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My Search Funds Becomes HomePages Friends

Posted by Paul B | June 8, 2008 .

I’ve been using My Search Funds Now for nearly a month and don’t have anything bad to say. So far just my own searches have netted me nearly $15, add in the searches from my 120+ referrals (and their referrals) and the total means I’ll be getting paid very soon! Not bad at all for doing what I was already doing anyway. As far as getting referrals goes it’s not a hard sell, get paid for doing the internet searches you do anyway, who could resist?

In the time I’ve been using My Search Funds they’ve had problems with their Meta search engine but the good news is that things are now sorted. Whilst it didn’t hurt any earning potential it did raise questions about future plans. In a move to rebrand My Search Funds have now become HomePages Friends. As part of the re-launch they’ve now also teamed up with a permanent search partner in the shape of Yahoo. This is excellent news for future stability and shows that they are in fact a serious business with long term plans. I can’t wait to get my first payment from them and will be posting proof as soon as I get it.

For those not in the know HomePages Friends pay you for doing the searches that you do anyway. It works by installing an extra search bar in your browser, every time you use this to search you get paid (no popups, spyware, extra ds). Average payment for each search is around 2p-3p (or $0.04 - $0.06 US). What I’ve learnt since using it is that I don’t search as much as I thought, even so I’ve quickly built up some nice earnings with them. Before you ask, you are paid a percentage of the advertising revenue that they generate from Yahoo so it is a pretty future proof plan, certainly as long as Yahoo are still around! The key with earning money with these systems is to get your friends on board, HomPages Friends will pay you 3 levels of referral, so you’ll be earning from your friends, friends, friends searches. As I’ve found already the numbers soon start to stack up. When I joined My Search Funds there were about 70,000 members, when I look today I see that HomePages Friends has over 100,000. This is growing quickly and it’s the early adopters that will benefit most.

HomePages Friends has quickly become one of my favourite totally passive income earners. Why not give them a go, you’ve literally got nothing to lose?

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  1. Melvin PHILIPPINES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14  June 9, 2008 12:22 am

    actually im using it, btw is there a minimum payout for it?

    Melvin’s last blog post..My Check Is Close To Expiring

  2. Querblogger GERMANY Windows 2000 Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14  June 9, 2008 7:43 am

    Hi Paul!

    Congrats for your many referrals! I’ve personally just started promoting MHF and so far I already got 7 new friends within only 2 days (yes, nobody could resist).

    Anyway, have you taken a look at their new site (myhpf.co.uk)? Unfortunately there’s nothing stated about a 3-tier affiliate program anymore. I also can’t login with my current email address and password (although it works with the site I got redirected to after visiting the old mysearchfunds.com).

    Next thing is, on their new site they state to work together with Ask.com, but I only see searches powered by Yahoo?!

    At the moment it looks kind of weird to me, especially because I can’t even send them a mail to get some clarification, because their mail-server is down. It looks like they are having two different sites running at the same time, and I don’t know which one I should use now…

    Maybe you have some more infos?

    Cheers,
    Querblogger

    @Melvin: They have a 20 pounds minimum payout. :)
    Querblogger’s last blog post..My HomePages Friends - Update Two - New Name, Earnings, Search Engine

  3. Paul B UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14  June 9, 2008 8:02 am

    Hi,

    I’m up and running with the new site, I login using the following URL:-
    http://www.myhpf.co.uk/orglogin.asp

    and haven’t had a problem. My account was moved fine without me having to change anything. Details of the referral program and how much you could potentially earn are here (although I think it’s a little bit over the top with the numbers), it looks like the multi-tier is in place to me?

    This is from the FAQ I see regarding the search partner, do you see something different?:-

    I already use another search engine, are your search results as good?

    Opinions on search engine providers are clearly subjective, but we beleive that YAHOO! provides extremely high quality search results that compare favourably with the available competition.

    If you’re seeing something different then maybe it’s because it’s GEO targetted? I’ll try and get in touch with them (I had a couple of conversation with them when I first joined up) and see if I can get confirmation as to what is happening.

  4. Paul B UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14  June 9, 2008 8:13 am

    Just a quick update. Their mail server isn’t down, the enquiry address is full! I guess there are a lot of people with a lot of questions! I’ll see if I can get hold of them using an alternative.

  5. Querblogger GERMANY Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14  June 9, 2008 4:40 pm

    Hi again and thanks for that fast response!

    I’m currently using the same address to log-in to my account and so far it seems working right, only the download of the search bar plugin doesn’t work anymore.

    I was just a bit confused about all those different websites. First there’s the site where you log-in, http://www.myhpf.co.uk/orglogin.asp. Second, there’s http://myphf.co.uk (without the www), which has a different site design and where you can’t login with your login data (the site where I haven’t found information about the referral program and where’s stated they are using Ask.com as their search engine). Last, there’s http://www.homepages-friends.com, which redirects to http://www.whitedotbox.com but has nearly the same design as the site mentioned before…maybe they haven’t completely finished moving all “old” account to their new site or something like that.

    Anyway, thanks again Paul (and sorry for posting so many links).

    See you,
    Querblogger

    Querblogger’s last blog post..My HomePages Friends - Update Two - New Name, Earnings, Search Engine

  6. Paul B UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14  June 10, 2008 10:08 am

    No probs, I was a bit confused by the whole White Box thing as well. From what I can tell they are developing on their live site, not the best thing when you’ve got over 100,000 members! Time to invest in a development environment boys?

    Anyway, it looks like everything is tracking correctly and there is still money to be made, that’s always my number 1 concern!

  7. Querblogger GERMANY Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14  June 10, 2008 6:37 pm

    Hehe, I just thought the same. They should really think about their project management. :)

    Anyway, as you already said, the stats are updating and it seems I’m making money too!

    Bye,
    Querblogger

    Querblogger’s last blog post..My HomePages Friends - Update Two - New Name, Earnings, Search Engine

  8. My Homepages Friends - Update Three - Yahoo! Official Partnership, Weird Stats | The Making Money Experiment UNITED STATES WordPress 2.5  June 10, 2008 7:20 pm

    [...] their site to the new domain. As Paul from Make Money Online Dot Net said in return to a comment on his post about MHF: From what I can tell they are developing on their live site, not the best thing when you’ve got [...]

  9. dean UNITED KINGDOM Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0  June 29, 2008 5:03 pm

    hi all
    i need to know something i have refered about 40 friends and none are in my friends list when i email the company they said they had to put my refer number in when signing up but there s nowere to put my number they say can anyone help me…please

    deanouk123@yahoo.co.uk

  10. Paul B UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14  July 1, 2008 4:09 pm

    Hi Dean,

    You need to use the refer a friend link that’s available from the dashboard. For example mine looks like this

    http://www.myhpf.co.uk/apply001.asp?Friend=72338

    Replace the 72338 with your membership number and you should be good to go. By the way, how do you know you’ve referred 40 people if none have showed up?