Websites that Reward Users for Their Content

By Shawn Drewry

The internet is nothing more than a highway of information. What is ever so popular and has no signs of growth stints of social media networks. The minute someone says that phrase "social media", a light bulb automatically goes off in your head that thinks "MySpace". Well, MySpace is a very popular social media networking site, in which you can find real celebrities, CEO's, politicians and quality business, as well as people from the music industry you can network with. Although MySpace offer many options to users who sign up for free accounts, they do not reward them for their content financially.

YouTube, a company owned by Google, not only offers a free account, but allows it's users to upload their video content, whether it be for personal or business advertising, along with a link back to their website or blog. A lot of YouTube users sign up for free accounts and create very unique video content, in hopes that it may be deemed appealing to the viewer. Most people tend to judge their affiliation with businesses, whether it is on or offline by the businesses appearance.

People will also appeal to the business emotionally if the business creates videos blending them with certain colors, such as navy grey, orange & black, like Bloomberg Television does. In addition, YouTube now allows video content publishers who have Google AdSense accounts to embed the publisher ID number into their YouTube account, in hopes that they make money from sharing their YouTube online videos.

Flixya is a new site similar to YouTube. They have a logo at the bottom flush right hand corner of their website that says "powered by Google AdSense". They claim on their site to offer AdSense publishers 100% of the revenue from Google ads if they have an AdSense account and include their publisher number. On Flixya, you can create blogs, upload videos, and never have to worry about the placement of positioning your Google ads. Once you include your id number into the website, their automated software has already pre-configured the positioning of your AdSense, in addition to 1 link unit also, which is located underneath the unique video content you have created and newly uploaded.

Piczo is a picture sharing site, in which you can also embed any kind of online advertising into. The good thing about Piczo is that you can arrange the page any style you'd like, even with huge blocks to add multiple YouTube videos, large affiliate ads, and potentially RSS feeds in .php scripting. I haven't tried the .php script as of yet for RSS feeds, but I am definitely sure that the RSS javascript works, because Google ads are in Javascript and they work on it perfectly. Piczo is a site where it mainly caters to teenagers and those of the twenty one to twenty three ranges. I think that site would be good to create a page or pages and market not only Google ads with content, but affiliate ads for ringtones, video games such as World of War craft, Halo 3 and so forth.

Last but not least, a new site I recently discovered is Shareapic. Now, this one sounds really simple. All you have to do is sign up as an affiliate with few good affiliate programs, such as Amazon, AdSense, and PayPal. Upon your selection, simply sign up with a free account, upload pictures and embed your AdSense code, in addition to extra affiliate links around pictures you've placed on your free Shareapic page. Once that is complete, they have options to log into your MySpace account and post bulletins there. It's good if you have a large friends list on MySpace, because you never know where people's minds are at. Be mindful not to post too frequently on MySpace with your page, because you'll be surprised at how some of your friends on your own MySpace friends list will tell on you to try and get your page deleted. Shareapic also pays 22 cents per 1,000 pic views.

This is a very unique way for online publishers to diversify their online income, because not only can you go around and find many free sites as the fore mentioned and find ways to make money for next to nothing, but you also use them for back linking. Back linking is good if you have your own domain name and hosting account. The majority of online publishers like to focus on organic search, in addition to back linking as many sites as they can to help their search engine optimization efforts. The good thing about back linking sites this way is you're making money and boosting SEO. That's what I call killing two birds with one stone!

Shawn Drewry is the CEO of http://www.Drewryonline.net

He was born & raised in Brooklyn, New York & has been in the working world for 10 years, including corporate America. As much as he did well on his jobs, someone somewhere he worked with or even the employer themselves found some reason wrongfully to terminate him. He has learned the hard way to become an independent person, breaking the shackles of traditionally following the working class. His mother worked for The City of New York for 35 years and successfully retired in 1994 paycheck to paycheck and thus was never able to ever save a dime nor keep money in her small bank account.