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Twitter is growing like anything and i got a video to prove that

As i informed earlier regarding the Palm Pre domain that i bought in this post, Wanted to inform all that blogpalmpre.com is up and live. Hope to cover the latest news and updated on Palm Pre, so do check it out at www.blogpalmpre.com and please let me know your suggestions and comments.

Its funny, its ridiculous and its hilarious.

Check out the video description, “the Israeli arms firm Rafael displayed this Bollywood dance number-based marketing video at the recently held Aero India 2009 in Bangalore.” Our friends at Flight Global say that the Israeli company thought it was a good way to “build familiarity between India and Israel and Rafael.”

Konetra just launched their plugin for wordpress 2.7.

Here are the features of the plugin :

* Add the ContentLink tag to all your pages in one click

* Determine when ContentLink ads will begin appearing on new posts- you can choose to block ads for a particular number of days

* Display ContentLinks only on posts

* Display ContentLinks only on comments

* Change ContentLinks color

And newest feature:

* Choose to enable or disable ContentLink ads from within your post editor!

Check out more info and download details about the plugin at Kontera Blog

I live in India and can safely say that Internet shopping in India is evolving but it will take time for it to reach to a level like in US or European Countries.

Why, Well Lets Point the reasons :

1. A big majority of Indian Population, still don’t have internet access, so internet shopping is out of the question.

2. Those who do have internet connection limit there online presence to only mail checking and some causal browsing.

3. And then there are few who do some internet shopping but that is limited to booking train,flight or movie tickets.

4. Lastly we have the breed that Indian webmaster are looking for, people who actually buy stuff from net.

So, even if you have a website with good amount of India traffic, there is pretty less chance of earning big bucks by affiliate marketing and finding those people who are feel comfortable buying the stuff from net.

This is contrast to what happens in US and European countries, there people do major shopping through internet and Internet presence is there in almost every household. So, clearly US based websites have a edge over Indian websites when it comes over to affiliate marketing.

This even applies to PPC. As for the same reason Adsense pays less for clicks coming from countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc. as conversion rates must be very low comparing to US based clicks.

So, it will surely take time for Internet Shopping to become a rage in India, and till then Indian webmasters will have to work little hard to get more of traffic from US or European Countries in order to increase their earnings.

If you go around and ask in any webmaster forum or any big blogger that “i should choose which niche to start a blog or website in” . Everyone will tell you that, start a blog in a niche or area which you like, as your interest will keep that blog going on. Otherwise if you don’t have interest, the blog will die pretty soon. And its damn right but we are missing a big point here, the “Money Factor”.

Let me give you an example, i run a iPhone blog because i just love that device. Its almost 6 months since i started the blog and here are few statistics about it :

Google Page Rank : PR 3
Alexa Rank : Will hit the 100,000 thousand mark pretty soon.
Unique Visitors Per Day: 3000 and above
Revenue Generated Till Now: $300
Hours I Put Every Day To Update The Blog : Around 2-3
Backlinks : 2600 And Growing

So, should i consider the blog a success, hell yeah. I like writing posts on iPhone and by doing so i am earning money as well. Pretty cool right.

But here is one food for thought, what if i had started a blog in little high paying niche and put in the same effort. I really think if i had achieved all the stats given above for that high paying niche, my earnings could have been much much better.

So, do i regret starting iPhone blog, well absolutely not, the only problem is no matter how much effort i put in that blog, i wont be able to earn a decent amount of money for the simple fact that its just not a high paying niche.

I got so many domains lying around with me but as I am a full time employee i can only spend max 2-3 hours per day in blogging. Can’t outsource much of the work as I am not that cash rich. So, here i am left with in dilemma to choose between something i like or something that will give me more financial security. And in these time of recession and job insecurity i really see making money online a pretty good backup if anything goes wrong.

So, should i choose a high paying niche and start working on it and give little less time to iPhone blog? . Let me know your views and experience?

If you are in India and looking for how much it will cost doing a twitter sms update on Airtel, well its Rs 3 INR/sms . Nowdays when std calls are dropping to 50 paise(bsnl annouced it) 3Rs per sms seems pretty huge. Anyways there are more ways, get a gprs or 3G connection and start twittering unlimited from your mobile or iPhone.