“The Most Useful Websites” – Available as an eBook

I am excited to share that my first ebook – The Most Useful Websites – is now available for sale in Amazon’s Kindle Store.

This book is a collection of 150 undiscovered, practical and incredibly useful websites that will enhance your productivity. The table of contents should give you an idea of what's available inside the book.

If you don’t have a Kindle, you can still download and read the book on your iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows PC or the Mac using the various Reading Apps. Or you can use Amazon’s Cloud Reader to enjoy this book offline in your web browser.

The book is priced at $3.99 but unfortunately, Amazon adds a $2 Whispernet delivery surcharge for International users. I do plan to make this book available on Apple iBooks, NOOK, Sony Reader, Kobo and other e-readers.

Thanks much and I hope you find the book useful. Have a happy new year!

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How to Find the other Websites of a Person?

Say you are on a website example.com and would like to know which other web domains are owned by the same person who owns that example.com website. Is it possible?

Yes there are some easy workarounds (and tools) that can help you find domains owned by an individual or a company though you may not be successful on every hunt. Let’s give it a try!

When you register a web domain, your name, contact address, phone number and other details are stored with the domain in a public registry database that anyone can access online using a Whois Lookup tool.

Go to whois.sc and enter the domain name that you are trying to research. This will provide you contact details of the domain registrant and you can then use this data to perform a reverse whois lookup on Google to find other domains of that person.

"PHONE_NUMBER" site:whois.domaintools.com"STREET_ADDRESS" site:whois.domaintools.com

Replace Phone Number or Street Address in the above search queries with the actual data from the whois database. You may also perform reverse Whois Lookups by name but that may return too many results – phone numbers and postal addresses are more likely to be unique.

Some domain owners may have opted for “private” registration (Google Apps does this for free) and in that case, their contact details won’t be available in the public whois database.

The next option you should try is a Reverse IP lookup. These tools determine the IP address of the server that is hosting a website - example.com in our example - and will then provide you are list of other websites that are hosted on that same server. The logic is that if a person has multiple websites, he could be using the same web server to host them.

You can use Bing to perform a Reverse IP check for any domain or an even easier tool is spyonweb.com – just put the site’s domain and it will show other websites hosted on that server. If you get hundreds of domains in the search results, it possibly means that the person is using a shared host and thus he may not be the owner of all these domains.

If a web domain is using Google AdSense ads, you can use Blekko search to find all the other sites on the web that use the same AdSense ID.

View the HTML page source of any website and look for the AdSense string which has a pattern like ca-pub-1234. The numeric part (1234) is the AdSense ID which you can put into Blekko in the following format:

/adsense=1234

Some of the returned sites could belong to scrapers but you should be able to unearth some legitimate sites as well, if they are also using AdSense – see sample.

Google AdSense is only popular among content publishers but almost every website is using Google Analytics for traffic statistics. And there are online tools available that can quickly find all websites that are are connected to the same Google Analytics account.

Go to ewhois.com and type the domain name that are you are researching. Next choose the Reverse Google Analytics ID Lookup tab and it should bring a list of all web domains (see screenshot) that are connected to the same Google Analytics ID.

This is the most effective option of them all though it would only work for live websites that use Analytics while standard Whois lookups can even find web domains that have only been registered but are not live yet.

Also see: How to Find Person Behind an Email Address

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Top Get Paid to Upload Websites – Earn Money Online from Downloads

Lately file storage websites have become insanely popular. File sharing needs are growing with days passing, so becoming an affiliate of some “get paid to upload” website is a ticket to your financial independent. For me, sharing photos, videos, software and other files for money is one of the biggest sources of income. Thousands of online money-makers share files online and get paid for doing so.

This work at home opportunity is so popular because you simply get paid for what you do almost every day – for sharing files (software, photos, music, documents, essays, ect). The second reason is that you are paid pretty well (up to 45 dollars for every 1000 downloads) and the third reason people all over the Internet like freebies, so if you do everything right – you are sure to make money online by sharing files.

First of all, let’s learn some information about the process of making money with filesharing from this article. And now let’s process to the list of best sites for earning (this is only the first verion, new ones will be added).

Uploading.com is one of the best websites for me. The highest pay per download status there is ultra level where you are able to make up to $40 per 1000 downloads of your file. I have made the most of money by using Uploading.com (over 1000 dollars to date). They have awesome bonuses, contests and 20% referral bonus. User needs just 15 dollars in order to be paid by Uploading.com via PayPal, WebMoney or AlertPay.

Letbit.com – great get paid to upload website, which has paid me over twenty times. They are good because they don’t have area restrictions and pay up to $15 for 1000 downloads. Users can earn additional money by referring new members (25% referral bonus) and enjoy low withdrawal limits of only 5 dollars.

Hotfile.com – one of the most popular sites of this kind is Hotfile.com. Here users can earn up to $15 for 1000 downloads (depending on your member status). Users can share documents up to 400Mb large (size per document) and receive their money via Paypal, AlertPay, Webmoney with a minimum of 15 dollars. Additional earning opportunities are available, eg. referral program and bonuses for site owners.

FileServe.com – yet another get paid to upload website, which deserves a spot in this top rating. FileServe.com guarantees great download speeds for users and superb pay per download rates for all affiliates. It’s cool to work with this service because you get up to $25 for 1000 downloads and there’s a 25% referral program. Affiliates can request money to their PayPal, WebMoney or AlertPay account, as soon as their account balance reaches $20.

FileSonic.com – earn money by sharing photos, videos and music tracks with an opportunity to receive up to $35 for thousand downloads (applies to files larger than 401 MB). This “get paid to upload” site has several revenue sharing modes – they give money pay per download basis or pay 60% of the premium sales you have made. Furthermore there is a 20% of the referral bonus program, which can help you make money by referring your friends. Payment systems supported – Paypal, Webmoney and AlertPay; minimum withdrawal limit – 15 dollars.

Depositfiles.com – one of the pioneers in get paid to upload business, which has been online for years. Here members can upload large files even with from free account and earn up to $30 per 1000 downloads. The minimum payout limit is rather low too – only $25. Depositfiles.com owners have various contests for their affiliates, so this way you can improve your earnings for free.

Extabit.com – free file storage website, with a very attractive affiliate program. Extabit.com, being a pretty new but promising website, gives us a chance to earn up to $20 for 1000 downloads with no country restrictions. Webmasters and affiliates get paid to WebMoney, PayPal or AlertPay accounts after reaching a minimum cash-out limit of 15 dollars.

Megaupload.com – media sharing portal, which is suitable both for uploading documents and media files like videos and music. After sharing your content you will be getting points for every download or file preview. Users get to exchange points for prizes (including money to PayPal).

This way of making money online is very interesting and simple. You can give it a try. I will be updating this post with new “get paid to upload” websites and tips to help you earn more money online with your files.