I Have Become What I HATE!!!

It seems these days the Internet is bulging at the seams with people trying to funnel you to a link or site to make money. I was told one time by a tech friend, that every time you click on something, someone somewhere is making money. With that being a fact of the Internet, how can you trust anything? Well I don't think you can. That is why I am writing this post. As you will see in my list of survey sites, there are links for each one. In the description, I tell you if there is a affiliate program or not. If any of my readers click on that link, sign up for a survey site, I will hopefully get any where from $0.50 to $2.00. Sometimes they must complete at least one survey to qualify. If I state that it is a referral site, the link is just to go to the site and I do not profit at all. To make money on these referrals, you must give them the names and e-mails of friends you would like to join. They send a unsolicited e-mail with your name attached. I hate that, so I won't do that. I have found that there are very few places on the Internet to make money that does not use some version of this. Commonly known as affiliate marketing.

My problem is this... if I don't use affiliate marketing, the possibility for making money online is going to decrease significantly and the whole point of the blog in useless. If I do use affiliate marketing techniques, I will lose my credibility. I don't know that I can have both.

A possible solution? Tell me what you think.

I will promise you that if you use my links when you sign up for a paid survey site, I will sign up for a survey site for you under your affiliate link. It must be proven legit and be somewhat worth the time of signing up. I hope to have a list off to the side where I can post these for other people too. Give me something to name it with so you know it is yours. Please only one per site, and research them well. I will have to research them myself also. After all it is going to be my reputation on the line. Please only 2 per reader at first. I have no idea what will happen.

I am doing this because, when I started signing up for these paid survey sites, I didn't know I was making money for someone else. I don't really mind that people do this, but I would have liked to know who I am working for. My next post is going to be totals for January. Don't worry its going to be short.

On a completely different topic: I found out how to put a photo into my profile. This is the only one I had on my computer. It was my baby before my son was born. My wife said we were only having two kids so I had to sell it. I sold it on Ebay if you can believe it. A guy from California bought it. He flew out here to pick it up and drive it home. A sad day for me.

Cheers
David