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WEB SURFING

This site deals primarily with UK businesses, although some may also be available in other countries. If you are based outside the UK, please click here for the international site.

Whenever giving your details online in this way, consider getting yourself a separate e-mail address. Many companies offer free services, so you don't need to rely on hotmail with their junk mail problems. To completely eliminate junkmail,you should then consider signing up with Spamjab. This completely free service filters your e-mail so nothing doubtful makes it through to your mailbox. Where this works better than any service I've come across is the way it sends you an e-mail if it's in doubt so that you can authorise or reject that particular address for future use. You can view and read or delete all the rejected mail through your Spamjab account. This is also ideal if your children have e-mail accounts that need overseeing to prevent spam. You'll find full details here.

Get Paid For Visiting Websites

Toolbars



Until recently only French sites offered surfing toolbars, but in the last few weeks a new development may be about to change this. So often businesses in pre-launch never live up to expectation and I'm generally reluctant to recommend anything until after launch. This time however I'm making an exception, and not just because when it does launch, this is likely to be so big that it's worth risking a little time and effort early on.

Way back in 1998, an eternity in internet terms, a company called AllAdvantage came up with the revolutionary idea of sharing advertising revenue with the viewers with the theory that creating a huge viewer base will attract more advertising. Whilst in pre-launch I just slapped a couple of banners up on the site and forgot all about it. In 1999 the business subsequently released a small viewbar downloaded by members which showed ads in the corner of your monitor, and paid you, if memory serves me right, around 20 cents for every hour you had the bar open, and a few cents for every hour surfed by anyone you referred. Almost from the start I was receiving cheques for over $200 a month (and remember this is pre flat rate internet access), at the time my most successful online venture, but unfortunately the subsequent dotcom crash meant this company only lasted for about a year, although they still managed to pay all outstanding commission.

Now, from the ashes of AllAdvantage comes AGLOCO. This time, some of the original AllAdvantage founders have joined with Stanford MBA's and are doing things differently to avoid making the same mistakes as in the past. The new viewbar will not be paying a flat fee per hour anymore, but will give you a share of income the viewbar earns, and will offer a load of security features. Viewbar just released.

If you haven't already signed up for this one, I really would recommend taking a look. It costs nothing to join and could be really big. You can find out more from http://www.homeworkinguk.com/agloco.htm

For an indepth report on the business model and realistic earning levels you can read the Simmons report at http://simmonsreport.spaces.live.com/

Whilst all the UK and US toolbars disappeared in the aftermath of the dot com crash, they appear to be thriving in France. Whilst you don't need to be a french resident, you will need to be able to understand (or able to translate) basic french, as the sites aren't generally translated. The following sites are working well for me and are available internationally.

Without doubt my favourite site is Eurokiddies. You earn points by downloading a small toolbar, which you can place wherever on the screen is most suitable for you. In addition you earn extra points for visiting selected sites daily. You can earn more by signing up at various sites and for shopping online (although most of these shops are for french residents).

At the end of the month, the points are converted into euros which you can either cash out by cheque or paypal (minimum €10) or exchange for prize codes for online games sites like my favourite (and the reason I originally joined Eurokiddies) Prizee or a host of other gifts.

Paid To Surf

Payment processors StormPay has recently introduced a new advertising service called StormClix where you get paid between 1 cent and $5 simply for visiting websites. Obviously the vast majority pay 1 cent a time but most days you'll find higher paying clicks and I don't think I've ever had a day with no ads to view. You can cash out every day if you wish as soon as your balance reaches $1. You need to have a Stormpay account but this is free of charge. Sign up here

adbux

AdBux is a brand new site whereby you make money by simply visiting websites for up to 30 seconds per visit. They pay you $0.015 for each website you visit and $0.015 for each website your referrals visit. Payments are issued via PayPal on a monthly basis. You just need to earn $10 to receive payment in cash, which seems easily attainable as they have a guaranteed 10 clicks per day.

One valuable benefit to both members and advertisers is the repeat exposure that the advertiser gets. Whenever you click and view a website, you can visit that website again in 24 hours. This gives the advertiser optimal exposure by using "repeat advertising" and it further increases the members earning potential. Find out more, or sign up from adbux

Adbux Update
Adbux continues to go from strength to strength. After a quiet few weeks while they were revamping the site, it has suddenly taken off and there are now generally over a 100 sites a day to visit. You don't even have to keep visiting the site to check for ads as they offer an "ad alert" button which announces new ads as soon as they appear. I'm easily getting 10-20 paid ads a day and would get more if I was online more regularly. If you're a lapsed member I'd recommend you take another look and if you haven't yet joined I'd recommend you check it out.

Galactic Gold pays you to visit advertisers' websites. After each site you visit you get to search the galaxy for hidden treasure, and might find cash or gold or silver(exchangeable for cash) or credits for showing websites and banners on the site. You also earn credits for each site you visit. Minimum 30 site visits a day or more if you find a black hole and go back in time, or if you upgrade. Cash payments for each referral, plus a percentage of their earnings. Cash out through e-gold or paypal.

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Another similar site is Treasure Surfers with the added benefit of being able to search for treasure 15 times a day with free membership, or more for upgrades. Finds appear higher with this site eg finds of 10 gold pieces or 5 cents are not uncommon. Payout through E-Gold or Paypal.

If you think you can get a few referrals take a look at Traffic Battle which offers 500 website credits AND 10 cents when someone in your down line (1st Level) surfs 100 pages. Like those mentioned above, TrafficBattle.com is a "Get-Paid-To" website where you play the part of a person in search for gold and valuable resources, this time in various castles and strongholds. You can find Gold Coins, Cash and lots more in various sizes by going from Castle to Castle and Battle to Battle. 30 visits per day with 3 Referral surf earning levels. Upgrade to increase the number of daily visits and referral levels and the value of each piece of gold. Payouts through Paypal, Stormpay or e-gold.

Exodus 3000 is a new site you can visit every day to search for treasure and attack, defend, form alliances, and earn real cash and win prizes. You earn Mars Dollars for performing actions, such as mining volcanos, searching ruins, and attacking other players. $5 Amazon.com gift certificates are also placed randomly throughout the game, and can be found in volcanos and ruins. At the end of the month, you can exchange your MD for real cash. You can earn extra moves, Mars Dollars and gifts by referring others. Visit Exodus 3000 to get further details and to sign up.

Get paid to read e-mail or complete surveys

Join HTMail's opt-in list

HtMail pay for just clicking and reading and you have the choice of being paid in dollars or pounds sterling. You can just click to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail but you earn more by actually visiting the site, and answering a few standard questions on your opinion of the site. You also only need to earn £5 or $10 for a payout.

MatrixMails

One well established (around since 2002, always paying a minimum of 1 cent per mail and has paid out over half a million dollars) and extremely positive site is MatrixMails. Visit the site daily to earn up to 2c per site you visit. They also pay you to read e-mails, but they guarantee a minimum of 1 cent per e-mail (so (none of these "5 searches for half a cent" e-mails you may have seen)

Matrixmails has also just expanded into the article writing sector. They are looking for any article written on any subject from the categories listed on the site (currently online gaming and web hosting), and are paying $3 - $30 per article, minimum 500 words.

The range of income opportunities from this site now include:
  • Get paid to read emails.
  • Get paid to sign up offers.
  • Get paid to click and visit sites.
  • Get paid to play games. (new)
  • Get paid to write. (new)
  • Get paid to search the Internet. (new)
  • Get paid to refer other people up to 6 Levels: (1st level 20%, 2nd level 10%, 3rd level 8%, 4th level 6%, 5th level 4%, 6th level 2%)
  • Not only one time bonus but lifetime bonuses according to your personal earnings:
$0.20 bonus for every $2.00 personal clickthru
$1.00 bonus for every $4.00 personal clickthru
Payments via Paypal, E-gold or Stormpay. Only $2 payout limit!

Matrixmails' Gold and Silver memberships are also highly recommended (upgrades are of course optional). They are full of features and even come with a money-back guarantee. I personally upgraded to Gold membership and had earned over $200 from this site even before the new features were introduced.

Visit Matrixmails for full details including the article writing guidelines

sendmoreinfo.com

Send More Info are paying 5 cents per read email and 2 cents for referrals. Not that much but they seem to be able to send more emails. They've started sending e-mails.

Yougov.com require regular contributions for opinion polls, often on behalf of national newspapers on topical matters. They usually pay 50p or £1 for each survey, but some are prize polls awarding up to £500. Generally they e-mail you when surveys are available - usually about once a week. You also earn 100% of the earnings of anyone you refer for 3 months eg if your brother signs up and completes 14 surveys paying £1 each he earns £14 and so do you.

MyOffers - Just complete short customer surveys to be in with a chance of winning from a range of great prizes. Even if you don't win a major prize, you may get a free gift just for completing a number of surveys, and get entries in a draw for a car/computer etc with a set number of completed surveys.

For a fuller list of companies paying you to complete surveys go to

http://www.homeworkinguk.com/surveys.htm

For a much longer list of companies paying you to read e-mails go to http://www.homeworkinguk.com/emails.htm

For details of more companies paying you to review websites go to

http://www.homeworkinguk.com/mystery.htm

If you have a business you'd like me to feature on the site, send details of the opportunity to the address below.

enquiry@homebusinessuk.co.uk

or write to:

Mrs L O'Connor, 91B Acton Lane, London, NW10 8UT
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