The owner of E Cigarette Direct sent me an e-mail the other day recommending that I add their affiliate site to my list of sign up bonus sites. After taking a quick look at what E Cigarette Direct had to offer, I came to the conclusion that they looked like a legit affiliate company.

By signing up as a free affiliate with E Cigarette Direct you’ll receive a €25.00 sign up bonus. This is roughly $40.00 USD, give or take a little. Anyone is welcome to join as an affiliate with E Cigarette Direct because they accept members internationally.

It looks like you only have to earn €25.00 in commissions as an affiliate to be able to receive your first affiliate commission with E Cigarette Direct. You can also refer other free affiliates and earn a 20% commission off of all their sales. According to E Cigarette Direct payments are made once a month for the previous month’s earnings.

About the product, here I am going on and on about the potential money you can make and you don’t even know what E Cigarette Direct’s product is yet.

You can actually feel good about marketing E Cigarette Direct because you’ll know that off of every sale made, you won’t only make money online, you’ll also be helping in saving people’s lives by breaking their smoking habits. The electronic cigarette will help current smokers find another way to smoke without all the harmful toxins of an actual lit cigarette. E Cigarette Direct also has an electronic cigar and pipe to take advantage of as well. I though that was interesting.

All you have to do to make money with E Cigarette Direct is to post a simple html link on your website. Since being an affiliate with E Cigarette Direct is 100% free it really doesn’t matter if you don’t make money right away because you aren’t taking any financial risks on your end, instead you’re just taking up a little bit of real estate on you website or blog.

Take a look at some more recommended affiliate sites that pay sign up bonuses and let me know what you think!

**Disclaimer – Affiliate links are used on this post.

We all know that traffic exchanges, no matter how big or small the traffic exchange site may be, do deliver a good source of free quality traffic to your website. In my opinion though, I have had bad experiences buying traffic from traffic exchanges.

To buy or not to buy traffic from a free traffic exchange? My answer to this question would be the latter. Don’t get me wrong. If you have some money to blow and you want to experiment on a traffic exchange to see what kind of results you’ll get, then by all means go right ahead and do so. I’m only noting that in my experience traffic exchanges have been a good source of free traffic to my websites, but when I buy traffic from a traffic exchange, I usually end up disappointed with the end results.

Why? You may be asking, because think about how traffic exchanges are built, you got an individual who is trying to earn credits and doesn’t really care what he or she may see. I admit, I do the same, but you will receive hits to your websites, whether or not the end viewer is actually viewing your website is another question that needs to be answered.

I’ll give you an example, Web Biz Insider, in my opinion is a great free traffic exchange. I get free hits from Web Biz Insider everyday. I made the mistake of upgrading my membership to a pro member for one month with Web Biz Insider thinking I was going to get a lot of great hits to my website. Unfortunately, I ended up getting tons of hits, over 10,000 to be more accurate. The problem was I didn’t see any results. My Google Analytics account showed all these great hits, because I was receiving hits, but the end user wasn’t turning over. I mean I wasn’t getting any conversions.

The problem with Web Biz Insider is that the end user can cheat the traffic exchange system and open up multiple surfing windows at once. This means that technically you are getting hits, whether or not someone is actually viewing your website is yet another question to be asked.

Trust me, I don’t want to make traffic exchanges look like they’re a bad thing to get involved in. The truth is I’ve been receiving a multitude of great free traffic from traffic exchanges for a long time now and will always take advantage of the free traffic they have to offer. Note taken, if you see a free traffic exchange offering some kind of promotion for surfing so many sites in a day, you might want to consider taking advantage of that offer.

For example, Top Tier Traffic offered me 200 free credits today if I surfed 50 sites. It took me less then 10 minutes to surf 50 sites and the traffic bonus was applied to my account immediately. By the way, if you don’t know already, Top Tier Traffic and Web Biz Insider were both made by the same owner. I can’t remember his name though, look it up if this intrigues you.

**Disclaimer – Affiliate links are used on this post.

FYI: Hits4pay is no longer available

I’ve been a member of Hits4pay since I started attempting to make money online back in 2005. Take a look at one of my Hits4pay payment proofs I received not too long ago. It’s not for a huge amount of money, but the payment proof shows the validity of Hits4pay as a legit paying paid to click company.

One of the best things I like about Hits4pay is that they are just one site out of a larger network of sites from a legit advertising network called Multiple Stream Media.

When it comes to advertising, Multiple Stream Media charges pretty heavily for any type of advertising within their network. This is why Multiple Stream Media has been around since 1999. They are coming up on their 10 year anniversary here shortly. Hopefully there will be some good advertising discounts when that time comes around.

Take a look at this funny video the founder of Multiple Stream Media created for our enjoyment:

Now I said in the title of this article that I was going to explain why Hits4pay makes cents. So here are just a few reasons:

• Hits4pay is 100% free to join.
• You get $10.00 in your account just for signing up.
• You only have to earn $15.00 on your own to reach $25.00, then you can cash out through Paypal.
• Hits4pay accepts members from all over the world. They are internationally friendly.
• You get 2 cents for all your clicks.
• You get 1 cent for all your referral’s clicks – 2 levels deep.
• You don’t get spammed with a ton of e-mails – you’ll get notified of new paid ads, log into your account to click on them.

As with any good review, it wouldn’t be fair unless I made sure to give the bad news about Hits4pay. There is no such thing as a perfect online company, but don’t worry, Hits4pay is not a scam.

Your membership with Hits4pay can be put into inactive status after 3 months, but at least they won’t delete your account. One more thing, once you earn the minimum payout amount, you have to wait until the 1st of the next month to be paid. The good news is that it’s automatic, you don’t have to request payment.

Take a look at some more good paid to click sites that pay a sign up bonus for joining and let me know what you think.

**Disclaimer – Affiliate links are used on this post.