Owner: Webtalks URL:http://webtalks.blogspot.com Join Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:42:16 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Webtalks is a blog where we have high level discussions on topics related to Websites.Here we have special focus on guides to Google services like Adsense and Blogger including their tips,hacks and support Site statistics:Click here
John Chow - Blog Review 2007-07-04 08:07:00 "Make Money Online" what a keyword targeting tactic! Just because of this keyword john chow dot com receives atleast 150 unique visitors a day that too only from GoogleJohn Chow dot Com is a blog that helps you make money. If you review his blog, he’ll link to it and send you a lot of traffic.John chow has been recently an internet celebrity not because he earns 12,000$ but he is featured at Leo Laparte.Google has already issued a yellow penalty card that means has will not be featured on the firt SERP for popular searches just because of his overloading link baitInterestingly, all other search results for john chow showed that publishers are celebrating when Google penalized him but to the rescue, until he receives a red card from from Google there are 100% chances that he will be back. Infact two of his unique words mogul and ramblings can be found in many blog's descriptioncoming back to the review, John chow dot com was started by john chow to write down all of his thoughts {ra
Milestone: Webtalks in Technorati Top 1000 2007-08-25 11:22:00 Thank you all my readers for giving webtalks the honour to be in Technorati
Top 1000.We are currently ranked 977, with an authority of 1,570 .So that means , if you need to accompany me, we have to get some 1,500 cool links.To be frank, I wasn't that surprised to be at this position because our site offers templates.I had planned we'll reach there by this month, so here we are.To get in Technorati top 100. we'll require an authority of around 4000 which I estimate we'll get in November/Decemeber 2007 . So are we a A-Lister ? There is no valid definition when a blog is an A- Lister.But I think Webtalks isn't quite there as it is in its developing stage.I don't know about A-Lister but we'll definitely be at respectable position by the end of 2007. Next Milestones ? Well you may be surprised to know that still we aren't in Alexa top 100,000 .So that's my next aim.Simultaneously Feedcount is also heading towards the 100 mark. And ofcourse... This screen shot is of the per
Make your weblog mobile 2007-08-25 09:55:00 Do you have a mobile version of your blog?No. This was the most voted answer in a poll a conducted by me for all bloggers. Let us suppose you have got a mobile with Internet connectivity{might be with GPRS}. You want to browse through your favorite blogs. A default mobile browser {like Opera for Nokia} removes all the style elements from the weblog
to make it easily viewable in mobiles.I was not too pleased with the kind of page is displayed of my blog without CSS.I was looking for a service that lets me customize my mobile blog page.Then, someone from the Feedm8 team shot me an email about their service. Customization Feedm8 lets you create a mobile page hosted on their domain to with easy customization.It displays my {summarized} blog feed instead of the complete page which displays only desired information.You can also change the text , link color... Monetization You can earn money from RSS in two ways 1.Feedvertise or monetize via Post Level Ads provided by Text
iPhones- the most wanted amongst techies 2007-08-21 09:21:00 These days iPhones are popular amongst techies.Even I want one, but as it is, it has not been launched in India yet.Moreover,the price tag with it make me sweat as blog income is only around 80$/month .How about winning a one in a simple blog contest?I have come across two of them, which gives you are free iPhone if you winFirst one is being organized by AskReaMoar.All you need to do is link to his blog homepage, contest page, and any article authored by him which you like the most.Deadline for entering is August 31 .I didn't visited his blog before so I went over to the top posts and read over is Harry Potter and the Root password post, and enjoyed, as I too am a crazy potter fan.What will make me win?Be creative, socialize your post as much as possible and count your luck{though I think cow is dominating with his milk}As far as creativity is concerned, she already has given 3 examples pics.I have recently learned some Web 2.0 effects.So I had my brush up in photoshop and the resul Read more:wanted
Keyword Targeting- Patience & Planning 2007-09-15 11:55:00 My Blog offers some blogger templates. I had included a link back to this blog so that visitors can know from where the template has been downloaded. The good reason, the page had a good SERP rating so my templates are being used at many blogs.Some of them are having high PR's. A thought about keyword targeting struck my mind when I saw my blog reactions in Technorati.First, I included a link back to the template post with different keywords on different templates.I got the keywords from the Google results itself for "blogger templates" . There are some other good sites targeting :"blogger templates" , to knock them of in the first page was quite a difficult task.So I started with smaller keywords like "new blogger templates" , "blogspot templates" & "3 column blogger templates".It took time for my post to get a decent ranking even with some 400 back links to the post itself.I also changes the default from "Download three column new blogger templates" to "New Blogger (XML) 3 colum Read more:Keyword
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Are you Addicted to Blogging? 2007-09-14 08:55:00 Recently a special show on NDTV attracted my mind.The topic was about Internet Addiction.Wikipedia defines Internet Addiction asA pattern of internet use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as manifested by three of the following occurring at any time in the same 12-month period: -1- tolerance, -2- withdrawal, -3- internet is often accessed more often or longer than intended, -4- there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful effort to cut down or control internet use, -5- a great deal of time is spent in activities related to Internet use, -6- Frequent talks about the Internet in daily life, -7- important family, social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced (3).Some people are addicted to IM services, some others are addicted to social networking sites like orkut & mypsace.Some love sharing emails while some can't live without Youtube videos.Some run after Internet Gaming.And many of them love blogging & reading blogs.Blogging
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Feedvertise on a blogger blog 2007-09-11 09:01:00 You can easily sell off RSS ads if you are using self hosted Wordpress by Feedvertising program of Text Link Ads or can directly sell some text links in the your post bottom if you have got a wide RSS audience with a plugin. Blogger too has got a similar feature but involves a game playing with it.You need to go to Settings > Site Feed > Feed Item footer .And add the desired HTML in the Feed Item footer text area.Remember to redirect your feed to feedburner, enable post pages and a full site feed. You can also add Adsense for Feeds code here if you are participating in it.Remember Adsense for content and Referrals ads will not show up using this trick. This method can also be used as a copyrights measure I have added a copyright message which includes a link back to this blog from where Technorati reactions tracker could be used. The copyright text is shown up in feed. And the the person who used my site feed to put the exact content is caught using
Why Personal Blogging is a much better option 2007-09-08 03:30:00 This week's twister.Tired of blogging for some bucks? why not try a personal blog.From my experience of personal blogging for 1 month, I'm feeling much excited blogging.Reasons? You don't think what to write Things just go by and you blog them.Unlike these professional money making blogs where you need to think with an evil mind and write a unique and top notch post.Quite stressful to your little mind. Google.Who? Why should I care about my search engine listings? Or bite nails how much pagerank I will get after the next export {if it ever happens } .And now see, the condition of all "Pro" Bloggers, how they are sweating, running after each and every Google Data Center for just the slightest hint about their new pagerank after export.{which ill not happen this month for sure} Wordpress or Blogger? Why should I bother whether its is hosted on blogger or on wordpress?I just need a simple blogging software that lets me put my content in the web.And as the blogger of Web Read more:Blogging
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Does your Blog needs a fresh look too? 2007-09-03 11:21:00 Recently, some biggies' in the blogosphere had a brush on their blogs like Darren of Problogger and the most evil blogger ever,John Chow.which are the topic of these days discussions.The big question is Does your blog needs a extreme design makeover too? Some say its a 50-50 case.I say there are more advantages than disadvantages. Advantages of giving a fresh
look We are humans.Its probably one of the most basic feature that you'll be bored with your design.You'll be more interested in tweaking the new layout rather than the old ones More Room.According to Google analytics,70% of my traffic uses 1024 x 768 resolution or above.There was no point to waste some precious space for the remaining 30 % who used the lower resolutions.Though while designing,I kept in mind that at least the post area is completely visible to the ones using the lower resolutions without scrolling horizontally.With more space you can of course get more Ad spots{every one wants bucks}.Moreover, you'
Site Report for August 2007-09-01 08:32:00 Welcome to this month's edition of site report.From today onwards, I'll publish a site statistics and blog income report on the 1st of each month.So today's September, so here's the report According to analytics, We got round 10,000 impressions with around 6,000 unique visitors.Are top referral sources were Blog Income Report Adsense 30$ Kontera 2$ Text Link Ads{aff. prog.} 25$ Template business 20$ Money4banners aff. prog 10$ Other 3 $ Which adds up to 90${actual figure{89.7 $} And one day, While checking my referral sites, I got some cool view.Who says we don't follow Google? Participate We need writers... We are one of the fastest growing weblogs.Advertising here won't give you nuts as we are expecting a high PR with 800 back links, Technorati rank of 800{we are going fast} and are continuously getting a better rank by Alexa. As of now, the prices listed are very low indeed, because the PR update happens, I'll have quite a few direct advertisers.You can c Read more:August
Make Mooney Online 2007-09-27 12:09:00 Ever visited John Cow dot com ? What I say about them is that they are creative instead of a ripper.Just because of there creativity, they were featured on many high profile blogs like the link building blog. Now you got the reson why, all successul make money online blogs have evil markettings behind them...One more interesting fact is that this is the first blog that I read ahead of John chow dot com and infact I am writing this post ahead of the review of john chow dot com for winning A LCD monitor.Sounds good.eh?John Cow is a blog on making money online and rank #29 in the top 100 make money online blogs without any PR!Actually this post is for an entry into their $500 cash giveaway contest whose deadline is the end of September.If you too are interested in earning big bucks you only have to write a post of 200 words like this one, link to micfo.com with the anchor tag Web Hosting,and alink back to the contest post.Thats real Making Money Online!If I somehow get that cash, I'll Read more:Mooney
Did you miss the action? I did... 2007-09-27 04:36:00 Over the past few days, our blog went without any updates, reason is I had few exams on head.Now, they are over but I'm expecting more of them soon.Incase you missed out, I'll just summarize what happened in the blogosphere in the last few days.Google adsense have anounced Adsense for mobile.A very useful feature for those websites who won't to monetize the mobile version of their website.I've not started yet with Adsense for Mobile because I am already using Feedm8 services to monetize the mobile version of Webtalks.Google Adsense have also anounced Google Gadget Ads.It goes just like video Ads.For that you need an advertiser whose using Google Gadget Ads feature with Adwords.Don't forget to enable image ads option.Yahoo bought Zimbra... Lots of cash involvedJohn Cow, have launched a MillionEuroWiki similar to MillionDollarWiki on their success and look what, they 've already sold 25 pages.Now how about a MillionRupeeWiki ?Don't forget to have a look on their design.Natewhitehi
How many jackpots does your inbox win everyday? 2007-10-01 10:52:00 They are OK in the SPAM section but what will you do if you win millions or maybe even more than that twice or thrice a day.As a normal blogger, I've left my email address at countless places causing automated messages to be sent directly into the inbox.You cannot do anything instead of reporting as Spam but that won't be much effective as such SPAMMERS can riddle the basic algorithmBasic Characteristics of Such EmailsText would be bold and capitalizedUrgent Claim requiredFake Email IDsReply to different email address than the one which actually sent that messageYour information such as Name,Address,Age,Contact Number,Age,Occupation,Nationality requiredWhat next?I took up the challenge and did as directed.Not to mention, I gave all false information.Then their Email came saying that my money is in ***** Bank with **** Account number.As a security, they would be requiring some money (they asked for 4,000$) for smooth transaction.Their intentions were clear.They had just found a fish i
Site Report For September 2007-10-01 08:08:00 Its the first month after holidays, but with a day less.So here's my site reportStatisticsWe got 10,486 pageviews according to analytics by 7,289 visitors.Interestingly Adsense Dashboard says we got 11,140 pageviews while statcounter says we got 9,000 pageviews!Google Organic Search continues to dominate the referring source while most visitors were from United States and were after Templates!We have done pretty well in Technorati as we currently rank #400Blog Income ReportAdsense :31$Test Link Ads :25$Template business :20$Kontera :1$ (lolz)Which adds upto 77$.Ther has been a certain dip from the previous income report reason being I have removed 2 Adsense Ad units.Adsense has displayed consistence performance while I managed to refer one advertiser to the TLA network.I have done 2 design makeovers 15$ and 5$ respectively.While Kontera has been a poor perfomer.I am thinking of removing Kontera from this site, its making the things Read more:September
Make Money Online with Tnx 2007-10-12 10:53:00 With Google reducing pagerank of sites selling links (Eg .Stanford Daily) the Link business has a got a big threat from it. If you don’t know what I am talking about, Google is strictly against paid links or in Google terms “selling PR” .Probably, this is the reason why the Pagerank export hasn’t happened for over a five months now. But the subject of our today’s post is about another Web service called TNX which lets advertisers buy links and thus improve search engine rankings and publisher generate revenue from his site by selling links, but in a different manner with a mission toAssist website owners in attracting targeted visitors and clients from search engines and relevant websites.Reduce the dependence on search engines.Improve quality of the search results for those websites that join TNX system.Increase the income of every webmaster who joins TNX system.The workingTNX combines the benefits of Contextual Advertising, Text Link Brokers and Relevant Exchange of perman Read more:Money
Is Google facing Hacking Threat? 2007-10-07 05:04:00 The big G seems to have landed under trouble.My newspaper daily, Times Of India reported that Picasa, Gmail, Blogger and the search engine itself are vulnerable.Indian Computer Emergency Response team has warned users against a virus called "googbot" It has been observed that a mass-mailing worm named Googbot is circulating in the wild. It propagates by exploiting software vulnerabilities.The worm has its own SMTP engine to send mass e-mails. It harvests the e-mail addresses from the infected system and sends malicious e-mails to the collected addresses. The e-mail body contains a malicious link which entice the users to click upon using social engineering technique.The e-mail contains the following : Subject : (any of the following) Someone has sent you a Private Message! You have just recieved a NEW message! You have (1) NEW messages! Body : (any of the following) You have just Read more:Google
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Review of a Review Site 2007-09-29 05:30:00 I was a bit surprised to see a Review Me review application (I normally receive from sponsored posts & smorty).Coming back to the review, this review is about another review site called Online casino blue book which has reviews on Top 10 Online Casino Sites.Being inexperienced in Casino business,I will review the field in which I am good atDesignThe Webmaster I think, has used Macromedia Dreamweaver for designing this site.It has a simple all text design.I think a site of this kind needs a design makeover from a quality Web Designer.There are few cheap ones out there.They may also consult a Logo designer as there present logo is of text and a such a wide used site requires to have its own trademarks.The above screenshot has been took by using Mozilla Firefox.However the border colors change while in IE.Why so? 40% net suers are using Firefox.The Firefox/IE problem would be for sure solved by a good designerOrganizationThis website loses it here also.I can see 4 links from the hom
Anything new? 2007-10-16 11:30:00 Quite a few things have been happening in the blogosphere.I'll just sum them up.Today's Blog Action Day when bloggers write to promote environment.My contribution is today I wrote a poem on a chart for my class soft board on Nature title "leisure" by William Henry Davies.Its a good one.AdSense team has blogged about a quality control over the inventory by placing a restriction for publishers monetizing Displaying non-Google referrals.In this case, you'll just earn a little less than the price you get for a successful conversion for the first few times, after which you'll earn normally.If you don't display Google AdSense referral 2.0 ads, its out of your business.This happened just a few hours after I received my first successful conversion :)Webtalks has been experiencing a poor posting frequency over th past few days.The reason is here.I was busy with the launch of another Tech Blog, And now I'm proud to announce that we just launched the Ashtech Blog (Go grab the RSS).Reason,
Lets prove Google we are promising publishers 2007-10-23 07:31:00 I was a bit sleepy today.I used to check my AdSense earnings on every odd day since I was in the nervous nineties. today, when I logged in, I felt happy that my gross earnings are now in 3 digits( for some of you, you can do so in a day) but for me its a good experience to be there for the first time.Now, as I have crossed the minimum payout limit, I want to be nice with them.Earlier I was a naughty chap creating hundreds of channels and changing ad placement almost daily.I want to prove that this blog is visited by a high quality traffic.The best way to do so is to put up referral Ad units instead of the normal AdSense for Content Ad units.I'll be going for non-Google
referral 2.0 Ad units.Recently they implied a limitation on first few successful conversions done by a publisher.So far I have done one only one successful conversion.They will be probably remove the limitation once I do 5 more to to enable me full payments.I'll be replacing the most visible Ad unit, the post inline on
Should you Digg or Sphinn it? 2007-10-21 02:15:00 The Digg
effect, everyone's familiar with it.Just in case you don't know, being brief, it will bring just around 30,000 hits if you somehow get on the first page.But with millions of blogs out there looking for the same, your chances are low unless you are blogging live or have a got an ultra creative post up on your blog.Sphinn on other hand is a quite new social site out there.Their about page defines it asA social site for search and interactive marketers. It's designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others.In short a BINGO for make money online blogs like WebtalksSphinn uses almost the same scripts as digg and has nothing new as a social site but it's biggest advantage is its topics.For digg, if I have to submit a article about Google AdSense, I dump it in the Tech Industry News section.Fortunately, Sphinn has a special directory dedicated to AdSense itself.Sphinn doesn't receiv
Webtalks Pagerank 5 2007-10-27 03:51:00 Greetings.Google today, rolled out the snapshot of current pagerank.This blog is getting a PR of 5 this time.This is a good jump from PR 3 which had been there for quite long.Surprisingly, this time there was no BackLink export, but who cares? Its party time here as I have over taken some top-notch blogs like john chow(4) and dosh dosh(4).This update is accompanied by the feed chicklet getting into 3 digits.Currently, it is showing 101 readers.Thank you for subscribing to the feed and if you haven't yet, please do so:they are fast and ad freeThe secretNothing.Avoid too many links on home page.Get relevant quality backlinks.Focus on content quality more than on PR and last but not the least follow Google Webmaster guidelines.The Webtalks EffectI'm not going to talk about traffic.Its about a single site wide link on my blog which linked to the domain(ashtech.info), I bought few months back.The result? Its now Pagerank 4.You can check, its not even indexed by Yahoo!See how powerful my l
Widgetbucks outperforms AdSense 2007-10-26 11:40:00 WidgetBucks, a newly launched monetizing service is these days gaining popularity as a worthy AdSense alternative.Officially, you can call it that WidgetBucks features pay-per-click shopping widgets that help their customers make money fast. They instantly display the most popular products based on buying trends of 100 million shoppers. Thus they are highly engaging, which means instant dollars for our customers.I was keen to know how it performs on my blog.I implemented a skyscraper few days back, and the results, well, it outperformed AdSense who had that spot before.The 25$ sign up bonus adds spice to the whole program.The Ads had a visitor attracting animation but unfortunately, the loading of this blog got double.I wasn't alone in this problem.Soon they announced fast loading widgets.Though, its better now but still below perfect.Soon, they came up with a new format, 300 x 150 which perfectly flushes in my sidebar.The loading time is now half of what it used to be earlier.The new
Site Report for October, Perfomance report of AdSense referrals 2007-11-01 07:44:00 Its the first of month again, so here comes my site report.We got 8,037 visitors who get generated 11,452 page views with 81.65% being the new visitors.Again Google organic search brought me the maximum number of visitors with the templates post being the most popular.During this period, Webtalks crossed the 100 RSS readers mark...Blog Income ReportThis time, I can see a good rise in the the Blog income.Here's a reportAdSense : 26$Template business : 100$Widgetbucks : 25$ + 4$ + 8 referralsReviews : 60$Other :15$Total : 230$This time the earnings have tripled itself from the last month's.I draw three major reasons for that:-Pagerank export.We got a PR of 5 while many others got slapped-100 RSS subscribers.-Alexa Rank in top 200,000Google AdSense Referrals 2.0 performance ReportAs some of you maybe knowing, I changed few Ad units on my site from AdSense to Content to Referral Ads.They have b Read more:October
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