Online advertising, after stalling in 2001-02, is bigger than ever (Google, of course, has changed everything). Targeted search and contextual text ads – almost non-existent in 1999 – are now everywhere.

When you search for something on the internet using Google, Ask.com, Yahoo, MSN or any other search engine, you normally see lot of adverts displayed relevant to what you’re searching for.

Then internet currently generates value from nearly everything a user does online. From a simple search, to clicking on an ad, to making a purchase, someone is making money from these activities.

That’s how search engines primarily earn their cash. It’s no big secret. They get paid to show us adverts. They take all the revenue from these paid advertisements and yet the individual users still do not have an effective way to get their share back.

Getting Paid!

Creating and using your paid to search home page is a new way to search the Internet because there's one big difference with Homepages Friends...you get paid! Yes, you get paid for searching when you use Homepages Friends.

How do they do it?

How are Homepages Friends able to offer a paid to search service that allows normal users to be paid for searching the Internet in pretty much the same way we do now?

Well, it's simple.

You sign-up on the link I provided below this post then start doing your Web searches via their site.

Homepages Friends then share back some of the advertising revenue they earn every time you search the internet from their page.

If you're worried that the search results may be restricted or somewhat limited because this is a fairly new company then thinks again. Homepages Friends have just announced a 3 year deal with Yahoo! who will be providing the search results.

How much one can earn?

Homepages Friends estimates that the average users regularly searching the internet could readily earn about £50 per year. If you are active in searching on the web, you could earn more than £10 per month. But, do not to over do it. If you purposely make extremely high amount of searches (a hundred or more) daily just to boost up your earning to maximum, they might suspend your earning.

When you will get paid?

Once you have reached the £20 minimum payout, Homepages Friends will issue payment 45 days after each month end. Example: If your search earnings for this month of August is $25, then you will get paid in the mid of October. You can choose to receive your earning via PayPal or bank transfer.

Well, this program is definitely not for people who want to earn big money online as it can only make you an extra $10 to $20 per month. If you enjoy making some extra bucks while searching on the Internet, then this program is right for you.

So the next time you're searching the web for something you should ask yourself, was I paid to do that? With Homepages Friends you would have been.

Thank you for visiting.

http://www.myhpf.co.uk/apply001.asp?Friend=174625

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How and when to invest. It is because, HYIP like other form of risk investments such as Forex, stocks and legal gambling also associated with extremely high risk. I have some rules posted on my other blog that explains trading on HYIP. But, what's HYIP anyway?

For a newbie on this word or world, HYIP stands for High Yield Investment Program that is offered on the internet through investment website.

The newer type of high yield investment program involves smaller amounts of money. Most of these programs claim to pay out 1-10% a day, or even up to 100% per month. Many of these programs are scams, but some may actually be legit.

The early Internet HYIP programs usually involved day trading on the stock market, on futures, or in foreign exchange. An investor could pay as little as $20 to the program, and would start earning a percent or two each working day. You could withdraw your gains at any time, though, by leaving the money in, compounding would cause your investment would grow, thus increasing your pay outs.

Experienced day traders can and do make anywhere from 1-20% each day -- normally averaging (after bad trades and losses) 2% each day. The money paid into a HYIP program would be pooled together, and invested by the day (or technical) trader. Using 50% margins, where the investment broker loans the trader an amount equal to the amount he's investing, the trader could pay out the 1% or so each day to the HYIP investors, and still make money for himself. According to some books on day trading, good traders are right 80% of the time, and should never lose more than 3% of their investment on the bad (or wrong) trades. This type of HYIP is sustainable and not a scam. However, as a potential HYIP investor, you have no way of knowing if the program you're interested in is legitimate, or is a take the money and run type of scam.

Soon, other types of HYIPs appeared. Some were based on the selling of ebooks and software. Once again, money invested in the HYIP was pooled and spent on advertising for selling ebooks and other downloadable products. If a business knows that for every $100 it spends in advertising, it will earn $300 in revenue, then it can pay out 50% or so a month on the HYIP program, because it knows with a reasonable degree of certainty that it will get the original $100 back, plus make a pre-tax profit of $200. Such a business would want to maximize the amount of money available for advertising, in order to maximize the amount of profits it can earn each month. In essence, they have borrowed money from individual HYIP investors (at an exorbitant interest rate) to make large profits as quickly as possible. This scheme works, but there's an upper limit on how long it can be sustained, and how much money can be spent on advertising. Sooner or later, the market for the products is saturated, and the returns on the advertising will decline sharply. At that point in time, the business can no longer pay out the 50% per month as promised, and the HYIP would have to be shut down.

The Forex type of HYIP is similar to the day trading type. Instead of buying and selling shares on the stock market, the traders buy and sell currencies and currency futures. They claim to have systems that guarantee success, but I'm not convinced that such systems exist. The Forex HYIPs can (and do) offer higher rates of return because most Forex operations are margined up to 90% - not just 50%. That means a 1% gain on the trade is worth 10% of the initial investment. The returns are higher, but the risks, despite the claims, are higher too.

Other HYIPs are dubious, and should be regarded with suspicion. Some claim to be "gold games", whatever that means, while some are really nothing more than bets. One HYIP that I looked into promised 80% gains a day. It wasn't an investment program -- your $20 returned $36 IF the transaction number ended with either an even or an odd digit. On even numbered days, an even numbered transaction number would "earn" 80% of the "investment" plus the original sum. If the transaction number was odd on an even numbered day, then your "investment" went bust and you got nothing. Statistically, over a period of time, the "successful investments" (wins) and the "failed investments" (losses) would even out. Since the pay outs were only 80%, over the long term, the organizer of this scam was guaranteed to earn 20% of the money anyone foolish enough to participate would send him. This "program" is undoubted illegal. I'm not sure if it's still going on or not. If so, stay away.

If you are considering on making an investment in a HYIP be certain to do diligent research first. Any legitimate security that is sold to the public must be registered with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). If the HYIP you are considering is not registered, you should not invest. Other questions to ask yourself include, whether the claims to good to be true, and how the people running the program generate the high yield returns that you are being promised. You should be careful of the claims people make regarding some secret network or principle that allows them to make excessive returns. If the proponents of the HYIP cannot or will not explain how the returns are made then you may want to avoid investing in the program.

To summarize, any HYIP program that involves offshore banks or investment groups, secret rules, unusually high interest rates, tax shelters, etc., should be avoided at all costs. Don't get involved with them in any way. Online HYIPs MAY be legitimate, but probably aren't. Remember the two rules we talked about at the top of this page: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, and, Never invest more money than you can afford to lose. If you want to try an online HYIP, investigate first. Put the minimum amount in and see what happens over a period of 3-6 months. If the pay outs are consistent and on time, then maybe you have found a legitimate HYIP. Take the money and run scammers tend to close up shop within 6 months or so, when the money coming in tails off and the demands for late pay outs increase.

Good luck in your investing, and be very careful...invest only what you can afford to lose. And find out what is legit and what isn't before committing to any HYIP program.

Sources: mirroreyes and other HYIP sources

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1) Commenting

Look for large traffic blogs in your niche and try to visit them. Leaving comment on their blogs is a great way to get new targeted traffic to your blog. To find blogs you may use blog search engine like www.blogsearchengine.com, www.google.com/blogsearch and www.searchengineblog.com.

2) Submit Articles

Write articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as articledashboard.com, goarticle.com, articlealley.com, isnare.com, and ezinearticles. Articles that possessed good qualities may drive you a lot of free targeted traffic and it means lot of earnings and revenues.

3) Participate in Forums

You should google for the word "sign up forum". Google will report about a hundred forums or more and then look for forums that have over 10,000 members. Read their TOS and/or rules before signing up to see whether you can promote your blogs or websites, and/or allow you to add a link of them in the signature. Try to participate in discussions where you can ask questions, answer other members questions and post articles based on your ideas and thought in the forums. Examples of big forums are talkgold.com, goldage.net, hyipdiscussion.com and moneymakergroup.com. And, if you are very fond of PTC you may join forums such as gptworld.org, ptctalk.com/forum and theptcforum.com.

4) Submit Your Blog to Search Engines or Directories

Lot of bloggers used this by submitting their url to search engines such as yahoo and google and got tremendous results as far as traffic is concerned. If the two search engines didn't go well for you then try http://freesubmission.com where you can find lot of search engines to choose from.

5) Post Often

If you have time enough to make 5 posts a week then do it. You can lose traffic if you seldom update you blog and that mean lost of earnings. This not only maintains your traffic but it might attract lot of readers as well.

6) Blogging

Blogs can change lives. Now, blogging is a billion dollar industry. So, you must write helpful and quality articles that can attract people to keep coming back for more. If you write posts people enjoy reading, they comes back regularly to read your posts. It will surely gain more traffic and therefor generate earnings or revenue.

7) Bookmarking

Bookmark you blog posts in the large bookmarking sites. Stumbleupon.com, Addthis.com, Digg.com and Netscape.com...there are too many to mention. Use Google search to find more. Don't be surprise because lot of bloggers are using this technique with positive results.

8) Run a Contest

I have seen lot of blogs where contest runs on their page, on the first page of course. This is a good idea as it generates more traffic and/or visitors more especially if the prize involves a certain amount of cash or quality articles or goods.

9) On-page Optimization

Optimizing your site is essential to generate traffic and convert that traffic to needed earnings and/or revenue. Make sure your blog's title tag and description tag contain your targeted keywords. When you have posted plenty of quality blog post and done a lot of blog promotion, your page ranking increases and eventually your earnings also increases.

10) Advertise on GPT Sites

This step is the most effective and a hundred percent sure traffic surges to your blog when you advertise on any popular GPT sites. However, if you have adsense units on your blogs this step is not possible as it is against Google policies to advertise at any paid to click, paid to read, paid to surf, autosurf and any click-exchange programs. Click HERE for Google Adsense Program Policies

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