Make Money Doing Online Surveys

by Lee Ka Hoong on April 26, 2009

In the World Wide Web, there are dozens of ways that help you to make money online. As you know, I’ve been building several niche blogs to make money online with Google Adsense. In order to build a profitable niche blog, there are several steps need to be done. Today I came across the internet and suddenly my mind pop out this niche, make money doing online surveys. Of course, not exactly the niche of make money doing online surveys, my mind pop out something about make money online survey, so I did a research and found that actually we can build a niche blog that talks about make money doing online surveys.

When I talk about make money doing online surveys, I’m sure most of you will say that make money doing online surveys is not working, most of them are scam! It goes same to me, when I first think about make money doing online surveys, my mind pop out one word, Scam! Back in 2007, when I first knew about internet and make money online, I’d joined several paid survey sites such as AWSurveys and etc, you’re not able to cashout your earning even though you did all the surveys, but you need to increase your earning until you could cash out your earning from your referrals, I thought that was a referral program more than a paid survey sites, so I quit.

However, majority in this article, I’m not going to tell you how to make money doing online surveys, I’m going to tell you why we should or how we can take the advantage of building a profitable niche blog that talks about make money doing online surveys. Before we start, you can read how I built my first niche blog too.

You should ask me how are we going to build a profitable niche blog that talks about make money doing online surveys if we don’t really make money with it? No, we don’t have to make money doing online surveys, our goal is building a make money doing online surveys niche blog. In this post, I won’t teach you step-by-step how to build a profitable niche blog from the beginning because I’d written a post about this last week, you should read the previous post before continue reading this post.

Why Choose Make Money Doing Online Surveys Niche?

As you know, I always spent some times on Google Adwords Keyword Tool to look for profitable niches and its’ keywords. If we want our sites or niche blogs to be the Top 10 in the profitable keyword phase, always do research with Google Adwords Keyword Tool, try to look for keywords that have higher estimated average CPC, higher search volume per month, and lower competition.

As usual, I took a look on the make money doing online surveys niche, I found some potential keywords that you may be able to get into TOP 10 in the Google search engine if you take the ride. With this make money doing online surveys niche, it has higher search volumes, higher estimated average CPC, and “lower” competition. Don’t get me wrong, it has slightly higher competition actually, I’ll explain later why I do these even though the competition is high. So we look at the screenshot below :

Make Money Doing Online Surveys - Keyword

From what we can see on the keywords research result, make money doing online surveys has an estimated average CPC of $2.46 and 4,400 searches on March, which is approximately 110 searches per day. The keyword make money doing online surveys doesn’t have the highest searches and estimated average CPC among others, I chose make money doing online surveys as my keyword because of the search engine results.

Highest estimate average CPC and search volume doesn’t mean that you can be making more money per click for Google Adsense, you have to look into its’ search engine results and see how easy you can get into TOP 10 with the keyword. From several keywords in the keyword research result, in my opinion make money doing online surveys is the most potential profitable keyword. Let’s take a look on the search result :

Make Money Doing Online Surveys - Search Result

I’ve been checking on the first 3 sites on the search results, I tried to look more into the sites and see what they’re writing about make money doing online surveys, or Google just ranked them higher because Google has out of resource for this keyword. Even though make money doing online surveys has a high competition of 25,900,00 but seems that Google can’t get any useful resource out of the 25,900,000 until Google had to rank a 2007 article in 2nd place.

1) Survey Club >> Take Paid Surveys Online and Get Paid!
Google indexed its main page, the site has a high Pagerank of 4. This site may be hard to take. You don’t have to take over the first site, just take over 2nd and 3rd places should be enough.

2) How to Make Money Doing Online Surveys – Associated Content
This site has the similar keyword as make money doing online surveys, but the article was old which was wrote in 26 April 2007. Seems that there is not much better content in the net, that’s why this page ranked in the 2nd place, so this page can be easily been taken over if you come out some articles that are better than this.

3) How to make money doing online surveys | eHow.com
This site has the same keyword which is make money doing online surveys, the article is new. When I checked over this article, the content was not that strong. If you write slightly better content than this, you can rank better than these.

In order to rank well with the keyword make money doing online surveys, you may need to work a little bit of SEO on your site. Google may take several factors into consideration while ranking your site, elements such as domain name, page title, and description. From what we saw in the result, the first 3 sites don’t fulfill the requirements, so you just have to work a little bit harder and provide useful content, you could be able to take over them easily. If you still can’t take over them, then you have to increase your backlinks by commenting or link exchange. By doing these, I’m sure you’ll be taking over them soon.

Purchase Domain Name

After you’ve determined all of these, you can now pick a strong domain name which contains the keyword of make money doing online surveys. Google may places a little bit weight on the domain name which contains of its’ keyword, so try to get the domain name that contains your keyword. I’ve gone through and do a check up on the domain name, I’ve found some of the domain names still available, so you could take this advantage and register them for your make money doing online surveys niche blog.

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How To Make Money Doing Online Surveys Niche Blog?

So you know make money doing online surveys niche is a potential profitable niche blog that you can build, I’m not going to teach you how to build it but you have to find out yourself, it’s all about build-optimize-observe-analyze-improve, nobody knows whether the niche makes money or not, but from what I did on the research, the keyword of make money doing online surveys is a potential profitable niche.

If I’m going to build a niche blog that writes about make money doing online surveys, I’ll do some reviews on several good online surveys sites and optimize the keyword make money doing online surveys. I’d visited a site named YellowSurveys.com today, the sites contained of dozens of reviews on paid online surveys sites, you may register with all the paid online surveys sites and start writing reviews for all of them. Besides of doing reviews, you may write some beginner guides for beginners who would like to make money doing online surveys, teaching them how to make money doing online surveys smartly.

Remember, make money doing online surveys doesn’t make you rich, but making money online building make money doing online surveys niche could makes you more money with Adsense. If you’re doing it well, you could be able to get some advertisers to advertise in your blog. These are the steps that I did everytime I built a niche blog, you can do it by your ownselves as well. This make money doing online surveys niche is an example of how to do keyword research and keyword analysis, but also an opportunity for you, so take the full advantage of it now!

I’ve spent several hours on this article, so feel free to leave your comment if you have any inquiry, also leave comment and tell me how do you think about these.

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1 ahmike (16 comments.) April 27, 2009 at 12:24 am

Needless to say, I felt the effort u put on this post bro including checking the spelling. bro, as you said, no body knows whether it will earn you or not, but no ventures definitely no gains.

Can I count youthsays as survey blog?

Anyways, all the best for you :) I am sure you can do it.

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2 R Kumar April 27, 2009 at 2:07 am

Your post is very informative for people who want to earn money from online surveys. But personally I have never felt that this is a good way of earning money. Online surveys have quite a bit of nitty-gritties and you would quit it after a couple of months of getting into it. I feel that the effort you would put into something like this would earn much more if put into something else like affiliate marketing.

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3 Benjamin Cip (28 comments.) April 27, 2009 at 3:07 am

I don’t really trust in making money from online survey. I tried once, and couldn’t apply to most of the survey because I didn’t match what they were looking for, and never reached the pay out. Well, as we say “nothing venture, nothing gained”. Nice blog anyway, I kept watching your blog since you started, and I can say it’s going to be a very popular blog. I just started blogging 2 weeks ago (better later than never), and I can say it’s time consuming! But I won’t give up! Keep going on mate, I hope my blog will reach the same alexia ranking!

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4 alone (7 comments.) April 27, 2009 at 6:59 pm

I got the point. The important thing is how to use the niche to gain the traffic and ranks =D

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5 Money4Invest (10 comments.) April 27, 2009 at 9:24 pm

I’m interested in SEO now after reading this post. I heard a lot about SEO thing before but never try on it. I guess I will take your advice and do some research on SEO. Speaking about finding the right domain name, I always use this free domain search website called “Bustaname.com” which can help you to search for good domain name and purchase it with cheaper price through Godaddy. I wrote a simple introduction post about it at
http://www.money4invest.com/index.php/2009/bustaname-find-good-domain-namesdomain-name-checkdomain-registration

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6 titan (106 comments.) April 28, 2009 at 8:09 pm

hm..i have my own way to play with niche :)

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7 blinkky (5 comments.) April 28, 2009 at 9:02 pm

Those domains can work great for SEO =)

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8 Sam | Real Online Money Making Strategies (2 comments.) April 29, 2009 at 7:55 am

I like this post because it go overs the market research phase of online business. Many people skip this step and try to build sites in niches that have a low probability of making money. Nice to see you provide steps and examples on how you came about the conclusion that the make money online with surveys niche could be profitable!

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9 melanie (1 comments.) April 29, 2009 at 8:47 am

Haven’t really earned anything from online surveys, but what the heck? Maybe I’m really just unlucky. I joined one before, but didn’t receive any payment. Maybe it was one of those scams. Really unlucky.

But anyway, great post. Thanks.

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10 imDavidLee (8 comments.) April 30, 2009 at 12:56 am

then do u have any make money online survey site to share?

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11 KaHoongChai (1324 comments.) May 1, 2009 at 1:50 am

@Ahmike,
Thanks Mike for supporting me! Spelling shouldn’t be a problem because firefox can be checking spelling automatically, so I can change it accordingly. :P
Yes, no one know what makes us money until we test it ourselves. Youthsays should be a survey site, but as what I said in the post, I don’t really trust online surveys and it takes long time. I rather spend my time in building niche blogs. :D

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12 KaHoongChai (1324 comments.) May 1, 2009 at 1:53 am

@R Kumar,
Yes you’re right! I have the same thoughts too, spending time on doing other solid things will be better than doing online surveys. Remember, most of the online surveys don’t pay, they’re scam!
I feel great to see you here for the first time, it will be great to see you again next time! :D

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13 KaHoongChai (1324 comments.) May 1, 2009 at 1:55 am

@Benjamin Cip,
Yea, I had my experience as well. Most of the online surveys require you to refer people to join under you in order to reach the payout, it’s like referral program more than an online surveys.
I hope you like what I’m writing in my blog and it’s my pleasure! I hope to see you more here in coming days. Keep in touch guy! :)

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14 KaHoongChai (1324 comments.) May 1, 2009 at 1:58 am

@Money4Invest,
Hmm, I only use Google Adwords Keyword Tool to check the popularity of the keywords, and go domain.com to check for the domain, that’s it. :D
Do build your blog and update us your progress and result okay? :)

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15 KaHoongChai (1324 comments.) May 1, 2009 at 2:00 am

@Sam,
Yea, many people don’t know about these steps, most of them don’t know how to do research for keywords too. It’s very important, we have to do research for search volume, CPC rate, and competition, else we’re wasting our time on building useless niche blog. :)

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16 KaHoongChai (1324 comments.) May 1, 2009 at 2:02 am

@melanie,
I don’t earn even a penny from any online surveys too, in this post I’m talking about building niche blog about make money doing online surveys, and make money with Adsense. I hate online surveys too, most of them are scam, wasting time just to promote their survey sites without any return.

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17 KaHoongChai (1324 comments.) May 1, 2009 at 2:06 am

@imDavidLee,
Hmm no, as what I said, I hate online surveys because most of them are scams. I’d been wasting lots of time on these before, I’m awoke now. lol! I rather spend my time on building niche blog instead of doing online scam surveys. Between, you can check out the site that I recommended to look for survey sites around the world. :D

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18 SolidEntrepreneur Blog (2 comments.) June 9, 2009 at 7:28 pm

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

SolidEntrepreneur Blogs last blog post..Understanding Geomarketing to Make Money Online

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19 Eric Transue (1 comments.) June 13, 2009 at 6:27 am

I agree that online surveys are mostly scams. However, I think this post was more about walking you through the steps of finding a profitable niche.

Eric Transues last blog post..Don’t Be Fooled by Fools

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20 KaHoongChai (1324 comments.) June 13, 2009 at 9:48 am

@Eric,
Yeap, almost 99% of the online survey sites out there are scam, most of them are “Referral Program” instead of making money online with online surveys. You catch what I’m going to explain in this post.
Btw, Eric I like your writing style and I just dropped 2 comments in your blog. :D

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21 Making Money Blogging - BlogStew (2 comments.) June 22, 2009 at 6:09 pm

I really liked your blog!

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22 JR December 23, 2009 at 1:10 pm

As have been mentioned previously, I like the emphasis on research. Many don’t do the research and they get lost in why they may have traffic but are making no money. You don’t use link building or SEO? While it’s not a necessity to many, it certainly wouldn’t hurt some. Of course, many don’t have the knowledge or the resources to really put that practice to its best use.

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23 Tom from Surveys For Money (5 comments.) January 7, 2010 at 10:47 am

I recently started an Australian blog on this topic, and have been testing the websites to make sure I don’t recommend scam’s. The majority of the top Australian survey websites are legit, and while you wont make a killing from you, you can make some decent pocket money!
Tom@Surveys For Money´s last blog ..Make Money Online Survey Website My ComLuv Profile

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24 Kai from SEO Company (5 comments.) January 17, 2010 at 3:45 pm

Lee,

You have to becareful with a post like this. When you use Google’s keyword tool, always put the setting on “Exact”.

You can’t rank better than someone just because you have better content. Those sites in top 3 have good anchor text backlinks pointing back to the sites. Google is blind when it comes to good content. It only knows backlinks.

I hope this would clear things up about SEO.

-Kai
Kai@SEO Company´s last blog ..Keywords That Sell My ComLuv Profile

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25 shaz from Make Money Online News (4 comments.) January 22, 2010 at 10:32 am

I think the tips you gave out are excellent for adsense targeted niche sites and its a great way to search and find out what high paying keywords are before hand and then build a site around them
shaz@Make Money Online News´s last blog ..PTV Partner Review My ComLuv Profile

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