Microworkers; the new kid on the block for making money through microjobs

Microworkers is a program where you can either post or get paid to perform simple tasks. Microworkers seems to be less rigid on the types of postings than Mechanical Turk does, with one exception: Microworkers will not handle any adult content, whereas Mechanical Turk will accept it as long as it is specially tagged. At Microworkers you can either post or perform such tasks as: signing up for a website, following someone on a social media, posting a comment on a blog or forum, writing a short article or blurb, review and backlink a website, social bookmarking, etc. The tasks all usually take just a few minutes to do, and payments accumulate in your account until you have reached $25.00 when you can be paid out. You can also optionally use your earnings to post your own tasks and promote your own web activities as well. You can earn $1.00 per referral, once that referral has earned the minimum payout amount. Work is available to international participants, but tasks can be assigned to specific countries if desired.

I have not been personally paid out by Microworkers yet, I tend to use my earnings to promote my blogs. The friend who referred me has been paid by them though. Both of us are pleased with their service, which is very simple to use. This is a fairly new program so it has a lot fewer jobs and users than Amazon’s Mechanical Turk does, but it is growing quickly and has great potential. Amazon, hold on to your Turkish hats; here come the Microworkers!

Join Microworkers here and start getting paid to perform small and simple tasks, or post tasks to promote your blog or website.

Daybreak Traffic is a great Traffic Exchange to use to get more hits to your website

Daybreak Traffic is a manual traffic exchange where you can earn a large number of credits and increase traffic to your website. Due to the progressive surfing system and the large number of bonuses and contests Daybreak offers, I have found that I can accumulate credits there at a much higher rate than most other traffic exchanges. I have had my rate up over a 1:3 ratio there on more than one occasion, which is almost unheard of. You also have an opportunity to win a lifetime Gold member upgrade, which will allow you to earn credits even faster. To win the free upgrade, just surf enough sites to be the top surfer for the month. There is a handy standings page so that you can keep track of your progress.

Daybreak is a great place to meet other webmasters and blog owners and network. I have learned about a lot of other great programs and tools from talking with the other members in the built in chat room. Everyone is very friendly and helpful, and the owner takes a very active interest in the site and the members.

You can also earn cash using the Daybreak traffic exchange through random surfing bonuses, or through ongoing monthly commissions of up to 45% if people in your downline upgrade to paying memberships. Payout limits vary from $10-30, depending on your membership level.

Commission Junction is a great affiliate program to make money with

Make money using Gomez Peer

Gomez Peer is a program that will pay you to leave your computer turned on. It uses a tiny fraction of your computer resources to test website data for clients. To start making money and getting paid by Gomez Peer you just install the client, and then leave it running on your computer. It can take a little while after joining to get approved, but you will still accumulate potential earnings. Most people do get approved, but occasionally some will be told there is no demand for someone with their location and connection speed.

You can make money in a couple of different ways. You will get paid up to $0.10 per day just for being logged in, even if your computer recieves no work tasks. When you get a task, you are paid $0.0005 for every minute they are using your computer. Between these two factors, you can earn up to $45 per month. You may make less, and they do not guarantee any specific volume of work tasks. You can also earn $1.00 for every new user that you refer to the program. Not bad earnings for doing absolutely nothing, if you let your computer run a lot anyway.

Online Time Payments (per day) $0.10
Processing Time Payments (per min.) $0.0005
Referral Bonus (per Active Referral) $1.00
Min. Monthly Payment $5.00
Max. Earnings per month $45.00

Get paid to post content to Bukisa

Bukisa is a paid to write article database. It is pretty open as to what you can publish there. You do not have to participate in rating other articles, and anything you post there does not have to compete with other content. There is not really as much of a social aspect to this program. You do not get paid for adsense ad or other affiliate revenues at Bukisa, you get paid strictly by your traffic and referrals. Traffic is based upon unique pageviews per every 24 hours from qualified sources. Bukisa will weed out the views that come from bots and traffic exchanges. Bukisa makes a great place to post things that you have not written specifically to target ads, but may be of interest to readers. You have the potential to make quite a bit of money on Bukisa if you can get a lot of referrals and generate a lot of traffic to your content.

Make money writing for Hubpages

Hubpages is an article database program where you can write individual webpages that are called "hubs" about your topic. Hubpages is very free form in style. Unlike some of the other article database programs; there is no specific format you must use, or topic system that your writing must fit into. You can make money by writing on Hubpages through revenues generated by people who click on the advertising that is in your hubs. Hubpages supports Adsense, Ebay affiliate, Amazon affiliate, and Kontera ads within your hubs. When these ads are placed, it is on a revenue sharing system that works by placing your ads 60% of the time, and Hubpages ads 40%. Hubpages does not pay for traffic rates.

Some may argue that this method is one that you could use on your own webpage or blog and keep all of the ad proceeds, but Hubpages does still have a great value to publishing writers and site owners. One benefit is that Hubpages is very social, and has an actively involved set of writers. I have met some great people there, and that has helped with my overall reputation and exposure within the online community. That means that writing for Hubpages is generating traffic to my main blogs, as the friends or interested readers I have found there visit to see what other words of wisdom or folly I may have published. In addition; being a new blog writing under a new pen name, I am more likely to get immediate traffic to my writing through the networking available on Hubpages than I am by posting anything here at this time.

I also tend to get bored writing about the same topic all of the time, but this blog is pretty specific in purpose and planned content. When I feel like publishing something that is not a good fit for my blog here, Hubpages allows me to do so without having to worry that it seems out of place. I do not have to set up any other blogs or pages, excessively promote it for traffic, or anything else. I can write about anything I want to when the mood strikes very quickly and easily; and still obtain the benefits of having it on a high traffic, well marketed site with a good reputation. By providing this benefit, Hubpages allows me to generate ad revenues on articles written about topics that I would not normally publish were I only writing in my blog.

Get paid for writing reviews at Reviewstream

Reviewstream is a program where you can get paid to review almost anything. There are no set topics or categories that you must write about. Payment rates are currently $2.00 per review. Reviews that do not qualify for the regular payment get paid at the bulk rate of $0.40. How do you get paid the higher rate? Make sure your review is well written. It does not have to be a literary masterpiece, but it does need to give the reader information they can't just go look up on a product home page. It should include your opinion of the product, and details about your experience with using it. It should be a minimum of around 400 words plus to get top payment, and be written in understandable English. It can sometimes take a while to get your review approved because they read them all first, but be patient and they will get to it. Once you have cashed out a few times, you may be deemed eligible for your reviews to autopost if you have a consistantly good quality.

I have only ever published one review at bulk rate, and I did that voluntarily because I wanted it posted immediately. If you do not want to publish at bulk rate, just make sure you do not click the "bulk rate" box. If they decline you for a standard payment, you can always resubmit at the bulk rate later if you choose to. I have only had one review declined as "Not of interest", and it was for a popular free software program that I later realized had already been reviewed numerous times.

You can cash out at any time once you have earned $50, and payments are recieved pretty quickly via Paypal after requesting them; usually within 48 hours. You can also earn money from any reviews posted by your referrals. It is a pretty small percentage but it ads up, especially since those who use Reviewstream tend to post fairly often. There is no limit to the number of reviews you can post. Also, if you get someone that votes that your review is useful, you get $0.10. I have earned a whopping 20 cents that way. That is probably my own fault because I don't promote my content there at all, and it is written under a pen name specifically used for Reviewstream; and not a name I am known by anywhere else. Sometimes it is nice to be able to just say what you really think about certain things anonymously :)

Anything posted to Reviewstream must be totally unique, you cannot reuse that material elsewhere. You get credit for your writing up front, as opposed to having to generate traffic and accumulate earnings. This can be either good, or bad; depending on the type of content it is. Articles that have a long term readership interest written to article directories will earn slower, but will continue to earn over time. For this reason, I tend to put things on reviewstream that I do not see fitting in with my postings on directories or on blogs. Examples of this are the experience I had with a local company whose price and features sales pitch kept changing, or the waitress at the mom & pop restaurant who was outstanding, or the fact that I am am irate because even though I bought a lifetime warranty a certain company no longer wants to replace my product because this is the third one that has not worked properly. Were I to start posting these things on a directory like Hubpages my readers would probably stop reading, because these things most likely don't interest them. These are the things that Reviewstream is made for; things that make an impact in your day in the here and now, that others who are specifically looking for reviews may find of interest when deciding to use that product or service. If it is likely to be useful information to a lot of people over a wide geographical area or has potential for good ad revenues you may want to consider using one of the article directories or a blog instead, because over time you will probably earn more than $2.00 from your content.

Click here to Join Reviewstream and start earning money writing reviews.