How To Monetize Your Traffic So You Get The Most Out Of It

Establishing your own E-commerce site is not like what it used to be. There are thousands of competition that is all too willing to get a bigger share of the pie. Every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales would be very beneficial.

We have got to admit to ourselves. Most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who takes things lightly there are always those who would rather see profit any given day.

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5 Must-Have Google Tools to Rock Your Website

Google is more than just a search engine. You can make use of these 5 powerful Google tools to optimize your website, attract more supporters and increase online donations. Google Apps and tools are top of the line and free — Rock your website today!

Google is more than just a search engine. It offers a diverse range of services from productivity applications to instant messaging. Most bloggers/ website owners can take advantage of Google tools and programs for free. Make sure to check out these powerful Google tools that can help you improve your website, attract more visitors and increase Earning.

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21 Free Tips for Marketing your Blog

With so many blogs being created every day, it’s a mystery to many bloggers how to make their blog stand out. It’s simple. People want to read good content, and with good content comes ad revenue. Well, maybe it’s not that easy… We’ve finally unleashed the secrets of successful blog marketing. Do note that these are not guaranteed to increase your click-through ratios and they will not bring good karma to you or your ads.. If only.. Nonetheless, these tips should benefit your blog and make it more user-friendly, more easily accessible, and more content-enabled.

There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them, so here is a -short- list of tips for marketing and optimizing a blog:

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Top 6 FREE Shortest URL/Domain Forwarding Services

Do you have a long website address, that is difficult to remember?
Do you want your website to look professionally without obtaining a paid domain name?
Do you often change your web hosting providers, so that you have to change your web site address as well?

Then you don't have to worry anymore as the Free URL Redirection also known as free URL forwarding or domain forwarding service allows you to redirect your free domain name to your real website address.

URL redirection requires that you already have a homepage hosted somewhere, but what these services can then do for you is to turn your long and complex homepage address into something like 'yourname.yourfreedomainservice.com'.

There are very limited number of services that offer free URL forwarding/redirection. I researched on these services and compare the features they offer. Some force popup advertisements, some have trial redirection period while some are ad-free. But after comparing them all I came up with these 6 URL forwarding/redirection services that are FREE and way better than others. I ranked them on the basis on my personal usage and experience. Hope this would help you in choosing the right one for you.


1. co.cc

In case you have long and complicated url, you can redirect your web page to your co.cc domain with URL Forwarding service. co.cc is the most professional and easy to use free URL forwarding service.

To setup your free forwarding URL, sign up and follow the steps:

Step : Domain Settings > Manage domain > Select a domain > Click "setup" button > URL Forwarding
Redirect To : Enter your web page or blog's real address
Page Title : Whatever you want
Frame : If you choose URL Hiding, you can hide real address.
Meta Description & Keywords : If you set it, your domain would be exposed on Google with high ranking automatically. Google Search engine might show your "Meta Description", "Meta Keywords" in case of you have entered them.

If you're not an expert, I strongly suggest you to set URL Forwarding service.
It is easy way but help your site looks professional, on top of that there is no advertising.

co.cc also offers FREE 1-year co.cc domain name with complete Zone Records, you can add Zone Records(A, MX, NS, CNAME, TXT) to your free trial domain name.


2. co.nr

Co.nr is another very good choice of free URL forwarding. In addition to a free short domain name they also provide a number of value added features the most important of which are Free URL Redirection, Free URL cloaking (URL Masking), Path Forwarding, FavIcon & Meta tags support, as well as reliable free hosting services. URL forwarding process is extremely easy, just fill in the required details and your new yourname.co.nr domain will be activated instantly with no ads!


3. .tk

The Shortest free URL redirection service of all !! Dot TK is a FREE domain registry for all websites on the Internet. It has exactly the same power as other domain extensions, but it's free!

Dot TK not only offers a FREE domain name, but also links your website for FREE with TiKinet. TiKinet is the network of all active Dot TK websites. When you create a TiKilink, which is basically a short and powerful description of your website, your link will be added to all Dot TK websites that are related to the same subject as yours. This will dramatically increase the number of people that visit your website. Using the Dot TK Traffic Check you can track how many people visit your website, and from which country they are from.

The only drawback of .tk domain is the ad-bar above your .tk webpage.



4. cjb.net

Cjb.net is one of the oldest free domain n hosting services. You can point a free yourname.cjb.net address to any web address with its free URL redirection service. Shorten a long web address to something that's easy to remember and easy to post online. The following features are included:

Free CJB.NET Domain Name - Get a free yourname.cjb.net address.
Free Web Space - 10MB of web space is included. (Upgrade to 100MB)
Free E-Mail- Receive e-mail sent to *@yourname.cjb.net.
Free Mail Aliases/Forwarding - Forward your e-mail to another e-mail address.
Free POP3/Web Mail - Access your e-mail via web mail or POP3.
Free Mail Storage - 10MB of mail storage is included. (Upgrade to 100MB)
Free DNS Services - Point your CJB.NET address to any IP or nameservers.
Free Dynamic DNS - Point your CJB.NET address to your dynamic IP address.



5. ShortURL.com

ShortURL is a free URL forwarding service (a.k.a URL redirection) allowing anyone to take any existing URL and shorten it. You can use your ShortURL to forward to a specific path and/or file on your site by simply adding that path and/or file name to the end of your ShortURL. ShortURL never expires -- lasts forever. Check out all the features



6. ne1.net

This site offers free domains in the form of you.ne1.net or you.r8.org. You are offered two types redirection modes: direct redirection and cloaked redirection where the target/true URL is hidden. All new accounts start as normal accounts with cloaked redirection with a small warning/ad frame at the top of the page.

Features:

* FREE
* Pathforwarding
* Search engine friendly (meta tags)
* Small ad-frame at the top
* Instant activation
* Cloaked redirection (only)

Normal accounts can be upgraded to premium/ad-free after you provide a link back to NE1.net and drop them an email.

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Top 15 Firefox Plugins To Make You A Better Blogger

We all know blogging is a great way to express your ideas, and opinions and make you money online. Sometimes writing a post and staying on a posting schedule can be pretty hard, I know I have a life outside of my blog, and I’m sure you do to 

So here are 15 of my favorite Firefox plugins that I use everyday, and I recommend you use them to make you a better blogger.  Oh yea and for the IE, Safari and Chrome users, this list is for you to since most of these plugins are compatible.

In the list I will point out my ALL TIME favs..that I would never leave home without.

ScribeFire Blog Editor

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

Zemanta

Content recommendations while you write. Zemanta helps you enhance you blogs with relevant images, videos, links or tags. Works with WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and others.

TOP: Now Zemanta is a great plugin, it does everything I need right in my blog dashboard or on Windows Writer. Best part is I can add my own related posts without needing a Wordpress plugin.

Apture

Add photos and video to your blog with one click. Easily search and embed media from over 50+ sources. Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Google Maps, Google Street view and many more are supported.

Clipmarks

Clipmarks lets you clip and share specific parts of articles, blog posts or anything else you read on the web. With our newly integrated Amplify service, you can post clips directly to Twitter or Facebook – or share them on clipmarks.com and more

Shareaholic for Firefox

The ultimate add-on for the link sharing addict! Works with 60+ services including Twitter, Facebook, Google Gmail, Delicious, LinkedIn, etc. Shareaholic makes sharing online much better, faster & easier dramatically enhancing your ..

Screengrab

Screengrab! saves webpages as images… It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.

 

TOP: I use screengrab about 20 times a day, I think I’m addicted..lol  But it is one of those tools that you don’t think you need till you have it.

Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.

TOP: I like tab mix since I sometimes have 20-40 tabs open this helps me arrange and manage all my tabs better then Firefox’s default tabbing system.

FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

Identify

A extension that can be used to explorer an individuals combined web identity across social network/media sites.

SEO Link Analysis

Enriches the link data in Google Webmaster Tools & Yahoo! Site Explorer by showing the PageRank of the linking page, the anchor text user and whether the link is nofollowed or not.

PDF Download

Use PDF Download to do whatever you like with PDF files on the Web. Regain control and eliminate browser problems, view PDFs directly in Firefox as HTML, and use the all-new Web-to-PDF toolbar to save and share Web pages as high-quality PDF files.

 

TOP: Pdf downloader makes downloading a pdf so easy and fast, instead of the pain in the ass old way. No more freezing FF just click and it’s downloaded, a great tool especially now since everyone is offering a free ebook to download.

DashBlog

DashBlog lets you quickly collect videos, images, text/quotes, songs and screen-captures from any web page and publish them to your blog (word press, blogger/blogspot, tumblr) and/or twitter.

Blog This in Windows Live Writer

Adds a button to Firefox which starts a new Windows Live Writer blog post prepopulated with content and title from the current web page. Blog the whole page, or just selected snippets. Interacts with other registered plugins to parse and structure web content where appropriate. Blog quickly when you find something of interest on the web.

Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page… Firebug 1.4 requires Firefox 3.0 or higher.

 

OnlyWire – Social Networking Auto-Submitter

Submit content to over 30 social networking sites with one button click. Join thousands of publishers and bloggers using OnlyWire’s free tools to streamline the social networking submission process.

This is my #1 plugin hands down!…This is my little FREE secret weapon to getting ranked pretty well for my keywords against HUGE competition with my young blog.

Ok that’s my list, and yes there are 100’s of FF plugins besides these, but these are my top 15, that I use on a regular basis. Now with these plugins you will be on your wat to being a better blogger, and help you be efficient and keep you on a regular posting schedule.

What you think of my list? Any plugins you would have added?

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How To Make A Website....TUT

Today in this lengthy sort of post which I am gonna write below, I will teach you how to set up a website, get loads of traffic and earn money, step by step! In this what I will write, I can guarantee that even the people who aren’t used to this stuff will follow it quite simply.

Setting up a website :

Setting up a website can be simple as well as tedious, the way you look at it. Follow my steps and you are going to have a brand new site for yourself within a few minutes. If you think that you need the most simplest and the non-fussiest way of setting up a website, open up a new tab or window and gobto Blogger or Wordpress. If you want to try something new, just go to google and search for blogging but I still suggest you’ll use one of the above.

If you select Blogger, then just go the home page, sign in with your Google account (the one you use for Gmail, Orkut, etc.) and create a new blog. Now configure your settings and you are ready to blog.

Now, if you didn’t like Blogger (It’s too simple, not much of themes, no plugins, blah blah), use Wordpress. Believe me, if you use Wordpress, you won’t use anything else, ever! This website, Techaddicts, is fully based on Wordpress and ‘I am lovin’ it’. Now, Wordpress also has two options:

-> Go to Wordpress, sign up and set up a blog in minutes (not recommended because you can’t add much themes, and put Adsense which converts to no earning).

-> Download Wordpress, and host it on any free/paid hosting site (in details below). It will be in a .zip format. Please don’t extract it.

Hosting:

In case you have downloaded Wordpress, this paragraph is for you, or else you may skip it. Now, to get a free hosting, just go to Google and search for free or premium hosting, as per your budget. (I am using free hosting and there is not much of a difference). But those who’ll are sure that their site will be a hit should go for premium hosting. (Premium starts from $2 and can go upto $20 where you even get a dedicated server). Here is the comparison of some of the free webhosts, in case you’ll wanna check. Once you register to a host (preferably supporting Vista Panel), copy all your details to a notepad file (your username, your password, your FTP username and the nameservers). Now, just download this tool FileZilla, put in your FTP settings (which you will get once you login to your Vista Panel of your host). The next part will be done afterwards, now we have to go for a domain!

Domain:

Domains are of two types, free and top level domains. To get a free domain, just go to Co .cc or dot. tk (Preference to 1st), register there and grab up any domain available. If you intend to buy a premium domain, go to Name or GoDaddy check out the domain you want (.com starts from $8.99 while .info is for just $0.95). Once you purchase a domain or grab one for free, go to the settings page. There you will find a tab called name-servers. If there are any name-servers included, just remove it and add the ones of your host (It’s generally NS1.*****.com and NS2.*****.com where ***** refers to your host name). Now, go to your Vista Panel and under the Domains Tab, click on Add-on Domains and add the domain you just purchased or grabbed for free. Just scroll down on that page and you will also get the name-servers of the website.

Setting Up Your Website:

Setting up a website is very simple if you follow my steps. Open up FileZilla which you just downloaded, give in your FTP settings and click Connect. Now, you can see the file manager of your site. Just go to the name of your website in the lower right box and go inside HtDocs. Here, upload the Wordpress zip file which was earlier downloaded. Now, just login to your cPanel, go to File Manager and then navigate to the folder where you uploaded the zip file. Now, just extract it there.

Setting Up A Database:

You are almost done creating your blog. All that is remaining is configuring your blog. So just login to your Vista Panel and go to MySQL databases. Click on Create New. Give any name for the database. The database name will be something in this format:

The username for your Vista Panel_Database Name.

Example (My database) : x07x_3666752_itechyou.com

Configuring and Running Your Website :

Now just go to the URL of your blog, it will give an error stating that the blog is not configured. Don’t worry, just use these and you are ready to go:

Database Name : As mentioned above

Username : Your cPanel username

Password : Your cPanel password

Local Host : You will get this data on the left side of your Vista Panel

Your website is now configured. Just go to your admin panel and check out the wonders of Wordpress!

Download :

www.wordpress.org/download/

And If U Dont Know Wat Wordpress Is.....Here Is A Lil Info

WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.

WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. 

Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes) are also included. WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article. 

Finally, WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.

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