Those "Pay For Surveys" Sites

I'm getting kind of dis-heartened with them. There's only 1 that I see some promise with but it's still too early in the game to give it a complete "thumbs up"!

Have you heard the saying "don't put all of your eggs in one basket"? It kind of alludes to the fact that one shouldn't just rely solely on their Adsense Income. But I think that if you're not sure of the validity of the other affiliate programs that are out there you shouldn't join up with them - at least not until you are sure.

People have made some astounding amounts of money using Adsense - let's say for the sake of argument a general monthly total of at least $3,000. That would be a good and decent monthly amount to be able to live on. Of course I'm sure that you'd want to make more and you would keep trying to make more but at least knowing a monthly amount would help. Unfortunately its kind of hard - if not impossible - to predict how much one will make using Adsense. There are just too many variables involved with this. You have to keep looking at your account to see what's going on ie how much traffic you are getting, how much you are earning per click and the percentage of hits vs clicks. And even then you never know when your pages' traffic will "spike" or hit an all-time low - so you can never really fully estimate how much Adsense money you will make.

However Adsense is a lot more trusty than some of the other affiliate sites out there. I'm currently looking at others and there are a few that look promising. I will add them here after I have had a chance to review them.

A. W. Surveys

Here is a affiliate/survey website that I found online. It seemed tempting because you get $6 upon signup but I found some very interesting things about this website and this company.

First it's a site where you get paid to take surveys. You can get paid anywhere from $4 to (they say)$25 per survey. Once your account reaches $75 you can cash out. You have 2 options to cash out. You can get a check mailed to you (it will take 4-6 weeks to get it) or you can get paid via your Paypal account. HOWEVER IF YOU CHOOSE THE PAYPAL OPTION $25 WILL BE TAKEN OUT AS PART OF AN "EPEDIATED" FEE (whatever the heck that is!). This means that if your account reaches $75 and you want to get paid via paypal, $25 will get deducted from your balance so you will only get $50. If you choose to get paid by check then there is no fee deducted and you get the whole amount).

Now this is one of the things that I didn't like about this site's program. Why would they take 1/3! But if this doesn't sway you from wanting to join the program just click the link above and register for a new account. It doesn't cost anything and its free for you to sign up.

Now I did a little researching online about this site and its program and what I get is that opinions run half and half. One of the biggest arguments is that if we are considered so important as consumers then why does this site have so few surveys for us to fill out? - meaning in other words it will take a while to accumulate the minimum cash out value of $75 if there aren't a lot of surveys to fill out.

I have read that some people have used it and got paid - so time will tell. I just joined this site yesterday and have already accumulated $27 in my account - so I still need another $48 before I can cash it out.

This site also has an affiliate program included along with the taking of surveys. You get around a dollar for every person that signs up via your referrel. Like I said I have only been with this program since yesterday so there aren't any conclusive numbers to report yet. Like most affiliate programs you can get the codes to paste to your site so that others can click on it to find out more (and hopefully join) about the program.

I don't have a conclusive review as of yet because like I said I have only been with this program since yesterday but I do have some thoughts on this program.

• I think that $25 fee that they charge for the option of cashing out via Paypal is ridiculous!
  
  

• The number of surveys that they offer are not many. The first day I joined there were 4 surveys that I answered. Today I checked and there were none - but in their defense maybe its just too soon to say.

I will let you know of my progress using this survey/affiliate program.

Other Affiliate Programs?

There are some sites that Google's Adsense Program will not approve. These kinds of sites include sex-related and gambling sites. However there are other affiliate programs out there that are specifically geared towards sex-related websites. I'm currently finding out about one in particular but I don't want to post about them until I do know more about them.