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I Just Turned 17 - Belated Birthday Post

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

It’s 4 days past my birthday, and I wasn’t able to update my blog on the day of my birthday. Thanks to my examinations. Anyways, here I am, a year older since I last posted. Thanks to all those who prayed for me, my exams went good. I’m three down, seven to go.

Yeah, that’s right. I’m no more that 13 year old that just entered his teens. I’m all grown up, and damn, I feel old :( . Life’s ticking time and money away (Courtesy: Linkin Park), we just have to make the best use of our time.

The funny thing is, by looking at all of my blog entries (Over 150 to date), I can see myself growing up through my words. how I used to make money online back then, and how I’m doing so now. I changed this blog when I turned 15 and since that time I’ve been writing quite periodically. :lol:

With time, as we grow up. Life brings more problems and you have to deal with more obligations than you had to deal withyesterday. This hinders your progress a lot. It’s only a year till I’m 18 and then I go to university and become super busy.

Internet marketing, the word I use to summarise the ton of different things I do online, is definitely not a part-time job. This is especially in the case if you want to make some good money. But oh well, enough of my ranting.

Be kind enough, and wish me a belated birthday through a comment. It won’t cost you a penny, nor would it take more than a minute. Here’s something in advance: Thank you! Now you owe me a birthday wish. :)

Paypal’s Not-So-Perfect Alternative In Pakistan

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Hey Chaps,

If you remember, a while ago, I did a post on barriers to earning money online in pakistan. Before moving forward, let me tell you that this is not only for those who’re living in Pakistan and simply can’t sign-up to Paypal.

This is also for those from the gulf states or other countries that are not supported by Paypal. Or simply if you’re one of those people who’re sick of paypal and got your account suspended on Paypal with 1000’s of dollars (It happens a lot!).

I’d like to tell you about Alertpay. It is a pretty renowned online payment processor, perhaps the second best. Correct me if I’m wrong. I compared it to other common ones like moneybookers, payoneer, e-gold, etc.

Payment Transfer Reliability

Paypal - AlertpayI’ve been using alertpay for around a year now. Recently, I’ve been receiving and making payments with Alertpay with no problems. However, around the first quarter of  of 2009 I did experience some disruptions in their service.

For around 2 months, alertpay was unable to accept any credit card payments, although payments to and from alertpay accounts could be done but credit card involvement was not possible. This did hinder a bit of my activities.

But then again, that is still better compared to not being able to do anything. My account is in complete function for pretty long now as I’ve been receiving and making paymenmts.

Getting Verified

This is the biggest part of using any online payment processor because if you want to add or withdraw funds, you need to be verified with the payment processor. Well, prior to signing up with them, I talked to many pakistanis with verified accounts so that I could be assured.

However, I sent them scanned copies of the documents required to verify my account. It said that it would require 30 business days to process it. As of today, it has been over 90 days and still no luck. :(

I think that the problem at their end is that their user base is increasing at a constant speed and it is becoming hard for them to cater for all those users. So normally, you’d have to wait in a ‘queue’ until you get verified. That’s how I interpret it.

My Paypal Vs. Alertpay Comparison

To be honest, my main usage of an online payment processor is something like this:

  1. Receive money in my account from clients, etc.
  2. Spend that money on something that I want to buy.

So, in this way, if I have a fake paypal account (showing residence in any random country) and I can send and receive money with it if you don’t get verified after a while. However, after some while, for no apparent reason, Paypal totally freezes your account until you verify.

However, in Alertpay, I have selected my real country and all information is real. My account is legitimate. I can send and receive payments. The only problem that exists is that it is taking pretty long for them to verify my account.

If my account gets verified then I can add / withdraw funds as well, which would just be a plus for me. In fact, I think that maybe you can add funds even if you’re unverified but just can’t withdraw them.

Overall, I think that there are only two problems with alertpay at the moment:

  1. They need to speed up their verification process.
  2. They need to attract more online merchants to start using Alertpay as a payment method to give us more flexibility in spending online.

Other than that, all in all, Alertpay is a great payment processor. A savior in my case, after I got dumped by Paypal. What’s that? That’s another long story. :lol:

I’ll be ranting about that in a few days to warn off all those who’re using unverified paypal accounts and how dangerous it is for your money.

Bux.to, the story of a Scam

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I finally decided to write about the really of Bux.to. I started off with using bux.to around 3 years ago. If you remember well, this is how I got started into making money online. Blogging wasn’t until late 2007 and before that I was heavily occupied with paid to click websites.

To be frank, at that time bux.to seemed to be the best paid to click website to me. In fact, stats prove that it is the most popular paid to click websites as compared to popular paid to click websites of that time. It has risen to below 2000 in the alexa top websites.

So, where did Bux.to go wrong? Quite simple…

Traditional paid to click concept

Let’s go old school (thought it’s just been 3 years, :lol: ) and see how the paid to click websites started up. I remember the first paid to click website to be adbux and many other small paid to click websites followed up soon.

How these websites operated was over a simple concept:

  1. Advertisers pay the PTC website for visitors to their website.
  2. Users sign-up to the PTC website and get paid for clicking ads.
  3. The PTC website takes a part of the cost per visitor paid by the advertiser, and gives the rest to the users.

That’s all!

Pretty basic huh? If this goes on a small scale, it’s all cool. But when you have big ambitions and want to make a lot of money, you have a little problem.

I’m sure that there aren’t a lot of wise webmasters or bloggers out there who would want to be spending 3 cents for a visitor who would visit the website for just 30 seconds. The purchasing power of the visitor can be seen from the fact that he is clicking ads for a cent each. :lol: (No offense, I was one of them a few years ago)

So, basically this makes the traffic pretty useless and probably the only reason why a big number of webmasters wouldn’t want to be advertising on such a website. Moreover, even if there are a lot of advertisers, their advertisement budget would not be enough to cater such a large user base as it was in bux.to’s case.

The Dirty Game

Then bux.to played a pretty dirty game. What they did was simple, they started putting up advertisements without actually receiving the money according to the mechanism. For example:

Instead of charging $3000 to a person who wants to buy a 100K visitors package, they’ll give him a discount just to get some cash into the system. Then they’ll use that money to pay off a user who requested payout 3 months ago telling him that this delay was due to ‘manual check’ before payout.

One reason why this was working out was because most of the users never made it to the minimum payout OR never protested if they never got paid and left the program.

Long story, short. Soon, as more users joined they needed more inflow of cash. So, they started selling those referral packages and the premium memberships to have some cash rolling in and as of now, that’s what they’re depending on.

Apparently, they’re only paying premium members. That too only after a wait of several months or years. The system reached a stop a long time ago, I (along with some other users) just didn’t realize that in time.

Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, the bux.to mechanism flunked right before your eyes. i hate to say it, but yes I pronounce it a SCAM. :|

If you still want to check on paid to click websites, I’d recommend checking out clixsense. I also have an article on making money on the internet for beginners. :)

Adsense Free Brings You 155 Free Adsense Templates

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Have you ever wanted to have a semi-automated way of making money with adsense? Well, now you’ve got it. Today I’ll be talking about a website called AdsenseFree.Com and it is the website which will help you setup a huge network of websites with adsense.

That’s right, I’m talking about dozens of adsense ready templates ready to make money for you. That is, if you know how to make money with adsense. So basically adsense free gives you a whole bunch of adsense templates that already have adsense on them, they also have a theme and some content on each page.

This is perfect for adsense newbies, people who want to make money with adsense but don’t know how to create a website or simply for those who don’t have time in setting up adsense on hundreds of pages and then finding content for each page. So  by now I know what’s going on in your mind

What’s the Catch?

You must be thinking: Why is this website giving away free adsense templates, there must be some catch. They must be charging some money for the templates in one way or the other.

The fact is, you will not be charged a single penny for the templates and all 155 adsense templates are going to be gifted for you for free. All you have to do is sign up for a normal hosting package which you would have done so if you ever wanted to start up a website. That’s it!

Just for signing up for a nominal hosting package (which you will be needing anyways), you will be given 155 adsense templates ready to do the work for you. Plus, you get many other free gifts from them. Once you sign-up through their recommended host, just send them an email and you will get the reply very soon with the file attached containing  155 adsense templates and other important information.

Now those are not just 155 pages with content on them. I’m talking about 155 templates/categories each of which has their own sub-pages as content fillers. So, each category has around 70 - 150 pages filled with content regarding that category. So if you do the math, that is around 0.15 million pages ready with content and adsense on them for you to make money.

It doesn’t end there. Think how tedious it would’ve been if you had to insert your adsense publisher id into each one of them pages manually. It could easily take you a few days if you are a newbie.

But this sweet package includes a little program which will ask you for your adsense publisher id and then edit each and every page with your adsense publisher id to make sure that those pages make you money once they get traffic.

If you were to put the 0.15 million pages on a brand new website, it would take you a maximum of ten minutes to have thousands of content rich, adsense-ready pages floating around your website like they’ve been lying there for ages. That is the best part of it. However, now comes the real review of this thing which shall tell us whether this thing is good for making money or not.

Can This Thing Really Make Me Money?

This is by far the most important point of this post. You would only want to check this out if you were assured that it would make you money or not and if so then how would it make you money. The only drawback that this thing has is: That the content is not unique.

The content that is put on individual pages under each template or category is taken from article directories. This kind of ruins your plans of getting traffic from search engines to it unless you are really a professional.

If you are a complete newbie, first you should know how to make money with adsense because just putting up a website with 0.15 million pages and not getting even one visitor to it will not make you even a cent for decades.

So, I wouldn’t really recommend this to you if you are a first time adsense user. However, if you already have some experience with adsense prior to this then you might know how to make money with adsense without involving SEO or organic traffic.

For the PPC lovers

This might be the perfect thing if you are a PPC junkie. That is because you have 0.1 million pages and each and every one of them is targeted to a specific thing. So after this if you ever want to get any niche, you might check this website because your little niche might already be a part of this monster empire. You can pin point traffic from adwords, etc. to individual pages and make money off it.

This is called PPC/Adsense arbitrage. This is kind of tough to get a hang of but many people have made several hundreds and thousands of dollars with this (not me) and it gets cumulative with time. Just to let you know if you want to try it out and take the risk, it involves buying cheap traffic through adwords on low-bid keywords and then targeting high-bid keywords on your page and getting clicks on those ads. When your adsense earnings surpass your adwords expenditure, congratulations, you’re making profits!

But what about SEO?!

I know it is sad but SEO might be a no-no situation for this monster empire of yours unless you’re a SEO professional. I already said this before, but what would that SEO professional do here that could get your content indexed and probably get a little share of the organic search traffic is one thing: Domain trust.

By building domain trust you let Google know that you’re not one of those pesky spammers that have thousands of pages with the same content and want each and every one of them to rank in the top.

Simply because, a person whose domain has some authority would never really do such a thing and this differentiates you from the spammers. So my advise would be to try to get links from high page rank websites.

Usually, high authority websites do not link to spam websites. So, you’re standing out of the crowd right there. This can really help your website get indexed and then given traffic eventually. But I must warn you, relying on this can take a lot of time and patience is required.

There you are. I’ve given you the good sides and the bad sides of this program. I’ve told for whom this might not work and also mentioned whom this would work for and how it can be used by them to make money. Whether you go for it or not, the decision is up to you. If you have any experiences with this program, I encourage you to share with others through the comments below.

Big Earners Don’t Look For A Consistent Income

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Ever since I started making money online, I only looked into ways that could actually promise me a good amount of money on a consistent basis. This excluded all ways that could not make money for me on a consistent basis. For example, many times I have refused web deisnging projects just because I think this is a work that would not promise me a consistent income.

The fact is, there is hardly a chance that you actually build a consistent income. The way I built consistent income was by creating a team of website including this one. There is an average amount of money that I make from these websites every month which is quite consistent. It involves a lot less risk.

However, what I learned from a few famous money makers on the internet was that you don’t have to look for a ’set-it-and-forget-it’ kind of system if you want to hit big. In fact, you can hit big cash lots of time and actually make those ‘big hits’ consistent.

One thing that has been bothering my mind for a while is PPC. Most of the internet marketers I know of are making deadly profits using this little advertising tool with Google, Facebook and other social networks as well. The biggest thing this involves is: Risk.

Risk is not something that I’d be willing to undertake at this level. Moreover, PPC involves a lot of money. For example, there is a guy Jon who recently made a net profit of $1.6 million in 30 days. This was his come back after a long time.

However, he had totally grossed $2.2 million and the rest $0.6 million was the expenses of PPC or other advertising that he used for making that money. Usually people use offers from CPA networks to publicize on these and then make affiliate commisions per offer completed or per lead generated.

I started with CPA networks a while ago but so far haven’t really gotten the gist of it. I have set up campaigns (not PPC) and tried getting them some traffic but so far have had no luck. This just made this whole PPC craze look a little unachievable for me. However, I intend to learn more about how CPA offers work.

I’m doing a little reading around other blogs and I will also be sharing some good reads that I find on this topic. Meanwhile, if you have any good articles or blogs to share, please let me know about them in the comments. Thanks in advance. :-)

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  • GEORGE: HELLO GUYS, THE BUX.TO IS THE BIGGEST SCAM IN THE INTERNET TODAY ! IF I CAN IT, I WILL SEND THESE PEOPLES IN THE PRISON !!

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Abdulrehman AghaI am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 17 years old, and live in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. I'm in Grade 11 studying in Saint Mary's Academy. I started this blog to share my money making experiences with others through the internet.

I started with Paid to click websites till I made my very first blog which converted into this one soon enough. Through time I have reached different milestones with this blog and I have matured into a much different person learning much from the internet marketing field. Continue reading about me...