I became a member of Xomba just over 42 weeks ago. I found it through the Make Money Recycling Xombyte. The option of making money writing for a website intrigued me. I read through everything and the site seemed legit. Writing was heavily encouraged. I followed the very easy to read instructions on how to set up an Adsense account and within one day I was approved.

My first Xombyte was http://www.xomba.com/how_to_prepare_for_a_successful_yard_sale as my wife and I love yard sales. Then I wrote Xombytes about work, our dog and general interests. After a while I discovered hot keywords and tried writing about things I may not have known much about, but they were words that people were searching for. Here is the link to find keywords https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal, which helped my totals a little. It took a while to get up to $5 in my Adsense account and I was wondering if I would ever make the $100 mark.

After a few months I found the Hot Trends, which shows the current top searches on Google, which is here http://www.google.com/ig the Hot Trends will not show up unless you are logged in, which is the same as your Adsense login. This is a very helpful tool that keeps you up on current events.

Somewhere around this time I got frustrated. At the time Xomba success stories were on the front page stating how people make hundreds of dollars a day and thousands per month with Xomba. Most of these success stories contained no secrets, just referrals. I thought these members were only fishing for 10% of any new users income. I was frustrated because I hadn’t reached $10 yet in my Adsense account. How could these members be making that much money with very little content aside from boasting and giving a referral number? One thing that did stick out on success stories was to write, write, write. That would be important, I would find out.

Then I got into Xomblurbs. At first I didn’t care for them. It seemed to be cheating, simply posting a link to something interesting. I changed my mind quickly when I saw the results. First I tried them as a way of passing on something that I found interesting, like a game, story or video. More success came from Xomblurbs. I used the Hot Trends to find which persons or events people were searching for, then post a link to that person or event. My Adsense account started growing. I liked it because I did not need to spend a lot of time writing, just searching the Internet, which is something I am good at.

During the later months I started my own blog http://notconcerned.blogspot.com/ and applied my Adsense code to it. In the past few months I really got into satirical writing. I visit The Onion everyday for humorous news stories. I thought why not do the same for my blog. I wrote several stories satirizing local personalities. One was picked up by a local website and I had several thousand reads in one day, BUT NO CLICKS! I have been lacking in my Xomba postings due to writing for the blog, even though Xomba brings more money.

Along the way I posted Xomba and my referral number http://www.xomba.com/referral/7777b737 on a local forum and picked up two new members. Neither of them has posted anything so far. Also a Xomba member whose user name I can’t remember told me how to track individual URLs and many thanks to him/her.

Now I try to do what everyone preaches at this website; write, write, write. There has to be something you are interested in. Find it and write about it. If you want easy clicks, find a hot topic and make a Blurb. The more you write/post, the more money you can make. As of now I am at 15,531 page impressions with 690 clicks and $73.40. Not bad for surfing the net and writing stories that make people laugh.

In a few months I should be getting my first check from Adsense. $100 is not much in today’s economy, but it is my little reward for being active on the Internet. I can’t wait to spend it.