Bukisa Update | Is it worth it?
It’s now 1/2 way through the month and as I look at my Bukisa earnings I’m beginning to wonder if the time I’m spending there is worth the return I’m getting.
I’ve earned a whopping $2.82 so far and will probably end the month at about $6.
If you’ve been reading here for a while you know that one of my biggest goals is to get the best return for the time I invest. To be honest, the time I’ve invested in Bukisa would have given me 5 or even 6 times more money easily on eHow.
Let me ask you folks out there..
With 30 articles and maybe 60 or so Xomblurbs pointed at them I’m getting maybe 17 cents a day. We all know on eHow the return would easily be near a dollar a day.
Personally I feel that Bukisa has a fundamental flaw in the way it works. Their signup program encourages people to spend more time trying to recruit people than they spend creating content.
I have two people in my network, neither of which has published any content at all. I’ve asked both of them why and they both responded with the ‘I’m trying to build a network” response. So in the end, none of us are making any money.
So with that being said I think it’s safe to assume that the only money I’m going to make with Bukisa is with my own content. Question is though, should I throw in the towel and walk away from Bukisa or should I just keep pushing forward until I figure out the correct ‘formula’ for success there?
You guys have any thoughts on this? I’m on the fence right now with how I should proceed.
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Reader Comments
I can understand why you feel like Bukisa isn’t worth your time. There are some topics that I like to write on that I know people aren’t really paying for advertising for. So I have started submitting those articles to Associated Content for upfront payment. True, the offers aren’t that high. But you do get paid for page views as well on AC.
The way that I look at it is, I would have written the article anyway as a post on my personal blog. So why not submit it to AC for a few bucks and make a few cents off of it a month from the page views? And when I talk about the topic on my blog I just link to my related article.
You may find AC to be worth your time a bit more than Bukisa. JMHO
I am done with Bukisa! Whatever I have out there is it, unless they change the way people earn money. You can have 1,000 people in your network and earn $0.00. I would rather spend my time writing for eHow, where I know I will earn something for my time.
Hi Cookie, last nights Bukisa update was 5 cents. I think I’ll call it quits there, just not worth it. I was thinking about starting up on Info Barrel, since they pay through adsense and it’ll add to my pot there. I’ll check out AC, I’ve heard of it but never actually went over there to look at it. Thanks for the info!
I’m with you Dusty! I made 5 pennies there yesterday. I could’ve picked up a can off the street and turned it in for the deposit for the same amount of money with a lot less work involved. I’m looking at Info Barrel as a secondary income outlet. It’ll be a nice adsense addition to xomba and this blog.
I am glad I found your blog. I was also wondering if Bukisa is really worth my time, eHow is in my opinion giving me a greater return, but I was tempted to try Bukisa because of its referral system. We’ll see what happens. It would be nice to read some success stories, but I could not find anyone bragging about their Bukisa earnings.
You know you’re right, other than the odd promotional ‘join up’ article or message I just haven’t seen an earnings screenshot from anyone. Personally I would love to see this. I had high hopes for Bukisa as a place to put my low click/high views articles, but it just hasn’t worked out well for me. I’ll revisit it once again in the future, but right now it just makes sense to hit eHow/InfoBarrel/Xomba hard for the most earnings. Thanks for your comment too!
Hey Guillermo, I just checked out your blog, really nice. I workout quite religiously so I’ll be stopping by for info. Do you find the InfoLinks work better than Kontera?
Its like you say, everyone is trying to build their own network and as a result are not posting. I have only submitted three articles to Bukisa, 6 weeks ago and managed to earn 7 measely cents. If I had uploaded these to AC and Helium I would have earned much more. For starters I would have received an upfront payment at Helium as well as page views. I expected to see mnay success stories too of people earning hundreds a month but it doesnt seem to be happening, whereas these type of stories from users on AC and Helium are common.
Hi Laura and thank you for stopping by! Bukisa continues to amaze me, I don’t understand why they just don’t change their structure and offer less of a network payout. I myself have a few people under me and not one person has submitted an article, absolutely amazing…
I still haven’t tried out Bukisa, based on your review it may not be worth my time. I do like to diversify, so we’ll see. Have you thought about writing for The Examiner? I have had great results so far. They basically pay a $.01 per page view. By the way, like your site I read through a bunch of your articles today.
It seems that Bukisa just doesn’t pay. However, don’t use it for its earning potential. Just look at it as a site that you can use for backlinks.
Even better, a backlink that only requires 250 words of which you may have already written for another site. If you happen to make some money in the end, that’s even better. If not then you still have the backlink.
(I’m not sure if it is dofollow or nofollow, but a backlink is a backlink still the same.)