AdBux

Adbux is similar to Clix Sense, in that you go to the Adbux website to click ads. The only emails you get are administrative emails.

Adbux has a limited number of ads available each day. You should make it a point to login to Adbux to click on all the ads available that day. You get paid 1 cent per ad you view for 30 seconds, plus 1 cent for each ad your referrals view. Adbux ads also expire quickly, so checking multiple times throughout the day would be a good idea. In fact, if you’re at the computer anyway during the day, keep the window up and refresh it now and then to catch the most ads.

This works the same as Clix Sense. You click the ad link and a new window opens with the advertiser’s page. You must keep that page open for 30 seconds to get credit for the ad. Note that the picture of a dollar sign must appear in the header for you to get credit. This happens after the timer expires. If a picture of a red X appears, then you did not get credit (perhaps you had another Adbux ad open at the same time). If you do not get credit, you can try the ad again.

AdBux also has a premium upgrade. You can pay $29 a year to earn 1.5 cents per ad viewed, plus 1.5 cents per ad your referrals view.

This upgrade isn’t worth it until you have some referrals. At $29 a year, you would have to click 5800 ads to make back your upgrade fee (which is just about how many ads you’ll probably catch in a year). Once you have some referrals bringing in clicks, too, it would make more sense since you’ll earn more on their clicks as an upgraded member.

If you have some referrals and plan to continue with AdBux for more than 4 years, their $99 lifetime upgrade makes sense.

Under the Members link, pay attention to the “Buy Referrals” section. Now and then AdBux will offer for sale members who signed up directly at AdBux and not through anyone’s referral link. For $39.95 you can get 25 referrals placed under you.

If each of those 25 referrals clicks 10 ads per day and you get paid 1 cent each, that’s $2.50 a day. Over the course of a month, you would make back your $39.95 plus have enough to upgrade so you’ll earn 1.5 cents per referral ad viewed.

If you do buy referrals, do contact them and encourage them to join Marketing Pond, so that you can get them under you at the other free money programs, too.

Update: I purchased 4 sets of 25 referrals, for a total of 100 referrals. I’m seeing about $2.50 a day from referrals as an upgraded member. Not all the referrals are active, of course. At that rate it’ll take about 2 months to earn back the cost of the referrals, plus another month and a half to earn back the $99 upgrade fee. So on the surface, it seems like purchasing referrals is a good deal. I won’t know for a while yet if those referrals remain active long enough to earn back my cost.