Making Money
Laziness and Internet Success
Sep 16th
So I’ve decided that it is pure laziness that causes my lack of success online. While it works in college, the way I don’t study and yet still maintain my place on the Dean’s List, in the world of online income, laziness kills. I have achieved moderate success with my proxy server Unblock YouTube and credit card comparison website, but I have yet to take my efforts in Affiliate Marketing seriously.
I read story after story of people generating five to six figure incomes per month sending traffic to affiliate landing pages and getting them to convert. The concept seems simple enough, but the execution is much more difficult to get a handle on. I’m beginning to think jumping in head first is the way to go and trial and error the secret to success.
Earn up to $1,000 With Virtual Bank!
Nov 14th
Simply sign up for an account at Virtual Bank through a referral e-mail I send you and you can earn $20 for making a $100 deposit. Best of all, for each friend you refer, you get another $20 up to a maximum of $1,000.
The account is free to open and has no on-going fees. The $20 bonus will be applied to your account after only 30 days. The eMoneyMarket account is currently paying 2.25% on balances up to $10,000.
I have 48 more referral slots left. So if you’re interested in making a quick and easy $20 and perhaps up to $1,000, leave a comment on this post or send me an e-mail: Shaun (at) ShaunCarter.com
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Get $75 and Free Checking From Bank of America
Aug 27th
Bank of America is running an online special for a limited time when you open a MyAccess Checking Account. The great benefit of this promotion is not only the $75 bonus for opening the account, but also that they waive the direct deposit requirement so you are able to avoid the $5.95 per month maintenance fee as well. This makes the account completely free to open and use.
Simply deposit a minimum of $25 into your new MyAccess Checking account within the first 30 days and you will have $75 credited into your account within 90 days.
To get started simply go to Bank of America and select the MyAccess Checking Account link. On the second page where you are asked which type of accounts you would like to open, make sure you put “CH75OLL” in the Offer Code box. Now just continue through the process of setting up your account and be sure to let me know when you get your $75!
Note: I am not receiving a referral fee of any kind for this offer. I simply want to help you find a great deal!
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Proxy Season Is Back
Aug 25th
So with the school year starting up for students all over the country, and world – the earnings on my proxies have risen about five fold. Unblock YouTube is performing especially well bringing in around $5 per day for the last week.
I keep scouting for more good proxy domains but they are very hard to come by. My YouTube proxy ranks number one in Google for many related search terms and generates hundreds of visits that way each day. But the others do not garner anywhere near that level of traffic without substantial advertising.
I am looking forward to a profitable school year especially since I will not be working in a traditional job during the academic year. I am actively searching for profitable proxies with unique domain names to purchase for about 6 months worth of provable earnings. So, if you happen to have one (or many), do let me know.
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Get $50 From Trade King
Aug 9th
My online stock trading company of choice, Trade King, is offering a $50 bonus to any friends I sign up to their service who fund their account with at least $1,000 within 30 days of opening.
I am very happy with Trade King as long as I’ve been using it and the commissions are terrific, definitely some of the lowest in the industry.
- $4.95 stock trades
- Options trades starting at $4.95
- Margin rates only 4.75%
I primarily trade options with Trade King because of their super low commissions on that particular type of trade. The base price of $4.95 is already pretty low, but each additional contract is only an additional 65 cents!
Anyone who trades on margin definitely needs to take their business to Trade King ASAP because of how much money you’ll save in interest charges! Currently, margin rates at some major online brokers are double that of Trade King.
If you want your free $50 sign-up bonus then just reply to this post with a comment and your e-mail address (don’t worry your e-mail will not be displayed publicly) and I will send you a sign-up link to Trade King so you can claim your money!
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Performancing Ads
Aug 8th
I have added a new advertising option on Shaun Carter dot Com, and removed a few others. Due to low earnings I have removed Kontera and the Peel Away ad. I thought they just cluttered up the site and they didn’t bring in much in the way of revenue.
The new Performancing ads widget is working on the sidebar and I have two 125×125 ads available for only $2.50 per week. Performancing Ads also allows you to use that space to advertise simple text links.
For any new Performancing advertisers on Shaun Carter dot Com I’ll throw in a free promotional post about your site. Currently, Performancing Ads is offering new advertisers $25 off a purchase of $100 worth of advertising within any combination of publisher’s sites.
Also, for any new publishers who want to sign up to the Performancing Ads service, just sign up through this link and I will buy $5 worth of ads on your site guaranteed! And who knows, if your site brings in visitors I may just keep advertising with you for good.
Just send an e-mail to shaun (at) shauncarter.com after you’ve signed up and I’ll place my ad with you.
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March 2008 Proxy Earnings
Apr 1st
The month of March 2008 is the best yet for my proxy network. My network is comprised of Unblock Youtube and Rasta Proxy.
Unblock Youtube continues to dominate for some great Google keywords and brought in nearly 30,000 visits to the main page and hundreds of thousands of proxy pageviews. I decided to remove the Adversal popunders because there was no way for me to set a frequency cap on them and they were annoying users. That fact is supported by the very steep increase in the number of pages surfed on the proxy as users were more likely to stick around longer when not bombarded by popunders.
Rasta Proxy is struggling and is only generating a few cents daily. The reason being poor adsense targeting/payouts on that page due to a bad domain name. I decided to monetize Rasta Proxy using only adbrite and have been unsuccessful in generating any meaningful traffic to the site. The top 3 Google ranking for Unblock Youtube is what creates nearly all of the revenue for that site and finding a domain with similar SE rank will not be an easy task, or a cheap one.
I have also been using the two proxies to promote my credit card comparison site as well as this blog and have gotten a decent number of clickthroughs from their respective text links. Afterall, it is free advertising.
Perhaps April 2008 will be the month that profit from my proxies tops $100.
Adsense – $38.68
Adbrite – $49.75
Adversal – Discontinued
Net Audio Ads – not fully functioning yet, but could generate another $25-50 per month.
Total Revenue- $88.43
Expenses – Less than $20
March 2008 Profit = $68.43
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Proxy Updates
Feb 24th
February has been a good month for my two web proxies – Unblock YouTube and Rasta Proxy. I switched webhosts because of stability problems I was having with the VPS (Virtual Private Server) I was utilizing initially. Tech Entrance Hosting offers shared proxy hosting, which I have found to be very fast, easy to use and manager and most of all, affordable. I was able to use a 50% off for life coupon that was being offered on the Digital Point forums to make my hosting even cheaper. I pay about $25 per month for 200GB of bandwidth per month and a dedicated IP address.
So far during the month of February, the amount of traffic has been increasing until the last week. I think that Unblock YouTube has been blocked by web filters in the schools, which were the most frequent users of that proxy. I am currently searching for a way to get the site unblocked, as I have seen a method advertised on a forum but haven’t been able to track it down since. UnblockYouTube.com has ranked #1 or #2 on Google for the term “Unblock YouTube” for the last month and that alone brings in a good amount of free traffic.
The revenue generated during February so far from the various advertising on my proxies is as follows:
Adsense – $27.40 (this alone covers hosting)
Adbrite – $24.61
Adversal – $19.85
Net Audio Ads – not fully functioning yet, but could generate another $25-50 per month.
Total Revenue- $71.86
Expenses – $25
Profit so far this month = $46.86
I don’t really spend any time updating or working on my proxies. I will probably start doing a little more promotion of them since traffic is slowing down. But for two proxies, that’s not a bad level of earnings for about 24 days. Now extend those numbers out to about $50 per full month or $25 per proxy per month and you can see how high earnings can build up to with a 50 or 100 proxy network ($1,250 – 2,500 per month). Domain registration and dedicated server costs would erode some of that, but it would make a nice side income for sure.
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My Newest Web Proxy – Rasta Proxy dot Com
Feb 2nd
I recently added a second web proxy to my network, Rasta Proxy. The other proxy in my network is Unblock YouTube dot Com.
I am growing my network more slowly than most and try to build up traffic and SEO before moving onto the next one. So far, Unblock YouTube is doing well as it is ranking #2 on Google for many YouTube proxy related searches and generating several hundred uniques from organic search results daily. The nice thing about that site is that it naturally ranks high because it is such an excellent domain name and I don’t have to do much promotion with it at all, however I am always adding my proxies to popular top lists.
Rasta Proxy is currently a bolded listing at Proxy.org for $20/month in order to get some traffic to it and name recognition going. Proxy.org is sending a couple hundred hits a day to the page, so for less than a dollar a day I think it’s worth it.
My monetization strategy right now is Adsense on the front pages and adbrite and adversal on the proxified pages. They aren’t earning a whole lot right now… about a couple dollars a day. But it covers the hosting and advertising I have so anything more is pure profit at this point.
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Make Money With Audio Ads
Jan 29th
One of the thing that many web publishers struggle with is monetization of every visitor to visit their blog or website. For many, the only option has been pay per click ads which only reward the publisher when a visitor actually clicks the advertisement. There are CPM (cost per thousand) advertising programs out there that will pay you per impression on banners displayed on your site, but they are typically reserved for the cream of the crop of web publishers generating hundreds of thousands or millions of impressions every day.
Now, there is a CPM solution for all web publishers, but it won’t take up an inch of space on your website. The company is called Net Audio Ads and they offer an audio advertising format that will guarantee you payment for every visitor to view your pages.
Net Audio Ads solves several major problems that webmasters face today including adequate monetization of every visitor and pageview and monetizing without devoting additional screen space to flashy, distracting ad banners.
There is also an affiliate program that will be active for the next couple days that will allow you to refer other publishers and you will earn money for every pageview on their site for the life of their account. But you need to sign up before February first to get a spot in the affiliate program. After February 1st, the affiliate program will close to new publishers and Net Audio Ads will revert to a “host only” model.
Net Audio Ads isn’t anything new, they’ve been around for over two years, but they are opening their doors to serious website operators that want to enhance their earning potential on the Internet.
The Net Audio Ads payouts are currently:
- 25% of the advertiser’s spend for ads on your pages
- 5% of the advertiser’s spend for ads on your direct referrals pages
- 5% of the advertiser’s spend for ads on your second level referrals pages
Be sure to get signed up soon as advertiser bidding will begin on February 1st. The bidding system will be similar to that of the Google Adwords program and will play the highest paying ads for your website niche before all others so your revenue is maximized to its full potential.
