Share Files and make a little money
For those who love to share files; why share for free when you can get paid for it. Granted you won’t get rich unless you are a heavy uploader of popular stuff. Still it can count for pocket change and can pay for a free dinner, a years payment for your website, etc.
The principle is that you use file hosting sites to upload your files, and share/post the links. When someone comes to download it, they are shown ads. The hosting company gets paid for displaying the ads. From that, they pay the uploader a small sum.
Here’s a review of several sites and recommended ones.
Uploading.com (Recommended)
The site pays up to $20 for 1000 downloads from US, which is a very decent sum. However, the maximum payout is for larger file sizes (more than 300 MB). For smaller files you get paid less,
The bad part is that they pay for US/EU and Russia downloads only. They also restrict downloads in other countries by using country quotas. The good part is that the payout rate is pretty good and they support PayPal.
PS: The country quota can be easily bypassed by using a proxy. I recommend using Ultra Surf.for ease of use.
Easy-share.com
Another Pay to Upload site, This site to pays differently based on country of origin. However, the payment is in ePoints, not money. The points can be redeemed for money. There is no variation based on file size, like Uploading. For example 2 points per download from USA. 1000 points is equivalent to $1. So the maximum payout is $20 for 1000 downloads, same as Uploading.
The bad thing is that you need to be a premium member to withdraw money. You could in principle earn points which can be redeemed to get a premium membership, but those points are now gone. There is also some requirement for “traffic quality” which the site does not explain clearly. You don’t get paid if “traffic quality” is low.
Ziddu.com
Another site which you can use is Ziddu, which works similar to the above. The good thing is that there is no country or file size specific restriction. However the bad thing is the payout is really low. They pay $10 for 10,000 downloads, ten times that of the previous two services.
They too pay via PayPal like the two above.
Some others you might try out are.
- bigupload.com
- Depositfiles.com
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