What Is Yuwie?

One of the ways you can participate in Yuwie is to either create a club around an interest of yours, or join a club someone else created.

It's best to search to see if there's already a club that matches your interest, rather than creating another one. The more members a club has, the more traffic goes to your profile page and blog (more on those later), and the more you earn.

There are clubs on nearly any topic already, including clubs for states, colleges, and states of mind.

To see what clubs are there, go to Yuwie.com and click on the clubs link across the top.

You can browse through the numerous categories of clubs, see the ones with the most members or the newest ones, or just type a search phrase into the box to locate one on a specific topic.

Oh, and to plug one of my own clubs, search on "Squidoo" to find the Squidoo Lensmaster's club.

Every member at Yuwie.com has their own blog.

As blogs go, it's not much, but it's a place where you can post messages on just about anything you want for others to read. Other members can comment on your messages, just like normal blogs.

You don't get more advanced features, like RSS feeds, since the idea of Yuwie.com is to keep members on the site to view messages, not let them do it from outside the site.

You can write a personal blog, a blog about your business, or whatever you want.

Everyone at Yuwie.com can upload their own photos and videos. Other people can see them and comment on them.

You can group photos by whatever category you want. For example, I have some photos of my daughter grouped into their own category. Photos show up on your profile page.

Videos must be uploaded to a service like YouTube, and then linked to from your Yuwie profile.

So how do you get paid for all this?

Every page on Yuwie.com has advertisements. The site gets paid every time an ad is shown, and shares that ad revenue with its members.

Revenue is shared based on the number of page views you've accumulated. You get a page view when you personally view a page on the site, when one of the people you referred views a page on the site, or when another member views one of your photos, videos, profile, etc.

Note that you don't receive 1 page view for each of your referral's page views, but actually a percentage based on how deep they are in your referral tree. The basic idea, though, is the more referrals you have the more page views you get.

Every month Yuwie.com will calculate how much money they received from advertisers, figure out how much a page view is worth, and then pay the members based on the number of pages views they have for that month.

Then it starts all over again the next month.

Basically, if you're responsible for the page view, either because you did it yourself, someone you referred did it, or you created the content, you get credit for it.

Yuwie.com is still too new to know.

The referral tree goes ten levels deep, so you could eventually have tens of thousands of people generating page views for you. This would certainly add up! The help on Yuwie has an example that shows how you can make $10,000 a month.

The key to making that much is referring three active members who each refer three active members, so on down the line.

In the short-term, don't expect to quit your day job quite yet. Yuwie.com is an income earner for the long-term, as you continue to build up content that attracts other members and continue to refer new members.

Click the banner and signup. It's free, and you can get paid even if you do not live in the United States.

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