A blogging platform is simply the blogging application you choose to use. Choosing the best suitable blogging platform is the first door to enter blogosphere. The right decision will depend mostly on your needs. This time, we’ll review on WordPress.org.
Cost: Free (You Need to Get Your Own Hosting and Domain Name Which Cost Around $12/mth) Time to launch: 20 minutes
Snapshot of WordPress
Continue reading Reviews of Popular Blogging Platforms (Series) | Part 2: WordPress.org
In his popular free eBook describing his success to raise profit from his blog, John Chow recommends some ad network and affiliate program he uses. They were chosen from a list of 130 ad network he use at one time and another. Beside their good service and support, John Chow stresses their ability to commit on time payments. Here is the money-makers list:
This ad network allows you to make money from online advertising even without giving up any advertising spots, i.e. banner, widget, etc. Kontera will only read your post and turns certain words into an ad. The highlightened words will be double underlined and showed pop up ads when your site visitor hover it.
Although Kontera normally require a site have minimum 500.000 page view per month, John Chow partnership with Kontera, enable smaller blogger, like meJ, to use ContentLink service.
The best of Text Link Ad is the link just offer advertisers traffic and search engine benefit. Readers of our blog don’t seem mind since they are not intrusive. Your link price is set by Text Link Ads, based on traffic, page rank and RSS subscribers.
Even a John Chow still recommend ad service from big brother Google. Being a pioneer in ad network, Google known to be a consistent money maker from small blogger to professional full time blogger. Google simply display simple text and image ads on your blog that are based on what you are writing about.
Google AdSense now has potential competitor. Bidvertizer can pay their publisher with low limit payout, $10. This advantage would be interested for small blog, again like me, since it doesn’t have to wait that long as in Google AdSense which limits the pay out level $100.
As one big eBay affiliate, Auction Ads put all their publishers into one big “collective” to go after the higher revenue share. Though right now affiliates will get 100% of any money they make from the system, as the collective moves up the eBay revenue share tiers, AuctionAds will start to take a cut of revenues.
It is a sponsored review. Write a review from advertisers in your blog, and get paid, it’s that simple. However, how much you going to be paid are determined by your Alexa, Technocrati and RSS status.
This is an ad network owned by John Chow himself. TTZ media use keywords based ads to show a list of online stores where related products can be purchased.
FeedBurner just acquired by Google. The giant Google AdSense network can be seen in feeds provided by FeedBurner. The option to pick extra money from the net now available by monetizing your RSS feeds
As an affiliate program, this ads network quite different than the other. Deal Dot Com offers until two-tier affiliate program. It means, you get a chance to collect affiliate bonus until two level of reference. For the firs level, you will collect 35%, while for the second level you will collect 15% commission. Even better, unlike AuctionAds that place a time limit (5% for 6 months) to your commission, Deal Dot Com doesn’t. You will still get the commission last forever even your referral buy something tomorrow or years from now.
So, which one is your choice? Me? Hmmm, let me think about it for a while… 
Reference: “Make Money Online with John Chow”
After major update on September and minor one on October, Google is updating Page Rank throughout this December. However I haven’t seen any changes in my blogs yet. Using some Page Rank checker tools are not helping either. According to my experience in the previous update, they were late for a couple of days. That’s why, I usually count on Google Toolbar which seems utilize last Data Center information.
I also notice changes in my incoming links that was displayed by Google using the “link:domain.com” command. The Google Cache in my SEO Quake Toolbar is also freezing at December 6th that according to some opinions might become the sign of incoming update.
Some people at Digital Forum have noticed changes in their Google Toolbar Page Rank recently. This time, the Page Rank seems run slowly. But there is a common believe that all process will be finished by the end of this month.
Do you see any Google Page Rank updates yet?
