Google Inc. has started a validation period for a new system of calculating how online publishers are paid for displaying its referral ads.
Publishers of Web sites make money when visitors to their sites click the ads that Google places on their sites through its AdSense program. The ads that Google places on the publishers' sites are for products or services related to the content of the sites.
Google now wants to ensure that the conversions generated from referral ads are valid -- meaning that the people who click on the ads are actual customers -- according Eva Woo, of AdSense product marketing, in an announcement on Google's AdSense blog. And that means that publishers who display the referral ads may not make as much money as they thought they would be making.
"The earnings you receive for the ad may now be less than the maximum referral value displayed for that ad," Woo said in the blog. "This is because our system will initially place a restriction on referral earnings as we monitor click and conversion data to determine that the conversions generated are valid. Once this validation period ends, you'll begin earning the maximum value of the conversions as displayed in your account."
Google did not say how long the validation period would last, but said it would vary from publisher to publisher. Google could not be reached for comment.
The company claims the change will have a minimal effect on most publishers.
But one publisher, Ken Dahlin, said that while he hasn't noticed a change in the money he receives from the program, he has noticed that he didn't make any money from a couple of conversions when he thought he should have been paid from them.
"I just figured that a single individual was taking advantage of the same deal," he said in a blog. "Whether that's fair or not, I didn't find it that big of a deal to start an argument. What troubles me is if I do get lower conversion prices during validation I'm going to have to lower my budget for promoting those links, which could kill my business model. In addition, the announcement says nothing about getting the full price after the conversion is deemed valid. We'll see.
Google reduces payments for referral ads
Make Your Web Site Pay: Google AdSense
If you run a popular, information-rich Web site or blog, you can earn money from the growing online advertising market. You don't even need to approach advertisers.
Simply run pay-per-click ads provided by search engines such as Google and Yahoo on your Web site. You'll earn money every time a visitor clicks on an ad.
If you use the Google search engine, you've probably noticed the text ads that run along the right-hand side and sometimes across the top of your search results. These are placed by advertisers who participate in the Google AdWords pay-per-click program. Google AdSense lets you earn a share of that money by running those ads on your site. There's no guarantee that you'll actually attract clicks and get paid, but it costs nothing to sign up and try it out.
PPC vs. Affiliate Marketing
AdSense is a pay-per-click service, not an affiliate marketing network. While both PPC ads and affiliate marketing networks allow you to earn money from your Web site, there are some significant differences in how they work.
Affiliates typically earn money only when a visitor referred from their site purchases the advertiser's product. But Web publishers can earn money from PPC ads when a visitor simply clicks on an ad. No purchase is necessary.
To maximize affiliate earnings, you must carefully match the interests of your site's visitors with the products and services that you advertise. That can be relatively easy if you manage a tightly focused site. But if your site discusses different topics on different pages, it can be time-consuming to find the most appropriate products to advertise for each topic.
AdSense automates that content-product matching process. Google crawls your site to examine your pages, using content analysis technology to find appropriate ads. The technology is similar to that used by Google's search engine. Most of the time, the process works well and serves up relevant ads.
AdSense Basics
To use AdSense, you start by signing up for an account at no cost. You then insert Google-supplied advertising code into your Web pages.
AdSense supports a number of ad formats that should suit virtually any page layout in your Web site or blog. You can adjust the color of the text and background, if you like. In addition, you can run up to three ad units per page.
Initially, you may see public service announcements displayed on your site. These PSAs earn no click-through money. Google says that in most cases relevant ads will display within 72 hours.
Wis. Teacher Arrested for Blog Comment
Wis. Teacher Arrested for Blog Comment
By RYAN J. FOLEY – 10 hours ago
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Bloggers and free speech advocates are calling on prosecutors not to file charges against a teacher arrested for allegedly posting an anonymous comment online praising the Columbine shooters.
Some were disturbed by the post police say James Buss left on a conservative blog, but other observers said it was a sarcastic attempt to discredit critics of education spending.
The suburban Milwaukee high school chemistry teacher was arrested last week for the Nov. 16 comment left on http://www.bootsandsabers.com, a blog on Wisconsin politics. The comment, left under the name "Observer," came during a discussion over teacher salaries after some commenters complained teachers were underworked and overpaid.
Buss, a former president of the teacher's union, allegedly wrote that teacher salaries made him sick because they are lazy and work only five hours a day. He praised the teen gunmen who killed 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide in the April 1999 attack at Columbine High School.
"They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time!" he wrote, adding they should be remembered as heroes.
The comment disturbed at least one teacher, who called police in West Bend, 40 miles north of Milwaukee and home of the blog's administrator. Police traveled to arrest Buss at his home in Cudahy, south of Milwaukee, last week after the blogger gave them the anonymous poster's IP address.
After his arrest, Buss spent an hour in the Washington County jail before he was released on $350 bail. He did not return phone messages and e-mails seeking comment, and it was unclear whether he had a lawyer. >>>>>more
How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs
I’ve been reflecting this week about the amazing diversity of opportunities that are opening up for bloggers to make money from blogging.
I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.
The wonderful thing is that this is becoming easier and easier to do 2005 has seen many options opening up. I thought I’d take a look at some of the methods that bloggers are currently using to make money through blogs.
Income Streams for Bloggers - How to Make Money Blogging
Advertising Programs - Perhaps the most obvious changes in the past few months have been with the addition of a variety of viable advertising options for bloggers looking to make money from their blogs. The most common way bloggers seem to earn money online is via the contextual ad program from Google - Adsense. A more recent addition that many are using successfully are Chitika’s eMiniMalls and WidgetBucks, Text Link Ads.
Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, Pheedo, TextAds, Bidvertiser, Fastclick and Value Click (to name just some of the options) and there is a smorgasbord of options. Of course there is more to come with MSN Adcenter and YPN both in beta testing and with a variety of other advertising system currently in development (YPN is only available to US publishers).
Lastly there’s BlogAds - one of the first blog specific ad networks.
RSS Advertising - The past 12 months have seen some advances in RSS Advertising also. I’m yet to hear of any bloggers making big money blogging through it to this point - but as improvements are made to the ad programs exploring this I’m sure we’ll start to see examples of it being profitable.
Sponsorship - In addition to the array of advertising programs that are available to join there is a growing awareness in the business of the value and opportunity that exists for them to advertise directly on blogs. I’m hearing more and more examples of this and have been fortunately to have a couple of ad campaigns of my own in the past month - one with Adobe a couple of weeks ago and another just completed with Ricoh for a new digicam over at my Digital Camera Blog. These are not isolated cases - as I say I know of many blogs exploring sponsorship with advertisers at present and suspect we’ll see more of it in the year ahead. Sponsorship is also happening on a post by post basis with some bloggers being paid to write on certain topics by companies - either in one off or a regular fashion - and they are able to make big money from their blogs doing so.
Affiliate Programs - There are larger affiliate programs like Amazon, Linkshare, Clickbank and Commission Junction but also literally thousands of others from the large to the very small.
Digital Assets - Increasing numbers of bloggers have been developing other digital assets to support and add revenue streams to their blogs. By this I mean that I’m increasingly seeing e-books, courses and tele-seminars being run by bloggers. My recent foray into this with the first series of the six figure blogging course that Andy and I ran a few weeks ago and have just released the study version of. This type of activity will only increase in future - in fact this week I’ve seen numerous examples of bloggers running courses.
Blog Network Opportunities - with the rise in popularity of Blog Networks - bloggers are also being presented with more places to earn an income from their blogging - by writing for and with others. While it might be difficult to get a writing gig with one of the bigger networks - there are plenty who are always asking for new bloggers to join and who are willing to pay bloggers using a variety of payment models. While there are distinct advantages of blogging for yourself - blogging for an established network who will handle a lot of the set up/promotion/admin/SEO etc has it’s advantages also. More and more bloggers are combining writing for themselves on their own blogs with taking on blog network blogs as additional income streams.
Business Blog Writing Opportunities - as blogging has risen in it’s profile as a medium more and more businesses are starting blogs. Many of these companies have internal staff take on blogging duties - but an increasing number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs. I know of a number of bloggers who in the past month or two have been approached for such paid work. Check out Bloggers for Hire if you’re looking for this type of work.
Non Blogging Writing Opportunities - Also becoming more common are bloggers being hired to write in non blogging mediums. Manolo’s recent coup of a column in the Washington Post is just one example of this as bloggers are increasingly being approached to write for newspapers, magazines and other non blog websites. Along side this is the rise of bloggers as published book authors - this is to the extent that one blogger I spoke with this week complained to me that they were one of the few bloggers than they knew who didn’t have a book deal!
Donations - Tip Jars and donation buttons have been a part of blogging for years now but this last year saw a number of bloggers go full time after fund raising drives. Perhaps the most high profile of these was Jason Kottke of kottke.org who through the generosity of his readership was able to quit his job and become a full time blogger.
Flipping Blogs - Also more common in 2005 was the practice of ‘Blog Flipping’ - or selling of blogs. This has happened both on an individual blog level (I can think of about 20 blogs that sold this year) but also on a network level (the most obvious of these being the 8 figure sale of Weblogs Inc to AOL).
Merchandising - My recent attempt to sell ProBlogger.net T-shirts wasn’t a raging success, but it is an example of how an increasing number of bloggers are attempting to make a few extra dollars from their blogs by selling branded products through programs like Cafepress. While I didn’t have a lot of success with merchandising - quite a few larger blogs are seeing significant sales - especially blogs with a cult following. I’m not at liberty to discuss details - but I know of one largish blog which will see sales over $20,000 in merchandise for the calendar year of 2005.
Consulting and Speaking - While it has been popular for established consultants to add blogs to their businesses we’re also starting to see bloggers with no consulting background able to make money by charging readers for their time in consulting scenarios BECAUSE of the profile that their blogs have built them. Blogging has the ability to establish people as experts on niche topics and we all know the value of being perceived as an expert. I spoke to one blogger last month who charges himself out at over $200 an hour for speaking and consulting work - his area of expertise was something that he knew little about 18 months ago - but through his blog he’s become a leader in his field and a minor celebrity in his industry.
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World’s First Photograph!
Joseph Niepce of France took the world’s first photograph in 1826. He named the photograph “heliograph.” It took 8 hours to take the picture. It is not known however exactly how he took the photo. People are thinking that he used pewter plate coated with bitumen (a petroleum that is sensitive to light). Then he waited 8 hours letting this dry and harden. After that he washed it with white petroleum and lavender oil. It washed away the undissolved bitumen which didn’t see the light. Here is the picture.
3 Interesting Ideas to Make Money on ebay
1) Sell Used Cell Phones on ebay
The demands for used cell phones with brand names like Nokia, Motorola, Kyocera, Alltel, Ericsson, Sprint, etc in ebay are pretty high. Many of the used cell phones auctions in ebay usually attract bids.
So how to find used cell phones to profit on ebay?
Many people change their cell phones every year. If you are one of them, probably you already have 2 or 3 used cell phones kept at home that can sell on ebay. Your friends may also keep a few of old phones left unused. You can buy from them and resell on ebay.
To get a consistent supply of cell phones, you may think about placing classified ads in newspaper states that you pay money for used cell phone. You shouldn't pay much when buying used cell phones. Do a little research on ebay to find out how much used cell phones are generally selling. If a used cell phone sell at a price of $50 in ebay, you should pay not more than 30% of the price to buy it. If the phone is a recent model you can pay little more and cut a little if it is old and nothing special.
2) Sell Used How-to Books
Used how-to books are quite easy to find and inexpensive to buy. They can be bought at $1.00 or less. You can buy how-to books from thrift shops, estate sales, used book stores, yard sales, etc and sell them in ebay for high profit margin. You can also get how-to books from Book Sale Finder. Here are the type of books you should look for:
Hobbies
Photography, blacksmithing, clock building & repair, woodworking, magic, treasure hunting, iron work, pipe smoking, dog training, antiques, coins, buttons, medals, drawing, painting, craft making, dolls, pottery, etc.
Home and Garden
Home decorating, home remodelling, garden trellis, etc.
Misc
How to repair (watch repair, door repair, pipe repair), how to play, lost treasure, eary aviation, etc.
When you list your books in ebay, you can either list them in the "Book" category of ebay or in the subject specific category of ebay. For instance, If you are selling a book related to home decorating, you may be making more profit if you list the book under the "Home Deco" within the "Home & Garden" category of ebay campare to listing the book under "Book"
3) Sell Gift Cards
Gift card is another profitable market in ebay. There are many people possess gift cards but not everyone of them will use their gift cards. If you can offer to buy these unused gift cards for a price at 20% or less of the value of the gift certificates, they will sell to you. You can advertise your offer in local newspaper, penny shop and trading post. You are looking for gift cards that are still valid (not yet expire). Most gift cards have a toll-free number on the back you can dial to check whether the cards are still valid.
When determining the buy and sell price of a gift card, you should do some research on ebay. Try to look for auction that sell the similar card. See how much the card sells in the auction and set you buying price at 40% to 50% of the selling price of the auction. The starting bid and winning bid of the auction can also give you an idea on how much your card can sell on ebay.
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5 Tips to Boost Your Adsense Revenue
Google AdSense program has made it easier for webmasters to make money through a website. Webmasters who run an AdSense campaign will display Google's contextual Ads relevant to the content of their sites and thus encouraging visitors to click the ads and earn money for each ad click.
However you will earn very little AdSense revenue if you don't know how to optimize your AdSense ads on your website. Here are some tips to increase your AdSense earning:
1. Focus on one Adsense ad format. The Large Rectangle (336X280) ad format seems to work better than other ad formats because this format tends to result in higher click through rates (CTR). Another reason is that the ads will look like normal web links that visitors use to click on them. It doesn't matter whether the visitors know that they are clicking AdSense ads or not, as long as there are clicking, you earn AdSense commission.
2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Select a color that matches your website's background. If your site's background is white both, the color of ad border and background should set to be white too. Also the color of the ad title should be similar to coloe of the links in your website. This is to make your AdSense ads look like it is part of the web pages. Again, this will boost AdSense CTR.
3. Don't place your AdSense ads at the bottom of your webpages because it is proven to be less effective. Displaying your AdSense ads at the bottom is like hiding your AdSense and thus leads to low CTR and AdSense revenue. Try to put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between AdSense locations can make when you see your earnings.
4. Try to place your AdSense ads near rich content as visitors main focus usually are your content. There are several ways to insert AdSense ads into your content and one of the ways is place your AdSense just after the end of your content.
5. Try to automate the insertion of your AdSense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your AdSense code in a text file, name it as “AdSense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then use SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.
These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. There are other ways to optimize your AdSense that produce high CTR also. You can learn more tricks by reading in AdSense and webmaster forums.
The Official Launch of Money Maker Info Blog
KAJANG, MALAYSIA, November 25, 2007 - The Money Maker Info Blog has today celebrated its official launch, and is set to become one of the main sources of information for anyone looking to make money from the Internet, or boost the online presence of their existing business.
The Money Maker Info blog, which is authored by Alan Liew, provides a range of free services to help people take the next step in boosting their online income with a selection of useful tools, tutorials, and helpful articles that cover all aspects of the many methods of making money online.
Visitors to http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com will find access to a range of eBooks, reports and expert tools that can help to promote an online business, as well as providing almost anyone with the expertise that they need to run a successful website.
The free to access Getting Started guide can offer initial tips to help people start making money with AdSense and affiliate programs; finding the best paid freelance jobs; and a comprehensive guide that acts as a road map through the potential pitfalls of private label rights products, HYIP programmes and more.
More experienced internet based entrepreneurs will also find plenty to interest them at the Money Maker Info Blog, including the latest news on hot search engine optimisation techniques that are helpful to boost traffic; links to great value pay per click programmes that provide websites with traffic that really converts; and a number of handy tools that will allow thorough analysis of their website and show them where they can make changes to boost conversions.
The Money Maker Info blog is a resource that is set to keep growing, with regular contributions from acknowledged experts in the internet marketing field. By accessing the articles and tutorials available on the site, even experts will be able to learn new techniques that will boost their online earnings while minimising the often expensive cost of driving traffic to a website in order to make that all important sale.
With the staggering growth of online spending showing no sign of letting up, making effective use of the Internet to drive sales is the most important aspect of business today, and thanks to the information provided on the Money Maker Info Blog, anyone who wants to take their business to the next level will be able to get access to the tools and up-to-date information that they need to succeed.
The availability of all the right business tools and information resources for making money online in one place makes the Money Maker Info Blog an essential resource for anyone who is serious about their online business. Visit http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com now for all the news, tools, and tutorials that are needed for success online, and start boosting your business today!
Money Maker Info blog is specialize in providing free resources and tips for profiting online with Internet marketing.
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What is a Blog?
So what is a Blog anyway? This is a question I am asked every week via emails, conversation and Instant Messaging chats. If you’re reading this you may well be asking the same question.
There are a number of ways I could answer this question ranging from the broad to the highly technical.
Before I share my answer to the ‘what is a blog’ question - here are a few definitions from other much wiser people to get us started:
‘A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.’ Source
‘A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.’ Source
‘From “Web log.” A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”‘ Source
‘A weblog is kind of a continual tour, with a human guide who you get to know. There are many guides to choose from, each develops an audience, and there’s also comraderie and politics between the people who run weblogs, they point to each other, in all kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc.’ Source
‘A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly.’ Source
‘A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington, D.C.’s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.’ Source. >>more
Digital World: How to really make money on the Net
For years now, we've been giving to the Internet - whether we've been shopping, uploading stuff to sites, sending e-mails to public forums or talkback pages to protest this or that - and of course, giving out real money to the phone or cable company in order to pay for our connections to the virtual world.
Now it's time to take something back. How? By getting into an on-line business, and make some money! Surely you've seen the e-mail messages (read: spam) in your inbox, and wondered whether you, too, could get in on the gravy train. Of course, you would build a legitimate model, selling a legitimate product or service; we have to much self-respect to build an on-line pharmacy selling discount Pakistani meds to Americans, or Viagra wannabe treatments (although I hear say that the money there is pretty good!).
Fortunately, though, there are plenty of legitimate ways to make money on the Net, giving you a solid side income - and maybe even a new career, if you come up with the right idea! I want to make something very clear at the outset, though: I do not claim to be a major expert on Internet marketing - but that's the rationale behind this article. If you Google "Web site promotion techniques," you'll get thousands of hits with advice on what to do, or not. But when you review the information on the sites, you realize that much of the information is very general in nature, and a lot of the sites seem to have copied concepts or whole articles one from another (in fact, a lot of them probably got the same articles from a site like http://www.articlepillar.com/, which supplies free "filler" content to sites - not that there's anything wrong with that!). Most of these sites, I have found, urge you to sign up for advanced information - which sometimes is or is not worthwhile. And many of these sites, in addition, urge you to click on various links at external sites (with which they have affiliate deals) in order to get at more information - which may or may not be helpful.
My point is that for a beginner in this space, getting proper direction can be difficult. For the forest of Web sites that purport to help you to get into "the business," there is a relative dearth of trees where you can actually get useful ideas on what to actually do in order to make money - what kind of business to build, how and where to promote it, and how to actually make money from it. While there are definitely "gems" of information out there that will help you with different aspects of getting into the Internet business, many of the sites that offer to help you with your site's SEO (search engine optimization) actually want to sell you promotion services. Again, not that there's anything wrong with that; but an educated consumer is the best customer, and if you're a beginner in the area of trying to sell on the Internet or have never tried it before, there are some basic questions you need to answer before you lay out money for Web site design and pay someone to promote the site - such as, "is this an idea I can make money from?"
What's lacking is a business model for Web success from start to finish - starting with, "where do I begin?" If you're a beginner, that would be the place to start! And so, keeping in mind that I am not, as I mentioned an "expert" in the sense that the (seemingly) millions of SEO and promotion site webmasters are - but am someone who has dabbled in "real-life" Web promotion - I bring some ideas to the table that you may or may not find useful.
Product and/or service: Should you offer a product or a service? And if so, which one? This Web page (http://tinyurl.com/oo4f2), which lists the "Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time," has been dug on Digg.com over 3,000 times - a pretty respectable number of diggs, and indicative of the heavy interest in figuring out how to make money on the Web. Hard to imagine some of the sites making the big money the author says they did - as in the millions generated by, for example, "doggles" (http://doggles.com/) - but there you have it.
Unfortunately for most of us, producing a product is a full budget, full time commitment - not for folks getting their first taste of marketing of any sort. Many people in the US make good money on Ebay, selling specialty items, and if you're willing to lay out for inventory (and, if you live in Israel, you have a place to store and ship your goods - international shipping and customs will probably price you out of the market), Ebay and other auction sites could provide a good income. Of course, whatever you're selling, you can be sure that thousands of others are selling as well. And unless the item you're selling is something that people will want on a regular basis (like a food item), you have to keep searching out new customers. Still, there are people in Israel who do have successful Ebay stores, as well as successful commercial sales sites, selling stuff to Israelis and/or Americans. But that route isn't one most newbies will want to take either.
It's a lot easier, cheaper - and potentially more lucrative - to set yourself up in the information business. Meaning, that you share with the world information about which you are passionate and/or knowledgeable. With easy to use blogging software at sites like http://www.blogspot.com, you could set yourself up with a blog - which, in essence, is an information distribution service - and work from there, using it as your springboard to fame and fortune. A blog can be just a blog, of course - but many blogs make big money for their writers, in a number of ways - and yours can, too.
A simple example of what I'm talking about can be seen at the site mentioned above (the one with the smart dumb business ideas) and its sister site (http://uncommonbusiness.blogspot.com/). Note how he weaves in recommendations for books related to the subject as part of his blog; if you click through on the link for the book, you'll see that you've credited his affiliate link with a click - with payment for the click through, and a commission on the book, if a referral from his site buys one. According to his Blogspot profile, the person who runs this site has a bunch of other sites sharing odd information about businesses, Web sites, and the computer business. Great idea! And while I didn't review all his sites, I would have to imagine he is actively promoting a few of them. And how would he (or you) go about promoting his "information business?" I'll give you the hard facts next time.
By DAVID SHAMAH
BLOGIT - GET PAID TO BLOG
Making Payments
To make payments, simply sign up for a Blogit subscription. For as little as $9.95 per month, you get unlimited access to all the writing on Blogit.
Half of your Blogit Basic payment is divided between the writers you actually read. The rest is used by Blogit to support the web site, marketing, customer service, and payment processing.
Payment Distribution
Every month, Blogit keeps track of the number of times you read each writer. At the end of the month, Blogit divides your writer payment between all of the writers, based on how often you read each one.
As a simple example, say you only read Jack during the month. At the end of the month, Blogit will send your entire writer payment to Jack.
Let's say you now start reading Jill half of the time, while still reading Jack the rest of the time. In that case, Blogit will send half your writer payment to Jill and the other half to Jack.
It's that easy. Since Blogit automatically does the math for you, you can be sure each writer is receiving a fair share.
Notes
Every page read is counted, so if you click on a blog and read five pages of that blog, that is counted as five pages read.
Comment pages are not counted.
7 tips to improve your alexa traffic rank.
1. Download the Alexa toolbar and use it every day to visit your own website. Alexa even gives you the ability to co-brand the toolbar with your own logo and give it away. You can download the toolbar here: http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/associatetoolbar.html
2. Use Alexa redirection whenever you can. No matter when or where you provide a link to your website, be sure to use the equivalent Alexa redirect URL. For example, when providing a link to my website, I use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?marketingscoop.com. If you copy this URL into your browser, it will take you to MarketingScoop.com. To use this technique, simply replace the name of my website (marketingscoop) with yours.
3. Encourage your website visitors to add their positive testimonials on Alexa’s detailed listings page for your website. This can be done by placing a link to the appropriate Alexa page on your website and asking visitors to “Click here to rate this website”. You can find your detailed Alexa page here: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=marketingscoop.com. Again, just replace the name of my website (marketingscoop) with yours. By clicking on the URL, visitors will be able to reach your detailed rating page and write a review using the review link located on the left hand side of the page.
4. Write your own site reviews on the top 100 rated Alexa sites and include your redirect URL. The top 500 domains, according to Alexa can be found at http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500 When you write a review, be sure to use the redirection URL we discussed in number 2 above specifically for your website [http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?marketingscoop.com].
5. Download the Alexa ranking button, traffic history graph, info links, and other traffic counters onto the page of your website that receives the most traffic. For example, at the bottom of my home page http://www.marketingscoop.com, I’ve added the Alexa ranking box. You can do the same for your own site by visiting http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup You’ll notice that I haven’t added the traffic history graph. This is because it wouldn’t look appropriate on my home page and because Alexa is only providing detailed history on the top 100,000 sites. So if you’re not in the top 100,000, site stats would not be available.
6. Take an inexpensive advertisement out on the ExactSeek search directory for only a few dollars per month at ExactSeek.com Search engine results are directly correlated with Alexa rankings. You’ll notice that if a website is highly ranked on ExactSeek, chances are that it will be highly ranked on Alexa.
7. Get listed on as many search engines as possible by placing a free listing in DMOZ. This is the largest human edited directory on the web and is co-branded among hundreds of thousands of sites. Be patient though, it often takes up to 5 months before you see your website listed after submission. Even though it takes longer than it should, you have little say in the matter because it’s so widely used across the Internet.
These simple Alexa strategies are easy to implement and will make a huge difference in your Alexa ranking. Ultimately you want visitors to do more than visit your home page, you want them to interact with your site. Be sure to optimize your home page for SEO purposes, ease of use, and interaction. Creating a positive user experience will get visitors to return again and again.
Make Money with AffilateBot Program
Accidentally, I found AffiliateBOT program about 2 weeks ago. It’s an exiting program for make money from internet. And last night, my first earnings from this program no longger zero. Fair to middling! What that AffiliateBOT? In the following is a program description from their web
Program Description:
AffiliateBOT is one of the fastest growing Affiliate Network in the world, bringing Advertisers, Merchants, Publishers, Bloggers and even Individuals together. Promotion:
Promote AffiliateBOT and earn $1 for each active member referred and 5% of their earnings for Life!
This has got to be a no brainer and one of the biggest earning referral program on Earth!
Imagine the possibility. If even ONE of your referred member earns $1000/month, you get to pocket a cool $50 every month! Now, imagine if you have 100s of members earning money for you?? You're like the governor, taxing your citizens 5% for life! But hey, grab the 'netizens' before others refer them to their own 'towns'. It's first come first served!
Audience Description:
Anyone who wants to earn a good living by promoting affiliate programs. Bloggers and Publishers would be best.
Owen Keeps The Faith For England
Ahead of the crunch tie between Israel and Russia that could decide England's Euro 2008 fate, Michael Owen has spoken of his continued belief that the Three Lions can still make it to Austria and Switzerland.
"It could be a difficult week," admitted the striker, whose side will almost certainly need to beat Croatia next Wednesday even if Israel do them a favour this weekend.
"We have got to block out a lot of things and be in the right mental and physical state that if something was to go for us on Saturday then we would be in the right frame of mind to go on and do our best on the Wednesday.
"It is all about preparing right and being in a position to pounce if results did go our way."
Keep On Believing
Even though their fate is not entirely in their own hands, Owen insists continued belief is vital to keep the qualification dream alive.
"In the bigger picture, Wednesday is the all-important game and we have got to believe it is the all-important game. And we have got to believe that if we win that we will qualify, if you don’t think that you will get lazy in your training and play so we have got to believe that."
Booed On At Wembley?
Of course, the wrong results at the weekend could see England already out of contention. Owen recognises that this could make for an awkward reception from England supporters at Wembley on Wednesday night.
"In the back of your mind you do think if results do not go your way it would be a tough night at Wembley. It would be frustrating going out and playing with nothing on it, but we hope one or two teams can do us a favour.
"We have to stay positive because we have to be prepared in case someone does us a favour."
Chris विल्लिंस
15 Things I’d Love to See Ad Networks and Affiliate Programs Do to Help Us Earn More Money Blogging
I write quite a lot about what works in the ad networks that I use to make money from my blogs - but sometimes there are some little niggling problems with ad networks and affiliate programs that can be quite annoying।Today I thought I’d compile a short ‘ProBlogger Wishlist’ of things that I’d love to see specific ad networks and affiliate programs rolling out। I’m not doing this because I don’t like any of the programs mentioned here (in fact most feature in my top earners list) - just because I’d like to see them improve।Feel free to add your own on these networks (and others) in comments। Hopefully some of them will lead to some positive changes:
1. Direct Deposits for Amazon AssociatesAmazonI’d love to see publishers outside of the USA able to be paid via direct deposit। I not only have to wait an extra week or so to get my cheque each month, but because my monthly payments are over $2000 my bank then charges me over $60 to cash them - and they have to send the cheque back to the USA for authentication before they’ll clear the money. This authentication process takes an extra 6 weeks. So if I earn money on the first day of a month it can be around 3 months before I see any money from it. If direct deposits are out of the question payments via PayPal would be another alternative.
2. Direct Deposit Payments at ClickbankCb LogoWhile we’re on the subject of payment via cheque - the other group I’d like to see with a direct deposit system (or a PayPal payment) is Clickbank। Come on people - get with the 21st century!
3. Increase Minimum Payouts - LinkshareLogo-4I don’t even know where I still earn money with Linkshare (I must have promoted something once of theirs and it still earns me a dollar or two a month)। The problem is that they send me a cheque for that dollar or two every month or two. Do you know how embaressing it is to go into a bank and try to cash a $2.27 check (considering it’s in US dollars and I have to get it converted I don’t bother any more). It’s time for a minimum amount earned before sending cheques Linkshare.
4. More Customization with ID Tracking at Amazon AssociatesAmazonI love the fact that Amazon added the ability to use ‘tracking IDs’ to allow their publishers to track which links are converting best (see how useful this can be in this post analyzing what people buy at Amazon from one post)। The problem is that once you add a tracking ID there’s no way to remove it. I have a growing list of them and it’s getting pretty messy. It’s also be great to get more customized reports with tracking IDs that’d allow for more drilling down.
5. Better Reporting at AdSenseLogo Main-1Speaking of drilling down in reports - while I think AdSense has one of the best reporting systems, I think it’s time that they took things to the next level and gave us some more useful tools for analyzing our results। While channels can be handy - unless you use a different channel for each post it’s impossible to tell which pages are converting best unless you use a third party application to track clicks on a page by page basis. Another simple wish for AdSense reports is a cost per click figure (something other networks give). I know this is complicated by impression based ads - but it’d be handy to have more information on this. I’d also love to see more ability to combine data from Google Analytics and Google AdSense.
6. Split Testing at AdSenseLogo Main-1A built in mechanism for split testing might be nice too। It’s now possible to rotate different ads in the one ad unit, but there’s no way to track which combination converts best. Split testing tools might be useful (in fact they’d be good at all the ad networks - not just AdSense).
7. Better Referral Reports at WidgetBucksLogo3-1Time to look at the newest ad network on the block, WidgetBucks। I’m getting good results with this network but I think there’s plenty of room for improvement. For starters I’d love to see more data on referrals. At this point there’s just a total referrals number and the promise of the total amount earned to be given at some point in the first week of next month. Most other networks give significantly more information on this including a daily breakdown (even if it is audited later). Not having these figures takes some of the incentive for promoting the program away from publishers and will slow the growth of the network.
8. Better Referral Reports at AuctionAdsAuctionads-1The other ad network that I’d like to see improve it’s referral reporting is AuctionAds। At the moment I have no idea what of my income comes from the ad units that I run and what comes from referrals. Again - it doesn’t really inspire me to actively promote it if I can’t see what the results of that promotion are.
9. Channel Names at WidgetBucksLogo3-1Another pet peeve of WidgetBucks for me is that the name you give different widgets appears in both the reports page and on the widget। While I don’t mind being able to customize the widget in this way - it’s frustrating in the reports page as there’s no actual descriptive way of labeling widgets. For example I’d like to be able to have ‘popular digital cameras’ appear on my widget - but in the back end reports would like to be able to call my widget ‘Digital Photography School Footer’. It’s getting more and more confusing the more widgets I add. In fact the whole reports page probably needs to be reworked. Imagine having 100 different widgets across different sites - the page would be a mess.
10. Less US-centric Testing at AdSenseLogo Main-1Regular readers will know about this one already - but there’s nothing more frustrating for a publisher situated outside of the USA than seeing great new ad units released and not being able to test them। AdSense did this recently with their YouTube Video unit.
11. Open Up for International Publishers at YPNLogo PnSpeaking of US exclusive deals - I’d love to see Yahoo’s Publisher Network (YPN) open up to international publishers with international traffic। The YPN beta launched in August 2005 and did so exclusively for US publishers with predominantly US traffic. It struck me this morning that it’s been over 2 years now (26 months to be exact) and there’s been no movement on that. In fact if anything they tightened things up about a year ago by booting out some publishers who had too much non US traffic.
12. Open up RSS Ads at AdSenseLogo Main-1While a 26 month beta test with no expansion seems pretty bad - AdSense have one of their own which has been going longer। In April 2005 they introduced their RSS Advertising system (AdSense for Feeds). The program is still in a beta test according to their help center page and the beta test is full and they don’t anticipate adding any more publishers too it. Still - publishers are encouraged to keep checking back to that page for updates - I wonder how many have been for the last 30 months.
13. Improved Reports at ChitikaChitika LogoChitika have made some real improvements over the last year or so - but one area I’d like to see them take to the next level is their reports। One aspect of them that I find frustrating is the channels are and a simple improvement would be to make the channel names in reports live links that take publishers to a report for the last month of that channel alone. Also useful would be the ability to group channels together (like AdSense offer). For example to be able to put the multiple channels that you might have on a single blog into one report so you can get a combined report for the full blog. At present if I want to know a blog’s performance with Chitika (I might have as many as 10 channels on a blog) I need to get the calculator out and look at each channel individually to get their totals.
14. Open up to Smaller Publishers - ChitikaChitika LogoAnother common complaint that I hear from many publishers about Chitika is that smaller publishers are not eligible to join। While I understand that this ads significantly to the workload of an ad network - most (if not all) other ad networks that I’ve mentioned in this post don’t have a minimum traffic limit for publishers. This frustrates many bloggers and could actually hurt Chitika in the long term because publishers that grow might have been put off by their early rejection from Chitika.
15. Better Conversion at AdSense ReferralsLogo Main-1I’ve asked ProBlogger readers a number of times if they’ve had any success with AdSense Referrals - the response was an overwhelming ‘NO’. The exception is those who promote the ‘Google product’s - but outside that I’ve only found a few that have had any luck with it. I’ve actually chatted with a couple of people at AdSense about it and know that they have challenges that they are working on - but I’d really love to see the Referrals program taken up to the next level in the coming 12 months. PS: Jen shares her AdSense Referrals wishlist here with some more good suggestions.As I mentioned above - I’m certain that there are many other improvements that all of these ad networks and affiliate programs could make. I’d invite you to add your own points to the wish list.My hope with this post is that it doesn’t become a ‘bitching session’ but a more constructive conversation that might help the ad networks concerned to improve what they have on offer.
Tallest Man Meets the Smallest Man
The world's tallest man has met one of the world's smallest in China.
Bao Xishun, a 56 year-old herdsman from Inner Mongolia, is the world's tallest man and measures 7' 9" tall.
Meanwhile, He Pingping is applying to be entered in the Guinness World Record as the world's shortest adult, standing at a mere 2' 4".
• Read the orignal report on iTV.com.
According to the organiser of the meeting, it was He's long-cherished dream to meet Bao.
In March, Bao married saleswoman Xia Shujian, who stands a rather average 5' 6", after a global search for a suitable bride.
They celebrated a traditional Mongolian wedding in the tomb of Kublai Khan on Thursday.
Bao was confirmed as the world's tallest living man by Guinness World Records last year. He overtook the previous holder, Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, by just 2 millimeters.>>>more
How to Make Money From Your Blog( A very interesting article on money blogging- must read)
StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004. By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income. Now it brings in over $200/day $1000/day (updated as of 10/29/06). I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion. In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there. Would you like to know how I did it?
This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe). I’ll even share some specifics. If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later.
Do you actually want to monetize your blog?
Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs. If you think commercializing your blog is evil, immoral, unethical, uncool, lame, greedy, obnoxious, or anything along those lines, then don’t commercialize it.
If you have mixed feelings about monetizing your blog, then sort out those feelings first. If you think monetizing your site is wonderful, fine. If you think it’s evil, fine. But make up your mind before you seriously consider starting down this path. If you want to succeed, you must be congruent. Generating income from your blog is challenging enough — you don’t want to be dealing with self-sabotage at the same time. It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog — you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it. If, however, you find yourself full of doubts over whether this is the right path for you, you might find this article helpful: How Selfish Are You? It’s about balancing your needs with the needs of others.
If you do decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it। If you’re going to put up ads, then really put up ads. Don’t just stick a puny little ad square in a remote corner somewhere. If you’re going to request donations, then really request donations. Don’t put up a barely visible “Donate” link and pray for the best. If you’re going to sell products, then really sell them. Create or acquire the best quality products you can, and give your visitors compelling reasons to buy. If you’re going to do this, then fully commit to it. Don’t take a half-assed approach. Either be full-assed or no-assed. >>>more
Tips from Microsoft to make money from Blog
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Sell advertising. This is likely the most common means of leveraging a blog to generate income. If yours happens to become a well-known blog, or one that is well-received in a particular niche, it's always possible to sell ad space on your own. For lesser-known blogs, services such as Google's AdSense or BlogAds enable bloggers to establish ad programs.
AdSense's — which lets you select several ads that are consistent with the content of your blog — pays you based on how many readers click on the ads for further information. Even better, it's free. BlogAds, on the other hand, hooks bloggers up with would-be advertisers and levies a commission in return for any ad placements that result. "The nice thing, too, is that the ads are relatively unobtrusive," says Scott Allen, co-author of "The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online."
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Help sell others' products. Here is another click-through opportunity. Affiliate programs enable your blog to serve as a conduit between readers and online sites offering various goods and services. One popular choice is Amazon.com. If, for instance, you offer book reviews or even just mention a book in passing in your blog, an affiliate program provides a means for your readers to click directly from your blog to Amazon to obtain further information about the book. If they break out the checkbook or charge card, you get paid as well.
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Solicit contributions. Not every blog-related income opportunity involves hawking goods or services. As Blanche DuBois did in "A Streetcar Named Desire," consider relying on the kindness of strangers. Ask for contributions. If, for instance, your small-business blog supports a cause or issue in some fashion — say you repeatedly mention tax reform, health care or some other topic — you can always ask for reader support.
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Even if you've attracted a group of regular followers who simply enjoy reading what you have to say, they may be willing to underwrite their loyalty with a little financial help. Programs such as PayPal make it easy to establish a simple on-site contribution collection button. "There are lots of worthy 'cause' blogs that would qualify for donations from grateful members of the blog community," says Las Vegas communications consultant Ned Barnett.
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Market your services in your blog. Many people associate blogs exclusively with a cyberspace-based soapbox — a place to shout your opinions and little more than that. Granted, blogs are an ideal venue to share your thoughts with others, but don't overlook their capacity to generate new business as well. When appropriate, work in references to what you do and, in turn, what you may be able to offer any would-be client or customer who may be reading your blog. That can spread your opinion and your business moxie at the same time.
"Instead of short commentaries that begin a dialogue with readers, as many blogs do, I write the equivalent of journal articles that demonstrate my abilities, strategies and perspectives on specific issues," Barnett says. "When it resonates, it means money. Since starting this approach, I have generated three new paying clients and brought in about $10,000 on revenue — directly attributable to specific blogs."
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Use a blog to deepen your existing customer relationships. Nor does any marketing material inserted in blog content have to be limited to bringing in completely new business. By using a blog to regularly communicate with existing clients as well as other readers, you can take advantage of the opportunity to fully inform them about everything your business does. That may expand your readers' understanding of the full scope of your products or services.
"My blog has helped existing clients determine the range of my skills and services," says Ted Demopoulos of Demopoulos Associates, a Durham, N।H. consulting and training concern. "One client who had only used me for training in the past was surprised at my range of expertise and is now using me for a consulting project. Another who only used me on technical projects is now considering me for a more business-oriented project."
कोउर्त्सेय
Jeff Wuorio is a veteran freelance writer and author based in southern Maine. He writes about small-business management, marketing and technology issues. Send Jeff an e-mail.
Pay mobile bills by reading SMS!
mGinger :Pay mobile bills by reading SMS!
SMS advertisements, which used to irritate cellphone users, could soon turn out to be money-spinners with a Bangalore-based firm claiming to pay those who willingly receive the messages.
mGinger.com, started by three engineers, works on the principle of "permission-based marketing".
"People can make anywhere between Rs 300 to Rs 1,600 per month through this," Chaitanya Nallan, its CEO, said.
"When users get paid by us, whether it is Rs 300 or Rs 500, it can atleast cover their mobile phone bills," he added.
Chaitanya, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, who graduated from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad last month, said the idea originated from Veerendra Shivhare, the Chief Operations Officer of the firm.
The third member of the team is the chief technical officer of the firm, Anil, an alumnus of IIT-Kanpur. >>more
Here are some ways of making money on the Internet
Here are some ways of making money on the Internet from your personal Web site...
BannersThey were one of the first ways of making money from hobby Web sites, however they are not so popular now since most surfers don't even look at them. In fact, the click-through rate (the percentage of visitors who actually click on a banner) has steadily dropped, from around 5% 4 years ago to less than 0.5% now.
In the Traffic-Building volume of Make Your Site SELL! 2002 (the free ebook describing all possible ways of making money on the Internet), banners are called #1 "Time and Money Wasters." Save yourself months of poorly spent time. Read this essential manual first.
If you have highly relevant, cleverly designed banners, you can beat the odds. However, you need relatively high traffic to actually make more than pocket change. In fact, most banner advertising companies prefer to only pay for actual sales (even click throughs are no longer attractive, since many people click through because they are paid to, and not because they intend to buy anything).
FreebiesUnder this category are things such as free lotto tickets and various games where you can win prizes. Often, these are implemented as pop-ups and are much more annoying than banners.
Affiliate programsThey pay you a percentage of the sales you generate for them, or for each visitor you send. This is one of the best ways of making money on the Internet. You don't have to spend time and energy creating your own product. And some of them pay 50% commission. See Affiliate programs for more information on building income from affiliate programs.
Google AdSenseThis is one of the easiest ways of making money on the Internet for small and medium sites by displaying relevant, text-based ads from Google AdWords (Google's own advertising program) and receiving a share of the pay-per-click payment.
Sign up for AdSense.
Other toolsThere are many tools that can help you make some pretty big commissions without your visitors even realizing that you're building income from their visits.
For example, several search engines will pay you a few cents per search made from your Web site. If a few hundred people use your search box, you'll earn a few dollars a day - not bad for a few minutes of cut & paste a small line of code within the HTML of your Web page.
Selling a Product or ServiceThis is an obvious way of making money on the Internet. To succeed in it, you have to succeed at three points...
Develop a great product that is of interest to others on the Web.
Write a professional Web site designed to sell.
Attract targeted customers to the site. ..>>>more
MAKING YOU RICHER
70+ Resources to Make Money Online
Smorty pays you for writing your opinion about peoples products, services and websites on your blog. Get paid weekly. No advertising, just write your opinions. You are free to select the subjects that interest you. You can post in multiple blogs to earn more.
PayPerPost pays for blogging. With PayPerPost advertisers are willing to pay you for your opinion on various topics. Make a blog posting, get your content approved, and get paid.
Blogsvertise’s advertisers want you to mention and talk about their websites, products and services in your blogs and journals. They want the publicity, the exposure, the Buzz! that online bloggers and internet journals can generate for their web site products and services. In exchange blogsvertise pays you in paypal per task/blog entry, for writing / talking about / mentioning their website in your blog.
Review Me pays to review products and services on your site. You control what you review. Submit your site for inclusion into our ReviewMe publisher network. Begin by creating a free account. If approved, your site will enter our ReviewMe marketplace and clients will purchase reviews from you. You decide to accept the review or not. You will be paid $20.00 to $200.00 for each completed review that you post on your site. ...>>>>more
Paid Reviews On Blogs
In last week’s Reader Poll I asked bloggers whether they had ever written a paid review on their blog.
Paid reviews on blogs have been something that have been going on for numerous years - however it’s only been in the last 18 months that they’ve become more mainstream as a result of the launch of numerous paid review services (including PayPerPost and ReviewMe).
The launch of these services (particularly PPP) caused a lot of controversy around the blogosphere - particularly because PPP launched with a policy which stopped bloggers disclosing that their post was a paid review) - but also because some bloggers didn’t see how a paid review fit on a blog at all.
PayPerPost and ReviewMe have both evolved in their services, changed policies and added features and many bloggers have made considerable money from the writing of reviews - however the debate continues (although has perhaps become less prominent.
My hope with this poll was to look at Paid Reviews 18 or so months after they rose to prominence to see how many bloggers had experimented with them. >>>more
