Life after MegaUpload

It seems that US authorities started a real war against Internet freedom and try to get into their claws everything from “online world”. SOPA/PIPA discussions were just the first sign of this war. Closing of one the biggest file-sharing services MegaUpload was totally non-expectable event. All the company’s bills were seized. Its founder Kim Schmitz together with two other execs was arrested. Large amount of luxury property is going to be seized too. Taking into consideration that MegaUpload has worldwide bills for $175 million, US government got a nice compensation for inhibition of SOPA/PIPA acts.

Closing of MegaUpload has opened up important issues as for regular Internet users so as for the owners of the other file-sharing services. The latter should now somehow care about their companies, so that they do not repeat MegaUpload’s case; owners will also work and think on which service can take place of MegaUpload, because one place in the niche of file-sharing giants is free now. Users should now think where to store files, where to find necessary ones and how to make money online, being sure that affiliate program in which you are participating will not be closed tomorrow.

Speaking about online money makers (this is what I’m keen on mostly) I feel really sorry for them. MegaUpload offered rather high payoffs and it is the second affiliate program with possibility to make good money online which is closed in the last half of a year (first was Wupload’s, but service decided to close it up itself, without any pressure). So, users should think now about the services which offer enough money to earn and will not be closed in the nearest future. Taking into consideration that SOPA/PIPA or similar acts could be legitimated soon, users can choose either file-sharing giants with more-or-less positive giants such as Depositfiles or Rapidshare, or middle-rating services as FileTram or Uploadstation.

This is just my personal, but, to my mind, middle-rating services are those which could be your golden share. Why? They do not get enormous income, so their bank accounts are not so attractive to authorities. They work much on their reputation and try to satisfy all users’ demands. They often offer very high rates for their affiliates as, for example, FileTram does. So, those middle-rating services could easily take empty MegaUpload’s place. But SOPA is still a sharp question. So, everybody on Internet should look up for ways how to resist it.

Stay in good mood,
Norman

SOPA - death for profitable online money making?!

Recently, it was that crazy American Censorship Day and so many people wrote about SOPA since then, so that I decided to look how it will influence online money making. What will it bring to Internet community at all?

So, what is SOPA?

SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act. Everything started as US musicians and film makers started arguing that government should defend their intellectual property. However, this Act is harmful for all Internet industry and such Internet giants as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and many others cooperate against this it.

If SOPA (together with its “fellow” Protect-IP Act) get power, search engines, Internet providing companies or regular websites, but which have partly relationship to sources with infringing content stop working at all. Internet providing companies have a right to block whole domains; because of some of their content have content which infringes copyright. It doesn’t matter that site contains much other legitimate and important stuff.

Internet companies say that such strict measures will hardly stuck all innovations. This will cause strong decrease in online money making as much of it is combined with media and entertainment files. All great file-sharing websites as Rapidshare, FileSonic, 4shared and others will be totally banned. This sorrow destiny will be scenario for development even of such influential search engines as Google and Yahoo and of less famous, but not less useful as FileTram.

Finally, making money with file-sharing will be totally impossible, and all of you understand why. What should we do?
All who are active online, who work and have rest here should cooperate and stay for our game rules, to which we are used to. Personally I understand that film makers and musicians need to have money from their work, but not with the price of Internet setback.

Depositfiles vs. Hotfile

Finally I decided to compare these two file-sharing giants – Depositfiles.com and Hotfile.com. They both are very popular and high-rated by the users. So, let’s begin the comparison with the information from their websites.

Depositfiles.com offers you $30 for 1000 downloads (they say that’s high… hmm… I totally disagree with this info, however there are some advantages too), payoffs are from $10 (this is a real advantage, ‘cause i knew less services with such low sums for payoffs, 20% for referrals are rather stable rate)

Hotfile.com offers you rating system of money making. What does it mean? You’ve got higher rates (and more money) in affiliate program. For that you should be a good Hotfile user. As some time passes all users are moving from the lowest rate (Cooper) to the highest (the highest is Platinium). On the beginning (when you are a “cooper” user), you are offered to earn just $4 for 100-400 MB files (which is terribly low as for me), after you’ve become a Platinium user that rate becomes higher, but $15 for 1000 100-400MB downloads is too low price, don’t you think so? The payoff sum is $15 which is an average one. Hotfile also offers 20% referral system.

Speaking about specialities of the both services – they don’t allow to earn much for the beginners. You should be affiliated for a long time to start making much money. For Depositfiles it takes really much time to start (for Hotfile less), however if you are a long-time user you became really successful. Both services have different country tariffs and bonuses, so be careful. With Depositfiles the situation is easier, because unpopular countries are making money too.

With Depositfiles it’s easier to make money when you’re sharing smaller files then few huge ones. Depositfiles also offer coupon system for those who need Premium statuses for a short period of time, but if you just need to work with them for some period of time, I found better way.

I often mentioned on forums that users are looking for coupons for free downloading from Depositfiles or different ways for free downloading from Hotfile. I found one simple way, which, by the way, brings me money as an affiliate too. I bought Premium account at FileTram and download everything from Depositfiles and Hotfile with it. FileTram is smth kinda search engine, but for file-sharing websites and it gives access to plenty of them (to Depositfiles and Hotfile too), so I buy FileTram Premium and download everything I need through this service.

One important thing to mention while comparing those two services is that they are stable. There would not be such surprises as with Wupload, for example. Users are making money with them for more then 3-4 years. However, I am for trying something new. That makes life more interesting and often brings better results!

Keep experimenting,
Norman

File sharing Affiliate programs: how to earn more?

There are a lot of file sharing services which offer you money making options (just check FileTram Wupload, Oron, FileSonic, etc.) Of course, all of them have different options of participating in Affiliate programs, but there are some rules which allow getting better results within any of them. Let’s look how to earn more with file-sharing affiliate programs?!

The first and one of the most important points of profitable file-sharing is your material – files you want to share. At first you need at least to know what are you sharing? The better you know your files, the better you’ll promote them. The better you promote, the more you earn. What’s also important about sharing materials is their necessity. If you share a needed file, but there are much other people who share it for a long time, you’ll hardly get any income. Your files should be urgent and necessary, but rather rare in the index of available for downloading files.

However, for the beginners, sometimes that’s even better to take a file which is popular. Though even having a great number of competitors, they will get some income and experience, then if they upload totally new file and will have no idea what to do with it.

The second is where you share them and how to get the biggest feedback from file-sharing. The audience research is especially important if you have a specific kind of files and to make some money from them, you should share information about them with this specific audience. The other important way of sharing data is forums, full of different topics where you also can share info about rare files, but now available due to you.

The third important thing in profitable file-sharing is your personal resource. It could be your own blog or website. If you have such a thing, you’ll be able to get a lot of advantages. One of them is that you offer other users writing guest posts in your blog while you’ll be able to write in theirs. With this possibility you’ll be able to get higher ratings. After your blog gains much popularity (so higher rating), it is easier to promote your affiliate links with it.

The fourth important point is your creativity in presentation of your materials. We all like visualized, catchy and interesting things which seem to be unique and do not be as others, so don’t forget to attach to your links something similar to what was already mentioned.

The fifth point is the program you choose. I’ve already written that the most important are those four points which I’ve already mentioned, but not the program. However, the better program (with higher payoffs rate) you choose, the more you’ll get due to your persistence. Be attentive and choose the most profitable and the most respectful affiliate program.

I’ll try to compare some affiliate file-sharing programs in my next posts. Now I’m running to my friend’s birthday…

Sincerely,
Norman

First post

Hi, friends!

This is my first post and frankly speaking I totally have no idea how first posts look like. So, I’m just writing to say “Hello” and maybe briefly describe what for I started running this blog. I’m not a pundit in online money making, however have much experience.

Well, I decided to run a blog on this topic, cause much of the money I earn is from affiliate programs and other methods of online money making. When I was just a newbie in this kind of work, the most useful source of gaining knowledge were blogs of experienced users. At that time I at first explored what affiliate programs are and how can I benefit from them.

Now I’m a bit experienced in this work, however I don’t believe in perfection. So, here’s my blog and with it I hope you and me will be able to follow my success and failures (hope, the second will never happen, but it’s impossible to work without failures).

The first thing I will start with will be file-sharing affiliate programs. I take part in plenty of them, so that would be interesting to compare them. So, that would be the topic of the next post.

See you soon,
Norman