I'm quite sure you've all seen the Yuwie spam flooding the internet for the past maybe 6 or 7 months. "The social networking site that pays!" is what they are known as. But is this site a complete waste of time? I would say it's a big waste of my time, but some will disagree and say it's not. Ok, so they pay you to use their hideous site. But the time you spend spamming your referral link around just to earn peanuts could be spent doing something else that could be making you so much more money.

When you first visit Yuwie, you're greeted with a video. A "clever" video telling you how great their site is and how you can earn good money with them. Now here's the part that had me giggling. The man in your computer screen says that you get paid 50 cents for each 1,000 page views you get. "now that may not seem like much but it adds up fast"...Yeah let me go sign up right away - I'm sold.

Here's one of the perferred spam quotes from users that promote Yuwie like a pack of hungry wolves. I'm sure you've seen it as well.

Just like MySpace except you get paid!

To answer your question, ladies and gents - Yes Yuwie is a waste of time. We'll call this an opinion since there's others that disagree with me. They're much more focused on smothering you with ads when they could be redesigning their site (much needed) and providing users with a great unique experience. Here's a question to ask yourself: Why would I want to promote a website that pays me so cheaply when I could be promoting my very own website and make much more money? WHY!?

Here's a way to make an easy 10 dollars and an additional $5 each time you refer someone. It involves signing up to a free site but you must be referred by someone to get the 10 bucks (I wasn't aware of this until recently..today actually). Let me tell you a little about the site first.

With Obopay you can instantly pay back a friend, split a dinner bill, get money from your parents, get quick cash, pay up or collect on a friendly wager, track purchases, check your balance, and much, much more. And, you can do it all from your phone; anywhere, anytime with anyone.

Obopay is a service that allows anyone with a cell phone to be able to send and recieve money to anyone instantly around the world using just your cell phone. It's a very handy service that I discovered while using one of my favorite GPT sites, FusionCash. And don't worry about it, they're very reliable, trusting and professional. Like PayPal.

Ok, I think that's all you need to know aye? Good! Here is your banner/link for you to sign up to and get the $10 (and additional $5 for every referral you send). It's a great referral program, I must say.

CashTroops.com is a new GPT site that pays you to complete offers, surveys etc. It has just launched today. It's brand new but I look forward to watching it rocket. It's based on a "troops" theme if you didn't assume that by looking at the name. I was asked to help maintain CashTroops, so you can always contact me if you have any issues or questions with it. I'll be adding and updating offers mostly.

The design of CashTroops is pretty much in beta. So you can probably look forward to seeing a new design soon or down the road. I will say this - It's very user friendly and not cluttered with ads or junk. The navigation is super easy for those who may get confused or just for anyone. You can also look forward to seeing some forums added to it soon.

Lets talk about the referral program. There's not many GPT sites that pay you 5 referral levels deep. It works like so:

If you get to work, You'll be able to make a killing simply by referring friends and family to the site. The first members to a new GPT site are usually the ones to make the most money out of it. I have plenty of GPT tips here on CashJuke to help you get offers to credit as well as tips to get more referrals.

To wrap this up, this will be a great GPT site to add to your current money makers. Go sign up!

Bux.to is a PTC site that has been accused of stealing another PTC sites script. But that's not the shady thing I'm going to be talking about here. Before I explain what's going on with this site - I know people have been paid by Bux.to. Even some members here at CashJuke use Bux.to without any problems (I think). But the simple fact that a site has paid members won't be enough to keep it off my scam list.

Let me tell you what Bux.to loves to do. They loooove to sell unreferred referrals to you. Since everyone gets paid for referring members and at the same time struggle to refer lots of people, they will use this to their advantage. The last I checked, you can buy about 500 referrals for the price of $459.00 from Bux.to. They're alot more focused on this rather than providing enough ads for their members to click (They're a PTC site!).

Unpaid Members

There's alot of complaints about this site not paying up to it's loyal members. Yes, I know you will not be paid if fraud is detected but I don't believe that's the case here. I think they're extremely money hungry. Especially with the big referral business and the many unpaid members they got going on here. So are they a scam? In my eyes, yes. There's too many people not being paid.

Before we start - If you don't have an Adsense account, then go create one.
Ok lets go.

Many people struggle to make a decent amount of money online with Google Adsense. I've struggled with it myself. Earnings tend to rise and fall and you have no reason why. One of the main reasons you're not doing so swell with Adsense could be because of your niche. If your website is all about crickets, then you're most likely to do poorly. Another main reason is ad placement. And let's not forget traffic.

Alot of people will choose a niche soley for the reason of its high paying clicks. This isn't always good. You want to write about things that you can actually keep writing about. People come to your site looking for useful information. But here's a little secret to some - If you give too much information in your articles, then your visitors will get exactly what they came for and leave without clicking your Adsense. So if you're focused more on Adsense than anything, then leave a little "gap" in your content leaving your visitors wanting more, which they will then click an ad link related to what you're talking about on that page...If it's in the right place. In one of my previous posts titled Adsense Tricks That Increase Earnings, I mentioned a few tips that include adding a background to your Adsense and putting it inside your posts. I failed to mention putting a big square block at the very top of your articles. If you have a big Adsense block at the very beginning of your content, and then your content is pretty much useless to the reader, Visitors will for sure click to get off your site. It also wouldn't hurt you to have a plain looking or very ugly site.

I'm sure you've heard about alot of people that make crazy amounts of money with Adsense everyday. But they don't tell you that you need alot of sites to accomplish this. I'm talking 500 of your own "spam blogs" or more. The blogs will have an article or 2 that in no way help the reader and will also be very plain. But that's what you want. All you need is at least one post on each one. I know how hard it is promoting one site, let alone 500 sites. So you're probably wondering.. How am I going to create 500 blogs and then get people to them? To create them you're going to need to create alot of email addresses. You can actually hire someone to do this or do it yourself. But nevermind that, this is the easy part. The hard part is getting people to all of them. This may be unethical but you'd be surprised how many people do it.

This many blogs spread wide but don't even put a dent into all of the sites on the internet. You're going to need traffic to each blog everyday but you don't need loads of traffic since there's going to be so many. This will take some work, but in the end it will all be worth the big check. Getting some traffic to all of your new blogs is going to take a little time. You can start by Downloading this free article submitter and submit articles to 85 article directories with it. There's an upgrade (recommended) that allows you to submit to 668 article directories. Submit content to those directories with links pointing back to your own sites. You don't even have to write your own content. Also, use all of the other free methods of promoting which include social bookmarking, forum posting, blog commenting, social networking and answer questions on Yahoo Answers and kindly leave your link.

With this many blogs and links coming into each one, you're for sure going to make some good money with Adsense. Like I said, it's going to take some time but well worth it. Hire people to help if you must!

Summary - Create 500 crappy blogs that doesn't help a damn soul, monetize them with Adsense (especially at the beginnning of your first post), add one post to each blog, write one article every single day and submit it to article directories (having your link at the bottom of your articles) and promote using all the free methods I said above. Also, do some seo. Search engines will contribute some nice free traffic.