AdSense : Now serving multiple ad networks

I received this e-mail (mentioned below) from Google AdSense Team last week, announcing new feature of AdSense. Now AdSense will be serving third party ad networks along with it's own Adwords.


Hi,

We have launched a new capability in AdSense allowing Google-certified ad networks compete directly within AdSense, which means that advertisers from these third-party networks will be able to compete with AdWords advertisers to show on the Google Content Network.

These new capabilities will automatically be enabled for your account, and you'll see a new section in your Ad Review Center where you can allow or block specific ad networks or all networks except AdWords. Please note that we'll gradually be adding new ad networks to AdSense accounts over the next few months, so you won't see any immediate impact on your ads or your earnings.

To ensure the quality of the ads that appear on AdSense publisher websites, Google will certify all participating ad networks for adherence to our standards for user privacy, ad quality, and speed. Some participating ad networks use targeting methods similar to Google's interest-based advertising to show more relevant ads to users on the sites they visit. These ad networks won't be permitted to collect data from your site for the purpose of subsequent interest-based advertising, but we'll allow networks that comply with user privacy guidelines to show ads using these tools. Publishers can opt out of user interest targeting from these ad networks, and Google has changed our requirements for third-party ad serving to reflect this.

We are currently only accepting ads from Google-certified ad networks in North America and Europe, but we will make this feature available to ad networks in additional parts of the world in the future.

Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

This feature didn't impress me at all but has raised some questions in my mind.
Why AdSense is going to serve third party network?
Is Google AdSense running out of advertisements and advertisers?
Does Google want to prove that It's ad network is the best by providing a common platform for every other network?

I think this new feature will be a killer for many ad networks. As stated in this e-mail, Google still approves the Ad networks for quality, privacy, speed etc. So, there is a chance that some high profitable ad networks may not clear Google Test. Well, I hope that from this new feature, publishers will have access to higher paying ad networks which will increase their ad revenues.

Your views and comments are welcome.

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100 Blog Tips, I Learnt in 2008 Part-II

You have already seen 50 blog tips which I mentioned in 100 blog tips part-I. Here are the rest of 50 tips. Believe me making a list of 100 tips was not easy at all. But still I managed to complete it.

• 51. use meta tags wisely


• 52. learn the basics of SEO


• 53. use pictures whenever possible


• 54. create value for your readers


• 55. place ads wisely


• 56. be patient


• 57. consider getting a co-blogger


• 58. submit your articles to directories


• 59. share what has worked for you


• 60. share what has not worked for you


• 61. read world’s top blogs.


• 62. experiment with Google Adsense


• 63. make it easy for visitors to contact you


• 64. use titles effectively, search engine optimized


• 65. offer email subscriptions


• 66. always answer to questions


• 67. always answer to comments


• 68. use Technorati


• 69. write with a personal touch


• 70. become an expert in your niche


• 71. always give your own opinion


• 72. participate in blogging competition


• 73. get to know other bloggers personally


• 74. organize your categories


• 75. talk directly to your readers


• 76. put functional links on your footer


• 77. put social bookmarks at the start of post


• 78. Use EntreCard


• 79. Use shoutbox


• 80. Do blog hopping


• 81. Use ReddIt


• 82. Learn basic of CSS


• 83. Teach others about blogging


• 84. Twitter


• 85. Learn about backlinks


• 86. Write article for others article directory


• 87. Bold your keywords


• 88. DO keywords research


• 89. Keep watching total no. of backlinks


• 90. Don’t be a jerk


• 91. Respect your audience


• 92. Be real


• 93. Write for the readers not for the search engines


• 94. Interlink the blogs within the contents.


• 95. our blog should be easy to subscribe


• 96. Speed in downloading


• 97. Never attempt Black Hat SEO techniques


• 98. Learn and make improvements from previous mistakes


• 99. ................


• 100. create a “100 list” like this

Dear reader if still I am missing any tips, you can write as comments to this post.
PS: Thanks for voting :)

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100 Blog Tips, I Learnt in 2008 Part-I

Sorry folks for the delay in post. I am very much busy now a days with some geeky stuffs. The second interview of an extremely successful entrepreneur is ready, will publish it very soon. :)

I prepared a list of 100 blog tips, I have learnt in 2008. These tips actually work. Using the basic tip of blogging "Post shouldn't be too long" I am going to post this list in two parts, 50 tips in each post. Here are first top 50 tips:-

1. Final year of your Engineering, start blogging today

2. Write about something that you love a lot, I like internet surfing

3. If you are serious about blogging buy your own domain

4. Make sure your domain name resembles with blog topic

5. Use short and easy to remember domain name

6. Use BlogSpot

7. Use BlogSpot widget

8. Use simple and attractive template

9. Customize your blog template

10. Choose a specific topic for blog

11. Content is king

12. Blog with consistency

13. Write at least 3-5 posts a week

14. Proof read

15. Interact with other bloggers

16. leave meaningful comments

17. Backup your blog

18. Participate in online forums and communities

19. Put a link of blog on your signature (:P)

20. Use trackbacks

21. Use social bookmarks

22. Join various type of blog networks. Eg. I am the member of Mumbai Bloggers group

23. Use all type of social networking websites to publicize your blog

24. Put URL of your recent post as your IM’s status

25. Write “Top 10″ lists

26. Use Shout box

27. Write “How to” articles

28. Write about Startups

29. Write interviews of successful entrepreneurs

30. list your blog on directories

31. Ask questions to your readers

32. Use Feedburner

33. Use sense of humor

34. Encourage readers to subscribe

35. Link exchange with other bloggers

36. Have some spare posts for emergencies

37. Encourage readers to digg your posts

38. Stumble your post

39. Put an RSS subscription icon on every single page

40. Use “series” of posts

41. Return comments

42. Write about how to increase blog traffic

43. Write about How to blog

44. Use readable fonts

45. Break long posts in more parts

46. Experiment with different revenue sources like adsence, bidvertiser, chitika

47. Use Google Analytics

48. Have an "About Me" page

49. Create your own "Advertise with me" page

50. Read as many blogs as possible

Remaining 50 tips will be coming in next post. Write your views and suggestions. It encourages me. :)

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Why do we need own domain name?

Bugsnerror now has new home. Finally I got my own domain name. Ya, I registered it in $10 for a year through google's checkout. I would like thank my friend Brahm, who sponsored me. Bugsnerror has been now changed to www.geekonnet.com (geek on net). How is this name? :P

So, why I bought a new domain name? Although I was doing very well on blogspot. There are some reasons for new domain. I think these reasons are common for all bloggers.

1. To Be Professional: To be professional blogger its essential to have your own domain name. Every domain name is unique, so you will get a permanent unique URL for your blog which will attract more users and hence the traffic of your websites or blog will increase rapidly.
2. More ADs: You will get more sponsors for your website or blog very easily.
3. Google Apps: If you buy domain through google checkout then you can use all google apps and 25 Gb of free webspace.
4. Use Subdomain: You can use unlimited subdomains of your domain. Eg. I can use the subdomain like www.xyz.geekonnet.com. So you can start more websites or blogs using these subdomain. You can also sell these subdomain to your friends.
5. Email ID: You will get new email ID. eg user@yourdomain. My new email id is ranjeet@geekonnet.com. You can create upto 25 such type of email ids like support@yourdomain.com, job@yourdomain.com etc. Upto 25 users can create their own login at your website.

Google promises that you wont loose your traffic and page rank. I think we can believe google.

PS: Dear bloggers please update my new domain www.geekonnet.com on your blogroll.

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Easy Ways to Increase Blog Traffic

In the last post you have seen "10 ways to make money online". Thanx to Tamal, a professional blogger, who requested me to publish his post on my blog. Thanks dude for sharing such a nice post.
So, Now I will tell you "how can you generate traffic for your blog?". I will tell you, what I learned from blogging. These things really work. Here we go.

1) Unique subject: Whenever I sit to write any post, I just keep on thinking about my world wide readers. Will my post give them, what they are looking for? If some one is spending his/her 5 minutes to read your post then your posts must have that much potential. Your content should be worthy of being read by thousands or millions of readers.

If your blog has good content then It will force the user to come again and again to your blog. At the time of deciding the topic, just think about the best thing you can give to the reader. The topic selected by you should also be of your interest, then only you can write a good post. Next thing is to narrow down your topic. Your blog should be of some specific topic. For Example: There are thousands of tech bloggers and I also wanted to be the one. Since tech is a relatively large area, I narrowed my blog topic down to internet. For example, if some one is interested in writing about "computer networking", he/she can select a particular topic from a whole lot of topics in computer networks like wireless (802.11) network or wired network or for wireless sensor network. So start thinking about the topic on which you are going to write a blog.

2) SEO: For any website the main source of traffic are search engines, mainly from google, yahoo, msn live and ask.com. Optimize your posts for search engines. Ohh, SEO is a very large concept. It will take few weeks or months to understand properly and implement. Dont worry, Just keep few things in your mind which I am going to describe below:

• Use your primary keyword as domain name for your blog: At the time of purchasing domain name for your blog, try to ensure that the url should contain the word which you want to optimize.
  
• Put primary key phrase in your blog header tags and the titles of your post:
• Submit your blog to search engine's directories: Submit your blog to directories like mozilla directories, yahoo directory, google directory, ask directory. Directories are essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog. I have submitted my blog to all of the above directories.
  

3) Top blogger directories and forums: Reading forums and participating in forums will help you a lot to become a good blogger. It also generates huge traffic and back links for your blog. Here are some of the top forums. You can join any one or two forums which you like most and actively participate in discussions.

1. Authority Blogger Forum:
   
2. Blog Traffic School Forums:
   
3. Bloggeries Blog Forum:
   
4. Blogger Forum:
   
5. Digital Point Blogging Forum:
   

Also join some blogger's social networks like blogcatalog and mybloglog, and create your own group there. The members of your group will be your regular readers.

4) social bookmarking and sharing: Put social bookmarks and sharing links in your every post. In blog you can find few links after each post. This link creates a high quality back links and spreads your message to millions of reader. Adding social bookmark links to your blog or web site makes it easy for readers to save and share your content. The most famous are digg.com, technorati.com and del.icio.us.

5) Surfing:

1. shout box: Install a shout box on your blog. It will help you to communicate with other bloggers.
2. Blog Hopping: Keep on visiting other's blog. Try to comment on top blogs. It will help you to create good quality back links for your blog and your page rank will increase.
3. link exchange: Do not hesitate to exchange the links with other bloggers. If possible, try to exchange with only those who have higher page rank than yours. Install alexa toolbar in your firefox to find the rank of any website.

I hope these words from my experience will help you with your effort to increase traffic. Feel free to ask any questions that may arise in your brain.

Thanx for your patience :)

PS: Try to write short and impactful post. :P

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10 Ways for teens to make money online

'Make money' is the favorite topic for any one specially for teenagers who always want to look something they love to do and to make some extra cash. Teenagers look for those sources which are easy to do, have adventure and the source where they have to invest little to no money. Here are the 10 Ways for teens to make money online,

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MoreNiche Affiliate, Make Money Online

This days affiliate marketing is getting more and more popular. The fact is simple merchant want to sell their products and affiliates want to earn money without having or making any product themselves.
If you want to make money on internet, If you haven’t earned your first affiliate commission check, are looking for best affiliate marketing program. Then you should seriously consider joining Moreniche affiliate program.

MoreNiche is one of the best affiliate program I have ever used. I’m really impressed. They have have unique products and services to promote with highest payout. It doesn't matter if you're brand new to the affiliate marketing or if you're an experienced affiliate. The MoreNiche affiliate program offers affiliates like you and I that and a lot more to help you make money affiliate marketing with MoreNiche. So lets have a look of what it does for us.

Payments:
MoreNiche contains a collection of products which you can easily sell online. Every sale that you make will earn commissions up to 50%.

• Joined the program ($15 is placed into your account just for joining)
• Made 50 MoreNiche forum posts ($10 is credited to you)
• Uploaded your website ($10 is credited to you)
• Generated traffic through your site (another $10 is credited to you)

It means as soon as you join it you get $45.

Free guides
Don't know how to promote? NO problem. To flatten the learning curve, MoreNiche gives you over 15 exclusive PDF guides which teaches you the ins and outs of affiliate marketing so you can:

• Get up and running with your own website
• Get traffic to your site or blog
• and make money faster by creating the right kinds of content.

Truly, no other online affiliate marketing program gives you this much to help you make money online. There are many online money making strategies waiting for you right now in the exclusive MoreNiche affiliate forum.

That’s enough said…you should join MoreNiche today if you want to make money.

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Scour, Get Paid for Search.

Many of my friends were keep on asking "what is scour?? whenever I open my gmail, I have an invitation to join Scour" (in Hindi "abe ye Scour kya hai, jab bhi mail check karta hoon, ek invitation pada hota hai"). Ya it seems irritating, but believe me this is all about money, money and more money.
Scour says itself "A social search engine". I dont know, why this is social. It appears to be very similar to msn when it comes to results. When you search using scour it will display the results from all the major search engines at one time but allows for the user to sort by the results of a specific search engine as well. On all the results it also displays the amount of times that specific search engine displays your website using those specific search terms. It also allows to comment on search results.

History of Scour: (From scour's blog)
Founded in 2007, Scour was originally named Aftervote.com, a search engine with an AJAX backbone with one mission: to deliver the most relevant results as efficiently as possible. Almost exactly 1 year later, Aftervote was acquired by Internext media, owner and operator of the ABCSearch Network and re-branded to Scour.com.
Features:

1. Search (Google, Yahoo, MSN) on one page for web, image, and video.
2. Toolbar for browser searching.
3. Get Rewarded for 6500 points with a VISA CARD or money(25$)

Adding Toolbar in firefox:

1. Click the Goodies link at the top of Scour home page.
2. Click Firefox Searchbar Plugin link.
3. A dialog box will appear. Click the Start using it right away checkbox and click "Add" button.

How can you make money:

1. Joining - 150 points
2. Invite friends - 250 points
3. Searching - 1 point
4. Every vote on search - 2 points
5. Every comment on search - 3 points

• Points = Money
• 25,000 = $100
• 12,500 = $50
• 6,500 = $25

Is it a scam?
Well, I have no idea. I searched on google for "is Scour a scam?". I didnt get anything related to this site being a scam.
Join it and search socially. :P

PS: Better than cuil. :D :P
PPS: scour's search toolbar doesn't support firefox-3.

Comments Invited. :)

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