Google Pestle Microsoft Logo to get Google Chrome

It was on One Blog. Yes they are right; if you look at it closely you find that Google literally crushed Microsoft Logo design to create Google Chrome Logo, Funny isn’t?

Blogging from The Sugarcane Field

Our cities have becomes “The Concrete Jungle” There are huge skyscrapers everywhere. I don’t know about your place, but yes, it’s really hard sometime to find the beauty of nature in my city.

During last week I found myself lucky enough to steal some time from my busy schedule, escape from my usual drill and visited a place nearby: enjoy my ride to a remote village with my family. I never experience this before; nothing is as good as blogging right from wheat and rice fields

I had pretty good time over there, I’m giving you here some snaps of my wonderful trip, you can see how much fun I was having while writing this post right from a sugarcane fields. ( India is no. 2 in the world in Sugarcane production)

People over here are simple, hardworking, satisfied and happy with their life; on the other hand, people living in big cities are struggling for more money, power and to pile up all materialistic, physical things and luxuries of life around them. Race to be on the top killing happiness and joy from our lives, making us monotonous money making machines.

My humble advice to you, spare some time and must visit village/place if you have one near your place. It’s was really refreshing and fulfilled me with so much energy, which I off course I need now to run that one BIG contest coming your way from 1^st November.

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Entrecard and Shanker Bakshi dot Com Comes Together for Lets Win This Contest Together Season 2

After Successful completion of LETS WIN THIS CONTEST TOGETHER back in August 2008, Shanker Bakshi dot Com wishes to start a fresh new contest from 1^st November 2008 which will run through the Sweet November 2008 and result will be announced on 1st December 2008 by randomizing participants entries.

I want to make it a little bigger contest this time so I had contacted some big player of blogsphere/ Internet Marketing/ Themes Designing and proudly pronounce that they are agreeing to sponsor LETS WIN THIS CONTEST TOGETHER – SEASON 2

It will be a great honor for me if you would take part in this mega contest as a sponsor. I hope it will help us both to gain some more exposure, back links and coverage by participants.

You can offer/contribute any of the following as prizes.

• Theme/Logo Design/Header Design
• Blogging Tool / Your Product
• Site Review
• Advertising on your Site in form of Banner, Text link,
• Membership Subscription
• e-Book
• Hard Cash

Please also mentioned Worth (US $) of your Offer/Contribution. Looking forward for your support, please reply back soon so that I can compile the prizes. Let’s make this a BIG successful contest together. The mother of all contributory contests is back again. Jump in the prizes pool

BUY AD SPACE ON ENTRECARD BLOG BY CONTRIBUTING EC CREDITS TO THIS CONTEST

If you wish to join this contest by contributing Entrecard Credits then you have a very good chance to advertise your site/blog on Entrecard by buying ad space against contributing Entrecard.

Ad Spaces that you can purchase are:

5000-Credit Sponsors

3000-Credit Sponsors

2000-Credit Sponsors

1000-Credit Sponsors (All spaces already booked)

Say if you wish to contribute 5000 Entrecard to this contest then Buy a ad space under 5000-Credit Sponsors block. Your contribution will be count for this contest plus your 125×125 ad will be display on Entrecard Blog.

ALL THE BEST

Bloggers Rules The Internet

Let’s get down and discuss some stats about blogging. Statistics published by Technorati were interesting and encouraging for bloggers. Good news, blogsphere has maximum readership. Look at the figures.

comScore MediaMetrix (Aug. 2008)

• Blogs: 77.7 million unique visitors in the US
• Facebook: 41.0 million
• MySpace 75.1 million
• Total internet audience 188.9 million

So the ultimate truth is that blogs are ruling the internet at present, what say.

Now let’s try to drill down the entire blogsphere further from the eyes of Technorati.

From the above figures what I can figure out is that not all the bloggers that enters into blogsphere are serious bloggers, the entire blogsphere ruled by 10 million bloggers out of the sum of 133 Millions. I’m impressed.

Make Money Online

It’s true that bloggers are making money online with blogging; it is important and interesting to see what type of ads being displayed by bloggers.

Here is the Graph showing various sort of advertising mode used by bloggers

There are only 24% bloggers who don’t want to display any sort of ads on their blogs exactly the same percentage of bloggers that don’t want to make money online through Blogging.  In other words I can trap the other 76% bloggers as my potential audience, coool.

Average Annual Revenue is more than $6,000

The average annual blogger revenue is more than $6,000. However, this is skewed by the top 1% of bloggers who earn $200k+. Among active bloggers that we surveyed, the average income was $75,000 for those who had 100,000 or more unique visitors per month (some of whom had more than one million visitors each month). The median annual income for this group is significantly lower – $22,000.

I’m optimistic, and wish these figures and graphs will grow upward every year.

Enjoy blogging.

Achieve your motive of Making Money Online with Motive Interactive Advent 2.0

The following is a paid review, it is completely of my opinion and my review is not influenced by being paid.

Its time now to give some rest to your butt, as it has gone through a lot of pain while you were signing up with bunch of affiliate networks lately, “undertaking” their offers, generating some goofy reports and then again damning yourself for earning peanuts even after you endeavoring your level best. Have you heard this before “I’m a good guy in a bad company”? If your affiliate attempts are not generating bucks then this may be one of the reasons -You are not walking along with the best affiliate network in the industry.  Your affiliate Network may be sucking your blood and giving you penny in return, never care to guide you or give some tips on how to go along.

Well, what exactly I’m going to do here is to give you a review on this kick-Ass Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Affiliate Marketing Network, which will truly empower you to “Learn and Earn” with affiliate internet marketing.

Motive Interactive provides publishers the tools to generate maximum revenue. With an expansive network of quality advertisers, and highest payouts Motive offers publishers the ability to choose only proven, pre-screened, high performing offers for reliable, consistent, and revenue-boosting results. Our proprietary Affiliate Marketing and lead generation platform allows publishers to launch streamlined campaigns with easy-to-use tools, while ensuring that you’ll be provided with accurate and reliable payouts and attentive customer service. With Motive, you have the power to launch campaigns that will succeed. The first time and every time!

About the company

Founded in Lake Tahoe, Nevada in 2003 Motive Interactive is now the industry’s leader in online advertising companies. The company now operates its technical, marketing and sales operations from San Diego, California. This performance based advertising network is known for introducing Advent 2.0, a performance advertising platform which is design to maximize a publisher’s revenue and increase advertiser’s Return On Investment(ROI). So if you want to be with Motive Interactive, I can give you a guarantee that you are walking along with the best in the business.

Before moving further to explain Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 System, one more thing I would like to mention here that to become the industry’s leader you have to give your users something unique, something very productive like Advent 2.0 technology by Motive Interactive. You cannot achieve this status by simply distributing T-shirts, Mac Book Airs or Flip Monos – You know very well which company I’m talking about, I guess you got me.

The Dashboard

The best thing I like about this home page of Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Affiliate Network is that it is neat and clean and very simple to grab current standings of your affiliate efforts. It contains all the information which you would like to know in the first instance. Your account manager’s contact number, e-mail ID, and AIM chat button. Beside there are Systems Notification, Customizable Quick stats section, your current revenue earning graph and again a customizable campaign watch. Definitely you would like to keep an eye on some of your best campaign that you are running. So the homepage include following five sections as you can see in the picture below;

• Dashboard
• Offers Page
• My Offers section
• Reports
• Account

Please Note: motive Interactive provide me a Demo login user name and Password to test the system, so whatever graphics you see here are from their DEMO page and not my actual earning/status.

Offer Page Section

I first check this section while doing review of any Affiliate Network Program, as I consider this is the most important aspect in choosing a right Affiliate Network Program. This is the page where you choose your offers that you would like to promote on your website or with any other affiliate marketing tool such as e-mail marketing or through PPC tools like AdWords. What I like with Motive Interactive is that they have placed everything right on their offer page. I guess they have gone through an extensive research and development before launching this beauty which called Advent 2.0. You can drill down/navigate the offers on various basis like offer type (CPA, CPL, and CPS) Distribution type, and categories of offer you are looking for.

My Offers Section

Once you select an offer to promote on your website it goes down to your My Offers page section, In most of the cases an offer that you choose approves instantly but for some offers its takes 24 hours time by the network to approve or disapprove a particular campaign for you. So here in this section you can see the entire approved offer that you are going to run. Unique features again Motive interactive provides you complete HTML codes of the campaign if you wish to run it through your website or through e-mail marketing.

Report

To be a successful affiliate marketer you need to understand the power of generating and understanding various reports of your affiliate network campaign. Reporting section of Motive interactive is very powerful, it comes with advanced real time tracking and reporting. I repeat “Advanced real time tracking and reporting”. What you see, most of the time in some other CPA affiliate network reporting section are yesterday’s stories. Motive interactive helps you access real time data. You can see daily, weekly and monthly exportable reports. Basically you can generate these types of reports:

• Accounts -Summery of account Stats
• Campaign -Customizable detail of your each campaign
• Leads – Allows you to see the statistics about each leads your website has generates.
• Saved Report – Allows you quick retrieval of previously saved reports.

Referral Program

The referral payout percentage of this industry highest paying affiliate network is not so high but yes you can earn 5.5% commission for the lifetimes on referral earnings. This comes with a condition that referred publisher must continue to generate commissions without a lapse of twelve (12) calendar months in order for the referrer to continue receiving the 5.5% commission from that publisher each month.

In addition to above Motive interactive have a publisher rewards system in place for qualified publishers. The rewards payout ranges from 1% to 2%. Cool.

Founder and CEO Brendan J. Smith on Motive Interactive

Motive interactive is a brain child of Brendan J. Smith. He is in the industry now for more than ten years, started his journey in internet marketing around 1996, as a website owner and Publisher. He is very optimistic about his new cool tool Advent 2.0 will help publisher to make more money online. Let’s see from the man himself what he has to say about his Advent 2.0 and Motive interactive.

That’s not it; this space is not enough to compile the features and technology which Motive Interactive has. So go on, join and check yourself this most talked about advance system for affiliate Marketers and start making some more money, which off course is your motive.

Sign up for Motive Interactive

Blog Action Day 2008 – Help Eliminate Poverty

Today is Blog Action Day; thousands of bloggers unite to discuss a single issue – poverty. Aim to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web!

If I talk about my country India, one-third of population lives below the poverty line and India is home to one-third of the world’s poor people. Efforts to alleviate poverty are on in fact speed up after government opens the Indian economy to the world in 1991. Economic reform has changes the face of India since then.

Can we make a difference to this situation, yes we can, I take a oath on this auspicious occasion of Blog action day that whatever I will earn through Shanker Bakshi dot com, I will spend at least 10 % of it every month to feed the need of people living in slums and poverty. I’m telling you this not to impress you but just to make a call that we can make these sorts of vows to contribute something towards our society.

Do You Search Twitter ?

No matter for what purpose and how you would like to use it but I believe Twitter Search is a pretty cool interesting tool.

I know it’s a great idea to have something through which we can see exactly whats the whole world is taking about a particular search term. It helps you find out what’s happening in the world beyond your personal timeline? There is an undeniable need to search, filter, and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being transmitted to twitter every second.

Twitter Search helps you filter all the real-time information coursing through our service.

For example if I am very keen to know what users are talking about “Halloween” right now then simply I will type the term Halloween and twitter search with come up with the latest tweets about Halloween, Cool.

Learn Affiliate Marketing From PPC Classroom 2.0

Making money Online from blogging and making money from affiliate marketing are all together two different things. Making money from blogging is a tough job, you set-up a blog, write valuable contents, establish your brand, try to sell some private ads, write paid reviews, and try to Google out some money from AdSense. But you know it’s not an easy work, or should I say it’s not the quickest way to make money.

In affiliate marketing, there is no need for you to have any website or blog to make money. It’s a pay Per Click Advertising technique. You sign up with an Ad Network for selling some cool affiliate products or services, use PPC tool like Google AdWords to advertise affiliate Products and drive traffic to your products landing pages, make some sales and earn a decent commission on it. To be an affiliate marketer you need some good money to play this game. If you work hard and learn quickly the art of selling affiliate products you may earn huge money as your commission. There are examples where affiliates have earned millions of dollars commission by selling various affiliate products or services. They are called Super affiliates.

If you Google the term “Super Affiliate”, you will get Amit Mehta on the top of your search result, yes he is the number One Super Affiliate we know today.  Once he was in US$ 20,000 debt but now he makes US$ 7000 per day and had made approximately US$ 2.4 million with affiliate marketing. If you want learn how he did that then go through following affiliate training videos series from PPC Classroom.

 

Click Here to watch Classroom 2.0 Video No. #1

Click Here to watch Classroom 2.0 Video No. #2

Click Here to watch Classroom 2.0 Video No. #3

Death of Web 2.0 – Party is Over

If we have to believe on guys at 1938 Media then web 2.0 has been over. It was on TechCrunch, Om Malik at GigaOm is determined that Silicon Valley is going to weather the global economic storm without being impacted.

Many blogger think that the present financial crises will swallow Web 2.0, is that true guys? Nah, I don’t believe this that web 2.0 is dead. The party is still not over yet. There are so many good things coming our ways. Web 2.0 will endure everything.

Here I’m giving you a little exercise, cast your vote as – Is this the end of Web 2.0. I would like from those who answer in “NO” to explain why they think that it’s still not over yet.

Image courtesy TechCrunch.

Present Financial Crisis – Whats Top Bloggers and Super Affiliates Think About It

The whole world is going through huge financial crises, no doubt there are few among us who sees this as the end of the world. It has affected every one of us, news paper are flooded with information on what going on around wall streets of the world.

Every morning when I wakes up and try to keep myself update with what’s going on around the world, pick up my news paper, feel sorry to see some graph showing downturn trend of stocks. Start of the day every morning by reading news about stock market crash. Well who like to see every day early in the morning in the newspaper the pictures of stock brokers who is holding his head with both of his hand, losing and fainted?

You know very well how much and how far it affecting your and my life. It will be interesting to see how big shot bloggers and affiliate marketer see this. I’m presenting a short compilation as what’s there take on present financial recession.

Why would the crashing of the stock market and economy result in the end of Web 2.0? Sure, people/companies are losing money and it will probably be a lot harder to get funding… but the best of us are still marketers and can adapt to the changing times.

-Zac Johnson

Zac Johnson dot Com

It’s like a big snake that I’m afraid of. It’s in the corner, staring at me right now. I’m sitting here waiting for it to come over and bite me and then it’s all over… my success will be over and it will all be because of this snake bite. If you’re not feeling like this, then you’re better than I am, because as I sit here and watch our US economy crumble, I’m scared you know what-less. It’s frightening for sure.

-Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral dot Com

I’m not questioning that we’re going into a recession and that things are going to really slow down…but some of you NEED to get a freaking hold on yourselves. Remember all this stuff goes in cycles, every time there’s a market down turn thing always come back up, and they come back up STRONGER. This is also a great time to build your PPC affiliate marketing business.

-Amit Mehta

Super Affiliate Mindset

Without any doubt, we got that downturn. It was different from the last downturn in that it wasn’t driven by the crazy bullishness of Silicon Valley venture capitalists and investment banks. This time, Wall Street and our government screwed everything up all on their own while we minded our own business and acquired our own instead of going public at crazy valuations.

- Michael Arrington

TechCrunch

…bad news for Silicon Valley, which has been living in a bubble, assuming that it is going to weather the global economic storm without being impacted.

- Om Malik

GigaOm.

Google May Penalize Websites With Shorter Period Domain

One of the important criteria on which Google Ranks websites is Domain Age.  That mean if a website has a shorten expiration period then Google may treat it as a site created for spamming purpose. The reason for this is that many spam sites are often registered for short periods of time.

Domain registration for two years or five year is a good idea. That’s why many Hosting and domain registration sites come up with some really great offers for registration of longer duration. You can make upfront payments to book your domain for several years. The other advantage is that you can save few bucks while booking a domain for a longer period.

EPIC FU New Face Of Television Shows

Once John chow said “video will be the new face of internet”. Yes I agree on that, but I want to know your take on this “what will be the new face of television”, will it be the Internet TV?  There are so many channels, web Shows and internet TV shows currently available, but one big show which catches my attention is EPIC FU

Created by Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf, EPIC FU is all about the things that make us geek out — the coolest art, tech, and music from the online and offline world. The new popular culture is about the influence of web culture on the mainstream. EPIC FU is a new way of thinking about popular culture — it’s about conversation and interaction. Entertainment is a two-way street now.

The standard of production and quality of the show is so good that it can complete any other real Television show. The video below has flurry of information on Twitter. Enjoy and comment below about your opinion on Internet TV shows of these sorts.

Ad Network From India – Social Media Exchange

Finally there is one good CPM ad Network from INDIA which you can help you make money in your very own Indian Rupees (INR). Formerly it was running under brand name Axill India now it become SMXchange stand for Social Media Exchange.

SMX is a unique Internet media company making the web inventory smarter. SMX is a young, spear headed multi-model media company creating new revelations in the Internet advertising space. SMX is the most advanced and targeted solution for all the advertisers. SMX is the power of revenue for thousands of web sites to make their inventory smarter and hot property on the web.

CPM Ad Inventory

SMX provide you opportunity to choose CPM ad inventory through their rich Affiliate partners with some of the highest payout offers. The Publisher could choose either for Flat CPM or go with Revenue Share model and payments are made on a net 30 basis. The total impressions will be set to zero after payment

CPA ad Inventory

Beside you can also opt for lead based offers from variety of Affiliate links available.

Easy to Register

The best thing which I find about SMX is that its nice and neat, registration process is very simple, all you need is a an e-mail associated with your site/blog domain, which means you can not register with SMX with your Yahoo, Gmail or AOL email IDs. Your ID to be register should be like yourname@yourdomainname.com

Payment in Indian National Rupees INR

If you register from India you will get all your payouts in INR Indian National Rupees, No matter which ad inventory you choose.

How do you will get paid?

SMX have Net 30 days payout system and use check and Money Bookers as method of payment. Threshold limits for both Checks and Money Bookers is fixed at Rs. 500 Only.

Sign up for SMX Here

Johns Wu – The Man Who Sell His Blog For US $15 Million

Johns Wu, a 22 year old guy from San Marino, CA is really a fortunate guy, manage to sell his two year old WordPress powered blog Bankaholic to a financial info site BankRate for huge US$ 15 Million.

BankRate will pay $12.4 million up front, with another $2.5 million possible earn out over the next 12 months. Bankaholic’s sole employee John Wu will assist in the transition and remain for an unspecified period of time.

Congratulation Johns for milking out million. Here is the Press release note from BankRate confirming the acquisition.

Bankaholic has an Alexa ranking of 41,904, Google Trend shows approx 8000 unique visitor to blog daily, Bankaholic main source of revenue Sources are AdSense, BankRate Partner Program main source of traffic is Organic Search, and it is manage by only one person, yes The Great John Wu.

The Best TOP TEN CPM Ad Network

The other day I was talking about Google AdSense being a CPM or a CPC ad opportunity . Back in may I listed online income opportunities. Online ad network through which you can make money can be categories in three broad basis:

1.      Pay Per Click or PPC Ad Network

2.      Cost per mille or CPM Ad Network

3.      Paid Reviews Sites

Pay Per Click or PPC

PPC is an advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content websites/blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an ad to visit the advertiser’s website. Advertisers bid on keywords they predict their target market will use as search terms when they are looking for a product or service. When a user types a keyword query matching the advertiser’s keyword list, or views a page with relevant content, the advertiser’s ad may be shown. These ads are called a “Sponsored link” or “sponsored ads” and appear next to or above the “natural” or organic results on search engine results pages, or anywhere a webmaster/blogger chooses on a content page.

Cost Per Mille or CPM

Sometimes know as Cost per thousand or CPT is a commonly used measurement in advertising. Mille means thousand in Latin; therefore, CPM means cost per thousand. Online advertising can be purchased on the basis of what it costs to show the ad to one thousand viewers. CPM estimates the cost per 1000 views of the ad.

Paid Review Sites

Affiliate sites where advertisers and Publishers meet. Publisher gets paid writing reviews about advertiser’s products or services. These sites best tools to make money for a publisher who don’t have targeted organic search visitors or heavy traffic on his/her site.

TOP TEN CPM Based Ad Network

Even though your site may have enough daily unique visitors rolling in, but it is possible that they are not clicking your ads that you have place on your site as they visit you frequently. Visitors who reach your site through organic search engine results for targeted keywords generally clicks ad (it’s a general perception and may be wrong, but I always believe in this statement). So those who have daily unique visitor and handsome amount of traffic to their site may be interested in placing CPM based ad on their site. I’m giving here Top ten CPM based ad network list; I wish it will help you make some good money out of it.

if place these CPM based ads , you will get paid on per thousand page impression no matter any one click on these ads or not. CPM  ad network pays somewhere average between US$3 to  US$5.

1. Value Click Media

2. Brust Media

3. Casale Media

4. Real Tech Network

5. Inter Click

6. Real Cast Media

7. Tribal Fusion

8. Canep Media

9. Euros 4 Click

10. Direct Media Exchange

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