I don’t have much faith in Bloggerwave. Thanks to Opal Tribble for hooking me up with the right contact though. I emailed ust at bloggerwave dot com with the url of my unpaid job and within 24 hours he had replied and sent $10 to my Paypal. What concerns me if that he said Bloggerwave “lost 6 days of database information”. If that were the case, my blogs should still be there as they were added well over six days ago and my job was taken several weeks back.

He did say that I can take the job again and get paid for it again, so we’ll see if that works. My original gripes remain: there aren’t enough jobs and the website clearly lies about its top earners. But still, I got 10 bucks out of it so it’s all good; I made money online again.

Speaking of making money online, until somebody posted a comment about it today, I’d actually forgotten I was running a blog contest to win $100. If you want to enter, you only have 10 days left to do so. Details are here, and it’s really simple to get a ticket. At the moment I have about $400 in my Paypal account, so there is 100 bucks with somebody’s name on it. There haven’t been many entries yet, so there’s a good chance of picking up the loot. This contest is just about the easiest way to make money online.

It’s like 2 am here and I’m exhausted. What with the plane crash on Sunday and trying to expand my blog network (I have six blogs running on their own domains now), I think I’ve been pushing my limits a bit. I could do with a holiday.

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I don’t mind writing the odd paid post if the money’s right. I’ve been paid up to $40 for writing a couple of paragraphs about one website or another; it’s easy money, but among all the great services out there, such as Pay Per Post and Linkworth, there’s one that crops up in the blogospere time and time again for all the wrong reasons.

Let’s take a look at Bloggerwave

I registered for Bloggerwave a while ago and scoped the place out. I added a few of my blogs and tried to take some of the opportunities open to me. There were only three available: Master Seek, Coze Zero and Bloggerwave. I was only able to take the Bloggerwave one and only with one blog for some reason.

The payout was supposed to be $10 and I did everything by the book and eventually the post was approved. I logged back in today to see where my payment was at and my approved post has somehow disappeared. Not only that, but all of the blogs I added have also vanished.

Pissed off, I tried to find a way to contact Bloggerwave, but alas, clicking on “Contact us” took me to a blank page. I rendered my display in IE and the contact form appeared, but it was a strange form asking me for my address, company and a “description” where I wrote my message.

You could say I’m jumping the gun here, but Bloggerwave is infamous for being unreliable. Don’t take my word for it though:

• Earn Money Blogging didn’t get paid.
• Vegan Momma had problems.
• Skeet’s Stuff didn’t get a bean.
• The Sassy Southerner suggests that Bloggerwave is an elaborate scam.

Whatever the truth, Bloggerwave is hitting all the wrong notes and I have no faith in the company at all. For starters, there haven’t been any new opportunities for weeks. Then there’s the very dated look of the website.

On the website it lists people who have made over $100 with Bloggerwave. I found the blog of one of those people (Ashish Ghildiyal), and yes, he has been using Bloggerwave, but he had this to say in his paid post:

At present, they have two opportunities of $10 each. But very soon, the opportunities will increase.

This is a guy who has apparently made $130 with Bloggerwave. That was written at the end of April. I’ve searched and searched, and I can’t find any more opportunities ever offered by Bloggerwave than the ones I have listed. It looks like a scam straight up. The top 10 earners list also hasn’t changed for some time. Somehow, someone made $312 out of three possible $10 opportunities.

If I’m wrong then tell me, but has anybody made money from Bloggerwave?

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A few of you may have noticed that I ordered a review from Cash Quests recently. I paid $70 for the review and it was my first real investment into this site. Although this blog is a little more than one month old, I thought it was the perfect time to snap up a review on Cash Quests. Here’s why:

• I don’t foresee reviews on Cash Quests staying at $70 forever, particularly once the next Page Rank update is complete.
• There are almost 700 RSS subscribers to Cash Quests, and although the site generates less traffic than somewhere like John Cow.com, it’s as good a place to get some exposure as any.
• Kumiko (if she is a real person or not) is knowledgeable enough and honest enough to write real reviews.

The primary reason I wanted a review on Cash Quests was to find out where I’ve been going wrong. I wasn’t expecting a sudden spike in traffic or RSS subscribers because my blog is still fairly new, but I’ve been going this long on my merry way and haven’t come across nearly enough negative criticism.

All friends together

One of the problems with starting a new blog is that a lot of the time you draw traffic from other people starting new blogs, and as such, everyone is very nice to each other. Nobody will step up and tell you you’re doing one thing wrong and another thing you’re doing totally sucks. If I were to carry on like this then I’d never get anywhere.

The review on Cash Quests was enough to kick my ass into gear and simplify my header, making it much smaller and less distracting. I added Adsense blocks in again, although was a bit reluctant to do so at this early stage. But, if this blog is about making money, then I need to be showing that I am taking steps to actually make some.

While my coding skills are limited, I was able, through a process of logically working things out (and a bit of trial and error) to make my two sidebars into one and widen the width of my post content. By doing so I eliminated some of the white space Kumiko said was unnecessary. My sidebars were a bit pathetic, so I got rid of everything in them I didn’t think was necessary and added a few affiliate ad blocks.

I also took off the Advertlets ad I had at the bottom of this blog. To be honest, I’d forgotten that it was there, but as Advertlets is not a big money spinner, it was wasting space.

Kumiko said that I don’t use Feedburner, which isn’t true. I was using a redirect, but I changed my links to show the Feedburner URL in case my own URL might put people off.

I am certainly not a dot com mogul, as Kumiko said, but if the option of making money online and making money with a blog is open to everybody, I’m going to go for my share.

Overall, the review was worth the money because without it my outlook and approach to this blog wouldn’t have changed. There’s no way in hell I will be splashing out on a review from John Chow or anyone on that level next, but if I am going to learn then I need to make some sacrifice. It was $70 well spent because it inspired me in the right way. I’d advise anybody to do the same.

But does my name really make you think you are coming to a porn site?

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