The problem with sites that pay you to review things on your blog

January 20, 2008 · Filed Under Gringo observations · Comment 

I make a decent amount of pesos using sites that pay you to do various reviews of varying lengths on your blog. The main one that I use to make all of this money recently changed their name. I don’t want to put the name on here and end up getting penalized by Google for saying their name before I even get a page rank. (It’s kind of like in Harry Potter when no one wants to say Voldemort’s name)

So, the company I am referring to has a new name, that rhymes with “cry-zea” (aka it that must not be named for fear of Google bitchslap).

I have a few problems with “cry-zea” and companies like them.

It can take them up to 30 days to review the opportunity that you took for the cash. If they reject your submission that means that the advertiser just got 30 days worth of free advertising to your audience. And that shit is wrong.

They also seem to have a bunch of assclowns working for them. I can’t tell you how many times I have gotten a rejection notice for not having the tracking image code in my post and then when I go to check it out it is actually there.

Just this past week I got a rejection notice that my blog did not meet the categorical requirements of the advertiser’s requirements in the opportunity. This is an interesting rejection considering only categories that you meet come up as eligible opps for you. I politely responded with this and asked for a better explanation. Their response? They did not feel that the posts of the blog over the past 30 days met the category. The category? Business/entrepreneurism. My blog? Dedicated soley to the pursuit of trying to sell the inventory of a business that I started. If that is not business or entrepreneurism then I don’t know what the hell is.

And since I can only take three opps a day, that 30 day later rejection costs me money that I can’t make up. If there was same-day reviews I would have had the opportunity to make up that money that is now lost.

Now you may be thinking that I am a whiny little gringo. That could be true but I think I have some valid points. At my day job they can’t tell me that they didn’t like my performance on one day 28 days ago and thus they are not paying me for that one day. That would be the same thing as the free advertising I was complaining about.

Sure, I have the option of not using these services, but it’s an easy way to make money online - when they pay you for it instead of screwing you. And it’s a hell of a lot better paying that Associated Content.

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Peso Makin’ Methods Currently In Use

January 13, 2008 · Filed Under peso makin' · Comment 

As I have mentioned before, I do have some other sites that are currently making quite a few pesos each month. However, with the start of this site I have vowed to try out some new peso makin’ avenues.

So, as of now, here are the ways I am trying to make more money online this month.

First across several of my sites I am utilizing the services that send you cash for writing up short little reviews. I think we all know the names of these places and I am not going to write about them as I do not want spanked by the almight Google gods.

I also have several freebie Cafe Press stores that make sales semi-regularly. Whenever I think of something funny or offensive I throw it up on Cafe Press and wait for other sadistic minds to make me some pesos.

AdSense is currently on almost all of the pages, but that is about to change as it just does not perform well on some of them.

I have a CJ account but have yet to make any affiliate money. This is something that I plan on beginning to experiment with more.

There are also some things that I am thinking about doing. I was looking at the BidXL widget from One Year Goal, which is kind of similar to that topspots widget. Something like that might be of interest to me in the future. And private ads is also something of interest.

One million pesos - here I come, but it just my take me a while cause this burro I’m a’riding is a little slow!

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