My First Take on Yuwie

Posted on Saturday, 9th February 2008 by Bcarter

About 2 weeks ago I decided to take the plunge and sign up for Yuwie. I figured it couldn’t hurt as it’s another free referral site that won’t take up a lot of time or energy. It also gives me another place to promote my eBay store and Big Crumbs.

I waited to sign up for Yuwie because I wanted to make certain that they actually pay their members, which was confirmed shortly before I signed up and you can see a real check here (FYI, this is not anyone related to me or affiliated with me in any way). Shortly after signing up I was bombarded with friend requests, which didn’t bother me because it makes for more page views for me. I built a small page shortly after that and posted a blog post. I really haven’t done much there since, but check my friend requests every day.

January’s RSR was $.45 and I only had 108 total page views so I didn’t make a dime, but I’ll keep plugging for a couple more months at least to see if these results can grow.

Yuwie Pros

I really don’t think the ads are any more intrusive than My Space ads and at least I know I can earn a portion of the money.
Unlike Myspace they allow affiliate links on your pages and in comments. As someone trying to run an eBay store and well as make some affiliate income, I really like this. However, the average Myspace user converting over may not like this, it really is a personal preference.
They pay about 60% of their revenue back to the users instead of everything in order to keep their business running. Any good business owner knows that cash flow is king when running a business and this is a good thing.

Yuwie Cons

It seems that there have been many spammers that have taken over, not good for a growing site that caters to the referral aspect of making money and gaining users. This could scare newbies away in the long run.
As the user base starts to grow you will need more and more people to view your page or get more referrals to make the same amount of money. This is a complication of their business model and can’t be avoided.

As of this point I will continue using Yuwie, if anything goes south, I will definitely be the first to let everyone know.

Let me know what you think.

Brenda