Teen Money Canada

THIS SITE IS NO LONGER OPERATIONAL… it is now searching for ‘charity’ (though I’m unsure of the legitimacy of the donation part, the site is still a fine place to do your searching).

I first discovered ‘Homepages Friends’ in August of 2008, and I must say that it is a very interesting idea. The service pays you to make internet searches — just like you would do on Google or Yahoo. They give you a portion of the money they make from advertising on every (legitimate) search that you do.

As soon as I found out about this, I must say that I immediately started searching several times a minute for a couple hours, until I had about 250 searches (which is approximately 500 pence). The next day all of the searches were gone – it was then that I realized there was a cap on the amount of searches. A safe amount is more like 50/day, which amounts to a pound a day if you can keep up the pace.

As I mentioned earlier, only legitimate searches are counted — these are searches that you type in, and actually *click* on one of the results. Simply typing in hundreds of random searches won’t get you anything… I found that out the hard way.

The actual search engine is far better than I expected. It is based on and hosted by Yahoo, but I believe it is superior to it in some ways. As soon as I signed up with HPF, I searched for a site I had been looking for for ages on all the major search engines with no results… Guess what? It was the FIRST link on the page! After that I had pretty much decided that I’d keep using it even if I didn’t get paid.

Payment is at 20 pounds, which took me about three months to get. Their website says it takes a month and a half to two months to get your payment. For the equivalent of around $40 CAD, I thought it was definitely worth the wait. When payment time came around, however, I didn’t get anything. I figured I would wait another month, as they’re probably pretty busy… after that I just kept waiting until it was nearly five months past when I should have gotten my payment.

I e-mailed them via their ‘contact us’ page, and received a relatively speedy response:

The customer service rep. said she would pass on the details to the finance department, and I would receive my money soon. I was encouraged by this, and decided to search a bit more while I was waiting for my payment. After waiting for three weeks, however, I emailed them again and asked about it. I received yet another response saying it was on its way, but the department was tied up. Finally, in late July of 2009 I received my 51 dollars via Paypal, with a small note attached apologising for the long period of time it took for delivery.

This is most certainly one of my top money making sites. I’ve searched several websites/forums, and about 85% of them say that HPF is for real — check it out yourself if you find it difficult to believe.

If you want to start searching, you can click this button:

http://www.myhpf.co.uk/banner.asp?friend=166937

to sign up.

Enjoy,

Austen.

This article is about an online method of money making — writing reviews. I know the prospect of this may appear be a bit daunting for some of you, but believe me — it really isn’t that bad! The website with which we will make our millions is called ‘Reviewstream’.

I first found out about the site from a Google advertisement. Once I looked around to see if it legit (and found that it was), I was IMMEDIATELY hooked. I absolutely love writing — whether it be blogs, stories or essays, so I figured that writing reviews (and getting paid for it) wouldn’t be so bad.

The site pays you one of two amounts per review: $2 for a well written one (typically around 400-500 words, good grammer & such), and $.40 for a much shorter (200 words) review, with some grammer and/or spelling mistakes. I get $2 about 3/5 times, so it shows that it’s not that easy to get, but certainly not impossible.

The minimum payout is relatively high at $50, but when you think about it, it could be as little as 25 reviews. You could do that in a DAY if you were willing to put the effort in! The best thing about it all is that the company pays directly to paypal, and after requesting it only takes 2-3 days for payment.

The actually review processing typically takes much longer. My first reviews (I sent in 5 in one day) took four days to be published, whereas sometimes it takes as little as one-two days. It all seems to be pretty random.

You can also make money by getting ‘votes’. Every time someone ‘votes’ your article (meaning they liked it), you get $.10 added to your account, which is pretty fair.

One very interesting aspect of the site is that you do not actually make an account. Instead you use your Google information (whatever@gmail.com), and it automatically remembers that. Then you add your payment info and you’re good to go.

On top of being able to make a ton of money from this site, it’s actually a pretty darn good place to read reviews as well. You can find them on just about any subject, though movies and tv shows are the most common.

If you want to join, I’d appreciate it if you could do it via my referral link, which is http://www.reviewstream.com/writereview.php/?inv=14oF9ZAHABcR

It’s at no disadvantage to you, but helps me out a fair bit. If not though, then you can simply go to reviewstream.com — it’s pretty straight forward from there.

Good luck!

Austen.