How To Setup AdSense Page-level ads in BlogSpot?

Page-level ads have been rolled out recently and now available for use for all webmasters and bloggers. Page-level ads enable you to display AdSense ads on your blogger mobile templates. It helps you monetize your mobile templates just like you monetize mobile apps with Google Admob Ads.

Some interesting facts about Page-level Ads:

• Shown by AdSense at optimal times to help increase revenue and provide a good user experience
• Two new ad formats: anchor/overlay ads and vignettes
• Don�t count towards your 3 ads per page limit - You can use them along with your content and link units.
• Only display on mobile-optimized sites
• Optimized to help increase revenue
• Mobile Responsive!

I will discuss in detail the available Page-level formats, how to add code to the blogger template, and how to test the ads to see if they really work on your sites.

Page-level Ad formats

Following are the two types of Page level ad formats that are available so far:

Anchors

Anchor or overlay ads are mobile responsive ads that stick to the bottom of the user's screen and can easily be dismissed using the toggle down button at its top.

Once the ad loads, an anchor is being displayed at the bottom of page that displays the ad. Users can simply slide the bar down to dismiss the anchor.

Vignettes

Vignette ads are full screen mobile ads that cover the entire interface of the webpage. They work exactly same as Admob's Interstitial ads used in mobile apps for android and iOS.

Vignettes Ads appear as a popup between page loads on your blog. The user has the choice to either tap on the ad and continue to its destination, or close it and return to the webpage. The direct call to action and larger size combine make Vignettes Ads a particularly effective form of mobile advertisement.

Note:

• Vignettes ads are displayed when the user leaves a page, not when when they arrive on one, so the user doesn�t have to wait for them to load.
• Furthermore, they're also limited in number per user to maintain a good user experience.

Implement Page-level ad tags in Blogspot Blogs

To setup these new revenue boosting mobile ads on your blogger templates follow these easy steps:

1 Log into your AdSense account

2 Follow this link

3 Switch on both Anchor/Overlay and Vignette ads by clicking the two toggle buttons

4 After that scroll down and click the button which says "Get code"

5 Copy the code

6 Now go to Blogger > Template > Backup your template

7 Click Edit HTML and search for this code </head>

8 Paste your Page-level code just above </head>

• Note: In your Page-level code, make one modification. Replace the attribute async with async=''
• If you don't make this modification, blogger will give you an error message.

Error parsing XML, line 1473, column 15: Attribute name "async" associated with an element type "script" must be followed by the ' = ' character.

9 Save your template and you are all done!

Test Page-level ads on your blogger template

1. On your favorite mobile device, visit your blog to test Page-level ads.
2. In the address bar of your mobile browser, add #googleads to the end of your blog's URL. For example in our case: www.mybloggertricks.com#googleads.
3. Select the ad format that you want to test from the tabbed box that will appear just above your blog body..

      4.   See the ads in action!

Have you tried Page-level Ads yet?

Page-level ads were rolled out near October 2015 for specific locations but now they have been rolled out for all countries and publisher accounts. If you have already tried these new mobile optimized ads on your wordpress or blogger blogs then please share your experience with us and let us know how it effected your overall revenue.

If you have any questions related to the tutorial above, please feel free to post your queries below. Peace and blessings buddies! =)

PublicityClerks Review: The Best alternative to BuySellAds

Written by: Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

PublicityClerks is a new rising player among popular Ad Networks that is gradually recognized as the best alternative to BuySellAds and Google AdSense. It uses almost the same technology used by BuySellAds to provide you a perfect medium to buy ads or sell ads. Small sites and blogs receiving a minimum of 50K impressions per month can easily get PublicityClerks approval to start making money by selling ad space. This new Ad marketplace has become a ray of hope for many bloggers and publishers who got rejected by BuySellAds or disapproved by AdSense. You can now easily sell ad space on your blogs and sites to convert every single page impression into a revenue stream. No need to feel depressed any longer!

After one of our clients referred it a serious debate started in our public forum on how to find BuySellAds alternatives, I had no choice but to do an in-depth full review of PublicityClerks' (PC) site features, payment options and customer service to see if it really qualifies to be the next big online advertising platform for webmasters.

Some Important Facts about PublicityClerks

Found in 2012 by James Hakim, PublicityClerks (PC) has succeeded in attracting over 10,000 registered websites and advertisers and serves over 15 million ad impressions monthly.

• It provides fully automated self serve ad marketplace with options to Backfill any unsold Ads to an Ad network of your choice e.g AdSense.
• It also offers a On-site cart feature for publishers to use on their advertise page. Advertisers can thus directly buy an Ad slot from your site.
• Publishers receive payments either through credit card or PayPal similar to BuySellAds. If you are living in India or Pakistan or anywhere in the world, you just need to give them your IBAN number and get all your revenue deposited straight in your local bank.
• You can cash out your funds once it reaches a minimum $25
• You are permitted up to 2 cashouts per month.

PublicityClerks VS. BuySellAds Review

You can't simply give a Win Card to a service which started earlier compared to a service which started later. What we can do best is to compare the features provided by both services and then draw a conclusion.

I am using BuySellAds since 2010 to sell ad slots for all my network blogs. BuySellAds as you all know was founded in 2008 while PublicityClerks just came into being in 2012. When something is new, people don't try it unless it has become a big brand and this is the biggest mistake of publishers. When we joined BuySellAds, bloggers rarely talked about it or trusted it. Today as a token of favor due to that trust that we had on BSA, they approve all our new blogs whether they meet their requirements or not. Its all about utilizing the opportunity and building your reputation with the company.

50% of bloggers today who fail to get BSA approval for their new sites are those who underestimated it back in 2008-2010 and preferred Google AdSense over BuySellAds. Similarly PublicityClerks (PC) is just a new brand today that offers newbie bloggers an opportunity to make money by selling ads on their sites. Its popularity is increasing on daily basis and more and more advertisers have started investing here. PC has started making their approval criteria difficult in past few months. Therefore before it's too late try your luck with it and earn yourself a long lasting business relationship with PC.

We did a detailed research on different tools, widgets, payment methods and technology used by BSA and PC, based on this research, I will share with you  some reasons which forced us to start considering PublicityClerks as one of the great alternatives to BuySellAds.

1. On-Site Shopping Cart Similar to BuySellAds

On-site shopping cart feature is an excellent way to help advertisers buy ad space directly from your advertise page. It gives advertisers a quick view of your site stats, available slots, monthly ad impressions and ad sizes.

PublicityClerks recently announced support for premium "Ad bundles" which will function similar to BSA and will be out this time next week. Ad Bundles are pre-selected, niche relevant advertising campaigns.

Publishers will soon be able to also sell ads per CPM and not remain restricted to only 30 days ad slot. Publishers will also be able to integrate their inventories with DFP (DoubleClick for publishers) to manage their ad zones all in one place. Both of these developments will be out this time next month.

2. Site Market Place Listing

All publisher sites are listed in the SEO friendly marketplace which is accessible to advertisers via both PC's directory and search engines. You can display your site description and a special message to advertisers on this page. This gives your site's an extra benefit of referral traffic from PublicityClerks!

3. Large Collection Of Quality Sites to Advertise On

I really liked the way PublicityClerks allows you to use filters to sort sites by category, price, impression, ad size and date. This indeed gives PublicityClerks a competitive UI advantage over BuySellAds.

The best thing is that new publishers are vetted, curated, and added weekly so advertisers always have access to the best content creators and the most creative ad products.

The BSA UI looks like this which is something they really need to work on more:

Note: If you love advertising on Facebook, Adwords, BSA, why not try on PublicityClerks? One of my loyal clients who often advertise at PC, gave me a $5 discount coupon that I would love to share with you all.

Here's the free $5 coupon code exclusively for MBT readers:

FREE5ONUS

PS: You can use this coupon on checkout after purchasing an ad slot.

4. Easy Cash Out System

The biggest problem for publishers in South Asia is unavailability of PayPal. Fortunately just like BuySellAds offers payment options of credit cards, wire transfer and PayPal, PublicityClerks also offers the exact same options. You can easily buy ads or sell ads using your credit card or PayPal account.

If you want ad revenue to be sent directly to your local bank account then you can choose the credit card option. Submit your swift code, account number and bingo! Start receiving payments straight in your account.

Note: Proper support for cashout via credit card will given early next month.

5. Strong Customer Support

BSA offers a ticket system where you can ask for technical help and support from the staff but PC offers a 24/7 Live Chat support system where you can instantly talk to an agent and ask for any help needed. You can also contact them via email at support@publicityclerks.com

These were some of the quick comparisons to give you an idea about the platform technology and features supported by BSA and PC. To know more about how PC works for publishers and advertisers, kindly read some frequently asked questions on PublicityClerks FAQ page.

How To Get PublicityClerks Approval?

We will now discuss some important tips to make sure you succeed in getting fast approval without facing rejection. Rejection is possible because their staff is really picky and they manually review and approve sites which meet their quality approval criteria.

These are the official requirements:

Website Approval Criteria:

1. Your site must be live, finished with fresh content.
2. Moderate to minimal advertising currently.
3. High-quality website design (Mobile Responsive layout).
4. Have a minimum of 50,000 monthly impressions

PublicityClerks will not approve sites that are:

1. Not a TLD domain (Must have custom domain)
2. Not complete
3. In another language (English only sites are accepted)
4. Have too many ads or pop-up's
5. Adult oriented
6. Old data (not updated frequently)

Note: If your website traffic generates less than 50K monthly pageviews then you don't need to loose hope and do apply. I have seen many of my clients who succeeded with both Publicity clerks and BSA with pageviews below 50K. What matters more is your website design, update frequency and quality content.

How to Start Selling Ads with PublicityClerks?

If your blog or website meets the above criteria then you can surely apply to PublicityClerks for an account. Follow these easy steps:

1. First click on this link to register with PublicityClerks

2. They will send you an email for verification. Click the verification link to verify your email address.

3. Once you click the verification link, you will have access to the dashboard settings. Browse to "My Websites"

4. Click "Add Website" to submit your website details on next page.

5. On the user submit page, make sure to give full description of your niche site. Explain as clearly as possible what your blog or site is all about and which categories of topics you cover in it. Try to keep your description precise, to the point and written in a professional style. Ad networks agents love sites which are clearly explained and described.

Note: Make sure you select the correct category while submitting your site. Choose a category that best defines your content. In the keywords field insert your main niche categories, tags or labels.

6. Finally hit the submit button and wait for a positive response from PC team!

For a successful approval make sure you do not submit the same site a multiple times and make sure you mention all details about your site as honestly as possible. The success rate of approval at PublicityClerks is so far higher than that of BSA, so I am pretty sure if you publish quality content and optimize your blog regularly, there is a big chance that you will be approved within 24-48 hours.

What makes PublicityClerks the best BuySellAds Alternative?

I emailed the PublicityClerks support staff and I asked them a simple question: "What sets you apart from BuySellAds?"  There response was extremely humble and made a lot of sense:

What sets us apart from the rest though is that we pride ourselves on our fast support, from processing cash out requests and new sites within 24 hours, replying to support emails within 12 hours and providing ad zone and on site cart setup for free.

I just hope most of you who requested me several times to propose a credible and trust worthy alternative to buysellads, may now have a clear idea of what option to choose. PublicityClerks does surely has a competitive edge over remaining Buysellads alternatives. It offers everything that a publisher and an advertiser wants for selling and buying ad inventory respectively.

Do let me know what are your views on selling ad space with PublicityClerks. If you need further clarification on any part of today's review then do let me know by leaving your comments below. I would love to help you out with the best of my knowledge.

I just wish the best of blogging for all of you. Peace and blessings buddies! =)

AdSense Publisher Scorecard: Best Tips & Practices

After an interesting Hangout with AdSense Folks on 18th June at Google+, Susan Wojcicki announced about an interesting new feature called Publisher Scorecard that has been added to all AdSense accounts and the scorecard summary chart can be seen under the Home Tab. Scorecard is a tool that gives greater insights to Publishers to compare how well their Ad settings, Website load time and content is performing compared to other Publishers using AdSense as the contextual Ad network. It displays a summary of three important categories which includes Revenue Optimization, Site Health and Google+ button Integration. Each category is scored on a scale of 1-5 blue dots that indicate your performance rank or level. In today's tutorial we will learn every basic detail of this great scoring tool and will learn how to optimize our websites and blogs to increase the overall AdSense earning. Lets jump straight to this fun ride and make better money with AdSense!

What are the Scorecard Categories?

Above is a screenshot of my AdSense Account. You can clearly see the three important bolded categories which are further divided into sub categories:

1. Revenue Optimization:

By Revenue Optimization we mean improving anything that increases your overall Page CTR and RPM value and boost your earning. We received two 2/5 blue dots here and a yellow icon that indicates that this section needs improvement. It can be optimized by making three major improvements and that are:

 

(a) Using Recommended Ad formats

These recommended formats are often 336x280, 300x250, 728x90 or 160x600. If you are running any Ad formats other than these then please upgrade them immediately.

 

How to Improve it?

To improve this section use recommended ad formats that I mentioned above and you must keep your Ads above the fold. I would suggest to keep a 336X280 Text/Image Ad just below Blog Post tiles and a 728x90 big banner just below your blog header. Add a 160X600 skyscraper to your Sidebar.

Please make sure to keep your web design such that these ads may appear above the fold. The visitor must see the ads when your site loads without having to scroll down. Use the following App by Google to test if your ads are above the fold or not:

• Above the Fold Testing tool

We recently developed a Plugin called AdSense Booster to add AdSense ads just above the excerpt/read more tag. This plugin was developed for blogger blogs. But you can get the same functionality even in wordpress by installing Quick AdSense Plugin.  I must tell you that our earnings increased by 40% after we installed this simple plugin which is now available to even blogger users and we are using the same plugin to  show a 468 X 60 Ad just below the opening paragraph. You can see it live in this post just below the first paragraph.

 

 

(b) Enabling both Text and Image Ads on this formats.

I would suggest that you must enable this if you haven't already done. AdSense bot knows best when to display Text or Media Ad based on the content on your site. If you are choosing just text ads or image ads then you are loosing the opportunity of an optimized Click through Rate.

 

How to Improve it?

Go To My Ads Tab inside your AdSense account and then click the "Edit ad Type" link below your Content Ad units. Choose the option Text & image/rich media ads as shown below:

 

Do this for all your AdSense for content Ad zones.

(c) Reduce Crawler Errors

This is one major section which people often underestimate and this returns in low earning. I always strongly recommend our clients to do a through validation of both their site HTML structure and robots.txt file. You must let the AdSense bot to crawl and scan your content the easiest way possible and don't block its way with Messy Fancy Scripts.

If you check our scorecard we received a green Tick which shows an  Excellent Score. To reduce crawler errors first make sure all Jquery scripts that you use are placed within the <head> and </head> tags. Clean up your site HTML structure and remove  any script that is increasing your site speed and causing the browser to crash.

Google has a list of crawlers for different tasks such as for detecting images, videos, smart phones or AdSense Ads. In order to make sure you allow AdSense Googlebot to crawl your site you must give it rights to do so by adding the following line in your robots.txt file:

 

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: 

 

See our robots.txt file as an example.


Note: Blogger users have this added by default. Wordpress users may manually add this.

2.  Site Health

Here as usual Google expects you to improve your Page speed Performance. Matt Cutts did announce on April 2010  that Page Load time would be a deciding factor for websites to rank higher on SERPs. They went so far that they even introduced PageSpeed tools last year which helps you to reduce load time of your webpages. An interesting and complete tutorial is linked below:

• Google PageSpeed Tools



• Must Read: 14 Disadvantages of Slow Loading Blogs

Yes we score too bad here as we received a red alert. Which of course is justified because I love the blog to look professional and stand apart. Here we have never listened to Google because we tried our level best to reduce the load time but Google never seemed like getting satisfied! :p I guess we would need to remove some further widgets and images to cut down the Page Load time.

How to Improve it?


Here are some quick and proper ways to reduce load time:

• Use CSS3 features to  create backgrounds, gradients, drop shadows and don't use Images. Create elements using CSS3 as much as you can.



• Use small image patterns for backgrounds and scroll them vertically or horizontally instead of using large and big images



• Use CSS Sprites to reduce http requests. You will find severa



• Place all Javascript in one place and one file



• Place all stylesheets in one linked file



• Remove useless Plugins and Widgets



• Never compress CSS nor JavaScript! Even I used to recommend this before but when we talk of site maintenance you will get confused figuring out the compressed code. So please never make a mess out of your code. Keep it well indented and structured.

3. Integrate Google+ Button on your sites

Well how can Google forget promoting their Social network. So yes you must make sure to add Google+ buttons on your site to ensure you get maximum number of +1 recommendations because believe it or not social sharing votes does count a lot.

How to Improve it?

Simply add a GooglePlus button inside your posts and your sidebar. Also create a Google+ Fan Page. Read the following delicious tutorial to get things going.

• Add Google+ Button to your site



• Create a Google+ Fan Page



• Create Google+ Business Page  - Optional

Scorecard Symbols and Indicators

Following are some interesting details about the various symbols used in your scorecard chart. You can find more help and details on scorecard at Google Groups

1. Following are the three important Scores symbols and their description

Score	Description
	Excellent! No need to make any changes to this category.
	Improvements suggested. You are advised to make some further improvements to this item.
	Needs improvement! You must or may take quick action to optimize this item

2. Following are some symbols that would appear after you make the suggested changes.

Symbol	Meaning
	This category�s score has increased by one or more blue dots up to four blue dots.
	This category�s score has drop down by one or more blue dots down to three blue dots.
	This item�s score has gone up from �Needs improvement� to �Improvements suggested�.
	This item�s score has gone down from �Improvements suggested� to �Needs improvement�.

Need Help?

I guess we covered every single tip and almost all best practices used to make sure you monetize your sites well and improve your CTR and RPM value. If there is anything we emphasize a lot to our clients after SEO then it's the site Design and then Monetization. Please give extra care to how appealing your site design is. You have the right to make it eye-catching by using all Fancy Jquery effects but please be assured that sometimes you need to sacrifice for the sake of a bigger gain. This is one reason why Wikipedia is so ugly yet so powerful.

It's time for some home work, we will do ours, you do yours!. Let me know for any help needed. Peace and blessings buddies. :)

Making Money with your New Blog - Monetizing Basics

Most bloggers will start off their venture in the hopes of earning big from their blogs. And not without reason either. Multitudes of people are earning a decent sum online. You can too. Earning money from your blog while sitting at home is like a dream for most, and yet, is a reality for many as well. It isn't difficult, it just needs some dedication, and the right guidance. In this post, well talk about monetizing your blog to make money online.

Before you move on, do take a look at some of the basics of blogging that we've covered so far.

Part 1: How to create your first blog - what platform to choose?

Part 2: Replace your blogspot domain with a Dot com domain From Godaddy

Part 3: Choosing best web-hosting for Blogger blogs

Part 4: 5 most practiced Ways of building Active blog Readership

Part 5: Basic SEO Tips for a Newly Launched Blog - Beginners Guide

Part 6: Making Money with your New Blog - Monetizing Basics

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is perhaps the most widely known advertising network, so much so that a lot of people, especially new bloggers don't know of any others except Google AdSense. So quite naturally, it'll be the first thing they apply to. Agreeably, Google AdSense is a good starter for beginners, and every blogger should try it at one point or another. However, for earning real hard cash, you'll need to look into some other networks.

Google AdSense is mostly a CPC network. CPC stands for Cost Per Click, and means that you get a certain amount for every click you get on your ads. You can also employ CPM (Cost Per Impression) as an AdSense publisher. CPM gives you a certain amount on the completion of a set Impressions target (for example $0.1 for every 1000 Impressions or views on your ads).

Here are some articles that will help you get the most out of your Google AdSense ads.

• 6 Advanced AdSense Optimization tips for increased ad revenue


• Complete list of Google AdSense fatures


• Top tips for optimizing Google AdSense ads


• Protecting against bad click activity

BuySellAds

Google AdSense is good in as far as 'getting-the-wheel-turning' is concerned. But these days, almost every other website is getting approved by Google AdSense, which has driven the ad-space and  competition up, and the cost down. That's why you get so little revenue per click.

This is where BuySellAds comes in. BSA does not operate like Google AdSense. Instead, they are Direct Ads. There's a marketplace where you get listed once you pass the BSA criterion of having over 60,000 unique pageviews per month. Advertisers can then pick you from the list, and choose you for hosting their ads based on your niche. This is one of the reasons why you should have a clearly defined niche, because it'll then be easier for sponsors for your niche to find your blog and advertise with it. Once you get picked, you get paid for putting up an ad for a certain period of time. Simple, yet effective. BSA is one of the biggest source of income for many intermediate to professional bloggers out there.

Read these articles to get a better idea about BuySellAds

• How to find sponsors for your blog?


• How to update public stats in BuySellAds


• The Pros and Cons of Direct Ads


• Style BSA empty Ad spots with CSS

Affiliate Ads

Affiliate Ads are yet another form of advertising, and they are based on compensations/commissions. The idea is, you promote a product or a service, get people to actually buy it, and then you get a certain sum as a reward for 'referring' that buyer.

This concept is pretty widely used now. Companies need to grow, and for that, they need customers. They'll do anything to get customers, which is why most online products and services, and even some offline companies too offer rewards for referrals. If you do it right, affiliate marketing can become your single largest source of income.

We here at MBT often share discount coupons from HostGator with our readers. HostGator in this case is acting as the host company, and will reward anyone who can bring in customers for it. If you visit their homepage, you will see how you can even earn $2000+ in one month just from referrals!

Here are some posts that ought to help you out with Affiliate Marketing

• Why is Affiliate marketing better than Google AdSense?


• 7 Important Affiliate marketing tips


• Are affiliate ads better than direct ads?

Got questions? Please feel free to ask in the comments section below. And please, try to keep it relevant. Thank you :)

11 Most Popular Female Bloggers of 2013!

Today when the biggest competitor of man out there in industry is woman, even the online earning medium too is equally availed by the powerful ladies who know how to cash their talent. It was once perceived that women lack in technical skills and it was somehow true too when the technical work was all limited to the real world, thanks to the online earning strategies, now the chances to make money online are equally available for both-man and woman.

When it comes to blogging, women are a sound contestant of the race and are generating good revenue with their blogs.

Being a female blogger myself, here are a few inspirational women who are known for their work. All data is latest for 2013 especially.  Have a look!

List of Most Popular Female Bloggers

1. Gina Trapani

Blog: www.lifehacker.com

Alexa Rank: 625

Niche: Self-improvement

The lady who has made it to the top 10 richest bloggers of the world is the owner of Life hacker. The site has always been an inspiration for me where the main focus is given to how actually one can improve his personality. Gina is an active social blogger and the founding editor of her blog. She earns about $110,000 a month with her blogging skills.

Impressive!

2) Rita McGrath

Blog: Harvard Business Review Blog Network

Alexa Rank: 4068

Niche: Marketing

  Rita started her blog in 1994 as a not-for-profit blog with an aim of improving the practice of management and its impact in the changing world. Although initially the blog focused on Hardvard University only, now the blog has turned into an organization where there are 30 employees, having offices in New York City, India and UK.

3) Ree Drummond

Blog:  The Pioneer Woman

Alexa Rank: 7,645

Niche: Food

When it comes to mixing some ingredients and making the best out of it, the Pioneer woman has no comparisons. Whether you are a housewife or a business woman, your interest in cooking is something most evident. Ree Drummond provides all what you might be looking for in food on her blog which is widely followed across the globe.

4) Heather & Jessica

Blog: Go Fug Yourself

Alexa Rank: 18,000

Niche: Fashion and Style

Heather & Jessica have been keeping an eagle�s eye on every move taken in the fashion industry to share it all with their readers. A good site to follow.

5) Jenny Lawson

Blog: The Bloggess

Alexa Rank: 28,433

Niche: Humor

If you are looking for some great fun to laugh on, you must visit Jenny�s blog. The blog contains every aspect of life, giving it a new touch, making it hilarious. The site has a relatively good traffic rank in the cities of Hartford and Washington (DC).

6) Julie, Janet, Francesca, & Sarah

Blog:  Remodelista

Alexa Rank: 31172

Niche: Design

If you are looking for a platform to learn more about interior designing and wish to give your home a new look; then this site will provide you some decent ideas to follow.

7) Sara K. Smith

Blog: Wonkette

Alexa Rank: 32,975

Niche: Politics

Women were never behind in the field of politics and Sara Smith has proved it through her work. Wonkette is a popular political site owned by this female blogger. The blog covers all the highlights and latest political affairs

8) Ariel Meadow Stallings

Blog:  Offbeat Bride

Alexa Rank: 50,404

Niche: Fashion

Offbeat Bride is most popular website for brides who dare to walk off the beaten aisle. The site is all about fashion, advice, photos, and more for couples who think differently about their weddings. The site is viewed by over 170,000 unique visitors a month and has over 1.2 million page views each month.

9) Martina Zavagno

Blog: Adverblog

Alexa Rank: 62,968

Niche: Marketing

Matrina is working as an insider in an integrated marketing firm and is more than willing to share all her knowledge with her readers through her blog.

10) Danielle LaPorte

Blog: White Hot Truth

Alexa Rank: 73,342

Niche: Branding

She�s positive, slightly spiritual, avant, and fully facing the possibility of every day, which is probably why so many people turn to her for guidance on how they can expand their brands, their campaigns, their work, and their minds!

11) Tamar Weinberg

Blog: Techipedia

Alexa Rank: 87,000

Niche: Social Media

The lady whom we know as a Community & Marketing Manager at Mashable, Tamar has been all up in social interactions for 15 years. Although her personal blog needs more than what she is contributing at mashable, it is likely to expect techpedia one of the biggest rivals of mashable in the coming months.

So you see, women can make it all possible no matter which ever field you pick to compare the capabilities of a man with a woman. One thing that is common in all of these women is their consistency and high spirit.

Hope that you enjoyed reading about the magnificent ladies of the blogging world,

Wishes

10 Underestimated Ways of Making Money Online

Making money online and earning your livings via your laptop is becoming one of the most popular earning methods. Statistics have shown that there has been a significant increase in the number of people who are cashing their talent by utilizing the online platform, which for sure is a good replacement of any other real world job.

It is interesting to find that when you question people about all the possible online earning strategies available, all you come across is either blogging or freelancing. There are no doubts about the significance of the two; yet, it is to be remembered now that with the spreading awareness among the potential entrepreneurs, the two stated fields are becoming saturated and complicated. If you look forward to build your blog, you need reasons; pretty good to attract your potential readers, as it is, there are more than a billion sites that are running on the same niche as yours. Similarly, now that freelancing is turning into a giant monster, every next person is known as a freelancer which in turn has created a tough competitive freelance market.

If you have tried your luck as a blogger or a freelancer and failed to attain effective results, all you need to do is to check out the huge list of alternates. Although there are trillions of ways to make money online, here are 10 underestimated ways to earn online.

1) Cash your Talent at Fiverr

No matter how magical your words are, no matter how dedicated you are towards your online business, your start-up earning a day is no more than $2-3 a day as an average. How about bidding your talent for $5 all in all? If the idea sounds decent enough, here comes Fiverr.com at your rescue.

Fiverr is a site that allows you to offer your services (whether be of any type) for $5. The members can sell their gigs to people and can buy the services for the same price too.

According to a research that I did few months back, there are all possibilities that a member can earn more than $200 a month through Fiverr. The site deducts $1 as the service charges and the seller gets his $4 through PayPal easily.

Therefore if you are an interesting person and have got a command on something special, creative and worth showing-off, register yourself for free at Fiverr, and enjoy some extra income as a start-up.

2) Use SEOclecks and make money

If you are looking for better SEO services other than Fiverr and searching for affordable SEO services with quality, then do not hesitate to check this out! SEOclerks is an amazing micro job website, you may find many micro job offering sites but what stands it different from others is that, here you can buy affordable SEO services provided by SEO professionals and could also sell your own services on your terms and price. Here people are offering mass amount of services ranging from Article Translating to Webhosting or you could offer selling anything you want!

Getting paid or ordering is as easy as logging into the account. Simple money transactions can be made via PayPal or Payza. In case you don�t have any of them, just provide your profile e-mail for payments to receive.

3) Turn your Photography into an e-business!

It was recently that I came across a catchy line on a social media and that was �You are not a photographer, you just have got a good Camera�! That�s so true. These days, thanks to digitalization, all of us have got the potential to turn into a photographer and make money by selling high definition pictures online. All it needs is a little homework and time to get a hold of the skill.

There are many sites that exclusively works on the same principle where either few of them sell random pictures from you or place an order to get perfect clicks for them.

Few sites are:

1)Photo Merchant

2)SmugMug

3)Zenfolio

5)ifp3

6)DigiLabs

7)Instaproofs

8)PhotoReflect

4)Hubpages.com

Being a writer myself, I have an additional vote for hubpages.com. If you think you are capable of playing with words and know how to put your thoughts down on paper, article writing is surely one of the decent ways to get recognition for your work and money equivalent altogether. Like many other sites like Squidoo.com and ezinearticles, hubpages.com shares the revenue with its member on the basis of readership been generated by their articles.

There are, however, few guidelines which, in case of failure can reject your articles leading to the waste of good amount of time.

5) Make money by uploading Files

How about earning money for uploading files and getting some dollars according to the number of downloads your uploaded files make? The idea itself sounds great, isn�t it? There are people who do not have technical skills or even the power of writings so this one is surely one of the best remedies for them. There are many sites that offer reasonable packages to their members, here are a few:

1)Docstoc.com

Payment on uploading: 50/50 revenue generated

2)Deposifiles.com

Payment on uploading: $25 per1000 downloads

3)Uploading.com

Payment on uploading: $1-100 for every 1000 downloads

4)Crocko.com

Payment on uploading: $1 per 500 downloads

5)Shareapic.com

Payment on uploading: $0.22 for every 1000 picture views

What you need to consider here is the choice you make to upload the file. Think about uploading a video of your backyard and a solution manual of a physics book. Ask yourself that will people be interested in downloading your file? If yes, then figure out that why would they do so. A right choice can bring you good dollars while a lame one can actually eat your time without giving back any favors to you.

6)Earn with your iPhone!

It would be difficult to cover all aspects that an online earning medium covers. You can even make money with your iPhone and make a better use of it in spite of using it for casual activities. There are companies that are associated with the development of iPhone applications and need people to test their applications and provide them reviews. These companies offer an online support and no matter wherever you are situated, you can avail this opportunity and make considerable amount of money.

Few sites are:

1) Swagbucks

Potential Earnings/Task: Approx $10

2) Gigwalk

Potential Earnings/Task: $5- $90

3). EasyShift

Potential Earnings/Task: $3- $20

Adding some extra dollars in your pocket is wise, especially when you enjoy using your iPhone.

7)Enjoy Profit with Forex Trading

Forex is a Currency market where currency trading takes place, facilitating the exchange of currencies (similar to the currency exchangers where you buy or sell the currencies). These days when the online transactions have become the basic necessity of every single business, no matter, big or small, Forex provides a good way to make money utilizing the opportunity that is open for all equally, if they know a little about Forex and Forex Trading Principles.

Once done with signup, step 1 is done, now you are required to add money to your Forex account that you have planned to start trading with. If you have a PayPal Account, well enough, if not, good news is, you can transfer your amount with wire transfer and many other online money transfer options.

This is important to mention here that although the profits are great in forex trading; even the loss is unbearable at times. It is better to invest your �Extra Money� here only.

8) Facebook fan pages

People take Facebook as a Social Networking site only, however, it can turn into a business with profits that are beyond your imaginations. Simple Question that might be clicking all of you is-how? Isn�t it? With Facebook Fan Pages, you can make as much as you want, if you are innovative enough to target a huge audience.

Social media is enjoying huge audience and getting started with a controversial/worth-following/happening fan page is a good option. What actually happens is, according to the reach and reputation of your fanpage, there are advisors who approach you for advertising their products/services on your page. All in all, it�s a great way to make money.

9) Make money By Online translation!

When you have nothing to cash, you at least have a language to use. Online medium covers this talent as well. There are sites that need online translators to make their products and services available in all languages.

Few sites are:

1. TranslatorsTown

2. TranslatorsBase

3. TRADUguide

4. Proz

5. Trally

You can earn up to $200 a month depending on the package you chose for yourself.

10) Use triod.com

Triond is a different publishing platform, where anyone can sign up and start submitting content. You aren�t limited to just articles here; in fact, you can submit videos, images and what not. It is true that initially the site doesn�t brings huge rewards, but there is something to motivate the beginners.

Therefore, if you are looking forward to start your career online, you must judge you capabilities first and choose a right option for yourself. That brings us to the end of the topic for now, Share your views about the above stated ways and let us know your experiences related to them.

Wishes,