Looking for a way to wring a few more bucks out of your website? Here's an idea worth considering.

LinkBucks is a unique service that allows you to earn money from your out bound links. Let's face it, if a user is clicking on an outbound link on your site, they are leaving, you may as well earn a little from their departure.

Here's the LinkBucks hard sell taken from their website:

Web users: get paid to share your links

Every funny video, file, or web page that you've ever linked to is making money for someone. Linkbucks rewards the people that make the web possible by giving them a share of the advertising dollars that their links generate.

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We aren't a fly-by-night or a startup -- Linkbucks was started in late 2005 and has been going strong ever since. We have never missed a payment, and have been a solid partner for our advertisers.

To be honest, I hadn't heard of them until a week ago, but sign up was quick, easy and free, so I figure they are worth a shot. I'm trialling them on a low traffic site at the moment to see how they go. In my opinion, LinkBucks would be perfect for any site that relies on outbound links for a bulk of its content. For example, imagine a web site that was basically an image gallery with thumbnail images that when users click on, are taken to the high resolution versions stored on Imagevenue or something similar.

Something like this:

...etc, etc... I'm sure you get the idea. Anyhow, LinkBucks allow you create single links (one at a time), multiple links or give you a script you can place prior to the closing body tag on your website that will automatically convert all out bound links to LinkBucks links. You can also specify URLs you want to exclude from converting which is useful if you have other forms of advertising on your site.

LinkBucks is similar to Ucash.in except that I prefer LinkBucks. One of the benefits of LinkBucks is that it features a greater number of options, however on the downside it only offers three levels of referrals as opposed to Ucash.In which goes down to 10 levels of referral.

I'm not sure that anyone out there actually cares, but a week ago I extended my ProjectWonderful experiment to try and figure out how to get the most out of my ad block and find the optimum pricing level. During the first week of the experiment I set the opening bid at $0.00 to see if that would encourage more, higher priced bidding. After a five day period the average bid rate per day over that time period was $0.13. Fairly disappointing.

So I decided to up the ante a bit and for the past week or so I've set the opening bid to $0.50. So what has been the average bid rate per day over the last five days? $0.33. Over that same period, the ad spot averaged 1,898 page views per day. Still, hardly impressive in dollar (or cent) terms.

I realise my experiment was hardly scientific, and is probably not even close to achieving 'statistical significance' but never the less, I think I'm able to draw a conclusion. What did I learn? Setting your ad block to open at $0.00 will only encourage a lot of low bidding. My recommendation is if you are wanting to earn from ProjectWonderful, find that minimum price point your happy with and set your opening bid to that.

Go predict how many copies of the Guns 'n' Roses album will be sold in the first week of release. It's the earth shattering question I've posed on Predictify.

If you live in Victoria, you may have noticed WorkSafe's "graphic new ad campaign". Personally, I'm a little tired of the "graphic new ad campaign" thing, it's been done. I'd say I'm borderline desensitized. I'd prefer to see something intelligent and memorable, not disturbing and memorable. The 'shock horror' approach seems to lose it's impact after the first viewing.

In any case, not everyone wants to see someone lose their fingers on a bread slicer while they are eating a toasted cheese sandwich. WorkSafe, I'm talking to you! I sat down in front of the box to enjoy my toasted cheese, and a little time out from work, and was greeted with this nugget.

Warning: This may disturb some viewers. I do not recommend watching this if you are currently eating a sandwich.

I think you'd agree, that ad is a bit of a downer, at best. But on the bright side, it's vastly improved if you play some jaunty baking music over the top of it!

What did we learn? A jaunty tune is a powerful weapon! Use it wisely.

Dear Google,

I know that you are wise and all powerful. I know that I am wrong to even think of questioning your wisdom, however, sometimes your behavior confuses me. You used to show me love. Then seemingly overnight, things changed. The love disappeared. I woke up feeling dirty and ignored. If only I knew why you felt the need to smite me I may be able to change. You don't talk anymore, do you expect me to read your mind?

Perhaps in your eyes, I no longer exist, but I'm telling you that I'm still here. Please stop with the smiting and play nicely.

Your bitch,

swollenpickles.

I believe this offer is only available for Australian residents, and with Melbourne Cup Day just around the corner there may be a few of you out there that would find this useful.

Betfair are currently offering a free $50 bet for anyone the makes a deposit and bets at least $50. In other words you bet $50, and they'll give you $50.

All the details are here: FREE $50 Bet at Betfair

I have close to zero interest in horse racing so don't bother asking me for tips!

If that doesn't interest you would you prefer 25 free MP3's instead?

Go check out eMusic.

I have some questions.

1. Are you Australian? If you answered yes, go to question 2. If you answered no, click here.

2. Do you have opinions? If yes, go to question 3. If no, follow this guy's lead.

3. Do companies currently give you money and stuff for your opinions? If yes, good for you tiger. If no, read on...

I'm beginning to see an increased number of survey companies based in Australia looking for people to join their panels in return for compensation of different sorts. In other words, you do surveys, and they give you stuff. It's simple, and somewhat entertaining.

Here's a couple for you to consider.

Survey Villiage

Voice your opinion and be rewarded by Survey Village. It’s free to join and no cost to participate. Choose your reward from a choice of 12 online and high street stores. Plus there are monthly $200 dollar gift voucher giveaways.

I think their link speaks volumes.

Valued Opinions

Do you want to become an opinion leader? Join Valued Opinions. Give your opinion and get paid!

I'm not so fussed about the opinion leader part, but the money... mmmm... money...

Light Speed Panel

No rules or expectations. You have your say. Take online surveys and earn rewards, but, more importantly, have your opinions count. Join now for a chance to win $1,500.

Rewards, plus registering their now will put you in the draw for $1,500. Plus, the banner ad looks nice.

Australia Survey Panel

An oldie but a goodie, and very 'stralian.

On that note I'm off, however I'll leave you with one final thought (since you've read this far). My opinion is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it.

In case you are looking to make a little extra money, WidgetBucks are offering a $25 sign up bonus for all new publishers.

According to their blog, this promotion is to celebrate the first birthday of WidgetBucks and will run until the end of October.

Here's what they have to say:

"They say that time flies when you're having fun -- and in a flash, WidgetBucks has just completed its first year. To celebrate our first anniversary, we're reinstating our sign-up bonus that we offered during the first three months for all new publishers: $25 bonus when your account reaches $50."

Initially I did quite well out of WidgetBucks, but things tailed off after a while. They have introduced a range of new widgets though, which look a lot more interesting than the old ones, so they may be worth another look.

If you want the $25 sign up bonus, go join now!

Even if you don't want to join, go take a look at the pretty picture of the cup cake on their front page. It's nice.