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The Making Money Experiment

The Making Money Experiment
Many people say you can make real money on the Internet. Because i am a bit sceptical about this, i started this Blog for investigating the different money making opportunities on the Web and share my results with you. My goal is to gain 100 dollars

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10 Useful Affiliate Marketing Resources
2008-03-13 19:38:00
In order to make money online, and here I mean more than just some 50 dollars a month, you have to learn a lot of skills and techniques, especially about affiliate marketing. So, I can't help you by providing any in-depth knowledge I've already learned by myself (I'm still a noob), but I can give you some good resources from where you can start. The following list contains 10 useful (and free) resources to learn more about affiliate marketing. Beside many other resources, I personally use these tools and information I find them very valuable.1. WickedfireWickedfire is a real awesome forum that mainly concentrates on affiliate marketing. There you'll find a lot of good infos about the different aspects involved in marketing. It's also a great place to find ideas that you can easily adopt by yourself. But be warned, the forum threads contains more or less rude language sometimes, which is a matter of taste. I personally like their style because it's far more honest this way ;)2....
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Get Free Backlinks with Directory Submitter!
2008-03-11 18:45:00
You may or may not know that website directory submission is quickly becoming a very popular and easy way to get quality, one way links to your website. The more backlinks you'll generate for your site, the higher your rankings in the search engines. These kind of links are exactly what the search engines are looking for. The websites with more quality, one way links are typically the sites that rank the highest.With that said, there are several websites dircetory submission programs on the market. But the best one I found so far was created by Brad Callen and is called Directory Submitter. The software currently contains around 2200 website directories. And the best thing is, the free edition contains 350 of them! Imagine the impact on your search engine rankings for your blog or website! ;)The whole process for getting backlinks is easy:1. Input your website details (i.e. title, description, URL, etc.) into the software2. Click on the directory you want to submit toAnd then the p...
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The Bux.to card - Orders are open now!
2008-03-08 12:36:00
Major announcements today! The Bux.to team has finally released it's very own form of payment via MasterCard . Let me give you some more details regarding this card, how to order it, how you will be paid, some details about the fees (don't worry, they arent't that high) and what you can do with the card in general.First of all, the Bux.to card is now only available for premium users due to the overhelming response from all the Bux.to people, everybody wants that card, but the staff won't be able to handle it. So they decided to give it only to premium users, but I think the card will sometimes be also available for standard users, but I can't say for sure.Where to order it...You can order the card from Payoneer, simply follow this link for the ordering process. But notice, you have to log in to your Bux.to account first! The ordering process is really simple, you first have to provide your name, address and phone number. The second part is simple too, you have to provide either ...
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Shrtnd.com - URL Shortening for FREE!
2008-03-05 19:08:00
I've promised it already in some of my last posts and now it is time to disclose our secret. Me and my friend Midwest from MyPPCAdvertising have worked on our first web project for the last weeks, hence the lack of updates ;) But now it is time to open it to the public!If you look at the title of this post you may already guess what this project is all about. And yes you're right, it's an URL shortening service named Shrtnd.com! We both are proud to release this service to all of our readers (and the rest of the world) free of charge.The last days we had many things to do. Starting with an idea from Midwest, we gathered some good scripts, built a website and custom design, included some kind of content, worked on some monetization strategies, bought a domain and hosting package and finally checked the whole site for potential errors. You see, a lot of work was involved, but now we are ready to finally launch shrtnd.com.So what can you expect from our URL shortener? Well, a simpl...
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StumbleUpon Traffic Rush!
2008-03-03 22:26:00
I just checked my Statcounter blog statistics as usual to see how many visitors have seen my blog today. Usually I get around 50 to 70 unique visitors per day, but today there was something different...As I checked the stats, I immediately recognized the holy number of 300 unique visitors to my blog. 300 visitors within only 3 hours! "What the hell?" I hear me say. Ok, I was a bit amazed and first thought there must be something wrong with the stats. So I dugg deeper to see where the traffic came from and it turned out that it was mainly from StumbleUpon.I had no conclusion about why so many people got referred from SU to my blog, usually I get only 5 to 10 visitors a day from StumbleUpon.It did take some time until I realised that it must be because of my new domain name that I just bought some days ago. No, I won´t say it´s because of a Top-Level-Domain, but it was because someone re-discovered my blog on StumbleUpon. It sounds weird, but actually I have a brand-new blog in term...
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Fifth Month Report!
2008-02-29 21:45:00
And yet another month passed by on my way on earning $100. But this month is a special one, not only because it´s one day longer than a normal February.This month is so special for some reasons. The first one is, I have bought a new domain for my blog to make it easier to remember and to let it look more professional (oh, I like that word ;) Unfortunately I´ve lost my PageRank (ok, I had only a PR of 0) and Alexa ranking. But I hope that I´ll get it back within the next weeks. You can help me with it too. If you would like to, please link back to me, stumble/digg this blog or add it your Technorati faves. Any help is appreciated, although I won´t beg for it :)The second reason for February being a special month is my earnings. Compared to January, where I earned $40, I´ve only made $21 this month, but I´ve reached my personal goal for making $100 within six month. Yes, I´ve done my job already and made the money in only five month! But please don´t panic, my experiment will ...
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New Domain and some busy times...
2008-02-28 18:42:00
Welcome back my fellow readers. It´s been a longer time since posting my last article here on my blog. Ok, actually the last post was on monday, but anyway, I feel sorry about the lack of updates.But I have something new to report on. I´m now a proud owner of my own domain! You can now find my blog at MakingMoneyExperiment.com, I have shortened my URL a bit by removing the "blogspot" part :) I think it was a logical step for me to get my own domain as soon as possible, so I could afford it anyway. The domain cost me only $8.41 for one year. I bought the address from Namecheap, a very nice domain registrar with good pricings. Another reason for getting my own domain was better ranking in search engines. Sure, at the moment my rankings (especially the Alexa rank) are down, but I think it will rebuild very fast. Feel free to link back to my new address to help me getting my ranking back and share some link love! :)So, now for the reasons why I was so busy the last days. You may have ...
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Subvert and Profit - No more Paypal (and other problems)
2008-02-25 17:56:00
I know, it was long time ago since my last update on Subvert and Profit . But today I got some major news regarding S&P that I want to share with you.S&P now doesn´t support Paypal anymore. According to a mail I received today, these are the reasons for dropping Paypal and choosing Google Checkout as a new payment option:Subvert and Profit has switched our payment systems from Paypal to Google Checkout to serve users in more countries and save on transaction fees. Now, users may send us an “Invoice” to receive money from your Subvert and Profit account. Your withdrawal request will be paid directly to your bank account within 7 business days. After establishing a Google Checkout account that contains your bank account information, log in to Google Checkout; go to “Tools”, then “Send and Invoice” and fill in the form:At first sight it sounds really nice, more people will actually be able to receive money from S&P. But there´s also a downside, in order to si...
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Paid.vg - Cashout Problems!
2008-02-23 14:28:00
As you may know, I´ve reached the minimum payout limit on Paid .vg some days ago. With help of my referrals I have $12.50 in my account balance and, at least in theory, I would be able to request my first payment. But it seems, with Paid.vg payments are somewhat complicated.You can request your payments only once in a month, on every 22nd. So, yesterday was the 22nd and I logged into my account to do a cashout. But the system told me "Sorry, you can only request payment on the 22nd unless you are a premium member." I tried it again and again, but everytime the same message. I rechecked the current date only to be sure if it really was the 22nd (and it was).So, there are two possibilities. The first one could be, that Paid.vg has some serious server problems. Maybe something is wrong with their databases or something like that. I don´t know.The second one is, that they could operate from a timezone where there already was the 23rd of the month, e.g. Australia?! I don´t know.I´ve s...
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Bux.to - First Payment Received!
2008-02-20 19:00:00
Just yesterday I talked about waiting for the first payments from Bux.to within the next days. Today the payment is alread here! I just checked my statistics and there were the holy words "Payment sent". After only 28 business days, meaning 2 days faster than expected, I received $12.71 in my Alertpay account. It was a flawless process and I´m really happy.You know I had my doubts if Bux.to will really pay me, that´s my nature somehow ;) But now I´m convinced of the truth. At least Bux.to seems like a huge money making machine for the next month (I still have my doubts if they can sustain for a longer time with such high payouts up to some thousand dollars). What I don´t like at the moment is the Alertpay payment option, because I can withdraw my funds only via check with high fees. I´m waiting for the new Bux.to debit card, more infos should follow this week!For the next weeks I´ll try to buy some more referral packages until I make good daily money. I´ll use a great portion...

Bux.to - Big Payout Day Ahead!
2008-02-19 20:00:00
As the title says, I´ll receive my first payment from Bux.to within some days, at least in theory. After waiting 30 business (the standard waiting time for premium users), I will receive my first cashout on February 22nd, meaning this Friday. The amount is a little bit over $12.00. I hope that they will actually pay me, because I have some doubts on how serious this company really is. Sure, many people seem to already got paid from Bux.to, but there are also some rumors about people complaining about not getting paid. As long as I don´t see my money in my Alertpay account, I must assume they are "scammers" (this sounds hard I know ;)My current account balance is about $45 with most of the money generated from my 15 bought referrals (I broke even with this investment within only 14 days). I´ve also upgraded to a premium membership to receive payments faster (and give you more infos faster too). In theory this all sounds just too good to be true, let´s wait until Friday to see wha...
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Entrecard Contest - Win 500 Credits!
2008-02-17 19:20:00
Today I want to start a little contest where you can win 500 Entrecard credits! If you don´t know Entrecard, please read my post about it to find out more.Here are the simple rules:Write a short review about this blog with at least 100 words.In your post you have to include two links pointing to "http://makingmoneyexperiment.blogspot.co m"Send me an email containing your review post URL, submit it to netzfischer[at]gmail[dot]comHave the chance to win 500 Entrecard credits!The contest will end at Friday 22nd midnight (CEST), so you have 5 days to write a review. After the time is over, a winner will be choosen randomly (with help of an online randomizer). You´ll get your credits shortly after that (maybe a day), I´ll send them via email. The winner will be mentioned in one of my future blog posts!You may win 500 credits if you´re the lucky one, but there´s even more! Everybody writing a review about my blog will get a share of what I call my Entrecard pot. I have another 2,000 cr...
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Paid.vg - Reached minimum payout limit!
2008-02-16 12:51:00
Only 7 days after writing about my process on Paid .vg, I finally reached the $10 minimum payout limit today! My 4 referrals kept "working" for me the last days with a steady $0.30 each day. Now I´ve reached $10.22 (that´s a total of 1022 ads clicked) and I´m ready for cashout. Thank you!One problem I´ve only realized today was the payment policy of Paid.vg. Unlike Bux.to, where you have to wait up to 60 business days before receiving your payments, Paid.vg pays within only 30 days. But that isn´t the problem here, the real problem is that you can only request a cashout on the 22nd of each month, meaning I have to wait until the end of next week...I hope I won´t miss that date for some reasons, because than I have to wait another month again before requesting my cash. I also hope they´ll really pay me (and don´t scam me), I´ve heard from people getting paid within only one day :)Have a nice weekend,Querblogger
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Entrecard - Free Advertising to its Best!
2008-02-15 19:50:00
You probably have heard about Entrecard? No? No problem, let me tell you more!You may know that advertising your blog or website is a crucial task in order to succeed with your online business. Sure, it would also work without any advertising, but it would also take a much longer time to make your blog/website more popular. So, it should be one of your first goals to drive traffic to your site, the more the better. More traffic will bring you more revenue, be it from affiliate marketing, contextual ads or referral programs. But the traffic is even better if it´s free!So, recently I came across Entrecard, a nice site that offers free advertising for your site. I´ve seen it on many blogs lately, even on those from famous bloggers like Darren Rowse or John Chow.Entrecard lets you exchange 125x125 banner ads for free. The whole story is based on dropping your entrecards on blogs you like, think about it as giving your own business card to other people. In order to drop a card, the blo...
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My favorite Blogs - My PPC Advertising
2008-02-13 19:59:00
Today I want to start some kind of long-term series about all my favorite blogs that I´ve came across on my way on making money online. I visit them regulary and they provide many useful information on different aspects that interest me, but they are not limited to money making only.My first review will deal about My PPC Advertising , a blog from my very good friend Tiberius Burciu.I came across Tiberius´ blog while searching for new ways to drive traffic to my own blog. It was nearly at the beginning of my money making journey as I used a service called Linkreferral (I´ve written some posts about them) to drive more visitors to my posts. I don´t know for sure, but I think it was Tiberius who first reviewed my blog on LR and we came into contact. Things went fast, we exchanged links for both of our blogs and since then are regulary commenting on each others (sometimes weird, but mostly highly valuable ;) posts.It was August 5th 2007 when Tiberius (who is better known under the na...
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Affiliate Marketing Basic
2008-02-12 19:59:00
Today I want to share some thoughts from what I´ve learned about affiliate marketing so far. This article won´t be any in-detail story on how to do marketing the right way, it´s only here to give you some insight in how to start marketing and what is involved in doing it. I´m neither an expert in this field, nor am I making a living from affiliate marketing, I´ve only done some research the past days and I want to share my knowledge with you. (Warning - Long article ahead!)What´s affiliate marketing?So, you´ve probably heard of affiliate marketing and what is involved with it? No? No problem, let me give you a short description.Affiliate marketing is basically all about promoting products and services from different vendors to get some commissions on leads and sales. Let´s take shoes for example (don´t ask me why I´ve taken shoes here...). Say there is a company selling shoes. Let´s also assume that you have a website dealing about shoes, cheap shoes, small shoes, big s...
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Paid.vg - Approaching the minimum payout limit!
2008-02-09 19:42:00
After many days I just checked back on my Paid .vg account to see how my stats were going. I first had to provide a new payment ID (like Bux.to they have also migrated from Paypal to Alertpay), but nothing special so far.But then I went to my account statistics and was completely amazed. My earnings are nearing the $10 minimum payout limit, I currently have around $8.00 in my account. That kept me wondering, because I haven´t clicked that many ads lately. So I took a closer look and recognized that I had 4 referrals, which brought me over $6.00 within the last weeks! Thank you for all that "heavy" clicking :)So I´m only 2 dollars away from requesting my first payment from Paid.vg, let´s see if they really pay. Also I don´t like Alertpay as a payment option (I can´t withdraw money directly to my bank account), I´m still looking forward to receive that payment soon, at least I can use it to buy more referrals on Bux.to (my best money maker so far) or even at Paid.vg!Regards,Querb...
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PayPerPlay - My First Earnings
2008-02-06 19:29:00
After joining PayPerPlay and waiting for the new statistics, I´m now happy to announce my first earnings from NetAudioAds. It´s not much for the moment, but it looks promising.PayPerPlay has promised to start serving audio ads on February 1st and in fact they did it, but most people didn´t recognize it because the statistics system was down. It seems they had faced some database problems and bugs in the counting algorithms, but now most of these problems are gone. So today, PayPerPlay started to serve the first 100,000 audio ads randomly distributed around all member´s websites. They try to start in phases to test the stability of their servers, this may take some weeks now before they go full throttle (consider the huge amount of daily ads they are trying to play, it´s millions over millions each day).I was lucky and my blog received 3 of those 100,000 audio ads. Also my referrals websites (I´ve refered two people) got some ads. Now for your excitement, I made $0.02 (don´t s...
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Ucash.in - Referrals Update
2008-02-04 19:53:00
Some days ago I´ve written about Ucash.in, a new online service to monetize your links. Only one day after that post I got my first two referrals. The last days I´ve done some free advertising for getting some more referrals to this really nice service. Now I have already 5 people referred to Ucash.in and I hope there will come some more.So let me tell you in short what I´ve done to advertise my Ucash.in referral link. The first service I used is a really good traffic exchange program called MagnifyTraffic.com. You surf other peoples websites and get a bonus, starting by 0.34 credits, for each site you visit. The credits you´ve earned can be used to promote your own site. The good thing about MagnifyTraffic (and the name suggests it already) is, that you can magnify your traffic rate. The more you click on others sites, the more bonuses you´ll get and therefore the more credits. Yesterday I was in a rush and clicked 500 links (yes I know I´m crazy). I started with 0.34 credits...
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Fourth Month Report!
2008-02-01 19:20:00
The fourth month is already ower now and it seems the time is running. Many things happend in January and I can proudly say, I´ve never earned more since I started TMME. So let me tell you more about the dirty little details :)Technical StatisticsAfter being a bit lazy with writing in December, I wrote 20 new articles the last month. Sure, many well-known bloggers write that amount within a week, but I´m no Problogger yet ;) I´ve also seen a return of this "investment", I got a steady stream of search engine traffic to my blog. Content is king, this is the first rule any SEO expert will tell you, and it seems to be true.My statcounter statistics showed me 967 unique visitors with 1282 pageviews, that´s an average of 31 unique visitors each day. I noticed a good portion of traffic from the Philippines with around 7%, I´m so international, hehe :)I´m still having a Google PageRank of zero, seems they have forgotten me after the last PageRank upgrade at the beginning of this year...
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Bux.to Premium Membership
2008-01-31 20:50:00
In my last article about breaking even on Bux.to I also mentioned to upgrade my membership to premium. I wanted to do this for different reasons, 25% more earnings for each click, faster payouts (only 30 days) and, last but not least, to show me and you if Bux.to really works as promised or if they scam us. There are two kind of people out there, the ones that praise Bux.to for earning many hundred dollars each month, and the ones that say Bux.to is a scam because of not receiving any payments.So, to find this out and to accelerate the long payout process I upgraded my account yesterday and therefore "risked" $59. I won´t loose that big amount of money if I´m not getting paid from them.Today I received the premium status and I´m already seeing the benefits. The daily ad count is now 34 ads (as a standard member it was around 15). Each ad is worth $0.0125! The Bux.to team also resolved their Paypal issues, you can now pay via Reg.net, which offers credit card payments and Paypal p...
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Ucash.in - My First Referral!
2008-01-30 20:05:00
Yesterday I reported about a very nice moneymaker called Ucash.in, which helps you monetizing your regular website or blog´s hyperlinks. With this free service you can shorten your links and make money from each click by showing up some banner ads in the top frame of your users windows. You could even turn your whole website in a moneymaker by automatically converting all your links into paid ones.I also mentioned the nice (10 level deep) referral program, which can bring you much more money than only from your own links. So, yesterday I took a look in my statistics and it showed me one new referral! I was very happy, not only because this happend really fast after writing the post about Ucash.in! The newly referred user (I don´t know his/her name or website) generated around 2,500 pageviews within one single day :) That alone brought me $0.09 within that ONE single day! Although it isn´t the big bucks, I´m very happy and trying to refer some more people.Btw, I would also like ...
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Turn Your Links Into Cash
2008-01-29 19:57:00
Yes, you´ve heard right. I´ve found a nice way to monetize your hyperlinks. And I mean every link you can imagine, be it blog or website links, affiliate links or links you post within forums or instant messengers. The service I discovered is named Ucash.in and provides you with different tools to turn your normal links into cash.So, the whole thing is easy. Think about it as a service for shortening your URLs, e.g. turn an URL like this one into a simple one like this. Easy isn´t it? But there´s more. You can also turn your whole website links into paid links. You simply generate some Javascript code which you have to embed at the end of your html code (just before the tag). From now on all your links will be transformed into paid ones (unlike with single links your visitors can see where those links point to, so no URL hiding here).So, I hear you asking "how much will I make?", let me tell you! There are two different kinds of links you can generate, those with top banner ads ...
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