Category : Websites
I just love this site.
The best bit is that its FREE!
What does it do?
Well quite simple really, say you want to find out about an artist or band or find some of their music, you just type the band name into the search box hit go and you are presented with a list of tunes to hear, videos to watch, images to view and more.
Music Files and Video clips are viewed and played in the site browser.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Category : Software
Are you using FireFox? If so are you using the same old default theme? Did you know that you can get customised themes?
These are 10 that i think are a few of the best to choose from.
This theme is for people who like it dark. If you’re running a dark desktop then this is for you. So zip up your flight suit, make sure your harness is secure, and enjoy the ride.
It is much improved over the previous versions but still keeps the same cool glassy aqua buttons on the jet black toolbar.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Category : Reviews
The words “advertiser” and “publisher” appear many times in this article, so it’s important that you know the difference between the two.
An advertiser is someone who has a website, product or service in which they pay an affiliate network to display their ads on the publisher’s websites.
A publisher is someone who owns a website or blog and wants to make money by displaying ads served through an affiliate network on their site. In effect, advertisers pay publishers to display their ads and/or send traffic to their website.
Although this article is written for publishers (specifically, blog owners), these affiliate networks are applicable if you own a static website or are interested in becoming an advertiser as well.
Although Google has never revealed how many Adsense advertisers they have in their affiliate network (that I know of), it would be safe to say that there are thousands upon thousands. There are also a few hundred thousand publishers- many of whom are blog owners- who are earning money through the Google Adsense affiliate network.
Google Adsense is an ad serving network which serves text and display ads on affiliate websites, and site owners earn money on a CPC (cost per click) or CPM (cost per thousand impressions) basis. Google Adsense has also partnered with YouTube to display YouTube videos which are relevant to the content of your blog as another method for you to earn money.
Implementation onto your blog is simple, and Adsense pays either by paper check, EFT to your bank account, or Western Union. However, many new bloggers find it difficult to reach the $100 minimum threshold for payouts. Once you do reach the minimum payout, chances are things will be progressing for you from there, and it will take less and less time to earn each $100 through Google Adsense. For more information, you can read the Google Adsense payments guide.
I also like Google Adsense because being owned by such a huge, professional company makes their ad serving very fast and reliable which means you don’t run into some of the problems you experience with smaller affiliate ad networks such as slow loading ads or the ad servers going offline, messing up the layout of your site.
Google allows a maximum of three ad spaces on each page of your blog. You can go to the Adsense site to review all their available ad formats. I counted 39 different ad units, each of which can be customized to fit the colors of your site.
Although of course not totally accurate, I’ve seen many polls done online from publishers involved in the Google Adsense affiliate network, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% of publishers claim to be earning over $100 per month.
To learn more about the Google Adsense affiliate network, click here.
Kontera has a long-standing history as an in-content affiliate network used by many websites and blogs. Kontera has 5 different in-content ad types:
Because of their wide selection of ad types, Kontera is a highly flexible affiliate network which can be easily customized to fit the content and layout of your site. Kontera has a new program called Kontera Hybrid which they are opening up to select publishers who apply.
As a Kontera publisher, you have access to some very impressive statistics which makes it very easy to evaluate how Kontera is performing on your blog.
Kontera features an Invite-A-Friend program which pays you $25 for referring new “active” publishers. The part that they do not so clearly explain is that they consider an “active” publisher as someone who generates 50,000 pageviews within the first 60 days. If the person you refer doesn’t meet their “active publisher” requirement, you won’t get paid.
Kontera pays out by check, EFT to your bank account or PayPal. One disadvantage is that the minimum payout is $100, so you may have to wait a while to get your first payment.
When Kontera is compared to other contextual affiliate networks such as Inlinks, many Publishers report lower CPC earnings with Kontera, but that all depends on your blog’s content and the amount of traffic you refer.
To learn more about the Kontera affiliate network, click here.
Popularity: 16% [?]
Category : Websites
Searchers.co.uk is a very clean, fast loading search engine specifically targeting UK visitors, indexing sites based in the UK and sites that are visited by those who live there.
I was very impressed with the modern “feel” of the entire site, and the ability to not only perform a web search, but also “local” searches to show you directions to your destination, “shop” searches which allow you to enter an item you would like to buy and have all the results shown to you, and more!
From the homepage, you can add your site to their search results if it doesn’t already appear there. 
There is also a sponsored listing program much like Google Adwords which will allow you to pay a small fee to have your website appear at the top of their search results.
This is definitely a search engine worth checking out. I noticed that because Searchers targets a specific audience, there were a lot of sites which appeared at the top of their search results which I had never known about. Being accustomed to using Google all the time, many times I search for similar keywords and I see the same dozen or so websites all the time. With Searchers, there are many great websites that show up for the same search keywords that are just as relevant and contain information you may have never seen before.
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Category : Websites
As I continue to search the Internet for websites or blogs that I feel would be helpful to my readers, I stumbled upon Back-Links.org. I see this as a great up-and-coming blog that regularly features articles which contain great information for those who are looking to promote their website, or who are just looking for helpful online information.
This article includes my interview with the site owner, Will Blears.
Q: What is your name?
My name is Will Blears, however online I usually go by the name of Willyboy104- no real reason as to why I chose this name.
Q: Where are you located?
I was born in the UK and I am still living here, although my home city is Manchester I am currently at London for University. I am planning on going to China in two years as a part of my course.
Q: What made you decide to start blogging?
The main reason was because of the way I learn, I learn by doing. At the time I knew little about Blogging and Internet Marketing and I wanted to learn more about SEO. I thought what better way to learn than to start my own SEO website. A couple of months down the line I realized that I could make a living from blogging and since then I have made an effort to keep my blog up to date, full of unique information and tried to build my blog each month.
Although my blog has expanded from what once was created as just an SEO website, I’ve learned that focusing on just SEO would not allow me to survive in the blogging market, so since then I have extended this so that I now write about everything related to Internet Marketing.
Q: How long has your blog been online?
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Popularity: 6% [?]
Category : Websites
In case you have not heard about it yet, a new revolution in social networking is about to be released at OnePoke.com. I have been keeping an eye on its progress since the public BETA stage went into development.
I found the website very intriguing myself, so I decided to sit down for an interview with its co-founder Taris Janitens.
Q: What is your name?
My name is Taris Janitens.
Q: Where are you located?
I am located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Q: How did you come up with the idea for OnePoke?
Blogging is actually what got the idea of OnePoke.com started. With all the different types of social networking activities, a central way to manage all of these is more than necessary. I know that personally, I get frustrated have to check 10’s of different sites to see whats new, or to update my profile. OnePoke.com is the solution to all of the problems that exist with the way social networking is currently set up.
Q: How long has the site been online?
OnePoke.com has been in a public beta phase for just about one month now, and has been in development for 4 months. There is still a lot of functionality to be added to the site, and it will be very exciting to see it grow over time.
Q: What would you say is the overall purpose or goal of the site?
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Popularity: 6% [?]
Category : Software
Most of us provide services to others in one form or another. One of the most important aspects of business-to-business (B2B) commerce is to project a professional image to your clients. How could a client rely on your services if your own website does not function properly? iScripts.com has a wide variety of professional scripts that will come in handy for a wide variety of different B2B interactions online. While they feature 15 different scripts, I thought I would highlight a few of them that may interest you.
iScripts Easy Biller would be great to use for anyone offering services such as web or graphic design. With it, you can easily manage your clients and keep track of how much they owe. It also supports automatic recurring billing to save you the hassle of manually sending invoices to all of your clients each time a bill is due. Because Easy Biller reduces the amount of time you have to spend managing your billing process, it will free up your time so you can spend more time actually performing your services rather than billing for them.
iScripts Easy Biller will allow you to start your own web hosting business and will have you up and running in just a few minutes. It handles everything from domain registration, account management and online billing. Easy Biller also includes a helpdesk and online site builder for your clients.
The helpdesk and site builder features are actually separate scripts, but they come already integrated with Autohoster so you only need this one script to handle everything.
There are many other helpful scripts available by iScripts as well. You can view the complete list on their products page. If you are not very tech savvy when it comes to getting these online programs up and running, iScripts also offers complete installation for any of their products.
All of their products come with a 30 day money back guarantee and are completely open source, meaning that the entire source code is customizable for seamless implementation onto your existing site. I’ve been given a coupon code to share with you all which is available exclusively here at JWRmedia.com! During the checkout process, enter the coupon code 3BLD8 to get 10% off ANY of the products. Continue Reading
Popularity: 4% [?]
Category : Software
When it comes to designing websites, it is important to color coordinate your pages well so that they look more professional and appealing to your visitors. This is when I load up one of my favorite pieces of software- Pixie.
Pixie is a small, simple piece of software designed by Nattyware that is used to help you locate the exact color of anything you see on your computer. I use this time and time again anytime I see a color that I would like to use when doing graphic or website design.
Pixie easily gives you the HEX, HTML, RGM, CMYK and HSV values of any color you want! All you have to do is open the program and hold your mouse over the color you like and its exact value is shown. The best part about this software- it’s FREE!
In my opinion, Pixie is a must have resource for any graphics or website designer. Pixie can be downloaded from the Nattyware website at:
http://nattyware.com/pixie.html
Popularity: 2% [?]
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