Valentine's Day Recipes

I've started promoting the Valentine's Day Recipes ebook using the free classified ad sites list. I thought of doing this some time ago, but kept forgetting. I'm going to promote the other ebooks the same way, I started with this one due to the fact that Valentine's Day is pretty close. I also removed a couple of sites from the list that no longer existed.

MochiAds January Earnings

MochiAds earnings for January are now in. Total earned as a developer was $0.10, above Kongregate earnings for once.

Also, the first $0.01 was made as a publisher. The screenshot shows more than last month though, due to the earnings being earned over all the months as a publisher, but only just passing the first cent.

Kongregate Earnings for January

Kongregate earnings for January are in. Total earned in this period was $0.08.

myLot January Earnings

myLot earnings for January are now in. Total earnings for this month were $5.18. This is not enough to qualify for payment this month.

Mars Slider Submitted to GoofyGamer

I've finally remembered to submit the Mars Slider game to GoofyGamer. This should increase its' distribution (currently, according to MochiBot, it's present on 28 hosts) and therefore its' MochiAds revenues.

NeoBux Update

It's been slightly over a week since a rented another 10 referrals from NeoBux, this time with AutoPay switched on. Here's where things currently stand:

Money invested: $5

Money received to AlertPay (after fees): $1.80
Renting balance (can only be used to rent referrals and AutoPay): $0.505
Main balance (can be cashed out or transferred to renting balance): $1.54

Total money owed/received: $3.845

Now, currently, this is showing a loss of $1.155, however, I believe this will be made back from the new batch of referrals. Although the last lot didn't pay for themselves, with AutoPay switched on the length of the referrals is extended every day they click an ad, for a fee of course, but a lower fee than renting a new one from scratch would be.

Currently, of the 10 referrals I rented, each of which originally started with 31 days of rental, they all still have at least 27 days of rental left, and one of them has 30 days.

GetRef

I've decided to be a lot less generous with rewarding GetRef signup credits to people who join my programs. I've noticed with an awful lot of people, there entire activity in your program is join, then make credit claim. This pretty much defeats the object of getting them to join, and is also short sighted in their case.

I'd assume that the reason they are joining a program in these cases is merely to get credits and to be allowed to promote their own program, in order to get referrals. Are they wanting people to do exactly the same with them as they are doing with programs they join? I doubt it, I think they expect their referrals to be active. So, I think they should do what they expect others to do, and only join a program if they intend to at least try to be active.

I've put in my myLot program description at GetRef that, if you aren't active, you won't be credited. Still, either people aren't reading that, or they think merely joining a program - and that's the first, last and only time they visit it - counts as being active.

NeoBux Referral Update

Well, my rented referrals from NeoBux have now expired. Total credited referral clicks was 404, earning $2.02. This was less than the $3 invested in purchasing them, however there were a number of factors that probably decreased their worth. During the Christmas period, there was probably at least 1 week in total where I was unable to click ads. This decreased referral earnings. Secondly, this more than likely applied to the referrals also. Finally, I hadn't activated the AutoPay feature, as I didn't know what it did. It apparently extends the life of referrals who are clicking, by automatically deducting a daily payment - less than the cost of renting a referral from new.

I am going to give the rented referrals another go to see how it goes.

Stats to date:

Received: $2.10
AlertPay charges: $0.30
Invested: $5.00 of which $3 has been spent on referrals
Owed: $2.205

How to Study Birds

I've set up yet another ebook site, "How to Study Birds", which is designed to sell an ebook of the same name, plus a free bonus ebook. There's also an affiliate program, run by PayDotCom, which pays affiliates 50% on each $14.97 sale made.

This is my third site so far this year, and my aim is to make one a week.

myLot Payment Received

I have received a payment of $11.09 from myLot. This is for affiliate earnings for December 2008.