Jealous? Your blog too can have a decent video review but you need 10 paypal bucks from Charles.More details
But from my opinion its worth more than that!
We love you Charles Lau!
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Friday, September 28, 2007
View the best review we had so far...
Thank you so much Charles Lau for reviewing Webtalks visually and that too free of cost! Charles Lau has an excellent screen casting software called HyperCam 2 with which he reviews the sites.Its really an awesome experience to watch how do my visitors behave when they visit the blog.Enjoy the 10 minutes video below.Infact, this is not the end he must have spent long time typing about Webtalks too, roughly about 400 words.To be frank, even I couldn't have done it that well.
Jealous? Your blog too can have a decent video review but you need 10 paypal bucks from Charles.More details
But from my opinion its worth more than that!
We love you Charles Lau!
Read more...
Jealous? Your blog too can have a decent video review but you need 10 paypal bucks from Charles.More details
But from my opinion its worth more than that!
We love you Charles Lau!
Read more...
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Make Mooney Online
Ever visited John Cow dot com ? What I say about them is that they are creative instead of a ripper.Just because of there creativity, they were featured on many high profile blogs like the link building blog. Now you got the reason why, all successful make money online blogs have evil marketings behind them...One more interesting fact is that this is the first blog that I read ahead of John chow dot com and infact I am writing this post ahead of the review of john chow dot com for winning A LCD monitor.Sounds good.eh?
John Cow is a blog on making money online and rank #29 in the top 100 make money online blogs without any PR!
Actually this post is for an entry into their $500 cash giveaway contest whose deadline is the end of September.If you too are interested in earning big bucks you only have to write a post of 200 words like this one, link to micfo.com with the anchor tag Web Hosting,and a link back to the contest post.
Thats real Making Money Online!
What will I do with the amount?
#1(10$) I'll register myself a beautiful .com domain.A sub domain turns away most advertisers so I think a 10$ unique domain will be much more advertiser friendly.Not to mention , I've thought of cow friendly address. Moogulmakingmooney.com
#2(30$) I'll buy a premium Web Hosting Plan for the next two years and set up a self hosted blog there.I really need one! Blogger has limited features...Wordpress themes will let me add the moo flavor in it.
#3(100$) A million Euro Wiki page please!Its getting popular and I'm in the race for the ***** keyword(why shall I tell you the keyword?)
#4(250$) I'll be one of the sponsors of John Cow dot com.To get targeted cows in my farm
#6(3$) Fresh & Healthy Daily Milk for me.John Cow exclusive
#7(100$) Get myself a cheap design makeover with the cow touch.
#8(7$) Set up a 'moo-welfare association' for encouraging sites to be cow friendly and we'll send them traffic!
John Cow dot com recently went under a design makeover and what I said after viewing it for the first time- "Moo-lah" .The Mad Cow effect!
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New Ways To Make Money With Adsense
It has been said that you should cease upon the moment on the Internet-to making money. It is called alternate streams of income. Sometimes the money making moment can be profitable, sometimes not. That brings me to Adsense- and the new opportunities that Google are giving it publishers.
Adsense Way of Making Money
By Vickie J Scanlon
There are new Google opportunities with Adsense. Google is spreading their wings again and offering more to it’s advertisers and it’s publishers of Adsense. They include Gadget Ads, Mobile Ads, Referral Ads, Adsense for Search. Let’s take a look.
Different Ads-Different Opportunities To Make Money
Gadget ads are mini-sites that run ads on Adsense . If you're lucky to have these ads on your site, it definitely will get visitors to stick around your site a little longer. That’s what ever webmaster should want. Making their site sticky.
The ads may be engaging, but how do you make your web page or website ready for gadget ads? You need to opt-in for images for Adsense, and let the good times rolls. Well, maybe. There are no guarantees that you will see a gadget ad on your site. But you can increase the possibility of seeing gadget ads on your site if you use the following formats.
1. Rectangle (medium and large)
2. Wide skyscraper
3. Leaderboard
Personal note: I've tried using images several times on my site, and it seems that people are almost blind to the image ads. Gadget ads may help to eliminate this blindness, as well as offer an unique opportunity to entertain and sell. But the big question is, will they be accessible on my site? That you have to wait and see.
Referral Ads- Referral Ads offer an opportunity for you to make money on their site, without having to sign up for the different programs. It’s really similar to such affiliate brokerage companies like Commission Junction or Linkshare, but without the rejection and sign-up. There are different size and shapes of ads within the referral ads program, with some “text only” and others offering either “text or image”. Many feared that Google would be taking away from the other Affiliate Brokerage Firms. My personal opinion- I really don’t think so. Why? Comfort level will be one of the main issues. Another issue possibly is the rotation of the ads. I’ll explain.
Sometimes when I’m focused on an article, I’m well, focused on an article. But sometimes I see an ad that catches my attention. So I make a mental note of it, knowing that I will flip back to the ad once I’m done doing my research. However, if you have a rotation of ads put in place, the visitor, more times than not, will click back to the ad only to find a different ad in it’s place. The webmaster has just lost a possible sale.
Mobile Ads – Mobile Ads are directed to the cell phone and ipod. To even get mobile ads on your site, you must have a mobile compliant site. What is a mobile compliant site? It is a site that uses the mobile mark up language XHTML, WML or CHTML, with a layout that properly displays the information specific for the cell phone.
One additional thing that you must do to make your site mobile ready-you will need to make sure that your website is developed using server-side scripting such as PHP or ASP. Many web hosting services do provide support for PHP or ASP-but I would contact your web hosting provider to verify the availability. If they do, you’ll just simply need to ad a snippet of Adsense PHP code to your web page and change the .htm or .html extension to the PHP extension. In addition, I would do a preview of your web page before pulling it to your website, to make sure it doesn’t blow up on you.
Adsense for Search – I utilize Adsense for Web Search + Site Search. It was really a hard decision – my first thought of course was, “visitors will leave my site”. But then again, if they didn’t find what they were looking for, can you really hold them? Of course not! So, I compromised and but on site search. Site search gives visitors the opportunity to search my site for the product, service or even article they are interested in, and if they don’t find what they are looking for-they have the option to search the web. It makes your site visitor-friendly and helpful, and if they click on an ad that is relevant to the keyword they put in the search box, your pain if diminished by collecting a little money on their search words. It may not happen often, but hey, a little money here and there can grow your monthly income.
As you can see, Adsense has opened up different opportunities for the webmaster to make money. Some may work better than others. I guess that is left to you, the webmaster, to experiment and find out what works best on your own site.
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Adsense Way of Making Money
By Vickie J Scanlon
There are new Google opportunities with Adsense. Google is spreading their wings again and offering more to it’s advertisers and it’s publishers of Adsense. They include Gadget Ads, Mobile Ads, Referral Ads, Adsense for Search. Let’s take a look.
Different Ads-Different Opportunities To Make Money
Gadget ads are mini-sites that run ads on Adsense . If you're lucky to have these ads on your site, it definitely will get visitors to stick around your site a little longer. That’s what ever webmaster should want. Making their site sticky.
The ads may be engaging, but how do you make your web page or website ready for gadget ads? You need to opt-in for images for Adsense, and let the good times rolls. Well, maybe. There are no guarantees that you will see a gadget ad on your site. But you can increase the possibility of seeing gadget ads on your site if you use the following formats.
1. Rectangle (medium and large)
2. Wide skyscraper
3. Leaderboard
Personal note: I've tried using images several times on my site, and it seems that people are almost blind to the image ads. Gadget ads may help to eliminate this blindness, as well as offer an unique opportunity to entertain and sell. But the big question is, will they be accessible on my site? That you have to wait and see.
Referral Ads- Referral Ads offer an opportunity for you to make money on their site, without having to sign up for the different programs. It’s really similar to such affiliate brokerage companies like Commission Junction or Linkshare, but without the rejection and sign-up. There are different size and shapes of ads within the referral ads program, with some “text only” and others offering either “text or image”. Many feared that Google would be taking away from the other Affiliate Brokerage Firms. My personal opinion- I really don’t think so. Why? Comfort level will be one of the main issues. Another issue possibly is the rotation of the ads. I’ll explain.
Sometimes when I’m focused on an article, I’m well, focused on an article. But sometimes I see an ad that catches my attention. So I make a mental note of it, knowing that I will flip back to the ad once I’m done doing my research. However, if you have a rotation of ads put in place, the visitor, more times than not, will click back to the ad only to find a different ad in it’s place. The webmaster has just lost a possible sale.
Mobile Ads – Mobile Ads are directed to the cell phone and ipod. To even get mobile ads on your site, you must have a mobile compliant site. What is a mobile compliant site? It is a site that uses the mobile mark up language XHTML, WML or CHTML, with a layout that properly displays the information specific for the cell phone.
One additional thing that you must do to make your site mobile ready-you will need to make sure that your website is developed using server-side scripting such as PHP or ASP. Many web hosting services do provide support for PHP or ASP-but I would contact your web hosting provider to verify the availability. If they do, you’ll just simply need to ad a snippet of Adsense PHP code to your web page and change the .htm or .html extension to the PHP extension. In addition, I would do a preview of your web page before pulling it to your website, to make sure it doesn’t blow up on you.
Adsense for Search – I utilize Adsense for Web Search + Site Search. It was really a hard decision – my first thought of course was, “visitors will leave my site”. But then again, if they didn’t find what they were looking for, can you really hold them? Of course not! So, I compromised and but on site search. Site search gives visitors the opportunity to search my site for the product, service or even article they are interested in, and if they don’t find what they are looking for-they have the option to search the web. It makes your site visitor-friendly and helpful, and if they click on an ad that is relevant to the keyword they put in the search box, your pain if diminished by collecting a little money on their search words. It may not happen often, but hey, a little money here and there can grow your monthly income.
As you can see, Adsense has opened up different opportunities for the webmaster to make money. Some may work better than others. I guess that is left to you, the webmaster, to experiment and find out what works best on your own site.
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Did you miss the action? I did...
Over the past few days, our blog went without any updates, reason is I had few exams on head.Now, they are over but I'm expecting more of them soon.Incase you missed out, I'll just summarize what happened in the blogosphere in the last few days.
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- Google adsense have anounced Adsense for mobile.A very useful feature for those websites who won't to monetize the mobile version of their website.I've not started yet with Adsense for Mobile because I am already using Feedm8 services to monetize the mobile version of Webtalks.
- Google Adsense have also anounced Google Gadget Ads.It goes just like video Ads.For that you need an advertiser whose using Google Gadget Ads feature with Adwords.Don't forget to enable image ads option.
- Yahoo bought Zimbra... Lots of cash involved
- John Cow, have launched a MillionEuroWiki similar to MillionDollarWiki on their success and look what, they 've already sold 25 pages.Now how about a MillionRupeeWiki ?Don't forget to have a look on their design.
- Natewhitehill's busy designing blogs and has already earned well over 13,000$ after the John Chow redesign.Wow!
- Google have added a feature of slides in Google Docs.Simple but useful.
I try to deliver the best content to you, so it maybe that I'm not able to update this blog for a while.Make sure you have our RSS feeds to keep in touch
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Thinking of Trying Affiliate Marketing For Your Business
For those who are looking for an opportunity to get online, willing to work hard, not afraid of learning, and are not easily discouraged, but can pick yourself up and keep moving forward -than think about Affiliate Marketing.
I always have to bring in the "S" word (scam) because newbies, and yes I was one, always find the ads for typing. If you found them, thinking about clicking on one of those ads and joining -don't even consider it. Go back to that page and look at all the typing ads on that page. Many aren't there? Those ads are what you would be placing on sites. I have to think it is a classified ad site, or a site that has classified ads section on their site, worst nightmare. It drags down the importance of the site I am sure. They constantly are having to purge and ban IP addresses that do not follow the rules. And for the typist, their ignorance and it is ignorance, does not even remotely make them aware that they are spamming-unless the company they paid to get into tells them. The company will get the fine. But may not get paid. And the fine is steep, so learn this quickly because it can save you a lot of heartache, and loss funds.
Thinking of Trying Affiliate Marketing For Your Business
By Vickie J Scanlon
Question: In your pursuit for an online job did you encounter a scam or two? Most will say yes. And if you are one of the lucky ones that did not encounter a scam –I truly have to applaud you. However, you are in the minority, most people go the easy route-mistakenly believing it’s easier to make money on the Internet then within a brick and mortar business. If that were your first initial thought, you would be wrong. And if it was your initial thought, and you have been online for a little while, you already know you were wrong.
Some of the Newbie Easy Way to Making Money
The newbie easy way to making money is their belief that they can make great money doing surveys or typing or signing up for an MLM.
Surveys are fun, but make very little money. MLM can be legitimate or be in truth a pyramid in disguise. If the MLM is a pyramid in disguise you will notice that there are many participants, with the winning cash going to the top few. (I’ll go into MLM at another time.)
There are legitimate typing jobs, but you do have to have experience. And if they say you don’t need experience, we will train you, or you have to pay to get the typing job, forget it.
If you’ve tried all of these and got nowhere, and you still want to try to make a living online, think about the possibility of going into Affiliate Marketing.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate Marketing is the promotion of another person or company's product, in which you get a percentage of the profits if a sale is made. It sounds easy, but trust me, it not. It's hard work, but it is a legitimate type of online career that you can make a living from. But if you are new to affiliate marketing - prepare for the learning curve and low profits when you begin- so if you haven't lost your job-keep it, until you start seeing profits.
Granted, I’m sure there are a few people who have the Midas touch, and thus, made their mark rather quickly. But if you don’t know what you are doing, you're have to ignore people who say they have the Midas touch, and learn, study and work hard to learn the craft of Affiliate Marketing.
What are some of the good points about Affiliate Marketing?
1. It’s a unique way to start a business without the headaches of an Ecommerce site.
2. No shopping cart needed.
3. Don’t have to produce your own products.
4. It was once said you don’t need a website, but that is changing.
5. Outlay of money is minimal.
6. Don’t have to pay to join affiliate programs
Bad points about Affiliate Marketing
1. If you are new to the game of Affiliate Marketing, there is a learning curve.
2. Won’t make a whole bunch of money overnight.
3. Need to do research on your niche to see if it is workable and there is interest.
4. Your niche should be a passion, or become a passion. Why? Longevity.
To conclude, I found that the good points outweighed the bad points. It gave me an opportunity to learn, grow and find a presence online. If this is what you are looking for- I say go for it!
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I always have to bring in the "S" word (scam) because newbies, and yes I was one, always find the ads for typing. If you found them, thinking about clicking on one of those ads and joining -don't even consider it. Go back to that page and look at all the typing ads on that page. Many aren't there? Those ads are what you would be placing on sites. I have to think it is a classified ad site, or a site that has classified ads section on their site, worst nightmare. It drags down the importance of the site I am sure. They constantly are having to purge and ban IP addresses that do not follow the rules. And for the typist, their ignorance and it is ignorance, does not even remotely make them aware that they are spamming-unless the company they paid to get into tells them. The company will get the fine. But may not get paid. And the fine is steep, so learn this quickly because it can save you a lot of heartache, and loss funds.
Thinking of Trying Affiliate Marketing For Your Business
By Vickie J Scanlon
Question: In your pursuit for an online job did you encounter a scam or two? Most will say yes. And if you are one of the lucky ones that did not encounter a scam –I truly have to applaud you. However, you are in the minority, most people go the easy route-mistakenly believing it’s easier to make money on the Internet then within a brick and mortar business. If that were your first initial thought, you would be wrong. And if it was your initial thought, and you have been online for a little while, you already know you were wrong.
Some of the Newbie Easy Way to Making Money
The newbie easy way to making money is their belief that they can make great money doing surveys or typing or signing up for an MLM.
Surveys are fun, but make very little money. MLM can be legitimate or be in truth a pyramid in disguise. If the MLM is a pyramid in disguise you will notice that there are many participants, with the winning cash going to the top few. (I’ll go into MLM at another time.)
There are legitimate typing jobs, but you do have to have experience. And if they say you don’t need experience, we will train you, or you have to pay to get the typing job, forget it.
If you’ve tried all of these and got nowhere, and you still want to try to make a living online, think about the possibility of going into Affiliate Marketing.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate Marketing is the promotion of another person or company's product, in which you get a percentage of the profits if a sale is made. It sounds easy, but trust me, it not. It's hard work, but it is a legitimate type of online career that you can make a living from. But if you are new to affiliate marketing - prepare for the learning curve and low profits when you begin- so if you haven't lost your job-keep it, until you start seeing profits.
Granted, I’m sure there are a few people who have the Midas touch, and thus, made their mark rather quickly. But if you don’t know what you are doing, you're have to ignore people who say they have the Midas touch, and learn, study and work hard to learn the craft of Affiliate Marketing.
What are some of the good points about Affiliate Marketing?
1. It’s a unique way to start a business without the headaches of an Ecommerce site.
2. No shopping cart needed.
3. Don’t have to produce your own products.
4. It was once said you don’t need a website, but that is changing.
5. Outlay of money is minimal.
6. Don’t have to pay to join affiliate programs
Bad points about Affiliate Marketing
1. If you are new to the game of Affiliate Marketing, there is a learning curve.
2. Won’t make a whole bunch of money overnight.
3. Need to do research on your niche to see if it is workable and there is interest.
4. Your niche should be a passion, or become a passion. Why? Longevity.
To conclude, I found that the good points outweighed the bad points. It gave me an opportunity to learn, grow and find a presence online. If this is what you are looking for- I say go for it!
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Keyword Targeting- Patience & Planning
My Blog offers some blogger templates. I had included a link back to this blog so that visitors can know from where the template has been downloaded. The good reason, the page had a good SERP rating so my templates are being used at many blogs.Some of them are having high PR's. A thought about keyword targeting struck my mind when I saw my blog reactions in Technorati.First, I included a link back to the template post with different keywords on different templates.I got the keywords from the Google results itself for "blogger templates" .
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There are some other good sites targeting :"blogger templates" , to knock them of in the first page was quite a difficult task.So I started with smaller keywords like "new blogger templates" , "blogspot templates" & "3 column blogger templates".It took time for my post to get a decent ranking even with some 400 back links to the post itself.I also changes the default from "Download three column new blogger templates" to "New Blogger (XML) 3 column templates.The reason is here
Over the past few days, I have experienced a lot of Google Dance
Make Money Online with Webtalks!
Not all blogs get some really good back links.I have included the keyword "Webtalks" for the homepage of the blog and I rank #1 for it{At some bad times, I slip to #2}.Webtalks itself makes no sense{if it does, I don't know what it is}I just wanted to keep the title easy.With the Blogger Title hack , I changed it to Webtalks-Blogging,Online Money Making,Tech tips. But that too was a waste.Now I'm thinking of the ever popular "Make Money Online" keyword.So in your next visit to this blog, don't be surprised to see the title "Make Money Online".Cool isn't it?Points to be kept in mind while keyword targeting
If you get lots of links with the same keyword.You may rank better in Google.Because Yahoo & Live Search takes take domain age into consideration.- Don't Google Bomb.Be slow but efficient.
- Google will also take some time to give you an appropriate rank.Till then,experience the Google Dance.
- Before choosing a keyword, just go through Google Trends to find out whether the number of queries are enough
- The title of the page dominates the SE ranking.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Paying for Links-Google Style
This is a short excursion from my posts on Affiliate Marketing, but relevant when you want to make money from your site. It’s called paying for links-and if you have been reading in the forums or hitting some of the blogs, you will know that paying for links and Google’s stance on this issue is in, let’s say, turmoil.
If you’re thinking about paying for some links for rank on your web page or pages, then you may want to be aware of what is in the news.
Paying for links
By Vickie J Scanlon
According to Cutts, Google have no objection to having the paid links, if they are identified-citing the FCC ruling that states that sponsored or advertisements must be clearly labeled. And per Google, one additional factor- it does not pass on page rank. If it does pass on page rank – you could be penalized, or worse yet, you may find many of your pages not being indexed.
So how do you go about doing this? Google suggests some of the following remedies.
- Redirect through URL that is blocked by your robots.txt file
- Use a redirect through URL using 302
- Apply rel="nofollow" attribute to the link (WebProNews)
It is probably wise to take notice, because according to this report from Sphinn, Google has been taking notice of the paid links and some have suggested that Google have manually penalized certain sites (delisting their website pages) vs. algorithmically doing so.( WebProNews Article-Is Google Hitting Directory Links).
Many advertisers may, and have bulked at some of these suggestions, indicating that it is stealing/cheating/unfair. However, I guess each Webmaster must decide for themselves - To be indexed, or not to be indexed.
The next question may be- how do you handle a request for a paid link to your site from an outside source? Same rules apply.
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