I have been checking out online sites where one can make some dough. None of these sites offers to get anyone rich quick and some of them do take more time and effort than others.

In this post, I’ll be going over a lot of these sites, including which ones were a huge waste of my time and some that can earn our household a decent amount of income per month.

I divide these types of sites into two categories: for publishers and for anyone.

Please note that all the sites I review pay via PayPal unless otherwise noted.

For Publishers

Publishers are people who author their own website. If you have a blog (even a free one!), you are a publisher. Most of these money-making sites request you to place adverts on your site and there are a number of different ways one can make bread with these companies.

1. Google Adsense: Perhaps the most well-known program out there for publishers, Google Adsense ads pay either by cost-per-click(CPC) or cost-per-thousand-impression (CPM). It is easy to place Adsense adverts onto your site, however, there is no definitive payment system. The general consensus about the web is that you will earn better for a site with good content and high traffic. The minimum pay-out is $100, which may take a long time for some publishers to achieve.
2. Ask2Link: Like Google Adsense, you are required to place adverts on your site or blog. However, the code is tricky to get onto the site, as it doesn’t show up immediately (may take 2 hours to show up as active in your account at Ask2Link, too). Just keep checking their site to ensure your site changes from Inactive to Active. But the minimum pay-out is $10 and you earn 50% of the final price of the ad sale. Even better, you set the price of your advertising space, so if you have a high-traffic site or high page-rank/Alexa rank, you can adjust your price accordingly! That’s pretty amazing. It gets better: the referral program is off-the-chain:
   
3. ViralBlogAds: Again, you place ads on your site. I have signed up for this, but have been unable to find any definitive amounts I’ll be paid for those ads. The minimum pay-out with VBA is $25. As for their referral program - you earn 15% of all referral earnings for LIFE.
   
4. Freebies4Webmasters: Place code on 3 of your URLs to earn £10 for the first month and £5 each additional month. That translates to roughly $17/$8.50! Further, you receive an additional £10 incentive for referrals! I haven’t yet put their ads on this site, but I have put it on my other site I’m Beautiful Like Me - and have already been paid! See for yourself:
   
5. Matched.co.uk: Like Freebies4Webmasters, you can earn an easy £3 per month for displaying one ad per page up to 5 pages per site. There is a sign-on bonus for joining right now of £5 which will be paid at the end of the month-long run of the ad. There is an additional £5 bonus for each referral! I’m currently waiting to be matched with an advertiser.

For Anyone

The following sites pay you to view advertisements for a certain amount of time.

1. Hits4Pay: You can earn bread for reading email adverts. Register, select a few categories of interest and when you are matched with advertisers, you will be delivered an email alert. Sign on to your account, read the email, spending at least 60 seconds viewing it and instantly earn $0.02. They have a two-level referral program, which means that you earn $0.01 for all your referrals earnings as well as $0.01 for all their referral earnings. This is one of the best referral earning potentials I’ve seen in this type of online money-making! There is currently a $10 sign-on bonus and a $25 pay-out minimum.

   

2. Isabelmarco: Earn bread for viewing advertisements online. Register as a free member and earn $0.01 by viewing a 30 second ad. Free members don’t have the same opportunity as premium members to earn well: fewer ads to view, for one. The referral rate of a free membership is $0.007. Premium members earn $0.015 per click and $0.01 per referral clicks. Premium membership is $9.00 per month or $70.00 per year. Pay-out minimum is $9.00.

   

3. Opinion Outpost: Earn “Opinion Points” redeemable for bread by completing surveys. Register, fill out lengthy profiles to increase your chances to receive surveys. The surveys are for targeted demographic groups and will be assigned by the way you answer the questions in the profiles sections. The bad news is you will likely earn slowly. The good news is that this won’t be much of a time-suck passed the lengthy profiles you fill out. 10 Opinion Points = $1.00 and the minimum pay-out is 50 points/$5.00. Referrals earn you $1 with an affiliate minimum pay-out being $20.00. Pay-outs are mailed by check and take 6-8 weeks for delivery.

   

4. MySurvey: Earn points redeemable for dough by taking surveys. The surveys you receive are based on interests you select while registering, so you will likely only qualify every once in a while. The good news is that this won’t be a huge time-suck. The bad news is you will very likely earn slowly. Surveys vary in point value, typically 20-100, although up to 1500 points, depending on length and content. Points are valued at 1,000 = $10.00 with the minimum pay-out at $10.00. There are a lot of sweepstakes and contests happening right now, too. Currently, just by signing on I am entered to win $100. Another contest is for completed surveys - for every completed survey, you are entered to win one of ten $100 prizes in the month of September. There are several other sweepstakes one is automatically entered into happening right now. The referral program awards you 150 points per referral.

   

5. Survey Savvy: Earn bread for taking surveys. Register, fill out lengthy portraits to increase your chances to receive surveys. Since surveys are for targeted demographic groups, you may not receive many surveys. The minimum payout is $1 and will arrive by check 4-6 weeks after requesting payment. Referrals are two-level here, as well. This means that you receive an incentive for all surveys completed by your referrals as well as your referrals’ referrals. Invitations to surveys detail the incentives for the survey.

6. Inbox Dollars: Earn dough a variety of ways with this money-making service. There is a $5.00 sign-on bonus happening right now. You can take surveys, play games, read emails, try new products, shop and more. There is a $30 minimum pay-out. I took a couple of surveys, read an email and checked out a new product in which I already had some interest. I’ve currently earned a total of $9.27. Referrals will earn you 10% of their earnings.
   

Not for me, thanks anyhow

A few of the sites I signed up for are not a good way for me to earn any amount of money.

1. Getpaidtonight: You are paid something like a quarter ($0.25) for completing “tasks.” These tasks include signing up for those too-good-to-be-true offers (you’ve seen them before: “Free 3G iPhone* after completing 2 Silver offers, 2 Gold offers and 4 platinum offers”). Not for me, thanks anyhow.
2. There are a number of other (probably really great) sites out there that do not offer to pay via PayPal or check by mail. I’m not personally interested in signing up for additional PayPal-like sites to earn a few extra dollars. This may change in the future.

If you participate in any of these or similar programs, I’d love to hear about your experiences. If I’m missing out on a great program, by all means let me in on the secret! I’ll be happy to use your affiliations, too.

If you decide to join any of these programs using one of my referrals, first of all, thank you! Best of luck to you in your bread-making endeavors. By all means, let me know how things are going for you.

I will be updating monthly about earnings. Wish me luck!

-tata