Do Not Depend on Google Adsense

The simple answer to, "Will Google Adsense make me rich?" is NO. However, I think of it as a way to get extra money. This blog will explain why Google Adsense alone will not make you rich and will offer some ideas for other ways to make money on your blog.

Why Google Adsense alone will not make you rich
Let's look at this through a logical perspective.  Lets say that you make about $3 for your 1,000 hits per day. That means that if you get 40,000 hits per day (which is huge traffic), you will receive a measly $120 per day. The only way to make a significant amount of money off of Adsense is to cheat it, but you should not do that (read Why You Shouldn't Cheat Adsense)

What is the solution?
The obvious solution to this is that Google Adsense should not be your only source of money. There are other ways to make money from your blog. For example, I put banners for some of the websites that I discuss, and you become my referral if you click on the banner and sign up (so make sure to click on my banners if you want to sign up for any of the websites). You could also sell eBooks, which I have heard are effective and absolutely free to make; however, I have not tried it yet (but I am working on it).

Why You Shouldn't Cheat Adsense

If you got an adsense account intending to cheat google, I will tell you this: DO NOT DO IT. When I say you should not do it, trust me. If you're even thinking of cheating Google, you are probably a lot less experienced at this type of stuff than I am. Here are the three main reasons why it is a bad idea to cheat google.

1. Google Will Catch You. Google has bots trained to catch you. The bots will find you, and they will disable your account. If you even just have some suspicious activity, Google will probably disable your account. Google catches over 99% of people who try to cheat Google before they make their first $100. A large amount of their profits comes from Adwords/Adsense advertisers. Google cares if you try to cheat them because click fraud makes them less trustworthy
2. It is Morally Wrong. Cheating is stealing. You are not only stealing from Google but also from Adwords publishers (the people who put their ads on your blog/website).Why would steal money from Google and Adwords publishers if you wouldn't steal a car (I sure hope that your moral compass does tell you not to steal a car)? You may not get arrested for cheating Google adsense, but you shouldn't do it anyways?
3. It is Too Difficult and Would Take Too Much Time. Even if you somehow do find a way to successfully cheat Google, it would probably be too difficult and take too much time. It is extremely difficult to steal from a business as big as Google. It would take too much time to figure out how to do it, and it would probably take even more time to maintain than people legitimately clicking on your ads.Why would you cheat Google if it would be much easier to make money without cheating Google?

Swagbucks

I just found Swagbucks a few days ago, and I'm pretty sure that it is not a scam (I'll tell you if I figure out whether or not it is a scam). I am not completely sure because I have only started using Swagbucks a few days ago. Swagbucks is free, and you can make money on the site every day. I have already earned over 100 points, but it takes a few thousand points to get anything good from Swagbucks. You get paid to use their search engine, which has most of the same results as Google. You get paid in 'swagbucks', and you can use your swagbucks to redeem prizes. If you want to make even more swagbucks, you can do some paid offers.

Here are some ways to earn swagbucks:

1. Use swagbucks to search the web: Instead of using Google, I now almost always use swagbucks. When you use Swagbucks as a search engine, it randomly gives you swagbucks. However, don't just type in gibberish and don't do a lot of random searches in a row because they will give you significantly fewer swagbucks if you do that.
2. Install the Swagbucks toolbar: You can win swagbucks just for downloading the toolbar, and you get a few swagbucks a day just for having the toolbar.
3. Invite Friends: The referral program is simple. For every swagbuck that your referral wins searching the web, you win a swagbuck. However, you can only win up to 1,000 swagbucks per referral.
4. Do the daily pole: If you do the daily pole on the day it becomes available, you earn an extra swagbuck.
5. Do your shopping at Swagbucks: They probably have what you're looking for, and you earn extra swagbucks if you shop through them.
6. Do the surveys: You can get over 100 points to complete a survey; however, I have not yet qualified for any surveys.

Click Here to Sign Up at Swagbucks

How to Make a Website Known

How do I make my website known? This is a common question because without viewers, you will not make money on that website. Many people attempt to answer this question, but their advice is usually unhelpful. They usually say something like "If you want to make your website known, submit it to search engines" or "you need to use pay per click advertisements if you want to bring in a lot of traffic". The reason for these bad answers is because they are answering the wrong question. They should not be explaining how to make a website known but rather how to make a website popular.

To make your website truly known, you need to make it impressive so that they will come back to your website and also tell friends about it. I'll make a comparison. In school, there is always that popular kid even though everyone knows each other. That means that you don't need to be known to make yourself popular.

We see repetition every day, but our minds do not usually remember these repetitive patterns. This is because our minds are only trained to note and remember something odd or different. Therefore, in order to make your website impressive, you have to make it different in a good way.

Hits4Pay

Hits4Pay is not a scam, nor is it a get-rich-quick scheme. Hits4Pay pays people to view each email advertisement for a minute for $0.02. You can't make that much money off of it because you only get a few emails per day (0-10 emails per day). One good thing about Hits4Pay is that it gives you $10 to start with. You can cash out once you reach $25.

Hits4Pay has a two-level referral program. You get $0.01 for each email advertisement that your direct referrals view. You also get $0.01 for each email advertisement that your referrals' referrals view.

Click Here to sign up for Hits4Pay

Moola

Moola.com is a safe website where you can play games to make money. It is not a scam; however, it requires a huge amount of luck to make a lot of money off of it.

How it works:
Moola is a game site where each new member is given $0.01, and you play games. You are put up against another player on moola. If you win the game, you double your money. If you lose the game, you go back to $0.01. That means that if you win 30 times in a row, you get over $10,000,000 ($10,737,418.24 to be exact). You can cash out when you reach the $10 minimum balance. This seems great, but it really is not as good as it seems. First of all, the odds of winning 30 times in a row are less than 1 in 1,000,000,000. Also, you have to win 7 times in a row (the odds of that are 1 in 128) just to get above $1. You need an invitation to sign up for moola, so just click the link for an invite.
Click Here for an invitation to moola

How moola makes money:
Moola is advertising supported. You have to watch a video advertisement before every game that you play. You can skip advertisements, but you have to pay moola every time you skip an advertisement. So, moola basically makes money by paying you to watch advertisements. They must make quite a bit of money off of this because technically they only have to pay about $0.005 for every advertisement watched. How I figured this out: two people watch an ad to play a game against each other. The winner takes all of the loser's money. Moola pays the loser a penny to play again. Therefore, moola only has to pay about $0.005 for each ad watched, while they make far more than $0.005 per ad watched from their advertisers.

Moola's Referral System:
Moola has a multi-tier referral program. You get 4% of what your referrals earn. You then get 3% of what their referrals earn and so on until the fourth level.

Judging Whether or Not it is a Scam

Is it a scam? This is one of the most commonly asked questions when one visits a website that offers money. People want to know whether or not they will be scammed before they try out a website. Nobody wants to be scammed or to get a virus.

There are a few ways to find out whether a website is a scam or not. The first and simplest way is to type in google or another search engine, "is ____ a scam" and then to look at a few articles that discuss it. If all of the websites that you look at say that it is not a scam, it is probably not a scam. If two or more of the websites that you look at say that it is a scam, it is probably  scam.

However, the first way is not completely reliable. Sometimes the top few google searches say that a website is not a scam because these people in particular have not had any problems with the website. That website could still be a scam. The second way involves more thought and reasoning. Everybody wants to make money, including the makers of the websites. You have to ask yourself, "How are the people who run the website making money?" If you cannot find an answer, the website is probably a scam. Also, if the website seems too good to be true, it probably is. Very rarely do you find a website where you have to do almost nothing to make a lot of money. You have to put in some work. If a website asks you to complete surveys for a large amount of money, there is over a 99% chance that the website is a scam. Websites such as Cashcrate that pay a little money to complete offers and take surveys are safe.

If you have to give your address when you sign up for a website, you need to make sure that the website is safe.