We all use search engines. Most of us use either Google or Yahoo! for whatever we want to search. Why not make money while doing so? Is it possible? Absolutely.

Scour is a meta search engine which collates results from Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. You get points for each search that you carry out. Each search gets you 1 point.

Once you reach 6,500 points, you can redeem it for a $25 VISA gift card. It might not be much, but at least its $25 more than any other search engine ;-)

You can add comments to search results and make additional points on it.

Do you want to learn how to make over $5000 per month? Learn from Yaro Starak, an expert in the online world! He makes over $5000 per month from his blog alone.

Some time back he started a mentoring program where he teaches others on how to do the same. I’m sure you have heard of BlogMasterMind.

The program is less than $100 a month to become a member and you get direct access to your own blog mentor, plus all kinds of audios, videos and e-lessons to help you make money from your own blog.

Spending $100 per month to earn many times that amount sounds well worth it!

Entrecard just graduated from being a mere “banner exchange/drop” program, to one where you can make money online. The soon to be launched feature also you to sell or buy credits for real cash! Entrecard currently has over 5000 blogs in its network and its growing quite rapidly.

The trading feature is just going to take Entrecard into another level. You will see card-droppers getting more active so that they can earn more credits in exchange for cash! Along with that will come more traffic to your blog, and the bounce rate will increase even further!

Its been around two weeks since I started using bux.to and its time to report how I’m fairing on that website.

Since the last report, I’ve upgraded my account to a Premium Membership and have bought a referral package as well. The daily earnings is currently averaging about $35/day. This is quite impressive considering that only a few minutes needs to be spent on the site daily.

Premium Membership has a multitude of benefits:

• You get an additional $0.0025 per click. This looks small but adds up to an additional $0.01 per 4 sites visited. It’s like the 5th click came for free. This is the amount you get paid for clicks from your referrals as well. Depending on the number of referrals you’ve got, this ’small amount’ can make a big impact on how much you earn.
• Not just that, Premium Membership also ensures you get to click at least 20 ads per day. In fact, since the upgrade, I’m averaging in excess of 40 per day. This is in comparison to about 15/day for a Standard account.

The benefits can easily be seen from the above.

Sign-up for bux.to. The service seems to be quite legit.

It seems today is the day for me to write more about PeelAwayAds! A few minutes ago, I had written about the free version of PeelAwayAds script.

I read a post on ShoeMoney about the launch of PeelAwayAds support at AdToll. PeelAwayAds is still a very new concept and going thru a service like AdToll can help you get advertisers faster. They pay on a CPC basis only. AdToll pays on a CPC basis for network ads, and on a fixed cost basis for sponsored ads.

I’ve decided to give this a try for a few weeks to see its performance and benefit.

This is also the first time I’m trying AdToll on this blog.

Do you like the Peel Away Ads you see on the top right-hand corner of this site? Its a non-obtrusive way of incorporating advertisements on your website.


I had written about PeelAwayAds in December ‘07. That particular version is sold for $37. Thanks to Blog Dahh Net, I have realized that there is a free version of the script available as well. Why pay, when you can get the same thing for free!


Head over to WebPicasso to download Pageear, the free version of Peel Away Ads.

bux.to and DailyClicks are paid to surf ads program. I signed up 4 days ago just to evaluate them, and here is a report with true numbers. I’ve signed up as a “Free” member currently on both websites. Upgraded members earn more per click. Let me present the stats first:

bux.to Stats:

 

DailyClicks Stats:

 

How much time am I spending on these sites? Not more than 5 minutes a day to earn a total of about $4.7. To be honest, these programs make sense to make money online only if you have a large referral base. The real money will come from there and not the clicks that you generate on your own!

If you want to try out these programs, here are the links with my referral id for you to sign up:

• Sign-up for bux.to
• Sign-up for DailyClicks

AdBrite launched BritePic, a monetization service for images, last year, which enabled you to have ads being shown on images on your blog or website.

The biggest pain point was the fact that for a blog, you have to manually replace all images you have in your post with their JavaScript code to “BritePic” the image. This is just too much of an effort due to which I stopped using it completely. The code looked like:

<script>

britepic_id="id";

britepic_src="< == ENTER IMAGE URL == >";

</script>

<script src="http://www.britepic.com/britepic.js"></script>

<noscript></noscript>

So, how can its usage be simplified? What if someone comes up with a plugin that looks for images in posts, and BritePic’s them? Sounds doable doesn’t it?

I have started working on this on my own and the plugin should be launched shortly (as beta!). This will be my first WordPress plugin.

This will be a simple way to start making money from images on your blog posts.

If someone knows of a plugin that already does this, do let me know. I will not waste my time reinventing the wheel.