How do image hosts make $$?

[kektex]

Hi,
I was browsing the forums and have been looking at some threads where people are offering image hosting sites for sale and I was wondering how these sites make money?
Since you are mainly showing images hosted on your server on other sites (like auctions sites or forums) how can these sites make money?
Can anyone running these kind of sites share their experience?

 

[Joseph]

www.upload5.com

Only about 2 weeks old so far around 300 uniques a day alot of people coming in from google msn and yahoo search results from terms such as image and hosting.

Making around $10 a day and so far have 50 members, not bad for a few hours work!

www.upload5.com

100th signup gets a kickass prize lol!

 

[zaros64]

nice one joseph.. all you guys that own one, where do you get them hosted?

 

[spy69]

Yeah if you can i would like to know too. I own videohost.us and even though it says video i am thinking of developing it to host images and than try to sell it. I think its a great name but no ones interested. I would host video but my web developing skills are basiclly none so getting it to host images will be a rough ride itself.

 

[Veolus]

Joseph, how have you been advertising your image hosting site (Upload5.com)?

 

[Joseph]

nice one joseph.. all you guys that own one, where do you get them hosted?

I just got an email today from my hosting company saying that I have 7 days to move the site to another server because it is against their TOS.

I am really disappointed at this becuase my host is great and I dont want to move so later on today once I get home from college I think I will sell it - check out the developed site section in about 6 hours from this post.

To promote my site I firstly used a program called AdBlaster which didnt really do much. Relising this I then did some research and added it to the freesitestuff.com etc these links can be found on the bottom of the site.
Click on them to go to there site.
This method brings in about 50 uniques a day.

I then went on to post in namepros asking to swap links with similar stats to that of my site. 300 uniques a day with 5000 hits.

I got 3 links which also can be found at the bottom of my site.

After doing this I relised I never submitted to the search engines so I then submitted to over 200 of them. After a week I was getting and still am getting alot of hits from msn, yahoo and google.

I am getting hits from the search engines ranging from "free" to "100mb"

I also promote it through my sig.

All my pages have been indexed by google and comes first in search results pages.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=upload5&meta=

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site:upload5.com

Joseph :bingo:

 

[Joseph]

http://namepros.com/showthread.php?t=84153

 

[ExpertDomino]

I know imageshack.us was the first ".us" site i ever surfed, it's just that popular of a image hosting site.

 

[zaros64]

image shack lets sites add there upload box to the webmasters site...
RuneVillage.net/ThePub/ tried it and they're not allowed to use imageshack like that(used too much bandwidth and space lol)anymore

 

[kektex]

Thats the kind of site I was wondering about.I understand how a free gallery site can generate some adsense or paid membership revenue but how do the hotlinked image sites make money? They`re the kind of sites people use to post images on their auctions or their forum sigs for example.They can`t show any ads and if their only hope is getting the people viewing the image to visit their site through image branding the revenue must be pretty slim.

 

[mfk_1868]

file hosting is much better!