Welcome to my third short update on my progress with My Homepages Friends, a site where you get paid to search the internet. Today I will only make some things clear that may have you kept wondering about MHF lately.

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

Today I came across a site called My Homepages Friends (formerly known as My Search Funds), a site where you get paid to search the internet. Let me give you a short review on this service, at least all the details that I actually know about this promising making money opportunity.

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”…