Entries for May, 2008

Blogging is a beautiful concept! It is a powerful means of communicating one’s thoughts informally. I have had a homepage on tripod as early as in 1998 and got a domain name registered in my name couple of years later. Though these were considered major achievements then, the web-life had been all about static pages and pictures alone and less collaborative in nature. The so-called Web 2.0 and related concepts such as blogging, social networking and different modes of messaging have certainly made the online life more exciting. Click Here to Continue Reading

Most of the publishers begin monetizing their blogs by signing up with well-known ad networks - usually one or more CPC (Pay-Per-Click) programs in conjunction with CPM (Pay-Per-Impression) networks. As a second option they tend to go for referral programs as well. However, in most cases, the affiliate programs can reward much better earnings than CPC ad networks if chosen carefully and implemented well.

From publishers’ point of view Affiliate Networks broadly fall into two categories. One, the consolidated networks like ‘Commission Junction’ that host a number of affiliate advertisers for publishers to choose from. This is a pretty straightforward approach. Part of the commission earned in this case has to be parted with these networks. However, the advantage here is that in one sign up you get to work with plenty advertisers or networks. The other type is Click Here to Continue Reading

Of late there has been a surge of mails in my yahoo bulk mail folder and many of them were related to the Rebate Processor Jobs. The first impression from such mails and related websites is that, it is a great work from home option - more like an extended data entry program where the data entry is restricted to processing rebates from home. i.e. Pick the rebate data records one by one, fill out the rebate value and submit to the customer data, make up to $15 for that much work! Sounds ridiculously simple right?

If you take a detail look into such sites, you will realize that there is a sign up fee ($30 to $40 usually) involved to become the so-called ‘rebate processor’. The reality is that what they advertise is not exactly what you will be getting. Click Here to Continue Reading

Yesterday I received a wonderful one-liner review for this site. It was from a first time visitor and his feedback read like this:

More instructiveness, elaboration and less promotion will do the content no harm!

Initially I thought it’s just another passing comment but when I gave it sometime and tried to digest what he meant, I decided to take a deeper look into myself and motives behind this blog.

A detailed analysis of self as well as some of my peer bloggers on the web brought up the following points which are usually the case with many of us :
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