Mega Champ

Yesterday while browsing in the wilderness of internet, i came across this picture and I had a good hard laugh after reading this. So, thought of sharing it, Let it load and read if fully, you won’t regret it, believe me .

*This post is reproduced from BlogAboutIndia with permission

Miss India World 2008 Parvathy Omanakuttan was declared the 1st runner up at Miss World 2008 in Johannesburg. Time for celebrations

Parvathy Omanakuttan Interview Video In Miss World Event

Isn’t she adorable

Personally i never understood the meaning of using ads in the middle of a post. I can understand the ads in the start and end of blogpost, but in the middle of content seems lets say weird to me.

And i don’t know but it seems to be a very popular method and many “top bloggers” promote it as a good way to increase those ad clicks and hence your earnings.

Lets analyze the situation I am talking about. Imagine I am reading a post in your blog, while reading suddenly i come across a ad which is placed in the middle of post, now there are 2 scenarios which can happen due to this

First Scenario:

I like what the ad says, clicks on it and here i am going away from your blog. It means, whatever blogger wrote below the ad is completely waste as i wont be reading it further, which is bad for the blogger who must have worked hard to write a good big post.
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Second Scenario:

I will say wtf, what the hell is a ad doing in the middle of that post, as it ruins the whole reading experience.
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In my opinion the blogger loses in both scenarios. In first his/her hard worked content gets unnoticed and second makes him or her look greedy for money.

However i will point out that, there is absolutely nothing wrong in showing ads in your blogs, but please choose to display them at positions where they don’t hinder the reader experience.

Finally Adsense introduces ads for Parked Domains. This comes a blessing for all, who bought domains names and still haven’t developed them. And to be honest, i parked 6 domains on a big domain related website, and my earnings were negligible, they were getting good amount of views and visits but hardly any clicks.

So, my trust level with domain parking websites is bit low. But now everything is going to change, in coming future, we will be able show adsense ads in your parked domains. So, your ads your earnings plus you can track your earning using channels.

From adsense blog:

The product will be initially rolled out in phases to English-language AdSense publishers located in North America, and we’ll expand to additional regions and languages in the future. To check whether AdSense for domains has been enabled for your account, log in and visit your AdSense Setup tab.

I checked it out anyways in my adsense account, it was not enabled. So, Indian publishers will have to wait for sometime, till they can use this new feature.

God knows what will happen with godaddy and sedo domain parking business.

[via:Adsense Blog]

*This is as per my experience it may stand otherwise for you.

Last month i was persuaded to put some affiliate advertisement in place of adsense ads in my blog, thinking that i will earn more then what i am getting from adsense. Joined clickbank and started displaying some affiliate 125*125 ads. At that time traffic to my blog was around 2000 visits per day, which i thought was enough to bring me some affiliate sales.

But i was proven wrong, i kept the ad for almost 2 weeks and no sales came through not even a lead. And on top of that i was loosing my adsense clicks. People were clicking on the affiliate ad but were not buying the product.

I know that affiliate sales will earn much more more then adsense ads, hence they are not easy to get. But all said and done, according to me one should try affiliates once you have gained a decent amount of traffic. Well let say 10,000 visits per day, will be the time when i will again try with affiliate ads, till then adsense+kontera will do the job.

This was my story, will like to hear your experience, So, if you want to share your thoughts please comment or mail me at megachamp@megachamp.com.

Well to honest, i have never won anything online till now, took part in many contest but no luck. That is why i hardly even go the winner list and check whether my name is there or not, cos till now 100% of times it was not there.

Well, today things changed a little bit, like always browsing one of my favourite blogs Shoemoney.com and noticed that my name was there in the daily contest winners. Check out the name in the pic below(Click to enlarge the picture).

I was well shocked to say the least. Checked out the contest details, i will get a shoemoney.com tshirt and my name will added to the Bigger Comment Contest where you can win coolest gadgets you can imagine. Last time it was brand new MacBook Air And this time is Apple MacBook.

But still there are some problems, i was supposed to get a mail from shoemoney.com, on how to claim the prize and all, but never received it. I just mailed the shoemoney staff about the matter and i hope it will be resolved soon. Will update the entry on the developments.

Right now its celebration time

Everyday i see people selling websites and domain names based on new movies releases. Like there was a website based on Transformer 2, which is coming next year. The guy claimed he is getting pretty good traffic and earning few $ everyday.

That was one case, people who are into deep domain and website flipping business do this all the time. They buy the domain name as soon as movie name is announced and set up a small blog or a website about the movie, with ofcourse PPC ads like adsense or adbrite, filling up most of the space. A quick way to make money indeed.

From the movie release in theaters to its release in dvd, you can see a decline in traffic for that movie website. And after a period of time that website will be completely worthless and considering negligible traffic.

If you still want to get in this movie niche, few tips:

1. First and Foremost, check out the movie blogs and see which upcoming movie they say will make big on earnings.

2. A movie which will be released worldwide will eventually get more traffic.

3. Finding the exact domain for the movie will be little hard as domain sharks are always buying domains in bulk, but don’t worry settle for some domain name around the movie.

4. After getting the domain and setting up the website, try to include as much as possible about the movie. Trailers, wallpapers, start cast star cast bios etc.

5. If you can’t find much info about the movie which in production, you can always try to write about the star cast previous adventures and gossip around them, to keep the website alive.

6. After a while you will be able to decide whether to sell or keep the website by seeing the earnings from advertisement. So decide carefully your next step.

So, if you are able to earn good either by selling domain /whole website + domain, or by displaying the ads, it can turn out to be a good+profitable experience, otherwise most of the time you might end up with a hole in the pocket.

I am thinking of doing a case study on this movie niche, will inform when i start it and how i fare. Lets see how it goes .

I hold a blog about mobile phones, and i work on it almost 2 hours a day to post the latest happening in the mobile world. That blog is being around 3 months now and it is starting to see some good traffic. Now as all the specs of blog is done, i want to come to the main point “The Power of Big Blogs” i see everyday and how Google give them more priority over others.

To be specific, i am posting almost daily about a mobile handset, and development around it, and i am on the first page of Google for that device but not the first entry and why because some 2-3 months back a big blogger made a post about that device and moved on. But Google still gives preference to that post rather then mine, where i post almost every 2-3 days about that device.

And the post is not a rant, what i want to point out that if you have a good established blog, you can post anything and Google will give the preference to that rather then any blog which is comparatively new and may be working only in that niche.

This is how Google works and This is the Power of Big Blogs.

Everyday i see in webmaster blogs, people comment and say the image based ads are not worth considering and how they don’t get any clicks, how they are low paying ads and not even worth putting into your websites.

Well i choose to defer with that, infact in one of my site, there is one image ad block which is getting 10-15 clicks a day and giving me pretty good returns. And why not, i have seen the ad and it is really tempting. According to me image ads convey their product in a better way and visitors can have a glimpse of the product or service even before clicking the ad.

I never really understand, why people think so negative about image based ads, if it doesn’t work for some, it may work very well for others. So, keep experimenting with the adsense ads position once a while to analyze your earnings.

Well that is my observation, how about you?

I am a big fan of Firefox and been using it for almost 2 years now, and was pretty happy with it. Until now, from past 2 months Firefox( version 3.0.4), is crashing a lot. There is hardly any day passed when i open it and it didn’t crashed once. And it is getting irritating day by day, specially when i go a website with video embeds in it, 90% of times it crashes.

Every time i submit the crash report to Mozilla in hope they figure out the cause of the problem. Lets see if they come out any cure for this.