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I'm leery of Craigslist in general. I've gotten some solid work there, but it has been local work - writing or proofreading for college students, organizational newsletters, and other low-budget "ghostwriting" arrangements. Web sites that recruit there tend to be shady, in my experience, and...

That's what finally got me to try it. I'm not really writing articles there so much as mini-blog posts... Longer format than Twitter, shorter than I post to my own blogs or to article writing sites, and social/topical rather than personal or of more lasting interest. And in that context, I'm not...

About crediting images... I just recently decided to give Bubblews a shot and I'm only using my own images, since I'm something of a hobbyist photographer and have thousands upon thousands of digital photographs just lying around on my back-up drive. But some of these photos have been used...

Negative reviews are probably the best recourse available. While it doesn't get you the money you earned that wasn't paid, it does caution others away from the site which in turn hits the site owners where it counts - in the wallet.

I make $1-2/day but I don't really put much time or effort into it. It is just "wake up" work, something light to do in the morning while I sip my tea, before getting into more focused writing work.

I maintain a business page that I manage from my personal Facebook account to promote my content apart from my personal interactions, but other than that I use a single account for most of my social media interactions. Other than FB I don't really share much personal information anyway and I'm...

It would depend on circumstances. To me, work is primarily a means to an end so I think I would naturally be inclined to sell any business venture I started if the price was right. I haven't gotten deeply attached to any specific effort; they're all just ways to fund my passions (which...

I'm terribly disorganized about it. I keep meaning to switch over to a simple database so I can keep track of what has been submitted where, how much I'm earning at each site, when I've cashed out and for how much, etc. But I haven't done it yet. I hate bookkeeping and spend more than enough...

The site isn't down, just overloading. Every other page gets me an unavailable error, but I can connect on reload. Not an encouraging start - I just signed up on Wednesday and so far it seems like the site is very unstable, which makes me reluctant to promote my content on existing social...

I liked Crowd Cloud back when they were newish but haven't put the time into all the layers of certification they want now. People keep telling me that MTurk is worthwhile if you have the patience to build up some experience there in order to get better paying assignments, but I haven't done...

I haven't written anything new for Yahoo Contributor Network. I still have some content up there from back when it was Associated Content, but it doesn't seem like the up-front payments are what they were and with as low as YCN tends to rank in searches I'm not terribly interested in publishing...

I like that approach. Honesty. What a novel concept! I maintain a semi-personal blog that chronicles my online earning methods, among other things, and I find that I get a lot of traffic on posts pertaining to earning online so obviously there is an audience for that content. But I don't think...

It depends on the site. Well-established sites that I've heard about through friends, I'll sometimes give them a shot. New start-ups or sites I've only heard about through forums or other online-only contacts, I'm skeptical and tend to think 'scam'. Using PayPal, whether to accept payments or...

Unless you have a very specialized niche or a truly new feature/function that you think would stand out from the more general sites, I can't see it being a good idea. Copycats are seldom as successful as the originals and at this point the major networks have the basics of online communication...

I have been researching Bubblews for a while and it seems like the payment complaints are generated by their policy of simply not paying contributors who aren't posting in good faith. If you go to the home page you'll see some examples of content that might get one's account flagged for...

I usually prefer cash, but as long as the gift card selection includes places that I'd shop anyway I don't let that steer me away from sites that otherwise look like they have good potential. Amazon isn't one that I shop much, so I'm not a big fan of redeeming there, but like you if that is a...

For July, I only managed $74.73, but I wasn't working nearly as much as I should either. Summer months are never very good for me because I'm only working when the kids don't have me running around. My only income this summer has been from existing content. Sept to June is when I really work...

Interesting. Thank you BigJ for sharing your experience. You too, Rube. I'll admit, the lousy quality of some of the content turns me off but it sounds like there's enough potential there to be worth giving it a shot.

What sort of issue is forcing the closure of the program in your state? I use Amazon Affiliates on my blogs and have been happy with the program, so I'd like to know what sort of legislation to be on the lookout for that might cause problems with it in my state in the future.

That does sound unnecessarily complex. I haven't checked that one out yet but needing to keep track of multiple aliases isn't for me. I did look into Postloop and it seems to be a good option for making a few extra bucks. Does anyone know how much potential there really is there without seeking...

Sorry to hear it. I've been in that boat before and let me tell you, there's nothing like necessity to keep you focused! I've never made as much when I wanted to as I did when I needed to. Good luck to you both.

What amazes me is how many experts there are out there who make a fortune by giving advice on things they don't even do. And people don't see through it. They don't realize that this person didn't get wealthy or become successful by doing the thing he's teaching, he did it by selling that...

I would be interested in hearing how it goes, BigJ. I've considered it and keep waffling. On one hand, I've heard from some people that they've made halfway decent money there as far as revenue-sharing sites go, but on the other I see all the negative reviews and some of the total crap that gets...

I would like to see Google+grow, but for that to happen they're going to have to be able to point to some feature that is significant enough to convince people to change their well-established Facebook and Twitter habits. So far, they haven't done that. I personally like some of the features...

I let content dictate frequency. If I have a new article, or I'm participating in a photo challenge from another page I follow, or have a new post up on my blog I post. If there's nothing new going on, I'm quiet. I'm not sure that's the best method, but I know it is what I prefer to see from...

Very, very part time. More like a hobby than a business for the last 5 years or so - sometimes I'm working a lot and doing well, other times life gets busy and work falls by the wayside. I'm gearing up to get back to full-time or almost full-time hours and effort in the fall, when my kids are...

I think the more socially oriented blog networks are the ones that are the most helpful these days. I get a lot of traffic from other blogs that I follow and the blogs of my followers, but I haven't heard a lot of good things about the keyword based services that build backlinks more...

I still struggle with it. Sometimes I feel like I've got it nailed, and other times it feels very forced to get the right keyword density without feeling like I'm being repetitive or less creative than I could be. But I think that's because I'm coming at writing for the web from a background in...

I am looking for new sites to start writing for, not so much as a primary moneymaker but to allow me to indulge my own personal interests in writing and share them. I wrote for Associated Content but haven't been impressed with the site since it became Yahoo Contributor Network and my page views...

There are many sorts of difficult. Making money online is not physically taxing. It doesn't require a genius level IQ or a grad-school degree. But it does require effort and above all patience. For some people, this might mean that earning money online is easier than working a traditional...

Not only do I not tend to generate referrals, I'm most comfortable working for companies that don't push referrals as essential to the money-making model. I want to be paid for what I do, not for who I recruit, and I believe that sites that most heavily emphasize referrals are the ones most...

I really need to work on embracing Twitter. It is the one major social networking site that I've been very slow to try, much less really learn how to use effectively. I always feel like I'm annoying people with my publicity efforts. Such a stereotypical self-esteem thing, right? :redface...

I haven't bought any ebooks. I have read some that were available for free and some that I received as review copies, and I feel there's a lack of quality control in the industry as a whole. Reputable publishers put out quality material, but vanity publishers and self-publishing efforts often...

As others have pointed out, incentives for longer post are likely to cause posters to run-on unnecessarily rather than just making their point. And as anyone who has come up against "wall of text" forum posts knows, that can make communication more difficult. It seems to me that a minimum...

Personally, I do expect a common TLD as a matter of basic professionalism. .tk and other lesser-known or free domains are suspect, in my opinion, and often a haven for malware distribution. For someone just getting started, a free domain or free host is perfectly adequate as a test-run to...

I've all but quit doing online surveys. I still do a few through Sunshine Rewards if I want to pad the vacation account a bit, but only if their acceptance rates are running "green". With most of the sites I get filtered out by the screening questions, probably because lower-middle-class white...

It seems like most online earning methods rely heavily on self-promotion. Whether you're accumulating referrals on pay-per-click sites or promoting your content on writing sites (or your own blog), promotion takes at least as much effort as generating the content or actually performing the...

I don't even remember... Probably Themestream.com, which for those who don't remember it was like Associated Content/Yahoo Contributor Network in terms of paying pennies based on pageviews.

Personally, I'm a fan of Google and enjoy watching their efforts to branch out and develop new products. As others have pointed out, their success comes from the fact that as a corporation they seem to reject complacency. So many big businesses "build" on their success only by raising prices...

I think it is still effective if managed properly, but it isn't easy to be present without being spammy. "Smart" spam filters mean that if your mailings are going out more often than your customers/subscribers are willing to open them you'll eventually end up in the spam folder. Appropriate...

Marketing needs to be focused on reaching the target audience, though, and Internet marketing is often not the most efficient avenue for reaching a local target market. If it is free and doesn't require an extensive time investment it is certainly worth pursuing, but unless there's a way to...

There's a market for this in some places just based on overall attitudes towards technology. Many of the small-town small business owners I talk to aren't involved with Facebook or other social media and aren't comfortable with the Internet as a whole, so they hire someone who is to handle their...

Much more than I should, to be honest. I sit down at the computer with every intention of staying focused, but social media - forums in particular - are my procrastination method of choice and often I find that time has sort of gotten away from me far less productively than it should have...

Since you are trying to reach mothers in your particular area, I'd suggest concentrating on youth-oriented venues in your community. Check into sponsorships of school/PTA events, band performances, sports leagues, and things like that - places where moms are concentrated and often take the time...

You really need to diversify, because the internet is such a rapidly changing marketplace that something that is profitable and successful today even as a modest little income stream might very well vanish tomorrow.

I haven't gotten caught up in many scams because I won't put money out up front to "buy in" to anything (my own domain, hosting, etc. are a different matter). But I have worked for sites that went belly-up or non-paying while owing me money and that always sucks. I'm pretty cautious about new...

Writing has been my main area of interest for a long time. In addition to the site you mentioned, I was active on Associated Content (now Yahoo Contributor Network). I haven't added new content since it became YCN so I don't know how upfront payments are running these days but I still get a...

Most of my traffic comes from backlinks and shares in social media. SEO and search engine traffic is my work-in-progress right now to expand my audience beyond the reach of forums, Facebook, and Pinterest.

I think for many who work online, there are either barriers to that 50K/year position or significant costs that are avoided by working online. Most of the people I know who are trying to build an online business have children who would require costly daycare if they worked out of the home, or...

I think it has a social element, but I don't think it quite rises to the level of social networking. It is still primarily about sharing content, not interacting with other users. It would be interesting to know what the balance is in actual user traffic, though. How many people use it for...