Webanswers is my favourite casual money making website.
Although for the best results you do have to put in a small bit of work every day, with very little commitment you can soon be making a euro or so a day.
Because it works through a revenue sharing scheme based on Google AdSense, you can be certain your earnings are safe and guaranteed.
How to get started with webanswers
Webanswers is completely free to use. First, you’ll need to sign up for an account. You then have two choices:
- Ask questions
- Answer questions
The front page shows a list of recently asked questions. Alternatively, you can go into categories, and browse questions by topic.
If you see a question that you know the answer to, just click on it and type into the box provided at the bottom before submitting.
AdSense
So how can you make money through answering questions?
Webanswers is a so-called revenue sharing website. Each page show ads, provided by Google AdSense. Every time a page with ads is viewed, the website owner get paid a few pennies. If someone clicks on on of the ads, the payout is bigger.
Webanswers shares its earnings through ads with the people who answer the questions. They keep 60 percent of the revenue, leaving up to 40 percent for you and me.
This revenue gets credited into your AdSense account. Once you reach €70 ($100), you can get the money paid directly into your bank account.
AdSense is a reliable, verified programme. Run by Google, you can be sure that it’s not a scam. As long as you don’t break their terms and conditions, you won’t have to worry about whether or not you’ll be paid, which makes any website that uses it, such as webanswers, a safe option.
Earning through webanswers
To actually make money out of webanswers, you’ll have to jump through some hoops first.
First of all, you’ll need to sign up for Google AdSense and link your account to your webanswers account. To do both, you’ll need to answer fifty questions first.
Second, there will usually be more than one person answering each question. This means that the user portion of ad revenue is shared. This is not done in equal measure between users.
Webanswers does not disclose exactly how revenue is divided, but the following certainly influence your earning potential:
- Quality rating of user and answer. Make sure your answers have good grammar and spelling. In addition, very short answers of one or only a few words will not work in your favour. Try to go into some detail and provide quality material.
- Level of activity of user. Try to log in every day, and answer a few questions. I usually aim for five, which generally doesn’t take long at all. If I don’t log in for a day or more, I almost instantly see my earnings drop.
- Seniority of user. The more questions you’ve answered, the more revenue you’ll get.
Awarded answers
What you really want to aim for, is to be awarded ‘best answer’. This means that for a full year, all of the user portion of the revenue of page views and ad clicks will be credited to your account.
For that reason, it literally pays to put in a bit of effort to your answers and make sure they are of good quality. Awarded answers are not easy to gain, but they’ll come once you keep active on the site. At 169 questions answered, I now have 6 awarded best answers.
International user friendly
Webanswers is fully accessible for those of us outside the United States. As long as you can get an AdSense account, you’ll be good to go.
That being said, it is clear that the website is based in America, and most of its users are too. This means that a lot of questions are US focussed as well, and difficult to answer for non-Americans. For example, apparently the questions with the highest earning potential tend to be the legal ones, but unless you happen to know a lot about US law, you’ll not get much out of them.
In addition, I have found the website is most active during US daytime, which means the majority of questions are posted when I’m asleep. As it can be a bit of a competition to be the first to get a good answer in, this can put you at a disadvantage. Then again, I never have any difficulties finding five questions I can answer each day.
My experience with webanswers so far
Webanswers won’t make you rich, let me make that clear. I got my fifty initial questions answered in about a week.
At the time of writing, my account has been linked with AdSense for about three weeks. In that time, I’ve averaged about a euro a day. Aside from a two day break, I’ve answered at least five questions a day and have now been awarded a total of six best answers out of 169.
I find that there is very little effort involved in keeping up my daily activity. I tend to spend a lot of time on social media and internet forums anyway, so I found I’ve diverted some of that time to webanswers instead. I do it in little chunks. Whenever the kids are asleep or otherwise occupied and I have a spare moment, I have a quick look at the website to see if there’s a question I can answer.
Most of the questions are actually really easy too answer; you have to wonder would it not be quicker for the asker to do a five second Google themselves! You don’t really need to have much expertise at anything although personally I enjoy answering those questions where I do actually know a lot about the topic.
I like webanswers, as I enjoy finding finding new information and see it as a challenge to research and write. It doesn’t take much time, and the fact that it brings in some money is a nice bonus. Revenue seems to be going up slowly but surely; we’ll see how that continues to develop in the future.
Referal links
The links I’ve posted to webanswers above are so called referral links. That means that if you use them to access the website and register, I get a small bonus. I’d appreciate it if you did. It won’t cost you anything. If you’d rather not, here is a ‘clean’ link to webanswers instead.
Please let me know if you’ve signed up, or if you’re already using webanswers and what your experiences are!
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