From a £20 set of bets I got back £58.33 mmm nice. And hopefully the £20 I put down originally will be free thanks to topcashback.
Money update
November 11th, 2008 2 Comments »Nearly two weeks on from the start of my Google advert experiment and I’m reasonably pleased with the results. My account balance now stands at $8.41 which although isn’t actually that much money, it really is for doing nothing much. I’m starting to understand how their payments work… I only get paid when people click on a link, however not all clicks will pay me, and some clicks pay me much more than others. So far out of the 519 adverts displayed on my blog, there have been 17 clicks – if I can figure out how to customise the adverts I might be able to target them a little better to improve that. As for Top Cash Back I noticed that three people signed up directly as a result of it getting a mention on my blog. One of those new cashbackers has already reached a decent balance in their account, and the other two are well on their way (I’m able to see the balance of anyone I refer until they reach £5 as that is when I get a referral fee).
Free money
October 31st, 2008 2 Comments »OK, maybe not completely free in all cases but it’s a no brainer: cashback sites. I’ve been signed up with Top Cash Back for a year or so now, and have managed to claim back nearly £200 in that time. How does it work? Well click on the link and sign up for a free account, then whenever you buy anything online you just visit the cashback site and see if the shop you are buying from offers cashback, then visit the online shop using the cashback link.
There’s all sorts of ways to earn the cashback.. switching energy suppliers is a high earner, as is renewing your house or car insurance. I made £50 cashback just for switching my life insurance to Legal and General, and £80 for having my car and home insurance with e-sure. Buying stuff on ebay gives you cashback too even if it is only a small amount based on the revenue ebay take from the sale but I always forget about that one and have missed out on loads of cashback there. And yes.. if you sign up to the site using my link, I’ll get £2.50 from them once you earn a fiver so there is something in this for me too.
On another slightly related topic, you may have noticed the odd Google ad in the sidebar or at the bottom of some pages. This is just an experiment more than anything to see if it is possible to generate money from these adverts. You see them pretty much all over the web so they must work, mustn’t they? So far I’ve had them up for 2 days and they have generated me $0.44 in revenue. If that keeps up, it’ll be approx $6 a month which should pay for the hosting of this blog. All I have to do is make sure I ramble often enough to attract you lovely readers and hopefully you’ll click on the occasional advert too. Oh yes, and I need to throw in some keywords like “geek”, “cpu” and “bananas” amongst this rambling otherwise the adverts keep showing Jamie Oliver related content.
Anyway, back to the cashback.. here’s a nice funky banner for you to click on and take a look:
