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funny umberella video

2006-09-06T04:03:00.000-07:00

This is the final post of the Adding Videos to Blogger Blogs mini-series, and whats can be better than ending the mini-series with a laugh. You can read How to add DailyMotion Videos to blogger platform if you need more information on posting DailyMotion videos.

Umberella Shelter

Technorati Tags: DailyMotion, Umberella Shelter, vSocial Video, Blogger, Blogspot, Blog, YouTube, Google Videos, Bloghacker

vSocial video - CROCODILE HUNTER TRAILER

2006-09-05T05:34:00.000-07:00

I could not believe for some time when I read that Steve Irwin or better known as Crocodile hunter is no more in this world. Life can be so cruel. For some time I wanted to test vsocial videos and today when I visited the site I saw this video from PORSCHE911TURBO which I am posting here on my blog as part of much delayed Adding Videos to Blogger Blogs mini-series, you can read rest of the posts here.

Technorati Tags: crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, vSocial Video, Blogger, Blogspot, Blog, YouTube, Google Videos

SEXYBACK (Justin Timberlake)

2006-08-29T00:50:00.000-07:00

This post is part of Adding Videos to Blogger Blogs mini-series, you can read rest of the posts here.

SEXYBACK (Justin Timberlake)

Technorati Tags: Justin Timberlake, Sexyback, Music Video, Blogger, Blogspot, Blog, YouTube, Google Videos

webratsmusic video: Danity Kane - 'Showstopper'

2006-08-23T20:51:00.000-07:00

This post is part of Adding Videos to Blogger Blogs mini-series, you can read rest of the posts here.

Danity Kane's latest video :"Show stopper"
(#1 position on MTV.com Top 20 Video Streams)

Technorati Tags: Danity Kane, Show Stopper, Music Video, Blogger, Blogspot, Blog, YouTube, Google Videos

Shakira - Hips Dont Lie spoof - adding Google video to Blogger blog

2006-08-18T01:26:00.000-07:00

Shakira - Hips Dont Lie spoof


This post is part of blogger tutorial explaining how to add Google video to your blogger blog. Currently testing on old blogger blog. To see step by step tutorial you can visit How to add Google videos to blogger platform

If you wish to add other type of videos you can visit BlogHacker's mini-Series Adding Video to Blogger blogs

busy as a bee

2006-08-15T12:59:00.000-07:00

I was very busy from past few weeks. I was able to make some more money with this blog and finally baught a nice domain "www.BlogHacker.net" and a decent hosting. I was spending most of my time working on my new blog. You can find detailed review of recently released Blogger.com Beta on it. I would be posting on both here and on BlogHacker in coming time. First I wanted to move this complete blog over to BlogHacker but that would have been hugh work without adding anything new, so I decided to drop the idea.

Do visit BlogHacker for Latest Blogger Tutorials, Templates and Tips. See you all there.

Making money, 1 dollar at a time

2006-08-07T22:38:00.000-07:00

Finally I made my first purchase with my online earning.

Recently I sold couple of links on this free blog and got a total of $6.54 in my Paypal account (thanks to Paypal fee I could not make it to $7). I wanted to register a domain but since most of the sellers were asking for $6.95 or more I could not buy even after using those discount coupons :( . Anyway during the same time I made a bid on one catchy domain name and to my surprise I won the auction. Now I am a proud owner of 'www.cheatgeek.net'. Of course with just $2.5 left in my account I can't afford a hosting so right now I am using a free hosting, have uploaded a game cheats script(a free script) and adding cheats to the site. The site is not complete in anyway (call it beta if you like) since there is lot to be done there but I am working on it.

I know this is very small thing but I like to see it as one step closer to my goal of earning a living from this free blog, earning with zero investment(of course excluding my time), being a professional blogger and leaving my full-time job.

Its a long journey ahead but I am very excited about it. If you wish to stay with me on this journey then you are most welcome to visit this blog anytime.

Jack

Can we make good money from free blogs? Answer is Yes!

Tags: making money, paypal, game cheats, domains, free blog, blogger

Adding Adsense Ads in Blogger blog post's body

2006-08-03T10:15:00.000-07:00

If you are not sure what this little blogger hack do then take a minute to look at this gardening blog, you would get the picture.

Few months back I came across this cool hack which lets you put adsense ads in the body of your blogspot blog posts. Doing this not only gives you more flexibility with your ad placement but may also lead to higher CTR. So what are we waiting for, lets jump right into the good stuff.

Getting the ads in the body of your blogger posts needs your to change your blogspot template little bit. Please remember that depending on the template you have the code might be little different but the main idea would be same. I would advice you to copy your template code in your favorite text editor for easy searching.

First find the section in your template where you need to make changes - this section is usually labeled by following comment:

and

Now that you have found the section which needs to modify, next you have to find that single life which needs to be replaced by the code I would provide later in this article. This is usually the 4th or 5th line from the top of this section containing the tag <$BlogItemBody$>. Just search in the text editor if you can't find it. The line that needs to be replaced is

<div class="text"><$BlogItemBody$></div>

Once you have searched this line just replace it with the following code:

<div class="boxblog">
<div id="prv<$BlogItemNumber$>"></div>
<div style="margin:10px 0 -10px 0">


<script type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script></div>
<div id="fst<$BlogItemNumber$>"> <$BlogItemBody$>
</div><script language="JavaScript">
var obj0=document.getElementById("prv<$BlogItemNumber$>");
var obj1=document.getElementById("fst<$BlogItemNumber$>");
var s=obj1.innerHTML;
var r=s.search(/<adsense>/igm);
if(r>0) {obj0.innerHTML=s.substr(0,r);obj1.innerHTML=s.substr(r+9);}
</script></div>

This is all you have to do. Now just save the template and republish your blog.

But you may wonder where exactly will your ads appear in the post. Well you can choose the exact location for you ads. Simply put the "<adsense>" tag (without quotes) in your post's body and the adsense ads would appear in its place. If you forget to put the tags for some post then the ad would appear at the top of the post.

That's it. Give it a try, put it on your blogs. Come back here and post a comment about your experience.

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Can we make good money from free blogs? Answer is Yes!

2006-08-02T23:40:00.000-07:00

This was my first blog in the blogosphere. I had no money to buy a domain of my own or paying hosting bills. So like most new guys I started a blog on blogger.com. My main aim was to write about the things I learn on the web, things that are related to blogosphere and webmasters. I joined Digitalpoint forum and started posting my doubts there. I learned a lot from fellow members. I implemented what I learned in my free blog, which was little difficult given the small amount of flexibility given by blogger. I kept on posting here whenever I got time and learning tricks of the trade at the same time.

With time I came to realize that many bloggers prefers a domain of their own to blogspot blogs. They said that it looks more professional. That it brings more respect. All these comments and suggestions gave me an idea. I decided to work on a project to make money from free blogs. I worked on this blog, learned many template hacks and searched the web for best tips and implemented them here. I decided that I won't spend a single dollar on the web. I decided that I would build my online business from this free blog. I kept posting and nothing much happened. After some time Google PR updates took place and my promoting strategy gave me a page rank of 4 for this blog. I was happy. very happy. Now my blog was more mature then when it started some four months back. I contacted some members on DP for link sale and one replied with a positive response. I sold by first link for 3 dollars. It was for one month. I was very happy! I got my first earning in my paypal account. I know this is very small but I am optimistic. This is just a beginning. I wish to make some more money just like this and spend that money to buy a domain of my own. And I wish to keep this blog with me and would show that we can make money out of nothing :)

Now the goal for this blog is clear. I wish to make it an example for all bloggers that we can earn even from free blogs. And to contribute to blogger.com I am going to make this blog the best resource site for blogspot templates, tips, and hacks. You can find latest news and best adsense optimizing tips for blogspot right here. BTW I am expecting my first adsense check in next few weeks :-)

I am interested in buying some more domain names, maybe a music domain.

If you also believe that I can make big here without spending a penny from my pocket then keep visiting and I would keep you updated with all that's happenings around me

B4B reincarnation - Single Resource Blog for blogger templates, tips and everything geeky is here

2006-07-25T02:39:00.000-07:00

If this blog were to die and reborn again then many things would be different here. I have learned a lot in last few months. In the beginning I did lot of things wrong, mostly due to my ignorance. Lot of these things that I want to do is mostly related to how my blog is organized. Let me point them out:

The Goal: I started out this blog as my voice in blogosphere but I lacked any goal, I just wanted to talk about stuffs that I learned and used this blog to share that knowledge to everyone. I just kept walking without any knowledge, but soon I realized that I must focus on something, something that I liked, something specific. Just as time passed the importance of some goal became even more important. Here I am not talking about the goal as in The Goal to reach $1000 per month within next 365 days, but I mean to say something bigger than that, the final goal of this blog. The "objective" of this blog. If I want to start this blog all over again that first thing I would do is to set some fixed goal.

Am I Alone: I know, no one wants to be alone. But I want to be alone. No its not a bad feeling, as a matter of fact everyone wants to be alone in blogosphere.Oh! by alone I mean unique, one of its kind. I started talking about things that I liked but soon I realized that there are many who know more about them and can express them in much better way then me. Repeating them and not giving anything from my side was not the reason I started this blog.

Now that I have spent quite some time blogging I can answer Darren's question: If I had to start my blog again then the first thing I would do is get this the this blog's goal clear - To be THE BEST resource blog for blogspot blogs. There are many blogs which gives tips, templates and lot of things for blogspot blogs, but they are scattered all over the blogosphere. I wish to make this blog One Stop blog for all their needs. I know most of the bloggers reading this use Wordpress, Typepad etc but I want this blog to cater to new bloggers needs. I like programming and I have interest in designs, so I can safely say that I would be able to do justice to my work.
This post is written as part of If I had to Start My Blog Again - Group Writing Project

Tags: blog, bloggers, blogspot, tips, templates, resource site, problogger

Marketing new sites and forums with contests

2006-07-23T09:57:00.000-07:00

Recently I came across Earners Forum, a relatively new forum started by Lee Dodd. The thing that amazed me about this forum is its surprisingly fast growth. The credits for this goes to the great marketing strategy of EarnersForum team. Apart from usual SEO and off-line marketing they are also having one really big contest which ends on July 31th(sorry for the late announcement) Having a contest to promote a site or forum is not a new one but this contest have lot of flexibility and really exciting prizes. You can checkout the contest page for full details. Here are some important things to know about the contest:

There will be a total of 5 winners, each winning: $1,000, a content site with 500 pages, 1 hours consultation with Lee, and more. Total value of all prizes, as given on the site, is over $20,000. You can see the full list along with forum rules at their contest page.

These contests play a very important part in launching any site but for the contests to really get the attention of the crowd it has to be interesting and innovative.

ISP removes ban on blogspot and typad blogs

2006-07-21T09:31:00.000-07:00

Finally ISPs are allowing access to blogspot and typepad blogs. This is a good news for all those bloggers who were getting affected from this ban.

From now onwards only the following sites would be blocked by the ISPs:

www.hinduunity.org
mypetjawa.mu.nu [American right-wing blog]
pajamaeditors.blogspot.com [American right-wing blog]
exposingtheleft.blogspot.com [American right-wing blog]
thepiratescove.us [American right-wing blog]
commonfolkcommonsense.blogspot.com [This is isn't even in English!]
bamapachyderm.com [American right-wing blog]
princesskimberley.blogspot.com [Long defunct]
merrimusings.typepad.com [Defunct American right-wing blog, but now at http://www.merrimusings.mu.nu ]
mackers-world.com [American right-wing blog]
www.dalistan.org [They actually mean www.dalitstan.org which is currently down]
www.hinduhumanrights.org/hindufocus.html
www.nndh.com [Dead URL]
bloodroyaltriped.com [Dead URL]
imagesearchyahoo.com [Dead URL, but it wouldn't be a blog!]
www.imamali8.com [They probably mean imamali.com but somebody mistyped]
www.rahulyadav.com [Computer geek at IU Bloomington - not a blog at all - banned merely for his links to the BJP, RSS, etc]

The Indian Government is also holding ISPs responsible for the inconvenience caused to innocent bloggers at blogspot, typepad and Geocities and might penalized them for this.

see my older posts to learn more about this situation.
Indian govt banned blogspot blogs
New hope for banned blogspot, typepad blogs

new hope for banned blogspot, typepad blogs

2006-07-21T00:11:00.000-07:00

Bloggers, who's blogs are hosted by sites such as Blogspot, Typepad and Yahoo! Geocities can relax now.

On last Wednesday Amitabh Singhal, a spokesperson of the Internet Service Providers Association of India told that this ban would be lifted in next 48 hours. according to this news-

"An advisory is being sent from ISPAI to member ISPs saying they should configure their Domain Name Servers (DNS) in such a way that they block only the sub-domains DoT wants blocked," said Singhal, adding, "It would help if, in future, DoT could also mention the mechanism by which sites should be blocked."

According to the latest developments these ISP might also be penalized. From one press release -

As such the DoT has now directed all the ISPs to strictly comply with the order dated 13th July 2006 and provide unhindered access to Internet except for the websites/webpages which have been specifically mentioned in its orders issued from time to time.

The DoT has further sought explanation from the erring ISPs as to why action be not taken against them for blocking unintended websites/webpages.

Now that 48 hour deadline is about to end all we can do is wait and watch DoT's next step.

Tags: blogger blogs banned, india isp, typepad, geocities

indian govt banned blogspot blogs

2006-07-18T22:19:00.000-07:00

From last couple of days I am not able to see any of blogspot blogs. First I thought that the problem was with blogger(usual updates) so out of curiosity I posted about it in digital point forum, but the fellow members checked and told that it looked all fine to them. Then I thought that the problem might be with my network setting, but that was also not the case, now from another thread I came to know I am not alone and that it seems that the Indian Government might have asked some ISPs in India to ban the blogger.com.

So I decided to do a little checking myself. And surprisingly when I tried to ping the blogs I could not reach the site.

click image to enlarge

next I did a trace route to the blog and as expected the site was unreachable.

click image to enlarge (some details blurred for security reasons)

And blogger.com is not the only site that got banned by ISP but geocities and typepad blogs are also not accessible at the moment.

IF BloggerCollectives groups is to be believed that this banning order came from non-other then President's office. One of the members wrote that:

Today, I received a call from AirTel, and they confirmed that enquiries to their Delhi head office had revealed that they indeed had received instructions to block certain sites. When I asked where the directive to block sites came from, I was told that it came from the President’s Office. The caller did not have any information on the specific sites that were to be blocked.

I wonder what might have caused this action. Some says that the reason behind this is because of the blogs that are bad-mouthing Indian Government, while other believe that its just a temporary issue. Whatever the case many, the fact is that Indian bloggers are stuck at the moment. Lets see how this thing affects Google's adsense. If a blogger is targeting only U.S visitors then it would surely benefit him but on the other hand if all those adsense publishers cannot access their blogs then its possible that Google's earning would also go down.

And all this happened the day before I received my adsense PIN :(

ps: I am posting this with my editor so lets hope that it gets through the ban successfully. (keeping fingers crossed)

Technorati Tags : blogger, banned, blogspot, isp, president, blog, india, indian government

Google PageRank Update for month of july 2006

2006-07-13T19:24:00.000-07:00

Google has finally started updating PageRanks on its various datacenters and many sites (including this blog) has seen a nice jump from PR0 to PR4-5. This was first reported just few hours back on DP by dkessaris. According to some forum members this pr update is affecting mostly PR0 sites though some old sites have also seen some changes but not as much as the new PR0 sites. Since backlinks shown by google is not even close to what some sites expect so it can't be said if this PR is final. Also many sites have gained backlinks but lost PR at the same time.

Only time will tell if this PR update is going to stay or not but for now I am a very happy man!

How to add YouTube video to blogger blogs

2006-07-03T03:19:00.000-07:00

This tutorial has got a new home!

Redirecting…

You should be automatically redirected. If not, visit BlogHacker: blogger tutorials and update your bookmarks.

2006-07-03T02:31:00.000-07:00

funny video: korean girls singing

funny korean girls video

Google will give you money -- for free

2006-07-02T09:15:00.000-07:00

You just have to ask and google would send you $100 check, or at least that's what these publishers are thinking. Many publishers are trying to make some easy money by click frauds. And no, they are not doing this in some hush hush manner but they are inviting everyone to join their i-click-your-ad-you-click-my-ad kind of club. And the most funny thing is that all this is happening right under google's own eyes. Think about it - Most of these publishers start their blog on Google's Blogger.com, then they as put Adsense Ads to make easy money and finally they are using Google's social networking site Orkut.com to get the clicks.

The chain is very simple. All they have to do is visit the blog links given in the most current comment, click some ads, then post their own blogs links for next one to follow. And this chain is not even new. It started on 10th of Jan and on the day of writing this post there were 144 post in total. Here are some snapshots of the page for those who don't have Orkut account.

first page of the thread (click to enlarge)

144 comments at the time of writing this post(click to enlarge)

Technorati Tags : google, adsense, click, fraud, orkut, social, network

Video Ads for profit

2006-07-01T21:31:00.000-07:00

Recently I came across one of the post at Google Adsense blog where they talk about some positive feedback from Terri Wild who participated in the beta test of google video ads. According to them "Not only did Wild see a revenue gain from the click-to-play video campaign itself, but switching to the larger Medium Rectangle format resulted in an additional jump in clickthrough rate and a 42% increase in eCPM."

Though not many publishers have seen video ads but still I am interested to see some on this blog. I wonder what kind of "contextual videos" would be suitable for this blog. I believe more media oriented your blog is more likely you would get those ads. Sites on cars, workouts and music seems to score more in adsense video ads.

If you are also interested in having some video ads then make sure you are showing one of these three video format ads:

336 x 280 (Large rectangle)
300 x 250 (Medium rectangle)
250 x 250 (Square)

Technorati Tags : google, adsense, video, ads, format

Click Per Action Google Adsense ads only by invitation

2006-06-26T10:07:00.000-07:00

Many publishers are getting invitation from Google Adsense team to join their new Cost-per-action program. According to the mail some of the points that one might find interesting are:

Right now the program is open by invitation only. So you have to wait if you wish to join.
You get paid whenever a visitor clicks on the ad AND performs a specified action, such as generating a lead or purchasing a product (hence the name cost-per-action).
Ads would run on a separate network - the Content Referral network and would not compete with contextually targeted ads.
You are allowed to put text like "Try BeachDating today" next to CPA ad unit.
Earning report is on weekly basis only.

If would be interesting to know how many more publishers have received such invitations from Google.

Technorati Tags : Click, Per, Action, Google, Adsense, ads, only, by, invitation

Blog Templates for Blogger platform

2006-06-19T11:21:00.000-07:00

I always enjoyed experimenting with blogspot templates. So here I am going to share some of the templates created by me. Enjoy!

Download and Setup instructions:

Click the "Download" link just below the template snapshot.
You will see a text file with html code in it.
Select All and copy the code.
Post the code in your blogger.com account's template editor.
Save and republish.

See! It was not difficult at all. If you stick around you might learn to make your own templates. Now how cool is that!

Ok So this is my first template in "Nature" theme.
Click Image to enlarge
click here to Download template

BlogExplosion has been sold again

2006-06-18T18:27:00.000-07:00

In less than two days after going back on the market, BlogExplosion has found a new owner.The new owners are a large group that have extensive blogging background. And unlike the last time this time the new owner have "definitely has the experience and the resources to take BE to the next level. They have a large development team that will produce better site functionality and have the means to raise the awareness of BlogExplosion moving forward."

Adsense Survey from Google?

2006-06-17T04:30:00.000-07:00

It seems that google is sending mails to adsense publishers and conducting survey and to make the whole process exciting they are also giving away gift cards worth hundreds of dollars. From the past experiences I can say that not all publishers would get that kind of emails as google is known for sending emails randomly.

Links for June 16, 2006

2006-06-15T22:12:00.000-07:00

Bill gate steps down, announces retirement.
Google launches Google U.S. government Search. Find everything you always wanted to know about your taxes.
Maximize ad profits with eBay's 'Get Contextual Keywords' tool.

Does bad design good for your site

2006-06-14T19:59:00.000-07:00

Probably the most talked about site in dating circle is Plentyoffish and no its not because of the fact that this site, run by a single person Markus, is making around half a million dollar per month only from google adsense.

Plentyoffish is discussed for its design, or should I say for its lack of any design. Yes, if you visit this site you will see that its probably one of the worst designed site which is making such huge money. Many webmasters believe that the high earning might be because of the bad design and not inspite of it. According to them visitors are more likely to click on ads when they are on a poorly designed sites. If thats true then I might have to change this blog's design very soon :-(