Make money online with Image hosting

Image hosting is a popular way to make money online. These hosting services lets you upload your images onto their server and gives you codes which links to your image or image galleries. Okay, so how do you earn money? Well, this hosting services pays you when someone views your images. The pay rate is different depending on the host. A $1 for 4500 views mean you get paid $1 when your images gets 4500 unique views. Get the picture?

Now, if you are wondering that at this rate it would take a long time for you to earn some decent money, well think again. It's actually a lot easier than you think. The trick is to bring more and more viewers for your images. And how do you do that? If you have a website or blog or an active member of a forum then it just makes your job a lot easier. If you regularly post images on your website or blog, post it with a link code from these hosting services. That is, upload them to an image host and use the code they provide to post those images on your website or blog. So every time someone view your blog and views those images, they make you money. Same thing goes if you are an active member of any forum. Specially it helps, if the forum is an user driven image sharing forum. Post your images there and attract more views. Now you have a clearer picture of how this thing works. So, let me tell you about a few image hosting services to make the job easier for you.

ShareAPic pays you $1 for every 4500 unique image views. It has a mass uploader which lets you upload 200 images at a time. You can also put your Adsense code on the image galleries and earn money from it. They pay through Paypal and the minimum payout is $20. The only problem with ShareAPic is that their image approval system is manual and hence takes time.

ImageReverb is mainly used by adult webmasters or bloggers and to some extent for general purposes. You need to upload the images through a zip file which would be automatically extracted once uploaded. They run pop-up advertisements and the interface is not that smooth. They pay $1 per 2500 unique views. Payment is by Paypal and the minimum payout is $5

ImageFap pays you $1 per 9000 image views. Payment is by E-Gold and Epassporte and the minimum payout is $5. They accept both adult and general images. The viewing experience is not smooth for users as it is cluttered with ads.

There are many other image hosting options available which I would write about in detail when I get some more time. But this info should be enough to get your started. Try it, if you haven't. Earning money this way is not that difficult.