Payments received: myLot and Homepages Friends

I recently received my first payment from myLot - a discussion-based social networking site that pays you for your contributions. The earnings are not staggering but it is nice to receive payment for sharing my opinions, which I would probably do on other forums for nothing. As with each of these sites it is always a bit of a gamble until you see the first payment turn up in PayPal and then you know that it is not a scam.

On the subject of scams, I was beginning to wonder whether Homepages Friends was above-board. They offer a front end to Yahoo's search engine that credits you with a little bit of money just about every time you use it. I had reached the minimum payment amount months ago but had not received payment. Just when I had given up with the site and stopped using it I was surprised to see a rather significant payment to my PayPal account.

It will be interesting to see whether they have sorted out their problems next time that I reach the minimum payment amount. Needless to say I will keep you all informed of my progress making pin-money on-line.

myLot

For some time I have been looking for various ways to make money online. I have found a few services that do pay regularly for completing surveys, searching, clicking adverts or taking part in competitions. I have noticed that those that pay well tend not to last long, probably because of cash flow issues.

There are plenty of services that do not pay well (if at all) and so are not a particularly efficient use of my time. Paid to Click (ptc) services stand out in this respect as they only credit a fraction of a cent per click, so you would need to click several hundred links to earn one dollar. I am also wary of scam sites: as is often the case, if something looks to good to be true then it probably isn't.

A few months ago I signed up to myLot. This is a social networking site offering similar services to facebook, bebo and myspace. While myLot is not as sophisticated as these other sites in design or in the variety of services offered it does pay money to those who contribute to the many discussions, upload their photographs and refer their friends. Also, if you write a blog you can use myLot to promote it by adding it to their blog directory.

I have found that I am paid a couple of cents per discussion comment. MyLot make payments monthly via PayPal or moneybookers.com as long as you have at least $10 credit. I have yet to receive payment myself, but I have seen many proofs of payment and no accusations that the site is a scam. When I do receive payment I will write another article to show it.

So, if you need a little bit of extra cash and would like to join an online community that is part Yahoo! Answers and part lo-tech facebook then you could do a lot worse than signing up at myLot.

My myLot profile.