Online Earning Blog

Two Useful Free AdSense Tools

2010-03-04T19:37:00.001+05:30

If you’re using AdSense in your site,you should use a preview tool to get a sense f which ads will be displayed in your WebPages.Google AdSense automatically serves targeted ads relevant to your website content.If your site is targeted to a particular niche,the ads will be more targeted.Google Adsense Preview Tools display sample Google ads, based on standard AdSense targeting and filtering.

You can use the official Googe AdSense Preview Tool.But,it has a handicap.It can be used only with the Internet Explorer.

Here is a tool that works on all the web brewers including IE, Firefox, Opera or Safari.It shows 20 text ads,related Adlinks and Rich Text Ads (Images and Video) in ad formats including Leaderboard, Skyscraper, Rectangle and Square that will appear on your WebPages for visitors from various countries.

This tool is provided by Digital Inspiraton.To check out the tool click here!

6 Reasons To Use Windows Live Writer For Blogging

2010-02-21T10:01:00.000+05:30

Windows Live Writer is a great tool for any blogger.No matter what blogging platform you are using-Wordpress,Blogger,Movable Type,if you don’t use Windows Live Writer,you’re actually depriving yourself of a great blog editing tool.This WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) blog editor can make your blog editing job very easy and fast.I’ve been using it from few months now,and I must say it has made my job easier.

6 Reasons To Use Windows live Writer:

1.Blog Offline:

WLW lets you blog right from your desktop.You don’t need to log into your Blogger or Wordpress account every time you’re writing a post.Save that article as a draft.Later, whenever,necessary you can post that article to my blog.

2.Supports Multiple Blogging Platforms and Multiple Blogs:

WLW supports all the major blogging platforms like- Blogger,Wordpress,TypePad, LiveJournal,JournalHome,the Moveable Type API,Windows Live Spaces, Share Point Blog and all other blogging platforms that support RSD (Really Simple Discoverability).So,if you have different blogs in different blogging platforms,say one in Blogger and one in Wordpress,you don’t need to login twice, once in my Blogger and then to my Wordpress account to post an article.

You can edit all of your blogs using WLW.

3.Rich Text Editor :

It’s Rich Text editor makes blog editing an incredible experience.Easily change font,style,size or color and choose your preferred ones.It lets you import your original blog theme and stylesheet and you get great blog editing experience.Also lets you edit HTML source of your post.You can save your posts as a draft and get easy access to the drafts anytime.You can see the real-time preview of the post and make required adjustments.

4.Makes It Easy To Use Images:

WLW allows you to paste images from your clipboard.It’s image editor is very handy.It lets you wrap texts left,right,center or inline in a click,add margins,boarder.You can resize,rotate,crop,contrast,watermark or tilt the image.You can add effects like black and white or sharpen.Hyper linking to the image is very easy with WLW.

You can specify whether you want the images to automatically be uploaded to your blog or to any FTP server.

5.Pluggins :

Windows Live Writer gallery has over 140 pluggins.Just click on the ‘ADD a plug-in’ from your WLW taskpane and you can add required pluggins.Pluggin like Twitter Notify,that automatically tweets your post, is very useful.

6.In Built Pinging Feature:

WLW lets you ping all the major search engines whenever you’re publishing a blog post.All you have to do is to add the URLs of the ping servers of the search engines.Learn how to ping your posts using Windows Live Writer.

7.Other Reasons:

There are several other interesting features that really helps me.

Live spell checking reduces spelling and grammatical mistakes.
Live word count keeps me aware about the length of the post.
Selecting categories or creating a new category is very easy.
WLW lets you add tags to your posts.You can use tags from your favorite provider.By default they support Wordpress,Technorati,Del.icio.us etc.
WLW makes it easy to insert videos,tables,maps etc.

If you’re still not using WLW then you should give it a try.It’ll give your blog editing job a new high.Currently Windows Live Writer supports all the major languages.It’s absolutely free to download and install.It updates automatically.Download Windows Live Writer.

Earn Money With RadicalBuy

2010-02-20T14:28:00.000+05:30

RadicalBuy was started as a Facebook classified app couple of years back.RadicalBuy Facebook app lets you list your items and those can be seen by Facebook users instantly.The most interesting aspect of this app is that,if you don’t have anything to sell,you can sell items listed by other sellers and earn money.Sellers are free to set the percentage they are willing to pay as commission if at all.

Now RadicalBuy is expanding beyond Facebook.It’s free to list your item.You can add photos to your listing.You decide the price you want.And you can offer commission for others who might be interested to sell your item.You can post the RadicalBuy widget anywhere in the web including your social network profiles,blogs and websites.Others can get that widget and and post in the web to earn commission.You can even import your eBay or Yahoo store into your RadicalBuy account.

They also have a kind of affiliate program.If the seller is ready to share commission with the affiliates,you can start selling his products.Whenever you make a sell you’ll get an email from their system confirming your commission.Now the problem is,RadicalBuy don’t handle payments on behalf of the sellers.All the payments are handled by the sellers.Here comes the question of non payments of commissions.That’s why they have developed a system,where other people can give their feedback about a seller and you can understand if the person is honest in paying commissions or not.You'd only want to work with the most reputed sellers and possibly with the people you know.

But,the system is pretty good for the sellers.Sellers can choose any payment option that RadicalBuy supports including PayPal, Google Checkout, obopay or credit card or even a cash payment.

RadicalBuy is also offering free RadicalBuy Stores to their users.RadicalBuy Stores are customizable according to your need.

Monetize Your RSS Feeds Using Feed Advertising Networks

2010-02-08T11:41:00.001+05:30

If you have good number of feed subscribers then you may think of monetizing your feed.You don’t have much options to monetize your feeds-you can use affiliate links with text or banner,sell ads space to the advertisers directly or use feed advertising networks.Every option that you choose has it’s own pros and cons.

List of Feed Advertising Networks

Here is a list of feed advertising networks which helps you to monetize your feeds.

AdSense For Feed :

AdSense offers monetization opportunity for your feeds.If you are using Blogger platform for blogging, then you can access ‘AdSense for Feed’ from your dashboard under the ‘Monetize’ tab.You don’t need another separate account for ‘AdSense for Feed’,you can manage it from your AdSense account.

Feedvertising :

Another very popular feed advertising network allowing you to monetize your feed using text link ads.

Pheedo :

Pheedo offers wide range of ads for your feed.They pay on a CPM basis.CMP rates range from $5 CPM to $20 CPM.

Yahoo Publisher Network:

YNP is still only for the U.S. citizens.Also your content has to be targeted to the U.S. audience.

Bidvertiser:

Bidvertiser offers monetization option for feed.

ThankYouPages :

Their advertisement option for feed is called RSS Interstitials.You can add ads into the links within your feed.Whenever someone clicks on those links,they will see a short interstitial advertising before the final destination.

MediaFed :

They offer advertising for matching keywords or for a number of feed items selected by you.

AdGenta :

AdGenta offers keyword based advertising for your feeds.

Earn Money Selling Templates

2010-02-07T09:07:00.000+05:30

Selling templates is a very lucrative business.If you are a web designer then you should think of this opportunity to earn money.There are many sites where you can sell your designs at a very good price.You get a percentage of the sell.The percentage varies websites to website.Here I’ve listed few best places to sell your templates.

Theme Forest

At ThemeForest marketplace you can sell WordPress themes,HTML templates,Joomla templates, Flash templates and Photoshop templates.Your earning depends on the exclusivity of your design.If your theme is exclusive you’ll get 35% to 50% of the sell.For non-exclusive themes you will receive 25% of every sale.

FlashDen

FlashDen is specialized marketplace of Flash templates.FlashDen operates in a similar manner as ThemeForest.

Templamatic

You can sell WordPress, Drupal and Joomla templates and skins for MySpace, phpBB and other social media sites at Templamatic.They offer 65% of all sales to the designers.

Sitepoint Marketplace

You can sell your templates at SitePoint’s Template Marketplace.You'll have to pay a fee to get listed in the marketplace.You need to create a listing for a auction and set your price.Also make it clear whether the template is exclusive to SitePoint marketplace or not.

DigitalPoint Marketplace

DigitalPoint is a very popular and active forum.You can sell your templates directly listing in their marketplace.

TalkFreelance

TalkFreelance is similar to SitePoin and DigitalPoint marketplace.TalkFreelance allows you to sell your templates by setting your own price or holding auctions.

Webmaster-Talk

When you submit your template,they automatically list it in their auction.

eBay

At eBay you sell almost anything.You can sell your templates by setting up a ‘Buy It Now’ price or as an auction.

CovantageTemplates

CovantegeTemplates helps you to earn money by selling your website templates and other design works directly through their website and an army of affiliates.

WP Theme Market

It’s a marketplace for Wordpress Themes.They pay 70% of every sale to the designers.

There are many many other sites where you can sell your templates.You can always go for your own website to sell templates.But,it requires online marketing skills to market your site.Generally,niche specific template websites do good business.

Earn Money With Free Shirt City T-Shirt Shop

2010-02-06T21:48:00.001+05:30

ShitrCity is a website where you can design your own T-Shirts and sell them online using A MyShirtcity shop to earn money.A MyShirtcity shop comes without any fees. MyShirtcity provides you with an online shop and a wide range of imprintable brand-name products to sell through your shop.There is absolutely no obligation on your part.You are not bound by a minimum sales requirement.All you have to do is to set up your shop and make sell.Shirt City looks after all the other aspects like service and maintenance.

Getting started is as easy as 1-2-3.Go to the Shirt City site and sign up for your free account.Then upload your designs.Now, add designs to the products.You are free to set your own profit margin.Once you’ve completed,you can publish your shop in the shirt city sub domain.You can customize your shops with graphics and colors.Shops can be created in six different languages.

You can also join them as an affiliate and earn money.They offer 20% commission.

All the commissions are paid at the end of each quarter.Once your earning exceeds $20.00 they pay via check.

Blog vs Website-Which One To Choose For Online Earning?

2010-02-05T20:15:00.001+05:30

Blog vs Website-which one to chose for online earning?This may be a teaser for few of us.I’m sure we’ll get 200 million different views on this.I’m not interested in theories.I’m not interested to know which one is more attractive or eye catching.I want to understand these two on the basis of their effectiveness for an Internet Marketer.What are their advantages and disadvantages for me?

Advantages of Blogs

Search engines love them.Search engines love content.Not to mention, blogs can provide more and more contents,since they are regularly updated with new content.

The more you write the more keywords you can use in your content.So you’ve better chance to rank well in search engine in that particular keyword or search term.Of course, you need to arrange quality back links.Also, blogging softwares has a option to ping the search engines.That actually helps you to get some traffic easily.

Since blogs are of informal type,interaction is always better in blogs than formal websites.Hence blogs gets visitors that comes back again and again.Here’s your opportunity to pre-sell new interesting products to them.

With the advent of blogging software like ‘Wordpress’ and particularly the kind of attention it’s getting from social media,web designers and even Internet Marketers,one can say blogging is here to stay for long enough time.

You don’t need to be HTML expert to start a blog.With free blogging platforms like ‘Blogger’ even your granny can start blogging.

Advantages Of Websites

You don not need to update your website with fresh content regularly.But,The fact is,a website can be of many types-membership site,e-commerce site,product review site and many more types.Here I’m only talking about content sites that gives some quality information and promote products at the same time and probably get some email list subscribers.

Since websites has somewhat limited content,they are more targeted.Blogs with there abundance of content can create confusion among potential buyers.And somehow they fail to convey the ‘call for action’.

If you're choosing a small but more targeted niche,it’s not possible to create a blog in that niche.You can not create enough content.You’ll have to go the niche website way.These websites converts better than blogs any day.

Final Thought

Blogging takes at lot of energy and dedication on your part.You have to create contents,network with fellow bloggers,promote your blog in social networks regularly.But as I’ve said earlier,social media communities and even search engines love the continuous flow of fresh contents.But,if you fail to update your blog regularly,your blog will eventually die.Websites has no such problem.

Well,I’m not here to chose one over other.Many Internet Marketers prefer a combination of websites,blogs and forums in their portfolio.This actually helps to serve every purpose a Marketer.The ideas is not to put all the eggs in one basket.

However,if you’re starter in the online earning filed,I'd suggest to go for a blog.Learn a thing or two about your niche,brash up your HTML knowledge.Learn Web Marketing, SEO.And then go for a website.

What’s your take on this?

Monetize Your Unused Twitter Accounts With Assetize

2010-02-04T21:48:00.001+05:30

If you are looking for different ways to monetize your Twitter account,then Twitter Advertising Networks are certainly a very good option.Assetize is a new Twitter Advertising Network.Assetize gives you the opportunity to monetize Twitter accounts and Twitter applications.As a publisher you can earn money with your twitter account.

Here is one example of Assetize ad :

To monetize your Twitter account you need to authenticate your Twitter account and enter the keywords of your niche.Now ads can be shown in your timeline.

Assetize gives you two options:

1.You can tweet manually and only show Assetize ads on your timeline.

2.You don’t want to update your twitter account manually,and want automated tweets in your niche along with Assetize ads.If you choose this option then you don’t need to find content for your tweets.You’ll get interesting content from the best of the site in your niche automatically.

They paid via PayPal monthly once your payment reaches $10.

Earn Money With Your Free Zlio Store

2010-02-03T20:11:00.001+05:30

Zlio lets you set up your own online store in just few minutes.Creating a store with Zlio is very easy.All you need to do is to choose the name,address, and a template that is fitted best to the niche of your store.Then,select products from Zlio’s partner merchants to add to your store and earn money on every sale.The Control panel for adding items to your store is very easy to use.

Zlio lets you add products from their partner merchants-large online retailers like Shoebuy.com,Buy.com,Sony,Apple Store,BuyBeauty.com,Barnes & Noble.You can choose from thousands of products.Add as many as 1000 items to your store and you can open up to 20 different stores.

Payments,shipping and after-sale services are the responsibility of the ZLIO partner merchants.You don’t need to worry about those things.Once your ZLIO store set up is done, you just concentrate on promoting your store.Driving traffic to your store is the key.

You can promote your store in many ways-

1.Add it into your website or blog.

2.Use social networks like Face book,MySpace.

3.Twitter can be a very effective to get traffic to your store.

4.Don’t forget to add your store to the ZLIO store directory.

5.ZLIO conducts Special Contests.You can enter your store into those contests to win prizes and to be voted as the best store within a category.

You’ll earn up to 10% commission on each and every sale you make from your Zlio store.All the payments are made via PayPal.

You can also add Google AdSense ads in your store and earn money from that.

You can also get paid for your own purchases.While buying,you need to be logged into your Zlio account.

For selected products,if a visitor clicks on the link to the partner merchants’ site,you may earn money for that.

Earn Money With PeopleString Social Network

2010-02-02T21:23:00.000+05:30

PeopleString is a new online social networking site where you can earn money.You are already networking online using different social networks, sending emails, viewing and clicking on ads.PeopleString pays you to do all these things.Once you sign up for a free account, you can use PeopleString as you use any other social networking sites.Make friends,create or join groups,network with people.Most importantly you get paid for staying active on PeopleString.

The most Interesting thing about PeopleString is that,social networking platform is not the only thing they offering to you.Apart from social network platform you get self destructive email with 2 GB storage,1 minute video email,email tracking-you can track who is opening your mail,how many times it’s opened etc.,aggregate your other email accounts,self destructing web IM -AOL,Yahoo,Google Talk and MSN.You have the opportunity of cash back shopping and revenue sharing.You’ll also get the opportunity to earn money with Mailbox Cash.

To get started you need to sign up a free PeopleString account and take a short survey. Once you complete the survey,you’ll be part of their revenue sharing community.You’ll earn money as long as you stay active member,for that you need to login to your account once a month.

You can also earn money referring your friends.PeopleString gives you a share of their earning.They pay you 5% referral commission on your friend’s earning.Apart from that they also pays 2% commission on your friends’ referrals’ earning that can go five levels deep.

Once your earning for a month reaches $25 you get paid.

If you refer US and Canada members for free accounts,and they completes the initial mailbox-cashbox survey and confirm their email address,you get paid $0.50 per referral.