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September 30, 2006

Get paid instantly

Filed under: Money

The days of stuffing envelopes or selling seeds by mail and then waiting six to eight weeks for your check are gone.

A new search startup has an idea that it hopes will attract the new breed of stay-at-home freelancer — one who makes a living doing the web’s odd jobs.

ChaCha Search, a site offering human-assisted guided search, is introducing an instant-payment system that would offer its contracted guides the option of being compensated for their time immediately through debit cards.

Workers at ChaCha are experts in specific topics, and they help users of the search tool find information that, presumably, only somebody in the know would be able to uncover. The ChaCha guides earn between $5 and $10 an hour as a starting wage, and any money they earn can be dumped instantly onto a debit card and spent right away. The guides keep track of their earnings on the ChaCha site and can get their earnings by clicking a "Pay Me Now" button on their personalized page.

"I liken this to the way a day laborer gets paid," said ChaCha chairman and CEO Scott A. Jones. "They hop on the truck, do their work for the day, then they get paid in cash when they’re done. We let people work as long as they want, whether it’s five minutes or five hours, then instantly transfer the money they earn to their debit card."

August 29, 2006

Tracking the Visitors on your Webpage

Filed under: Google Related

Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors.

Google Says "With Google Analytics, you can get started today creating targeted, ROI-driven marketing campaigns and improving your site design and content."

 

You get report based on :

  • the total number of visits and pageviews your site received, the average number of pageviews per visit (P/V), and the number of visits and pageviews over time. Averages are calculated over the entire selected date range including dates not yet elapsed when applicable.
  • the number of first-time visits and returning visits
  • the cities from which the most visitors come to your site
  • your top referral sources.

Its Free , Is that not enough ?

August 27, 2006

Googles own Paypal - Payment Gateway System (WSJ Reports)

Filed under: Google Related

 Google is Building a Payment Gateway System

While Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt confirmed in press accounts that the company was building a payment service, Mr. Schmidt also denied it would directly compete with PayPal. Mr. Schmidt said Google didn’t intend to offer a "person-to-person, stored-value payments system," which many people consider a description of PayPal’s service.

Mr. Jordan (PayPal chief) says he and his team immediately "dissected the wording" of Google’s statements. He says he doesn’t believe Mr. Schmidt….

…The Mountain View, Calif., Web-search giant, which has terrified Silicon Valley with its ability to quickly create new consumer products and services, is developing a rival service called GBuy. For the last nine months, Google has recruited online retailers to test GBuy, according to one person briefed on the service. GBuy will feature an icon posted alongside the paid-search ads of merchants, which Google hopes will tempt consumers to click on the ads, says this person. GBuy will also let consumers store their credit-card information on Google.

PayPal is now owned by eBay, and the story says "PayPal generated 23% of eBay’s total $1.3 billion quarterly revenue" in the last quarter. I can believe it. PayPal is far from cheap, and only pressure from eBay stops many sellers from charging PayPal users a premium to cover the cost.

This is one area where a cut-price Google-backed system could get a warm welcome. However, it’s also an area where extreme reliability is needed. Having uninstalled Google’s bloated Desktop Sidebar and the flaky Toolbar 4 beta — and looked at Google Base, the bodged Google Pack and the awful Google Video — I have diminishing faith in Google’s ability to deliver software that is intelligently designed and works reliably. Check this article

 

August 19, 2006

Do u want to work for google from home ?

Filed under: Google Related

Google is looking for Ads Quality Rater

WorkforceLogic is recruiting part-time telecommuters to help with Quality Evaluation for websites for Google Inc., the search engine company based in Mountain View, California.

You must be a voracious reader with a broad range of interests and a healthy, robust command of the English language.

Other Requirements:

  • A high-speed internet connection.
  • Excellent web research skills and analytical abilities.
  • Excellent written communication skills.
  • Bilingual skills are a plus, as are special areas of knowledge or fields of expertise.
For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to temporaryjobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Ads Quality Rater.

August 15, 2006

Earning Money from your Web

Filed under: Google Adsense

If you have a website that has decent hits then you should consider reading this article to earn money from google. 

And this is not one of those articles that promises to make you a millionaire in a month, Instead gives you an Idea on how people make money using  Google Adsense the Genuine way.

While browsing I came across this

I’ve been reading a bit about how people can make money off their Web site by joining up with the Google AdSense program, but I really don’t understand how it all works. Do I need to find advertisers? Do I bill them for showing up on my site? Or does Google do all this?

you’re not alone in being interested in the terrific Google AdSense program. Leveraging its powerful page analysis system, Google’s AdSense program automatically matches the best possible advertisements with the content on your Web page, making the ads magically quite relevant to your content.

Behind the scenes, it works like this: an advertiser goes to the Google AdWords system, signs up, and creates one or more advertisements that they want to pay to have appear either on Google’s search result pages or on "content pages". Those content pages are Web sites run by individuals and organizations that include AdSense, which is the "consume" side of this equation.

What makes this more interesting is that advertisers don’t pay to have their adverts show up on either Google or separate content sites, but instead pay when the ads are clicked by customers, what we call "pay per click" or PPC. A percentage of the amount that the company pays Google for displaying the ad is then shared with the AdSense-enabled web site owner.

If, say, the advertiser pays $1.00 for a visitor to their site through AdWords, then Google will pay a percentage of that amount (the exactly amount has not been stated by the company) to you, perhaps $0.20, perhaps more.

I realize that $0.20 doesn’t sound like much money, but if you have a few hundred visitors a week, and some percentage of them click on these adverts, you could easily make $20-$50 or much (much!) more from your site each week, without having to do any work other than add the special AdSense code to the pages in the first place.

It’s simple, easy to accomplish, you never have to negotiate (or even talk) with advertisers, you don’t have to bill anyone at all, and every month or two you’ll get a nice little check from Google corporate. Nice!

So let’s talk about the exact steps required to actually get going with the AdSense program. First and foremost, you need to sign up for the AdSense program, which you can do by Visiting 

Note that when you sign up, you’ll need to specify a Web site or weblog that you plan on incorporating AdSense: not every site is approved, however, so make sure yours has valuable and unique content and a design that doesn’t include too many advertisements.

Once you’re approved, it’s time to log in and configure your new AdSense advertisement to include on your site!

When you first log in, you’ll see the following navigational bar:

Google AdSense Navigational Bar

Click on "AdSense for Content" and you’ll be ready to configure your ad. Now, don’t worry: configuration is pretty easy and kinda fun too, you get to pick colors, sizes, and much more.

Once you’ve clicked on the "AdSense for Content" tab, your next step will be to decide what type of advertisements you want Google to serve up on your own pages:

Google AdSense Ad Types

I suggest you start out with a text "Ad unit", as shown here: the other type of content adverts are less generally useful, less flexible, and typically also have a much lower payout, according to the grapevine. When you are ready, note that you can learn more about the different formats by clicking on any of the last three lines in that view.

The next section of your task is to specify the format and layout of your AdSense ad, and there are a rather amazing number of different size and format options. Google has a helpful AdSense Ad Format Reference Page that’s worth a quick peek.

Here at Ask Dave Taylor, I use a Leaderboard (728x90) on the top of the home page and a Large Rectangle (336x280) on this very page. Your layout will inevitably be different and you might choose a different layout entirely. Further, you are allowed to have up to three different ad units on a given page, so you can experiment with them one atop the other, adjacent to each other, or interspersed with your content. Just try to remember that if there’s no content, there’s no page. :-)

Now that you’ve picked an ad layout size (and yes, you can change it at any time too) it’s time to have the most fun: changing the color scheme of the ad itself. My handy tip: use a border color that’s the same as the background color of your page (as I do on this page) so that it’s less overt that the ads are actually advertisements. It helps people not gloss over them and, hopefully, click on the ads a bit more frequently.

The built-in color schemes are nice too, of course, if you want to use them, but just as with the sizes, I strongly recommend that you experiment with different color schemes and see if you get a better percentage of clickthrus and greater revenue. Perhaps every Sunday night you can change to another color scheme and then track week-by-week what works best?

The next step is to specify an alternate Ad URL or color, and a specific channel for your ad:

Google AdSense Channels

The idea behind alternate ads is that sometimes no advertisers have bid on advertising for the keywords, leading Google to a pickle: what to display? By default, it instead displays public service ads (PSAs), but if you want to create an HTML snippet that produces the same size content, you can use that instead, or, you can simply have a solid box in the color of your choice that blends into the design of your site.

I am a much stronger supporter of channels, however. Channels let you organize your AdSense results by Web site (if you have more than one site) or by areas of your site. On this site, for example, I have a channel for "home page leaderboard" and another for "large rectangle" so I can compare how each format is doing, rather than just guessing in the aggregate. It’s much easier to start correctly than to retrofit this sort of thing, so take the time and set up a basic channel or two to begin categorizing your results.

Finally, you’ve made all the settings you need and it’s time to grab the HTML snippet that’ll generate the ad block on your own site!

Google AdSense Ad Code

Your specifics will be a bit different from what you see in this screen shot, but the code will generally look identical. Just select all the text in the box, then use Edit –> Copy to get that code into your copy/paste buffer.

Now open up a page where you’d like to include the AdSense code, or a template if you’re working with something like a weblog system, and paste in the new code by using Edit –> Paste.

Save your template and rebuild your site, or, if it’s just a page, save the page back onto the server and bring it up in your web browser. That’s it!

Important Warning: do not click on your ads!

I think one of the most common mistakes that new AdSense participants make is to click on an advert or three to "make a quick buck". Sounds good in theory, but you’ll end up kicked out of the AdSense program if you click on ads shown on your own pages, which is not a good strategy for earning money!

Anyway, that’s the basic set of steps. Don’t delay and don’t wait for tomorrow: pop back up to the beginning of this article to sign up for AdSense, then go through these steps and you can start turning your cost center of a Web site into a revenue generation system, modest or otherwise!

.. and who knows, maybe you’ll see one of my own advertisements on your site!


Post comments and encourage other users to know more about Google Adsense Program.

 

 

 

August 14, 2006

How to Build a Online Store to Sell your Products.

Filed under: Ecommerce

osCommerce (for “Open Source Commerce”) is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License.

Key Features

  1. Compatible with PHP 4 and MySQL - easily portable to phpV5
  2. Unlimited number of products and categories
  3. Multi-lingual English, German and Spanish by default
  4. Automatic web-based installation
  5. Automatic setup of e-commerce payment systems: Authorize.net, 2Checkout.com, iPayment.de, PayPal.com, PsiGate.com (out of date), SECPay.com, and TrustCommerce.com; Many other add-on ecommerce payment systems, off-line (insecure use of credit card payments) and on-line payment processing
  6. Multi-currency support
  7. Support for dynamic images (one image per product)
  8. Supports physical products as well as product downloads (needs additional security)
  9. Web-based administration module
  10. Database backup and restore (manual)
  11. Temporary and permanent shopping carts
  12. Secure transactions with SSL Secure Sockets Layer support
  13. Many shipping options including by weight, price, or destination
  14. Real-time shipping quote integration with UPS, USPS.
  15. Zone-based shipping and free shipping options (hidden in Order Totals Module)
  16. Full tax functionality, different zones for different products

 

Os Commerce Official Site

August 13, 2006

Web based Messenger for Yahoo, Msn, Aol , ICQ, Gtalk

Filed under: Instant Messaging

Meebo is a web based messenger which allows you to sign in to Multiple IM accounts like AOL, MSN, YAHOO and GTALK.

All you need to do is visit the web page www.meebo.com and sign-in as you would do in any Messaging client.

This could help you in places were you do not have Yahoo/MSN  Messengers Installed.

Recently it has come up with www.meebome.com, meebo me is designed for anyone with a home on the web. If you’ve got a web page where you’d like to communicate with your visitors, meebo me allows you to see the people who are visiting your web page and chat with them

Heres the   Meebo Team

 

Alternatives to meebo, ebuddy, IMhaha, IloveIM, koolim

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