Earn Money While Searching The Internet

Do you use google a lot? Do you search daily for every stuff you need? Besides, are you always on the hunt for new ways of earning an extra buck? Then MySearchFunds might be one of those ways.

Basically, you install their search engine in Firefox/IE search box (the one in the upper-right corner of the browser window) and then, whenever you search the internet (in a natural way, just like you do daily), you earn some money. Be at rest, the addon won’t harm your computer in any way - personally tested :).

I have to admit - it probably won’t earn you much (I just started out today, so I don’t have any stats available yet), but searching the internet is an activity you’d do anyway - why not monetize it? It requires no extra effort from you, aside from searching the internet - and if you’re like me, you use google hundreds of times a day to search for stuff. You can actually call it free-money, since there is no “input” in the work balance equation - just “output”.

So just sign up right now and start earning some cash.

Where to Go When Choosing A Webhost

Whether you start up a new online business, or you want to expand your current one, you certainly need one thing: webhost to place your files online.

So, while a quick search on google will reveal the major players in this field, it is often a tedious task to check prices/features for several hosting companies. Also, what matters most for a host is to have ~100% uptime (99.9%). If you site is down, your entire business is down - that’s why is important for your host to be reliable, and, for example, to be able to survive a digg effect.

Now, why all this wording? Well, not for nothing, since I would like you to present a neat service called WebHostingPal.
They offer a lot of valuable information for beginners especially: Introduction to Web Hosting, Introduction to Domain Names, Email Hosting and so on and so forth - you get the point.

However, if you are an experienced webaholic, you’ll still find this site useful, since you can use their main function: web hosting comparison. Basically, their Top 10 lists the best hosting companies there are. Just check it out - all info in one place, so you can easily pick a webhost.

So, don’t wait anymore. If you need a webhosting account or just want to switch to another provider, head over to WebHostingPal to find the best Web Hosting offers.

Tiger Warning

I am not exactly sure whether this actually is placed in a zoo somewhere, or it is photoshopped, but in any case, it is one of the funniest warning sign I have ever seen.
So, take care!

You Really Thought You’d Win a Hummer, Haven’t You?

I know that a Hummer sounds like a great prize for an Internet Marketing, but still, yesterday was 1st of April - what else than April Fools Day? :) Gyutae hopped in the “ride” too, adding an imaginary Hummer to the pool prize of his contest. Oh well, if you thought the Hummer was actually there - sorry to disappoint you, it isn’t.

That’s about all of Gyutae’s contest. Here is the list of winners. I won, too:

Bunny, hts, Epiphany - 3 Licenses to OptIn Comments (3 winners - $77 value each)

Craziest Internet Marketing Contest Just Got Crazier

Just when I thought that it couldn’t go any further, the prize pool for Gyutae’s contest got bigger - five-time fold :-O

It seems that a very generous sponsor (name undisclosed as of this date) has thrown a HUMMER as a prize into this contest. What about that, huh? If you are not convinced, check this page

I think that this monster-car is enough to convince everyone to participate in this contest. Get to action - there’s still time until 2nd April (well, tomorrow :) ). GO GO GO! Good luck to you all!

Great Thoughts #6

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

First Affiliate Payouts

As I promised some while ago, I’ll post some screenshots with my first earnings from affiliate marketing stuff. Now, here they are:

PayPal screenshot:

Besides what I have already received in my PayPal account, there are $180 still “locked” in my PepperJam account. I will probably receive those in few days time. Total commissions earned in February: $667.00. Not much compared to what big players earn with affiliate marketing, but pretty good for me, taking into account that I am still a newbie in this field.
Maybe you should give a try, too :). Signup with Pepperjam Network to start earning some affiliate cash.

Insane Internet Marketing Contest

Short version: Gyutae Park of Winning the Web is holding an Internet Marketing contest these days with over $7,695 as prizes. All you have to do is to enroll in the contest, do some small tasks that Gyutae will post on his blog, and pray for the best :)

Now, let me explain: the contest consists of acquiring “entries” (I’d rather call them credits) that will increase you chance of winning something when he will draw the winners.
Here are the ways you can get entries:

You can increase your chances of winning all of the prizes by collecting additional entries for the contest. Joining the mailing list will gain you 1 entry, blogging about the contest will gain you 10 entries, and every 5 comments on Winning the Web will gain you 1 entry. As I mentioned, I will also be releasing random posts throughout the contest that will contain instructions for you to gain even more entries.

The prizes are really nice, especially the hard cold cash ones from some affiliate networks (I especially love the $500 thrown in by PepperJam Network, since I am already signed up with them). Besides cash, there are other great prizes to win: premium memberships to some SEO training programs, a conference pass, advertising on some well-known blogs and so on. You’d better check all the prizes here. Also, read carefully how to enroll in the big drawing, since it is really worth it - $7,695 is a sum you can’t ignore.
The drawing will be held on the 31th of March - you still have time to get as many entries as possible.

Hop in to win one of the insane prizes in the “Internet Marketing Contest of the Century”

Live Longer or Live Better?

I think that everyone should ask themselves, at one point in their lives, what is more desirable: to live longer or to live better? Like, what do you prefer? Live 200 boring year OR 75 (let’s say) exciting years (well, not all of them, but most…)
Now, I meditated on this for long times, sincerely, several times, actually, but I am not sure of an answer - not yet, anyway. However, if it were for me to choose this (as in “A OR B”), I think I’d choose to live better…less as in numbers, but a higher “quality”.

This time, this issue popped up in my mind when I read Scott’s of wrevenue.com blogpost about aging and why people don’t, but should support anti-aging technology research.
Well, Scott seems to take a different approach in showing his support for such an endeavor, by blogging about the issue and offering $20 for everyone who follows its example + a link from his blog. As a side note: to be sincere, what I really want is that beloved link, but $20 is not exactly negligible for a simple “job”.

Anyway, back on track: what I personally think of this is that, the way humanity managed to push the life expectancy threshold from 35-40 years on around 1800, to 75-80 or even more, if you take care of yourself, as of today, the very same way we’ll find something to prevent our cells from aging or “convince” them to continue dividing, not losing their ability to function, etc (I am not a very gifted biologist, so to say, but I think you get the point).
Thing is, science and genetics especially has evolved A LOT in the last period of time and some previously impossible and unimaginable breakthroughs where achieved in the past years.
All this allows us to think further, and maybe some day, 120 years-old people will not be something unusual, but just a ..fact.

I think Scott has a very good point when he says that, by stopping the aging of our cells at an early age (20, lets say), then the risk of cancer or any lethal disease will be lowered, allowing us to live more. Also, I agree with him that indifference and lack of opinion /action won’t lead to anything good - and that’s why the mentality has to change.

Anyway, I’ve deviated a bit (or more?) from the original subject (question).
As I said at the beginning of this post, I think I’d choose to live better, if I were the one to choose this (well, in some sort of way, I am, but only to some extent).

Now, what should you do next? Read Scott’s full article, as it is very thought-provoking and has some good, well-reasoned points. After that, you should blog about this issue, too, to promote the research of anti-aging technologies. Besides feeling better for doing a good for the humanity, you’ll receive $20 from Scott and a nice link. So, wait no more, as the money is only available for the first 100 posts :-)

Good luck. See you at 113 years :)

Blog Cleaning-Up

So I finally managed to clean up the mess called “blog categories” for imbadev.com :)
I’ve trimmed them down to only 8:

• Blog Updates

Pretty self-explanatory. In this category, I’ll put posts that keep track of the changes, updates, upgrades etc of this blog (like this one :) )

• Great Thoughts

As I’ve explained here, I’ll (try to) write every day a quote - something interesting, worthy to be taken as an universal truth. You should read these, as you’ll find yourself usually meditating about a quote for a long time :-)

• Have Fun

Again, a clear, simple name. Fine humor, amusing videos and pictures on the web - all in here, just to allow a break from the everyday routine.

• Internet Money

Probably the most interesting category for lots of people :-), “Internet Money” is the category which contains posts relating to how to make money online, step-by-step. I might be also posting some numbers about my own earnings or such - when I will consider these numbers to be worthy to be made public.

• Programming

Most posts here will pertain to PHP, cause this is where I feel like home, but also anything else related to programming. I know a bit of C++, so maybe I’ll write about this, too.

• Rants

This lovely category contains all my jabbers on all kind of stuff - mainly web-related, but expect some personal-life posts from time to time.

• Toolbox

Software, online applications, cool scripts, useful tools - whatever simplifies your life online will be found under this topic.

• Webaholic

Quite an unusual name, but I pretty much like it. News from around the internet, web2.0 stuff, search engines, neat sites - you get the point. Might as well consider it the generic category of every blog, just that instead of being called the default “General”, I’ve renamed it to “Webaholic”, to sound more web-related (which actually is).

I’m still not decided if tagging every post is a useful thing to do, mainly because it would be a really daunting work to tag all posts that I’ve written until now. I still have to think about this.

Besides this, I’ve also started to write some paid reviews (through 3rd-party networks). If you are interested in a review, contact me directly at htsrzvn at gmail dot com so we can discuss the price (not fixed yet :-) ).
Adverts are not back yet, and it might stay for a while this way, but I’ve placed some useful (methinks), affiliate links in the “Resources” box up there, in the center of the page (yeah, I have to rename it to something else). So, check it out, maybe you’ll find something you like/need.

Over and out!