I had an unexpected free hour during the week so I decided to see if myLot could drum up extra visitors to this blog in 60 minutes.In a way it's another 'back to basics' move as I used to use myLot when I first started blogging, though I haven't really bothered with it for ages.
As I was already a member there was no time wasted in joining. I simply went straight to work leaving comments on discussions set up by other members.
As the whole idea was to see if this would generate any traffic I only left comments on discussions that were to do with either blogging or making extra money.
Obviously spam comments are frowned upon so I picked out discussions where I thought I could get away with leaving a link to this blog. If there was, for example, a discussion on how to make money I felt it permissable to leave a link because it was relative to what was being written.
I didn't take a note of how many comments I left but you can't get that many done in an hour when you are looking for specific discussions.
The nitty gritty is that my one hours 'work' got me an extra 18 hits to this blog. I'll let you decide if this was worthwhile. It really depends on how established your blog is. Personally I feel I have now moved on and think I could have done better using other methods.
As well as the 18 visitors I also earned ... roll of drums ... 15c. Not exactly a good rate of pay but this wasn't the primary motive.
Looking at myLot it has improved in quite a few ways since I used to visit the website on a more regular basis.
The money making was always low. Going from memory I think I made about $30 from myLot when I first started blogging. Not exactly a fortune but I was grateful for such a small amount when I was learning the business.
I doubt if I'll become a regular visitor to myLot but if you have the time and like starting and commenting on discussions it might be worth a look.
Here is a post I wrote about myLot back in late 2006: myLot, Money and Referrals.
Good luck,
Mike.
