I’ve been sitting on this goldmine for a few weeks now.  I’m sharing this now because others have started to discover it and I want you to be able to post about “Seeing this on Turnipofpower.com”.   My biggest traffic source at Computer Tech News behind Entrecard and Stumble is from Project Wonderful.  The best part is I stopped sending money to them some time ago.  What?  Free traffic that doesn’t involve clicking 125×125 ads like a mental patient?  You betcha.  Here’s the step-by-step.

First The Income Part:  Sign up and create an ad block.   I prefer 234×60 px half banners because they are small, but any size ad works.  I use the maximum number of ads, but that only works if they all sell.  Use whatever fits your site.  The fewer ads the more you will make per ad at first.  Add the widget code to your site.  Do not worry about charging $.00 for your ad spots.  That will change in less than 24 hours as people start bidding.  If you just want income, you are finished.  You will see money almost immediately. 

Now For Cheap Self Sustaining Traffic: The secret of Project Wonderful isn’t the money earned, it’s buying cheap quality traffic.  Not only that, doing so is completely automated if you are smart.  Every day Project Wonderful bids for me on hundreds of sites.  Now sit down for this part.  The amount of most bids?  $.00, yep, Zero, nothing, Nada.

So How Do You Do This?  There are 2 ways to start.  You can either wait until your ad generates a dollar or two, or you can simply send Project Wonderful the minimum $5.00.  Create any size ad.  I’ve tried every single size available, both text and image.  In the end, they all bring in traffic for less than a penny a visitor.  The secret is in the campaign screen. 

Creating Your Campaign:

1. Sign into your Project Wonderful account, click on “My Campaigns”, and then “Start a New Campaign”.
2. Ignore the next screen and click on “Advanced Search” at the bottom. Uncheck all the ad sizes up top except the one you made a banner for.
3. Under “bidding” enter .00 in all 4 boxes.  Click “Search”.
4. Now below all the ads you will see a blue box that says “Create a New Campaign”, click on it.
5. Now click the green box that says “Set up this campaign”
6. Click on the calendar on the right and choose a date at least a week away.
7. Use the following settings in the next few boxes:  The most you are willing to spend: .01  , Per day: .10 , Overall: Leave Blank
8. Anything in the “Bidding across Sites” box is optional.  I’ll leave those to you because they make no difference.
9. Click “Next” and you are finished.

What happens next?  You begin to bid $.00 for all your ads, occasionally bidding $.01.  Since you get plenty of .00 ads first, you win those bids before you spend your $.10 for the day.  If your own ad or ads bring in  $.10 per day after Project Wonderful takes their cut, the traffic is completely free.  My only regret?  There is no bonus for signing up other people.  Note that there are other strategies.  Some are more successful than this one, but I’ll leave that for you to discover.  My advice?  Watch the bidding patterns of those with successful sites, and read all the tutorials Project Wonderful provides.