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I just love this year.

Every ad vendor is coming up with better performing ads and making money is a whole lot easier for website publishes. In just a couple of months I have tested some great display ad options and well my site income has seen atleast a 35% increment with these new ad options.

The latest being Chitika.

I have been with Chitika for sometime now. They provide product units as ad options and pay on CPC basis.

I am happy with the network but the only problem in maximizing these ad units was that in my niche not every site visitor was looking for something to buy (p.s.These units work best of tech blogs, gadget, product reviews, etc).

But just got this great news from Chitika. Chitika has just released their first non product based unit that is integrated in the new Chitika premium ad units.

So basically instead of just seeing shopping ads, you will actually get non product ads.

However, before you use this ad option remember that you should only consider using them if you have a considerable traffic coming from the U.S.

A little info on Chitika Premium from the Official Chitika Blog :

What is this? A smart, personalized targeting ad solution that provides premium content. This ad unit is CPC and is designed to be your highest performing ad unit (eCPM).

Who should use this ad unit? Chitika | Premium ads are a great fit for any website with any type of content including finance, travel, sports, etc. If your website gets a lot of U.S. traffic, then Chitika | Premium ads are a perfect match for you.

When will this ad unit display on my site? Chitika | Premium ads will only show to U.S. traffic, and since they are behaviorally targeted they will only display to SOME U.S. users. When your Premium ad unit does display for a visitor it will show them advertisements they are interested in (because, after all, it’s behaviorally targeted).

What happens when Chitika | Premium does not display? The ad simply collapses into nothing. You can show an alternate URL in it’s place.

So how do you preview this ad unit?

You can preview in 3 steps:
1. Paste the code up on your site.
2. In your address bar add #chitikatest=mortgage to the end of your page URL.
3. Press ENTER then Ctrl + R to refresh your page.

This will show you what the ad would look like to a user who is interested in “mortgages.” You can replace “mortgages” with your keywords to view other ads, just make sure you then REPEAT STEP 3.

Signup for Chitika

Update: Just a question that I asked support

Can Chitika Premium be used along with Google Adsense?

* Since the release of our flagship ad unit eMiniMalls, Chitika has always provided products and services you can use in conjunction with other services. Thats right - we have no restrictions for using Chitika products with any other revenue-earning ad units on your website.

We’ve received many questions from users asking if Chitika | Premium can be used alongside Google Adsense on their pages. Chitika | Premium is not a text-ad; it’s an interactive, image-enabled widget that is non-contextual and behaviorally targeted. Because of this, you should be able to use both ad units on your page together without being in violation.

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So I was lost for a while. Well it was a family commitment that took me a while, but now I am back.

Sorry for all the mails that I have not responded too, will clear my inbox at the earliest and get back to all the queries that were sent to me.

Like is crazy again and I am happy to be back online, making some good money.

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The Voxant Newsroom CPM rates for March have been announced.

Text Story, Image or Slideshow = $0.50 per thousand impressions (Previously $1)

Video Feed or Video Story = $3.50 per thousand impressions (Previously $3)

These rates are not fixed and hope to see a better CPM for April.

If you would like to know more about Voxant, then read the review here: Voxant Newsroom Review

If you need any clarification on the program, leave me a comment and I would help you with the issue.

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You would be kidding me if you said that you were visiting my blog and were not in for the money. OK, maybe not. But being a blogger you would have your own definition of a successful blogger that you are pursuing for yourself.

So I guess you would like to understand the elements that would make you achieve your goal.

The one thing that you would encounter as a blogger is CHOICE, which can be an advantage as well as a disadvantage if you don’t choose right.

This is the review of the one of the better resources that would bend your mind towards creative blogging and understanding the elements around you to help you make that CHOICE.

Upstart Blogger

They quote “Successful Blogging Made Simple”, but do they really deliver?

My first impression of the website was that they like minimalistic, and thats not a bad think.

But are they minimalistic with the information that they provide at the blog?

This blog is managed by Ashley Morgan who is a freelance musician, and like myself understood the power of blogging in creating wealth.

At Upstart Blogger Ashley educate the blogger with blogging basics and from there on to becoming a pro. One of the articles that caught my eye was 25 Steps to Launching Your Blog and Making $100+ A Month in 30 Days

You might consider the tips within this article as basics information, but remember that a well written guide that you can bookmark is always helpful. I have been blogging for a while now and I myself learnt something out of it. (I never knew that I could save my server from meltdown with the Digg Defender WP plugin)

I too cater to a webmaster audience that is looking to start out and I am often asked on how one can make money via blogging. Personally I make more out of my other projects but plan to change that eventually as I improve my blogging skills and also innovate on my content creation.

Thats point number two to becoming a successful blogger:

So does Upstart blogger manage to help you with that?

Looking at some of the recent posts, you might be interested to read What I learned about blogging from 1970’s science fiction

Now that would be a great way to put forth an idea as simple as to regularly update ones blogs for sustaining and generating reader interest. The simple fact to note here would be that by delivering content creatively to the audience, Upstart Blogger manages to induce creative thinking in the minds of the readers. And trust me, that is what helps you innovate on your content creation.

I would recommend this site for the content as you will definitely find something that you would enjoy and learn with, no matter in what stage of blogging you are.

Some of my interesting read at Up Start blogger are:

Lies damned lies and earning statistics

Size matters

Social networking for bloggers

So I will close this review with a few recommendations and highlights.

* Design (7/10) : One the design side, there is surely more scope of improvement as I was pretty confused with the navigation and was not even able to find the link to view the previous post in posting chronology. On the bright side, the minimalistic design ensures that the content is easy to ready and there are no distracting elements on the template.

* Content (8/10) t: No complaints on this front but the blog will go better with some kind of intensive list that bloggers could use. I guess I have a “list fetish”.

* Extras (9/10): Ashley has been holding some great contests with greater prizes and it sure helps build the community feeling where an incentive helps to motivate an “Upstart Blogger”. They also have some good looking WP themes and Pligg templates that you can use for free.

Conclusion: If you are an upstart blogger, this is the site I would recommend. I will be following the site myself for helping me improve as a blogger.

Closing with the Upstart Blogger Promise:

Upstart Blogger is your quickstart guide to creating, launching, maintaining, promoting, and profiting from a successful blog.

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Well I know that it’s time we got over our PR addiction, but I guess a little bit of fascination will always remain.

Just to let you guys know that the Google PR is updating and you could check your updated PR.

You could use the tool I have on my site Check Google PageRank or if you would like to check your PR across multiple datacenters, then you could visit Dir Sensei

It’s a hard fact to admit, but a good PR will somehow attract better business.

I am however happy that some of my lost PR is back. PR can be a bi**h in the directory business.

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To begin with, let me confess that I s**k when it come to affiliate marketing.

My affiliate earnings are pretty low (excluding the webmaster program referrals) and I am working hard on changing that.

If you are new to affiliate marketing, then to sum it all up, Affiliate marketing is one, wherein, you are paid a fixed/percentage commission on the income you are able to generate for an advertiser via your marketing efforts.

You link, your site visitor clicks on the link, they sign up or buy something on the clicked site and you get paid a fixed amount or a percentage of the income generated for the advertiser.

Now this post is all about building your own affiliate store in just a matter of minutes and making money out of it.

I would suggest that you initially add an affiliate store to your existing site to get the feel of it.

So we will now learn to create an Amazon affiliate store with a free script.

Amazon has an affiliate program, wherein, you can sell their products and earn a percentage in commission.

The reason why I choose them first, is because they have the largest portfolio of consumer good and so we can work with choice.

You will have to join their affiliate program to begin with. (Join Amazon Associates)

They do not have any restrictions for joining their affiliate program and all you have to do is fill up a brief application form with some details.

You can check their commission rates here: Associates Compensation

Now that we an affiliate account, we will need to use a script for setting up our affiliate store. The good thing is that we have a very beautiful script for just that, and it’s free.

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