Two $40 Coupons for Digital TV switch set for early 2009

It's almost official: Starting one year from today i.e. Feb. 18, 2009, millions of televisions in American households will go black unless they're outfitted to receive all-digital broadcasts.

The word about the digital television switch-over seems to be getting out to the masses, and the Federal Government has started to accept voucher applications for the digital converter boxes you'll need on February 17, 2009 if you have an analog television set.

They will issue up to two $40 vouchers per household towards the purchase of an digital-to-analog converter.

Will you need a converter?

If you purchased a television after March 1, 2007, probably not. Federal mandate orders that sets manufactured after that date must come with digital tuners, standard.

If you subscribe to a cable or satellite service, definitely not, as your over-the-air broadcast channels are being sent via coax or fiber.

Who will need a converter?

Homes with older analog television sets, those using rabbit ears, or those without a subscription to a cable or satellite service.

For more info and the voucher application, follow this link.

What consumers will get with Digital TV?

More capacity, more channels, more content.

Technology and entertainment stay winning.

Increase Your Reputation - Earn 200% - 500% More per Review!!!

As most of you know, SponsoredReviews allows advertisers to rate their completed reviews. Did you also know that bloggers with good reputations can earn more money per review?

As a matter of fact, bloggers who have a good reputation for writing quality reviews earn 300% to 500% more per review.

If you want to earn the most money for the least amount of work, the best thing you can do is increase your reputation.

How do I increase my reputation?

1. Follow the Rules - Bloggers who follow the rules get the least amount of complaints and get the most positive ratings.
2. Read Advertiser's Requirements Closely - if you do not follow the advertisers requirements, they will give you poor ratings.
3. Go the Extra Mile - Whether you are charging $5 per review or $500, you better be able to justify the cost by writing a quality review.

Quality Reviews contain the following:

1. Proper Grammar and Correct Spelling
2. Images, Screenshots and Logos - Even if you are only charging $5-$10 for a review, you should take the time to include an image or screenshot of the advertisers logo or website. This is sure to get positive votes from advertisers as it makes your post look a million times better.
3. Links That Stand Out! - You should always make sure that the advertiser's links stand out from the rest of your text. If your visitors cannot see the links, they cannot click on them. This turns advertisers off. Use a link color that contrasts from your text, Bright Blue and Bold Black are two good choices
4. Be Professional

The Easiest Way to Get a Negative Reputation is:

1. Remove Completed Reviews from Your Blog - Advertisers hate to see their reviews get deleted, and they will rate you poorly for it. Plus it is against our rules !
2. Not Following the Rules

How do I know what my reputation is?

SponsoredReviews is currently not displaying the reputation, but plan to shortly. However, they do make sure that all ratings by advertisers are fair and accurate.

Getting link from .org , .gov and .edu sites

The education, organization and government sites are considered much more valued sites and links coming from those sites are valuable. You need to search and find such sites.

Do a simple search on Google with this search term:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%…G=Search&hl=en
You may use another perfect search term special for edu blogs:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q…22&btnG=Search

With this string you will get all .edu blogs that allow posting comments and do not require to be logged in. Hope you find this string perfect. You can experiment with it for all kind of domains, it’s up to you. Make blog comments and put links in them, make sure your comment is genuine and not spam. You have to read the whole topic and find something to comment on the topic, job is done. After doing some comments maybe in a week you will see in Google index that you have links from .edu domain or .gov

Block rogue advertisers and boost your AdSense revenue

Most of you must be aware that the minimum AdSense payout is $0.01 and many rogue advertisers use AdSense Arbitrage techniques to steal your valuable traffic... and cost you money.

AdsBlackList is the innovative solution to your problem that helps you to filter out the ads with low payouts and improve your readers’ experience at the same time. They also let you identify any Made For Adsense sites or MFA’s that are normally scraper sites which contain almost no original content and whose goal is to get visitors to their site just to click on ads.

Filtering these rogue sites is as simple as shown below:

1. Sign up for FREE AdsBlackList account -There are 3 membership options - I have only tried the Basic (FREE) Account, but the premium options offer regular automatic updates and integration with adsense.

2. Search by Keyword or Domain. AdsBlackList will return a list of up to 200 (with the free membership option) blacklisted sites which are known to advertise using those keywords. These are the advertisers whose ads you don’t want on your site.

3. Sign in to you AdSense account and goto the Competitive Ad Filter setup. This allows you block specific ads from appearing on your site by allowing you to supply a list of the advertisers’ URL’s. This can be done at the domain level or even down to a specific sub-directory if there is only one page you want to block.

4. Simply copy paste the MFA or LCPC blacklisted sites (max 200) into either of AdSense for Content filters or AdSense for Search filters or both of them.

Remember not to click on your own ads to determine the destination URL, as this is a violation of AdSense program policies.

Competitive Ad Filter setup takes a couple of hours to get activated. After setting this up, monitor your Adsense Revenue reports for a week or so and review that those clicks worth $0.01 dont appear anymore.

The greatest advantage of removing most of the disreputable advertisers from your website is to maintain or perhaps even enhance your site’s reputation to increase more traffic and generate lucrative revenue from the most paying advertisers.

Add Kontera ContentLinks to your website and increase your revenue stream

Kontera's in-text ads draw clicks that pay cash. Kontera ContentLink can be a nice source of additional revenue along with Adsense and other advertising programs you use, without taking any extra space on your web page.

You don’t have to worry about violating AdSense TOS. Kontera is compatible with Google AdSense, as AdSense now allows other contextual ads on the same page as long as they do not look the same as AdSense ads.

Here are some important tips on implementing Kontera to earn additional revenue from your Blog

1. Click here to sign-up for Kontera. After getting accepted by Kontera all you have to do is to insert their code on all pages of your site (right before the closing < /body> HTML tag)

2. To increase your CTR (Click Through Rate), you may want to change your Kontera’s link color to match your site’s link color.
var dc_AdLinkColor="#2277dd";

3. To control the placement of ContentLink ads on your web page you will need to use DIV tags.
< div class=KonaBody>Text you want the ContentLink ads to appear on < /div>

4. You can also restrict ContentLink ads on certain areas, use the following Span filter tags
< span name=KonaFilter>Text you don't want ContentLink ads to appear on

Win FREE Advertising and Exposure From Kontera

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Now you can grow your overall website earnings using Kontera’s Video Testimonial Contest for a Chance To Win $1,000 In Advertising

and a tons of Free Exposure!

Kontera is running a video testimonial contest and offering a grand prize $1,000 in Kontera In-Text Advertising, a second prize of

$500 in Kontera advertising, and a 3rd prize of $100 in advertising. The winners will also get exposure in the official Kontera

Blog.

The Contest:

1. Make a video or animated flash no longer than 3-minutes in length telling who you are, the impact that Kontera has made on your

site or blog, and how you came to know about Kontera.

2. Upload the video or flash animation to YouTube with the tags “Kontera”, “ContentLink”, “In-Text Advertising”, and “Contextual

Advertising”

3. eMail the YouTube URL to Kontera at video@Kontera.com

The Rules:

1. The contest runs from December 1, 2007 until March 1, 2008

2. You must be a current Kontera publisher or advertiser (so sign-up now!)

3. When you enter you give Kontera the right to publish your video and the information in contains

4. Submissions cannot contain anything indecent or profane.

5. Videos must comply with both the YouTube and Kontera terms and conditions.

That’s it! Sounds like a fun and easy way to get a chance at some free advertising and exposure for your blog. If you decide to enter, please post a comment - I want to know what kind of competition I’m up against. And don’t forget, you read it here first.

It’s a great chance to win some free advertising for your blog/site.

350+ Social Networking Sites - HUGE list

For those of you social networking buffs, or those in desperate need of setting up yet another profile, I’m about to hand you the keys to the kingdom of social networks:

http://mashable.com/2007/10/23/social-networking-god/

There is bound to be something there for everyone, no matter what your interests. From books to goals to stay-at-home moms to wine lovers, getting involved in these niche social networks allows you to really target your market or just connect with people who are much more like minded than most of what you get on good ol’ MySpace.com.

Enjoy :)

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6 Plugins That Boost Your Productivity By 500%

While Wordpress is a very efficient blogging platform, you might be surprised by the loss in productivity you are suffering due to it’s inefficient administration interface. I’ve compiled a list of 5 plugins that do away with the drudgery of the admin panel, and focus on what you do best - blogging your heart away

1. Multiply - A plugin for WordPress which allows multiple blogs from within the one administration interface. Includes one-click creation of new blogs, with per-blog user permissions, plugins, themes. If you’re running multiple blogs, using this plugin can give you a huge boost to your productivity. Please backup your data before attempting to use this plugin.

2. Better Comments Manager- A plugin which allows you to reply to comment from within the admin panel. It uses Ajax to respond to comments so you do not have to leave the comments page while commenting. This will prove useful to bloggers who simply can’t keep up with the number of comments they face. Luckily, this plugin is also compatible with Brian’s Threaded Comments.

3. Create N Place - With this plugin, you can write new blog posts right on the front page of your blog — there is no need to log into the admin system to write a new post.

4. Edit N Place - A free Ajax powered plugin for WordPress, that lets you edit your post right on the front page of your blog. The plugin now includes quicktag buttons like bold, italics, link, img, and more.

5. WP-Chunk - This nifty plugin will take all those long url’s that your readers love to post in their comments, and gracefully shorten them

6. Subscribe to Comments - A plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. This is especially useful when readers wish to be notified of any answers to questions they’ve posed within your blog’s comments.

Your productivity is guaranteed to get a healthy boost with these nifty plugins. Better start blogging now!

How to translate your blog in different languages?

Finally, I've coded a language translation tool for new blogger that translates a blog post page to different languages using Google Language Tool.


The unique features of this translation tool are,
a) It can switch between different languages on the current page i.e. without opening a new window for each language.

b) No outbound link for translation.

Source Code and Instruction for the same are as follows:-

Step 1: Goto Template -> Edit HTML tab and select 'Expand Widget Templates'.


Step 2: Find < div class="post-body">

Step 3: Add the translation code between

< div class="post-body">
and
< p>< data:post.body/>

Traslation code is given below
< b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
< div style='float:right'>
< script>
loc=location.href;
if(location.host!='etltechicalexpertiseblog.blogspot.com')
loc=loc.substring(loc.lastIndexOf('=')*1+6);
< /script>
< select align='center' name='to_lang' onchange='lp=this.options[this.selectedIndex ].value; if(lp!="") window.location=" http://google.com/translate_p? hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&u="+loc+"&langpair="+lp ;'>
< option value=''>Select Language
< option value='en|zh'>Chinese
< option value='en|ar'>Arabic
< option value='en|fr'>French
< option value='en|de'>German
< option value='en|it'>Italian
< option value='en|ja'>Japanese
< option value='en|ko'>Korean
< option value='en|pt'>Portuguese
< option value='en|ru'>Russian
< option value='en|es'>Spanish
< option value='en|en'>English
< /select>
< /div>
< /b:if>

Step 4: Save the template.

Preview this sample blog here that uses my translation technique.

Though machine translation may not be accurate, still it is quite handy to let readers read your blog in different languages.

How to create viral content for your Blog

intitle:” command is useful if you are obtaining many results and want to focus your results to those with the search phrase in the title.

If you have created tutorials for your niche then try this query: intitle:”how to * [keyword]”. For example, see the following results:

1. intitle:”how to * iphone”
2. intitle:”how to * linux”
3. intitle:”how to * ubuntu”
4. intitle:”how to * chess”
5. intitle:”how to * move”
6. intitle:”how to * lose weight”
7. intitle:”how to * apple”
8. intitle:”how to * mac”
9. intitle:”how to * improve”
10. intitle:”how to * ipod”

Turn one Blog into 50 or More!

Ever have to write 50 different articles about a diet pill? (or any other subject)? Now you can! This free application allows you to reword, reformat, rearrange and rewrite your articles automatically. You can easily create High-quality variations that make perfect sense! Totally white-hat and legitimate!!!

And it’s completely FREE! - I’ve tried it, and it works exactly as advertised!

1. You can have the software randomly select from several word variations to include in a sentence, such as rotating the words ”Buy” with “Purchase” or…

2. You can even rearrange the order of your words and sentences! For example, if you say; “The menu includes: Steak, Pork, Veal, Chicken, or Shrimp.” First, you can have the software randomly arrange the order of the words on your list. Then, you can give each word on the list its own set of variations. Such as randomly choosing between “Steak” or “Beef” while randomly inserting it into different spots on the list.

3. You can do the same with whole sentences, or even entire paragraphs! As you can see, the possibilities are vast! And you can create High-quality articles with variations that make perfect sense!

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Instantly create Technorati tags for free!

Adding relevant Technorati tags to your pages is a fun and easy way to categorize your blog posts, articles, recipes, or anything you choose to share!

The best part about using Technorati tags is that your tagged pages will appear in the Technorati search engine, driving more traffic to your site.

Using Turbo Tagger is the quick and easy way to instantly create these tags for you - for free!

FREE PR3 To PR8 Backlinks

Do you know that you can get a free pr3 to pr8 back link and its easy as shown below:

1. Install the wordpress plug-in called top commentators plug-in

2. When its installed in the sidebar and it will show the top commentator with thier URL

3. Many blogs uses this plug-in with no no-follow tag
PR 6 http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/
PR 6 http://tech-buzz.net/
PR 6 http://www.johntp.com/
PR 6 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/
PR 5 http://zedomax.com/blog/
PR 8 http://www.onemansblog.com

4. All you need to do is comment in their blog

Manual / Automated Link Exchange for your Blog

Exchanging link with other blogs can provide a good quality backlink and maybe traffic.

Try to exchange links with only high quality sites with higher PR and with the same niche, try contacting them personally by email or just use automated link exchange sites.

Automated link exchange sites can boost your backlinks and you will have many relevant links pointing to your site you can find more automated link exchange sites by searching in Google for "automated link exchange" Here are some of them:

http://www.build-reciprocal-links.com/ PR 6
http://www.linkdiary.com/ PR 5
http://www.telalinks.com/ PR 5
http://www.linkexchanged.com/ PR 5
http://www.belinked.info/ PR 5
http://www.linkwizard.net/ PR 4

Yahoo in 48hrs

If you want to get your blog both spidered and indexed by Yahoo in 48 (maybe 72) hours, here’s a VERY easy way that (so far) seems to work.

1. Signup for Yahoo site explorer using your yahoo id
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

2. Add your site

3. Authenticate your side by adding a meta tag e.g. < META name="y_key" content="768df2835f6e10e0" > in your site's home page.

You are all set.

Enjoy, and let me have your comments, good, bad or downright slanderous!

How much is your Blog worth ?

Here’s a fun little tool that will tell you how much your blog is worth!

I wouldn’t recommend that you try selling it for the figure it quotes you though - you may be a little disappointed!

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FREE ‘Open Adder’ for MySpace.

If you are planning on running any kind of promotions on MySpace (which you should) then you may already be aware that the key to success is to acquire as many MySpace ‘friends’ as you can, as quickly as possible

To make this happen efficiently and quickly, many people are using what are called adder™ programs.

As the name probably suggests, such programs will add new friends to your account very quickly, and thus, they are a very powerful tool for anyone who is marketing through, or on, MySpace.

The problem was that, up to now, if you wanted an adder program, you needed to pay for it, as there was no free ‘adders’ out there.

Not any more! I’ve just started using a brand new adder program (new, as in, released less than one week ago) called Open Adder, which claims to be the only free, desktop based MySpace friend adder.

It has a complete feature set comparable to adders you pay $40 or more for and, according to the creators, Open Adder will always be free.

You can use Open Adder with as many profiles as you want, send friend requests, comments, messages, bulletins, event invites and so on.

It’s totally free, so you should definitely check it out here.

Promote OffTo.net and Earn Free Traffic

By sending people to OffTo.net through your special link, you will earn free traffic to whatever site you choose. Here's how it works:

1. Send people to OffTo.net using this link
http://offto.net/9u4ctf/

2. Sign-up for your free account.

3. Select which of your links you want to receive the earned traffic by clicking the 'promolink' hyperlink next to each link on your dashboard that you'd like promoted. The selected links will be rotated on the home page in the 'Promo Links' list as long as you have earned credits available.

4. For every unique visitor you send to OffTo.net, you are guaranteed one unique visitor sent to you from OffTo.net. Your promolinks will stay in rotation until you've used all of your credits.

Keep in mind that how well you write the title of your promolinks will have a HUGE effect on how quickly you receive your earned traffic. Write your promolink titles so visitors to OffTo.net just won't be able to resist clicking! Keep in mind that most of the visitors to OffTo.net are interested in affiliate marketing and internet marketing.