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Before reading this guide, it’s important you understand how both stumbleupon and digg work. A thorough explanation of digg can be found here, stumbleupon is fairly self explanation download the tool bar here and have a play.

works on the premise that driving traffic through social networks (currently digg and stumbleupon) is a more cost effective (and some say efficient) than traditional online and off line advertising.

Simply submitting a site to one of these social networks will drive virtually no traffic to the site at all, to get any significant amount your story or article needs to be ‘dugg’ to the digg front page or ‘thumbsed up’ in the stumbleupon tool bar.

Digg is a short burst of traffic, usually in the realm of 20,000+ visitors and stumbleupon is fairly consistent traffic and can see similar visitor numbers over periods of months.

Getting ‘diggs’ and ‘thumbs up’ can be a very difficult task, especially when you consider you need 100+ diggs to see any substantial traffic. That’s where subvert and profit comes into play, advertisers pay them and their army of diggers and stumblers to get their stories/articles/press releases to the top of the pile.

Subvert and profit compensates their workers, with points. Just kidding with you, they pay you cold hard cash money. (Well, as cold as electronic paypal money can get). You get paid per ‘list’ of stories you digg or stumble, each list you complete is worth $0.5 (that’s fifty cents). This isn’t going to pay your mortgage payments for you and you’re definitely not going to retire at 35 by doing this. But multiple income streams are the key to building up a decent monthly online income.

They have a decent amount of ‘lists’ to complete (usually 1-2 per day), but you have to be fairly quick before the other users get to them first. Your best bet is to use a valid e-mail address, as they e-mail you when lists are available to complete.
The vitals:

Program name: Subvert and profit

They pay you: $0.5 (or fifty cents) per ‘list’ (a list is a set of 4-5 stories which you must digg or thumb up)

Referrals: 1 level, 20% for diggers/stumblers 10% for advertisers

Payout level: $10, through paypal only

Payment received: No, yet to reach payout level.

Subvert and profit is one of my favorite online money making programs that I’ve tried so far. In less than a week I’ve nearly reached the $10 payout level without any referrals. I am sure once I start pushing this program via IM programs I’ll be able to get a constant payout of $10+ per week.

If you haven’t already, go and join subvert and profit now!

*Disclaimer - It’s against the rules of both stumbleupon and digg to ‘game’ their services. Your account is at risk of being banned if you participate in subvert and profit (although they claim to have complex algorithms to prevent this). It’s up to you to decide whether you think this program is ethical or not. Personally I believe that it is, if the stories which are gamed are of poor quality then regular users will down vote them and traffic will be virtually zero. Feel free to discuss this aspect in the comments.

#1 Pre-post update - Somebody who is smarter than me should design something which will SMS you when lists are available. That way I won’t have to check the site or my e-mail. I know I’d be willing to throw a couple of dollars in donations your way - as would a lot of other subvertors.

#2 Pre-post update - It takes awhile for your accounts to be ‘verified’, they make you digg or stumble a story to verify your account details if it’s taking you awhile. Just use the contact form to let them know and it’ll be done within the day.

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