Make Easy £75 Per Month with Matched.co.uk

Quick Win No.2: Is your website about as popular as Simon Cowell at Glastonbury? So undesired that even Jehovah's Witnesses won't visit you? Then don't hold your breath hoping to rack up loadsa dosh from Pay-Per-Click advertising programs like Google AdSense. The sad fact of these schemes is no eyeballs = no dosh = no fun.

But fortunately for the trafficly-challenged, help is at hand!

UK-based Matched.co.uk^ (don't confuse with dating site Match.com) will pay you up to £75 per month just to put adverts for things on your website, completely regardless of how many visitors you get or actual click-throughs.

Think of it as renting out space on your website or blog.

Once you've registered, Matched.co.uk will try to pair you with an advertiser. If successful, they'll pay you £3 per month for each ad shown. You can have to up to five per site (they must be on separate pages) and five sites per account. Which means potential earnings (punches figures into calculator) of £75 per month, if you dare to go the whole hog.

Setup, I can vouch, is amazingly quick and easy (which we WBFMs love) - 10 minutes' work max if that. Honestly. So the challenge is create sites at low or no cost, get Matched.co.uk-accepted, then sit back and watch the cash steadily roll in. That's the idea. NB You must have a PayPal or UK bank account to be paid, and Matched.co.uk, in its wisdom, only seem to pay out for whole months, starting on the 15th of each.

And judging by Matched.co.uk's roster of advertisers, there seems to be - how do I put this - quite an inclusive attitude to accepting sites when it comes to quality and visitor numbers. So there is hope for the rest of us, then. You can see our own ad in action on the sidebar.

A £5 commission bonus is also on offer if you refer a friend (surely we class ourselves as friends by now?) So if you feel like supporting us, go give Matched.co.uk^ a punt via this link. Cheers.

Cashback Sites: Don't Save Money, Make it

As those early-80s British headband rockers once sort of said, you can get money for nothing.

Not by playing your gee-tar on the MTV I've found - but by using web cashback sites. It really surprises me how few people are actually aware these sites exist. Simply put, cashback sites give you a cut of their commission when you shop, visit or do business with linked retailers through their portal. So if you're already going to buy something online, such as taking out property insurance, getting a credit card (something I personally don't like) or buying a CD for someone, I would always check if you can earn cashback before you dish out the dosh. It's unbelievably quick and easy to do... and isn't that what we WBFM's (Would-Be Future Millionaires) like?

The two major downsides to cashback sites are

1. It can take around three months to receive your cashback, if at all. Your money's not guaranteed. The retailer might not pay out, your transaction might not be tracked as I've found out from personal experience. Never count your cash until it's sitting in your bank account.
2. Some won't let you withdraw your earnings until a certain payment threshold is reached (usually around £25). So if you use lots of different sites, you'll make it harder to access that cash. A good strategy is to stick to 2-3 different sites and focus mainly on the big-ticket money-earners so you pass the threshold quickly.
   

Though we all want to save money in these troubled times, we really want to make easy moolah too.

So ragingly desperate are some sites and retailers for your custom, they will happily pay you more than you give them - making a net gain for you. There is a reason for this: These sites tend to those of the 'habit-forming' variety. Yes, gambling sites. Just do what you must to get the cashback, then walk away.

Here's a list of the main cashback sites. Register with the following sites for nothing. The little caret (^) on a link means we get a referral bonus when you register, though this doesn't influence my choices - honestly. Thanks in advance for any support.

Big cashback players (ingeneral order of preference)

• Cashback Kings^ (Highest cashback guarantee, Keeps first £5 of cashback)
• Top CashBack^ (No payment threshold)
• WePromiseTo^ (No payment threshold, high rates)
• Quidco (Keeps first £5 of cashback, £5 annual membership fee, no payment threshold afterwards)
• Rpoints^ (£5 introductory bonus payable after first £20, low payment threshold afterwards - £1, usually lower cashback rates)
• GreasyPalm^ (High initial payment threshold - £22.50)
• eCashRewards^ (Cashback-match promise, £2.50 signup bonus, £15 payment threshold)
  

I'll be posting up any no-brainer deals on here as I find them. If you see any too, let's share them.

Now I just have to work on the chicks for free part...

See also:

• Cashback offer comparison tool (via MoneySavingExpert.com) - use after you've registered with the sites above.