Hubpages

Hubpages is another of my latest 'tricks' on how to earn money online; this time I'm actually doing pretty well.

Like Squidoo, Hubpages allows you to create articles and earn revenue from them - the cool thing about Hubpages is that it allows you to link your own Adsense account to Hubpages and therefore you gain a share of the Adsense income - as you build up referrals etc you then get a percentage of their income too.

Out of all the writing sites it's probably the one that you're most likely to make a decent income.

For more information read the following 'hubs':
My guide to creating a decent Hub on Hubpages
My ideas on how to make money on the web
The current best hubs on Hubpages - a great place to find out what it takes to create a great hub

Global Warming - fact or fiction?

If you've seen Al Gore's documentary you're probably left in no doubt that Global Warming is real. Every day there's a new news article proclaiming proof of the inevitable demise of the World as we know it, with flooding, hurricanes to name but a few...

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Renting v Buying Music

Currently there are several methods of obtaining digital music from the web.

A la carte - the most popular method is to purchase songs 'a la carte' - essentially paying for each individual song.
Subscription - pay a fee for the month and download as...

**UPDATE**

I've really been working hard to make Squidoo work - and it looks like it will pay off soon. I've got a couple of Lenses in the top 20,000 which means they'll earn a couple of dollars a month - one of my Lenses is in the top 2,000 - so this will earn about $12 a month. In addition, as I promote them more, there's a potential to earn more through the 'affiliates' that I have added.

Sign up here

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Here are some examples of my best Lenses - the ones that will earn me money...


-My Global Warming Lens - a useful technique I found it to use a 'duel' module - thus you'll get people 'arguing' on your Lens and get more visits - this Lens is my best so far and will earn $12 a month.

-Add widgets to a Lens or Blog - this is another successful Lens as it shows other people how to add cool 'widgets' to their Lens - the same process can be used on other blogs too.

-Amateur Poetry - is my most successful Lens which doesn't have a duel module - I constantly update it and this goes a long way to getting additional traffic.


Let me know what you think....I'm just off to promote it and tour the site....

Earning from searching.

**Update**

Unfortunately, while this has been working, the terms have changed. Due to 'fraud' they have stopped using this for users in the USA - the countries it still works in are:
United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy ,Spain ,Australia ,Thailand ,Singapore ,Indonesia ,Philippines ,Vietnam ,Malaysia , Canada

**Update**

OK this seems to work - I've done 13 legitimate searches (including one where I spelt the URL incorrectly and the search engine automatically came up) and I've earned 0.22 pounds or about $0.40. I'm going to do all my searching on here - get to the 20 GBP minimum and see if they actually pay though paypal!

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OK this is a new one for me. With the advent of Internet Explorer 7 you arfe able to use different default search engines.

This program lets you earn as you search. You can:
-change your home page to this search enging.
-change the search 'box' on the top of IE7 to this search engine.

So far it seems good - I have used it to search for quite a few things and get decent results. I'm not sure if there is 'spyware' included, but it doesn't seem to have any so far.

Try it out, sign up here.

You can make about $30 a month (or more if you can get all your friends to use it too) and the payment is into Paypal so it's an international program.

Seems easy to use and requires no effort - just don't forget to do all your searching with it! Good Luck

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees 2009

If like me, you think that there are many bands who should be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame, the click the link below and vote for the band you think most deserves to be in:

Rock Hall survey

So what has this got to do with making money on the web? Well the site I used 'Squidoo' is a new an interesting site that allows you to blog but then takes a lot of the hassle of trying to add 'adsense', ebay affiliations, amazon affiliations etc to the site. It provides a neat and nice looking site that requires little knowledge of HTML etc. It's worth trying....join here. or click on my 'survey' above for an example of a Squidoo site. (Click on my profile in Squidoo for all my sites).

Squidoo

**UPDATE**

I must admit that this site is fun. It's very easy to setup a 'blog' and does all the hard work of adding sale items and Google ads. It is pretty easy to make a nice looking blog, and you also potentially can earn a lot of money on here.

So far I haven't had many hits so I don't expect much revenue for a while - but hopefully as I build my 'Lens' they'll become more popular and ultimately earn some revenue.

So far I have three 'Lens' sites - see below - please click on them as I need feedback on the content and general format.

Thanks


Sign up here

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OK this is a new one for me. It's like a blog, but it allows you to add 'ebay' links, amazon products etc without having to sign up for their affiliate programs. You also get to share in the entire sites Adsense revenues.

I guess it saves a lot of work, and although they take 50% (including a 5% charity donation) of your revenue, it does save a lot of work and time and also produces a very professional looking page. I've create a 'lens' with one entry - I will update any stats as I go, but take a look by clicking below:

-My Movie review 'Lens'
-A survey on which bands should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. If you're going to click any, click this one please.!!!!!
-A 'Lens' dedicated to PC Role Playing Games

Let me know what you think....I'm just off to promote it and tour the site....

Linkreferral

**Final Update**

So was it worth $50? Well so far I've earned 0.15c in a week so at this rate I'll get my money back in about 6 years. However, saying that - I have received about 14 reviews on my site and had some very good feedback - so much so that I actually amended my site several times.

So it's a subjective 'value' - in terms of revenue building, there isn't much, but in terms of positive feedback it's priceless....so I'm happy with my $50 investment....




**Bigger Update**

OK so I went for it - for a one of $50 payment I felt it was worth it. Here's my reasoning:
-I get some useful 'reviews' on other share programs.
-I hope to get some useful reviews and tips for my own site - so far only one review but this should build over time.
-I will get $0.15 for each 'free ' referral - go on join up - you can earn the same too - so I hope to recover the $50 eventually!
-Most of the sites seem to be blogs, so it's a great way for me to 'network' as I can add comments to these sites, and also review these sites - should be able to increase traffic a lot.

Time will tell if the $50 was worth it....

**SLIGHT UPDATE**

The benefit of referring other people to your site (as a 'free' member) is that you will be featured 'prominently' on their front page when they log on etc. Not a huge benefit, but as referrals build up (5 levels) then the potential of more traffic is great.

There are more benefits for a paid member (including referral bonuses (0.10c per referral, and a proportion of paid members - it's a one off $50 charge - I'm not sure whether I will join yet!

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Eureka - I think I've found a decent site!

A lot of the 'click share' programs I've joined don't really send you decent traffic - essentially, there's a bunch of site owners clicking through sites to get clicks to their own site.

Linkreferral is a little different - the main difference is that to get the full benefit out of the site, you acutally review 5 sites a day - this means that you'll actually read the site and find out useful and fun stuff - the quality of sites and diversity is pretty good.

Each day you have to visit 30 sites, review 5 sites, add one site as a favorite and enter one forum entry. This makes the site far more interactive, and makes you actually look at the sites, rather than just waiting for a timer to count down.

As a member you can begin to earn from referalls etc - I'm not quite sure the benefit of referring users when you're a free member but will update this as I use the site....

To join click the button here.