This post just came across my feed reader and I had to spread the love. There are some amazing designs for the footer of a website, makes me want to re-do my own right now! Very inspirational.
Details: This set of free hand drawn doodle icons includes 14 graphics tailored specifically for bloggers. Including social media graphics for Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter as well as commonly used icons such as RSS, Home, Comments, Contact and Wordpress.
The bad economy and company layoffs are dominating today’s news. Even international freelancers who may have clients in the US are directly or indirectly affected by this market. There are conflicting reports on whether or not this positively or negatively effects freelancers. Some claim that it’s a positive thing since companies tend to let their full-timers go to save on salary, insurance etc. Other sources claim the recession is hitting freelancers as well since companies tend to trim their advertising and marketing budgets first.
The silver lining of this storm cloud is that many industries are actively recruiting and hiring freelancers. This article by Jaime Mintun of Freelance Switch offers many good industries to keep your eye on. Some may be familiar, some may be new to you.
Free Invitation:-
If You Like My Post Comment Me,Thanks You And Visit Again
* Valid Table-less XHTML / CSS * Files Included * Jquery form validation * PSD Template * Working Contact Form * HTML code well documented Free Invitation:-
If You Like My Post Comment Me,Thanks You And Visit Again
* Valid XHTML and Valid CSS codes. * jQuery powered top rotator * Cufom powered custom heading in Anivers font * Working contact form * PSD files included * HTML code well documented Free Invitation:-
If You Like My Post Comment Me,Thanks You And Visit Again
* Valid XHTML and Valid CSS codes. * showcase your work * custom twitter feed feature * site search feature. * 6 selectable color settings built in * HTML code well documented Free Invitation:-
If You Like My Post Comment Me,Thanks You And Visit Again
* Valid XHTML and Valid CSS codes. * Unobtrusive Javscript and jQuery code. * Neatly organized theme files. * Support for Wordpress 2.7’s threaded and paged comments. * Current Version: 0.1 * HTML code well documented Free Invitation:-
If You Like My Post Comment Me,Thanks You And Visit Again
* Valid Table-less XHTML / CSS * Styled Contact Form * Jquery form validation * PSDs Included – Layout and Page Title Section * Animation Effects * HTML code well documented Free Invitation:-
If You Like My Post Comment Me,Thanks You And Visit Again
* Valid Table-less XHTML / CSS * Full layered PSD Files * Jquery form validation * Flash like, jquery based 2 type showcase * Modern look WEB 2 .0 style layout * HTML code well documented Free Invitation:-
If You Like My Post Comment Me,Thanks You And Visit Again
Google AdSense is a simple and low-risk way for publishers to quickly monetize their content. The pay-per-click ad system has created an opportunity for anyone to instantly have advertising on their website, without the hassle of having to actively sell ad space. AdSense makes up a good portion of the advertising revenue for many websites, and other websites may use AdSense to earn the bulk of their revenues. Either way, AdSense is an excellent system for monetizing your content.
In this post we present an ultimate collection of resources, tools and tips to help you make the most out of Google AdSense. Among other things, this post covers various Google AdSense tools, Firefox-extensions, WordPress-plugins and related resources.
Free and fast tool to monitor adsense earnings in realtime. This tool posts all the correct post fields to Googles universal Account Services login and collects information about your earnings. You’ll able to see today, yesterday, this month and since last payment earnings. You don’t need to log in to Google anymore.
Type any web page URL (e.g. cnn.com) or keywords (e.g. web development), select a country (optional) and hit Enter to see the latest Google Ads that are contextual and geo-targeted.
an addition to the right-click menu for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x, allowing you to preview the ads that may show on any webpage. With just a few clicks, you can see what ads may appear on your new webpages, or make an educated decision on whether to add AdSense to your existing site pages.
The Google Traffic Estimator is an easy way to determine the search volume of certain keywords, and it shows related keywords and their volumes as well.
SpyFu allows you to look up any website and see how much it is spending on AdSense, how it ranks for each keyword, and which keywords it buys. The tool is quite useful for researching competitors.
This comparison tools comes in handy when you compare AdSense ads to those of other advertisement services (Chitika, Yahoo). You also have the ability to customize the colors and view what ads a certain URL would be likely to display.
This AdSense Calculator is designed to help you to predict changes in your earnings depending on improvement (or deterioration) of Page Impressions, Click Through Rate and Cost Per Click. You can download further calculators here.
During the search, people use different keywords. Using this tool, you can find the most effective words before deciding what content to include on your page. Not free, but the free trial is available.
To use this tool, you need an AdWords account. This traffic estimator helps you to figure out what keywords result in the highest paying AdSense ads (more details on uphook).
While Pubmatic isn’t strictly an AdSense tool, it will definitely help you earn more money from your website by optimizing your ads. With each page view, Pubmatic determines whether showing an AdSense ad or an ad from a different network would be best, based on the CPM.
Instead of earning nothing from the PSA ads that Google fills the page with when it has no ads to show, earn a set fee by giving AlterNut Ad your unused PSA ads.
GraphSense gives you a visual look at your AdSense reports by adding graphs to the interface. As of this post, the extension is still classified as “experimental,” so you’ll have to log in to Mozilla to install it.
4. Official AdSense Resources
Google has provided some official tools and resources to help publishers get started with AdSense.
Just recently Google announced the launch of interest-based advertising. This help section addresses the new mechanism and explains how you can benefit from it.
5. Getting Started with AdSense
Because of the popularity of AdSense, many so-called “experts” out there try to give “inside information” or sell their secrets in the form of ebooks. If you’re truly a beginner to AdSense, use the official AdSense help database that Google provides.
Here are some “getting started” articles by a few trusted authors.
One of the many enemies of publishers who rely on ads is banner blindness. Rotating ad colors is a good way to combat banner blindness, resulting in more clicks on ads.
Click-through ratios are much higher if you show your AdSense units only to visitors who were referred by search engines. Here’s an article on how to implement that functionality on your website.
The AdSense Manager widget allows for the automatic creation of AdSense ad zones on your WordPress blog. The plug-in also supports other ad networks, such as YPN, AdBrite and Commission Junction.
Easy AdSenser is a feature-filled plug-in that allows you to easily insert AdSense into your posts and layout. It has an extremely user-friendly interface, with lots of features that make adding AdSense much easier than it is with other plug-ins.
Determines what type of visitor will see ads on your website. This plug-in allows publishers to hide ads from regular visitors and show them only to search visitors.
9. AdSense Books
If you’re looking for an entire collection of tips and advice on making the most out of AdSense, you might want to try a print book instead. Plenty of excellent AdSense articles are available online, but on the whole, it is easier to find more accurate information in print media. Here are some of the most popular books on AdSense.
The WMW forum is by far the best forum for getting expert advice on AdSense. A member of the Google AdSense team actually reviews all the threads and answers questions, so the information is legitimate.
Digital Point’s AdSense forum isn’t as strict as the Webmaster World forum, so there is a lot of engagement but less experienced users and less informed advice.
SEOChat doesn’t have an entire forum dedicated to Google AdSense, but it does have a thriving forum for affiliate marketing in which many AdSense topics come up on a regular basis.
11. Those Against AdSense
It’s always a good practice to hear the other side of the story when rounding up resources on a topic, especially one as controversial as AdSense. Many experts argue that AdSense isn’t the best choice for publishers to monetize their content. Here are a few articles that criticize AdSense.
Problogger Darren Rowse’s open letter to AdSense about why he was disappointed in its decision to change the referral policy for publishers outside the US.
A round-up of thought-provoking reasons as to why Google ads repel publishers. Some of the reasons include: the ads are ugly, Adsense is everywhere, poor email support with the Google team and many others.