4000 visitors broken

Just a small post to share my latest achievement.

Last week I had over 4000 visitors to my Squidoo lenses. I am far away from the numbers some of the big shots are pulling in, but I am really happy with reaching this benchmark.

As you can see I also have about 104$ pending. That is for a 2 month period, but I am really happy with it.

Another Squidoo Payout

This post is a bit delayed since the payout happened on the 15th of March, however I have been quite busy with a lot of stuff that is happening in my life at the moment.

This payday covered the money I earned with my lenses in January and I saw quite a jump in my earnings.

41.30$ was paid out to my PayPal account. It is still not close to being able to replace a job, but it is a nice little extra boost of money. It got me even more excited about Squidoo and I am working hard on getting my 70th lens created.

Right now I am at 68 lenses and I am hoping I can throw 2 more together before March is over. My latest lens is on some of the more unique LEGO items out there and I am hoping the gift guide can help me get more earnings and help people buy more interesting gifts. :)

Clixsense does payout and is not a scam

Yesterday 7.64$ arrived at my PayPal account from Clixsense. That proves that Clixsense is indeed a genuine paid to click page. It doesn't mean however that it is worth the time it takes to actually earn the money. I have been clicking daily since end of August and I only earned enough for half a grocery shopping trip.

My final note reviewing Clixsense is as such, it is genuine, but your time can be spent much, much better.

Clixsense Cashout. Is it a scam?

Here we go. I clicked the button to cash out from Clixsense. I had collected 8$ and with the cashout fees I should receive 7.40$
Very much looking forward to see if I get this money or if Clixsense does turn out to be a scam in the end. 5 months of furious add clicking is over in any event, now I just need to get another 1.05$ at Neobux and I can stop this crazy clicking all together.

I am still doing surveys and still going strong with Squidoo though as both those venues seems to actually pay a meaningful amount of money. (although the time spent still puts the gains way below minimum wage in most countries)

Goal reached!

Ladies and Gentlemen,
After spending approximately 5 months add clicking, answering surveys and  writing on Squidoo I am proud to announce that my initial goal of 10€ had been reached. Today another 5€ was deposited into my bank from mysurvey.ie. This brings me to a total value of 12.34€ earned on the Internet, 2.34€ more than my goal was.

Interestingly, but not surprisingly NONE of these comes from addclicking. That being said, which the change to Clixsense payout treshhold I might actually be able to pull out 8$ from them in 6 days time. (at 7.892$ atm, so should be doable.)

Pretty excited about January payday, I think it will be good as I have a good bunch of lenses in tier 3 and hopefully I will keep my Dwarf Rabbit Care lens in t2.

December pay day is first though and only 18 days or so away \^.^/

Delayed earnings update, but with really good news.

My Internet disappeared for 5 days and I was as such unable to continue my clicking adventure or update this blog on earning money from home.
However, now I am back in full force and with some really good news!
But first the update on earnings from my online money making adventures:

Surveyhead: 15.05 $ still no new surveys from Surveyhead. So close, yet so very far

Clixsense : 7.729$ Part of the good news comes from ClixSense. From the 1st of February the payout treshold has been lowered to 8$. This means I should be able to cash in on my clicking adventure as I think I will probably reach 8$ around the start of February. Good news indeed!

Neobux: 0.827$ Still quite some way from the 2$ payout treshold.

Dungeons and Treasures : 10k gold and 1.197$

Mysurvey: 580 points (115 points is 1€) I am going to request a payout as I can get 5€ for 575 points.

GlobalTestmarked: 115 points (1000 points is 50$) These guys are really slow at sending out surveys and I don't think I will ever actually get anything from them.

The most exciting thing though is that I had my first payday at Squidoo.
 Squidoo: 7.19$ paid to my PayPal account. This is both Amazon sales and tier ranking. Not bad at all for the first payday! I currently have 3.10$ pending on my dashboard. And that ladies and gentlemen means that Squidoo has already for certain made me 10$ in 2 and a half month!

With my Squidoo paycheck this brings me to a total amount of 7.6 € paid out (as 7.19$ converts to approximately 5.6€).

And that is the second part of the good news. I am very, very close to my goal of 10€ \^.^/

First earnings update of 2012

 New Years came and went and the world did not end.
I am back with an earnings update and to talk a little about my newest project. But first the numbers for the cold hard cash! :)

Surveyhead: 15.05 $ (I keep checking back on the site as I am quite close to the payout, but I haven't been given a survey for ages, maybe they don't want to pay me. We will see what happens)

Clixsense : 7.37$

Neobux: 0.713$

Dungeons and Treasures : 5.4k gold and 1.132$ + a tiny bit waiting for conversion from December.

Mysurvey: 480 points (115 points is 1€) I am saving up for the 5€ payout this time at 575 points

GlobalTestmarked: 115 points (1000 points is 50$) 10% mark reached. These guys are really slow at sending out surveys though

Recently I haven't received many surveys  at all and when I have, I haven't had much luck qualifying. We will see what happens now that Christmas and New Years is over.

 Squidoo: 4.29$ pending
Squidoo is quite interesting at the moment, because I am slowly building up and deciding upon a niche. (or should I say several niches.)
So far I am looking at Movies of the 90s one of my lenses on that is top 10 Cartoon and Animated movies of the 90s
Another niche is Magic the Gathering. I recently finished a list of all the Angel creature cards in MTG
The one niche I am the most excited about is Scandinavian Design. So Far I have only made one lens in the area, which is about Georg Jensen design, but it is something I am quite passionate about and I am looking into setting up an interlinked blog on the subject.


My first Payday on Squidoo will be the 15th of January and I am quite excited to see what will happen. I didn't have many lenses going in the first month though so probably wont be more than a few pennies, but still! :)

Overall Payout so far: 2 €

Oh yes, I promised to tell you about my newest project as well.  I have started a new blog just for fun. I call it the Pink-A-Rator. Have a look if you like pink stuff I am sure you will enjoy it.

 Here are my earnings so far.

Surveyhead: 12.85$

Clixsense : 5.78$

Neobux: 0.509$ (a 4th of the way to the 2$ payout)

Dungeons and Treasures : 246 430 gold currently processing and 0.713$ (I am only playing Dungeons and Treasures for pleasure now, so I do skip days from time to time).

Mysurvey: 160 points (115 points is 1€)I am going to withdraw when I have enough for 2€ so just another 70 points to go. 

GlobalTestmarked: 90 points (1000 points is 50$) Almost a tenth of the way although these guys seems very slow in sending out surveys.

And finally Squidoo:

Squidoo: 2.05$ (pending to get paid to my PayPal account.

This does not include the money paid for lens rank on Squidoo as I wont get paid for that until I my lenses have reached an age of 2 months. (they will gather up credit, it just wont be paid until 2 months has passed.)

I am currently trying to get into the whole idea of making sales lenses. I put together a Hello Kitty iPhone case lens which I hope will bring some traffic, however I am still trying to wrap my head around keywords and SEO and it might take many more lenses before I actually hit Jackpot. My Dwarf Rabbit care lens seems to be doing fairly well and so does my Christmas traditions in Denmark lens. 

I have weekend until sunday and the plan is to have 20 lenses up and running by then. Currently I have 16 lenses so that is 2 new lenses pr day. It should be doable, but we will have to see what happens. :) 

Summing up the earnings: 

21.902 $

and some unredeemed points. If that was all on 1 platform I would have reached my goal. As it is, there is still some way to go.

I'm writing lenses on Squidoo and would love you to join me

Squidoo Squidoo Squidoo

I have been writing like a madman on Squidoo trying to get some money lenses going. I now have 15 lenses. Some of them I am more happy about than others. My top lens is still Ireland in Pictures however the visitor stream is dying down now that the initial run from lens of the day has disappeared. I am trying to save the lens rank by keeping it updated regularly. Lens rank equals payout from Squidoo so I would love to keep it high.

My Dwarf Rabbit Care lens is getting a lot of google traffic, which is awesome. It also just had its first sales yesterday so it has started earning me money. We will have to see if it keeps up, but right now I am super happy with the lens.

My newest lens is Hello Kitty iPhone skins I was looking through Amazon and I found these amazing Hello Kitty themes for iPhone, iPad, iPod and for the Kindle. I just had to put together a lens about it. I have no clue whether it will do well or not, but I do know that after writing the lens I really want an iPad so I can put one of the Hello Kitty iPad Cases on it. ;)

I also put together a lens on how to make Woven Paper Heart Baskets this was a pretty cool lens to write as I was doing all the crafting at the same time and I got into the christmas spirit while I was crafting, listening to christmas music and typing up the lens.

Then there is my lens on Blankets and throws. It got it's first comment today and it is very new so it isn't too strange that it is not more visited. I hope I got my keywords right for it and that it will start getting google hits at some point.

My purple star lens "My quest for the perfect Waffle Iron" has gotten a bit of Google traffic, however doesn't seem to be getting any sales. At least not yet. I do get some nice comments from the awesome people at Squidoo so that is something! :)

All in all things are better than I had expected, but I am a very impatient person and it annoys me when some of my lenses are not getting any visitors at all. I will need to tweak it seems! Tomorrow I will throw another update on earnings for all my projects. Hopefully there will be some nice numbers to show overall! :)

Join me in writing for Squidoo.

Dungeons and Treasures - Basic how to earn money playing the game.

Time to go a bit more into my current favourite "paid to" scheme.

Dungeons and Treasures

I have mentioned before that this is kind of an oldschool dungeon crawler, but the game is a bit broader than this.

When you first start out the game you are giving 500 gold. Make sure you spend it on a decent sword. There is a player marked and you can usually find a "Solid Sword" for a reasonable amount. If you are lucky you will also be able to afford a "Potion of Learning" on the first day. The trick to making a lot of gold from the page seems to be to level up as fast as possible because your character level affects the dungeon level. The higher the dungeon level the more gold you can make. If you have a look at the screen shot below you will see exactly what I mean. (note the gold earned does not include gains from chest keys or items that you sell).

As you can see I didn't make it past 50 so far and as I only have one day left of the the month, before the levels are reset I don't believe I will. It is however my goal for next month to get as high level as possible so I will be investing my gold in "Potion of Learning +2" as soon as I have the gold for it.

Aside from dungeon crawling I have a few daily routines on the site that I would recommend taking up:

The Temple:

Make sure you visit the temple every day and pray as you can get lucky and win gold doing this. Here is a list of my last 10 visits.

Last 10 visits DateGain

10/30/2011 01:42 Nothing

10/29/2011 04:06 Nothing

10/28/2011 04:12 Nothing

10/27/2011 04:10 1223 gold

10/26/2011 06:28 Nothing

10/25/2011 05:47 Nothing

10/24/2011 07:23 3500 gold

10/23/2011 04:29 Nothing

10/22/2011 18:13 Nothing

10/21/2011 02:52 Nothing

The Treasure Hunt:

Every day you can get one free ticket to the treasure hunt. Once you have claimed it go to the map and click any spot that is not yet blacked out. You usually get something, either a bit of gold or a key for the chest room. It seems you can also win real money as the Jackpot, but I have yet to be that lucky.

The Contest Clicks:

This is a bit more time consuming. The game runs contests over a period of time. (Current one is from 22^th of october to 2^nd of november). Whenever you refresh the page, there is a chance of a small icon spawning and flashing somehwere on the site.

If you click it a small window will open telling you how many tickets you have won. You can then go to the contest clicks page and scratch your tickets.

Each one will give you a number of Esteem points. By the end of the competition you will be rewarded gold or even star points based on your rank. Star points are really nifty because they can be used to purchase more dungeons. The contest click competition is one of the only ways to obtain star points without having to spend real money.

That was a basic rundown of the game. I might be looking into other details at a later date and maybe add some more advice on how to maximise your earning potential, once I have a better idea of this myself! :)

As a side note I am currently sitting on 338112 gold and I can't wait to see what that will be converted to in a couple of days.

Questions, many questions!

I am getting a bit impatient, the "money" is ticking in much slower than I was hoping and I am starting to realize that I might be sitting here still clicking next year at this time.

So! Time to branch out some more. I mentioned earlier that I've signed up for a couple of "Paid Survey" sites. So far most of them has been a disappointment, in the sense that they haven't actively offered me surveys. I do however seem to have some luck with http://www.surveyhead.com It offers a 4$ start up bonus and it gives you credit for filling out surveys about yourself. Futhermore it seems to be sending out surveys every week. So far I have only managed to qualify for one which paid 1.25$, which was quite reasonable since the survey was only 10 minutes long. I received a mail about one that would have paid 5$ earlier today, however sadly I didn't fit the demographic. :(

Payout Treshold is 25$ so with my current 6.6$ there is still a way to go, however at least I feel like I earn a relevant amount of money considering the time I spend.

Anyways, here is a rundown of the current earnings from my different venues:

Surveyhead: 6.6$

Clixsense : 4.52$

Neobux: 0.253$

Dungeons and Treasures : 0.021$ 252576 gold pending conversion (24930 of which my mother has earned for me <3 )

Mysurvey: 25 points (115 points is 1€)

So as you can see combined I have reached 11.394$ which is approximately 8.2€. Still a looooong way until I can redeem from any of the sites and actually say that I earned something.

I don't intend on giving up though. I will keep looking for new options and hopefully I will have cashed in before October next year! ;)