Social Media Marketing

I signed up for Pownce yesterday and i have 6 invites. If anybody is intrested in for a quick sign up drop me a mail through contact page and you will have the invite, provided it’s still available.

What is Pownce?

Pownce is similar to micro blogging or like twitter , with a step further you can send links and even files using pownce to all your friends. It let’s you share files with your friends.

Pownce let’s you share

• Files
• Messages
• Links
• Events

You can keep a track of your replies and the stuff you have sent over to your friends.

Related Reading

• Darin Carter – What is Pownce?
• Social Computing Magazine – Microblogging – Pownce twitter jaiku
• Valley wag – Why Pownce is Popular

Those three articles made me feel like i should write more on Pownce. Need a Pownce invite just drop a Mail! You can find me in Pownce in with username Adheeth .

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Search is one factor where you can always bring in enormous amount of traffic to your website and also the major factor that we cant afford to loose is that it’s the search engine traffic that can really bring in money for you. It’s said search engines visitors are the ones who click your advertisements rather that those traffic from social networking or referrals.

The Most Important thing once you have your website running is to submit your website to search engines. I’ll here list out majority of the search engines and where to submit your link to these search engines.

TOP Search Engines

• Google – Add Your Website To Google Search
  Google Search can be one of the major traffic drivers to your site if you have a nice niche page which get’s listed on the front page of google. But’s never always depend always on google traffic. IT’s a Must That you should submit your website to Google.
• Yahoo Search – Submit URL to Yahoo Search. Choose the Free Option. You need to Have a yahoo id and sign-in to yahoo to submit the website.
• MSN live Search – Submit to MSN LIVE
• Snap (Ajax Powered) – Add Url to Snap
• ASK – Goto Mystuff Register with ASK and Start adding URL after Confirmation.
• What You Seek – Add your Url / Website to What You Seek
• WiseNut – Submit your Site to WiseNut.
• Exact Seek – Site Submission On Exact Seek.
• Scrub the Web – Scrub the Web Submit your Webpage
• Jayde – Website Submission
• SplatSearch – Add Url to Splash Search Engine
• Traffic Auction – Add Link.
• Entire Web – Free Submission
• Aesop – Submit your URL
• Changing Links – Add Your Link
• Admcity – Add Url
• Uppersites – Add Url

Second Tier Search Engines

• Aol Search – Powered By Google
• Altavista – Powered By Yahoo
  
• Gigablast – Add Url (At this Moment this feature was currently Disabled)
• Alltheweb – Powered by Yahoo Search

The List Never Stops. I’ll Be soon working more on a Detailed List Of More Search Engines from Internet. I’ll Release the Complete List As soon as Possible. Im sure all these will definitely Help a newbie( thatz what the aim of this site is).

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Contextual Advertisements are the ones which dynamically appear in a webpage. It’s not like you selling you webspace and keeping a static permanent link. Once a page is loaded the advertisement programs scans the entire page and attempts to find the Hot Keywords in the page and displays advertisements based on that keyword on the page. The ads may be either placed in the webpage or it can be either a popup based on the publisher program you are using.

Related Reading :

• Wikipedia Contextual Advertising
• Four Types of Contextual Advertising

Major Contextual Advertising Programs

• MSN adCenter
• Google Adsense
• Adbrite
• Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN)
• Chitika
• eBay AdContext

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Adbrite is another pretty good alternative to Google adsense with a lot more features and options to monetize your website using adbrite. The Signup process for adbrite is pretty simple. The best part of adbrite is that it accepts adult/casino websites. Adbrite also let’s you sell adspace in your website(you can set your own pricing). if you website is getting heavy traffic then adbrite can monetize your website/ blog pretty well. adbrite analyzes your website and decides on the pricing and the type of ads that your website will serve. Once you place adbrite they shows ads from their network and you earn for showing network ads also.

Types of Ad Options with adsense

• Like adsense and every other Monetizing programs adbrite letz you have the option to place text,image advertisements as your first choice. The options are Skyscrapers,Square Boxes, Horizontal ads to name some.
• Adbrite also letz you place inline advertisements. Means it analyzes your website and chooses some keyword and displays a link and advertisement when you hover through that link.( The chances of earning through inline advertisements is more)
• Interstitial ads – It letz you place something like a splash page when you navigate between pages with the splash like page containing advertisements
• BriteVideo – let’s you place advertisements in your video files
• BritePic – let’s you place advertisements in your picture files

The minimum amount you need in your adbrite account before you can get payment is $5( which is pretty good for small sites). AdBrite issues payments in US Dollars on a net 60 basis. For example, earnings you made in March 2007, will get paid out in May 2007. If your net-60 revenue does not meet your minimum check amount, this revenue will automatically roll over to the following month. Checks are processed on the last day of the month, each month +/- 5 business days.

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Google Web History let’s you keep track of all the websites you have visited, all the search you have done. To include the web pages you visit in your web history, you need to install Toolbar with PageRank enabled. PageRank will send information about these pages to Google and associate it with your Google Account.

For Further Reading:

• Google Search History Expands, Becomes Web History – Searchenginland
  Danny Sullivan has written a pretty long article on web history where he has categorized the article into parts for easy reading. The Topics Covered by Him are.
  * Web History Depends On Google Toolbar
  * Pushing The Google Toolbar
  * Using Your Web History
  * Browsing Page Visits
  * Searching & What Gets Stored
  * Pausing Web History
  * Deleting Web History
  * Permanently Ending Web History
  * Toolbar Alternatives
  * Web History, Personalized Search & Closing The Loop
  * Should You Worry?
• Google Webhistory Very Cool, Very Creepy – Pcworld
• Google Webhistory – Dany Ayers

I haven’t tried out Web history ,May be it can be helpful for me because i browse from Work as well as home and i keep doing a lot of searches at work in between free timeand sometimes i just close the browser in a hurry and loose the page that i have searched out with some effort. With web history i can now keep a track of all searches and pages i visited. Some stay it’s like exposing you out completely to Google(with your mails,orkut profile details, adsense contact address and now what you browse). Whatever is the case im giving it a try and see whether it can do me any good.

First Impression

The First Search i did after enabling web history was for the keyword web history itself in google(ofcourse me logged into google account) and my what my web history said what keyword i searched, at what time, and how many sites i visited based on that search presented in a bulletted list like format under the particular keyword searched(in this case ” web history”). Google has pretty neatly worked on Web history so that the information about all your searched and the sites you visited are maintained. With this tool i can surely keep track of all my searches(keywords) and then keep a track of them laters from web history. Web history keeps a track of whatever site you visit. So if you dont want google to invade too much into your privacy, disable web history.

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When you start a WordPress Blog it’s pretty essential to have plugins to increase the usefulness of the blog. What Makes WordPress the most used Blogging tool is because of the large number of plugin’s that are available to enhance your blog. When i Started this blog i had to search and search and goto different sites to find the perfect and most needed plugins for Earn Money Online. Top 10 Plugins for WordPress Posts are there everywhere in almost all famous blogs. Here i Thought of Providing a One time Pack with all Important and Most Wanted WordPress Plugin’s for Download in a single file which can make your life easy.

Before I can give you the Pack. I Should talk about the Plugin’s that Would Be available in this List.

• Akismet
  It comes in Default with WordPress(Still ive included this in the Pack). It’s a Must To activate this plugin to keep your Blog clean from Spam Comments. To activate it you’ll need WordPress API key, which is freely available to every wordpress.com user. Once activated you can access it through ‘Options ->Discussion’. As soon as your site is indexed in search engine, the spam comments start flooding in. Akismet, is created by Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress.
• Subscribe to Comments is a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.
• Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin that keeps track of activity on your blog and calculates a popularity percentage for each post and page.Newer Posts Will have less Popularity and the most Viewed post will have 100% popularity and so on.
• WP-ContactForm allowing you to just drop a contact form on any post or page throughout your WordPress site, Thus you dont have to display your email address in Public.
• Share It – allows you to submit the post to Social Bookmarking sites and also to share the post as Email to your friends.
• Google Sitemaps – This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.Access it through ‘Options -> Sitemap’.
• WP Stats – Displys your Blog Statistics.Top 10 Posts.Top Ten Commenters etc. Pretty useful to know who your blog is general and pretty simple to understand also.
• WordPress Reports – Fetches statistics from Google Analytics and Feedburner and adds them to the new ‘Reports’ tab.So you dont have to go to Google Analytics and feedburner to check your statistics.
• All in One SEO – It’s an Excellent Plugin to Optimise your Blog for Search Engine.
• Related Posts – Shows Similar Posts Related to the post that’s presently Viewed. It’s Good Plugin to get traffic to Similar posts of you as well.
• Ultimate Tag Warrior allows you to tag your posts. Tags helps narrow down what the post is about, it provides an easy form of navigating your site, and it allows Technorati to do a better job indexing your posts. The Technorati factor alone is a great reason to start tagging because your posts become easier to find at Technorati, thus driving more traffic to your website.

Download WordPress Plugin Packs with 11 WordPress Plugins
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Note : All Credits for the Plugin’s Goes to the Actual Plugin Owners. Please Visit their respective sites for more info on the Plugin’s and latest versions.

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One does not need to have a web design degree to plan something regarding web design. However, not every dedicated hosting service may be compatible with the design. Only a web development agency can figure that out. Sometimes with colocation hosting this dilemma is solved.

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If you think You can make Money Only By Bloggin, Then you are absolutely Wrong. Domaining is another important ways to Earn hell lots of money online. The only problem with Domaining is it needs a lot of market research and analysis to know which are the best domains you can buy. Domain Muguls Buy Domains in Bulk(it’s not in hundreds, it’s in thousands ).

How to Make Money With Domains
My Knowledge as Far as Domaining is considered is limited and i’m looking forward to try my luck buying some domains and parking them. The Unused Domains you have can be parked (Eg: with sedo) and Earn money through CPC .Also you can redirect domain traffic to an existing monetized website. Now the Fact is How can it  turn to huge Money?Consider the example, if you own a thousand domains and each domain is  parked and earning a minimum of about say $0.10 on an average, that’s $100/day or about $3000/mth. The costs of thousand Domains In Bulk Would be like $6-$8 per domain Making the annual Cost to $6000 to $8000, But the Total earnings from Domain parking would be $36000 ,Earning a pretty good profit of over $28000.

Aviva Directory have written an excellent article about Domaining also read the CNN article about Kevin Ham, Internet’s Domain Mogul.

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I just cant Imagine the Number of website’s that have come up within a span of two months Promising to pay you for recieving SMS Advertisements in your Mobile and you can increase your Earning opportunity by referring your friends. The Concept is similar to network Marketting. The Website’s in Question here Promises to Pay you Rs 0.20 For a Single Sms you recieve and 10p on every sms your referral recieves and likewise down upto 3 or 4 levels. Though Noone of the Sites have paid Me off and since it’s a trend that people sign up for all these sites hoping one day they will pay you. Anyways here goes the List

• Mginger
  Mginger is One of the First sites that came up in the scene. Started by IIT Passed out, Mginer was quite happy to get enough user base and people started recommending and referring like a storm. The higest earning of a user from Mginer is Rs 17(datz no money)
• Admad
  Admad is another one that sprouted up after Mginger Huge Sucess(not in term’s of money for user’s but in terms of Huge Sign ups)
• Mearn
  It took me a lot of time to recieve the Confirmation Code. Please be patient with this. The concept of Mearn is just the same as other two
• MGarlic -Another One offering you money for receiving sms,Concept the Same. Also claims to give you Savings on Money by using discount coupons offered by Advertisers.

If at all you are Planning to try out. I recommend the First Two to try your Luck earning from Mobile by recieveing Sms in india. A leat concept to Get Paid for recieving SMS. Once these sites get Advertisers money can flow in to your accounts and also SMS to your inboxes.
Note: These Sites can only Hit 30-40% of the Indian Mobile User to the MAX because the Reach of internet is Pretty less compared to the reach of mobile. To improve this they can try registering people through SMS also as a method rather than the website registrations alone.

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Adheeth’s Free Sms Service to India Link has been down ever since the server migration. I’ll try to restore it back as soon as possible.
Update: Ive made the free service Up.It’s not tested and no gurantees.
Free sms to India service accessible at http://sms.adheeth.com
 Free SMS services to India mostly are Email to SmS based, the delivery of which is not 100% guranteed. So the best option is as always use SMS from your mobile to sent important messages.

What Exactly is Email to sms?
 Every network/ Operator has a email message like @networkprovider.com. So you can send a message to yournumber@networkprovider.com to get that message from email into your mobile phone. Aah Some dint get what i was talking about. Letz take an Example. Assume that you are from Kerala India and you are using Airtel Kerala. The airtel kerala Domain is airtelkerala.com. and your Mobile number is 9895123456. So an Email sent to 9895123456@airtelkerala.com can get delivered to your Mobile phone as an SMS. This method of sending Email to Mobile phones using the network provider Email Address is called Email to SMS. Adheeth’s Sms service as Based on Email to Sms.
There are Many Free SMS to INDIA services offered in Internet. You can google it to find the Links

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If you are a webmaster or has intrest in web, you must definitely check out Digitalpoint Forums. It’s not a stable source of Income, Coz money comes from DP(i must say Using DP) only if you put in effort. Digital Point is the Mecca of Webmasters and people hunting for resources and ways to Build and make their site popular.

#3 Ways of Earning Money Online using Digital Point Forums

• Forum Posting/ Content Posting / Voting / Digging / Commenting
  The Forum to Check out is Services thread that comes under Business>Buy Sell Or Trade. Visit DP daily, particulary this thread an watch out for posts like:
  Forum posting – you get paid $0.10 per forum post and upto $1 – $10 from a single site. It can prove a bit difficult in the beginning as the forum sometimes may not be of your interest or it’s niche may be of such that you may not have topics to start or speak off. If you are really keen on earning,Do some search on the niche and enter the forum and start posting. There is nothing wrong in trying. Im sure you will earn some money using forum posting.Some people also give you $0.50 for voting there news or digging their site. Posting Comments on youtube Videos(another $0.50) is also a kind of post that you can easily try out and earn some quick cash. Remeber small small amounts make it large. Put in small amounts you can comfortably make $10 from Digital point forums just by posting.
• Sell / Offer Service
  Another easy way of Earning Money Online is to Offer your services. If you are Keen on Helping( Not for free) you can earn Money. You can offer Directory Submission services to your fellow DP members(25 pr3+ Directory Submissions for $5 is not a bad way to earn money).You can also Sell your Domains, Codes , Myspace Urls / Link Space etc. Some people i have seen sell rapidshare accounts/Offer SEO services / Cheap Domain names etc.
• Design/ Program and EARN
  If you are good at designing, you can design Logo’s, headers,Buttons, page layouts and Earn Pretty BIG money. People do pay you well in DP for the work. If you are good in programming you can get good offers to earn. The Minmum Pay out would be $10 for small coding Jobs. If you can install scripts you can earn $20 plus for single installtions of scripts.

I gave my try on DP and i could Earn $30 in just 4 days with some hours effort. I strongly recommend DP as a way to earn some money Online.

PS : You Need to have a Paypal to Get Paid

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