How many times do you perform a search per day?
Twice, Five times, Ten times?
I estimate that I perform a search around 30 times per day. I'm not sure if that's normal. I don't really know what normal is. I probably search a little more than normal because I am always searching for new shops & freebies for my shopping directory, and money making opportunities for this blog.
Anyway.... I digress. When I was searching for money making opportunities today, I came across Slash My Search (aff).
Anyway.... I digress. When I was searching for money making opportunities today, I came across Slash My Search (aff).
What is Slash My Search?
Well.... it is a combination of the best results from Yahoo!, Google, Excite, Altavista and other databases (so should bring you optimised search results).
I did a few tests, and to be honest find it "average-good" - they are quite good, but still have to optimise a little better to give you GREAT search results - but, it is young, so in time....
I did a few tests, and to be honest find it "average-good" - they are quite good, but still have to optimise a little better to give you GREAT search results - but, it is young, so in time....
So, how do you make money from this?
Well, the best part about Slash My Search, is that you get paid (yes that's right) each and every time you do a search.
But wait, that's not all. You also get paid for having Slash My Search as your home page (which is great if you have a browser which supports multiple home-pages).
And... that's still not all. You also get paid for everyone you refer to Slash My Search (you get paid each time they search - not just once).
They claim that you can make a fair bit of money (up to $US1980 per month) from Slash my search. Myself - I am a little doubtful, that you will make that much, but you should be able to earn a little bit of extra cash each month.
The earnings chart, found on their page looks like this:
The way I see it, is that if you are performing searches anyway - why not get paid for it?
I see it as money for nothing. It is not taking any more out of my day than before, which is why I signed up for it without even thinking about it.
I am not going to perform searches for the sake of performing them, but will use them to perform my everyday searches. I will let you know next month how well I have done.
I am not going to perform searches for the sake of performing them, but will use them to perform my everyday searches. I will let you know next month how well I have done.
My Tongue:
On top of all this, I found the searches to be rather slow and containing a lot of 'Sponsored' or 'Paid For' links. Not a great search engine but has the potential to make a small income if enough referrals are achieved.
As for now, I managed to list out 2 referral under me, the potential is there to receive $1,980 per month!! Not bad! Of course, this model relies on getting referrals!
My heart:
Who cares?
This is just an "average search engine" and it's still in beta. Still can give yo a money. If you think you can generate more referral, there is no reason to grabe this oppurtunity....just proceed and. After that, it's depend on you to switch it back. (if you want to use your favourite homepage e.g: Firefox, Yahoo or your current... )
