News[2009-12-22]: We have launched a new program for our new site ShareFoco.com! This program allows you to make more money when create and share embed video. Just use your username and password of SharedImages.org to login into ShareFoco.com.

News[2009-09-13]: The number of images that we are now hosting in our powerful servers has been reached 10,000,000. To celebrate this significant milestone, we have upgraded our point counting policy, you will get 10%~20% more revenue than before. We would pay more to all of our contributing members while we are growing

News[2009-08-28]: We have launched a new website: ShareFoco.com! It was designed with a new architechure. You can use the same username and password to login the new website. As it is still on beta phase, any comments or bug reports are welcome! Just drop an email to service@sharefoco.com.

Notice[2009-05-13]: The problem of 'Can not find the image' has been fixed. It was caused by database upgrading. It only affected showing images in 'sharedimages.org', showing images in 'hotlinkimage.com', 'picfoco.com' and 'cocoimage.com' was not affected. Thanks for reporting problems of our site and sorry for any inconvenience!

Notice[2009-05-13]: We have launched some new servers for our services, and our database is now running on a more powerful server. We will continuously try our best to improve our service.

Notice[2008-11-25]: Yes, there was another bug in our new progress-bar-uploading function. The bug affected images that were uploaded with zipped file through new uploading function. Our technicians have taken steps to fixed the bug. All the affected images can be displayed normally now. Sorry for any inconvenience!

Notice[2008-11-23]: Hi, all, the problem of uploading function has been fixed. It is caused by a bug of our new uploading script that supports progress bar. Now it seems to work fine. As the new function is still at beta phase, if you find any problem, please contact us. Sorry for any inconvenience and thanks for you for reporting the problem.

News[2008-08-23]: Before we get back the two domains ImageFoco.com and CocoPic.com, we provide two sites PicFoco.com and CocoImage.com as substitution. PicFoco.com is similar as ImageFoco.com, and CocoImage is similar as CocoPic.com.

News[2008-08-22]: We are sorry for what happened recently. Our two domains ImageFoco.com and CocoPic.com were hijacked by a hacker, we are now contacting our domain name provider to solve the problem. Up to now, everything goes on well, but it will take several days to get them back. Fortunately, Hotlinkimage.com is running well these days. Before the two domains restore, we recommend you use image code of hotlinkimage to post your images.

News[2008-08-20]: Due to the DNS problem of our domain name, ImageFoco.com and CocoPic.com are not available temporarily. They will be back as soon as possible. Please use HotlinkImage.com to post your images before the problem being solved. Sorry for the inconvenience!

News[2008-08-16]: We have changed the point counting policy of ImageFoco: points for ImageFoco traffic from tier 1, 2 and 3 increased. Points for ImageFoco traffic from tier 3(Japan;  Hong Kong;  Taiwan;  India;  South Korea;  Singapore;  Russia;  ) are now even much higher than HotLinkImage. Click here to check our pay rate page for detailed information.

News[2008-07-21]: We are now in the process of improving accuracy of our point counting system. One of the important changes is our new payrate based on four country/region tiers. Please click here to get detailed information about this change. You will find increasing of point for each unique visitor or image view from many counties/regions. Stats for unique visitors and image views of every tier will also be available soon.

News[2008-07-21]: Another important change in the process of improving accuracy of our point counting system: we have upgraded our website software so that abnormal traffic would be eliminated. Please note the value of traffic quality does not count in those abnormal traffic.

News[2008-07-06]: Our pay rate for the traffic from high-profit countries has been increased again. Points for each ImageFoco unique visitor increased from 1.1 to 1.2(1USD for 1250 unique visitors), and points for each CocoPic unique visitor increase from 0.8 to 0.9(1USD for 1667 unique visitors).

News[2008-06-08]: Our pay rate for the traffic from high-profit countries has been increased. If most of your traffic is from high-profit countries, you will see your earnings increase more than 20% probably.

News[2008-05-31]: We have upgraded our traffic quality stats mechanism, the stats of traffic quality will be more accurate. If you are using link forwarding website(usercash, linkbucks etc.) with your image links, you will find your traffic quality changes to be better than before.

Tips[2008-05-29]: If your image code of hotlinkimage.com is not allowed by some forum/bbs, please use image code of imagefoco.com or cocopic.com to post your images in this forum/bbs.

Tips[2008-05-29]: How to increase your revenue? Click here to find some good websites to post your images. Please pay more attention to the columns of 'Quality' and 'Hi-Profit visitors percentage', you could select websites with high quality and HP visitors percentage to post your images. You will surely see your earning increase much faster if you take our advice.

News[2008-05-22]: We decide to lower the traffic qualification for payment request from 7.0 to 6.5, so that more members will be eligible for requesting their earnings.

News[2008-05-22]: Due to our sponsor targeting most of their advertisements to hi-profit counties(US, Canada, Australia or EU), we have to lower the payrate for each view from low-profit counties. We encourage our members to generate traffic form English website, because most of the traffic of English website is from hi-profit countries. Please understand this hard decision.

News[2008-05-18]: We will compensate all members whose PayPal payments(processed between 2008-04-24 and 2008-04-30) that were reversed by PayPal. About 15 or more members will get equal value bonus for reversed payment as compensation. We would try our best to provide most trusted service for our members.

News[2008-05-17]: Our PayPal payment window is opened again. But we still strongly recommend our members use Liberty Reserve or E-Gold or ePassporte to receive their payments. We will launch more payment options for our members: Moneybookers and AlertPay would be two good candidates.

News[2008-05-16]: We have to temporarily suspend the processing of PayPal payment requests again. Sorry for the inconvenience! We strongly recommend our members to use Liberty Reserve or E-Gold or ePassporte to receive their payments. All the payment requested by these methods will be processed within 24 hours.

News[2008-05-12]: All pending PayPal payment requests have been processed today. Our payment system is back to normal now and we will try to provide more payment options for our members.

News[2008-05-10]: We have restored E-Gold option for payment request, Liberty Reserve is now also available for payment request, and PayPal option will be back within three days if everything is OK.

News[2008-05-06]: Members who have epassporte account can now request their payments by ePassporte method.

News[2008-05-02]: Our payment procedure will suspend temporarily because we will upgrade our payment system. We will launch more payment options for our members. The upgrade will take about one week. After that, all payment request(s) will be processed.

Tips[2008-04-26]: Please use SharedImages.org to upload or post your content to make money. Content uploaded or posted from HotlinkImage/ImageFoco/CocoPic/SharedLinks does not generate any points.

News[2008-04-26]: We have launched a new image hosting website 'CocoPic.com'(now runing on beta stage) with no full page ads and better user feeling. The code of CocoPic.com can be gotten for all of the images hosted in HotlinkImage.

News[2008-04-26]: We initiate the payrate for 'CocoPic.com' and increase the payrate for 'ImageFoco.com'.

News[2008-04-25]: Promotional program(running on beta stage) for SharedLinks is back. Now our members can make revenue from sharing their links. Check here to see the payrate for SharedLinks and Check here to create new links for SharedLinks.

Tip[2008-04-20]: If most of your traffic is from US, Canada, Australia or EU(UK, Germany, France, Spain etc.), your points will grows much faster than the traffic from other countries.

News[2008-04-09]: From now on, we will set bonus for reporting bugs of our website. The first reporting member will get 1USD bonus for reporting one confirmed bug.

News[2008-04-09]: The bug in image uploading function has been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience!

News[2008-04-09]: The limitation of image size has been increased from 1M to 1.5M.

News[2008-02-27]: We have launched a traffic quality monitor system. The system will calculate a value(0-10) for traffic quality daily according to the traffic characteristic of each member. Members are eligible to request his/her payment only when the value of his/her traffic quality is more than 6.5. This policy only affects less than 5% of our members. For more information, plaese see our FAQ and Rules

News[2008-02-12]: Many changes occured to our site today. Firstly, we launched a new image hosting website 'ImageFoco.com'(now runing on beta stage), with less ads and better user feeling. You can get the code of ImageFoco.com for all of your images hosted in HotlinkImage and check the stats of the traffic generated from ImageFoco.com.

News[2008-02-12]: Secondly, we started a new payrate policy: canceled the difference between SFW and NSFW image and set a lower payrate for ImageFoco.com with less ads (but surely ImageFoco.com will be accepted more easily by those forums or bbs, and thus it will generate much more traffic for our members.).

News[2008-02-12]: Thirdly, we removed the floating ads on Hotlinkimage.com for better user affinity, even though it will reduce the revenue of this program.

News[2008-02-08]: We set up two new servers for free image hosting service. Image load speed would be faster.

News[2008-01-23]: We have fixed some bugs that cause failure to open full image of newly uploaded images. Sorry for the inconvenience!

News[2008-01-18]: Our policy has changed: we reserve right to remove any copyrighed images, but we would not forfeit the points that are generated from removed images.

News[2008-01-17]: We are now moving to a new hosting provider, our service would be growing more stably and faster.

News[2008-01-03]: Happy new year! After a wonderful holiday, we processed all PayPal payment requests today.

News[2007-12-07]: All PayPal payment requests has been processed today. We will always try our best to process all the payment requests within 24 hours.

News[2007-12-02]: All PayPal payment requests submitted after Nov 30 2007 will be precessed on Dec 8 2007. Affected members need to wait some days to receive their money, sorry for the inconvenience.

News[2007-11-05]: E-Gold payment option is closed temporarily. It will be a bit long time before we resume processing the E-Gold payment requests. We recommend our members request payment with PayPal.

News[2007-11-03]: The maximum uploaded zip file size has increased to 16M. A bug of the function for uploading zip file has been fixed.

News[2007-11-01]: SharedImages.org has been successfully moved to a new dedicated server, faster and more stable.

Tip[2007-10-02]: If your PayPal account is a personal account, you will not be charged any fee when you receive our payment. We always pay our members with PayPal balance or bank fund.

News[2007-10-02]: Good news!!! Our point counting policy has changed again: 1.3 point for each visitor of SFW images and 1.1 point for NSFW images, point for each image view is also increased. (Click here to get detailed information). Revenue of all contributing members will surely increasing at least 10% than ever!

News[2007-10-01]: A new dedicated server has been setup! Image loading speed will be much faster than ever.

News[2007-09-22]: Good news!!! Our point counting policy has changed back to 1.2 point for each visitor of SFW images and 1 point for NSFW images. We get more support from our sponsor, and we would like to pay more to all of our contributing members!

Tip[2007-09-20]: Have no idea of where to share your images? Our members can now browse all the sites that our images shared on. Click here to check where you can share your images and make more money!

News[2007-09-03]: From now on, our member can get revenue from traffic from low-profit country, the payrate is equal to 1USD per 20K views for NSFW images.

News[2007-08-30]: We have payed out more than 1000USD since we launched our service in June. We pay our contributing members almost every day.

News[2007-08-30]: Point counting policy has changed: 1 point per unique visitor for SFW images and 0.75 point for NSFW images. Payrate is still 1USD/1500points. See our FAQ for detailed information. We will continue to provide our members a reliable and profitable service. Remember our payrate is still much higher than other similar website.

News[2007-08-26]: Paypal payment is activated again! All payment requests with paypal has been settled today.

News[2007-08-09]: We are sorry to announce that the settlement of paypal payment requests has to be put off again, but will come back about the end of August. The settlement with E-gold is still available, all E-gold payment requests will be settled within 24 hours.

News[2007-08-09]: The new feature which allows our members to upload zipped image files is now available.

News[2007-07-26]: From now on, to refer others to this program, you need tell them your refer link, which is showed in general info of your account info.

News[2007-07-26]: Due to a small problem of our paypal account, all paypal payment requests will be settled about one week later. If you want to settle your payment request more quickly, please request payment with e-gold. All E-gold payment requests will be settled within 24 hours.

News[2007-07-07]: We move the website to new domain 'sharedimages.org', and disperse the traffic to more sub domain. Hope the speed of website will be faster than before.

News[2007-07-04]: Paypal payment is activated again! All payment requests with the paypal method has been settled today.

News[2007-07-01]: We have given out 50 USD bonus to our members whose points have reached 30000 or 50000 for incentive program in June.

News[2007-06-29]: Our ballance of Paypal account is not enough to pay. If you request money with Paypal, you may need to wait 1 or 2 weeks. But if you request money with e-gold, your request will be settled within 24 hours. So please use your e-gold account to receive money.

News[2007-06-28]: We now define 'Not Safe for Work' images as any kind of images that content nude human body, or sexual organs description, or sexuality description, or descriptions that may arouse sexual desire. A easy way to judge whether your image is 'Safe for Work' or not is to ask yourself if the image is fit for viewing in office with your colleagues.

Tip[2007-06-28]: If most of your traffic is from US, Canada or EU(UK, Germany, France, Spain etc.), your points will grows much faster than it used to be.

News[2007-06-12]: We are now launching a incentive program for this month. You will get extra bonus of 5 USD if your points reach 30000, and 10 USD if your points reach 50000.

News[2007-06-12]: We have changed our point-counting policy. From now on, each time an unique visitor views your images, your points will add 0.1(0.08 for NSFW images), even if the unique visitor is not referred by yourself. So the more images you upload, the more points and money you will get.

Announcement[2007-06-10]: Please use your e-gold account to receive money, it's fee is much lower than Paypal.

News[2007-06-09]: We have to filter the traffic from some low-profit countries. The countries include India, Pakistan, Russia, China(including mainland, HongKong and Taiwan), Czech, Malaysia etc.Please understand this decision. We need to keep our server running which is a precondition of making revernue for you!

News[2007-06-09]: Payment request function has been fixed. Now it works fine. Sorry for the inconvenience!

News[2007-06-04]: Upload function has been fixed. Now it works fine. Sorry for the inconvenience!