Does your website generate sufficient traffic? Are you using an ad network for your advertising solution because you don’t know how to run one on your own?

Well! Here is a simple solution.

If you are getting sufficient direct queries for hosting ads, then you need to get yourself OIOPublisher. This is the definitive answer to connect website owners directly with advertisers and cut out the middle-man commission.

Payments are handled via PayPal without any middleman. A WordPress plugin is available which makes it a 2-minute job to eliminate the middle-man!

I’ve been using OIOPublisher on some of my sites and plan to eventually migrate to it even here on Online Presence.

It is a must-have plugin for any serious blogger.

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Host ads without the middleman

© 2007 Anuj Seth

I’m sure you’ve heard of Twitter. Right?

Now, do you know the number of software applications available for Twitter? No? I’m not surprised. The list is huge.

Many of us don’t even get to know about the complete set of apps available for Twitter.

This is where Twitdom comes in. I’ve just launched Twitdom, which will aim to be the Applications Database for Twitter. It will be updated on a regular basis with all the new application launches for Twitter.

Visit Twitdom and bookmark the page for future reference.

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Twitdom: The Twitter Apps Database

© 2007 Anuj Seth

This holiday season if you are looking for eyeglasses you can look at the Holiday Frames from Zenni Optical which you can buy for a very reasonable price.

The image above shows one frame chosen from numerous available at Zenni Optical. This one is Frame #3739 and is a Pure Titanium Half Rim Frame available for $39.95 only.

Zenni Optical provides a refund guarantee as well. If you would like to return your eye glasses for any reason, Zenni Optical will return 50% of the amount paid, as long as its returned within 4 weeks of purchase.

If you are dissatisfied with your eyeglasses for any reason, they may be returned for a -50% refund within a period of four weeks. We do not reimburse for shipping and handling of orders returned for a refund. If the glasses are being returned for a warranty issue, this must be completed within the 30 day period, as well. We do not address warranty issues beyond a thirty day period.

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Holiday Eyeglasses from ZenniOptical

© 2007 Anuj Seth

You must have heard of Twitter; the micro-blogging service? Yes? Good! I shall not spend any time on that then.

If you want to promote/advertise on Twitter, there is a controversial service called Magpie that you can use.

Twitter users can sign up on Magpie as publishers and after every few ‘tweets’ they make, Magpie will insert a Tweet on their behalf which will be an advertisement. This advertisement could be yours!

Sign-up on Magpie to advertise your products & services.

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Advertise on Twitter using Magpie

© 2007 Anuj Seth

The success of any web site not only depends on the quality of content by the quality of accessibility of the content. Basically, you need to ensure that you are using a quality web hosting provider.

There are several hosting providers nowadays and for someone new it can be quite a challenge to determine which one to go with. Do you go with the one that provides the cheapest option, or do you go for one which provides the most features, or do you go with someone in between? All this can be confusing if you are not sure.

This is where WebHostingGeeks comes in. When you are looking for a web hosting service, just head over to there web site and look at reviews based on various categories — PHP hosting, eCommerce hosting, etc. The front page also covers the best hosting options of 2008.

As an example, here is a review for Immotion.

As you can see, there are various categories against which the web hosting service is reviewed. User reviews are available as well. In case of Immotion, there were as many as 64 user reviews, which should be more than sufficient for you to get clarity on the services of Immotion.

It cannot get any easier than this to locate a web hosting service of your choice.

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Get your web hosting reviews by the geeks

© 2007 Anuj Seth

RupeeMail is a service that pays you for reading emails.

For each email you receive, there is a “stamp” affixed to it, and you get paid that amount. The beauty of the service is that you can encash the amount (in Indian Rupees) at any given point. There is a minor service charge for withdrawals below Rs. 200 though.

I signed up for this service recently and you should to!

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RupeeMail: Earn money for reading emails

© 2007 Anuj Seth

AdSense for Domains used to be open only to large domainers till a while back.

Google has now opened it to all. This is great new for small time publishers/domainers and will enable them with another avenue to make money online. [via Inquistr]

To check whether AdSense for domains has been enabled for your account, log in and visit your AdSense Setup tab.

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AdSense for Domains open to all publishers

© 2007 Anuj Seth

Marketing Xcel enables you to earn money online by responding to surveys.

The service is available only in India. As part of the registration process, you need to be comfortable disclosing a lot of information (e.g., models of cars, TV, refridgerators, etc.) to them.

You earn points for each survey you complete. You also earn points for referring friends. You can then redeem these points for cash, which is paid out by cheque.

Sign up for Marketing Xcel.

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Make money answering online surveys

© 2007 Anuj Seth

WordPress 2.7 RC1 is available for download. This version introduces a completely revamped Admin Panel.

Read more about it on lab209.

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WordPress 2.7 RC1 is available for download

© 2007 Anuj Seth

WordPress 2.6.5 has been released and is considered a mandatory security upgrade.

It containes 1 security fix and 3 bug fixes. The changes are limited to only 2 files, so you can update those 2 files manually as well.

Get WordPress 2.6.5.

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WordPress 2.6.5 released

© 2007 Anuj Seth

(via @Archit)

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WordPress 2.6 Downloaded over 3 million times

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If you haven’t seen it already, have a look at it. It’s worth the effort, even though I don’t agree with some blogs being on that list, as it has nothing to do with Internet Marketing.

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Internet Marketing Top Blogs

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If you couldn’t afford to buy this earlier, now is your chance to grab this theme and give your blog a face lift.

Visit the WooThemes website to get more details on this theme.

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Premium News Theme available for free now!

© 2007 Anuj Seth

Finally a way for you to start earning from your Twitter account.

Be-A-Magpie pumps ‘relavant’ ads into your Twitter stream. The frequency at which it pushes ads is controlled by you; starting at 1 ad per tweet. You get paid depending on the number of followers you have.

Just hope you don’t start loosing followers. Ensure you’re using a service like Qwitter to track your unfollowers. It the frequency of followers leaving you increase, just switch of Magpie.

Related Articles:

• What’s a Tweetworth? My 2 Cents on Magpie

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Be A Magpie: Earn from Twitter

© 2007 Anuj Seth

The title says it all…

The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is now available for download. It sports a completely new visual UI design.

Read more at lab209.

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WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 available…

© 2007 Anuj Seth

I received my first payment from PerformancingAds today! A special thanks goes out to all those who purchased ad slots on this blog and other network sites!

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First Payment received from PerformancingAds

© 2007 Anuj Seth

Brian has done this to align himself with the entire WordPress open source movement.

There are 10 themes available currently.

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Revolution Theme goes open source

© 2007 Anuj Seth

WordPress 2.6.3 has been released today with a fix in the Snoopy library.

This is a low risk vulnerability, but I would still highly recommend that you go ahead and upgrade your existing 2.6.2 installation with this release.

The good part is that only 2 files need to be replaced if you want to do a quick upgrade.

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WordPress 2.6.3 released

© 2007 Anuj Seth

I got to hear about 000WebHost from a Twitter Friend that I follow. Its an interesting hosting service. Read on…

Founded in December 2006, 000webhost.com has a free hosting members base of over 60,000 members. It offers professional quality hosting, support, uptime and reliability.

The free service provides you

• 350 MB of disk space
• 100 GB of data transfer
• PHP and MySQL support with no restrictions
• cPanel control panel
• Website Builder
• Absolutely no advertising!

So, if you are looking at starting off an experiment and don’t have any funds to invest, 000Webhost could be just the ideal starting point for your web hosting needs.

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Free Web Hosting at 000Webhost

© 2007 Anuj Seth

PingPressFM is a free WordPress plugin, that allows you to notify all social networks supported by Ping.fm of your new blog posts.

This is the quickest way to alert all your social networking friends. Just focus on writing, and leave the rest to this plugin and Ping.fm!

The plugin was developed by SoldOutActivist.

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Notify social networks with PingPressFM

© 2007 Anuj Seth