Results:

Blogs are one of the easiest ways to earn money online.  As long as they are successful and properly promoted.  As of this moment, I am attempting to not only keep up with this blog but also develop a blog in a different niche.  It has been a very interesting time developing the new website because it is far more professional then the current one so it is taking a longer time.  Once I finish it, I will post the link here.

Overview:

Blogs are a very good way to make income on the internet.  They allow for a user to post about a variety of different topics regardless of their views.  There are many ways to monetize a blog from affiliate advertising to programs such as google AdSense.  Regardless of the method used, blogs that have quality content are bound to make money.

My Experience:

For me I have had a very hard time making this particular blog into a success.  Their are a variety of reasons but the most difficult is that no matter how I advertise/link people, my blog looks like a spam site.  This makes people very cautious of clicking onto a link to this blog and I thank you, random internet user, for actually visiting and reading what I have to say.  Anyways, I decided that I would start a new website while maintaining this one for the fun of it.  There are many steps involved before diving head first into a new website.  Check the strategies for success for a good list of what you should do before opening a new website.  On this new website, I will be able to write a ton of content that interests me greatly and even relates to my major.  I used host gator because I found a good coupon from a friend and was able to get a fairly good deal.  There is a coupon code for 25% off web hosting and just click the link to become a referral of mine.  Also another good website like host gator is called name cheap, check both out before deciding on where to buy from.  Once I bought my websites domain and secured web hosting, I began to write content and set it up how I like it.  In a little while I will complete the rest of this article with a link to my other site and the more personal in depth process I took in creating it.




Strategies for Success:

There are many different ways to earn money on a website.  Four of the most important things a website can have are these:

Built up SEO
Niche your interested in with writeable content
Unique Name
Proper form of monetization

These are extremely vast topics that I can cover in other articles if requested but for now I suggest looking them up (on your money making search engine preferably! If you don't know what I'm talking about look here).


Conclusion:

Blogs are one of the simplest ways to earn money on the internet.  With the right kind of motivation, content, and promotion it is simple to earn a good amount of money.  While I cannot comment on my own success in this are because I am just starting out on a new website.  There are many other examples online of people who stay at home blogging because they are successful enough.

                         
Results:
This website was an interesting mix of features that blended together well.  It focuses on the user earning swag bucks through a variety of tasks such as watching videos, taking surveys, playing games, shopping, and searching the web.  I didn't find anything special about the payouts for survey's, shopping, or watching videos but I did find the searching to be the most useful.  The payout rates aren't fantastic but I was able to earn a total of 200 swag bucks = about $2.00 over my first two days by using their search engine.  While I do not recommend using this site for other offers, the search engine feature allows you to earn money on something that often wouldn't pay.  This makes this a great website for monetizing another facet of your everyday web browsing.

Overview:

Swag Bucks is a very well put together PTC website (paid to click) that offers users a variety of different ways to earn money.  They can browse a variety of interesting videos, even music videos to earn swag bucks.  Users are also able to take surveys and play games to earn extra swag bucks.  The site also offers bonuses to users who earn a certain amount of swag bucks in an allotted time frame.  The rewards are mostly paid out in gift cards but they do have Pay Pal gift cards so it translates to cash very easily.  For each swag buck earned, the dollar value is around $0.01.

My Experience:

As I have reviewed before, NeoBux is a viable option for earning $10+ an hour.  This makes me very cautious of wasting my time doing surveys that pay around $2 an hour.  The site however is very well put together and if you enjoy doing surveys, watching videos, and playing games then you can earn some money on this site.  Personally I found the games to be boring and the only way to win money from them is to enter tournaments.  The survey's were long and tedious much like other survey sites and watching videos takes around 5-10 minutes to earn 2-3 SwagBucks.  For the most part though I used SwagBucks and am still using SwagBucks as a search engine.  It's results come up in the form of Google and while they are not identical, it is still a very convenient search engine.    The toolbar is also a helpful add-on so that instead of having to remain on the site, I am able to earn money constantly while I'm browsing the web.

Strategies for Success:

The most important thing about this website, if your going to follow how I use it, is the search function.  In order to get the most out of the search engine, you need to install the toolbar.  For me and many other users the toolbar slows down your browser so I recommend using the plug-in they provide.  It is very simple to do and the directions are at the bottom of the toolbar page.  It is important to note that SwagBucks do not constantly flow in for ever search you make.  They are awarded 20 at a time throughout the day.  The maximum number you can earn in a day is around 4.  This number isn't substantial but $0.80 a day for searching the web results in $24 a month and $288 a year.

SwagBucks also offers bonuses for a certain amount of swagbucks earned in an allotted time.  About twice a day I would actually go to the website to check how close I was to a bonus.  In most cases I would be a few swagbucks off so a quick survey would earn me 5 or so swagbucks and then an additional 10 swagbucks for completing the needed amount.  If a user earns the bonus ever day for a week straight they earn 25 extra, every day for 2 weeks nets 100, 3 weeks is 200, and a month is 300.  After a month the counter resets.  The total bonus for earning the set amount for a full month straight is 625 swag bucks and thats not counting daily bonuses.  If you were to include the average daily bonus of around 10, the total bonus per month is near 1000 swag bucks or $10.00.  You also make around 100 swag bucks to earn the bonus.  In 30 days without bonus you earn 3000 swag bucks.

If you are willing to put in a few extra minutes a day besides using the search engine plug-in then your total profit is $40 per month.  This is a very worthwhile system because Google pays nothing while swag bucks pays $40 a month.  Pretty great in my opinion.

Conclusion:

This site is a very good site for extra income.  It does not have the benefit of giving users a large amount of money but for a very simple part of everyday internet use it provides money where previously their was no money being earned.  I still have this site as my search engine just because I am able to earn money with no effort.

If you'd like to register for this service and help me out at the same time, just click the swag bucks picture above.

                                 

If you wouldn't mind being my referral, the link is http://www.neobux.com/?rh=4A627269676773

                           
Results:

Slice the pie was a very interesting site to earn money on. In the two hours I worked, I was able to make $14.00. $7.00 an hour is one of the highest pay rates that I've reviewed. Although it does not allow you to work for long periods of time (see overview), this website was still enjoyable because I was able to listen to different artists and discover new kinds of music.

Overview:

Slice the pie is a site that artists use to test out how people respond to their music.  There are many different types of music that are on the site.  Each segment of music runs for 90 seconds, during that time the reviewer is allowed to write comments about the song and at the end of the 90 seconds, they can keep listening or rate it and continue.  This site has nearly no other functions to it beyond the basic work related screen.  This site has been around for many years and claims to have paid out over a million dollars to their workers.

My Experience:

I first signed up for the site and had a ton of difficulty getting it to work.  It's important to note that the site would not work on Firefox but functions perfectly in Chrome.  Once I got it to work the process was fairly simple.  Listen to the song for 90 seconds while writing the review, once it's over give it a rating based on how it sounded and then go onto the next.  The site's base pay is a discouraging $.02 but it goes up with more jobs worked and the bonus for me made the average pay around $0.20.  The music on the site for the most part isn't bad and is entertaining to listen to.  Also when working there is an energy bar, it replenishes as you work and I was able to do about 20-25 jobs before it was empty.  Once it was empty, I just let it replenish and I came back in an hour.  This site only took two days to pay me through Pay Pal and it was actually an enjoyable experience.
Strategies for Success:

Their are a few different strategies that can help you achieve full bonuses.  For the most part, even if you don't know to much about music, use all the music related words you can think of.  These words include: rhythm, melody, pitch, beat, artist, voice, flow, lyrics, volume.  When I used more words such as these I would earn a slightly higher payout.

I was able to crank out a fairly high amount of reviews by using a simple strategy.  In the first ten seconds I wouldn't type at all, just listen and decide whether I was going to write positively or negatively (for most songs its easy to tell).  Then I would type for the next eighty seconds, making it as lengthy as I could, in order to fill up the box.  I was sure to use the music related words throughout the review and then the second I was done I would rate it and go on to the next.  Each review would take me about 95 seconds and earn me $0.20.

Conclusion:

While this site does not pay the best money, it is very enjoyable to do.  I was able to find a variety of new artists in the two hours of work that I enjoy listening to.  The only bad part of the site was its barebones approach because it felt odd without and features besides the work area.  In the end it was an enjoyable time working and listening to new music.  If you'd like an example of what I wrote let me know and if you'd like to sign up and help me out at the same time, just click the rank/energy picture above and you will become one of my referral's.

Results:

In the end the Mechanical Turk was one of the most tedious crowd sourcing marketplaces I have worked with.  In the 3 hours I worked on the website, I was able to make $20.00 and that was primarily because I'm able to type fairly fast.  This is a bad place to spend your time earning money, if crowdsourced objectives are how you want to earn your money then NeoBux is a much more reliable option.

Overview:

The Mechanical Turk is an "artificial artificial intelligence" crowd sourcing marketplace.  It is owned by Amazon and normally has more then 100,000 tasks that can be completed.  Workers are allowed to take tests in order to unlock more specialized tasks such as translating a foreign language or writing a professional sounding article.

My Experience:

My experience with the mechanical turk was alright.  At first I tried by doing as many small tasks as I could.  This was a major mistake, even though I could do 50 $.05 tasks in an hour I was still earning nearly nothing.  Then I tried to just wait for the higher paying jobs that took a little bit longer.  I was able to find a few of them after refreshing and even some surveys that also paid well.  After what felt like quite a long time working for this site, I was eventually able to cash out.  It is a very handy service because the money that I cashed out was transferred to my Amazon account and I was able to make a purchase right away.

Strategies for Success:

Without a doubt, do not go for any task that is less then $.25 because it will not add up to much.  Refresh the page often as it will yield higher paying results.  When you find a high paying result, be fast about accepting it because they will go very quickly.  Do not expect to make a ton of money from this service but rather look at it as a time filler if anything.

Conclusion: