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These days, I have been experimenting with making money from Internet and found success with few. So, I will let you know one by one. Already, I have posted one offer - Ziddu.

This post is about making money from your blog. Recently, I have tried Smorty, a new blog advertising service, which pays for reviewing the products/services/websites of advertisers. Smorty paid within a week after I wrote a review.

What are the requirements?
If you have an active three months or older blog and it is indexed in Google and Yahoo, you can sign-up with Smorty. Once you are approved, you can log into your account and accept the offers from a list of offers available. They will also mail you whenever new campaigns are added. Being a PR4 blog with an Alexa Rank of 15L, I have got offers up to $16.

How much I can make?
The minimum pay per review is $6 and if you have a good Smorty score, you can get offers up to $100 per post. Smorty score will be calculated based on numerous factors like Google PR, Alexa rank, number of completed reviews, and approval/decline ratio of completed tasks. Smorty pays only through PayPal at this time, so you will need to have one to get the payment.

Smorty is one of the best services to get paid for blogging. I highly recommend it.

Read the program FAQs and Rules before signing up.

written by Naveen

Ziddu is a new and rapid growing file sharing site, which pays you to share upload and share files. With its decent interface and great features, soon it will become competitor for other file sharing sites. Some of the features that attracted me are:

• No obtrusive ads
• Clean and intuitive user interface
• Parallel downloads with no waiting tickets
• Ability to create photo albums, audio and video libraries
• Decent speed.  You can check it by downloading sample files: Regseeker (0.5 MB) | Wallpaper (1.6 MB)

Ziddu pays $1 for every 1000 downloads. In some forums, I have seen that files are downloaded more than 20k times due to its huge user base. So, they can easily earn $20 per file. Once you reach the minimum payout of $10, you will be paid through Paypal.

It is great to know that Ziddu has been developed by the Hyderabad-based Northgate Technologies.

So, today onwards share files only on Ziddu – Upload, share, and earn.

written by Naveen

Can’t remember those long URLs? Are they breaking when posting in forums, blogs, or emails? Here is a tiny tool – HCU.in. HCU – Hide and Cut the Url, makes the long URLs short and easily rememberable with the use of “Tags.” It also helps to hide the affiliate and referral links. Tiny URLs made with HCU will not expire, so no need to worry about the life of the short URLs.

Some useful tricks you can play with the help of HCU:
¤ If you want to send an image link that is hosted on ImageShack or Flickr and at the same time you want it easily rememberable, use HCU and in place of tag, write your friend’s name.

Example: I just wanted to show a nice image on Flickr to my friend, Sreeram. URL of that image was: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/58/183689226_4e71fc9f7d.jpg
So, I made a link at HCU using the tag “sreeram”: hcu.in/sreeram How nice it is. Isn’t it?

¤If you are visiting a long URL regularly, use HCU and in place of “Tag,” put some easily rememberable tag, so that just typing hcu.in/tag will take you to that long URL.

Example: Regularly I use AMA (American Medical Association)’s website to search for doctors. After few clicks from the homepage, you will reach the doctors’ search page located at : http://webapps.ama-assn.org/doctorfinder/html/patient.html
So, I went to HCU and used the tag “ama” to create an easy to type and remember link: hcu.in/ama

I think now you got the idea, so go on and create your own short URLs.

written by Naveen

The script running on my YouTube video downloading sites is outdated and the author seems to have no plans to update it. So, I have updated my sites with a new YouTube video grabbing script written by Andrew Spencer. It’s pretty few lines of code doing wonders. I used the iFrame tag to call it from a HTML file. Template is taken from OSWD.org. Thanks Spencer!

written by Naveen