8 ways to promote your business on Facebook




Facebook is not only one of the best social networking site, but it can also be used to promote your business in the most desirable and attractive manner. Facebook can allow you to stay connected with your target customers throughout the day.
It also helps you to create long lasting relationships with your customers. In order to promote your business via Facebook, you need to take some initial steps that are detailed below:

1) Develop Your Business Page
The first step to promote your business on Facebook, it requires to develop the business page. The Facebook business page is not just a weblog because it also offers you a number of programs for enhancing the user interactivity. A business page is actually a separate Facebook profile for the purpose of promoting your business on Facebook. You can easily create such profile by the name of your respective business so that you can attract more and more potential customers towards your products or services.

2) Make it Interactive
The profile pic of your business page should be very relevant as well as eye-catching in order to create a positive impact on the viewers. The appearance of the page plays a very vital role in the marketing of different brands and their products and services. Always try to keep on adding more and more friends each day in order to make your business page more visible. Also keep the wall updated by commenting on the activities of members and by posting different messages to different people.

3) Create a Facebook Group
Creating a good Facebook group can help you to market your business products in a very efficient way. These groups invites a lot of people from all over the globe for common cause or activities. They can now also express their views on your groups. Creating such groups can help you to boost the image of your brand and also to improve your sales.

4) Integrate Facebook ‘Like’ Button
It is highly recommended to integrate the Facebook ‘Like’ button on the website of your business. It will help you to take maximum benefits from Facebook as it will  provide more visibility of your brand on the web. Facebook ‘Like’ button allows the users to share the page of your business website to their Facebook profile. This always brings a chain effect and also helps your brand to grab maximum attention of the potential customers.

5) Integrate Facebook Comment System
If you write blogs for the promotion of your business, you can easily provide the plug-in like the Facebook comment system that enables the users to leave comments to your blog. This system does not require the users to register and this allows them to share their comments on the wall which will really enhance your online visibility. This system helps you to let a number of people know about your latest products. It is a free service that helps you to increase your product sales.

6) Remain Consistent
Keep visiting your business page very frequently or at least once a day in order to maintain a flow in your marketing efforts. You should always post useful and exciting information to the page on regular basis in order to enhance your visibility. If you really want to get the results fast then you need put a consistent effort for that. In this way, you will automatically grab most of the attention of your potential customers.

7) Online Advertisement
To write articles and blogs related to your business, its strategies and overall image and introduction can be a great strategy to promote your small business. The well written business articles catch the attraction of the people interested in this area. This not only promotes potentials buyers and customers but also increases links and associations ultimately helping it generating revenue and increasing the business’s popularity. Moreover, spend more and more time on internet for the promotion of your business online. You can do it by making contacts through social networking sites. Advertise your business at various forms.

Uploading pictures in Blogger - advices




In this article we will talk about upload of pictures (images) in your Blogger Blog. I'll try to point out some advantages and disadvantages, and share some general advices about using a free picture hosting services (Photobucket, Imageshack...) instead of using only the default Blogger image upload (Picasa).

There are two different "ways" of using pictures in Blogger:

1. pictures uploaded in Blogger Post (or gadget/widget)
2. picture used in Blogger HTML layout (for Blog design purposes)


PICTURES IN POSTS
Uploaded pictures HAVE to be stored (hosted) somewhere. When you upload a pic fromyour computer into Blogger Post, it will automatically be stored in your default Picasaaccount that comes in a package with your Blogger account....



► in Blogger, you'll click on Upload Image button, Browse for the pic on your comp (machine), and Upload it...
But if you take a better look, you'll notice the other option in Upload pop-up window:
Add an image from the web gives you the option to upload a picture hosted somewhere else on the web (using direct link), be it from your existing Album (Photobucket, Imageshack....), or the one you will create.

"Why do I have two options anyway?"

Picture storage - in default Picasa (pics uploaded from your computer), you have a storage limit of 1GB. If you exceed this, picture's will be broken. Your options are:
- upgrade Picasa account (you'll have to pay)
- combine with uploading pictures from a free picture hosting services

Picture size - if you upload the pics from your computer, not only they are stored in Picasa by default, but they are also automatically re-sized and compressed. Blogger has 3 options:
small (width is 200px)
medium (width is 320px)
large (width is 400px)

They will show up in their full size when clicked on, but in the post, you can only choose from these 3 options.

Uploading images hosted on a free picture hosting services, you will have better manipulation of the picture appearance in the Blogger post, without automatic re-size or compression.


WHERE TO HOST YOUR PICTURES?
Well, probably you already have an account somewhere, but the important thing here is to get the Direct Link to our hosted pic. When we've done that, we can use this Link either:

► in Blogger Post (gadgets/widgets)
► or in HTML of the Blog template (custom design tweaking)

I'll make a list of my personal favorites when it comes to Free picture hosting. So, in this order:

Tinypic.com, owned and operated by Photobucket.com, is a fast, simple, reliable and free video and image hosting site. Personally, I love it because of it's short URL address, and unlimited bandwidth. Other features:
► the image size limit is 1600 pixels (either width or height)
► images and videos on your account will not be removed
► unlimited storage, hosting period and bandwidth!

Create an account, and start uploading. Just be careful to copy the Direct Link, and use it in your Blogger Blog Post, or HTML. Here's a few screen shots:


ImageShack.us is an intuitive and easy-to-use free media hosting service. It can be used to upload images, flash files, and videos. It's free, but you also have the upgrade option. Features:
► each image you upload must be less than 5 MB in size
► your files will be available forever (if you have an account)
► unlimited storage
► unlimited bandwidth for videos and slideshows, and allows each hotlinked image 300 megabytes of transfer per hour

Create an account (1 minute), upload pics, and get the Direct Link for your Blog. Here's how it looks like:


Photobucket.com is a famous media-sharing and hosting site where you can upload and store your images and videos. You can choose to have either a Free or Pro (paid) Photobucket account. By default, a new account is Free. Features:
► free accounts users limited to 1MB file size and max. resolution of 1024 x 768px
► up to 1 GB of space for images and video clips
► free accounts are allowed 25 GB of bandwidth per month

Create an account, and enjoy all the additional features Photobucket is offering...In order to get the picture link for your Blog, check this screen shots:

Click here for Upload instructions (official help)
..and make sure to get the Direct link of the files you're use in Blogger:


There are also many other fine services around, and it's only up to you which one you will use...These services offer much more than just image upload, but that's another story...

Smile!

12 Things to Do Before Applying for Google Adsense


I know many of you want to make some good money with adsense right? ;)
But it’s not easy to get into adsense program now a days. You have to do few things before applying for adsense.
Google Adsense is world’s larges Ads Network and works at Pay Per Click system. It’s paying rates are better than all of other networks which is the biggest reason it is so popular to all Bloggers and Webmasters. But since everybody is running behind them, they have made the approval system very strict. You make little mistakes and get disapproved every time. So you need a complete guidance and list of thing that you need to do before applying for Google Adsense and supposing that you are ready.

12 Things to Do Before Applying for Google Adsense

1. Privacy Policy :

One of the common mistakes that every Blogger makes and that I made many times before finally getting approved. Even though there are people out there who say that having a Privacy Policy for a Blog doesn’t makes sense but they are wrong.
A Privacy actually describes to your readers about what they will get on your Blog , what they should do and what they should not. So obviously there is nothing bad in having a Privacy Policy. While it can affect somehow on your Adsense Approval, you must give it a try. You can write it yourself or find Privacy Policy Generators online (You don’t need a lawyer anyway).

2. About Page

An About has major role and importance if you don’t want to apply for Adsense. But when it comes to Adsense, they are about Zero chances of getting approved if you are not showing this page.About page simply describes about you and your Blog . This will not only help you establish a relationship with readers but it will also make them trust upon you.

3. Contact Us Page

It’s quite obvious that everyone has his/her own opinion. What one of your readers likes may be bothering someone else. Than it is better to give them opportunity to speak up to you and tell how they feel about your Blog, what they want to be edited , what they liked or hated.
It will also show the Google Adsense Team that is viewing your site that you actually care about your readers and not only the money and Adsense.

4. Name/ Email Verification

Make sure to put you Name and Email address in some easily visible area like About Me and Contact Us pages. It will confirm to Google Adsense Team that it is the same person who applied for Adsense and not some spam, crappy bots.

5. Age Verification

I’m really laughing out typing this. ;)
Why?
Because this is where I encountered a problem. Instead of 18, I accidentally published my age as 17 while on Adsense Application Form, it was accurately 18.
Hence there started a problem . Because Google Adsense is not for under 18 people. I realized this problem after being disproved a few times without any legitimate reason. So I advice you to be accurate while typing your age.

6. Minimum Number of Posts

There is no exact answer. Not even one. Because I have seen very established Blogs with 400+ posts and their owner telling me that Google Adsense is rejecting them while somewhere ,people with 40,50 posts are enjoying making money. Exactly what I said that there is no actual answer. However, we can always predict things. According to my experience , you should only apply after you have more than 70 posts. Posts length should must be 500+ words too.

7. Design

Your Blog is the biggest thing after Content. This represents your expertise ,experience and Professionalism. So be careful because anything can kill your Chances.

8. Content Type

Be careful with what type of content you are publishing. Because it is something that truly matters. Google Adsense is not for Pornographic, Illegal Items, Drugs or other Blogs / Sites like that. Also Adsense team won’t be willing to allow you to step in if you own a Non English Blog. Having posts shorter than 300 words in length is also Red Signal.

9. Providing Value

Don’t complain about not making money and don’t clearly state that your areBlogging for Money only and have no other interest in it. Because this will show them that you will not be providing values to your readers any day. Hence another Red Light glows up.

10. Top Level Domain

apply for adsense
Those are gone far away when Adsense used to approve “Blogspot” and “WordPress.com” Blogs. As for today, you must have your own unique domain that specifies your Blog. If you don’t have one yet, stop dreaming about getting approved with Sub domains and go buy a Top Level Domain.
Another important thing about domain is it’s age. Because for most of Asian Countries, Adsense has placed an age restriction. They don’t accept any sites before they are 6 months old.

11. Other Ad Networks

If you have any other Ads placed like Chitika, Clicksor or anything, it’s time to drop them off.
Even Google Adsense allows you to use other Ad Networks along with them, it’s better to remove the ads before Applying and don’t put them back until you get a reply from Adsense Team.

12. Paid Traffic 

Google hates the sites that are getting Paid traffic and mostly penalizes them so there is not a damn chance of getting Adsense Approval letter for a site that is getting paid traffic. You can bring traffic from Search Engines or any other way you want but if you want to earn via Google Adsense the right way, paid traffic is not a solution.
What to do if adsense is not getting approved?
If google adsense still not approving your website/blog. You can use these websites to earn money without adsense.

Final Words About Apply for Adsense!

This will take your few time and you have to Do these things Before Applying for Google Adsense. I guess these are not too hard. Don’t be sad if google adsense not approve your blog! :)
There are many other ways to make money online without adsense.

The top 10 alternatives to Google Adsense 2013

Google AdSense is the current leader in content-sensitive web-based marketing. Webmasters can place Google AdSense JavaScript code on their web pages in order to allow Google's servers to show context sensitive advertisements (Google Adwords). The left hand side of this page shows an example of a Google AdSense skyscraper displaying a text or image ad.
Google's terms and conditions are very strict such that many web publishers cannot use adsense adverts on their sites. They are either denied from joining the Google AdSense program in the first instance, or in a situation that is becoming more and more common do not wish to do business with Google. A number of publishers are also finding their Adsense accounts are being disabled for reasons that are completely beyond their control. The problem is that most of the alternatives to Google's Adsense are pretty useless. Most of the good adsense alternatives (such as doubleclick) are only interested in very large volume customers and so are not interested in the little guy with his blog who wants to earn a small income on the side. For this reason I have compiled my Top 10 alternatives to Google's Adsense that are ideal for the small time publisher. This site provides an updated list of the best website monetization programs that are available to webmasters.
If you are a advertiser then you may be interested in these best alternatives to adwords.
Has your adsense account been disabled? Then try these top 10 alternatives.

  • Bidvertiser
  • Chitika
  • Infolinks
  • Intellilinks
  • Dynamic Oxygen
  • B4PSAds.com
  • Clicksor
  • Skimlinks
  • Exit Junction
  • Kontera
Note: The descriptions are based on personal experience and do not represent any form of endorsement.




1) Bidvertiser
Bidvertiser is an excellent alternative to Google and offers some intriguing ad formats including what
 they refer to as free design. This lets you specify the look and dimensions of your text ads. While a
 useful feature I have not investigated how well it works but imagine that while it sounds good on paper
 it could result in lower priced ads being displayed. I.e. most advertisers will probably want to keep control
 of the layout of their ads and so turn off support for Free design ads. All the standard ad formats exist, 
however, and the payouts are excellent. Pop-under ads and XML feeds are also supported. Bidvertiser
 have also recently introduced two knew features that can boost your earnings:
Conversion Bonus
As far as I am aware Bidvertiser is the first affiliate marketer to offer this seemingly obvious service
. As well as paying traditional CPC for each valid click Bidvertiser will now track those clicks and
 if they turn into valid leads will pay an additional conversion bonus to the publisher. If your site 
refers a number of high value leads this can lead to a substantial monthly bonus. In many cases this 
additional bonus can be higher than traditional CPC earnings.
Revenue Generating ToolbarThe second new feature offered by Bidvertiser is the customized 
revenue generating toolbar. The BidVertiser Toolbar allows you to distribute your own customized
 toolbar to your website visitors and then earn money when your users use the toolbar for searching
. The toolbar is fully customizable allowing logos to be changed, links to your home page added, 
useful tools, direct program links etc. adsense alternatives 2013

If you want you can download an example of the toolbar using the link below to try it out.


Includes Uninstaller

System Requirements
Windows Vista/XP/2000
Other versions:
Internet Explorer
FireFox

Bidvertizer pays you either in $100.00 increments by check or $10.00 increments by PayPal.

 They also do not require you to complete any tax information or provide a social security number.
Maximum customizability for the layout of your ads: BidVertiser gives you a simple point-and-click tool to
 help you customize the layout of the ads to fit your site's look and feel, in order to retain the high quality of
 your website. Bidvertizer also offers the opportunity to block unwanted ads. The reports provided by
 Bidvertiser are adequate but not outstanding. The only real problem is that it has been reported that they
 can be picky with who they accept into their program and can be quick to ban users whose websites show
 what may be perfectly valid fluctuating visitor behaviour. Although I have not heard any recent reports so
 they may have relaxed this policy somewhat. Click here to visit Bidvertiser's website where you can either 
sign up as a publisher (show peoples ads on your site) or as an advertiser (show your ads on other sites).
As an advertiser you can get $20 in free clicks by following this link: Bidvertiser Advertise and get $20 in
 free clicks.
   
2) Chitika
Chitika - The Leader in Impulse MerchandisingChitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) was founded in 
2003 and is the industry's leading impulse merchandising company. Chitika was founded in May 2003 and 
is based in Massachusetts. Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) helps web publishers generate revenue using
 innovative publisher-side advertising and merchandising solutions and services.
Chitika began, not as a stand alone advertising solution but instead as way to compliment existing advertising
 / publishing programs through the use of additional Ad Units which were altogether different from the standard
 ad boxes, pop-unders etc that everybody else provided. Instead of displaying these 'industry standard' 
advert boxes with text and image ads that all look the same Chitika instead provided active boxes that 
showed targeted products from different manufacturers. If you ran a blog for example and discussed a
 product you might have found the Chitika box showing links for this product and competitors products.
 If people purchased these products you would get paid a commission. This was referred to as impulse
 marketing in the form of Premium Ad Units (eMinimalls).
Chitika has now progressed, however, into a fully fledged advertizer service. The eMinimalls initially evolved
 into advertizing units that would show adverts based on what people searched for to get to your site. 
This is subtly different from the standard keyword driven advertising since it shows ads that are more
 relevant to the original intent of your visitors search. This greatly increases the chance that someone will click 
on an ad. This type of advertising is still offered by Chitika and is a good addition to a site containing traditional
 banner ads. For example you could use it to compliment another advertizers service. 
E.g. you could show Clicksor context sensitive ads on your site and then compliment these with
 Chitika's search traffic oriented ads.
However, Chitika now goes beyond this, also offering what are termed premium ads. Chitika uses it
 custom "Click Prediction" technology to show select ads when there is a greater chance they will be 
clicked on. This is obviously a great way to improve your revenue.
For advertisers and media buyers, Chitika is a proven channel for targeting on-line consumers and 
qualified buyers. For all publishers, Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. 
If you visit a site showing Chitika's ads from a search engine then the Chitika premium ad unit kicks 
in showing you ads that are specific to your searching - otherwise you can have it show an alternative
 ad provider, such as adsense, or you can just have it collapse away to show nothing.

Recently added new features from Chitika include:
List Unit
The Chitika List Unit (CLU) is a powerful extension of the MPU which automatically adjusts its
 height, ensuring no ugly white-space and thus a cleaner user experience. These can also be referred
 to as rotating ads. Such units really come into their own on devices such as iPads which support
 dynamically rotating screens. With the use of a rotating CLU you can have your ad automatically 
adjust to fill all the space on the screen. This also draws the users eye to the ads and makes it more
 likely for them to click on one. adsense alternatives 2013
Mobile CodeAdverts specifically designed to be shown on  mobile content.
Pay per call AdsThese ads are 'action based' ads which have a very high payout of between $2
 and $20 per action. For local ads they greatly increase action rates since local viewers are more
 likely to click these ads because it will put them in direct contact with the advertiser.
Chitika's search based advert units allow you to display targeted products based on what people searched
 for to get to your page and you get paid for clicks. Chitika offers payment by PayPal (with a $10 minimum)
 or via Check (with a $50 minimum).
Click here to visit Chitika's website and sign up today.
3) Infolinks
A relative newcomer to the scene Infolinks specializes in In-Text Advertizing. That is it indexes your page
 looking for keywords and phrases that are not currently links and converts them into advertizing links. 
When a user places their mouse over the link a box opens up showing the ad. If they click on the link you ge
t paid. It is very simple and works very effectively. The nice part is that you can use Infolinks to compliment
 an existing advertizing campaign on your website. For example you can show banner ads withBidvertiser and show text links with Infolinks. Or you can even show text links with both Intellilinks and Infolinks together on the same page to maximize your revenue.
Infolinks claims to be leading the industry with the most relevant in-text advertising links and the highest revenue share - guaranteed. I am not sure how they 'guarantee' this but having used them for several months I can attest that their payouts are indeed good compared to other In-Text advertizing options.
In-Text advertizing is also useful if you have a site under construction. For example, suppose you have built a list of links but have not added all the links yet. Infolinks will parse your page and convert a lot of these into links. People then think these are part of your site, click on them and you get paid. The unobtrusiveness makes it a very attractive way to monetize your site without inundating and alienating your visitors with flashing banners, pop-ups etc.
Additionally Infolinks has just added a new feature called Related Tags. Related tags allow you to increase your clicks and earnings while adding valuable informational tags within your website's content. The Infolinks algorithm will choose the best keywords for the page and display them as tags within the Related Tags cloud. Just like In text ads, when a visitor hovers over the tags, an Infolinks advertisement bubble will appear, and each click will award your account additional revenues.
New features are being added by Infolinks all the time taking them beyond the traditional highlighted link advertiser. A recent addition is called the Search Widget add-on. In Infolinks' words it will "revolutionize how you monetize your websites". This new ad banner activates when a visitor originating from a Search Engine (Google, Bing or Yahoo) arrives at your site. The Search Widget appears for those visitors only, revealing ads related to their search. This can result in very high click thru rates.
Infolinks pays you either by bank wire, Automated Clearing House (ACH) ($400 minimum), or by PayPal ($50 minimum). Intriguingly they also offer payment via a prepaid Mastercard that will be refilled with your earnings each month. This is an interesting approach to payment and may be useful for international customers without PayPal or US Dollar bank accounts. However, the fees for this prepaid card appear to be fairly steep. adsense alternatives 2013
Infolinks' features:
Quick and easy setup with no changes to your website.
Ads are tightly integrated with your content - no additional space required.
Free sign up with no commitments or risk.
User triggered, less intrusive advertising that won't distract from your site's content.
Highly relevant In-Text ads for your site visitors with record high conversion rates.
Related tags.

Click here to visit Infolink's website and signup for an account to give them a try. As with most alternatives to adsense it is free and there is no obligation.
4) Intellilinks
Intellilinks is a similar service to infolinks above but well worth trying. Intellilinks specializes in placing organic text links across an ever-growing network of websites in order to build rank and traffic for advertisers and increased revenue for publishers. Intellilinksfocuses on providing cutting edge technology, while keeping the network seamless and secure to bring results to their clients and revenue to their publishers.
For publishers Intellilinks offers the following features:
Sell text links on your website for profit in a few easy steps.
Extremely simple to setup, just install a plugin for your blog.
As a publisher you have total control over which links are published on your site.
Intellilinks allows you to place ads on your website using either their PHP script or their Wordpress plugin. You can have ads automatically approved or manually review them and place them yourself.
Intellilinks has no obligation and costs nothing to join or use. They split revenue 50:50 and make payments monthly by PayPal. Unlike almost every other adsense alternative Intellilinks have no minimum payout threshold. Whatever you earn during a month will be paid to you the following month via PayPal. Intellilinks also supports hosting ads on blog pages.
Click here to visit Intellilinks website and signup for an account and give them a try.

5) Dynamic Oxygen
Dynamic Oxygen are a relative newcomer to the field having really only started at the end of 2010. However, they are growing quickly and offer an excellent alternative to the traditional Adsense route. Dynamic Oxygen enables publishers of all sizes to realize their full revenue potential! One of the nice things being that they are not focused purely on the high end, very high turnover publishers but instead cater to sites of all shapes, sizes and popularity. This also includes most international sites. Unlike many ad providers that only cater for US or European traffic, DynamicOxygen supports and pays out for worldwide traffic making it ideal for non-US based publishers.
In particular they feature:
Benefit from targeted ads with High eCPM for your ENTIRE traffic.
Get paid for all your international traffic.
Enjoy unique ad formats not found elsewhere, such as Interstitials, Layer Ads, Peeler Ads, Anchor Ads, and more...
Enjoy timely payments. adsense alternatives 2013
Superb Support
DynamicOxygen provide payment via PayPal, Check or Wire Transfer with $50 minimum payouts. You can sign up for a no obligation, risk free account and give DynamicOxygen a try by following this link.

6) B4PSAds.com
Granted they might not have the catchiest or easiest to remember URL but B4PSAds.com are a fairly good alternative to Google Adsense and for those of you who lost out due to the AdBrite going bust debacle B4PSAds.com might offer a reasonably good alternative there as well. B4PSAds.com are a complete advertising solution offering Pay Per Click (PPC) and Cost Per Action (CPA) to publishers and advertisers alike. It is very easy to get accepted with B4PSAds.com, they do not require a US social security number and approval is typically instantaneous after validating your email address. They support regular webpages as well as blogs and news feeds. Some of things B4PSAds offer include:
CPA Bonuses - They pay you CPA bonuses for clicks that actually turn into actions for advertisers. This means you can earn income on both the click itself and resulting actions.
Hands Free Operation - No longer will you have to search for the highest performing ads, nor will you have to pull ads when they run out. Every night, the B4PSAds system finds you the highest CPM yields, but then will also rotate to the next most profitable set of offers when advertisers end their campaigns or go over budget. This ultimately translates into more earning potential from your website traffic.
Publisher Control - B4PSAds includes a full publisher control suite for you to control every aspect of your ads.
Account Management - B4PSAds offers real time management of campaigns and provides details statistics and full accounting ledgers of historical and month to date (MTD) earnings and withdrawals.
No Fees - There are no administration or network fees and it costs nothing to join.
Monthly Contests - B4PSAds offers monthly cash prize contests for publishers.
Privacy - In a move that may be critical to publishers in Europe B4PSAds does not collect or store any personal identifying information form users that visit your website. They collect only non-identifying information required for running the advertising campaigns.
Easy Payment: B4PSAds offers payment via Paypal or Direct Deposit. Minimum payout is just $50 and payment is on an extremely frequent Net 5. That is by the 5th of each month your earnings from the previous month will be reviewed and posted to your account ledger and available for withdrawal. In addition, in a feature that I believe is unique they offer the ability for high volume earners (over $1,000 per month) to withdraw a portion of their earnings early. Did you lose thousands of dollars because of AdBrite's 3 month vesting scheme. No worries here, you can withdraw your funds within just days of earning them. All withdrawls can be direct deposited by eCheck to your Bank Checking Account or via Paypal.


7) Clicksor
Clicksor is one of the current leaders of the small publisher Adsense competition. They have payouts up to a market leading 85% and unlike a number of alternatives the cost per click bid values are high enough that you can earn a decent income. They are also, in my experience, much more tolerant than Google. Their terms and conditions suggest that you should only place one copy of their code on a page but as long as you only place a single pop-up or DHTML code on a page they seem happy to let you place many context sensitive ad blocks on a single site.
Clicksor also has a big advantage over a number of the lower ranked alternatives on this site in that their ads are truly context sensitive. Thus while you can provide keywords they have technology that will also show ads targeted to the content of your site. This means your visitors are exposed to ads of the same subject as they were searching for when they reached your site and thus vastly increases the click thru ratio and thus your sites earning potential. The context sensitive nature also saves you the hassle of having to specify keywords for all of your sites and decide in advance what people might be looking for.
The online stats provided by Clicksor are not perfect but they are enough for you to keep track of the trends with your site. They also allow you to add as many sites / domains as you want under a single account. You also only need the root page of your site approved. Once this is done you can place ads on all of your sub pages.
The payment schedule with Clicksor is also much better geared to the small site owner. In any pay period in which your earnings exceed $50.00 ($20.00 with PayPal), payments are made either by check or instantly through PayPal ($20.00 minimum for PayPal). Revenue totaling less that $50 (PP $20) will rolled into the following period. The pay period is based on a 15 day schedule so you can get paid much more frequently. Clicksor also do not require a Social Security (SSN) or Individual Tax Identity Number (ITIN) to join and so while this 'technically' does not help US site owners with their tax liability it does make it much easier for non US citizens to join up and start earning revenue.
That said I have had several reports of late about Clicksor becoming more picky about who they accept and rejecting accounts. This is especially true of sites not based in the USA, Canada or the UK as well as sites not predominantly in English. I have also seen issues with their reporting of earnings, especially referrals not working properly. Thus I have moved them further down the list but I still recommend you to try them.
Advert wise Clicksor features:
Multiple formats available including text, image and animated ads.
Text Links
Image Ads
Flash Ads
Animation Ads
Banners
Pop unders
Interstitial Ads (NEW)
Dynamic (DHTML) highlighting
Click here to visit Clicksor's website and sign up for an account to try it out. There is no obligation and no fees ever. Note, once you start adding the advert code to your site it can take up to 24 hours for Clicksor to get up to speed as it were so initially you may see some ads that don't appear to be relevant. Once their contextual engine kicks in, however, the relevance quickly improves.
Ex AdBrite customers note: Clicksor is offering guaranteed account approval to anyone who had an active account with AdBrite when they went bust on Feb 1st 2013.
8) Skimlinks
Skimlinks' logo is "Unlock the cash in your content" and in this they do well. Skimlinks provides you with a highly automated way to monetize your entire content. They focus on two approaches, the first is the well known approach of monetizing phrases on your site by automatically converting them into affiliate links. The second is somewhat more unique in that Skimlinks can take regular links on your site and redirect them through their affiliate servers. A brief explanation of how this works is as follows:
You add normal product links to your site.
Your site looks normal to your readers with links showing exactly where they are going and it doesn't appear as if it is an advert.
Skimlinks automatically turns this link into an equivalent affiliate link when a user clicks on it by redirecting briefly through theSkimlinks servers.
Everytime a user clicks through a product link that Skimlinks is able to affiliate you earn a commission
The entire process is completely automated. You just add the javascript code and away you go.
Skimlinks allows you to:
Add normal links to your content and have them automatically converted to an affiliate link on-click.
No affiliate links to create or manage - Skimlinks does the work for you.
No more network sign ups and approvals - you get instant access to 17,000 affiliate programs.
Centralized reporting makes it easy to see which retailers your readers love.
The scale of Skimlinks allows them to negotiate better commission rates for you over what you might be able to get by approaching the retailers directly.
Skimlinks has a very relaxed attitude to the type of content supported and they fully support Blogs and collation sites. Sign up for a no-obligation free account today and try it for yourself.
9) Exit Junction
Exit Junction is relatively new and, I believe, a spin off from the now defunct Revenue Pilot. While Revenue Pilot has stopped running, however, Exit Junction is going from strength to strength. Exit Junction offers a unique approach to advertising that is compatible with all the other Ad Networks included Google Adsense. The key to Exit junction is that they focus on showing ads to users as they leave your site rather than as they arrive or as they browse. This approach offers you an additional way to monetize your traffic and also capture ad revenue from those that stumble upon your site from a search engine and then immediately leave.
By adding a small piece of Exit Junction code to the header section of your site users are shown an advert as they hit the back button. For example, if a user came to your site from a Google search and then immediately hit the back button to return to that search they would be shown an Exit Junction Ad in between your page and the Google search and you get paid for this impression. The ad is directly targeted to the search term that brought the visitor to your site in the first place. Hence Exit Junction is an ideal way of complimenting your existing ad services and so increasing your sites revenue without having to switch from your current ad provider.
Exit junction also covers all countries. You get paid for all traffic exiting you site regardless of its origin.
They offer fee free payout via Check or PayPal with earnings of as little as $25 on a monthly basis.
Click here to signup with Exit Junction for a free no obligation account.
10) Kontera
Kontera works in a similar way to Infolinks above, however, they have been around for much longer. Traditionally it was hard to get accepted by Kontera but they seem to have relaxed their restrictions of late. This is especially true for website publishers and affiliate marketers that do not have high daily page impressions.
Kontera is extremely easy to use. You simply add a few lines of code to the end of your webpage and within 24 hours additionally links start showing up on your page that serve Kontera Ads. While this service does not provide you with a complete replacement for all your ads, since they do not provide banner creatives etc., it does provide an additional way to increase the revenue your site can generate. The links are context sensitive and relevant so click through ratios can be very high for well designed sites.
Some of the features offered by Kontera:
The best payout in the business.
Premium ads with market-leading CPC.
Record high CTRs.
The best relevancy and user experience.
Works within your text - no extra space required.
Takes only a minute to set up.
Kontera is nice because it is simply Plug and Play and it provides an additional revenue stream for your website. It does not require any additional space or layout considerations since it integrated directly with your text. In my opinion the inline text ads also look smarter than a lot of other offerings.
In May 2011 Kontera started rolling out additional features designed to maximize revenue and value for publishers. These represent extensions of what Kontera do today and are intended to deliver better revenue and value publishers. The Retargeting offering is part of Kontera's Audience Program and leverages their unique ability to understand and assess user interest via a semantic engine designed to yield greater revenues for publishers. Kontera's Retargeting presents a unique opportunity for publishers to earn additional revenues from Kontera ads that they already serve. Kontera finds interested consumers on publisher sites and qualifies their interest by leveraging their Synapse technology. When they see these users elsewhere on the web they show them relevant banners and share the revenues with the publisher where the user first expressed interest.
The value add for the publisher includes:
1) Additional revenue (approximately 10-20% more on average once the entire Audience Program is fully operational)
2) No technical requirements adsense alternatives 2013
3) No change to user experience
4) Ability to participate in an exciting and novel growth area in advertising
Kontera provides payment by PayPal with a $50 minimum payout.
Click here to visit Kontera's website and sign up for a no obligation publisher account.

How to submit your full blog sitemap to Google with no errors



There are plenty of ways how to submit your blog sitemap to Google and using Webmaster Tools, in fact you can Google for it and can find 1000 tutorials on this single topic. We will skip the tutorial ofADDING A SITE and SUBMISSION OF SITEMAP.

The title mentioned "full" because most of the newbie bloggers only get 26 submitted and indexed sitemaps.

For Blogspot users let us start by simply submitting your blog to Blogger.com Listings and Search Enginesand set to Full Blog Feeds. The Google crawler
will never index your site unless you do the following.

Log-in to www.blogger.com/home (select your blog) > Settings > Basic

• Select "Yes" for Add your blog to our listings?
• Select "Yes" for Let search engines find your blog?
(Please read the explanation provided there)
• SAVE SETTINGS

Go back to Tab Menu Click > Site Feed
• Allow Blog Feeds set to Full
• SAVE SETTINGS

CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE HALFWAY DONE!
Go back to Dashboard > Scroll down > Find Tools and Resources and on the fifth bullet you can find Webmaster Tools

If you are new to Webmaster Tools you can find help at Webmaster FAQ

FULL BLOG SITEMAP SUBMISSION
Webmaster Tools

Select your site > Site configuration > Sitemap
For Blogs with posts less than 500 submit the code below:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

For Blogs with posts less than 1000 submit this (remember to submit both)
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

For Blogs with posts less than 1500 submit this (remember to submit both)
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

To check how many blogpost you have written
www.blogger.com/home (select your blog) > Edit Posts > Published
Wait for 3 days for Google to crawl your entire blog.
CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE DONE!
Note: To avoid Feed Proxy Errors
Avoid putting these site maps
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml
or
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Instead submit this
feeds/posts/default?redirect=false
This is the proper code to redirect Google to default Blogspot Atom Feed System.

Where to get free domain names for website ?


Still that is an option to create a totally free website, blog or community forums and publish it on the web at absolutely no cost. However, unfortunately, many free website hosting providers still offer a long and very difficult to remember web address to their free site hosting users.
And that is the point where one can take advantage of free domain registration service that enables toget a free domain with a very short and very easy to remember extension and mask the terribly looking free web site address with a perfectly looking free domain web address.
In this article we provide the reviews of the best free domain name services and detailed descriptions of their main features. And thus we list the reviews of the top 5 free domain name providers according to the features and quality of the offered services and free domains:
  1. FreeDomain.co.nr (free .co.nr domain)
  2. Biz.nf (free .co.nf domain)
  3. Co.cc (free .co.cc domain)
  4. Dot.tk (free .tk domain)
  5. Biz.ly (free .biz.ly domain)
And see the detailed reviews of best free domains below:
(Hostgator coupons hostingfun & hostingfun25 ,web hosting for 0.01$ for a month )

Free Domains at .co.nr

FreeDomain.co.nrFreeDomain.co.nr provides free domain registration service with a very short and easy to remember.co.nr extension. So that, their users get free domains like www.sitename.co.nr that can be used for any free web site, blog, forums, or other web page published on the web.
FreeDomain.co.nr service works in form of URL redirection, so that they support meta tags, URL masking, path forwarding, your very own Favicon, Google Webmaster Tools, etc. However, free .co.nr domains do not support DNS changes and thus they are recommended mainly for beginners.
FreeDomain.co.nr has been providing domain name free services since 2003, so you can probably rely on their service, and it seems they do not add forced ads to free web domains that they offer.

Free Domain at .co.nf

Biz.nfBiz.nf is a free web hosting provider that enables to register a free domain name with .co.nfextension (such as www.sitename.co.nf) and to host it at Biz.nf servers at absolutely no cost.
Biz.nf provides a full featured free domain hosting service that includes both features for advanced users such as PHP hosting, MySQL, CGI, FTP support as well as free website builder tools such as easily installed WordPress blog and Joomla website, and more.
Biz.nf has been in business since 2008, and they offer totally eco-friendlygreen hosting service that can help to save our planet ecology.

Free Domain Name at .co.cc

co.ccCo.cc lets Internet users to register free domains with .co.cc extension for personal (non-commercial) use, and they also sell .co.cc domains to businesses in bulk at a very low prices.
In addition to free website domain registration Co.cc also provides mapping of .co.cc domains to Blogger, Window Live, Google Apps and Amazon Associates. Co.cc does support DNS changes and thus CNAME, A, MX, NS, and TXT records.
Update: CO.CC is currently offline, and it seems they have completely closed down there services. If that’s the case, we’ll remove CO.CC soon.
Co.cc has been offering free short domains since 2007, however, it seems they (and all their users) were banned by Google and other big guys several times..

Free Domain at .tk

Dot.tkDot.tk is a Tokelau (small islands in Pacific Ocean) based company that provides free 2nd level domains with .TK extension, so that free free domain site looks like www.sitename.tk and that is the shortest free domain option available on the web.
Dot.tk enables to register free domains and either redirect them to a website (domain forwarding), or they enable to use ones own name servers, i.e. the DNS changes are allowed. One can also pay for .tk domain and thus obtain the legal registrant rights (free domains do not provide registrant rights and the free site must receive at least 25 visitors in any 90-day period).
Dot.tk guys have been providing free .tk domains since very 2001, however, we were reported their service/servers are a bit slow from time to time..

Free Domains at .biz.ly

Biz.lyBiz.ly free domain host provides a very short free domain with business meaning .biz.ly extension. Unlike the previous provider Biz.nf offers 3rd level free domains such as www.sitename.biz.lythat are registered and hosted at their servers at no additional cost.
Apart from free .biz.ly domains they also provide free hosting services as well as free site builder and blog builder, and many pre-installed tools such as photo album, guestbook, hits counter, webrings, form mailer, site copier, etc.
Biz.ly has been providing free domain names since 2002, and their service is quite simple and thus it is recommended for beginners

How to add share button on every post in Blogger ?


Code for Facebook Share count button:
<div style="float:right;padding:4px;"> <a expr:share_url='data:post.url' name='fb_share' rel='nofollow' type='box_count'/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share"/> </div>
To install on your Blogger blog:
  • Login to your Blogger Dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit Html and check the check box which says “Expand widget templates”.
  • Find this piece of code <div class='post-header-line-1'/>
  • after that place the Facebook share button code (as above)
  • If you were unable to find this code in your template,then look for the first occurrence of<data:post.body/> and immediately before that paste our Facebook Share button code(that you copied).
Save the template and you should get a facebook share count button near the heading of each of your blog posts.

How to install Joomla manually ?


This tutorial will show you how to install Joomla manually. Alternatively, you can install Joomla using an Auto-Installer tool like Fantastico. You can also get a free professional Joomla installation with your Joomla hosting account at SiteGround.com.

How to Manually Install Joomla 1.5

To install Joomla manually follow the steps below:
 Step 1.Create a MySQL database for your Joomla installation and add a new user to it. This can be done easily with cPanel by following the MySQL database tutorial. In case you are not using cPanel you can refer to the MySQL manual on creating databases and adding users to it.
 Step 2. Create a folder called upload on your computer.
 Step 3.Go to the Joomla download page. Download the .zip file with the latest version to the upload folder and extract it there.
 Step 4.Upload all the content from upload to the directory on the server where Joomla 1.5 will be installed. SiteGround recommends using FTP for this purpose and the FTP tutorial will guide you through the necessary steps.
 Step 5.Open the URL of the newly uploaded Joomla files. This will be either http://your_domain_name.com or a subdirectory such as http://your_domain_name.com/example.
 Step 6.You will be redirected to the Joomla installation page:
Joomla installation page
On the first page of the installation you will be able to choose the Language for the installation.
ImportantThe selected language will be valid only for the installation process. Once installed Joomla will be back in English.
We recommend selecting "English" in order to follow easier the next steps from the tutorial.
 Step 7.Joomla will perform a pre-installation check of the system environment. Failing to meet a requirement or recommendation may cause functional and security problems later.
Here is a screenshot of all Joomla 1.5 requirements met on a standard SiteGround hosting account:
SiteGround Joomla hosting
 Step 8.Once you make sure all requirements are met, click on the [Next] button from the top right menu.
 Step 9.Next you will have to accept Joomla's license and click on [Next] to continue.
 Step 10. The following page will ask about the MySQL details for the new Joomla 1.5 installation.
Here are some example entries and explanations for these fields in case you have difficulties understanding exactly what information you should enter:
Joomla installation - Info box
 Step 11. Next you will have to configure your File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Leave it to the default settings and just click [Next] from the top right menu.
 Step 12. From the page that appears you will be able to complete the final Joomla 1.5 settings specifying your email and specifying the admin password. Click on [Next] to proceed.
Joomla 1.5 settings
ImportantIn our example we will not use the option Install Sample Data because it may cause confusion and require time to remove all the data populated later.
 Step 13. In the last page of the installation wizard you will receive a confirmation that Joomla has been successfully installed.
Before being able to access your new Joomla 1.5 you must delete the installation directory. For this purpose use FTP as described in Step 3.
Well done! Your Joomla website is now installed.