After nearly two weeks being a member on My Homepages Friends I’m very lucky about my current earnings from this site. So far I have done 127 searches and there are already £2.15 in my account. That’s nearly $4.20, depending on the current exchange rate. You can check the rate by simply typing it into Google, in my example simple type “2.15 pound in dollar” into the Google search field and Big G will tell you the exchange rate (Google knows everything, even the answer to life, the universe and everything).

My 13 referred friends have made a total of 274 searches so far, which brought me another $0.37 (10% of their earnings). Thanks to all!

As I already said, I really like MHF and I have no doubt that they won’t pay. They have officially partnered with Yahoo! as their underlying search engine and I highly doubt that the guys from Yahoo! would make a partnership with a scam site!

You can join My Homepages Friends with help of my referral link (if you want to support me)!

I’ll soon write about some methods for getting referrals for MHF, so you all can start to build a nice downline in order to make some more bucks. Everybody needs some extra cash! Well, more on this later.

Cheers,
Querblogger

First of all, the official search engine that now powers My Homepages Friends is the almighty Yahoo!. The MHF team has arranged a deal with Yahoo! so they can make revenue from pointing users to their search engine. Everytime a search is done, MHF gets some revenue that will be shared with their members, you and me. It’s definitely a good sign that they have partnered with this famous search engine! Their whole business looks very legit, because otherwise it would be way too complicated to arrange such a deal, especially because Yahoo! doesn’t offer a affiliate program for using their search technology natively.

Second, and some not so good news, the statistics for counting your friend’s daily searches are sometimes broken lately. That doesn’t mean that you’ll lose all the revenue from your referred friends, I think it’s only because the My Homepages Friends staff is currently working on moving their site to the new domain. As Paul from Make Money Online Dot Net said in return to a comment on his post about MHF:

From what I can tell they are developing on their live site, not the best thing when you’ve got over 100,000 members! Time to invest in a development environment boys?

Well that says it all . But don’t panic! I think they’ll fix those minor problems soon and we’ll get the “lost” earnings from our friends back soon.

Ok, enough with update three. So far I can only say that MHF will be an awesome money maker if they really pay (which I only slightly doubt). So far I’ve earned 0.41 pounds, which is around $0.80, just for doing 40 searches as I would do regulary anyway.

Feel free to join under me!

See you,
Querblogger

New Name

First of all, the site formerly known as “My Search Funds” is now named My Homepages Friends! It has nothing changed so far, beside the name of the company. So, don’t panic!

Earnings

Ok, in the last update I told you that I haven’t received an update on my earnings from searching the web. I stated that one has to wait for up to 48 hours (plus even longer on weekends) before seeing any updated in the account earnings. Well, it seems my account already got updated!

So far I’ve only done 17 searches and I already earned 0.29 pounds, that’s around $0.57…a nice amount for only 17 searches.

The 7 friends in my downline brougth me another 0.08 pounds ($.16)!

So, by doing some easy calculations, it turns out that each single search is worth around 0.017 pounds, respective $.03! But I’m not 100% sure, if this amount will change in the future (either upwards or downwards).

Search Engine

In my first post I told you that My Homepages Friends uses Google as their search engine. Today I’ve done some new searches and I was redirected to Yahoo. I don’t know the excact reason for this, maybe they “rotate” different search engines from time to time.

Ok, enough with update number two, I’ll write more on My Homepages Friends when there’s new infor available!

Cheers,
Querblogger

Anyway, now for my first stats after joining that site:

First of all, so far I’ve done only 17 searches with help of their toolbar. On the other site, those 17 searches could have made me my first dollar. Unfortunately my earnings haven’t updated yet. But there are reasons for this. Usually it takes up to 48 hours before your account balance updates. If there’s a weekend in between, it takes a little longer. I hope I’ll see some updates at the beginning of next week.

Second, I’ve already managed to get 4 friends (referrals) with help of my first post about My Search Funds. Much thanks for joining under me! My friends earnings (and therefore my personal revenue) will get updated a week after they have done their searches, so I have to wait even longer before announcing some more stats about it.

Well, that should be all for now. I keep you up to date with more information about MHFand I will also write a tutorial on getting referrals, so you can grow your referral tree and make some good cash too! If you’re interested in joining this site, feel free to use my referral link and become my friend!

Bye bye
Querblogger

Paid to search services are nothing new on the net, I could name a handful of them. But most of those programs already died or scammed their users, mainly because of getting banned from major search engines after violating their terms of usage. Basically, Get Paid to Search programs rely on those big search engines, because they generate ad revenue from them. Google for example offers an API for integrating search functionality within a website or blog. When users use the provided search function and also click on sponsored listings within the search results, they get paid a percentage of that revenue.

So, you may ask why My Homepages Friends is that different? Well, I don’t know exactly, but I think they are kind of special:

1. They have paid many people within the last weeks and months. I’ve done some good research on several forums and blogs to find out if the service is a scam or not. Besides some people calling it a scam (as usual), most of them agreed with My Homepages Friends being a legit business.
2. It seems they have real deals with major search engines to avoid getting banned. So far they had or actually have deals with Ask.com and Google for example.

So, what does My Homepages Friends really offer all those people trying to get paid to search the internet? Well, high ad revenue and a real nice referral system with 3 levels. Here are the features:

• An easy to install search bar for IE and Firefox that makes you money from each search you do
• Get paid to Search the Internet with up to 0.03 pound for each search, which is around $0.06 (they are based in the UK, but open to international members and they also pay international)
• Payments to Paypal or direct deposits in a UK bank account 45 days after the end of a month
• A 20 pound minimum payout level
• A 3-tier referral system, you get paid 10% from level 1, 5% from level 2 and 2.5% from level 3 referral revenues
• A sophisticated click-fraud protection system to stop scammers from using that service and destryoing it in the long run

I will test My Homepages Friends for the next days and try my best to get some referrals to get the ball rolling. I think this program is really worth to be promoted on differentl places around the net (I will soon write a tutorial about some techniques I use). Feel free to sign-up under me, if you hate me just google for “My Homepages Friends” and sign-up without my referral ID…

See also my latest updates on My HomePages Friends!:

06/06/2008 – Update One: First impressions, waiting for the Earnings Update
06/08/2008 – Update Two: Earnings Update, New Company Name, Different Search Engine
06/10/2008 – Update Three: Official Yahoo! Partnership, Some minor statistics problems
06/17/2008 – Update Four: Growing Earnings!

Happy searching!
Querblogger

PS: I know the post title sounds like I have forgotten the “the”, but it’s for some SEO tactics. “Get Paid to Search Internet” should get more searches than the version including the word “the”…