Thursday, February 16, 2012

Add with Google Adsense, Adbrite, BidVertiser

Google Adsense

AdSense is an ad serving application run by Google Inc. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-clickor per-impression basis
Some webmasters invest significant effort into maximizing their own AdSense income. They do this in three ways:
1. They use a wide range of traffic-generating techniques, including but not limited to online advertising.
2. They build valuable content on their websites that attracts AdSense advertisements, which pay out the most when they are clicked.
3. They use text content on their websites that encourages visitors to click on advertisements. Note that Google prohibits webmasters from using phrases like “Click on my AdSense ads” to increase click rates. The phrases accepted are “Sponsored Links” and “Advertisements”.

Adbrite

AdBrite is currently one of the best alternatives there is to Google’s adsense. While they do not offer the same large selection of ad formats that Clicksor and Google Adsense provide you they do offer the most commonly used ones. In addition they offer inline page links with have some great click through ratios as well as interstitial full page ads which offer an excellent way to monetize all traffic to your site not just traffic that clicks on your ads. Their payouts are also very competitive. They have more relaxed terms and conditions than Adsense and are much more accepting of smaller publishers including bloggers.If you’re a publisher, use AdBrite to set your own ad rates, and approve or reject every ad that’s purchased for your site or just have AdBrite auto accept ever ad. AdBrite enables you to instantly sell ads to your visitors via a “Your Ad Here” link, in addition to selling through AdBrite’s marketplace and sales team.AdBrite also accepts Blogs and Bloggers as sites so if you are fed up with other programs turning you down because their terms and conditions restrict Blogs try AdBrite.
BidVertiser
Bidvertizer pays you either in $25.00 increments by check or $10.00 increments by PayPal.Bidvertiser can be a useful alternative to Google and offer some intriguing ad formats including what they refer to as free design. This lets you specify the look and dimensions of your text ads. While a useful feature I have not investigated how well it works but imagine that while it sounds good on paper it could result in lower priced ads being displayed. I.e. most advertisers will probably want to keep control of the layout of their ads and so turn off support for Free design ads.Bidvertizer pays you either in $25.00 increments by check or $10.00 increments by PayPal


how to make money with PTC

Paid to click (PTC) program have became very popular in the past few years. The reasons why so many peoples joined PTC program because of it simplicity, absolutely 100 percent FREE to join and the easiest way to make money online. You don’t need to have your own websites, you don’t have to pay for website hosting or anything upfront. All you have to do is sign up for free account at PTC websites, click on the advertisements wait for about 30 seconds and you earn money. The cost per viewing advertisement is usually 1 cent per ad.
Paid to click is a very good system for peoples who want to make money online but doesn’t know where to start. Everyone can do it and all you need to have is a computer with internet connection. You only need about 20 minutes on your free time per day to to complete each PTC sites while doing something else along for example surfing the internet, blogging, reading news etc.
There are many paid to click scam sites being born lately and it’s a waste of time to join these sites since you won’t get paid for all the work that you do and even worst some members pay these scam sites for account upgrade. So my advice is don’t buy any upgrade if you aren’t sure about the paid to click sites that you participated.
When joining paid to click programs you must have referrals to make your network larger and earn more income. The key to maximize your earning is to join as many PTC sites as you can but you got to becareful not to join SCAM sites.
Here is a few tips to helps you avoid these SCAM sites. Firstly, use the search engine (Google is the best one) type in the PTC site that you are about to join follows by the word scam. Look for forums and posts from various users that already a member of the PTC site. If there is so many negative feedback then the PTC site have a higher chance of being scam but don’t fully trust the informations you find on these forums because some of them still waiting for their payment which usually take times before each payment is send to their members and they blame the PTC sites for sending them late by saying that their PTC sites is a scam.
Recently PayPal have changed their policy on doing business with the paid to click sites. Many peoples reported to PayPal about scam sites so they decided to freeze and ban most of the PTC sites account. Most of the PTC sites now used other payment processors like AlertPay, E-Gold, MoneyBookers, Stormpay, Netpay etc.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Barisal Burners vs Dhaka Gladiators – Scorecard








Barisal Burners vs Dhaka Gladiators – Scorecard
Dhaka Gladiators 208/5 (20/20 ov), Barisal Burners 187/5 (20.0/20 ov)
Result Dhaka Gladiators won by 21 runs
Man of the match Azhar Mahmood
Dhaka Gladiators (20 overs maximum)
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Imran Nazir
c Yasir Arafat b Alauddin Babu
58
51
35
3
5
165.71
Anamul Haque†
c Yasir Arafat b Ali
8
15
11
2
0
72.72
Mohammad Ashraful
lbw b Ali
4
2
3
1
0
133.33
Azhar Mahmood
not out
77
75
47
8
3
163.82
KA Pollard
c †Mithun Ali b Yasir Arafat
36
24
15
0
5
240.00
DI Stevens
b Yasir Arafat
13
9
7
1
1
185.71
Aftab Ahmed
not out
5
7
3
1
0
166.66
Extras
(lb 3, w 3, nb 1)
7





Total
(5 wickets; 20 overs; 94 mins)
208
(10.40 runs per over)

Did not bat Naved-ul-Hasan, Mosharraf Hossain, Elias Sunny, Mashrafe Mortaza*

Fall of wickets 1-15 (Anamul Haque, 3.3 ov), 2-19 (Mohammad Ashraful, 3.6 ov), 3-105 (Imran Nazir, 11.4 ov), 4-167 (Pollard, 16.2 ov), 5-191 (Stevens, 18.3 ov)

Bowling
O
M
R
W
Econ

Yasir Arafat
4
1
30
2
7.50
(2w)
Kabir Ali
4
0
31
2
7.75
(1w)
Nazmul Islam
3
0
33
0
11.00

Alauddin Babu
2
0
24
1
12.00

Ahmed Shehzad
2
0
25
0
12.50
(1nb)
Suhrawadi Shuvo
2
0
24
0
12.00

CH Gayle
3
0
38
0
12.66


Barisal Burners (target: 209 runs from 20 overs)
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Ahmed Shehzad
c Mohammad Ashraful b Mashrafe Mortaza
7
14
7
1
0
100.00
CH Gayle
b Azhar Mahmood
116
84
61
6
11
190.16
Mominul Haque
c Mohammad Ashraful b Mashrafe Mortaza
5
11
8
1
0
62.50
BJ Hodge
c & b Stevens
0
8
3
0
0
0.00
Mithun Ali†
c Mohammad Ashraful b Azhar Mahmood
38
59
32
1
1
118.75
Kabir Ali
not out
15
10
9
2
0
166.66
Extras
(w 6)
6





Total
(5 wickets; 20 overs; 95 mins)
187
(9.35 runs per over)

Did not bat Shahriar Nafees*, Suhrawadi Shuvo, Nazmul Islam, Yasir Arafat, Alauddin Babu

Fall of wickets 1-33 (Ahmed Shehzad, 3.1 ov), 2-47 (Mominul Haque, 5.4 ov), 3-60 (Hodge, 7.4 ov), 4-163 (Gayle, 17.3 ov), 5-187 (Mithun Ali, 19.6 ov)

Bowling
O
M
R
W
Econ

Mashrafe Mortaza
4
0
20
2
5.00
(2w)
Naved-ul-Hasan
4
0
37
0
9.25
(1w)
Mohammad Ashraful
1
0
22
0
22.00

KA Pollard
4
0
23
0
5.75
(1w)
DI Stevens
2
0
24
1
12.00

Mosharraf Hossain
1
0
19
0
19.00

Azhar Mahmood
4
0
42
2
10.50
(2w)

Bangladesh Premier League 2012 Points Table | BPL T20 Team Standings











Team
Played
Won
Lost
N/R
Tie
Points
Net R/R
Dhaka
4
3
1
0
0
6
0.366
Chittagong
3
2
1
0
0
4
0.873
Khulna
3
2
1
0
0
4
0.63
Barisal
4
2
2
0
0
4
0.446
Rajshahi
3
1
2
0
0
2
-0.983
Sylhet
3
0
3
0
0
0
-1.61

google AdSense


When I survey bloggers about the methods that they use to make money from their blogs Google’s AdSense is always the number one response. It is a quick and easy way for bloggers of all sizes to display ads that are relevant to their content.
AdSense is a ‘contextual’ advertising program where publishers simply add a piece of code to their blogs that helps Google analyze what your page is about so they can serve ads on that topic. This increases the chances of your readers clicking the ad which increases the chances that you’ll earn something from them.
AdSense also provide a variety of other income streams to bloggers including a site search tool (you make money by people searching your site) and referral tools (where you can make money by recommending Google products).
AdSense is how I earn around 35% of my income as a full time blogger and I would thoroughly recommend it as a way of monetizing a blog – especially for those just starting out.
If you’re not already an AdSense publisher sign up for it using the following button.

How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs


How do bloggers make money from blogs?

I’ve been reflecting this week about the amazing diversity of opportunities that are opening up for bloggers to make money from blogging.
I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.
The wonderful thing is that this is becoming easier and easier to do 2005 has seen many options opening up. I thought I’d take a look at some of the methods that bloggers are currently using to make money through blogs.

Income Streams for Bloggers – How to Make Money Blogging

Advertising Programs – Perhaps the most obvious changes in the past few months have been with the addition of a variety of viable advertising options for bloggers looking to make money from their blogs. The most common way bloggers seem to earn money online is via the contextual ad program from Google – Adsense. A more recent addition that many are using successfully are Chitika.
RSS Advertising – The past 12 months have seen some advances in RSS Advertising also. I’m yet to hear of any bloggers making big money blogging through it to this point – but as improvements are made to the ad programs exploring this I’m sure we’ll start to see examples of it being profitable.
Sponsorship – In addition to the array of advertising programs that are available to join there is a growing awareness in the business of the value and opportunity that exists for them to advertise directly on blogs. I’m hearing more and more examples of this and have been fortunately to have a couple of ad campaigns of my own in the past month – one with Adobe a couple of weeks ago and another just completed with Ricoh for a new digicam over at my Digital Camera Blog. These are not isolated cases – as I say I know of many blogs exploring sponsorship with advertisers at present and suspect we’ll see more of it in the year ahead. Sponsorship is also happening on a post by post basis with some bloggers being paid to write on certain topics by companies – either in one off or a regular fashion – and they are able to make big money from their blogs doing so.
Affiliate Programs – There are larger affiliate programs like Amazon, Linkshare, Clickbank and Commission Junction but also literally thousands of others from the large to the very small.
Digital Assets – Increasing numbers of bloggers have been developing other digital assets to support and add revenue streams to their blogs. By this I mean that I’m increasingly seeing e-books, courses and tele-seminars being run by bloggers. This type of activity will only increase in future – in fact this week I’ve seen numerous examples of bloggers running courses.
Blog Network Opportunities – with the rise in popularity of Blog Networks – bloggers are also being presented with more places to earn an income from their blogging – by writing for and with others. While it might be difficult to get a writing gig with one of the bigger networks – there are plenty who are always asking for new bloggers to join and who are willing to pay bloggers using a variety of payment models. While there are distinct advantages of blogging for yourself – blogging for an established network who will handle a lot of the set up/promotion/admin/SEO etc has it’s advantages also. More and more bloggers are combining writing for themselves on their own blogs with taking on blog network blogs as additional income streams.
Business Blog Writing Opportunities – as blogging has risen in it’s profile as a medium more and more businesses are starting blogs. Many of these companies have internal staff take on blogging duties – but an increasing number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs. I know of a number of bloggers who in the past month or two have been approached for such paid work. Check out the ProBlogger Job Board if you’re looking for this type of work.
Non Blogging Writing Opportunities – Also becoming more common are bloggers being hired to write in non blogging mediums. Manolo’s recent coup of a column in the Washington Post is just one example of this as bloggers are increasingly being approached to write for newspapers, magazines and other non blog websites. Along side this is the rise of bloggers as published book authors – this is to the extent that one blogger I spoke with this week complained to me that they were one of the few bloggers than they knew who didn’t have a book deal!
Donations – Tip Jars and donation buttons have been a part of blogging for years now but this last year saw a number of bloggers go full time after fund raising drives. Perhaps the most high profile of these was Jason Kottke of kottke.org who through the generosity of his readership was able to quit his job and become a full time blogger.
Flipping Blogs – Also more common in 2005 was the practice of ‘Blog Flipping’ – or selling of blogs. This has happened both on an individual blog level (I can think of about 20 blogs that sold this year) but also on a network level (the most obvious of these being the 8 figure sale of Weblogs Inc to AOL).
Merchandising – My recent attempt to sell ProBlogger.net T-shirts wasn’t a raging success, but it is an example of how an increasing number of bloggers are attempting to make a few extra dollars from their blogs by selling branded products through programs like Cafepress. While I didn’t have a lot of success with merchandising – quite a few larger blogs are seeing significant sales – especially blogs with a cult following. I’m not at liberty to discuss details – but I know of one largish blog which will see sales over $20,000 in merchandise for the calendar year of 2005.
Consulting and Speaking – While it has been popular for established consultants to add blogs to their businesses we’re also starting to see bloggers with no consulting background able to make money by charging readers for their time in consulting scenarios BECAUSE of the profile that their blogs have built them. Blogging has the ability to establish people as experts on niche topics and we all know the value of being perceived as an expert. I spoke to one blogger last month who charges himself out at over $200 an hour for speaking and consulting work – his area of expertise was something that he knew little about 18 months ago – but through his blog he’s become a leader in his field and a minor celebrity in his industry.
As time rolls on there are more and more ways that bloggers make money from their blogs opening up. Feel free to suggest your own ideas and experiences in comments below.
Update: Looking for more information on how to make money blogging? Here’s a post I wrote talking about my own experience – particularly looking at the top ways that I make money from blogs.

How to make money from your blog: 5 tips


Many people who write blogs today simply want to share their opinion on something. But then there are the business-minded folks, who have found a way to use blogs, or Web logs, to bring in a little extra cash too.
If you're interested in taking it further — blogging for bucks, if you will — here are five strategies that could turn your blog into a moneymaker.
1.    Sell advertising. This is likely the most common means of leveraging a blog to generate income. If yours happens to become a well-known blog, or one that is well-received in a particular niche, it's always possible to sell ad space on your own.

2. Help sell others' products. Here is another click-through opportunity. Affiliate programs enable your blog to serve as a conduit between readers and online sites offering various goods and services. One popular choice is Amazon.com. If, for instance, you offer book reviews or even just mention a book in passing in your blog, an affiliate program provides a means for your readers to click directly from your blog to Amazon to obtain further information about the book.
If they break out the checkbook or charge card, you get paid as well.
3. Solicit contributions. Not every blog-related income opportunity involves hawking goods or services. As Blanche DuBois said in A Streetcar Named Desire, consider relying on the kindness of strangers. Ask for contributions. If, for instance, your small-business blog supports a cause or issue in some fashion — say you repeatedly mention tax reform, health care or some other topic — you can always ask for reader support. Even if you've attracted a group of regular followers who simply enjoy reading what you have to say, they may be willing to underwrite their loyalty with a little financial help. Programs such as PayPal make it easy to establish a simple on-site contribution collection button. "There are lots of worthy 'cause' blogs that would qualify for donations from grateful members of the blog community," says Las Vegas communications consultant Ned Barnett.
4. Market your services in your blog. Many people associate blogs exclusively with a cyberspace-based soapbox — a place to shout your opinions and little more than that. Granted, blogs are an ideal venue to share your thoughts with others, but don't overlook their capacity to generate new business as well. When appropriate, work in references to what you do and, in turn, what you may be able to offer any would-be client or customer who may be reading your blog. That can spread your opinion and your business moxie at the same time."Instead of short commentaries that begin a dialogue with readers, as many blogs do, I write the equivalent of journal articles that demonstrate my abilities, strategies and perspectives on specific issues," Barnett says. "When it resonates, it means money. Since starting this approach, I have generated three new paying clients and brought in about $10,000 on revenue — directly attributable to specific blogs."
5. Use a blog to deepen your existing customer relations. Nor does any marketing material inserted in blog content have to be limited to bringing in completely new business. By using a blog to regularly communicate with existing clients as well as other readers, you can take advantage of the opportunity to fully inform them about everything your business does. That may expand your readers' understanding of the full scope of your products or services."My blog has helped existing clients determine the range of my skills and services," says Ted Demopoulos of Demopoulos Associates, a Durham, N.H. consulting and training concern. "One client who had only used me for training in the past was surprised at my range of expertise and is now using me for a consulting project. Another who only used me on technical projects is now considering me for a more business-oriented project."

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