I don’t know if I Like, MyLikes anymore. This MyLikes review will let you know why I’m seriously disappointed with the service as of late. Though I have made money with MyLikes and have found numerous quality products to promote (in the past) lately my feelings have changed. Though MyLikes has received a lot of great reviews and has proven itself as a money maker for many using it to earn cash through twitter or facebook, I’ve become quite jaded with the MyLikes service and am increasingly unimpressed with the quality of opportunities available on MyLikes. Some of my greatest concerns lie with the fact that MyLikes is now directly giving members an opportunity to promote scams and false advertising!
MyLikes Review: Promoting Scams with MyLikes
Here’s a MyLikes opportunity that you can promote and earn from clicks, but beware you would be promoting a scam. The “Make Money with Google Course” uses the good name of google to con people into believing they can earn money working from home by doing who knows what, but first you have to buy the course (don’t worry you can get it for only $15 instead of $97 like everyone else!). I don’t really feel bad for people who fall for scams like this, who in their right mind pays an employer to employ them? But anyway, it’s still NOT RIGHT that MyLikes is allowing an advertiser to use this service to promote and push scams.
The above scam has been debunked by Snopes, there are a lot of variations of the wording (including the Make Money with Yahoo version) but you can rest assured Google isn’t hiring and paying anyone to work from home. (Find out the details from snopes research, here.)
Promoting False Advertising on MyLikes
Or if you like you can promote some ads that say one thing but actually redirect to something totally different. There are a number of variations on the below opportunity, and the advertiser will gladly pay you $.15 per clicks from within the United States… while the suggested tweet says “This is SO COOL! Enter your name in this site and in seconds find out who has been searching for u on the net!” and the advertiser link is posted as whosearchingforyou.com, when clicked the site actually redirects to coupondealsdaily.com. In addition can you explain to me how this title and picture have anything to do with anything!?!?
Promoting Plain Garbage on MyLikes
Besides scams and straight up false advertising there is now just a LOT of garbage opportunities on MyLikes that I would never take. I’ve written about blogging integrity over at my friend Ileane’s blog, Basic Blog Tips, you can read that article here. I want my twitter followers to trust and respect my tweets, to know that the things I’m promoting (whether I’m paid to or not) are worthy of their attention. In the past I’ve mistakenly promoted ads that I wish I hadn’t (and now I always follow the URL and check what I’m tweeting about BEFORE I click publish). If I’m going to promote something I want it to be quality and worthwhile, not like A LOT of the opportunities available on MyLikes these days. Take a look at some of these offers you could tweet out and get paid for, “Can you tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese? Take this quiz!” are you serious? Or promote ask.com with the wonderfully thought out tweet “Did you know what Barbie’s real name is?”. Perhaps if you’re a health nut you can promote Resveratrol… which has been claimed by some researchers to potentially be responsible for the positive effects that red wine has on cardiovascular health. Personally I wouldn’t want my name and reputation attached to tweets for any of these silly and ridiculous things (though some of them may well be legitimate). My online integrity is too important to try and make money by pushing useless, and unhelpful content on my followers and readers.
Where are you at with MyLikes? Like it, Love it, Hate it?
It’s your turn. MyLikes? I don’t know if I like MyLikes anymore… Where are you at with the service. Do you use it? Have you noticed the quality of opps has changed? Or perhaps you get excellent opportunities that fit with your niche and earn you a good chunk of cash? Or maybe you don’t care and you’ll promote anything – if the fools click it that is their problem… Let’s hear your thoughts. If you agree or disagree share your MyLikes review here in the comments.
Image: Michal Marcol / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
#1 by Brankica on February 16, 2011 - 9:15 pm
I think I registered there way back (not even sure) but I know I am not promoting anything. I just don’t think I had the time.
But after this, I will think twice. If I start using it, I am sure gonna pay double attention to the stuff they offer.
The thing I hate the most is that EVERYTHING on internet gets full of spammers and scammers and ruins it for everyone else.
I also don’t like that any service allows stuff like that to be promoted. I understand they work for money, but if good people start leaving so will the bad.
Great review and I will have to think if I will start using them.
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#2 by Daniel Snyder on February 17, 2011 - 6:27 am
Hi Brankica. Thanks for commenting! Glad I was able to help you stay safe and aware on MyLikes, let me know if you do use the service how it goes for you.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#3 by Justin Germino on February 16, 2011 - 9:26 pm
I agree with you, poor advertisers and lower quality lately. SponsoredTweets has higher quality advertisers (not in the CPC section but when they hire you directly).
Bloggers need to make sure reputation isn’t jeopardized, don’t promote crap just for a few extra bucks, it isn’t worth it.
Twitter: dragonblogger
#4 by Daniel Snyder on February 17, 2011 - 6:27 am
I certainly like Sponsored Tweets a lot more but my offers are rare and far between. Can not figure out why, but that’s the way it goes. Thanks Justin!
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#5 by A. Tatum Jr on February 16, 2011 - 11:04 pm
I just started playing around with MyLikes about 2 months ago. I haven’t noticed any of the spam advertising you mentioned, but I’m glad you brought it up because now I will be on the look out for it.
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#6 by Daniel Snyder on February 17, 2011 - 6:28 am
Hey Alvin. Let me know your thoughts on the service as well, curious as to whether or not the issues I have are targeted around the niche or what. Still most of the opps there are really lame if you ask me.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#7 by Dana on February 17, 2011 - 12:27 am
I do not use MyLikes yet but from this article, I know that MyLikes seems sell “its soul” to the money so do not care with quality anymore. What a same since MyLikes has good reputation back then.
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#8 by Daniel Snyder on February 17, 2011 - 6:28 am
Yeah selling your soul for .20 cents a click!
haha, that seems to be the name of the game with mylikes and other similar services. Thanks Dana.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#9 by Daniel Sharkov on February 17, 2011 - 6:12 am
Hey Dan,
Although I haven been promoting MyLikes’ service a lot in the recent days, I have to agree that lately SCAM offers are getting more and more. I myself got actually fooled to post one such offer once. Didn’t made that mistake again, after getting some responses on the offer actually being a SCAM. So although money can be earned from MyLikes, one should always double check what he’s promoting.
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#10 by Daniel Snyder on February 17, 2011 - 6:29 am
I had a similar experience to you Daniel, and am very wary with anything that I’m promoting for money now a days. MyLikes is unfortunately losing support and a lot of people may drop off if they don’t do something to maintain the quality of their advertisers. Thanks for sharing man!
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#11 by Andy @ FirstFound on February 17, 2011 - 7:39 am
I’d not heard of it, and after this, I don’t think I want to have anything to do with it. Sounds like people are just using and abusing it.
Simple choice for them – clamp down on spam and scams, or lose your user base.
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#12 by Yossi Barazani on February 22, 2011 - 10:01 am
Hi Daniel,
I’m the founder of http://publishedin.com (in Beta) and we came with an innovative idea that allows online publishers, bloggers, and content owners to make money without ads at all.
We help Businesses (marketers) and Publishers connect and benefit each other. Our patent-pending technology makes it simple for businesses to increase quality traffic from online publishers, and publishers to earn cash rewards from their online content.
Publishedin Reward-Per-Click™ program allows businesses to reward publishers for referrals much the same as they pay Google (Pay-per-click) for referrals. Till today, Google as an aggregator of content is making billions from sending users to advertisers websites, while the content owners struggle to monetize their content. We provide a way for content creators to concentrate on good content (NO ADVERTISMENTS) and get rewarded for the value they create. And businesses to build a network of publishers, bloggers, and advocates that will help them win in the market.
How does it work?
Publishers continue write and link to products and services as they normally do. When visitors click a link, Publishedin reports a referral to businesses. Businesses reward publishers through Publishedin Reward-Per-Click program.
Businesses get connected automatically to all publishers who have link to them. Businesses can start Reward-Per-Click program, promote their business, increase quality traffic and acquire new customers.
I’d appreciate your opinion on it.
Twitter: Publishedin
#13 by Bindu Reddy on February 26, 2011 - 2:59 pm
As an update, MyLikes has cleaned up a lot of spurious advertisers. Please take a look now and you will see advertisers like Sony Music and AOL
#14 by Daniel Snyder on February 26, 2011 - 10:40 pm
Uh huh, and this is nice – but what are you basing your information on? How can you tell me that they’ve cleaned up suspicious advertisers. Just yesterday I looked and there are still opportunities available for all the ads I mention in my post.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#15 by Suresh Khanal@SEO MMO Tips on March 24, 2011 - 12:47 am
I registered to MyLikes and earned $0.27 with two or three tweets. But I don’t know why I did not like. Then started to see the negative reviews about it.
Might be MyLikes is getting too low advertisers so they are forced to accept low quality ads to sustain.
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#16 by Daniel Snyder on March 24, 2011 - 6:48 am
I have the same suspicions as you Suresh, it seems there is not a whole lot of what anyone could call ‘good’ opportunities at MyLikes anymore. I won’t be surprised if it disappears all together in the near future.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#17 by Kavita on April 16, 2011 - 3:49 am
I posted 3 tweets but did not make any money. But slowly I realized the ads I was getting in my mail box to be something not real and fishy. Since then I have completely stopped myLikes. This article is an eye opener for all mylikes users. Thanks for the share, Daniel.
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Twitter: sfihomebizz
#18 by Daniel Snyder on April 16, 2011 - 8:10 am
Hey Kavita, yeah I still use mylikes but very limited, and I’m very selective. Once in a while a reasonable advertiser shows up there, but it’s like one in a few hundred maybe.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#19 by HisH on April 20, 2011 - 2:37 pm
Hi,
thanks for the review. I havnt joined mylikes yet. I was just cheking out what it was. Anyway,i read the details at the mylikes page on how the stuff works,but i still dont get it.
Can u please explain to me how exactly this works, what should we do. And if u have a sample, please show that.
And i hope this site is legit and pays.
Thanks.
#20 by Daniel Snyder on April 24, 2011 - 12:08 pm
Not sure what you’d like to know exactly? You basically are promoting advertisers content with the MyLikes network by claiming you like something and then tweeting it or posting it to facebook. You get paid when people click on those links. The content however is pitiful.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#21 by Nasif on April 29, 2011 - 12:27 pm
Mylikes is becoming another replica of google adwords. All the ad opportunity I am receiving is not related to my niche. Time to say goodbye to mylikes after reading this wonderful review
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#22 by Shubham on May 8, 2011 - 5:01 pm
You guys must give a try to twtbuck. They have recently moved to CPC from CPT and they have some good advertisers lately like Standard Chartered bank was spreading some international competition or Nestle was spreading some free goodies bag ad. I liked it. Anyways, regarding mylikes, ads are too repulsive I think from the prospective of my friends and followers. hence, I am avoiding it.
#23 by Daniel Snyder on May 9, 2011 - 7:17 am
Yeah obviously I agree with you Shubham. Thanks for the tip on twtbuck, will check it out.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#24 by Von on May 19, 2011 - 7:17 am
I have joined MyLikes last April with total payments $26 till last week. I’m using 4 twitter accounts to register into it, and post 3-6 ads per day in each account. I don’t understand about the ad’s contents are spam or not. I rely on bonus clicks that are available in the first click, cause I know, I don’t have many US followers. And FYI, today MyLikes suspend all of my accounts. Yeah.. but I will register the new ones, with carefull attention.
Twitter: mobloggers
#25 by Ana | Traffic Generation on May 23, 2011 - 9:19 pm
Always takes guts to turn down a product, Daniel – this is a great “unreview” review.
I’ve never heard of MyLikes; just happened to stumble upon this post, but it’s good to know.
Ana
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#26 by Daniel Snyder on May 24, 2011 - 6:30 am
Hey Ana, glad that I was able to share something valuable with you here. Since writing this MyLikes has continued to decline in quality… its too bad, but its the service they choose to put out.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#27 by Mylikes is a Scam on May 27, 2011 - 8:31 pm
MyLikes itself is a scam. Myself and others had their accounts suspended today without reason or doing anything in violation of the TOS. As far as I am concerned they still owe me money, well over $25. I am not going to advertise for free.
#28 by Daniel Snyder on May 31, 2011 - 7:12 am
Interesting… Suspended accounts, I wonder what that is about.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#29 by jayvee on June 24, 2011 - 7:45 pm
i’m using mylikes, and i’m earning $2 in 5 days. Too small but it is better than other PTC sites. And got my earnings at paypal.
Twitter: jayvee448
#30 by Egyn on June 25, 2011 - 6:20 am
I joined MyLikes about 1-2 years ago for fun but never did anything because I didn’t like Twitter. But recently like 1 week ago I started using Twitter again and MyLikes, made about $0.28 so far ;D.
I did notice some of the ads that look like scams usually those high paying ones. One of them is what you mentioned, “Can you tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese? Take this quiz!”. In the quiz they show a picture of someone and ask what “nese” is he/she?
I would be more careful about choosing the ads in future though.
Thanks for the frank review.
#31 by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma on June 29, 2011 - 9:44 pm
I’m sorry you had a poor experience. We’re building an ad platform called VIRURL for word of mouth advertising with quality content not spam. I would love to hear more of your thoughts as we get ready to launch. Best Regards, Francisco Diaz-Mitoma
Twitter: virurl
#32 by Daniel Snyder on June 30, 2011 - 6:05 am
Hi Francisco, I’ll take a look. Are you associated with MyLikes in any way?
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#33 by H5W article directory on July 5, 2011 - 1:09 pm
funny that I just had the same “google hiring” ad popping out on my computer yesterday (even right after i cleaned my computer). i was quite disturbed or disgusted by the ad content.
I came across your article because i am looking for comparison between mylikes and infolinks. Have you had experience with infolinks? Does mylikes pay better?
#34 by Daniel Snyder on July 6, 2011 - 6:47 am
Personally I’ve not experimented with infolinks yet, though I’ve heard better things about it then MyLikes. You’ve got nothing to lose by test driving it.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#35 by Max @ Cheap Whiteboards on July 6, 2011 - 3:38 pm
Yeah, I used to like MyLikes but the number of scamming advertisements is getting out of hand. I would never advertise any of those, but since they even allow it to happen I feel like I don’t want to advertise anything at all. I’ll stick to Adsense from now on.
Twitter: polanskimax
#36 by Daniel Snyder on July 7, 2011 - 6:32 am
Yep, I’ve stopped even looking at MyLikes all together now. Nothing of value there at all.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#37 by tinksmagic on July 18, 2011 - 9:32 pm
I started using MyLikes when it was Likaholix so my profile still includes those unpaid likes. At that time I wanted to use the site to help get my own brand known and when I had an issue connecting my facebook account to my likaholix account, Bindu was extremely quick and helpful to get it resolved.
I started using MyLikes again when I saw that they were paying for tweets. I’m picky about what I tweet about but I’d give it a shot since BeAMagPie was basically useless, not paying, tweeting spam, and doing nothing but pissing me off.
I did get paid as stated on a Friday once my account reached $2. I think I only made like $2.25 which was ok to start, but they did pay. I have noticed since I got paid that all of the $.10+ sponsors are non-existent. I counted, at the time of this post, I have 116 available sponsors, but only about 20 of them are decent enough to tweet and appear to be “good” sites to promote and not spam ones. I only post there about 3 times a week, so I’m not expecting to make millions, but a few $$$’s here and there are greatly appreciated.
I’ve been having great luck with other programs that I use from my smartphone, so since I’m not putting all of my eggs in one basket, I’ll keep checking in to MyLikes until something happens. I did download the Android app, and have used it twice now, but I find it easier to use the website.
And no, I don’t work for MyLikes, I’m just giving my honest experience.
Twitter: tinksmagic
#38 by Neeta on July 20, 2011 - 9:41 am
As an advertiser, I have found the “publishers” so far to be pretty junky. Teenagers trying to make $.40 a click. We just launched today, and though the idea made sense, it certainly will not be useful to get clicks from people following teenagers who post only commercial links. Unless something changes in the next couple of days, we will be done with this.
#39 by Judeh on July 23, 2011 - 7:05 am
I originally liked this website. They paid you a couple of bucks every few days for promoting websites and writing about why you like them. I put a lot of thought into everything I wrote and only promoted the websites that I liked. Only the websites that I felt were appropriate. Today I noticed that they suspended me without explanation. I tried to find a phone number, address, or email address so I could contact someone so they could give me some sort of explanation. Nothing came up. I notiiced on here that others were also suspended without explanation. I believe they owe me and the others a reason why this happened especially since we all have the common goal of earning a little extra money in a tough economy. I still believe that there are a lot of good money making websites out there because I belong to them but this proves that it’s good to be selective about who you sign up for.
#40 by Niciwoman on August 5, 2011 - 8:42 pm
Very well written, Daniel. Your points are definitely spot on. I am using two services twtbuck and sponsoredtweets. Mylikes guys give so NSFW kind of ads that if I start using it, the more cents I will make the more friends I will loss. For Twtbuck, i get to advertise some big companies which is really cool and my friends also like it. For sponsoredtweets, its just chill okkish offers to be advertised.
In an all, +1 for your post and do check out twtbuck and sponsoredtweets.
#41 by Phyllis Krantzman on August 6, 2011 - 5:57 pm
I joined mylikes about two months ago. It was fun and I made a small amount of money every week or two. But without warning my account was suspended and I was given no explanation why. There is no way to contact them. I had about $2.00 in my account and I have lost that.
#42 by Daniel Snyder on August 8, 2011 - 6:22 am
Argh! More horror stories from MyLikes users. What a garbage network.
Twitter: danielsnyder1
#43 by exinco on August 29, 2011 - 6:03 am
i make 2 videos and lots text promotion. unfortunately i didn’t know the video status either was publish or not.
“Your video is being processed and will be available to watch in just a minute.”
in fact i was wait for month and never publish.
also my clicks never record. according to my shorten link record i got 2 or 3 clicks from US but never record on MyLikes
Twitter: exinco
#44 by clarence on September 12, 2011 - 11:27 pm
I can tel you right now I’m very upset with them.They accused me of click fraud.And wipe my earnings on a video.I had 10 bucks coming to me.They sent me email accusing me of It I gave them a whole week to contact me before releasing the video on the website.Stay away from them are a scam.They didn’t start out like that,but they are a scam now.Watched my video and comment It.I want It to go viral so no one else gets used like I did.
#45 by XYI on September 22, 2011 - 11:35 pm
I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT MY LIKES AND SO FAR SO GOOD TO ME.I UPLOADED 10 VIDEOS FROM YOUTUBE AND I GET PAID PRETTY GOOD FROM MY LIKES EVERY FRIDAY I SEE MONEY IN MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT..SORRY FOR YOU GUYS BAD EXPERIENCE WITH THEM!
#46 by Kevin on September 26, 2011 - 1:36 pm
Don’t bother with MyLikes. You get paid nothing and advertisers are horrible.
Example –
MyLikes could set your social score to 600 meaning you can get paid up to 60 cents a click but most advertisers average somewhere between 1 and 15 cents.
Say you do end up finding an advertisers that will pay you 60 cents a click. Ok, great. You tweet the ad in a way that was recommended and you rack up the clicks. Awesome.
Except, MyLikes allows advertisers to disapprove any ad at any time. So while you may have racked up 30 clicks and $18.00 in earnings on Monday, by Wednesday it is disapproved and you are back to zero.
Absolutely horrible service.
#47 by Doug on October 3, 2011 - 7:41 am
Rubbish service.
#48 by Anna Haddley on October 26, 2011 - 4:53 pm
I have been using MyLikes and frankly love them. I have been making a good amount of money as well. You get to choose what you like and post what you want
#49 by [email protected] on October 26, 2011 - 11:16 pm
I got suspended account, I dont know why is happening, it seem mylikes.com is really a SCAM, almost one weeks, i got 38 audience, and balance $0.28. they suspende my account, RIGHT know, I dont trust mylikes.com !!
#50 by Derek Voda on November 1, 2011 - 2:17 pm
I be perfectly honest when I say this, but money is money (Im not saying it from my point of view, but rather from theirs). Advertisers pay them to put it up, mylikes isn’t the one that picks what goes up there. Also from my point of view I don’t support things I don’t believe in, like lying about whether I use it or not, but I’ll promote anything for the right price (As long as I don’t have to lie about it).
#51 by Phyllis Krantzman on November 21, 2011 - 11:33 am
For whatever reason, my account was frozen in August. I can not communicate with anyone on mylikes so I can not find out why. I lost a small amount of money. I liked the site.
#52 by John@SaveMoneyOnAirportParking on January 6, 2012 - 3:27 pm
I started out with mylikes but then found sponsoredtweets. I have not looked back. The offers are slow to come in but the quality is there.
Twitter: jwgaddis
#53 by George on February 27, 2012 - 8:15 am
Hey one thing which i would like to know is that whether you get paid for clicks outside the united states from mylikes?..
Twitter: George_defo
#54 by Daniel Snyder on February 29, 2012 - 4:11 pm
Not sure George, In any case not a question I’d answer here, why not ask the folks at MyLikes?
#55 by Tom Corson-Knowles on March 20, 2012 - 7:26 pm
MyLikes is complete garbage! There are tons of advertisers taking users to spam websites (like imitations of news sites that only promote affiliate products). I signed up for MyLikes and promoted several links and then they suspended my account with no warning. Then, once your account is suspended you can’t even contact the company. Don’t do business with jerks like MyLikes
Twitter: juicetom
#56 by Ben on April 10, 2012 - 9:53 am
I have used mylikes and sponsored tweets to makes some extra money, but I agree with this post. They seem to be letting anyone advertise, and it is destroying the credibility of the people who share this stuff. I was making decent money on these sites, but not enough to piss off all my friends, but my buddy turned me on to sharemagnet.com a couple of weeks ago, and I haven’t looked back. I have actually found more cool startups and apps on that site that i have never even heard of before advertising on there. They pay almost immediately, and I actually use most of the products from the advertisers on there. Getting paid to share is only cool if the site respects my network and credibility first, so I will stick with share magnet… sorry mylikes.