September 14 2008
August 23 2008
If from the UK, join up to YouGov from my site www.paid-for-surveys.info, do the prize surveys, if you are lucky, one will take you to a new enterprise by one of the founders of YouGov, a collaborative Film production where as "Stage 2" CoProducers,we get a share of 15% of the NET profits of the project. All for free. Just make sure you do at least 6 out of 12 of the surveys they deem crucial to the production's success. You might even be able to do some acting!
May 17 2008
BLOG paid per post (PPP) and Paid Banner Ads for your websites.
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I have been thinking about these 2 types of opportunity to earn from the Internet.
Being as how comes I already do so (now how about that for good grammar, I had better watch out in case I lose my PPP account for a start!)
What has sunk in is, for a PPP opportunity, you get doshed up for the approved posting, if lucky, if not lucky then it is rejected, and if you cannot alter
it to the advertiser's satisfaction within the 3 days I had for PPP, you get nothing for all your work.
Contrast this with the Matched.co.uk and
BetterThanBanners/Money4Banners sites that pay you for carrying their ad code on your websites (not necessarily Blogs either, in fact, not normally so).
There the initial work may be in setting up a website,if you have not already got one, if you have already got web pages up on the Internet,
then the next step is to apply to have their ads on your site.
I your site is accepted, then in the case of Money4Banners/BetterThanBanners your
site's acceptance means you will be supplied with code to carry on your site.
In the case of Matched.co.uk, you may be accepted, but the next
step for them is to MATCH (hence the name of the domain/site) suitable ads to the theme of your site. This may take a while depending on the type of
merchants ads they have currently active,and the theme of your site.
For Matched, you get paid £3 for every page up to a maximum of 5
pages that each carry their own ad code. Maximum sites accepted=5, so theoretically, that is £75.
I have seen an opportunity on PPP for
$135 (roughly £75 to us Brits), but there was no way most people will be able to use it as it required a Google Rank 6!. It is debatable if a site
with rank 6 will ever stoop so low as to carry a paid blog ad,i would guess as a first approximation.
No matter, the point is, with PPP and
BloggerWave(BW) after 30 days you get your moolah.
After 30 days (or 31 or 28 for Feb,or indeed,if being pedantic, 29 every leap year) you
would also get your dosh from Matched.
The important difference is this.
After another 30 days PPP and BW give you 0 Zilch, Nada,
nothing, minus one plus e raised to the power of the square root of minus one times Pi (should equate to zero, but it is 30 years since I got my second
honours degree in Science including Math(s) so all you young whippersnappers out there can correct me if you want).
Whereas, party of the
second part (just love using that archaic legal phrase) Matched and BTB/M4B will have sent you ANOTHER payment.
Yes that is right, Mathched
would theoretically give you up to £75 a MONTH, every month, until either they, you or their advertiser goes bust and vanishes from the Internet.
Which has not happened so far, but bear that in mind when planning what to do next.
With BTB/M4B the situation is more
complicated, as recently they seem to have done something to revert back from M4B to BTB site, so I cannot recruit using M4B referral links, and I can no
longer log in to that site yet although I can log into the BTB site with the username/password I used to have on M4B, NOBODY ELSE CAN SIGNUP TO THIS OLD
SITE!
I have sent Carol an email asking what to do now. In the meantime I do not get paid for recruiting for them, so do not have their link
here. Nothing to stop you visiting it yourself if you feel like investigating it.
I must point out that 2 days ago I got paid again for my 5
websites with them, so I am not saying they are a scam,or anything like that, just it looks as if they are still needing to sort out problems, possibly
related to the one they alerted to us last month that delayed payment by 1 week in my case.
When they finally get it sorted out, they have the
advantage that, although only paying £5 ($5) for each accepted website (so long as it has their code on at least 3 web pages) as opposed to Matched
that pays £3 per page on a site,up to 5 pages per site allowed= £15 per website, with Matched you can only have 5 sites maximum accepted.
BTB/M4B on the other hand theoretically allow an INFINITE number of websites!
They just have to be a good enough quality, which is
why every time I submit a site, they refuse it for various reasons, mostly lack of quality, once saying a site had objectionable content on it
(www.bigbustbras.co.uk).
If it was because of the large busted models showing their
lingerie, that is the whole bloody point of the site, women are allowed to shop around for their boulder holsters surely, and how can they do that
easily on the Internet if you are not allowed to show the goods??? I asked what it was that they saw that was objectionable, but they could not be
bothered to tell me, so I could not correct the problem. They are not obliged to go into specifics, it says so in their Terms.
Another site that I uncharacteristically put in a lot of hours working on, the beggars said the content was not unique!
(www.runescape-cheats.co.uk!
I am sure my style of writing and subject matter
was more unique that some of my sites they accepted.
No matter,that is their right.I cannot complain,they accepted 5 of my sites, and more
importantly, when I had trouble that lost 3 of my sites hosted by someone else, they supported me in replacing those with other sites, then when finally
I managed to rescue 2 of the sites back, over a year later when the domains came to be freed, I was able to reinstate them without much fuss, and increase
my earnings.
They also allowed me to substitute another similar domain for one that was obtained by someone else in somewhat questionable
circumstances. Funnily enough, the dick-head that now "owns" and hosts the website, still has 2 pages up on their server with my ads and my adsense code
on it!!! Talk about free hosting!(www.websitesediting.com/usefullinks.htm)
Now replaced by www.websitesediting.NET
Any road up! BetterThanBanners/Money4Banners
have been paying me for 2 years now, so I trust them, and hope they sort things out soon, they would be missed if they packed up.
So to
conclude, rather than bung a load of referral links on this page, have a visit to
www.myaffiliatelinks.co.uk
May 9 2008
A word of advice, in this time of financial crisis, try to work for a bank, and get a low cost mortgage for as long as you work for them. I have one at the tracker rate, not tracker rate plus 2% or more, like most have. That is because I work for HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland), and it is part of the perks.
If you ever join up try mentioning me as the reason you joined, then when employed, send an internal email and I will pay you half what I get, after the 6 months they make us wait (they do that in case you skip off after a few days), assuming I do get a fee for helping to recruit you. If interested, send me an email to websitesediting @ hotmail.com with Subject "hbos" and I will let you know of any jobs going, and my name and email address to contact me for your money when the time comes.
No point trying to scam, if you are not on the internal email list, and HR do not confirm that you joined with me as reference, then no deal, no money.
I say that in case any tossers at work (sorry I mean to say, esteemed colleagues), try to pull a fast-one!
April 18 2008
Just been browsing around, saw this "old friend" is still around. Stormpay (http://www.stormpay.com/stormpay/user/about_us.php?view=a see the address is in Clarksville).
Looked up Stormpay scam on Google, saw this bit of information (http://www.web2check.com/about.php?view=about see the address is in Clarksville).
Read this comment from Allen (http://www.weboma.com/is-stormpaycom-a-scam-yes-it-is/)
I advise you to do the same!!!!
I suppose I should say for fairness (more than the fairness Stormpay have shown others to date) that I personally (tautology) had all money I was owed paid to me by cheque (check) whenever I asked for it in the past, but then I had the sense not to pay any of the 12daily style scams for anything using any payment processor or credit card, and I never gave Stormpay any bank details or credit card details.
When they introduced $1 a month deduction for whatever specious reason they came up with at the time, in a sneaky way, I cancelled my account, having only about $1 left, earned from reading their stupid time wasting in-house "paid to read adverts". I only got about $1 a month from the few ads they let me see, and then they intended taking the $1 if I still had it in the account and had not spent it. The first time they did that I resigned. Essentially you were reading their ads for free, while they charged the advertisers (fellow Stormplay customers) a fee for each ad clicked which was supposed to go to us.
I suggest you do not start an account with them if you have not already got an account. If you do start an account, do not supply bank or credit card details. If you do, on your head be it, you have been warned!
March 16 2008
Just been on one of the better affiliate sites, noticed this merchant (as they are called on affiliate sites), a worthy cause. Children In Crisis
The spiel says
"There are 77 million children worldwide who are not able to go to school. Often they are living in severe poverty and can not afford to go to school and many are the innocent victims of civil wars and conflicts. Schools are often destroyed during wars and with few if any trained teachers, there’s no chance for these children to learn the skills they need to find a way out of poverty.
Children in Crisis is working towards ending this injustice by providing an education to children in 9 countries around the world. Our aim is that all children will have the chance to go to school, wherever in the world they are and however poor they might be. Children will always be the most vulnerable members of society; in times of an economic crisis, a political upheaval or a war, they will be the ones who suffer the most. A chance to go to school can provide a safe and secure environment in which to learn and rebuild their lives."
If I was not struggling myself with a wife, 5 kids and a mortgage like a millstone round my neck, drowning me in a sea of debt, I would think about sponsoring a child myself.
The only thing that always worries me is, if I sponsor one of the (soon to be in the future) "mad mullahs" that seem to be springing up everywhere in the name of Islam, will I find out one day that the child whose life I extended beyond their "natural" short lifespan, comes back and bombs the "be-jasus" out of me and mine, while crying out "kill the infidel". Rather like the ungrateful sods that were raised in the North of England, and killed 50+ of their fellow citizens a few years ago, ironically including fellow muslims apparently.
A moral dilema, that I have not solved yet. Perhaps if I get enough from people signing up and doing what I cannot yet, from the link here Children In Crisis, I will be able to use some of the money to sponsor a child once I have settled in my mind, the probabilities that my help will be thrown back, metaphorically speaking, in my/our face(s).
For the purposes of the Charity acts (various) I state that I am not carrying out charity work, or purporting to be a registered charitable organisation, etc.
February 29 2008
Just found out about http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/about.
I was waiting for a petition of mine to be accepted (update 16/3/8, rejected as not being serious! You don't say!!)
The petition was called
Give Phil Dobson some of the billions wasted on non-working NHS computer systems
and says:
My kids could have told you the projects were too complicated to work, it is absolutely disgusting that the people that spent all that time and money on the waste-of-time scheme, are still in their jobs. Their waste of scarce NHS resources, now consigns people going blind or dying of cancer to an early grave, where they could otherwise have been saved by paying for the medicine that "NICE" now say they cannot have.
February 8 2008.
America hit by massive tornados yesterday, 20+ killed. So much for Bush not signing up enthusiastically to the Kyoto agreement to stop this rogue weather due to global warming! If CO2 emmission is to blame, the gas guzzling Yanks are getting their just rewards some may say, especially those prone to outbursts of "kill the infidel"......
That is not the reason for this missive today, just before I go to twork for the glorious HBOS empire.
It is the fact that a year old (11 months) boy was found alive after being thrown 300 meters in the air. His mother was found nearby dead.
Miracle everyone says, yes it was certainly lucky. For once I have not heard the Yanks say "Praise the Lord for this miracle".
Perhaps they are at last realising that if it was God truly performing a miracle, you could take Him to task for killing the mother, and making this innocent kid an orphan.
Where is the miracle in that?
SEZ ME, anyway,
January 30 2008 in the evening
Talking of Guts'n'Gore, just had to take 2.5 days off work to help my wife after our daughter haemoraged (yes, she is up the duff).
That is not what annoys me, but the fact that having got to Bristol's BMH (Bristol Maternity Hospital) at about midnight, by taxi, in some pain and distress, my daughter was told to walk (I kid you not) down the steep hill to the (fortunately) nearby BRI because "we (the BMH) do not have the right facilities to deal with you".
I am not the only one to think this stinks, the BRI staff were angry, and said someone in my daughter's position should not have been made to walk down to the BRI, and this was NOT the first times this sort of thing had happened.
The Government is always saying how many billions more they are pumping into the NHS (presumably to pay Al-Qaeda doctor's wages while they wait to blow us all up, or set fire to us in while we queue in airports, or more subtly, to help spread MRSA and Clostridium Dificile throughout the NHS to "teach us Infidels" a lesson for not believing and following the Islamic faith).
Any road up.
When the government tells us next time how rosy the NHS picture is,we need to all reply:
SEZ YOU
SEZ ME, anyway!January 22 2008.
Doing this while my wife and stepdaughter watch Holby City.
Why is it women seem to like all the "guts&gore"stuff?
If it is not someone giving birth,it is someone else having bits chopped off them, medical program after medical program, ad infinitum.
Still, I suppose they have to put up with men and their ruddy football, cricket, rugby, etc.
Fortunately, I hate them myself, so the missus does not have to put up with it.
December 24 2007, sent the kids to bed after a bath to relax them and calm them down. Don't you just know it is Christmas when you have over-exited kids around?
Now got time to update this site, while watching the TV from the corner of my eye. Who said men cannot multi-task??? Well my missus for one, then the female supervisors and esteemed female colleagues for another, still, they cannot fill dishwashers!!!
Sez me, anyway.
How many of you men out there find that to be more true than not, I wonder. It seems a few at my place of work agree, from casual observation.
Time to watch War of the Worlds,with that Scientologist believing Twat, be back later.
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