Johnsatyricon

Quote from an e-mail to a collegue of the fifth year of English, about the possibilities of earning money with your websites. This mail was written at the end of september. Meanwhile, I have recieved my first cheque of Google Adsense, amounting to 100 dollar, or 78.95 euro!

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"Just like you, I 'm interested in looking for opportunities on the web to earn money. I have paid a visit to the AGLOCO-website, and it looks promising.

Let me first tell you about my experience with 'virtual money-making'.

I am already a member of the Google AdSense community, which means I put ads of Google on my sites. I am called a 'publisher'. Each time a surfer clicks on such an ad, I earn a fraction of what the advertiser pays to Google. The ads automatically adapt to the content of your site.(in the case of my populistic blog mainly ads for mobile ringtones an funny clips). There is software to control that you don ' t fraudulently click on your own advertisments.

I can see that what I earn when someone clicks, can vary enourmously according to the nature of the product, and according to the supply and demand on the advertising market. When the demand of advertisments for certain types of products is not big enough, I can see that the Google ads disappear from my site or are replaced by 'Google Trivia', such as 'Who was Cleopatra?'

Anyway, the income I earn from Google Adsense is rather disappointing. I started at the beginning of December 2006 and I have now earned 83 $ (which is about 60 euro). It won 't be long before I reach 100 $, and only then I will get paid.

Now concering the AGLOCO-concept. As far as I understand, you can earn money by bringing in new members and by installing the AGLOCO-toolbar? Have you got any idea how much they 're paying for every new member? (Google for example is very vague about how much you can earn when joining their AdSense Community).

But the concept behind it is very good: we users, amateurs build social networks, communities and new media (especially blogs). It 's in that last segment that I am busy as a 'publisher'. And yes, companies use these channels for which they have paid not a single dollar cent. We content-creators should earn a reasonable share in the new economic opportunities we have created as amateurs."

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