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What are "Autosurf sites?"

An Autosurf site is a free service for webmasters who want more visitors to their websites. The term "Autosurf" is shorthand slang for "Automatically Surfing," which refers to the format of the service.

How Autosurf Sites work

Before Autosurfs came along, there were already many sites offering a traffic exchange where their website would get seen by others once for every two websites that they view themselves.

The website simply rotates the links that these webmasters add to it, so that when they visit it an 'surf' 20 sites, they have just earned enough credit for their website to be viewed 10 times too.

The Autosurf is the next evolution of that "manual surf" traffic exchange. Instead of these webmasters having to manually go to the 20 links, an Autosurf will automatically scroll through all the web pages for them and they still collect credit for having simply seen the website.

Drawbacks of autosurfing

The downsides to autosurfs can be very significant, however. First of all, the trade-in value is usually less than 1 show per every 2 of your views. In some cases the trade-off is 1 show of your site per every FIVE automatically viewed pages.

The more serious reason to avoid Autosurfs is that there is little stopping the other webmasters from simply walking away from the display of your site, leaving your site to be seen by no one at all.

Conclusion about autosurf sites

Autosurf sites are among the worst quality traffic ever invented. Only consider using autosurf to get your site traffic if your site for some reason needs traffic without human beings looking at it. Otherwise, autosurf sites are not likely worth your time.

It was not so long ago when it was lucrative to own a digital camera and take pictures as the rate at which you get paid for submitting pictures was quite high. Nowadays, you can still get paid to submit pictures but there are some restrictions and rules that make it not such as profitable way to earn a living.

You Can Settle for Getting Paid a Little

There are many photo galleries and stock photo websites that allow you to submit pictures for free. They pictures stay on the site and you do not get paid upfront. But, if anyone decided to download your pictures and pay for them, then you get a cut of that amount of money.

Most people do not like getting paid for submitting pictures this way because it is slow and fewer and fewer people actually buy photos and pictures online. They can get them for free and nowadays most people take pictures themselves so there is little need to pay for pictures.

Getting Paid for Submitting Specific Pictures

You will get paid more for submitting pictures that there are already buyers waiting. For example, there may be real estate investors who are looking to invest in homes out of state. It helps to know what the homes look like so they will be willing to pay more for someone to go to the particular property that they are interested in and take pictures of that property. In the past, you might be able to get $15-$30 taking specific pictures like this but nowadays, you should only hope for a few dollars. But, most people still prefer this to submitting pictures and waiting for someone to be interested in them. At least, this way, they know that someone will be paying them for sure.

Getting Paid to Take Pictures of Homes

With the current real estate market, there are many investors who are looking for people to take pictures for them. You can be paid for submitting pictures of homes that they are interesting in. The amont that you are going to be paid varies based on the location of the home. If you are interested in getting paid for submitting pictures, contact us with your location and the zip codes that you are able to go and take pictures.