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WidgetBucks Publishers Now Earning More Revenue from European Traffic

2008-08-17T23:30:00.000+03:00

WidgetBucks is expanding its cost-per-click (CPC) network, giving publishers and bloggers two ways to earn revenue from their Western European traffic. The expansion begins today in the United Kingdom, with Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Belgium coming online over the next two weeks.

When publishers serve WidgetBucks ad widgets on their sites, users based in the UK (for example) will now see a short-duration CPM display ad followed by a CPC shopping widget featuring UK-based merchants and products, listed in British pounds. The CPM-CPC hybrid gives publishers two revenue streams from the same ad widget instance. Before today, only CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) ads were served to visitors outside the U.S. and Canada.

From a reporting standpoint, this CPC expansion is seamless. In addition to current CPM impressions, additional impressions will simply and automatically be tallied into CPC roll-up and daily totals, as well as resulting revenue. At this time, we are not breaking out by-country CPC impressions and earnings.

Below is a breakdown of CPC and CPM Country Lists, the latter of which will continue to see only CPM advertisements.

To read more about this release visit Widgetbux blog

Earn money blogging for Wise Bread

2008-08-07T23:04:00.000+03:00

Wise Bread is the first money making opportunity I came across, which requires posts samples before accepting a blogger within their network. It is also one of the few networks using the Fair Blogging concept in their work.

Fair Blogging™ means writers get full value from their articles. Unlike other blog networks that pay $5-$10 per article or share a small percentage of revenue, Wise Bread writers get 100 percent of the advertising revenue made on the articles published within the network.

To start with Wise Bread you have to email them at at recruiting@wisebread.com with the following, let me cite:

Three sample posts of at least 400 words. These posts should show off your ability to write in different styles (for example, show that you're able to write concise how-to guides as well as interesting commentary ). The three sample posts MUST be on topic. If you are linking to existing work, those must be on topic too. You are welcome to send other examples of your work, but please remember the three on topic sample posts are an absolute requirement.
Five concrete and specific ideas for future posts. Include details and/or an outline of the meat of the posts. For example, if you plan on writing about effective budgeting techniques, please list briefly what some of those techniques would be.
Please include in the title of your email which blog you are applying for. If applying for Wise Bread, put [application for Wise Bread]; if applying for parenting blog, put [application for parenting blog]. if applying for beauty blog, put [application for beauty blog]. We're looking for smart, helpful and insightful writing. We love stories that are authoritative, extremely useful or highly entertaining.

Here are a few of the major topics they are interested in:

Savvy shopping tips to keep you stylish, sassy, and solvent.

Frugal living suggestions that keeps you living a rockstar lifestyle on a shoestring budget.

Financial advice that is easy to understand and easy to apply.

Career and money-making ideas that'll add zeros to your bank account.

What are the benefits of blogging for Wise Bread?

* Joining Wise Bread gives you instant access to a thriving community of readers and commenters. Wise Bread gets over half a million page views per month.

* In less than three months after publication, Wise Bread became one of the most popular personal finance blogs on the internet:

The number one personal finance blog as ranked by Blog Flux.

Over 5,000 blog reactions according to Technorati rankings.

We have over 67,000 links from all websites, according to Yahoo search.

Wise Bread has been bookmarked by thousands of people on Del.icio.us.

Over 6,000 Feedburner subscribers.

Wise Bread has been mentioned numerous times by major websites such as New York Times, Lifehacker, Boing Boing, Fark, Digg's home page, The Register, IMDB hotlist, Consumerist, Crooks and Liars, Del.icio.us's homepage, Reddit's homepage, and the Mother Jones Blog.

You get more traffic from search engines because Google and Yahoo! favor websites with lots of frequently updated content and incoming links.

Make more money

As a group we are able to attract bigger advertisers and charge higher advertising rates. Many major advertisers refuse to deal with blogs unless they reach a certain traffic threashold. To apply to Chitika, for example, you need at least 10,000 page views per month.

We will help you find the most lucrative monetizing opportunities and help you get the most financial value out of your writing.

For those of you outhere, intereseted in the topics listed by those from Wise Bread, I encourage you to go for it, just if taking into accoun the Fair Blogging™ which along with the rest of the benefits they offer, make Wise Bread an offer you cannot refuse:D

Miss USA 2008 falls down at the Miss Universe 2008 pageant!!

2008-07-14T23:31:00.000+03:00

A great guide for the USA online casinos

2008-07-01T21:16:00.000+03:00

I have recently watched the "Life as a Bet" movie and got myself fully enchanted by the wizard of the "play and win" universe. A wonderful place to stay this universe is, I must admit, in case you list yourself among the winners, and not pleasant at all in case you find yourself on the "other side of the moon".

The main idea I got from watching the movie I talked about at the beginning of this post is that sometimes a professional assistance in the process of choosing the things you bet on is more than requred for a successful endeavour in the respective field.

USA Online Casinos is a great professional online assistance for those searching for detailed information upon the online gambling opportunities.

It is more than a simple guide for the USA Online Casinos available on the Internet. usaonlinecasinos.ws is a site that one could use mainly because of the fact that the online casinos that are displayed on this site have passed through a thourough reliability research that proved them to be well established and reliable.

Thus, any of the USA online Casino listed on usaonlinecasinos.ws you choose to play on, you are guaranteed to get competitive payout rates and the best customer support ever.

Good luck, everyone!

Best Search Engine Optimization Services

2008-06-30T22:17:00.003+03:00

More and more fellow bloggers speak nowadays about SEO, the acronym for Search Engine Optimization. They do this be it from the point of view of a successful user of SEO techniques (at least they pretend they are), be it from the point of view of authors of simple compilations of the huge data available on the topic all over the Internet. Some of them are even offering books that are to bring the ultmiate success to their readers.

This is simply great, because the more people talk about it, the more the field is being explored, thus the more it offers insights to the existence of the respective phenomenon, and, consequently, the higher the degree of benefit resulting in the end is. However, what many of the bloggers (and not only them) seem to ignore while dwelling upon this delicate topic of Search Engine Optimization is that there are things that need a more detailed and a more professional approach than a simple overview of the highest ranked authors in the filed.

This is the moment when websites offering Search Engine Optimization Services come onto the stage.Taking search engine optimization into consideration before you build your site is the best approach. Fortunately, search engine optimization can also be performed after a site is built, but it will require making changes to your site. This is why making resort to the professional services offered by a Search Engine Optimization Company is the most recommended thing to do, without any further futile experiments.

More Web Site Traffic is guaranteed in such cases, because there is no time spent in experimenting with the SEO techniques that work and those that do not. A good example of professional SEO assistance that comes into my mind now is thinkbigsites.com, a site that offers a comprehensive and successful website optimization which is reached through cutting edge blog marketing techniques, advanced linking Strategies, SEO strategies and high level business consulting.

As I have also seen in their business offers, they seem to be outpassing the offers of their competitors, not speaking about the great testimonials they got which are availble on thinkbigsites.com

All in all, if you have decisevely made up your mind to be successful with your blog or your website, it is a must for you to ask for some help from a professional SEO Company, and the team at thinkbigsites.com is the one you need.

7 problems with new iPhone

2008-06-29T22:36:00.001+03:00

The new iPhone hasn't even landed in stores yet, but already pundits are grumbling about the revised iPhone, based on demos and published specs, about what the new model has failed to fix since the first-gen device.

Yes, we get 3G and GPS, a way to connect to Exchange, and the new app store, but what about everything else? Forbes' Brian Caulfield outlines seven (actually eight) iPhone disappointments, and most of these observations are spot on. Some highlights available here (get his full list here).

10 Best Wordpress Plugins for Google Adsense

2008-06-29T16:42:00.001+03:00

10 Best Wordpress Plugins for Google Adsense among them AdSense Deluxe, AdRotator Wordpress Plugin.

Top 10 unusual places to stay

2008-06-27T13:05:00.002+03:00

From converted train cars to converted prisons, travel Web site VirtualTourist.com has come up with its picks of the 10 most unusual places to stay.

"With limited vacation time, there's no reason your lodging shouldn't be part of the travel experience," said VirtualTourist.com general manager Giampiero Ambrosi. This list was prepared by VirtualTourist and is not endorsed by Reuters:

1. Edisto River Treehouses - Canadys, South Carolina

For those who refuse to grow up, a stay in a tree house is a dream come true. Not only is it fun, but it's clean, safe, and very reasonable.

2. Celica Hostel - Ljubljana, Slovenia.

If you've always wanted to spend a night in the slammer, now's your chance. Once a military prison, this happening hot spot is now an art gallery/youth hostel

3. Schottenstift Monastery - Vienna, Austria

If the bellboys look like monks, you're not imagining things. This hotel is actually a functioning monastery where your wake-up call might just be chanting.

4. The Red Caboose Motel - Strasburg, Pennsylvania

All aboard! Although they once traveled from city to city, these little red cabooses now function as private hotel rooms. Needless to say, kids go crazy for this place.

5. Propeller Island - Berlin, Germany

Art lovers rejoice! From upside-down rooms to levitating beds, it's the next best thing to spending the night in a museum.

Found out which are the other 5 unusual places to stay by following this link!

SEO Adsense Ready WordPress Version of Profilo Theme

2008-06-26T20:47:00.001+03:00

Profilo is an advanced 2-column Google Adsense ready WordPress theme designed and search engine optimized by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions. The theme was originally designed for GETM based on Profilo, a Textpattern theme.

This theme includes many advanced functions like an options page to edit the theme style without touching a line of code, intelligent conditional statements to improve user experience, intuitive SEO corrections to make the theme rank better in search engines and styled to easily add contextual Google ads. The theme completely validates and has a right widget ready sidebar. The theme works with WordPress versions 2.0.x through 2.5.1

Profilo: Download WP Theme | Demo Theme

2 column, search engine optimized, adsense ready, fixed width, widget ready, right sidebar, professional blog template.

VIDEO: Victoria's Secret Swim - The Scene. The Style. The Suits

2008-06-20T01:18:00.001+03:00

Custom-Writing.org a great site for students looking for some professional support

2008-06-18T00:11:00.001+03:00

One of these days, a friend of mine asked me to help him with his term paper as he was to spend his 48 hours before the deadline at work, because he has no scholarship and must provide for himself. Unfortunately, I was unable to help me due to a tight schedule of myself and due to the fact that I did not have enough time for writing a nice paper. Thus, he turned to his girlfriend and called me on the next day to tell me that he managed to persuade her to write the paper he needed so badly.

This all happened on Friday, while on Monday I found out that he failed the exam because his paper proved to be a nice sample of amateurish plagiarism. No, he did not break up with his girl as he should probably have if you ask me, but he learnt his lesson and promised to himself never again to postpone a paper until the last minute.

Two months have passed and he found himself in exactly the same situation and this time I offered my help because I really wanted to help him. But, to my utmost surprise, he refused it and said that he will manage to do it all by himself. The same was the scenario of the last week paper, so, due to my insistent curiosity he disclosed his secret: custom research papers.

The thing is that he came across a site offering high-quality essays, term papers, research papers, dissertation, theses and courseworks. More than that, along with all these categories of writings, an user can benefit froms such extra features like:

• FREE plagiarism report
• FREE unlimited amendments
• FREE title page
• FREE bibliography
• FREE outline
• FREE email delivery
• FREE formatting

For the first-comers looking for a professional essay, a term paper or anythig else as mentioned above, there are some samples that can be consulted as well as "money back guarantee". However, I believe that all the first-comers turn slightly into loyal customers after they benefit from such features like:

* Quality research and writing
* 24/7 Instant Support
* 275 words per page
* Double-spaced, 12pt Arial
* Essay within 12 hours!
* Fully referenced
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* Up-to-date sources only
* PhD and MBA writers
* Discounts for returned clients
* 100% Confidentiality
* No hidden charges
* Highly professional
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In case you have any questions about how things work on custom-writing.org, there is online support you can use to ask for more information regarding this great site that proves to be a real savior for persons like my friend I talked about at the beginning of this post.

Translator plug-ins for Yahoo Messenger

2008-06-17T20:25:00.004+03:00

Here’s an overview of the translator plug-ins that are available for Yahoo Messenger users.

Yahoo! IndiChat / ChitChat (Indian)

Launch this plug-in and you can type in English and have your message translated into one of eight Indian scripts (Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Gujarati; ChitChat includes Punjabi). As you type, the English characters are displayed in Indian script and when you press the ‘Send’ button, it sends the message to your friend in the selected language.

IndiChat: More info & Install | Try it now
ChitChat: More info & Install | Try it now

Jhol (Indian)

Similar to IndiChat and ChitChat, Jhol lets you type your message in various Indian scripts. The main difference is that the Jhol interface includes a keyboard interface as an aid. More info & Install | Try it now

Dictionary

If you’re not a native English speaker and sometimes struggle with the IMs from your friends, Dictionary can help. The plug-in will display the latest message from your friend with links on each of the words. Click a link to see a word’s meaning from one of three sources – Wordnet, Urban Dictionary or Wikimedia. Even if you do speak English well, this can be a fun plug-in to test each other on word meanings. I still enjoy a good game of Dictionary every now and then.

More info & Install | Try it now

Plug-ins are available for Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 and 9.0

Free Advanced WordPress Theme Fresh

2008-06-12T15:18:00.002+03:00

Here’s another advanced full-function WordPress theme with built in advances features.

Here’s what the theme comes pre-packed with:

Advance theme edit options, which helps in editing design elements such as colors, fonts, header image and more without touching the CSS.
Featured-regular posts: Displays important posts in a “Featured” category at the very top of the site.
Second level, conditional and dropdown menus with out elaborate set up procedures.
Tabbed JavaScript sidebar widget to display a lot more info in a lot less space.
Sidebars that are widget ready and pre-styled for Google Adsense and affiliate ads.
Stylish comments area with customizable background colors!
Search Engine Friendly coding, optimized for better site indexing.

Demo and Download

Test the theme by running a demo and then download a copy of the advanced free premium WordPress theme Fresh. This theme is free for personal use, please refer to the license section if you plan on using it for commercial purposes. The theme works with WordPress versions 2.0.x through 2.5.x.

Authors, License and Credits

The theme is a collaborative work of MandarinMusing WordPress Theme and Headsetoptions Web Design and based on a free template by Erwin Aligam.

The theme is released under a combined CC and GPL license. The CSS (stylesheet) and images are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, while the rest of the theme files are released under a GNU GPL License. What this means is, if you are to use this CSS/images to redesign, you are required to link back to the theme authors in the footer. You can make any changes to the php files any way you like. However, we prefer you leave the credits for the theme intact to help users find this theme easily. You are not allowed to redistribute this theme in part or whole. Contact us if you plan on using it commercially or if you have any special needs.

Free Support and Paid Customization

Like the other 100 or so themes from our team, this theme too is supported for free. Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for WordPress themes support and tips.

VIDEO: Twitter Whore

2008-06-08T23:38:00.002+03:00

VIDEO: Hillary Clinton's Speech Endorsing Barack Obama

2008-06-07T21:21:00.001+03:00

Make money online from blogging with Exoclick

2008-06-07T15:38:00.002+03:00

What is ExoClick?
ExoClick is a pay per click platform that provides services to advertisers and publishers. ExoClick is operated by ExoClick SL, a European company based in Barcelona, Spain.

What advertising models do you support?
Currently, Exoclick is working exclusively on a pay per click basis. With text and banner ads in all major standard sizes.

What is the diference between hits and clicks?
Hits statistics show the number of impressions of the ads. The clicks statistics show you the numbers of unique clicks on those ads.

Click here for more details on ExoClick!

Show off your favorite blogs with a Blog List in Blogger (blogspot.com)

2008-06-06T12:42:00.001+03:00

The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets.

Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your sidebar, or make a few to categorize the blogs you read. The Blog List works well for any page that has an RSS or Atom feed, so you can get creative: link to news sites, podcasts, Twitter streams, search results, or anything else with a feed.

Here’s a quick summary of the features that a Blog List gives you:

* Link to blogs, web pages, and feeds from your blog’s sidebar, with an optional favicon
* For pages with RSS and Atom feeds, Blog List can show last updated time, post title, and a snippet of the latest post
* Sort links alphabetically or by last update time
* Show all links, or hide some behind a “show all” link
* Import subscriptions from Google Reader
* Blog List links are visible to search engine crawlers, so your blog’s PageRank and reputation flow to those you link to

Click here for more details and a video guide to creating a blog list in Blogger (blogspot.com)

Snap Shot on Mashable

2008-06-06T12:41:00.001+03:00

Mashable, the world's largest blog focused exclusively on social networks, and Snap Technologies, publisher of Snap Shots, announced today that Mashable has incorporated Snap Shots on its site.

"Snap Shots is a major player in the blog world and we're excited to add their functionality to Mashable," said Pete Cashmore, CEO and founder of Mashable. "We think our readers will appreciate the ability to mouse over links and have Snap deliver the content they're pointing to."

Mashable, which Technorati.com rates as one of the most influential blogs on the Internet, is the latest of many to add Snap Shots, including Michael Arrington's TechCrunch.com and Guy Kawasaki's "How To Change The World", as well the major blogging platforms Wordpress, Six Apart, and Xanga.

"We are thrilled that Mashable is enhancing with Snap Shots," said Tom McGovern, CEO Snap Technologies, "because it's required reading for our team. Pete and his team influence us every day and we're glad to return the favor."

From its launch in 2005 to the present, Mashable has grown alongside the mainstream acceptance of the social media sites like MySpace, YouTube, Bebo and FaceBook that it chronicles. Snap Shots, which was launched in 2006, enhances over 2,000,000 websites and blogs and its browser add-on has been downloaded over 500,000 times.

VIDEO: Amy Winehouse - Rock in Rio - 2008 - some bizarre moments

2008-06-02T03:30:00.000+03:00

For the first 3 songs you just couldn't understand a word she was singing and she kept herself busy trying to understand how to fix the height of the microphone. WTF! Amy complains she can't play the guitar cause she has some kind of injury in her right wrist... she can barely hold the guitar's weight! She finally actually attempts to play the guitar... Crash and burn... Amy is NOT singing... she is high... the show has no rhythm... total disappointment!! Amy gets emotional and babbles something to the crow (or to Blake) - "you love me but I'm such a mess" then starts to sing 'Love is a Losing Game' and cries... crowd goes wild calling out her name... Amy asks for the crowd to make some noise for her and her husband Blake's first year anniversary. She confesses she just saw him today and that Blake will be home in a couple of weeks! OMG Amy falls on stage!!!!

There are always assistances ready to help her with everything and she can't keep herself upright! Damn high heels and crack! Well at least now we can understand what she is singing! Ah ah! Amy says Lenny Kravitz (next act on stage tonight) will fall on stage too! She says "well he probably won't but if Lenny falls on stage he would be embarrassed and I'm not!" Go Amy!!! Rock that stage!! Now Amy says her voice is terrible and she should have cancelled! She didn't cause she wanted to be in Lisbon so much!! That's a good way to win a crowd! OMG!! Amy forgot the lyrics to Rehab... just invented some new ones! Amy keeps drinking wine during her whole performance... it's finally her last song 'Valerie'... what a disappointment!! OK, if it wasn't for her backup singers Amy would have no show! It was the most embarrassing 50 minutes of music industry!"

Free Advanced WordPress Theme WExp

2008-05-31T10:28:00.000+03:00

WExp is an full-function WordPress theme with advanced-options for built in “CSS” customization functionality. The theme works straight out of the box and requires no set up (although you can customize if you prefer).

Just like our other free premium advanced WordPress themes, including the most recent PointSpace, “WExp” is packed with all the cool features listed below:

Theme with easy CSS edit options.
Change header and background image from within WordPress Admin panel, no need to edit the CSS.
Regular and Featured posts usage option.
Sub pages appear only when parent page is selected.
Widget ready sidebar works with built in WordPress widgets.
Add your own Google Adsense ads by editing special ads pages without messing up your site.
Comment block with customizable colors.
Search engine optimized code.

Demo and Download

Test the theme by running a demo or grab a copy of the advanced free WordPress theme WExp. This theme is free for personal use. Refer to the license section below before downloading if you plan on using it commercially. The theme has been tested and works with WordPress versions 2.0.x through 2.5.x

Earn Cash with your Blog: Here Comes Smorty

2008-05-30T16:46:00.000+03:00

There are several paid to post sites on the net, and besides PPP, Smorty is one of the best there is. Both registered advertisers and bloggers will get benefit and profit from their service. Advertisers can get the word out for their services and products and the bloggers get cash.

How does Smorty blog advertising work? Smorty is a hub between advertisers and bloggers. The system is very straight forward to use. You create your blog advertising campaign, Smorty reviews it and delivers it instantly to its vast blogger network. Each blog post is checked automatically by Smorty smart review. All approved posts appear on your admin panel for optional manual review, posts must comply with blogger rules.

In order to get approved by Smorty, your blog should be maintained with at least two postings per week on average, receive some traffic, be at least three months old and it should be indexed by Google.

I haven't tried it yet, but strongly considering to. Register now!

VIDEO: NBA TV Top 5

2008-05-29T20:09:00.000+03:00

How would Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain look in some years?

2008-05-27T19:57:00.005+03:00

Here is an interesting view:

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Another Nice-Bannered Entrecard Blog

2008-05-27T19:21:00.006+03:00

Another blog joins my Nice-Bannered Entrecard Blog Gallery: Anything Goes

EntreCash: Buy, Sell, Trade Entrecard Credits!

2008-05-25T20:36:00.003+03:00

Are you an EntreCard user? Do you have some spare credits or maybe you need them? This is the place you can purchase EntreCard credits, promote your EntreCard related contests and even sell your credits for money or for services

Registration in the site is simple and free. Then you can manage your own ads, renew them, search for services, the possibilities are unlimited. Click here for more details on EntreCash.com