Make money online with HubPages

HubPages is an internet community where users can publish content, gain information about a specific topic or both.

What's a Hub?
A Hub is a rich web page that you write and design. Each time you want to write another article, you'll create another Hub. It's just like in a website, which has multiple web pages. You have the capability to add text, pictures, videos, and links in your Hub. If you are a non-technical person who doesn't want to worry about running a Web site, and don't know the latest tricks about how to drive traffic to your site, Hubpages may be the place for you.

How can I make money with Hubpages ?
The HubPages Revenue Sharing Program provides you with an easy way to take advantage of the Internet's top ad revenue and commission generating tools.

Hubpages also has partnerships with sites like Amazon, where links to relevant products are embedded in your site, and you again get half the referral revenue from the deal (when someone buys something through your page).

1. Google automatically displays ads in your Hub that are relevant to your topic

Note: This is an introduction to a list of sites where AdSense publisher can use their own AdSense IDs to earn money

2. eBay and Amazon products can be featured in your Hub

3. HubPages earns its revenue from these ads, so we split the impressions with our writers

So, you definitely deserve it, JOIN NOW.

Make Money by adding Feeds from Voxant Newsroom

Who does not want fresh content for their blog readers? One easy way is to add news feeds from Voxant Newsroom to your site. Each time the news embedded from Voxant's Newsroom is viewed on your site, you earn a guaranteed CPM (cost per thousand impression). You also earn money when someone embeds content from your site and it is in turn viewed on their site. In order to get the emebing code, simply click on embed button and you should be able to get the code to copy and paste on your site. If you have any problem, let me know.

Note that there are 4 critical ingredients you need to consider before any significant amounts of money can be made from Voxant Newsroom channel:

1. High traffic
2. Sites with relevant themes to match the Newsroom’s content
3. To force feed or not to force feed
4. Visitors who would choose to embed the news from your site

The Voxant Newsroom incentive rewards program, NewsPERKS gives you even more reasons to embed Voxant's content to your site. Now, you earn points for impressions you generate. Redeem those points for great prizes like FREE iPod, FREE Nintendo Wii Package, etc.

Bloggers Unite and Make a Difference, Win Prizes

Bloggers Unite challenges bloggers everywhere, on December 17th, to do something good offline — an act of kindness — and then post about it on their blogs, using words, pictures, and/or videos to tell the story.

The Acts of Kindness bloggers unite challenge aims at putting a human face on bloggers who are responsible for so much good in the world. The goal is to expose their kindness and generosity as well as serve as an example to non-bloggers that volunteering for a charity, donating to a cause, or simply doing something kind for another person has a ripple effect around the world.

By challenging bloggers to blog about a particular social cause on a single day, a single voice can be joined with thousands of others to help make a real positive difference; from raising awareness for cancer, to an effort to better education systems or support 3rd world countries. Maybe 20,000 bloggers, vloggers, and photographers will make a difference.

How do you enter? On December 17th, write a post about your Act of Kindness and then submit your post URL to the Bloggers Unite Group. Winners will be announced the week of December 25th.

1. 8gb Apple iPod Touch donated by BlogCatalog

2. Full Conference Entrance to the Blog World and New Media Expo 2008 donated
donated by the 2008 BlogWorld and New Media Expo

3. Blogger & Podcaster Guide has pledged to award the following prizes:
a) A full page ad in Blogger & Podcaster Magazine to the winner
b) 2 - ¼ page ads in Blogger & Podcaster Magazine to 2nd & 3rd place
c) 4 - ¼ page ads in Blogger & Podcaster Magazine to 4th-7th place
d) 10 ads in USA TODAY Print Edition 8th-17th place

Click here to donate $1 to the Bloggers Unite Challenge Fund for Charity.

Boost your feed circulation with Feedblitz

Feedblitz quickly allows your blog visitors to subscribe by email to your new posts. They just have to enter their email. You decide which page opens after they press Subscribe. A quick confirmatory email to them and they get 1 email daily with all your new posts. You can decide if you want to send the full post or short posts with defined number of characters. Very good to keep your subscribers informed of new posts. It allows them to unsubscribe easily also. Moreover, you can easily convert your blog into a podcast and submit it to podcast directories to gain more publicity and traffic.

Example for our blog:

View as a web page
RSS version
Audio podcast version
View as a widget

Enter your Email






Preview | Powered by FeedBlitz

Digg and Facebook integration at blogskinny.com

blogskinny.com's article directory is really taking off! I am seeing new page 1 Google placements for my articles every day and are extremely happy with the exposure this is bringing to me. If you have not started writing, you should. It's a great way to get a content-rich back-link from a PR7 web site.

Even so, I am always looking for new ways to help our bloggers. The latest strategy leverages the deep integration with Digg.com and Facebook.com. To start, you can use a quick and easy "submit your article to Digg" button in the Article Dashboad (Members\Article Details).

http://www.blogskinny.com/?p=Article-Dashboard

Be sure to go through the list and submit each of your articles to Digg so others can Digg them. You will also notice a new Digg badge at the top of your article to keep score.

Further, they have created a Digg Widget that will display interesting content from Digg.com to spice up your blog. There is also a new widget to be released shortly which will promote only your articles that you can place on your side-bar to drive traffic. Check out the latest widgets at:

http://www.blogskinny.com/?PageAction=BlogReg2&unique_code=15796119420d

Finally, if you have not already, please add the Facebook Mini Version of Blogskinny to your Facebook account. The more users you get to Blogskinny, the more exposure for your blogs and articles:

http://apps.facebook.com/blogskinny/

Cheers and keep on blogging.

Get Interviewed By Performancing

One of the best ways to gain friends, get exposure and perform your networking duties for the week is to get interviewed by other bloggers.

Since Performancing is all about helping bloggers succeed, this will help you get exposure for your blog by offering you the chance to get interviewed by Performancing.

All you have to do is leave the URL to your blog in their comment section. And if they like your blog enough, they'll ask you for an interview. It's that simple.

Here are 10 other cool things you can do with this interesting application.

1. Track the actions of individual visitors
2. Track traffic for specific outbound links
3. Track downloads
4. Export your stats to Excel
5. Keep up with your stats through your feedreader
6. Track your Feedburner stats
7. Find out how visitors searching with different keywords interact with your site
8. Compare visitor activity from different referring domains
9. Check your rankings for the search terms sending you traffic
10. Show off your stats :)

Monetize your Blog with Linkworth

LinkWorth is the ultimate platform for bloggers that have taken the time to create a quality blog and want to monetize it. Advertisers can pay bloggers to write opinion posts with links back to the advertisers site, and Bloggers can now get paid to blog.

LinkWorth provides advertising for your site. You can sign up as a partner and generate revenue from your site. There are many many ways to make money with LinkWorth.

There are services that provide one of the following products, selling text links, paid blog reviews and more but I have yet to find one that provides all of these products.

Their products consist of text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more.

What is nice about LinkWorh is that you can utilize many of their products to increase your revenue faster. As with all services have a minimum amount you must earn before paying out, you are more likely to reach that payout threshold must faster.

Publisher Benefits

1. Sell ads and monetize your site with relatively little maintenance
2. Earn up to 70% of ad revenue recurring monthly in most situations
3. Get paid to blog and write reviews for products & services
4. Tons of advertisers, from Fortune 500 to small businesses
5. The more websites you list, the more money you earn
6. Manage all of your published ads and websites with our Control Center

You can sign up for free here at LinkWorth.

Q-Ads + Qumana: Easy blogging, easy money

Q-Ads is a new, innovative ad network tailored especially for bloggers. Tired of having to code your template to place ads on your blog? Tired of poor revenue? Q-Ads changes that ... starting now you can discover the income potential of your site!

Q-Ads is an easy and powerful way for you to unlock the revenue potential of your website or blog. Q-Ads is a unique way for you to embed ads anywhere you can place a picture – in your blog post, on your website, in your RSS feed. Because you choose the keywords for your post, you are in control of the ad your website visitors see – it is no longer bound to the content, but to your knowledge of your readers and what you are writing.

Q-Ads is a powerful way for you to monetize your content – you are free to choose when and where your ads are placed, what they look like, and what ad is displayed. You can use them as little or as much as you want. Earn money on your own terms.

Qumana is a free, easy-to-use blog editor that combines powerful WYSIWYG capabilities with easy one-click ad insertion. With Qumana, you can insert Q-Ads ads when and where you want. It's that simple.

Qumana works with almost every blog platform, letting you post and cross post your content and your ads, wherever you want. Adgenta offers bloggers and DIY personal publishers more freedom of choice and greater control over how they use online advertising. Qumana: freedom for bloggers.

Top Google Searches for 2007 - AdSense revenue boosters for your site

Entertainment and technology topped Google's top searches in 2007, with the iPhone grabbing the No. 1 slot on a list of the fastest-rising search terms in the United States, the company said on Tuesday.

"iPhone, of course, is a word very few people typed in a search box in 2006," said Marissa Mayer of Google, an Internet search engine. "It didn't exist." Apple rolled out the iPhone, which is a mobile phone, music and video player and Internet browser device, in the United States last summer.

Four social networking sites made the top 10, including Webkinz, which grabbed the No. 2 slot. Webkinz is a stuffed animal that customers can register and play with online. Celebrity news Web site TMZ ranked third, while transformer toys took the No. 4 slot.

Transformers are the wildly popular toys that shift their shapes, for example from cars to alien robots, and they got a big boost from the 2007 hit movie "Transformers." "There's a lot of interest in the celebrity culture, television and movies," said Mayer.

YouTube, the video-sharing Web site, grabbed the No. 5 spot while Club Penguin, a networking site for children, came in No. 6.

Social networking site MySpace took the No. 7 slot. Heroes, Facebook and Anna Nicole Smith rounded out the top 10.

1) iPhone
2) Webkinz
3) TMZ
4) Transformers
5) YouTube
6) Club Penguin
7) Myspace
8) Heroes
9) Facebook
10) Anna Nicole Smith

Google Images to drive more traffic

This is a brand new SEO technique that I discovered after reviewing my site stats. I found that 80% of my traffic is coming from google images but only 20% of my blog posts use google images. So I applied the 80/20 rule to my blog and have seen a tremendous increase in the visitor ratios.

1. All you have to go is link to an image from google images whenever you publish a post.

2. For example in this post I use the following code to link to an image of a super hot google girl.
< img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;" src="http://www.technewsdaily.net/uploaded_images/google-girl-780952.jpg" border="0" alt="Google Images to drive more traffic" />

3. Make sure that there is an ALT tag with the same title as your post. Seemingly Yahoo search engine likes this very well.

Thats the path to glory!

The mantra is to sprinkle a few images, photos, illustrations around your blog and at the very least it will make it more pleasing on the eye.

Hopefully it may bring a few additional benefits as well.

Make money from Xbox 360 Live - 2007 Fall Dashboard Update

Microsoft today dropped the rest of the details on its upcoming Xbox 360 2007 Fall Dashboard Update. This includes the previously covered Xbox Originals download service. You can expect this update to populate your video game console sometime starting Dec. 4.

The Xbox 360 2007 Fall Dashboard Update is definitely a major overhaul with lots of new features.

Besides the ability to download and play Xbox Originals you also get access to reduced prices on select Xbox Live Arcade titles.

There will also be a new direct feed into the dashboard which gives you more updated information on new Xbox offerings.

You’ll also be able to add more information into your bio for friends to view as well as being able to see the Friends Lists of other Xbox Live members.

This is where you can make money by promoting your blog feed on your Dashboard which gives you the ability to get more traffic and earn money from Xbox 360.

Feed Crier - Leverage the Power of IM to drive more traffic

Give your readers the power of instant alerts from your web site and drive more traffic from IMs delivered to your subscribers on AIM, MSN, Jabber, GTalk.
Bypass spam filters and avoid email newsletter bounces with 100% opt-in instant messaging. By partnering with Feed Crier, your readers will always know when you update your site — even if they don’t use a news reader.

And it won’t cost you a thing.

Adding a button or a subscription form to your site helps your readers sign up with Feed Crier and stay connected with you. For the sites you regularly visit anyways, this is a huge time saver as you’ll get alerted via IM for any blog updates.

Join rssHugger and create a viral marketing buzz for your Blog

rssHugger is a new website launched by Colin LaHay who also is responsible for Wordhugger.

RSSHugger is essentially a directory of RSS feeds to help bloggers promote their blogs, and to help visitors discover new blogs that write about subjects that the readers are interested in.

Through the power of the internet and viral marketing, rssHugger looks to bring blog writers and blog readers closer together. Previously, a blogger had to pay $10 to register their blog for a period of 10 years within the RSS Hugger directory, but after listening to the community outcry’s requesting the removal of the fee, Colin’s decided to trade inclusion in RSSHugger for backlinks and a review instead.

So its pretty simple, register at the site, blog about it, and you’re well on your way to a hopeful return of traffic and increased RSS subscriptions.

1. If you own a blog, you can get your own page on rssHugger for 10 years for giving an honest review of the site on your blog.

2. If you want to join rssHugger but do not want to review our site, you can pay a one time review fee of $20.

rssHugger will be the first ever quality, spam free, and viral rss directory strictly for bloggers.

Monetize Your Blogger Feeds With Pheedo

Pheedo is a feed advertising platform that gives you a way to monetize your site feeds through advertising. There isn't much information on adding Pheedo to Blogger, but it is a very simple process I will share with you.

1. To get started you will need to setup an account with Pheedo.

2. Choose a configuration for your feed, and if you are using blogger the easy choice will be the Green zone, which allows you to place the code feed item footer the Blogger settings.

3. Once you have entered all of your information, such as what type of advertising you would like to display, you will be able to copy your Pheedo code from Feed & Zones settings section. Just place this code in the settings -> feed items -> feed item footer section.

4. If you did not provide your address in the initial setup to go back and enter the address you would like your check to be sent to in your account details.

You are now ready to start monetizing your site feeds through Blogger.

Click here to preview my RSS feed that has been enabled with Pheedo advertising.

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.

Get 1000s of FREE impressions and boost your blog CPM

The secret to making money online is to improve the CPM for your blog. I am going to share a technique that will allow you to boost your CPM. Here is how:

1. From your blogger account goto Settings

2. Open site feed tab, and copy paste your hghest paying Google ad code into Post Feed Footer

3. Make sure you have a Post Feed redirect URL. If you dont have one, first burn your post feed with FeedBurner, or used another service to process your feed, and then enter the full feed URL here. Blogger will redirect all post feed traffic to this address.

That's it.

Whenever you get a hit on your Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) link blogger will syndicate the content and mulitply the ad impresssions for each post resulting in a tremendous boost to your ad CPM.

Celebrating 500+ Subscribers and $100 To Give Away To My Loyal Readers

November is going to be giveaway month over here at Personal Finance Management and Planning! To celebrate reaching a milestone of 500 subscribers, I plan to give away $100 dollars! The winners will be announced on November 30, 2007 and the gifts are broken into:

1 x $50 Amazon gift certificates
5 x $10 Barnes and Noble gift certificates

For the rest of the month, I will be posting about extra ways to enter so remember to check often to see if there are additional ways to win. As you might know already, email subscribers automatically get one entry into every drawing! Subscribing through email also means that the instructions to increase your chances to win the gift certificates will be delivered to your inbox! Don’t hesitate and subscribe now!

Import orkut scraps in your blog

If you are an Orkut fan and do a lot of scrapping about money making opportunities, etc, here is a cool trick to import your scraps into your blog.

You will not require to login to Orkut to read your scraps. And above all you can make your scraps available as RSS feed into your blog.

1. Note the URL given below:
http://www.indian-tv.com/orkut.php?uid={uid}

2. Now when you visit someones profile (might be yours) you will notice that the URL in the address bar contains a long number called uid. Replace {uid} with the actual uid from that profile

3. Voila! That particular persons last 10 scraps are listed within seconds.

This method could also be used to atleast read scraps in networks which have blocked orkut.

Formula to make $3000 per month though Google AdSense

Making money with Adsense is all about the numbers. Lets break it down and go into the math of how this can be done:

To make $3000 per month,
One would have to make $100 per day
Or $4.17 per hour

Let’s say your website displays normal price keywords with an average of $0.10 per click, therefore in an hour you’d have to average 42 clicks or 1008 clicks daily.

So how much traffic or rather, page impressions does it take to get 42 clicks in an hour?

Quite a lot I must say. If you get about 3% CTR on Adsense, to generate 1008 clicks daily, you got to have
1008 x 100% / 3% = 33,600 page impressions

That’s a lot! But if you get 3 page views per visit on average, then having 11,200 unique visitors daily would be enough to achieve the $3,000 goal.

I set a goal when I started this blog to get 10,000 visitors daily in one year. Obviously that’s not an impossible goal to achieve.

So if that go according to plan, I should be able to achieve $3,000 monthly in Adsense income within a year, right?

But here’s the thing, one way of achieving that goal faster or even surpass it is by targeting high paying keywords. So instead of getting a meager $0.10 per click, you could have got $0.50 per click which translates to 2240 unique visitors daily.

Another way you can reach this goal faster is by creating multiple blogs that will work together creating several revenue streams for you.

It sounds good but achieving such goal requires more than just traffic. Setting a target is one thing, but creating pages that convert well is a totally different thing all together which warrant a discussion of its own.

The trick is to write about subjects that people are actively searching for. Your ads should be just another extension to your content to help people find the solution to their problem or whatever it is that they are looking for.

Once you’ve achieved the goal, you can up the ante and set a higher goal, perhaps $5,000, $10,000 or more. I know this would keep my motivation going.

So play around with your numbers, check your Site Meter/web traffic stats, Adsense CTR and average pay per click amount. Do you think this is a reasonable target for you? Please leave your comment and tell us what you think.

How to wrap up your posts with AdSense Ads

With a nice blending of ads with the background, you can easily have higher CTR and earn more money through clicks. Abother great benefit is that you can have these embedded ads in your RSS feed and send them out to email subscibers.

The procedures are fairly simple. Make sure you have saved the template before doing anything.

1. Copy the adsense code as usual.

2. Go to the template of your blog and find <$BlogItemBody$>.

3. Add the table align portion of html that you see at the beginning and end of your adsense code in the photo below.

4. Check out the beginning and end of the AdSense code with the added html. I placed the adsense code in my template (after the "post body" and before the "post footer") using the 125X125 button format.

5. Remember to go into your blogger Settings, click on Formatting, scroll to the bottom of the page and set Enable float alignment to NO.