Considering that the great Studio Traffic had been running for nearly two years when I made my debut, I was a latecomer to the get paid to auto surf scene. When I first started to take notice of the get paid to auto surf sites, I looked at the possibilities, did a double-take, looked again and wondered where the catch might be. Surely, I thought, there must be a catch, or can it really be that simple Ill spare you the suspense and tell your right from the start that the answer was yes, it really is as simple as it appears. Before you go rushing off to spend money with auto surf for cash programmes, let me just stress that it is simple but that is not the same as saying that every get paid to auto surf site is safe. Crossing the road is pretty simple but, if you fail to look out for approaching traffic, it certainly isnt safe. Jumping out of a plane is simple but, if you dont get a parachute and a course of instructions, its far from safe. So dont try auto surfing for cash at home until you have read the rest of this.
Of course, at the start, I didnt know the answer and I toddled off into the realms of get paid to auto surf, taking baby step investments and breathing sighs of relief every day when the get paid to auto surf sites appeared and I knew my tiny investments were still safe. Considering the idiotic abandon with which I embraced the dreadful money doubler phenomenon, it might seem strange that I was so wary when it came to the auto surf for cash experience. Maybe I learned my lesson from the amount of money I wasted on the money doublers. (By the way, if you happen to know my husband, there is absolutely no need for you to mention to him anything about me and money doubler programmes. Really, no need at all.)
Dont get the wrong impression through me mentioning money doublers and get paid to auto surf programmes in the same article. The auto surf for cash sites are in no way related to the money doublers or run by the same people. The one thing the two types of programme have in common is that they are very easy to do but, whereas money doublers were pure scams, get paid to auto surf sites are real online businesses where you can make money at home. The webmasters and webmistresses who own get paid to auto surf sites are, in the main, honest hard-working people, who want to have a thriving business which will bring them an ongoing income for the future. Im not saying all auto surf for cash sites are run by saints, the owners are just ordinary people who want to make a living on the Internet, and the industry (like any other) has its share of rogues and thieves who will take your money and run, plus a few inept webmasters who just have no idea how to run a business and lose everyones money.
So, you might ask, how do I take sensible precautions against getting stung The answer, like most things, is simple! Investigation is the answer. If you like the look of a get paid to auto surf site, join as a free member and check out the forum (if there is one). Surf to test the quality of surfing and dont invest if the surfbar is unpredictable. Email the owner to ask about the site. If you get no reply, drop the site there and then: any website owner who takes a pride in his business will respond to a members enquiry. If you get a terse reply, pointing out that the answer to your dumb question is in the site faqs, this is still good: an abrupt reply probably means the owner is busy or has got sick of answering the same stupid questions. The point is that he is human and bothered to respond. Dont even think of giving your money to someone who ignores you from day one.
Do an Internet search for forums concerned with making money online, make money at home, auto surfing, get paid to programmes etc. Read what the members are saying about the sites you are thinking of joining as this is usually a good indicator of whether the site is growing or declining. Dont, however, totally rely on the opinion of forum members because the posts often tend to be a bit hysterical and they are, of course, the voicing of personal opinions and not a handing down of the wisdom of gurus.
Check out get paid to auto surf review sites. I dont mean the one page free websites that have been built simply to advertise one persons choice of programmes and build a downline. Look for serious reviews which are regularly updated, these are more likely to be written by dedicated surfers. There are some very good ones around now: I came across one just this week, where you can sign up for a course of get paid to auto surf lessons and a weekly newsletter. This sort of service takes real energy and commitment. If you read a few of these get paid to auto surf review sites, you will get a feeling for which of them belong to dedicated surfers and which are the work of sloppy amateurs who half the time dont even notice when their recommended programmes have closed down.
Another thing you can do to make life as an auto surfer for cash safer is to tread the path which has already been smoothed out, tiptoe in the footsteps of the people who are already making money from auto surfing. If it is working for them, copy what they do and listen to their advice. The foremost piece of advice any decent auto surfer for cash will give you is dont ever use cash you could not afford to lose, the second most valuable piece of advice is probably spread your investments. If you are prepared to be patient, you can build up a decent income from small investments spread over several get paid to auto surf programmes. This way you can enjoy the get paid to auto surf experience and make some money without living in fear of your life savings being carried out to sea on the virtual surf.
Copyright 2005 Elaine Currie
Elaine Currie has a Work From Home Directory and Auto Surf Review at her Plug In Profit Site: for people who want to make money at home.
What is happening to our business! I have only recently joined the ranks of commercial search engine optimisers having spent the last 5 years making a handsome living as a super affiliate. A wealthy investor persuaded me to bring my knowledge to the commercial world, we stuck in some cash, got a roomful of employees and NetCallidus was born in may 2005.
So why should we give away the secrets of our industry I realise that there is such a thing as competitive advantage, but that i believe is down to technique not restricting basic knowledge.
I truly believe we will all be very much more successful when we finally decided to relinquish our comfort blankets and give all those secrets away.....I realise to most this will seem a little controversial, at least privately. but then these conferences are all about giving away information arent they I have heard lectures on quality link exchanging, and why you shouldnt use links managers etc, i have reverse engineered most of our industries top companies and have found in many cases they use a lot of the techniques they suggest you dont. There is an awful lot of mis information.
Let me attempt to give you a business reason for giving it all away.
The problem i believe is corporate budget allocation borne out of limited industry knowledge,. How many of you have visited a potential client only to be told their budget is $5000 per year and they want to be number 1 on Google for the search term Car Insurance or some other highly significant term
We all know that the graft required to achieve such results is significant, especially when that client is a page rank 2/10 with 200 total inbound link and 5 html pages!
I find that most of the time i spend with clients is based on education, and when they finally understand the work and skill involved in achieving their desired results allocation the budget required does not become such an issue
Essentially the key is to Manage Expectation.
I recently attended a potential client in the hotel chain business, they had $45,000 dollers allocated to natural search engine optimisation, a significant budget by most standards, however after our meeting I found out that we had lost the deal to another SEO company. The reason we lost out makes me pretty angry, not at losing the deal but at how we lost it.
I found out that the 3 competitor optimisation companies including the final winner had quoted between $30,000 and $44,500 for the job, they had not asked any of the usual questions including, and possibly most importantly what keywords they wanted to appear under.
The website was
Page rank of 2 / 10,325 inbound total link popularity with 5 Google link popularity.
the brief was to attain top 10 positions for major industry terms for each of the 15 hotels the company owned, each with their own individual URL.
$45,000 budget divided by 15 websites means 250 dollers a month per website. We said to the client, your budget is unrealistic and bowed out of the race after suggesting they build a portal site linking to all of their hotels.
6 months later the client returned and we took the business. It was worth losing the deal and maintaining our professionalism.
How does this support giving all our secrets away
If the case study above is to be regarded as quite normal the question should be, how did they get the $45,000 budget in the first place! With the right knowledge they could have set a more realistic budget or toned down their goals to match the funds available and set there expectancy levels correspondingly instead of losing $20,000 dollers on a company that was doomed to failure right from the start.
Lets learn from the world of marketing, most company owners have read copious numbers of books and understand how marketing works, they understand what is involved and realise how expert you need to be to actually receive significant results. There are hundreds of successful marketing agencies out there, it logical really so lets really give up as much information as we can.
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