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Earn Money Online. Looks a spammy title. I used to find many posts in different forums with titles similar to these. Generally the post are one liner with a referral link refering to some earn money quick type of site. And the person who has posted that link are generally newbie in the internet marketing and most probably have not received any money from the program which he is promoting.

There are many earn money online type of opportunities available on internet, some are genuine and many are fraud. Generally the modus operandi of these type of sites are to sell the product which tells how to earn money online means earn money by telling other how to earn money online.

Although for webmasters there are many genuine money making opportunities. Other than selling own product or service, they can earn money either by displaying pay per click ads on their website or by promoting third party products and getting commission on sales.

There are many programs in internet where you will earn money, but will never receive in your pocket. You can see them accumlating in your account at their website. I am writing 5 affiliate programs, through which I earned money and got the cheque and cashed it.

1. Adsense : Pay per click program of google is the biggest money maker for all type of websites, small or big.
2. Commission Junction : CJ is the leading performance based affiliate network. You can go through some of my earlier post on CJ, to know more about it.
3. Shareasale: Another popular affiliate network, it is my favorite, because of simple interface and many good affiliate programs
4. Text Link Ads : Sell the link on your website, whether your site is small or big.
5. Adbrite : Pay per click, adsense alternative, but earning potential far less than adsense. Here you can find my experience with adbrite.

Do share your program, which you use to earn money online and received the money.

Due to wireless internet, a site does not have to worry about the weight of its page anymore. There is wireless internet help available 24 hours, which further contributes to its range. You can have any sort of website templates now. For most of them you don’t even need to have a web template guide. Like powerpoint templates, they are easy to work on. There was such time however, when people found modifying a cv template an arduous task. With more people working on web design development, all that has changed thankfully.

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When you are in web hosting or any other webmaster related biz, you get lots of questions which sometime we assumes that everyone knows. One of them is configuring outlook express to receive email. I spent lots of time telling my hosting customer via phone or yahoo messanger how to configure outlook express to send and receive email.

I decided to write a short tutorial for those, who need to configure outlook expresss to send and receive email.

Assuming email account is already created in cpanel or helm.

Step 1 : Start outlook express, click on tools->accounts->mail->Add->mail. The wizard to configure account will start.

Step 2 : In first window of wizard, type your display name after that your email address. Next step which ask for E-mail server Name. Choose My incoming mail server is a POP3 server. In the field of Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server : type mail.yoursitename.com. Outgoing mail (SMTP) server is also mail.yoursitename.com [Please note that this setting is in most of the shared hosting environment, it is always recommended to consult your host, if above setting does not work].

Step 3: Login Details: In Internet Mail Logon windows in account name field enter your full email id you@yoursitename.com, this is the mistake which many first timer do they write username part and not full email id, since this is shared hosting full email id is required. In password field enter the password for that email id. Do not check on secure password authentication check box. Chances are remote your hosting provider uses secure password authentication. Finish the wizard. Your account is created, and you can receive email.

Step 4: However to send email, one more step is required. Again click on tools->accounts->mail. Choose the email account which you created click on properties->servers. Under Outgoing Mail Server tick checkbox My server required authentication. Under settings choose use same settings as my incoming mail server.

Now you will be able to send and receive email from your outlook express without any problem.

Please note that these setting are configuring pop3 account for shared hosting. If you configuring gmail or your ISP’s email account these settings may not work properly.

A computers software store can create havoc in a newbie’s mind. Laymen seldom know the difference between mcafee antivirus and a regular 1. They would rather download software from a free ware’s site. People looking for particular programs like crm software will find themselves in luck. About software tools, it is usually pros who need them.

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In internet marketing the ultimate thing is to generate sale. If you have traffic and you are not generating sales then you are wasting your traffic, unless you are earning through adsense or advertisements. Generally e-commerce sites which sell some product or services do not display ads. In a shop in our town we buy from a shop because we know their physical location, we saw them everyday we met them personally, but in internet this is not the case, here we do not know the owner, never met them personally.

Although I am online since last 8 years, I started purchasing things frequently online since last 2-3 years only. Here are I am writing 4 things which I saw before buying anything from a site.

1) Outlook of the site: Site should not give the impression that it is running by a 16 year old kid, and must have a professional look.

2) Branding: whether I have heard of seen the site earlier or not, generally if the site is old or I am aware of the site since last few months or years, then chances are I will buy from it. Reaching first time a site and buying from it, the chances are remote.

3) Review of Site: Another thing which I do before buying is find its review. TYpe these 3-4 phrases in google and you may find some really intersting information about the site. Sitenmae review, sitename fraud, sitename scam, sitename sucks .

4) Response time: I do check the sites response time before buying. Generally I write a letter with few simple queries to check whether some live person is there to answer the queries. This just give the idea is how active the site is. However this is not guarantee of post sales support, as pre sales support is alway more active than post sale.

Feel free to give your opinion, what steps you take before buying online from a site.

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After completing one year in blogging, I decided to start my new year with new looks. I did some changes.

• Changed the theme: I get bored seeing the same theme since last one year, also some bug had come in theme. So I decied I should go for new theme. Selecting a theme is very difficult task if you have thousands of choice. I spent lots of time in choosing the theme, final decided to go with deserted-theme.
• Added myavatar: Was thinking since last many days to decorate comment area and there is nothing better then adding MyAvatar plugin. Will add some more plugin in my commentator area.
• Mybloglog widget: Also added MyBlogLog widget in my theme. Almost all blogs which I visit have this widget. And seeing own avatar when you visit a blog gives a feeling that blog owner is welcoming us. So I decided to add this.

Do give your views on this changes, also if you have any suggestions feel free to give.

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Gmail Rocks there are no doubt on it. One of the featurs which is very less discussed (at least I did not found it discussed in many places) about gmail is the ability to send email from different email ids. It is very useful for those who runs more than one business from internet or uses more than one email id and yet want to manange it from one place

 

The process is simple, to use gmail to send email from different id. Click setting on top right corner after logging in your Gmail account. Click on Accounts tab. There will be link Add another email address. After you add the address Gmail Team wants you to confirm that you own that email id, by sending a verification code or confirmaion link. After clicking on the link or entering verification code, You can choose that email id from drop down menu of From field in Gmail.

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I wrote my first post in this blog on 8th Aug 2006, today is 9th Aug 2007. So this blog has completed 1 year without much fanfare.

When I first started the blog I was expecting this blog to reach a resoable level after 1 year, but it did not perform as per expectation. There are many reasons behind it, first and foremost which I read in many probloggers blog is that you must be consistent in writing. I was consistent in first 2-3 months and was getting regular traffic to my blog also getting some backlinks also, but later my frequency of writing post start dropping. After 6 months I almost forget this blog. Averaging 1 post per month and later posting useless posts in the name of sponsored post. Visitor count keep decreasing and people stop commenting in my blog.

This year I have planned to give atleast 2 hour per day to my blog and writing atleast 3 unique post per week, and no more offtopic sponsored posts. Hope to get back some good readers in my blog and some comments in post.

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