Mega Champ

Well this is a problem isn’t it, for publishers in India, first there is no direct deposit option from adsense, neither it is having the option to send the money to paypal. Only option remains the check which takes aweful lot of time to reach. On top of that now these checks are taking almost a month to get clear, for me atleast.

So, to get one month earnings, you have to wait almost 2 months before it actually lands in your account.

Considering the no. of adsense publishers in India, its high time Google introduced the direct deposit, so that this turn around time decreases to a great extent.

A Team is coming and new trailer just makes the wait little more difficult .

Found this video from twitter parody video, it is hilarious :

Here is list of sites you can update about your content as you post or in wordpress official words :
“When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the following site update services. ”

http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.azfeeds.com
http://www.blogsearchengine.com
http://www.blogtopsites.com
http://www.feedbase.net
http://www.feedsubmitter.com
http://www.fybersearch.com
http://www.plazoo.com
http://www.readablog.com
http://www.rssfeeds.com
http://www.rssmad.com
http://www.rss-spider.com
http://blo.gs/ping.php
http://www.pingerati.net
http://feedshark.brainbliss.com
http://www.pingmyblog.com
http://geourl.org/ping
http://ipings.com
http://www.icerocket.com
http://www.weblogalot.com/ping
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
api.moreover.com/RPC2
api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2
api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
blogpeople.net/ping
blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.in/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.it/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.ar/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.au/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.co/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.do/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.mx/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.my/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.pe/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.sa/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.sg/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.tw/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.ua/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.uy/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.vn/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.es/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.fi/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.fr/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.gr/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.hr/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.ie/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.in/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.it/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.jp/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.lt/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.nl/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.pl/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.pt/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.ro/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.se/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.sk/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.tw/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2
feedsky.com/api/RPC2
hamo-search.com/ping.php
holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
newsblog.jungleboots.org/ping.php
ping.blogoon.net/
ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2
ping.fc2.com/
ping.feedburner.com/
ping.kutsulog.net/
ping.myblog.jp/
ping.namaan.net/rpc
ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2
ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
ping.wordblog.de/
r.hatena.ne.jp/rpc
rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/
rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
rpc.pingomatic.com
rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping
rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping
rpc.twingly.com/
rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
wasalive.com/ping/
www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
xmlrpc.blogg.de
xping.pubsub.com/ping/
zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php

I came across a pretty good post on six revision where they have compiled a list of wordpress blogs where you can find new wordpress tricks, plugins, hacks, mods ,themes n basically everything related to making your wordpress blog better everyday. Do bookmark the post and check out the blogs in the list.

Its almost a treasure chest for wordpress users. Article Link : http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/16-wordpress-sites-to-help-you-build-a-better-blog/

Time and again you will come across some asking about dofollow or nofollow links terminologies. When I came into this website making business, I was on the same boat, wondering what these things meant and how they help a website. So I thought of preparing a q&a to help now that I know some things about links. As this is all personal experience, do correct me if I go wrong somewhere.

What are Backlinks

Backlinks basically tells you about how many websites are linking to your website from theirs. Like if you have website A and someone from website B puts a link on his/her website/blog pointing to your website it is counted as a backlink.

How Do Backlinks Help A Website Or A Blog

This topic is little subjective and different people have different opinions about it. On the whole, if your website has more backlinks, more will be the chances of it fairing better in search engine rankings. But there is one very important thing to note here, the backlinks coming to your website should be mostly from similar niche website, only then they give out their full potential and help your website. So, if you have a mobile related website and you have a link coming from a sports website, it doesn’t add much value to your backlink power(or SEO score) but if you have a link coming from a tech/mobile website, it automatically increases your website credibility.

How Does Google Page Rank(PR) Relates To Backlinks

Google as we know gives out page ranks to websites based on their algorithm, it ranges from 0-10. More the PR rank, better the chances for your website appearing on top pages in search engines(basically Google Search Engine). So, when you have a backlink coming from a PR 5 website, it automatically increases your website search engine credibility or SEO score. And please note that it will also help a lot in increasing your website PR as well.

Site Wide And Home Page Backlink

Site Wide backlink means when you have backlinks coming from a single website, but your link is placed in all the pages of that website. Lets say, your website link is placed in the footer of a website and footer as we know will appear in all the pages for that website. So, you will have multiple backlink coming from that website to you.

Home Page backlink means when you have a backlink coming from a single page of a website, preferably home page.

Which Is Better Site Wide Or Home Page Backlink

This topic is also subjective and everyone has their own opinions about it. Site wide backlink will increase your backlink count, but I dont think it will help much in increasing your PR value, unless all the pages of that website(from where the backlink is coming from) are having PR if their own.

Hence getting a home page backlink is always better. But it always depends on personal choice.

What Are DoFollow And NoFollow Link

When a website places a link on their website, they give out a relational(rel) tag in the html code of that link.
So, when that rel tag stores a value of “Nofollow”, it means that this link will not count as backlink, and doesn’t serve any purpose or add any value to your website in terms of Search Engine Scores.

“Nofollow” basically tells search engine to not to follow the website in the link. For e.g <a href=http://google.com rel=”nofollow”>Google</a></code>

“Dofollow” is actually not a value for the rel tag. It basically means that if you are not including “Nofollow” , its a dofollow backlink. So to get a link counted as backlink, it should be a dofollow, which inturn means that it should not be having a tag “rel = “nofollow” where you backlink is placed.

How To Find Out A Link Is DoFollow Or NoFollow

Its very simple to identify whether a particular link is dofollow or nofollow. Just go to the website where your link is placed, view the html source of that page and check for tag called ” rel=”nofollow” against your link. If its not there, then it means all is good and you have valid backlink to your website.

So basically it will look out like this :

<a href =”http://yourwebsite.com”>Your Website</a>

But if its there, the it will look like this :

<a href =”http://yourwebsite.com” rel=”nofollow”>Your Website</a>

That is all, I hope it helps is some way for people wondering about backlinks. If any queries, suggestions, please let me know through comments.

I have all my respect for those great guys and gals who do so much hardwork and release those amazing,beautiful wordpress themes for free to the world. And that is why you will see so many wordpress themes directory sites popping up each day, who also do the hard work for you by collecting all free themes in one place. So, last week i was looking for a decent theme for a new website of mine, when i came across one on a pretty popular theme directory site. So, i downloaded it and was fooling with the theme settings.

People with some php knowledge must have seen nowadays that wordpress theme creators are now encrypting their footers, so that people are not able to remove them easily(And i really despise + hate those who download the free theme and still don’t have the courtesy of keeping creator link alive). But there was a problem, i had to modify the theme footer to add some text but it was encrypted. I do have a decent knowledge of php, so i found out a way to decrypt the footer but then came the shocking surprise. In the footer, there was a link included to a site and it was invisible, i mean you won’t be able to see link on the screen but once you do the view source, you would find it to be there.

I was enraged seriously, i thought of going to the theme owner website and give him a piece of my mind, but i did wanted to try this one thing. I went to theme owner website and downloaded the theme again. Checked the same footer code in this one also and now I found out, the theme from the owners website was not having that spammy link.

So, the picture was all clear, it was the work of that wordpress theme directory owner, who was including his own links in other people themes. And mind you this directory comes on the first page of google for the keyword ” wordpress themes” . So, they must be getting 100’s of links on daily basis by using this scam.

So, from next time please download the theme from original theme creator or owners website, just to be on safer side.

Ok there is a new trend of scams on the horizons, picking up their victims pretty quickly and its all related to adsense. This story began when adsense stopped accepting crappy sites or fairly new sites to their program and gave the 6 month timer period for any site to get accepted in adsense. So, what so you know, it gave a birth to new type of scams : GET APPROVED IN ADSENSE IN 1 DAY,2DAYS etc crap.

So, I just wanted to warn, people please don’t get sucked in these schemes. These are all scams, there is reason adsense is giving 6 month wait period for new sites. As on the average any new site takes time to get a decent amount of traffic to inturn get a good amount of earnings from adsense. So, please utilize your energy in making you website better rather then falling for those scamsters, people in google are not fools, they will figure it out eventually and you will loose your account.

Special Note For People In India : DON’T DO IT, cause i have seen them replying the most in forum threads where these scams threads gets posted.

Sometimes you come across a scenario where you want to include some posts in different pages of your blog. Since all posts in the wordpress straight away goes to the front, therefore to achieve we are talking about is little difficult. So to solve this problem we have a plugin which allows you to include in posts in pages using post ID’s.

Here is the plugin link.

This is my first update regarding mine affiliate marketing Journey. My target was to make atleast 2 sales in first month. But i fell one short and was able to make only one sale. That’s understandable as I was neck deep in studying on how things go around in Affiliate Marketing and didn’t got much time to put some of the learnings into play. But this month is seriously unforgivable, this month I have to atleast 10 sales with 1 from past month.

So, 11 sales in total, thats my minimum for this month.

Some statistics for June:

Offers Promoted : 3 excluding one Lead offer
Money Spent On Advertising : 60$ all on media buying, no ppc marketing involved.
Total Sales Made : 1
Money Earned : $80
Total Profit : $20

Well I am not at all impressed with the results and have to gear up for this month and to have some good amount of sales to increase the profits.

Why I am sharing the details, well if you(reader) are also new to affiliate marketing, join me in the journey we can help each other to grow. And if you (reader) are already a established affiliate marketer I would really appreciate, if some tips and tricks of the trade can shared .

UPDATE : No more earnings updates until I have something to show some respectful amount