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Having a link on quality websites which are pointing to your web or blog is one of the most fundamental and very powerful tools of search engine optimization. More relevant websites are linked to your web the higher page rang will Google assign to you. In other words more quality sites linking to you the higher page rank you will have and that usually means also higher traffic for your online business or personal blog. There are different link exchange techniques witch have different value for your site.

One-way link exchange
One way links are those which are pointing to your web but you are not linking back. If there are quality websites which are linked to you this way, it is the best type of links you can gain. For search engines they are most powerful and they are giving you the highest value. It is because this is the signal for search engines that your site is very useful and interesting for other administrators and they want to tell about you to their clients or readers. But if you don’t have well established quality website with wide unique content it is very difficult to get this kind of links.

Two-way link exchange or reciprocal link exchange
This is the most common method of link exchanging. You make an agreement with the owner of other related site and place his link on your web for that he will place link to you on his site. This is also good for your SEO, but the relevance of this kind of link exchange is much lower than one way linking. It is because this is usually not natural linking but agreement between two related webs and search engines know that.

Three-way link exchange
This is the latest link exchange technique. It is usually works this way. You have a new site (A) and one older site (B) with good PR. You want to increase the PR and traffic of your new site so you make a deal with other website administrator that he will link to your new site (A). For that you will link from your site (B) to his website. Last step is the link from your new site (A) to your site (B). This way each website will receive one-way links which are most valuable from the SEO purpose. There is also four and five way link exchange which works on the same principle. But if there are more sites involved it is harder to control location of your site.
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Have you ever heard about favorite icons or just favicons? Those are that little images which appear next to the web address in the web browsers. If you are thinking about creating your business blog this is the great way how to incorporate your business identity into your blog. If you want to be different than the others this is fancy way how to do it.

So first of all we are going to need small software which changes your common image file (.jpg) into icon file (.ico). I use free software called Imagicon. Just google it, download and install. In the options of this software you can set the dimensions of the icon file choose 16x16 or 32x32.

Second thing you should do is creating your own image which you want to use as your icon. If you want to use it for business blog, it is great to have your business logo as your icon. Great software for creating images is Photoshop. But if you are not skilled enough with Photoshop or you are just lazy to design your own icon, there are many free icons available on the Internet.

Now if you downloaded free icon form the Internet, you can skip to the next paragraph. But if you designed your own image, you are going to need to convert it into ico file. It is simple open Imagico software and drag your saved image into the window. The software will automatically change your image into ico file and save it.

The next step is to upload your ico file into hosting server. I prefer free hosting by Google Page Creator. If you are logged in click on the Create a new page. You will be taken to layout of your new website. We are not going to design the website so just click “Back to site manager”. On the right site of your site manager you can see “Uploaded staff” widget. Click on the link Upload and add your icon. After you uploaded your icon, write down its url.

Log in to your blogger dashboard. Click the Layout of blog where you want to have your icon. Now click on Edit HTML and look for this part of html code (use ctrl+f for search)



Copy the following code right after the link above.



Change the part “URL of your icon file” for the url link of your icon you written down before.

Preview your template and if you are satisfied with result save it. That's all.

I just want to thank for the great tutorial from Tips For New Bloggers website which helped me to learn this great trick. If you are using png or gif images, or need more information I suggest you to visit this tutorial.
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There are million of people shopping on the Internet every day. The biggest advantage of online shopping is probably the comfort of this method of shopping and also you can buy anything from around the world. On the other hand there are some risks which are related to online shopping. There are many dishonest sellers and scammers who are just waiting to steal money from you. So be clever and before you decide to buy anything protect yourself.

Use online payment processors if possible
If it is possible try to avoid submitting your credit card information and look for online payment processors alternatives. Most of reliable sellers already have this option. This way you will protect your credit card information. There are many online payment processors but the most popular among sellers and buyers as well is probably PayPal. Good alternative to PayPal is AlertPay. I have written a review on these online payment processors.
Avoid shopping from shared and wi-fi networks
If you don’t know if the source of the connection to the Internet is well secured, avoid submitting your personal information. This is quite common cheat. I prefer buying just from my home.

Use official version of antivirus software
Don’t use crack version of antivirus software always use official one. This way you can be sure your antivirus is always up to date and the risk of spywares infiltration is low. (*spywares may collect your personal information)

Update your browser
Make sure your are using the latest version of browser. They use the most advanced encrypting methods which protect your personal information while purchasing.

Buy from well known sellers
Great example is eBay which is well established company with many satisfied customers. You can be sure your personal information will be not misused or sold.

Avoid suspicious offers
Use your brain, if the offer looks just too good it is probably just a scam.

Look for the seller’s contact information
Honest sellers should provide their contact information such as phone number and address. If the seller provides phone number you can also call there and gain some information about the company before buying.

"S" for security
Before you submit your private information look for https in the address (you can find this in the upper browser window with the url). Https means secure server.

Verify the seller
Look for the small padlock icon (it should be located on the bottom right of your browser window). By clicking on it you should be able to see seller verification certificate. However this does not guarantee seller’s ethical business behavior.

Read private policy
You should be able to find here information about how will be your private information used, if they are stored or sold.

Don’t buy from spam mails
I think there are no more words needed.
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I know this topic is not related to the online business. But I have to share this. I spend last 4 hours trying to display HTML code in previous article about SEO optimization. I must say it was the biggest challenge I had to face since I have started blogging. Why? Because all the tutorials I have found on the Internet were simply not working for me. I don’t know why, maybe it is because of my layout. After all my trying I manage to do it. I admit it is not the easiest way but the only which works for me. So if anybody else have problem display HTML code in ordinary way (by using only escaped code). Try this method which uses Iframes.

Tutorial: How to display HTML code using Iframes
1. Copy html code you want to display in blog and past it here. Click on the “Make it friendly” button on the bottom. You will see the text which will looks quite messed up. I don’t want to bother you with the explanation why we had to do this or what this newly created text means. Just copy the whole text.

2. Open your Notepad and past this text.

3. Save notepad using Save as option and change the .txt file extension for .htm

4. Now you have to find free hosting provider. There are many of them but almost all of them delete your files after 30 days. So I rather decided for free Google pages. As far as I know they don’t delete files.

5. Now log in to your account and “Create a new page”.

6. You will be taken to newly created page, since we don’t want to design the layout, for our purpose just click “Back to site manager”.

7. On the right side of your site manager there is an "Uploaded staff" widget. Click and upload your .htm file.

8. Write down the link location (or simple right click on the uploaded fail and choose Copy link location).

9. We are almost finished. Now just copy the code below:



10. Replace the example link from the box above (example link is:
http://hosting-provider.com/your-file.html) for the link which you noted down in the step 8. You can also change the width and height of the box. And that's it. If you follow all the steps correctly you should have the box with the code similar to mine in step 9.

Hope this was understandable and helpful. I must thank very much to BlogerBuster where I learned this trick.
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I have already talked about the importance of SEO for online business. If you are in the industry with many online competitors getting on the first Google search page can be really hard. Good SEO optimized blog is giving you an opportunity to overtake your competitors and increase your traffic. In this article I will share few simple tips how to improve the SEO of your blog.

SEO friendly title

This is really simple trick which allow Google spiders to crawl your articles easier and increase the popularity of your blog. When you click on your article you may see the headline of your browser in this order: Name of your blog / Name of your article / Name of your browser. What we want to achieve is to place name of your article on the first place. This is very good for SEO of articles. We can do it easily like this.
1. Log in to your blogger account. Click on Layout then choose Edit HTML tab.

2. Find this line of code (use CTLR+F):



3. Now replace the line of code mentioned above for the code below:



Save your template and we are done. Thanks Amada for simple tutorial which helped me a lot.

Add meta description and keywords easily

Meta description is important tool how to attract visitors to visit your site. This is the description which appears under your link in Google search. If you don’t use meta description Google will simply choose a part from your site and use it as description. This is not very good for people who search on the Internet, they may miss what is your blog about.

Adding meta description and meta keywords is really simple:

1. Again we are going to change HTML code of blog. So log in to your blogger account. Click on Layout and choose Edit HTML.

2. Search for this part of code:



3. Immediately after this tag add following code:



THE DESCRIPTION – delete the Caps Locked text in the code above and write there short description of your blog. It should not exceed 30 words.

ALL KEYWORDS here – delete the Caps Locked text in the code above and write there all you keywords which you are using, separate them by commas.

4. Save your template.

Thanks to blogkori blog which showed me this awesome and simple trick.

Use image ALT tags

Another technique how to optimize your blog is using ALT tags for your images. ALT tag is alternative text used to describe your images.

Here is the way how to add them:

1. Log in to your blogger account. Click on the Edit Posts tab. Click on the Edit link next to the article where you want to add image ALT tags.
2. Now you can choose 2 views of the article, one is Compose (this is how the article will look for visitors) and there is Edit Html tab. Click this tab.
3. Find the image, it can look similar to this code



4. Now add the key words you want for this image (article) so you will have something like this



Delete the Caps Locked text and instead of it write your short description (*you dont have to use cams lock font).
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Today I just noticed my blog appears on the Google search. This is great because it took only few days to get indexed. Although the blog headline which appearing on the Google is out of date (I have change the name of the blog meanwhile) the point is, my URL is up. Now I just need to wait until my blog will be crawled again so the information will be updated. All I was doing to get indexed was writing articles and submitting my url to Google (you can do it here www.google.com/addurl). I also joined few webmaster forums and promote my blog using my signature. Now I can declare my first goal was accomplished.

My next goal is to improve my PR. This can be done through SEO optimization. I will start to submit my blog to SEO friendly website directories and start to look for link exchange partners. I will continue updating my blog with original articles as well.

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If you want to set up online business or you just want to shop on the Internet the easiest way how to send and receive money are online payment processors. These programs are like online banks. You can deposit and withdrew money from your online account, send and receive money from other people. It is simple and it is free to set up. There are many providers of this service. I think the best know is PayPal which was the pioneer in this industry. Later more money processors were created. The second well known money processor is AlertPay which is often considering as main competitor of PayPal. So let’s have a closer look at these two online payment processors what are the differences and which one is better?
AlertPay

Alertpay is well established company which has been in the business since 2004. And become fast the main alternative for PayPal.

The basic features of AlertPay are deposit, withdrew, send and receive money. You can add funds to your AlertPay account easily and you can chose from various ways such as bank account, credit card, debit card and checks. AlertPay is connected with big companies like CNN and VISA so you don’t have to be worry about your funds.

Alertpay offers 3 types of account:

  • Personal Starter Account – this is basic account which allows you to shop and receive money. Since this kind of account was not meant to be for business there are limits set for receiving money. You can receive up to $400/month or $2000/year. Also you can not receive money by credit card. The good thing is there are no fees charged when you send or receive money.

  • Personal Pro Account – this kind of account is good for affiliate programs or small businesses because there are no limits for receiving money. You will be able to use special online selling tools such as receiving money by credit cards, mass payments, website payments, „buy now“ buttons, subscription and recurring payments and more. There are fees set on receiving money in amount of 2,5% + $0,25 or 5% + $0,25 (when you receive money by credit card).

  • Business Account – this kind of account was design to meet all needs of online business. You will be able to manage your business account under your business name. This kind of account offers all benefits of Personal Pro account and add new features like managing multiple online businesses with one account, integrate AlertPay into third-party applications and more while the fees remain the same.

Support
If you need to contact AlertPay you can use support ticket system, you will receive the respond usually within 24 hours. In the case of emergency you can use support phone number.


PayPal

PayPal is number one online payment processor which is owned by eBay Company. It offers all the standard features like deposit, withdrew, send and receive money. Establishing of account is free of charge.

PayPal offers 3 types of account:

  • Personal Account – it is standard account tailored for ordinary internet user. You can shopping online or send and receive money from other PayPal users mostly without any fees. These accounts are mostly used for buying.

  • Premier Account – is designed for small online business. You will be able to buy and sell using your personal name. Also you are able to accept credit card, debit card and bank account payments.

  • Business Account – is used for all kind of business. You will be able to sell and buy using your business or company name.

Fees are different they depends on where you live, but they are in range of 1,9% – 3,9% + $0,3.

Support
You can contact PayPal through email or phone.

In conclusion I think for business purposes it is the best when you use both processors. PayPal is a must in online business it adding more trust and respect to the business owner, it can be used in more than 190 countries worldwide. AlertPay offer very nice design and it is great alternative for PayPal because you can withdraw money also in many countries which PayPal not support. For personal needs I will prefer PayPal because most of online sellers accept this processor while many don’t accept AlertPay. Read more...

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Forex trading robots are programs which help you to determine when to buy or sell a currency. This way you should be able to earn money online. The question is do forex trading robots really work?

On the Internet you will find many available “100% working” forex robots. Most of them are just a peace of crap and not work. Their only purpose is to lure the money out of people.

On the other hand there are also few forex robots which are generally know as really working which can make you some money in long run. But forget about the fast way of making money. No forex trading robot is 100% working, most of them are working for 70-90% so you will go through some loses as well. But if you bet on the working forex robot in long term you should be in profit, how much? Nobody knows.

How to determine which robot is working and which is scam?
• Before you decide to purchase forex robot try to search information about it on the Internet. Try to look for reviews from real users not from sellers (they will be obviously not talking about weak sides of their product).
• Good trading robots usually have demo account, so you can see how successful the program is.
• Money back guarantee. Make sure the program you want to purchase have this guarantee.

Despite there are some working programs before you decide to purchase the program I want you to answer this question: If these trading robots would be really that profitable why would be companies willing to sell them and allow anybody to profit from them?
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In previous articles I was talking about importance of link exchange. It is great SEO tool which improve your Google page rank (PR) and get you higher in search engines what should lead to higher traffic to your blog. But the point is how to persuade owners of sites to add your link?

Especially when you have a new blog who would like to exchange link with you? What benefit would opposite site gain from it? You have no PR and no traffic you are simply unattractive:). The only powerful tool you have is your creativity in writing and in designing of your blog.
Before you would just think about link exchange improve your blog. Find nice and suitable customized template. There are plenty free blog templates which are really nice and looks professional. I personally prefer professional clean looking templates because they look serious.

After you found your desired template and installed it successfully, start to write articles. When you have new blog I suggest you write every day at least 1 article consist of at lest 250 words. This way you will create wide content and what is more you will be listed in search engines faster. Write about things you know, you can share some useful advices as well. You should also think about key words which should be used through your articles (but avoid key words overusing, not more than 5%-10% of all words in article). And check your grammar (just hope I don’t have grammar mistakes here:)

If you have created content of at least 10-15 articles you can start looking for good candidates for link exchange. Where to search? I think Google search is good for beginning but I personally prefer searching in good sites directories. When searching use your keywords this way you will find out who are your competitors, they are also your potential link exchange partners.

After you find good sites (good = higher PR than you have and focused on similar topics as you are writing about) try to contact the owners. Good sites usually have contact forms so you can use them. Also lots of sites use chat boxes widgets with dofollow link, you can write there as well. Always be polite and respectful, try to point out the advantages of link exchange with you. Give them few days to respond if they don’t react they are probably not interested there is no point to contact them again.

Leave comment on other blogs, but try to write something constructive something what will contribute to the whole topic. If your comment is interesting you will probably get the attention of the blog author he may contact you for link exchange.

Also good tip is to ask in relevant forums if you are active member you will probably have good results. There are many
forums with link exchange market places so you can try there as well.

GOOD LUCK:)
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If you want to succeed in your online business you need to know how to promote it and get as much traffic as possible. There is surely many tips and tricks which work but in this article I would like to focus on the most essential and really working free ways of business promotion.

1. Submit your blog to product directories
No matter what product or service you are selling the great way how to improve the traffic for your blog is submission of your products into product directories. These sites work like search engines but they search in listed products. So don’t miss this chance to get visible. I like especially Google Products Search and allproducts com. But there are plenty of other product directories.

2. Exchange link with sellers of complementary products
Think about your products and try to find complementary products which are your customers buying along with your products. After you find these products focus on their main online sellers and try to persuade them to link exchange with you. It is both way profitable so it should not be that hard.

3. Free articles directories
If you are good in writing and know well how it goes in business, writing free articles can help you to become respectable authority. People will know you and they will trust you so they will buy your products easier. Along with these articles you can often submit also your short bio with the link to your website. Good place where to submit is ezine there is plenty of other sites as well.

4. Free advertising
There are nice services on the Internet such as Free For All Pages or classified ads where you can submit your ads for free.

5. Get subscribers
Try to gain as much subscribers as possible. The best way how to do it is offer them something for free (for example e-book or sample of your product) if they subscribe. Then you can send them emails with updates about your products or about special discounts or offers. But don’t spam them. One mail in a month is enough.

6. Be active at forums
First of all choose only respectful and active forums with many users. The forums should be related to your business or products. Act nicely and help other users. Place your link in your signature so more active you will be the higher exposure of your link you will receive.

7. Be active on social networks
Big phenomena of present days are social networks. So why don’t use them to gain more traffic? Create account at facebook and tweeter. Be active and gain friends. You can promote your link or product on your profile side.

8. Publish YouTube videos
YouTube is more and more popular with huge traffic daily. Before you can gain a part of this traffic you have to persuade others to subscribe for your channel. Is not that hard subscribe to other people and they will probably subscribe to you. After that start to publish regularly short videos and tutorials. If your tutorials will be helpful you will become well knows youtube publisher so people will like to subscribe for you. You can promote your business at your profile page.

I hope this article was interesting for you and will help to increase your traffic and sales. Wish you good luck:)
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High and quality traffic is in onliene business the key factor for success. There are many ways how to increase traffic to your site. Some of them may be quite slow and other may be quite fast. In this article I will be talking about one fast way how to increase traffic to your blog.

Manual traffic exchanges are programs which allow you to surf other members’ sites. For each site surfed you will receive credits which can be exchange for impressions for the site you are advertising. That means more site you surf more traffic you will gain. Some of these programs offer also banner and text ads so you can promote your sites also this way. Fast increase of your traffic is the main advantages of traffic exchange programs. On the other hand there is huge and fundamental disadvantage of all these programs which is connected to the quality of the traffic you will get from this source.

So what kind of traffic will you get from traffic exchanges?
If you are promoting business site and looking for potential customers who will buy your product so you can make money this is not right place where to go. Most of the traffic exchange surfers are owners of other sites who want to promote their referral links, online business, affiliate programs or promoting adsense on their own sites. Most of these users don’t care about what you are offering on your site, they just want to increase their own traffic. So on one hand your traffic will surely raise but will you receive potential buyers or people who are really interested in your content? I don’t think so. Another disadvantage is you will receive the traffic only if you surf other users’ sites what can become time consuming and annoying.

New kind of traffic exchange?
The main problem with traffic exchanges is indifferent and not interested audience. But there is one site which works at the same basis but bringing something new. The site I am talking about is Linkreferral.com. Your site will be listed in the main site directory. Your position in this directory will be influenced by your activities. The higher in the directory you are more traffic you will receive. You will get positive points for visiting other member’s sites but that is not all. If you want to be ranked high you have to write also short reviews and appraise the quality of websites you visited. Generally users here are more focused on the content and appearance of visited sites as users at traffic exchange sites.

There is a question if more focused users will generate higher income for your online business? Not at all. The audience here is the same as it is in manual traffic exchange sites. It consists mostly of sites’ owners who are primary looking for fast way of traffic for their sites and not for other businesses. I think the main advantage here is the feedback you will receive from other users so you will be able to improve wake areas of your site or blog.

To sum up I doubt there is any fast way how to gain stable amount of quality traffic to your site. The only and proven method is creating SEO friendly site with unique content. You can read more about this in mine previous articles.
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HYIP is a shortcut for High-yeald investment program. I must admit I don’t like this way of making money on the Internet at all. So if you are fan of these earning money programs consider further reading of this article:)

So how do most of the HYIPs work? It is really simple pyramid scheme when everything run smoothly until there is enough new members joining and willing to invest. The program usually promises fast return of your investment with some nice extra earnings. You don’t need to do anything just invest, wait for few days and cash out money.

Why are people willing to join hyips?
They usually offer nice design since they want to attract visitors and create the imaginings of honest and professional business.

The whole scamming process looks usually like this:
You find this program and think: “Hey what’s this site all about? It looks nice and offers fast income without any work. Let’s try it and invest just $5.” After few days you receive payment $6 without any problem. You think you just found gold mine and decide to reinvest money plus add something more from own pocket. And again you receive your payment without problem fast. Now you think the program is honest since you were paid. You decide to do some serious investment and thinking how easy is making money online. Next day you want to check your account to see how your investment is progressing. But what??! The site is gone. Congrats you were just scammed and will probably never see your money again.

Only think I can suggest you if you will get into this situation contact your money processing operator (usually alertpay or liberty reserve work with most of hyips) and tell them what happened. If you will be lucky you can gain back at least part of your investment. But best advice I can give you here is just avoid hyips and look for less risky business.

If you just still can not resist HYIPs and want to reduce the risk of loosing your investment visit hyips monitor sites (such as HYIP Monitor GoldPoll) they usually offer list of actually paying sites with reviews and ratings.
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In the previous article I was writing about how to get indexed by Google. This is the first step to get traffic to your sites. After you will be added to Google people will be able to find you. But it is generally truth that the most traffic getting sites on the first searching page. In this article I will try to provide some SEO tips how to improve Google position.

• I think the most essential to increase your Google position is link exchange. That means you will agree with other site owner that he will put link to your site on his site and vice versa. It is important to look for sites with higher page rank (PR) than your site has and also it should be focus on the same topic as you are writing about. The more sites are linking to you the higher reputation you have and the higher position in Google you will have.

Update your content regularly with unique articles. Google prefer active blogs so try to write as much as possible. You should use your keywords but be careful not overuse them (it is good to use keywords especially at the beginning of the articles). Try to write for your audience not for the SEO or Google. People will like your blog more and will stay longer at your site. And important warning: Don’t duplicate the content of other sites, it will be much harder for you to gain good position in Google.

Inside linking. Link your articles to each other for example you can refer to previous article you have written. This way you can create more complex blog and Google bots will find all your articles easier.

Optimize your blog for SEO - here is the great article about simple tricks how to optimize your SEO

Oldness of your blog. The older your blog is the higher reputation it has. Of course this is truth only if you update your blog regularly during this time.

Wish you good luck:)
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So you have something to say to the world or do you want to promote your business to make money? The best thing how to get visible is through the website or blog. But the point is no matter how creative writer you are or how lucrative your business is if you getting no visitors nobody will know.

Firs I have to say I am not an expert in this filed all I know I have learned by myself when I was creating my first blog and I also read a lot of articles about this:) So let’s continue, I think the best way how to increase traffic to your site is to let people find you through search engines. This way you will receive quality traffic to your blog that means people who are probably interested in the topic you are writing about. Before you can start thinking how to get indexed by google or yahoo it is very important to think about the keywords you would like to use in your site.
Keywords are words or phrases which best describe the main topic of your article/s. You have to choose them wisely, imagine what kind of audience you want for your blog and which words will they use in search engines. It is good if you can find niche market which is big enough to receive nice traffic but not too competitive (settled by many strong competitors).

After you have find out your keywords you should create your blog content where you will be using your keywords (be careful don’t use them too much it will harm your position in search engines and audience don’t like it as well). Try to write as much as you can, that is important especially when you have new blog. It usually takes some time to get noticed by search engines. You can speed thing up by submitting your blog to web directories. There are also websites which submit your blog to these search engines for free so so you will be noticed faster by search engines. For this purpose I recommend sites like submitexpress.com.

After you will be added to google (it may takes days or weeks) the harder part is just waiting for you. How to increase your position to get to the first searching page for your keywords? I will be writing about this in near future so stay tuned:)
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Everybody want to make money, right? And the best way is when we can earn them easily, fast and from comfort of our homes. This is the main idea of all earn money online programs. One thing I have learned when I was looking for these making money programs was: There is no easy way of earning cash. Although these programs are trying to create this kind of illusion. It is just an illusion. It doesn’t work in the real world.

PTC sites
Firs way of making money on the Internet I will be writing here about will be pay to click sites or simply PTC sites. These are websites where you can earn money simply by clicking on ads published by advertisers. They usually pay 1 cent per 1 ad clicked and half cent for each click your referral do.

So why people like PTC sites?

• I think it is primary because clicking ads is simple, there is no skill required.
• Next very powerful weapon in the hands of PTC owners is the illusion. The illusion that you need no money to start and after some time you will be able to earn enough to rent referrals and earn more and more…
• Thirdly most of nowadays PTC sites offer really attractive design so people are impressed and register.
• And finally but not last is magical formula “instant payments”. So you don’t need to wait to be paid anymore as it used to be in the past, now you will receive the money immediately. From my point of view this are the main decoy of ptc sites.

And now let’s face the truth, or how it really works?
Yes there is really no fee to pay to join these sites. But your earnings will be quite slow (since the usual pay rate is 1 cent). But meanwhile you learn the main income here comes from rented referrals, so you decide to invest small money to rent referrals hoping they will be clicking all ads and bring you some cash. Unfortunately usually this not happen, referrals may click for few days but after that they usually give up and leave. So you don’t earn back your investments but still hoping next time you will get better referrals so rent again. But the situation will repeat. After some time you are fed up and leave. But this is the case of only trusted ptc sites. But most of ptc sites are scams, they will collect some bux from users and leave and users will never see the money. These scammers just undercut the name of the whole ptc industry what have negative impact on those few best ptc sites which are really paying.

But I must admit that some people are really earning big money here, how? They invest big money to upgrade membership and rent 4000 and more refs but they must be also clever and manage their account properly otherwise they big investments will just hardly return not talking about net profit.

Will ptc industry survive? We can just guess. But my opinion is the profit for users will be decreasing, what will lead to decreasing of main source of income for these sites what are users’ investments (users will be wiling to invest less since they will be earning less). The second earning source of these sites is advertisers who are promoting their businesses. But users are still less attentive and usually don’t care about the ad content, so I think in the future there will be still less big advertisers for these PTC sites. I think there have to be something done to sustain this segment. Ptc sites must bring some higher value to the users so they will be willing to stay and click. Maybe creating some kind of social networks ptc sites or ptc sites where you have to pay a fee, so people who will pay will be willing to stay longer since they would want to collect their investments back. As I sad we can just guess only future will show us:)
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