Some Updates And News On My GetPaidTo’s (GPT’s)

I recently have been neglecting the whole GetPaidTo (GPT) industry and left the accounts which I had active in the hands of my younger brother who is supposedly helping the the work back home in Malaysia. The reason for this was because the boarding school here blocked GetPaidTo websites including PTC, PTR – basically all forms of GPT’s. Sure, there were ways to get around the school blocks but many of the GPT sites do not accept proxy members and actually delete accounts whenever they see 2 accounts having the same IP address. If I use a proxy, the chance of me having the same IP address is extremely high, so I figured it won’t be worth my time.

Anyway, here are some light and quick updates of what I can remember when I checked the accounts the last time I went back to Malaysia.

ThinkBux

I now have 4 referrals here, some of them which are even more active then me . I reached $5 which was the minimum payout last time, however I found out they increased the minimum payout to $10 and now only offer PayPal as a withdraw option if you are a premium member. If you aren’t a premium member like me, the only withdrawal option left is Alertpay. All this happened as the owner sold ThinkBux to another guy.

AugBux

This turned out to be quite the classic scam as this site is now not operational anymore. At first I though this site as quite promising as there were many many ads to click on, however now on looking back I’m pretty glad I did not invest any money or too much time on this PTC as it was a scam.

Better-Bux

When I went back to Malaysia I found out that Better-Bux had deleted my account. This was the 2nd time my account got deleted by Better-Bux and as usual, when I created a new account using the exact same details (this is allowed) all my stats were still there left untouched . I think it’s some sort of bug.

ClixNCash

I now have a couple of referrals in ClixNCash, however these referrals just aren’t clicking.

Cash-Hi

Same as ClixNCash, a couple of extremely inactive referrals.

CrewBux

This along with ThinkBux is one of those PTC sites that I feel has a lot of potential. I’m currently trying to focus more on this as even though I still do not have any referrals here, from what I have seen and heard is that is honest and does payout. Furthermore, the $0.01 per click is also relatively high.

Things I Learned From This Happenings:

So yeah, the whole GetPaidTo industry seems pretty nice at first as the concept of actually making money from just clicking seems very interesting and attracting, however upon closer look and after scrutinizing it rather carefully, I have to say that the GPT industry is quite volatile and I suggest that you do not invest too much money into these programs. I know of people who invest hundreds of dollars into such programs, but if these programs turns out to be a scam, that is it, your money is all gone. Even if the site is honest and paying you now, there is no guarantee that the site will not change hands into a dishonest person’s hands.

GPT’s are GPT’s, what you gain by earning free money even though in extremely small amounts is at the expense of stability and long term growth. That said, I still recommended GPT’s if you are keen on making money online and not sure whether that is possible as with GPT’s you can easily earn a couple of cents into your PayPal account in a day .

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Which One Earns More, Nuffnang Or Advertlets?

On the 8 of August 2008, which is this month, I wrote about how I was going to try Adverlets out on my blog. Well, today after about 16 days of running Advertlets advertisements on my blog, I must say that it is already earning me more than Nuffnang advertisements.

First of all, I need to say that both Nuffnang and Advertlets are not my main source of income on Drett.com. My main source of income is private advertising deals. The reason why I can’t earn much from Nuffnang and Adverlets is because of my low traffic count from countries like Singapore and Malaysia as most of my traffic comes for the United States of America. Actually, the traffic I get is far below what I wish I am getting, but I’m working on that and that story is for another time.

Well anyway. I gave up my Glitterati membership in Nuffnang so that I could show Advertlets advertisement on Drett. In this period of about 16 days, I have earned a little less than a ringgit. RM0.903 to be exact. And in this same period of time, I have earned RM0.00 from Nuffnang. Yes, totally nothing.

My stats below are for my Advertlets advertisements. Note that some days the impressions are very low and far below average because some days my site was down for more than half a day due to me trying to upgrade and fix out the kinks with the current theme.

By counting the cents I earn everyday, I have earned a grand total of RM0.903.

I have totally nothing to show for Nuffnang. Nothing at all. I didn’t get any global band advertisements (which are the cost per click advertisements aka CPC advertisements), nor even a band 1 advertisement within this 16 days period.

I calculated how many days it was before I could expect payment from Advertlets, and by assuming that my average income a day would RM0.15 a day, I would have to wait about 1.8 more years before I reach the minimum payout of RM100. Not a very pleasant thought.

So far since I started using Advertlets on the 18th of June, I have earned a sum of RM1.442 while I earned RM1.25 from Nuffnang since I signed up which was on the 20th of June.

Yup, thats RM1.442 of my Advertlets earnings you are looking at.

And now you are looking at all RM1.25 of my Nuffnang earnings. Quite pathetic.

As I said before, luckily Advertlets or Nuffnang isn’t my main source of income, otherwise I seriously won’t earn anything at all .

Having been a Nuffnang Glitterati member before, I know both it’s benefits and advantages, and now I’m considering becoming a TITAN member of Adverlets. TITAN stands for This Is The Advertlets Network which is what exclusive members of Advertlets are called (exclusive members of Nuffnang are called Glitterati members). Yes, I just might consider applying to be one just so I can compare whether Advertlets or Nuffnang earns more money.

What do you guys think? Does Nuffnang or Advertlets earn you more money? Post your comments below and share your knowledge with us.

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I Got Dropped From Nuffnang Glitterati

Yesterday when I was trying to add a post to Innit, I got this error message, something about not being a Glitterati member. As most of you should know by now after I wrote about my thoughts on Nuffnang, Innit is a Glitterati only feature. Well, I logged into my Nuffnang account and found out that I really had my Glitterati account status taken away from me, I was quite surprised.

Needless to say, I immediately reviewed what changes I had made to my blog recently. I concluded that as my Glitterati status was only recently revoked, it must have been something that I did on my blog recently. So on on the 7th of July, the only changes I made was firstly add a Pepperjam Network banner, a ReviewMe banner and another image link to some website selling magazines. These banners are actually not advertisements, they are more like affiliate banners. Anyway, I have since removed the ReviewMe banner, but I left the Pepperjam Network banner and the image banner there.

Anyway, seeing that the Glitterati status meant a lot to me as the I’m starting to find Innit rather useful , I contacted Nuffnang with some questions and was quite delighted when they gave me such a quick reply (about 4 hours).

I sent them this:

Hello, I’m wondering how come I got pulled out from the Glitterati program just today. I know that Glitterati is an exclusive membership with bloggers without advertisements from any south east asia originating network, but as my site does not have any of them I really am puzzled. Also for your information, I only have one blog with Nuffnang, and is has been recieving traffic.

I haven’t taken out or added in any advertisements in recently too.

Please advice.

And they replied:

Hi David,
You’ve added in an ad unit that is from another blog advertising company based in Southeast Asia which conflicted your Glitterati status as our crawler read on 7-Jul-2008 06:53:27. Kindly remove the ad unit and your Glitterati status will be restored upon a few days.

Cheers,
Robb Chew
Blogger Relations Executive
Nuffnang Sdn Bhd
www.nuffnang.com.my

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I replied them once more with this:

Hello, thanks for your prompt reply. It is much appreciated. If I’m not wrong, the only 3 things I added to my website yesterday was a banner by Pepperjam Network, Review Me, and another link to someones website. I have taken down review me banner. Could you please check my site and tell me whether I have any South East Asia originating advertisements.

And could you tell me what exactly are the networks that originate from South East Asia. And we’re allowed to mention them right? Just not allowed to put the advertisements up right?

This is my blog’s address http://www.drett.com, if you could be so kind as to help me check.

I realy want to get the Glitterati status back, so please advice me as whatever is neccessary.
Thanks.

I’m sure some of you can practically feel how desperate I am to get back my Glitterati status back. If you’re not yet a Glitterati member, I suggest you try it out especially the use of Innit, as I find it is a good source of traffic from Malaysia.

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