Dot Com Dhanda By Divyansh Sharma
By Arnab May 23, 2007 filed in Internet Marketing, Newsletter, Interviews
There are a thousand reports teaching you how to make money online, and a dozen new ones pop out everyday… they promise simple steps, and easy directions. I don’t promise you any of those.
I Promise you a story…..
CHAPTER 0: Freelancers from china
Before I begin anything, I want you to ask yourself one simple question, if making money online was as simple as…
Go to xyz website, signup
Go to Aweber get a list
Go to………. So on
IF it was this simple, with simple steps
Would I ever teach you?
Or would I hire someone from china…….
Or maybe someone from India
Would I Teach YOU step by step…….. or would I pay 100$ a month to a fresh (English) Graduate from India and make Millions myself ?
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Yahoo! My WebFeedFlare: Add Interactivity in your Feeds
By Pankaj May 17, 2007 filed in Internet Marketing, Blogging Tips
A very simple but effective way to introduce interactivity in your feeds is by enabling FeedFlare provided by FeedBurner. All you have to do is to register yourself at FeedBurner.com and enable the FeedFlare available in the ‘Optimize’ tab. If you are not sure whether you should burn your feeds or not, read my previous post: Do I need to use FeedBurner? Does it help? . Back to this post, FeedFlare adds a simple footer in your RSS feed which could include variety of links and information. Among the many flares, few of them (popular ones as per me) are described below…
Email This - Allows subscriber to email the current item to anyone using a web-based email form provided by FeedBurner.
Email the Author - Allows subscribers to email the author directly that is to you using a web based form provided by FeedBurner. If you haven’t mentioned your email id in your feed details then ‘Email the Author’ link is not displayed.
Comments Count - This flare works only if you have self hosted WordPress blog or have some other system which uses wfw:comments element in the feed. This flare shows the number of comments posted to this particular item.
Save to del.icio.us - Shows the number of saves and the top tags for the item at del.icio.us and allows readers to save the item at del.icio.us.
Digg This! - Displays the number of Diggs and comments for the item at digg.com and allows readers to digg the story.
Discuss on Newsvine - Publishes a link to this story on Newsvine and creates a conversation.
Stumble It! - Submit to StumbleUpon, with dynamic count of number of reviews.
Technorati Cosmos Links - Displays the number of links to your item from blogs, as measured by Technorati. (If there are no links, this Flare will not appear.)
View Creative Commons License - - Displays the Creative Commons license that you may have applied to your feed (or to individual content items).
Scape This - A FeedFlare for Netscape.com.
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Do I need to use FeedBurner? Does it help?
By Pankaj May 15, 2007 filed in Internet Marketing
If you ask me, I would say ‘Yes’ for sure. Reasons? Keep reading…
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.
The above text is written in FeedBurner’s About FeedBurner page and this is exactly what FeedBurner does. It allows you to manage and customize your RSS feeds in order to give you more control over them. If youe are not sure about the terms like feeds, RSS, aggregator etc, head straight to the following posts made earlier by us
So what are Feeds, RSS, Atom, Feed Readers? and How does an RSS Feed help ?
Now its time to understand its benifits …
- It is free. Well, almost as you need to pay little bit ($5/month at the time of writing) in order to get more detailed statistics.
- It is an easy to use service.
Statistics, and lots of it
- It allows us to know how many people are reading our feeds and what software (aggregator) they are using.
- It tells us which posts are getting the most click throughs, that is which content your readers are reading .Though for this service you need to upgrade from free services to premium service.
- Lets us know about any uncommon uses of the feed.
- View the hits made to the feed and also who ( as in search engine bots or web browsers) . These hits doesn’t add to your subscribers list and rightly so, nevertheless a good statistic to know anyone.
Feed Usability
- Allows you to change the title and description of your feed.
- Allows you to place an image from the URL into your feeds to give it more personal touch.
- A Browser friendly page instead of complex xml feeds (mostly understood by geeks). This helps in increasing the readership as your feed page doesn’t get mistaken as an error by seeing the raw XML.
- Using the browser friendly page, readers can directly subscriber to many popular aggregators such as Bloglines, Newsgator, Google Reader etc. Which relates down to that users don’t have to copy and paste the feed URL on their aggregators.
- FeedFlare component helps in adding interactivity to your feeds, by allowing your reader to act on your content without visiting the blog. This is achieved by adding a simple footer in each of your posts which includes the links to digg.com, del.ico.us, emails etc.
- FeedBurner seamlessly manages all types of feeds (ATOM, RSS, RDF) automatically as it translates your feed on the fly into a format compatible with your visitors hence improving the chances of more subscription.
- Using LinkSplicer and PhotoSplicer, you can share your links (Digg, Furl, del.ico.us etc) and photos (from Flickr, Buzznet or Webshots) in your feeds.
- Allows your reader to subscribe to your feeds using email. FeedBurner supports FeedBlitz and Rmail along with its own. This is really a great service to the readers who don’t use or have access to any aggregator.
Podcasting
FeedBurner makes podcasting very easy. One it can configure your feed to handle enclosures. Second it provides additional fields in which you can add the info you’ll need for iTunes. If you want, the feedburner will also submit your podcast feed to Yahoo podcasts.
FeedBurner Ad Network
FeedBurner has its own FeedBurner Ad Network (FAN) though participation in FAN is only by invitation so if you are one of those bloggers who enjoys huge readership then you can monetize your content as well.
Many more ..
- FeedBurner caches your feed hence it can reduce the load on your server and can save your bandwidth usage (especially noticeable on heavy traffic blogs)
- Provides you with small HTML/JavaScript code (they call it chicklets) which can be easily put in your blog to attract readers.
- If you are not already using Google Analytics / StatCounter for your website statistics, you can use the one provided by FeedBurner.
So if you are not using FeedBurner to publish (they call it burning) your feeds, act now and discover the benefits of FeedBurner.
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How to start earning through Google Adwords ?
By Editor May 13, 2007 filed in Internet Marketing, Affiliate Mktg, Newsletter, Queries
Hi,
This is Rajeev Agarwal I am looking some online earning methods. Currently Working in a software company, Pune, India. I ca me to know about Google Adwords. I have gone thru with several pdf files regarding the same from the internet. They have a lot of promising regarding earning in few days just spending little time.
I have some confusions which are as follows:
1) I am not so much aware about the products popular in other countries how then I will come to know about that.
2) The other thing is that if I think to plan to spend 2000-3000 Rs/month paying Google to show ads then will that really worthful.
3) What should be my plan regarding this.
4) Can you tell me what kind of efforts, knowledge, money and patience required for this.
Rajeev Agarwal (rajeevl@techmahindra.com)
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Hi Rajeev,
You are asking all the right questions a beginner should - anyone who is trying to purchase traffic using Google Adwords, sending this traffic to Affiliate Links/Websites, earning commissions, and netting the difference between commission and PPC expense as the profit. I have been doing this for close to 5 years now and hope to be able to be of some assistance.
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Receiving online payment
Query by Asha on May 12, 2007 filed in Miscellaneous, Internet Marketing, Queries
Hi Arnab,
Thank you for all the actionable advice you provide through your newsletter. Its definitely handy I must say.
I have a specific query for you.Can you guide me on how to accept payment through the website? I have heard about paypal, but I am not sure how reliable a service they have in India. I am interested in knowing:
1. Available options for accepting payments online from the customer
2. How do I get that money into my bank account,
3. How long does this take, and
4. What are the charges I need to pay
Hope you can help me with this.
Regards,
Nair (mymails100@gmail.com)