I do a lot of surfing online and the term "surfing" encompasses activities from "clicking for cash," reading emails for pay and clicking tenth-cent, quarter-cent, half-cent and one-cent links at PTC sites to actual hands-free autosurfing for cash - and also getting paid for using paid download services, link exchanges and similar programs.

Mostly, autosurfs aren't lucrative money makers to start with unless you're willing to take a huge risk and fork out money up-front for upgrade packages and memberships with certain sites. Also, many referral links from other programs are not allowed in autosurf rotators, so you have to check carefully about what links you place in the autosurfs. Some autosurfs automatically ban certain links while other programs will ban your memberships elsewhere if they find out that you use their links in an autosurf rotator site or program.

You can overcome the banned-link problem by using special pages called "splash pages," but this requires a few moments' time for you to create the special pages, put your links into the pages then use the url link of your created page for putting this into rotators. It's well worth the effort of making the page and is the only way, sometimes, to advertise certain reflinks without getting either your autosurf membership or related-site membership cancelled, flagged, deleted or banned.

Many people make splashpages for their articles and place a special link so that surfers in manual and traffic exchange sites can easily open the splashpage in a new window with just one click - without interrupting their surfing for cash or credits. This is helpful, particularly where certain advertisers forbid the use of autosurfs for promoting article links/pages where their ads are sitting on article pages. Although a lot of surfers will ignore the opportunity to open your page in a new window and browse that way, there are some who will check out your page - and if there are only a few, well, once your designated page is in the rotator properly, it's a "Set-and-forget" deal. At least you won't have a bunch of hard work to do once you get all set up! Then you'll just have to log in, surf, and assign credits to your existing pages, right?

Alternate pages and splash pages may also have to be used for advertising your paid-to-read site links, PTC sites and paid-to-download site links, but again - once you've set up your alternate pages and placed these in autosurf rotators, very little maintenance is necessary. Set your links in the rotators and remember to log in daily to surf and plan on at least daily attention to log in and assigning credits for your links and this can gain you easy referrals, readers and money, depending on what sort of links you're promoting.

The sad news is that planning to earn from just surfing is not much of a plan at all. Even if you find a few good, stable sites to earn from, you'll have to INVEST your own money to get started and earn from surfing.

Basically, to earn quickly, you have to have money up front and be willing to trust the site owners with your money. In a very questionable earning field online, this presents a huge number of problems as well as a very real risk that you will lose your money.

Even if you use the "Cash N Dash" method, you'll still have to pay, up front for membership fees or upgrades - and you'll still have to trust the site owners with your money. In the end, if you don't "Dash" soon enough or if any of a number of bad things happen at/to the sites you're involved with, you'll lose your money.

For this reason, the Cash N Dash method isn't a very stable or reasonable method to use when selecting autosurf sites.

It's much more SAFE - and is a whole different strategy altogether - to use autosurfs to just generate hits to pages and links for traffic to your site. It's a good idea to gain memberships with sites that let you earn credits or cash for page views...and, whenever these sites allow you to insert links into auto rotators, do so and earn credits and cash elsewhere.

This is sort of a piggy-back system or idea - using a simple site to allow you to earn from a site that requires more effort for gaining money and credits.

* Please Note: Google Adsense and many other high-profile companies will BAN YOUR ACCOUNT if pages where you use their advertising are placed into autosurfs and some manual traffic exchanges - so don't create Adsense content pages and insert them directly into autosurf rotators.

You can, however, create Splashpages with your content-links on them and insert these into autosurfs and generate some hits and readers that way...you'll not receive a great number of hits, but it's a method worth utilizing. Every bit of effort toward page hits and traffic generation is worth doing, overall, in your money making experiences.

A good and better strategy for autosurfers to use besides the Cash'n'Dash nasty strategy is simply using autosurfs to full extent.

This means joining autosurfs and using each surf as a free member for time, until you see that a site is sustaining members and paying out properly as stated in TOS agreements. Read the site terms and any newsletters that the admin/owner sends out. Most owners are aware that they need to run contests, have sales, offer members bonuses. Get in on this stuff!

Sometimes you will NOT want to upgrade in a surf at all if you see membership numbers going downhill rapidly. This might mean that a particular site has just been hit by a big crowd of Dasher, so the dashers, along with many of their referrals, are swarming away from the site. This could definitely mean problems for owners, and a dwindled membership count, so be careful of this and keep your eyes open for it. It happens all the time.

The sway of public opinion concerning 'goods sites' and 'bad sites' online is incredibly strong! No matter if a site has a good owner, an honest one who keeps reasonable business terms and such, the things that people do and say in forums will still have a HUGE INFLUENCE on whether or not certain sites will sustain business.

Most importantly, as a surfer, even if you are not upgrading in large amounts or even upgrading at all - your best bet is to LOG IN, surf and maintain this part of your member agreement to the site! Stay active, whatever you do! This will make a huge difference in the course of an autosurf site's business and, in turn, in YOUR ability to use a particular site.

When you upgrade, be reasonable. Take out at least your original costs immediately, once your upgrades or ad packages have expired and are available in cash value. After that, put some advertising funds back in to the site and keep on going (unless, of course, you see strong signs of site failure going on).

If you remove your original costs and then are risking only bonus money, you and your funds are far safer than if you try to take risks, purchase maximum upgrade/ad packs, then cash out BIG and cash out quickly.

Use surf sites to advertise. This is what they are for! Put maximum URL reflinks into surf rotators that are available to you and surf fair without cheating. Most sites offer some rotator positions even for free members, so use these when they are available, by all means!

Even if you remain a free member for a long time, just remember that the site is offering you free advertising, and you're probably earning credits. This should be reason enough to stay active on-site on a daily or near-daily basis.

Don't get caught up in 'fast-earning' practices that are very risky and also unethical. Yes, you might earn really big with riskier methods...but it will rarely last long, and you will always stand the even higher risk of LOSING BIG if you're not careful.

Surf carefully, surf with reasonable earning plans in mind.

This is so very, very, EXTREMELY SIMPLE! Benefitting while surfing ethically is so straighforward. I cannot believe that so many people do otherwise while involved with autosurfs.

People come up with all kinds of 'beat the system' strategies and 'tricks' that it takes Autosurfers, themselves, right into the realm of SCAMMERS!

Just surf, people! This is the best strategy. Follow TOS agreements, stay active with your memberships, purchase upgrades when you can, cash out when you can, and keep your eyes on the forums and on owners - to make sure that your surfsites are staying busy and paying out on time.

All these blackhat tricks are only make a few people rich. If you didn't exactly get my meaning from before, think of this: Cash'n'Dashers are sort of like in real life - the extremely wealthy people paying minimal taxes...hopefully everyone understands this last example. I know that people gripe about this last situation enough in real life.

Though there are fast methods of earning online that are risky, such as "upgraded" autosurfing for the ROI and High Yeild programs (upgraded also), there are much better ways to be involved in Autosurf programs!

This first post is about a 'practice' online that many autosurfers implement for earning which is effective for some but very bad for the industry. I hope that people reading this will choose NOT TO DO THIS!

I believe that many Autosurfs fail, though they have respectable owners, because people join, too often for the plain old percentage of returns on upgrades that a particular Autosurf site might display.

If everyone is just surfing for fast cash, intending to pull their money out of the system at first chance, this makes it difficult for owners to sustain their Autosurfing site.

A high number of Autosurfers use the "Cash-N-Dash" strategy when surfing, which leaves owners and other members DRY! The autosurfers in question usually Cash'n'Dash on unsuspecting newbie owners of Autosurfs, which is very, very unfortunate for both the owners and the reputation of the Autosurf Industry as a whole!

Cash'n'Dash is hitting upon an Autosurf site when the 'joining' is good, upgrading quickly in very large sums, then immediately cashing out and terminating membership the moment upgrades have expired - then moving on to the next site. Tons of surfers do this and, yes, many are some of the highest earning autosurfers out in Internet surfland. Their payment processor and bank accounts are padded quite nicely, but in implementing this type of strategy, they cause a lot of damage in the industry, too

For owners who are hit by a large number of Cash'n'Dashers on-site, this means that as soon as owners pay out huge chunks of funds to Cash'n'Dashers, their membership count decreases, funds are removed, not to be returned, and the site suffers, along with members who are NOT employing the Cash'n'Dash tactics!