Adsense Tips and Tricks - June 27, 2008 - 4th Ed.

Welcome to the Fourth, June 27, 2008 edition of "AdSense tips and tricks" Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 64. Published Articles - 24. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

Prashant K Shukla presents SEO and Meta Tags My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, "SEO and Meta Tags - Meta Tags play significant role in SEO and if we take utmost care in building these tags, result would be the perfect optimization of our website."

Aaron Anderson presents Traffic Experiment Results: 308 Visitors In 6 Days posted at Online Business Blog.

Prashant K Shukla presents Role of Meta Title Tag in SEO My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, "Meta tags are the blocks which contain information about the contents of your web page and they exist into the head area of your web page. They are basically meant to communicate with the search engine. The Meta Keywords Tag and Meta Description Tag also need to be taken care of and optimized equally in addition to that of Meta Title Tag to secure a place at the top of the search engines and in convincing a search engine that your site’s contents are more relevant than that of your competitor’s."

Prashant K Shukla presents Site Indexing - Great Eight Tips My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, "Site Indexing - The most effective SEO technique is to index the pages of new website. There are lot of important issues, one should take care. We are providing a simple guide steps to help you in this regard."

Cindy King presents Go Viral With Video Marketing - Special Sound And Motion Effects posted at Get International Clients.

Bill McIntosh presents Is It Possible To Increase Website Traffic Instantly? posted at Bill McIntosh.

Prashant K Shukla presents Search Engines or Web Directories My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, "Submitting your site to major search engines and good rank directories help increasing the traffic and good placement in SERP (Search Engine Result Pages)."

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents 3 Small Tips For Increasing Pull From Your Sales Copy posted at Rebecca Dean.
Kathleen Gage presents Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions: Get the most out of your blogging efforts! FREE report tells you how posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, "What used to be viewed by many as a passing fad has now become a necessary aspect of doing business on the Internet. Blogging has become a necessary aspect of any solid online marketing strategy. However, even though millions of people are blogging, the majority don’t know how to optimize their blogging efforts. Although some people view blogging as a novelty or a “someday I’ll get around to it” smart entrepreneurs understand they have to get into the game of blogging sooner than later. When done correctly, blogging can have an incredible impact on your market position."

Marcus Hochstadt presents SEO vs. Design posted at Marcus Hochstadt.
Issa Gh presents Make Money Blogging posted at Make Money Online, saying, "Blogging is taking the Internet by storm these days, so it’s only smart to use it to your advantage to make money. It is very simple, it is completely free."

Kenton Newby presents First-Class Blogging: 12 Perfect Upgrades to Power Your Wordpress Site posted at KentonNewby.com.
BlogMeTheMoney presents Adsense Alternatives: Part 1 of 4 posted at Blog Me The Money, saying, "Adsense is a great way to monetize a site, but shouldnt be the only advertising network used. This 4 part series offers a look at many different types of alternatives."

Martin Russell presents They’re Going To Go Broke… posted at Word of Mouth Marketing.

Diego Norte presents Internet Business 101 posted at Internet Business 101.

Neelakantha presents 50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API posted at http://www.collegeathome.com.

George Tzenos presents Article Marketing - get targetted traffic to your site posted at Traffic2MyPage Blog, saying, "how to write niche articles.. and how to submit them to sites... to generate interest in your adsense sites"

Bryan presents 5 Surprising Traffic Secrets posted at The Capitalist Guide Blog.

Sagar Satapathy presents 57 Useful Google Tools You?ve Never Heard Of posted at http://www.collegeathome.com.

Traffic2mypage presents Youtube Web Traffic System - Video Review posted at Traffic2MyPage Blog, saying, "bring more web traffic to your site using youtube marketing. Gives compelling reasons why to use youtube and also highlights two key steps for getting more people to view your video and then visit your site"

James Lee presents The Profitable Power of the Zeigarnik Effect posted at Online Business Freedom.

Steven Lohrenz presents Want V Needs posted at Steven Lohrenz.

Danielle Halzer presents Internet Scams posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.

Michael. presents WordPress Free Blogging Platform Software Review posted at Review Hookup.

That concludes this edition. We are temporary suspending this Carnival for the further editions. Please follow announcements on the Blog Carnival home page.

Teach Your Kids Online Etiquette

We are teaching our kids of proper behaviour in the society. At least, we are trying to do our best to teach them. Equally important to explain them the main rules of the online etiquette - so called "netiquette". There is a collection of the simple recommendations of what your children should avoid in online communication:

• Posting stolen or cracked software is not recommended. This is plainly illegal and can be considered as a criminal offence.
• Emailing anything that is part of a pyramid scheme. These are also illegal, and they work perfectly just for their creators. For everybody else - it is a lost battle, no matter what you read in the spam promises.
• Giving out your own or other people’s phone numbers or personal information. Use alternative (or disposable) email addresses and secondary free Internet phone numbers, when giving away this information is mandatory.
• Emailing to a large group of people and revealing their email addresses to all the recipients. While sending message to multiple recipients, it is recommended to put their addresses in the BCC field. That will also prevent the private responses to be delivered to the entire group.
• Posting anything without acknowledging the source. It is considered polite and advisable to show where the item came from with a link or short sentence, if the information is available.
• Formatting emails with colored text/background. They are difficult to read without converting them.
• Typing your messages or emails in all capital letters. “Shouting” or “screaming” in caps is rude.
• Emailing very large files without letting the other person know. Getting a large file will slow things down for users, fill up their mailbox and prevent them from receiving something that may be more important. In some cases, it might completely block the mail server.
• Emailing alerts about viruses that you haven’t verified are real. Make sure the virus isn’t a hoax before you tell everyone you know.
• Sending an attachment that might be infected with a virus or Trojan. Scan for viruses regularly and keep your software up-to-date.
• Emailing with long subject lines. Use the body of the email for your message and the subject line for a brief description.
• Emailing with no subject line at all. This is a Spammer tactic. A subject line gives someone a little information before they read the main text. It also helps people sort and organize their emails. Besides, in most cases, your email with no subject will go directly to the bulk mail or spam folder.

To add personality and humor to your messages, use smileys, also known as emoticons, expressions you create from the characters on your keyboard. It just like adding tones to your online voice. A few popular ones include:
:-) Happy :-( Sad :-o Surprised :-@ Screaming :-I Indifferent :-e Disappointed :-< Mad :-D Laughing ;-) Winking

More information can be found at:

http://www.netmanners.com/netiquette_guide.html

http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/09netiqt.htm

http://supergeeks.net/tips-and-tricks/internet-etiquette/

Trapster Free Services - Avoiding Police Speed Traps

"If someone slows down because of it, it's accomplishing the same goal of trying to get people to obey the speed limit"

Bill Johnson - Executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations

Have you ever been stopped by traffic police for speeding? I bet, it was not the most pleasant experience in your life, followed by the financial punishment and traffic school detention (if you are eligible). The best way to avoid speed tickets is avoid speeding. Yes, it is easier said than done. Especially, if you are in running late for your flight or the entire traffic flow is rushing beyond the traffic speed limits.

Anti-radar has been a good warning solution. But, it has at least three noticeable limitations:

1. It is not considered legal in all states.
2. Some of the police scanners have been recently upgraded to the new signal type, that is not catch able by the old anti-radar devices.
3. While driving in the mountains, sometimes, you can catch the police trap by anti-radar only at the moment, when radar registers your speed, not giving ahead-of-time warning.
   

The new free service Trapster (http://www.trapster.com/) offers an interesting Web 2 online social solution to the problem: it offers one-touch reporting and automated alerts for police speed traps through their portal. Pete Tenereillo, a programmer in Carlsbad who developed Trapster, described it as "a social network for sharing information about police speed traps." Tenereillo confirmed that all most current-generation cell phones, Blackberries and other PDA’s can accommodate the Trapster software.

Trapster works like this: After you sign for a free membership, you can download the Trapster software to your cell phone or PDA. Later, on the road, when you spot a police trap hiding, you just punch in # 1 (pound one) on your cell phone or dial a toll-free number. Other users are then alerted on their cell phones or PDA when they approach the same speed trap, you discovered.

Trapster free services: police speed traps warning

At this point, the service has not been met with opposition by law enforcement because it ultimately encourages drivers to slow down.

Ubuket - all your multimedia files in one place

Do you consider yourself as multimedia fan? Are you actively involved in various Web2 online communities? Do you stream music over the web, share photos on Flickr and Picasa, watch videos at YouTube? Do you have many different pictures, audio and video files and related links on different places on the Web?

If you can answer YES to at least some of the questions, you might find quite useful new free service offerings from Ubuket (http://www.ubuket.com/).

Ubuket make it easy to access your multimedia content from computer, social network, blog, or mobile device, and share it with your friends, and all from a single online interface. The featured online application is very user friendly and does not require significant time to understand its features and start using them. Once you sign up in your account, you can grab tunes from a variety of places, including your computer, and turn them into playlists for sharing with your friends, coworkers, blog readers or site visitors. You can enter any keyword or log-in information for various online services, and connect the multimedia you like to your Ubuket account. You can also browse your friends’s ubuket accounts, as per their permission.

There are several possibilities to access the application:

• Through the company web site http://www.ubuket.com/
• Through an Adobe AIR applications (you can run the application on your desktop).
• By iPhone or iPod Touch, and via
• Via Facebook and Bebo (soon, Hi5, MySpace, and Orkut).
• The Ubuket application can also be embedded into a web site or blog for site owner and its visitors’ direct access.

Ubuket offers a starting point of access to your pictures and videos from Picasa, Photobucket, and Flickr, searching for music from the web on Seeqpod and Last.Fm, searching and linking videos from Youtube, as well as uploading your own multimedia library from you desktop.

Ubuket - all your multimedia in one place

Hard-to-Find Phone Numbers

Internet is of great assistance in finding the important information fast and efficiently. However, sometimes, you canot find the essential simple information behind the companies corporate pages. Especially, if the information is not something many of the service providers are willing to share easily. I mean the phone contact numbers for the Service, Technical Support, and Customer Support Departments. The hope is, that while you look for the contact information, the problem will be resolved by itself, or you will give up and buy a replacement.

You refuse to give up easily? A simple free informational Web Site HardToFind800Numbers will help you reach companies whose numbers are often buried deep within a large corporate portals. The site organizes companies alphabetically and displays phone numbers, hours of operation, and any other relevant information.

www.hardtofind800numbers.com

Access Link: http://www.hardtofind800numbers.com/

Start your Free Images Search Here!

You need images for your Web Site, Blog, greeting card, or school project. Where would you go to search for the free pics? Flickr is a good starting point.

A fresh service, compfight, is supposed to propose a better searching capabilities for the Flickr hosted images, than the Flick itself, in terms of the speed of scan and quality of image search. It is not affiliated with Flickr, but uses the Flickr API, and lets you toggle Creative Commons search right under its search box. You have an option to do a full-text search on images titles and descriptions, or to limit your search just to Creative Commons licensed works only.

Results are returned on clickable thumbnail pages, 250 to a page. Choosing one will get you to the related full-image Flickr page. Simplistic interface and keeping the preferable user settings makes this user-friendly site a good option to start your images searches from.

Compfight - Search for Images

Access Link: http://compfight.com/