Should You Make Money by Paid Survey Leads

Paid survey is a great way for those who don’t have any technical background and want to make some money online. I also have tried this way when the first day I think I need to make more money. And when I get to know all the secrets about affiliate network and internet marketing, I started to build my first web site to guide people on how to make money from paid survey, and list out all the top paid survey companies there to generate the lead.

Thing goes perfect at the beginning, very soon, I start to see the money in, and it quickly goes up to more than $1000 per month. But 1 year later, I eventually decided to give up. And below are some thought from me.

• Maintenance cost is high. Doesn’t like the other product companies, most of the paid survey companies work with some relatively small affiliate networks, and they might deactive their affiliate relationship with that network at any time, and active again couple months later. It’s really time-consuming task for me verify which affiliate relationship are still active and remove the link again or put link back.
• “Paid survey” is a hot key word, it’s hard to maintain that position if you don’t promote that key word regularly. I have once been in the first page in Google for key word “Paid Survey”, but as I put more focus on my another business such as “web hosting”, “Internet Marketing”, the site in the search result drop down progressively, and now it’s in page 5, and I don’t where it would be if I don’t promote it again. Compared with the cost and earning between all my business, I decide not to run it again.

So, from the long term perspective, paid survey leads is not a good way for you to make money from. But if you just start your online business, it probably could be a good niche to start with.