Thursday, 28 February 2008

Now for the income...

Okay, so by now you have signed up with at least ten Traffic Exchange programs and you are surfing daily and building up your credits. But what do you advertise? HOW do you get that income that people talk about?

Well, to begin with, I am going to start with PTC/PTR's.

PTC or Paid To Click and PTR or Paid To Read, are programs that do exactly what they say. They pay you to either click on a link or banner or pay you to read emails. The amount you get varies greatly, but a good figure to keep in mind is $0.01 per click or email.

Doesn't sound much does it? Well, no. Unless you have referrals. This is where your income is. Without referrals, your income will be very limited. With referrals your income will be almost limitless!

So what programs do I suggest you join?

The first program is called Strawberry Clicks. They pay between $0.0025 and $0.01 for each link clicked. This is an excellent program to begin with. They have over 100 links available for you to click daily, so you can straight away see that it is possible to reach the minimum payout of $9.99 within two weeks without any referrals. Now imagine if you had lots of referrals under you!

Not only this, but they also pay 100% referral earnings. With just one referral, this will double your money.

Once you have signed up with Strawberry Clicks, the best thing to do would be to get your referral link and insert this into each of your Traffic Exchanges and assign all the credits you have available to it. This will then begin advertising your site. You can then return to Strawberry Clicks and get Paid To Click!

Remember though, you will still need to surf those Traffic Exchanges to enable your referral link to be seen!

Monday, 25 February 2008

Build up your traffic

To begin with, you are going to need traffic.

As it can take some time for free members to build up traffic in the various programs, it is a good idea to start building up traffic before concentrating on anything else.

So what do I suggest?

Affiliate Funnel. This program lists Traffic Exchanges and Safelists and is very popular as the rankings are defined by the ratings of surfers so it is an accurate representation of which Traffic Exchanges and Safelists are the best to join.

Together with this, you can also enter your referral links all in one place so that you only need to advertise one link which is very helpful for free members. Otherwise you would have to rotate all your referral links which can be both confusing and time consuming.


In the beginning there was a funnel...

To begin with, sign up with Affiliate Funnel. When you are logged in, click on the Traffic Exchange link at the top of the page. This will show the current rankings of the top 50+ Traffic Exchanges.

My personal advice, and probably everyone else's too, is to sign up for the top ten Traffic Exchanges at the start. This is to ease you into the Traffic Exchange world which can be quite intimidating if you are new to this.

As you sign up for each Traffic Exchange, remember to put your referral link in the box shown. At the bottom of the Traffic Exchange ranking page, you will be able to save your referral link information and your voting. Obviously, there is no need to vote before you have had a chance to look at the program!

Now, the reason for using this program becomes obvious. Everytime someone signs up under you, they will sign up for the Traffic Exchanges and you will gain a referral. So potentially, you could receive 1 referral in every program on the ranking list for each referral. Good, eh? Well, yes and no. There will be lots of people already using Affiliate Funnel. These people will have already been using Traffic Exchanges that are in the list.

But do not lose hope! Remember;

There will always be a regular stream of new potential referrals (you're one!)

So far, you should be signed up to at least ten Traffic Exchanges, and the Affiliate Funnel. What you want to do, is put your Affiliate Funnel referral link into these Traffic Exchanges so that they will be seen by other members.

It is a good idea to begin thinking about organisation. Firstly, ensure that your links are organised. If they are all over the place, or too hard to get to then you will be losing a lot of time.

If you use more than one computer, or you have dual operating systems, then it would be a good idea to download and use the Firefox browser. This is the easiest to use and very powerful. Once you have the browser installed, there are a couple of plugins that you can install which will make your life easier. Don't worry, they are easy to install.

NoScripts

This will allow you to choose which scripts you want running and which you don't while you are using the internet. Basically, you will have a little icon in the bottom right hand corner with a blue S on it and possibly a red circle with a line through it on top. If you click on this, you can allow certain scripts to run.

When you are using the Traffic Exchanges, you MUST allow them to run scripts - these are easy to tell, they will most likely be bold in the list and the same name as the website you are on. The timers on Traffic Exchanges will not work without being allowed to run their script. Also, if there are any scripts in the list such as AdSense or google-analytics, allow these. Basically, this is just courtesy. You wouldn't want someone viewing your website and you not to earn from the advertising you have on your page, so don't block them with other sites.


FoxMarks

This is an online bookmark manager. Your links are saved online, so if you have FoxMarks installed on Firefox on two different computers or operating systems, you will always have the same links available to you. This is also useful if you have to re-install anything by saving you from trying to remember all your links. FoxMarks automatically updates the links as you add and remove them, so once installed, just forget about it.

These two scripts (and there are many, many more) are free from the Mozilla website.


Time passes...

And very quickly! So organise your time so that you are able to surf all of your Traffic Exchanges everyday. The more regularly you surf, the more credits you will earn and increase your chances of getting bonus credits. I cannot stress this enough;

* Regular Surfing is a MUST

How long you spend, or how much you surf is entirely up to you. Obviously, the more time you have available, the quicker you will see things working. Try not to get dis-heartened. Remember;

* There will always be a regular stream of new potential referrals

This will be hard work. To begin with, you will be surfing for days and days and not seeing any response. Don't worry. They will come and with each new referral, it makes your life a little easier. Why? Because when you get a referral in a Traffic Exchange, you will earn a percentage of their surfing credits yourself. Once your numbers start increasing, you will find that you have more credits available to advertise Affiliate Funnel. This will allow you to concentrate on forwarding your plan and earning money AND will get you even more referrals.

This is what is referred to as 'viral' traffic. It is traffic that you are receiving without having to do anything and is the same idea behind building an income online. Imagine having a 'viral' income!

Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Below is an important update from Commercial Earnings. Just to give you the upstart of it, Commercial Earnings is now closed and no further business can be made with them.

At the bottom is a link which will allow you to apply for a refund of any upgrade that you have paid if you are at a loss in earnings.

It is such a shame that these problems have caused the closure of Commercial Earnings and I hope that the people who have done this are found and brought to light.


ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS!

Yesterday during an audit of CommercialEarnings.Com, SEVERAL CHEATERS (OVER 50) and at least TWO (2) HACKERS, where detected. These individuals have been carrying on SEVERAL ILLEGAL activities that have caused MULTIPLE PROBLEMS with the Efficient and Accurate running of our site and its operations. These individuals have entered many areas of Commercial Earnings and have made changes to the way that things operate. These changes have resulted in many items either not functioning, functioning improperly, or just plain issuing credit for things that were not inputted by our staff. Below we will list the items for which these PROBLEM MEMBERS have caused issues:

  • Paid to Clicks = Multiple paid to click ads (OVER 250) where placed without the authorization of our team. This resulted in massive amounts of money being earned that had not been paid into our system either by members or by direct CommercialEarnings.Com advertisers.

  • Auto Ad Viewer = Multiple sites where added with NON EARNED credits assigned to them. These sites where NOT authorized or approved by our staff. A large number of these sites where on our BANNED LIST, and thus would never have been approved for ad viewing by our members. Although this issue was not huge, it is/was still a problem as this resulted in credits being earned that were not provided by our site.

    • The use of AUTO BOTS was detected.

    • The use of AUTO CLICKERS was detected.

    • The credit addition code had been altered to credit some members with much higher credits earned than was setup by our administration team.

    • The timer coding had been altered, allowing for faster page viewing, and thus much higher and faster earnings of credits than was established by our team.

  • Manual Ad Viewer = Multiple sites where added with NON EARNED credits assigned to them. These sites where NOT authorized or approved by our staff. A large number of these sites where on our BANNED LIST, and thus would never have been approved for ad viewing by our members. Although this issue was not huge, it is/was still a problem as this resulted in credits being earned that were not provided by our site.

    • The use of AUTO BOTS was detected.

    • The use of AUTO CLICKERS was detected.

    • The credit addition code had been altered to credit some members with much higher credits earned than was setup by our administration team.

    • The timer coding had been altered, allowing for faster page viewing, and thus much higher and faster earnings of credits than was established by our team.

  • Featured Ad System = Multiple Featured Ads (OVER 100) where placed without the authorization of our team. This resulted in massive amounts of money being earned that had not been paid into our system either by members or by direct CommercialEarnings.Com advertisers. The reason this resulted in UN-EARNED proceeds, is because it was performed as if a member had Actually Purchased this ad, which paid the upline a commission.

  • Text Ad System = Multiple Text Ads (OVER 400) where placed without the authorization of our team. This resulted in massive amounts of money being earned that had not been paid into our system either by members or by direct CommercialEarnings.Com advertisers. The reason this resulted in UN-EARNED proceeds, is because it was performed as if a member had Actually Purchased this ad, which paid the upline a commission.

  • Banner Ad System = Multiple Banner Ads (OVER 300) where placed without the authorization of our team. This resulted in massive amounts of money being earned that had not been paid into our system either by members or by direct CommercialEarnings.Com advertisers. The reason this resulted in UN-EARNED proceeds, is because it was performed as if a member had Actually Purchased this ad, which paid the upline a commission.

  • Join Free & Earn = Multiple CommercialEarnings.Com advertisers reported the use of Auto Registering software being used. This resulted in commissions and earning being credited to a member that had NOT actually signed up for a given service or program. In addition to this, this also resulted in the loss of the effected advertiser from the list of Approved Vendors for CommercialEarnings.Com. This 1 action Caused CommercialEarnings.Com and its Owner PEP ONLINE SALES, to LOSE ALL COMMISSIONS earned from the lost advertisers that this event affected. As if this was not bad enough, PEP ONLINE SALES is NOW obligated to pay the said advertisers back for commissions Already Paid, in which these programs had been used.

  • Mega Cash Deals = Multiple CommercialEarnings.Com advertisers reported the use of Auto Registering software being used. This resulted in commissions and earning being credited to a member that had NOT actually signed up for a given service or program. In addition to this, this also resulted in the loss of the effected advertiser from the list of Approved Vendors for CommercialEarnings.Com. This 1 action Caused CommercialEarnings.Com and its Owner PEP ONLINE SALES, to LOSE ALL COMMISSIONS earned from the lost advertisers that this event affected. As if this was not bad enough, PEP ONLINE SALES is NOW obligated to pay the said advertisers back for commissions Already Paid, in which these programs had been used.

  • Deposit Cash Systems & Account Cash Systems = Multiple deposits of account cash where credited to members accounts where deposits and our transactions by our STAFF had NOT actually been recorded. The amount of funds added to our system illegally was over $9,350.00. This Allowed for multiple Ad Purchases, Upgrades, and Credit Purchases that should not have occurred without the Actual Real Deposit of Funds using our payment processors.

  • Buy/Sell System Credits Process = Multiple transactions had been recorded in where members had sold system credits that had MYSTERIOUSLY appeared in their accounts. In simple terms, large amounts of credits had been added to MULTIPLE MEMBERS accounts that were in turn sold back to our site for cash proceeds. This resulted in a site LOSS OF REVENUE of over $1,034.00.

NOW that all of this has been disclosed, let us now tell you exactly how and why we were late in finding out about what was occurring within CommercialEarnings.Com. First of all, with over 1,000 active members, it is NEARLY impossible to monitor each and EVERY members accounts and transactions. Although in an IDEAL WORLD we would love to have done this, it simply is not realistic to have done so, as there are literally hundreds/thousands of actions or transactions occurring within a single ACTIVE members account on a daily basis. This means that we would have had to have a staff of over 200 people in order to be able to monitor every member of our site.

So, how did we finally detect what was occurring?

  1. Early Sunday Morning Several Advertiser emails were received by our Administration team. In these emails, the advertisers were reporting the use of Auto Registering Programs and False or make believe signups. In their emails, to summarize them, they FIRED CommercialEarnings.Com for lack of protection measures to ensure that our members where indeed REALLY registering for and buying their products or services. As a result of their termination of our accounts with them, they RESCINDED or TOOK BACK, ALL COMMISSIONS EARNED BY US.

  2. Emails received by some of the above mentioned CHEATERS - In these emails, these members where questioning where their payment was, as they had stated that they had requested it over a month ago. OUR staff knew immediately that this was not true, as ALL payment requests made by members had been paid (both legitimate and those now determined to be cheating members). This prompted a EXTREME DETAILED LOOK into these members accounts, and those of extremely HIGH CASH EARNING members. When this part of our audit was performed, we found all of the above mentioned items or falsified transactions. The further we dug into member transactions, the more cheaters we found. Thus, we next hired a security specialist to review our entire site. This review showed our staff all of the BREACHES that CommercialEarnings.Com had encountered and if they could be fixed or not.

SUMMARY

What Does this mean for Members & CommercialEarnings.Com?

Well in short, this is not a good outcome! Because of the Extreme amount of Money & Advertisers lost by PEP ONLINE SALES during this event, PEP ONLINE SALES has no other alternative than to CLOSE the site CommercialEarnings.Com!

Why did PEP ONLINE SALES come to this conclusion?

Well, PEP Online Sales has lost a huge amount of money, without the ability to recover from this event. The Reason PEP Online Sales can not rover from this event, is because of the loss of our HIGH QUALITY and TOP PAYING ADVERTISERS. Below please find a list of all the losses that PEP Online Sales or CommercialEarnings.Com has suffered from this SAD event:

  • The loss of 65% (473) of all of our Advertisers

  • The loss of over $2,294.45 cents of Fraudulent Money paid out to CHEATING MEMBERS.

  • The loss of $31,954.59 of Earned Commissions and Advertising payments due to PEP Online Sales by the lost Advertisers.

  • The loss of Upgraded Membership dues that had to be refunded due to this event.

    • Members that Legally Paid for Upgraded memberships will be Refunded their full membership dues if they did not receive a payout from CommercialEarnings.Com.

    • Members that Legally Paid for Upgraded memberships and DID receive a payout from CommercialEarnings.Com will receive a PRO RATED REFUND based on the amount that they Paid CommercialEarnings.Com and the Amount CommercialEarnings.Com has paid them previously. (i.e. = if you paid $25.00 and so far have received payouts adding up to $14.00, then the amount you would be refunded by CommercialEarnings.Com would be $11.00)

    • A LEGALLY PAID UPGRADE MEMBERSHIP PAYMENT IS DEFINED AS ANYONE WHO HAS PAID (and can provide proof of payment!) COMMERCIALEARNINGS.COM WITH FUNDS FROM EITHER PAYPAL or GOOGLE CHECKOUT.

    • Members that have received more than the amount of money that they paid for their UPGRADE level in payments from CommercialEarnings.Com WILL NOT receive any kind of refund. (We Apologize for this, but we can not afford to pay you money for which we do not have!)

ALL REFUNDS WILL BE PAID ONLY UPON VERIFICATION OF THE ACTUAL PAYMENT RECEIPTS, AND ONLY AFTER PAYMENTS MADE TO THAT MEMBER HAVE BEEN SUBTRACTED FROM THE AMOUNT PAID TO COMMERCIALEARNINGS.COM! ALL REFUND PAYMENTS WILL BE MADE NO LATER THAN 60 DAYS FROM TODAY'S DATE - 02-19-2008!

If THE AMOUNT THAT HAS BEEN PAID TO YOU IS MORE THAN THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID FOR YOUR UPGRADE ON COMMERCIALEARNINGS.COM, THEN NO REFUND PAYMENT WILL BE MADE TO YOU!

TO RECEIVE A REFUND YOU MUST SUBMIT A COPY OF YOUR PAYPAL OR GOOGLE CHECKOUT RECEIPT, ALONG WITH YOUR FULL NAME, MEMBER NUMBER, AND EMAIL ADDRESS TO WHERE YOUR REFUND WILL BE SENT. THE EMAIL ADDRESS YOU SUBMIT FOR RECEIVING A REFUND MUST MATCH THAT OF THE EMAIL THAT YOU USED TO MAKE YOUR PAYMENT TO COMMERCIALEARNINGS.COM!

ALL REFUND REQUESTS MUST BE MADE VIA THE CONTACT FORM THAT CAN BE REACHED BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW:

SUBMIT YOUR UPGRADED MEMBERSHIP REFUND REQUEST NOW!

Commercial Earnings

This is just a quick update to let people know that Commercial Earnings has stopped all ptc's and selling credits back to admin. There has been notification of why this has been done.

I am guessing that the payouts are still working as they still offer a little money for surfing manually each day.

As soon as I have any further information, I will post here for you all.

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

In the beginning...

So where do you begin to earn online?

There are many different ways to earn online. Some are easy, some are hard, but I will try and give a good range of earning programs so that you can use the ones that suit you the best.

Traffic Exchanges

Whatever way you choose to earn online, you will at some point require the use of a Traffic Exchange. Why? They are the most popular way to advertise when you want to generate an income online and they are free.

If you think you can do this without using a Traffic Exchange, then think again. You will be missing out on millions of potential sales. Can you really afford not to use them?

What are they and how do they work?

Traffic Exchanges are a script which is run on a website to enable members to advertise their products or services. There are literally thousands of these programs out there. Some will be useful and others will not be.

When you sign up to a Traffic Exchange, it is to advertise something you are trying to sell. To be able to advertise this product or service you will need to view other members' sites. This is called 'surfing'. Surfing shows you a website for a period of time, for example 20 seconds before showing you a number/word/picture that you must click. This is to stop members from using auto-clicking software. The time allows you to view the other members' sites

This is them selling to you!

Everytime you view one website, you get either a portion of, or a full, credit. You can then assign the credits you earn to your website and it will be shown in the same manner to other members.

This may sound like you will be clicking forever and a day to get a few credits. Unfortunately, part of that is true. If you really want to advertise your product or service and get sales, you need a lot of credits and you will be surfing for a long time.

The good news is that all the top Traffic Exchanges offer bonuses to members. These range from competitions to bonuses while surfing. This is another method of getting members to actually look at what is happening which also increases potential sales.

Which Traffic Exchange?

As I mentioned above, there are thousands of Traffic Exchanges out there. Luckily, the number that are worth using are not quite as large and the number that you MUST join is even fewer!

My suggestion to begin on your travels, is Commercial Earnings. If you are planning to earn your income without spending any of your own money, this one is a definite must. Whether you are joining to earn yourself an income, advertise your site, or both this is a very professional and easy to use site. Some of the facilities include;

Manual Click
Auto Click
Paid to Click
Paid to Sign Up
Sell 10,000 credits for $1
Downline Builder
and much, much more!

To give you an idea of what sort of earnings you can expect, here are my earnings for 12th February;

Logging on: $0.006
PTC: $0.180
Surfing: $1.450
Selling credits: $2.000

Total: $3.636

This is the roughly what I earn every day with Commercial Earnings. So you can see the potential earnings;

Weekly: $25.452
Monthly: $109.080

This is one program that I strongly recommend. They are building up a good member base and the potential is limitless!

Can you earn an income online?

Of course you can! There is absolutely no reason why, not only earn an income, but earn a large income and a regular (viral) income.

Great, huh? All you have to do is copy exactly what I'm doing and you'll soon be making millions. Right? Wrong. If you are here because you want to earn yourself $000's a week in 7 days, then I suggest you go away and have a serious think about what you really want. Why do I say this? Because, although it is not impossible for someone to earn excessive amounts of money online in a short space of time, generally it is more of a dream for most people.

Why do I say this?

Because those people who earn all the money are the one's who come up with the new programs that allow you to earn an income. These program owners will be the people earning the most money.

Next, come the people who are in the program owner's immediate circle. These can be family, friends, co-workers and close contacts. They will not earn as much as the program owner, but they will still benefit largely.

After this, comes the group of 'online earners'. These are the people who make a full-time living out of earning online. They will be earning large amounts. This is where the majority of people aim for as it gives a nice balance between earnings and the amount of effort getting into a program early.

Finally is everyone else. The rule of thumb is: the quicker you get in, the more you earn. The problem that these people have (and I'm guessing you're one of these if you are reading this) is finding the programs quick enough for you to gain those earnings.

Another problem is that people in the 'online earners' and more so, everyone else, have to be on the ball all of the time. Not all programs that come along will be successful. Some will fail miserably. Some reasons are;

Bad Idea
Copied Idea
Wrong time
Bad owner
Scammer
Too much work for too little money
Too much money for too little work (yes! This does happen!)

;and of course the list is not exhaustive at all. There are many things to weigh up before you decide to join a program.

As I mentioned above, the best way to learn online is to work your way into the 'online earners' group. This will not be easy. This will not be quick. I am not here to offer you a 'get rich quick' scheme. If you still want one I suggest you either re-read this post or not read any other posts that I make.

However, I will help you earn an income online. What to do, where to go, what to look for and, most importantly, how to get into that 'online earners' group. Obviously, I will try and make it as easy as possible so that your time is used productively and you use none of your own money.