Get Paid to Surf the Web

Before you read this whole post:

  • Do you like FREE MONEY?
  • Would you like to get free stock in a new web company? (YouTube a few years ago?)
  • Do you spend at least 1 hour per month surfing the internet?
  • Would you like to make a few bucks for the time you spend online?

If you answered “Yes” to any of those questions, then take 2 minutes and sign up for Algoco right now!

Here is some more information…
I have been looking for ways to start earning passive income, and I recently came across Agloco Market Research. Agloco will eventually allow you to make money just for surfing the web. Currently there is a limit of 5 hours per month, per person. Also, from what I have gathered, the network is only in the testing phases and you won’t make any actual money yet.

There are a few interesting points here:

  1. You earn shares of the company. It seems that the first step in the Algoco plan is to offer stock options to the users. I think this is cool since I have never owned any stocks and it has the potential to be something valuable. Sure it might be worthless, but it’s free and I think it’s worth the small amount of effort.
  2. You get more by referring more people. Agloco gives you (your hours) + (the hours of your referrals), and credits you for those. Their “Top Ten” list shows that more than one person has accumulated 40,000+ members. That could equal some real money, if the network ever gets running.
  3. Agloco plans to earn money by collecting information about your web surfing, and selling that information to large companies. I don’t know exactly who they are going to sell the information to, but I figure that I am going to be surfing the web anyways - I might as well make a few pennies for it.

In the end, I think Agloco has a very low risk (it takes 2 minutes to signup) and has a high potential pay-out. If it goes bust, then it’s no big deal - you haven’t lost anything. But if it’s gets big and the stock price goes through the roof, you want to be in on the action!

Once you’re signed up, just fire off an email to your friends about it (be sure to include your referral link) or feel free to send your friends to this page so they can get all the information that I have provided.

Make Money, Web Development | August 30, 2007, 10:10 am | Get RSS Feed | No Comments »

Yesterday I finished work on a site that required me to setup a thumbnail gallery. When you click a thumbnail, the main image on the page changes and the text underneath that image changes.

I had worked on the image swap previously, so the biggest question was “How am I going to get the text to switch?”

I poked around a bit and found a solution that works for me.

Step 1: Insert this section of code into the <head> section of your page. Really all you need to know is that it gets the job done.

<script type=”text/JavaScript”>
<!–
function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf(”?”))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_setTextOfTextfield(objName,x,newText) { //v3.0
var obj = MM_findObj(objName); if (obj) obj.innerHTML = newText;
}
//–>
</script>

Step 2: In the main section of your page, create a <div> tag and give that <div> tag an id. If you insert text into your <div> tag, that will be the the text that displays when the page loads, but that text will change when the user makes a selection.

<div id=”MainText”>This is the beginning Text</div>

Step 3: Setup your links. Each link will have some Javascript in it, to tell it what to do with the <div> area.

<a href=”#” onClick=”MM_setTextOfTextfield(’MainText’,”,’This is the text that appears when the link is clicked’)”>Click Here</a>

Javascript, Web Development | August 30, 2007, 8:20 am | Get RSS Feed | No Comments »

I recently had a couple different clients request that I create a gallery with an image swap. It’s convenient because I could put the functions to use on more than site. I wrote below about how to implement an image swap. Here is an example for expecting mothers.

As you’ll see, the thumbnails are contained in the right-hand column. Click a thumbnail and that image pops up in the main window. I also added a feature so that the text that appears under the main image changes whenever you select a different thumbnail.

Javascript, Web Development | August 30, 2007, 12:08 am | Get RSS Feed | No Comments »

I’ve been dabbling with Google AdSense for a while, trying to figure out what are the key factors to making some money. Up to this point I have only used their basic CPC (Cost Per Click) setup. I haven’t done anything with CPA (Click Per Action) but I imagine that most of my ideas will apply to CPA also.

None of this is really news to a veteran, but after reviewing my AdSense data over several months, here are the ideas that I’ve found:

Page  Impressions
This may seem obvious. The more Page Impressions you get the better. This is essentially a factor of (the popularity of your site * number of pages viewed per visit). If you can break your site up into many sections, thus causing your visitors to view several pages every time they visit, you will get more Page Impressions.

Click Through Rate (CTR)
The more clicks you get, the more money you get. It is reasonable to assume 20¢+ Per Click. In this scenario, 5 clicks = $1.00

From my reading, apparently a 2% CTR is a reasonable expectation if you are running the right ads, in the right positions, etc.

Projected Income
What this all means is that if you have a site that gets 10,000 impressions per day, you’re getting a 2% CTR and you’re getting 20¢ per click:
10,000 Impressions / .02 CTR = 200 Clicks Per Day
200 Clicks Per Day * 20cent; = $40 Per Day
$40 Per Day * 7 Days = $280 Per Week
$280 Per Week * 52 Weeks = $14,560 Per Year

Conclusions About Online Advertising
What this all means is that without a good number of visitors everyday, you aren’t going to make anything with online advertising. You can post all the Google AdSense and Affiliate Links that you want, but if nobody is going to your site, nobody is going to click your links. Basically, it seems to me, you need to work on SEO skills before you can worry about generating any kind of income from online advertising.

Web Development | August 29, 2007, 1:08 pm | Get RSS Feed | No Comments »

This code has proven to be useful many times in the last few weeks. Clients come to me asking for different type of “galleries” for their images. This is the standard code that I use:

Step 1: Choose the image / space that will change, to display different images. You need to use a name tag inside of this image tag.

<img src=”images/1.jpg” name=”MainImage”>

Step 2: Setup your links. Each link needs to have an onClick tag. You can setup as many links as you like. You can also use thumbnails of the images as the links, since you may not want to use text.

<a href=”#” onClick=”document.MainImage.src=’images/2.jpg’;”>Click Here</a>

I will post a link, once I have a working example for one of my clients.

Javascript, Web Development | August 29, 2007, 7:17 am | Get RSS Feed | No Comments »

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