Shorten Your URLs or Links

In this post, I want to discuss with you one of the most important tools to consider for bloggers, twitter users, etc. You might have heard about URL shortening tools which are free and simple to use. This system proved to be very effective over the past years. While posting articles, it's very natural that you have to include URLs or links for various purposes. These may be short or link.

Normally, the affiliate links, URLs of particular pages etc. seem to be very long and may frustrate the readers or visitors when the see them on the status bar of their browsers. The use of URL shortener comes here as it helps to make your link very precise irrespective of the length of your original link.

Two of my favorite URL shortening tools are Bit.ly and TinyURL. Currently, I use bit.ly shortener for posting links in my twitter account. Url shortening tools are very common and they are very simple to use.

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Read the complete review on Toshiba BDX3000 3D Blu-ray Player. It's really a very nice gadget. 

In the case of Bit.ly, what you have to do is just insert the link (the link you want to shorten) and just press the 'shorten' Button. Done. You can see the shortened URL just below your original URL. Now you can use this URL wherever you want to share you pages, affiliate links, etc. These tools are very effective in sharing web pages and articles in a large number of social networking and bookmarking sites.
For Example : This is the shortened URL of my blog's home page : bit.ly/anH2H

Adsense Click Frauds

Getting your blog or site approved by Adsense is a great fortune that I feel. Because I am one among the numerous bloggers and web masters who struggled to get approved by adsense. Now a days, Adsense approval is not an easy task especially if you are from one of the nations which are virtually marked by Google as very tough to get. I could see that I am from one of those nations - India.

Have you ever wondered why Google Adsense has now become strict than ever before? You might be thinking that's for protecting and serving the advertisers. But that's a minor reason. There lies a very solid and strong reason behind this situation.

Every adsense publisher including you and me, want to skyrocket our adsense earnings. Usually, bloggers spend most of their time and effort for this. But it is pathetic to note that the research of certain bloggers end up in a very cruicial practice and that is Click fraud. As the name suggests, it's the nasty way of clicking ones own ads to increase their adsense earnings. I have some questions to ask those who are engaged in this practice ?

First of all, what's the need for this dirty method? Don't you come know about the huge compliments waiting for honest adsense publishers? Don't you really want to make real money online? Didn't you read the success stories of at least one or two adsense publishers?

I was thinking since days why Google restricts some countries from getting easily approved. And I found out the solution last evening when I read and article enclosing the click fraud survey. The reason is that the countries restricted by Google are the ones with maximum number of adsense click frauds. I feel really angry reading this one.

See the picture above which shows the statistics of click frauds prevailing in certain countries as per the survey conducted.

I don't know what make these people do so even though they are well aware of Google's intelligence. I have nothing to say except

PLEASE DON'T CLICK ON YOUR OWN ADS.

Top Adsense Earners - Success Stories (Part 2)

I hope that you enjoyed my post labeled Top Adsense Earners that I presented in the previous month. Even after posting that article, I was curious to know about the success stories and more related articles about these top earners. As a part of my day in Google Reader, recently I browsed through the pages of an interesting article which tells the stories of the top adsense earners.

In this post, I want to tell more about Markus Frind (Plentyoffish.com) who actually receives up to 500 million page views per month. That means he earns a great income from the contextual ads placed on his site. The click through rate may also be probably higher compared to other sites. Because his earnings prove so.

Before reading the article, I thought that he would have some hundreds of employees to maintain his money making site. But I actually wondered when I came across the pages of the article that says that Markus Frind has only one staff and that is his girl friend. She helps to answer to the tons of emails from visitors, subscribers and his regular customers each day.

I have another interesting thing to tell you about this top adsense earner. That is, he is the man who coded and developed his site. He is the only man who maintains such a top adsense earning site without significant help from any other web masters. What you see in his site is all created, developed and maintained by him. He enjoys the same. That makes this man unique among other web masters and top adsense earners.
There's a lot to tell about his earnings. If you want to describe shortly, then I am glad to say that he earns 10,000 $ per day means 30,000 $ in just one month. If you want to know more about this personality, you can visit his wordpress blog. Yes, his own blog. You can search for it in Wordpress. Just browse the pages of his blog and you will find really interesting and inspiring stories that he explains through constant updates. You can even see the attached picture of a cheque showing an awesome amount that this man earned with in just months.

Note :- This post is not meant for inspire all the bloggers to earn and become a top adsense earner. But I just posted this one to make people know about the top adsense earners, their success stories, the earnings limit for an adsense account holder, the legitimate ways of earning through Adsense program, etc. This post may e inspirational to competitors of the current top adsense earners. Many of the bloggers are always curious regarding these things.

I hope that I can come up with more adsense success stories of top adsense earners and other famous personalities so that you can have a better knowledge about the top Adsense earners and their earning strategy which may inspire you to earn at least some hundred dollars legitimately even if you don't make millions and billions.

Increase Technorati Ranking - Part 1

First of all, I apologize for the delay of my posts as I was very busy with my University Examinations. And I haven't done anything great there (Lolz). So, let us continue our topic. In my previous posts, I wrote about the traffic generation tricks in StumbleUpon and Delicious. I hope you understood and practiced the same in these days. Now let us move on to the steps to Increase Technorati Ranking.

Here, we are going to have a look at some of the key points that we have to note down while exploring and making use of Technorati to increase technorati ranking and Authority - This is a great Blogosphere which includes a wide variety of blogs and sites. Before going to the post in detail, let me ask you one question. Which type of blog are you searching for - Tech related? Personal? or something else? whatever may be the type, one thing is sure. You will find whatever you search for in Technorati. Thats why technorati still remains as the great blogosphere comprising all types of blogs and pages. It's a traffic generating machine. Yes, and therefore, its a dire need to increase technorati ranking. Those who want real natural traffic and exposure to their pages, can just make use of this great tool and get ready to face a rush of page hits and visitors with in days.

How many blogs, pages and sites are there in technorati? Hundreds? Thousands? No. Its more than that. It consists of millions of blogs and pages. By the way, do you know how to get traffic using technorati? Increasing traffic is all about increasing Technorati Ranking and Authority.

Technorati Ranking is all about the amount of links aiming your page or blog, especially from those with high authority. Increase in the number of inbound links is the major contributing factor. We know that age of the blog is inversely proportional to the readership or the number of subscribers. But this can be rewritten using Technorati. It doesn't matter whether your blog is aged or not. Traffic is assured even for a new blog if it frequently uses technorati in the proper way. So, this is an excellent tool to generate traffic even for beginners. Got the answer? In order to make up everything, just increase technorati ranking and traffic and that is discussed in the following description. Now please note down the following tasks which are the primary ways of getting traffic to your blog. These most amazing tips assure a huge traffic to your pages with in a short span of time.

Just Claim your blog :- Claiming the blog is the first and foremost task that you have to perform soon after you sign up in Technorati. You can claim your blog in 2 ways as mentioned in technorati. There's nothing great to understand in this section. Just do as mentioned in technorati. This may be some simple tasks like pasting some HTML code snippet in your blog post temporarily for the purpose of verification. After that, you need not keep that post.

Upload your photo or avatar icon :- You may be thinking what this simple avatar I can do with the traffic of a blog. If you think this is not an important step, then you are completely wrong. A simple avatar icon with a dimension of 125 x 125 pixels can act as your identity, your blog's impression, indicator for the page type and more . It is easy for people to navigate and identify your pages using your avatar icon, if they want to visit your page again and again. Otherwise, they don't even bother to do so in such a cloud of blogs. Moreover, just think of a profile page without an avatar icon. It's just like you have an incomplete profile page or no profile at all . This can seriously hamper the impression of your blog and hence the number of subscribers also. So, don't commit this simple but big mistake ever.

Fav good blogs and pages. The facility is built for the purpose of adding favorites. While exploring the blogosphere, if you find any pages or blogs very interesting or similar to your blog, then just add them to your favorites. You can have a quick look of all your favorite blogs from your homepage itself. Everything is packed in a precise manner and therefore no need to search for a particluar site that you once added to your favorites. Pretty easy. Right? You can find more interesting topics, ideas and even the most recent updates of those blogs if you follow this practice regularly.

While faving blogs and sites, you have to keep one thing in mind. Please DON'T SPAM. Technorati is far more advanced in tracking and removing spams. Its very difficult to regain your honour if your blog imopression goes down due to spaming. So please don't do that. Years ago, some people used third party softwares and just submitted thousands of URLs instantaneously. But now such blogs are no more in Technorati.

Compelling and useful content is the next requirement. Actually, this point should be kept as the first tip, but I didn't. Because I believe that you may feel bored hearing quotes like 'Content is king', 'Quality content is important', etc. But that's the truth. Anyway, ensure the quality of your posts. Like in search engine optimization, Content is really needed here also.

Increase Technorati Ranking - A Great Step in SEO

Comment on DO FOLLOW blogs. Here everything is simple. There are thousands of blogs and web masters who are very well interested in following, favouring and commenting on other blogs just like you. Just make use of such great opportunities to build huge links. It increases your page rank apart from technorati ranking and authority. Here, there's something to remember. There are several NO FOLLOW blogs. Commenting and faving such blogs will be of no use. So, just try to distinguish between DO FOLLOW blogs and NO FOLLOW blogs. It will be very easy if you visit the profile page of certain webmasters and blog owners.

Increase in Inbound Links lead to Increase in Technorati Ranking

I believe that I have covered some of the important ways to increase technorati ranking. But still, there are tasks remaining to increase your technorati ranking which will be covered in different parts labelled with Increase Technorati Rank. Stay tuned for my related topics. I have to do some research in it and I am sure that I can come up with excellent results that would favour all of us.