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How to use the VCC at PayPal

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:02:00 +0000

How to use the VCC at PayPal.com (please read carefully)

Add VCC details to your PayPal account and
Click on 'Get Number' button at the page bottom to enroll for the Expanded User Program.
Your 4 Digit Verification Code . MUST Be added to your PayPal account to complete the verification process.

IMPORTANT

Do NOT use the VCC if you've previously used another VCC and deleted it AFTER performing Step No. 2 and BEFORE reaching Step No. 3. Expanded USER Verification Code is given only ONCE by PayPal and so if you screw-up things, you are basically DOOMED and no one can pull you out of it.
You must use the VCC within 24 hours from the time it's been activated, otherwise it will be de-activated by the issuing bank automatically due to security restrictions. (There is NO Refund/NO New Card if you don't read this properly)

Making 1,000.00 in 1 hour

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:34:00 +0000

Must Needed Firefox Extensions

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:48:00 +0000

The best firefox extensions list:

Blogging:

StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
Clipmarks - With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.
Sage - Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't.
Jeteye - Jeteye is a unique Web-based application and service that is designed for the next generation of enterprise and consumer use of the Web. Jeteye changes how we interact with the web, in an era where communication and social computing are more powerful than ever.
Performancing - Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.
TorrentBar - BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files.
Wizz RSS News Reader - A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.
MeasureIt - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
Show MyIP - Displays your current IP address. If you have a static IP (Internet Protocol) address, this number will stay the same each time you visit. If you have a dynamic IP, the number will change each time you log on to the internet (or your ISP assigns a new IP).
NewsFox - RSS/Atom News Reader.

Developer Tools:

FireFTP - FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
IE Tab - IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.
Web Developer - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
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.
Greasemonkey - Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.
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 with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
Image Zoom - Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit within your screen.
ColorZilla - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
IE View - Lets you load pages in IE with a single right-click, or mark certain sites to *always* load in IE. Useful for incompatible pages, or cross-browser testing.
iMacros - Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work.

Editing and Forms:

Performancing - Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.
Gmail Skins - Skins and other extra features for Gmail.
InFormEnter - InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want to be available from the form menu.
Snipshot - Edit any picture on the web with one right-click. The picture will be brought into the online image editor Snipshot where you can crop, resize, rotate or recolor it, then save it into a variety of formats (JPG, GIF, PNG, PDF) or to Flickr or a free image host. For faster workflow, you can optionally enhance the image as it enters Snipshot or resize it to fit a set of custom dimensions.
JSView - All browsers include a "View Source" option, but none of them offer the ability to view the source code of external files. Most websites store their javascripts and style sheets in external files and then link to them within a web page's source code. Previously if you wanted to view the source code of an external javascript/css you would have to manually look through the source code to find the url and then type that into your browser.
Password Exporter - This extension allows you to export and import your saved passwords and rejected sites between computers. Your passwords will be exported to an XML or CSV file and can be encrypted.
AI Roboform Toolbar - Add RoboForm Toolbar to Firefox.
DejaClick - DéjàClick is a web recorder and Super Bookmark utility designed exclusively for Firefox. You can record and bookmark your browser activities, then with a single click, replay the entire sequence all over again. Got a package or an order you want to track? Have a favorite category at an online auction site? Tired of going through the steps to log into your e-mail? Use DéjàClick by AlertSite to automatically access any final URL. Also works great for quickly producing web application test scripts.
Unofficial Myspace Toolbar - Automatically login to Myspace, instantly access your messages, view hidden comments, create styled comments/bulletins and more with this intuitive and customizable toolbar!
FireFoxMenuButtons - Adds 41 new Buttons (duplicating of menu strings) from Firefox Menu on the Toolbar!

Image Browsing:

FlashGot - Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page together at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.
DownThemAll - The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
Gspace - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system.
Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery - Organizing and sharing your pictures is easier than ever with Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery. Upload photos directly to your Kodak EasyShare Gallery, all within your browser. Drag, drop and arrange pictures adding photo titles, and create albums by multi-selecting photos - all of this without interrupting your Internet browsing. Co-developed by Kodak, it also includes other popular photo services.
BlueOrganizer - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books, movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them and instantly find related information.
DownloadHelper - DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
Firefox Showcase - Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.
Image Zoom - Adds zoom functionality for images.
Send 2 Cellphone - Send2Cellphone provides a simple way to send images from web pages directly to mobile phones via free Send2Cellphone service. Simply right click any image on any web page and select "Send2Cellphone" from the context menu. After transferring the picture to your cell phone you can view it, use it as a wallpaper or send to a friend via MMS.

Message Reading:

Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
Mouse Gestures - Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.
Gmail Manager - Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
ReminderFox - ReminderFox is an extension that displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc) without having to run a fat calendar application.
NewsFox - RSS/Atom News Reader.
Yahoo! Mail Notifier - This extension notifies you when new messages arrive in your Yahoo mailbox.
Gmail Skins - Skins and other extra features for Gmail.
WOT - WOT helps you avoid disingenuous Internet content by allowing you to learn from others' experiences. WOT shows you website reputations on your browser, telling you how much other users trust a website. This helps you make better decisions while browsing and avoid phishing, malware, and other types of fraud. Reputations can also be added to web search results, Gmail, Wikipedia, and other selected sites.
Temporary Inbox - This extension generates random disposable email addresses. You can use these email addresses for registration in forums, adult sites or whereever.
infoRSS - Displays RSS, Atom, parsed HTML and NNTP feed in a scrolling area the status bar. Compatible with podcasting RSS which can be downloaded directly.
It's also a good Gmail notifier.

News Reading:

Forecastfox - Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.
Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
Sage - Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't.
BlueOrganizer - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books, movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them and instantly find related information.
TorrentBar - BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files.
Wizz RSS News Reader - A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.
ReminderFox - ReminderFox is an extension that displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc) without having to run a fat calendar application.
Forecastfox Enhanced - Enhanced version of the popular Forecastfox extension (forecastfox.mozdev.org) by Jon Stritar and Richard Klien. This adds 12 improved radar images for US locations and 4 for international locations and the ability to supply a URL to use images from other sites.
NewsFox - RSS/Atom News Reader.
1-ClickWeather - Because weather is important to you everyday... weather.com offers you instant local weather conditions, alerts, radar in motion, satellite maps, and forecasts all within your Firefox browser.

Tabbed Browsing:

IE Tab - IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
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 with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
Firefox Showcase - Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.
Colorful Tabs - The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.
Session Manager - Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs. If you're afraid of losing data while browsing - this extension allows you to relax.
Tabbrowser Preferences - Enables enhanced control for some aspects of tabbed browsing.
Advanced Dork - Advanced Dork: gives quick access to Google's Advanced Operators directly from the context menu.
ChromaTabs - Colors browser tabs based on the site loaded. For example, visiting mozilla.org will make the tab blue, and cnn.com will make the tab green.
Tab Catalog - Shows thumbnail-style catalog of tabs.
Tab Control - Take control of your tabs!

XUL Applications:

FireFTP - FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
FoxyTunes - Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? Now you can control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more.
DownThemAll - DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time!
Gspace - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system. The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP host.
ChatZilla - A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
Jeteye - Jeteye is a unique Web-based application and service that is designed for the next generation of enterprise and consumer use of the Web. Jeteye changes how we interact with the web, in an era where communication and social computing are more powerful than ever.
Performancing - Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.
AllPeers - Share your files privately and securely. Chat with your friends.
Wizz RSS News Reader - A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.
ReminderFox - ReminderFox is an extension that displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc) without having to run a fat calendar application.

Bookmarks:

StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer - If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you'll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the background to keep your bookmarks synchronized. As a bonus, log in to my.foxmarks.com from any computer anywhere to access your bookmarks.
del.icio.us Bookmarks - This extension integrates your browser with del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the Web. It does this by augmenting the bookmarking functionality in Firefox with an enhanced experience.
Clipmarks - With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.
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 with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
Yoono - Yoono instantly suggests similar sites, blog notes and people sharing the same interests while you are surfing, for each page you open. Zero effort required - no more tagging, typing keywords or changing interface. Let Yoono bring you the best that others have discovered.
BlueOrganizer - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books, movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them and instantly find related information.
Jeteye - Jeteye is a unique Web-based application and service that is designed for the next generation of enterprise and consumer use of the Web. Jeteye changes how we interact with the web, in an era where communication and social computing are more powerful than ever.
Firefox Showcase - Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.
iMacros - Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work.

Entertainment:

FoxyTunes - Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? Now you can control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more.
StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
Gspace - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system.
BlueOrganizer - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books, movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them and instantly find related information.
Fast Video Download - Fast Video Download can save embedded video files from video-hosting servers.
MediaPlayerConnectivity - Allow you to launch embed video of website in an external application with a simple click.
Torrent Finder Toolbar - Torrent Finder Toolbar is a torrent search toolbar for Firefox, which enables users to search over 100 top torrent sites and trackers from their Firefox browser the same way they used to search using http://torrent-finder.com form. It allows users to search a single site, search all sites on one page, or open the sites in Firefox tabs.
TorrentBar - BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files.
FoxGame - Enhance user experience with O-game (now works in every o-game version)
Adds a lot of features to the webgame O-game. It also integrates Database features inside the game. O-Game, is a real-time spacial browser game.
Wizz RSS News Reader - A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.

Kiosk Browsing:

Gspace - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system.
All-in-One Sidebar - All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera's. Click on the left edge of your browser window to open the sidebar and get easy access to all your panels. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.
Dictionary Tooltip - Press ctrl+shift+D (or) double-click (or) right-click after selecting a word to see its meaning. This extension is ideal for those who doesn't like to switch their window to see the meaning of a word.
FireFoxMenuButtons - Adds 41 new Buttons (duplicating of menu strings) from Firefox Menu on the Toolbar! Look for this buttons (after installing) on the "Customize toolbar" (Menu/View/Toolbars/Customize...).
Public Fox - Tired of cleaning stuff people download? Use this to limit file downloading. Prevent browser changes, block unwanted Web Sites.
Firefox Google Bookmarks - Creates a menu to access google bookmarks from any computer. Needs Google Account to use this extension.
Personal Menu - Feel tired of the conservative menus, and have tried to put them into a single menu but never want to waste time on one more click?
Full Fullscreen - Hides remaining toolbars that the normal fullscreen functionality does not. Hiding the tab bar, as well as starting up on fullscreen, are configurable from the settings dialog. Licensed under MPL.
gladder - Get over Great Firewall with Great Ladder!
R-kiosk - Real Kiosk is a Firefox 2.0 extension that defaults to full screen, disables all menus, toolbars, key commands and right button menus. Alt+Home still takes you home.

Miscellaneous:

Adblock Plus - Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose "Adblock" from the context menu - the banner won't be downloaded again.
NoScript - Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox. It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site.
Forecastfox - Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.
IE Tab - Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
FoxyTunes - Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? Now you can control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more.
Fasterfox - Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
Map+ - View a map of a selected address in Firefox without changing windows or tabs using the right click command.
Clipmarks - With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.

Privacy and Security:

NoScript - Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox. It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site.
Fasterfox - Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
Torbutton - Torbutton provides a button to easily enable or disable the browser's use of Tor.
Flashblock - Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on it.
FoxyProxy - FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox's proxy configuration.
SwitchProxy Tool - SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations
quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your
computer from prying eyes.
iMacros - Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work.
Firefox Extension Backup Extension - FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up - it will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers.
CustomizeGoogle - CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).

Web Annoyances:

Adblock Plus - Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
NoScript - Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox. It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site.
IE Tab - Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
Fasterfox - Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
Greasemonkey - Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.
Cooliris Previews - Cooliris Previews for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
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 with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
PDF Download - Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
Gspace - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system.
BlueOrganizer - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books, movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them and instantly find related information.

Contacts:

JAJAH - Web-Activated Telephony - The JAJAH extension for Firefox integrates call functionality into your browser. Phone numbers on web pages are automatically detected and highlighted. When clicked, JAJAH initiates a phone call from your phone - landline or mobile - to the desired destination.
LinkedIn Companion - LinkedIn is an online network of more than 7.5 million experienced professionals. LinkedIn helps you be more effective in your daily work and opens doors to opportunities by helping you develop and manage your network of business contacts.
ReminderFox - ReminderFox is an extension that displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc) without having to run a fat calendar application.
Email This - Email This! (formerly known as GMail This!) will send your recipient the link, title, & highlighted text of the page you are viewing using GMail, Yahoo, and Stand-Alone Mail Clients like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, & More!
FireFoxMenuButtons - Adds 41 new Buttons (duplicating of menu strings) from Firefox Menu on the Toolbar! Look for this buttons (after installing) on the "Customize toolbar" (Menu/View/Toolbars/Customize...).
GTDGmail - GTDGmail discreetly integrates into Gmail making it even more suitable as a GTD tool.
Facebook Toolbar - Integrate your Facebook life into your browser.
WataCrackaz AutoSMS - Watacrackaz AutoSMS toolbar. Send and receive SMS text messages to and from cellphones around the world.
Skype Sidebar - Skype Sidebar allows you to call, add, find, chat, and voice mail other contacts without even leaving your browser. Skype Sidebar lets you see the status of your contacts and quickly chat with them. It saves you time, allows you to quickly send files, and also view contacts information. You can even start conference calls. You can customize the width of the Skype object.
SMS Send - ABC SMS Send is a toolbar that allows you to send SMS text messages to over 170 countries.

Download Tools:

Download Statusbar - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
FlashGot - Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page together at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.
VideoDownloader - Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion, Pornotube... and other 60+ video sites! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc).
FireFTP - FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
DownThemAll - The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
PDF Download - Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
Media Pirate - The video downloader - More and more websites publish their videos in those neat flash players. But if you want to download a video there is no download link. This doesn't mean that you can't download it. Media Pirate creates a download link for you!
Gspace - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system.
Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery - Organizing and sharing your pictures is easier than ever with Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery. Upload photos directly to your Kodak EasyShare Gallery, all within your browser. Drag, drop and arrange pictures adding photo titles, and create albums by multi-selecting photos - all of this without interrupting your Internet browsing.

Humor:

Tab Effect - Add effects when current tab is changed.
Splash - Adds a splash screen to most Mozilla and Mozilla Based products.
Firefox Google Bookmarks - Creates a menu to access google bookmarks from any computer. Needs Google Account to use this extension.
President Bush Countdown - A timer that counts down the number of days remaining in George W. Bush's term as President of the United States. Clicking on the countdown shows a more detailed timer and enables people to air their grievances on newprez.com. An icon shows when there is a new topic for discussion or a vote.
Usage Counter - Tells you how much time you have spent using Firefox and browsing sites. (Previously known as Wasted Time Counter).
Bork Bork Bork - View web pages or mail as spoken by the Swedish Chef like this: "Feeoo veb peges oor meeel es spukee by zee Svedeesh Cheff."
Anglais - This extension provides proverbs and jokes to better learn English.
STOP! Hammer Time - Adds 'STOP! Hammer Time!' functionality to Firefox - Simply go to "view -> toolbars -> customize" and swap your stop button for the 'STOP! Hammer Time!' button. Now you can hear MC Hammer whenever a page needs stopping!
Sun Cult - Worldwide Sunrise, Sunset, Twilight, Moonrise and Moonset Times.
ghostfox - Stylises Firefox into Ghostzilla (The Invisible Browser) style. Move your mouse away and firefox disappears. Then move it towards the left edge of the screen, back to the right and again to the left and voila - firefox is back again, discretely blended with ur original application to appear like a part of it.

Navigation:

IE Tab - Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
Fasterfox - Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
Map+ - View a map of a selected address in Firefox without changing windows or tabs using the right click command.
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 with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
Yoono - Yoono instantly suggests similar sites, blog notes and people sharing the same interests while you are surfing, for each page you open. Zero effort required - no more tagging, typing keywords or changing interface. Let Yoono bring you the best that others have discovered.
PDF Download - Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
BlueOrganizer - The blueorganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books, movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The blueorganizer helps you automatically collect these object from many popular sites, manage them and instantly find related information.
Firefox Showcase - Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.
Mouse Gestures - Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.

Website Integration:

VideoDownloader - Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion, Pornotube... and other 60+ video sites! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc).
StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for.
del.icio.us Bookmarks - This extension integrates your browser with del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the Web. It does this by augmenting the bookmarking functionality in Firefox with an enhanced experience.
Greasemonkey - Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.
Yoono - Yoono instantly suggests similar sites, blog notes and people sharing the same interests while you are surfing, for each page you open. Zero effort required - no more tagging, typing keywords or changing interface.
Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery - Organizing and sharing your pictures is easier than ever with Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery. Upload photos directly to your Kodak EasyShare Gallery, all within your browser. Drag, drop and arrange pictures adding photo titles, and create albums by multi-selecting photos - all of this without interrupting your Internet browsing.
DownloadHelper - DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
Performancing - Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.
LinkedIn Companion - LinkedIn is an online network of more than 7.5 million experienced professionals. LinkedIn helps you be more effective in your daily work and opens doors to opportunities by helping you develop and manage your network of business contacts.
Fast Video Download - Fast Video Download can save embedded video files from video-hosting servers.

Enjoy the best firefox extensions!

Portfolio Re-balancing..some tips

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:47:00 +0000

Over the course of the year, the market value of each security within your portfolio earned a different return, resulting in a change in the allocation pie. This might change the investor’s risk profile. While in the short term this may not have an adverse impact, such changes in risk profiles can have a far-reaching impact in the longer run. Portfolio rebalancing is a strategy that allows individuals to keep their risk level in check and minimize risk.

What is re-balancing?

Re-balancing is the process of buying and selling portions of your portfolio in order to set the weight of each asset class back to its original state. In addition, if an investor’s investment strategy or tolerance for risk has changed, he or she can use rebalancing to readjust the weightages of each security or asset class in the portfolio to fulfill a newly devised asset allocation. Assume an investor’s portfolio worth Rs 1,00,000 is invested in equity funds (40%), Bond Funds (40%) and liquid funds (20%). In other words, Rs 40,000 will be invested in equity funds, Rs 40,000 will be invested in bond funds and Rs 20,000 will be invested in liquid funds. Let’s assume that in Year 1, equity funds deliver 50% return, bond funds loose 2% and liquid funds give a modest 4% return. His portfolio, at the end of the year, will look like this:

Overall, the portfolio has returned 8%, but that’s more due to the equities.

In year 2, assume equity markets fall. So assume, equity funds fall by 10%. Also assume that Bond funds on the other hand rebound and return 9%, while liquid funds continue with 4%.

Now assume two scenarios, viz. one where the above investor switches back to his original asset allocation, and the other where the investor doesn’t reallocate his assets as per his original allocation and ignores the change.

As per the above example, while the rebalanced portfolio appreciates to Rs 1,20,480, the value of the ignored portfolio actually falls to Rs 1,18,360. As can be seen, the ignored portfolio got swayed by the equity return in Year 1 and therefore chose not to go back on the original asset allocation, not knowing that equities as an asset class can be quite volatile in the short run. A fall drop in the equities in Year 2 was enough to result in the ignored portfolio to under-perform the rebalanced portfolio. Re-balancing strategy is, therefore, the optimal strategy.

Benefits of portfolio rebalancing

Disciplined investing
Re-balancing is a vital part of investment policy - there can be no asset allocation target without the discipline to preserve that target.

Reduces risk
A plan may incur higher risk if no rebalancing policy exists. This is true particularly for equity allocations, which can rapidly rise in a bull market. For instance, portfolio rebalancing ensures that in rising equity markets, the asset allocation doesn’t get skewed towards equities and the portfolio correctly reflects the investor’s risk profile. It also ensures that the portfolio is adequately diversified.

Buy low, sell high
Rebalancing is a mechanism for sensible timing - the process naturally buys low and sells high. This strategy ensures that the portfolio returns are enhanced. A clear re-balancing policy avoids the risks of ad-hoc and costly portfolio revisions.

Balanced Funds – a better way to portfolio re-balancing

One way to rebalance the portfolio is to do it ourselves. In other words, investments can be made in equity and debt funds separately and then adequate re-balancing can be done depending on how the equity and debt markets perform.

Another simple way to ensure portfolio re-balancing is to invest in Balanced Funds. Here, the fund manager does the re-balancing and not the investor. Usually, all balanced funds invest around 65-70% in equity markets and the rest in debt and money market instruments as per their stated asset allocation mix.

So when equity markets keep rising consistently, Balanced Funds are mandated to book profits and bring their equity allocation back to their stated levels. This way, balanced funds carry a low downside risk as when equity markets fall, balanced funds take a lesser hit than diversified equity funds, as their exposure to equities is low.

Link building with Do follow ..500+ dofollow list

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:38:00 +0000

This is whitehat. I guess so.
You know the difference between do follow and no follow. No need to repeat. Many people say it does not matters so much, but the truth is that it matters. A do follow link matters more than a no follow links.

Here is a list of over 250+ DoFollow Blogs. Don’t know what a DoFollow Blog is? DoFollow Blogs are Weblogs that have DoFollow Plugin installed. DoFollow Plugin removes the “NoFollow” tag from the comments. It means that if you submit a comment with your home page to these blogs then Search Engines will count that link as a back link. If you don’t use ‘DoFollow’ Plugin then search engines will ignore those links.

When submitting comments to these blogs please write some relevant and useful content. Don’t Spam! If you submit just one comment to all of them then it gives you more than 250 back links to your Website/Blog. And these 250 back links alone can get you a PR of 1 assuming you have quality search engine friendly articles.

DaveDragon
DotSauce
FatManUnleashed
GospelRhys
Invesp
OnARidge
FatLadySingz
PixelHeadOnline
DarkSEOProgramming
SparkInternetMarketing
Revellian
DayJobNuker
Logon
JakobDK
Allscm
TriathlonTraining
YourWebsiteProfit
HowToWakeUpEarly
LondonerLife
VandelayDesign
LaughOutLoudDogs
RonaldoCamacho
BillHartzer
FootbagShop
NeoMeme
Marenda
SavingMoney
WomanStartYourBusinessNow
SunlightFlavor
TheBuffaloRiver.com
LifeSnippets.net
JoeBartender
OneMansGoal
MeloVillaReal
Web360
Jakeldaily
TallFreak
BaseballInvestor
TheDarkLightOfLove
LifeInTheRough
Sandossu
TheDailyFuzz
ErikKarey
BothMadAndGenius
ThreeSticks
RobertaFerguson
MarketingASolicitor
FruityOaty
PilotJohn
Mrgtp
RobNeville
NetMonetization
Salatti
LakeTrees
BowerBirdBeads
BloggersJourney
LosingProposition
EndangeredSpaces
SecretsOfUnlimitedProsperity
Amorphism
Health-HundredDayHeadstart
Jenny’sCorner
TheBrokenBow
TheDietDiary
Wealth Health Blog
JadeHat
Nice4Rice
Hem
News Notion
RealityWired.com
BrilliantCheers
Achille
OnTheWebEd
JonLee
ChrisHoyt
JulieAnnBonner
LinkItForMe
RamblingThoughtsBlog
BlogThatOutside
Tobsy
NOWG
CatchAFallingStar
SweetAgring
LayerCake
ErikSvend
PajamaProfessional
MyOpinionsAreImportant
RoadLessTravelled
Foximus
BetShopBoy
5xMom
Derek Semmler
Linguistics Zone
Zr5
SmartWealthyRich
How To Split An Atom
The Alternative Self-Employment Blog
A Politically Incorrect Entrepreneur
CrayonWriter
BlogRaters
TagsKitchen
TradeMacro
Mother’s Home
Brian Pratt
Best Real Income
3DayMom
A Writers Words, An Editors Eye
Aaron Roselo
Advertising for Success
And to Think
Andy Beard
Ang’s Chicken Coop
Are we there yet
Army Mom:New Jersey
Article Writer, The
Ask Jason
Ask Jason Business
Axplay
BenSpark, The
BenSpark 2: Electric Boogaloo
BiggerPockets
BlogAboutMoneyOnline
BloggingTips
Blogocola
Blogozine
BMonaco
BodyFitnessInfo
BrownSista

BuyMeBlog
Buzz Queen, The
By the Sea
Cade’s WriteToRight
CampingCoop.org
Life is Colourful
Candid Quips
Charmed and Dangerous
Colloquium
Comedy Plus
Community Building Blog
Curious Cat Science
Confessions of a Housewife
Confessions of an Everyday housewife
CoolAdzine for Marketers
Craftblog
Crafts 4 Dummies
David Dairey
Dont Fear the Truth
DorisGoShopping.com
Down Memory Lanes
Ecomm Tips
EMoneyMarketing
Endangered Spaces
Fibromyalgia Experiment, The
Finding Life\’s Enchantments
Flatwater Tech
Fools Wisdom
FootPrints On the Moon
Fuzzy Future
Jonlee
Jones PC
JOIN - Do Follow Bloggers **
Julies Journal
Just Not Martha
Kansha Shite
Knitting Fiend, The
Last Blogger
LeaveAmerica
Life in the Fast Lane
Life Is Risky
Life Learning Today
Life Of A School Bus Driver, The Life Passion Travel & More
Life through eyes of Krissy
Lifecruiser
LittleAmerica.us
Live Life Organics & Your Health
Magical Rose Garden
Marketing Blagger
Master Cleanse
Midlife Musings
Mom is Nutz
MomReviews.net
Mothering Many
My Credit Group
My Dandelion Patch
My Home Recipe
My Muddled Mind
My Opinion Counts
My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings
Nanashi-Inc.net
New Century Politics
No Average Mom
Odd Planet
On the Horizon
Open Road Biker
Patrick Says v2.0
Paula Mooney
PBriscoe.com
Pegs AZ Life
Pencil Thin
PimpMyPageRank
Pink Poison Store
Pond, The
Ramblings Of An Undisturbed Mind
Randa Clay Design
Raw Vegan Momma
Reasoner, The
Rotten Bananas
Sassy Southerner, The Scribble On The Wall
Scuttlebutt Pipeline
Selena’s Travel and Culture
SelfHynosisProgram
Shopping Flavor
ShowMeHealthBiz
ShowMeMoneyBiz.com
Simple Kind Of Life
Simplify Every Obstacle
Skeets Stuff
Sophistishe.Org | Personal Blog
SQKIKs Simple Tech
Super Blogging
Sun-Flower Family, The
Table for Five
TeaScoop
TechieZone
Teenage Angst Regression
Texas RV Travel blog
Thermal
TimeForBlogging
Tricia\’s Musings
Utterly Geek
Wanders World
Web Files, The
WebStyle
Whatever I Feel Like
Wild & Crazy Ride
Winding Threads
Wired Kayaker, The
Women Mumbles
Work At Home Mom Revolution
Yoga Blog

For More:
So, take a list of do follow blogs
http://nicusor.com/do-follow-list/

You can find a directory here:
http://www.dofollowblogs.com/

So you know on each blogs you should comments with your url in website field, and you name as an anchor text such that you can get maximum benefits from this blogs.

Now comes the second part: use this tool to find the page rank of internal pages:
http://www.livepr.info/internal-pages-page-rank.php
Sometimes is buggy, but usually works well.

Find old blog posts having high page rank, and comment on them. I have found like 3 pagerank 5 pages, and countless pagerank 4 pages when i used it.
Afterwards just comment leaving a link on the blog pages that have a high pagerank. Maximum efficiency from blog comments.

How to make $1000 a day exploiting youtube

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:31:00 +0000

This has been spoke about before
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackha...hat-guide.html
Thanks Nick

A little more info on it.

Step#1 - Sign up at a CPA network.
I monetize the traffic that I get from Youtube by sending them to CPA offers. If you don't know what a CPA offer is, well its basically like an affiliate network where they pay you every time a visitor you refer fills out a form. Getting people to fill out forms in exchange for some kind of freebie that the advertiser is offering is real easy . If you have an account at these or any other CPA I personally use MillnicMedia network, that will suffice. If you don't then I suggest you signup at MillnicMedia.

Step#2 – Find a good offer to monetize
I usually find offers that give away something free and are in vogue. For example, a free iPhone. The iphone is a very hot product right now and people are crazy about it.
Find such an offer with the network you have signed up for. Try and pick an offer that has a landing page that is well designed and has a "call to action"
Typically a well designed landing page is designed in such a way that the only action the visitor can do is to fill out the form or close the page.
Pick out two to three good offers and save the affiliate links to a file.

Step #3 - Download the video conversion software.
Files that are stored at youtube and other video sharing sites are in the ".flv" format that youll need to convert to mpeg. So to do that youll need this freeware called RIVA flv encoder. Download it from http://www.rivavx.com/?encoder
I’ll explain how to use it further down.

Step#4 – Make the video
Ok this is the place where I hear you go "heck I don't know how to make videos"

Trust me it’s not that hard.

Option A

Go to youtube or any other video sharing site and type the keyword in the search
box. In our example type "iphone"
You will find several videos uploaded by people. Find one that's generic and doesn't have too much branding in it.
The next step is to download this video from youtube or any other video sharing site that you found it at.
To download it visit this site
http://dcg.m4v.org

Enter the url to the video in the box. (make sure that the video site you are using is supported by them)

Save the file when you get the prompt. Once you have finished downloading the file rename the file with the extension ".flv"

Now we need to convert that video into the mpeg format. To do so start the RIVA flv encoder and select the flv file as the input and in the output box enter the filename with the extension ".mpg"
Here is one video that I took and added my advert in the start and the end of the video.

If you have camtasia you can add your advert at any place in the video as a callout.
If you don't have camtasia then you can use the free camstudio that's given along with Tube Automator as a bonus and add your adverts into the video.

Option-B

The second option is to create a presentation in powerpoint and then record that presentation with either camtasia or camstudio.
Creating text based presentations is a easy simple way to make your video and keep it short and interesting.

Step#5 – Make the blog
The next step is to make a blog at blogger.com and add the code that’s below into the template. This code will redirect the user to your affiliate offer and since it’s a blogspot blog any body snooping around will not get your real info as they can’t really do a "whois" search at blogger.

Step#6 – Upload the video to youtube

Upload the video to youtube and use a catchy title. Example "Win a free iPhone" In the description add the URL to the blog. Do not write anything else in the description. Add descriptive tags based on the offer you are promoting.

Step#7 – Make it popular with Tube Automator
Get Tube Automator to Automate it…
Finally use tube Automator to post comments and vote on your video. The more you vote and post with different accounts the more popular your video gets.

So are you ready to get that avalanche of traffic??

All About traffic and traffic

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:26:00 +0000

Getting F'ing Traffic

Traffic has to the the main thing you need in affiliate marketing, you need it, you want more of it, and you want quality traffic.

This small guide I will write a few things you might need, come across or find interesting.
Also if you find this crap, un-useful please disregard the post, as i want to get through as much of this weeks questions as possible. So all the newbies know where to start.

There are 6 forms of traffic that i will talk about

1. Startup page traffic.
This is normally called your browsers homepage, just like Google, MSN, Yahoo, search usually the first page you see when you load your browser. Now theres many ways to do this, you can set some scripts or buttons on your page, or try to force it with many tricks to make the end-user set your page as your homepage.
The most profitable method for this is to throw up your own search engine with adsense ads or XML ppc companies search scripts. All are profitable but it would only work if it was good, and you dont want to throw just a crappy page up as you will annoy newbies who dont know how to change it to whatever they like. So a search engine is good because if they cant change it your going to get a lot of searches made, meaning money for a long time.

2. Typein Traffic.
As everyone here knows typein traffic can be very great at converting, say for example a friend of yours told you to visit "U TUBE DOT COM" if you did not know it from the start you could take this in a numerous amount of ways like UTUBE.com, they are really sought after domains that only usually consist of DOTCOMS because not many people will typein a .NET, anyways these domains if you can grab them are great earners. The best method of grabbing one of these is looking for beta release sites, like http://www.inviteshare.com/ this will tell you invite only sites, that are not yet public, these can be amazingly fast ways to grab upcoming potentially great traffic sites. And if you snap up typos fast could make a great earner, or a domain sale.

3. Bookmarks.
Bookmark traffic depending on what kind of site always leads the user back to you. These are mostly community sites or blogs, well , all sites really get bookmarks but the popular ones are usually member sites, like blackhatworld for instance. The earning potential here is great, and the traffic is recurring for a very long time, but i wouldnt recommend forcing a bookmark using scripting as that will piss the users off.

4. Linked Traffic.
This is where most of your traffic should come from, Search engines, links from blogs, directories and whatever you can think of that has link potential like blackhatworld here. The traffic is usually targeted because your anchor text is usually relevent to what the user wants to see.

5. Popups and redirects.
Popups and things can be sent from other sites, exchanges, and popups from your other network of sites. You can easily get a lot of popup exchanges to your site(s) but the traffic is poor, usually only good for the likes of PAY PER IMPRESSION.

6. Software.
A lot of software can have built in browsers, or banners, the likes of MSN messenger always usually runs an ad at the bottom of the client. This converts into traffic by clicks, and mega targeted, you can also throw traffic in your own browser, for example ebooks, and other things like that, i put ebooks here under software because sometimes ebooks can be binded into software, but its all the same, ebook traffic can be very converting , and say you write about something and spread it through torrents, p2p and other things on the subject you want to convert it can get viral.

Viral traffic is another using the buzz to spread the word, for example the likes of youtube videos, you can throw in a lot of funny videos and watermark your urls on the video.
Another idea would be to upload the latest songs in the music charts to youtube or other type sites and throw in a ringtone affiliate url in the description.

A little secret called Traffic Trading

Just like in the adult marketing business a lot of adult webmasters use traffic trading as there main source of traffic, SO WHY THE FUCK ARENT YOU?

And just in mainstream it works too, but dont let them just throw a link back to you cause they could lie about there traffic and send you none whatsoever.

What can you do?
USE A TRAFFIC TRADING SCRIPT

What is a traffic trading script?
A trading script automates the process of trading traffic with other websites. It tracks your hits coming in and controls your traffic going out. A good script will filter out websites trying to cheat you. When I researched several sites that had a traffic base of 1 million or more visitors a day I found that the common denominator was that 95% were all using a traffic trading script. And 90% of them were using the same script.

Why use a traffic trading script?
It will allow you to grow your traffic exponentially. You can make traffic trades all day and not worry about how much traffic your traffic trading partners are sending you. If they can only send you a little traffic then it adjusts and sends them a little bit in return. If they send you a lot then you can send them a lot of traffic in return.

A good feature of a trading script is it works automatically, and usually it generates a lot of related linking. Bringing you higher in the SERPS.

And although its tempting to trade with everything existing its best to stick with your niche only. For TARGETED TRAFFIC.

You can also use top referer list type scripts.
A Top Referrer List is also very common on adult websites, and almost never used on mainstream sites. A top referrer list is simply a link list on your website that says “These are the top 10 sites that send me traffic”. This is a very easy way to send your top traffic trading partners back some traffic. Some larger websites even take the list as high as 100. These list also encourage other sites to send you traffic because they want to be on your top 10 list. Never underestimate the ego of another webmaster. Nothing will make him want to send you more traffic than seeing his competitor on your top 10 list.
Many of the traffic trading programs will generate a top referrer list.

Also remember CONTENT is KING, thats what drives the traffic in the first place and will bring users to your site, bringing trades so make sure you have decent content. Thats probably the most important thing of all

Also remember you can go on the hunt for traffic exchanges, you dont only need them to come to you, you can look for them. A nice google search on your niche + traffic trade or + add site would do the trick.

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Easy traffic

Webrings - for example www.ringsurf.com and www.webring.com can bring in easy traffic but depending on the popularity of your niche, it can be quite dead. So i will skip on to something else, but always keep this idea open.

Toplist traffic - This is pretty much an easy start for anyone, its simple in a way a voting script type banner exchange, but works. Good for dating, hacking, type sites usually but there quite what i would call SEMI-GOOD.
You can popup the toplist voting page in a popup or im sure you can cheat it with some sort of script.

Banner Exchange - Poor traffic , easy, fast, and low converting, just depending on where you do it.

Forum traffic - One of the easiest and best out there, for example if you want to promote some Gambling poker related products sign up in a forum of that niche and talk some sense, dont spam just answer reasonably and youll get some hits and exposure

Blog Comment Traffic - Do a blog search on your niche, for example the blogger search @ http://blogsearch.google.com and comment on a lot of them, this can be done by hand for best results, as you can answer according to the actual post , just give it a quick read and post something semi good with your link.

Article Traffic - Writing articles can be fast, check out http://ezinearticles.com and http://goarticles.com and a google search will give you more. This provides a ton of backlinks as a lot of places scrape the content on article release sites. And is good because of the fact that its targeted traffic and highly convertable.

Classfieds - http://gumtree.com and http://craigslist.com can convert you can place ads for anything in there and users that want it will check your shit out, you can sell things, promote things, and even trick them, for example say you are running a dating site, post in the dating sections, Hi im a girl 24 from such and such im looking for a male send me a mail and ill send my pics, then setup an autoresponder to send pics and a link to your dating site, or sell a product say a car, and link to a relevent ebay search with your affiliate link in place, YOU DONT EVEN HAVE TO HAVE THE PRODUCT, cj.com runs the affiliate site of ebay so check it out.

Expired domains - can be quite good expired domains have traffic and PR already. And ofcourse links to them, they can be found even on http://www.justdropped.com and http://deleteddomains.comm, these come same price as a normal domain, and you can find some quite good ones. And if you want and find good ones just sell them on at high prices.
Its also a good note to research on the domains on like linkpopularity or other type sites.

Adsense - Dont even wanna get into this but the option is there. But not very newbie friendly so ill skip this .

SEO Meter-a helping tool for blogger who wants to make money

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:02:00 +0000

Thispost is a paid post. Do I have to disclose it, sure I don’t, but I like to be honest with my readers! I am not purposely swaying my opinions for this article.

One of the things I have really not mentioned when talking about blogging, making money online or anything else is SEO. SEO or Search Engine Optimization has just never crossed my mind as an online blogger who wants to make money, but for some it can mean a real difference between a few bucks a day and a few hundred bucks an hour! Plus, with all those competiting services trying to give you your traffic rankings, Alexa, Comscore, PageRank, etc, etc it can be very confusing what exactly your SEO rank is. Well, for once you actually can take a breather as SEO Meter allows you to tell how often search bots crawl your page.

Now, you might wonder why exactly that is important. It is important because the more often a search bot crawls your page, the more likely you are to pick up a higher keyword position on Google and the more likely you will see a quick update in your overall SERPS(Search Engine Ranking Position). I am all for a higher search engine ranking because after all the higher search engine ranking you have the more likely you are to get a higher amount of traffic from Google. It is well known that 70% of the traffic comes through the top 3 rankings for the keyword. You have to have your site crawled often enough to get those coveted positions.

Now here comes the sad part, I had to change this blog from .info to .com just as I was writing this post on Sunday night. However, Google had not indexed it yet. I checked back Monday morning and it was in Google, and I was rather happy. However, it is currently 1:15 AM EST Friday and my blog hasn’t been approved yet…for SEO Meter seems to be a bit slow on processing new additions or just for me at least. I probably am just having a minor difficulty, stuff happens.

Well, overall I do like SEO Meter though because they provide a great service for webmasters who are rather focused on their ranks. I just hope that my rankings will work someday soon, I bet they will. Until then, SEO Meter is doing great and will only continue to get better.

How to Make Quick Cash with Private Label Rights Content

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:34:00 +0000

Step 1 --Find a Hot Market

Ok, first step is to your hot market. That’s where Micro Niche Finder comes in and by now you should know how to use Micro Niche Finder to locate these under-the-radar markets.

Here are a couple of good starting points for keywords to input into Micro Niche Finder:

1) Amazon’s New Releases

http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/

This will give you a list of all the new DVD’s, Music, Books, Toys,Apparel, and Video Games. Enter one of these items into Micro Niche Finder and see what you come up with.

Lets have a look at the Transformer movie as it was recently released, and it seems a good niche to check out because its kid related and sometimes a good collectable. I see one of the new releases on Amazon is the Transformers Optimus Prime figurine. That gives me an idea so I look up Transformers Movie in Micro Niche Finder and it returns 185 potential
article subjects.

2) Amazon’s Hot Sellers –

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers

These are all hot sellers so there are bound to be some serioussearching going on for these products.

3) Froogle.com –

http://www.google.com/products

Go to Froogle and on the home page there are 25 products that people have recently searched for using Froogle. Try any of those products in Micro Niche Finder and see what you come up with.

4) Magazines.com –

http://www.magazines.com/

This is an amazing site for niche market hunting! Magazines spend a lot of money testing what to put on the covers of their magazines. You can be sure that anything mentioned on the cover is a hot topic.

5) ClickBank.com

http://www.clickbank.com

Go to ClickBank and look at the most popular products in each category and also New Products.

Step 2 --Find Keyword Phrases within the Niche

Next, use Micro Niche Finder to pick out keyword phrases within this niche that would make good articles.

You want to find keyword phrases that have at least 200 searches and less then 20,000 Competitors (exact matches)

Taking the Transformers Movie example I see there are 185 potential article subjects. Here are a few with more then 200 searches andless then 20,000 competition:

And that’s withoutdoing any digging into the topic.

You may be thinking how you would write an article on some of
these topics, such as: “transformers movie clips” or “transformers
movie pictures” but those are actually the easiest articles to write.
All you have to do is put together a resource list of websites that
contain “transformers movie clips” or “transformers movie pictures”
and a brief intro paragraph and maybe a summary and there you
have it.

Step 3 – Create the Content

Now, either you or a ghostwriter needs to create the articles. Yourarticles should be anywhere from 500 to 750 words long. I suggestyou have 15 – 20 articles per PLR project but that isn’t a hard andfast rule.

Each article should be optimized for the particular keyword phrasethat it is targeting. That means the title of the article should have the keyword phrase and you should repeat the keyword phrase three or four times within the article.

Your articles need to be focused on the topic. And of course they
need to be grammatically perfect with no misspellings.

If you don’t want to write the articles you can hire a ghostwriter. My friend, Scott Foster, has a website set up that takes all the pain out of hiring ghostwriters.

You pay a fee of $9.99 per month to be a member of the site and then each 500 word article costs $5.00. So, if you needed 20 articles it would cost you $100.00 plus $10.00 for the monthly fee.

You can sign up for Scott’s site at www.need-an-article.com

Or, you can spend a day or two writing the articles yourself if you can’t afford the money to hire a writer.

Step 4 – Sell the PLR Package

Ok, now you have your articles completed and you should also have some keyword research and if you’ve done your homework you’ve found some affiliate products to promote with these articles that you can recommend to your buyers.

Now where do you find buyers?

Marketing Forums!

There are tons of marketing forums on the internet. You can find a list of some of the best on Willie Crawford’s blog at:

http://www.williecrawford.com/blog/archives/001286.html

Just be sure that you don’t spam when you post. Some forums allow outright ads and some don’t. Be sure to read the terms of service.

Conclusion

It really is that simple. You can put together a PLR special offer in a day and have money in your Paypal account the next day.

Good Luck!

How to make a $100 per day by Pay per install

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:05:00 +0000

I just realized something! This entire blog is filled with ideas on how to help your sites make more money and receive more traffic, but I don’t have a single post that says, HEY! HERE IS HOW YOU MAKE MONEY. I want a post that tells you exactly how to reach your goals. A comment in another post (I do read them and get inspired by them) reminded me of this. So I perused through some old projects of mine and grabbed one thats very easy, very automated, reciprocal (consistantly makes money forever), and makes about a $100/day. Most of all it requires very minimal time and investment. So here ya go! Follow the instructions carefully and do as I did.

Here Is What You Do
1) Pick a generalized niche that is fairly popular. Celebrities work well, cars, animals. Anything will do.

2) Make a list of 300 items in that niche. For instance if you pick music artists make a list of the top 300 most popular music artists.

3) Download at least 20 public use(noncopyrighted) pictures of each item in your list.

4) Download or buy a screensaver maker. I don’t remember which one I use so I’ll have to update you in the comments when I get back to the office on Monday. Just make sure it is quick and easy to create the screensavers (saves you a lot of time) and comes with an exe output function that’ll easily install the screensavers on their computer without much dialog boxes or windows getting in thier way. This one looks decent. Easy Screensaver Maker and its only $25. Update: I use Screen Saver Builder. It’s $20 with fully functioning 21 day trial.

5) Create all your screensavers and put them up on a simple website. Give each screensaver its own page and download link. It also never hurts to SEO the site so it’ll do well in the search engines and make you even more money later on. Adsense also doesn’t hurt for a lil’ bit of extra cash.

6) Signup with Zangocash (Aff Link). This step is optional. See the comments for more ideas on how to monenize your new screensavers.

7) Talk to your account manager and ask him to bundle Zango software with your screensavers. Send him all the installers along with a textfile containing all the short descriptions and a sample picture. They are usually happy to do this for you. If they aren’t get a new account manager.

8) Get yourself a copy of Promosoft software submitter(nonAff link). I think it costs $95 for a copy but trust me it’s well worth it.

9) Follow the instructions on Promosoft to create the PAD files(product description files used for software sites) and submit each screensaver to hundreds of software and screensaver directories.

There you go. You will get paid $0.45 for every person who installs your screensaver. Once the screensavers are submitted you will have no problem getting tons of people downloading them everyday. If you get about 250 downloads per day(easy with 300 screensavers) you will easily make about a $100/day!

Okay so now all those people on forums and such who are bitching and moaning; saying stuff like “I want to quit my day job” and “I wish I could make a living online” can finally shut up. It is all right there, spelled out in plain english. You now have absolutely no excuses. Get off your ass and actually do it. Follow each step carefully and do a good job. It should take the average person no more than a couple days to get it done and you will make continuous money for a very long time. If you’re reading this and you suddenly realize that you are one of those people, just know that there is nothing wrong with that. We were all there. You just have to know when to quit. Quit searching forums for ideas. Quit buying ebooks hoping they’ll give that magical $100/day project idea. Quit asking “SEO experts” how they do it, and for God’s sake quit reading blogs hoping someone will post something like this, cus it just ain’t gonna happen(haha). All I expect from you is to read this post throughly and carefully at least two more times and actually follow through. There is nothing more I would love, than to hear someone tell me that an article I wrote helped them quit their job in the next 8 weeks. So make it happen!

Feel free to register.
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The Government Wants A Weaker Dollar!! Do You ?

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:03:00 +0000

As I stated in my last post, the government is bankrupting our economy. I asked Chuck Butler of Everbank.com “why is the government trying to weaken the dollar and if there was any advantage to having a weak dollar?”

He was gracious enough to answer my question:

It’s a political thing… If the Gov’t can show that they are doing what they can for Manufacturing, that equals votes. The main thing though is the dollar is used to attract foreign investment. I’ll explain.

The Gov’t is running a huge deficit, and as long as they are running a huge deficit, they are in need of foreign investment to finance that deficit. The amount of financing needed each day is over $2 Billion.

When a Gov’t needs to attract investment, they can do 1 of 2 things.
1. They can raise interest rates aggressively to attract investment, or…
2. they can allow a debasement of the currency, which acts as a clearing mechanism for investments. When a foreign entity buys a U.S. asset, they need to convert their currency for dollars… If dollars are cheap vis-a-vi the foreigner’s currency, they are in essence buying that asset at a discount.

Given these two choices, a Gov’t will always choose #2… raising interest rates would bring an economy to its knees… so #2 is the always the choice… and that’s where we are today.

There you have it folks! Debasing the currency is always the better choice! I’m so glad I bought some gold. There also seems to be some evidence that foreign countries are finding the US dollar cheap enough to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US!

An added bonus to debasing the currency is that the 30 year bond, which pays less than the current rate of inflation, will be worthless in 30 years. In other words, the government will be repaying its debt with worthless currency. Suddenly the $57 Trillion of future debt obligations (Social Security and Medicaid) doesn’t seem so bad!

Can You Retire On Less Than $3,000 A Month?

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:59:00 +0000

Ever wondered if you could retire on $3,000 a month? Well the answer is “Yes!”. Not only that, you might be able to get by on only $2,000 a month!

Of course, you’d have to sell you gas-guzzling Tahoe and move -out from your swanky Downtown condo and move somewhere cheaper. But cheaper doesn’t necessarily mean inferior! A Canadian couple who retired and moved to Mazatlan are actually spending only $2,000/month.

When Anne retired, we sold our house outside of Calgary, which had 10.5 acres of land. With the proceeds from the sale, we paid off the house in Mexico and bought a 14 x 44-ft mobile home in a beautiful RV park south of Calgary. Now we spend November to April in Mexico and the summer months in Canada.

Overall, I’d say living expenses in Mexico are between a third and half of what they are in Canada. The two of us can live very well on about $2,000 a month. When we worked out our monthly expenses, we were paying about $135 a month for shelter, including utilities, property taxes, Internet and telephone.

Some costs seem absurdly low to Canadian eyes. Our property tax, for example, is just 381 pesos per year($40), although we pay an additional bank trust fee of $422 annually because our house is within 50 km of the ocean. Even with air conditioning in the hot months, our electricity costs have averaged $16 a month. Of course, we never have any heating costs. If it gets chilly at night, you just throw on an extra blanket. Fire insurance is not necessary except for contents because all the houses are built of concrete.

Food is cheap. You might pay $2 for a 1.9-litre bottle of milk, 43 cents for a kilo of tomatoes and $2.50 for enough large fresh shrimp for a meal. Services cost even less. You can visit the dentist for $20 to $30, hire a cleaning lady for the day for $10, have your hair cut for $4, and get your laundry done for about $4.50 for three kilos.

We don’t need a car — the bus system is great and the local bus costs 4 pesos(41 cents Cdn.), or you can pay 8 pesos for the air-conditioned bus, which is mostly for tourists. That means we can afford to dine out often. On Valentine’s Day we went all out and had dinner at a Mexican-Greek restaurant. We had a large margarita, a bottle of wine, a delicious meal, a dessert flambé and cappuccino for about $50 including tip. Normally, we don’t spend that much. There are many places where the two of us can get a simple meal for $10.

Another advantage to being in Mexico, as opposed to, say Thailand or Costa Rica, or some of the other places where Canadians can live cheaply during retirement, is that it’s fairly close to home. The flight to Calgary costs us about $700 so if we need to go back to see the kids, it’s not a problem.

On the flip side, if your house is paid off, you probably might be able to live on $2,000/mo in San Diego! You might have more fun in Mazatlan, but if you’re retired, your partying days are probably older, and you’d more than likely enjoy the quiet company of your friends and relatives. Having spent so much of my life moving between very different places, I probably wouldn’t mind. But the average person might not want to suddenly move to new country when he or she is 60-65.

Anyway, its a different perspective on adjusting your means to fulfill your living!

Interest-Only Loans and Annual Refinances

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:57:00 +0000

A few of my friends who own homes got into the habit of getting interest-only loans and refinancing them every year. Apparently there was some math that “made it cheaper” to refinance every year. Starting every year with a new loan didn’t seem like a good investment but I’d never really understood the math. Of course, with the drop in home values, LTV ratios decreasing and the drying up of liquidity, this fad has disappeared, but I always wondered how the math worked. I was too lazy to actually do it since I knew intuitively that it must be wrong.

Fortunately ace mortgage broker, Randy Johnson, send me an email with the math.

many homeowners will never burn their mortgages because they make poor choices, like continually refinancing into 30-year mortgages.

Assume that a homeowner started out with a $100,000 loan at 6.5% and that he has been in his home for 5 years. He refinances the existing balance to a new loan at 5.5%. If he is like most Americans, he looks just at how much he saves per month. He gets modest interest savings, $14,265, less if you deduct the costs, which I will ignore. But in choosing to make the new lower payment, he goes out to the lousy end of the amortization curve again. He actually adds 10 months to the total time payments are made, a total of 370 months. That’s why it never gets paid off.

It is much smarter to make the old payment he was paying. He afforded it for five years and he can keep affording it. This converts his interest saving into principal reductions. It shortens the remaining repayment time from 300 to 249 months and doubles his interest savings compared with the first option. Now he saves $32,377.

The most valuable opportunity, however, is to get a 15 year loan which also carries a lower interest rate, 5% today. The payment is about equal to the original payment plus $100. That reduces the remaining payback time to 180 months. The interest during this 15 year period drops by over 60% from what it would have been had no refinance taken place.

To summarize

Interest due in remaining 25 yrs without refinance $96,009

Interest if refinance and make lower payment $81,743

Interest if keep payment the same $63,632

Interest if move to a 15 year loan $39,690

The cost of refinancing is usually never zero. Even if you don’t pay for it, its somehow baked into the loan.

I strongly recommend Randy Johnson’s stellar book How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Your Home Mortgage. If you don’t know what Yield Spread Premium (YSP) or Paid Out of Closing (POC) means on a HUD-1 you definitely should read this book. If you own a home and don’t know a HUD-1 is then get your spouse to smack you and then go buy the book! I promise you’ll save thousands of dollars on your mortgage.

Making Money With A Video Blog with How to tips

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:26:00 +0000

An Introduction to Video Websites

There’s a lot of them about, a lot. Apart from the old-timers like Ebaumsworld, Google’s acquisition of YouTube has really seen them starting to eat up this market. The great thing is, that doesn’t matter, videos are a disposal media - people look at them once, show their mates and then it’s old news. You’re only as good as your last video! What we’re going to look at doing here is setting up a video website with minimal cost & time and maximizing our profit.

Now, I’m not claiming this will make you a millionaire, but you can earn around £500 ($1000 to our American friends) per month without too much trouble. So it’s well worth it for the day or two it will take to set up!

Step #1: Monetization Strategy

Okay, for this site we are going to make our bucks from a couple of different sources. Our main income will be made from Google Adsense. If you haven’t got yourself a Google Adsense Publisher account, click the big button below and sign up. Adsense will display contextual adverts which you can neatly blend in with the design of your website, to make them non-intrusive, yet a natural click away. For this website we are aiming at generating a 25% click-through rate while staying well inside the Adsense Terms Of Service.

An important note: I’m going to give you some tips on optimizing your Adsense placement and layout later, if you want to take the optimization further, you may be pushing the limit on what Google does and doesn’t allow. The Adsense team can be merciless at times if they think you are breaking their TOS, which can be quite “grey�? at times. So, stick to the guidelines and you’ll be fine, cross the line at your own risk!

So, if you haven’t already,
Step #2: Setting up the website with Wordpress
Yay for Wordpress and its many uses! Wordpress gives you an off the shelf platform for out video blog (vlog). It allows comments, pings, trackbacks, easy archiving, it’s SEO friendly and has loads of plugins. For this kind of mission, it’s definitely the number one choice.

There are two ways you can go about getting Wordpress up and running:

1) You can go to wordpress.com and sign up for a wordpress account, they will provide you with a hosted blog such as myvideoblog.wordpress.com

2) You can go wordpress.org and download Wordpress and install it on your server. This is really the preferred option as it will give you the power to use some neat features in the future, which will smooth out the money making process! If you haven’t got web hosting, I use Site5 (aff link) and they’ve always been good to me and are fairly priced.

Once you’ve uploaded Wordpress to your server, follow the installation guide (it’s pretty simple) to get your Wordpress installation and database up and running.

Step #3: Choosing a domain name
Probably the hardest part of building any website is finding a domain name! Don’t worry too much about getting keywords in there, organic SEO isn’t how we’ll be doing the bulk of our promotion, try and focus on getting something short, snappy and memorable. (That means no hyphens!). If you can get something with a keyword or two (funny, video, comedy, humor - reach for your thesaurus) all the better, but as I say - don’t sacrifice the name for it. Once that’s sorted, point it at your server so it will have resolved by the time you’re ready to launch.

Step #4: Plugins Galore
There are some great plugins for Wordpress that will save you a hell of a lot of time and coding. I’ve experimented with quite a few and whittled the list down to some essentials.

Viper’s Video Quicktags - This plugin will save you having to rip out all the embed code from videos on major sites like YouTube, all you need to do is paste in the video ID and this plugin will do all the rest of the code & alignment for you. It’s essential to make adding videos as quick as possible.

WP-Email - This plugin adds an “E-mail This To A Friend�? option at the bottom of every post (which will be your videos). I’ve been using these for a while and although you don’t get loads of people use them, personally recommendation is the best kind of marketing your website could hope for.

WP-PostRatings - This will add the “rate this video�? 0-5 stars function at the bottom of each post. It’s a nice addon to get people to try and interact with your site if the can’t be bothered to post comments. Interaction is good - it’s the first step in relation building with your visitors and ultimately trying to get them to come back.

Sociable - Adds a mini-bar of just about every popular social bookmarking site worth mentioning at the bottom of each post. Digg, Reddit, Bloglines, they’re all there. Optimization Tip: From experimenting, I found it is best not just to select all the social sites going, choose a maximum of 5 major ones, then rotate to see what is most successful. Having a line of 20 social bookmarking icons looks a bit confusing and seems to ultimately put people off using them.

StumbleUpon It! - StumbleUpon is a really great way to promote sites with entertainment and disposable content. This plugin gives you a “stumble it�? button at the bottom of each post, which will play a part in our future marketing strategy.

Did You Pass Math? - Did you? This is just a basic anti-spam measure that puts one of those sums before you’re allowed to comment. Spam is a major problem, so I’d recommend this one, just to save you some time.

Akismet - This should be present in your default Wordpress installation, you require a Wordpress API key - but this little gem has stopped more spam than anything else I’ve ever tried.

Step #5: Get Feedburned
Okay, with further promotion in mind it’s time to sign up to Feedburner. RSS is going to be one of the main ways we keep in touch with our readers, letting them know we’ve put more videos on our site and Feedburner offers a load of other ways to let people subscribe to your content.

Step #6: Theme Design
There are loads of great Wordpress themes at themes.wordpress.net. Have a good look through them until you find something you like. I would generally recommend going for something fairly simplistic and neat with an either 2 or 3 column design. Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, you could always design your own!

Once you’ve got your theme and uploaded it, I’d suggest tweaking some of the graphics to make it your own. Get your branding up there, design a logo and base your site around the domain name. This is why we wanted something easy to remember and relevant earlier, it’s no good calling your site “Video Hustler�? then having www.my-funny-internet-videos.cc and hoping people will remember it.

Some Wordpress essentials
There are a couple of other tweaks you can do in Wordpress to make your job easier.

1) Add a few categories, I used “Funny Videos�?, “Extreme Videos�? and “Sexy Videos�? just so I could tag my content as I add it.

2) Use custom permalinks! This will make your URLs easier to remember and will help various bots crawl your site. To do this go to the “Options�? menu, then “Permalinks�? and at the bottom check the “custom�? radio button and put /%postname%/ in the field.

3) Change page titles.

What we want to do is to swap the position of “Post Title�? with “Blog Name�?. This is because:

* Search engines uses your Page Title as the linking text in its search engine results page (SERP).
* The search keywords are bolded for page titles in search engines
* It makes it easier for search engine users to know right away if what they are looking for is correct

Now, this will involve some editing to your template files, which is normally called “header.php�?. Find this:

and replace with:
And you’re done!I’m not going to tell you how to design your layout pixel by pixel, because one of the keys with maximising your profit is experimentation. Here are some guidelines:Adsense Placement & Optimisation
This is how you’re going to make your money, so it’s pretty important! On your main index page you want to have an Adsense content unit at the very top, below your site header, but above the first video. This for me, is by far the highest click though, achieving around 30-40%, with the right keywords later on we can marry these adverts up with your content beautifully.

In your Adsense control console, under Adsense for content, go into your “Ad Units�?. These will get you paid after 1 click, whereas link units require a click to bring you to a results page, then a click on the results to get paid. So select link unit and leave “text only�? (default) selected. There is 468×60 pixel size which fits perfectly above your standard Google or YouTube Video.

You second biggest earner will be the ad unit which will create a gap between the first video and the rest of the videos on the site. Your first video will obviously be visible above the scroll, but being an average 10-30 second long funny clip, people will never be able to resist at least looking at the other videos on your front page. You must exploit this human curiosity! The 336×280px “large rectangle�? unit fits the bill perfectly. Again it will fit in nicely below your video and will give a nice chunk of adverts. This ad unit must only be displayed below the first video as there are limits on the amount of ad units you are allowed on 1 page. You will however, want this ad unit again on the “single post�? page. So, if somebody links directly to one of your videos, you still have max Adsense coverage.

I would recommend showing the first 5 videos on the first page. Having less, will reduce the chances of people looking at anything but the first video on your site and will effectively reduce the page size - minimizing advert space. Having a lots of videos will distract people from using other parts of your site navigation (well, by this I mean will keep people too amused to click on your ads!). It’s a fine line between wetting their appetite but then keeping them hungry for more.

It’s also worth having a vertical unit (skyscraper) near your navigation. You want both of these units clearly visible without scrolling down, so you’ve got the top of the page and the central part covered in lovely adverts, which is where people’s mousey clicks tend to go!

It is important to blend your Adsense into your site and there are two schools of thought on this. The default “blue�? hyperlinks on websites will get the most clicks, always. This color has been drilled into our head since the dawn of the www and your brain just says “click�?, so if any of your other links on your site use this color, you will need to use this color for your Adsense titles. I however, think this color is ugly, so I refrained from using it anywhere on my site at all. If you follow this approach as well, then you simply want to make your Adsense units the same color as your standard hyperlinks. If you’re using Firefox there is a great Colour Picker addon, which gives you the hex code for any color, live on a web page. Since you’re allowed a link unit on the page as well, I tend to put one of these in the footer, just because it looks okay and it does earn a few pennies every now and again.

Beating Adsense Smart Pricing
“Smart Pricing�? is Google’s way of trying to keep its advertisers happy by lowering the cost of junk traffic. Unfortunately, they do this at your expense. Having poor advertisers on your site, will lead to you users clicking the adverts, then leaving the horrible site they land on almost instantly. When people do this, Google will think you’re sending out junky traffic, when actually it’s the advertiser’s site that is at fault. This will lead to the money you get per click, going down.

Fortunately, Google offer a “competitive ad filter�?, which allows you to block certain advertisers from showing ads on your site. Login to your Google Adsense account and go to “Adsense Setup�? and you’ll see a “Competitive Ad Filter�? tab. Click this and you’ll be given a box of URLs to block.

Copy & paste this list into your competitive ad filter and this should help you keep a strong amount per click.

Google Coop
Google Coop is a custom search engine (CSE) which basically allows you to click a few buttons and make a custom search engine. The great thing is, you can tie this in with your current Adsense account and it will pay out when somebody clicks on a sponsored result from your custom search engine. So, rather than leave in the standard Wordpress search, you might as well make some money from it!

Find the bit of code in your theme that shows the default Wordpress search box and comment it out. Create a Google Coop account and you will be presented with if you would like your search engine to search the entire web, with preference to selected sites, or simply search specific sites. Choose the option to select specific sites and just add your own URL. Don’t forget to enter your Adsense Publisher ID!. Google will then generate a chunk of code for you, which you can paste in place of your current Wordpress search. Viola! Monetized search! My search box generates around an extra 30% of my site revenue.

Get Feedburner on there
Login to your Feedburner account and get it to give you the code for an e-mail subscribe box. I’ve found I get more e-mail subscribers than RSS readers. I believe this is because RSS is really only embraced by the more “web savvy�? user and they will be fully capable of finding videos on Digg, YouTube, Google and are more likely to be aware of the bigger sites. So for your regular Joe Blogs (heh), e-mail a nice, easy to understand way to get them to sign up to updates. If you can squeeze your Feedburner RSS subscribe button in above the scroll, all the better - but I have found people that want an RSS feed will find it.

Feedburner also offer “chicklets�? which is a little button that shows the world how many subscribed readers you have. Generally, I’d advise not to install this until you have 100 or so readers, there’s no point showing people how unpopular your site is to begin with! Leave it for bragging rights later. It is quite possible to achieve 500-1000 readers within 6-12 months.

Here’s one I made earlier:

In Green: Our main above the scroll Adsense
In Yellow: CPM advertising (we’ll talk about this later, but save some banner space!)
In Red: Our monetized Google Coop box
In Brown: The Feedburner subscribe bits. That’s most of the design info covered.Step #7: Sourcing and adding video content to your website

Okay, so how do we go about getting videos onto your site? Well there’s a quick and profitable way and a longer but more profitable away.

The quick and profitable way
I don’t recommend this method to begin with, even though it’s quicker, this is only something you should be doing after your site is established, or if you are very short on time.

Go to digg.com/videos and see what other people find funny. Follow the link through to the video site, grab the video ID and pop it in a post.

When you are post a video, make sure every 2-3 videos you have the words “funny�? and/or “video�? in the post title. Wordpress uses header tags for these titles and it will help make your Adsense adverts more relevant. Below the video, type a couple of lines explaining the video (without giving too much away!). Be as funny/sarcastic as you like, but keep it short and interesting - and write your own descriptions!

The longer but more profitable way
Okay, this takes a bit more work, but will really, really help you promote your site. One neat thing about Google Video is that they allow you to download the videos. So, go have a search around Google Video and download 20-30 videos that you think are funny. Download them in “PSP�? format which will give you a .mp4 format file.

If you have some decent video editing software that can handle mp4 files you can skip this step:

If you’re stuck using Windows Movie Editor you’ll have to convert the file before you can edit it. Now, if you can find a free program, let me know. I’ve been using Riverpast Video Cleaner, which will convert the mp4 files to avi without any real quality loss. It’s $30 but it will be your only expense in this operation. Riverpast will be able to convert all your videos in batch, so go make yourself a cuppa.

Once you’ve got your video in .avi format, create yourself a bitmap image with your site logo and site URL on it. Use your video editing software to show your logo for 5 seconds at the beginning and end of your video, so it’s all branded to you now!

Get your branded videos out there!
Once you’ve got branded videos, you’re really onto a winner. I pull in around 500-800 visitors per day from YouTube alone. Google have a batch video uploader, so your first port of all is to re-upload your newly edited videos onto Google Video.

Once they are uploaded you can add the video information. Generally in the title I again try and get the words “funny video�?, “extreme video�? or similar in. These help pick up a bunch of generic searches. I’ve found the description doesn’t make a huge difference to whether the video is viewed, as long as the title is good. If you’re uploading to Google, using the batch uploader there is a separate field to link to your website, which becomes an active link, so you may as well type a description. Keep it short and snappy to try and get as many views as possible. For tags, I use a set of standard: funny, video, humor, humor, comedy, laugh, lol, cool, extreme, stupid, insane, accident - then add a couple of video specific keywords on the end.

Repeat this process with YouTube. The only difference with YouTube is that there is no separate field for your own site URL. If you just pop your URL into the description, this will automatically become a clickable link. YouTube is a bit more of a pain because you can only upload 1 video at a time, but you can always do other stuff at the same time! The sheer amount of traffic that YouTube gets makes it worthwhile doing this.

Once you have a “base�? of around 30 videos, you don’t need to keep finding new ones. You just create a new YouTube account under a hotmail address every week or so, since you’re a new user and uploading new content, your videos will more often or not appear on the front page briefly which will get you spurts of traffic.

Using your imagination, there are loads of places that accept video uploads that you can use. MySpace anyone? MySpace Video is taking off big-time at the moment, so if you have access to some large MySpace accounts, this can be a great way to get traffic. One other technique is taking a screenshot of your video at 00:00 then posting this picture on a MySpace profile or bulletin, so it looks like an embedded video, but will take people through to your site with the video on. Hey, that’s pretty scrappy - but it works. Make sure you use the border=�?0? attribute on such images so you don’t get a blue border around them!

Step #8: Kick Starting Promotion
Following this recipe so far, you’ll probably make $5-$10 per day. If you want to get up to the $40 per day mark to make your $1,000 a month, you’ll need to give your site a kick up the backside. Here’s how:

Go to www.stumbleupon.com and register yourself with an account and install their browser toolbar.

Once you’re all ready to rock with StumbleUpon, make your way over to www.stumblexchange.com. Stumblexchange is a system where you sign up, stumble a whole list of other people’s sites, then in return they stumble you back. StumbleUpon is fairly simple - the more stumbles your site gets, the more traffic they send you. StumbleUpon has a ton of users and this step will get you 200 more uniques a day for months to come. So login, register your account details and stumble everyone’s site. (If your so inclined, you could script this). Well done, you just added another $200 a month onto your earnings! There’s also a diggxchange and deliciousxchange in this network, however I haven’t experimented with them to comment on this.

Get some links
Everybody loves links, especially Google. There’s a massive list at RSSTop55 of directories and blog aggregators. I would start with these:

Next Steps
Now you’ve got some readers and some regular traffic, you can sign up for a CPA advertiser. Burst Media is quite easy to get into and has a large inventory. Having CPA ads will earn you money for page views, without clicks and makes for an excellent secondary income.

Above all, experiment, experiment, experiment! Let me know how you get on!

FREE TeleSeminar for Discovering New Strategies To Fund Your Retirement!

noreply@blogger.com (ferrari_manush) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:15:00 +0000

Mike Strickland is presenting a very interesting opportunity for all of us. Its a FREE Live Tele-Seminar on 28th February at 4 pm (Pacific Std Time)!

He will discuss strategies to create a tax-free income flow for funding our retirements. We can send him our questions regarding securing a reliable income stream throughout our retirement at his website Ask Financial Insiders.

Please feel free to send in your questions to Mike. And don't forget to tune in to the tele-seminar! Thanks to our friend Windsor Agustin (who will host the seminar with Mike) for providing us with this tip. We are looking forward towards attending this seminar :).