eBay, of course

No blog about making money on the web should miss out on the opportunity to talk about eBay. Even though I have heard some hinting that eBay has, in the effort to be buyer friendly, become seller unfriendly, I decided to give it a try.

I signed up and was able to get a user name that I like: RiverviewDeals.

I actually like that eBay username so much that I decided to by the domain name too: RiverviewDeals.com

I just pointed it to a blogspot blog riverviewdeals.blogspot.com

As I write this, I only have one item offered. It is a Members Only brand jacket from around the '70s or 80's. Take a look if it's still there: Members Only Leather Jacket


I'll keep this blog updated on my progress on eBay.

Page 1 of Google!

WOW!

It may seem small, but my blog about mTurk is on page1 for a Google search of "mturk experience".
I don't know yet if it will pay off, but that got me excited.

SEO is the foundation for success on the web. When writing code for the web hosting company, that was always paramount in our minds. If the search engines don't like you, or more specifically if Google doesn't like you, then you might as well not even exist.

Praise God for signs of progress!

UPDATE:

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When I posted about being on page 1, I was number 10 and it was a link to the page "Some Real mTurk Experience" Today, New Years Eve 2012, I searched for mTurk Experience and found the main page of My mTurk Experience at number 8.

Update on SwagBucks

I am considering a seperate blog just for SwagBucks, so I can blog more about it without it overtaking this one. In the meantime, I'll use this space.

So far I have 71SB. That translates to $0.71 in Wal-mart cards. I've put forth very little effort for most of those. I clicked on videos, one at a time, until I had let 10 of them play while I was doing other things. All that effort gave me just 3SB or $0.03. Not too bad for just clicking the video links and letting them play while I turk. Since my soundcard is out, I don't even have to worry about the noise. :-)

SwagBucks, again

I mentioned that my daughter had started using swagbucks, so I had her send me a referral so that she can earn SBs off my searches. I was over there and got a chance to get 20 SBs for signing up for Kellogs Family Rewards. It went pretty smoothly. Certainly no harder than earning $0.20 at mTurk.

I still need to see how easy it is to actually convert these points to Wal-Mart cards. I think I'll do my first as soon as I get 500 points.

Adding Product Advertisements to my Blog

FAIL

Either I'm an idiot, or both Amazon Affiliates ads and Google Affiliatess ads are unintuitive to get started. I think my own history has shown that I'm not an idiot.

I got the feeling that maybe the instruction from Amazon were out-dated, so i went back to Google.

The instructions there seemed easy enough. I got far enough along to have it ask me to search for a product. When I clicked on a product link, image or full ad, I'd see a flash of some small message, and then nothing. There's no "okay" button or similar. Until I find the solution, this is a complete waste of time.

mTurk is paying off, and thinking about SwagBucks

mTurk is paying off, at least a little bit.

I did some mTurk tasks, called "HITs", but only made about $2.40/hr at best. Consider that this is independant contractor work, and I'll have to pay employment tax on top of income tax and it doesn't leave much for me.

That being said, I'm going to continue because I read that once you have 1k or 5k HITs, better opportunites open up. I hope to get to where I can make $100/day and still have time to blog.

Keep an eye on My MTurk Experience to see how it goes.

My daughter started using SwagBucks. I won't link to them yet, because I have not vetted them yet to know if they are legit. One of the ways you can accept "rewards" from them is by Wal-Mart gift card. Since they can be used for Groceries, Gas, Household items and just about everything else, that makes them almost cash to me. I just don't know what kind of $/hr to expect there. I will, of course, post our experiences here.

Never Give Up!

As I mentioned in a couple of posts here already, I am still FAR from even thinking about 100 blogs, but I have a renewed interest in posting here and there, so let's see if I can stay at it and actually do something this time.

In addition to blogging, I am considering Amazon's Mturk program.
Follow my progress on it here;