Finally Google decided to share its revenue from YouTube.

Choose categories or have Google target your site content, and decide which categories you want to exclude. … Bring users to your site more often and keep them there longer with highly revelant, frequently refreshed video from popular content providers.

Looks like you can’t have ads if you display your own video.

The player for ads enabled video can also be customized to suit the website theme and layout.

Here is the screen-shot of the information page.

My adsense account doesn’t seem to be updated to incorporate YouTube till now (Is your’s updated?). If you don’t have adsense account, you can get one by clicking on the white button on top of this page.
(via Problogger)

Does the image in left look like something weird?

Yes zero everything and earnings $25. That is what the welcome screen stats looks like when you sign-in Auction Ads for the first time. That is great to get some money for doing nothing.

Auction Ads is a advertisement network set-up to promote eBay auctions and they promise to pay 100% of eBay commission revenue. Auction Ads is not contextually based ad product so it can go along with Google Ads too.

If you are wondering why they are paying $25 for every new publisher, there sure is a catch. They have increased the minimum payout amount to $50 so you have to earn another $25 from the advertisements to be eligible to receive your first pay in PayPal. If you want to sign-up here is the referral link.

(UPDATE: – Auction ads has stopped doing business.  The links have been removed.)

Last month I started writing for pay-per-post and I also got some money from it. It is in the PayPal account and as I haven’t used it. It sure will be helpful in paying the server bills. I have to think about what to do with the remaining amount

Well, before starting to post paid posts in this blog I thought about it a lot. Some people told that it degrades our morality or it is like selling our soul and so on. But those same people were happily posting other advertisements like Google ads and talk proudly about sponsors in their websites. If you think in similar manner, all my paid postings are in “sponsored” category and you can easily skip them to read other postings. I am not forced to take every opportunity that come in my way. Also, I believe I have a moral compass that works well enough to tell me it’s wrong to post dishonestly just to make cash.

If you are blogging for at least 3 months and haven’t been lazy enough in updating it regularly you can apply for payperpost account and get paid to blog about the things you like from its big pool of opportunities. Payperpost is a platform in which bloggers write posts linking to advertisers’ websites, fitting within the advertiser’s guidelines for the post. The bloggers get paid via PayPal once the post has been live for 30 days. Blogging opportunities range from few dollars to hundreds of dollars depending on ranking of your website based on various parameters. I would suggest you to give it a try if you haven’t already.

(UPDATE – the links result in error so they have been removed)

Well well well just posted an article about making money out of photos and then started researching (That’s not how things shouldn go …. A lesson for me!!). I found the link tried the website and thought it was ok to share among you people ….

(shall I remove the post ?… well let me leave it for now!)

Then I found some sites posted in this blog that helps making some money with your photos stock. Let me list them here:

1. BigStockPhoto

BigStockPhoto requires a photo seller to take the Photographer Test after studying the Tutorial pages. If you pass you’ll be able to upload photos, which will be reviewed by the editors. When users download them, you earn fifty cents each time (or up to $60 for some downloads if you have elected to also sell photos under our Special Licensing agreements). BigStockPhoto mail checks or make payment to you via Paypal or MoneyBookers.

2. Dreamstime

Dreamstime requires that the image must be at least 3MP in size or more; it must be RGB saved at highest JPG quality 12. You should also have a model release on all people recognizeable in your image. Sellers get 50-80% from each sale made. Payment is via bank check, Paypal, and MoneyBookers.

3. Fotolia

Landscape, Architecture, People, Fauna & Flora, Objects, Transport, Food & Drink to Social Issues and Travel are the most in-demand image subjects that Fotolia suggest to those who want to upload photos using their site. Requires minimum of 1600 x 1200 pixels for web use and 2272 x 1704 pixels or greater for print use
The preferred files are with atleast 2000 x 3000 pxels. Fotolia pays an average of 52% commission to its contributors.

4. iStockPhoto

iStockPhoto requires that the images be RGB JPG format only. Required file sizes: the bigger, the better. 300 dpi 5? x 7? is optimal. 640×480 images are not usable by most graphic artists. All files should be 1200 x 1600 pixels minimum (anything smaller will be automatically rejected The royalty structure on iStockphoto is 20%. If you’re eligible for exclusivity, you can make up to 40%. Pay is via Paypal and Moneybookers, or you can request a check by mail; Electronic payment requests are usually processed within 3 workdays. Check requests are processed at the beginning of each month and the checks are sent out at the middle of the month.

5. ShutterStock

Shutterstock pays 25 cents per download and it also has a referral program that users can also earn from. ShutterStock also accepts stock footage. Images must be at least 2.5 megapixel to be accepted. But new photographers’ minimum size is 4.0MP. Pay checks are mailed monthly.

To make the most out of making money online with stock photography make sure that your image is original and truly copyrighted by you. All trademarks must be removed. This includes logos, brands and entities with copyright or trademarked elements. This many also extend to trademarked products such as cast sculptures, toys, architecture and other elements of design. This is necessary to avoid future legal problems.

Always check the sellers’ portion for frequently asked questions, you better check it out first before trying to publish your work and sell your photos. This will help a lot in clarifying whatever you want to know about how to make money online from that stock photo site.

Also, don’t forget to know what are the most in-demand image subjects to avoid wasting your time uploading least requested images.

Sounds great and I hope this is useful to you. Good Luck!

It is tax filing time again…. I always hate this thing. But there no way I can avoid it. You have to file it anyway; weather you like it or not.

For income tax preparation and filing, there are a number of software available in market : Quick Tax, ufile and so on…. Some are highly priced others are reasonably priced but they are priced for sure.

If you want something less expensive, or rather free, check out StudioTax.

StudioTax is a windows based bilingual personal Income Tax preparation software made by Canadians for Canadians. This software is made available for Canadian Taxpayers for personal use only.

StudioTax is distributed using a flexible licensing model. No license key or registration is required to download, install and use StudioTax. After you use StudioTax and you find it useful, we ask that you take the time to make a modest monetary contribution toward the support of this product.

They don’t yet support Netfile, but they are getting the software certified with the Canada Revenue Agency.

Enjoy and get your copy at this link : StudioTax Canadian Personal Income Tax Software.

Here is the screenshot:

I found a small piece of text about AdBrite. It might be usefull for those who are just starting to use it.

AdBrite basics
AdBrite is a site like Google Adsense where you can buy or sell advertisements. This text will focus on the latter: selling advertisements. After registering at the site, you can set up your zones. The more information you fill in, the more chance advertisers will buy ads on your site. After setting up your zone, you can retrieve the html code and insert it into your website. There are two types of ads that can appear on your site.

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