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Zemanta provides an innovative Firefox plug-in which gives added features in blogging platform. This plug-in suggests links, pictures, articles (from other source) and tags based on your blog post which you can add easily with just a click in your post.

As per Zemanta, it gives you

• Pleasure
• Content
• Convenience
• Traffic

And in fact the above features of Zemanta is really true and means a lot. If you look below of this post you will find Related articles which I have picked without any hassle from Zemanta Articles, picked picture from Gallery, tagged with relevant text and also linked to particular sites suggested by Zemanta.

For blogger this is a great tool for driving traffic too. Because Zemanta article suggestion box searches and provides related article based on your post. So, we can expect some backlink also.

Presently Zemanta supports following blogging platform:

• Wordpress.com,
• Blogger.com,
• LiveJournal,
• Typepad.com, and
• Self-hosted Wordpresses (version 2.0 onwards).

Really it’s a new experience. If you don’t have used it anymore, then I will suggest use it. It’s a great Firefox plug-in for blogger I’ve ever experienced.

Tags: Blog, Browsers, Firefox, Wordpress, Zemanta
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First of all, what is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is an online advertising channel where advertiser gets hooked independent parties (publishers) who promote advertisers product or services on their web sites and advertiser pays handsome commission to publishers based on sales, clicks or lead generated from the advertisement hangs on publishers websites.

And I think we are much aware of this concept. So, nothing to discuss more on affiliate marketing like, how does it work?, what are the benefits? ,etc.

So, gets jumped to Clickbooth. Clickbooth is an CPA (Cost per Acquisition or Cost per Action) network which connects advertiser and publisher in one platform.

Through Clickbooth Publisher Network, advertisers gets a safe channel to show case their offerings through pre-screened sites by Clickbooth (Clickbooth confirms publisher through valid phone call). Apart from that they gets unmatched inventory of publishers access (more than 10,000), campaign management, higher quality back ends of 40 to 50%, 24/7 service, etc. to name a few.

Being publishers of Clickbooth CPA network, you will reap guaranteed highest payouts based on sales or lead, hold top quality campaigns from leading advertisers including many Fortune 500 companies, flexible payment options: Net 15 and Net 7, can utilize the Clickbooth Publisher Referral campaign (2% gross referral credit for life + additional $10 for every affiliate referred), etc. And one of interesting benefit for publisher is custom ad rotators which is most beneficial to show rotating ads.

So, Clickboth provides an exclusive platform for both advertisers and publishers through their innovative technology.

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ScratchBack is an online tipping system which lets your blog readers to tip some money and in return their desired link or image is shown on your blog in a widget designed by ScratchBack.

So, how does it works?

Very simple! Whenever we go to restaurant after taking some food we usually pay tip to the waiter. Because you liked his/her service.

So, here is the same thing but with technical twist; someone tips you if they likes your

blog and you also do some kind of favor for them by showing their link or image in ScratchBack widget for that tip. It’s a win-win proposition. But, one thing to remember all links are tagged with no-follow (as per Google’s paid link guideline), so links will not be indexed by search engines. Although links are clickable.

And it could sound lucrative that ScratchBack lets you make money from every tip you get and also FREE to get started.

Now another question arises,  how does it helps a blogger to engage his/her readers in their blog?

Answer: I think, a link or image on that widget is a kind of advertisement which shows their offerings, and that’s talks all along. Might your readers finds some valuable resource through that link. And link owner gets visitors to their respective blog. Why not!

Example: If you take my example this thing will be clear. Recently I had tipped to one blog and return that blog owner also tipped me back. So, Espreson.com left it’s impression on that blog and that blog also left it’s impression on my blog. And both made some money (through tip), but that’s not a big deal. Big deal is impression which we got together.

What do you think, is it helps in engaging readers?

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We could be familiar with the word Direct Marketing. In Direct marketing marketing message (through direct mail, e-mail, telemarketing) are sent directly to consumers without any intervention of third party. In this context Email Marketing is one form of direct marketing. As per Wikipedia:

Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing.

Source: Wikipedia

If we talk about advantages of Email Marketing, first of all it’s cost effective, makes instant communication between marketer and consumer(takes few seconds to send e-mail), it’s a greener way because paper-free, easily trackable, etc.

So, how can a blogger reap benefit from Email Marketing?

Basically, whenever we post a new article in our blog there is little chance (via RSS subscription ) to inform visitors that you have updated your blog with new post. There is also little chance of getting repeated reader via RSS subscription.

So, as an alternative you can opt for Email Marketing and in this regard Zookoda provides the solution.

Zookoda is an innovative Email Marketing application or you can blog broadcasting service provider owned by PayPerPost, Inc. and specially made for Bloggers. With Zookoda a blogger can

• Easily manage their subscribers: whom to notify for new post or whom to not,
• Design lucrative email newsletters (boosts your brand identity)
• Create custom newsletter subscription forms and put it in your blog template
• Track newsletter campaign, whether it’s opened, clicked, bounced or unsubscribed,
• Access mobile users by e-mailing blog post in textual format,
• Schedule your broadcast: when to send daily, weekly or monthly,
• Use it for multiple blogs

And more.

It’s ought to be mentioned, that all emails sent by Zookoda are spam compliant. So, not to worry about spam issues.

And it’s also ought to be mentioned that Zookoda is FREE!

Looks lucrative, why not?

So, a new way of traffic driving method can be utilized with Zookoda.

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Beside WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, etc. another web publishing service came into light. It’s Blog.co.in.

As usual Blog.co.in offers,

• Free of cost blog
• wide range themes
• Importing facility from other blog service such as Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal, etc.
• Exporting blog features
• Automated backup in every 12 hours and 99.999% uptime

and more. Checkout!

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In November 2007 search engine giant Google had spanked every blogger’s PageRank back to zero, who are using PayPerPost or any other paid post module.

This was really sad news. In response to Google’s decision IZEA(formerly PayPerPost) had commented in its community blog IZEA Blogs as,

It is no coincidence that Google has gone after some blogs that utilize PayPerPost and many of our competitors services. We offer a very attractive alternative to AdSense and are leading a charge to provide real monetization for everyday bloggers. Unlike the Google AdSense black box, we are palms up when it comes to revenue share and give bloggers the lions share of advertising dollars that they deserve.

I find it laughable that high profile bloggers like TechCrunch aren’t being penalized in the same way. Perhaps it’s the fact that they use AdSense. Perhaps it’s the fact that they are silicon valley insiders and are invited to special Google events. Either way I don’t see the difference between a sponsored post in our system or this sponsored post. Both are paid for, neither use no-follow.

courtesy: IZEA Blogs

Google’s PageRank system should be unique for everyone, as per Google’s explanation regarding, Why should I report paid links to Google?.

In regard of IZEA’s protest against this Google’s PageRank spank, IZEA Fires Back at Google with IZEARanks. IZEARank is a blog ranking system which provides more accurate statistical data such as PageViews, Unique Visitors, RealRank as Weekly Average and Daily.

And Recently IZEA team has created a video to raise awareness of Google’s spanking of bloggers. Here is the video.

It has been heard that Google is becoming polite to PayPerPost Blogger and Google Said To Be Updating PageRanks Again.

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