Cashcrate Revisited – Getting Paid Again
About a month ago I wrote up a review on CashCrate, and followed it up with a payout report a few days later. Well I’m pleased to announce that I was finally able to reach payout again this month. Due to soo many people going on vacation at my full time job, I’ve had to scale back the time for doing alot of these offers so when CashCrate sends me a check next month it won’t be as large. This month will only be about $10.60 so far, bring my CashCrate total to $30.65 so far.
I have to be honest though I wasn’t intending on completing any offers this month due to work load, but as I had received an e-mail from CashCrate notifying me that one of my referrals had reached payout. Thus entitling me to a $3.00 bonus, along with earning 20% of their earnings. So when I logged into my account I already had $5.00+ sitting there without me doing a thing($3.00 bonus + 20% of $10 = $5.00). Well this made it really easy to do a few offers to get that extra $5.00, and whammo here I am with another payout post.
How does CashCrate’s referrals work?
The program has a 2 tier approach meaning you can refer/invite someone, and if your referral receives a referral of their own, you still get paid.
How much do I get paid for each referral?
You earn an additional 20% off of each of your referral’s non-pending earnings.
You also receive an additional 10% of your second level referral’s earnings as well.
You receive $3.00 when your referral reaches $10 (payout).
Is there a limit to referrals?
No, I’ve seen people who report to make over $1000/month from Cashcrate with referrals alone. I unfortunately am not one of those yet. (I can be optimistic right?)
Alright I’ve joined Cashcrate, how can I better chances of offers going through?
If you’ve already joined CashCrate, and you’re looking for good tips on how to get offers to go through I recommend reading Amy Bass’s writeup here. In addition to the tips she posted, I strongly recommend going to the CashCrate forum where other members post about which offers confirmed for earnings. You have a much better chance of earning money quickly if you watch this thread, and look for those exact offers by name.
Note: Now being realistic here, while I enjoy making money online. I don’t want to make money as a result of someone else’s hardship. (this is one reason why you don’t see me pushing Survey Scout or similar programs on my blog). While reading through the CashCrate forums there are many people who complain of getting billed for Trial Offers. This is why I don’t recommend doing the trial offers or products on Cashcrate, unless you fully read the terms & conditions of each offer carefully. For example one of their offers requires a cell phone number that you need to reply back with a pin to activate. If you don’t read the offer carefully a month later you will get billed for a $10 subscription later on if you don’t cancel it. Please be careful when signing up for each of the offers. I personally stick with the 100% free offers which only send spam e-mail to my newly created free Hotmail accounts.
My thanks goes out to the readers who signed up under me, and made money online for both of us! Good Luck & Happy earnings to everyone! If you’re interested in signing up for a free CashCrate account join by clicking on the banner below.
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Yieldbuild to Help Adsense Users Increase Their Earnings
Techcrunch recently posted an article about a new program that is still in beta called YieldBuild. What is it exactly? Its a computer algorithm to “automatically optimize your site’s ad spots with the most profitable combination of ad layout, style, and network”. Also the program isn’t just for Adsense users, but includes people who advertise via Yahoo Publisher Network, and Ebay adContext accounts as well.
How does this relate to me making money online? Basically its the lazy man’s advertising network, and needless to say an idea that I absolutely love. This program itself would give bloggers or other webmasters, who are still new to advertising placements, the ability to monetize their sites better. It also allows webmasters who don’t update their layouts often a little change of scenery in ad placements. The idea is that as your readers get used to your ad placements, your ad revenue goes down as they learn to skip over your ads without reading them anymore. With changing of placements they claim to be able to increase your epm by 50-100%(this percentage based on beta trials at Hubpages).
One concern of mine which I did leave a comment about was the part of faq that states that it takes the YieldBuild algorithm about 100,000 impressions to train it. That is an awful lot of page impressions for many webmasters, especially new ones like mine.
Now whats the catch of this program? I’ll tell you now. “YieldBuild is free to try for 30 days. After 30 days, YieldBuilds share is 3% of impressions. You can stop at any time.” If you are interested in participating in the beta program go ahead, and visit their website YieldBuild.com. Let me know what you think about it if you do use it so we can get some feedback about their product.
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Bye Bye BlogRush – No Hits For You
So after accumulating a bit of credits on Blogrush, and only getting maybe 2 hits in return I’ll be taking down the widget shortly. I even made them a complementary going away present with my 2nd grade MS paint skills.
Here’s the latest word about Blogrush’s update from the Blogrush Blog:
UPDATE: Tuesday, October 16th: We’re experiencing a delay with some minor server issues. We are working on them and will start releasing Phase 2 piece-by-piece very soon. Thanks for your patience.
So long, and thank you for all the fish. (from Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy if you didn’t catch that.)
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Whypark Day Day 30 – Adsense Revenue Slowing Down?
Well I have good news, and bad news about my Whypark trial site. The good news is that I now have about 800 pages indexed, with a little bit of extra traffic trickling in. More traffic means more chances for people to click on some ads, which also happened to be part of the good news.
However the bad news is that the revenue from each click has gone down significantly compared to September. I got worried about that, and checked around to find out that I wasn’t alone. It seems like this month there are many people who are complaining or noticing a substantial drop in Adsense revenue. I have more clicks into this month from the site, but haven’t even hit $1. Has anyone else noticed a decrease in Adsense revenue for this month as well? My sites are all too new to make any determination.
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Whypark Day 19 – Type of Searches I’m Ranked Top In
Its day 19 of the Whypark trial, and I’ve been checking out Google’s webmaster tools to see what type of searches my site ranks in. Also including from Statcounter what type of keywords are showing up to get to my site.
So after 19 days of being indexed
Rank 9: problems filling your car with gas
Rank 10: succession plans private equity
Rank 30: what to do when your girlfriend is broke and needs money
Interesting searches, and I have to note that I’m not sure how they are related to the keywords I put in. I also want to point out that the money that the Adsense revenue shows different keywords from Statcounter.
Rank Search
| #10 | how much money do car dealers make | ||
| #10 | how much should a dealer come off msrp | ||
| #7 | www.how much will it cost | ||
| #8 | talentdrive scam | ||
| #? | promoting your grocery store | ||
| #9 | do i replace the whole toilet | ||
| #? | key to a successful entrepreneurial venture |
Please note that these results are from using articles that are pretty broad. If one were to setup a niche site with targeted keywords, you would definitely do better with the Click Through Rate(CTR) on the ads. I’m not complaining though so far with what little traffic I’ve gotten Its been averaging around 3-4% CTR.
I’m not sure how your parked domain is doing, but if these stats sound better that what your making from sedo/namedrive etc try out Whypark for yourself and see the difference.
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