SpikeTheLobster

@SpikeTheLobster (6403)

Age 54

Joined myLot 16 years ago

The original half-hogger. Owner/operator, WriteLearnEarn.com and PenStars.com

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Lots Of User Not Interacting Anymore

Marlina @marlina (154166) • Canada 13 Mar 16

Do you find that a lot of Mylot users are not interacting so much anymore? I just wondered it they lost interest in Mylot or if they are too busy in real life? Have you noticed the same thing lately? There seems to be more new...

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SpikeTheLobster For me, it's the site layout - it's not intuitive at all and it's almost impossible to find anything. I just spent about 45 seconds looking for the "Respond" button, for example. And now where do I go? Where are the discussions? Where's the latest, the hot...

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Paid for writing articles !!!

INDIAN WOMAN @hema7213 (3517) • India 10 Feb 16

HEY friends, I WANT to know some names of article writing sites name which actually pays to the users.....some i know which are iwriter......it is not for me as i am already busy in doing some website work on my 2 websites and...

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SpikeTheLobster There are plenty, but it depends what you want. iWriter is the big content mill, of course, HubPages is the big (and pretty much only) rev share option, and Constant-Content is the big marketplace choice. WriteLearnEarn is an alternative marketplace-style...

10 Feb 16

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No One is Qualified to Lead

Morgan @OneOfMany (12150) • United States 8 Feb 16

I am tired of politics and the favoritism that I see around everywhere. No one is qualified for the position, so I don't really care which of the figure heads people are backing. The system has long been broken and one or two...

lead

office

politics

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SpikeTheLobster Politics is broken. Too much money, religion and self-interest involved. Unfortunately, that's why dictators and extremists do so well - everyone's just sick of the lies and rubbish. Solution? Probably isn't one... the people who rule have been the wrong...

9 Feb 16

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online money earning ways

chitrapandi @chitrapandi (11) • Madurai, India 3 Feb 16

What are all the ways of earning money online? some people says PTC & GPT sites, Online Surveys ect, ect. but these ways are very slow process. I thought of doing data entry jobs online and offline but all are fake. Can anyone...

online jobs

earn online

earning

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SpikeTheLobster Real and fast are inversely proportional, unless you're extremely lucky or talented. Online work is just like offline work: you do it for someone else for low pay or do it for yourself for more money. Either way, it's still work - the days of easy online...

4 Feb 16

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Why online writing sites are shutting down?

Victor Sagayaraj @vickyblogs (341) • India 1 Feb 16

What has been happening to few of the online writing sites in the past two years is unpleasant to the online writers. The time and the efforts that we had made, unfortunately, went vain. Exceptionally, a few sites keep their...

online

writing

writing sites

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SpikeTheLobster In many cases, it's bad planning - the business model is broken, as in the case of BubbleWS and their fixed rate payments. Unfortunately, any online site is open to abuse and many people who start writing sites are either writers themselves or new to online...

2 Feb 16

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What are these other places we can make $10?

celticeagle @celticeagle (158702) • Boise, Idaho 30 Apr 13

In the alert this morning about the changes here on Mylot they mentioned that if money was the reason for being here on Mylot that there were many other places on the internet where we could make $10 a month. So does anyone know...

bubblews

the internet

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SpikeTheLobster Just wait until the new myLot comes along, give it about an hour and you'll have 100,000 threads with affiliate links to 10,000 sites offering money. More seriously, there aren't really any paid to participate setups around. Postloop does paid...

1 May 13

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The New myLot - Coming This Week...

myLot! @myLot (127) • Kansas City, Missouri 30 Apr 13

Later this week, we will launch the most significant revamp myLot has seen since it was born over 7 years ago. myLot has been re-imagined with a clear emphasis on dialog and sharing, and we'll soon be ready to show this to each of...

mylot

the new mylot

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SpikeTheLobster How to completely destroy your online business, in one easy lesson: "The famous myLot Earnings Program will be discontinued, effective whenever the new website goes live this week." I reckon at least 95% of the population will never come back, myself...

30 Apr 13

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Make money from facebook and twitter!

tiaram @tiaram (2) 27 Apr 13

Get paid everytime you tweet or post! project payday pays every week via check and has an A with BBB signup 100% free Today! go here now http://clickforfunds.webs.com

fast cash

make money

ppd

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SpikeTheLobster Oh, look. Another spammer who didn't read the rules.

28 Apr 13

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Which article writing website is best to start with for an amateur?

dipak06 @dipak06 (913) • India 28 Apr 13

I am thinking to join article writing websites and while searching through the internet i got a few...but confused with which site should i start. Since i am a newbie in this area,i don't know what site will be the best one for an...

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SpikeTheLobster That's a good question. There are tons of sites for writers... the important questions are how strict their quality filters are and how you want to earn. The easy sites fall into three main categories: GPT, content mills and rev share. GPT is simplest,...

28 Apr 13

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Can we know the location from where a particular email was to us.?

deserve40 @deserve40 (1656) • India 24 Apr 13

Sometimes, we receive emails, which are really useless and even they cause us lots of troubles. So can we know, from which place or country was sent to us? If you have knowledge about this subject. please share here. Thanks...

knowing source of internet

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SpikeTheLobster Knowing from where it was sent isn't very helpful, really: knowing their ISP is much better. The easiest way is to use a service like SpamCop.net, which is free. You just paste in the whole email (including all the headers) and their system analyses it and can...

26 Apr 13

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Man and Women vs Same Gender

AndyTwin2 @AndyTwin2 (75) • United States 25 Apr 13

I was talking to someone at work about my views on marriage. I believe that marriage is between one man and one women. But nowadays we have people of the same gender that want to get married. I don't believe in telling people how...

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SpikeTheLobster Religion has no right to dictate what is legal or not: the law should be secular and apply equally to people of all beliefs. Marriage also has nothing to do with reproduction: it's purely two people who wish to state their desire to spend their life...

26 Apr 13

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Do u prefer German or franch

ice_baby @ice_baby (1) • China 23 Apr 13

Our school give me 2 choices about learn language,Germany and french. So I need a help to choose,as the second language,do you think which is better and more practical? I'm an accounting and auditing in the financing field ,so I...

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SpikeTheLobster The accepted standard international business languages are English and French, so I'd definitely go with that. It's certainly a more pleasant-sounding option, too: German has a tendency to sound harsh, whereas French has that melodic appeal (though not as much...

24 Apr 13

Mapping Out a Different Territory

bloggeroo @bloggeroo (2167) • Philippines 23 Apr 13

I've been writing at Fiverr for several months now. It was quite educational. Now, I need to be a different kind of writer. I want to level up and go big time. Well, at least, a higher hourly rate to get me started. So, after I...

elance

odesk

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SpikeTheLobster That's a really fun way of looking at it. Do you intend to buy epic phat lewt with the funds from your level-up?

24 Apr 13

Sent A Sample Article Today

Inderjeetkaur @Inderjeetkaur (944) • India 19 Apr 13

Hello Friends, From the time I have joined mylot I have been reading about article writing sites from the fellow mylotters here. I visited almost all of the sites to see whether I can see myself posting in any of those elite...

article writing sites

expertscolumn

sample article

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SpikeTheLobster That's new: EC never used to check quality (which is why it was so popular). It's not a normal process at all and asking for free samples is one of the oldest scams around, although it's more acceptable on rev share (since they'll post it and you'll...

20 Apr 13

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if you see a 13 yr old girl kissing an guy in his 30s, would you tell the dad?

dagami @dagami (1158) • Rome, Italy 20 Apr 13

mu hubby painted the gate of my landlord's house last sunday. my landlord and his wife were there when he arrived but they left after an hour. when it was his time to go, my husband went to the other side of the house to store the...

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SpikeTheLobster She's a minor. He's an adult. It's illegal. Yes, you should tell the parents... and probably the police, too.

20 Apr 13

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What is the best way to monetize your blog?

mytravelaroundglobe @sanjay91422 (2725) • India 16 Apr 13

I have an Adsense account which is connected to my blog, and it has started to earn. I want to know if there is another more good option to monetize my blog. I write on numbers of topics in my blog, which is mainly dedicated to...

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SpikeTheLobster There is no CPC program that pays better than AdSense. The alternatives are things like CPM or CPA, though your niche probably wouldn't do well on either (maybe CPA, depending on whether there are good things for civil engineers).

18 Apr 13

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Please Help me Solve this Mystery!!

Marja @buenavida (9985) • Sweden 15 Apr 13

I have sometimes used this smiley, but have no idea what it actually is supposed to mean. I think I understand the other smileys, but this one has remained a mystery for me - so far. Does anybody...

mystery

smiley

w00t

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SpikeTheLobster It's "Woot!" - a term which (as far as I know) first appeared in online games. I'm not sure if it was originally "Want One Of Those!" to express desire and being impressed at someone's awesome equipment or if it's just like "Hurray!" and has no other...

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You Need Two Blogs

bloggeroo @bloggeroo (2167) • Philippines 15 Apr 13

As a rule, you need to have two blogs. I call it the Gemini principle. One blog is acting as a landing page for the other. The reason for this is analytics. You want to have a record of the traffic. By having two blogs, your...

landing pages

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SpikeTheLobster I don't see it. Surely the first blog will get all the analytics stats, the second will just have a big list of all the referrals from the first (plus direct traffic). All you're doing is adding a step in the visitor's path, not gathering any extra...

16 Apr 13

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Directory Submission Seems More Difficult Than Anticipated

bloggeroo @bloggeroo (2167) • Philippines 15 Apr 13

I thought it was just a simple matter to have my blog listed in directories. I'll just fill out an online form and submit my blog URL for indexing. Apparently, the listing process is more than that. You got to verify your identity...

directory listing

seo

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SpikeTheLobster "Yahoo, for example, will index your site if you pay to get listed in the more notable directories. Anywhere else and you get ignored." Not true. No search engine prioritises paid directory services over unpaid. They prioritise people who pay THEM, not a...

15 Apr 13