Sharing Images - How to earn

You might have noticed how many of your friends are earning from sharing images. You might wonder what it is all about. Well this is what it is all about.

Just imagine you take a nice picture of the sun setting by the lakeside. Your picture is a very good and you want to share it with your friends. You can do that in many ways. You can email them the pictures directly or you can make use of a picture hosting website.

Now there are three types of pic-hosting websites.

1. Paid Imagehosting - In this kind of website you will have to pay to upload and share your images. There will be no ads displayed and your pictures will be safest in this website.
2. Free Imagehosting - In this type of imagehosts you can upload and share your pictures for free. But along with the images the website will display a small amount of advertisement. This is how they will pay for the bandwidth and webspace costs.
3. Free Imagehosting that pays YOU - This is the kind of imagehosts we are more interested in. Here you upload images and share them with your friends for free. But what is better the website will PAY YOU for hosting your pics on their site and sharing them with you friends. But the problem is that many ads will be displayed along with the pictures.

Now if you go for a tour and want to share the photos you have taken you can use the third type of imagehosting. They will allow you to share the photos as well as make a small amount of money for yourself. All you have to do is to sign up for a free account with that imagehost and upload your pics using that account. Then send the links for the image gallery or album with the photos in it to your friend and when he or she opens the photos you will earn money.

There are many imagehosts which pay like this. But some pay you the best and are trustworthy. It is these imagehosts that will be displayed in this site as ads. Also I shall review the best imagehost myself and add them inside the labels you see on the right side top. Just join those sites and I can assure you that you will be able to make a good income.

Domain Names - What they are and why you should get one?

Domain Name
These days there is a lot of fuss about domain names. When two celebs marry and have a kid the newspapers start speculating about what will be the name of the website they are going to create and dedicate for their child. So start thinking it must be something related to websites and celebs and which only celebs are able to posses.

But then while browsing through different sites, you come to know that it is not only the celebs but any common man like you and I can own a domain name. But what exactly is a domain name? I searched the web for about a week to understand something about it.

Technically speaking, in its most commonly used meaning, a domain name is a name that identifies a computer or a network of computers over the internet. The domain name will be a part of the website's url.
For example if I own a site with URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of
URL : http://www.abcd.com/index.html
Then the domain name will be
Domain Name : www.abcd.com

So why is all the fuss about domain names? I shall tell you soon. Please read on.

Now you for some purpose decide on begin a website. You go to a webhost company to apply for webspace. They will ask you if already have a domain name or not? Since this is your first website you will not be already owning a domain name. Now the problem starts. What is a domain name? Where to get one?

Now just imagine you create a folder in your computer. Now you have to name it. If that particular folder has pictures of a lion chasing some deer in a plane in Africa. What will you name that folder? Will you name the folder "Aeroplane pics". Definitely not, right?

This is the same case with your website. If you are going to open a website and intend to share Wildlife pictures in it, then naming the website as www.tomatosauce.com will not be of any use to you or any visitors. They will definitely forget the name of the website. Neither will it help search engines which give the name of the website a great deal of importance.

Consider a person searches for the query "How to make good tomato sauce" and because your website has this name, it will come up in the first few pages of the search engine result. And when the innocent user clicks on that link your website will the glorious picture of the lion chasing the deer in an African plane will come up while the user wants to make tomato sauce. That will not be healthy either for you or the user. Your website will lose popularity soon.

So the main thing about domain names is that it should be consistent with what your website presents. If they match perfectly your website will sky rocket. That is why there is a lot of fuss about getting the domain name right.

But now internet is used by many millions of people and there are as many websites in it. Since those who started those websites created them many years or months or days before you they could get better domain names than yourself. Now comes another important fact. No two websites can have exactly the same domain name.

So if in our example we would like a domain name wildlifepics.com there is a possiblilty that it is already owned by another person. You will have to either buy it from him or choose some other domain name. That is why there are so many extensions like .net .com .info .org .co.in .gov etc. Therefore you can choose the same domain name with a different extension ie wildlifepics.net or wildlifepics.info or so on.


Now you might understand why people are speculating on what the name of the celebs kid will be. It is so absurdly simple. If two celebs Jumboman and Mumbowomen marry, there is a chance that the chiled is named JumboMumbo. Since it is a fashion nowadays for celebs to start a new website when a new child is born and naturally they would like domain names the same as their kids name, it gives others oppurtunity to make good money. Didn't quite understand what it has to do with earning money, right? Well then continue to read on.

Assuming our celebs Jumboman and Mumbowomen indeed name their child Jumbomumbo, and a shrewd person like you or me already buys all the domains like jumbomumbo.com jumbomumbo.net etc (It will not cost more that a few 100 dollars) The celebs will be forced to abandon this domain name or buy it from us. Since they are celebs and assumed to be filthy rich they will decide to get the domain from you. What you will do is charge $10000 for the domain name. Believe me they will pay you that money for their kid's sake. Just a little bit brain and make $9500 profit.

Now you might understand why I put this topic in my site. You might be interested in buying domain names like this yourself and earn yourself quite a lot. In that case the advertisements on the side bar and the bottom of my site may prove useful. Remember if you refresh the page new ads will be displayed.

IMPORTANT
Remember in domain name buying and selling, time is very very important. You might come across a great domain name but because of laziness think or buying it afte a few hours. But I can assure you if you look at the same name after a few hours, it would have already been sold and the other person will be making the huge profit which you should have made, had you not postponed the buying of the domain name.