Social Networks that Pay you Money
Most everyone is member of one or more social networking sites, for example Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Reddit etc. These sites are used for different reasons but everyone wants to interact with other people. You can consider social network sites as the new medium to make friends, to find friends, to play games, to share pictures, to share interests and to interact with people worldwide.
Social networking sites can also be used to promote your business, your website, your blog, your online articles or any other activity which may help you to increase your online portfolio. Most networking sites don’t pay you for your online activity but you can make indirectly money through promoting your online activities in social networking sites.
Nowadays there are several social networking sites that pay you money for your activity in these social networking sites. Is that not wonderful? You make money through sharing links of your online work and the social networking site pays you even some extra money. In several online networking sites you earn twice for sharing the same online activity.
Here are some social networking sites that pay you money for your online activity:
- RedGage.com
RedGage.com is a social networking site that pays you for your content which you have already published online in other sites. You only have to upload links of articles in writing sites, blog postings, pictures and even videos. It is only allowed to upload your own content; you may never upload work of your friends and it is also not allowed to promote news facts which appeared in The New York Times or some other news magazines if you are not the real author of these articles.
You can also upload pictures which you’ve taken and stored on your hard disk of your computer or you can write an article in RedGage.com which is not published in other sites. There is also a daily contest where you can win a RedGage Visa Debit Card of $25.00 for your activity in RedGage. There are several ways to earn money in RedGage and they pay a fixed amount for every page view of your uploaded links of your online content. Every member will earn a different amount for every page view. The quality of your uploaded content determines your fixed rate.
RedGage pays also a featured bonus if your uploaded content is featured on the RedGage homepage. Many people earn easily between $3.00 and $5.00 for uploaded pictures and maybe you can reach the minimum payout of $25.00 within a few months after you join. A disadvantage of RedGage is that they don’t pay by PayPal but you can request a RedGage Visa Debit Card if you’ve reached the amount of $25.00
- Sidetick.com
Sidetick.com is a social networking site that pays you money. You may not expect to become rich in this site but it is useful as additional income. With a minimum of efforts you can certainly make $15.00 each month. You only need to participate in a community which you like and participate in the daily discussions.
This site works with a point system and you get points for every activity you do in this social networking site. You can earn 1.000 points every single day if you participate in Sidetick communities, 2000 points when you sign up, 2000 points for every friend you refer, 500 points for each friend of your friends. You get 1 point for every email you open, 1 point for every page you visit, 1 point for a blog posting, 1 point when someone reads your blog posting, 1 point for an email to a friend, 1 point for a status update etc. Sidetick.com is real a wonderful networking site and allows interacting with other people and you gain points. You can play games, share music with other people and the real benefit is you make a lot of friends. Earning money in Sidetick.com is easy and requires only a few minutes daily. Is that not wonderful? Of course, most people will use Sidetick.com also to promote their online content in other sites and they earn twice.
- MyPage5.com
MyPage5.com is a social networking site that pays money by PayPal. They advertise their social networking site as the most rewarding site between the social networking sites. It is up to you to decide if it is true or not. It depends of which activities you spend online. This site pays really good money if you join with picture ($5.00) but no money if you don’t upload a picture.
My Page5 pays also 4c for new blog postings but it is not allowed to make links to other blogs, 1c for a comment, 2 c for uploading of a video, 1c for a comment of a video, 1c for starting a group discussion, 1c for a comment of a group discussion, 15% of the daily earnings from the friends you’ve invited, 1c for profile comment, 1c for uploading a picture to an album, 1c for a picture comment, 2c for a 15 minute chat.
There are different ways to make money in MyPage5.com but it is important to know that for some comments you only be credited for a limited quantity of comments, for example max 10 profile comments each day, three picture comments. Uploading of pictures to an album is limited to 400.
- Shetoldme.com
Shetoldme.com is a social networking site that pays money if you have a Google AdSense account. It is site which can be compared with Digg and allows to submit links of your online articles. You need to create a scoop which is a short summary of your article and people can read the full article if they click Read below the scoop.
Members of Shetoldme.com can vote your scoop up or down and if people like your story you may be featured on the first page. You earn 100% of the AdSense revenue generated around your articles if you have a Google AdSense account and also a referral bonus for every member you refer. The extra benefit is that you generate quality links which may help you to reach high in search engines and you generate more traffic to your articles.
Nowadays there are several networking sites that pay money. It is up to you to decide which you prefer and it is maybe best to join more than one networking site. Online marketing is the key to success and social networking sites that pay money may help you to increase your online portfolio.
