Tutorial

A Good Banner For Your Blog

Today, I am posting about making a good animated banner using photoshop for your blog / any of earning site. I believe to make owned banner works better than what we are getting from site, as we can add some of our owned contents to banner.

Steps :

Open PHOTOSHOP
Goto File => New (shortcut – cltr+n)
Make Selections like given in below picture for Name / Width / Height & Click OK

Double Click on layer
Name layer as BackGround
Click – OK – as given in below picture.

Double Click on Layer
Select Gradient Overlay
Select Gradient Design
Select Style as Linear
Select Angle as -7
Select Scale as 10% as given in below picture

Now Add Text to Banner by selecting T from left side toolbar as shown in picture below

For Animation at bottom insert frames by giving 1 second timer and add/remove layors by selecting/de-selecting EYE icon as shown in below pictures :

Now go to File => Save For Web & Device => Preview
This will open image in your default browser
Save Image and upload anywhere to share

Result for above work is given here

This is just a simple banner – You can do better than this and make more banners using your skills and imaginations.

SEO Friendly Settings

After installing WordPress for my blog in the first month my site not listed on any of the search engines as one of the setting in WordPress admin area was set to

I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors

which is a default setting and you have to change the same setting to

I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers.

For making change visit :

Admin Area of Your WP Blog
Settings
Privacy
Then Change the Radio Button to desired setting.

Post changing the desired setting my blog and posts started reflecting on Search Engines and now I start getting visits from Google & other search engines

How To Install WordPress

In Continuation of my post Making Money From CPM/CPC/PPC Adnetwork sites I will let you know about installation process of WordPress. Just follow the steps I described in my earlier post that go and buy

1. Suitable Domain as per your choice.
2. Hosting at any of the following, if don’t have already:

a) Snoork Hosting
b) HostUpon

During buying hosting any can buy a new domain or give already bought domain. If you already have a domain or bought from a diff Company than hosting then you have to update the DNS.

Now after buying hosting or if you already have one, go to cpanel (suggested URL is http://www.yourdomainname.com/cpanel – replace yourdomainname with actual registered one). Follow the following steps described in below pictures to get WordPress Installed in CPANEL :

Step-1

Step-2

Step-3

Step-4

After installation click on finish and login to wp-admin ((suggested URL is http://www.yourdomainname.com/wp-admin – replace yourdomainname with actual registered one) to manage your site.

In next posts I will clear how to upload / install themes for your site.

Definitions – Shortwords Being Used

Newbies when starting making money on web are facing words like CPC / CPA / CPV etc., for which they do not even know to the meaning. Hence I am giving below the definitions of the words being used in web world.

CPA – Cost Per Action or Cost Per Aquisition
Both the words are being used differently as Action stands for an advertiser is paying to someone, who bringing making an action like registration or sales and Aquisition stands for cost incurred by a company or individual to acquire a sales or customer and being used for internet marketing purpose

CPM – Cost Per 1000 Impressions
An amount is being paid to webmaster by an advertiser to show his banner on website for every 1000 impressions called CPM. In this M taken from ROMAN Numarals, which stands for 1000

CPC – Cost Per Click
A Webmaster is being paid by an advertiser to send visitor for every click on an advertisement being shown on webmaster’s site.

PPC – Pay Per Click
This works as CPC and advertiser is paying to webmaster when his advertisement is clicked.

CTR – Click Through Rate
Percentage of users clicked an advertisement after seeing it i.e. if 25 person clicked the advertisement amongst 5000 seen the same then CTR is 25 / 5000 x 100 = 0.50%

CPV – Cost Per View
This works as CPM and webmaster is being paid to show advertisers full page popunder advertisement on his site.

PPL – Pay Per Lead
A publisher is being paid by an advertiser for every qualified Lead

SEO – Search Engine Optimization
To get volume and quality traffic from search engines based on the related key words.

SEM – Search Engine Marketing
Sales of products by showing advertisement on search engines based on keywords

Proxy Types & Usage

I am writing this topic due to lot of ppl asked me about proxy usage & how this service helps us. Then Proxy Server is a service through which you can surf those internet sites, who has firewalls to block your IPs to their servers i.e. proxy bypass the said firewall & even by hiding your actual IP address, so you can hide your actual identity while surfing. Some ways to surf through proxy:

1. Visit the site proxy.org, which has a list of latest proxy server and they provide you a BAR like address bar of your browser with some options like

Encode URL
Encode Page
Allow Cookies
Remove Scripts
Remove Objects

Which you can enable or disable according to your requirement.

2. For this surf type you need FireFox ( Click here to download ) & then Search at google for FREE PROXY LIST – Click Here For Results & follow the below mentioned steps.

Choose Latest IP from search (Click Here For Results) I found this page and chosen IP 75.101.178.208 port 80 belongs to US

Now go to Tools => Options => Advanced => Network => Setting in FireFox and change radio button to Manual Proxy Configration. Put the above said IP number and port in HTTP PROXY and then tick mark Use This Proxy Server For All Protocols Click OK and start surfing. First check IP address using FireFox by visiting WhatIsMyIP.Com.

There are mostly foolowing types of proxies are being used and available

Transparent :
Sending the information of your IP and most of the softwares are able to detect usage of Proxy by visitor.

Anonymous :
Not sending any information of your IP but still some of the softwares are able to detect usage of Proxy by visitor.

Highly Anonymous (Elite)
No information is being passed and no software is able to identify the usage of Proxy

Unblocking Sender In Your Mailing Service

I have seen and lot of people asked me that which mail service is to be used for online activity. My answer is always to use any, if you know how to get mails from sender, so that they reach you safely otherwise use only and one Gmail.Com

Why Gmail.Com is so popular amongst users and recommended by many site owners because it is not blocking anykind of mail.

If any other mail service you are using then make the sender in your white list (If you don’t know watch below) and you are ready to receive the activation mail for your account at earning site.

How to make any sender in your whitelist in most popular 2 email services is given hereunder:

YAHOO

Add sender’s mail id to your Yahoo contact list:

1. Click ADD in Contacts in your Yahoo Mail window.

2. Fill out the various information fields as you wish, but make sure you enter sender’s e-mail id in the e-mail field, Click Save, then Done when you’re finished.

Create a filter to direct your sender mail to your Yahoo! inbox:

1. Click Options, Mail Options

2. Filters, then click on Create or Edit Filter.

3. Name this filter in the Filter Name field as you like. Next to the From Header option select Contains from dropdown menu and enter your sender email in the field to the right. Below Move the Message To Inbox from the dropdown menu. Click the Add Filter button.

All messages containing your sender email will now go to your inbox.

If still you find mails of added sender in your Spam folder (might be due to Yahoo is using SpamGuard) then open the message and click the Not Spam button to add the same to your whitelist.

GMAIL

Manually add Your Sender eMail to your Gmail contact list:

Click Contacts in the left side menu. Click Add Contact button. Fill in the appropriate information alongwith Your Sender eMail in the e-mail field & then Save as shown in below pic.

For an Your Sender eMail already in your Gmail inbox:

Open the e-mail message from the sender you want to add to your address book. Click the small arrow right next to the Reply option at the top of the message box.  Select Add Your Sender eMail to Contact List from the dropdown menu as shown in pic.

Create a filter to direct Your Sender eMail to your Gmail inbox:

Click Settings at the top right of the page.  Click Filters, then Create A New Filter. Put Your sender eMail in the From field &  Click Next Step as shown in pic

Select the Never Send It To Spam option, then click Create Filter.

Mark Your Sender eMail as safe e-mail from your Spam folder:

Look for messages from Your Sender eMail in your Spam folder. If you find one, select the message and click the Not Spam button to add Your Sender eMail to your whitelist.

BB Code Usage on Forums

Most of the users of joins the forums but even don’t know how to use codes there, which is a very simple coding and anyone can use this. I am just trying to get this understand to those users, who joined a forum but don’t know the usage of the same, with example.

To Bold your written text use code [b]BlogTwitt[/b] will come like this

BlogTwitt

To Italic your written text use code [i]BlogTwitt[/i] will come like this

BlogTwitt

To Underline your written text use code [u]BlogTwitt[/u] will come like this

BlogTwitt

To Italic your written text use code [s]BlogTwitt[/s] will come like this

BlogTwitt

If You Just want to Put URL use code [url]HTTP://WWW.BlogTwitt.Com[/url] will come like

HTTP://WWW.BlogTwitt.Com

If You want to Put URL hidden inside a TEXT use code [url=HTTP://WWW.BlogTwitt.Com]BLOGTWITT[/url] will come like

BLOGTWITT

If you want to put an image then use code [img]http://i28.tinypic.com/2h33fgy.jpg[/img] will come like

If you want to put something in quotes then use code[quote]BlogTwitt[/quote]

“BlogTwitt”

If you want to put something in big font size then use code[size=15]BlogTwitt[/size] then this will come like

BlogTwitt

If you want to give color to your text then use [color=blue]BlogTwitt[/color] This will result Blogtwitt in Blue Color

Rest buttons available like shown in above pic in you forum when creating msg/post will help you. First row is for format the text.

For example I used word BlogTwitt, which your have to replace with your contents / text.