, the least way to make money online that I'll be sharing is the PAID-TO-CLICK sites or simply called PTC sites. You read it right, i consider PTC site as the least of all the means to make money online. Why? Because it's the "lamest", you only have to click ads, view it for 30 seconds and you're paid for it! Before, I noticed many were infected with the PTC mania and yes, I am one of them! haha. I joined some PTC sites, earned from them and got paid. Until one day most of the PTC sites are turning scams, and if not scams, they got bankrupt which have not enable them to pay the members who have requested the payout. PTC sites are booming these days, and since a lot of online money earners are attracted in joining PTC sites to earn FEW bucks, I think the abusers, the online thefts use the idea of PTC sites to fraud the people. They create their own PTC sites for the sole purpose of scamming the people. So I advice the people not to join PTC sites without knowing the real color of those sites. The number of scam PTC sites are more than the real paying ones. Proven real PTC sites may include neobux, clixsense, clixncash, and a few others.. But PTC sites got lots of uncertainties and it's not always an assurance that they will last long. And one more advice, PTC sites tend to attract the members to invest for referrals or membership upgrade to have faster and real good earnings. But investing is quite risky too. I have invested to some sites and got real good earnings, but to some, it's not at all worth to invest a single cent. As I said, so many uncertainties, really unpredictable results, and a lot risky!
Actually there are still so many ways to make money online like the survey thingy offered by dNeero, etc. But this I have to say, most reliable sites to earn need real effort and time to make real good money. So let's grab the opportunities to be financially productive that the internet have given us but let's all be responsible in all our online activities, let us not abuse the chances given to us by online companies! Let us all work fairly!
so what other sites you can share where we can earn online? all tips will be really well-appreciated! =)
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