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Linkbucks

Theodore Woodward — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:50:03 +0000

if you own a website, and have lots of outgoing links to other sites, then this might help you. I found a website called linkbucks a few hours ago, which rewites these links so they have a small popup that comes with them. And for every user that clicks, you make a little bit of money.

I might start using it on my site soon to reclaim server costs, so I thought I’d share it with you guys. Here’s the link: Linkbucks

10 Great Desktop Wallpapers

Theodore Woodward — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:03:55 +0000

Here are my favorite 10 wallpapers for yor desktop, they are in 1024×600 format, a common netbook resolution:

None of these wallpapers were made by me, but have been gathered from various websites. The majority came from Interface Lift

Disable File Indexing

Theodore Woodward — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:42:00 +0000

File indexing is a service in windows that keeps an index of all of the files on your computer. As these files change often (Installing/uninstalling a program, new documents etc) Windows needs to constantly update this index. Windows usually does this when the computer is idle, and can result in unnecessary disk thrashing, and slower system. If you don’t use the search function very regularly, or you do but can wait a little longer, then indexing can be turned off. Do do so:

Go to my computer, and right click on the disk you wish to turn indexing off on.
Disk Properties
Uncheck “Allow indexing service to index this drive for fast file searching”

Uncheck indexing

This may take a while…

Your computer should now access the hard disk far less when idle.

Windows 7 is here!

Theodore Woodward — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:27:04 +0000

Windows 7 was released at midnight last night. Reports of 500 people waiting outside pc world have been reported! The next major release is ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala. The countdown timer has change accordingly.

Get more traffic

Theodore Woodward — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:28:01 +0000

Tips to get more traffic
Traffic is very important. On a blog, video, or any site, traffic is important. In this article, I will show you some ways to get more traffic.

Search engines. Most good traffic comes from search engines. This is mainly because one of the biggest websites in the world happens to be one. Search engines deliver targeted visiters that are interested in you content, and want to find out more. What more could you ask for? Getting traffic from search engines involves:

SEO Making sure that your website is search engine friendly, and focusing on keywords is a great help. Avoid using javascript and flash for menu systems as the search engine can find it hard go through these. If you must, then provide text links at the botttom of your page.
Submit to as many search engines as possible. However, do not submit the same page more than once, or spam them in any other way. Search engines I recommend submiting to: Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Altavista.
Submitting to directories is another must. Direstories are often used by search engines, so submitting to a directory may save you a lot of work. Google generally ranks pages in directories higher, so they are a good idea. Direcories I recommend submiting to: Dmoz, and Yahoo directory.
Traffic exchanges. While submiting to search engines is great, a user may not know your site exists, so a good way to introduce them is to use a traffic exchange. A traffic exchange generally works with a system of credits: you surf peoples sites and earn credits, and in return you can spend those credits on visitors to your site. I recommend TrafficG, as they offer a 1:1 ratio, and also offer rewards such as free banner impressions, and extra credits.

Links. Links to your site are good for more tthan one reason: they direct visitors to your site, and they also improve your page rank. However, be aware that one link from a good well known site is far better then hundreds from sites you have never heard of. So, place links from forums, youtube videos, email signatures, and anywhere you can!

Do not spam however, or join a forum just for advertising your site, as this will most likely get you banned. Instead join a forum in the field of your expertise, and make a real contribution. This way people will respect you, and visit you website because they are interested.

Neobux (Guide)

Theodore Woodward — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:25:45 +0000

Nearly everyone has had some annoying popup on a website trying to get you to join a “make money from home” website. The quotation marks are around the text, as making money online has become somewhat of a cliché. Most money making websites are a scam. This is unfortunate, as real, fairly easy ways to make a good amount of money online, do exist. These however, are few and far between. This section of my website is going to show you how to make money online with neobux.

Introduction

Have you heard of P.T.C sites? If you havent, they are Paid To Click sites: you sign up and click adverts, and apparently “earn money”. The quotation marks are around the text, as making money online has almost become a cliche. Many online money making schemes are scams. This is unfortunate, as real legitimate sites do exist. Neobux, is one of these, and has a $1.00 minimum payout, which is brilliant, compared to some which can be around $10.00. Neobux also has a revolutionary new feature: rented referals. This means, that unlike most other referal systems, you can easily buy referals. It is because of this, that with neobux, you can with effort and time, can make $9000 a year. Not life changing, but a brilliant second income.

So lets get started! (feel free to download this guide, but dont edit it and say that you wrote it!)

Disclaimer: This guide is just guidelines and may not be 100% accurate. You do not need to invest anything, but if you do then you do so entirly at your own risk.
Things you will need:

I recommend that you have all of these before starting

A paypal account (needs to be verified)
A notebook and pen (For keeping track of referals)
Optional: around $5 (This will speed up the process)
Make sure you have all the above, then continue to step 1.
Step 1
Sign up to neobux:

Okay, now when you sign up to neobux, you may be asked questions about paypal email and stuff like such, so have all the needed things to hand.

1: click the following link: Neobux

2 See the left hand yellow box? good. At the bottom is a “register now button”. Click it.

3 Fill in the regestration form.

4 Click the “continue” button at the bottom.

5 Finish.

Note: It’s a while since I registered, so this might not be totally correct. If there is missing or wrong bits, please email me, so I can make this a better guide. My email is “tod@ploo.co.uk” Thanks a lot.
Step 2
Standard member

Cool, now you’ve signed up, the next step is to start earnning. You will be a standard member to begin with, so you won’t start earning huge amounts right away, around $0.30 is very good after around 3 days! When you start out with neobux, it isn’t how usefull the money is, it’s how much money you’ve earnt. So, here are the steps.

click “view advertisments” to begin earning. Click on any of the advertisments, and let the loading bar go all the way, and then it say that money has been credited to your account.
Click on all the advertisments every day. This is very important, as to upgrade and make more money, you will need to have seen 50 adverts. This will take a while unless you click every day.
Once you earn 75 cents, you can buy referals. Lots of people may buy the referals, end up with loads of bad ones, and cant replace them. It is because of this, that I advise that you wait until you have $5.00 before you buy any referals. Lots of other guides out there say $3.00, but I think $5.00 is a much better amount, as you will have to recycle them as well a pay to keep them.

Steps to renting
To rent referals, click on your username, and then, there will be button on a line at the top of the main box. Click on referals, and then click add funds. Add $5.00 through your main neobux account. I paid with paypal money, as I didnt want to wait, but I advise waiting a little while to familiarise yourself with neobux, as you may have trouble with referals if you have trouble finding your way around. Buy a small amount of referals. (3 referals) You can only rent referals once a week to start off with, so after a week repeat buying a small amount of referalls if you have enough money. If you dont, then keep clicking, to get your balacne nice and healthy again. If you buy referals when you have not much money left, you can end up making things worse, as you have the referals to spend money on, as well as more replacing.
Recycling
Not all referals are perfect. In fact not many are. It is because of this that you will need to recycle. However recycling is no simple matter, as it can be quite costly. Each time you recycle, it will cost you a whole 8 cents. The skill lies in recyling so that you have good referals, but not recycling so much that it loses you money.

Here is my recyling stratagy for standard:
To recycle a referal, they must:
-Not have clicked for over 4 days.
-have an average below 2
It is a good idea to keep track of your referals, to see their clicking habits, so you dont recycle a good one. So, if you know that they click very regularly, and then they stop for 4 days, then dont instantly recycle them, they might just be on holiday.

Once you are happy with recycling, you should start to buy largeer amounts of referals. These will (if you are good at recycling) make you more money. Keep buying referals in packs of 3, or maybe higher if you are confident, untill you have around 500. once you do, keep on recycling, and clicking. You will soon have $100 with $90 of this money, buy the golden pack, which will last for a year. The golden pack will give you 1 cent per referal click instead of 0.5. It will double your earnings. simple as that. I am not golden yet, so I cant offer any advice on that, but hopefully I will be soon, and I will be able to offer a golden section to this guide. Anyway, here are the requirements:

Must rent referalls twice (as covered above)
been member for at least 15 days
have clicked adverts 50 times (takes around 2-3 weeks if you click every day.)
Direct refs
Rented referals are great, and all, but they do cost money to rent. To be able to save up enough money to go golden, you will need a few direect referals.
Direct referals are “normal” referals. That is, what most other companies use. They are a person who signs up to neobux under your name. This usually involves trying to persuade somone you know to sign up to neobux, which can be a difficult, an d unfruitful event.
These are some good ways to get direct referals without bugging your friends:

Do what I have done – set up a blog or website
Use free advertising (email exchange, or traffic exchanges)
Write a guide on neobux, and email it to lots of people. Use all your contacts, or use an email exchange site.
A good email exchange site is listjoe
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As I have no golden section yet, you can go to this guide, which is more focused on golden: advanced guide
I hope you have enjoyed this guide, and wish you all the best with making money with neobux.
Theodore Woodward

P.S please contact me if this guide has anything wrong with it at tod@ploo.co.uk