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You may want to look into these legitimate and profitable moneymakers as well. They range from other advertising programs, to social media sites, to sites that pay you for signing up for free offers or surveys!

1) Cash Crate.com - is a site that pays you for completing surveys, signing up for free offers/trials, referring friends and also gives you % rebates for buying through retailers they support (iTunes and WalMart are amongst the 10 plus trusted retailers). Sign up and refer friends, then earn as they complete offers and refer friends. There's plenty of cash to be had!

Sign up for CashCrate here

2) LinkShare.com is a great affiliate program which just about anyone with a blog or website can join. They offer 100's of well-known companies looking for your help in promoting their products! The benefit is you receive commissions based on sales through your links, signups or sometimes even by simple visits from your visitors to a company's website. Apple iTunes, WalMart and Bidz.com are just a few of the companies represented here. There are credit card and mortgage companies, entertainment and food/beverage among many more. No matter what you blog about, you're going to find a great selection of programs with products to show your visitors. You will then profit if visitors head to the company's site and buy products, or even if they just visit the site sometimes! It's a great additional moneymaker besides just Google Adsense!

Join the LinkShare Referral Program for free!

3) DealDotCom - a new website which sells internet marketing tools and resources. Each day the site offers a unique product and it sells until sold out, or the day ends. DealDotCom offers free signups and a great affiliate program where you earn 35% of all 1st level referrals. On top of that, you will earn that commission rate FOREVER, not just a few years. So it pays to signup, and refer friends and others who might be interested.

Signup for DealDotCom here

4) Gather - The basis of this site is you earn points for doing several things including:

- giving and receiving comments
- referring new members to the site
- joining groups

The point system and formula for how points are scored is not presented, however the site is legit. With points accumulated you can cash them in for rewards such as gift certificates to Borders and Home Depot. Any member who can earn 3,000 points within 1 calendar month, may be invited to Gather's cash program and starts to earn money rather than points. Not too shabby just for commenting. If you belong to Myspace think of how many comments you may have left for friends. No incentive, but at Gather there is. The Monetizer has already received one $20 Borders gift card and has a $25 Home Depot card on the way. In addition, Monetizer is trying its best to get into the 3000 club for the cash.

Check out and sign up for Gather here.

5) ShoppingAds - a great 2nd revenue option to add to your blog or website. ShoppingAds displays Ebay auctions on your pages (based upon relevant keywords you supply). The random ads will show on your site and if a visitor goes through and sets up a new account or bids to win an auction, you earn commission! Right now all signups receive $25 in their account to start! Signup is free and everyone gets approved!

Signup for ShoppingAds here


6) Yuwie - A paid form of Myspace. It works on the basis of referring your friends and new members to join for free, as well as them referring others to join and so on..You get 10 levels worth of commission/earnings. The other part of this program involves getting as many page views as possible, which is also helped by getting others to join through you!

Sign up for a free Yuwie account here.

Leave it to monetization master John Chow to discover and unveil yet another great new way to make money online, known as WidgetBucks. After reading Mr. Chow's post, Monetizer decided to head over and sign up for an account just for kicks. Mainly because it looks like it could be something to replace either Auction Ads or Adsense with. However, it probably would not trump Adsense earnings in any sense, unless your site is really about promoting certain products (mp3 players or music, books, dvds, family products, sports items etc).

The way WidgetBucks works is by placing a graphics style banner on your site (various sizes) and then you receive money based on clicks (not sales). Very similar to Adsense. It's yet to be determined if this program is ok to run on your site with Adsense ads, as Google can be quite picky! The minimum payout for WidgetBucks is $50, similar to Auction Ads. Also similar to Auction Ads, they are giving you an automatic $25 in your account to start things off. Payments are done at the end of each month either by a check sent or PayPal deposit.

WidgetBucks gives you about 12 categories to choose ads from, as well as sub-categories in each of those (examples: media, family, sports, video games and cars). If your blog is about Making Money or Financial topics, the product choices seem to be tough to make. However, WidgetBucks does offer an option you can select for it to "crawl" your blog or site, meaning it will match ads to your content. That could be interesting to see :)

There are currently 5 styles of ad size to choose from on WidgetBucks:

Skyscraper 160x600
Rectangle 300x250
Leaderboard 728x90
Full Banner 468x60
Custom 660x330

There's also multiple color schemes to choose from, however white seems to be a base color in each of them (borders and part of the ad is the color you choose, with the background white). Here's an example of the 300x250 rectangle WidgetBucks in basic blue:



If you've been banned from Adsense or not happy with the performance of Auction Ads on your site, WidgetBucks might make for a good alternative money source for your blog or site. It's worth being a member and at least experimenting. Perhaps this might be your brand new meal ticket :)

To get started, head over and signup:
Earn $$$ with WidgetBucks!