Surveys=Money

Surveys? What do money and surveys have in common? Okay, so we have all of these enormous corporations in our economy that are scouting for information or traffic. Each company either pushes to get people on the internet to view their product, or take in information. Commonly they do this by surveys, or paying third party websites to get the traffic for them. You my have encountered these surveys on any website with an ad asking you to take a survey. Well to use the all too frequently used saying --what you probably don't know is-- websites will share some of these advertising profits with you if you specifically do these surveys. It's all apart of the world of affiliating, where one company will basically scratch the back of another company if that company does so in return. This may sound confusing, but actually it's not hard at all.

Affiliation Programs

As the trend grows, there are many websites out there setting up programs with companies to advertise for them for a small fee. Essentially there are many variations of Affiliating-- ads, text links, basically any form of one websites being paid by another to direct traffic a certain way. The type of programs I will talk about today, are the ones that allow you to participate in the circulation of money by doing these surveys and getting paid. So basically the company will receive YOUR survey, opinion, or simply eyes. While they pay this special website for directing you to them, and a percent of the money the website receives will be attributed to you for viewing their product.

Yes, somewhat confusing but its actually simple. Half the time the pure traffic is all they are looking for, and these companies are even presenting surveys for other companies! There is a huge chain of money that circulates beginning with simply what a user is looking at and how he or she got there. A lot of the time the money is attributed to whatever site lead them to the current site they are on. Let's start with an example of a company that informs you they will pay you to do what their affiliated companies want. Personally, I have tired a few of these sites, I would look for reviews first before you do any survey as many of them ARE scams. But for the most part they are simple to do and 90% free for the legit sites. The best way to check if they are scams or not is to see if they have an active forum, and browse around in there. Later on I plan on reviewing some of them to help you out. For now, let's talk about a company named Cashcrate.

Cashcrate

Cashcrate is the link in the chain between you and their affiliated companies, Cashcrate is the website that is willing to pay you to view their affiliated companies websites. So how does it all work? Well first you sign up, you don't need a credit card or anything. Just a real name that a real check can be signed to, and an address for that nice real check to be sent to. I personally have been doing cashcrate for awhile and have earned about 200 dollars in my spare time. Depending on your dedication which will determine your profit, you can make much more than that, as I am just looking to review this website. Anyway, you signed up and you managed to navigate to their offers page. On this page is an organized list of all their affiliation links that they want you to visit. Next to it is usually a price that they will pay you for your visit to their affiliated company. Click on the link that they provide, completely the offer in whichever manner required and you are done. Maybe an hour or so, possibly longer, they will attribute the money to you for completing what the company required them to have you do. This can range from 20 cents to 5 dollars or more depending on what you had to do. What must happen is that the company verifies you did everything, then sends that confirmation to cashcrate, and they attribute a percent of their profit.

It's pretty straight forward and doesn't really take a whole lot of time to do -- especially if you get used to it. As mentioned before, there are factors that will determine your income on these websites. Most of them follow the same structure. And will add more money for the surveys that require more personal information like a credit card. These companies even offer methods in which they will pay you for signing people up to their site by you signing them up under your "referral link." As you probably noticed, yet another link is created in the chain, now you are the one getting paid to refer people to their site. That is how the affiliation world online essentially works, and there are many many more links in other cases. These websites even share a profit of which they get from these users you signed up with you too, so the more active in recruiting you are, the more money you will get. Look later on for my reviews of a few other of these websites because you might want to put your cards in a few of these, targeting the higher payout ads for each one.

Everything comes down to a little time and determination to follow along with these websites. Bottom line is that they WILL pay you and that you do not have to pay any money for essentially anything. This method is nothing you can live off of but certainly, with some effort, a sizable amount of pocket change.