451Press.com - Paid Blogging Opportunities

451Press.com is one of the largest blog networks. They are always looking for writers to contribute to their growing network of blogs which cover a wide range of subjects and topics. If you're passionate about a topic, you may think about writing for 451press's blogs.

Requirement

• Knowledgeable and passionate on the topic you write.
• Strong writing skill with unique voice.
• Creative
• Reliable

How much you can earn
As a blogger of 451press.com, you task is to write unique content for the blog you are handling. 451press will take care of promotion and generating advertising revenue for your blog. They will provide the support you need to succeed. You'll get paid 40% on all the advertising revenue generated by your blog.

To know more about 451press's blogging opportunities or apply as a 451press's writer, please click here.

A Quick Update on Blogcatalog.com

Blogcatalog, a social networking site for bloggers has made some changes to the site to make it more easier for bloggers to network and promote their blogs.

The Changes include:

- Complete Visual Redesign
The have finally shed our dated look for a much cleaner interface.

- Shout-to-Shout
Get a better picture of your shoutbox conversations with the new shout-to-shout feature.

- BlogCatalog Broadcasts
Send mass messages to your BlogCatalog followers with new Broadcast tool.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/broadcast

- Special Features For Our Supporters
Get frequent thumbshot updates, no ads, access to beta features and much more when you help support BlogCatalog
http://www.blogcatalog.com/account.donate.php

- Improved Language Support
With blogs in dozens of languages Blogcatalog have updated their encoding to a much more friendly UTF8.

Blogcatalog.com is similar to MyBlogLog.com. If MyblogLog.com can help you get more traffic and increase you revenue, then blogcatelog.com may do the same for you.

2 Easily Violated AdSense Policies

I have read Google AdSense Policies several times and I have to admit that I am not a good reader. Today Sushith from http://brokencodes.blogspot.com commented on my blog stating that I have made an AdSense mistake by placing a label "Topics" above an AdSense ads link unit. After reading this comment I quickly went to www.google.com/adsense to read again the AdSense policies. And yes, Google doesn't mention about label. Here's what Google said:

Publishers participating in the AdSense program may not place misleading labels above Google ad units - for instance, ads may be labeled "Sponsored Links" but not "Favorite Sites"

Well, it seems that Sushith is right. I have made an AdSense mistake that can lead to my account being disable. So I decided to remove the "topic" label placed at the top left sidebar of this blog to comply AdSense policies fully.

You may have spent a hard time optimizing your AdSense ads to make the most money from AdSense. But if you use label with AdSense ads, you can only label "Sponsored Links" above the AdSense ads or link unit.

Another AdSense mistake that is easily made by AdSense publishers is placing AdSense ads in second level domain names that contain the word "Google". Some of the example of second level domain names that use Google are:

http://googleadsensetips.blogspot.com/
http://google.blognewschannel.com
http://google.blogspace.com
http://google.weblogsinc.com

Publishers who display AdSense ads in these domains can get their AdSense disabled by Google and actually Google disallows people to register Google trademark as second level domain name as stated at http://www.google.com/permissions/guidelines.html.

4 Web Design Tips for Increasing Your Website's Money Making Potential

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are four important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Have a simple and clear navigation
You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

3) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

4) Avoid using music on your site
If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some music looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.

2 Cost-Per-Click (CPC) Advertising Programs that can be Used along with AdSense

Google AdSense is probably the most effective money making program in helping bloggers and webmasters to generate online income. But Google's AdSense program policies are pretty strict. They disallow AdSense publishers to use other similar contextual advertising services together with AdSense in same web pages. However, not all contextual advertising programs are disallowed by AdSense actually. There are several CPC contextual ads programs compatible with AdSense. Here are two of them:

Kontera
Kontera can be a great way to increase the money you can make from your site and blog. Kontera is a little different with AdSense. Their ContentLink In-Text Advertising system will underline the relevant keywords of the content in your web pages. When a visitor points the mouse to a underlined keyword, an ad will show up. If the visitor click on the underlined keyword, you'll earn money. Below is a screenshot of Kontera content link


Kontera works with publishers from most of the countries in the world. But they also have a set of policies to meet to become their publishers.

Chitika eMiniMalls
Chitika eminimalls offers a selection of unique cpc ad formats that are targeted to your website or blog content. Chitika can potentially increase your web revenue if you know how to optimize their ads on your blog and website.

To run Chitika together with AdSense, you must set your Chitika ads to non-contextual. They also provide a number of options to publishers to customize their Chitika ads. You'll need to spend some time to test on different Chitika ads formats to find out which work best.

8 Tips to Make Your Website Profitable

1. Your website's template and design should relevant to your site’ title and content. You wouldn't want to use a dog graphic header on an e-commerce website that sells cell phones.

2. Whenever you have added new articles and content to your site let your visitors know immediately. You can do this by alerting your visitors using email. This will increase the numbers of people revisiting your web site.

3. Let your visitors know about your email address or even telephone number on your website. This offers a way to visitors to contact you to ask for more information and assistant which will enable you to build good relationship with your visitors. And those who are in the same niches may contact you requesting for potential joint venture for making more money online.

4. Provide an option to your visitors to view your website offline. You can offer it by autoresponder or printer friendly version.

5. Make sure your web content is original and targeted to your audience to avoid being seen as spamming by search engines. Search engines are good sources of high quality targeted traffic to your website in long term. So you don’t want to be blacklisted by them. You don’t need to make your content 100% original, 60% original or higher is safe enough.

6. Give your visitors a good reason to come back to your site. You may try to give incentives to encourage them revisiting your site like providing free games, adding entertaining videos frequently, allowing free downloads such as ebooks and software that are useful to your visitors.

7. Customize you website in logical and profitable sequence. You don't want people to see your freebies before they learn about what products you are offering. Identify what actions you want people to take when they are visiting your website that will make you profitable and then organize your site accordingly to entice people to take that action. If you main purpose is to earn money with cost-per-click ads programs such as AdSense, YPN, etc; you’ll want your visitors to click on your CPC ads to earn money. So you’ll need to place your CPC ads in the areas that will be easily seen by people when they first landed on your home page.

8. If you’re selling products or services or offering something free to use on your website. Don’t forget to add a FAQs section on your website that will answer your visitors and users questions immediately. This will simply make your visitors more happier visiting your site or using your free service as they are getting immediate assistance reading your FAQs.

AdSense Optimization Tips from Google's AdSense Publisher Support Team

Have you noticed that Google has recently posted a recording of one of their recent webinar called Taking It to the Next Level: Improving Your AdSense Performance in Google's official AdSense blog . The Webinar offers tips and suggestions on how to make the most money from AdSense. If you're are relying AdSense to make money online, you might want to look at it.