Just received $10 cashout from Project Wonderful, thank you!

Yesterday when I logged into my Project Wonderful account, I noticed that I have accumulated enough funds to cash out or withdraw (the minimum amount before withdrawal is permitted is $10). Each withdrawal are charged $1 regardless of the amount withdrawn, I guess this is fair for the company, especially after the introduction of PayPal fee lately.

Project Wonderful is a good opportunity to make money for small publishers and also to gain exposure for advertisers who run a tight budget. Project Wonderful is a advertising network which automates the task of buying and selling ad spaces at their marketplace. Its unique system is based on auction of ad spaces, i.e. whoever bids the highest will get the ad space. You can start advertising for as low as FREE (due to default minimal bid value being set to $0.00 to promote initial bidding) to several cents a day up to the amount you are comfortable to pay for the ad space (the highest bid amount I have seen is about $45).

I think Project Wonderful is offering an advertising alternative which has not been made available before. There is no weekly or monthly commitment, you only bid for a particular day which you can cancel anytime. It also allows advertisers to display their ads on multiple sites at cheap rather than pool all their resources on a single site which may or may not bring desired traffic or attention. On the other hand, small advertisers benefit by being able to try out the efficacy of a campaign on a high traffic publisher site without being tied down for long term.

Other advantages/benefits offered by Project Wonderful:

• easy to set up for publishers (select the ad types you want, copy and paste the code into your site)
• payment by PayPal (minimum amount to cash out is $10 with $1 withdrawal fee)
• no fixed payment dates (you can withdraw anytime, unlimited times per month provided have minimum cash out amount)
• detailed statistics and reporting system (with export to spreadsheet capability!)
• easy to use and effective marketplace (https://www.projectwonderful.com/adsearch.php)
• multiple ad sizes supported

It took me quite a while to accumulate $10 with Project Wonderful because I was only serving their ads here on this blog, which is not very popular to be honest. However now having received payment from them, I can trust them, throw caution to the wind and use them on more websites. I look forward to having a pleasant time as a publisher with Project Wonderful.


P.S. At this moment I am also experimenting with Adgitize, will report back about my experience later on. Do you have experience with any of these advertising networks? Do share your experience with us.

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Infolinks Q&A Review

Today I would like to share with you a review about Infolinks, an "In-Text (Contextual) Advertising" company. It acts as the middle person between advertisers and publishers (blog and website owners). Advertisement relevant to a publisher's content (hence CONTEXTUAL) is effortlessly integrated within the text, taking up no extra real estate space on publisher's site.

This review will be in the form of questions and answers (Q&A), because it is a format which I would like to try out on this blog. Questions will be denoted by 'Q' while answers by 'A'. My answers are in bold for emphasis.

Q: How did you hear about Infolinks?
A: Honestly, Infolinks is not as famous as Google Adsense or Yahoo! Publisher Network but I have no doubt that it is catching up with them, while establishing itself as the leader in "in-text" advertising. I have heard and seen its ads 6-8 months after I started blogging and I joined them as publisher about half a year later.

Q: How fast was the integration and configuration of the ads?
A: Very fast, publisher only needs to copy and paste the Javascript code provided into their web templates. There is also minimal configuration needed. I am positive that any web users who could use Facebook can integrate and configure the ads effortlessly.

Q: Did you receive good support?
A: I have only approached the support team once to enquire whether I am allowed to share (show) my earnings screen shot with other web users. The support team responded promptly within a few hours and was very helpful and patient, even making the extra effort to refer to their administration before getting back to me.Such level of support is satisfactory enough for me. I am glad I do not have to approach them for problems regarding the advertisements, so far.

Q: How happy are you with the earnings?
A: I am quite satisfied with my earnings so far. The click through rate (CTR) and effective cost per thousand impression (eCPM) that I received are comparable to industry standard (meaning the ads are relevant for my web visitors and the ads clicked also give fair earnings). Figures and screen shot will be shown here once I get Infolinks' permission.

Q: Did you get paid on time?
A: Unfortunately I have not reached the minimum payment threshold of $100. However, I have no doubt that Infolinks will pay its publishers on time (within 45 days of the end of the payment period which would be each month as long as the balance is above or equal $100, as stated in its FAQ).

Q: What do you think of Infolinks as a company and its approach towards its publishers?
A: I would like to believe that Infolinks consider both the advertisers and publishers as its priorities and that one of its main aims is to help us earn better money and provide us with pleasant advertising/publishing From my observation, it is a people friendly company, it keeps us updated about the network's progress, activity and promotion and encourage us to interact with it, making us feel like a part of a big family. Its website of the month and Double with a Bubble contest (see video at the end of review) are testimony of its efforts to provide us with a better experience. Other publishers seem to echo my sentiments as well.

Q: Would you recommend Infolinks to other publishers? What are the advantages of serving Infolinks' Contextual ads?
A: Yes, I would highly recommend Infolinks to other website and blog owners. The are many advantages: Firstly, it is user friendly and beginners can begin making money almost as soon as they are registered. Other advertisements such as Google Adsense requires more configuration and optimization to earn a healthy income for publishers. Secondly, big and small, local and even international publishers are wanted by Infolinks and will (usually) be approved quite quickly (again contrast that with Google Adsense and Yahoo! Publisher Network). Thirdly, it is the highest paying in text advertising solution (quote), while it gives us the highest paying ads against minimal site space, it also allows its ads to be served together with Google Adsense and other forms of advertisement (Google Adsense also approves of being served together with Infolinks).

Q: What are the improvements that you wish to see at Infolinks?
A: I hope its report can be more detailed, showing the CTR of each page as well as eCPM of each keywords and keyphrases. One of these days, I also hope Infolinks can expand beyond in text and conceptual advertising, bringing in other forms of advertisements such as widgetized ads (like Chitika, Amazon, etc.) and ad boxes (similar to Adbrite, Bidvertiser, Adsense) although that may not be the company direction.

Q: Is there anything new that you learn about Infolinks while preparing this review?
A: Actually yes, I just found out that Infolinks can process payment via Prepaid Mastercard® (powered by Payoneer) which I already own. That is definitely good news for me as I have another option to receive money from Infolinks.

Q: Any last words to say to Infolinks?
A: Yes. Happy New Year 2010 and congratulations for standing strong and being the industry leader of online in text advertising. Don't lose your identity as you grow bigger and always take care of your publishers (and advertisers) the way you are doing now. They made you what you are now and they will decide what you will be in the future. I am glad and proud to be a part of the family. Thank you!

Let's see how the family party together (Double with a Bubble contest)

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Get .INFO domains for as low as .49$ each from GoDaddy

This information is time sensitive, the coupon code will expire and will not work beyond the deadline. However, it is a common practice for GoDaddy to recycle their coupon codes. Who knows, the promotion may be available again after a period of time, pray someone would alert me then.

From now until Jan 10, you will be able to purchase .INFO domains for as low as .49$ (including ICANN fee) each, PROVIDED you register a minimum of 5 domains simultaneously. Even if you have no need for so many domains at once, think of something. You can register some for your friends, give them away, sell them or donate them.

.INFO domain has traditionally been among the cheapest to register but the renewal fee (for subsequent year) is not much cheaper than other domains. Such domain has its advantages and disadvantages. A man's meat may be another's poison, so consider your options and priorities and choose the best for yourself.

The coupon code to use for this promotion:
gdr1259

This coupon code also gives you free domain name privacy protection for a year (which is normally priced at $8.99 per year per domain at GoDaddy). Just remember to opt them out when you renew the domains to avoid paying more than is necessary, especially if you have no specific need for privacy protection.

There are also other coupon codes available such as domain renewal discount, bulk purchase discount, hosting purchase discount, etc. If you need them, do get in contact with me.

http://twitter.com/bobbytco

P.S. I myself have purchased 7 .INFO domains this morning, the total came to 7 x .49$ = $3.43 (which is about the usual cost of registering 1 .INFO domain).

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7 Figure Code Free Home Study Course

This post is to make good on my promise to share the URL to the 7 Figure Code Free Home Study Course promotion. Here is the URL proper:

http://the7figurecode.com/10000Free/

To find out more about this course, read my post about it when I had wanted to obtain it for myself before I make an about turn to give up this once in a lifetime opportunity (with lots of sarcasm intended):

The 7 Figure Code Home Study Course for FREE

For those who hoped to learn something worthwhile and improve your earnings, do click on the link and fork out either about $20 or $20 + $97 (one time offer) or $20 + $97 + (Many other monthly continuity fees), depending on how deep your pockets are and how grate you are to the Guru trainers, Mike Filsaime and his partners. That would definitely be more profitable than reading the rest of this post.

Unfortunately, contrary to what I have written earlier, there will be no cheap shipping and handling fees and you are not actually receiving the physical home study course DVDs through post (unless you pay additional $97 for them). The lowest priced bargain will only entitle you to the following items:

Digital Access to The7FigureCode Complete Version
The 7 Figure Secrets Spiral Bound Printed Deluxe Report and Bonuses
Instant Affiliate Website (kind of a hosted blog to help you earn affiliate commission)
Optional: Free trial to The 7 Figure Zone (continuity membership website)

I may have heard wrong from the pre-launch promotion (video) of this giveaway, which promises extremely low shipping and handling fee. Besides, I also get the impression that the S&H fee is for the delivery of the physical DVDs of this whole course.

Instead of that, now what we are getting is digital access, a report written by a highly paid review writer and bonuses with conditional continuity subscription.

Now I know the meaning of "if it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't".

Anyone else have seen the promotional pre-launch video featuring Mike Filsaime? Did he or did he not promise cheap S&H fee for The7FigureCode Home Study Course?

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The 7 Figure Code Home Study Course for FREE

I think some introductions are required here.

The 7 Figure Code is Mike Filsaime's best selling product. Mike Filsaime is an internet marketer or internet marketing guru who could easily qualify in a top 10 most successful internet marketers list, if such list exists.

Allegedly, this said product, sells better than Butterfly Marketing, another best selling product of Mike Filsaime prior to The 7 Figure Code. That's totally possible but it does not mean one product is superior than the other, they cover different topics and The 7 Figure Code actually rides on Butterfly Marketing and other products' successes as it is actively promoted to customers of those products.

As far as I know, The 7 Figure Code aims to help entrepreneurs who are earning 6 figures reach the magical 7 figure income. That breakthrough is important, first time is always the hardest, dude! Don't worry though if you do not already have an online business, the speakers in the course are revealing their secrets of building 7 figure businesses.

Honestly, I don't believe this blog post of mine will be read by too many people who are regularly earning 6 figure income. Normally I would not even consider posting this news, for one there is no profit to be made (no affiliate link), secondly this product is apparently priced at $1297!!!

The holiday season is coming soon but the miracle has already happened. Mike Filsaime will be giving away 10,000 copies of The 7 Figure Code Home Study Course for FREE! Customers only need to pay for shipping and handling (S&H) which will be kept to a minimum of $7-$12 (depending on your location). I cannot thank Mike Filsaime enough for his generosity, especially when he mentioned that customers will not be forced into any continuity subscription upsell/downsell products during this giveaway.

I have received at least 4 newsletters from 4 different JV partners of Mike Filsaime regarding this giveaway and I am sure it will be snapped up rather quickly. Therefore if you genuinely want this product for free, add me on Twitter at @bobbytco and request the URL from me. I will update this post with the URL only after I have secured my own copy (or after the immediate launching of the giveaway). If you feel that I am asking for too much from you, you can always search for the URL yourself (I believe I have given sufficient information in this post), suit yourself.

Remember, to get the URL, do the following ASAP (no, I meant immediately)
Add me on Twitter and send a request @bobbytco
http://twitter.com/bobbytco

P.S. Here's a hint, it will start real soon, you don't want to miss out...

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Not possible to earn with Homepages Friends anymore

Have you heard about Homepages Friends? It was among the first paid to search programmes available online. I have personally earned about £30 from this programme.

It is undoubtedly easy to earn money from this programme which pays its members either through check or PayPal. Members are also paid commissions for referring new members to the service (similar to a multi-level marketing scheme). The searches made by members are automatically recorded and audited to determine the earnings payable to the members. I have no complaint toward the accuracy of the recording and audits but Homepages Friends is known to delay in paying its members even when they have reached the minimum payout amount and time dues.

Unfortunately, all good things eventually come to a (bad or not so good) end. Apparently, Homepages Friends could no longer pay us (50% of) the revenue made from our searches, we can only choose which charity to contribute the earnings to. Members from certain countries are completely restricted from using the service.

Check out the screen shot above, click to view for enlarged view. I am obviously using Homepages Friends search service from a country permitted to use it but still I get such error message. I am reluctant to contact the support to sort out the matter. Obviously user experience and welfare are not the priority of the company anymore.

I feel the members who were responsible for building up the service and helping it earn money are not properly compensated (and consulted over this crucial decision to stop paying members for their searches). The company also tried to offer cheap incentive such as cash prizes of £250, £200 and £150 in a lucky draw to coerce and lure members to agree to the new terms and agreement of the service in order to be eligible for the draw.

The prizes are not exactly cheap but what about other members who do not win? To whom do you owe the success of your company and service? Is this what your members deserve, some which have stood by you even when payment to them are delayed by a few months and tolerated your below par support system (as far as I am concerned there is only 1 staff which often does not offer solution or answer, the staff merely forwards generic responses towards members' concerns)?

It was good while the win-win (50/50) situation existed. You may turn your back on us when you no longer needed us. In a similar way, you will never know when your partner, be it Ask.com or Yahoo! will turn its back on you. Thank you for the opportunity, we will now look elsewhere in the paid to search circle, we wish you the best of luck.

P.S. I am trying to speak on behalf of Homepages Friends members who are in the same situation as I am and feel similarly. I am aware that no all members and general public share the same sentiment towards Homepages Friends. If you feel differently, do share your opinions with us by commenting below. Comments and responses from Homepages Friends management and people who are in the know of the situation are also welcomed.

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Introducing PayPerPost v4

PayPerPost has largely dropped out of favor (and sight too!) since slightly more than a year ago. It has turned from a major paid blogging platform (the first one too if I am not mistaken) to a mass links buying marketplace full of rampant spams, questionable links and unethical posts, not to mention the high PR requirements but extremely low payment offers by advertisers. Even its parent company IZEA was promoting SocialSpark (another paid opportunity platform for bloggers and advertisers) aggresively and left PayPerPost to rot.

I am aware that certain bloggers (and advertisers perhaps) were still making good money and having fun with PPP for the previous 1 year but I believe these people are the minority. Prior to PPP v4.0, many bloggers could only earn the initial $20.00 post opportunity from PPP and they received no further opportunity, maybe due to a lack of good pageranks or international geo-targeting opportunity. Furthermore, bloggers are unable to add additonal blogs as long as they have not written 10 paid posts on the first blog they added to the system. This restriction paralyses many bloggers, who may have other blogs with high pageranks. Personally I am more than willing to return $20.00 to PPP provided that I could add other blogs with good PR so that I am eligible for new paying opportunities. Unfortunately, in the end bloggers who were receiving opportunity were also discouraged when they are only offered $5.00 to write a post on their PR2-4 sites.


However, it seems IZEA is now pushing PPP again with this new revamped PayPerPost v4.0. I wonder why? Is the market in SocialSpark slowing down? I am not one to dig too deep into a company's strategy and come up with all sorts of conspiracy theories. Therefore, let's just enjoy the improvements. Briefly, these are the features of PPP v4.0 (mainly for bloggers):

• bloggers could set their per word rate, like $0.05 per word, a 200 word post would earn you $10.
• bloggers could set their per link rate, if each link is set at $3.00, advertisers requiring 2 links would have to pay you $6.00 in addition to the per word costs of the post.
• bloggers could choose whether to allow dofollow or nofollow links only or both. Unfortunately there is no way to set different cost for dofollow and nofollow links.
• bloggers could add as many blogs as they want, these blogs do not need approval by PPP admins, as long as advertisers would like to advertise on your blog, you're all set!

Being a blogger who values his own time and blog space and not wanting to degrade the perceived value of a freelance writer/blogger, I have decided to raise the costs of advertising when I add this blog to the PPP 4.0 system.

My price per word is $0.05.
My price per link is $.500.
Conservatively, a 200 word blog post and one link would cost an advertiser $15.00.

I doubt I would get any advertiser anyway on this blog, it lacks updates and critical news. If there is miracle though, I will certainly share the good news here.

Lastly I would like to applause IZEA for coming up with these improvements. I like your innovations but would be curious to see how well PPP v4.0 performs once it runs under full steam.

Click here for PayPerPost v4.0 alpha
PayPerPost v4.0 alpha FAQ (for advertisers and bloggers)

If you have previously registered with SocialSpark, you can use the same login to access PPP v4.0. I tried the old PPP login, but it was not working.

What do you think about PPP v4.0 and the improvements? What are improvements or additions do you think are necessary? Would PPP v4.0 return to its glory days and make advertisers and bloggers alike happy? Has anyone managed to make money from PPP v4.0? Share your thoughts with us please.

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Adsense for Domains

Just received a heads up from Rohaizad.com regarding Adsense for Domains is now open for registration for Malaysian publishers.

I have more than 5 domains lying around, not earning me any money and is certainly a liability when the time comes to renew their registrations.

As you may have already heard, some internet marketers make money online through domain parking. In simple terms, it means that they allow some domain parking companies to serve advertisements on their domains, revenue from the advertisements is shared between the domain parking companies and the domain owner (also known as the advertisement publisher).

It may sound easy to make money this way, but usually the domain parking companies will only accept publishers who have 100 or more good keyword domains into their programs. I personally feel that this policy is ridiculous.

Now, through Adsense for Domains, any domain owner can make money from their unused domains by parking them under Google Adsense program. The steps are pretty simple too, log in into your Adsense account, select Adsense Setup tab, then select Adsense for Domains link, accept the agreement, park your domains and start checking for your earnings.

Unfortunately, not all domains are suitable to park and earn money from, the domains should have good keywords that are frequently searched for and already have some organic traffic to them. Once you have parked your domain with domain parking companies including Google, you are not allowed to promote the domains further or drawing unnatural visits to them as that would influence your earnings from the advertisements served.

I would probably discuss about what domains are suitable for domain parking, what are the usual domain parking companies and what are the rules to observe if you wish to earn money from domain parking if there is enough interest in this topics.

For now, I have tried to use Adsense for Domains with 1 of my domains which receive satisfactory organic traffic and type in traffic daily. I shall keep you posted about my earnings (hopefully at least a few cents per day).

Do you have any parked domains? Are you making good money from them? Would you try Adsense for Domains?

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NeoBux - Finally A Quick Paying PTC Site?

Would like to bring you a good news. I just got paid last night by NeoBux, a Paid To Click (PTC) site with good reputation.

http://www.neobux.com

The amount I got paid is pathetic, to be really honest and accurate - $1.98, the original amount was $2.02 but $0.04 was deducted as payment fee or something, whatever.

I have been using this PTC site since October 2008, the total amount I have earned is $3.02 but some money was lost and unaccounted for because I become an inactive member for more than 30 days and my account was suspended around November or so.


Just for your information, my earning is so low because I have zero referral. Everybody knows that to make decent money from PTC sites, you have to have at least a few hardworking referrals. I have been told by friend with good intention that I am never going to be rich using and promoting PTC and other programmes with MLM commission schemes, which I totally agree.

I did not expect to be rich and this probably explains why I have zero referral after 5 months. The main reason why I keep on clicking days after day is partly just for fun and to see if any of these PTC sites actually pay. Besides, I don't wish to refer anyone until I am sure the service actually pays its members.

Just early this year, I have heard some good things about NeoBux mainly in MyLot discusssion which I have just joined. You would be surprised to hear almost complete positive reviews regarding this service, I can finally see why after renting referrals from them, receiving payment from them and visiting their forum, which was my first time in my 5 months with them.

The referral that you rent from NeoBux are mostly active members, as inactive users would lose their money in their account, I think this is a good policy by NeoBux, there is no point having members who don't click in PTC sites. The referrals are delivered immediately, you can profit from their activities within 24 hours, the same with its payout, the minimum payout is only $2 and is processed immediately. To compare, I have heard of Bux.to users who are still waiting for their payments even after 6 months!

I have said what I wanted to say regarding NeoBux. If anyone asks me if there is a good PTC site to join, both my hands and legs are up for NeoBux. As I have mentioned, I still maintain that you would not get rich through PTC, even if you are using several sites as reliable as PTC but you can most definitely make decent money from it - I saw someone in NeoBux forum with proof of his latest $600 payment. Again, you reap what you sow, the harder you work at promoting it, you will get higher earnings, fair and square.

Lastly, although I don't expect to get rich through PTC, I certainly could use some help to make more pocket money, especially by doing something as simple as clicking and browsing through certain webpages. If you appreciate me sharing this piece of news about NeoBux with you and would want to make your time online a little more worthwhile by earning some pocket change, do sign up with NeoBux as my referral (click on the button below will do). Thank you and may you earn some decent money with NeoBux!

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Homepages Friends Payment Proof

I promised to show you Homepages Friends payment proof. So here it is, without further ado. Click on the image to enlarge.

Please do not copy my screen shot, the reason why I have put a watermark there. If you want to convince your readers about Homepages Friends, you can link them here or if you do not want to do that, then please get your own screen shot.

If you are new here and have no idea what Homepages Friends is, please refer to my previous posts:
Homepages Friends Redesigned Account Control Panel
Earn money as you search

To join Homepages Friends now and start earning money just by searching and purchasing merchandise online as usual, click on the button below:

Happy Money Making Online. May the God of Prosperity grant us more wealth this Ox year! However, don't forget your health too, it is the most precious wealth. Drive safe.
Happy Chinese New Year 2009.

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Win a Ford Escape just by searching

What is your favorite search engine? Mine is of course, the search-engine giant Google. I bet Google search engine has been doing a wonderful job for most of you too. What could beat a search engine that returns accurate results? Well this can! If you are at least 13 years old and living in the United States, you might want to read on so as not to miss the offer of a lifetime. Do Americans even read this blog? Show me your hands please...

Well apparently, search engine companies earn money by providing search results as well as relevant sponsored links. So, some third-party companies like My Search Funds pay users a percentage of the revenue from sponsored links to search, while others like Blingo reward their users with random prizes when they search.


Blingo claimed that a Ford Escape is up for grabs, and so far a total of 66,491 prizes have been given out! Why is this the best deal? This is because Blingo's result is powered by Google, you don't have to give up your favorite search engine and at the same time, stand a chance to win many fabulous prizes. Another thing worth mentioning is, you don't even need to register your name, nor your email, to be able to use Blingo! Just visit the site, search and provide your mailing information if you happen to strike the jackpot. Sounds nice? Head on to Blingo now!

In case you haven't noticed, this is not an affiliate promotion post, look at the links I provided, there is no affiliate ID. In truth, there is an affiliate system there, that is if a friend that you referred to Blingo wins a prize, you win the same prize too, even if it is a Ford Escape!!! Unfortunately, I could not be an affiliate because I do not live in the US. If indeed you guys manage to win anything there after reading this post, do consider buying me some post cards :D

Don't live in the US and still inexplicably managed to read till here? Fine, I have a surprise for you too. If you happen to have close friends or family members residing in US and have their addresses and personal details handy, you can try your luck in Blingo and surprise your beloved ones with gifts and prizes by entering their details when you win! Think of yearly greeting card sent in a Ford Escape, hehe...

That's all for now. Happy searching and winning. Would like to hear from you if you had won before in Blingo or if you win after reading this post :)

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