Bux3 and WorldBux Back

Bux3 and WorldBux are backup, with by the looks of things minimal data loss. Still waiting on payments from both of them, and the attacks aren't helping.

PlusBux is still parked on GoDaddy, so it looks like that's gone, and Buxit.info is still showing no website at it's address, which doesn't look at all promising.

Qassia Crawled

Qassia has crawled my main site again, this time generating Q$445. They have also now come out of private beta, so it is now possible for anyone to sign up.

More Steps to Get Your Article Declined

Here are some other faults I've come across with submitted articles that can get them rejected.

Problems With Pen Names

If you submit articles you've written on the different article directories around, you will more than likely find that these allow you to have a username, which you use to login, and at least one pen names, which are shown as the name of the author of the article. Now, I've seen a few faults here.

The initial fault is usually caused when you already have an account at an article site, then join an article submission program such as iSnare. The distribution service will generate you a new account, and in some cases, if the pen name you use with the submission service is the same as one you already have at the site, you may end up with a blank as the distribution services pen name, as the identical one is declined. This means that the ability of search engines to spider your articles is significantly decreased, as there are no links to "About the Author" or similar pages. Some directories will decline your article should this happen.

Next, using your site URL as your pen name is often not appreciated either, so just don't do it. In addition, quite a number of sites will reject articles written by something other than First Name Last Name, so, although conditions do alter from site to site, it's doubtful that any will object to a pen name of, for example, "John Smith", whilst will reject or remove articles by "mysite.com" or "The SEO Guru". Just stick with a standard name, even if it's not your actual one, and you will avoid any problems like this.

Bad Usage of Article Spinners

You may not have heard of services such as these, or you may use something similar without realizing it. There are a number of different versions around, but what they all have in common is that they are designed to take one article, and make a number of different versions of it. The differences may be only minor, but the concept is to make a variety of "unique" articles to avoid duplicate content filters.

Now, there is nothing wrong with doing this, but there are wrong ways of doing it. If the spinner replaces words or phrases with variations, for example, "In the beginning" could also be phrased as "To start with", after doing this for an article and producing a number of variants, read each one through to make sure they still make sense. It's quite easy to produce gibberish if you don't, and most decent article directories don't like to publish gibberish. If an article needs tweaking, do so manually. Far better to make sure you spend a bit of time now on the article, then having to fix it after rejection.

The next problem is if you generate a batch of 20 variant articles, submit each article to a different site. Therefore, 20 articles to 20 sites. Or submit them to groups of directories, one article to 10 sites, the next to a further 10 etc. Don't submit all 20 variants to the same directory. That will probably just get them rejected, and you may get your account deleted for annoying the site owner.

Submission guidelines, and what an article directory or site will accept or decline do change, sometimes quite substantially, from directory to directory, but if you are cautious, you'll get less articles rejected.

Adrian Kennelly runs DirectoryGold Web Directory and Article Directory. See it for more articles on Writing Articles.

I Made a Lens

I've made and published a lens on Squidoo. Okay, there isn't much there yet, as I'm still feeling my way around, but lenses can apparently be good sources of traffic, as well as generating some income. Lets see how it goes. The lens topic is the same as this blog, Online Money Making.

Bux3 Back (nearly)

Well, it appears Bux3 hasn't totally gone. There was a message on the domain earlier saying that they were recovering from a database hack - not the first one either I think - and now the site is there, although not working correctly yet. I wonder how much damage the hack has done.

WorldBux, which was, the last I heard, also owned by the same company is still totally down. Also, Buxit.info has been down for several days now.

SFI Paid

I've received a payment of $51.80 from SFI, this being my accumulated commissions for several months, and the amount owing having passed the $50 PayPal payment threshold. The amount paid isn't, unfortunately, more than my current costs, although it's nice that they do pay.

Another Random Referral

I've just received my seventh random referral from Yuwie.They don't appear too active as yet though.

Qassia Crawled

Qassia has crawled my main web directory in their sticker mania promotion. The site was actually crawled twice in a row, as they were trying to diagnose some problems certain sites were having with the crawls. The crawls earned Q$418 and Q$426. I've also earned some money from their revenue sharing program.

Yuwie Earnings for July

Yuwie earnings for July are now in. Total earned was $0.08, mostly from referral efforts. There seems to be a trend with active referrals; they will initially be active, then, when this activity fails to make a significant amount of money, the activity level then tails off. To really make any sort of income from Yuwie, a substantial referral tree is a must.

myLot Paid

I have received a payment of $20.06 for my myLot earnings from June and July. This site is becoming a regular payer, as well as an enjoyable site to use.

World Bux, Bux3 and PlusBux all Gone

I haven't been online that much over the past week or so, as I've been sorting out my house so that the repairs for the flood damage I suffered last year could be started. Went to the PlusBux, World Bux and Bux 3 websites, and they all seem to be gone. PlusBux is showing the GoDaddy parked domain page; WorldBux and Bux3 both have a search page with "This domain may be for sale by its owner" messages.

Looks like I won't be getting the $37 or so I'd requested from Bux3 and World Bux

WeeklyPLRArticles

I've now passed over 50 subscribers with my WeeklyPLRArticles site. Admittedly, it's taken over 8 months to get to this stage, so not that impressive as yet. Still, it's the largest list I've managed to build.

Link Referral has been quite successful at generating signups to this.

myLot Earnings for July

myLot earnings for July are in. Total earned for the month was $11.50. Total outstanding balance at the end of July is $20.31. This is past the $10 payment threshold, and I expect payment fairly soon.

Qassia Crawled Again

Another crawl has done done by Qassia of my web directory for their sticker mania promo, this time generating Q$409.

This brings my total Qassia dollars to Q$20,927.

GetRef Gold Membership Update

My latest gold membership at GetRef has now expired. Results from this were not as good as the previous one.

At the end of the membership, I had 16.935 credits, $0.02 cash, 56 first, 9 second and 3 third level referrals.

Gain for the period was 1.7 credits and 13 first level referrals.