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In today’s post, I will tell you how to make money with ClickBooth. I created an account on ClickBooth recently with my Scopeformoney.com blog. During the registration, I was asked to enter my phone number which they people use for account verification. When I entered my phone number, they called me (Automatic call) and given me 4 digits code that I used for my account verification. They people took only 72 hours to approve my blog at their advertising network.

ClickBooth is a performance based cost per action or cost per acquisition (CPA) advertising network like Commission Junction (CJ). They have more than 600 campaigns in their network and thus you will not have a problem in finding a suitable campaign according to your website/blog content. As a publisher or blogger, you can make from $.40 to $240 per lead according to the advertiser’s requirement.

The lead action defined by advertiser can be inputting an e-mail address, form fill up, purchasing a product or entering Zip code etc.

Referral Program

With ClickBooth you can make any amount of money depending upon the number of publishers/bloggers you send to them. You will earn 2% of total money your referrals make for lifetime plus $10 per signup.

Payment system

ClickBooth can send you the payments via check or paypal which ever you prefer. Their minimum payout is $50. They send the earnings for current month on the 15th of next month if you reach their minimum payout of $50 in the current month.

So there are many money making opportunities for all publishers/bloggers at ClickBooth. Create a publisher account on ClickBooth today to start making money with their CPA and referral program.

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Matched.co.uk processed my first payment on 15th of July in my paypal account. It takes up to 7 business days to receive payment in our paypal accounts. I received $89.35 from Matched.co.uk yesterday in my paypal account. Here is the payment proof for my first payment from them:

This is the amount that I earned in the month of June while working for them. I earned this money by placing Matched.co.uk banners on 3 of my blogs. You people as well can earn lots of money with their banner advertising program.

To start making money with them, all you need is create an account on Matched.co.uk and submit your blogs there with their internal pages. They have wide range of advertisers in all major categories including Arts, Business, Career, Computers, Education, Electronics, Entertainment, Fashion, Finance, Games, Health, Home, Internet, Kids, Real Estate, Sports, and Travel etc.

If you create an account on Matched.co.uk today, you will receive $10 bonus, which will be added to your first payment from them.

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Yesterday, I received $12 from Smorty in my paypal account. I earned this money for writing 2 sponsored posts for advertisers available on Smorty. Here is the payment proof from Smorty:

If you have a blog, you people as well can make money with Smorty. In most of the cases, your blog will be approved there as they don’t have much condition that your blog must satisfy.

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NetLine is a marketing service company started in 1994 and is offering B2B services to Advertisers, Marketers and Publishers. They have a popular money making program for bloggers and site owners in the form of RevResponse. RevResponse is not a CPC (cost per click) or PPC (pay per click) program like Google adsense but is a CPA (cost per action) kind of advertising program.

The basic concept behind RevResponse is that we have to share free products and services offered by RevResponse on our websites/blogs and in return they will pay us from $1.5 to $20 per lead that is generated through our website or blog. The best thing about RevResponse is that they offer us targeted content and resources according to our blog/website niche and gives us the chance to make some extra money while sharing their widgets, text links and banners.

RevResponse covers free products and services in 33 major categories including computers, Education, Finance, Health care, Internet, IT, Travel and marketing. So they are covering all major categories and thus your blog/website will not have any difficulty in finding some useful free stuff to share with their readers.

RevResponse has a great affiliate program that pays you 20 percent of earnings that your referrals make in the first six months after signing up with your referral code. They have a nice blog and forum where the members can learn more about their services and post their questions in the discussion forum.

Payment System

RevResponse send payments via check and paypal every month. Their default payment mode is Check but we can get payment in our paypal account but that feature is available on request only. Their minimum payout is $50 only. They send the payments 45 days after the end of a month in which the revenue is generated.

So create an account on RevResponse today if your website/blog is in B2B kind of niche.

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Google adwords keyword tool is really helpful for people who are willing to optimize their campaigns on Google Adwords. Also this keyword tool from Google is useful for publishers and bloggers who are aiming at making money from Google adsense. The best thing about this keyword suggestion tool from Google is that it is free of cost and you don’t need to create an account on Google adwords to use it.

To start using it, open Google adwords keywords tool in your address bar. When you open this URL, you are offered to use it in two ways. One is ‘Descriptive words’ or ‘Phrases’ search and second one is ‘Website content search’.

Let’s know how to use this amazing keyword tool from Google in both ways:

Descriptive words

I started using this tool by entering ‘make money online’ in the box available, keeping ‘Use synonyms’ option checked and filling the right Captcha. The result gives me long list of keywords related to my searched term ‘make money online’ with their relevance.

With keyword relevance, there are many more options like ‘Advertiser Competition’, ‘Search Volume’ for last month, Avg search volume, ‘Search Volume Trends’ etc we can use if you are aiming at making money with Google Adwords or Google adsense. And if you are willing to get results for a particular country or Territory in a particular language, you can specify that as well in the option available. By default, Google adwords keyword tool shows results that are tailored to English, United States.

Website Content

Now go back to the top and select the ‘Website Content’ option. Now enter the Address of website or blog from which you want Google adwords keyword tool to kind the related keyword list within content. And if you want this keyword tool to find related keywords on a single page that you specify, uncheck the click against ‘Include other pages on my site linked from this URL’. And in case, you want this keyword tool to include all pages from your website for keywords finding, keep it checked.

I entered the URL of my blog http://www.scopeformoney.com in the box available and press ‘Get Keywords idea’ button. This time also, I got a list of keywords with drop down menu and could view this list in various forms according to my requirements.

For my blog Scopeformoney, I get the following results:
Since I blog about making money online, PPC, search engine optimization, affiliate programs, keywords, adwords & blogging, I don’t see any problem with these results.

For every keyword, there is a list of related keywords or phrases with search volume.

Google adwords keywords tool is surely helpful for advertisers who aim at optimizing their ads and keywords in Google adwords. But with this bloggers and publishers as well can use it to earn more money with Google adsense contextual advertising.

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Currently I’m use Google analytics to monitor all visitor activities on my websites and blogs. Prior to this, I was using Statcounter to keep track of visitors on my websites. I love Google analytics because it gives me lots of details about the people that are visiting my website.

Some facts about Google analytics

Google analytics is a free traffic monitoring service offered by Google that webmasters and bloggers use to monitor the traffic on their websites and blogs. Google analytics (GA) can track all kind of referrals including referrals from search engines, display advertising, PPC networks, e-mail marketing and PDF documents. We can monitor up to 50 websites with a single account on GA.

How to use Google Analytics

To start using GA, we need to create an account on Google analytics. If you have already a gmail account or Google account, you can use that to sign up on GA. If you don’t have a account on Gmail or Google.com, create an account on any of them. Once you complete the information asked during the sign up process, you will be offered some ready to use Java Script code that you will need to add to your website or blog template from where it will be visible on all pages in your website/blog.

Once you have added the GA tracking code in your website template, click on the ‘Check Status’ link available in your GA account. By clicking this link, you will know if you have installed the Urchin (GA code) properly on your website or not. Now check your GA account after 5-6 hours, you will have access to visitors stats that visited your website in the last few hours. Traffic stats that are available through Google Analytics cab be 3-4 hours in arrears of real time.

Benefits of using Google analytics

With Google analytics, we are able to know how many people are actually visiting our website on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. With GA, we have full access to all Sources from where we are getting the traffic and which keyword is giving you the maximum visitors like. Here is the list of some benefits that we get with Google Analytics:

Top Traffic Sources

We have full access to all traffic sources even if we got even single click of that source. Top traffic sources for my blog are Google, Yahoo, MSN, Wikipedia, Blogcatalog, Mybloglog, DP forum, StumbleUpon, Digg, Squidoo and even some people directly visiting my blog.

Keywords list

GA gives you the complete list of keywords that people use to find your website in search engines with their respective counts. If your website is appearing on top on Google, Yahoo or MSN for a particular keyword, then you can use GA actually to see how many
People you are driving to your website with this keyword on daily basis.

Visitor type

Visitor type gives you the count and percentage of new visitor and Returning visitor. One should aim at increasing Returning visitor to their website.

Landing page

Landing page is the page of your website that visitor arrives after clicking on a link. It can be the home page or any other page on your website. So with landing page, you can judge how people are actually finding your website pages and the most used pages on your website.

Continent

This feature tells you how many people you are actually getting from all continents. Like how many people actually visited your website from Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania or Africa continent.

Sub Continent Region

Sub continent feature tells you how many people you are getting on your website from various parts of all continents like Northern America, Northern Europe, South-Eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Southern Asia, Western Asia, Caribbean, Eastern Asia, Western Europe, Southern Europe etc.

Country/Territory

With this service, you will know which country is giving you the maximum visitor with total visitor count from a particular country. Some of countries from where I get the traffic on my websites are United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Germany, Ireland etc.

Region

It will give you the complete list of regions people are coming using all major search engines.

City

With this feature, you can know which city is giving you the maximum number of hits on your website worldwide.

Browser

It informs you about the web browser people are using to find your website. Mostly people use internet Explorer or Firefox to surf internet. So you can expect these web browsers giving you the most of traffic on your website. Safari, Netscape, Opera and NetFront are some other web browsers people use to browse internet.

Direct Traffic

It will inform you about the number of people who actually open your website directly by typing your website URL in their address bar.

Referring Sites

It gives you the list of all referring sites that people actually use to click to your website links available on these sites.

Miscellaneous

With these terms, you will know about many more terms like Page Views, Bounce Rate, New visits, Avg. time on site, paid, non-paid, Adwords, Campaigns when you start using Google Analytics on your website or blog.

I hope this article will help you better understand Google analytics and its usage. And if you have any question about Google analytics, let me know in the comments section.

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How you people know the blog you are visiting is a popular blog? I use certain parameters to know the popularity of a blog like Google page rank, Alexa Rankings and Technorati Authority and its rankings. In today’s post, I will talk about ways to increase a blog authority and rankings on Technorati.

1. Technorati Account - First of all if you have a blog, create an account on Technorati and claim your blog there to start increasing your rankings and authority on Technorati.
2. Dofollow Blogs - Find a list of dofollow blogs by making a search for ‘Dofollow blogs list’ on Google. Also if you spend some time on webmaster, Internet marketing or search engine related forums, you will be able to find many list of dofollow blogs. Sitepoint, DPforum, SoChat, webproworld are some of big discussion forums about internet marketing, search engines, seo, blogging and affiliate marketing kind of stuff.
3. Link Exchange - create a big list of top bloggers in your niche with their contact information. When you have the list, send them the e-mail request explaining that you are willing to exchange link with their blogs. When you do it, try to be as much polite you can and don’t send the same e-mail format to all bloggers in your niche. Create a general e-mail format and then give it the personalized look by filling the information like blogger’s name, blog address, blog title, favorite post etc before sending it to each blogger.
4. Social Bookmarking - create a strong profile on top social media sites and submit your latest blog posts there. I would recommend using Digg, Mixx.com, Sphinn and stumbleupon if you are specially looking for ways to increase your Technorati authority and rankings.
5. Site & blog list - create a list of websites and blogs that are linking to you and then ping all of these URL’s one by one using Technorati Pinging form.
6. Content updation - write quality content on your blog and keep the posts coming to your blog on regular basis. Once you have added a new post to your blog, don’t forget to ping Technorati.
7. Guest blogging - use the blogger’s list that you created in step 2 and ask them you are willing to write a guest post on their blogs. In most of the cases, they will allow you for guest blogging. When you write a guest post for any of blogger in your niche, you will be able to get a quality link for your blog and also will be able to increase your Technorati authority as well.

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Google reader is a web based aggregator offered by Google which is capable of reading RSS and Atom feeds online as well as offline. I use Google Reader to manage all of my favorite bloggers and news site feeds. Google reader has lots of features like:

• Attractive interface that enables you to check all new items with a click
• Facility to import and export RSS feeds list in OPML file format
• Expended and list view option available for each item
• Easy marking of items being read in bulk and individually
• Easy addition of new RSS feeds
• Use Starred symbol for items that you want to use in near future
• Reading all recent items whether online or offline
• Using labels for managing RSS feeds in a better way

Add Subscriptions

Users can subscribe to RSS feeds by making a search with keywords of choice in ‘Add Subscription’ option available. Suppose you are looking for blog and sites for subscription that writes about ‘Making money online’, enter this keyword in search box that you get after clicking ‘Add Subscription’ link. Now you will have big list of sites and blogs with their subscriber’s count. To subscribe to any of RSS feed available in your search results, simply click on ‘Subscribe’ button. And if you already know the address of RSS feed you are willing to subscribe, simply paste its URL in ‘Add Subscription’ link.

RSS Management

By now you have entered the list of RSS feeds in your Google reader that you are aiming to monitor. Now it is the time to manage them in a better way. You can sort items by ‘oldest’, ‘newest’ or ‘Auto’ sorting under ‘View Settings’ option. With this, you can view items in ‘Expended View’ or ‘List view’

RSS Items Access

With Google reader, we can view recently added items whether we are online or offline. To set up Google Reader for offline use, we need to install ‘Google Gears’ extension. When we have activated the ‘Google Gears’ extension, we are able to view 2000 most recent items even if we are offline.

Import/Export Facility

Google reader has a great feature that enables us to Import or Export all RSS feed URLS in an OPML file format. This facility is especially helpful if you are willing to switch all of your current RSS Feeds to another account or are willing to subscribe to a big list of RSS Feeds in Bulk.

Requirements for Google reader

To start using Google Reader, you must have a Google Account and Java Script enabled with any of following browsers:

• Internet Explorer 6+
• Mozilla Firefox 1.0+
• Netscape 7.2+
• Opera 9.0+

Rojo, Bloglines, Netvibes and Newsgator are some other popular web based aggregator with Google reader.

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Keyword research is the first step that we take when it comes about promoting a website in various search engines including Google, yahoo and MSN. Without keywords, we cannot do any kind of on-page or off-page promotion kind of stuff for a website.

If we create keywords of our own and don’t use a good keyword suggestion tool, then we may end up with no traffic/profit from a website. For getting real traffic and money from a website, we need to target the keywords that people actually search in search engines.

For the last few months, I have been using the paid version of WordTracker, the best keyword tool available today in the market. With this keyword suggestion tool from WordTracker, I have been able to find what people are actually searching and how many times they are searching a particular keyword in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

You will find using keyword tool from WordTracker, easy and simple. Just place a relevant keyword in the search box available and press enter. Within few minutes time, you will get the most relevant keywords and phrases list that people actually use for finding the information they are aiming at in the last 100 days.

Cost of WordTracker Keyword Suggestion tool is not much; you have to pay just $59 if you are willing to get its subscription for a month and $329 if you have decided to get its subscription for a year.

But now there is great news for all internet marketers and bloggers who are willing to make money from their website or blog. They are offering 7 days subscription to the full version of WordTracker for free these days. To use this free subscription, we will need to create an account on WordTracker with credit card number. You will not be charged any money if you unsubscribe or cancel your subscription there before the end of one week. WordTracker will even send you a reminder when your free subscription is going to expire.

With keyword suggestion tool from WordTracker, you will not be able to bring more traffic/money to your website but will also be able to know about many more new money making niches. When you have access to WordTracker keyword selection tool, you can assure yourself that you have the best keyword selection tool ever made in the market.

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If you are serious about blogging then you should think of hosting it on your own domain. It’s not easy to switch a popular blog from a sub-domain to a self hosted domain, so I would suggest you to host your blog on your down from the day one. Here are some benefits you will enjoy with your own domain that you were missing with a sub-domain:

1. Website address - When you buy your own domain, the name your blog/website will be like www.yourdomain.com which looks sound and easy to remember for your blog readers. And in case you place your website on free hosting websites then your website address would have been www.yourdomain.blogspot.com (for Blogger blogs) or www.yourdomain.worpress.com (for Wordpress blog). Now you can decide which website URL looks sounds and easy to remember.
2. Multiple E-mail addresses - When you have your own domain, you can create many e-mail addresses like info@yourdomain.com, webmaster@yourdomain.com, sales@yourdomain.com, yourname@yourdomain.com for different purposes and if required can point all incoming emails to these accounts to a central email account on your domain.
3. Directory listings - it becomes really difficult to get listed on Top web directories if your website is hosted on some free web hosts. And if you have your own domain, chances of submitting and getting approval becomes easy to some extent.
4. Brand Building - When you have your own domain shows your professional approach towards your business and thus will help in creating lots of value and trust among your website readers. People will not trust much on your services if it is hosted on free hosting sites like blogger or wordpress.
5. Promoting your domain - When you have hosted your website on free hosting servers, you are going to promote a sub-domain. And the first benefit of that promotion will go to your web hosting company and you will be the last person who is going to benefit from that. All links pointing to your free hosted domain will also be pointing to your webhosting company. Suppose you have a blog on Wordpress with address www.yourdomain.wordpress.com, now all links pointing to your address will also be pointing to Wordpress your free web hosting company. But in case of your own domain, you are going to promote that and thus will help you only.
6. Better search engine rankings - Having your own domain will hell you achieve higher search engine rankings if it is well optimized.
7. Better advertising options - there are many advertisers who will never love to advertise on a free hosted sub-domain. And with free hosted sub-domains, you will have limited access to everything. There are many free hosting companies that will not allow you to add any kind of advertisement to your sub-domain. But in case of your own domain, you will have access to everything.
8. Website layout - You can use any style sheet, Java script or templates of your choice on your owned domain. Even you can create a template of your own and use that. So you will have more freedom with your website design and functionality. But in case of sub-domain, you cannot do anything in coding section and you will have to stay with the limited templates that are offered to you.
9. Selling options - if you are able to get some real page rank, organic traffic and alexa ranking for your owned website, then you could think of selling it to someone on the internet. But you will not have any much chances of selling it if it was hosted on free servers.

Now if you don’t have a domain and convinced that you need one, you can get it from HostICan for $6.95 per month including 2,000 GB disk space only.

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