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Ok, I found the funny scambaiter website that I was telling you guys about - from my very disorganized bookmarks. The story is, the person who received this type of email scam pretended to bite and then turned the situation around enabling him to get $80 from the scammer and publish this very funny story. Read and enjoy =) http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm

I know somebody who has already completed the required 210 points and now waiting for the laptop. He's been waiting for it for about a week now. I'll post it here when he receives it. That is, if he receives it

When buying any item from eBay, always look for the reputation rating of the seller. Buy your items only from highly rated sellers (powersellers). =)

I thought the original poster said that the participant will have to put links into this programs pages and the participant will get paid. You are saying now that the participant will have to put links to this program's website on other pages and then they will get paid. In that case, Iam willing to pay 25 euros to anyone who can put the URL of my website into 1000 other websites (under certain conditions). The SERPs value of this would be enormous for my site and Iam all too willing to pay for it. PM me if you are capable and willing to do this.

These guys are probably just up to the usual mlm/ponzi/ptr type of crap. You join now, you probably don't lose anything. But they get something out of you - a valid email address - soon to be fed to a bad spam milling machine along with thousands upon thousands of other valid email addresses of people interested in "free money". Provided that they collect enough valid email addresses to mail apam to, these guys will make money. Old story.

"... the pay-out is too high ..."That's the point with these GPTs (get paid to ...)They offer to pay you only if you reach a certain payout level.Do the arithmetic: If they pay 0.02 per search and the payoutis say $20, how many searches do you need to do? 1,000! andthey have all these tricks in place so that a lot of your csearchesare not counted. Wait until you are nearing the payout level andsee that you'll almost never get there because of technicalities.Then you realized you've been had. After days and days ofwasting your time.My advice. Don't bother. Concentrate on improving your websitesand placing CPM/CPA ads instead (or AdSense). You'll get real moneyfrom legit sources, guaranteed.

The Nigerian scam has been running for years and st**id as that email sounds, they still manage to fool a lot of people. I belong to a large yahoogroup (10k members) that occasionally receives this type of email. You won't believe the number of people actually replying and asking for more information!I once found a website fighting this scam with another scam. They reply to this email pretending to be interested and naive. Once the scammer believes he's got a potential prey, this group turns the table around and scams the scammer. Ha ha ha. And they post every story of their exploits online. Very funny site. Good stories. I just can't find a link to it right now. I'll post it later once I find the link.

You put 1000 links to a page you create that they host. They pay you 25 euros for your effort. It doesn't make sense. How do they earn the money from this? The business model is not logical at all. Can someone explain where on earth can they derive the revenue needed to pay out the members and still profit. On AdSense, its easy guys.If you have a good website with good traffic, you can profit from very little work. Of course, if you don't have a good website and you don't have a lot of traffic, then there's a lot of work to be done. The work on AdSense is simply improving your site and traffic (and your ad conversion). The AdSense revenue comes automatically from this. If you are dedicated in improving your website anyway, then the AdSense revenue is a bonus.But I still dont get that Dutch site's logic ...

The GoogleCash system has been around since Google AdWords started. I must admit, it is a very straight-forward system and a lot of affiliate marketers had made, maybe still making, a killing out of it.But times have changed. Its no longer as easy to pull customers in to click on your affiliate link as it was 3 or 4 years ago. And it is also no longer as cheap as it was back then when good keywords can be had for 5 cents per click. Today, competetive keywords are like $2, $3, even $5 per click so getting a good ROI via the GoogleCash method is harder than ever.Google recently announced and has already implemented a structural change in AdWords that is making the GoogleCash method even harder to implement, if not making it obsolete. I can tell you the details if your interested in hearing them. But my take on the GoogleCash method - it was good while it lasted, but now I guess its time to move on and time to invent a new scheme of making money online.

Hello PHPtech,I think what you are looking for is a company that will put ads on your site and pay you per each corresponding page view. Am I right?If this is it, then here is my answer.There are a lot of ad networks that you can apply to that provide these ads and pay you for it. The system is usually structured around CPM (cost per thousand) - meaning you will be paid a certain amount per each 1000 times their ad is shown on your website. The amount, or CPM rate, varies wildly. Depends on what your website theme is, the amount of your traffic, where your visitors come from, and even your visitor demographics (sex, age, credit card holder or not, etc.). In my case, I have a site devoted to mostly to non-US based visitors and the best rate that I have found for it was $0.15 per CPM (hardly encouraging). If your traffic is mostly, young men based in the US, I guess you can do better than me. Some of my webmaster acquaintances are reporting CPM rates as high as $2-3. You just need a good website, plenty of traffic, and a good paying theme (like loans for example), to play it big.Some ad networks are very picky. 3k pageviews monthly is the minimum I guess. And they won't let you put the banners on just any page. Some will only put the banners on the main entry page. And also, read the fine print. CPM may mean either raw impressions or unique impressions depending on the ad network. Makes a heck of a difference in pageview count.Try these ad networks for starters:1. clickxchange.com2. fastclick.com3. tribalfusion.comHope this info helps.

Yeah cumar, you need to elaborate on this offer before anyone here takes you seriously. We can't participate in something if we do not know what it is and how it works. Some more information please.

You are all right, HYIP is very risky.Yet, Iam a player. Why did I get into this? For one, its obviously a money game. You play your cards right and you have a good chance of winning. A friend of mine (this is a true story) introduced me to this win-some-or-lose all online thing. He's an online MLM expert and made some serious money in it. When I learned he's quitting MLM and asked him why, he didn't answer. Instead, he pulled his table drawer open and showed me a photocopy of a check he had recently cashed in. $15, +++ dollars is written on it. I was skeptical of course, so he told me he'll show me another check, before he cashes it, when it arrives a few weeks later. He did. Same thing $15, +++ dollars. So I did what is probably the most reasonable thing to do. I asked him how to play the game. And boy it was risky! It turned out, every month, he would spend 3-4k betting on several start-up HYIPs, spreading his money across 3 or 4 or 5 sometimes 6 new ponzis and hope that at least 1 of them gets him a big pay-off. It usually does. But he has a formula to go by. Nothing complicated but would require some experience to fully understand.I've been playing since then. Not with 3-4k, oh no sir, Iam too scaredy-cat to do that, but with $100-200 monthly. Sometimes I get a good profit, sometimes I lose it all. And since Iam not brave enough to up my bets, I guess I will never achieve what my friend did.Lesson. Its like a casino. The odds are against you, but sometimes, you get lucky. And if you want to make a living out of it, you need balls-of-steel.So far my friend's still at it. And oh yes, no9t9, when Evo-Cash (a rogue payment processor like E-gold) closed down late last year, my friend lost almost 10k of his funds deposited there. It's really a scary business to be in.Hope this post helps you guys.

There is no doubt that AdSense is the best PPC program for publishers out there. Iam all praises, but since last year, I've been kinda disturbed by the fact that they are now allowing "bad" websites into the program.Google used to be very selective in accepting sites into AdSense. The site must have some quality content, good layout and good overall design. But now, we see a proliferation of low-quality sites, bogus directories, and even no value script base scrapers. Maybe it has something to do with the impending entry of Yahoo! and Microsoft into the contextual advertising business that is causing all this. But if Google does not start to clean up its act, the whole market will suffer.To you guys who would like to get into AdSense, now is the time to apply. If you are hesitating because you feel your site is still too shabby, don't. Just apply. Your sites may even be a work of art compared to the worse ones getting accepted into AdSense left and right. It wasn't like this years ago when I had to redesign my sites just to get accepted - and Iam a professional designer.Good money in it. If your site gets at least 200 unique visitors per day and your site's theme is competetive enough, expect to get at least 3 figures monthly.

No, Flash files (.swf) can be easily reverse engineered to extract all of its component parts - graphics, text, even the actual Action scripts used.

Hey Shakal, which part of thablkpanda's post did you not believe. All of his points sounds pretty basic to me. I find it odd that someone will contest those points.

Way to go Adrian!Just keep on improving your site, put more and more content and you will see your revenue increasing every month. Some independent webmasters are receiving 5 figure checks from AdSense alone. Surely a great incentive for us to take our webmastering skills to higher level

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I just visited yesadvertising.comFrom where Iam based their rates are pretty low - 5c per CPM.Id rather not put banners if the rate is that low. Like Iam going to earn $1.50 a month at my current traffic - nevermind.I was just accepted in clickXchange (http://www.clickxchange.com/) and found CPM rates at 15c. If you live in the US and the UK there are CPM rates there of $1 and more.

Here are a few suggestions: 1. Scour the web for sites similar to your own in theme and target audience (could be a competitor or not) and email the webmaster if he/she is up to for some link exchanges. If your site is not so good, expect approximately around 80-90% rejection/no response rate so you wouldn't get disappointed - that's pretty standard. If your site is good or has a lot of potential, expect the acceptance rate to be very good. 2. Join market link exchanges. Here is one Iam currently using http://www.linkmarket.com/ The service is free. You register with them. They put your site in their directory (good publicity in itself) to be viewed by other webmasters. And if a webmaster likes your site, he can initiated and negotiate a link exchange with you. Likewise, you too can initiate a link exchange deal with other member sites you like. You can approve or disapprove a link request as you see fit. My personal experience with them: I receive on average about 2-3 link request per day. I reject about 95% of them though because they come from off topic websites. If you need traffic. This is one of the best free way to generate traffic. 3. SEO your way to the top of search engines. 85% of web traffic is driven by search engines. If you can manage to get your site listed and ranked high in search engine results on related keyword searches, you've hit traffic goldmine. Its easier said than done though. Ranking on the first page of Google is somewhat the holy grail of webmastering today. Learn how to do SEO and improve your Google PageRank. 4. Pay for traffic. But don't fall for those 10k hits for $20 scams all over the place. This is not what I mean. PPC, paid directory submissions, paid links etc. I have never explored this avenue yet because Iam not willingbto pay for traffic but I heard that if done right, they can be very effective - specially PPC. 5. Join banner exchanges - similar to link exchanges but less work on your part. All you have to do is join a banner exchange operation, give them a banner that links to your site and agree to put the program's banner code in to your pages. Usually, you get a 2 to 1 deal here - meaning for every 2 banner impressions shown in your website, your banner gets displayed once on other member's websites. Don't rely too much on these services however. Banners are not that popular anymore and clickthroughs are usually very low (less than 1%). Its good though if you are trying to build a BRAND (as in Amazon.com = books). Over time, lots of banner exposure is good for your site's branding.

Its very easy to get money into these systems (egold, intgold, ebullion) but very hard to get them out. There is an identity verification procedure in place but its very tedious and cumbersome so no wonder many people do not bother to get verified.These payment/money-transfer systems are mostly used by MLM and MLM type businesses to pay their members because PayPal have a policy that wouldn't allow them to service these "shady" operations. But I personally know of a lot of people who have been using these systems and not having trouble with them. You should be very careful in case you would like to try them out. Read and understand the fine print before committing your money with them.I personally have experience with another payment processor - StormPay. Since from where Iam located, PayPal in not an option so I really do not have a choice. Overall, StormPay is fine. Although its still kinda hard to get your money out, at least there is some measure of security in it. But the fees are very, very high and may not be worth it in most cases.

I didn't have any email list before I started. What I did was search for YahooGroups with similar sounding names or descriptions and I just email the group owner/mod.FastClick just rejected my site just yesterday. Yeah, I though it was too premature to even apply at this stage. Guess I have to wait until Iam getting 10k pageviews per day or something. Maybe about 100 or more pages of content will help too Thanks for pointing me to Tribal Fusion and BurstMedia. Just to be sure, I won't apply until my site is ready.

Sometimes it just amazes me when I hear about some of the weird stuff being sold at a premium prize at eBay - used gum chewed by a celebrity anyone?They make money on these phones by buying wholesale and selling retail. You can get all sorts of deal if you are willing to invest some cash and buy any item in bulk. Most merchants will give you like 30% off + 5 items free if you buy say 100 units in one go. Then its up to you to sell these items one at a time. And if you are capable of selling them, you get a hefty profit. Lot of work though, at least for me.

no9t9,My site is an alumni community site with a forum and not just a forum site. I offer them email services and other communication tools. I did an initial info campaign drive on YahooGroups to inform some members of the community about the existence of the website and since then the word is rapidly spreading via email-forwarding-word-of-mouth route. Viral marketing. No expenses. I reckon if I could just get a couple of thousand members on board, I'll get a little steady stream of revenue from AdSense and CPM ads going. I don't expect to earn anything until then.

Hi eskick,That's the whole idea with eBay - buy low, sell high. It could also help if you can add more creative twist to this basic idea. Most people I know who does eBay doesn't sell usual commodities. They hunt around for hard-to-find stuffs, antiques, collectibles and buy them by the lot if possible. I have an Australian acquaintance who go to Indonesia on a monthly basis to hunt for exotic items and sell them on eBay for more than 1000% profit margin.

How much does AdHearUs pays?There is no straight answer to this because as was said earlier, they pay on clicks and by how much depends on what the advertiser bid for that click. But let's make some analogy:If you run Google AdSense, the minimum bid for an advertiser is 5c per click. If the niche is a competetive niche the bids will definitely be higher. Google pays its publishers a good portion of this bid price. AdHearUs is a direct competitor of AdSense. It doesn't have Google's popularity and reach so in order to compete, their ad price must be much lower. In turn, publishers get less for each click because there isn't as much money to share as in Google. Since AdHearUs is not as popular as Google, their ad inventory is definitely far lower than AdSense's. This will mean that if your website is in a not too popular niche or category, chances are, AdHearUs will not always have an ad that will match your site. This in turn will bring your conversion down (and your earnings) because either the ads will be free ads (public service ads) or the ads will not be targetted.