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.)

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)

(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!

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:

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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.

1) Network ads
These are ads that appear on all (well, not all, but on a lot of) websites in the AdBrite network. Sometimes you will see only one, when at other moments, you will see several of these. It depends on the amount of traffic you’re getting I assume.

The payout per click varies and I think the minimum is $0.04/click.

2) Direct ads
These are ads that people buy on your site specifically and they won’t appear on any other sites. It’s specific to one of the zones you created. It’s also at the price that you set. When people buy ads on your site, you will receive an email notification and you can accept/reject the ad link.

There are 3 ways an advertiser can buy a direct ad on your site :
- By clicking the “Your Ad Here” link at the bottom of your AdBrite banner zone (if you didn’t remove it)
- By browsing the list of publishers on AdBrite.com
- By calling AdBrite over the phone, but I don’t think many people do that

Payout
Unfortunately, AdBrite only pays by check once a month (last Thursday) and uses a net60 payment system. This means it will take 60 days before the money earned from sold ads can be requested for payout.

For example: Suppose someone buys a 30 days ad on your site for $100, which starts on January 1. It runs for a month and ends on January 30. The $100 can be requested for payout 60 days later, on March 31. If that’s not a Thursday, the check will be sent on the last Thursday of April.

So for those that can’t wait a few months before money starts coming in, AdBrite is not the right program.

Hints to earn more with AdBrite
Here are some suggestions that can help you earn more money with AdBrite. They may not be perfect, but they work for me.

Because Network ads don’t appear at all times, I think it’s better to have as much direct ads as possible (almost constant daily income at your own prices). If you go to ‘Manage Your Zones’ on AdBrite and click ‘View/Edit Your Listing’ for your main zone, you will see the form that other people see when they want to buy ads on your site. The prices behind the different products are very important if you want to sell. You can set these prices by clicking ‘Manage Products’ on the ‘Manage Your Zones’ page.

If you move your mouse over the different zones on the ‘View/Edit Your Listing’ page, you will see the ‘Avg CPC’ or ‘Average Cost Per Click’ for that product. In my experience, $0.02 and $0.03 are the best prices per click, but $0.04 sells good too. Because you can’t set the ‘Avg CPC’ directly, you will have to play a bit with the price per product and check your listing page every time. To get a low ‘Avg CPC’, you will want to get a lot of clicks.

One tactic that works for me is to create a product in your zone that only lasts a few days and has a very low price (and an ‘Avg CPC’ of say $0.01 or $0.02 per click). Putting ‘PROMO’ in the product title is another hint. These will be sold relatively fast, resulting in more clicks on your site (because the ad is there constantly and it’s probably more attractive to visitors than a Netword ad), resulting in a lower ‘Avg CPC’. If this happens, you can raise the prizes of your products a bit and still have a good ‘Avg CPC’. If nothing goes wrong, you will have steady prices and sales after a while.

Here are the products in my zone, with respective prices and ‘Avg CPC’ :
7-Day Text Link $10.00 Avg CPC: $0.09/click
14-Day Text Link $15.00 Avg CPC: $0.06/click
30-Day Text Link $25.00 Avg CPC: $0.05/click
PROMO: 4-Day Text Link $1.69 Avg CPC: $0.03/click

This setup works quite good for me, especially since I added the PROMO product. Surprisingly, the 7/14/30-Day Text Links sell good too since then. All my ad spots are sold out at the moment, making me around $8 to $9 per day, with 8.000 unique visitors per day.

As you can see, my ‘Avg CPC’ is quite high. If you have a lot of returning traffic, your ‘Avg CPC’ will increase slowly. The reason for this (I think) is because the direct ads are sold for a longer period and the returning visitors have seen it and will click less, in general. If this happens, you have to repeat the whole process.

Sometimes, people will buy ‘recurring ads’ on your site. This means that they will be restarted when the period ends. Theoretically forever, but the buyer can stop the recurring ads whenever he wants. These ads are good, because you don’t have to worry about the empty ad spots as they generally stay on longer.

Active interstitials ad
AdBrite also has this new type of ad, called the interstitials ad. It’s basically a full page ad that visitors see before they can reach another page on your site. The ad is only shown once to every visitor, but I still think it’s bad for traffic.

Source: source

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