Blogger help, tips and hacks

Starting a Blog - Blogging Basics for the Beginner Blogger

2009-08-13T06:45:00.000-07:00

Starting a Blog teaches the beginner blogger or anyone who needs a Blogging 101 refresher course how to decide if blogging is right for them as well as how to choose a domain, host and blogging software. You'll also find step-by-step tutorials to help you get started as a successful blogger.

Blog Software and Hosts (11) Creating a Blog (5) Blogging Books & Resources (6) Wordpress Tutorials & Tips (2) Blogging Ethics (4) Writing a Blog (11) Blogging FAQs (13)

What is a Blog?
Learn exactly what a blog really is.

Before You Start a Blog, Determine if Blogging is Right for You
Take a look at these factors to consider before you start a blog to determine if blogging is right for you.

Trick: How To Be Number One On Google For Keywords

2009-08-13T06:43:00.001-07:00

This next trick I am going to show you is something that worked for me all the time. To be number one on google for Top Keywords!.

It really does not matter if you are new to blogging and what page rank you have all you really need is focus on Top Keywords and blogs that rank number one for keywords like example: “Make Money Online” or “Best Technology Blogs”

This is what I would like you to do!

Do research which blog is number 1 for keyword you are looking for. Then go to that blog and leave comment in way you don’t sound like spammer yet you want to draw traffic from that blog to your blog (blog post).

If you notice also that blog is accepting Post Trackbacks write a GOOD blog post on your blog and link to that blog post which is ranking No.1 for specific keyword.
This trick worked for me each time, I would get at least 500 visitors each month from each blog that rank number one.

So it really does not matter if you rank 12403 for keyword like “make money online” because your comment or Trackback is going to give you pretty much good exposure to people, that were interested in that keyword.

What Is The Best Time To Blog Post

2009-08-13T06:41:00.000-07:00

Over the past few years I learned that if you post an article at specific time you can gain more readers, returning visitors and you control your audience when to hit the site the most.

Best time to blog post will be right in the morning 6am. Most people wake up at that time, have their coffee, serial and laptop front of them. But that does not mean that your particular audience is going to be that way.

Why?

Blogs like Political News, Economy News, Technology News or Celebrity News (News that change constantly) are more interesting to read in the morning or after work 5PM.

Blogs like Make Money Online, Astronomy, How To’s, Education etc …are more visited throughout the day BUT there is always that peak time which you should hit every day.

As you can see BONTB peak time is between 12pm-18pm now I would like you to compare your times and see the difference.

Again Why?????

Because what you want to do is check your time line when people are most visiting and blog post about an hour before the big audience arrives. This way people will say “Oh this has been just updated, great!” or “Wow I got to bookmark this!, it’s breaking news!”

Help a Blogger Choose Some Speakers

2008-08-25T09:24:00.000-07:00

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Passive Speakers

These are included here only for completeness: nobody should ever consider passive speakers. Little more than a pair of earbuds in a box, these toy accessories are uniformly tinny, rattling novelties. The only thing that sounds worse is the cellphone music that generous teenagers share with you on the Subway.

A close cousin is the active speaker, usually adding a little more oomph with a battery powered amplifier. The only real difference is that they can project the sound a little further, therefore bringing more people into your radius of irritation.

Verdict: Avoid

Extras

Another thing to consider is how you’ll get the music to the speakers. If all your music is on an iPod, Apple’s Universal Dock is a good choice: the line-out will hook into any stereo and it comes with a remote. If you are using iTunes, on a Mac or a PC, the Airport Express will wirelessly stream tunes around the house. Then there are third party options, like Roku’s Soundbridge and the Sonos system, but those can be pricey (and have a lot of extra frills). Plus, you still need a stereo to actually play the music. Of course, there’s always the cheap option: a six foot cable with a jack on each end.

Recommendations in the comments, please. I’m leaning towards a 2.1 setup, but if you can convince me otherwise, I’m happy to change. And keep them cheap.

Help a Blogger Choose Some Speakers

2008-08-25T09:17:00.000-07:00

Digital music is great, something very apparent to the frequent traveler. Since moving to Spain last year, I’ve been hopping from country to country and apartment to apartment, carrying my whole music library on my Mac’s hard drive. Compare that to a few packing cases full of CDs and you can see why I ripped all my music before that first, nervous departure.

But how best to get that music back into distinctly analog, air-shifting sound-waves? This post is ostensibly to ask for your help, as I have landed, speaker-less, back on Barcelona’s fair shores. But first, read a roundup of the options.

A Real Stereo

This might be the smartest option in terms of quality. What we used to call ‘mini-systems’ usually have beefy speakers and the space inside for a decent amplifier. The trouble is, those same speakers take up space, both on the shelf and in the shipping box. All-in-ones also pack in a lot of superflous (for me, at least) extras: a radio, a CD player, and perhaps even a cassette deck (remember those?)

Separates would solve the latter problem as you only need to buy an amplifier and speakers, and they will probably give the best sound of all. But they’re expensive, take up a lot of space and, to be honest, if you’re just pumping MP3s through it, you probably won't notice the difference.

Using RSS Newsfeeds to Get the Latest Headlines

2008-06-14T05:07:00.000-07:00

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What's a Newsfeed?

What are RSS and ATOM?
Quick Examples
Educational Uses
Who Has News Feeds?

News Organizations
Blogs
Other Web sites
Applications to View Newsfeeds

Preview RSS in Browsers
Newsreaders
Web Services
Penn State Portal
Thunderbird (Win/Mac/Linux)
Google News Alert E-mails

Where to Subscribe
What's a Newsfeed?
A newsfeed is an XML text file which sends information about news items to a newsreader application like the Penn State Portal or by some browsers including Safari 2, Opera 8 or Internet Explorer 7.

What are RSS and ATOM?
These are two specifications (written in XML) which contain news headlines and summarys which can be read by a news reader

Sites with newsfeeds are marked with colored icon links saying RSS, XML or ATOM. RSS feeds are more common and simpler to create, but ATOM feeds may contain more informaiton including images.

You may need a newsreader or feed reader to view these sites. See the Plugins section below for information on obtaining newsreaders.

Quick examples
Penn State Portal Channels - Each "channel" reads a RSS XML file and displays it in the channel
BBC World News - This page uses an XSLT style sheet to display the RSS file in a browser.
TLT Computing with Accents Newsfeed - This page combines RSS with CSS style sheets so it can be readable in a normal browser.
Your Daily Art Blog - Includes a Newsfeed
Language Log - Linguists writing on language news and linguistics phenomena in the media

Educational Uses
Some educational benefits of monitoring newsfeeds include.

Monitoring RSS Feeds can allow students and instructors to gather the latest news and information about key subtopics.
RSS newsreaders enables more efficient scanning of news headlines, so that users can select only a few articles to read in depth.
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Who Has RSS Feeds?
Blogs
Many blogs, including Blogs at Penn State, include a subsidiary RSS feed. Look for the Subscribe link or the RSS or XML icon.

News Organizations
Many news organizations contain RSS feeds (often marked with an RSS icon or XML icon). Some examples include the following. To find a news organization's RSS page, look at the bottom of the page or to the side.

Penn State Live
Washington Post RSS Feeds
CNN News RSS
New York Times RSS Feeds
BBC News
Note: You may need a specialized news reader plugin or application to view the contents as a channel. Otherwise, you may see a series of XML tags.

Other Web Sites
It does not require much effort to set up an RSS feed, so many people or organizations have created an RSS feed to provide specialized news stories. Here are just a few random examples.

Stone Pages Archaeology News
Life in the USA - American life described for newly arrived immigrants
Applications to View Newsfeeds
RSS is a technology different from regular HTML Web pages and usually requires special news reader plugins or applications to view RSS feeds correctly. These applications convert a feed to a "channel" with headlines and link to full stories.

Here are some examples of news reader applications supporting RSS files.

Preview RSS Feeds in Browsers
The following browsers have simple RSS Support. They allow to quickly view the content of a feed, but not necessarily manage subscriptions.

Internet Explorer 7 (Win)
Safari 2+ (Mac)
Firefox Extensions/Add Ons Section
Firefox, Opera and Camino also have RSS support but they may assume that you use a separate RSS reader (as listed in the next "Separate RSS Newsreaders" section.

To View feeds
Click any RSS link or enter in any RSS URL with the .xml or .rss extension (e.g. http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml)
Note: In Internet Explorer, you can also click the orange feed broadcast icon ().
Note: In Safari, you can also click the blue RSS icon () in the address bar.
A new window will appear listing headlines and links.
Note: Safari converts addresses to feed:// instead of http://
To Manage Subscriptions
The applications below are recommended if you want to manage subscriptions.

Separate RSS News Readers
If you wish to follow a newsfeed regularly, then a newsreader is recommended because they indicate new headlines and they allow you to organize your RSS feeds into category folders. Some common freeware news readers include:

Feed Reader (Windows)
Net News Wire Lite (Mac OS X) - There's also a for-fee full version
Straw (Linux)
RSS Info List
To subscribe to a news feed, find the New Channel or Subscribe button command, then copy and paste any URL ending with the .xml or .rss extension. The new "channel" will be added.

Use the folder option in each package to create categories for newsfeeds. Folders will typically list new headlines in each category; you can then click inside the folder to see individual subscriptions.

Web Services
There are also online services which let you subscribe to and organize your feeds. The advantage is that you can access your newsfeeds from any computer, but the data is stored off your computer and can be lost. Like the freeware applications, these usually include folder category support. Common ones include:

Bloglines.com
Google Reader
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Penn State Portal
Each channel on the Penn State Portal is an RSS feed. The links for the headlines direct you to an HTML page with the full news story. Below is an example of the My PSU News channel with headlines.

Each headline links to an HTML page of the story on the external Penn State Live site.

Details of Google’s Latest Security Hole

2008-06-14T05:05:00.000-07:00

I’ve now received confirmation from Google’s Security Team that the latest vulnerability Philipp posted about has been fixed. After carrying out some investigations of my own, I believe this is the case – so I’m going to share with you what the problem was and how I was able to exploit it. In doing so, I hope to educate other developers about the potential flaws that can occur in growingly complex web applications.

In summary, I was able to create a page that was hosted on a google.com domain, which is something that should never be allowed to happen. Because of this vulnerability, I was then able to use a simple bit of code to steal someone else’s Google cookie and access their Google services.

Latest Updates for PicasaPrint

2008-06-14T04:38:00.000-07:00

Updates to Picasa are made on an ongoing basis. These updates may include bug fixes, performance enhancements, additional hardware/device support and other improvements.

To make sure you are running the latest version of the software, follow the manual update instructions below. If your software is out of date, you will occasionally receive automatic alerts when you open Picasa that updates are available. You may choose to update at that time. Please note that we don't always auto-update people when new builds are available since some builds contain fixes and/or improvements that are only relevant to a small percentage of users.

How to manually install or upgrade Picasa:

On Picasa Home, click the download button at the top of the page.
Follow instructions to run the program and install. (You do not need to uninstall first.)
Any previous edits you've made will be preserved.
LATEST UPDATES:

Version 2.7, Build 37.49 - March 06, 2008

Improved performance for new Intel chips.
Translation fixes for Hungarian and Chinese.
Fixed a case that would result in an error when capturing images from webcams.
Version 2.7, Build 37.36 - October 30, 2007

Added support for 11 additional languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Filipino, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Thai, Vietnamese.
Version 2.7, Build 37.32 - October 02, 2007

Fixed a case where corrupted AVI files could cause a crash.
Fixed a case that would result in a "This account is not enabled for Picasa Web Albums" error.
Version 2.7, Build 37.29 - September 13, 2007

Added support for RAW pictures from the Canon 40D.
Fixed a case where certain RAW pictures appeared overexposed.
Full-screen preview using Ctrl-Alt now works again.
Fixed a case where uploading to Picasa Web Albums could result in an immediate "failed to connect" error.
Version 2.7, Build 37.23 - August 21, 2007

Added support for 7 additional languages: Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, and Ukrainian
Fixed a problem with Picasa jumping to the wrong picture after deleting a picture
Fixed two issues which could cause a "Failed to Connect" error when logging into Picasa Web Albums
Fixed a case in which an error could result when opening pictures with third-party products
Fixed problems related to Picasa Media Detector not disabling properly
Version 2.7, Build 36.60 - June 26, 2007

Support for geotagging integration with Picasa Web Albums
Added more metadata to JPEG when exporting and uploading photos
Version 2.7, Build 36.40 - May 3, 2007

Minor update to RAW
Fixed a case where updating thumbnails message would incorrectly appear.
Updated version number for international installs.
Version 2.7, Build 36.37 - April 24, 2007

New RAW processing engine with support for more cameras and improved color.
New color engine for "tuning" fixes.
Added support for Google Photos Screensaver.
Improved BlogThis! reliability.
Version 2.6, Build 36.19 - February 13, 2007

Improved support for Vista.
Fixed a problem with Timeline and Slideshow on Vista Aero mode.
Improved reliability of uploading to Picasa Web Albums.
Updated icons.
Version 2.6, Build 35.97 - December 12, 2006

Fixed a problem with naming conventions of temporary files during install.
Version 2.6, Build 35.94 - December 7, 2006

New autoupdate behavior for Windows Vista support.
New CD/DVD-burning engine (supports more devices).
Improved upload reliability to Picasaweb.
Added support for 18 new languages.
Added XMP metadata parsing.
Fixed many crash bugs.
Rolled-up fixes from 32.97 and 32.95.
Version 2.5, Build 32.97 - November 14, 2006

Fixed IE 7 video upload.
Fixed Orkut uploading problem.
Fixed bad GPS data the first time you save a non-JPG photo.
Version 2.5, Build 32.95 - October 9, 2006

Fixed an issue with corrupt gif files causing excessive CPU usage.
Fixed issues with uploading videos to Picasa Web Albums for accounts with upgraded storage only.
Version 2.5, Build 32.94 - September 15, 2006

Share photos online - Upload photos to Picasa Web Albums for easy sharing on the web. When viewing your friends' albums online, you can even download them right back into Picasa on your own computer.
Nested Folder View - Now you can choose how to display folders in Picasa.
Save Changes to Disk - Now you can save your edits and have access to them in other programs, but we also provide an automatic backup that lets you revert to the original at any time.
Screensaver - Show starred photos in a collage, or pan and zoom your Web Albums photos. Choose between four presentation options to display your best shots.
Geotagging - Tell Picasa where you shot each photo, and view them on a 3-D globe in Google Earth.
Larger thumbnails - Our thumbnails are slightly larger, so photos are clearer, and we've improved speed as well.
Updated RAW support - We support more cameras and RAW formats (including the Canon 30D, Nikon D200, and DNG).
Other goodies - Improved caption editing. Starred photos organize automatically into a special album. The bottom row of buttons can now be configured to suit your needs. The "Just raw frames" option lets you export time-lapse sequences in the movie maker. Plus, don't forget to check out the "Tools" > "Experimental" menu for other things we're trying out.
b28.10 January 26, 2006

Added 25 new interface languages -- Picasa is now available in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Catalan, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. When you start Picasa, the software will automatically match your system's native language. To change the language in Picasa, go to Tools > Options. Change the language using the pulldown menu on the "General" tab. You will need to close and re-open Picasa to see your changes take effect.
Picasa now supports Internet Explorer 7.
Fixed problems with UNC path drives.
b27.66 November 10, 2005

Fixed corruption problem for Canon 5D RAW files.
Fix for problems importing from a scanner.
Fix for problems exporting a webpage to a network drive.
Fix for problems exporting a webpage to 4 or 8 character folder name off of the root drive.
Fix for problems with special characters in your Gmail password (users would receive a "login incorrect" error).
Fixed hotkeys.
Fixed crashing on TIFF files with JPG compression.
b27.60 October 11, 2005

Support for Nikon D50 RAW files.(note: color balance may not be correct).
Fix for problems backing up read-only files (they were getting backed up, but would not show as having been backed up in the Picasa Backup Set).
Windows 98: Fixed not being able to expand directory trees inside the Folder Manager.
Windows 98: Fixed CD burning bug.
Windows 98: Fixed Picasa not scanning files on your desktop.
b2.1 September 19, 2005

Multiple interface languages – Picasa is now available in Chinese (simplified and traditional), Dutch, English (U.S. and UK) , French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. When you start Picasa, the software will automatically match your system's native language. To change the language in Picasa, go to Tools > Options. Change the language using the pulldown menu on the "General" tab. You will need to close and re-open Picasa to see your changes take effect.
BlogThis! - Post a photo to your blog in one click. Picasa's new "BlogThis!" button replaces the "Blogger" button and allows you to upload your photos directly to the Blogger web editor, without the need for a Hello account. To use, select a photo in Picasa and click the "BlogThis!" button. (If you do not have a Google Account for Blogger, follow the steps on-screen to create one.) When you are signed in to Blogger, the web editor will open. Click "Publish" to post your photo to your blog.
Print CD covers – Turn any photo into cover art. Click the "Print" button. Go to Tools > Options > Printing. Select "CD Cover Size" and apply. "CD Cover Size" is now one of the print layout choices.
Improved RAW handling – Picasa supports more RAW formats and cameras in this release, with improved color-balance support and faster speed. Work with your highest quality files from these camera manufacturers: Canon (.CRW, .CR2), Nikon (.NEF), Olympus (.ORF), Pentax (.PEF), Kodak (.DCR), Sony (.SRF), Minolta (.MRW), and Fuji(.RAF). New models supported include the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT (aka the 350D), Pentax *istDS, Konica/Minolta Maxxum7D (aka the Dynax 7D).
External drives - Find photos on external drives using Picasa. Simply go Tools > Folder Manager to choose whether Picasa should scan a connected external drive to find photos. When you unplug and reconnect, Picasa will find your photos instantly (with no scanning), and will also preserve your albums.
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Show off your favorite blogs with a Blog List

2008-06-14T04:31:00.000-07:00

Today we’re releasing a new page element for Layouts blogs: Blog List. The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets.

Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your sidebar, or make a few to categorize the blogs you read. The Blog List works well for any page that has an RSS or Atom feed, so you can get creative: link to news sites, podcasts, Twitter streams, search results, or anything else with a feed.

Here’s a quick summary of the features that a Blog List gives you:

Link to blogs, web pages, and feeds from your blog’s sidebar, with an optional favicon

For pages with RSS and Atom feeds, Blog List can show last updated time, post title, and a snippet of the latest post

Sort links alphabetically or by last update time
Show all links, or hide some behind a “show all” link

Import subscriptions from Google Reader

Blog List links are visible to search engine crawlers, so your blog’s PageRank and reputation flow to those you link to

Want to see it in action? We made a help video to walk you through adding and configuring a Blog List:

Thanks go out to everyone who chimed in on the Blogger in draft blog while this feature was being developed. You helped us a lot!

Tip: Want to show more posts from a single blog? Use the Feed page element to put any RSS or Atom feed in your blog’s sidebar.

Download Google's Help Files

2008-06-04T06:04:00.000-07:00

Did you ever want to get a help file for Gmail, Google Docs or for Google Desktop so you can print it or save it on your computer? All Google services have help centers that include information about features, tutorials, troubleshooting guides, but you need to find the information in a complicated hierarchy of topics or use the search box.

Fortunately, there's a way to save all the information related to a Google service: append ?fulldump=1 to the address of a Google help center. This doesn't work for all Google services, but here's a list of addresses that dump all the information from a help center (note that the pages are very large and are frequently updated):

Gmail Help: http://mail.google.com/support/?fulldump=1

Google Calendar Help: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/?fulldump=1

Google Docs Help: http://docs.google.com/support/?fulldump=1

Google Spreadsheets: http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/?fulldump=1

Google Presentations: http://docs.google.com/support/presentations/?fulldump=1

Google Reader Help: http://www.google.com/support/reader/?fulldump=1

Google Video Help: http://video.google.com/support/?fulldump=1

YouTube Help: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/?fulldump=1

AdSense Help: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/?fulldump=1

Analytics Help: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics?fulldump=1

Google Desktop Help: http://desktop.google.com/support/?fulldump=1

Picasa Help: http://picasa.google.com/support/?fulldump=1

Google Toolbar for IE: http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/?fulldump=1

Google Toolbar for Firefox: http://www.google.com/support/firefox/?fulldump=1

Google Earth (PDF): http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/google_earth_user_guide.pdf

17 Smashing Tips On Choosing Your Best Wedding Gowns

2008-06-04T05:58:00.000-07:00

Wedding is a special occasion where the bride becomes the heroine and she is the star of the event. Wedding gown is undeniably a special attire that every women wishes to have in her wardrobe. As you will be the center of attraction in your wedding, you have to be careful in choosing your wedding gown such that it matches your style. The gown that you select should make you look extremely gorgeous and should fit you correctly.

You can enjoy your wedding only if you are comfortable in your wedding attire. Though you may find different styles of wedding gowns, you have to select the one that that suits you. Choosing the wedding gown is often a tough decision to make as every woman want to look great on their special day.

If you take some time and plan perfectly, you can arrive at the best wedding gown for yourself. Here are some tips for you that will help you to decide on your wedding gown:

1. Understand that the cost of the wedding gown does not determine your look. If you are able to spend time in choosing your wedding gown, then you can find an inexpensive gown that looks spectacular when you wear it. Your wedding budget is very important. Choose the gown that fits your budget. Splendid wedding gowns are available at different price ranges and you can choose the one you like that fits your budget. If you have a good budget for your wedding gown, you can get a designer to design a wedding gown exclusively for you. Designer celebrity gowns are often expensive but always try to strike a balance between the budget and the pattern of your wedding gown.

Blogging Basics

2008-06-04T05:49:00.000-07:00

What's a weblog?
A weblog, or "blog", is a personal journal on the Web. Weblogs cover as many different topics, and express as many opinions, as there are people writing them. Some blogs are highly influential and have enormous readership, while others are mainly intended for a close circle of family and friends.
Why are blogs important?
The power of weblogs is that they allow millions of people to easily publish their ideas, and millions more to comment on them. Blogs are a fluid, dynamic medium, more akin to a "conversation" than to a library — which is how the Web has often been described in the past. With an increasing number of people reading, writing, and commenting on blogs, the way we use the Web is shifting in a fundamental way. Instead of primarily being passive consumers of information, more and more Internet users are becoming active participants. Weblogs allow everyone to have a voice.
What are common misperceptions about weblogs?
The main misconception about blogs is that they are only personal diaries. Weblogs come in all flavors, from personal journals that are mainly shared with close friends and family, to blogs with readership levels placing them in the league of mainstream media. Blog topics include political commentary, product reviews, scientific endeavors, and any area of information where people have a deep expertise and a desire to express it.
What is a blogger?
A blogger is someone who writes a blog.
What is the blogosphere?
Blogosphere is a word used to describe the online community of bloggers and their writings.
How is a weblog different from a website?
A weblog is a website that is updated frequently, most often displaying its material in journal-like chronological dated entries or posts. Most blogs allow readers to post comments to your the post, and link from their blog to your posts using the permanlink URL or address. In a blog, the content can be published and syndicated separate from the formatting using an RSS feed. Readers can then subscribe to the feed to automatically receive updates.
What is a weblog post or entry?
An entry, a post, or a posting, are the terms often used to refer to a specific article or commentary written by the blogger on his or her weblog.
What is a comment?
Many weblogs allow readers to write a reaction to what was written in the blog entry. Comments can often be found directly following the blog entry.
What is RSS?
RSS is a file format that allows anyone with a website — from large media companies to individual commentators — to easily "syndicate" their content, similar to how comic strips and popular columns are syndicated by their owners to hundreds of newspapers. Except that on the Web, the RSS syndication is usually free, and the content that is syndicated is often not the full entry, but excerpts and links back to the originating website. Technorati uses RSS to track updates to millions of blogs.
What is "syndication"?
In traditional media, syndication is a way of making content (such as OpEd columns or cartoons) available to many media outlets to publish simultaneously, usually for a fee. In the world of weblogs syndication means making part of a website available for consumption in a specialized reader or for other sites to use and publish, often for free. The part of a site made available for such syndication is most often a "RSS newsfeed" that lets other tools and sites display some or all of the site's content with proper attributions and links to the original source.
How is RSS different from a blog?
A blog is a website which usually includes current entries, comments, a "blogroll," and an archive. An RSS newsfeed is a way of representing a portion of that website.
What about an RSS search engine? Is that different from what Technorati does?
Yes. RSS feeds are a subset of the World Live Web. An RSS search engine searches only content structured in specialized XML formats such as RSS and Atom but does not look at a site's HTML or other markup. Not all blogs have RSS feeds, and some sites that are not blogs (such as The New York Times or some online event calendars) do have RSS feeds. Many blogs only send out a small portion or summary of their full postings and leave the full postings on their sites as HTML. Technorati specializes in searching all blogs, not merely those with RSS feeds, and instead of only indexing the RSS feed (often the first few hundred words of an article), Technorati reads all of the HTML code in a blog posting, and also tracks all of the activity around a blog or post such as inbound and outbound links.
What's the relationship between blogging and journalism?
Weblogs are different from traditional media. Bloggers tend to be more opinionated, niche-focused, and partisan than journalists, who strive for editorial objectivity. Blogs encourage dialog with readers, which is why many traditional journalists now also have blogs. The relationship between blogging and journalism can be characterized as symbiotic rather than competitive. Bloggers are often sources for journalists, and many blogs contain commentary and riffs on what journalists wrote that day. Frequently newsmakers use blogs to respond to what journalists write about them. And by linking to traditional media, weblogs can introduce new readers to journalists and their publications.
Are weblogs a business or a hobby?
For most people, blogging is a hobby. For some, especially journalists, writers, and business and political leaders, writing blogs enhances their professional careers by giving their voices a broader audience and allowing more engaged contact with their readers, constituents, and customers. Some bloggers have readership numbers approaching that of big media and are able to earn income from their popularity.
What is a permalink?
The homepages of most weblogs have several entries, or posts, listed on them. Because blogs tend to be frequently updated, articles you find on a weblog's homepage one day may not be there the next. A permalink is the permanent identifier to a specific weblog post or article. Bloggers love permalinks — they provide an easy way to capture specific references to posts or articles about which bloggers are writing.
Why is linking so important?
A link from one weblog to another helps provide context around an argument or point, and it is essentially a "vote of attention" from one blogger to another. By linking to another site or blog, the weblog author is saying, "I find what you are saying important enough to link to it." Linking also helps create the conversation of the Web, the critical mass of connected thought that is not available in static text.
The relevance of a site on the Web can be determined by how often a source is cited and therefore considered an authority. Links in the world of weblogs are even more important since bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating a sense of timeliness and back-and-forth one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks the number of links and the unique source of links to determine the breadth and readership of any author or site. Technorati is uniquely positioned in the center of this ongoing conversation monitoring who is linking to whom and which bloggers are commanding attention on various topics.

What are "inbound links" and "outbound links?"
Inbound links refer to hyperlinks from other sources citing that weblog. Outbound links refer to hyperlinks from the weblog to outside sources.
What is a "blogroll?"
A blogroll is a list of blogs and bloggers that any particular blog author finds influential or interesting — so much so that the author wants the link to be enduringly visible on his or her site instead of just in occasional entries. A blogroll is often found to one side of a blog's entries, and the hyperlinked names lead directly to the blogs in question. Blogrolls indicate which online community a blogger is attracted to or belongs to, and they are part of the conversations of the blogosphere.
What is the World Live Web™?
The World Live Web™? is a frequently updated subset of the World Wide Web. Sites in this subset update often, and Technorati is able to index this new content within ten minutes in most cases.
Is searching the Live Web™? different than searching the Wide Web?
Yes. The Web indexed by most search engines is static and inactive. Other search engines will occasionally visit sites in search of new content. Technorati is integrated with the tools that power the blogosphere and is therefore notified of new content as it happens. Technorati lets you know what is being said right now, by whom, and how it affects you or your business.
What is Technorati?
Technorati is the leading monitor of the world of weblogs. Technorati is a real-time search engine that is the largest source of fresh information about the global and local conversations going on all across the Web. Technorati allows you to find out what people are saying about you, your company, your products, your competitors, your politics and, other areas of interest, on the Internet in real time.
For more in-depth information about Technorati's service please see our Frequently Asked Questions page. For more information about the company please see the About Technorati pages

Marketing Mania: Driving Business without Driving Yourself CrazyAnita's keynote will focus on one of the key points of learning to market as a small b

2008-06-04T05:46:00.000-07:00

Anita's keynote will focus on one of the key points of learning to market as a small business: balancing running your business with promoting it. Since more than half of our attendees came from true small businesses (less than ten employees) we recognize that many of them are faced with the daily challenge of actually running the company. They don't have marketing departments, they ARE the marketing department.

That can make it tough to keep your focus. How do you decide how much value you're getting from your marketing efforts and where do you draw the line on when blogging should give way to picking a new hire or cutting checks to suppliers? How do you avoid getting caught up in the fun that is Twitter and Linked In and Facebook and maximize your time to get it all done?

Honestly? We don't know the answer. That's why we've asked Anita to come and enlighten us (and of course, you!) She'll help us all gain some perspective on the best ways to maximize our marketing efforts while still leaving yourself time to focus on the things we do best; run our businesses!

Jennifer Laycock Brings Business Back to the Basics

2008-06-04T05:40:00.000-07:00

Sage highlights Jennifer Laycock's article "How Social Media (Didn't) Change Business," in which she uses her grandfather as an example of what business is really all about, and that's PEOPLE. Jennifer's grandfather was an insurance agent who delayed his retirement for a year to personally take care of all his clients' claims after a major tornado struck the area. With the social media bandwagon riding full these days, Sage points out that even with new technology, the importance of the person, of the customer as an individual, always rises to the top. He sites the power of user-generated reviews, reinforcing that people trust people, not corporations.

A ‘Quick’ Tip on Landing an Interview for Your Blog

2008-06-04T05:18:00.000-07:00

Over the last month since launching the Blogger book I’ve done more interviews with other bloggers and sites than I’ve ever done before. It’s been a lot of fun but it’s also taught me a lot about how to approach people for interviews on your blog.

Perhaps the best piece of advice that I could give a blogger wanting to approach another person to be the subject of an interview is to make it a manageable task for the person that you approach.

There is nothing more off putting when you’re asked to do an interview than being sent 20 questions.

Actually - there is one more off putting thing than 20 questions…. It’s being told that there will only be a few questions… which you agree to…. and then getting sent 20 questions.

I’m not against long interviews (and have even done a couple over the last months) but it is important to establish the scope of the interview that you want up front with your potential interview subject.

If you’re looking for something in-depth then let them know this so that they can put the time aside for it (if they say yes). Just be willing to get a ‘no’ if you’re after a long interview as they can take considerable time. As a guide - my 18 question interview with Guy Kawasaki a couple of weeks back took me 6 or so hours (over numerous days) to write up.

To increase the chances of someone saying yes to your interview a shorter interview might work. You can also increase your chances by giving them a brief insight into the topic of your site and how it is relevant to them.

Many people are willing to do interviews with bloggers - but you’ll increase the chances when you make it achievable and realistic to do. An example of this is that the most success I’ve ever had with interviewing other bloggers
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How I Make Money Blogging - Top Income Streams Update

2008-06-04T05:16:00.000-07:00

Once every 3 months I update my Make Money Blogging page here at ProBlogger with my top income earners for that last quarter. Today I made the update for the last three months (March to May 2008).

My top income earners for the last quarter were:

AdSense (previously #1)
Chitika (previously #2)
Private Ad Sales (previously #4)
Amazon Associates (previously #3)
Miscellaneous Affiliate Programs (previously #7)
Shopzilla (previously not in the list)
ProBlogger Job Board (previously #6)
WidgetBucks (previously not in the list)
Miscellaneous Ad Networks (previously #8)
I’ve included where it was previously ranked in my income streams so you can see how things have changed (and where they have not. AdSense and Chitika continue to dominate although Private Ad Sales have been making a move, as have affiliate programs.

You can read a complete description of each one and how I’ve used it in the Make Money Blogging post.

How to Reset Your Blog

2008-06-04T05:02:00.000-07:00

From time to time you may have problems when using blogger, anything from layout issues, to missing posts or missing widgets. When you get strange behaviour in your blog you may need to reset your blog.

To reset you blog is quite simple and will fix most issues straight away.

When you reset your blog you don't lose any posts, so if you are having problems try resetting, it may just help.

Please see http://notjustajax.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-reset-your-blog.html for detailed instructions on how to reset your blog and hopefully fix your problems.

SeanJC

http://google-checkout-api.blogspot.com

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2008-06-02T06:03:00.003-07:00

Successful blogging is not just about being the best writer on the web or even the most prolific. Being a successful blogger is about creating a connection with an audience by providing relevant content, nurturing that relationship with comments and links and keeping the dialogue flowing. Here are ten tips to get you started.

1. Understand the fundamentals of Blogger Relations
While anyone can set up a blog in a day and start publishing articles, it takes far more work to be a great blogger and see the real benefits of blogging. First, you need to have a blogging strategy that is in line with your PR strategy and business goals. Next, you have to provide relevant content. Most importantly, you must conduct what is called Blogger Relations. Blogger Relations is what blogging is all about—starting and maintaining a conversation. Unlike Public Relations or media relations where you are trying to pitch your story, with Blogger Relations you initiate and participate in ongoing discussions with other bloggers and your target audience. As the conversation progresses, you get to know the other players in your industry; you gain credibility by listening as well as commenting; and you gain new readers as other bloggers provide links back to your blog to give you credit for your ideas. The more you conduct Blogger Relations, the more successful your blogging will be.

2. Create value
Creating something of value for your audience should be the first aim of your blog; otherwise your readers will have no reason to return. This is where a public relations strategy can help you develop content that keeps your customers coming back for more.

3. Grow and sustain your audience by providing real analysis
Monitor the news and blogs for articles that would be of interest to your audience. When writing about the news as a blogger, it is not just a matter of describing the news—though that is important. It is more imperative that you provide new, informative and entertaining analysis in order to sustain and grow your audience. That is why opinion and your personal perspective interlaced with your past experiences will help to add to your credibility and foster loyal readership.

4. Report on community opinion
If you think the news is important but don’t have an opinion or perspective, one way to provide opinion is to provide a synopsis of ideas from the community at large. In addition to acting as a valuable resource for your audience, you create the opportunity to send a trackback link to one or more blogs, connecting with more bloggers AND more readers.

5. Respond with comments to build relationships and traffic
Responding to another blogger’s comment can be just as important as the article post itself. Blogging is about dialogue and the opportunity to interact with your audience. Many posts will not receive any comments, but when they do, you have to be ready to respond. Blogging is a little like having an amphitheatre of people viewing a conversation between two people. While you must focus on the conversation with your commenter, you must also be aware of the rest of the audience. In other words, you should respond to the challenge the commenter presents while at the same time providing greater context, so the entire readership can follow and benefit from your conversation.

6. Track your conversations
In order to keep conversations flowing, you have to stay aware of each discussion in progress. Unfortunately, we are still in the early days of blogging, and many blogs do not include notification technology to let you know where there has been a new post. And even if a blogger receives notification that you have commented on his/her blog, does not mean that you will receive notification when that blogger replies to your comment. If comment email subscription is available, it is wise to subscribe. You may also choose to use tools such as del.icio.us or Cocomment for tracking comments online and subsequent follow up. But, ultimately, you may have to monitor for comments manually to make sure you keep the conversations alive.

7. Don’t be afraid of criticism
Dialogue is also about criticism; so don’t be afraid when others criticize your ideas or actions you have taken on a blog. See it as opportunity to keep the conversation flowing. In the blogosphere, you are more respected when you demonstrate the ability to respond. In addition, a “foil” critiquing your work can often draw more attention to the discussion and increase readership. Furthermore, criticism can be constructive. Feedback related to product flaws and improvements can actually help your product development process.

8. Conduct interviews to generate content and ideas
Interviews are a great way to generate interest and content for the blog. Picking other bloggers to interview is particularly helpful in generating links and traffic. Many bloggers will enjoy the added attention and more than likely link back to your interview post.

9. Promote your blog
When an author writes a book, the writing process is often very much solitary. Once the book is published, however, a writer must reach out to others and promote that book through public readings and strategic marketing. Building a successful blog requires a similar approach. Once your articles are written, you have to promote them by chatting with colleagues in the industry and starting a dialogue. Connect with loyal and thoughtful readers as well as industry authorities. When bloggers take note of your article, it tends to have a viral effect, increasing eyeballs exponentially.

10. Monitor the web for brand names and references
Using RSS feed search engines such as technorati.com and blogpulse.com, monitor for mention of your company and corporate blog posts as well as important developments in your industry

10 Tips for Becoming a Great Corporate Blogger

2008-06-02T06:03:00.002-07:00

10 Tips for Becoming a Great Corporate Blogger

2008-06-02T06:03:00.000-07:00

Unbreakable Linux - Free Linux DVD set from Oracle

2008-06-02T05:43:00.000-07:00

First it was Ubuntu and now it is Oracle's turn. That is right; here is a wonderful chance to get yourself a DVD set of Oracle's Unbreakable Linux. Essentially Unbreakable Linux is Red Hat Enterprise Linux sans the Red Hat trademarks.

Oracle claims Unbreakable Linux delivers enterprise-class support for Linux with premier backports, comprehensive management, cluster software, indemnification, testing and more, all at significantly lower cost.

To order your Free DVD of Oracle Unbreakable Linux with free shipping and all, visit this page and click the "Register Now" button. If this is your first visit to the Oracle website, you will have to create an Oracle account. Next enter your shipping address which is the address to which you would like to receive the DVD set and press "Submit". That is it. Oracle will ship you a brand new DVD set of Unbreakable Linux.

Is it Possible to Earn a Full Time Salary as a Part Time Blogger?

2008-06-02T05:28:00.000-07:00

“Is it possible to earn a full-time salary as a part-time blogger? (eg, if you’re student)”

This question has been voted up quite high in my Q&A sidebar widget so I thought I’d attempt an answer today.

It’s one of those questions with two answers:

Yes…. and…. No

Let’s unpack both (and I’d encourage you to read both as they bring balance to the question).

Yes it is POSSIBLE to earn a full-time salary as a part-time blogger
Part of me wants to simply answer this question with a ‘no’ answer and give a long list of answers why it’s not possible (because to answer ‘yes’ will mean some will accuse me of painting an unrealistic picture of blogging for money). However I have met a number of bloggers who make a good living from blogging as part time bloggers (in writing this I don’t have permission to share their stories so I’ll keep this fairly general).

However in every case there are a few observations I’d make about these bloggers. They usually had all of the following characteristics (or at least a few of them):

1. They worked hard - they might not have put full time hours (40 or so hours a week) into their blogging but they certainly did work quite a few hours and worked hard in those hours. Many of them did work full time on their blogs at certain times (summer holidays etc).

2. They were very good at what they did - they had an exceptional knack of being able to write engaging content, build networks and build community on their blogs.

3. They had an element of ‘luck’ to their story - I am thinking of a couple of bloggers particularly who really found themselves in the right place at the right time when they started their blogs.

4. They were able to draw others in to help - one way to overcome an inability to work full time hours is to draw others into your blog to help shoulder some of the load.

5. They made money indirectly ‘because’ of their blog and not just directly ‘from’ their blog - interestingly a number of the bloggers I’m thinking of have developed products (e-books and courses) of their own that they sell from their blog (and other people’s blogs). This means they are not just building a revenue from advertising but have a secondary source of income.

6. They USED to work full time as a blogger - one blogger that I’m thinking about now works about 20 hours a week blogging and make a very good living from his blog - but only because he used to work full time. ie he built up his blog to a point where it really was earning good income which then enabled him to scale back a little and coast a bit (he also hired someone to help him - see point #4).

No it’s not LIKELY that you’ll make a full-time salary from blogging part time
It is possible to make a full time living from blogging part time - but the sad reality is that the bloggers I’m thinking of are not in the majority.

Most bloggers who do get to a level of earning a full time living from their blogs are working full time hours (or above) on their blogs. And even then many that are working full time hours are not able to make a full time living from blogging (time is just one element of many factors that build a successful blog).

When I’m talking to new bloggers wanting to explore blogging as a way of making money I generally encourage them to see it as something to supplement their existing income.

Yes it is possible to make a full time living from the medium but the reality is that most never get to this point. Sure - have it as a goal, but set yourself smaller goals in terms of your earnings and see it as something that progresses over time as you invest more time into blogging.

If you’d like to see a progression of how this unfolded for me I’d encourage you to read my story of becoming a Pro Blogger. It it you’ll see that I gradually stepped up my time put into blogging - but only as the earnings I was receiving allowed me to.

PS: Are You a Part Time Blogger Earning Full Time Income?
If you’re one of those bloggers that I mention in this post that are able to pull in a full time income from blogging part time I’m sure my readers would love to hear from you and learn from some of your wisdom. Feel free to share your own experiences (either with your URL as an example or anonymously if you’re not wanting to go public) - looking forward to your own lessons.

TypoXP : XML Template for Blogger

2008-05-30T07:37:00.000-07:00

When it comes to free blog templates, I tend to yawn. Doesn't matter if it is a template for Blogger or a WordPress theme. They mostly are rehashed base versions and if you seen one ... you seen them all.

Every now and then, however, a template does catch my eye. Not so much the look of it, but the ingenuity I can see beneath it all. Such is the case for Ustadz's WordPress theme knock-off of Sunaryo Hadi's TypoXP 2.0. He has created a truely unique Blogger template that is not only astonishing to view, but has many add-on features that are easy to install.

TypoXP Blogger Add-on Features:

Expandable post summaries
Author Comment Highlight
TypoXP Sidebar Title Icon Set
Label (Tags) Cloud Widget
Archive Calendar Widget
Recent Posts Widget
Recent Comments Widget
Search Widget

Resume Tips for Freshers

2008-05-30T07:31:00.000-07:00

Well! there is a famous saying “First Impression Is The Last Impression”

In today’s competitive world the above saying is playing very important role.
As today people are running for jobs in every fields and in all directions, but some of them get success and some are not. Why some are not getting?

Now here is the answer for the above question and it is Resume or Biodata of the person. And this is the first impression of the person for getting and losing the jobs. A good resume is the tool that can get you an invitation to the interview for your dream job. If writing a good resume is part of your preparation for the job hunt.

Don’t forget that your resume is really an index of your abilities.

The very first step is to build your resume in right and professional format.Today 2 main formats are used: Chronological and Functional

To build your resume you can use free resume forms located on the web. This can provide you with directions if you are having trouble building your resume.

There are 2 important things to keep in mind while building resume is proper order and punctuations. Correct punctuation is another consideration for expressing good grammar, and essential for creating clear business communications. A resume with lots of grammatical errors, or one that contains lots of typos drives recruiters crazy. If you can’t proofread your resume yourself, get a friend or a professional do it for you!

Use action and industry oriented words which create a positive impression about you, that you are professional and knowledgeable.

A lot of people think a generalized resume describing everything they have ever done is a great way to show their experience and skills. This is not true. You should only include information that is useful to the job you are applying for.

Latest Seo Tips - Free Seo Tips

2008-05-30T07:29:00.000-07:00

One of the most misunderstood files, but yet one of the most powerful on the Web, is the RSS feed sometimes known as the RSS news feed, XML feed or web feed. One form of this special XML file is the podcast, but yet many casual and even hi-tech surfers still do not understand that they are using this exciting technology invisibly every day to read news and follow blog sites.

RSS, standing for Really Simple Syndication, is not new technology. The technology and implementation was created in 1999 by Netscape. RSS is an important technology and one that you are most likely using to get news, information updates, and to follow blogs that you like from a portal page invisibly. RSS files are created in XML or Extensible Markup Language. XML is another programming language used widely on the Web, like HTML, but one that cannot be read in its raw form by a browser. Because it operates invisibly, RSS has not been recognized by mainstream web surfers as the powerhouse that it is, but, that doesn’t mean that developers aren’t using RSS to serve you the content and information that you want most!

Why is This Misunderstood File So Powerful?
RSS, XML feeds or RSS news feeds, as they are commonly known, create the dynamic backbone behind many of the sites that many casual web surfers use every day without even knowing that they are using this exciting technology. If you visit a personalized home page, add content to it, or even subscribe to blog with one click buttons, most likely, you are using the power of RSS news feeds already. Blogs routinely and automatically create these RSS news feeds (sometimes in a format known as Atom) and these special files allow others to auto subscribe to your content and view snippets of your information in real-time from a variety of portal news aggregator websites like My Yahoo, iGoogle, My Live, My AOL, and others.

Podcasts are Another Flavor of the RSS News Feed
Podcasts or RSS news feeds which contain audio file enclosures are just another flavor of this powerful XML file format. It is interesting to note that as of late 2007, 13% of polled Web users had heard of and were routinely downloading and playing podcasts, but fewer than 7% of the polled Web users stated that they were using RSS news feeds on a regular basis. Actually, the figure of users utilizing RSS feeds is probably much greater than 7%, but people are simply not aware that this hidden application is most likely supplying the content and information that they like to review on a daily basis.

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Dummies Guide to Google Blogger Beta

2008-05-30T07:04:00.000-07:00

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Hot Tips on Blogger Profiles.

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Blogger has recently enabled links on your Profile Page to enable you to find other bloggers who share the same interest as you :Blogger Buzz: Browse Profiles! Find new blogs to read!.

Here are some hot tips and tricks on making your Blogger Profile work for you........

EDITING THE BLOGGER PROFILE

To edit the Blogger profile logon at Blogger and click 'Edit Profile' link on the Blogger Dashboard. After making changes click on Save button to save changes. The Profile Page does not have a template and hence cannot be customized at present. You can request Blogger Wishlist if you want this feature.

FILE

If you are blogging professionally it helps to share your profile instead of keeping it private. You can also choose to share only parts of your profile under the PRIVACY subheading of the Edit Profile page. Sharing your profile will give credibility to your blog. If you choose to display your email address link you will get more credibility. This will help in getting more fans. You can also choose to display your other blogs links.

HOTO IN PROFILE

To put your photo in your profile upload the image to a freehost and paste the link to it in PHOTO URL box on Edit Profile page. More instructions in How to Upload Pictures.

REMOVE THE ZODIAC

Some Bloggers would like to remove the Zodiac information on their profile pages. The solution is simple! Remove your birthdate information and that will go away!

FROOGLE WISHLIST IN PROFILE

You can put your Froogle Wishlist in your profile. Copy and paste the URL :

http://froogle.google.com/shoppinglist/shoppinglist?action=ShowWishList&email=EmailMe@gmail.com

in the General----->Wishlist URL field on the Edit Profile page. Then save.

INCREASE TRAFFIC WITH LINKS IN THE PROFILE

As Blogger has now activated the links in the Interests, Favorite Movies, Favorite Music and Favorite Books sections in the Blogger Profile you can fill these up with the latest Buzzwords. Then viewers searching for bloggers with similar interests will get your blog link in their search results. Make sure that you update your blog regularly as the latest updated blogs come to the top of the results. Strictly speaking this comes under the SPAM category, however as far as I know no rule against it as yet. So Enjoy!

TEAM BLOGGER PROFILES

Team Blogger Profiles show lists of Blog Contributors. If you want the regular Blogger Profile you will have to remove that widget and replace it with a HTML widget containing your profile information.

PROFILE IMAGE SIZE

You can change the size of the profile image that is displayed on your Main page. Go to Template------>Edit Html----->Scroll down to this code :

.profile-img {
width:50px;
height:40px;
}

Change the nd Save Template. Just under the above code are the settings describing the full profile widget, it's color, text etc.. You can change these settings to customize your Profile Widget.

NO 'VIEW MY PROFILE' LINK

If you want the default Profile Widget to show but do not want to link it to your profile page you have to remove the "VIEW MY COMPLETE PROFILE" link and the link on your photo. To do this login to Blogger Dashboard and click on 'Layout' link. Then click the Edit Html subtab of Template tab. Then put a check in the Expand Widgets Template checkbox at the top of the template box and scroll down to this code in the Profile widget :

ONLY RETAIN THE PART BELOW IN THE ABOVE CODE TO REMOVE THE PROFILE LINK ON THE PHOTO :

Then scroll down to this code for the "VIEW MY COMPLETE PROFILE" link :

New pictures of the Dell Small Factor PC

2008-05-30T07:01:00.000-07:00

BetaNews has published two more pictures of the new Dell Subnotebook. Unfortunately so far there are not news about the specifications of this machine. Would this one use the new Nano from VIA? Will Dell go with Intel? Who knows...
It's cute, it's red, it has a Dell logo, and for many, it's enough. The buzz machine has been reignited, after Michael Dell gave a prominent Gizmodo writer another peek at something small it's been cooking up in its laboratories.

23 Ways To Speed WinXP

2008-05-30T07:00:00.000-07:00

Since defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.
1.) To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.2.) If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance.3.) Ensure that Windows XP is utilizing the NTFS file system. If you're not sure, here's how to check: First, double-click the My Computer icon, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Next, examine the File System type; if it says FAT32, then back-up any important data. Next, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the prompt, type CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and press the Enter key. This process may take a while; it's important that the computer be uninterrupted and virus-free. The file system used by the bootable drive will be either FAT32 or NTFS. I highly recommend NTFS for its superior security, reliability, and efficiency with larger disk drives.4.) Disable file indexing. The indexing service extracts information from documents and other files on the hard drive and creates a "searchable keyword index." As you can imagine, this process can be quite taxing on any system.The idea is that the user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should they have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know the file name of the document they want. Windows XP's built-in search functionality can still perform these kinds of searches without the Indexing service. It just takes longer. The OS has to open each file at the time of the request to help find what the user is looking for.Most people never need this feature of search. Those who do are typically in a large corporate environment where thousands of documents are located on at least one server. But if you're a typical system builder, most of your clients are small and medium businesses. And if your clients have no need for this search feature, I recommend disabling it.Here's how: First, double-click the My Computer icon. Next, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." Next, apply changes to "C: subfolders and files," and click OK. If a warning or error message appears (such as "Access is denied"), click the Ignore All button.5.) Update the PC's video and motherboard chipset drivers. Also, update and configure the BIOS. For more information on how to configure your BIOS properly, see this article on my site.6.) Empty the Windows Prefetch folder every three months or so. Windows XP can "prefetch" portions of data and applications that are used frequently. This makes processes appear to load faster when called upon by the user. That's fine. But over time, the prefetch folder may become overloaded with references to files and applications no longer in use. When that happens, Windows XP is wasting time, and slowing system performance, by pre-loading them. Nothing critical is in this folder, and the entire contents are safe to delete.7.) Once a month, run a disk cleanup. Here's how: Double-click the My Computer icon. Then right-click on the C: drive and select Properties. Click the Disk Cleanup button -- it's just to the right of the Capacity pie graph -- and delete all temporary files.8.) In your Device Manager, double-click on the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers device, and ensure that DMA is enabled for each drive you have connected to the Primary and Secondary controller. Do this by double-clicking on Primary IDE Channel. Then click the Advanced Settings tab. Ensure the Transfer Mode is set to "DMA if available" for both Device 0 and Device 1. Then repeat this process with the Secondary IDE Channel.9.) Upgrade the cabling. As hard-drive technology improves, the cabling requirements to achieve these performance boosts have become more stringent. Be sure to use 80-wire Ultra-133 cables on all of your IDE devices with the connectors properly assigned to the matching Master/Slave/Motherboard sockets. A single device must be at the end of the cable; connecting a single drive to the middle connector on a ribbon cable will cause signaling problems. With Ultra DMA hard drives, these signaling problems will prevent the drive from performing at its maximum potential. Also, because these cables inherently support "cable select," the location of each drive on the cable is important. For these reasons, the cable is designed so drive positioning is explicitly clear.10.) Remove all spyware from the computer. Use free programs such as AdAware by Lavasoft or SpyBot Search & Destroy. Once these programs are installed, be sure to check for and download any updates before starting your search. Anything either program finds can be safely removed. Any free software that requires spyware to run will no longer function once the spyware portion has been removed; if your customer really wants the program even though it contains spyware, simply reinstall it. For more information on removing Spyware visit this Web Pro News page.11.) Remove any unnecessary programs and/or items from Windows Startup routine using the MSCONFIG utility. Here's how: First, click Start, click Run, type MSCONFIG, and click OK. Click the StartUp tab, then uncheck any items you don't want to start when Windows starts. Unsure what some items are? Visit the WinTasks Process Library. It contains known system processes, applications, as well as spyware references and explanations. Or quickly identify them by searching for the filenames using Google or another Web search engine.12.) Remove any unnecessary or unused programs from the Add/Remove Programs section of the Control Panel.13.) Turn off any and all unnecessary animations, and disable active desktop. In fact, for optimal performance, turn off all animations. Windows XP offers many different settings in this area. Here's how to do it: First click on the System icon in the Control Panel. Next, click on the Advanced tab. Select the Settings button located under Performance. Feel free to play around with the options offered here, as nothing you can change will alter the reliability of the computer -- only its responsiveness.14.) If your customer is an advanced user who is comfortable editing their registry, try some of the performance registry tweaks offered at Tweak XP.15.) Visit Microsoft's Windows update site regularly, and download all updates labeled Critical. Download any optional updates at your discretion.16.) Update the customer's anti-virus software on a weekly, even daily, basis. Make sure they have only one anti-virus software package installed. Mixing anti-virus software is a sure way to spell disaster for performance and reliability.17.) Make sure the customer has fewer than 500 type fonts installed on their computer. The more fonts they have, the slower the system will become. While Windows XP handles fonts much more efficiently than did the previous versions of Windows, too many fonts -- that is, anything over 500 -- will noticeably tax the system.18.) Do not partition the hard drive. Windows XP's NTFS file system runs more efficiently on one large partition. The data is no safer on a separate partition, and a reformat is never necessary to reinstall an operating system. The same excuses people offer for using partitions apply to using a folder instead. For example, instead of putting all your data on the D: drive, put it in a folder called "D drive." You'll achieve the same organizational benefits that a separate partition offers, but without the degradation in system performance. Also, your free space won't be limited by the size of the partition; instead, it will be limited by the size of the entire hard drive. This means you won't need to resize any partitions, ever. That task can be time-consuming and also can result in lost data.19.) Check the system's RAM to ensure it is operating properly. I recommend using a free program called MemTest86. The download will make a bootable CD or diskette (your choice), which will run 10 extensive tests on the PC's memory automatically after you boot to the disk you created. Allow all tests to run until at least three passes of the 10 tests are completed. If the program encounters any errors, turn off and unplug the computer, remove a stick of memory (assuming you have more than one), and run the test again. Remember, bad memory cannot be repaired, but only replaced.20.) If the PC has a CD or DVD recorder, check the drive manufacturer's Web site for updated firmware. In some cases you'll be able to upgrade the recorder to a faster speed. Best of all, it's free.21.) Disable unnecessary services. Windows XP loads a lot of services that your customer most likely does not need. To determine which services you can disable for your client, visit the Black Viper site for Windows XP configurations.22.) If you're sick of a single Windows Explorer window crashing and then taking the rest of your OS down with it, then follow this tip: open My Computer, click on Tools, then Folder Options. Now click on the View tab. Scroll down to "Launch folder windows in a separate process," and enable this option. You'll have to reboot your machine for this option to take effect.23.) At least once a year, open the computer's cases and blow out all the dust and debris. While you're in there, check that all the fans are turning properly. Also inspect the motherboard capacitors for bulging or leaks. For more information on this leaking-capacitor phenomena, you can read numerous articles on my site.Following any of these suggestions should result in noticeable improvements to the performance and reliability of your customers' computers. If you still want to defrag a disk, remember that the main benefit will be to make your data more retrievable in the event of a crashed drive.

10 Reasons why PCs crash

2008-05-30T06:51:00.000-07:00

Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications."
You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?1 Hardware conflictThe number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device.For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself.If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number. When the user tries to use both devices at the same time, a crash can happen. The way to check if your computer has a hardware conflict is through the following route:* Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Device Manager.Often if a device has a problem a yellow '!' appears next to its description in the Device Manager. Highlight Computer (in the Device Manager) and press Properties to see the IRQ numbers used by your computer. If the IRQ number appears twice, two devices may be using it.Sometimes a device might share an IRQ with something described as 'IRQ holder for PCI steering'. This can be ignored. The best way to fix this problem is to remove the problem device and reinstall it.Sometimes you may have to find more recent drivers on the internet to make the device function properly. A good resource is www.driverguide.com. If the device is a soundcard, or a modem, it can often be fixed by moving it to a different slot on the motherboard (be careful about opening your computer, as you may void the warranty).When working inside a computer you should switch it off, unplug the mains lead and touch an unpainted metal surface to discharge any static electricity.To be fair to Mcft, the problem with IRQ numbers is not of its making. It is a legacy problem going back to the first PC designs using the IBM 8086 chip. Initially there were only eight IRQs. Today there are 16 IRQs in a PC. It is easy to run out of them. There are plans to increase the number of IRQs in future designs.2 Bad RamRam (random-access memory) problems might bring on the blue screen of death with a message saying Fatal Exception Error. A fatal error indicates a serious hardware problem. Sometimes it may mean a part is damaged and will need replacing.But a fatal error caused by Ram might be caused by a mismatch of chips. For example, mixing 70-nanosecond (70ns) Ram with 60ns Ram will usually force the computer to run all the Ram at the slower speed. This will often crash the machine if the Ram is overworked.One way around this problem is to enter the BIOS settings and increase the wait state of the Ram. This can make it more stable. Another way to troubleshoot a suspected Ram problem is to rearrange the Ram chips on the motherboard, or take some of them out. Then try to repeat the circumstances that caused the crash. When handling Ram try not to touch the gold connections, as they can be easily damaged.Parity error messages also refer to Ram. Modern Ram chips are either parity (ECC) or non parity (non-ECC). It is best not to mix the two types, as this can be a cause of trouble.EMM386 error messages refer to memory problems but may not be connected to bad Ram. This may be due to free memory problems often linked to old Dos-based programmes.3 BIOS settingsEvery motherboard is supplied with a range of chipset settings that are decided in the factory. A common way to access these settings is to press the F2 or delete button during the first few seconds of a boot-up.Once inside the BIOS, great care should be taken. It is a good idea to write down on a piece of paper all the settings that appear on the screen. That way, if you change something and the computer becomes more unstable, you will know what settings to revert to.A common BIOS error concerns the CAS latency. This refers to the Ram. Older EDO (extended data out) Ram has a CAS latency of 3. Newer SDRam has a CAS latency of 2. Setting the wrong figure can cause the Ram to lock up and freeze the computer's display.Mcft Windows is better at allocating IRQ numbers than any BIOS. If possible set the IRQ numbers to Auto in the BIOS. This will allow Windows to allocate the IRQ numbers (make sure the BIOS setting for Plug and Play OS is switched to 'yes' to allow Windows to do this.).4 Hard disk drives After a few weeks, the information on a hard disk drive starts to become piecemeal or fragmented. It is a good idea to defragment the hard disk every week or so, to prevent the disk from causing a screen freeze. Go to* Start-Programs-Accessories-System Tools-Disk DefragmenterThis will start the procedure. You will be unable to write data to the hard drive (to save it) while the disk is defragmenting, so it is a good idea to schedule the procedure for a period of inactivity using the Task Scheduler.The Task Scheduler should be one of the small icons on the bottom right of the Windows opening page (the desktop).Some lockups and screen freezes caused by hard disk problems can be solved by reducing the read-ahead optimisation. This can be adjusted by going to* Start-Settings-Control Panel-System Icon-Performance-File System-Hard Disk.Hard disks will slow down and crash if they are too full. Do some housekeeping on your hard drive every few months and free some space on it. Open the Windows folder on the C drive and find the Temporary Internet Files folder. Deleting the contents (not the folder) can free a lot of space.Empty the Recycle Bin every week to free more space. Hard disk drives should be scanned every week for errors or bad sectors. Go to* Start-Programs-Accessories-System Tools-ScanDiskOtherwise assign the Task Scheduler to perform this operation at night when the computer is not in use.5 Fatal OE exceptions and VXD errorsFatal OE exception errors and VXD errors are often caused by video card problems.These can often be resolved easily by reducing the resolution of the video display. Go to* Start-Settings-Control Panel-Display-SettingsHere you should slide the screen area bar to the left. Take a look at the colour settings on the left of that window. For most desktops, high colour 16-bit depth is adequate.If the screen freezes or you experience system lockups it might be due to the video card. Make sure it does not have a hardware conflict. Go to* Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Device ManagerHere, select the + beside Display Adapter. A line of text describing your video card should appear. Select it (make it blue) and press properties. Then select Resources and select each line in the window. Look for a message that says No Conflicts.If you have video card hardware conflict, you will see it here. Be careful at this point and make a note of everything you do in case you make things worse.The way to resolve a hardware conflict is to uncheck the Use Automatic Settings box and hit the Change Settings button. You are searching for a setting that will display a No Conflicts message.Another useful way to resolve video problems is to go to* Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Performance-GraphicsHere you should move the Hardware Acceleration slider to the left. As ever, the most common cause of problems relating to graphics cards is old or faulty drivers (a driver is a small piece of software used by a computer to communicate with a device).Look up your video card's manufacturer on the internet and search for the most recent drivers for it.6 VirusesOften the first sign of a virus infection is instability. Some viruses erase the boot sector of a hard drive, making it impossible to start. This is why it is a good idea to create a Windows start-up disk. Go to* Start-Settings-Control Panel-Add/Remove ProgramsHere, look for the Start Up Disk tab. Virus protection requires constant vigilance.A virus scanner requires a list of virus signatures in order to be able to identify viruses. These signatures are stored in a DAT file. DAT files should be updated weekly from the website of your antivirus software manufacturer.An excellent antivirus programme is McAfee VirusScan by Network Associates ( www.nai.com). Another is Norton AntiVirus 2000, made by Symantec ( www.symantec.com).7 PrintersThe action of sending a document to print creates a bigger file, often called a postscript file.Printers have only a small amount of memory, called a buffer. This can be easily overloaded. Printing a document also uses a considerable amount of CPU power. This will also slow down the computer's performance.If the printer is trying to print unusual characters, these might not be recognised, and can crash the computer. Sometimes printers will not recover from a crash because of confusion in the buffer. A good way to clear the buffer is to unplug the printer for ten seconds. Booting up from a powerless state, also called a cold boot, will restore the printer's default settings and you may be able to carry on.8 SoftwareA common cause of computer crash is faulty or badly-installed software. Often the problem can be cured by uninstalling the software and then reinstalling it. Use Norton Uninstall or Uninstall Shield to remove an application from your system properly. This will also remove references to the programme in the System Registry and leaves the way clear for a completely fresh copy.The System Registry can be corrupted by old references to obsolete software that you thought was uninstalled. Use Reg Cleaner by Jouni Vuorio to clean up the System Registry and remove obsolete entries. It works on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE (Second Edition), Windows Millennium Edition (ME), NT4 and Windows 2000.Read the instructions and use it carefully so you don't do permanent damage to the Registry. If the Registry is damaged you will have to reinstall your operating system. Reg Cleaner can be obtained from www.jv16.orgOften a Windows problem can be resolved by entering Safe Mode. This can be done during start-up. When you see the message "Starting Windows" press F4. This should take you into Safe Mode.Safe Mode loads a minimum of drivers. It allows you to find and fix problems that prevent Windows from loading properly.Sometimes installing Windows is difficult because of unsuitable BIOS settings. If you keep getting SUWIN error messages (Windows setup) during the Windows installation, then try entering the BIOS and disabling the CPU internal cache. Try to disable the Level 2 (L2) cache if that doesn't work.Remember to restore all the BIOS settings back to their former settings following installation.9 OverheatingCentral processing units (CPUs) are usually equipped with fans to keep them cool. If the fan fails or if the CPU gets old it may start to overheat and generate a particular kind of error called a kernel error. This is a common problem in chips that have been overclocked to operate at higher speeds than they are supposed to.One remedy is to get a bigger better fan and install it on top of the CPU. Specialist cooling fans/heatsinks are available from www.computernerd.com or www.coolit.comCPU problems can often be fixed by disabling the CPU internal cache in the BIOS. This will make the machine run more slowly, but it should also be more stable.10 Power supply problemsWith all the new construction going on around the country the steady supply of electricity has become disrupted. A power surge or spike can crash a computer as easily as a power cut.If this has become a nuisance for you then consider buying a uninterrupted power supply (UPS). This will give you a clean power supply when there is electricity, and it will give you a few minutes to perform a controlled shutdown in case of a power cut.It is a good investment if your data are critical, because a power cut will cause any unsaved data to be lost.

How To Make Your Own Radio Station

2008-05-30T06:48:00.000-07:00

::Must HAVE Winamp (Any Version)::
First, things First your speed has to be at least 256/64 kbps (which means Dial-up users, will have alot of latency, just dnt bother)Second, your going to have to have a domain, an updated one with the current i.p active. (Could be anything e.g. My sig)Now, Your gonna have to download the Shoutcast Files.Go to:www.shoutcast.comto get the files.Ok After downloading these, installing Both of them in any order i dnt care. Go to START>PROGRAM FILES>SHOUTcast DNAS>EDIT SHOUTCAST DNS CONFIG.Ok your gonna have to Configure it:Go Down and where it says password: change (that means your gonna have to change it to whatever, make sure u remember)The Portbase: change it to whatever port you want itMaxusers: (lets be realistic here, dnt put in 10000, like NXS's radio station) your bandwidth has to be extremely good, if your cable, 50 user max is ok, ADSL should stay below 10 users, and T1 connections should do whatever tickles there fantasy.EDIT>SAVE.Open winamp, RIGHT CLICK>OPTIONS>PREFRENCES>DSP EFFECT> and choose the NULLSOFT SHOUTCAST.Go to OUTPUT, and then click on Connection, Through the ADDRESS, type your address which you have done throughCode:www.no-ip.comPORT NUMBER, whatever u did in the EDIT.txt, and your password.Then go to Encoder, and choose your quality of your music. Go back to OUTPUT>OUTPUT CONFIG> YELLOW PAGES. this is your advertisemant information. dow hatever you like there.Now Connect. to check that your Radio os on-line go to http:// (your address that you added in the prefrence)

Most Popular Internet Browsers

2008-05-30T06:39:00.000-07:00

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How to Backup a Blogger Blog

2008-05-30T06:34:00.000-07:00

If you have a blog hosted on Blog*Spot and you've upgraded to the new version, there's an easy way to backup your blog.

This page lists the latest N posts from the blog:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N
Instead of N, type the number of posts. If your blog has less than 1000 posts, you can save this page:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000

To download all the photos uploaded to your blog, DownThemAll comes to the rescue. The Firefox extension lets you download all the files with a certain extension from the current page, so it's a good way to download all the images from the previous listing.

Internet Tips: Gmail to the Max--Helpful Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

2008-05-17T06:36:00.000-07:00

Google's free, feature-laden, and still-evolving Gmail service does more than just e-mail. These tips and tweaks let you customize Gmail to manage and organize your files from any browser.

Get notified in your browser: Google's nifty Gmail Notifier utility sits in your system tray and checks for new mail at regular intervals. But if your system tray runneth over, and you are using Firefox, you can receive notifications right in the browser's status bar, through Doron Rosenberg's identically named Gmail Notifier add-on software (see Figure 1).

Filter messages with custom addresses and aliases: Like any decent e-mail system, Gmail lets you set up filters that act on incoming mail based on criteria you set up. For example, you can create a filter that stars all messages from rjsquirrel@frostbitefalls.com and forwards them to every other e-mail account you use. Click Settings, Filters, Create a new filter, and follow the instructions. For more information on filters, click Help, and choose Filters under 'Common Mail Tasks and Features' to get a quick, complete tutorial.

Another convenient Gmail feature is its ability to use aliases. You can filter your incoming mail by adding a plus sign (+) and any extra characters (no spaces) to your address. For example, when you register with the Frostbite Falls Tribune site, submit an address similar to 'scott+tribune@gmail.com'. Or provide your boss with an address like 'scott+deadline@gmail.com'. Now, you can create filters that will label, star, archive (skipping the inbox), or forward only those incoming messages. And should the cash-starved folks at the Tribune sell your e-mail address to marketers, you can change your filter to redirect messages addressed to 'scott+tribune@gmail.com' to your Spam folder. (Note that 'scott@gmail.com' isn't a legitimate address because Gmail requires that user names have at least six characters.)

Start using those gigabytes: Gmail continuously informs you that you have lots of storage space available--I had 2.66GB at my disposal as I wrote this--but most of us will probably never use even half that space for messages. Several tools let you use a Gmail account for Web-based file storage or backup. Contrary to a rumor posted on Wikipedia, neither service described below violates Gmail's terms of use or program policies.

Bjarke Viksoe's Gmail Drive adds Gmail to Windows Explorer as a storage device, permitting you to drag and drop files to and from Google's servers, where they are stored as e-mail attachments. Rahul Jonna's Gmail Space is similar, but it works as a Firefox extension that converts the browser into a file-transfer utility to shuttle documents between your hard disk and Gmail (see Figure 2). When you create a filter that sends Gmail Space files to a specific Gmail folder (every file that Gmail Space uploads is attached to a message whose subject is prefixed with 'GSPACE'), you keep your inbox clear of your stored files automatically. Note that the current version of Gmail Space conflicts with the NoScript Firefox extension

Fill Your Password To Invite Your Buddies - Not So Fast!!

2008-05-17T06:27:00.000-07:00

For the past many years, I’ve seen a trend that has been on a meteoric rise. Whatever new service you sign on for on the internet (especially the web2.0–oh-so-cool-you-have-to-tell-everyone-about-it ones), it gives you an option to fill in your e-mail ID and password and makes a generous offer of letting all your friends know about your new avatar and let them all join in the fun. Most of the people around me, it seems, don’t think twice before gladly accepting the offer, as is made apparent from the increasing amount of automated mails I’m getting with subjects like “Hey, don’t be left out! Join me on X” or “Hi SG, Why don’t you follow me on Y”.

I just wanted to “remind” you all (because you already know it) how important your password is. You keep it safe from everyone, suspect even your friends of trying to hack into your e-mail, and then you give it away to an “unknown” entity with so much of ease, laying so much trust onto it that you won’t even put in your biological parents.

While many of these services are genuine, but many might not be. I’m certainly against handing out your passwords to a third-party web service until it is something like google that won’t just sell you off one fine day and run off somewhere you can’t find it. But if you are compelled to do so because of some reason, I’d recommend atleast checking out what it has to say about the data it’s collecting.

Let me take an example of a new IM service that I recently came across. It’s called IMO (or imo or whatever) and is apparently quite popular because of its multiple IM service connections through a single interface. I thought of checking out its terms etc and making a mental image of how respectable / trustworthy I found it. I had listed the following things on the blog where I had found about this site. Listing them here again for you.

Following are the nuggets I found:

1. They have a blogspot blog. It takes hardly a few minutes to host ur own blog on ur own domain. Maybe they have some existing google connection but yet to discover it.(I read somewhere that some of these people worked at google in the past but that’s no reason to keep your blog on such a platform)

2. Shady privacy agreement.
2a They mention that not only will they save ur username and pwd but may also save ur chats/messages etc.
2b They might also share info with 3rd parties (written in a manner that they can do it on their own will)
2c Transparency: They might not even tell u whats going on if they so decide.

Please don’t mention about the eliteness of their “advisor panel”. This is the biggest marketing gimmick that everyone pulls off. Many times the “advisors” don’t even know the “advised” company exists.

IMP: If a site doesn’t say anything or says all goody things in its terms, that doesn’t make it clean, but if you find suspiciousness in the terms, that definitely makes a negative mark. In Short, when your password is concerned, treat everyone guilty until proven innocent.

Hack or trick to use free airtel gprs from your mobile or pc for free.

2008-05-17T06:25:00.000-07:00

Requirements:

You require a PC or a Laptop and Serial/USB cable OR Infrared Device OR Bluetooth dongle in order to first connect your phone with your computer.

Step By Step Procedure:

1)First Activate Airtel Live!( It is FREE).

2) Create TWO Airtel gprs data accounts in your mobile and set the
FIRST one as the active profile.

3)Connect your phone with your connectivity cable using blutooth dongle or usb/serial cable.

4) Go to control panel and create a new dial up connection.

Connection Device : Your mobile’s modem
ISP Name : Anything you want to enter.

Phone Number : Your mobile number.

Username: blank

Password: blank

5) Now setup your browser at your pc to use the proxy
100.1.200.99 and port 8080.

6) Connect to the dial-up account.

7) Try on your mobile and access any site. You will get “Access
Denied…”. Keep the mobile down.

8 ) On the PC ( or Laptop) open your browser, enter any address ,
press ENTER and WAIT for some minutes.

9) That’s it done ! now you can open any page on your pc for free.

I hope these settings may work please let me know if you have any problem by leaving a comment here.

New Google Reader beta improves iPhone experience

2008-05-17T06:02:00.000-07:00

Google has updated its iPhone optimized version of Google Reader making it the absolute best way to read news feeds on the iPhone. You can expect a bevy of native RSS apps to flood the App Store in June, but we think they’ll have a tough time trumping Google’s web-based reader for the iPhone. This week’s update enables mobile users to star items for later reading, and browse large lists of items. These changes bring Google Reader for the iPhone much closer to its sibling app for the desktop web. One really nice new feature is the expanding list that shows you the entire news item within the context of the list so you don’t have to go back and forth between article content and the list view. The new features are still in beta which means users navigating to Google Reader will still see the old version unless you point to the URL to the beta below.

Schmap turns city guides into maps with a tilt of the iPhone

2008-05-17T05:51:00.000-07:00

There certainly is no shortage of online travel sites and wikis, but there really hasn’t been an iPhone version worth talking about, until now. Schmap is a destination site all about destinations, as in travel destinations, and its new iPhone service is something to write home about. The site offers over 100 city guides for top destinations all across the globe. It also offers local search to help you find something more specific in a geographic location where Schmap may not have a travel guide available. Each city guide includes reviews and photos, historical information, tours, activities, attractions, hotels, restaurants, bars, and much more. Read on to find out why Schmap’s iPhone interface is so slick on the iPhone or iPod touch.

Schmap is not just for travelers, we use it just to find out what’s happening on our local turf. Consider Schmap a worthy replacement for Yelp, whose mobile interface leaves a lot to be desired for iPhone users. Currently, the reviews and articles in Schmap are written by professionals. They are very informative and fun to read, although user submitted reviews would go a long way in helping Schmap take users away from Yelp.

But the killer iPhone feature on Schmap is its clever use of the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer to conserve screen real estate. It works like this: navigate to a city guide in iPhone’s portrait view, then tilt your display to landscape view. The screen will automatically switch from the city guide to a map showing the location of all the items from the portrait, mapped out with contact information and directions, and all of it just a tap away. The tilt thing sounds a little gimmicky but it’s actually very handy and makes using Shmap a highly interactive and rewarding experience on the iPhone or iPod touch.

Go experience Schmap for yourself, and be sure to try Schmap on your desktop web browser when you get some time. The desktop experience is also excellent with an incredible amount of information elegantly integrated into the interface. Schmap for iPhone and the desktop web are both available at the same URL listed below.

Schmap City Guides for iPhone and iPod touch
www.schmap.com

Hack Windows XP with insider tips and tricks from Preston Gralla

2008-05-17T05:45:00.000-07:00

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Overview: In this audio interview, Preston Gralla, editor of WindowsDevCenter.com and OnDotNet, shares several Windows XP hacks that speed up boot and shutdown, improve overall XP performance, surf the Web anonymously and more.

In this MP3 audio interview, Preston Gralla, author of Windows XP Hacks, Second Edition, shares several tips and tricks to customize and improve Windows XP. Both Windows novices and seasoned IT pros will find theses insider hacks useful. During the 14-minute interview, Preston explains how the book helps you:

Hack XP to speed up boot and shutdown times
Use registry hacks to improve overall XP performance
Surf the Web anonymously and protect your online privacy
Avoid phishing scams
Hack Mozilla's Firefox browser
Troubleshoot hardware by decoding Device Manager error messages

How to Split Test (A/B Test) Your AdSense Ads

2008-05-17T05:40:00.000-07:00

What is Split Testing?

Also sometimes called A/B testing, split testing means that you run two different versions of an AdSense ad unit on your blog so that you can see which one performs best. You serve one version of the ad to one visitor, and then another version to the next visitor.

If you do this over a large number of visitors you’ll get a bit enough sample to be able to draw some conclusions about which ad design works best in that particular ad position.

How to Run a Split Test on Your AdSense Ads

Split testing sounds complicated but it is relatively simple to set up. In short, all it really involves is setting up a couple of channels within your AdSense account so that you can track the results and then inserting a little extra code around the AdSense code in your blog’s templates. Here’s how:

1. set up two different custom channels in your AdSense account. They might be called something like ‘test A’ and ‘test B’.

2. generate two different ad units in the back end of your AdSense account. Make them identical sized formats but give them two different color palettes. Copy the codes AdSense gives you and put them into a text document - you’ll need them in a minute.

3. take the following code insert the two ad units codes that you just generated into it were it indicates:

ie - you need to replace the bolded lines with your two different AdSense codes.

4. Insert everything into your blog’s template in the appropriate spot for the ad to make it position where you want it to show.

With the above code you should now see the two different color palettes rotating on your blog. It will show one 50% of the time and the other the other 50% of impressions.

You can then log into your AdSense reports area after the script has been rotating for a while to see which one is performing best. Give it a day or two to run before you make too many changes as it can take a little while to get the ad having shown enough times to draw any solid conclusions.

Variations on the Test

You can do the same split test to work out what Ad Unit Size is converting best. The process is identical but instead of having your two ad units with different colors make the only variation their sizes (ie keep the colors the same).

You could also test any other element that you have control over. For example the different corner options, image ads vs text ads etc.

Lastly - you don’t have to make the split test a 50/50 one. You could specify for one ad unit to show up 95% of the time and the other only 5%. This means only a small number of your readers see the new ad unit (good if you’re testing something bold). To do this simply vary the “.5″ to another number. For example .9 would show one ad 90% of the time.

Final Tips

Backup your templates before experimenting. If you mess it up somehow you can then quickly revert to your original setup.
Make one of the ads you rotate one that you’ve been testing for a while so as to give a good baseline result to compare to.
Don’t experiment with multiple changes at once. For example if you test ad size and colors at once you won’t be able to identify the specific element that cases the changes in ad performance.
Once you’ve worked out which of your two ad units performs best keep testing with other options. Take your best performing one and test that against other designs to see if you can find one to better it. Once you do use that one as your baseline!

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Which button would you click? A lesson on website optimization

2008-05-17T05:28:00.000-07:00

Start Now, Begin, or Get Started? Orange or blue button? What color text? Does it matter?

Website optimization seemed to be the hot topic at SES New York this year. Everywhere we turned, speakers were discussing how small changes in website content can result in big differences in traffic patterns.

Before we suggest a strategy for optimizing your website, let's make sure we're all on the same page. Many people confuse website optimization with search-engine optimization, so we'll clarify the difference here:

Search-engine optimization means adjusting the content of your site so it ranks higher in the list of search results for a particular keyword or keyword phrase.
Website optimization means creating and testing different combinations of site content to increase visitor conversion rates and overall visitor satisfaction.

Trying to optimize a large website for conversion can be a daunting task if you don't have a plan. The most important pages to test are those that have the biggest impact on your site's success. By using Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer together, you can identify these high value pages and set up experiments that will eliminate the guesswork from their design.

Finding your high-value landing pages

Before you even begin testing content variations, you'll need to decide which pages to optimize. Testing whether an orange or a blue button works better on a page that gets only 1% of your total traffic is probably not the best use of your time. However, the same test on your most heavily trafficked landing page could make the difference between a great conversion rate and a search for a new marketing team.

In his talk on the Web Analytics panel at SES, Avinash Kaushik recounted his experience searching for a new faucet. The top paid ad took him to a page focused on sinks rather than faucets; he was immediately turned off and bounced from the site.

What's the lesson here? Landing pages are key pages to optimize because they are your visitors' first (and often last) impression of your website. If a visitor lands on a page that doesn't provide the information she's looking for, she'll probably leave without clicking any further. For high-traffic landing pages, this can add up to a lot of lost visitors.

That's why it's so important to find, and fix, high-traffic landing pages that lose a high percentage of visitors. Look at the "Top Landing Pages" report within the Content section of Google Analytics. Pages that have both a high Bounce Rate (the percentage of visits that resulted in the visitor immediately leaving the site) and large number of Entrances need to be redesigned.

The Google Analytics Landing Pages report (Content section) shows a list of top landing pages ordered by the number of entrances on the left. On the right, the bounce rate compared to site average is graphically displayed. Pages with a high number of Entrances and a high bounce rate (red bar) are good candidates for optimization.

Don't forget about funnel pages

Other high-value pages are those that lead visitors to your goal pages. Visitors reach a goal page once they have completed a desired action, such as a purchase, registration or download. In Google Analytics, you can specify up to ten pages in a defined funnel representing the path you expect visitors to take on their way to the goal page (conversion!). A page that is part of a goal funnel is another great place to focus website optimization efforts.

The "Funnel Visualization" report within the Goals section of Google Analytics shows you how many visitors exit the funnel at each step in the path towards the goal page. In the funnel visualization below, you can see that most visitors in this funnel are lost in the transition from the "View Shopping Cart" step to the "Login" step. Only 7% of visitors move past this step, but of those who do, many go on to make a complete an order! A limiting step in a path to a goal, like the "View Shopping Cart" step below, is another great place to begin your website optimization experiments.

The Google Analytics Funnel Visualization report (Goals section) shows the pages where visitors abandon a goal path. Pages that lose a high percentage of traffic on the path towards a website goal are good candidates for optimization.

You know which pages to test ...

Once you've identified high value pages with Google Analytics, you can begin optimization experiments using Website Optimizer. If you have some alternate content ready, you can launch tests in under five minutes. The Website Optimizer team has made some helpful video tutorials to help you get started.

A little competition can get your team excited about content experimentation. Try asking a couple of your co-workers and perhaps your boss for suggestions on alternate variations of a high value page. Label each of the suggested variations in Website Optimizer with the contributor's name. Then, ask another set of co-workers to predict which variation will emerge victorious. You can monitor the progress each day to see how everyone's suggestions and predictions are stacking up. Keep in mind that it usually takes at least one or two weeks for the definitive winner to emerge. Once Website Optimizer has determined the winning page, you'll not only have a better performing page, but if you're lucky, you'll have bragging rights in your office!

Download a Gmail Conversation

2008-03-06T09:19:00.000-08:00

Wouldn't be nice if you could save a Gmail conversation so you can read it offline? Using an email client to access Gmail using POP3 or IMAP is an option, although it's not trivial to recreate the thread and to download everything, including the attachments.

To download a Gmail conversation, you could use the print feature. In order to prevent Gmail from actually printing your messages, disable JavaScript after opening the conversation or disconnect your printer. Then click on "print all" in Gmail's right sidebar...

... and save the generated page as a complete web page. This will create a HTML file and a folder with images, but it won't save the attachments. You can now re-enable JavaScript in your browser to be able to use Gmail's AJAX interface.

If you want to save all the attachments from a conversation as an archive, you could save them one by one. Alternatively, go back to the conversation and click on "forward all". You'll create a new message that concatenates all the messages and the attachments from that conversation. Send the message to yourself and click on "Download all attachments" when you receive the message. To save space, delete the individual message you've sent to yourself after downloading the attachments (make sure you don't delete the entire conversation).

Google Sites Launched

2008-03-06T09:15:00.000-08:00

After more than a year since the JotSpot acquisition, Google finally launched a service that uses JotSpot's technology: Google Sites. The new service is a part of Google Apps and allows you to create web sites collaboratively. "People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a site together is as easy as editing a document, and you always control who has access, whether it's just yourself, your team, or your whole organization," explains Google.

Google offers templates, a rich-text editor, 10GB of storage for each Google Apps account and integration with other Google services so you can embed gadgets, calendars, spreadsheets, presentations, photo slideshows and videos. You can invite people to collaborate or just view a site and you can also publish the site so that anyone can view it.

VentureBeat likes the new service. "Creating a new site with Google Sites is very easy. (...) You can start out by creating a front page for your site and from there decide whether to add more standard pages" or use one of the built-in templates: dashboard, blog, file cabinet, list.

Google Book Search Adds a Social Layer

2008-03-06T09:12:00.001-08:00

Book Search is the fourth Google service that integrates with the unified Google profiles. The list of favorite books includes a small widget with information from the Google profile.

If you find someone who has interesting books in his library, you can add him to a list of favorite libraries. Unfortunately, Google doesn't show when there are new books in your favorite libraries and doesn't make it easy to discover libraries that might interest you. Based on the books from your library, Google could recommend other similar books and a list of users with similar tastes. To make the library more personal, people should be able to annotate books and highlight interesting excerpts.

Google Book Search Adds a Social Layer

2008-03-06T09:12:00.000-08:00

Lyrics for YouTube's Music Videos

2008-03-06T09:10:00.000-08:00

If you want to see a music video, there's a good chance you'll find it on YouTube. The downside is that YouTube doesn't offer any music-related feature, so you can't find information about the artists, lyrics or concert dates.

A simple Greasemonkey script adds one of these missing feature: lyrics. The script creates a container titled "Lyrics" below the video's description and shows the lyrics when you expand the container. Obviously, the video must contain the artist's name and the song's title. If the script doesn't find the lyrics of a song, change the site that provides lyrics (lyrics.astraweb.com seems to be the best) or choose from one the alternative songs.
As usually, to install this script you need Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension.

A Victim of Click Fraud, AdSense Publisher Banned and Reinstated

2008-03-06T09:07:00.000-08:00

VBWebmaster forum has been a target for malicous Google AdSense click fraud recently. Noticing invalid clicks generated on the ads, Google disabled their AdSense account.

Practices such as clicks generated by a published on his/her own web pages, clicks generated through the use of robots and automated clicking tools, or any deceptive software are frowned and in violation of Google Adsene Terms and Conditions and program policies.

In situation where the incident is out of control of the publisher such as this case, publishers can get their account disabled or even banned. Fortunately after sending an explanation email to Google, they get their account reinstated.

It’s good to see that Google AdSense Support Team listens and responds to publisher’s concern such as this one, especially considering the amount of publishers they have to support. But then I noticed a few things the webmaster did, what I assume actions that help him get their account restored:

He noticed sudden increase in clicks more than a week ago and reported that to AdSense support team twice
He sent an email explaning the whole thing in a professional way
Any publisher can be a victim of such click fraud, and this incident serves as a good example of how we should respond to it. A closer look at the click trends and other sudden changes helps a publisher spot problems.

Your Own AdSense via AdSense API beta

2008-03-06T09:05:00.003-08:00

Google have introduced the new AdSense API, a free beta service that allows web developer or host to integrate AdSesne into your website offerings. How does it works and how site owners can benefit from it?

Currently, Google only takes applications from people whose sites receive a mininum of 100,000 daily page views. To be eligigle, you must register users who then maintain their web content through your site. The types of sites they are loking for include web hosts, blog hosts, Wiki hosts, forum hosts, and web publishers.

With Google AdSense API, you as the site owner can perform a variety of AdSense functions without leaving your website. You can:

Create an AdSense account
Manage an AdSense account
Create and modify AdSense for content ad units and link units, AdSense for search boxes, and Referrals
View detailed reports to monitor performance and earnings

For every approved publishers you signed up through the API, you are eligible for the $100 referral fee each time a new publisher you’ve signed up earns $100 in less than 180 days. There is also a revenue sharing earned by the site owner.

My thoughts
Not only does Google try to dominate the contextual advertising market with this approach. They could possibly catch many big site owners who are wishing to seek ways to generate revenue from their site and their members.

Some sites could possible give their membership for free, furhter increase their userbase, while still allow them to earn money from the referral and revenue sharing model.

Now the biggest problem for site owners is how to support and encourage their members to write good content so they could earn their first $100 within 180 days. Think about education marketing. You give your members something for free, educate and motivate them to succeed. Because only by then you could earn more money.

Technical info
The AdSense API utilizes SOAP and WDSL, which means it is supported by Java, .NET, Perl, PHP, Python and XML programming language.

Example
Probably the most obvious example of Google AdSense API implementation is Blogger.com.

Your Own AdSense via AdSense API beta

2008-03-06T09:05:00.001-08:00

Common AdSense Video Ads Questions

2008-03-06T09:04:00.001-08:00

Google has released the new Google AdWords ad format, click-to-play video ads a few days more than a week ago. Since then, many web publishers who express their interest to opt for this new ad format have sent questions about video ads.

Basically, they are looking for ways to get the most out of their AdSense. If video ads could give a boost, why not? But does it work? Google answered the most commonly asked questions in Inside AdSense.

The video won’t play automatically, it even resembles a static image ad. Web visitors have to manually click on the ad for it to start streaming.

The ads were hosted by Google, so there should be enough resources for everyone from any location in the world to stream the video immediately (provided they have the bandwidth, of course).

Video ads can be site targeted or contextually targeted. Site targeted video ads adopt a CPM payment model. On the other hand, contextually targeted video ads will pay advertiers for clicks to the advertiser’s landing page.

At the bottom of the ad is the display URL which a visitor can click to visit the advertiser’s site. On play, the video itself is clickable, which in turn will bring the visitor to the same site.

If you are curious about video ads, you can play your own video ads, but not clicking on the sponsor’s URL. Google explicitly stated that it is not considered offensive to play the video because it won’t affect the reporting too.

To get video ads, publishers need to opt into image ads, which include the following sizes:

336 x 280 (Large rectangle)
300 x 250 (Medium rectangle)
250 x 250 (Square)

AdSense Ads in Floating Layer?

2008-03-06T09:03:00.000-08:00

DHTML layers type pop-ups are here for some time. Because they can appear in different types of forms, resembling a Post-It note for an example, they usually draw visitors’ attention. Recently, there is a new twist to embed Google AdSense ad unit in the floating layer. How does it comply to the AdSense policy?

First and foremost, as a user, this type of floating layer still is a pop-up. It is promoted by some affiliates as unblockable pop-ups. From the point of view of a website owner and the technology itself, this is not a pop-up, because it uses DHTML layers instead of a new browser window.

The first generation of such pop-up allows marketers to add a Post-It note alike pop-up, sticking on top of the webpage. As far as I know, it could be set to disappear after a few seconds, or stay there until the website visitor click on the close sign.

Now many direct response sales letter begin to use the scrolling pop-up to not only attract but should we say force a visitor to pay attention. Scrolling simply means that when you scroll your browser window up and down, the pop-up follows. Sometimes with delay, so it appears after one or two second you scroll the window up or down.

My thoughts
As to the case where publishers have begun to embed AdSense ad unit in the pop-up, I don’t doubt that if the ads are contextually targeted, CTR should increase substantially. The problem is, while interesting on the first or second try, the pop-up becomes obstrusive after some time.

The official verdict
JenSense confirmed this by going straight to AdSenseAdvisor to get the scoop.

“Yes, certainly. Additionally, they provide a poor user experience, and Google believes strongly in providing a positive user experience” AdSenseAdvisor said. “A general rule of thumb is that ads should always be placed in the primary content frame of a page — first and foremost this is to ensure content-targeting works effectively. Also, it provides a more positive user experience.”

AdImpact (by Instant Attention), has promoted the new AdSense tool on their website, but publishers beware, it is not allowed by Google to embed the ad unit in another frame outside of the primary content frame.

Botnet Automatic AdSense Click Generator Revealed

2008-03-06T09:00:00.002-08:00

SANS Institute reported about the activity of a botnet, generating clicks from a few hundred machines and makes sure they look as legitimate. They could keep it low profile because the number of machines the program operates from.

Botnet basically is a service that some dishonest publishers hire to click on their AdSense ads. Of curse, the botnet owner will want a share from the publisher’s revenue.

A careless clickbot operator left a website with both the bot’s executable file and the web based control panels wide open, which ended up in the hands of SANS.

The SANS Institute have reported the fraud to Google to make sure nobody gets paid, and at the same time the fraudulent publishers get suspended.

My quick thoughts
An advertising network depends on both advertisers and publishers to survive. The more advertisers who are interested in placing ads in the content network, the more ad inventory they could offer to their publishers.

It is the responsibility of a good publisher to give something of value (targeted visitors) back to the advertiers in order to get paid.

Fraudulent clicks are a fact of life. The advertising network needs to come up with a way to benefit both advertisers and publishers. Because the ad network shares the same revenue with publishers, it is easy for the network to fall short on this. At least a big network such as Google AdSense have to respond quickly to keep the trust high.

However, smart advertisers who monitor their campaigns closely will find this act in no time. If they decide to stop advertising, then the whole program collapse.

Will advertisers start using site targeting intensively?

New Contextual Advertising: eBay AdContext

2008-03-06T09:00:00.001-08:00

eBay finally have their own contextual advertising solution, joining other contextual ad networks to provide mo choices to publishers. eBay AdContext, comes with three types of ad formats right now: text and images, text only and flash ads.

Like other contextual advertising program, it will scan the content of a Web site and automaticaly return relevant eBay ad content. AdContext uses Javascript code.

If you are interested to try out eBay AdContext, you can sign up as an eBay Affiliate for free and send email to adcontext@ebay.com to request for a review.

The introduction of a new ad network is good for publishers, considering that eBay is also one of the giant online company of which they can offer unique products not available elsewhere.

The problem is, they have to directly compete with AdSense and YPN. That has to be very competitive. Smaller contextual ad networks may have to attempt harder to secure a market of their own, but eBay clearly won’t be satisfied with a tiny share of publishers.

Most bloggers or website publishers have had their own choices of ad network. They may only switch if there is enough reason to do so.

News on Reuters revealed that web site affiliates receive a cut of 35 percent to 60 percent of sales, depending on the volumes. For each successful sales, eBay earns 6.5 percent of the auction value. This translates into 2.27 to 3.9 percent of the auction sale value for affiliates.

On the first impression, that seems to be high, but consider that the visitor you refer to eBay has to win the auction before you get the share. That would be much more difficult.

eBay will get your traffic and branding opportunity once they click. On the other hand, affiliates don’t receive anything in return even if the visitor has expressed their interest in the auction but fail to win. Sounds like it is more difficult than typical affiliate sales on online retail sites.

However, it is intresting to see how it goes. I am sure there will be publishers who have earned a full-time income just from this. Just see how creatively people can use such tools to make money.

AdSense Sends Surveys to Select Publishers

2008-03-06T08:57:00.002-08:00

Webmaster World forum users are reporting that Google AdSense have requested them to participate in what seems like a thorough survey about the contextual ad network. Only select publishers were chosen to participate in the survey.

A user took the survey, which ended about 40 minutes just to describe about how comprehensive the survey questions are. Participants are entered into a competition to win $1000 Visa gift card and others.

Some respondents said that the questions were so good that they would be happy if some of the features are implemented in the future.

Google Experimenting with Cost-Per-Action Ads

2008-03-06T08:57:00.001-08:00

Google AdSense begins to send out invitation for select web publishers to test out their new Cost-Per-Action (CPA) based program, in addition to the Cost-Per-Click (CPC) and Cost-Per-Mille (CPM — Cost-Per-Thousand-Impressions). Seeking Alpha network posted the attachment containing some most common questions and answers.

Publishers will get paid whenever a site visitor clicks on the ad on your site and performs a specified action, such as generating a lead or puchasing a product. Yes, Google has jumped into the affiliate marketing arena.

CPA-based ads will allows more flexibility. Publishers can say something like “I recommend this product” or “Try JetBlue today” next to the CPA ad unit. Irrelevant call to action (such as “Click here”) is not ok though.

Certainly this gives more control to publishers as to which products or ads they want to appear on their site on per creative basis.

Will I be able to see reports within my account?

When the test begins, you will receive weekly email reports of conversions you have accrued and your total revenue within the CPA test.

No real time online reporting yet, so probably those who want to help Google test out the program should participate. We can tell that Google’s idea about CPA based ads is still very new because of this reason.

Google AdSense offering for the CPA-based ads directly compete with affiliate networks such as Commission Junction and Linkshare. Seeking Alpha even said that it is a ValueClick killer, which spells the end of ValueClick’s CJ business.

AdSense Tip: Rotating AdSense Ad Colors

2008-03-06T08:53:00.000-08:00

AdSense has a feature that is helpful for publishers to increase their revenue from existing traffic; through rotating AdSense ad colors. This tactic should complement the entire ad optimization effort.

Before we go in depth into this topic, you might want to read some of my articles about AdSense optimization tips to help you see through the benefits and inject some motivation.

In short, ad block optimization allows any web publishers to earn extra money from their contextual ads, all from the existing traffic. During testing you might see lower income than usual, but remember this is a long term strategy that will work for you for months, if not years to come. Imagine a 10, 20 percent or more increase in pay check without much effort. You are doing your visitors a favor by helping them finding what they want. In turn, you get the most out of your publishing effort. It’s a win-win-win situation. The third win goes to Google, if you will.

Rotating AdSense ad colors is a technique to overcome ad blindness. When a block of ads, logos, or anything appear on one part of a site everytime, they tend to neglect them. That is natural, but also destructive to your AdSense income.

This technique is particularly useful for bloggers and website owners who have a lot of repeat readers. People who find you through search engines or any other place for the first time usually don’t suffer from ad blindness. But as they become more familiar with your site or blog, they are going to develop the syndrome.

Repeat readers may come from bookmarks, web feed and email subscription to your blog or email newsletter, or simply web visitors that visit your site/ blog again from other sources. If your site is a forum, then most of the visitors are likely to be those who frequent it.

So, if you have these type of readers, consider rotating your ads to keep not only the content of the ads fresh but also the look and feel of them.

AdSense allows you to rotate through up to 4 different color palettes at a time.

You can select from pre-defined color palettes, or you can create up to 100 of your own. Color palettes allow you to make sure that the ad text, background, and border colors complement your website. For added variety and freshness, you can even choose to rotate through up to 4 different color palettes at a time. To take advantage of this feature, you’ll need a newer web browser with JavaScript functionality (Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Netscape 6+). However, the color choices will be visible to users of most web browsers.

Select more than one color palettes by holding the Ctrl key while clicking on the color palette.

If you really consider to test this tactic, consider these:

Analyze the type of traffic to your site or blog. If most of the traffic come from search engines, you can get better results by actually test out what works best and stick to it rather than risk having new visitors to see sub-optimal settings of an ad block.
Remember basic optimization tips. It is not about rotating random colors to produce fresh look of your ads. No, far from it, you have to actually choose two or more optimal color combinations for your AdSense ad units. Of course, you find this through testing. It is a good idea to start with the blend-in> and stand-out approach.
Test, test and test. Not all colors are created the same. Test to find out winning combinations.
Comply to the testing rules. Don’t decide on which test wins or loses on the 10th clicks. Apply basic testing rules to get the best and reliable test results. Remember, because you risk having lower performing configurations during the test, it becomes more important to use some proven optimization tips on matching colors to start.
In summary, ad color rotation is a great tactic to increase your advertising revenue from AdSense. It doesn’t apply to all kind of traffic, but if you take the time to carefully analyze, test and apply the tactic, it could pay you many times in the future.

5 Proven Tips to Make More Money from Google AdSense

2008-03-06T08:51:00.002-08:00

Despite all the buzz how easy it is to get rich using AdSense and generate autopilot income from this advertising network, people are still struggling with it on a daily basis. Why? Because a hype is still a hype.

All those aside, as with any business, if you are serious about making money from Google AdSense or any contextual advertising providers, think about being a content publisher. It helps from the first mindset of going for the best; publishing only good quality of content to treating the whole process as a business.

I know not everyone like the idea of placing all of their eggs in one basket. Nonetheless, AdSense is one of the easiest and convenient ways to generate income streams from the Internet.

If you think of it as a business, you are more likely to be serious and at least expect to work before results come. The so-called guru have spent years working very hard to reach what they have now so beware of the aggressive marketing message which purpose is only to sell you their products.

Before we start, realize that while you can’t expect success just by reading this article, it will get you started in the right direction to earn more money with Google AdSense, and generally other contextual advertising network.

Here are some Google AdSense tips to help you get the most ouf of our traffic and content:

1. Quality content, and more of them
Many people are too busy optimizing their AdSense ad units without ever thinking about quality of content. Others simply have too little of text content to be useful for both visitors and AdSense robot to decide which ads to display.

Quality content is one of the most important components in the whole equation for earning revenues from AdSense. They also help you in optimizing for search engines in the long run.

Publish lots of quality content, targeted to one or several related topics so AdSense bot has a better idea about what your site is all about.

More great content generate more traffic and targeted ads, in which translates directly into increased revenue.

2. Make ads part of your content
Web publisher may think the best performing ads are those with the colors provided by default or listed in your account. Afterall, why Google has those in our account if they are not good?

The fact is, no site works the same. Every site has their own color scheme, so there are virtually unlimited combinations of AdSense colors that could possibly work better than the default color scheme.

One popular way to optimize AdSense ads is to use the straight or direct blend tactic. Most business sites have white background. In this case, change the background color of the ads to white so that it matches the whole page.

On the contrary, the stand-out blend approach to optimize ad colors work because it is esthetically different from the other blocks on the site. Still you have to be careful to only choose matching colors.

Whichever tactics you use, make sure the ads look like part of the page. In other words, it blends into the content. This makes visitors think that your ads are part of your content, so they are most likely to click.

3. Above the fold rule
The best place to put your ads is above the fold. It immediately draws visitors attention when they visit your site. If much of the content are below the fold, then chances are they are more likely to click on your ads.

Of course, you can have the ads after the content to give the readers the options to take action upon after consuming the content. But still, this rule works best.

The space where you usually put your company logo is usually a bad place to have AdSense ads, because people tend to skip that.

4. Text link ads work best
I can’t claim this applies to all sites but time and time again I have seen that text link ad units actually produce best results and click-through rate (CTR).

The only logical reason why this is so is because text links look much like content.

On sites where images could support text content, image ads might work but I have experienced very rare occurences of this situation. This may change in the future as video ads become more common, interesting and useful. Currently you can have video ads only if you enable image ads on your account.

5. Choosing the right ad formats
Standard banner ads (468×68) don’t work most of the time. Visitors have developed ad blindness with this type of ad, especially in image format.

The best ad block format to blend into content is the large rectangles (336×280) size. Other formats might work well in different occasions. For example, AdLinks blocks work best in the sidebar when navigation menu appears. Horizontal AdLinks blend perfectly just under the header of the page. Leaderboards could work best at the top of the page and in forums.

Those 5 tips are more than enough to get you started in AdSense. If you have been using a standard ad format, these changes could increase your revenue twofold or even more.

There are more tips to come. Meanwhile, taking action is what matters. After testing some of these tips, you may come up with your own ideas to test with. Please share your knowledge with us.

Google Sued for AdSense Fraud

2008-03-06T08:51:00.001-08:00

An AdSense publisher, Theresa B. Bradley, is suing Google for $250,000 because she was banned from the advertising program. She and her staffs has spent 100 hours to place and review AdSense advertisements on her Web site.

Well, there is nothing wrong with reviewing ads, but the problem is, she clicked on the ads to check them out, to see if the sites were selling competing products.

According to AdSense terms and policies, publishers should not click on the ads on their own sites for any reason.

The website, www.bravacorp.com has 24 pages indexed by Google, of which some of them are in foreign languages. It is hard to believe that inserting Google AdSense codes on those pages, even manually typing it in, would take that long. Probably she was refreshing her pages countless of times to see which ads appear and click on them for review one by one.

eWeek reports that Bradley did not return several requests for comment. Google responded that the suit is without merit and will defend itself vigorously.

According to the complaint, Bradley’s relationship with Google caused her irreparable harm by damaging her reputation and reputation of her products and services.

Jennifer writes on her blog that Google never publicizes any publisher they suspend, unless it involves a lawsuit.

So, it maybe hard for her unless she is able to prove that Google caused her harm because they suspended her for violating the terms she agreed to herself.

A Business, Advertising Revenue and Quality Content

2008-03-06T08:50:00.000-08:00

I picked up a really interesting discussion on Webmaster World about quality content, feeding the search engines with pages of content in related to AdSense impressions, clicks and revenue.

The thread started when JamaicanFood asked the forum members their opinions about starting a website with 1,000 pages, and growing it at a rate of 3,000 pages a month — or about 100 pages daily.

It raised a question among members. How would one man operation — with an English teacher mother — creates 100 pages of 500 words, 5-6% keyword density pages in 10 hours working day, or about 6 minutes per content page or article?

Seems like it is impossible, but he could do that then congratulations. May be he should prove us wrong.

For me, 6 minutes for a blog post is impossible, let alone keyword optimized page. Afterall, who can write 10 hours non-stop, for a month, or a year?

That aside, making money from web publishing is more about building a business for the long run. Are we going to cash in quickly, getting as much traffic from search engines as possible in a shortest amount of time?

That would be possible. I have seen people done it by spamming Google’s index. Others use AdSense arbitrage model. But, are they going to be there for years? Are they building a business that will feed them for years?

One forum member explained that he had written eight books with major publishers. His articles, which appear on the web are oft requested as paid reprints in magazines and internal publications, including being used by the United Nations.

He lived off the quality for some ten years.

Publishing web content is not merely about earning from advertising clicks, but also building your credibility and authority. While I wouldn’t imagine — at least for now — having such a success as being published in major publishers for eight books, at least in blogging and other web publishing venture, quality content is what builds readership.

Now, we should probably agree that quality content is simply the type of content people find useful or of any help to them when they read it.

Bloggers only link to those with substances, and that’s how we build referral traffic and get ranked in search engines.

High-Priced Keywords Are Useless

2008-03-06T08:47:00.000-08:00

Have I got your attention? In my opionion, it is important to research for the keywords you want to use in your website or blog. It is also necessary to target the right keywords so your web pages display relevant advertisements which will pay you handsomely.

What makes me sad is the fact that many high-paying keywords services or products promote themselves as the solution to earning good money from AdSense or any other contextual network.

If you frequent a forum where web publishers usually hang out, you’ll soon find out newbies asking for advices about specific keyword list/ package, or worse still, ask where to find such good list.

Don’t get me wrong. In publishing on the Web, we certainly want the best buck from our effort.

The fact is, none of them will be delivered in a silver plate, especially the fact that cost-per-click (CPC) is not the only factor that determines if a keyword is high-paying or otherwise.

People tend to judge high paying keywords as those with high CPC. The fact is, even if we create page with those keywords, there are much more to be done before money will start flowing in.

The most difficult thing that comes to my mind is building traffic. It is not about ranking one or two long tail keywords, which usually happens if there is no traffic generation strategy built into the equation.

Even if we are willing to pay for the traffic — like buying pay-per-click, it involve quite a learning curve if we don’t want to flush the money down the toilet.

Usualy, high-paying keywords are bundled with content scraper and generation tool. Those make a great package as the turnkey AdSense income generation solution. What a nice name.

If you are looking into getting rich overnight with AdSense, then I am the first to say that it didn’t work that way.

Web content publishing is about filling the need, giving what people want. It is a real business, so one has to see it that way.

Build your traffic gradually, establish relationship with your readers so they keep going back to your site for more. A web publishing business is going to feed you years to come.

How to Get Any AdSense Account Banned

2008-03-06T08:46:00.000-08:00

A blog post at SEO Refugee shows a growing problem in Google AdSense and AdWords system.

Google has been known to ban unscrupulous website publishers for some time, who are obviously against their TOS.

The thing is, there is a crack in the process of which anyone could exploit and get any AdSense account banned as the result. It is not just your account, virtually anyone.

Disclaimer: I do not promote using these methods as they could obviously cause harm to fellow web publishers. These are to show how Google should have fixed the process from reporting to banning of accounts. Otherwise, they will lose money and at the same time lower trust from those who want to work with Google.

1. Deliberately use targeted account’s publisher ID.
Basically, publish a website or a handful of pages which are strongly against Google AdSense TOS. Create offensive content and ask people to click on the ads.

2. Click on their ads.
This method is even easier. Anyone can mask their IP address and click the ads repetitively to raise Google’s awareness of clickfraud.

It’s true that if whoever done this is not careful enough, they could get into trouble. But still, the problem is, Google will ban accounts without further examination of the source of the problem.

AdSense Revamps Channels Page and Functions

2008-03-06T08:45:00.001-08:00

Google had completely revamped the Channels page under the AdSense Setup tab. Besides cleaning up the design by housing each product on its own sub-tab, now publishers can access, activate, deactivate, remove and rename the channels easier.

The change allows publishers to add new custom channels faster. It doesn’t refresh the page until you press the Add channels button. Thanks to the new Ajax interface. We are able to enter multiple custom channel names, one per line with the remaining counter at the top of the form displaying the number of channels since the last addition.

That might be good or otherwise. Now publishers could easily notice which channel the code is using simply by looking at the source code of the page. On the other hand, it may reveal too much information about which pages we are tracking. The “spying” becomes easier as the name of channels might contain hints.

Finally, publishers can add a new channel immediately on the product page while customizing the products by clicking on the Add new channel link. A JavaScript dialog box will appear and automatically create and insert the new channel on the fly.

The latest update make it only necessary to visit the

Increasing Clicks with Tabbed Browsing

2008-03-06T08:44:00.001-08:00

Chris Kenworthy has a tip worth trying for AdSense and perhaps other contextual advertising publishers out there. He has been doing some experiments where he displays AdLinks ad unit at the extreme top of the page.

The result is that such ads appear just below the Firefox and IE7 tabs. Using Google Analytics and AdSense click listener, he found that visitors who are using Firefox are almost 3 times more likely to click ads in this position than users with a non-tabbed browsers.

The most logical reason would be that these ads immediately grasp viewers’ attention when they are switching tabs.

If you decide to try this out, first check if you have enough Firefox visitors. As IE7 become widely used in the future, this tactic may worth a try.

Planning for Holiday Season for AdSense Publishers

2008-03-06T08:43:00.001-08:00

What could AdSense publishers to prepare for holiday season? Online retailers have begun to plan for it. Probably they have a plan to revamp some of the components or functions of their online store so it converts more.

Others have started to look into how to improve their conversion using email marketing. If they start thinking about the strategies, it could make a difference between success or failure when the time comes.

What about AdSense publishers? Are you going to sit and watch? Or, is there anything you could do to increase your revenue?

I would say that if you focus on your sites which have the most potential, then chances are you could have the right content in place and increase traffic at the same time.

Here are what my recommendation for this holiday season:

Write high demand content. If you have no time but write a few more content pages, that would be in the form of reviews. For your niche, there probably are other type of content that is more demanding, but here is my take on reviews. Research on some of the popular options or ideas for holiday gifts and write reviews around those products. Make the content visible and easily accessible. This should place relevant product ads on your pages, of which you can monetize during holiday shopping season.
Add more keyword focused keyword pages. Combine this with the next tactic to increase your traffic and get ready for more ads to earn revenue from.
Search engine optimization campaign. It could be as simple as syndicating more articles to other sites or article directories. There are still a few months to go to get higher ranking in search engines.
Optimize AdSense ad units. It is probably the time again to review your channels and learn how you can improve your ad units. AdSense optimization is a topic I have covered in the past.
Diversify. Look into many great affiliate programs and see how your pages could fit with the products or services offered by the programs.
If you get yourself ready before holiday season, you can certainly increase your site revenue both from selling products or services — through affiliate programs or your own — or significantly increase your AdSense revenue.

Remember, how you optimize your ads highly depends on your monetization model. If you are driving traffic to affiliate programs, you might want to place AdSense pages below the content so that people who decide not to click still can find what they want.

Finally, test to see what works for you so you are ready for a big hit this season.

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AdSense Notifier: Check Your AdSense Stats Automatically

2008-03-06T08:42:00.001-08:00

If you are using Mozilla Firefox as your favorite browser, an extension you absolutely don’t want to miss is AdSense Notifier.

It takes a few seconds to install. Once done, you need to restart your browser.

You then begin customizing how it works.

Enter your AdSense username and password.

You set how often it should update.

There are also options to define which numbers to show. You can also show today’s earning or last 7 days, this month, any many more.

You can group by page or ad unit.

Finally, AdSense Notifier can be set to update when you left-click on it, login into your AdSense account when you right-click on the bar or open the option window. There is even an option to display the page you want it to open directly in your account.

Why You Want Fast Hosting for AdSense Sites

2008-03-06T08:41:00.000-08:00

It may not seem to be obvious at the first glance why you want a fast and reliable hosting for AdSense sites — and virtually any of your content site that you create specificaly to earn money from contextual advertising or other advertising programs.

First, let us make it clear.

You can host your site on free hosting service. Nothing is going to stop you. During your application, it may increase your chance to be accepted into the program if you have a professional site with your own domain.

But, really, after being accepted, you can take any low quality hosting service and use it for any of your new site.

The thing, I recommend that you always go for the fastest and greatest hosting you can afford for several reasons. It better has to be reliable too. Why?

1. It increases your professionalism
Don’t expect everyone run on broadband. Many people are still on dialup, although broadband penetration is certainly going up. So you optimize your page to load in a breeze.

The sad thing is, with slow hosting which hiccups during peak time, you have just ruined your hard work. Click! Your visitor has just clicked anywhere else, instead of your AdSense ads.

2. It caters to low attention span problem
People have shorter attention span online. It develops over time as there are more pages to choose and read everyday. If your whole page, including Google AdSense ad blocks don’t load in a few short seconds, they are not going to wait.

The back button is just one click away…

Remember that AdSense ads are loaded based on JavaScript code. Although it is a safe bet that Google is usually fast, still you need to load the page fast enough before user browser can start querying for the ads.

3. It increases your income.
Yes, it really does. For every visitor that you miss because of your sluggish hosting, for every minute or even second it goes down, you have just lost your AdSense dollar.

This is not something you can afford, especially given the fact that there are inexpensive hosting packages that actually deliver values.

Best Practices for Hosting
This doesn’t mean that you must go for the most expensive hosting package.

Nowadays, you can get a good hosting package for as low as $10 per month. You just have to shop around, do your own due deligence before getting your credit card out.

Have third opinions. Don’t hesitate to ask.

Some hosting allow multiple domains per account.

So shop around.

You usually get what you pay, but never accept anything less.

Which Top-Level Domains (TLDs)?

2008-03-06T08:40:00.001-08:00

Often when registering your domain, you need to choose from a range of Top-Level Domains (TLDs). To put it in layman term, it refers to the suffix attached to domain names.

For instance, the TLD for example.com is .com. The TLD for example.net is .net.

Because of technical issues and others, during the last few years, ICANN started to introduce new TLDs specifically for many industries.

Also don’t forget there are country specific TLDs, like .uk for United Kingdom and .us for United States.

Basically, AdSense publishers are allowed to choose from any top level domain, except perhaps .xxx, which are going to be approved for online adult entertainment. As long as you comply with Google AdSense Program Policies, you are safe.

There are many other considerations though when starting your new site.

A .biz domain is for business purpose, but it may trigger spam filter if you are going to adopt email marketing as part of your marketing strategies, using the domain in question.

Generally, .com domains are so common that people think when you own a website, you own a .com. It is common sense. When you see an online ad, you expect it to be whatever-the-company-name-or-brand dot-com. It may be of your benefit to have a .com for this case.

For me, I always choose .com when registering for a new domain. They may say all good names have been taken, but really if you let creativity kicks in, you can still get great domains.

I often get very good deals on .info domains too. But your mileage may vary.

You can get a complete list of TLDs from ICANN — International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

Publishers, Take Back Control of Your Assets

2008-03-06T08:39:00.001-08:00

Paul Needham, Accipiter’s VP of product strategy lists ways publishers can maximize profits while serving small and medium-sized businesses.

When a publisher relies on a self-serve ad network to reach an entire market segment of advertisers, that publishers hands over those valuable advertiser relationships and in the process, helps that ad network build its business.

Although small publisher might be satisfied by having ad network manages the whole thing, for large publishers they want to take back control.

The problem is, most large publishers have not yet found effective ways to finding prospective advertisers, negotiating contracts as well as providing support and reporting for campaigns.

The cost can be significant.

But, on the other hand, publishers don’t want to give up on small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) because they are the fastest-growing segment of advertisers in today’s online marketplace.

According to Needham, you need to consider the following when analyzing the tools available on the market:

Ownership — The flexibility to manage your own inventory, set your own pricing, receive payment, manage relationships, etc.
Percentage of revenue share — The larger the share of revenue, the better. If you go with a technology solution rather than an ad network, make sure you can book 100 percent of the revenue.
Brand leverage — Don’t miss the value of your brand in the ad network. Make sure you can create ad units of any size of design.
Cost of sales — Don’t waste too much time on negotiations and other work with smaller advertising clients.
Competition for ad inventory — A bid-for-placement and real-time auction system for your advertisers to compete for access to ad inventory.
Level of control — Offer different access levels, calculate commissions based on sales, etc.
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What Makes a Good CTR in AdSense?
Posted by Hendry Lee on 10/28/06 in Google AdSense, Tips

While doing testing of your AdSense ad units/formats, we tend to compare performances among fellow online publishers, across multiple industries or niches.

One of the most interesting numbers besides earnings is of course CTR or click-through rate — the percentage of people who click on the ads per page views.

CTR basically describes how your visitors are interested in the AdSense ad blocks and click on them. It can also measure how well you optimize AdSense for your site — be it the locations, formats, or other options.

As a publisher, we surely are interested in getting the most bucks from our effort. One way to do it to compare CTR. If there is a number we can compare to determine how far we go, that should be no problem — and no post of this kind.

The problem with it is, there is no secret number that shows if CTR is good or otherwise. You have to decide at the gut level if you have optimized enough and switch to other demanding tasks.

Comparing CTR between publishers of different sites or blogs can not prove a thing — if one or another is doing better. Besides, there are too many factors that could contribute to the differences.

Perhaps the only valid comparison is to measure your own numbers over time. If you do a few percent better than before, you know that you are cashing in more from the existing traffic.

While I can’t show you exactly which number is good and which is otherwise because revealing it is against AdSense TOS, from the next few articles I hope it will become obvious how you should approach CTR.

Factors That Impact CTR

2008-03-06T08:38:00.002-08:00

Many web publishers focus too heavily on CTR because it is simply lucrative. If we could just increase our earnings from the existing traffic and visitors, why shouldn’t we do it?

Moreover, getting more traffic after optimization usually means even more revenue. Better still, it squeezes the most out of available resources.

There are many factors that contribute to click-through rate (CTR). We don’t have control to some of them. Others can be decided up front. But the good news is, we can change the rest of them to impact CTR.

Without further ado, here are things that contribute to the percentage of people who click on ads. While I write this with Google AdSense in mind, they really are independent of advertising networks. It applies as well to Yahoo! Publishers Network, Chitika and others.

Topics. People are more likely to click on advertisement in some niche topics. For instance, if the ads are related to some specific products where the audience are responsive, they will get better CTR.
Time. In some industry, higher CTR usually happens during weekdays. Others experience better CTR on weekends. Some publishers see lower impressions in different months in a year, but better CTR. Still, there are variations from site / blog to another.
Readers. More tech savvy readers don’t click on ads as much as casual readers. You should expect different CTR depending upon referring sites. Search engine visitors are also more likely to click on ads compared to repeat readers. The latter have developed ad blindness because they are familiar with the layout of your blog/site.
Relevancy. If the ad network you participate in has the technology to allow maximum relevancy and owns rich varieties in ad inventories, you will get relevant ads on your pages. Relevant ads tend to generate more clicks.
Ad formats and colors. Large rectangle ads are known to get more clicks than others. Different color schemes can impact CTR too.
Ad placement. Positioning ad units in the location where they usually attract eyeballs will result in better CTR if the ads are relevant and of interest to readers.
Average pageviews. High quality sites usually have many of their readers stay and read a lot of pages before deciding to leave via a link to other site or by clicking on the ads. While CTR may be low in this case, it is not bad since it could mean more visitors will come back and again click for the ads.
Click options. Given many options to click, some users are going to click one or another. The right positioning and limited options convert to more clicks.
I’ve had one site which constantly generates CTR in the 15-40 percent (and sometimes more) range. Yet one blog only results in 1-2 percent CTR no matter how I optimize.

Comparing CTR between sites could be an unproductive task if done incorrectly. Still, the numbers matter if you know how to use it.

AdSense Firefox Referral Program Doesn’t Include Version 2.0 Yet

2008-03-06T08:38:00.001-08:00

The new version of Firefox 2.0 is not included in the Google AdSense Firefox Referral program. Google AdSense affiliate program includes only Firefox up to version 1.5.

A forum user received a response from Google about this issue:

Thanks for writing in about the Firefox plus Google Toolbar referral button. We currently offer Firefox 1.5 in our referral download. We can’t yet say if or when we will offer Firefox 2.0, but I’m happy to pass along your comments to our engineering and product teams.

The same user noticed a significant drop in revenue after version 2 came out.

Seems like Google want to make sure everything is compatible with the toolbar. Still, we don’t want users download old version of the browsers from the referral buttons too long.

How to Approach CTRs

2008-03-06T08:36:00.002-08:00

Often we read in forums, blogs or articles about stunning click-through rates claimed by some AdSense publishers by using some techniques or others.

Assuming the claims are true, we rush to adapt this method hoping to achieve more or less as high CTR as the original poster claimed. Much to our dismay, often the techniques result in a drop in CTR, let alone boost it to the roof.

In previous post, I have shown some of the factors that could possibly impact CTR. There are too many factors to consider, that one can not be too sure if a single change in how the ad looks like will move CTR higher or otherwise.

There are right and wrong ways to use published numbers from such sources.

Wrong ways to approach CTR
Entirely shift your ad formats, colors, or anything else to what the source suggests and claims to get higher CTR.
Think an optimization or change is of no good if it doesn’t give good results without looking further on the main causes.
Consider a change on your ads to be a failure if it doesn’t generate as high CTR as the original author reported.
Right ways to approach CTR
Use it as an initial projection conservatively until you have your own numbers.
Use reported numbers as a relative measure of increment while taking other factors into account.
Identify which small changes may reap large change in CTR and overall revenue.
Use numbers from the same niches to account for goals and expectations.
Some Examples
If a forum user reported that s/he received very high CTR from banner ads format, you should not shift your ad units entirely to that format unless you have taken into account different layout, colors, content type, and others.
For optimization. If a report reveals that certain optimization might result in better CTR, it may pinpoint areas where you may be able to improve things and drive visitors to click on ads. This data is important to improve different aspects of your ad units.
For sanity check. A certain change results in a jump from 10 percent CTR to 12 percent. If your current CTR is at 5 percent, it may be more realistic to aim at 6 percent first.
There is no single formula that will skyrocket CTR from anything to 30, 40 or 50 percent. Some optimization will be more effective than others. As a publisher, you have to know which is possible and which is a pure waste of time. Knowing other people’s numbers is nice, but unless you know how to interpret them, they will only mislead and cause repeat dismay.

Increase AdSense Revenue with Google Custom Search Engine

2008-03-06T08:36:00.001-08:00

Google has enabled publishers to create Custom Search Engine using Google’s core search technology. The search engine, which is built on the Google Co-op platform, is tailored to the need of the publishers which prioritizes or restricts search results based on websites and pages that they specify.

With this product, anyone can create specialized search engine in a topic of interests of their audience.

How do you create a Custom Search Engine?

Simply submit websites or pages you’d like to include in your search engine index. You can choose either to restrict your search results to include only these pages and sites, or simply to give these pages and sites higher priority and ranking in the larger Google index. Once you’ve defined your search engine index, Google will give you a simple piece of code for a search box to place on your site or blog. You’ll then have the option to choose various customization options to make the look and feel and functionality of your search engine your own.

It means that now you also can customize user search experience with your brand, while at the same time make money with the search engine using Google AdSense revenue sharing program.

To connect your Co-op account with Google AdSense, go to the “Make money” tab in your search engine’s control panel, fill in the form with the email address that you use with your AdSense account, your zip code, and the last 5 digits of your phone number.

For more information about Google Co-op’s Custom Search Engine, start with the overview page.

Strategies to Maximize CTR

2008-03-06T08:34:00.002-08:00

Click-through rate (CTR) is an interesting topic to bring up on discussion boards, blogs and on industrial events where web publishers gather together to talk about website publishing revenue.

As you might have read, CTR depends upon too many factors it may be acceptable for one site, great for others and lousy for other half.

There is no such thing as a good or healthy CTR. In previous blog post, I have also outlined how you should approach CTR numbers published by others.

That said, here are a few suggestions to help you improve and maximize your CTR:

Start by optimizing your ads
It is wise to concentrate on content first then place ad units as an exit points for readers to proceed with. Low CTR is not always bad. People may stay on your site to read pages and pages of content before leaving by clicking on ads. If you want them to click on ads, place ad units where they are most likely to be seen after reading content.
Use AdSense (or any of the ad network you participate in) features to the max. Some of them include site targeting, tracking, preview tools, competitive ad blocking, etc.
Maximize traffic by reusing and recycling existing visitors. If people are interested with what you have to offer, then let them in for more. Allow them to subscribe to RSS feeds or email newsletters easily. You can direct them back to your site or blog for fresh and new updates, which could result in more clicks on your ads.
Set a point where enough is enough. You don’t want to be caught in the loop of over-optimizing ad units. You may better spend your time on producing more content that translates into more pages to display ads on, or develop other traffic strategies to continually add new traffic stream that you can monetize.

First Ad Unit = Highest CTR

2008-03-06T08:34:00.001-08:00

As an AdSense publisher, it is wise to constantly test your ad units to see which one performs best. Optimization can be done through testing, which in turn will get the most revenue out of your existing content and traffic.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I am going to say it again. Optimizing your AdSense ad units is the best thing a publisher can do. Without working hard on generating more traffic, you can earn more from your existing resources.

When it comes to return on investment (ROI), testing often gives the highest return for your time compared to writing content, search engine optimization, and any other traffic generation tactics.

Of course, you must know when to stop optimizing and move to something else, because there is only so much money to be made from a single ad unit unless you keep building traffic and add content.

That brings us to this question.

What should you do after you have the highest click-through rate (CTR) ad unit?

To answer that question, you should realize that AdSense ads come from AdWords advertisers who decided to put their ads on Google content network. As with the search network, Google content network utilizes auction model to determine whose ads are going to be shown first, second, etc.

Yes, there are other algorithms involved that affect ad ranks, but to keep things simple, let’s assume that the highest bidder win the top spot.

Where do the first ad appear on the web page? In the first ad unit. If the ad unit displays multiple ads, then it displays at the very first place.

Google determine the first ad unit based on its location in the HTML — or PHP, ASP, etc. — file. If you use Custom Style Sheet (CSS) to design your web site, you know that you can place the code at the end of the page and still have the element displayed at the top of the page.

This is why you need to make sure that the first ad unit really appears first in your HTML code.

It is this simple and easy modification that could possibly increase your AdSense revenue, so please add it to your schedule to check for the highest CTR and make sure the code appears where it should be.

If you haven’t tracked your ad units, consider doing so by using custom channels.

Login to AdSense Using a Google Account

2008-03-06T08:32:00.001-08:00

I noticed this morning when logging in my Google AdSense account today that I was immediately prompted to update my AdSense login to a Google Account.

Soon, they will require all AdSense publishers to update their logins to a Google Account. Just follow the wizard to convert your account. An email to confirm the changes will be sent to both your old and new email accounts (BCCs).

The problem is, you cannot use the same Google Account that you use to login to your AdWords account or another AdSense account. For me, that defeats the entire purpose of having single sign-on feature across all Google’s products.

You can also skip the wizard for now and take the steps the next time you login.

Online Publisher Revenue: Make Money from Your Website

2008-03-06T08:31:00.001-08:00

Not long ago, people fought against e-commerce. They dislike the idea of advertisements. According to them, information and web site should preserve its educational purpose and that only.

Luckily, we could say that that time were gone. Now e-commerce has grown as record speed that whoever decide not to join will be left behind.

The Internet has made it possible for small and independent web publisher to build and grow web sites in virtually any niche no matter how small it is. This is possible because the cost to online publishing is extremely low.

The good news is, with such a low cost to enter a market, it is still very lucrative with huge opportunities for web site owners.

Perhaps you have taken a lot of time and effort to build your web site. It is getting popular month after month. You also notice the number of visitors to your site is increasing. Now is the time to start getting paid for your effort.

If you are just starting out, you may want to take web site monetization into account before deciding on a topic. This is important especially if you do this not solely for hobby.

Don’t be afraid to make money from your web site. Passionate web publishers who make money from their web site have good reasons and motivation to build their web site and add high quality content. It is really a win-win situation.

In real life, you expect to pay for the majority of goods and services. As a website publisher, you are providing information that helps the web site visitors solve their problems or improve their situations. There is nothing wrong in earning revenue from the free information you give.

As an ethical publisher, I believe you will only write and publish quality information, not junk content which purpose is to merely earn money. After all, what is a better motivation to churn out more great content other than actually getting paid?

This blog will guide you through from basic to advanced steps that you need to know to start generating revenue, brainstorm ideas for monetization, leverage content for even better and stronger web promotion (that brings revenue), optimization of existing revenue stream, and others, including trends and news in the this industry.

Why AdSense Referral Ads May Not Show

2008-03-06T08:29:00.000-08:00

Not referral ads are available in all sizes. Select categories or products for your referrals before selecting a size.
The particular referral ad you’ve chosen is not available in your country.
You’ve selected the “Pick best performing ads” checkbox for referral where the advertiser has run out of budget or ended the campaign

You have more than three referral units on one page.
Potentially sensitive or mature content on the page.
Modified referral ad code.

The next time you stumble upon this problem, make sure you go through the simple “checklist” to make sure that one of those common reasons is not part of your problem. Of course, you can shoot an email to the support team for further support question.

Top 3 Website Revenue Channels

2008-03-06T08:28:00.000-08:00

The Web is growing at a staggering rate. Currently, there are billions of web sites on the Internet and tens of millions of domain names.

The fight for eyeballs are getting stiff nowadays. Only those who publish great content and know how to promote their site can earn a share of web site traffic.

Admittedly, there are great web sites out there who earn next to nothing in revenue while others junk sites are able to earn a good income.

Although this blog is not about traffic generation, sometimes the topics overlap. If you want to learn more about generating web site traffic, visit our sister blog at Publishers Traffic, which covers traffic building ideas from organic search engines, pay per click, and more.

While developing a website, as a publisher, you should have a goal in mind. Whether it is to sell ad space or showcase your products, your site structure and content more or less reflect the end goal you got in place.

Generally, there are only 3 main web site revenue channels. Different models and variants can be categorized into one of these:

Selling web page real estates - Selling advertising space, whether you manage it manually or through ad networks, involves reserving web page real estates for third party advertisements. There are many models that are built based on this alone. It has existed for a few years now but still, consider this industry still in its infancy. There are still ample of rooms to grow.
Affiliate model - As a web site publisher (affiliate), you generate revenue by referring traffic to the merchants (advertisers). For any agreed actions — such as sales — you earn a share or a fixed amount of money. You don’t sell products or space, but earn commission based on the referrals you send their way.
Selling own products - In this model, you sell your own products as a merchant. There are a myriad of e-commerce sites selling anything from dog food to groceries, sport equipments, and information. There are many benefits to selling information especially regarding to inventory and startup cost. This blog also covers some of the aspects of information marketing.
Big e-commerce site such as Amazon sells huge range of products. This is possible because there is no physical racks limitation. The company was one of the pioneer of affiliate model back in the 1990s. Even a merchant as big and popular as Amazon still depends on thousands of their affiliates to bring them business. This should give you an idea about the opportunity that is out there.

You don’t need to own a high traffic site in order to participate in most affiliate programs or ad networks, although some require it. In all cases, you can start small and work your way up. Smaller affiliate and ad networks usually have quality products but don’t screen their partners.

Get paid to link to YOUR Site

2008-03-05T00:18:00.000-08:00

Here’s an interesting site. Another version of a social site, Squidoo, allows you to write pages on different subjects, much the same you would an article. However, they have many different modules to help YOU make money off the pages you write.

Most article directories take the advertising money for themselves, Squidoo provides modules to help you easily add amazon books, eBay items etc to your page and your get paid when something sells! They also have a large number of interactive modules that allow you to add Filckr pictures, Utube videos, Google blog posts as well as polling modules and a large number of different things to make your page interesting.

Off course you then put a few of your own links on the page to attract traffic to your own site. Here are a couple of mine, Video Technology, Northern California Vacations , Kauai Vacation. Squidoo also helps you promote your site. First, they are a PR7 site so they are getting indexed very regularly. There is a number of ways you can interact with other “Lens Makers” which helps you to quickly increase the number of links to your lens.

With in a few days I was starting to get traffic form Google and Yahoo, and most of the traffic ended up funneling to my sites that I was promoting on the lens.

They claim to be able to make a lens in 10 minutes. Well, you can, but to make one that will promote well takes a little longer. But not by much. I see this as a great way to add relevant links to an existing site, make a quick affiliate marketing site, or just make money on an idea that you don’t think you could come up with 20 pages worth of content to make a decent site with.

I don’t think you can come up with an easier way to enter into social networking.

Add Ratings To Your Blog Posts for Instant Feedback from Readers

2008-02-25T02:43:00.000-08:00

Blogs that are on Blogger, WordPress or TypePad can now add the wonderful outbrain star ratings widget to their blog posts.

This ratings widget has been under a closed beta for some time but they finally made a public release today.

It's light, requires no registration and very intuitive - visitors can hover the mouse over the five stars and click any of them to rate your current blog post. Even if you have a regular website that's not a blog, this ratings widget can be installed on your site as well.
You need such a rating widget to get feedback from all those reader who are subscribed to your blog aren't contributing to the discussion because they are probably too lazy to write a comment.
Give them a system like this ratings widget that requires no effort and they'll be happy to say if enjoyed or disliked reading your blog post.
Get Ratings Widget here. Developer Blog is here. If you are using Windows Live Writer to insert ratings in your blog posts, make sure you remove the link breaks from javascript else this may not work.

Google Adsense Layout Tips for Maximum Clicks

2008-02-25T02:38:00.000-08:00

Positioning:
You need to add your Adsense links right in the heart of your template or right in the heart of your content.

Link Units:
Since the introduction of Google Adsense "link units", we can now add what looks like a "menu system" to compliment our menu system within our website. This is HUGE. Have you ever just clicked on a website and kept clicking on the menu links? I know we all have. By adding a "Google link units" to your menu, you will get more clicks than you thought possible. Try adding the link units near the top for better performance and try creating your link units to match the color of your menu system in place. Once in a while I find myself clicking on a menu link unit without even realizing it which in turn gives more money to the website owner.

Leaderboards & Skyscrapers:
These may very well be your "bread & butter". I only say this because of the sheer size of these ads units. The best place to add these ad units is obvious; Straight across the very top of your website (leaderboards), and straight down the side of your template (skyscrapers). Anywhere else may not look proper within your template and may look unprofessional.

Square & Rectangle Ad Units:
These are great to compliment the mass amount of content within your website and also within your recommended resources. You want to compliment your content, you don't want Adsense to BE your content because this will look poor on your part. Square and rectangular units are great to use within articles posted on your website or within your link resources. Try adding your Adsense boxes above your resource links within a page to give your Adsense account that added extra exposure.

Tips for Avoiding Your AdSense Account Getting Banned by Google

2008-02-25T02:37:00.000-08:00

I have seen quite a lot of AdSense publishers posted in different forums stating that their AdSense accounts were banned by Google due to fraudulent clicks. Most of these people claim that they are innocent and have never clicked on their on AdSense ads. So they have no idea why click fraud can occur on their AdSense accounts. The truth is click fraud can happen in several ways and not necessarily caused by the AdSense publisher himself/herself who accidentally clicked on his/her own AdSense.

Below are some of the tips to protect your AdSense account:

1) Do not use autosurf programs to promote your websites that contain AdSense. Autosurf programs can substantially increase your website traffic or hits, AdSense page view and ecpm but people who surf your site only to earn advertising credit or other type of incentives. So the traffic generated from autosurf programs aren't counted as real and thus against AdSense policies.
1) Do not use autosurf programs to promote your websites that contain AdSense. Autosurf programs can substantially increase your website traffic or hits, AdSense page view and ecpm but people who surf your site only to earn advertising credit or other type of incentives. So the traffic generated from autosurf programs aren't counted as real and thus against AdSense policies.

2) If possible, do not involve in any traffic exchange networks and programs. If you have join one or more programs or networks that can make you a steady AdSense commission, you should start worry about your AdSense account as this could mean that members of the program(s) were clicking each other AdSense ads all the while whether intentionally or unintentionally. As soon as Google detected a group of people were clicking each other AdSense, many of the members AdSense account in the program will be suspended. Also traffic exchange can be another mean to artificially generate tons of unreal website traffic or hits and boost up AdSense page view & ecpm and it is strictly prohibited by Google .

3) Do not join AdSense exchange networks. They are similar to traffic exchange programs except members are participate just for clicking each other AdSense. This should be a guaranteed way to be banned by Google.

4) Read all the Google AdSense policies at http://www.google.com/adsense to see whether you have against any policies and make the necessary modification.

5 Tips to Boost Your Adsense Revenue

2008-02-25T02:33:00.000-08:00

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

4 Steps to Creating A Website Specifically to Earn AdSense Revenue

2008-02-25T02:32:00.000-08:00

Building a website to earn Google AdSense advertising revenue has become a popular way to make extra money online nowadays. It is easier to earn AdSense income versus generating sales by selling products or services online. However it does involve works, time and money before you start earning from Adsense program. Below are the steps to creating a content website for earning AdSense revenue.

Step 1
Decide the content of your website. You can write a topic or subject related to your interest, hobbies or experience. You can also provide educational information and advice on your website if you are expert at something.

Step 2
Use a website builder to create your website. One of the easy-to-use website builders that can help you build a website is Bluevoda website builder. Bluevoda site builder allows users to build a website without technical knowledge. You don’t need to build your site from scratch. The trick is to use a free professional template provided by the site builder and then start adding your text and links to your website. You can add some graphics and pictures to make your site look nicer. After completing your website project, your next step is register a domain name and sign up for a hosting account to publish your website on the Internet.

Step 3
Join Google AdSense program. It will usually take several days for Google AdSense team to review and approve your site. If Google accepts your application. You can start learning how to generate AdSense code for inserting to your website to generate Adsense revenue. If your site rejected by Google, don’t get upset easily. Google will let you know the reasons of the rejection. You can fix the problems and reapply again.

Step 4
You need to drive targeted Visitors/Traffic to your website to generate Adsense revenue. The higher your website’s traffic the greater your Adsense earning will be. Below are some of the ways that can help you drive some traffic to your website in short period of time.

1) Use Per-per-click (PPC) advertising. The two most popular PPC search engines are Google and Yahoo. Google and Yahoo can deliver instant traffic to your website but it is costly to advertise on Google and Yahoo. There are other alternatives like Bidvertise.com and Clicksor.com which are cheaper to advertise with.

2) Introduce your site to your family and friends.

3) Write several articles with a link to your website on the resource box and submit them to article directories. You can find a list of article directories by going to Google and entering the search term 'article directory'.

4) Post messages on community forums with a link to your site on the signature of each message posted

Complete List of Best SEO-Tools

2008-02-25T02:28:00.000-08:00

What are the best ways to boost your position in search engines? What keywords should you use on your web-pages? And which tools should you use to improve the quality of backlinks, link popularity and Google Pagerank? We deliver answers. Here is the list of the most useful SEO-tools you might be willing to use, developing and optimizing your next web-site. Our personal choice: 156 Seo Tools - one of the most comprehesive lists with essential SEO-references and tools. For even more resources check out the SEO section of The Web-Developer’s Handbook.

Alexa

Alexa-Ranking
Alexa page-rank-and-rating-results
Alexa Web Rank Checker
Check your site’s current Alexa Web Rank, Incoming Links, Reach Rank & Average Reviews

Backlink

Anchor Text Backlink Checker
This tool is to check your backlinks and the anchor text used in those backlinks.
Backlink Analyzer
Research and analyze websites for link quality. Checks for Indexed Pages, Links to Website, EDU & .GOV Links, Domain Age & Expiration, Google PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, DMOZ Listing
Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer
This tools help you determine the backlinks of your website and link text used by your backlinks to Link to your website
Backlink Builder
Building Quality backlinks is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization…

Domain Popularity, Domain Stats Tools…

Domain Age Tool
This tools displays the approximate age of a website on the Internet and allows you to view how the website looked when it first started
Domain Dossier
Investigate domains and IP addresses
Domain Popularity
This tool shows you all backlinks for the given domain, including up to 10 subpages per backlinking domain, host IP and Google PageRank
Domain Stats Tool
This tool helps you get all kind of statistics of your competitor’s domains. The statistics include Alexa Taffic Rank, Age of the domains, Yahoo WebRank, Dmoz listings, count of backlinks and number of pages indexed in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn etc.
HTTP / HTTPS Header Check
This tools allow you to inspect the HTTP headers that the web server returns when requesting a URL. Works with HTTP and HTTPS URLs
View HTTP Headers
This little tool lets you view the HTTP headers for a HTTP request
View HTTP Path
This little tool lets you view the path/redirects a request takes to get fulfilled

Google Page Rank Checker, Adwords Keyword Tools,Google Banned Tools…

Advanced Google searches
Use this tool to search google in many special ways. A useful resource for search engine optimization (especially keyword research) among other things
Check Google Pagerank
Now you can check the Google PageRank of any web page without installing the Google toolbar
Check PageRank by Google data center
With this tool you can check the PageRank from different data centers
Free Google Adsense Keywords & YPN Keywords Search Tool
With the ability to search a growing database of tens of thousands of high-dollar Adsense keywords, Iotaweb allows publishers to find the keywords and key phrases that will allow them to focus their content to monetize their site most effectively.
Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Keyword tool from Google that provides Specific and Similar keywords.
Google Banned Tool
This tool uses two methods to check to see if a URL you enter is in the Google database. Its a great way to check to see if you have been banned by Google for various reasons….
Google Keyword Ranking Tool
Search with list of keywords from differnet Google search sites
Google Page Rank Checker
Instantly check the PageRank of any website or web page
Google Page Rank Checker
A simple tool that checks and your PageRank so you can display it on your website
Google Sets
Automatically create sets of items from a few examples.
Google Synonyms
Type in a keyword to get Google’s synonyms using the “~keyword -keyword” method.
PageRank Authenticity Check
This tool shows you the PageRank of a given domain. Also the PageRank will be checked of authenticity
Page Rank Tool
Our PageRank Tool will query and return the Google PageRank values for submitted URL from various Google datacenters…
Poodle Predictor
See your site like Google does. Simulate search engines and predict your Google listings
Visual PageRank
The Visual PageRank - Tool shows all links and there corresponding PageRanks

Keyword Analysis Tool, Keyword Density, Keyword Suggestion Tools…

McDar Keyword Analysis Tool
Enter URL and keyword, it will display Pagerank and Back links pages for the Top 10 websites.
Keyword Density
This tool shows you how often appears which word in content of given domain
Keyword Density
The keyword density tool is useful for helping webmasters and SEOs achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms.
Keyword Density Checker
Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage. This tool will crawl the specified URL, extract text as a search engine would, remove common stop words and Analyze the density of the keywords.
Keyword Difficulty Tool
The keyword difficulty tool is used to analyze the competitive landscape of a particular search term or phrase, this tool issues a percentage score and provides a detailed analysis of the top ranking sites at Google and Yahoo…
Keyword research service
Type a keyword or phrase and get the top 10 Keyword Discovery listings
KwMap.net
A Keyword Map For the Whole Internet
Keyword Suggestion Tool
This keyword suggestion tool will help you with the choosing of the right keywords for your website. You can see which keyword combinations are more popular and also get ideas for more keyword combinations..
SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
Free Overture and Google Keyword suggestion tool
Website Keyword Suggestions
This tools tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates.
Ontology Finder
Related Keywords Lookup Tool
Overture Keyword Tool
This tool, based on the excellent Overture and Wordtracker keyword search tools, gives similar data, including search figures from the previous month. It also adds statistics for average searches per hour, day, week, projected figures for the next 12 months and then also a figure to see how searches may look in 3 years from now.

Link Popularity Check, Site Link Analyzer, Link Value…

Deep Link Ratio Tool
This tool was created to analyze how the deep link ratio of a site affects its rank in search engines. We can use this tool to compare the DLRs for the best ranking sites for a search phrase.
Link Popularity Check
Link popularity check is one of the best ways to quantifiably and independently measure your website’s online awareness and overall visibility…
Link Popularity Checker
The Link Popularity Checker tells you how many websites are linking to yours…
LINK VALIDATION SPIDER
Free Online Broken Link Checker
Link Price Calculator
This tools will help you determine the approximate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website
Link Value
This tool calculates the link value per month of a given website.
Reciprocal Link Check
This tool helps you ensure that your link partners are linking back to your website. It also determines the anchor text used by your link partners to link to your website.
Site Link Analyzer
This tool will analyze a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text…
The Link Reputation Measurement Tool
Reveals backlinks pointing to your target url along with the following: Link Survey - Link Reputation Score - Text used in links pointing to you - Alexa traffic analysis for the site corresponding to each backlink
Outbound Links
This tool shows every outgoing link from the given domain. Separated in external and internal links

Meta Tag Generators

Meta Tag Generator
Our Meta Tag Generator will read the page you specify, remove common words from it, and pick the most used words on the page. It will then generate a Meta Keywords tag using the words it has found…
Meta Tag Generator
Use this tool to generate a search engine friendly Head Tag for your web site
Title & Meta Tags Generator
his code generator will build the title and meta tags for your site to help improve your website’s search engine ranking using our Meta Tag Generator

Miscellaneous Tools

156 Seo Tools
One of the most comprehensive lists with useful, essential SEO tools.
Directory Submission Manager
Use this free tool to track your submissions to various web directories….
Copyscape
Search for copies of your page on the Web
Crazy Egg
Get a clear picture of where your visitors are clicking and enhance your site’s results
Site Analysis including Link Popularity
This tool generates a complete site analysis e.g. amount of backlinks, indexed sites, Google PageRank and also if your domain is listed in DMOZ and Yahoo directory
Sitemap Generator
Create your Google Sitemap Online
Browser Screen Resolution Checker
The browser screen resolution checker shows what your web page looks like with the viewer’s monitor set to different screen resolutions
Similar Page Checker
Search Engines are known to penalize websites that contain Duplicate / Similar content. Your content could be similar to other websites on the Internet, or pages from within your own website could be similar to each other. This tool allows you to determine the percentage of similarity between two pages
Speedtester
This tool shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.
mod_rewrite RewriteRule Generator
Our mod_rewrite RewriteRule generator will take a dynamic url given to it, and generate the correct syntax to place in a .htaccess file to allow the url to be rewritten in a spiderable format
URL Rewrite (mod_rewrite)
With this tool you can generate dynamic urls to search engine friendly urls..
URL Rewriting Tool
Create Search Engine Friendly URLs
User Agent Cloaking Detector
This tool simulates the Googlebot (based on User-Agent) to detect cloaked content
What is Hosted on that IP
This little tool lets you view the virtual hosts on a particular IP

Search Engine Position Checker, Spider Simulator, Ranking Report, SERP Tracker

Dogpile
Search Comparison Tool
Google vs Yahoo Graph
This tool looks at the results from Yahoo and Google, finds the similarities and then gives you a graphical display of what results are in both search engines
Search Engine Position Checker
The Search Engine Position Checker tool will automatically query the search engines you specify and check if your URL appears in the first 50 results for your chosen keywords….
Search Engine Simulator
This service allows web authors to see what their pages will look like (sort of) to a search engine. This service ignores the META tags that some search engines honor.
Search Engine Spider Simulator
With this tool you see all informations a search engine spider receive from a website.
Marketleap Search Engine Verification Tool
Our verification tool checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword
Number of pages indexed
This tool will generate a report showing how many pages of your website has been indexed by the search engines so far. It supports all major search engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alltheweb, Hotbot and AltaVista.
Search Engine Ranking Report
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SEO Tools – The best of the bunch

2008-02-25T02:27:00.001-08:00

Different Search Engine Optimisation tools hold different meanings for different web masters and bloggers, and it is really difficult to compile a list of “the best SEO tools”. Still, most of the SEO requirements are generic in nature, for instance, your typical Search Engine Optimisation campaign entails:
Optimised source code
Keyword analysis
SEO-optimised content
Meta tags analysis
Search engine submissions and monitoring
Getting quality back links

I’ll be listing here the best SEO tools you can use to handle the Search Engine Optimisation tasks mentioned above.

Source code validation

From the SEO perspective it is very important to have clean, validated markup. The two online tools that help you write validated markup are:

Keyword analysis

It is very critical to know what are the right keywords for you. Getting tons of traffic for wrong keywords can prove to be a costly affair both in terms of lost business and bandwidth costs. Here are some tools you can use to find out what are the right tools for you:

Search Engine Optimised content

Although it is very hard to find a tool that writes optimised content for you, you can use some tools to gauge the keyword density of your content. Here are a few online tools that can help you check your keyword density.

Meta tags analysis

Some say meta tags are important and some say they are no longer important. Well, why take chances. Properly using meta tags, using the right meta tags with right information in them, and using them in right manner doesn’t harm. The following tells help you analyse your meta tags.

Search engine submissions and monitoring

For search engine submissions and monitoring I think the best tool is hard work. Automated tools are not recommended to submit your website to various search engines and online directories. So for search engine submissions I think the best tool is you.

Link popularity

Link popularity has become a potent SEO tool. It’s always been around in the form of those thousands of link exchange programs but now the search engines have developed more sophisticated algorithms to measure genuine link popularity. Hence the web masters and bloggers take their link popularity campaigns very seriously. Here are some online tools you can use to track your link popularity.

This is going to be a constantly evolving list as I’ll be adding more links here as I come across them, so either bookmark this post or add it your favorite bookmarking website.

Also, if you have any SEO tools that you think I should check out and include in this list, please let me know.

Website Traffic Analysis

SEO Tools – The best of the bunch

2008-02-25T02:27:00.000-08:00

I’ll be listing here the best SEO tools you can use to handle the Search Engine Optimisation tasks mentioned above.

Source code validation

From the SEO perspective it is very important to have clean, validated markup. The two online tools that help you write validated markup are:

Keyword analysis

Search Engine Optimised content

Meta tags analysis

Search engine submissions and monitoring

Link popularity

This is going to be a constantly evolving list as I’ll be adding more links here as I come across them, so either bookmark this post or add it your favorite bookmarking website.

Also, if you have any SEO tools that you think I should check out and include in this list, please let me know.

Website Traffic Analysis

Quick Tips To Boost Your SEO

2008-02-25T02:26:00.000-08:00

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is an activity you can definitely not put in the back burners. The moment you have your website up and running you should start focusing on your SEO efforts and in fact, on-page SEO should always dominate your thinking even when you are designing and developing your website. Here are a few quick tips to give a boost to your SEO efforts and fetch you quality traffic from the search engines:

Have great content

Your website content is the foremost element that affects your search engine rankings once the search engines start noticing your website. After all people come to your website to consume content, in whatever form it exists. Have quality content on your website and have plenty of it.

Do proper keyword research before developing your content

It helps you generate better content if you know what keywords you want to focus on. If after generating scores, or worse, hundreds of pages, you realise that you haven’t optimised your content for the right keywords you’ll need a major revamp, incurring you lots of expense, effort, and of course business loss. There are lots of free and commercial research tools available on the Internet that you can use to find the right keywords for your website.

Create SEO-friendly URLs

http://www.yourdomain.com/your-keywords-here.html is an SEO-friendly URL but http://www.yourdomain.com/page2.html is not. Although it is not necessary — it does help sometimes — to have your keywords in your domain name, the search engines do look for your keywords in your URL. Also, some people don’t insert their own anchor text and post your hyperlinked URL as it is, so even in that case your keywords automatically appear as the anchor text of an inbound link.

Use proper anchor texts in internal linking

Internal linking is very important because it creates a web of links under your domain and when the bots visit your website there is a less chance of any link being left uncrawled. Use your keywords and key phrases as anchor texts so the search engines know, one, that these keywords are important to warrant a dedicated link, and two, what is the context of the pages they are leading to.

Blog regularly

Blogging is not just an activity these days, it’s a necessity. It helps you build a dedicated community around your field. From an SEO point of view, most blog posts, if well-written, are very quickly indexed by the search engines. If you stick to your niche and write regularly, you soon begin to rank higher for your keywords. Once your blog is ranked higher, your business link on your blog too will get the benefit of being linked by a highly ranked website

Get links from other websites

Do not just depend on the search engines to get traffic: include other websites in your SEO strategy too. This will not only send you quality traffic from those websites, it’ll also give you an SEO boost, provided those websites are “respected” by the search engines. Make sure the incoming links from these websites carry your keywords as anchor text. Also try to see that all incoming links are voluntary, that they are there due to the overall quality of your content.

Commit yourself and be patient

SEO is a long drawn battle if you haven’t got hundreds of thousands of bucks to spend on it. It’s a slow process and the more attention you pay to the smaller things, the better are your chances of getting ranked higher by the search engines.

Submit to online directories To Boost Your SEO

Submitting to online directories is a great way to boost your SEO because most of these directories — some standard one, not all — are respected by the search engines in their respective fields. In June this year I wrote about how important it is to submit your website to online directories. Online directories like Yahoo! and DMOZ are human-edited directories and hence websites included in these directories are considered thoroughly validated by the search engines.

Use your keywords in the heading tags

Some SEO experts these days attach less importance to heading tags because there are many who exploit them, but I think they are the best of way of summing your web page content both to the readers and the search engines. The keywords in the heading tags (h1, h2, etc.) tell the search engines that these keywords really matter to your web page and hence this web page should be ranked higher for these keywords.

Use Your Keywords in the Page Title

Actually this is one of the most important things you can do to boost your SEO. Many websites I have seen appear on the first page of the SERPs (search engine result pages) simply because they have the right keywords in their page titles. The keywords in your page title tell the search engines exactly what that particular page contains.

Keep Your Documents Updated

The search engines love new content. The more you add, the more you modify, with greater frequency they crawl your website. Continuously keep adding newer pages to your website and keep updating the existing pages. This not only gives the search engines more pages to index it also conveys to them that yours is a highly active, and evolving website.

Maintain a Sitemap

A sitemap is a page containing links to all your major sections and pages. It’s kind of a linking roadmap that tells both your human visitors and the search engine crawlers what all is there on your website. In fact a sitemap saves the search engine crawlers lots of time because very quickly they can access all your links. On a second thought, why do you want to help the search engine crawlers save time? This is because they allocate only a certain amount of crawling time to a website and within that time if they cannot index your important pages you lose some great opportunities of appearing on the search engine result pages.

Keep Your Markup Clean

Clean, error-free source code makes it easier for the search engines to go through your web pages. Use the W3C Markup Validation Service to make sure that your markup complies with the latest web design standards. A website with clean markup loads fast, it is mostly accessible to all the standard browsers, and doesn’t create hurdles for the crawlers

So these are a few tips for the time being and I’m sure that in future I’ll be sharing with you guys/girls some more quick tips to boost your SEO

Importance of submitting to Web Directories

2008-02-25T02:25:00.000-08:00

The fundamental difference between a search engine and a web directory is that a search engine spiders the Internet to look for new web pages and then indexes the web links according the relevance it attaches to those links. In a web directory on the other hand, you submit your links manually under a suitable category. Then those links are reviewed by human editors and accepted or rejected according to what they think of your link.
More and more web directories these days are hiring trained and experienced reviewers who evaluate the submitted links and then put them under the appropriate categories. This tremendously reduced the job of the search engines because any given day, human-reviewed links are far more trustable than the software-reviewed links.

So how are web directory submissions and search engine rankings related?

The search engines taking many factors into account while ranking your website. A few of them are:

How relevant is the content of your website?
How is that content organised?
How much relevant content you have?
How is the navigation and inter-linking on your website organised?
How many relevant outgoing links you have and what anchor texts you have used?
How many incoming/inbound links you have from external websites, and how well do those websites rank on various search engines?

The last point comes into force when you submit your link to various web directories. While submitting your link to a web directory you should be careful about its PageRank. If it its PageRank is healthy then it means the search engines regard it as a “trustable” web directory. Some of the highly ranked web directories are:

Open Directory Project/DMOZ - A highly rated web directory that is free. When you submit your website it is reviewed by an impartial volunteer and then, if accepted, included under the appropriate directory.
Yahoo! — Yes, it is a directory too. They charge a hefty annual amount (more than $300) but if they accept your website (the payment is not a guarantee of acceptance) it pays great dividends.
LookSmart - A general web directory that can make your website visible on its network websites such as MSN, ABOUT.com, Netscape, Inktomi, Info Space and Cnet.

You can find some more directories by search on Google.

Why should you submit your website to web directories?

You may wonder why take all this trouble to submit to web directories when it is better to focus on search engines? Well, first of all the search engines voraciously consume information on these web directories because the links over there are already validated.

Second, since all the major web directories are well-ranked on various search engines they attract lots of traffic through the search engine result pages. Many people, hard pressed on time, directly go to web directories rather than the search engines because all the websites are listed under appropriate categories and hence it is easier to find the right links there. You can get lots of direct traffic from these web directories. In fact direct traffic from web directories is highly relevant because people click your link under the appropriate category or sub-category.

Directories are a great way to accumulate valuable links, build credibility and boost your website’s visibility.

What is Seo ?

2008-02-25T02:24:00.000-08:00

What is seo? Seo is all about helping the search engines to crawl your site better and give them the best of your site. This requires a lot of things to be done. We will try to post some of the valuable search engine optimization information here.

Blogs and websites get success by achieving a huge traffic. So how do we actually get traffic? For this there are many factors to it. We will try to put up some of the factors here:

1) google page rank, higher the page rank the better it is. Page rank starts from 0 and goes to 10. page rank 4-6 should be considered decent. Google pagerank is found in the google toolbar. Though it is not all that accurate, so perhaps checking the pr from data centers are a better idea.

2) Backlinks are important, but geting backlinka involves a lot of work.

3) Unique content and fresh content.

If you get backlinks and fresh content, google page rank will go up, so let’s talk about the backlinks first. These are a few methods to get backlinks,

1) Article submission : it is one of the easiest ways to get backlinks. Just write a quality article, and submit it to as many article submission websites as you can. And add your website’s link in the article. This is how you get easy and free backlinks. Remember to check the page rank, as higher page rank article submission sites, are the best to get some quality backlinks. Remember this is contextual links, so this traffic is absolutely targeted, so it is adviced to write articles of the same category as the link in it.

2) Directory submission : I don’t recommend the free directories, as there are too many links. If you go for the free directories, then don't submit all in one day, do it slowly so that the search engines don't detect a lot of links at once! Too many links are link farms and it can get your site blacklisted by google and other search engines. Try the paid directories, must be pr3+ else it is pretty much waste of time. Some of my favorites are alive, aviva, v7n, gii etc!

3) Link exchange : this is another free method, but don’t do this too much. Find high pagerank websites, that are of the same category of your website. Then do link exchange with them. Do this with caution, and remember not to have more than 5% of your incomming links from link exchange, else it will hurt the rankings.

4) Buy links : well, one of the most easiest ways of getting quality backlink is buying links. You need to be careful to buy link, try getting links from pr4+ sites and get it from the home page. This is the best way, as you get quality one sided links. But then matt's recent blogs are a bit against it, so perhaps doing this safely will be a lot better. Don't put paid links or sponsored links in your sites. Do not actively sell or buy links.

You must optimize your keywords also. So for that, whenever you buy links or do link exchange, use your most important keyword to hiperlink your URL. This way your keywords importance in the search engines will increase. This is known as anchor text optimization. It is the best Seo technique.

Meta tags are very important, keep proper Meta tags in the head of your web site, following Meta tags much be present in your pages if you want to get higher rank and better traffic from the search engines:

1) keywords = must be around 120-150 characters long. 50% of your keywords and key phrases must be on your web site’s content, else it will be considered as keyword spamming. This is not the most important meta tags, these days search engines are more or less ignoring the keywords, so am repeating, that please don’t put up keywords that are not part of your page’s content.

2) Description: this is a very important Meta tags, when the site’s don’t have much contents, the meta description is used by the search engines to determine what type of site it is. This one must be around 150-175 characters, not more than that.

3) Title : this is the most important Meta tag. Title is the main reason why a site dose good in search engines and why a site dose not. A title tag must not be more than 50-60 characters. Try not putting up anything other than text in the title’s field. Also it is very important to put up your most important keyword in the title. Avoid special symbols, and if you want to put two keywords or key phrases in the title use this symbol “ ” between them.

These little things make huge difference for your search engine rankings and search engine traffic. Seo is all about helping the search engines, not finding way to cheat it. Try making nice websites, so that you visitors like them, and come back whenever they want more information.

Then next point is unique content and fresh content. These are two things that are very much necessary to make a successful site. You need quality unique content, and then you need to add these contents everyday. You can bring search engines crawlers by a lot of methods, but then only if you have quality unique content then your site will have better position in the search engines. High page rank and lot’s more depends on the content. So start writing and write, as often you want. Perhaps this is one of the major reasons that blogs works better than most websites.

If you are on the blogger try the feeds. Feeds are one of the best way to bring more people to read your content. The rss and xml feeds are pretty common these days. Blogger feeds are atom.xml and it works great. Use feedburner.com to get the most out of your feeds. Just get a free account there, add your site's feed in the feed burner, after that make some add to "my google" and "my yahoo" buttons, that's it! just add those buttons on your site, easy!

Social networking is one of the best ways to drive a huge traffic to your websites or blogs, but then it dosenot really help to much from the seo point of view, as the nofollow tags are available with the link on those sites. But then am getting over a few thousand hits from the social network sites, so it is worth a try, most of all, it is all free!

del.icio.us, stumbleupon, digg, furl etc are a few of these!

A quick link building tips :

Start giving comments on blogs, there are some of the famous blogs with huge pr, and traffic, though the nofollow tags might be there, but then it is still good to go for a try. Just add a link with the comment!

Forum signatures are a nice way to make traffic, good for backlinks.

Language Translation Flags and Script

2008-02-25T02:22:00.000-08:00

This tutorial explains how you can add a script to allow readers to view your English site in other foreign languages. As you can see on the right of this page, a reader needs only to click the relevant country flag to read this site contents in his preferred language.

English is not the most popular language in the world. In fact, according to many reports, the Chinese language (Mandarin) is certainly the most widely spoken language. In the internet community, the other popular language platforms are arguably Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, Italian, French, Japanese, and Korean.

Translation from English to other languages

If you have a blog written in English, it therefore makes much sense to be able to reach out to the non-English speaking population as well. There are several online translation tools, the popular free tools being AltaVista's Babel Fish translation and Google's Language Translator. WorldLingo is no longer a recommended tool, as the website translator has a translation limit of 500 words, beyond which you have to pay a monthly fee for their service.

For this site, I have used the Google Language Translator. Google is able to translate English website contents into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The JavaScript used here can be applied to most of the blogging sites like Blogspot, Typepad and Wordpress. Copy the following script and paste it at the part of the template where you want your language translator to appear.

Code

<!--

document.write ("<input name=u value="+location.href+"

type=hidden>")

// -->

</script>

</form>

Points to note:-

1. For those using Blogspot, once you have logged into your Dashboard, go to Template-> Page Elements. Add a “Page Element” and select “HTML/JavaScript”.

2. Copy the above JavaScript. Under the “value” (in red), you will see the URL of this website. Please change that to the URL of your own website. Save and refresh the page.

3. If you want a slightly bigger flag, you can increase the width of the images, for example, from “30” to “36” and the height from “20” to “24”.

4. Should you come across a translation that doesn't look right, you can always suggest to Google a better translation to help them improve their translation quality.

Social networks (Social Bookmarking) in Blogger

2008-02-25T02:20:00.000-08:00

Social networks (Social Bookmarking) in Blogger

They ask me like putting the icon of social networks or social bookmarking in each one of ours post, so that yes some of our users uses one of them, has the Link to add it to its favorites of fast form.
There is no necessity to have subscribed blog to no of these services, rather, the connections are indeed so that the user subscribes it and has at the hand your Link yes considers it of utility.

Now we are going to see like putting them:

1.Go to Template -> Edit HTML -> Tick into Expand Widget Templates

2. We looked for the following code:

<p class='post-footer-line

post-footer-line-3'/>

3. That line with the following code replaces:


<div class='rsociales'>
Share this post with:
<ul>
<li><a expr:href='"http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Technorati' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/Rjl62eMBQ0I/AAAAAAAAAto/zkas68GmVFk/s1600/technorati.gif'/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Del.icio.us' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/Rjl68-MBQ1I/AAAAAAAAAtw/Mftx1_Bi_oY/s1600/delicious.gif'/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;amp;url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a DiggIt!' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/RjlY7uMBQrI/AAAAAAAAAsg/ov73dLSsrtA/s1600/digg.png'/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Yahoo!' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/RjlZLeMBQtI/AAAAAAAAAsw/bNmkgSj_jj0/s1600/yahoo.png'/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&amp;output=popup&amp;bkmk=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Google' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/Rjl6z-MBQzI/AAAAAAAAAtg/-13NieAS3J8/s1600/google.gif'/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://meneame.net/submit.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Meneame' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/Rjlct-MBQyI/AAAAAAAAAtY/UtGxUlBA7mc/s1600/meneame.png'/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Furl' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/Rjlaa-MBQuI/AAAAAAAAAs4/7hoQkbJNkUw/s1600/furl.png'/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Reddit' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/RjlbHuMBQvI/AAAAAAAAAtA/L0TsC3OUUyI/s1600/reddit.gif '/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://ma.gnolia.com/beta/bookmarklet/add?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Magnolia' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/RjlbWuMBQwI/AAAAAAAAAtI/Vy_xjt3iY80/s1600/magnolia.gif'/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&amp;Description=&amp;Url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Blinklist' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/RjlbjuMBQxI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/WDlHSsaO_m4/s1600/blinklists.gif'/></a></li>
<li><a expr:href='"http://blogmarks.net/my/new.php?mini=1&amp;simple=1&amp;url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Agregar a Blogmarks' class='rsociales-sobre' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zuzii37VUO4/RjlQzOMBQoI/AAAAAAAAAsI/qt5x09fQvNo/s1600/blogmarks.gif'/></a></li>
</ul>
</div>

</p>

4. Now it looks for the code:

]]></b:skin>

And right above it sticks the following thing:

.rsociales ul {
display:inline;
margin:0pt !important;
padding:0pt !important;
}
.rsociales li {
background:transparent none repeat scroll 0%;
display:inline;
list-style-type:none;
margin:0pt;
padding:2px;
}
.rsociales img {
border:0pt none;
float:none;
margin:0pt;
padding:0pt;
}
.rsociales-sobre {
opacity:0.4;
}
.rsociales-sobre:hover {
opacity:1;
}

How to Installing the template in your blog

2008-02-25T02:18:00.000-08:00

Before you start changing your template, make sure you save your old template file just in case you need to start again. And make sure you have a programming-based text editor installed on your computer (to make the codes easier to see. If you don't have one, there are many free programming text editors that you can download. I use Notepad++).

These are some instructions on how to put the template in your blog. There are some ways to do it; I'll explain some of them, starting from the simplest methods.

For tips to improve template usage and common problems faced when installing these templates, read this post.

METHODS TO INSTALL BLOGGER TEMPLATES:

Method I. Simplest method - Uploading the xml file:

Download the template that you want and save it in your computer (make sure it is saved as xml file).
Go to your Layout > Template > Edit HTML page.
Choose the file from the Browse... button, and then press the Upload button.
It may ask you to delete some widgets - so just delete them. (Widgets are the extra page element added to the sidebars).
You're done! View your new blog.
If your contents doesn't look aligned, that's probably because you don't have any widget on one of the sidebars - so add your widgets.

Method II. Copy-paste the template codes into the Blogger text editor:

If you don't want to download the file first, or prefer to paste the code into your Blogger editor, this is how to do it.

Open the template file that you want and copy all the codes.
Got to your Layout > Template > Edit HTML page.
Click the Expand Widget Templates (EWT) button. (If the EWT button is on or clicked, all template codes will be visible; if it's off or unclicked, then some codes related to Blogger Data are hidden so that the HTML codes look less messy - most of the time, you don't want to change or add codes inside the Blogger Data area).
Select all the codes in your Blogger editor and delete them all. Then paste the codes for your new template.
It may ask you to delete some widgets - so just delete them. (Widgets are the extra page element added to the sidebars).
You're done! View your new blog.
If your contents doesn't look aligned, that's probably because you don't have any widget on one of the sidebars - so add your widgets.

Method III. Copy-paste the CSS styling only into the template code:

The annoying part about using the two methods above is that you have to delete some widgets that you've made (maybe some Adsense codes, Text contents, HTML codes - usually the widgets About Me, Labels, and Blog Archives are not deleted). If you don't want this to happen, you must copy and paste the CSS styling part only. By changing the CSS part only, you don't change anything related to the Blogger Data including the data about the widgets that you've made.

CSS styling is the code that controls everything about the template style or appearance - the font size, colors, background images, header size, post layout, sidebar size and locations, etc.

But to do this is a bit tricky. You have to make sure the basic layout of your old template with the new one is the same. For example, if the old template has 3 columns (2 sidebars and 1 main), your new template has to be 3 columns too. The arrangement of columns will follow the old template; for example SMS or MSS or SSM. If the old and new templates don't have the same content layout, it won't work! If you're not sure about this, just use the first 2 methods above.

If you still want to change the CSS styling part only, read on below.

In the template, look for the code section in between the b:skin tags. In my templates, I've labeled the start and end of the CSS styling part. (In the code, the 'Page structure tweaks' code are actually part of the CSS styling too, but just leave it there.)

So, these are what you need to do to change the CSS part only:

Open the template file that you want and copy the CSS styling code only.
Got to your Layout > Template > Edit HTML page.
Don't click the Expand Widget Templates (EWT) button because you don't have to change the Blogger Data code.
Select the existing CSS styling codes in your Blogger editor and delete them. Then paste the codes for your new template.
It may ask you to delete some widgets - so just delete them. (Widgets are the extra page element added to the sidebars).
You're done! View your new blog.
If it doesn't work, you can always use the first 2 methods above and add the widgets later.

How to Create a Blog Using Blogger

2008-02-25T02:16:00.000-08:00

A Blogger.com blog is simple to use and easy to maintain. It's no wonder Blogger is the most popular blog platform available today. If you're interested in beginning a blog using Blogger, This brief primer will take you through all of the necessary steps. Soon, you'll be blogging like pro!

Step 1

Begin by visiting the Blogger.com homepage and clicking on the orange arrow that says "Create Your Blog Now".

Step2: Enter Your Information

Enter your email address, password, the name or nickname you would like displayed on your blog and security information. Click on the box to accept the Terms of Service.

Step 3: Give Your Blog a Name

Name your blog by entering the blog's title and address. For most bloggers, the title and address are the same thing. Have second and third choices available for each, however. Your first choice might already be taken.

Step 4 : Templates

Choose a template from the many available designs.

Step5:Start Posting

You are now ready to post.

Step 6 :It's Time to Blog!

Add a title, enter text and click "publish".

Archive for the Affiliate Program category.

2008-02-17T11:05:00.000-08:00

1. Believing that someone else has a turnkey, complete, ready-to-go money machine that requires hardly any skill, knowledge, effort, ability or capital to run.
It sounds ridiculous. But so many people fall for this pitch. But you know WHY they fall for it? It’s what THEY want to hear. They don’t want to spend long hours reading, researching or working.They don’t want to do what it really takes to make money.They think that someone can and will hand them a money machine that a monkey could run and make a killing with.

2. Selling a product to anyone and everyone with little or no targeting.
Targeting a market is a confounding thing. It’s sounds good in theory but takes work and thought in reality. You CAN’T target small businesses. It’s almost impossible. But everyone wants to.Finding your target market takes research, thought and effort.

3. Selling a product or service with a million competitors most of whom have more marketing training, business experience, skill and knowledge than you
OK. This again falls in the category of ridiculous. But I see it every day.Everyone wants to be a marketing guru. Everyone wants to sell “how to make money online.” While it’s a BIG market, it’s also extremely competitive. If you want to play the game, you can’t be an amateur.You have to be GOOD. Very good.

There are many people willing to sell you the dream of making money in the marketplace (usually by buying THEIR product or service to resell).

Yeah, maybe they did it. But they probably neglected to tell you the long hours they worked. Or the prior business experience they had. Or they big list they had already put together prior to launching the magical money making event.

4. Being married to a product or service no one wants.
It’s easy to get married to a product or service YOU like. You believe in. But no one else wants to buy. That is called a hard sell. There are lots of hard sells in the world. The primary cause of this insanity is the “word” of someone else who swears a product is hot and sells well. They always quote their “poster boy” results without telling you that the poster boy has 20 years of business experience, a huge existing list and so forth.

7 Great Lies in Network Marketing

2008-02-17T11:03:00.000-08:00

The “old” techniques and tactics simply do not work in today’s world. And, unfortunately many within network marketing already know this, but they are still spreading these 7 great lies (and hurting thousands of new and prospective business builders in the process.)

What’s worse is, if you are actively building a Network Marketing business…

You’re Probably Guilty of

Telling Many of These Lies YOURSELF!

That’s right! If you’re doing what most uplines tell you to do, you’re lying to people without even knowing it.

These misleading claims, half-truths, and downright LIES that are being told every day to both distributors and prospects alike in our industry made me so angry that I finally decided…

Enough is Enough!

I’m pulling back the curtain and exposing these destructive lies once and for all. Get all the details in “7 Great Lies in Network Marketing” ebook by joining my newsgroup for FREE. Feel free to sign in the form on the side menu.

A Social Marketing Experiment

2008-02-17T11:02:00.000-08:00

Now, what is the effectiveness of Social Media Marketing versus other Web Marketing channels?

A few months ago, MarketingExperiments.com conducted a very interesting experiment testing the ROI potential of Social Media Marketing and Optimization versus Pay Per Click search advertising. Over a 12 month period, they performed a variety of social marketing activities such as submitting 44 viral videos to YouTube and engaging their targeted community by commenting on blogs and dialoguing in specific social networks and forums. They hired an employee at $10 an hour to blog, build content and to “get social” in the industry-specific communities. Ultimately, they were testing the difference in cost and ROI between a PPC campaign (with an average bid of $.75cents) versus that of a social marketing initiative run by a part-time blogger.

Their findings proved to be very interesting! Their Social Marketing campaign yielded a 1,427% greater return on their investment, then if they ran a Google adwords campaign over a 12 month period! Now, it is important to note that they only ran the Google adwords campaign for a 1 month period, so it is hard to accurately gauge the overall performance then if they had run a 12 month PPC campaign. Nonetheless, through their social marketing efforts, they spent $3600 in wages over the year for the part-time position and saw over 93, 000 unique visits to their respective sites during that time period. (An average of $.04 cents cost per visit) Now, there was certainly a great deal of trial and error involved during this experiment, but the results certainly revealed the power of Social Media Marketing. I would recommend taking a read of their findings at MarketingExperiments.com.

Is Social Media Marketing a worthwhile investment of your time and marketing budget? My answer is an emphatic YES! In this new Web, where user-generated content and collaboration reign supreme, businesses have a prime opportunity to connect with a highly targeted audience in a cost-effective manner. Social Media Marketing, much like SEO, does not necessarily yield a fast return on investment, but has great potential for increasing search listings and expanding targeted exposure over the long term!

Best Software for Affiliate Program

2008-02-17T11:00:00.000-08:00

What is Affiliate Program?

An affiliate program - also known as an Associate Program - is an increasingly popular form of online marketing, in which a website that refers business to your website is paid a small commission. Referrals are steered to your site via a specially coded banner or link, which appears on sites that have agreed to send business your way.

The marketing concept has captured the imagination of marketers, because it represents an unrivaled opportunity to base advertising on a pay-per-performance model. Instead of paying advertisers and “hoping for the best,” merchants using affiliate marketing programs pay only when advertising results in an actual sale.

In a phrase, affiliate marketing is single-handedly redefining the way advertising is done.

As you might imagine, many merchants see this new paradigm as a license to print money, and have devoted a great deal of effort to sign-up as many affiliates as possible. Indeed, in many cases, merchants with successful affiliate marketing programs boast hundreds - if not thousands - of affiliate websites, which continually feed them potential customers on a daily basis.

Moreover, the concept has also given rise to a new brand of entrepreneur: the power affiliate. Such referral websites have become extremely adept at attracting high quality traffic representing true sales potential to their own sites, and then spiriting that traffic along to the appropriate merchants. In many cases, these power affiliates have created entire careers and businesses for themselves, simply with their ability to deliver high quality traffic on a regular basis.

Affiliate Software will handle all the program management details for you, including:

Processing of new affiliate sign-ups
Tracking of all traffic and sales referred to your website
Calculating commission totals for every affiliate
Automating the payment of commissions to all your affiliates

As for me, I’ve evaluated several solutions online and found the best software that suites my needs called Post Affiliate Pro. With Post Affiliate Pro software, you’ll be able to offer a full-featured affiliate marketing program on your own site for only one-time cost of USD$99.

Main reasons why I choose Post Affiliate Pro are:

Post Affiliate Pro has been awarded the Award of Merit for Excellence in Affiliate Marketing Software for year 2006 by Affiliate-Software-Review.com.
Easy to install - just upload the files onto your web site, and open web based Installation Wizard. With only 5 simple steps, anybody can do it. Or, if you wish, they’ll install it for you for free.
You can start your own affiliate program in minutes
Most reliable tracking on the market with technology of Flash cookies, 1st and 3rd party cookies and IP tracking
Fully customizable
Increase link popularity
Real time reporting
Unparalleled set of features
No setup fees and no monthly charges
Well establish community of users on their forum
Technical support and lifetime upgrades
Also offering full integration
No risk! 30 days money back guarantee
Integrates with nearly ALL merchant accounts, payment gateways, shopping carts and membership systems.

Make Money from your video : YouTube

2008-02-17T10:57:00.000-08:00

YouTube just started a new program this month where you can make money from your uploaded videos. It’s called the “partner program,” will give you a share of the money from ads that are featured on your video.

Since YouTube videos have the potential to reach millions of viewers this will be very lucrative for the big names on YouTube. Now start using YouTube if you haven’t already.

The requirements for the program are:

You must own the copyrights and distribution rights for all videos you upload.
You must regularly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of Youtube users.
You must live in the US or Canada.
If you live outside of US and Canada, keep your eyes open because they will probably be expanding the program in the near future.

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