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Affiliate Program Operating Agreement This Affiliate Program Operating Agreement (the "Agreement") is made and entered into by and between Cupid plc Affiliate Network ("Cupid plc Affiliate Network" or "we" or "Company"), and you, ("you" or "Affiliate") the party submitting an application to become a Cupid plc Affiliate Network affiliate). The terms and conditions contained in this Agreement apply to your participation with affiliates.cupid.com ("Affiliate Program"). Each Affiliate Program offer (an "Offer") may be for any offering by <a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/signup/52314" target="_blank">Cupid plc Affiliate Network</a> or a third party (each such third party a "Client") and may link to a specific web site for that particular Offer ("Program Web Site"). Furthermore, each Offer may have additional terms and conditions on pages within the Affiliate Program and are incorporated as part of this Agreement. By submitting an application or participating in an Offer, you expressly consent to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Enrollment in the Affiliate Program</b><br /><br />You must submit an Affiliate Program application from our website. You must accurately complete the application to become an affiliate (and provide us with future updates) and not use any aliases or other means to mask your true identity or contact information.<br /><br /><br /><b>Obligations of the Parties</b><br /><br />Subject to our acceptance of you as an affiliate and your continued compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, <a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/signup/52314" target="_blank">Cupid plc Affiliate Network</a> agrees as follows:<br /><br /><br />We will make available to you via the Affiliate Program graphic and textual links to the Program Web Site and/or other creative materials (collectively, the "Links") which you may display on web sites owned or controlled by you, in emails sent by you and clearly identified as coming from you and in online advertisements (collectively, "Media"). The Links will serve to identify you as a member of our Affiliate Program and will establish a link from your Media to the Program Web Site.<br /><br /><br />We will pay Affiliate for each Qualified Action (the "Commission"). A "Qualified Action" means an individual person who (i) accesses the Program Web Site via the Link, where the Link is the last link to the Program Web Site, (ii) is not a computer generated user, such as a robot, spider, computer script or other automated, artificial or fraudulent method to appear like an individual, real live person, (iii) is not using pre-populated fields (iv) completes all of the information required for such action within the time period allowed by <a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/signup/52314" target="_blank">Cupid plc Affiliate Network</a> and (v) is not later determined by <a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/signup/52314" target="_blank">Cupid plc Affiliate Network</a> to be fraudulent, incomplete, unqualified or a duplicate.<br /><br /><br />We will pay you any Commissions earned monthly, provided that your account is currently greater than $50. Accounts with a balance of less than $50 will roll over to the next month, and will continue to roll over monthly until $50 is reached. We reserve the right to charge back to your account any previously paid Qualified Actions that are later determined to have not met the requirements to be a Qualified Action.Affiliates are independent contractors and the relationship between the Company and the Affiliate is not one of employment relationship.The Affiliate is solely responsible for any taxes or social security costs due as a result of any payments received from the Company.<br /><br /><br />Payment for Commissions is dependent upon Clients providing such funds to <a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/signup/52314" target="_blank">Cupid plc Affiliate Network</a>, and therefore, you agree that Cupid plc Affiliate Network shall only be liable to you for Commissions to the extent that Cupid plc Affiliate Network has received such funds from the Clients. You hereby release Cupid plc Affiliate Network from any claim for Commissions if Cupid plc Affiliate Network has not received such funds from the Clients.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/signup/52314" target="_blank">Cupid plc Affiliate Network</a> shall automatically generate an invoice on behalf of Affiliate for all Commissions payable under this Agreement and shall remit payment to Affiliate based upon that invoice. All tracking of Links and determinations of Qualified Actions and Commissions shall be made by Cupid plc Affiliate Network in its sole discretion. In the event that Affiliate disputes in good faith any portion of an invoice, Affiliate must submit that dispute to Cupid plc Affiliate Network in writing and in sufficient detail within thirty (30) days of the date on the invoice. If Affiliate does not dispute the invoice as set forth herein, then Affiliate agrees that it irrevocably waives any claims based upon that invoice. In the event that Affiliate is also tracking Qualified Actions and Affiliate claims a discrepancy, Affiliate must provide Cupid plc Affiliate Network with Affiliate's reports within three (3) days after 30th day of the calendar month, and if Cupid plc Affiliate Network's and Affiliate's reported statistics vary by more than 10% and Cupid plc Affiliate Network reasonably determines that Affiliate has used generally accepted industry methods to track Qualified Actions, then Cupid plc Affiliate Network and Affiliate agree to make a good faith effort to arrive at a reconciliation. If the parties are unable to arrive at a reconciliation, then Cupid plc Affiliate Network's numbers shall govern.<br /><br /><br />If Affiliate has an outstanding balance due to Cupid plc Affiliate Network under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Affiliate and Cupid plc Affiliate Network, whether or not related to the Affiliate Program, Affiliate agrees that Cupid plc Affiliate Network may offset any such amounts due to Cupid plc Affiliate Network from amounts payable to Affiliate under this Agreement.<br /><br /><b>Affiliate also agrees to:</b><br /><br /><br />Have sole responsibility for the development, operation, and maintenance of, and all content on or linked to, your Media.<br /><br /><br />Ensure that all materials posted on your Media or otherwise used in connection with the Affiliate Program (i) are not illegal, (ii) do not infringe upon the intellectual property or personal rights of any third party and (iii) do not contain or link to any material which is harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, sexually explicit, harassing, promotes violence, promotes discrimination (whether based on sex, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability or age), promotes illegal activities (such as gambling), contains profanity or otherwise contains materials that Cupid plc Affiliate Network informs you that it considers objectionable (collectively, "Objectionable Content").<br /><br /><br />Not make any representations, warranties or other statements concerning Cupid plc Affiliate Network or Client or any of their respective products or services, except as expressly authorized herein.<br /><br /><br />Make sure that your Media does not copy or resemble the look and feel of the Program Web Site or create the impression that your Media is endorsed by Cupid plc Affiliate Network or Clients or a part of the Program Web Site, without prior written permission from us.<br /><br /><br />Comply with all (i) obligations, requirements and restrictions under this Agreement and (ii) laws, rules and regulations as they relate to your business, your Media or your use of the Links.<br /><br /><br />Comply with the terms, conditions, guidelines and policies of any third party services used by Affiliate in connection with the Affiliate Program, including but not limited to, email providers, social networking services and ad networks.<br /><br /><br />Always prominently post and make available to end-users, including prior to the collection of any personally identifiable information, a privacy policy in compliance with all applicable laws that clearly and thoroughly discloses all information collection, use and sharing practices, including providing for the collection of such personally identifiable information in connection with the Affiliate Program and the provision of such personally identifiable information to Cupid plc Affiliate Network and Clients for use as intended by Cupid plc Affiliate Network and Clients.<br /><br /><br />Always prominently post and make available to end-users any terms and conditions in connection with the Offer set forth by Cupid plc Affiliate Network or Client, or as required by applicable laws regarding such Offers.<br /><br /><br />Make sure to not place Cupid plc Affiliate Network ads on any online auction platform (i.e. eBay, Amazon, etc).<br /><br />The following additional program-specific terms shall apply to any promotional programs set forth below:<br /><br /><br />Email Campaigns.Advertising Cupid plc sites and services through the use of e-mail or links within e-mail is not permitted. Cupid plc reserves the right to suspend and/or terminate any affiliate account without further notice or pay if it is discovered that the affiliate (or someone acting on his behalf) has violated this rule. If you would like to promote any of Cupid plc’s sites by e-mail please send a request to <a href="mailto:affiliates@cupid.com">affiliates@cupid.com</a>. Any email marketing which is not previously approved by Cupid plc, including spamming of any sort and violation of any of the applicable rules and regulations will result in an immediate ban from the affiliate program without pay. It is your responsibility to obtain a copy of our Email policy guidelines before you start promoting any of our campaigns via email marketing. You may get a copy of the guidelines <a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/assets/doc/Email_Policy.doc">here</a>.<br /><br /><br />For all email campaigns, Affiliate must download the "Suppression List" from the Offers section of Cupid plc Affiliate Network. Affiliate shall filter its email list by removing any entries appearing on the Suppression List and will only send emails to the remaining addresses on its email list. Cupid plc Affiliate Network will provide an opt-out method in all Links, however, if any opt-out requests come directly to Affiliate, Affiliate shall immediately forward them to Cupid plc Affiliate Network at affiliates@cupid.com. Affiliate's emails containing the Links may not include any content other than the Links, except as required by applicable law.<br /><br /><br />Affiliate agrees that failure to download the Suppression List and remove all emails from the database before mailing may result in Commission withholdings, removal or suspension from all or part of the Affiliate Program, possible legal action and any other rights or remedies available to Cupid plc Affiliate Network pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise. Affiliate further agrees that it will not mail or market to any suppression files generated through the Cupid plc Affiliate Network network, and that doing so may result in Commission withholdings, removal or suspension from the Affiliate Program, possible legal action and any other rights or remedies available to Cupid plc Affiliate Network pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise.<br /><br /><br />Advertising Campaigns. No Links can appear to be associated with or be positioned on chat rooms or bulletin boards unless otherwise agreed by Cupid plc Affiliate Network in writing. Any pop-ups/unders used for the Affiliate Program shall be clearly identified as Affiliate served in the title bar of the window and any client-side ad serving software used by Affiliate shall only have been installed on an end-user's computer if the function of the software is clearly disclosed to end-users prior to installation, the installation is pursuant to an affirmatively accepted and plain-english end user license agreement and the software be easily removed according to generally accepted methods.<br /><br /><br />Affiliate Network Campaigns. For all Affiliate's that maintain their own affiliate networks, Affiliate agrees to place the Links in its affiliate network (the "Network") for access and use by those affiliates in Affiliate's Network (each a "Third Party Affiliate"). Affiliate agrees that it will expressly forbid any Third Party Affiliate to modify the Links in any way. Affiliate agrees to maintain its Network according to the highest industry standards. Affiliate shall not permit any party to be a Third Party Affiliate whose web site or business model involves content containing Objectionable Content. All Third Party Affiliates must be in good standing with Affiliate. Affiliate must require and confirm that all Third Party Affiliates affirmatively accept, through verifiable means, this Agreement prior to obtaining access to the Links. Affiliate shall promptly terminate any Third Party Affiliate who takes, or could reasonably be expected to take, any action that violates the terms and conditions of this Agreement. In the event that either party suspects any wrongdoing by a Third Party Affiliate with respect to the Links, Affiliate shall promptly disclose to Cupid plc Affiliate Network the identity and contact information for such Third Party Affiliate. Affiliate shall promptly remove any Third Party Affiliate from the Affiliate Program and terminate their access to future Offers of Cupid plc Affiliate Network in the Network upon written notice from Cupid plc Affiliate Network. Unless Cupid plc Affiliate Network has been provided with all truthful and complete contact information for a Third Party Affiliate and such Third Party Affiliate has affirmatively accepted this Agreement as recorded by Cupid plc Affiliate Network, Affiliate shall remain liable for all acts or omissions of any Third Party Affiliate.<br /><br /><br />Social network usage. Affiliate is strictly prohibited from using social networking sites including but not limited to Twitter to promote casual products of Cupid plc for example benaughty.com (as well any local variation such as setravieso.com), flirt.com, clickandflirt.com, cheekylovers.com, wildbuddies.com. If Cupid suspects that any leads have been earned via such social channels, and a breach of this clause has been committed, Affiliate will not be paid for such leads.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Confidentiality</b><br /><br />Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or with the consent of Cupid plc Affiliate Network, you agree that all information, including, without limitation, the terms of this Agreement, business and financial information, customer and vendor lists, and pricing and sales information, concerning us or any of our affiliates provided by or on behalf of any of them shall remain strictly confidential and secret and shall not be utilized, directly or indirectly, by you for any purpose other than your participation in the Affiliate Program, except and solely to the extent that any such information is generally known or available to the public through a source other than you. Affiliate shall not use any information obtained from the Affiliate Program to develop, enhance or operate a service that competes with the Affiliate Program, or assist another party to do the same.<br /><br /><br /><b>Limited License & Intellectual Property</b><br /><br />Affiliates are not allowed to modify the company or websites' logos in any shape or form. Should you wish to obtain a copy of a specific size/format, you can send your request by email.<br /><br />Affiliates are not allowed to register any domain names which are identical to or similar to our brands and trademarks, both registered marks and unregistered marks. Affiliates are specifically prohibited from creating negative sites in order to drive traffic towards our sites e.g. www.CupidAffiliateScam.com Any use of our trademarks, registered and unregistered is prohibited without our express permission.<br /><br />Affiliates are not allowed to copy or "lift" text or photos or any other content from any of the Cupid plc websites. If you would like to use some copy to promote one of our sites and have found some useful information on our sites, we ask you to re-phrase the texts. Failure to do so can result in rejection from the affiliate program.<br /><br />It is prohibited to use any text ads created by affiliate himself unless the creatives have been approved by #brand_name# #brand_status# affiliate team.<br /><br />It is prohibited to post any information that does not correspond to the authentic data about the services offered by any Cupid plc dating site and may affect the Company's reputation or be a reason for customer complaints (Еxample: ‘Limited time Offer’/’Offer Expires: today’s_date’ / ‘Free Chatroom’ / or any other paid features available for Premium members only)<br /><br />Affiliates are prohibited from using any adult, pornographic, sexually explicit or otherwise offensive content to promote Cupid Plc android and iOS applications<br /><br />Any trademarks of Google, Apple companies and their subsidiaries including but not limited to Google Play and iTunes are prohibited to be used on any adult, pornographic, sexually explicit or offensive creatives and promotion pages.<br /><br />It is prohibited to abuse any third party copyright or trademarks.If we become aware of any affiliate breaching this provision and are contacted by the third party whose rights have been infringed, we shall provide that third party with any and all assistance they require to pursue a claim against you.<br /><br />We grant you a nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable right to use the Links and to access our web site through the Links solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, for the sole purpose of identifying your Media as a participant in the Affiliate Program and assisting in increasing sales through the Program Web Site.<br /><br />You may not alter, modify, manipulate or create derivative works of the Links or any Cupid plc Affiliate Network graphics, creative, copy or other materials owned by, or licensed to, Cupid plc Affiliate Network in any way. You are only entitled to use the Links to the extent that you are a member in good standing of the Affiliate Program. We may revoke your license anytime by giving you written notice. Except as expressly stated herein, nothing in this Agreement is intended to grant you any rights to any of Cupid plc Affiliate Network's trademarks, service marks, copyrights, patents or trade secrets. You agree that Cupid plc Affiliate Network may use any suggestion, comment or recommendation you choose to provide to Cupid plc Affiliate Network without compensation. All rights not expressly granted in this Agreement are reserved by Cupid plc Affiliate Network.<br /><br /><br /><b>Termination</b><br /><br />This Agreement shall commence on the date of our approval of your Affiliate Program application and shall continue thereafter until terminated as provided herein. You may terminate your participation in the Affiliate Program at any time by removing all Links from your Media, deleting all copies of the Links. We may terminate your participation in one or more Offers or this Agreement at any time and for any reason which we deem appropriate with or without prior notice to you by disabling the Links or providing you with a written notice. Upon termination of your participation in one or more Offers or this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease all use of and delete all Links, plus all Cupid plc Affiliate Network or Client intellectual property, and will cease representing yourself as a Cupid plc Affiliate Network or Client affiliate for such one or more Offers. All rights to validly accrued payments, causes of action and any provisions, which by their terms are intended to survive termination, shall survive any termination.<br /><br /><br /><b>Affiliate Rejections</b><br /><br />Although all affiliate applications are automatically approved, we reserve the right to suspend/reject an affiliate when:<br /><br /><br />Our terms and conditions have been breached<br /><br /><br />Our <a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/assets/doc/PPC%20Guidelines.doc">PPC Guidelines</a> and Email Policy have not been properly followed<br /><br /><br />Your site has been using our brand name to promote a dating site that is not part of our portfolio<br /><br /><br />Your site is a free-hosted site<br /><br /><br />Your site only contains banners and very little content<br /><br /><br />Your site is not relevant to our industry<br /><br /><br />Your site is still under construction<br /><br /><br />Your site is not available or is returning an error<br /><br /><br />Your site contains unacceptable or offensive material<br /><br /><br />You are operating an automatic re-direct from your site to one of our domains<br /><br /><br />Your website(s) takes payments from customers for the provision of services of a sexual nature<br /><br /><br />Your website(s) contains illegal photographic material or content<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Remedies</b><br /><br />In addition to any other rights and remedies available to us under this Agreement Cupid plc Affiliate Network reserves the right to delete any actions submitted through your Links and withhold and freeze any unpaid Commissions or charge back paid Commissions to your account if (i) Cupid plc Affiliate Network determines that you have violated this Agreement, (ii) Cupid plc Affiliate Network receives any complaints about your participation in the Affiliate Program which Cupid plc Affiliate Network reasonably believes to violate this Agreement or (iii) any Qualified Action is later determined to have not met the requirements set forth in this Agreement or on the Affiliate Program. Such withholding or freezing of Commissions, or charge backs for paid Commissions, shall be without regard as to whether or not such Commissions were earned as a result of such breach. In the event of a material breach of this Agreement, Cupid plc Affiliate Network reserves the right to disclose your identity and contact information to appropriate law enforcement or regulatory authorities or any third party that has been directly damaged by your actions.<br /><br /><br /><b>Anti-Spam Policy</b><br /><br />You must strictly comply with the federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the "Act"). All emails sent in connection with the Affiliate Program must include the appropriate party's opt-out link. From time to time, we may request - prior to your sending emails containing linking or referencing the Affiliate Program that you submit the final version of your email to Cupid plc Affiliate Network for approval by sending it to your Cupid plc Affiliate Network representative and upon receiving written approval from Cupid plc Affiliate Network of your email the email may be transmitted to third parties.<br /><br />It is solely your obligation to ensure that the email complies with the Act. You agree not to rely upon Cupid plc Affiliate Network's approval of your email for compliance with the Act, or assert any claim that you are in compliance with the Act based upon Cupid plc Affiliate Network's approval.<br /><br /><br /><b>Fraud</b><br /><br />You are expressly prohibited from using any persons, means, devices or arrangements to commit fraud, violate any applicable law, interfere with other affiliates or falsify information in connection with referrals through the Links or the generation of Commissions or exceed your permitted access to the Affiliate Program. Such acts include, but are in no way limited to, using automated means to increase the number of clicks through the Links or completion of any required information, using spyware, using stealware, cookie-stuffing and other deceptive acts or click-fraud. Cupid plc Affiliate Network shall make all determinations about fraudulent activity in its sole discretion.<br /><br /><br /><b>Representations and Warranties</b><br /><br />You hereby represent and warrant that this Agreement constitutes your legal, valid, and binding obligation, enforceable against you in accordance with its terms and that you have the authority to enter into this Agreement. Subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, Cupid plc Affiliate Network represents and warrants that it shall not knowingly violate any law, rule or regulation which is applicable to Cupid plc Affiliate Network's own business operations or Cupid plc Affiliate Network's proprietary products or services.<br /><br /><br /><b>Modifications</b><br /><br />In addition to any notice permitted to be given under this Agreement, we may modify any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time by providing you with a notification by email. The changes will become effective ten (10) business days after such notice. If the modifications are unacceptable to you, you may terminate this Agreement without penalty solely on the account of such termination within such ten (10) business day period. Your continued participation in this Affiliate Program ten (10) business days after a change notice has been posted will constitute your acceptance of such change. In addition, Cupid plc Affiliate Network may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of an Offer or Link or remove, alter, or modify any tags, text, graphic or banner ad in connection with a Link. Affiliate agrees to promptly implement any request from Cupid plc Affiliate Network to remove, alter or modify any Link, graphic or banner ad that is being used by Affiliate as part of the Affiliate Program.<br /><br /><br /><b>Independent Investigation</b><br /><br />You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement and agree to all its terms and conditions. You have independently evaluated the desirability of participating in the Affiliate Program and each Offer and are not relying on any representation, guarantee or statement other than as set forth in this Agreement or on the Affiliate Program.<br /><br /><br /><b>Mutual Indemnification</b><br /><br />Affiliate hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Cupid plc Affiliate Network and Clients and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, partners and licensors, directors, officers, employees, owners and agents against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs) based on (i) any failure or breach of this Agreement, including any representation, warranty, covenant, restriction or obligation made by Affiliate herein, (ii) any misuse by Affiliate, or by a party under the reasonable control of Affiliate or obtaining access through Affiliate, of the Links, Offers or Cupid plc Affiliate Network or Client intellectual property, or (iii) any claim related to your Media, including but not limited to, the content contained on such Media (except for the Links).<br /><br />Cupid plc Affiliate Network hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Affiliate and its subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, and their respective directors, officers, employees, owners and agents against any and all claims, actions, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs) based on a claim that Cupid plc Affiliate Network is not authorized to provide you with the Links.<br /><br /><br /><b>Disclaimers</b><br /><br />THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM AND LINKS, AND THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, ARE PROVIDED TO AFFILIATE "AS IS". EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH HEREIN, CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE. CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM OR LINKS WILL MEET AFFILIATE'S SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM OR LINKS WILL BE COMPLETELY ERROR- FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED. CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY ACT OR OMISSION OF A CLIENT OR THEIR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT AFFILIATE WILL EARN ANY SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF COMMISSIONS.<br /><br /><br /><b>Limitation of Liability</b><br /><br />IN NO EVENT SHALL CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK BE LIABLE FOR ANY UNAVAILABILITY OR INOPERABILITY OF THE LINKS, PROGRAM WEB SITES, TECHNICAL MALFUNCTION, COMPUTER ERROR, CORRUPTION OR LOSS OF INFORMATION, OR OTHER INJURY, DAMAGE OR DISRUPTION OF ANY KIND BEYOND THE REASONABLE CONTROL OF CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK. IN NO EVENT WILL CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PERSONAL INJURY / WRONGFUL DEATH, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, EVEN IF SUCH DAMAGES ARE FORESEEABLE AND WHETHER OR NOT CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF. CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK'S CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO AFFILIATE, FROM ALL CAUSES OF ACTION AND ALL THEORIES OF LIABILITY, WILL BE LIMITED TO AND WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNTS PAID TO AFFILIATE BY CUPID PLC AFFILIATE NETWORK IN COMMISSIONS DURING THE SIX (6) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO SUCH CLAIM.<br /><br /><br /><b>Governing Law & Miscellaneous</b><br /><br />Affiliate shall be responsible for the payment of all attorneys fees and expenses incurred by <a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/signup/52314" target="_blank">Cupid plc Affiliate Network</a> to enforce the terms of this Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between Cupid plc Affiliate Network and Affiliate with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior and/or contemporaneous agreements or understandings, written or oral. Affiliate agrees that Cupid plc Affiliate Network shall not be subject to or bound by any Affiliate insertion order or online terms and conditions that amend, conflict with or supplement this Agreement, regardless of whether Cupid plc Affiliate Network "clicks through" or otherwise indicates its acceptance thereof. Affiliate may not assign all or any part of this Agreement without <a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/signup/52314" target="_blank">Cupid plc Affiliate Network</a>'s prior written consent. Cupid plc Affiliate Network may assign this Agreement at any time with notice to Affiliate. This Agreement will be binding on and will inure to the benefit of the legal representatives, successors and valid assigns of the parties hereto. The provisions of Section 3, 4(b), 6, 7, 8, 12-15 and any accrued payment obligations shall survive the termination of this Agreement. Except as set forth in the "Modifications" section above, this Agreement may not be modified without the prior written consent of both parties. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be void, invalid or inoperative, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall continue in effect and the invalid portion of any provision shall be deemed modified to the least degree necessary to remedy such invalidity while retaining the original intent of the parties. Each party to this Agreement is an independent contractor in relation to the other party with respect to all matters arising under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall be deemed to establish a partnership, joint venture, association or employment relationship between the parties. No course of dealing nor any delay in exercising any rights hereunder shall operate as a waiver of any such rights. No waiver of any default or breach shall be deemed a continuing waiver or a waiver of any other breach or default.<br /><br />By submitting and application to Affiliate Program, you affirm and acknowledge that you have read this Agreement in its entirety and agree to be bound by all of its terms and conditions. If you do not wish to be bound by this Agreement, you should not submit an application to Affiliate Program. If an individual is accessing this Agreement on behalf of a business entity, by doing so, such individual represents that they have the legal capacity and authority to bind such business entity to this Agreement. This Agreement was last revised on 08-06-2012<br /><br />These terms are governed by the law of Scotland and parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Scotland.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://affiliates.cupid.com/signup/52314" style="background-color: #999999;" target="_blank">Sign UP</a></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-49856955942308750592013-03-10T23:28:00.002-07:002013-03-10T23:28:52.208-07:00How to Earn from Nuffnang<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What is Nuffnang?</h2>
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Nuffnang is the first Asia Pacific blog advertising community, with more than 100,000 Nuffnang bloggers over these countries, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Australia. (Known as Nuffnang MY, Nuffnang SG etc)<br /><br />It is very much like Google Adsense, except that Nuffnang only run their ads on blogs or websites. Every blogs that you submit needs the admin approval.</div>
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1. How to start earning with Nuffnang?</h2>
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In Nuffnang, a blogger earns when ads are published at their blogs. In other words, to start earning, first you just need to have your own blog/domain, then, go and register to Nuffnang.</div>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.nuffnang.com/" style="color: #111111;" target="_blank">http://www.nuffnang.com/</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 14px;">To register, please go to their Official Website:</dd></dl>
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2. Complete your Nuffnang Bio</h2>
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Once you have your own account, congratulations. You have started your first step. Then, please proceed to completing your own bio data, such as occupations, information about your blog etc. If you have time, you should read GETTING STARTED in Nuffnang site, there are steps by steps guide for beginners.</div>
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3. Add ads into Your Blog(s) / Domain</h2>
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Once you have your own Nuffnang account with your complete bio and blog(s), now it is the time to put some ads into your very own blog(s)/domain(s). And yes, I mean you can add ads to multiple sites you have, thus increasing your earning power. 2 blogs with similar traffic means you gonna earn 2x, and 3 Nuffnang blogs and you gonna get 3x and so on.<br /><br />3 types of ads are available:<br />1. Leaderboard (728 x 90)<br />2. Skyscraper (160 x 300)<br />3. Large Rectangle (336 x 280)<br /><br />If you are computer illiterate, and you don't know anything about HTML etc, no worries. There are steps by steps guide on how to add the ads unit into your blogspot, wordpress, or other domains,</div>
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Metered Earnings VS Campaigns Earnings</h3>
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As I mentioned earlier, bloggers get paid by getting their ads published. But, there are in fact 2 types of ads that will be run.<br /><br />1. METERED EARNING - Ads are published for a certain period, and bloggers gain revenue by getting sufficient traffic, and CTR.<br /><br />What is CTR: To reward blogs for good campaign performance, Nuffnang will now be giving out bonus earnings for blogs that achieve a CTR (Click-through ratio) of 0.2% or higher on new campaigns that run on their blog. This figure is based on average industry standards.<br /><br />2. CAMPAIGNS EARNINGS - Ads are published with certain amount of fees, and will be run for a short period, and bloggers get paid for the fixed fees.</div>
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Campaigns Earnings</h3>
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Example of Campaigns Earnings. All Nuffnang earnings will be sent via Nuffnang Cheque.</div>
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My 2nd Payout</h3>
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Check from Nuffnang, MYR 77.94, or about USD 25.</div>
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UPDATE ( 12/12/2011)</h3>
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Normally I can cash cut every 3-4 months. Rather fast revenue through metered earnings.</div>
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My site has an average daily unique visits of 600-750. (Updated 7/2/2012)</h3>
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Example of sites with Nuffnang</h2>
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See some sites with Nuffnang ads</h3>
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If you have a site with Nuffnang, please kindly leave me a comment below I'll list them here after review. Please be reminded that all comments are moderated to avoid spam.</div>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://bongpb.blogspot.com/" style="color: #111111;" target="_blank">MY Blog</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 14px;">Traveling, Internet marketing, Modified cars!</dd>
<dt style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://icyvirgo.blogspot.com/" style="color: #111111;" target="_blank">Bits and chunks of Amber: My Life</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 14px;">Bits and chunks, here and there and everywhere. This is what my blog is about. Hello and welcome to My Life.</dd>
<dt style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.missblogchic.blogspot.com/" style="color: #111111;" target="_blank">MissBlogChic</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 14px;">A sweet lady from Philippines</dd></dl>
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Currently running Metered ads (May 2012)</h3>
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My third payout is coming out :D</div>
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Recent cashout (June 2012)</h3>
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Roughly $20+</h3>
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Another cheque, approximate $18+</h3>
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5. How to cash out your earnings?</h2>
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I like this the most! :)</h3>
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Here is the exciting part. When your earnings reaches RM50 or more, the button 'Cash Out' will appear below your total earnings. Clicking the cash out button will bring you to a screen to confirm your home/office address, which the cheque will be sent to. (Refer to pic below)</div>
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Make sure the payee name, address is correct to ensure the cheque reaches you safe and sound.</div>
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6. TIPS and TRICKS about Nuffnang</h2>
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Optimizing your earnings</h3>
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Having said that, there are few Rules of Thumb which every bloggers should try to achieve to have a average earnings.<br /><br /><b>1. The utmost important thing of a blog or a website is always the CONTENT.</b><br /><br />There is nothing can beat this. If you have a interesting and attractive blogs, stories, information, updates, software, share it with others. The point is try to share some current issues, may it be in your own country or international news. Please, do not plagiarize, or copy and paste your content from other sites. This will mark your site on very low search engine as your blogs are labeled as "rubbish".<br /><br /><b>2. Getting sufficient NEW and RETURNING visitors</b><br /><br />Yes, your blogs get hits from people around the world everyday, you may reach daily hits of 1000 if you use certain blog rotation sites. BUT, how many of them will stay, and will return to visit your blog again? Few good ways is by building your friends network, can be through Google Friends Connect, Blog Followers, Feed etc. Some people even create their very own Facebook Fan page for their site, in which people will linked to your blogs in some ways.<br /><br /><b>3. Making your ads NATURAL and COMFORTABLE</b><br /><br />Some readers are very 'allergic' to ads, If they think your blogs is full of ads, and have little content, then your blogs is just another blogs who want to earn quick money. People read blogs from people with great passion and interest about blogging. The colours you used for your blog template, ads, also play a very important role. This can help in achieving your CTR, to gain you some extra earnings.<br /><br /><b>4. DO NOT ASK PEOPLE TO CLICK YOUR ADS</b><br /><br />This is a very serious offense, in all online advertising company. May it be a direct offer, such as in Chatbox, or putting a note asking people to click your ads. This is definitely no no, and the ads serve no purpose if everyone clicks the ads because they want to 'help' each other. Your account will get banned and you will lose whatever you have earned. Please DO NOT try this.<br /><br /><b>5. Building PAGE RANK and EXPANDING your Blogs/Website</b><br /><br />No man is an island. DO NOT be a solo hero, or heroine, trying to run your blogs alone. You need help from others to promote your blog, or building your blogs' Page Rank (PR) to gain sufficient weight in search engine. If you visited someone's blog, and it is worth commenting, leave them a good and genuine comment. NO SPAM please. Giving comment in return will link your site to their blog when you put your URL. Based on this so called back links, Google will determine how heavy is your site and how should they rank your site. Higher ranking means higher chance of getting top list in search engine.<br /><br /><b>6. Target Malaysia/Singapore Traffic</b><br /><br />This is obvious that most of the advertisers are from local companies, such as Nestle, DiGi, Maxis, Celcom etc. Thus, in order to attract advertisers, you will need to have good local traffic, depending on your location, may it be Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, or elsewhere. REMEMBER, if you do not have good local traffic, opt for something else, Adsense might do you better if you have lots of traffic from United States, UK etc.<br /><br /><b>7. INVESTMENT</b><br /><br />This is about some one who has serious interest in blogging and thinks blogging can gain real income. You can always <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-earn-from-nuffnang#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #111111; cursor: pointer; display: inline; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: auto; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; min-height: 30px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important; width: auto;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #009900; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; min-height: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal; width: auto;">buy a domain</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a>, with your own name of course, rather than using *.blogspot, or *.wordpress etc. Showing other people your site such as www.yoursite.com, shows that you are serious about blogging, and your information is reliable. 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-59976843291739460232013-03-10T23:18:00.001-07:002013-03-10T23:18:16.922-07:00How To Get Millions of Hits Within Hours on Your Adf.ly Links<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /><br /><b>How To Get Millions of Hits Within Hours on Your Adf.ly Links</b><br /><br />Hi all users, in our previous post "adf.ly bot 2012" we have provide a bot that automatically clicks on your links and by reading it's review we have found that many user wants to increase their <a href="http://adf.ly/?id=3386088">adf.ly</a> link's views so we have decided to make a tutorial on how to amazingly increase your <a href="http://adf.ly/?id=3386088">adf.ly</a> link's view and we are sure that this will very helpful for you. So lets get started :<br /><br /><br /> What is adf.ly?<br /><br />It is a website where you <a href="http://adf.ly/?id=3386088">get paid</a> every time someone clicks on a link of yours. Depending on where you get your traffic from, you will get paid about $2 for 1000 clicks.<br /><br />I know what you’re thinking. That’s horrible right? $0.002 for a single click? But that’s actually pretty decent compared to the other sites that get you about $0.30 per 1000. It is much better than Linkbucks, Linkbee, or any other competition.<br /><br />Firs of all If you haven’t already signed up, go to :<br /> <br /><a href="http://adf.ly/?id=3386088">www.adf.ly</a> <br /><br /><br />And signup an account.<br /><br /><br />To get a huge amount of clicks on adf.ly is pretty simple. Just go viral! I’ll give you an example. Sometime around June, there was a <a href="http://adf.ly/?id=3386088">video</a> going around on news websites of “K-Strass the Yo-Yo master”. It had quite a significant amount of mention on the news. So I thought, why not upload this video to YouTube and get some hits. Unluckily, I was late and the video had already been uploaded by someone else.<br /><br />His video was up for 3 days, and had already gotten over 67 000 000 views!!! If only 20% the people visited an adf.ly link, that would still be $40 000 in 3 days. However, the person who uploaded the video did not seem to monetize the video at all, making no money...<br /><br />Now that guy was stupid. YOU can be different and make the $200 000 he never did. Here’s how<br /><br /><br />STEP 1:<br /><br /><br />Get prepared. What you need is a program to download videos off websites such as “Download Helper”. You should also get a Free Screen Recorder, such as :<br /><br /><a href="http://www.zdsoft.com/">www.zdsoft.com</a><br /><br />Also, register accounts on YouTube, Digg, StumbleUpon and i-am-bored.<br /><br /><br /> STEP 2:<br /><br /><br />Start lurking around on US Breaking news websites, such as <a href="http://www.cnn.com/">www.CNN.com</a>,<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/">www.foxnews.com</a> and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/">www.cbsnews.com</a> . You have to be very patient and wait around, until you find a good video with viral potential.<br /><br />Examples of videos that are guaranteed to go viral- Ghost Videos (Michael Jackson’s ghost) Live TV stuff-ups (People swearing live on air, Celebrities hitting paparazzi, “Wardrobe malfunctions” ).<br /><br />So just wait around until a video like this pops up on one of the news websites. It may take a while to find a good lead, you may have to wait several days. Bookmark the “Breaking News” sites and check back occasionally.<br /><br />Just wait..........................................................<br />And wait....................................................<br /><br /><br />STEP 3:<br /><br /><br />Got your video? Now it is time to act FAST. Try downloading the video using “Download Helper”. If it doesn’t work, what you have to do is record the video with your screen recorder. (Make sure the volume is right if you are recording).<br /><br />Now upload the video onto YouTube. Make sure you have a good title, description and tags.<br /><br />STEP 4<br /><br />Submit your video to <a href="http://digg.com/">Digg</a>, <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">StumbleUpon</a> and <a href="http://www.i-am-bored.com/">i-am-bored</a>.<br /><br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQgRvClLYPhyZVwV5Mgou2jbr3_SRw5IrfY-GuLVN63K0t_a9cObQANP0Cuyv2yi8Z1XuEWDYrrlSUlKKwam1TOTmIHCtueJItSZ9slDIc5TTBgHrzC_aDGX4eTwgZcp__IP4nFuRQJXE/s1600/all.png" /><br /><br />STEP 5<br /><br />Take a break. You don’t need to do anything for the next few hours.<br /><br /><br />STEP 6<br /><br />Now, check back on your video. If everything is working well as planned, you should have a few thousand views. If not, try and submit to more websites similar to <a href="http://www.i-am-bored.com/">www.i-am-bored.com</a> . <br />STEP 7 <br /><br /><br />Wait a few more hours.STEP 8 <br /><br /><br />You should be getting thousands and thousands of hits by now. Links to your video should already be posted on Digg, StumbleUpon, and <a href="http://www.i-am-bored.com/">www.i-am-bored.com</a> . You should be getting a steady flow of a few hundred views a minute now. So now it is time to monetize your video.<br /> <br /><br />STEP 9 <br /><br />Find out what it is you want to link to. For example, a news story, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> group or anything related to your video. For this example, I will just choose a news article. <br /><br />STEP 10 <br /><br />Create an adf.ly link and mask it with <a href="http://www.joynic.com/">www.joynic.com</a> . Masking the URL is VERY important.<br /><br /><br />Rename your URL to something like <a href="http://www.truthaboutmichaeljacksonsghost.us/">www.truthaboutmichaeljacksonsghost.us</a> or whatever.<br /><br />STEP 11 <br /><br />Now, create an annotation all through the video. To do this, click on “Edit Video” and click “annotations”. Place the annotation at the bottom of the video.<br /><br />An example of an annotation would be -<br /><br /><br />Is Michael Jackson really dead? See the shocking new proof at the link in the description!!!!<br /><br />Sadly, a lot of people don’t seem to click the links in the description. If only 50% of video viewers click the link, you should still be happy! <br />STEP 12<br /><br /><br />As with all viral videos, your one will only be popular for a few days. When all the hype dies down, and you are not getting enough money from adf.ly , it is time to monetize it with and CPALead. So sign up at <a href="http://www.cpalead.com/">www.cpalead.com</a> .<br /><br /><br />What are these sites? With <a href="http://www.loudmo.com/">LoudMo</a> and <a href="http://cpalead.com/">CPALead</a>, you get paid around $1 every time someone accesses your site. But before they can access they have to install a small program and complete a short, free to take survey.<br /><br /><br />A lot of people won’t be able to access your site but you will still get some diehard fans wanting to access whatever you link to.<br /><br /><br />So, go to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">www.blogger.com</a> and make a site. Put your content on the page and put a CPALead gateway on. <br />That’s All! Remember, no one got rich reading guides! Don’t be lazy and follow my instructions! <br /><br /><br />Enjoy.......</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-30474275644129454812013-03-10T23:10:00.004-07:002013-03-10T23:10:57.663-07:00EARN $5000 EASILY PER M0NTH WITH adfly.ly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><a href="http://adf.ly/?id=3386088" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;">Adf.ly</a> </strong>is a site which allows you to shorten your URL, it is no different from bit.ly and tinyurl.com. However it does differ because they have ad twist. When ever someone opens the short url there is a 5 second frame which shows an ad. The timing is very short and thus majority of the people using this service don’t mind the wait in return for using the system. </div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b>You must have An AlertPay or Liberty Reserve Account to get your payment or you have Payoneer and Paypal master card so please click the following the banner to know how to make an AlertPay Account</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">It is very cheap:0.40$-3$ per 1000 views</li>
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URL shorteners can be used to shorten long URLs<em> (please also note that you may shorten virtually any URL you want to, the URL does not have to be long!)</em>.</div>
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<br /><strong>http://example.com/thisisanexamaple/page1/thisisanexample/page2/thisisanexample/page3/thisisanexample/page4</strong><em>(which has 107 characters)</em></div>
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<i><br /></i>You can use an online URL shortener to shorten your link to something like:<br /><strong>http://adf.ly/as34 </strong><em>(which has only 18 characters)</em><br />or...<br /><strong>http://bit.ly/bts345</strong><em> (which has only 20 characters)</em></div>
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Both <strong><a href="http://adf.ly/?id=3386088">Adfly</a></strong> and Bitly, are free to use. They both offer Google Analytics integration and on-site performance monitoring. However, the major difference between Adfly and Bitly, is that <span class="Estilo34" style="color: black;"><strong>Adfly shortened URLs make you money.</strong></span> That is, every time someone clicks your Adfly shortened URL, you will make money. Advantageously, Adfly links are shorter than Bitly links, this is because Bitly is fast becoming an overpopulated service. I myself have used both Adfly and Bitly, and have found them both to be reliable services, although I prefrer Adfly because of the money making opportunity it presents. So how much money can you can you make with Adfly? It's a good question. The amount of money you can make with your Adfly links depends on where the people who click your Adfly links are located. <strong><br /></strong></div>
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<strong>The average rate of pay is $4.00 per thousand clicks.</strong> $4.00 may sound small, but just think for a second. How many people use Facebook? Over 500 million people use Facebook on a daily basis. If you could get even a small portion of Facebook users to click on your links, you could be earning a tidy amount of money. A great way to attract lots of users to click on your links is to set up a Facebook group. Many of these groups have more than a million users - so if you get your thinking cap on, you can make good money very quickly!!!. You can also make more money by making videos and post them to Youtube and leave a link in the description.</div>
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<strong>Adfly</strong> has an easy to reach payment threshold, so once you have earned $5.00 on your Adfly account, your earnings wlll automatically be paid into your PayPal or <strong>AlertPay</strong> account. If you don't have a Paypal or AlertPay account don't despair, they're both free to join and simple to use. </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://adf.ly/?id=3386088" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;">Sign Up now to Adf.ly</a></span></b></div>
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So for this there a lot of tips and tricks to get traffic to your links which are given below:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>1. Facebook.com</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Millions of people use facebook everyday, so Facebook is the best way to post your links and publish them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>2. Twitter.com</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Get some followers on twitter.com and post your links on Twitter so your Followers click on these links.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>3. Youtube.com</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> You can also use Youtube.com for your links by uploading videos.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>4. Make a Website</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> you can make a free website post your links on the website with your content.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>5. Ask your Friends</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b>Ask your friends to follow your the links on your website.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>6. Use Forums </b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b>Write forums to publish your links and website.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-57700520334092347852013-03-09T00:09:00.003-08:002013-03-09T00:09:31.900-08:00Nine Steps to ERP Implementation Success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://blog.sageerpsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ERP-Steps.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e98300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="steps to successful erp implementation" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-535" height="210" src="http://blog.sageerpsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ERP-Steps.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 18px 18px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="ERP-Steps" width="280" /></a>Steps to success! It’s a concept we all know and love. In fact, a quick Google search revealed a cornucopia of 9-step processes to help folks accomplish all sorts of positive things such as: achieve flow and happiness at work, end chronic worrying, grow a lush lawn, be an effective parent, and begin hot composting.</div>
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But for our purposes, let’s take a look at the nine steps to ERP implementation success. Perhaps if you nail this one, you’ll be happier at work, worry less, and have more time to pamper your lawn, invest in your kids, and finally start hot composting. I know it’s aggressive, but let’s aim high!</div>
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Note: In this article, we’re focused on ways that you can work toward ERP implementation success. Assumed in each step is that you’re <a href="http://sage.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e98300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">working with a capable and trusted consultant,</a> who is working closely with you to help you achieve your goals.</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 4px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Needs Assessment</strong> – The first step is to thoroughly evaluate and document your business challenges, workflows, departmental needs, and overall reporting requirements. Once the documentation is complete, spend the time to prioritize or rank your findings. While any good consultant will do their own detailed needs assessment as a part of the sales process, your efforts up front will enable their efforts to be more focused, efficient, and helpful for all involved. </li>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 4px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Project Management</strong> – Once an application is selected, it’s imperative (i.e. a necessity, requirement, obligation, must, etc.!) for you to select and equip an internal project manager. This individual will be the “owner” of the project plan, the primary point of contact for the consulting group, and the watchdog to help ensure project scope, budget, and timeframe remain aligned with overall goals. For all the wonderful things a consultant project manager will do (and they are equally as critical to project success), an internal project manager is an absolute requirement. Plan accordingly.</li>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 4px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Business Process Re-Engineering</strong> – One of the tremendous benefits of an ERP implementation project is that it represents an opportunity to make necessary process or workflow changes. While change is usually hard, keep the big picture in mind and embrace changes that can help you achieve breakthrough improvements.</li>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Concluding Thoughts</strong>ERP implementation success is not a pipe-dream. It can and does happen. What’s most important is a mindset and commitment to maximize your <a href="http://sage.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e98300; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">ERP software </a>investment. This type of thinking begins well before you purchase the software and extends throughout the life of the application.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-84530363433639975592013-03-03T07:17:00.000-08:002013-03-03T07:17:15.191-08:00How to Set Up an Affiliate Program on a New Blog or Website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<firstimage 06="" 2010="" http:="" main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com="" money.jpg="" uploads="" wp-content="">Pay-per-click advertising through services like Google Adsense can make your blog profitable, but it usually isn’t the most efficient way to bring in money from a blog. The problem with pay-per-click is that the payout for each click is simply too low. The advertisement you show may be for a product which cost hundreds or thousands to purchase, but you’ll often end up receiving less than a dollar for one click.</firstimage></div>
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<br />Setting up an affiliate program can provide a large boost in revenue. Affiliate programs pay when someone you referred actually make a purchase, and you receive a set amount or a percentage as compensation. This can add up to a large amount of income. ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse, for example, lists affiliate income as his number two income source, just slightly behind Adsense.</div>
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At first glance, setting up an affiliate program can be difficult. However, it really isn’t as hard as it seems, and the rewards can be great. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s get started.</div>
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Step 1 – Find an Affiliate</h2>
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Affiliate programs are very profitable, but there are many smaller blogs which don’t use them. Why? Because affiliate programs are a bit harder to find and use than pay-per-click ads. Adsense is incredibly visible and simple to use – all you have to do is copy-and-paste some code into your website. To reap affiliate income, however, you have to <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">find an affiliate</strong>, and there is no single, dominate go-to source.</div>
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There are several popular websites which make it easy to find affiliates. These match-making websites allow bloggers to sign up and search a database of businesses looking for blogs to become affiliates. The range of products and services offered through affiliate programs is broad. This is a good thing, because it makes it easy to find someone whose product fits your blog’s theme. Becoming an affiliate for someone who is selling fitness advice doesn’t make much sense if your blog is about airplanes.</div>
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Some of the best websites for finding an affiliate program include:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square inside; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 10px 0px 50px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.affiliatescout.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Affiliate Scout</strong></a> – This huge database lists hundreds of affiliate programs which you can sign up with at any time. You’ll probably find a suitable affiliate program here no matter your blog’s topic.</li>
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Step 2 – Set Up the Affiliate Links</h2>
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Affiliate programs work on a very simple principle. You place links and/or information about a product or service on your blog or website. In return, you receive a commission whenever a person purchases a product or service by clicking through your links.</div>
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While the manner in which you earn income is different – you’re paid on commission rather than per click – making money from an affiliate program is also ultimately subject to the almighty click. If no one clicks on your affiliate links there is a 0% chance than anyone will buy the product or service you’re advertising through them. It is up to you, then, to set up the affiliate links and make them attractive.</div>
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This can be done simply by placing links on your website just like you would a normal pay-per-click ad. Chances are that if you have high traffic someone will, eventually click and buy. To be truly effective, however, you need to do a little advertising. The most effective way to do this is through <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">recommendations</strong>.</div>
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For example, let’s say that you know about computers. You also know that a lot of people are searching for information on how to repair computers. In order to set up your affiliate links, you might write about the top three PC repair books currently available and then <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">link to PC repair e-books with affiliate programs</strong>. This is just one example – any sort of recommendation will greatly increase the chances that someone will actually purchase through the affiliate program you are a part of. There are some bloggers who set up entire blogs focused on recommending a single product. While this appears cheesy, it can bring in a lot of money if you are proficient at writing advertising copy and you know how to do keyword research.</div>
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Step 3 – Enjoying and Growing the Rewards</h2>
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Most affiliate programs pay on a monthly schedule. Large programs, like the one through Amazon.com, will be able to make direct deposits to your bank account or send you a check. Small programs, like those which are operated by a single person selling an e-book, will usually only pay through Paypal. Be sure to confirm that the affiliate program you are entering can pay to your location, as many smaller affiliate programs have difficulty paying affiliates in foreign countries.</div>
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The sky is the limit with affiliate programs. Once you’ve figured out how to write a convincing recommendation which brings in customers to the affiliate program you can repeat the formula for numerous products on numerous blogs and websites. Those who bring in major money off affiliate marketing usually do so with a legion of blogs dedicated to different topics.</div>
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With that said, affiliate marketing isn’t for everyone. Simply signing up as an affiliate with a few affiliate programs will be enough for many bloggers, and it will also be enough to boost your income.</div>
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Blogs are popular and it seems that everyone has one. But most people don’t produce enough traffic to make big bucks through AdSense or selling banner space.</div>
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Nevertheless, there are are ways to make a little income on the side, while keeping it simple and entertaining for everyone involved.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Fancy-Schmancy Tip Jar from <a href="http://www.scratchback.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="ScratchBack">ScratchBack</a></strong></h2>
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In return for a small tip, the tipper receives the opportunity to place a short text and a link on your Topspots list. Per default, links will scroll down and disappear as more spots are sold. Alternatively, you can make your list wipe all spots every 24 hours, once a week or month, which means that for each period only a limited amount of spots will be available.</div>
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Joining the site is free. Once you have logged in you’ll want to create a new widget, i.e. Topspots list. You can make the list 5, 10, 15 or 20 spots long. The minimum price for a spot is $5, but you can set a higher price, there is no limit to the top.</div>
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Currently the site is in beta and while that is so, ScratchBack is taking only 10% off of your tip. Once the site leaves beta, the share they are taking may increase. Please mind that also PayPal is deducting a fee from your income.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Enhance and Protect Images with <a href="http://www.britepic.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="BritePic">BritePic</a></strong></h2>
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BritePic is a way to “bring life to your images” as they say and earn money through AdBrite at the same time. When signing up with BritePic, you automatically sign up for AdBrite. But adding ads to your images remains optional. Besides, you will only have ads and earn cash when ads are offered to you.</div>
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In the meantime you get the full benefit of the animated image, giving site visitors the opportunity to easily zoom into your photos or share them, depending on what you allow them to do with it. Using BritePic also provides a way to protect your images by adding a watermark to each image and making it harder to copy them if you so choose.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Sell Products with <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Cafepress">CafePress</a></strong></h2>
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Does your blog have a cool logo or slogan? Or is your blog about photography, drawing, painting or any other printable art? Then this one may be for you!</div>
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On CafePress you can create custom products, such as T-Shirts, mugs, caps and much more and sell them through a free shop on the CafePress website. CafePress will handle all payment transactions, ship products worldwide, manage returns or exchanges and provide customer service. For this service, CafePress will keep a reasonable base price for each item. You will receive anything above the base price and it’s up to you to set the final price for each of your items.</div>
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Now you simply have to advertise your CafePress shop on your blog.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Free Text Link Exchange through <a href="http://www.adgridwork.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="AdGridwork">AdGridwork</a></strong></h2>
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AdGridwork provides a way to advertise your website within their network for displaying their ads at the same time. It’s free, it’s as simple as can be and it will drive traffic to your blog.</div>
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After adding your site to the network, you’ll integrate the code to display targeted ads at your site, earn credits as you do and receive exposure among sites within the AdGridwork network in return.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Ad Greeting Cards with <a href="http://www.123greetings.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="123 Greetings">123 Greetings</a></strong></h2>
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This service was thoroughly reviewed by Wendy just a couple of days ago.</div>
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Briefly, you sign up with 123 Greetings, insert the HTML that will link back to them into your website, and customize your eMail text and card page. If you like, you can add your own images, files and quotations to be used on greeting cards initiated through your website.</div>
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<firstimage 03="" 2010="" http:="" linechart.jpg="" main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com="" uploads="" wp-content="">As part of the online career that I’ve built over the past half decade, I am now responsible for tracking and analyzing Google Analytics data for multiple clients as well as for my own blogs and websites. Once you have four or five Google Analytics accounts that you want to keep an eye on and monitor every day, things can get a little bit difficult to manage. Multiple passwords aside, it can be a real hassle to log into each account and dig through the Google Analytics navigation menus to view one statistical graph at a time.</firstimage></div>
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When you want to do some analytical research that’s a bit more complicated, like comparing keyword trends to daily traffic, or top landing pages to popular keywords, things aren’t intuitive. You need to view a single graph and then switch over to the next graph, and if you’re trying to compare multiple blogs that you own all at once, you can forget about it.</div>
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<br />This is why I was overwhelmingly pleased to discover Trakkboard, an amazing new application that plugs into and helps you with tracking Google Analytics accounts at once and provides you with a powerful dashboard where you can view as many statistics as you want all in one place.</div>
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<a href="http://www.trakkboard.com/en/start/download" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trakkboard</a> is a desktop AIR Google Analytics tracking application that runs in Windows, Mac or Linux. The owner of Trakkboard is Trakken Web Services GmbH of Germany, a company founded by two former Google employees, Timo Aden and Lennart Paulsen, in 2008. The company’s mission is to help businesses improve site optimization (whether that’s web traffic, conversions or both). Trakkboard is provided by a consultancy focusing on web analysis and conversion optimization.</div>
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Before getting into the Trakkboard Google Analytics tracking application, I’d like to quickly take a look at the standard Google Analytics display and point out what areas are lacking. Then, we’ll dig into Trakkboard and I’ll show you why simply using a more effective tool can significantly improve your optimization efforts.</div>
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In Google Analytics, you use the dropdown and select the account that you want to review. Given, the analytics screen provides an amazing collection of possible data…but as you can see that data is available for display one website and one account at a time.</div>
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With all of this extremely useful data available in Google Analytics, it’s difficult to imagine any other tool that could give you as much insight about your optimization efforts. However, Trakken taps into your Analytics data using the Google Analytics API. Additionally, Trakken can simultaneously log into your multiple Google Accounts and display all of them to you (as well as all of the data available via the API) in one central place – the ideal tool for Google Analytics data tracking.</div>
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As you can see, I’ve laid out a dashboard of the traffic for my websites. I have a row along the top with the hard traffic numbers, and then a row along the bottom that provides a realtime feed from Twitter with keyword usage. I do this so that when I see major spikes on Twitter, I have an indicator that a major event related to my blog content may be taking place. This is only one of the many ways that you can use this powerful Analytics Dashboard software to analyze your data in whatever manner you see fit.</div>
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When you add a new account, which could include one or more websites, the account name gets added as a new tab at the top of the dashbaord. You can quickly flip through all of your accounts with the click of the mouse (no need to log in and out of Google Analytics).</div>
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At the upper left corner of the window, you have the area where you can add new widgets to your dashboard. Right now, the widgets are focused on Google Analytics and all of the data you can pull out of it. However, as you can see the creators of this software have already integrated Twitter feed data into the analytics tools. Currently “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More</em>” only has a “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Notes</em>” widget that you can use to keep notes in your dashboard, but you can be sure that the developers are very likely working on some cool new widgets that you can incorporate into your optimization analysis and planning.</div>
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All of the data that you can retrieve from your Google Analytics account is available in the form of a dashboard widget. This includes pages/visits, top keywords and even any goals that you’ve created from within your Analytics account. For example, one of my favorite widgets is the one below that lets you break down your traffic sources in a line diagram that lets you see where your most significant incoming traffic is coming from in a graphical way. This is useful when there are major changes, because it’s much easier to notice a graphical change than it is to catch a numerical anomaly.</div>
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The power and usefulness of this tool is limited only by your own imagination and whether you can find a way to make good use of the data comparisons that are available there.</div>
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I love the Twitter widget. The ability to keep an eye on Twitter keywords in direct comparison to your site traffic and other stats provides you with some insight as to how well you’re catching traffic from social network buzz. It also gives you an alert mechanism when a major Internet meme flashes across the web.</div>
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If you’re interested in giving Trakkboard a try, go to the <a href="http://www.trakkboard.com/en" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">start page</a> and submit your email address. Within a short time, you’ll receive a “Key” and a weblink you can use to download the application. So, why not give TrakkenBoard a try and start monitoring all of your Analytics data in real-time from one convenient desktop application? Once you do, come back and share your own feedback about the software in the comments section below.</div>
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One of the things that I love about Google’s assortment of webmaster tools, like Analytics and Adsense, is that they give you better insight into your site’s performance than just about any other app that you can find. And there are some easy ways you can use those statistics, like Tim’s article on the Analytics WordPress plugin, or the desktop app called TrakkBoard where you can monitor multiple Analytics accounts at once.</div>
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Today, I’d like to cover a change that took place over the past year or so where Google integrated Adsense information into Google Analytics. You use Adsense in your websites and your feeds, so wouldn’t it be nice to get a glimpse of what sort of performance your Google Ads are doing each time you monitor your Google Analytics account? If you didn’t know that you could do this, I’m going to show you how to integrate Adsense with Analytics, and what some of those reports look like.</div>
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Before you can take a look at your Google Ad performance alongside your traffic data, you need to enable the feed between Adsense and Analytics. You can do so with a single click. When you’re logged into Adsense and viewing your report overview, just click the link to integrate Adsense with your Analytics account.</div>
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The next step is to tell Adsense which data you’d like to “marry” into Analytics. If you’ve only used one Adsense account for all of your websites, this is easy because there won’t be any choice. However, if you’ve organized your Adsense into “channels” for each domain, as I’ve done, this is where you can tell Adsense to only integrate the Adsense numbers for one channel into the Analytics account that you have set up for that domain.</div>
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In this example, I’m telling Adsense to use the ad information for RyanDube.com and feed it into my Analytics account set up for ryandube.com. Once you go through this simple 3 step “wizard,” you’re good to go. It may take a little while for the data feed to start flowing, but you’ll see the Adsense option in your Google Analytics account immediately.</div>
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Adsense Data You Can View In Google Analytics</h2>
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Once you’ve enabled this feature, the information you can use to compare to your overall site traffic is pretty cool. You can see Adsense data within Analytics when you click on the Content section. The menu option shows up simply as “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AdSense</em>.”</div>
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Once you dropdown the Adsense item, you can see how much information your account feeds into Analytics.</div>
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Now that you know where to view Adsense information within Analytics, let’s take a look at what that information means to you. The first overview will show you your overall Adsense income for the domain. You can see your daily revenue over time – which offers some pretty cool insight into how certain events affected your income on that day.</div>
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Did you do certain work on a certain day? Did you cover a particular topic or publish a very popular article on that day? You can monitor your daily revenue to keep track of how your ad income was affected by those events. If a certain topic consistently seems to draw better clickthrough rates for your ads and generates higher income, doesn’t it make sense to focus more of your efforts on that topic? It will sure affect your bottom line if you do.</div>
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While the graphical display shows you the trend, if you click on “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Top Adsense Content</em>” you can actual see the details – exactly which of your pages are producing the most income for you?</div>
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You can see not only revenue, but how many ads were clicked, click-through rates and more. If you really want to beef up the monetization of your website through Google Ads, this is the place where you can get the best optimization data.</div>
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This information doesn’t stop with articles, you can also click on <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Top AdSense Referrers</em> to see which incoming links you receive that seems to generate a better ad clickthrough rate.</div>
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Obviously, it would make sense to establish stronger ties with those partner websites that are sending you traffic which results in your strongest ad revenue. Often this simply represents the “type” of visitor that site is sending you. Folks coming in from Google may not be the type of visitors that are as likely to click on your particular ads as people coming from StumbleUpon. If you want to improve your bottom line, focus on those things that are revealed by the AdSense data as working for you.</div>
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Finally, another very cool piece of information is when you click on <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AdSense Trending</em>. This display shows you how much specific Adsense variables have changed on a particular day.</div>
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For example, it will show you that on Saturday, your AdSense revenue increased by 3.74 percent. Or, you can change the variable to AdSense CTR and learn that on Monday your clickthrough rate shot through the roof. This is a great way to test certain changes to your site and then review how that change affected your user behaviors. I saw this just recently on one of my websites, where changing my entire site them increased clickthrough rates by almost 50%.</div>
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Since Google added this feature, have you been using it? Share what you like or dislike about the AdSense integration with Analytics in the comments section below.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-17466929892522517842013-03-03T07:03:00.003-08:002013-03-03T07:03:46.916-08:00Track Your Google Adsense Accounts From Your Desktop With SysSense [Windows]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<firstimage 07="" 2010="" coins.jpg="" http:="" main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com="" uploads="" wp-content="">Since it takes so much work to create fresh, new content for several websites that you may own, there is very little time left over to keep an eye on how your ad revenue is doing. Most small to medium sized bloggers and webmasters typically make use of Google Adsense, as it’s currently the most popular revenue generating ad service on the Internet. Well, if you are like me and you don’t have a whole lot of extra time left over to go digging into your Google Adsense accounts to check your latest balances, then you’ll love <a href="http://www.singerscreations.com/SysSense.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SysSense</a>.</firstimage></div>
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MUO previously covered WhyDoWork, an Adsense monitoring plugin for Firefox, but SysSense is a freeware <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">desktop</em> application (Windows 2000 through 7) created by Mike Singer of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. SysSense is an unobtrusive application that runs in your taskbar and provides you with quick and convenient one-touch access to all of your Google Adsense accounts.</div>
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How to Set Up SysSense</h2>
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After you download and install SysSense from Mike’s website, the software will initially take you to the screen where you can configure your Adsense accounts as well as set up the application properties. The General tab is where you can configure the software to immediately start every time you boot up Windows. This is also where you can set the exchange rate for your country so you can get an accurate representation of your balances.</div>
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Of course, the Adsense tab is where you submit your Adsense credentials so that the application can poll your account information.</div>
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On the Auto Update tab, you can configure SysSense to check your account details every so often. For smaller sites where you don’t have a lot of activity, frequent updates aren’t really necessary. However, for large sites where things change fast, you may do well to shorten the update interval.</div>
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You can change the update interval from every minute all the way up to every five hours. Under the Tray Icon and Tray Tooltip tabs, you can configure how the tool tray icon appears and also how it behaves when you click on it.</div>
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You can set it up to go directly to your Adsense account in a browser window any time you left click on it, and you can also set up the icon to pop up an icon balloon on a particular event, like when your earnings change or when your number of clicks changes. While these are nice features, the real meat of the application is in the Tray Tooltip section.</div>
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This is where you can configure what data you want the see in the ToolTip text window. I really like how much information this app can extract from Adsense – I’ve seen apps before that wouldn’t let you upload monthly data without a subscription, but with SysSense, it’s all free.</div>
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Once you have your accounts configured and your primary account set up (the one that will display in the ToolTip), you’re ready to start using the software. One thing you’ll notice is that every time the app refreshes data upon the interval you requested, it’ll pop up with a tooltip that displays all of your account details at a glance.</div>
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It’s nice to see this data without having to log into Google Adsense and dig through the site for the reports. SysSense puts the information together the way you want it and displays it with absolutely no effort on your part. If you want the app to refresh the data in between interval updates, just right-click and select “Refresh Now.”</div>
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When you do, the tooltip will pop up again with the latest data from your primary Adsense account. If you want to see more detailed reports of the data from your account, click on the “Reports” option and you’ll discover an excellent reporting tool.</div>
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<img alt="track adsense clicks" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-48394" height="411" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sense81.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="sense8" width="548" /></div>
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In this window, you can choose from any of the accounts you’ve configured, and you can choose from a list of 21 reports, including not only earnings but CTR, eCPM and clicks for referrals, ad performance and search performance. The graphica report display will immediately show you certain patterns. For example, through this tool I discovered that my highest day of earnings is almost always on Friday!</div>
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<a href="http://www.singerscreations.com/SysSense.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SysSense</a> is one of the fastest and easiest tools for instant access to your Adsense account details without any effort on your part. Give it a try and let us know what you think. Or share any other useful Adsense tools that you know about in the comments section below.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-28927879616013368272013-03-03T06:58:00.001-08:002013-03-03T06:58:39.005-08:00How To Setup A Self-hosted WordPress Blog for Free<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A blog is a layman-friendly variation of a website, and having a blog is one of the many ways to state your presence in the virtual world. While there are many hassle-free blog services out there that will take care of everything except automatically blog for you – like <a href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank">Blogger</a> and <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a>, nothing can beat a self-hosted blog in the terms of customization and self pride.</div>
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The problem is, the process of building your own self-hosted blog is (almost always) not free and is considered complicated. So most newbies will choose the easier path and never give themselves a chance to experiment.</div>
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I personally believe that experience is the best teacher (and that you should never consider yourself a cool person if you’ve never tried to “build” a blog).</div>
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So, if you are in an adventurous mood right now and willing to take up the challenge, I’ll show you how to easily set up a free <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WordPress</a> blog site.</div>
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<img align="left" alt="free blog sites" height="73" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/00-wordpress-logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 5px 20px 5px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" vspace="5" width="266" />Some of you might ask, “Why WordPress?” I could go on and explain how cool it is, how it has grown from a simple blogging platform into an advanced CMS (Content Management System) and still stay simple and free, how you can expand it into virtually everything by adding plugins and themes; but to save you the time, I’ll just go with “Why not?”</div>
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The first step in our little project is obtaining a domain name. But with zero budget, you shouldn’t expect to be able to snatch a dot com – or any other popular dots like org, net, name or tv. For this experimental purposes, we’ll go with a less popular but free alternative.</div>
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The free service that I always use for quick and free domain names is <a href="http://www.co.cc/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.co.cc</a>. This service will provide you with 2 free domain names (with .co.cc suffixes) for personal use. (But that doesn’t mean that you can’t register for more with different email addresses. Wink!)</div>
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Visit the site and search for the availability of your chosen domain name(s). I’ve registered <a href="http://buildablog.co.cc/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">buildablog.co.cc</a> for this article so you can’t claim that one.</div>
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If your chosen name is available, please check whether it’s available for free because there are names which are not free. Then continue with the registration.</div>
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If you’ve been here before, you can log in with your account. Newcomers click “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Create an account now</em>“.</div>
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After completing the registration process, you need to set up your domain. This step should be done within 48 hours or they will delete the domain. So click the set up button now.</div>
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To be able to set up the domain, you need a webhost. So, we’ll postpone the domain set up process for a while and find ourselves a webhost first. I stumbled on a service which provides free webhosting without ads called <a href="http://www.000webhost.com/39102.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">000webhost</a>. You won’t get premium features, but 1.5GB of disk space and 100GB of data traffic per month should be sufficient for our project.</div>
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Sign up for free hosting with your registered domain name from the previous step, and you’ll get the DNS addresses needed for the domain set up – both in the confirmation email and in the website. Armed with that information, we are ready to go back to our postponed task.</div>
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Please note that the host set up process could take a long time (up to 24 hours). So be patient here and refresh the page often.</div>
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- Name server 1: ns01.000webhost.com<br />- Name server 2: ns02.000webhost.com</div>
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Then click “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Set Up</em>“, and you’ll go into another waiting game.</div>
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After the host and the DNS settings are active, we can log in to the <a href="http://members.000webhost.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cPanel</a> to install WordPress. You can log in using your email address and password.</div>
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Find the Software section inside the cPanel and choose Fantastico, then select WordPress and provide the admin name with the chosen password. The Fantastico installation script will make the WordPress installation easier by automatically building and linking the database for you.</div>
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<span style="color: #3b3128;">You have to decide where you want to install WordPress. If you leave the sub-folder blank, then WordPress will be installed in the root folder: your domain name and you can access it using –> </span><span style="color: blue;">http://www.your-domain.co.cc.</span><span style="color: #3b3128;"> But if you put name </span><em style="border: 0px; color: #3b3128; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in the sub-folder</em><span style="color: #3b3128;">, then WordPress would be installed in that folder and accessible via </span><span style="color: blue;">http://www.your-domain.co.cc/foldername</span></div>
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You can customize your WordPress installation using plugins and themes and upgrade it to the latest build via FTP. The details of the FTP is available in the welcome email and in the cPanel. I won’t go into detail here because discussing that topic would require another one or two more articles.</div>
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With all that said and done, I have to emphasize that the free domain name and free hosting service will only go that far: as an experiment tool. If you want to do this seriously, you have to go with the paid service as they will provide you with more necessary bells and whistles.</div>
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<span style="color: #3b3128; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">But let me share one last trick here: you don’t have to settle with the price that web hosting company offer you. You can get a far cheaper price by applying for a web host re-seller account. Normally, this kind of account is not opened to the general public and also not free. But I found one which is free for everybody to join called </span></span><a href="http://www.resellerspanel.com/?a=thurana" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resellers Panel</a><span style="color: #3b3128; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. (The link will put me as your referrer, but you can go directly to their website if you want)</span></span></div>
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By applying to become a reseller, not only you can get the cheapest price for domain names and hosting but you could also start your own business by reselling the service with the market price.</div>
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Do you use WordPress? Have you tried to install one on the web server? Share your experience using the comment below.</div>
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<firstimage 01="" 2011="" blogger-alternatives-title.png="" http:="" main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com="" uploads="" wp-content="">The two major players in the personal blogging space are <a href="http://wordpress.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WordPress</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blogger</a> (Google). Although these two well established names have been around the longest and have the largest user base for personal blog sites, there are plenty of alternatives if their style is not for you, each with their own differences and reasons why you may or may not wish to use them.</firstimage></div>
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The blog of today is quite different from the blog of just a few years ago. Many are into ‘casual blogging’ where a blog post is not just (long) text written out but perhaps just an image or sound clip.</div>
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Tumblr (also known as a Tumble log) is a widely known blogging service which <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-use-tumblr-to-easily-create-a-rich-media-blog/" style="border: 0px; color: #0477cd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we have covered</a> here on MakeUseOf before. Tumblr really excels in two areas: so-called “photo blogging” and its sense of community.</div>
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Posterous is another “microblogging” service like Tumblr. You are able to post images, text, video and audio. Like Tumblr, you can change your theme easily but unlike Tumblr there is no “reblog.”</div>
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Posts can be imported from any number of sources and will also be “sent out” to Facebook and Twitter. One of the simplest ways to submit a post – and in fact to start your Posterous account, is to send an email to post@posterous.com. After doing so you will automatically be set up for an account and your blog created.</div>
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Not usually considered a “blogging” service, Twitter is actually a microblog by definition. If you are able to write your thoughts in 140 characters or less Twitter is actually a great way to communicate with others.</div>
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One of the reasons Twitter has been so successful is that you do not have a lot of time investment to get started and to keep updated. If you leave your profile on public anyone can read your posts just like a regular blog site.</div>
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Another popular blogging service is Xanga. One of the older blogging sites, it is definitely more for personal use.</div>
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Although Xanga used to be very popular it has waned somewhat recently with the rise of other sites, but is still popular especially with the younger crowd.</div>
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Weebly is a hosted website and blogging service. Your account is free and ad-free, and if you want to upgrade to a domain and for certain other features there is a professional account available for a fee.</div>
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The one thing that I like about Weebly is how customizable the pages are. However, I think that is the same exact reason that more people do not use it. It is more complicated (than sending an email, as with Posterous) so for casual blogging it is more of a time commitment.</div>
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Which blogging service is for you?</h2>
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As with many things in life, it depends on your personal tastes. Check out each site to see how it meshes with your personal style and how frequently you want to blog. For ease of use, I think Posterous or Tumblr win. For short messages, Twitter is great.</div>
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Let us know if you use any other hosted blogging service that you thing should be on the list of best blog sites, and what you like about it!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-44962425552656747812013-03-02T04:39:00.003-08:002013-03-02T04:39:52.171-08:005 Legitimate Work-From-Home Jobs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We live in tough times. Those who are not unemployed are under-employed. Many people agonize between taking a second job and family time. My goal is to share with you some legitimate work-from-home jobs that will allow you to earn extra income for your family from the comfort of your own home on your schedule.</div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c;">Many of these examples I have personally used to add extra income to my household when needed. I am not going to focus on starting an online business in this post (although, for the diligent there is </span><span style="color: orange;">money to be made in blogging</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c;">, </span><span style="color: orange;">Adsense, creating your own products</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c;">, </span><span style="color: orange;">selling on Ebay, and affiliate sales.)</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c;"> Instead, I want to introduce to you a few reputable work-from-home companies that will pay you for your work. All of these will send 1099’s for tax purposes.</span></div>
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5 legit opportunities to work from home</h2>
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1. <a href="http://www.demandstudios.com/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Demand Studios</a></h3>
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They have many different employment opportunities that range from Writers, Editors, Title Editors, Filmmakers, and more. They are usually hiring for certain positions at certain times so you have to keep your eyes peeled. I have made several thousand dollars in article writing and title editing. I even got my wife into doing title editing and <a href="http://christianpf.com/ways-for-teens-to-make-money/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">earning extra spending money</a>. As a writer you can make between $7.50-$20.00 per 150-500 word article. I usually write about two articles an hour (that’s $30.00 an hour at $15.00 an article). You do not have to be a prolific writer or have a background in writing to get accepted. Most articles are in a “How to” format. So, if you are the type that enjoys learning something new and then explaining it to someone else then this could be a fun work for you. Most of their content goes on eHow.com or LiveStrong.com.</div>
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Let’s say you have a trip you want to take in a month. Just decide how many articles you would have to write a day to reach your goal. They pay by Paypal every Wednesday and Friday. There is no payment threshold that you have to meet either. If you have money in your account, you will get paid. They currently have thousands of titles to choose from in the system and you can reserve up to ten at a time.</div>
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2. <a href="https://www.livework.com/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Live Work</a></h3>
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This is mostly like a running projects board for a company called LiveOps (which I will discuss later on). Live Work has many different projects that you can bid on. Many are data entry and task-oriented. You work as much as you want. I once worked on a Dictonary.com project and was paid for every definition and source that I put in the system. There really is a wide-variety of work available there.</div>
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3. <a href="http://www.leapforceathome.com/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Leapforce</a></h3>
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They are a vendor for Google. Once you are accepted in the program you log-in to the Google interface and rate websites. Google wants their searches to be relevant. They use human raters to rate whether the content is worthy or spam. At the time of this writing, they pay $11.50 an hour.</div>
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4. <a href="http://www.textbroker.com/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Textbroker</a></h3>
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This is a great place to earn extra income if you want to write on simple projects. They pay is much less, but the projects are easy to write on. I once wrote several 150 word articles for someone that was creating an Extreme Sports website. The work was fun. I simply wrote a short bio about different professional athletes.</div>
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5. <a href="http://www.liveops.com/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Liveops</a></h3>
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If you want more human interaction, then you might want to consider LiveOps. LiveOps is an at home call service that you dial into while in the comfort of your own home. You will have to make a weekly schedule, but you will never have to commute anywhere. All calls are inbound from people responding to infomercials and you basically take their ordering information while being logged into the LiveOps system. They pay is around $9.50 but you do earn commission for different products sold.</div>
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Hopefully, this list will get you started thinking about ways to supplement your income. This resource is also good for Stay-at-home moms that are looking for ways to earn so money without being on a tight schedule. There are many more work-from-home companies out there, but these are all ones I have had personal interaction with and can recommend that they are legitimate. </div>
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I have been selling stuff occasionally on <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=1&pub=5574685833&toolid=10001&campid=5336481625&customid=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Ebay</a><img alt="" src="http://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=1&pub=5574685833&toolid=10001&campid=5336481625&customid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> over the last 5 years or so. I knew that a bunch of people had ebay businesses, but I didn’t realize how many. The last figure I heard was that there are over 1 million Ebay businesses. I am sure some of them are part time businesses, but that is just amazing to me that there is that much potential available.</div>
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Deciding to start an Ebay business</h2>
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I decided to try it out and see if I could start a part-time ebay biz. The great thing about it to me was that I could essentially turn it on or off when I felt like it. If I needed some extra income for a vacation I was saving for I could sell some stuff for a month or so and then when the vacation rolled around I could temporarily shut it down just by not listing any items.</div>
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As I mentioned in an article I wrote called 7 steps to selling on Ebay for beginners I started by selling junk around my house. This is the best way to get your feet wet with Ebay. Actually, I take that back. The best way to get your feet wet is to purchase something on <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=1&pub=5574685833&toolid=10001&campid=5336481625&customid=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Ebay</a><img alt="" src="http://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=1&pub=5574685833&toolid=10001&campid=5336481625&customid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />. This will benefit you in two ways:</div>
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<li style="color: #5c5c5c; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It will help you to understand the Ebay community a bit better than you will if you just start selling.</strong> It is not the “virtual garage sale” that it once was and it is a rare case when you can imagine something that hasn’t been sold on Ebay.</li>
<li style="color: #5c5c5c; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I mentioned that Ebay is a community. This is not a cause for worry, but you do need to be aware that since it is still lightly based on an “honor system” that you need to prove yourself.<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Buying a few items and proving that you are an upstanding member who pays for items will help you out when you start selling</strong>.</li>
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I won’t go over the basics of Ebay selling since you can read that in the previous article mentioned. From here on I will assume that you know the basics of selling on ebay. So, let’s get started on the steps I took to start my Ebay business.</div>
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2. Picking a product to sell on Ebay</h2>
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It may sound easy or difficult. It is some of both actually. I set out to supplement my current income, not necessarily to generate a full time income from it. Because of this I was able to take more of a chance by NOT picking the right product. I felt comfortable that if I jumped into an over-saturated market I could jump ship and try a new product.</div>
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<br />I finally found a product that was related to something that I knew a decent amount about, since it was a hobby of mine. No, I am not going to tell you what it is, because I am sure I would see a surge in competition a week after this article gets posted <img alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://christianpf.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> My “biz” is currently turned off, but who knows when I may turn it back on?I wanted to find something that I at least knew something about, since in my previous experiences of selling some of my wife’s clothes made me very aware that I know nothing about women’s clothes. I would get questions from buyers asking me how many inches it was from this to that. I didn’t even know what areas they wanted measured, let alone know how to measure them. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Do yourself a favor and know at least a little bit about what you are planning on selling.</strong></div>
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Google “(Your product) + wholesale” and combinations similar to find a supplier who will sell to you at wholesale prices. I know some people run small ebay businesses by finding clearance items at retail stores and reselling them on Ebay, but your profit margins will probably be smaller than if you bought them wholesale.</div>
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Most suppliers are going to want to make sure you are legitimately interested in becoming a dealer for their products, rather than just trying to get a deal for yourself. This process is probably going to be slightly different for different products. For me, I found some suppliers on Google and I asked a friend who he used.</div>
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Once you have an account with the supplier you should ask for a catalog and a pricing guide. If they have a website for dealers available, that will work as well.</div>
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If you plan on doing a drop-ship business (where the supplier sends the product directly to the customer for you, without you ever touching the actual product) a website called <a href="http://christianpf.com/2/doba.php" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Doba</a> has millions of products available to dropship.</div>
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Once I got a price guide from the supplier I was then able to see exactly what my purchasing price would be for the items that I would be selling. This is a very important number to get, because without it you won’t be able to test the profitability of the item.</div>
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Once I knew the price I would be paying for my items, I went on over to Ebay and did a search for each item. As you can see in the image below there is an “advanced search” link next to the search box. You can type your product in the field and hit the advanced search link.</div>
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Make sure you check the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">completed listings</strong> box. This will pull up all of the results for the item that you entered. You will probably see some listings that were completed without selling and some that did sell. Ideally, each listing of your product would show as sold, but realistically I wouldn’t expect that. But skim through and click on the items that did sell and start a list of what prices they sold for. Hopefully, there is a decent sized variation between what the items are selling for and what you can purchase them for. Even if there is, don’t get too excited yet, because there are still lots of other expenses to account for.</div>
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Knowing what the items sold for is going to be very helpful in deciding if you should move forward with the product you have in mind. But even if it looks good, keep in mind that you still don’t know how many times the seller had to list the item to get it to sell. Currently Ebay allows you to relist one time for free, but if the item doesn’t sell again then you need to pay them another listing fee to list the 3rd time.</div>
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The easier option to test your Ebay market</h3>
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What I just showed you is what I did because I didn’t really know there was another option. But there is and it is easier and will provide much more information for you. Ebay actually has aresearch area on their site that will basically give you the information we just talked about and a lot more. They do charge for it, but currently it is only like $2.99 for a 2-day pass. This will be the best $3 you spend.</div>
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5. Estimating other expenses</h2>
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Now that I had gotten some solid numbers about what my item had been sold for in the past I had a starting point. From here I tried to get a best guess estimate (or exact if possible) of how much other expenses would be. These were a few other expenses that I had…</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shipping and handling from my supplier to me</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shipping and handling from me to my buyers</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Boxes and packing material (styrofoam peanuts, tape, etc.). I bought in bulk from <a href="http://uline.com/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">uline.com</a>and got an average cost of about $1 per item.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gas and wear and tear on my car from driving to the post office or bank. The post office is very close to my house, so this wasn’t very much for me.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ebay Fees (mine averaged about 6% of my selling price. This figure can vary widely.)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/mrb/pal=QP62TUT7V6KLU" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paypal Fees</a> (my average paypal fee was about 3% of my selling price.)</li>
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After adding up all these expenses I still saw that I would likely be able to make a decent profit assuming that I would be able to sell each item within a couple weeks. If I would have had to relist each item 10 times to sell it, the Ebay fees would have eaten up most of my profits.</div>
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I was estimating that I could make about $20-$50 for each of the products I was going to sell. This was good enough for me, so I decided to move forward with it.</div>
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6. Buying the products</h2>
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This was actually the easiest part for me. I decided just to sell the exact products that I had seen sold in my research. I figured if someone bought it before, they would buy it again (This was not necessarily true – I will explain later). I then just called my supplier and gave them my order. Two days later the shipment had arrived.</div>
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7. The photo shoot</h2>
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I could only find one picture of each of my items on the supplier’s website. Knowing how important pictures are to Ebay buyers I decided I was going to take the most detailed and best pictures I could with the tools I had to work with.</div>
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<li style="color: #5c5c5c; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I borrowed the <a href="http://christianpf.com/best-point-shoot-digital-cameras-under-300/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">best point & shoot digital camera</a> I could find from a family member.</li>
<li style="color: #5c5c5c; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I found the cleanest and nicest looking background I could to shoot against.</li>
<li style="color: #5c5c5c; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I grabbed about 5 bright lamps from around my house and placed them to get good lighting.</li>
<li style="color: #5c5c5c; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I took about 10 pictures of each item. Some full shots and some detailed pictures.</li>
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I spent a good deal of time on this process knowing that it was work that would increase my chances of sales. But, the other motivation for investing a lot of time was that if I did it well the first time, I wouldn’t have to do it again later. Once I had good pictures for the items, I could always use the same pictures when I sold more later on.</div>
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8. Listing the items on Ebay</h2>
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If you are looking to do this as a full time or even a part time gig, I suggest you use a listing tool. I used <a href="http://auctiva.com/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Auctiva</a> which I was pleased with. The great thing is that they host all of the pictures of my items for me. So I could take the 10 pictures and have them all included in my <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=1&pub=5574685833&toolid=10001&campid=5336481625&customid=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Ebay</a><img alt="" src="http://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=1&pub=5574685833&toolid=10001&campid=5336481625&customid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> listing for free. There are many time-saving features that they offer as well.</div>
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I knew the items didn’t have a huge demand so I listed them all only with a BIN (Buy It Now) price. If I would have been selling iPods or something I may have been able to get away with a straight auction, but since I was willing to wait to make the sale at the price I wanted, I did BIN.</div>
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9. Analyze the results</h2>
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My test run of selling 6 different items went pretty well. I listed all of them BIN as mentioned before. One item sold in the first listing and three more sold in the relisting. The remaining two items had to be relisted again (incurring another ebay listing fee) and one sold very quickly. The last item taught me a good lesson that I mentioned I would get to earlier.</div>
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I had assumed that if someone had bought it before, they would buy it again. This did not appear to be the case with this item. I should have used a bit of common sense, it was a very specific and random thing that not many people would have wanted. It just so happened that it was one of the recently sold items that I saw. I ended up just listing it again as a straight auction with my starting price being my cost. It did quickly sell and actually fetched a decent price.</div>
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Selling quicker or more profits</h3>
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I chose to take my time selling these items because I wanted to see if I could get the prices I was asking for each of them. I could have lowered my prices and probably sold them all in the first listing, but that wasn’t my goal for this test.</div>
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Here is a breakdown of how the test went…</div>
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As you can see, it is clear which items turned out to be more profitable. This is why I recommend doing a similar test if you can before jumping in head over heels after one product. Lucky for me, some of the products that yielded the most profit also sold the quickest!</div>
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What was exciting to me was to see that by selling just three products I could make $100. So, in theory if I could sell 30 products in a month, I was looking at $1000. That’s not a bad part-time income! And if I were to start buying products from Doba as a dropshipper it would take a whole lot less time each month as well.</div>
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Final thoughts about starting an Ebay business</h2>
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There is really a lot to learn and as you sell more you figure out more and better ways to minimize expenses. I have learned a lot from selling on ebay, but there is still a lot more to learn. Just don’t be intimidated or afraid to try it out if it is something you are interested in doing.</div>
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I’d love to hear from others about their successes or struggles (whatever the case may be) starting an <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=1&pub=5574685833&toolid=10001&campid=5336481625&customid=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Ebay</a><img alt="" src="http://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=1&pub=5574685833&toolid=10001&campid=5336481625&customid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> biz. Feel free to share in the comments below!</div>
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UNDERSTAND READERSHIP COMES FIRST, THE REVENUE LATER</h2>
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Making money through blogging is not an instant process. You need to focus on readership first and revenue after you start to develop a readership. Am I saying you should launch a blog with no idea how to monetize it? ABSOLUTELY NOT.</div>
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Unless “back pats” and comments pay your bills, you need to have an idea of how you plan to monetize your blog before you start building it. But it can’t be THE focus from day one. Start with a plan regarding what niche your blog will target, what demographics your blog will serve and what topics and programs you’ll be able to turn to in order to monetize it.</div>
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That said, understand that in MOST cases you’re going to work on your blog for months before you start to see even an insignificant amount of revenue coming from it. Results will vary based on any “personal brand” you’re starting out with and how hard you work at PROMOTING your new blog.</div>
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When I originally started Blogspot, there were NO ads on it. My primary concern was building my personal brand and not creating a revenue stream. I’m not saying you should IGNORE monetization. I’m just saying you need to understand it is on the back burner compared to building an audience in the beginning.</div>
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UNDERSTAND THAT BLOGGING FOR MONEY HAS OVERHEAD COSTS</h2>
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Expect to pay for hosting (I use Netwisp) – I’ve been over why you shouldn’t use free subdomains like WordPress.com, etc if you’re really planning to make blogging an income.</div>
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You should also plan to spend a few bucks on a design (assuming you’re not CSS and PHP savvy). I use the Thesis theme framework (you can find out why here), but also have my Thesis framework skinned. I’ve been doing this a long time, so I’ve obviously invested into my design (Proof Branding did the current one)… but you can find great low cost templates to alter (if you’re using Thesis, you can find some nice custom skins at Themedy) if you’re just starting out. It doesn’t need to be a custom design, but it shouldn’t look like a plain generic template either.</div>
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CHOOSE A NICHE</h2>
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There used to be a time where I said choose what will make money versus choosing what you love. For instance, I started off in the telecom industry. I didn’t “love” telecom, but I always joked that I could learn to love any topic that made me money. But 2012 is a different playing field than 2002.</div>
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With Google’s love of “brands” – large and small, you’ll need to be sure that whatever niche you pick is one you can write passionately about – and regularly. It needs to be a topic you can become an authority on – and therefore build a brand on. And for most bloggers starting out with their first blog, the only way you can achieve that kind of authority and STICK WITH IT is to be blogging about something you are 1. knowledgeable about and 2. something you’ll enjoy blogging about.</div>
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On Blogspot, I blog about affiliate marketing, entrepreneurship and Internet marketing – topics I am obviously passionate about and – I think anyway – it comes across in my writing. I don’t blog as often as I’d like, but I try to make sure that when I do? It isn’t “fluff” so to speak.</div>
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Figure out what your hobbies are, what the things you enjoy are – then check the larger affiliate networks and ensure there are products that relate to your niche with affiliate programs.</div>
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SETTING UP YOUR BLOG</h2>
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<a href="http://wordpress.org/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #be2e59; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WordPress</a> is free, and despite its security loopholes and constant updating, it’s my preferred platform. You can install WordPress in under ten minutes (they say five, but if you’ve never done it before, it might be more like ten). Next up, ensure you make sure you do basic SEO for your WordPress blog so it will do as well as possible in the search engines once you follow through on all the steps below. Get that design (and framework like the Thesis Theme if you can) and you’re ready to go.</div>
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BE REAL</h2>
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Before you write a single post, I’d like to offer up some advice. BE REAL. Don’t be who you think readers want you to be. Don’t be just like the person writing for the most popular blog in your niche. BE YOU. Being you may not get you the most readers, but it will get you PASSIONATE readers.</div>
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I was talking with a very popular blogger a while back. His subscriber list trumps mine many times over. When I made a joke about that, he said, “Yeah, but your readers trust you, they listen to you – because you never bullshit them – you are what you are. I may be more popular in numbers, but your entire audience LISTENS.” I’ve long said I’d rather have 5K READERS vs. 50K subscribers. And it’s true. You may not be everything to everyone, but by being real, you will be “real” to YOUR audience. And that’s the goal. If you plan to make money online, it’s not about “numbers” but rather about a following. And people can see right through “fake” – so be REAL.</div>
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I curse like a sailor… I very regularly offend people. But I also don’t bullshit on Blogspot. What I say is what I’m thinking and not who I am “trying to be” to please the masses. You want the audience who likes you as you truly are, not as you try to be. A bullshit personality can only go so long before it’s found out.</div>
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FIGURE OUT YOUR POINT OF DIFFERENCE (POD)</h2>
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I’ve been mentioning the need to have a POD in affiliate marketing and blogging since the mid-2000′s. When I wrote the affiliate evolution over six years ago now (and have never updated it, because it’s STILL relevant today), I mentioned within it (and the statement applies to traditional blogs as much as commercial affiliate blogs):</div>
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“Treat your affiliate site like any ‘real business’ and develop a point of difference. Sorry guys, it’s up to you to figure out how to do this. But, I can promise you that spending some time on doing this, on creating a POD, will be the single biggest thing you can do to keep your resume dusty and on your hard drive.”</div>
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I cannot overstate how important it is to find a POD – or a Unique Selling Proposition (USP), depending on the terminology people wish to use. In short, this equates to figuring out how to STAND OUT among the top competition in whatever niche you’re in.</div>
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With Blogspot, I think my POD is my “in your face” writing style and my <a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/reviews/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #be2e59; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in-depth product and service reviews</a>. A lot of the online marketing blogs were doing their best to appear super professional and politically correct when I started. And, keeping in line with “being real” above, that wasn’t my style – so I offered up the same topics, but infused with my personality.</div>
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When it comes to my reviews, I noticed so many people were going the lazy route… here is the product, here are the generic screenshots of the product and here is my 500 word overview of the product (and honestly, half the time, I was wondering if they had even actually USED the product). My reviews take me a while to do, but I think they’re different than the rest of the reviews you find on blogs like mine – and that it shows.</div>
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Find out how you can leverage your “real” to be different than the top competition. When we launched a Blackberry blog, we noticed the top blogs catered to the tech geek crowd with news, scoops, etc. So we decided to cater to the not so tech crowd – focusing on teaching people simple things and give them understandable and simple solutions to their problems.</div>
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Check out the competition and figure out your POD. It will likely be a big factor in your “make or break” when it comes to blogging. Whatever the topic is of your blog – if you look at the top sites you’ll be competing with and find what they’re MISSING, you can likely get some inspiration to help in finding that POD.</div>
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THE BEGINNING: BLOG LIKE EVERYONE IS LISTENING</h2>
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If you “wait until you have readers” to begin posting awesome content, then you’ll likely be waiting a long time. You need to blog as if everyone is listening from the moment you launch because when someone happens upon your blog, what will turn them into a READER vs. a VISITOR is said awesome content. Not everything needs to be a work of art – but you need to show readers you have a lot of awesome to share and give them a reason to keep returning.</div>
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Look at other popular blogs in your niche to see what kind of content is resonating with readers. Check Google Suggest for what people are searching for… start typing your topic and see what appears in the drop down – this is likely the exact information that people are searching for. All you have to do is start providing them with it. Keep adding a letter to find more suggestions. For instance, I might type “affiliate marketing a” and see what drops down… “affiliate marketing b” and see what drops down, etc.</div>
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You’ll read a lot of advice on blogging frequently. I’m more in the “blog when you actually have something to say” camp. I personally would rather post 1 (what I hope is a) truly helpful post a week than 6 “so-so” posts. But I will say that while you don’t need to be blogging daily, you do need to be blogging consistently – especially in the beginning.</div>
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That said, I have a very sporadic blogging schedule here on Blogspot – mainly because I run a few companies that can sometimes take my attention away from the blog for periods of time. However, I’ve had the brand for a long time now and it’s something “I get away with” and not something I SHOULD be doing. Additionally, my analytics tell me that every time I go a while without blogging, I begin to see a traffic dip (which correlates to an earnings dip) – so try and do as I say and not as I do in this arena for maximum benefit. ;-)</div>
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BUILD YOUR MAILING LIST FROM DAY ONE</h2>
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Mailing list? I fully admit that I used to think of a mailing list as a “days of old” marketing technique. But my buddy Derek Halpern (one smart SOB) gave me a [headdesk] moment a while back. I knew he was an email marketing nut and we were discussing WHY he was one. I didn’t get the focus, because I got plenty of word of mouth and search engine driven traffic. And he looked at me and said matter of factly, “if Google or any other traffic source decides to stop sending me traffic, my mailing list ensures I have the audience I built via them STILL ready to listen to me.”</div>
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After Derek said that, I resurrected my old mailing list (which meant starting from scratch as far as subscribers since I’d let the old one I’d never put any effort into lapse) and began to actually put some focus on GETTING subscribers. I’d recommend that you do so as well. Lynn Terry offered up some great advice here as a guest post on starting your first email newsletter which you can read for more detail (that said, I second her recommendation of Aweber).</div>
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But simply “building” a list isn’t enough – you also need to send your list newsletters – which Lynn covers pretty well in the above post. I admit to being horrible at sending out newsletters even with my new-found effort to get subscribers, but that is something that I will be changing. Like with blogging, the frequency isn’t as important as the consistency – I know this because I utilize mailing lists on my commercial blogs (whereas Blogspot is my personal brand blog). And like with blogging, try to do as I say and not as I do. ;-) That said, every time I send a newsletter, I get increased traffic, increased sales on products I recommend and increased social mentions.</div>
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When the blog you’re working on is your primary focus, your newsletter can be an important revenue generating tool. Don’t wait to start building that list. For more email list tips and awesomeness, I’d recommend that you visit Derek Halpern’s site, Social Triggers. This guy is wickedly scary smart.</div>
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You can check out Derek’s interview below with THINK TRAFFIC on how he built a 17K subscriber blog in under a year. While we don’t always agree on every aspect of blogging, he’s a source of very solid advice.</div>
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The interview above is specifically about how he built his blog that centers around marketing – but you can use his tips to create a blog in any niche.</div>
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GET SOCIAL (OR NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK)</h2>
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Let’s be clear – I don’t mean to sit on Facebook all day or to tweet your links incessantly on Twitter. What I mean by this is that you need to get involved in your off-site community. Why? Because people like to help, link, retweet and drive traffic to people they know and like. Look at all the things I’ve linked to above or people I’ve mentioned in this post. I “know” them all, except for one. Half of them, I initially “met” by interacting with them on social media. I communicate with people on a non business level through my social channels and the relationships I build ultimately help me promote my blog.</div>
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Traditional brick and mortar businesses get involved with their chamber of commerce, attend local networking events, sponsor local youth teams, advertise in local papers… bloggers need to be involved in their off-site topic community with social media.</div>
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INTERACT WITH YOUR ON-SITE COMMUNITY</h2>
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Once you HAVE an audience commenting or sending you emails, be sure to interact with them. Don’t simply ignore the 12 comments on a post or the follow up questions readers might ask. Do your best to answer them and offer the additional help or advice they’re looking for. This is any easy way to help turn one time visitors into actual readers.</div>
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I’ll use an offline example to try and drive this home. My son plays youth football. Every year, he outgrows half of his equipment and we have to replace it. But I know nothing about how the equipment should fit, sizing, etc. One year, I happened to go to a local, non-chain store in our town. The prices were higher, I had to wait 30 minutes to get serviced… but it was because they used their specialty knowledge to ensure each customer was specifically helped, sized and fitted correctly. When I went to the big chain stores, I was pointed to an aisle. This non-chain store actually spends time fitting my child’s helmet specifically to him. So they are now the first store I go to for my son’s equipment and the first place I refer other parents to.</div>
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When you’re starting out – be that helpful blogger. People will remember it. They’ll return to your site, they’ll subscribe to your list and they’ll refer your site to friends. I understand this gets harder to do the bigger your blog gets – but if you’re reading this, you likely don’t have a big blog yet – and helping your internal community is a great way to help build your audience.</div>
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I was one of the first people to start using the Thesis theme. So when I started doing tutorials, I would have people frequently post questions about them and I did my best to help them figure their problems out. Even though my blog at the time had less than 10% content on Thesis, I suddenly found myself being linked to and mentioned on tons of sites as being a helpful resource on Thesis. My still small Thesis Tutorials category is now one of the most visited categories on my site – and those tutorials help drive people into other portions of my site, to my social profiles and to my mailing list.</div>
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PROMOTE, PROMOTE, PROMOTE</h2>
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Honestly, I find that this is the stumbling point for most people wanting to earn an income through blogging. You build it and wait for them to come. [headdesk]</div>
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In addition to being social and interacting with your on-site community, you need to LET OTHER PEOPLE KNOW YOU EXIST. And you do that with good old fashioned promotion and hard work. Find <ahref guest-blogging-as-a-promotional-link-building-strategy="" http:="" link-development="" www.sugarrae.com="">guest posting opportunities and work hard to promote your new blog. Create a few pieces of flagship content. Ask friends to help promote said (only the truly worthy) flagship content. Ask friends to link to you from their blogrolls. Hold a contest. Market, market, market. This is the toughest part of building a new blog – and an absolutely vital one.</ahref></div>
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FORGE THROUGH “THE BLOGGING DIP”</h2>
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It’s no secret that I absolutely LOVE Seth Godin’s book, The Dip. It’s all about knowing when it’s time to quit and when you’re just quitting. After the initial high from building something new wears off, you’re then writing great content and promoting your blog – the two hardest aspects of blogging – and it’s easy to start feeling deflated at all the work you’re putting in and watching subscribers only trickle in at the beginning. I’ve taken to referring to this as “The Blogging Dip” because it’s the timeframe in which most bloggers lose interest, give up and declare “it” didn’t work.</div>
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I’m not saying you should continue on the same blogging path for two years if you’re still not seeing results and audience growth after some time as passed. But you have to realize this dip exists and decide beforehand whether or not you’re willing to work through it. If not, there’s no point in even building a blog in the first place.</div>
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START MONETIZING</h2>
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It never, EVER fails that at every Affiliate Summit, I will have a blogger come up to me after my session, tell me they have a decent readership, but they’re not making any money. When I ask how they’re monetizing their blog, the answer is usually the same… with ads on the sidebar.</div>
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Now don’t get me wrong – I run ads on my sidebar and those ads make sales. But they make a very insignificant amount of sales compared to the other ways I monetize my blog. You can’t simply slap up six 125X125 ads and expect to make a significant income.</div>
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You need to join affiliate programs (or a master affiliate network if your blog focus is very scattered) and link – tastefully – to products and services within posts. If you have a lot of pageviews, look into selling advertising on the site (either on a CPM basis or on a CPC basis with a program like Adsense). Create an info product you can sell. Market products and services you genuinely love to your mailing list (however, don’t simply blast them with ads – you’d better have some useful content surrounding any calls to action).</div>
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Additionally, don’t be SCARED to monetize. I meet one too many bloggers who tell me they don’t try and monetize their site for fear of alienating readers. Well, as Lee Odden once said, “It’ll be tough to pay the bills with a wallet full of famous.” I’m not saying to slap Adsense at the top of every page or shove offers down readers throats. But there is NOTHING WRONG with monetizing a blog to help afford you the time and money to continue helping your readers on a regular basis. The minority that IS offended might bitch the loudest, but if you monetize tastefully, they WILL be the minority.</div>
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If you own a productivity blog and do a post on “Six Ways to Find Two More Hours in a Day” then LINK, with an affiliate link if possible, to the products or services that you’re showcasing as making their lives easier. You’re actually doing your readers a FAVOR. You can either A. not link them and force your users to do a off-site search to find them B. link to them without an affiliate link or C. link to them with an affiliate link and potentially get commission on something you were going to link to ANYWAY. Why the HELL would you not choose to use method C?</div>
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When it comes to monetizing, I’m also a big fan of doing reviews. That said, never lie, always be honest in your reviews and never sell out your readership’s trust in you for a twenty dollar affiliate commission. Oh, and for the love of all things PLEASE only review products you’ve actually USED. There’s enough crappy, bullshit reviews on the Internet. Make yours worthy of being read.</div>
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NOTE: Once you start monetizing, you need to add a Disclosure page to your site. Missy Ward has a great Disclosure page on her site you can take a look at. I’d say to take a look at <a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/disclosure/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #be2e59; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mine</a>, but it’s not exactly one you’d likely want to model your own after – but it still does the job. ;-)</div>
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USE TOOLS TO SEE WHAT’S WORKING (AND WHAT ISN’T)</h2>
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Once you have an audience, you need to start using tools to see what is working on your blog and what isn’t. You can use Google Analytics (free) to see where your users are coming from and what pages their visiting most. You can use Crazy Egg (paid) to see what users are clicking on (and what they’re not) when they’re on your site. You can use link cloakers (GoCodes is free – Eclipse Link Cloaker is better, but paid) to easily insert links (and be sure to use SID codes to identify which sales come from which ads) and as a result find out which ads and mentions are working and which aren’t. PopUp Domination (paid) is great for increasing newsletter subscribers.</div>
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Understand that most who attempt it won’t, but ANYONE CAN. You might be thinking, “Wow, thanks Rae. That was encouraging.” but the fact is that most people simply don’t follow through. If you really work at it and really FOLLOW all of the free advice out there you CAN do it. If you’re the type who would rather have condensed information in one spot versus searching the net, Then Traffic and Trust (paid) by Nick Reese might be a great starting point for you. But understand all of the free or paid information in the world isn’t going to help you unless you FOLLOW THROUGH.</div>
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Blogging isn’t easy money – it’s simply an easy opportunity. YOU have to decide what you’re going to make of it.</div>
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MASTER AFFILIATE NETWORKS</h2>
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I’ve written about master affiliate networks before. The master affiliate signs up with every affiliate program they can possibly find (most are partnered with over 10,000 merchants) and then recruits sub affiliates to use their master affiliate network links. They do all the work of joining the programs, getting approval from programs, maintaining the links to ensure they’re working, and even inserting the links on your website for you if you want (this is done by adding a piece of their code to your site header).</div>
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Because of the sales volume done by the master affiliate network with all their sub affiliates combined as a whole, they are able to negotiate higher commissions than you would be able to as an individual affiliate. The affiliate ends up making about the same amount as they would as an individual affiliate (in most cases) or a little less, but without having to do all of the above work. Master affiliate networks aren’t actually affiliates. They simply manage the co-op so to speak and take a cut of everyone’s commissions. That’s how they make THEIR revenue.</div>
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So let’s say you do a blog post and mention that you bought a new Canon Powershot and link to the page on Target’s website that features the item. Because Target is a merchant covered by the master affiliate network, they will automatically affiliate that link so that if anyone clicks thru and makes a purchase on Target as a result of you linking to them, you get commission on the sale.</div>
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I wouldn’t use a master affiliate network for products you regularly feature or advertise (I’d join the affiliate program directly if at all possible) but they can be extremely helpful in monetizing one off links to websites you’d never even check for an affiliate program otherwise.</div>
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While there may be multiple master affiliate networks out there, I only personally have experience with two: Viglink and Skimlinks. After testing it out on multiple sites, I’ve honestly found Viglink to be the better option for MY sites. However, I’d recommend you test out both for a month and then stick with the one that works the best for YOUR site.</div>
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IN-TEXT ADS</h2>
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No, I’m not talking about selling links in your posts or content. In-text ad companies give you a piece of code to put on your site and then links any words within your content that it has an advertiser paying to appear on. The links aren’t direct, give no search engine credit and have double underlines that will pop-up a small (and obviously labeled) advertisement when moused over. The company that I use for In-text advertising is<a href="http://www.kontera.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #be2e59; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kontera</a>.</div>
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If you go the In-text advertising route, be sure to keep an eye on your link density (meaning how many words in each post are linked). In my opinion, you want to be careful not to make the amount of In-text ads on the page to be obnoxious. With Kontera, you can increase or decrease the link density as you see fit. (P.S. if you have experience with alternate In-text ad networks, I’d love to hear about them in the comments.)</div>
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AD NETWORKS</h2>
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Ad networks work to sell advertising on your website and then deliver the advertising to your site via you placing their code on the site. They handle all reporting to (and collecting payment from) the advertiser and reporting to and (payment to) you as well. In return, you pay them a commission – usually in the range of 30-40% or more in my experience. They usually require you to designate them as the exclusive way to advertise on your site (meaning if someone comes to you wishing to advertise directly, you are required to make them go through the ad network anyway) and require a contract term of about a year. Again, based on my experience.</div>
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Typically, most ad networks only work with heavily trafficked sites with a mega amount of impressions to sell. Ad networks like Tribal Fusion aren’t even going to TALK to you unless you’re getting 500K uniques per month. However, there are a few ad networks that will work with smaller publishers. BuySellAds (BSA – which I recently started using) is one of them.</div>
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They support 6 mediums – web, mobile web, RSS, Tweets, apps (desktop, iOS, Android) and email. If you’ve got 100K pageviews a month and don’t violate any of their guidelines, then they definitely want to work with you. Publishers that have less than 100K pageviews per month are “evaluated” to see if BSA wants to work with them.</div>
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They put you in front a large network of advertisers and take a 25% cut of any ad sales you make for doing so. You set the ad prices and get to approve all advertisers before an ad goes live.</div>
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If you’re able to get in with BSA, I’d suggest you set some realistic ad prices. If you’re not making 1000 dollars per month on your blog through all other advertising methods, then you shouldn’t be charging 1000 dollars a month for a below the fold ad slot. Check out what other sites similar to yours are SUCCESSFULLY selling ad slots for.</div>
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As with everything else, your experience may vary. I’ve yet to find an ad company I’m really happy with (thus why I recently signed up for BSA). (P.S. if you have experience with alternate ad networks, I’d love to hear about them in the comments.)</div>
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GOOGLE ADSENSE</h2>
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I’m sure you know what Google AdSense is and how it works. You put Google’s code on your website and they show graphical or text based ads “relevant” to your content. The reason I don’t always use it is that you can’t control what’s shown (except for via an “exclude” list that is limited and means you have to constantly be checking your ads to add sites to it). Whether or not I use AdSense on a site has a lot to do with the site topic.</div>
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For instance, we chose not to use AdSense on our work at home mom site. Why? Because the site topic would draw nothing but those scammy “get paid to do surveys” type ads and we don’t want to advertise people stuff we know is basically crap. On our sites themed around cell phone use, the ads tend to be much more relevant.</div>
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Bottom line is that if I can find a way to get a CPM higher than the one I get with AdSense, I’ll gladly replace it. CPMs vary a LOT based on the site and topic. In some industries, it pays paltry compared to what you could make with affiliate programs and the above options. In others, it’s very tough to beat, especially when using custom channels.</div>
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You’ll need to test it to know which side of the fence your site is going to fall on in terms of relevancy, quality ads and CPM.</div>
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LINK CLOAKERS</h2>
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<span style="color: #1e1e1e;">I’ve written before about the various reasons why you should cloak your affiliate linksand that fact that I personally use </span><span style="color: magenta;">Eclipse Link Cloaker</span><span style="color: #1e1e1e;"> to do it. The reason I’m saying that using link cloaker can help make you more money is simple…</span></div>
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First, I can set certain words to auto link whenever I mention them (and limit the number of times it occurs, etc) – this means I don’t have to go and find an affiliate link every time I mention a product. This decreases the chances of me being too lazy to do so and ensures I always have every product I directly affiliate for linked.</div>
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Second, if an affiliate link changes, I only need to update it in one place (the Eclipse dashboard) to change the affiliate link sitewide. This reduces the chances of me having dead affiliate links in past posts when a merchant updates their linking methods or changes networks, etc.</div>
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TACKLE MAKING MORE REVENUE WITH YOUR BLOG SMARTLY</h2>
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Remember that you need SOME traffic to make any significant revenue. You don’t need 100,000 pageviews a month, but none of the above is going to make you cash if you’re only getting 20 visitors a day. Be sure you actually HAVE an audience to make money with (I typically don’t worry much about advertising, in most niches, until the site hits 10K pageviews per month – but your experience will vary depending on the topic and following).</div>
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Additionally, always monetize SMARTLY. I have a few ground rules when it comes to monetizing my websites…</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I always try to “incorporate” advertising vs. shoving it down peoples throats… if I can see three large Adsense ads on your site before I see any content, you’re doing it wrong – and Google might smack you for doing it wrong as well. You might make a little less money, but you’ll end up making more money overall by not alienating readers and increasing your overall following.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I never sell text links. Ever. And trust me, I’ve been tempted. Especially in industries where tons of other people do it and don’t see any negative ramifications from doing it. But it’s against Google law. I think it’s a BS “law”. But if you depend on Google for traffic, know that selling links is a high risk monetization tactic.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I always do my best to ensure my audience is served with legitimate ads from legitimate companies… for instance, I get tons of companies who want to advertise services that I know are BS here on Sugarrae. And I say no. Whatever fee they’re paying me to advertise won’t recoup the loss of a reader who was disappointed by their offerings and feels “I” am who led them to it. I’m not saying you have to use products by every advertiser who buys a 300×250 ad slot. I’m merely saying that if you KNOW something is crap, don’t advertise it to people.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Same goes for reviews. I will never sell my reputation for an affiliate commission. You shouldn’t either. Always be honest. If a friend or colleague asks you to review a product and you find upon doing so that you can’t recommend it and don’t want to post a negative review, then I’d simply decline doing the review. But don’t sing the praises of anything you don’t personally believe in or like for any reason.</li>
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Display Widgets allows you to assign any widget to show (or not show) on the sidebar within any category, post or page.</div>
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Is Display Widgets the most advanced widget for showing widgets conditionally in WordPress? Nope. But it is the best of the “easiest” I’ve found for those who don’t know (and don’t want to know) anything about programming or writing code.</div>
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Just install Display Widgets via your plugin administration screen and activate it. Now, when you go to your widgets under Appearance > Widgets, you’ll see that every widget you open now has a set of options to show or hide a widget based on a variety of factors.</div>
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WHY YOU SHOULD USE TARGETING IN SIDEBAR ADVERTISING</h2>
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There are plenty of reasons you might want to show targeted widgets in your sidebar. I’ll give a few examples below.</div>
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Showing people affiliated ads on specific topics they’re obviously interested in</h3>
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If someone is roaming around the Sugarrae website reading all of my SEO related posts, chances are – you guessed it – they’re interested in SEO. So showing them ads for merchants like Raven Tools which offers services specifically related to SEO just makes sense.</div>
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Avoiding showing people affiliated ads on specific topics they’re obviously not going to convert on</h3>
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If a user is in my Thesis tutorials category, chances are that they ALREADY USE THESIS. So showing them an ad FOR Thesis is simply a waste of real estate and revenue opportunity. Instead it makes more sense to opt to show them an ad for Themedy or Traffic and Trust from a potential conversion standpoint.</div>
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Utilizing custom AdSense channels</h3>
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I’ve already written about how custom channels can help you increase AdSense revenue. I’m currently migrating several of my affiliate sites into one large (and new) brand (more on that later). The site includes several tightly connected but yet completely different topics. I’ve created a different AdSense widget for the sidebar for each topic section so that advertisers can target the topic that is actually related to their specific product. The more targeted the audience of an ad, the more an advertiser is going to be willing to pay to get in front of them.</div>
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Creating custom ad zones</h3>
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As with Adsense channels, if you’re using an ad network to generate blog revenue, you can create targeted ad zones for the very same reasons (and results) as creating custom channels with Adsense.</div>
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Choosing different types of ads for different sections based on actual revenue numbers</h3>
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Not every topic makes the same money with the same ad platform. You may find an affiliate banner converts like crazy in one section of your site while AdSense has an unbeatable CPM rate in another and your ad network ads kills it in another. Not only does targeting your sidebar widgets allow you to show more relevant ads to the user, but it also allows you to pick and choose which types of ad platforms to show in the best slots based on your actual conversions and earnings.</div>
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Registered users are different than non registered users</h3>
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I don’t use registered user accounts here on Sugarrae (basically allowing or requiring a user to be logged in to comment), but I use them on a handful of other sites. A user that has taken the time to create an account with your blog is obviously “warm” to you – and your site – and can be marketed to differently as a result of that assumption. Let’s say you have a newsletter subscription widget in your sidebar. You might choose to create two. One generic sign up widget that shows to non registered or logged out users and one more specific to show to logged in users with different copy like “You’re already a member of our community, shouldn’t you be a member of our mailing list too? It’s FREE!”</div>
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TARGETING ADS INCREASES REVENUE POTENTIAL AND THE USER EXPERIENCE</h2>
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If you’re not currently targeting the ads on your blog, you’re missing out on potential revenue. Additionally, users could be missing out on being shown potential solutions to their specific needs or problems. Whether you do it via custom code, more advanced (and slightly more confusing for newbies) widgets or a simple solution like Display Widgets, you should definitely be doing it.</div>
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Have experience with alternate conditional widget plugins? Please feel free to share your experiences in the comments below.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-41113680865549730992013-03-02T00:28:00.001-08:002013-03-02T00:28:19.130-08:005 WAYS TO GET MORE OUT OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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#1 – USE AVINASH’S GREAT PAGE EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS REPORT</h2>
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Click <a href="https://www.google.com/analytics/web/permalink?type=custom_report&uid=YFlzg-qQSqKidxQedAVJDA" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #be2e59; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this link</a> , then click ‘Create Report’ in Google Analytics, and bam—shiny new report. This report tells you which pages are doing the best job of attracting and keeping visitors. By the way, Avinash has two other fantastic reports dealing with visitor acquisition and <span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PPC</span> in the same blog post.</div>
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<span style="color: #be2e59; font-size: 1.25rem; text-transform: uppercase;">#2 – INTEGRATE ADWORDS</span></div>
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I’d hope you’ve already done this, but if you’re buying Adwords traffic, integrate Adwords into your Analytics profile. The insights are priceless, from the cost per click to the value of each click from <span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PPC</span>. You’ll never waste <span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PPC</span> money again. (Click all pictures to see the full size image)</div>
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Follow the instructions in Analytics for Adwords integration. They change so often I can’t even try to approach the subject in a single blog post. But it’s never that hard to do.</div>
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#3 – LOOK AT QUERY DIVERSITY</h2>
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Organic search is a HUGE traffic driver. It gets stronger as you diversify the set of unique phrases driving traffic to your site. That query diversity is the single best indicator of <span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SEO</span> health. Find it under Traffic Sources > Search Engine Optimization > Queries. See that little number at the bottom right? That’s your query diversity. More is better.</div>
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Note that you may have to set up Webmaster Tools integration, first. Go to Admin > Property Settings > Webmaster Tools Settings. Follow the instructions there.</div>
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#4 – TRACK ONSITE SEARCH TERMS</h2>
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Google Analytics has a built-in tool for onsite search tracking. Go to Admin. Then select the individual site profile. Click Profile Settings and check ‘Do track Site Search’.</div>
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Then enter the search query parameter you use for onsite search. If you’re not sure what the query parameter is, go to your site, run a search, and then look at the <span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">URL</span> of the search results page. Here’s one from our site, using Google Custom Search:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.portent.com/?cx=007596975322806826722%3A6nbeigurb9o&ie=<span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UTF</span>-8&s=test+query</em></div>
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In that <span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">URL</span>, the ‘s=test+query’ is what matters. ‘s’ is the query parameter. Enter that into the query parameter field, click ‘Apply’, and you’ll start getting great data regarding onsite search terms:</div>
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If you can deliver the content folks are searching for in the top 2-3 phrases right away, on the home page, you’ll see an <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">immediate</em> boost in conversions.</div>
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#5 – SET INTELLIGENCE ALERTS</h2>
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In 2009 I started a blog about my favorite video game: Starcraft. I decided to give it a shot in the arm by buying some traffic. I put in a bid with no maximum budget.</div>
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You’d think I’d know better after 14 years.</div>
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The next day, I took a peek at my Adwords account and let out a screech rivaling The Sound of Ultimate Suffering. I’d somehow done a broad-match buy on ‘craft’, thereby bringing my site 5,000 worthless clicks. I won’t even tell you the price.</div>
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It’s so frakking embarrassing I nearly retired on the spot. It still makes me whimper. My. God.</div>
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If I’d had an intelligence alert set up for traffic, or <span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PPC</span> costs, or just about anything else, I wouldn’t known right away. Intelligence alerts send you an e-mail the moment something happens, like, oh, a sudden surge in paid search traffic.</div>
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To set up an alert, go to Admin. Select your site profile. Then click Assets > Custom Alert > Create new alert. Tweak as desired.</div>
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You’ll now get a daily notification whenever your site reaches the alert condition:</div>
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It’s not the be-all of site notification, but it would’ve saved me at least $900 or so. Le sigh.</div>
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Know what it can do</h3>
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The most important lesson: Know what Google Analytics can do. It’s far more than a traffic reporting tool, and you can use it to refine and hone your affiliate sites for huge gains.</div>
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You don’t have to implement every feature on every site, but you should understand what’s possible. Your bank account will thank you.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-13086272661083088682013-03-02T00:25:00.003-08:002013-03-02T00:25:36.388-08:00TRACKING YOUR AFFILIATE PARTNERS AND WEBSITE EARNINGS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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TRACKING AFFILIATE PARTNERS & PROGRAMS</h2>
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I use a spreadsheet to keep track of every affiliate program I work with. I track the following in that document:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Main merchant website address</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dashboard or network website address</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dashboard or network username</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dashboard or network password</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Name of my contact at the program (if any)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Email of my contact at the program (if any)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter handle of my contact at the program (if any)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The original uncloaked affiliate link for the program (to create new cloaked links when needed)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My cloaked link for that program (<a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-marketing/eclipse-link-cloaker-review/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #be2e59; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">why I cloak affiliate links</a>)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The link to my review of the program or product (if any)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The product niche</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The product commission rate</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whether or not I have a special commission rate (helps me know who I still need to ask for a higher payout if I’m doing a lot of sales for a product)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How the program pays me (direct deposit, check, Paypal, etc.)</li>
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I also list the link to my post on <a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/affiliate-marketing/how-to-add-sid-tracking-to-the-big-network-affiliate-links/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #be2e59; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">creating SID codes</a> for the bigger affiliate networks for easy reference. You can get a free copy of the template for the <a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Affiliate-Program-Tracking.xls" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #be2e59; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">above spreadsheet here</a>. I keep the spreadsheet updated as I add new merchants.</div>
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TRACKING AFFILIATE WEBSITE EARNINGS</h2>
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I use spreadsheets to track each website I own individually. It helps me know where to put my efforts, especially when I’m pressed for time. The below is what I track (note, I include all contextual and display advertising programs as “advertisers”):</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Website name</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Website address</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Date creatives were last updated</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SID code used for that website (I use the same SID for all programs for that site)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A list of the merchants I affiliate with for that site</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earnings from each merchant for that site by month</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gross yearly earning totals for each merchant</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EPC for each merchant by month and yearly CPC average</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gross yearly affiliate income for each month with all merchants combined</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A list of the advertisers I affiliate with for that site</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earnings from each advertiser for that site by month</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gross yearly earning totals for each advertiser</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gross yearly advertiser income for each month with all advertisers combined</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gross total monthly earnings – all in</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gross total annual earnings – all in</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A list of expenses (things like domain registration, hosting, promotional costs, development costs, etc.)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The net income the website generated – all in – by month</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.625; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The net income the website generated – all in – for the year</li>
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You can get a free copy of the template for the <a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #be2e59; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">above spreadsheet here</a>. I update this spreadsheet once a month. I have a lot of websites, so it takes me a full day to do so. But I’ve found it’s helped me increase my website earnings (by knowing what is performing and where to focus) enough to warrant the time.</div>
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They may not be fancy, but they get the job done. :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-42882110242087204152013-02-28T07:04:00.000-08:002013-02-28T07:04:00.399-08:00Privacy Attacks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here attacker uses various automated tools which are freely available on the internet. Some of them are as follows:<br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">1) Trojan :-</span></b> Trojan is a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) which enable attacker to execute various software and hardware instructions on the target system.<br /><br />Most trojans consist of two parts -<br />a) The Server Part :- It has to be installed on the the victim's computer.<br />b) The Client Part :- It is installed on attacker's system. This part gives attacker complete control over target computer.<br /><br />Netbus, Girlfriend, sub7, Beast, Back Orifice are some of the popular trojans.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">2) Keylogger :-</span></b> Keyloggers are the tools which enable attacker to record all the keystrokes made by victim and send it's logs secretly to the attacker's e-mail address which is previously set by him.<br /><br />Almost all the Trojans have keylogging function.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: 10.5000pt; font-style: italic; mso-shading: rgb(255,255,255); mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Use of latest updated antirus-firewall, detect the presence of trojan and remove it permanently.</span></blockquote>
<br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">3) Spyware :-</span></b> Spyware utilities are the malicious programs that spy on the activities of victim, and covertly pass on the recorded information to the attacker without the victim's consent. Most spyware utilities monitor and record the victim's internet-surfing habits. Typically, a spyware tool is built into a host .exe file or utility. If a victim downloads and executes an infected .exe file, then the spyware becomes active on the victim's system.<br />Spyware tools can be hidden both in .exe files an even ordinary cookie files.<br />Most spyware tools are created and released on the internet with the aim of collecting useful information about a large number of Internet users for marketing and advertising purposes. On many occasions, attacker also use spyware tools for corporate espionage and spying purposes.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><b>4) Sniffer :- </b></span>Sniffers were originally developed as a tool for debugging/troubleshooting network problems.<br />The Ethernet based sniffer works with network interface card (NIC) to capture interprete and save the data packets sent across the network.<br />Sniffer can turn out to be quite dangerous. If an attacker manages to install a sniffer on your system or the router of your network, then all data including passwords, private messages, company secrets, etc. get captured.<br /><br />Recommended Tools<br /><br /><br />Snort <br /><br />http://www.snort.org<br /><br /><br />Ethereal <br /><br />http://www.ethereal.com<br /><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-36060398580715149152013-02-28T06:58:00.000-08:002013-02-28T06:58:00.085-08:00Password Hacking<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Password cracking is the process of recovering secret passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system. A common approach is to repeatedly try guesses for the password.<br />Most passwords can be cracked by using following techniques : <br /><br /><b><span style="color: #073763;">1) Hashing :</span><span style="color: blue;">-</span></b> Here we will refer to the one way function (which may be either an encryption function or cryptographic hash) employed as a hash and its output as a hashed password.<br />If a system uses a reversible function to obscure stored passwords, exploiting that weakness can recover even 'well-chosen' passwords. <br />One example is the LM hash that Microsoft Windows uses by default to store user passwords that are less than 15 characters in length. <br />LM hash breaks the password into two 7-character fields which are then hashed separately, allowing each half to be attacked separately. <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: 10.5000pt; font-style: italic; mso-shading: rgb(255,255,255); mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hash functions like SHA-512, SHA-1, and MD5 are considered impossible to invert when used correctly.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: bold;">2) Guessing :-</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Many passwords can be guessed either by humans or by sophisticated cracking programs armed with dictionaries (dictionary based) and the user's personal information.</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">Not surprisingly, many users choose weak passwords, usually one related to themselves in some way. Repeated research over some 40 years has demonstrated that around 40% of user-chosen passwords are readily guessable by programs. Examples of insecure choices include:</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* blank (none) </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* the word "password", "passcode", "admin" and their derivatives </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* the user's name or login name </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* the name of their significant other or another person (loved one)</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* their birthplace or date of birth </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* a pet's name </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* a dictionary word in any language </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* automobile licence plate number </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* a row of letters from a standard keyboard layout (eg, the qwerty keyboard -- qwerty itself, asdf, or qwertyuiop) </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">* a simple modification of one of the preceding, such as suffixing a digit or reversing the order of the letters. </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">and so on....</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">In one survery of MySpace passwords which had been phished, 3.8 percent of passwords were a single word found in a dictionary, and another 12 percent were a word plus a final digit; two-thirds of the time that digit was.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;">A password containing both uppercase & lowercase characters, numbers and special characters too; is a strong password and can never be guessed.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0033ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: bold;">3) Default Passwords :-</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"> A moderately high number of local and online applications have inbuilt default passwords that have been configured by programmers during development stages of software. There are lots of applications running on the internet on which default passwords are enabled. So, it is quite easy for an attacker to enter default password and gain access to sensitive information. A list containing default passwords of some of the most popular applications is available on the internet.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;">Always disable or change the applications' (both online and offline) default username-password pairs.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0033ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: bold;">4) Brute Force :-</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"> If all other techniques failed, then attackers uses brute force password cracking technique. Here an automatic tool is used which tries all possible combinations of available keys on the keyboard. As soon as correct password is reached it displays on the screen.This techniques takes extremely long time to complete, but password will surely cracked.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;">Long is the password, large is the time taken to brute force it.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0033ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: bold;">5) Phishing :-</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"> This is the most effective and easily executable password cracking technique which is generally used to crack the passwords of e-mail accounts, and all those accounts where secret information or sensitive personal information is stored by user such as social networking websites, matrimonial websites, etc.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">Phishing is a technique in which the attacker creates the fake login screen and send it to the victim, hoping that the victim gets fooled into entering the account username and password. As soon as victim click on "enter" or "login" login button this information reaches to the attacker using scripts or online form processors while the user(victim) is redirected to home page of e-mail service provider.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-85133759798940561922013-02-28T06:50:00.001-08:002013-02-28T06:50:28.430-08:00Hide Entire Drives Partition Without Registry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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-: Hide Entire Drives Partition Without Registry :-</h3>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Here is a cool technique which hides entire hard disk drives by a simple procedure.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">This is the best security tip to be employ against unauthorised users.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">1)</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Go to Start > Run > type "diskpart".</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">A DOS window will appear with following description.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">DISKPART></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">2)</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Then type "list volume"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">The result will look something like one as shown below-</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">3)</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Suppose you want to hide drive E then type "select volume 3"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Then a message will appear in same window { Volume 3 is the selected volume}</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">4)</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Now type "remove letter E"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Now a message will come { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter }</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">sometime it requires to reboot the computer.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Diskpart will remove the letter.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unknown volume.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Your Data is now safe from unauthorised users.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">To access the content of hidden Drive repeat the process mentioned above. But in 4th step replace " remove" by "assign".</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">It means type "assign letter E". </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-11082395856779403122013-02-28T06:49:00.004-08:002013-02-28T06:49:49.801-08:00Improve Windows-XP Shutdown Speed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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-: Improve Windows-XP Shutdown Speed :-</h3>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">This tweak reduces the time Windows-XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Follow the steps as given below-</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">1)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Go to Start then select Run </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">2)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Type 'Regedit' and click ok </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">3)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">4)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">5)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Right click and select 'Modify' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">6)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Change the value to '1000' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">7)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Click 'OK' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">8)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Now select 'HungAppTimeout' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">9)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Right click and select 'Modify' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">10)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Change the value to '1000' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">11)</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Click 'OK' </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-84162695031315786242013-02-28T06:49:00.001-08:002013-02-28T06:49:10.756-08:00Pop A Banner Each Time Windows Boots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">To pop a banner which can contain any message you want to display just before a user is going to log on. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Go to the key :- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinLogon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Now create a new string Value in the right pane named 'LegalNoticeCaption' and enter the value that you want to see in the MenuBar. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Now create yet another new string value and name it: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">'LegalNoticeText'. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Modify it and insert the message you want to display each time Windows boots. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">This can be effectively used to display the company's private policy each time the user logs on to his NT box. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">It's '.reg' file would be: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "LegalNoticeCaption"="Caption here."</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06681997348538624861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935747294510425086.post-18399653543554169752013-02-28T06:47:00.002-08:002013-02-28T06:47:21.238-08:00Windows Genuine Hack – 100% Works<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Windows Genuine Hack :-</div>
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<strong>1)</strong> Download “Windows.Genuine.Advantage.Validation..rar”<br /><strong>2)</strong> Extract It.<br /><strong>3)</strong> Run “installer.bat” file.<br /><strong>4)</strong> Reboot.<br /><strong>5)</strong> Enjoy Your Validated Windows.</div>
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<img alt="windows genuine" src="http://www.insecure.in/images/windows_genuine.jpg" /></div>
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<strong>Download :</strong></div>
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http://rapidshare.com/files/115531401/Windows.Genuine.Advantage.Validation..rar</div>
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