Kontera

Kontera is a pay per click advertising company that uses Contextual advertising. This method creates a much different look than other pay per click advertisers like AdWords, but the method of making money through this pay per click program is the same.

What is Contextual Advertising?
Contextual advertising is a way to incorporate pay per click advertising into the text of any given website or Web page. Anyone with a blog or website who signs up with Kontera places a code on the page, much like using Google advertising. The ads are then placed automatically by Kontera without any more effort on the part of the blogger or webmaster.

Like Google Advertising, Kontera pay per click advertising is placed based on the keywords on the page. Unlike Google advertising, Kontera doesn't place ads in one area on the page. Instead, it links the ads directly to the keywords. The keywords that have pay per click ads attached are noticeable by blue highlighting and underlining of the word.

Pay Per Click Advertising
The key to making money through pay per click advertising is having keywords that will translate into interest from readers. Since the webmaster or blogger is not in control of which words are chosen by Kontera for pay per click advertising, the best strategy is to simply use a variety of keywords that relate to the topic of the page or site. This attracts more ads that will be of interest to readers who have come to the page to read about the topic.

The blue highlighting on the keywords may interest readers to find out more about that keyword. When an interested reader passes his cursor over the blue highlighted word, the ad pops up. And, if the reader is interested in the ad and clicks on it, the Kontera account holder makes money.

The Benefits of Kontera
Anyone who places Kontera pay per click advertising on their site will have another stream of income from their page. Kontera can be used on the same page as Google Advertising and other ads, and it doesn't take up any extra space on the page the way most ads do.

Blogger makes it easy to use Kontera on its blogs, with a Kontera widget that requires only a few clicks to implement the ads on a blog. HubPages also uses Kontera on its pages. HubPages writers add their Kontera publisher number to their HubPages account and can then choose which hubs include the pay per clicks ads.

To use Kontera on these sites requires that the writer sign up for a Kontera account and be assigned a publisher number. Some publishers, such as HubPages, take a percentage of the Kontera revenue.

YouSayToo

YouSayToo is an ad revenue sharing website designed for bloggers. YouSayToo is designed for bloggers because after setting up a profile, bloggers can post all their blogs on YouSayToo in an attempt to increase their readership. YouSayToo allows bloggers to put all of their blogs and content in a single location. In order to add a blog on YouSayToo, bloggers must provide their RSS feed URL which allows YouSayToo to display a blog’s most recently updated content. YouSayToo is essentially a no-risk way to increase a blogger's readership. YouSayToo does require bloggers to provide a dofollow link to YouSayToo on each blog added on the website. At the same time YouSayToo will provide a backlink to the blogger's blogs so the links are mutually exchanged. YouSayToo is extremely useful for people blogging for money in that YouSayToo gives half of the ad revenue generated to the blogger’s YouSayToo page. YouSayToo uses Amazon and Google Adsense ads which are the most trusted advertising services. By the same token it is hard to believe the success of actually receiving money from YouSayToo.

If you are interested in how to make money blogging, you say to seems like a very feasible option. I am not exactly sure how YouSayToo is able to transfer ad revenue generated from the site to its users considering the minimum cashout for services such as AdSense are very high (at $100USD). YouSayToo has some serious potential for the future in that like I said it does not take much work on the part of the blogger to use YouSayTo. As of now, YouSayToo is relatively new and for a blogging community is still not generating very much traffic. In fact, despite the many users who have become a part of YouSayTo, the website has a google pagerank of 4 which is good, but still weak for a community blog…particularly one that is purported to be a money-making strategy. While I have made money blogging, money is not my purpose for blogging. Sure I would love to make money blogging, but writing is more of my passion. In other words I write because it is a hobby, not because it is a job. Of course if it was true that YouSayToo paid its members a massive amount of revenue, what blogger would possibly refuse? However, it does not yet seem that way and the features on YouSayToo are still limited. There are a few cool things such as sending buzz to the YouSayToo community and increasing readership through visitors of YouSayToo; however, like I mentioned before, YouSayToo still does not have a very big community yet.

The AdNetwork

Introducing, The AdNetwork, a not so famous affiliate site as compared to Google Affiliates yet this site earns you money easily.

Not much it is, only GBP 5 per month but consider these statements;

• do you have so much traffic in your blog ?
• I do not wish to pollute my site
• blogging is only for hobby not business

If you do, then do affiliate your blog at theadnetwork.co.uk. BTW, here, with GBP 5, definitely we can get something say a good shirt etc.

Its pretty simple, you just have to sign up for an account, submit your blog, and give some time for the provider to review – they will say up to 2 days or more but it merely within few hour.

Afterward, you will be given instruction to install 3 banner on one of your posting. Do it and you are done! – you are now eligible to receive GBP 5 per month and sign up bonus of GBP 10 (one time only). As fact, It gives you GBP 15 right!

Remember:

• Make sure your blog is clean. Don’t put porn or any offensive content. Consider to remove other ads while your site is reviewed; at least put less ad.
• Your blog must be minimum 1 month of age and 10 postings at the least.

ClixSense

ClixSense is another get paid to view advertisements website. As more and more ad money is being redirected to online outlets these websites are becoming increasingly popular. You may already have seen sites where elaborate prize pools or games are set up to entertain you while you view the ads.

ClixSense compensates you between $.01 - $5.00 for spending 30 sec of your time on their sponsors' websites. By no means is this a get rich quick method, you'll be lucky to earn a couple bucks below minimum wage per hr for your efforts.

The company encourages you to supplement this income through several methods. You can upgrade your membership to premium which results in more ads being sent your way. And you can recruit additional members for which you earn .10¢ and 5$ per each premium membership upgrade.

As far as payments are concerned ClixSense is legit and payout once every month. The only drawback is that they charge 3$ for mail delivery of your check. Currently the minimum payout level is set at $10.00. If you plan to work with this program regularly you should raise your payout threshold so that you minimize paying the 3 dollar fee.

Paid to read emails programs are quite popular nowadays because they're free to join and pay out a little change here and there, but in reality they're not free. You're spending your time, your valuable time which could be spent much more productively, literally in exchange for pennies. I believe, as should you, that your time is much more valuable than that.

Hits4pay

Hits4Pay is a popular program that uses advertisers' dollars to pay their members for reading emails. There are many of these get-paid-to-read programs and they all offer similar opportunities with almost the same incentives. But can you really make money with Hits4Pay or is just another online scam?

The way that companies like Hits4Pay work is by connecting advertisers with a guaranteed audience. They do this by paying their members for every email that they read and for each ad that they click on.

The actual payout to Hits4Pay members per email is tiny, usually between .02 and .05 cents. There are some discrepancies but most people say that they receive around 2 to 3 emails per day. As you can see the income rate is incredibly low, at less than a dollar a week.

This is why the majority of people focus on the referral side of the pay-to-read email business. For instance, Hits4pay offers you .01¢ for each email one of your recruits reads. Depending on how well you're able to recruit, this strategy can improve your income potential.

The difficulty with recruitment is that new members have to remain active email readers. As soon as they stop reading you no longer earn commissions. In my experience there's been a fairly high turnover rate, which forces you to constantly replenish your recruits.

I've spoken with many folks involved with Hits4pay and I've gotten some mixed feedback. Some people have found this opportunity to be fulfilling while others have told me that it's a waste of time. It all comes down to recruiting, if you can't do it then there's no point reading emails at three cents a piece.

Spedia

Spedia is used to make money while surfing the internet with an ad bar located on the bottom of the screen. By changing URL's every 30 seconds, you earn 1 point, or that's what is supposed to happen. Spedia also lets you make points by joining sponsor websites, reading e-mails, and playing games. For every hour of surfing, or 60 points, you get $0.49. Active members who gain a certain amount of ad bar points within a certain time limit for a certain amount of days in a month (which is 2 hours a day for 14 days in a month), receive a special rate of $0.70 an hour. A check is sent to you after your account reaches $30.00. This may seem like a dream come true, but words can be quite deceiving.

Spedia is practically a scam in disguise. I have been a Spedia user for over a year, using the Spedia ad bar quite frequently. Yet, I have never been rewarded with a $30.00 check.

COMPLAINTS

Spedia ad bar - This is supposedly the main way to earn points, yet it does not function properly. Many times I attempt start the Spedia ad bar, it crashes, sometimes forcing my computer to restart without authorization. This can be a great problem when there are unsaved files open, which are obviously now lost. If Spedia does manage to start up, my computer slows down a considerable amount. My current open browser window is automatically redirected to one of Spedia's sponsors. The default browser home page is also changed to a Spedia sponsor site. Though that option can be changed, it is very difficult to navigate through the menu. At this point, the Spedia ad bar does one of two possible things:
1. The screen freezes or the ad bar stops responding.
2. The bar works "properly," meaning annoying but operating.

There are three lights located on the Spedia ad bar.
Green: You are supposedly making money right now.
Yellow: Your browser is the selected window, but you haven't changed the URL recently. (The Spedia server may also be down, which happens quite often.) Yellow means you are not making money.
Red The browser window is not open (not making money). (Red also appears if you have been idle for a while.)

After hours and hours of green light at a time, I check my account to see how many points I have earned. To my surprise and dismay, the account summary read that I only earned 5 points today! After a few experiments, I figured out that the Spedia ad bar only generates points at an increment of 5 points. 5 points seemed the limit for earning each day using the Spedia ad bar. So after this incident, I used the Spedia ad bar for ten minutes to earn the daily 5 points thinking that my main source of points would be playing the games on their site.

Spedia games - These games are probably the worst games I have ever played, even worse than a 4-bit version of 2-D tic-tac-toe. That says a lot about Spedia games. Getting to the game section of Spedia.com is a hard task itself. If you know anything about Spedia.com, the first thing that comes to mind is the LONG loading times. After signing in, you must trek to the games section. That itself may take you 15 minutes. Note: The cookie used to identify your user name and password is deleted after 30 minutes. This leaves me 15 minutes to load a game and beat it and earn enough points in the game to earn Spedia points. Lucky me, I have a cable modem to help me in the game loading process, but I have no control over the game speed. Many Spedia games are too simple and respond to commands when it is already too late. For example, there is a game called "Hidden Colors" that resembles the classic board game "Mastermind." The point of "Hidden Colors" is to guess the hidden color combination only having ten or so attempts. Using the clues properly, you can't lose, but when playing, you must set aside five minutes to let the game respond to your commands, leaving you with about 10 minutes to think. This time may be more than enough to beat the game before the sign in cookie is deleted. Yet when your score is being processed, the window never loads and you are never awarded the Spedia points.
I have inquired about this issue (about six months ago) and many others, but the only response I ever got from Spedia involved this issue (which took a month). They said that they are having technical difficulties, but the games will operate properly soon, making a warning unneeded. up to this date, the games have never awarded me any points.

E-mails - The e-mails were the only source of points for me now. Rarely ever being sent, e-mails are supposed to credit your Spedia account with 5-10 points, though I only get credited for half the points that I am supposed to receive . (At least it works! It actually works!)

General - By now, you have probably been convinced not to join or continue using Spedia. So now I will only address my main concern under this category. One day, I turned on the Spedia ad bar, my web browser was directed toward a Maxim magazine advertisement page! Adult content on Spedia? I couldn't believe it. I went to my e-mail account to write another letter to Spedia regarding this advertisement in hopes of they will respond and take action. As I was about to compose a letter, I saw that I had received a letter from Spedia. Upon opening it, I realized it contained even more adult content. That was the last straw. I quickly deleted all Spedia software from my computer and scanned and rescanned it for any remaining components.

Global Test Market

Global Test Market is a fairly established online market research panel. They have participants from nearly 200 countries contributing opinions in return for cash rewards. Over the years they have maintained a solid reputation and have an impressive, 5 million plus, membership.

Similar to other survey companies Global Test Market will send survey invitations to your email box. This is why it's important to use a valid email address when you register with them. Upon completion of a survey you'll be rewarded with market points which can later be redeemed for cash.

At the current exchange rate 1,000 points will earn you fifty US dollars which is also the minimum cash out level. The good thing about Global Test Market is that they reward loyalty and the more surveys you complete the more points per survey you will get.

The company pays out by checks in US dollars, this can be a slight inconvenience for non US residents, but nothing too serious. After reaching the appropriate level and requesting payment it can take up to two months to receive your check.

So far I haven't received any complaints regarding non-payment issues from Global Test Market members. The only downside is that it can take several months to reach the fifty dollar minimum cash out point. So I would recommend using this company in conjunction with another income stream.

The surveys from Global Test Market have been fairly entertaining as they tend to include movie previews and new trial products along with the standard questionnaires. They also have a referral program that will let you earn bonus points for referring new members.