Want to know about the value of your blog or website? There are many online tools that calculates the value of a domain name or website. To make your task easier, I have listed some nice website value calculators in this post. You can use these tools to get an idea about the worth of your domain or website. These tool can also help you while buying a domain name or website. Mind it, these online tools uses data from various sources to calculate the value. So, you will definitely see some differences in their results.

• dnScoop: dnScoop.com attempts to estimate a value for an established website or a domain name by using different factors such as: links pointing to the domain, popularity of the domain, age of the domain, pagerank of the domain, traffic to the domain etc. Besides value estimation, they also tells you about the earning potential of a site.

• Website Outlook: They do the valuation by using a number of factors like traffic rank, Google pagerank, backlinks, directory listing etc. Websiteoutlook can give you a pretty good idea about the number of pageview and the worth of a website or domain name.

• Website Value Calculator: Another free online website value calculator. It provides information about estimated website value, traffic statistics and earning potentiality of a domain name. This site also has a list on top 50 most expensive websites.

• Your Website Value: Your Website Value is basically a calculator that evaluate the yearly potential value of a website based on many factors such as: number of pages indexed in search engines; number of sites linking to the website; quality of website and popularity of the website.

• Blog Worth Calculator: A simple tool that estimates the value of a blog by using link to dollar ratio. Provides a badge that you can use to display the worth on your blog.

Rebel Magazine theme is 2 column, widget ready theme for WordPress. It comes with some magazine style features, that gives the theme a premium look. The color scheme is simple and the sidebar comes with space for button ads. So, I if were looking for a free magazine style WordPress theme, then you must check Rebel Magazine theme.

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Magadine 1.2 is a free magazine style WordPress theme. It comes with three columns and beautiful color scheme. The home page shows post excerpts in three columns. The footer section also has three sections, that you can use to show recent posts, recent comments etc.

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Want to make money online with your blogs? There are many ways that you can use to make money online. Well, here I would like to tell you about the services that pays blogger for writing sponsored posts or sponsored reviews about different products, websites and services. If you can blog, you will definitely be able to write sponsored blog posts. The point is, are you ready for it? So, if you have a blog and you are ready to write blogs posts for money, check this list out! I am sure that you will be able to make some good amount of money from these “Get Paid to Blog” sites.

List of Get Paid to Blog Sites/Services:

• PayPerPost: This is the most popular and widely recommended site for paid blogging. In order to qualify, your blog must be at least 30 days old, with at least 10 pre-existing posts written in the last 30 days. To add new blogs, you must have 10 approved posts. They will pay you for approved posts, 30 days after the original date of submit. Payments are made via PayPal. PayPerPost is one of the top dollar earners for my blogs!

• SponsoredReviews: One of the biggest players in the market! Your blog must be at least 3-months-old, and it must also contain at least 10 published posts in order to be approved. SponsoredReviews allows you to set your own price. Depending on the size of your readership and the quality of your blog posts, you can earn anywhere from $10 to $1000 per review. They will keep 65% of your earnings as transaction fee. You will receive your earnings via PayPal on a bi-weekly basis. SponsoredReviews is one of my favourite get paid to blog sites.

• ReviewMe: One of the top companies that pays bloggers for writing sponsored blog posts. They have some strict requirements regarding the blog quality, pagerank and amount of traffic. But they don’t disclose these requirements. You must disclose that the blog post is sponsored. They pays a reasonably good amount for the sponsored posts. Starting from $5 you can earn anything for each post. For more details you can read my review of Smorty.

• Smorty: Another good site, that really pays. They have some strict requirements regarding the quality of blogs. Your blog must be 3 months old, regularly updated and indexed by Google and Yahoo. You can use multiple blogs. They pays at least $6 per opportunity. Bloggers are paid weekly via PayPal, for confirmed and approved posts.

• BlogsVertise: Blogs must be more than 30 days old and regularly updated with unique content. They also keeps some new blogs in probation. During probation period they may offer you some tasks at lower payout rates. So, it is a good opportunity for new blogs to start paid blogging. Payments are made via PayPal, 30 days after your assigned task has been approved.

• BuyBlogReviews: One of the new get paid to blog sites. They don’t have strict requirements for approval. All you need to have a clean blog with unique contents. They will pay you 70% of your earnings. Payments are made through PayPal. For more information, you can read my previous post on BuyBlogReviews.

• SocialSpark: A new service launched by IZEA. To qualify, you must be 18 years or older. Your blog must be at least 90 days old, with at least 20 pre-existing posts written in the last 90 days. They accepts English and Spanish language blogs. You must claim the ownership of your and have IZEA Toolkit (ITK) properly installed. Bloggers in the SocialSpark must clearly disclose on their blogs the relationship between themselves and the Advertisers in connection with Opportunity-related posts. Bloggers must include a SocialSpark provided disclosure badge within each sponsored post in order to receive payment.

• Blogitive: Mainly they require that your blog is at least 3 months old, indexed by Google and Yahoo search engines and receives some level of traffic. You must update your blog regularly, with at least 3 postings per week on average. The standard amount for per post is $5. But, the rate may vary depending on the sponsor. Payments are made via PayPal.

• LinkWorth: They offers different types of money making opportunities to bloggers, including sponsored reviews. They call it LinkPost. Opportunities are limited but pays a good amount for each post. Payments are made through PayPal, Cheque, Direct Deposit or Wire Transfer. For details, read my review of LinkWorth.

• PayU2Blog: They don’t disclose the requirements for approval. If you have a good blog with some good pagerank and traffic, you can expect to get approved. They will never mail you, if your blog is rejected! Payments are sent via PayPal, two weeks after approval of a post.

• LoudLaunch: Your blog must be in English and at least 60 days old with a pattern of regular posting activity. You must be at least 18 years of age. For U.S. residents you must have a valid SSN or Federal Tax ID. Your blog cannot contain any offensive material such as pornography or other items deemed to be inappropriate to mainstream audiences. Your post must stay on the front page for at least 14 days.They pays bloggers via PayPal within 5 days of the 1st of each month for all approved posts placed between the 1st and 20th of the prior month. Read my review of LoudLaunch.

• BloggingAds: Your blog must be at least 3 months old, cached by Google and have a good history of posts being made regularly. If your blog has low, or no, Google Page rank and/or most of the indexed pages are supplemental results, your blog may not be approved. You will get $5 for most of their opportunities. Payments are made via PayPal.

• BloggerWave: Easy to join. They use Google page rank and tools from Yahoo to rate your blogs. They offers three types of posts – review, buzz and opinion. The minimum amount that you can earn from a post is $1. However, there is no limitation to the maximum that you can earn for a single post.

• BlogToProfit: In order to qualify, your blog must be at least 90 days old. And you must update your blog at least twice a week. Your blog post must remain live for at least 12 months and be accessible through the submitted permanent link at anytime within the agreed period. Bloggers are paid for the approved blog posts on a weekly basis, through Paypal or through the mode of Payment specified in the blogger’s account.

• BlogDistributor: In order to join, you must be 18 years old and your blog must have unique content. There must be at least 20 blog posts in your blog in the last 90 days. The minimum length of a Blog Posting is 100 words. Blog Distributor pays you once per week via PayPal. Presently they are accepting bloggers from USA and Canada only.

• ContextualStyle: Earn money by placing links on your blogs. They sends all jobs through e-mail and you must respond through e-mail. They have a credit system for the publishers. If your credit rating is great, then you will get more jobs from them. All payments are sent by PayPal, after verification of the link placement.

• Bloggertizer: They simply connects bloggers with interested advertisers. So, all you need to have a clean and regularly updated blog. Once an advertiser contacts you, you can negotiate the terms, fee, review process, method of payment, posting date, etc. So, the payout depends on your agreement with the advertiser.

• SnapBomb: The amount that you get paid is based on your blog value. They determines value of a blog based on its popularity, quality, expertise in a field, audience size and reach, and feedback from blog posts. Needs clear disclosure about the sponsored post. You will get paid via PayPal. Payments are are sent out on the 5th of each month. There is no minimum threshold for payment. For more information, you can read my review of SnapBomb.

• CREAMaid: Anyone with a regularly-kept blog containing original content can participate. Write a post relevant to the suggested Conversation topic, and paste the widget code inside your post. Then, your post will be syndicated to the widgets inside all other participating posts. Also, you will receive the proposed royalty payment. You will receive a notification E-mail that directs you to the page where you can claim your royalty payment. When you submit your PayPal account and the verification code, you will receive the payment within 24 hours.

• InBlogAds: Your blog must be a WordPress powered blog, hosted on your own domain. You will get a 60% share of every ad sold through their system on your blog. Payments are sent out at the end of each month via PayPal, with a $10 minimum. Currently they are updating their service and not accepting new bloggers. Well, you can give them your name and email ID, so that they can inform you when the new site launches!

Now, you have the list of get paid to blog sites. There are some other sites that provides similar services. I skipped them in this post. So, I will try to add them, during a future update. Till then, join these services and start earning money from your blogs. All the best!

The Evolution WordPress Theme is a clean and elegant theme, released by BloggingTips.com, under the Creative Commons License. This free WordPress theme comes in three colors (blue, green and red) and properly optimized for use with WordPress 2.5 and beyond. Take a look at the screenshot below or try the demo. It really looks beautiful. What you think? I am sure that the Evolution theme will add a professional look to your blog.

Some features of the Evolution WordPress Theme:

• Two column free theme.
• Comes with three color schemes (blue, green and red).
• Blogger can easily switch between these three color schemes.
• Three column footer section.
• Designed for WordPress 2.5+.
• Widget ready theme.

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Serious about Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? Want to optimize the links of your blog posts? Try the SEO Post Link plugin for WordPress. This simple plugin makes your post link shorter and SEO friendly. How this plugin works? It automatically removes common words from your post link or post slug, that are unnecessary from SEO point of view.

For example, when you publish a post with a title “how to make short and SEO friendly slugs”, WordPress will automatically assign the blog post title as the blog post link:

/how-to-make-short-and-seo-friendly-slugs

But with the SEO Post Link plugin, your blog post link will look like this:

/short-seo-friendly-slugs

So, got the difference? All the unnecessary words are gone and your post link looks shorter and smarter. Mind it, the link shortening is not done in a random manner. It only deletes the words which are not important in terms of SEO.

Some features of SEO Post Link Plugin:

• The plugin comes with a list of common words and automatically removes them from your post slug. These are the words that are not important for your search engine ranking. Even you can add or delete words from this list.
• It allows you to specify how long you want your slugs to be. If your slug is longer than the number of character you specify, the plugin will automatically remove unnecessary words from it.
• You will also have option to force removal of words from a slug even if the slug is shorter than the specified length.
• The SEO Post Link plugin also has an option to automatically remove words shorter than some specified number of characters in your slug.

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AdSense for search is now powered by Custom Search. The Custom Search offers some advanced customization options to improve the accuracy of search results. This means that from now on AdSense publishers will be able to customize and take advantage of the popular features of Custom Search Engines. That’s too, without leaving the AdSense account.

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By using some new features of Custom Search Engine, you will be able to provide more relevant search results to your visitors. You can choose to provide just site search and host the search results on your own pages. It will ensure that your visitors will find all the information they’re looking for without leaving your site. Even you can allow your users to search across multiple sites that you own or that are related to your sites.

To provide the best search results, Google has improved their crawl and indexing technology. From now on, AdSense for Search will index more pages of your site. More indexing means more search results from your site. And if you want to increase your earnings, you can go for tuning of your search results and ads with important keywords.

What’s more? Now, it allows you to choose the location of ads on the search result pages. Choose your favorite location and start showing custom search results. You can easily modify and save your settings at any time, right from your AdSense account. So, you won’t need to generate new AdSense for Search code for each change.

How to use the power of Custom Search? If you have migrated your AdSense account to Google, you will be able to use these advanced features. Open the AdSense Setup tab on your AdSense account and select ‘AdSense for Search’ as your product. Set up your search box and add more advanced features such as site exclusion, labels, and collaboration. Add the code to your site and start showing exciting search results to your visitors. I am sure that it will help you in improving your earnings.

Disqus, pronounced ‘discuss’, is an interesting and free service for blog comments. Disqus comment system enables bloggers to make the comments on their blogs more interactive and manageable. Disqus allows threaded conversations that are easy to follow and join. With Disqus, your readers aren’t just leaving comments — they’re participants in a discussion that you’ve started. Visit www.Disqus.com and give a new look to your blog comments!

Disqus is a hosted service. This means that the discussion threads on your blogs are completely powered by their software and servers. Disqus handles your website’s discussion, with uncompromising performance and reliability. So, you don’t have to worry about your own server load! And the good thing is that, Disqus has full integrated support for popular blogging platforms like WordPress, MovableType, Tumblr, Blogger, and TypePad. If you do not use any of these, Disqus also provides a general code snippet that you can use on any website.

Some features of Disqus:

• A hosted service for blog comments.
• Enables you to add threaded conversations on your blogs or websites.
• Allows readers to rate comments.
• Supports all the major bogging platforms.
• You can customize it to blend with your existing blog design.
• Search Engine friendly comments.
• Easy management of comments from your dashboard.
• You can export all your data from Disqus in a variety of formats.
• Gives you a community page, that allows you to see all the conversations on your blog, along with your community of visitors, readers, and commenters.

If you’ve made a comment on a blog using Disqus, you automatically have a profile. To claim the comments and profile, verify your identity by clicking “Claim” on the profile. Once the profile is claimed, no one else will be able to use that profile or email address to comment aside from you. Your Disqus profile allows allows you to track and follow what others are saying and subscribe to comments in order to stay up to date. Now, you can receive and reply to the discussion from anywhere with email and mobile posting.

With Disqus, comments are extremely easy to manage. You can remove unwanted comments or block notorious commentators from your dashboard. Their advanced spam and troll filtering make your discussions truly worry-free.

So, if you want to make discussions on your blog more interactive and social, Disqus is the right tool for you. Give it a try and encourage your readers to participate in the conversations. To start, visit www.Disqus.com.