Do you cook money? Wanna try?

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Thanks. Yeah, I am newbie.
I have started to read and search on this issue a bit more than two weeks ago(today 6 of august, 2008 - for records:) ). I was eager to earn some extra cash for my living - actually I have offline job, and it is enough to pay out bills and have small fun. However, I am on rent flat, no car, and this year I had no opportunity(cash) to visit my parents (2,500km separates us).

Once, just sticking around and while in catching something through Google.com I have got to page that offered payment just for clicking on ads links (advertisements). (Later I learned that it was a technology of marketing called PPC - Pay Per Click)
"Oh, yeah," - I said to myself, - "that is the source for extra cash"
I rushed to register and to start earning CASH :). I filled in the reg form, then I got my login name and password and found myself at their web-page. They offered 10 ads per day and 0.01USD per ad. The payout is 5USD. I tried for couple days. I got about 0.30USD. However, I got my calculator and found out that in one month I can get only 5USD. It sounds good - you pay nothing except for internet connection and electricity. It sounds bad - how much time do you spend for this task? Time is money, and it is valuable more than this earnings. Ok, they have some bonus program. It is when you are attracting more ad clicker (referrals - people who got registered referring to you) to get registered in their site, so you are receiving 10% from activities of your referrals. For me it was something that can not be undertaken. Just search around in internet and you will find a lot of web-sites that indirectly advertising such affiliate programs. (Look at the banners that I have put into this lens :) - I am trying to earn something with MoreNiche.com. You can check for yourself. Nevertheless, I have sign out from that ad clicks.
In my next step I found(heard about) NOCS (find link on your own, I do not want to advertise them). It was a generous company paying 0.20 per completed offer. It works simple, there are about 300 firms who advertise themselves with NOCS. Nocs gives you list of offers with instructions how to complete this offers. After each completion your account increases by 0.20USD. It is up to you how much offers you will complete each day, but 20 per week is obligatory. Again there is bonus program, for each attracted referral - you are paid additional 0.06USD per completed offer, however total price of one offer can not be more than 0.5USD. Additionally you are receiving more payment in case of completing more than 50 offers per week. The payout amount was 50USD. (250 offers to be completed). I was amaised and started to work hard. For next five day I have generated a bit more than 5USD.(about 25 offers completed). At that time my eyes catched some text written just above the offer list - I should maintain my subscribtions with advertisers' sites for 14 days, otherwise they will punish me - punishment means minus 5USD from my account. I got crazy, how should I maintain this contact with that advertisers, I did not keep track of the web-sites I have visited and subscribed.(more time needs to earn cash with them, than they announced. :( )
I just left them: Time is limited source in our lifes, it costs more than their offer.

For this moment I am trying internet marketing and sales commissions. I am working on Moreniche.com projects. For the moment it is about one week(07.august.2008) as I started. Also, Squidoo offers some cash for the traffic, :) and I hope it will generate something. I hope.:) Read further...if you like to learn more.

Well, internet brings a lot of cash to some parties and little or none(me) for other parties. Let's look inside of this system. So, there are individuals who sell products (tangable(like, t-shirts) and intangable(like, web-hosting, web-design)), and there are individuals who promote/generate traffic for sites.
Product sellers bye traffic from traffic generators. Traffic generators employ different methods, and generally it is affiliate programs. The most desired is to be placed in the first page of search results of the search engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn, etc. The simplest way is to attract affiliates who will create DoorWay pages which are placed in free hosting services.
DoorWays are created around one keyword, which is concentrated in the page so that automated search engines will index it as the most reliable source of information. Suppose a web page that is filled up with phrases "make money, silly money, generating money".. This page has no meaning for the user, but search engine does not know it. So that by the time this page will come up at the first (top 10) result page. When user clicks on the link he is redirected to the other source. So, such pages are called DoorWays. It is divided into two categories - black and white. Black - it when user is taken to another source without a prompt. White - it when user gots page full of the links to other pages with a little information about the topic he was searching. In anyway it is not ethical, but the result - generated traffic is obtained.


Tips:
1. Avoid sites that claim large amount of money just for doing simple task (I have seen one hype - Just do one thing and receive 250USD).

2. Avoid sites that claim that doing in average 10-15 tasks (clicks) you will earn 50USD per month, and with referrals upto some large amount of USD.

3. Be SELECTIVE. Many sites are just designed to attract users (traffic) and generate profit, they will never pay you an amount you have earned (it will cost your time only). Just use a calculator: if one site pays 0.01USD per click, and dayly provides 10 ads to you and minimum amount that should be generated is about 30-40USD, how many ads you should click and how many days it will take you to do that?

4. Even if you have subscribed to some pay per click service, do not buy any upgrade options from them - REMEMBER, you are going to earn - not to spend money.

5. Never, and never pay any amount to any service that claims you will earn more with this purchased upgrade. For sure, the owner of that service will earn, not you.

6. There is no easy money at all, niether in real world nor in internet(cyberworld). You have to work hard at any space and be honest.

7. Try to join affiliate programs of the well known and really paying businesses. For the moment I have some (do not kick me for ad) experience with them, although I have started with them just a week ago.
These are: Moreniche.com, Joebucks.com(or MarketHealth.com) and a good resource for russian speakers/readers Bxod.com(I have earned some cents in this resource, and got them into my electronic pursue).
I will continue this list as soon as new oportunities will be discovered. Good Luck.