Making Money Online

I thought I'd update my previous article about Genuine Ways to Make Money Online since I'm a little further down the track with it all.

I've given up all writing/content producing sites except Helium and AC, for the simple reason that although Helium can be tricky to navigate and its rating system rather arcane, it does pay us foreigners an upfront free plus money per thousand page views plus a share of their daily revenue. You need to earn $25 before they pay you out. Associated Content is now getting hits nicely and making me a few dollars.

Review Stream pay a reliable 50c - $2 per review of anything you like, by paypal.

I'm still flirting with Amazon Mechanical Turk a little, because it wasn't hard to make $80 and OK, those dollars only work at amazon.com and shipping anything here from there is freaking expensive - you can't order directly from Amazon, but many of their merchants and affiliates will ship internationally. I had fun ordering a book and a cd and a dvd - all of which are impossible to get here and I'll let you know when and if they arrive and what the customs charges are.

The one daily moneymaking routine I have, is posting in 3 forums that pay. myLot pays f-all, to be honest - I have just over a dollar there and they pay out at $10. their referral sceme only works if the person you refer is active - the other 2 forums I use, it'd benefit me even if someone signed up and never went back again. The good thing about that place though, is that there are a lot of people using it and a steady stream of info about what schemes and scams are out there. Exchange Money Place is a far quicker and more profitable option. It's run by a Lithuanian known as "Admin" and has a minimum payout of $5 which works thus: 30c when you sign up, 30c for each person you refer and 3c per post - the limit is 20 posts per day, so that's 60c per day - I reached $5.23 last night. It'll suit you if you're into money on all levels and has a rather serious atmosphere, with lots of broken English. Platinum Lounge is another one which has an arcane and ever-changing ranking system. It works on points, which you get by posting, winning mindless contests and referring people. Once you reach the first rank, they pay you $2 a week - and it goes up from there. It's a very busy forum, full of a whole load of oddness, but it has a friendly atmosphere.

Adsense is doing well, but I'm not using it to full capacity - I want my blogs to get traffic that's interested, not just a flood of clicks and keywords - if I wanted that, I'd be promising porn, immortality and millions of dollars online. Traffic Synergy is another network that offers campaigns and ads specifically for South Africans, but they didn't produce a quick result, so I stopped bothering. I've become severely dubious about Afrigator's Adgator , for the simple reason that my 5 000 hits per month blog has generated R1.20 from them in about a fortnight, and when trying to create accounts for other blogs, I get no response - and there's no facility within their structure to use the code on multiple urls or register multiple blogs to one account. Google wins again.

co.cc offer free domains (no advertising on them either) and the way to make money there is to refer others. You get 10c for each free domain you refer and more if anyone pays for their services. So far I have made ... 10c.

I have another few things to test, I'll let you know how they go.