Ever since I started posting paid reviews from early May, I was forced to remove the Kontera code from this blog's HTML. The reason was Kontera's in-text advertising clashes with the TOC of the various companies offering paid review programs. My first sponsored post was rejected becasue Kontera in-text advertisement pop up within the sponsored post's keywords. I was forced to decide which to let go and which to continue. Thereby ending my short but unproductive partnership with Kontera. Until now, that is.
I was alerted to the possibility of running both programs together on my blog when Courtney Tuttle posted his earnings breakdown for May which include those of Kontera as well as other paid-review programs.
I emailed Court to enquire how he manage to achieve this without encountering a clash in TOC and obviously, many other bloggers had also emailed him with similar enquiry. A couple of days later, Court posted the solution on his blog to share with his readers. I followed the easy hack, and it is proven to work as well on Blogger.
How To Block Kontera Ads From Appearing In Sponsored Posts
It is a simple but manual work(no short cut) of pasting special code
at the beginning of every paragraphs and 
at the end of every paragraphs in your sponsored post.
For example, if you want to block Kontera ads from appearing in the below paragraph, you will have to click on HTML view and add in:
You can now run Kontera ads in your blog without violating the TOC of paid review programs of having other advertisers' ads appearing in your sponsored posts.
I have since re-employed Kontera's code into my template's HTML and add in the above 2 special code to every paragraphs of every individual sponsored post, past and present. It works! They can now co-ed on this blog without clashing, and I can add another revenue source into my basket!
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Jun 6, 2007
How to Have The Cake and Eat it Too!
Jun 5, 2007
Free Day Planner 2.0
It looks like lady luck took a fancy on me and decided to stay a while longer. She came in the form of a handsome guy call Brian Lee!
Brian of Genuis Types visited this blog and emailed to inform that I was the lucky winner of his "Think and Grow Rich" Book giveaway contest! For that, I won myself a brand new copy of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
For his next contest, Brian is giving away a brand new zippered portfolio (similar to the one he is using) which is filled with thirteen weeks of planner sheets from his Free Day Planner 2.0.
To enter the draw, simply link to his Free Day Planner and Time Management System using the same anchor text and notified Brian of your post url by leaving a comment on his post.
This cool zippered day planner will really complement the copy of Think and Grow Rich (on its way to me) to help in my goal setting process. Isn't that enough reason for lady luck to shine on me, again?
News You Can Use
At the beginning of a new month, it is very common to read about bloggers posting their previous month's earnings and analyzing the ups and downs of their various revenue sources. But so far, I have not come across any bloggers who can boast earnings from embedding or publishing licensed quality news on their site. This bland situation will soon end as there is a new revenue source in town and it is call The News Room.
Once you join TheNewsRoom as a member(registration is free), you can easily access to hundreds of thousands of fully licensed news stories from more than 170 credible content sources like Associated Press (AP), Reuters, and Agence France-Press (AFP), to name a few. The videos are spread across many different news categories to cater to your blog's niche and relevance.
When you click on the mash button, and follow the easy step-by-step process and copy the code to embed a news story or a news feed (with advertising) onto your website or blog you start earning revenue. It is that easy! This is a win win situation for bloggers who value high quality content to enhance or support their opinion and who blog for profit.
That is not all. From your site, the content can then be redistributed to an infinite number of additional sites. TheNewsRoom provide a tracking system and dashboard that records where the feeds and stories have traveled on the Web and how often they are viewed. Is that revolutionary or what?You can focus on posting killer contents for your site while letting the system track your viral income!
As mentioned earlier, all content is accompanied by advertising. Members earn a share of the advertising revenue each time mashed news is viewed on your site. With TheNewsRoom's innovative, viral payment model, blogger can earn up to $4 per thousand impressions (CPM).
Jun 3, 2007
Increase Your PageRank by Viralink!
Like I confessed in one of my earlier post, I have never been tagged in any meme before (reason being I am not in any inner circle of A-list bloggers). What I usually do to get involve in any online movement is to 'gatecrash' the party, uninvited!
I was reading Andy Coat's blog when I come across his post on Viralink, which he started in a bid to get lots of backlinks! My blog is forever in need of more link love, so I need to get VIRAL!
Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same!
Viralink
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When I receive a ping back once you have added the Viralink to your site I will add your link to this grid, and each person who copies the grid from here will also link to your site!
RulesNo Porn Sites
———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions above this line———
Inside The Secret Life of a Super Affiliate
The first thing that attracted my attention to Zac Johnson's blog is the super geeky cartoon of a crown-wearing geek holding some greenbacks! The cartoon did no justice to Zac's real look(check out his pics in photo gallery), but it does a good job making an impression on my mind! The image is also use as "Zac's stamp of approval" for his posts on network reviews, very unique!
Zac Johnson calls himself a super affiliate marketer as he has been making money online for over 10 years now and specializes in affiliate marketing. Through Zac’s personal blog, he'll share with you his secrets, successes and failures of a true life super affiliate and how you can start to making money online. He was even featured in Revenue magazine in his MoneyReignNetwork days. That is online credibility for you.
Zac's blog is very content focused and gives a "clean" feel with no advertising, a rare find these days, where plastering all kinds of ads on one's blog seems to be the order of the day.
Inspired by John Chow's success in "review my blog" link bait, Zac is starting his own "Review Me & Make Money" contest. Not only will he link back to you for reviewing his fast growing blog (predicted PR4 on next update), but also one lucky winner will be draw randomlyto win $50(pay via PayPal) for every 10 reviews he gets. Click here for his review rules.
Jun 2, 2007
Breakthrough!
Just last week, I posted about a bug on Technorati that made my Fan count became ZERO! I verified with a few fellow bloggers and concluded that it was a general problem that seems to plague every members. I emailed Technorati Support highlighting this problem but only managed to get a auto-responded standard reply.
Fast forward 1 week later and the bug appears to be fixed. The fan count is working normally again as this screenshot will attest.
The final home stretch was the hardest, coupled with the fan count bug encountered, a delay to achieve the objective was unavoidable. The journey so far has been fun and is worth every ounce of hard work I've put in. This journey is by no means completed as the breakthrough will definitely motivate me to continue climbing the ladder! The inital objective was to try to break into the top 100 most favourited, now that the benchmark has been reached, dare I raise the bar and set the next benchmark at top 50? Top 10? Stay tune or subscribe to my RSS feed to find out!
Last but not least, I want to shoutout 221 thank yous to all those who have joined this experiment and favourited and kept faith with me. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!
For those who would like to join this Technorati Favourite exchange experiment, jump on the bandwagon and start giving and collecting your Technorati Favourites by clicking
Related posts:
Technorati Favourite Exchange Experiment
Technorati Favourite Exchange Experiment (update #1)
Watch the Croc!
Darin Carter came across an article about the Croc shoe being recalled due to certain part of it posing a choking hazzard to young children.
He hopes to get words out about the recall (and danger) by harnessing the power of the blogging community to digg the story and/or blog about it to reach as many people as possible, especially those with kids.
As a father of 2 young children, even though we do not own any Crocs, I felt the responsibility to help spread the word. I've dugg the story and you can help to spread the word too(whether you have kids or not doesn't really matter).
Jun 1, 2007
May Mayhem
Another extremely fun month of blogging had shoot by. The highlights in May came in the form of getting paid(realized payments) for blogging, making my dream of being paid to write come true!
At the beginning of every month, it is very common to see many bloggers posting their earnings for the previous month. I am still struggling to convince myself whether to disclose my blog earnings. Until I am absolutely sure, leaving no doubt whatsoever in my mind, I'll put off the idea indefinitely. Anyway, my earnings are way too low to be of any interest to you, and neither will it inspire others. Having said that, I am not against my fellow bloggers posting their earnings, especially those whose hardwork were being paid-off, it's great motivation to see their earnings climbing month by month.
Another highlight came as a sweet surprise in my email inbox. I was informed that the review I submitted for Shawn-Knight's blog won the cash prize of $25! This is the first ever online contest which I've won cash. Lady luck must have visited and put smiley all over! I hope she'll stay awhile more, as more contest results will be annouced in the month of June! Once again, I want to thank Shawn for his contest and the joy his fun blog brought me. His daily Ownage never fails to put a smile on my face, it is especially a good form of stress reliever after a hard day's work! Stay tune to Shawn's blog as he disclosed more contests are coming up.
Review of RandLife.com
By his own account, Randall Cornett of RandLife.com professed that "...I’m not the most experienced person on the net. Actually, I’ve had very minimal success on the internet. Which, is why I’ve started this latest venture of trying to maintain a blog, that at least is worth something..."
Digging a little deeper into his blog to verified those humble confessions, I find no justifiable cause that points to his claims. On the contrary, I find it to be a cool blog with great blogging resources, and informative articles, written in a very professional yet personal way, which I beleive will easily connect with his readers.
Randall is a 17 years old native from Las Vegas, Nevada - a.k.a "Sin City", the place where CSI orignated. He will be finishing high school soon and is planning on getting his college education in Computer Science and later transferring to The University of Las Vegas Nevada to get a Business Degree. Randall is honest enough to let us in that school is really not his thing, his heart(besides belonging to his beautiful girlfriend Gabrielle Morales) really lies with computers. The Internet to be exact.
As far as his polished writing style is concern, Randall appears to me a 17 year-old going on 30! Randall blogs about his passion in topics like Search Engine Optimization, web development, affiliate marketing and blogging techniques.
