buy sell ads revisited

Yes, it is time that I turned my attention on making money from blogs through space selling. It is quite some time since I explored on new blogging for money avenues and especially by selling ad space.

One of the top rated (not by me ) players in this field is Buy Sell Ads (BuySellAds.com) and I saw some big advertisers in their inventory. The bloggers who want to publish ads on their blogs to get paid can earn handsome money for just placing an advertisement but blogs criteria for approval by BuySellAds.com will turn away most of the bloggers.

BuySellAds.com is an online advertising network, a sort of meeting point for bloggers and advertisers that helps advertisers to find Web sites and blogs best suited for their ads and budgets.

Earning money by blogging opens many avenues for bloggers and selling ad space is definitely the easiest way because it involves almost nothing on your part to do anything to earn money.


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8 Main Providers for RSS Feeds Monetization

RSS feed is a popular data format used for serving users frequently updated content and they offer great opportunities to publishers who are looking for alternative systems to generate revenue from their original content.

An RSS (most commonly expanded as "Really Simple Syndication") document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. 

With the growing popularity of RSS feed-based syndication, many Internet publishers became concerned that subscribers to their RSS feeds would not be exposed anymore to the advertising on their web pages, as some readers could now read all of their content inside their RSS reader. In this light, some decided to publish only a short part of their articles in their RSS feeds so that those interested would click through to their site to read the rest of the content.

While initially this approach has given good results to those using it, recently more and more online publishers have decided to provide the full content of their articles inside their RSS feed not to alienate those readers on the move or offline who were frustrated by their inability to read the full content of the articles without clicking through to the main site.

Several years ago, several companies started to offer the opportunity to automatically insert ads inside RSS feeds. These RSS feed monetization services enable publishers to place ads inside their RSS feeds and earn money when these are read or clicked upon.

The revenue models offered by these RSS feed monetization services are different ones: they span from CPC, CPM to flat rate plans; additionally, publishers can choose between contextual text-based ads, banners and interstitial ads, which are often completely customizable.

Consider the following points, while exploring the topic of RSS Feed Monetization and developing a relevant strategy:

• Type of ads: the typology of advertisement offered, whether contextual or random text links, banners, interstitial ads, etc.
• Every how many posts the ad is shown: the exact positioning of ads within the RSS feeds.
• Ability to select and approve the ads: the possibility for the publisher to choose which ads can be included and which cannot.
• Stats about ads performance: the availability of a control panel that allows the publisher to monitor the revenue and performance of ads within RSS feeds
• Rate: the method of payment offered to the publisher, whether CPC (Cost Per Click), CPM (Cost Per Mille – which estimates the cost per 1000 views of the ad) or flat rate
• Requirements: special requirements that the publisher needs to have in order to insert ads in her RSS feeds (which might correspond to a high authority, pagerank and number of RSS feeds subscribers).

Main Providers

Google AdSense for Feeds

AdSense for feeds allows web publishers to earn by placing targeted Google ads in their feeds. AdSense for feeds works the way the rest of the AdSense program works: by delivering ads that are relevant to your content and your readers.

Like other AdSense ads, feed ads can be paid in two ways: by click, or by impression. Feed ads can also be targeted in two ways.

• contextually targeted to the content in your feed
• targeted by advertisers to your specific feed when you set up an ad placement

You can control the frequency, appearance, and positioning of Google ads in your feeds. The ad size is automatically determined based on where your feed is appearing. You can get detailed instructions on how to start using the program on Google AdSense website.

Kannodle

Kanoodle is a pay-per click network which includes hundreds of thematic ad categories from which you can freely choose. Through BrightAds RSS, Kanoodle’s content-targeted sponsored links will be inserted directly into site owners’ RSS feeds within posts or as individual posts, with relevancy of the ads assured through Kanoodle’s topic-based approach. You can sign up for the partnership in the program from the company website.

Pheedo

Pheedo’s FeedPowered advertising platform converts your RSS feeds into rich, dynamically updating advertising that engages your audience. Pheedo retrieves your RSS feed several times an hour and updates your FeedPowered advertisements with any newly published items. With Pheedo FeedPowered you can also monetize your syndicated video content. Get started, signing for the Publisher section on the company website.

TextLinkAds

TextLinkAds provides a service to bloggers called Feedvertising, which allows them to run text link ads in their RSS feed. Whether the ads come from TextLinkAds, your own in-house efforts, or your affiliate links the choice is always up to you. Feedvertising is currently available only for WordPress 2.0+ users with more blogging platforms coming soon. There are no variable CPM rates or cost-per-click systems: publishers get paid according to a predictable flat rate pricing. Join the Publishers program, signing on the company website.

MediaFed

MediaFed is a service that lets you generate revenue from your feeds by inserting suitable advertising in the feed items. MediaFed ad placement system automatically inserts adverts into your feeds in one of two ways: either adverts are inserted every x number of articles where you control the value of x, or by matching keywords to your article contents to target relevant advertising. The program is mostly oriented on the European customers. You can inquire about the potential partnership, sending email, posted on the company website.

FeedShow

FeedShow is a web-based RSS feed reader and first the online aggregator to remunerate publishers theough Google AdSense. Revenues are generated by clicks on the displayed ads. FeedShow gives the publishers 50% of the revenues generated by the targeted ads. When displaying ads, both your Google AdSense codes and Feedshow codes are used, so that the number of ads displayed for the publishers account and the FeedShow account are the same. Google and the AdSense program will then pay the editors directly without any interaction with FeedShow. Sign in for the program on the company website.

AdGenta

AdGenta is a service that allows you to choose which advertisements to put onto your website or in RSS feeds by selecting specific keywords. You have total control over the advertisements your visitors see, because they are no longer bound to the content, but to your personal choice. Besides, there is no approval process or minimum traffic requirement to use AdGenta. You can join the program by signing in from the company website.

ThankYouPages

ThankYouPages is a service that allows publishers to insert advertising into the links contained within their RSS feeds. When a user clicks a link from your RSS feed, they will are shown a short, fully branded, interstitial advertisement between the click of the link, and the final destination. You have control over the look, feel, and format of the page, as well as how often offers appear to your user. If you are interesting to join a program, you need to complete first the ThankYouPages application process at http://www.thankyoupages.com/join_now/.

Sources and Additional Information:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/03/25/rss_feeds_monetization_tools_a.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=20012

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=99647

http://www.doshdosh.com/monetize-rss-feed-advertising/

Latest Adsense alternative.

Complaints from prospective Google AdSense publishers are widespread. You can read about bloggers’ AdSense application get a negative shove by Google in blog pots, forums and even in Google groups.

Shall we start to look into an AdSense alternative?

Let me introduce Query Ads

What Is Query Ads?

Query Ads is similar to Google Adsense, a PPC medium. It promises to find even long tail keywords and deliver relevant ads.

They pay when you earn $50 and they also pay you to refer. You can earn by referring both advertisers and publishers. You are paid 10% of their expenditure or income as the case may be.

In case you are wondering, Query Ads provides you lot f promotional tools to make your referral campaign effective.

AdSense ready Wordpress themes cannot serve the purpose.

I wonder why people use the so called, "Adsense ready Wordpress themes'! What is so special in them? In fact, they look pretty ordinary when compared to templates I am seeing at hell of a lot of places.

I firmly believe adsense ready Wordpress Themes cannot increase your adsense clicks.

AdSense is a hot topic always. We all read adsense related discussion that are ubiquitous. Everyone is voicing opinion about placement of Google ads, layout of then, color combination are essential in increasing Adsense income.

Everyone is so oblivious about the quality of Google ads that plays the vital part in enticing a click. The title and those two sentences in a Google ad is the sole deciding factor for AdSense income.

A Google ad may lead to a very valuable product or great information but it is the quality of the copywriting that decides the fate of clicks.

If AdSense publishers stop spending time in experimenting with the placement of Google AdSense ads and volunteer to write adwords for advertisers, they will be helping both the parties.

Let me be the first to offer my adwords writing services. Advertisers on Google may please contact with their requirements. Pay me only if you are satisfied with my work.

Urgent Blog Article Request

Get paid to write blog posts or earn money by blogging are some of the most used keyword phrases by pro-bloggers and freelance writers who are looking to make money by blogging.

I would tell them to search for "guest blogging" and "get paid to guest posts" also to find paid blogging jobs.

Of late, I have been reading a lot of email notifications from Constant Content intimating a demand for blog articles on varied subjects that include
dating
singles
personals
matchmaking
sugardaddy dating
millionaire dating
rich men
wealthy men.

Blog articles with 5% keyword density with some related keywords are required on the above subjects.

Mostly, the job providers want articles with 500 - 750 words.And the pay rate is quite good ranging from $10 -$15 per article.

If you want to try it out, join Constant Content for free. There is a lot of money lying on the table.

Blog Carnival - Bringing more traffic to your blog - 18-th Ed.

Welcome to the February 19, 2010, 18-th edition of "Bringing more traffic to your blog" Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 44. Published Articles - 22. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

GreatManagement presents Tips for Making Google Crawl Your Blog More Often posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, "If you want your blog to be indexed quickly, you need to increase its relevancy and value."

moon saud presents How Google Caffeine effect on your work at home blog ranking system? posted at Work At Home, Affiliate Programs, Make Money Online Database, saying, "Google caffeine is now going effective and google ranking system is changing. Know how to optimize your pages for google caffeine."

Susan Tatum presents The Secret to Action-Oriented Marketing Measurement posted at Clicks ’n Conversions Blog.

Mark West presents Grow Business With Better Website Traffic | Join GIN Today posted at Global Information To Network Your Website - Join GIN-Today.

Robert Bravery presents Blogging from the Brave Programmer - Generating Traffic For Your Blog and Website posted at The Brave Programmer, saying, "Blogs and website live and thrive off traffic. If you get none or very little traffic to your blog or website then your site just becomes another “Cyber Squatter”. The whole purpose of setting up a blog or website is for people to read it, be affected by it and take action through it."

Robert Bravery presents Blogging from the Brave Programmer - 7 Tips on How to write effective blog titles that solicit traffic posted at The Brave Programmer, saying, "Blog titles are one of the most important aspects of a blog, but often times are not given the importance that they deserve. One of the biggest factors that affect your position in the Google search engine results page is your blog title"

Ziki presents Website Promotion: Link Building with Videos posted at Make Money with Youtube.

Ziki presents Website Promotion: Watermarking videos and Generating Type-in Traffic posted at Make Money with Youtube.

GreatManagement presents What is your plan B? posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, "What would you do if you were made redundant?"

Brian Taylor presents Portland Website Design and Web Development - Small Business Sites for Oregon and Washington posted at FORIX Blog, saying, "I found a superb video that summarizes what 1-way link building is and why it is so important to your page rank on Google."

Mike Herrera presents The Magical World of Marketing and Advertising posted at Social Entrepeneur Blog, saying, "Great article with criteria to help build your Marketing Strategy, plus Online and Offline techniques with links all on one article. Very helpful instead of trying to peice together fragmented information when trying to develope your Marketing and Advertsing campagn!"

Ian presents #1 Google Ranking? We Can Do Better Than That! posted at Link-Assistant.Com Search Engine Marketing Blog - SEO Tools, Tips, News & All Things SEO, saying, "#1 Google ranking is truly the holy grail of the SEO world. Grab it, and there you get your everlasting flow of free traffic, loyal customers and through-the-roof sales. Nothing left to wish. Nothing to strive for, right? Wrong. Here are at least 3 things you can do today to build on your SEO success."

Leo D presents Backlink Resource Guide How to on getting backlinks that matter… | Internet Marketing For the Rest of Us posted at Strategic Internet Marketing Blog.

Marie Julien presents Article Directories that Pay posted at Article Rewriter Softwares, saying, "Why not make money for your article marketing ?"

Kathleen Gaga presents Do this with online marketing and you’re going to fall behind - FAST! posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, "Popular consensus is we must use social media marketing incorporated into other methods if we want to be a serious player in the game of online marketing."

Ian Richardson presents 5 Benefits Of Social Media Marketing posted at Top Ranked Website, saying, "This article shows 5 benefits to using Social Media Marketing in business and is very topical at the present time."

Daniel presents 5 Ways Your Blog Can Make Money posted at Conversation Marketing: Internet Marketing with a Twist of Lemon.

Anne Valens presents Top 50 Freelance Writing Blogs posted at Journalism Degree.

Warren Wong presents Service Update #7 - Happy New Year! posted at SEO Services Blog, saying, "Some Service Updates on our seo products."

John M presents Can Posting on Twitter send you Traffic | jpmblog.com posted at jpmblog.com, saying, "Can Twitter be used to bring traffic to your blog?"

Nick Brosnan presents How I Will Drive More Traffic To My Blog posted at Nick Brosnan.com | Follow Me And Learn Internet Marketing Along The Way..

Joe Revod presents Business Tag Line (For Blog) Changed posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

pbmedia presents Blogging Tip: Don’t Use Dates in Your Permalink Structure posted at jammer(six).

Viviana Widjaja presents Links Building with Article Marketing Strategies posted at Guide to Pro Blogging.

MyMaria presents Building Backlinks posted at Residual Income Web, saying, "One of the best ways to increase traffic through your blog is by building backlinks. Here’s how, and where, to get started."

Joe Revod presents Autoresponder Messages Revamped posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

Andy Hayes presents Are you blogging with a strategy? posted at Travel Online Partners (TOP), saying, "If you want more blog traffic, start acting like it and get a strategy put together."

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of bringing more traffic to your blog using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Do men’s life style differs from women?

Do men’s life style differs from women? After all, every body in a house eats the same food. They all sleep for eight to ten hours. Every one drives car, go to shopping individually also.

Why then men’s health needs are different? Why there are exclusive vitamins for men? Do they contain any special ingredients or extra percentages of some of the ingredients?

Once I was surprised when my son’s doctor prescribed him a vitamin for improving his memory that was different than the one my sister’s daughter takes for the same purpose.

When queried, I was not convinced with the doctor’s reply. However men and women are biologically different, a vitamin is a vitamin and it simply cannot differentiate on whose body it goes to work-eh?

When to buy gold bullion?

Not everyone, who buys gold bullion to sell it for a profit, achieve their goal-right? Time dear, it is the time of buying that matters!

Seasoned commodity market watchers know when to buy gold bullion. For them, it is no secret that gold typically and historically moves inversely to the dollar.

As per the U.S gold bureau, the dollar continues to weaken, subsequently increasing the appeal of the yellow metal as an alternative investment.

Shrewd bullion market specialists also watch the world political commitments to help out financially falling nations that might also influence the price of precious metals.

For example, market leaders are closely monitoring the situation in Greece which is banking heavily on European Union’s pledge to support. If the promised support gets delayed, the world can witness another outbreak of debt crisis and that is sure to push the gold price up.

All eyes are on gold now.

Youthology-the 90 seconds beauty cream.

Not once but thrice I searched for youthology reviews before seriously considering to try it out.

I don’t mind taking risks in trying out beauty products like anti wrinkle creams and fairness creams that claim to produce results in a very short time. It is easy to evaluate such products because, if I don’t find results as they claim in their advertisements, I can always dump them and try out another.

May be I am the right person to open an online shop for once used body care products. I have accumulated hundreds of skin care and hair care products that I tried just once before moving on to another.

There seems to be a lot of unfavorable reports about youthology anti wrinkle cream but I think I will still go ahead and try it. After all, I only have to wait for just 90 seconds whether it works.

What is Twittorati?

So, even Technorati is imitated and that too in a Twittter like application. As the name suggests, Twittorati (http://twittorati.com/) is website that follows the top 100 bloggers' tweets.

Well, for a mediocre blogger like I, Twittorati doesn't entice one to read its feeds. I am already following several from the Twittorati list that include Mashabale, Techcrunch abd the Lifehacker.

Technorati's top 100 blogs' tweets can be read in Twittorati thus saving time for passionate followers of the top 100 blogs ranked by Technorati.

An interesting feature in Twittorati is it publishes all the links contained in the Tweets of all the top 100 bloggers.

So, Twittorati is a place where the Twitter and blogosphere meets!

How to cure baby eczema in 7 days?

Yes, babies too are affected by eczema but unfortunately, parents don’t recognize it as eczema. Are you with me? I am sure you might have come across such a case in your life or might have heard about it through your relatives or friends.

Baby eczema is called cradle cap though it has nothing to do with the cradle in which the baby is put to sleep.

I had to face with this misfortune when my husband first spotted the patchy skin on our son’s scalp when the infant was 13 months old. I was shaken when the patch grew larger.

The doctors from the small town where I delivered my baby could not throw more light on the skin disorder.

My mother-in-law, who surprisingly showed no signs of fear, treated the baby eczema with some home made shampoo. The eczema was cured in 7 days.

I recall all these when I happened to read an in depth information about baby eczema in eczema.com. The article is exceptionally written and it is very educative.

Articles writers are needed urgently.

There are loads, truck loads of demand for articles on just about any topic you can think of that includes medical tourism, orthodontics, breast implants and anti-reflux surgery.

I need not say more about the range of topics on which articles are wanted. Most of the article requesters pay a decent rate for 500 worded articles.

Since there is a prospect for bulk article requirements, article writers are expected to deliver high quality, unique content work.

Where this work is available?

It is Lime Exchange, an upcoming online marketplace for freelancers that is gaining high popularity among article writers.

Free Fun Photo Utilities from Comeks

Fun Photo Blogger from Comeks is a charming new application that merges mobile messaging with microblogging with images to create little mobile comics. It’s an innovative idea that came from a group of Finns in Helsinki. Comeks allows for visual mobile communication. It’s simple to use. Just download the free application. Create funny comic style images by adjusting your photos, adding stickers and bubbles with text. Software offers different fonts to choose from. You can share them in Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, Tumblr or Flickr or to other phones or email. Use it for invitations, greetings or blogging.

There are two more applications, offered by authors, which can be downloaded from the website. Comeks Shorts, allows to create your own custom avatar and sending the fun Shorts messages. Modify body parts, mood, props and background and type your message in the speech bubble. Thee messages can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and through email, and work on Sony/Ericson phones and iPhone.

Bikini Babe Yourself - iPhone App – for Twitter, Tumblr, and email allows to create funny images by combining your own face with steaming hot bikini babe templates. This application is however not free and costs $0.99 at iPhone App Store.

Home page: http://www.comeks.com/

Why should know about CLA?

You will be instantly put off if you start staring at words that won’t trigger your brain. So, I will make it the simplest: CLA is one of the essential ingredients in fat loss products.

Yes, I know you will read on now!

CLA is an isomer... oh; I promised I will not write anything too technical. Well, CLA is another form of Linoleic Acid which is naturally found in dairy products.

It is supposed to build firm muscles and enhances your ability to burn calories more naturally.

Are you beginning to understand the relation between about CLA and weight loss?

It will be interesting to read more about CLA based products in Sybervision.com

A little Trivia:

Type “Linoleic Acid” (without quotes) in your word doc, highlight it and right click on it. Scroll down to Synonyms and you will see the following words:

Power

Muscle

Brute

Force

Automatic income using your wordpress blog.

I wonder what is going to be in store for all every wordpress blogger in future. I already have seen quite a few WP plugins that can generate a constant stream of income automatically.

Wordpress blog monetization is seeing revolutionary changes. Plugin developers are creating automatic income generating plugins tapping into the multi billion dollar affiliate marketing. Info products selling is being made easy these days with plugins and micro blogging platforms such as Twitter and Sprouter.

Look at this "Commissions Automator wordpress plugin".

What it does?

It automaticaly creates a post into your wordpress blog whenever a new info product is added into its database and the blog post contains your affiliate link. This means, once you install this plugin in your WP blog domain, you never to do anything else but to see the commission delivered into your Paypal account instantly when your blog generates a sale through your affiliate link.

Multiple domains:

You can install this plugin in multiple domains.

See a sample blog installed with this commissions automator plugin: http://kennethreno.com/

How much?

It is just $4.97

Shrinking wishfully?

If a person says, “I am not dieting but shrinking wishfully’, then you can assume that person has already hit a bottle of the ephedra diet pills unless he/she really is selective in the food consumption.

For example, when my son visited us last weekend, he requested me to give him a tray of fruits only for lunch. Is that the reason for the new shine on his face? You can say he is wishfully shrinking his frame.

Even I did try a trick to shrink my bulk by surviving on organic green tea for half a day. I have skipped lunch and took two cups of green tea only. I gave up after just 6 days.

But this kind of wishful shrinking may not produce such fast results yielded by the consumption of diet pills. They are wholesome food supplements that will suppress the tendency to eat any kind of food.

Weight loss diet pills are generally featured in product review sites based on the consumers’ feedback. Review sites can be helpful in choosing any product.

Find and share content easily.

For bloggers who have a handful of contents to blog but can't find many followers to their blog and for bloggers who have already managed to build a number of followers but would like to find new and fresh content to blog, Red Anyway is an ideal social platform.

Redanyway, just like Google Followers gadget, provides a friends' and followers' widget which you can place on your personal blog. This enables your friends or readers to directly add your blog to follow or add you to their friends list right from your blog.

Sounds familiar-eh?

As soon as you register, you are presented with a set of bloggers to follow. Before pressing the 'Follow' button, you can view his/her profile.

The code for the widget is given to you. You can see the widget in this blog.

Go to http://redanyway.com It is a good way to build your blog traffic.

ps:Redanyway.com loads very slowly.

One pound a day!

Usually, I don’t find time at all to relax with the neighborhood. Some call me a snob because I don’t hear them but then, I also don’t waste their time by asking them to listen to me!

One particular old lady who lives opposite to my house could not curb herself any more and barged into my house to inquire if I know any best weight loss diet pill that can cause her to shed her belly fat one pound per day.

I had to force myself not to smirk when I looked at her thighs that seemed to protest soundly (?) over the weight they have to carry. And she is only concerned at her belly fat!

Oh no, won’t these ladies (gentlemen too) ever learn?

Where to get ideas for attention pulling titles.

No, of course blogging is here to stay.

Read my previous blog post titled, "Is blogging going to be obsolete?" to get an idea what I am talking about.

Though the blog post didn't receive many comments, I have received a few emails praising me to coin a debatable and attention pulling title.

That inspires me to spend more time in writing the titles of my future blog posts. Let me see how I am going to come up with something good all the times. I guess I must read more blogs daily.

I get a lot of ideas of phrasing the title when I read Arthur Conon Doyle. He is simply superb. Ah yes, there is my favorite Somerset Maugham.

Do you suggest any ideas?

Is blogging going to be obsolete?

If someone asks me, "Is blogging going to be obsolete?" after seeing the growth of micro blogging platforms, I would not ridicule the person who asked but I would seriously think laterally.

Sure, there are a few micro blogging sites like Tumblr that is not heard loud and clear these days because Twitter has swallowed every other micro blogging platforms.

But what about this one- Sprouter is a new entrant in micro blogging industry. It asks you to say "what are you working on" and I believe Sprouter.com is seriously for businessmen. I noticed so many CEO's as fellow Sprouters.

Yes, like Twitter, you can opt to follow others and in fact follow the Sprouter itself in Twitter.

No, blogging will not be wiped away but peer to peer connectivity is made much easier through micro blogging networks and I foresee Sprouter is going to be a pioneer.

5 Free Services to Estimate the Value of your Blog

Many blog owners look closely on the PageRank as a criterion of popularity of the web site. However, Page Rank is just one of the ways to evaluate where you stand as a webmaster. Another measure to consider is Website value. Though there is no accurate measure of how much a website is worthy of, there are some online tools which provide a vague idea through its own calculations.

The calculations may be based on the Google PR, website backlinks, Alexa ranking, Compete rankings, Quantcast rankings, URLs submitted to social networking sites etc. Some of the most popular websites to check your website worth are given below.

1. MyWebsiteWorth is a free tool which will analyze your site, and let you know how well it’s being monetized, and what value you could sell it for. The calculation is based on Alexa ranking, Compete rank, Google PR, estimated number of visitors to the site and People rank.

2. Cubestat is a free tool for website value calculation, estimations and information. It can estimate the website worth, daily pageviews and daily ads revenue of the present domain.

3. Stimator is a new resource that is out in public beta and they take into consideration aspects such as TLD strength and motivation factors within the buying market. For its part, web factors and comparisons with other sites on the database are also fully accounted for.

4. U2WS. Among many options, you will be also able to get the page rank, the traffic details, etc. Finally, if you are interested in getting to know in what part of the world the website is located, you can also do that. You get detailed information about websites, like traffic details, web statistics, website estimated value and daily income, rankings, related links, host ip address and much more.

5. WorthBot collects data about the target webiste including visits, traffic, ad views and more. Code then manipulates that data using a secret internal calculation in order to provide a rough site worth estimation.

How objective the information is? You see a huge gap in value estimates by different services. So, use the obtained results for your reference only. 

A suitcase full of ipods.

“Mom, how will you react when you are shown a suitcase full of ipods and told to take your pick”-asked my son.

“I don’t know son; I may probably ask you to choose”-I replied. I am that much dumb when it comes to weigh anything technical. Sure, I love iPods and can play it alright but that’s all.

At the most, I will pick an ipod that has vibrant colors and can store all of my songs.

Ah yes, I showed off my knowledge about ipod when I told my son that a freelance copywriter named Vinnie Chieco who first coined the name ‘ipod’.

Then I asked my son whether he is planning to bring a suitcase full of iPods. He told me that one of his colleagues just bought 8 iPods as gifts for his family members and stuffed all of them in a small leather pouch and showed it to him.

8 iPods? Crazy guy-eh?

What is required of a blogger to get freelance blogging jobs?

One of the most asked questions I get from my blogging academy's trainees is "What is required of a blogger to get freelance blogging jobs'?

Here are my answers:

* Expertise in wordpress blogging platform

* Maintaining 3 blog posts per week

* Treat every blogging job seriously and do your best. No compromise

* Do some research on every blogging topic you are assigned by blogging job providers

* Re-read your blog post before publishing

* Never forget to cite your source of information

* Check the links in your blog posts

* Deliver the work well before the due date

* Read others' blogs regularly

* Subscribe to blogs you like and read them

Above all, communicate with the leaders in the blogsphere and let them know you.

Cheaper term life insurance quotes.

Here it goes again. I have to go through the trauma of renewing my term life insurance by this month end. This is a reminder that I am aging fast and approaching almost the final term of my career that started 27 years ago.

Now, I must again apply for medical examination and then start the process of perusing several term life insurance rates from all the top life insurance providers.

There are new entrants in this field and that has added to the competition which means cheaper quotes and some fringe benefits.

Though I don’t expect to my husband to outlive me, he suggested I change the nominee and proposed my son’s name.

But many things depend on the medical examination report. Tomorrow is the dreaded day of waiting in the doctor’s office.