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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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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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Paypal is the fastest and safest tool available today on the internet for transferring money. You will rarely find a website that doesn’t use Paypal as an option for transferring money. And there are some websites even who accepts only paypal as the mode of money transfer. If you don’t have a paypal account, you can create it within few minutes time. To create a paypal account, all you need is just an e-mail address which is working. So create an account on paypal today to catch lots of money making opportunities that are just waiting for you.

Here are many ways we blogger can use paypal to make money online from our blogs:

• Blogging - Creating blogs has not been difficult these days because you don’t need to be technically strong to create a blog. One can create a blog on any of blogging platform for free in just few minutes time. Blogger and Wordpress are the top Blogging platforms anyone can use to create to create his/her blog. People normally create blogs to post their articles/thoughts or what ever they want. And when you have a blog, you can use it to make money with paypal. You can make money by writing reviews for other people and their websites, selling products, Referral programs and by filling online surveys.
• Affiliate product selling - There are many companies who are willing to pay you some amount if you are able to sell their products and services via your blog. Most of the product selling websites pays you via check, paypal and direct bank deposit. With these kinds of websites, you will earn some fixed commission for every sale that is made via your blog.
• Online paid surveys - Paid surveys are the easiest and fastest way to make money even if you don’t have a blog/website. Most of the online paid surveys sites transfer money via paypal or Check.
• Paid blogging - There are many paid blogging networks on the internet that are ready to pay you if you manage to write some content for their advertisers. Linkworth, Smorty, SponsoredReviews and payperpost are among top paid blog networks where you will need to submit your blog before you get an opportunity to write for their advertisers. All of these blogging networks support paypal as the mode of money transfer.
• Selling text link ads - If you manage to get some real page rank and authority for your blog, then you can think of selling text link ads on your blog. Textlinkads is the biggest text link selling marketplace that sends the payments on the first of every month and Check, Paypal and Payoneer are mode this company uses for sending money to its publishers.

So start making money online now by creating an account on Paypal with your blog/website.

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Recently I was working for a client and I need to check the rankings for hundreds of keywords on daily basis on Google. That results in wastage of lots of time. So I searched on the internet to find a keyword ranking tool or software that can do the searching work for me.

I was more interested in finding a keyword searching tool that can give me clear idea about how my website is performing in a specific country with a list of my competitors. With some efforts, I was able to find a keyword searching software from the company called ‘CleverStat’.

This software is particularly made for checking ranking of a website on Google in different countries. This keyword tool is known as Free Monitor for Google. I don’t find any difficulty in using this keyword searching software from Cleverstat. And the best thing about this Google keywords finding tool is that you don’t need to pay any money to use it i.e. it’s free of cost.

If you are also willing to use this tool, go and download this free monitor for Google keyword ranking software today. Here are some tips that you can follow to check the rankings for hundreds of keywords at a time on Google with this software:

• Add the URL of the site for which you want to check the rankings for in Project Menu under Add URL
• Add the list of keywords or you can even import them from a txt file and Now press OK
• By Default, it will check your website rankings in the first 10 results. But you can specify the number of results to check (like 10, 20, 100, 1000) and County in Options menu under Preferences. Under Check First specify the number of results to check and Under Country select the Country name where you are willing to check the rankings for your keywords list.
• Give some time to it to complete its processing and in the mean time you can continue your other works.
• When it is finished, you will have exact stats about each keyword like its current ranking, best ranking ever and the list of sites you are competing with.
• You can edit or export your keywords list at any time and you don’t need to enter your keywords list every time as they remain saved there under your Site URL by the time you don’t delete them.

This is all about checking your website ranking for different keyword on Google with complete list of your competitors on Free Monitor for Google.

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Adsense is Google money making program that is managed by Google adwords. With Google, site owners and bloggers as well can make some money by adding the Google adsense widgets on their websites. Google is offering pay per click and referral programs to all of its publishers.

Google adsense shows ads on a page according to the content of that page in the form of text and image ads. Publishers can expect few cents to some dollars per click with Google adsense. There are many webmasters and bloggers who are able to make thousands of dollars per month from their websites just by placing Google Adsense.

With these, there are many bloggers and site owners who find it really hard to make money with Google adsense. Today I’m recommending you some free adsense E-books that you must read to know more about Google adsense and to earn more money with Google adsense.

• Untold Adsense Facts
• Adsense Revenue Exposed
• Google Adsense Secrets Revealed

I hope these free adsense e-books will help in improving your adsense performance.

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There are hundreds of extensions available on Firefox, but I’m including only those extensions that I find useful as a Seo blogger. And if you don’t have Firefox, you can download it from Mozilla Firefox official site for free.

1. Google Toolbar - Google Toolbar for Firefox gives you many facilities including:
   • Google Search Box
   • Access your G-mail account with a click
   • Google News with single Click
   • Google Page Rank
   • Google Cached Snapshot of the page
   • Back links for a webpage on Google
   • Spell Checking on a form you filled in
   • Language Translator
   • Youtube Search
   • Weather Report
   • Google Map
   • Search History
   • Google Suggestions
2. SearchStatus 1.25 - SearchStatus extension shows the following information about a page in our Status bar
   • Google Page Rank
   • Alexa Ranking
   • Compete Ranking
   • Meta Tags
   • Keywords Density
   • Highlight Keywords
   • Shows Whois Infomation
   • Robot.txt file
   • Index pages on Google, Yahoo & MSN
   • Back links in Google, Yahoo & MSN
3. Check page Links - LinkChecker 0.6.2 was developed by Kevin Freitas and is still working on it to improve it further. LinkChecker is the best tool available today to find the broken or dead link on a webpage.
4. Seo for Firefox - Aaron Wall from SeoBook.com has created a great tool for seo and internet marketing experts. This seo tool for firefox from Aaron have lots of valuable features including:
   • Google Page Rank
   • Google Last cached Date
   • Domain age
   • Links from Del.icio.us
   • Yahoo Links
   • Links from .edu sites
   • .gov links
   • Yahoo links for a particular page
   • Edu links for a specific page
   • Technorati shows links for a domain from blogs
   • Alexa Ranking for a site
   • No of Cached pages in Google
   • Supplemental Results
   • No of links from Dmoz open directory Project
   • Bloglines links
   • Links from Wikipedia
   • No of links from Yahoo Directory
   • Whois information
5. Web Developer 1.1.6 - has lots of useful features useful for web developer and a seo. Some of Web developer features includes:
   • Cookies information
   • Javascript and Java disable
   • CSS view
   • Form details on a webpage
   • Image attributes
   • Outline Frames, links, headings, Tables
   • Window Resize options
   • Page View Source
6. User Agent Switcher - User agent is a great extension that allows you to check a website like a Googlebot. Typical use of this agent switcher is allowing access to websites that restrict access based on the browser being used.
7. FireFTP 0.97.3 - is a free and secure client FTP from Firefox which gives easy access to FTP servers. With file uploading and downloading, we can do directory comparison, Filtering, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing with Fireftp.
8. ShowIP address - ShowIP extension gives us the IP address of a website in our Status Bar like shown below. This is particularly useful when we need to check if multiple websites are hosted on the same IP. Right Clicking on the ShowIP icon in our Status bar will display Whois information with other stuff.
9. Live HTTP Headers - This extension from Firefox enables us to view the HTTP header sent during page load. This is really useful for developers and Seo’s to check 301, 302 redirect or 404 errors during page load.
10. CustomizeGoogle -
    Customize Google Extension allows us to make the same search that we made on Google on other search engines like Yahoo, Ask, AlltheWeb, Live, Lycos, Technorati, Wikipedia, Bloglines etc.

Which Firefox extensions are your favorite?

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