The InHouse Affiliate

So I discovered Squidoo (check out my lensography). Life could not be better. There's so much to do and learn there. Its like a community on its own. Its wonderful. The ad revenue share is impressive nad you can make as much money as you want. Obviously i'm exxagerating but compare that with TPC nad you'll understand what i'm on about. $200 a month if you work a bit hard is not all that bad if you are in South Africa like me. It would be around R1600. This is only from one stream.

Associated Content pays very little if you are not American. They pay only $1.50 for 1000 page views. so I opted out of it. If you are in the US you can join because then you get paid a cut of hte ad revenue that your page generates. I really dont have enough information on this one as i was discouraged by the fact that If i do start writing for them, I'll only be getting paid [er view. I'll have to do a whole lot of marketing for a few cents. Not very encouraging if you ask me!

Hubpages is also not that bad. I haven't really started writing there as yet but I'm hoping to start as soon as my addiction for Squidoo dies down a bit. Hubpages is not very different from Squidoo but Squidoo looks much better and has a larger community. You can get as creative as you would in Squidoo and have just as much fun.

Helium, (check out my page there) is for the serious writers. you have to really do your research before you publish an article. there's not a lot of room for creativity there. but they pay really well. You get $5 for your first article. If you earn a writing star you can start earning upfront payments for your articles. Other than that you just get a share of ad revenue. which is not much, but depends on the number of articles you've published.

So i seem to be making money at the most advanced snail pace of all time. As much as PTC pay and the ones i joined may be reputable, I'm a bit uneasy about making about 4 cents a day (granted its on a single website). But even so, if I join about 10 sites I'll be making 40 cents a day, give or take, that leaves me with about $12 a month.

Most of these sites only start paying once you reach a minimum threshold. so unless you are a good affiliate and are bringing people to the site, you wont be making any pocket change for a while.

But I'm still a little bit optimistic so I'll keep checking these out.

Now I've recently read that one can make money in the following ways,

• Blogging,

• Posting in Forums, and

• Writing articles for websites like e-how, Squidoo, and hubpages.

Interesting enough. I'm doing the research and will post further once I have detailed information. watch this space!