Hi guys!

On behalf of the directors and the developers, we want to thank all our newest members for crashing our servers as we hit half a million members :D So many people tried to register to be the 500,000th member and claim the 500,000 bonus shares that all chance to see the website in all her glory were blown. I guess tomorrow it’s time to upgrade a few processors and storage and see how soon you can crash them again. ;)

OK, joking aside, we have hit 500,000 members – its official! In fact we’ve hit it twice! Talk about creating a headache. Before I announce a few winners I want to explain why there appears to be 3 sets of population numbers in me2everyone.

On the guest area www.me2everyone.com there’s one number (currently 492434) and actually in a way this number is correct. Then on the database the last number recorded is 501416 – 8,982 higher than the guest area. Why? Well, we’ve looked into this and found that the difference is actually the number of people who have not yet activated their accounts. We will follow this up next week.

OK – so the latest main database number is 501416 (at the time of writing). So that seems a little higher than the population in the members’ area – which has recently crossed 500,000 – so what’s going on there? Well it seems the counter in the members’ area is based on all accounts less the accounts under investigation or being closed. Sooo confusing!

We’ve asked the developers to synchronise all counters to give a more accurate reflection of the population figures and we’ll let you know when this has been done. But for now it leaves a little puzzle – who was the 500,000th member of me2everyone and who wins the 500,000 bonus shares?

THE WINNERS

Well to be fair to everyone we’re having two sets of winners! First up is Mišo Krog (ID 500000) who actually became the 500,000th person registered in our database. Mišo wins 500,000 shares right now. Mišo was introduced by Alja Prevolek (ID 44533) who also wins 500,000 Bonus shares.

Next we have the person who actually tipped the members area population above 500,000 (which so many of you were aiming for) and the winner here is: Julio Rosadilla (ID 501394). Julio was introduced by Andres Rosadilla (ID 34684).

We’ll get one of our press officers to contact these members to bring you their reaction asap.


Tomorrow: Winners or the 10m share race!

Perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow me2everyone achieves the milestone of half a million members. At the very second someone becomes member number 500,000 a whole stack of things has to happen.

Firstly that member will be thrust into the limelight and 500,000 shares will be added to their account. They will be asked to speak to one of our Press Officers who will write up an article. At the same time the person who introduced this member will also receive 500,000 bonus shares and be in contact with the same Press Officer.

Meanwhile the 10m share race comes to a dramatic end as we take a snapshot of the top 2000 recruiters. Very quickly we will announce the key winners and for a whole week one of our colleagues will be adding a combined 88.5m bonus shares to the accounts of our winners and their introducers. Our Press officers will be on hand to discover recruiting tips and share these with all members. Personal stories will emerge and no doubt new friendships will be formed.

We’ve also said that at the 500,000th member we would end the current offer of 5,000 shares for each introduction. Well, we expect a flurry of activity this week and so we are keeping the 5,000 share award open for a while longer – think of it as a consolation prize for not winning. Still what a prize! In the years to come, based on our projections those 5000 shares could be worth GBP £2900. I the next few days we will give you the date and time when the 5000 bonus ends and what replaces it.


Good Luck!

As promised (and hopefully ahead of schedule) is the final, short part of June’s interview with the directors. Tomorrow we can go back to reporting news from within me2everyone and begin answering some of your emails here – for everyone to see.

How will CCMs be trained so that they are able to perform competently?

For those members who have no idea what a Customer Care Manager is, let’s just spend a minute explaining it. me2everyone wants to establish a support system that’s second to none. So we’ve decided to create a freelance business upgrade for 70,000 members. This gives you the chance to represent me2everyone in your local language and time zone. It gives our support system a true, 24/7 availability and every member has a direct contact who can help them achieve the best possible experience from me2everyone.

Every CCM will start with a small group of members, whom they will come to know personally. As more members join m2e, they will choose the CCM they want to be assigned to and every CCM will be authorised to look after a maximum of 3600 free members and 195 business members.

So imagine it’s day one and you’re about to begin the role of CCM. What happens now? Well first things first you will sign into the bespoke member management system we’ve developed. This will ask you a few simple questions to get your business set up. When you launch the system takes care of allocating members to you (the members themselves choose you). They also give you feedback based on service levels, friendliness, etc and this is portrayed as a star system.

Now we don’t throw you to the wolves and hope for the best. We assign you to a Global Exec – someone who becomes your mentor and who looks after all your questions and helps you settle in with your members. This gives you ongoing training and support. Your Global Exec also looks after other CCMs and this gives you all a chance to learn from each other. It’s a complete support system. Oh and then there’s us. We want you to succeed and so we’re on hand to help you.

It's been along 5 months since I joined. How many people do you think we have lost along the way?

me2everyone is 4 months behind schedule but we’re picking up the pace and delivering on our promises. Forecasts on member losses vary widely but it’s hard to predict. To come will be an email that tells everyone we are here and our PR engine starts up too giving us wider publicity. I’m sure we’ve lost members – whilst most will simply be dormant – waiting the chance to hear what’s happened and to be asked – do you really want to throw those free shares away?

What is the legal tax position on any money I receive from me2everyone?

Everyone’s personal tax circumstances are different and with nearly half a million members in more than 170 countries, we can only provide you with some basic advice based on life here in the UK. The simple fact of life in most places is that if you receive any income from me2everyone: say dividends, commissions or royalties then you should declare this to your own tax authorities. If you sell your shares down the line, there’s going to be tax that’s due. But this is your affair and your decision. We will simply create an environment where our members can make money. What you do with it afterwards is completely up to you.

The recruitment is down to less than 500 per day. How are you going to get this back towards the 5000+ you once had?

We’re forecasting hitting the 500,000 mark during Wednesday and the recent rapid acceleration has been attributed to the new members’ area coming live, the culmination of the 10m share chase and the special increase in bonus shares for joining me2everyone. But what happens then to keep the momentum going?

Well the next milestone is 1m members and we want to achieve this by October 1st so what do we have up our sleeves next? Well, the numbers of shares for joining has to decrease: 5000 paid up shares actually costs one of our partners approximately USD $8.00 so that can’t go on forever.

So tomorrow you’re going to discover just how long we can keep this 5,000 bonus going for and this will possibly see a flurry of new members. Next our sales guys want to create a new competition where for every member you recommend into me2everyone you receive one entry into a competition. The prizes there will be something special and quite possibly we could repeat this on a weekly basis. Eventually this will give way to the main Leader Boards.

The thing to remember is that me2everyone is your website. In the next six weeks you will be holding your own, registered share certificate in me2everyone PLC. That’s when this idea of ownership becomes very real. We’re sure that hundreds of thousands of members will suddenly start to think seriously about bringing more of their friends and family on board.

We’re also going to start improving content. Later this week there will be news about an exclusive game being developed for m2e that’s lighting up the faces of everyone we tell. The simple fact is we achieved nearly half a million members with virtually no website. What can we achieve now?

Earlier today we embarked on the final day of questioning our directors to see what the future held for me2everyone. We conclude this evening with another rapid fire round for the guys...

What are the visions of me2everyone, for world development, for economic development and, the outlook for the future?

Phew this is a tough one. The future vision of m2e is a place where people visit first: somewhere like Yahoo. When we have the seamless “world” of version 2.0 we will achieve far greater things. We have ideas on search engines and how people use the web to trade. The scope is endless. But let’s start at the beginning and evolve from here.

Do we have visions of world and economic development? Well let’s just say that so far we’ve got hundreds of thousands of people intrigued and talking. Let’s see what people think of our business model 4 years down the line and maybe, just maybe there will be guys starting websites who are inspired by us. Quite possibly me2everyone could be the birth of a new way of engaging people on the internet. But let’s put the rest of the architecture together so you can see where we are heading.

When will I receive a dividend from my shares?

Dividends are declared by the directors after the accounts are completed each year. We are a few months away from our first year end.

What happened to the forum?

It’s still in the mix. Late August looks favourite for some form of feedback system / discussion group. However we’re also looking at how the internet would be designed if people were starting today. We have a great idea for members to communicate in a global chat, but as usual I’m told the technology hasn’t reached us yet. We may have to start designing...

And also where do you see and hope m2e to be in 5 years time?

Good to see someone is thinking beyond the day when the world is supposed to get sucked into nothing :o) When we launched me2everyone we were looking at a December 2012 date for the IPO and we received a small group of emails from people telling us they didn’t want to be part of a website that would only succeeded after the doomsday that the Mayans has predicted. I wonder if Brazil is still planning to host the 2014 World Cup? :o)

Where do we see m2e in 5 years? Well let’s assume that we get most things right...

You will have a website that’s converged with HDTV giving you a feature rich and immersive experience. Customer Care managers will possibly have virtual 3D AI secretaries, plucking answers from a large knowledge bank. 220m members will visit the website at least once a day and it's one of a few portals where the daily online world news is still free. You will still be chatting to your friends, but using more video-based interaction that simply sending messages. Of course you will be able to set your computer to record all messages and possibly even search them. In 5 years computing power will have grown 8 times larger than today and maybe, just maybe our designers will develop some of the apps we all have in our minds... Only one way to find out :o)

Will there be music in the new website?

Yes! By version 2.0 the website will be getting smarter. When you choose the music you like we will look at streaming that content to your computer. We’ll also alert you to concerts in your area (if you like them) or to new releases. When the gated community launches in “village mode” we will be inviting you favourite musicians (and film stars) to get involved in m2e. Every fan they get = another share for their favourite charity. If you have listed a particular musician in your faves, then you will be automatically linked to that musician when they sign up to m2e. Even cooler, they will write to you to say “Hi”.

What’s your view on copyright and intellectual property?

Copyright and IP belong to the author / inventor. Soon (2009) we’ll be launching art / photo galleries (on secure networks) for members where you can show or sell your work. We do not assume copyright of any image placed on m2e. Same for your inventions and great ideas! We encourage them and later this year we’ll start developing a way to get your ideas launched. You keep the IP and we help you succeed – no matter what stage you’re at.

What was the reason for recoding the sites to .ASP?

Just to upset “PHP” people even more is the news that by August 31st the website will be ".NET" based. As directors we know the basic differences between the languages, but we leave these matters to more technical people. What we have learned is that Linux is very forgiving or poorly coded websites, whereas in the NT platform the code has to be perfect. That’s what happened a couple of week ago when we switched servers – everything went wrong because the PHP-coded front end was so badly designed (by a now fired team) that it just crashed. So we’re developing a website using a language that our preferred IT people program well.

All we want (and all you should want) is a website that works.

What is the offer you are making to prospective business members?

At present we’re focussing on larger brand names for the website. We have more than 200 ready to use the website and once we’ve finished the current round of upgrades we will be planning the final positions of adverts throughout the site. We’ll then add in several more big names that have said “yes” and launch the business member module.

Version 1.5 is more about banner ads, whereas version 2.0 will be a lot more interactive, with a whole business module to look forward to. We’re not releasing pricing for business members yet, save to say that we will be competitive and allow you to be interactive with our members.


Ok guys that’s then end of Part 2. Come back in a couple of hours for the final part of this interview with the directors where we learn how they will get new member signs ups back above the 5000 per day we once had. See you soon!

It’s the last day of June and it’s also the last day interviewing the directors of me2everyone. Earlier this month members asked the directors a whole bank of questions and we’ve spent the last 25 days bringing you many answers and few bonus pieces of information too. Now it’s the final day and a chance to read their answers.

Of course the launch of the new website answers many of the questions and naturally the directors are really busy these days getting new components ready to keep me2everyone feeling fresh. So today we’re banning long answers and having a quick fire round. Let’s see what they said:

When can I become a Customer Care Manager?

We’re developing the Goto> Work feature now that incorporates a brand new help centre. There’s a story coming about this new feature soon. Customer Care Manager launches later in July along with the Business Memberships package. We’ll get you guys really warmed up as we get nearer the date.

What would cause Me2everyone to fail?

me2everyone is reaching “critical mass” where it gains a life of its own. Many of me2everyone’s competitors focus purely on advertising revenues and investments from venture capitalists to survive. me2everyone is different because we are not solely reliable on income from one market sector. Constant delays, bugs in the system and slow IT upgrades are our worst enemies and so these areas are getting our priority right now.

What is your vision of the future for M2E?

Our vision was set out on day 1: a village that becomes a metropolis all owned by you! At the moment you’re playing with the skeleton of me2everyone. When we launch version 2.0 we begin to incorporate the “village” theme into me2everyone. By then many of the new profit areas will begin to arrive. So longer term you will be able to buy and sell, play games, chat with friends, find answers and do more in one place with one community than anywhere else on the web.

When will this 3D world launch?

me2everyone is not a 3D world like Second Life. We never set out compete with that model. We will use 3D elements to bring some life to the village theme. We’ve decided to spend the rest of 2009 making version 2.0 of the website really strong and successful and then in 2010 we’ll begin to spend more time on the 3D aspects.

Who is providing the Technical Expertise, to ensure that M2E is moving forward in the right direction?

me2everyone has several technical teams working on different aspects of me2everyone. We’ve hired Dolphin to manage web development (both their developers and also others around the world). We outsourced management of the servers to Rackspace who look after several blue chip clients. All these parties report our CEO who implements and develops the m2e vision.

Me2everyone has plans to help charities, but how will you ensure that the money reaches the proper places?

m2e is in the process of developing the “me2everyone Foundation” designed to help a wide range of good causes across the world. We’ll make business relationships with these good causes who already have the infra-structure and local knowledge in place. This way we are able to ensure that maximum benefits reach the right people. As m2e evolves and grows we may decide on some pet projects that we fund directly. At this time we will look at developing our own infrastructure.

When will there be more language choices?

August!


There are so many changes being made to the website that we aim to wait until 1.6 is in place (July 22nd) and then we will email anyone who applied for One World to start the translation process.

OK that’s the end of Part 1. The guys need a break and so we’ll be giving you part 2 in a few hours time. We’ve got lots of great insights to come – including where the guys think the website will be in 5 years time. Come back later today.

From late June 2009 me2everyone is going to be a cool new website where you can meet friends, chat, shop, play, watch videos, create an art gallery, open a virtual newspaper, play the free inworld lottery and make money from your own online store! You and everyone you know make the decisions, shape the world, create real incomes and share in the profits. It’s a new place where you meet new people or invite your friends. Learn new skills or expand your business. Find the love of your life or help the planet.

Oh and the great part is that every member also has the option to become a shareholder in me2everyone PLC - a British company all without spending a single penny! me2everyone is free now, free forever. They are about to recruit 70,000 people to run their own customer care business too so if you know anyone that needs some extra work, this could be ideal for them!

If you are looking for something really good in 2009: something that changes your view on the world, then you really have to spend just one minute and look at this website. This is an excellent chance for all of us to make some real progress in 2009 and beyond! Please do not miss it.

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Internet usage is continuing to explode and the online industry is growing day after day. Don't wait another minute to jump on this opportunity.

Are you excited about your blogging business? Saw the first income rolling in? It is just two weeks after you started this course and you already can see a really big picture. Blogging is a lot more than just making few adsense bucks.

One way to really speed up the things and greatly improve your results is to use a viral marketing and website building software.

There is a really good one created by the very successful marketer Matt Callen. If you have not heard about Matt yet, just type his name on Google and browse thru the 200,000 results.

His free software, called HyperVRE, is the ideal solution if you want to concentrate more on money rather than on building a blog business empire. In this course I've mostly talked about the fast way to walk the longer route, but I am sure you'd like to use quick methods of making cash as well.

Here is what HyperVRE can do for you:

• Generate thousands of fresh, unique content-rich webpages from highly-targeted keyword lists of your choice
• Keep your webpages fresh with unique content by placing several rotating RSS feeds to ensure that all webpages are unique and highly related to the topic
• Exponentially increase your profits by giving away the software with YOUR affiliate links branded into it. The viral potential of this program is endless...
• Promote ANY ClickBank, Amazon, or PayDotCom product of your choice. In fact, you're not even limited to these 3 affiliate programs. You can promote ANY affiliate product of yout choice
• Earn quick money by automatically publishing AdSense ads on your site
• Create a long-lasting passive income with literally an infinite potential, including AdSense and Affiliate Marketing

And many more...

Matt's got several demos at the website to show you exactly what the softare can do for you, so I highly suggest that you take a few minutes from whatever you're doing right now, and go check them out.

This software won't be free forever, so you should go and grab your membership right now:

Sign up for HyperVRE

That was all from me. I'll notify you soon if another free or paid money making course is available!

Maybe it's a bit early, but I won't be surprised if you have already earned the first few bucks with your blog. If you have included Adsense or similar PPC ads in your monetization strategies, you can start earning from day one.

And now what?

Obviously all the efforts we put into creating your blog (yeah, I am saying "we", because it costed me fairly good efforts to write this course) was not only to bring it here. I am sure earning few cents per day from your blog is not what you are looking for.

Once you have your blog set up, indexed from the search engines, receiving some traffic and monetized, you have several possible routes:

1. Improve your blog
There is no rocket science here. Just repeat the steps described in the previous lessons of this course. Keep writing good content, draw more traffic to the blog and look for new monetization strategies. Ideally as the time goes you'll achieve:

• - more good content pages
• - more pageviews and more profits
• - more traffic from search engines because of your new content
• - more other bloggers linking to you
• - more subscribers to your feed

etc. etc. In the ideal case you'll have a snow ball which grows faster and faster with the time. In practice this won't happen so ideally, because the competition is growing too. But if you keep repeating just these simple steps (create content - draw traffic), you can build a serious business from your blog.

But putting all your eggs in one basket is never a very great idea. Thus we come to route two:

2. Create another blog. Repeat the steps from this e-course to create another blog while your first one is running. It's really quite simple. If you create several blogs in related niches you can easier interlink them and leverage on the traffic of the already created blogs.

Having all the blogs in similar niches will also allow you to write posts easier, to interact ideas etc. There are people who manage 5 or more popular blogs at the same time. I am not talking about the sploggers (spam bloggers) who manage hundreds of blogs. I mean real quality bloggers. See Darren Rowse (ProBlogger) for example.

Keeping several blogs however requires serious amount of work. How can you avoid this?

3. Grow a blog network
The blog networks are just like that - network of blogs under one brand which interlink each another. See b5media as an example.

Having a blog network is a business and is a step you can take after running several successful blogs. Of course you can't write and mmanage one hundred blogs yourself. You will have to hire bloggers, guest writers or buy ready articles. Before you can grow a blog network you must know your numbers - how much does an average of your blog generate as reveniew, how much it generates per article etc. - so you can calculate how much you can pay to freelance/guest writers.

4. Build a large site
Let me just throw a bunch of ideas to you. See what kind of things you can create (or purchase to be created) once you have a successful blog. These all can become parts of one large site or be small sites interacting each other. And everything can start with one successful blog.

• a forum in the same niche
• a job board
• an e-store in the niche
• online tutoring or e-course (like this one)
• private (paid) membership site with more advanced content
• auction site just for that niche
• social bookmarking in the niche
• social networking site in the niche

And so on. It all comes down to creating ONE successful blog. Once you are there, don't get obsessed with watching traffic and monetization of that single blog. Instead grow further like described above.

And finally, if you get pissed off, you can just sell your first blog. For example "Life Coaches Blog" was sold for USD 30 millions (see here). Just to see where you can go.

This course is almost over. I have only one last offer for you. You'll read about it in the next mail.

Did you already checked your traffic stats? Any visitors to your blog? If you have followed the advice from the previous mail, you should see some traffic. Don't worry, it won't be amazing yet, you'll probably need a couple of months to see a bigger increase. But you can start thinking about the money right now.

I am sure you know that you can place Adsense on your blog, but the mometization methods are much more than that. Let's have a brief look at them:

1. Adsense & Other PPC
This is the easiest and fastest method to monetize your blog. First try to apply for Google Adsense, but if it does not perform well, you can check Bidvertiser.com, Clicksor.com or the Yahoo Publisher Network. Depending on your blog you can try Auctionads and Chitika. The last two work better on product oriented blogs.

Fast tips to set up your ads: make the links in the ads blue, make the text color the same as the text color of your blog. Make the borders invisible and the URL under the ad with the same color as the text of the ad.

Do not use the standard 480*68 banner size - instead try the vertical ones at right, large skyscrapper at top or large and medium rectangle in the middle of your posts. Do not place too many ads on the page - you'll get cheaper clicks and will push your visitors away.

2. Affiliate programs
Most beginners find it hard to make money with them, but the truth is you can make much more with affiliate marketing than with PPC programs.

Do not promote your affiliate programs with banners, they almost don't work. Instead, use context links when appropriate within your post.

In blogs the honest reviews of affiliate products work best. Just write what you think about the product including the negatives. People value this and the search engines index the reviews well.

Create a "Resources" or "Portfolio" page (depending on your blog niche) showing what tools/products/services you use. With affiliate links of course.

Do not promote products or services which you don't like yourself. It's highly recommended that you have used something before promoting it.

You can find affiliate programs at places like clickbank.com, shareasale.com, CJ etc.

3. Direct advertising
If you are a beginner you may not imagine selling advertising to someone. I did not either and I was unable to sell any ads before I created page "Advertise here". I did that on HYWD with an easy to fill form and integrated e-gold payment (because that market heavily uses e-gold).

Make a page for advertising purchase and list honest prices. Make purchasing as easy as possible. If you can't create a form with payment integration (although Paypal is very easy to set up), just list your prices and give email for contact.

You won't sell any advertisement if you have no "advertise here" page.

At Text Link Ads you can try selling text links on your blog. It's easy to use and you can sell 5-6 links and get paid every month.

4. Write reviews.
At sites like Review Me you can get paid for reviewing and promoting products of advertisers.

My recommendation is not to overdo this, as your readers may be pushed away. Do not lose long term gains in hunt for short term profits.

5. Sell your products or services
Your blog is the best tool for building your authority. And if you build an authority by providing good content it becomes your powerful selling tool.

Right now "your products" may sound scary. But writing (or purchasing a freelance copywriter to write) an e-book, e-course or creating a software is not that hard. You can also sell various consulting or other services in your niche.

6. Sell your blog
Finally you can just sell your blog once you have established it. You can get from few thousands to $100k or so and move on to the next blog. This is a great strategy if you are creative and can come with good blog ideas.

There are even more ways to make money with your blog, but as the title of this course says we look for the fast ones.

Once you have everything set up in place you can work on increasing your profits or growing into something more. I'll talk to you about this into the last article of this e-course.

A Great Blog Worths Nothing without traffic.

It's Tony with the next part of Make Money Blogging tutorials. Did you work on your pillar content yet? If not, go back and do it.

There is no use of promotion if you have nothing valuable to offer. It's called SPAM.

Now I hope you'll start promotion only if you have at least 5 good pillar articles and couple shorter ones.

There is all kind of advice on the Web about how to promote your blog. A lot of this advice is crap, while some of it really works. I can't reveal you all webmarketing and SEO tactics in a single article, neither I know everything about them. Instead, here is the method I use to promote a new blog. It works fast and relatively easy. It's not overnight traffic machine or any other wonder like that. Anyone who offers you overnight success should be shoot.

I am listing it in step-by-step way, but you can mix or reverse the steps, it's not that important.

1. Join Forums
Go to Google and type "your niche" + discussion board (don't write "forum" because in many industries you'll find only offline forums in terms of events). Pick a couple of forums which:

• have Google PR at least 3 and "OK" Alexa rank
• allow members to have signatures (just browse to the forum and see if some members have signatures and preferably live links in them)
• have a lot of members and discussions
• have discussions on topics that you have knowledge in.

Join these forums, and create your keyword rich signature. A keyword rich signature contains a link to your site not just typed as URL, but using the "BB CODE" which is available in most forums. For example if your blog is about forex trading, make your signature say "Forex Tradig Blog" (as linked text) and not just "http://johnsmithblog.com".

Start posting smart opinions, start threads, show your expertise. Do not post about your blog, let the others find it from the signature.

In addition to the direct traffic, the forum signature will help the search engines to index your site. This method works great for me.

2. Comment on other blogs
Find blogs related to yours. Go only to recently updated ones, preferably with high PR. Find posts where you can post smart comments and make sure to include your URL. Most blogs attach "rel=nofollow" attribute to the URLs posted in comments, which means there will be little Search engine use, but you will receive direct traffic.

Often when you participate in a good conversation, you'll have the blog owner notice you and eventually link to you.

3. Link out to other blogs
Either write blog reviews or just "speed linking" - small posts collecting interesting posts from other blogs on a given topic. The blog owners check their traffic stats. They will see you have linked to them and if they like your blog, will link to it too.

4. Submit to directories
Go to http://addurl.nu and pick few of the top directories listed there. Submit to 10, 20 or maximum 50. Don't do more submissions, don't do them at once, don't use the same description and website title everywhere and don't use automated submissions.

5. Submit few (1-2) of your posts to Digg

6. Go to http://answers.yahoo.com, find a related question, give smart answer and put your URL as a source

7. Submit articles
Write few good articles which are not included on your blog and submit them to sites like Ezinearticles. Make sure to work well your "about the author" box. It will give you both direct traffic and search engine love.

Make sure to write a good headline. Check 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work and 7 More Sure-Fire Headline Templates That Work. Having a good headline guarantees that more webmasters will pick the articles for their sites. This means more direct traffic and more search engine love.

8. Create an RSS feed and submit it to 3-4 RSS directories

9. Join some Social bokmarking site, MySpace for example. Create your profile and include a link to your blog

10. Get a couple of interviews from experts in your niche. They will include a link to the interview in their blogs.

All these 10 steps can be performed in a month and can bring you between 50 and 500 unique visits daily depending on the niche where your blog belongs. That's not bad for a start. In fact most blogs never reach these figures.

What to do with the traffic? Monetize it :) Read how in the next lesson.

Are you sitting in front of the blank screen scratching your head and wondering what the hell to write on your new blog? I've been there too.

There are many kind of blogs. Some report news. Other write tutorials. Third link to other blogs and comment on their articles. Some are funny. Others are serious. Some blogs have many short posts. Other blogs have less posts but longer.

Basically your blog must contain all of the above.

But how to start?

Imagine a new reader comes to your blog. What do they want to see? What could make them bookmark the blog, subscribe to your feed or (the best!) link to it from their blog or site?

Useful, Unique, Relevant and Well structured CONTENT.

Not just a bunch of posts.

So what is good content and how to create it?

When your blog is new, you need a lot of "pillar" articles which should not only demonstrate your expertise in the niche, but also make the visitor feel that he has just discovered a real treasure of information.

The "pillars" are articles which will be useful even years later. They are not related to the momentum, they are not news or comments on news.

Here are some ideas about pillars for your blog:

1. "How to" articles/tutorials. If you have some expertise in the niche you have chosen to blog about (and you must have), the "How to" articles are the best way to demonstrate it. People love being told how to do things easier, faster or better.

2. List posts. "10 Ways To Bring New Customers To Your Business". "7 Ideas About Your Wedding Gift". "The Top Five Places To Learn Copywriting"... and so on. The lists are easy to read, because they have clear structure. The lists are easy to write again because of the clear structure. People love to read, bookmark and link to lists, because they are short and straight to the point.

3. Reviews of long lasting products and services. The reviews are a bit tricky. If you review something that won't be around few months later, you are not creating a pillar. On the other hand, if you write a good review about let's say Blogger, it will be read years ahead. The reviews attract search engine traffic, they are easy to monetize and engage the readers in conversations.

Generally (except lists) the pillar articles are longer (500 words or more) and thake some time and effort to write. But once you have them, you have done half of the work to creating a successful blog.

Your pillar articles must be easy accessible. You need to create a page with them and link to it as "Articles", "Best content", "Read here first", "Most popular" etc. yet from your main menus. This will help every new reader to understand what your blog is about and how useful it is.

If your pillars are not easily accessible, your are leaving your first time visiotrs in the dark. Imagine someone coming and seeing only your last article - a comment about some latest industry specific news. Such posts are absolutely OK once your blog is established, but they won't be interesting to the newcomer unless he wants to know exactly about that specific news. So instead of losing the visitor, shove your pillars in his face. It's a win-win for both of you.

Don't be in rush to promote your blog before you have at minimum 5-10 pillar articles. Once you have them, it is time to start promoting your blog (while you keep posting).

You'll understand how to promote your blog in the next lesson.

Are you ready for some action?

In this lesson I won't keep my initial promise. This course is called "the FAST way to make money blogging". If I have to give you the FASTEST way, it will be to create your blog on Blogger.

But I won't advice you to do that. Maybe I should have called this course "The fast AND EFFECTIVE way to make money blogging". Because using Blogger is fast and free, but not effective. There are very few very successful blogs which use Blogger.

If you are serious about making money, spend few bucks, buy a domain name and hosting to set up a Wordpress blog with your own domain. Under your full control. You can even buy hosting with e-currencies at TheGoldHost.

Once set up your hosting account, go to http://wordpress.org and download the latest package.

Then upload and install it. It is simple.

If you have no idea how to use FTP, check this tutorial.

If you have no idea how to create a database, check the instructions at your hosting provider.

Download a theme for your wordpress blog

Do NOT start your blog with the default theme. You need something catchy, usable and original. Go to http://www.wpthemesfree.com/ and select an original theme to your likes. Upload the theme and start blogging.

If you have no knowledge how to do all of that, go check this tutorial.

As you may be well aware of all these things, I won't be losing your time with repeating what those tutorials teach.

Few words about choosing your domain name

Some people think your domain name should contain the keywords you want to target. Indeed, there is SOME search engine advantage of having the keywords there. But tell me how many famous blog have domains like great-ways-play-golf.com?

Think about somehting original. Having your keywords is nice, but it's much better to create original and short domain name that people will memorize. Scriptlance and post a project to get your blog and theme installed. You can get this for $20 or less. If you are willing to spend a bit more, you can hire a professional designer to create your custom blog template. It will cost you about $100 or so and can help the success of your blog.

Did you already select one or more potential niches for your successful blog? Don't think too long, just write down few of the possible ideas. You'll run some test on them before investing time and efforts into any niche. So there is nothing to lose at this point.

Now let's assume you are considering writing a blog about Golf. Let us explore this niche deeper. I'll use Golf as an example, but you should perform the same benchmarks on any other potential topic.

Keyword Test

Go to WordTracker. For now you can use the free version. Once you start working more seriously on your blog or creating other money making blogs, you'd better get the full version.

Type in "Golf". At the moment of writing this I see 8631 searches. This is very good! I would be willing to create a blog even if there were only few hundred searches. But you must now check if there isn't too much competition on this topic:

Google Test

Go to Google and type Golf. I got 344,000,000 results! That means a huge competition. Generally I aim for the following: when I divide the number of searches received from Wordtracker on the number of Google results (by the exact key phrase, put in quotes) it should be hugher than 0.01. The result here is much lower, so we deal with enormous competition.

This is not a hard rule, sometimes less than 0.01 could be also fine, but not so much less. Also this test is a bit too broad. It means only that 344 millions of results contain "Golf". It does not mean that Gold is the main topic of these sites. But even this rough test gives some initial ideas.

Now you have too choices - skip this topic and go to the next from your list or try to narrow the topic. In both cases you go to step 1 again - Wordtracker. Let's see how we can narrow the topic.

"golf clubs" has 5112 searches and the Google results are much less - 2,050,000. The ratio is 0.0025. It's still low, but much better. Additionally aiming a more narrow topic will give you a lot of advantages - more relevant visitors from search engines, more relevant ads and higher conversions.

But let's see what to do now. You can decide 0.0025 is not so bad and continue further with the Google test. Or you can decide to check the other keyword phrases suggested by Wordtracker. Of course before doing any calculations think if you can write about any specific narower topic. For example "golf balls" could sound good as figures, but can you write an entire blog just about golf balls? Now, let's search for some other appropriate topic:

"naked golf" gives ratio of 0.04 - an excellent one if you feel comfortable building such a blog!

"jamaica golf" gives 0.037 - also not bad.

And so on, you can check all the keywords. Just don't take it as a hard rule and don't think your blog should fix on only one of these topics / keyword combinations. It makes much more sense to select a combination of several related topics as long as you can unite them under the more general topic of your blog. The sub-topics can then become categories of your blog.

But let's assume you have selected "golf clubs" as a general topic of your blog. It's not a bad choice. There are a lot of seraches and the searches/results ratio is not so bad. Your categories can be "used golf clubs", "discount golf clubs", "cheap golf clubs", "custom golf clubs" etc (again they come from the search results given by Wordtracker).

There is another test you need to perform now. As I told you, the ratio we calculated above gives you only a very basic idea about the competition. Now open Google and type "golf clubs" without the quotes. One by one check all the results on the first page. What is their Google PR and Alexa rank?

If all the results have PR 5 or above and Alexa 100,000 or below, your task will be very hard. This means the results are very well marketed and SEO-ed and your chances to appear on the first page of search results are low.

If most the results have PR 4 or below and Alexa above 100,000, you have selected a great topic.

With "golf clubs" the situation is in the middle. It's not the perfect topic, but there is good chance to achieve great placement. It's probably worth the effort.

Check the sub topics in the same way. If most of them can be considered good, then the general topic wins. Otherwise you can reconsider.

Adsense Test

When running a blog, Adsense will probably be one of the monetization methods you will use. You should ensure there are well paid related keywords that people bid on. Go to Google Keyword Tool and type "golf clubs". Select "Cost and ad position estimates". You'll see that estimated cost per click (CPC) for "golf clubs" is 1.23. That is not bad! it means there are advertisers who compete for such high prices.

Check also the related keywords and ensure there is money in them too. With "golf clubs" you are ready to go.

Affiliate Programs Test

Google Adsense should not be your only source of income. You should always diversify. But we will cover these topics deeper into the later lessons. For now all you need to know is that there should be some affiliate programs available for your topic if you want to make money from it.

Go to Google and type "golf clubs" + affiliate program. Do you find a lot of results? Do they offer you to promote something and earn good (and if possible REOCURRING) comissions? If yes, you are on the right track!

Don't sign up for any programs yet, only check.

Forums Test

The forums are one of the channels you will use to promote your blog. Go to Google (oh, well, if you have another favorite engine, you can use it too) and type "golf clubs discussion board" or "golf clubs discussion forum". Any results? Check also just "golf discussion forum". There are plenty of forums which will appear. This means there are people who are interested in the topic. It means also you'll be able to promote your blog in forums.

This is all you need. You have selected a winner!

Since you read this I am assuming you think you can create a blog and earn cash with it. And I know you really can.

But do you have any idea what to write about? Any chance that creating blog about "how to make money" crossed your mind?

Do you know how long it took me to decide about creating this e-course? A hesitated quite long.

I did not want to deal with the "Make money online" niche. You should not want to deal with it too, unless you have a very specific idea or unique angle. See this course for example, it is "the FAST way to make money BLOGGING". It's not just "The fast way make money" neither just "Make Money Blogging".

This course is unique. Your blog should be unique too.

The mistake most beginners do is to create yet another blog about making money online. See, this is oversaturated niche. There are millions of blogs which try to write about this. And you know what is the biggest problem? If you create such a blog you will compete not only with million scrapers, scammers and wannabees, but also with the top bloggers in the industry. They write how to make money, because they know how to do it and how to outsmart the competition. They know how to get most of the traffic and how to win the search engine game. You have very little chance winning in this niche.

You'd better skip "make money" topics when choosing a niche for your blog unless you have ideas for very unique approach.

But how do you select another niche?

Look at your interest, knowledge and professional experience. Do you love gardening? Are you a loan officer? Are you interested in fast cars?

I am sure there are some things that you are passionate about or interested to learn more. If you are a beginner in blogging, this is where you should start. It's much easier to write about something you are passionate about than about anything else.

However, you are here to make money. You need to know if there are other people interested in the same topic and willing to buy things, click on ads etc.

There are several tests you need to put your niche at. I'll go ahead with an example. Let's say you are interested in Golf.

In the next part of the course I will show you how to test if for example Golf is appropriate topic for creating your blog and what to do if not.

Is there anything that you know and enjoy? I mean really anything, from collecting rubber stamps to dental surgery. If you enjoy something - and I am sure you do - you can write a blog about it and make money from it.

A big chunk of the blogs out there earn money from Adsense or other PPC networks. But the opportunities do not end here. Affiliate programs, selling own products or services, direct advertising, paid reviews... There are a lot of ways to earn thru your blog.

Hown could you earn money blogging fast?

One big mistake that most beginners do is to create a blog covering too wide or too general topics. If a blog has no focus, it can't be a success. You'll need to pick a thin niche. We'll cover the process of pickign a niche into this course.

Once you know what you would write about, you should set up your blogging software and site. You may think this is simple - and it really is - but you can earn a lot more traffic and money by setting your blog correctly from the beginning. Of course we'll talk about this too.

No one is going to read your blog if all you have to say is the same that the others say. Your blog needs unique and valuable content. There lies the magic which makes people subscribe to your feed, follow your recommendations and buy the things you sell.

Your ability to produce such valuable content depends a lot on the niche picking process.

Once you create your valuable content you need people to find it. Even the greatest blog worths nothing if no one sees it. This course will also teach you how to attract visitors from search engines, social bookmark sites and other blogs.

If you have good content and people who read it, you are set up for a winner. Don't lose these readers by pushing too many ads or low quality promotions in front of them. Don't under-monetize your site by putting irrelevant or too little ads. You can make at least a dollar per month from each daily unique visitor. I'll show you how.

Once you have a successful blog, you can leave your daily job and work on it. You can continue working on the blog or expand your blogging activities further. There are many options to turn this into big business or just leave it work for you while you are on the beach.

It come to my attention that so many cheaters or scammer at autosurf which look like a good program at the first impression but nothing after 1 cycle. Some of those are : 24over7, 12dreams but it could be more from the current existing. Those 2 obviously a real cheater or scammer which ignore its members and not intend to made any payment now. So be alerted !!!!

But still some other worth program such as PremiumAdsClub, AggeroInvestment, Revenue-Investment.

Me2Everyone [ M2E ] is one of an interesting opprtunity to join.
Here is the latest update from the website:

me2everyone launches early 2009 and until then, this page will tell you all the latest news. We will let you know about some of the great features that are coming and give you an insight to the team behind me2everyone. By December 2012 we want at least 100,000,000 registered members and so we want your help to start spreading the word now. Remember membership is completely free and all members benefit from the Ripple Effect. For now, thanks for becoming a member and sharing this journey with us!

me2everyone Limited was incorporated in England in September 2008. Run by an experienced team and advised by our Global Executive board, we aim to create one of the most visited websites on the planet by 2012. When the main website launches we wll add language support in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian and Italian. We will also add furthe languages upon request.

Any shares on this page will be paid for by us (or our partners) and so you can relax, knowing you never have to pay a single penny for your membership. In 2009 we will open an in-world "trading room" where you can offer your shares for sale to other members. Today they may be worth just their face value £0.001 each.... Tomorrow that value could soar! All we need are members who become involved: we will take care of the rest. Our aim is to seek a stock market listing in 2012/13 and to create an income stream from business members who are given a new way of reaching customers.

How much do we expect our shares to be worth?

Based on financial projections from inworld sales, business members and connected business activity and investment we are aiming for a share price of £0.58 by 2012/13 (please see www.xe.com/ucc for local currency). We have innovative marketing solutions that will protect your privacy but also allow you to control how advertisers and business members interact with you. In fact you also become part of their sales solution!

Surfs-ahoy [ http://surfs-ahoy.com ] obviously become a SCAM program, the site also was gone. I've got paid before it close and gone, so just loss a small bucks

Also be caution with some others program such as BigBangSurf, PalaceofProfit, 16Dailypay, Profitower. Some of that program was gone but some others still open the site. Need to avoid those all.

Right now I want to pickup some new autosurf program that might be good program to make fast cash at online opportinities. Some of it is: Surfs-ahoy, 24over7. Still so many other new program out there as the new comer but this is I predict will take part as a money making at this autosurf world at least for 1 - 2 cycles.


Autosurfs-ahoy is one of the popular new comer at autosurf world now also with a popular plan: 143% or 13% each day for 11 days.
Minimal spend is $5 and maximum is $10,000 through Alertpay and Strictpay as the payment processor.

As a upgrade member you will get 5% referral commission for every new member whose subscribe from your link.
You need to surf 10 sites every day to earn daily rebate.

As a free member you will allow to advertise only 1 site with 50 credits as a sign up bonus but you cannot earn cash otherwise credits

My spend here is 2 unit of $5 each. Will update later for the progress of the program. Here is the greetings from the admin:

Ahoy there! I am Derek Velasco and I’m very excited to present to you a proven effective way of earning and promoting through my program.

Surf-Ahoy is here for of all of us to benefit from advertising, whether you are an individual who wants to drive enormous traffic and hits to your websites , or simply a person who want to earn some bucks by referring friends and acquaintances. Surfs-Ahoy will be operating as long as the members want it to. While I provide the fast service and sumptuous earning opportunities, you in turn provide the support and be an accolade for the longevity of the program. I have no time for pretensions so lets make things as simple as that.

24over7

This is also a popular new comer autosurf program with the total 885 members for within just 5 days with total upgrade $56.750. That's an amazing support from it's members as a new comer progam. Liberty Reserve, Alertpay & Strictpay accepted. Solidtrustpay will be added as the payment processor after the verification process has completed. My spend here is 3 unit of $5 each

My name is James Lopez Walker or Jim for short. I do have a fairly good amount of experience as a member of countless programs where I really cannot tell whether I have profited or not. The most important and exciting fact for me (and that is just for me) is that I enjoy making money on the side with autosurf programs and that is why I decided to open up my own autosurf program. 24over7.com was born. Given the chance, 24over7 could very well be the prime choice for those looking for a good autosurf advertising program.

I will start the beginning of 2009 with several worth program which was passed 2008 with good performance, lets take a look for it each other,

This is a good program which using Profit Sharing system was launch at the beginning of August 2008, manage by admin Steve came with consistent paying and updates through email and some public forum. Profit sharing means that the system is designed to equally divide a percentage of earnings to members based on incoming funds. This means members will continue to receive a maximum of 10% daily as long as there are enough funds to maintain that percentage.An upgrade will finally expire once a total of 120% has been earned on that upgrade. Latest status showed as admin updated,

ESP's current membership level is 1,829 an only 171 members short of reaching the 2,000 membership level; of which an outstanding 1,101 members are upgraded. That's over 60% of our members who are upgraded which is a great accomplishment.
Another great accomplishment is ESP's TOTAL UPGRADE LEVEL is $266,420; with TOTAL PAID OUT of $165,164.34.
Thats a $101,255.66 margin! I don't think any other program can maintain this Incoming vs. Outgoing funds margin.

Come with the latest popular autosurf script uauosof and consists of 2 plan, 127,5% as a surf plan and 120% as a non-surf plan. With current members more than 3000, this program become private since December 27th 2008. This is also one of the worth and popular program nowadays with consistent payment. You can visit their official forum at NewHopeRising forum

This one is a very worth and popular program at autosurf world nowadays and have a very phenomenal support from their members with less problem issue since their first launch at November 2008. Manage by two ladies admin whose also as a famous at MoneyMakergroup forum and have experience st the autosurf world. They plan to make this program as a legal autosurf business.

Also known as a popular program, RINetwork comes with a very sustain and reasonable plan - 6% for 22 days - which is also manage by a famous MMG member named Amrtruk. This predict will be passing the 2009 with a good performance. This program was run for 30 days since December 2008 with the total members count as 387.

This simple post was intend to help the new autosurf subscriber to have an extend understanding to get involve with an autosurf program.

Payment Processor
As a beginning, you must have an account of payment processor. There are some popular payment processor nowadays at the autosurf world such as Alertpay, Strictpay, Solidtrustpay, PerfectMoney or Libertyreserve. You need to have at least one of those processor as a precondition to make spend at some of autosurf program, then you also need to make deposit to the processor you've choose.

Subscribe to the program
You can choose one or more program you want to get involve and join it by completing the signup process. Most of the signup process will ask you about your email address, payment processor you will use. After complete the signup procedure it often need you to verify your account through activation email sent by the program.

Make the spend
You can make an upgrade through the link provided and it will bring you to the whole of the fund transfer process from your processor to the program account depend on the amount of the package you want to buy. Usually the package vary from $1 to $10 each. For example, if you want to buy 2 unit of $5 per adpack unit, you need to pay for $10 to the program, and you will earn daily cash base on the daily percentage of the program plan for a certain period.

Cashout term
Some program offer cashout term after expired for a certain period usually range from 5 to 15 days or even 30 days, while some other programs offer daily cashout term which is mean you can request for a withdrawal on a daily basis by the minimum amount applied by the program. After your request verify and approve by the admin, it will send to your processor after 24 - 48 hours later.

Advise
Autosurf program was count as a high risk online ventures,so you need to make a very comprehensive and wise decision. Once you make the spend it will be a big chance to lose your money so dont make a spend you can not effort to lose, otherwise there are also a chance to make a good revenue from autosurf program

An autosurf is a type of online advertising program. Autosurfs are traffic exchanges that automatically rotate advertised websites in one's Internet browser. They are capable of bringing a large amount of traffic to the advertised websites. Members earn credits for each site that they view, which can then be spent to advertise members' sites by adding them to the autosurf rotation. Sites may additionally be added by external advertisers who pay the autosurf operators.

Autosurfs differ from manual traffic exchanges in that the site rotation is automatic; an ad viewer need not respond or even view the sites. Many autosurfs also pay their viewers a percentage or hourly commission to view the advertised sites; this concept can be likened to a paid to surf site. However, a large number of autosurfs are investment autosurfs: to earn money surfing, members must pay a fee and are then promised a certain return on their fee. The "investment" is claimed to be (usually disguised as) a membership or upgraded membership fee and the "return", a per-site commission. There is a strong possibility that most investment autosurfs are Ponzi schemes, and thus breaking the law and/or deceiving their users; whereas paid to surf sites usually had a viable business model where advertisers would pay for the site to be viewed but not earn money in return.

Concept

Autosurfing is in some ways similar to the concept of advertising on television. Advertising companies pay large amounts of money to TV stations to run commercials, and in return TV viewers may watch programs for free, in exchange for commercial breaks during programs.

In comparison, autosurfers are paid to view pure advertising (that is, advertisers' websites) for a certain amount of time (usually less than 30 seconds). Interested viewers can pause the surf timer or open any site in a new window, giving themselves more time to peruse an ad. If the viewer is not interested and does nothing, the surf timer will simply restart after the specified period of time and a new site will be loaded into the browser.

One flaw in the concept from an effective advertising standpoint is that the viewer need not actually watch the rotation. Most sites contain code to re-maximize the web browser window every time the page rotates, preventing the viewer from using their computer effectively, but an autosurfer can walk away from the computer, or disable the relevant script actions in the browser. The surf rotation requires no feedbacks of any kind; in contrast to manual surfs, paid to read email or paid to click site.

Benefits

Autosurfing allows members to promote websites of their own choice, according to a system of credits earned by surfing. Members usually earn credits in a fixed ratio to the number of sites they view; for example, for each 4 sites a member views, he or she may earn 3 credits, which can then be allocated the member's own site, which will cause three other members of the autosurf to visit the site at some point in the future. Of course, as the member may not actually be viewing those 4 sites, the 3 visitors to his site may also not be viewing the member's site but just logging a hit from their IP address.

Member-promoted websites may or may not be their own websites. If not, they are most often the members' referral page at another autosurf or an online money-making program. This is because most autosurfs are structured as pyramid schemes - members may earn a commission for each site that their referrals view, and are therefore encouraged to build a downline; the most obvious place to advertise is on other autosurfs. Also, most members do not have their own sites.

In the case of investment autosurfs, members either pay a fee to join and/or to upgrade their account level. This fee can usually vary from a few cents to thousands of dollars, and the minimum and maximum is set by the site operator; as such it is more like an investment because the member chooses how much to risk. The program then offers a commission based on the member's account level for viewing a minimum number of sites, for example, for a period of X days, every day that the member views Y sites, Z% of the upgrade fee will be credited and can be withdrawn from the site. The product of Z% and X is always over 100% to ensure that the member makes a profit. Members also have even more incentive to build a downline because further commissions are received based on the amount of money that referred members put in or earn.

As autosurfs are run from websites, online payment processors are used for members to upgrade and withdraw their profits. The most common processor until February 2006 was StormPay, but after it converted to an auction site, the most common processor is now e-gold. The investment autosurf concept is against PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy, however, so sites using PayPal are few and usually do not last long before PayPal blocks their account.

Many people have used autosurfs to earn extra income, sometimes up to hundreds of dollars daily. In this regard, they are similar to HYIPs that can give a very high return.

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Autosurfs are traffic exchanges that automatically rotate advertised websites in one's web browser. Therefore, they are capable of bringing a large amount of traffic to the advertised websites. Members earn credits for each site that they view, which can then be spent to advertise members' sites by adding them to the autosurf rotation. Sites may additionally be added by external advertisers who pay the autosurf operators.

Autosurfing is a unique form of advertising normally, advertisers pay intermediaries to display advertising to their target audience, and the advertising is presented to the audience in places where they are likely to see it, such as in public places, or packaged with entertainment. In this sense, no money changes hands between the audience and the advertiser.

In comparison, autosurfers are paid to view pure advertising (that is, advertisers' websites) for a certain amount of time (usually, less than 30 seconds). Interested viewers can pause the surf timer or open any site in a new window, giving themselves more time to peruse an ad. If the viewer is not interested and does nothing, the surf timer will restart after the specified period of time and a new site will be loaded into the browser. The surf rotation requires no feedbacks of any kind; in contrast to manual surfs, paid to read email or paid to click sites.

Autosurfing allows members to promote websites of their own choice, according to a system of credits earned by surfing. Members usually earn credits in a fixed ratio to the number of sites they view. Member-promoted websites may or may not be their own websites. If not, they are most often the members' referral page at another autosurf or an online money-making program. This is because many autosurfs are structured as pyramid schemes members may earn a commission for each site that their referrals view, and are therefore encouraged to build a downline.