Reddit (shown in the figure below) is a popular social bookmarking site known for its “no frills” appearance. To use Reddit, you create a free account and begin submitting content by clicking the Submit button on the Reddit site. As users vote content up and down, the most popular content makes it to the home [...]
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Orkut
Members of Orkut, a social networking site owned by Google, can communicate, connect, and share information, pictures, and videos. Although Orkut isn’t one of the most popular social networking sites, it has a strong Brazilian user base. You can sign in to Orkut by using the Google Account information you set up when you created [...]
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BlogHer
The BlogHer social networking site is unique in that its intended audience is women bloggers. BlogHer (shown below) offers a directory of female bloggers, advertising, forums, and conferences. Additionally, members can create their own blogs on BlogHer to share thoughts, ideas, and news so female bloggers can communicate, network, and grow. Share and Enjoy:
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Friendster
The popular Friendster site is very similar to other popular social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Friendster (shown below), which is open to anyone over the age of 16, invites its more than 75 million members from around the world to connect, share information, and communicate in a common space. The site offers [...]
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Monetize Your Blog With TribalFusion
The popular impression-based advertising network TribalFusion operates globally. The site offers a variety of ad formats to publishers that receive a minimum of 2,000 unique users per day. Additionally, the blog must be active and updated frequently and must have a professional design. Tribal Fusion pays publishers 50 percent of all revenue made from their [...]
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Monetize Your Blog With ValueClick
ValueClick is an easy-to-use, impression-based advertising program that offers banner ads, pop-unders, videos, and rich-media ads. As the publisher, you can set the minimum cost per impression (CPM) that you’re willing to accept on your blog. The minimum traffic level to become a ValueClick publisher is 3,000 impressions per month, and you can pick and [...]
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Monetize Your Blog With TextLinkBrokers
The popular text link ad broker TextLinkBrokers accepts applications from blogs with a Google page rank of 1 or higher. This site sets the ad rate for text link ads that appear on your blog based on your Google page rank and an evaluation of your blog. The ad publisher can approve or deny ads, [...]
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Monetize your Blog with Text-Link-Ads
The popular text link broker Text-Link-Ads helps bloggers get paid for publishing text link ads, as shown in the figure below. Ad publishers receive 50 percent of the sale price for each text link sold on your blog, and Text-Link-Ads integrate seamlessly with other advertising programs, such as Google AdSense. As a Text-Link-Ad publisher, you [...]
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Contextual Link Ads – Kontera
Kontera is another popular contextual link advertising program. When you sign up to serve Kontera ads on your blog, its ContentLink function automatically links contextually relevant keywords in your blog posts to ads. Those keywords appear with a double underline within your existing blog post. When a visitor hovers the mouse cursor over the Kontera [...]
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Choosing Blog's Monetization Options
After you decide to include advertising on your blog, you need to begin reviewing advertising and moneymaking options to find the ones you want to try. Most bloggers begin with monetization programs that are: ✓ Easy to add to their blogs. ✓ Open to all bloggers regardless of traffic. As a Blog owner, you can [...]
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Getting Help With Blogger
Configuring your Blogger blog to work with your own domain and a thirdparty host can be confusing and challenging. Luckily, you can find help in a variety of places as you work your way through the process. Blogger Help The official Blogger.com help site provides a wealth of information to help you start your blog, [...]
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Microblogging for Blog Traffic – Plurk
To join Plurk, simply visit the Plurk home page and click the Sign Up for Free button, shown in the figure below. Complete the online signup form, and you’re ready to go! Share and Enjoy:
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Microblogging for Blog Traffic – Twitter
You can join Twitter by visiting its home page and clicking the Get Started — Join button, shown below. Complete the online form to create a free Twitter account and then you can start “tweeting!” Microblogging, a relatively new tool of the social Web, allows users to publish short blog posts or messages, typically fewer [...]
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Popular Social Bookmarking Sites – Delicious
Delicious is a popular social bookmarking site that works slightly differently from Digg and StumbleUpon. Rather than submissions being based on topics and categories, they’re based on keyword tags. The power of Delicious, therefore, in terms of driving traffic to your blog, comes from the quality of the keywords chosen to tag your content. Similar [...]
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Popular Social Bookmarking Sites – StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is another popular social bookmarking site where users submit (or “stumble”) and share links to content they like. The site uses a voting system that’s fairly similar to the one at Digg. Users stumble content, and other users vote on the content, giving it a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. Content that receives a lot [...]
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Popular Social Bookmarking Sites – Digg
Digg is one of the most popular social bookmarking sites. In fact, it’s viewed more as a social news site because its primary purpose is to share links to content more so than to bookmark content for personal use. Users submit content (or “digg” content) by entering the URL, description, and title for the specific [...]
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