WidgetBucks is expanding its cost-per-click (CPC) network with addition of United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Belgium into their CPC country list. The expansion started yesterday with United Kingdom (UK). So, a visitor from UK will now see a short-duration cost-per-thousand impressions (CPM) display ad followed by a CPC shopping widget featuring UK-based merchants and products, listed in British pounds. According to WidgetBucks blog, within next two weeks, CPC ads will also be shown to traffic from the other eight European countries.

Earlier WidgetBucks CPC ads were served only to U.S. and Canada traffic. With addition of these new countries, WidgetBucks publishers will get two ways to earn revenue from the Western European traffic. This is really a good news for all WidgetBucks publishers, as it will maximize their ad revenue to some extent. On the other hand, WidgetBucks CPM ads will be shown to traffic from the following countries: Australia, Austria, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and United Arab Emirats. Not yet a WidgetBucks publisher? Join WidgetBucks today.

Scour is an interesting search engine that not only provides good search results but also pays it’s users for searching. Earlier known as Aftervote.com, Scour’s purpose is to bridge the gap between searchers and relevant results. So, it pulls relevant results from the three major search engines – Google, Yahoo and MSN and enables it’s members to vote and comment for the search results. These votes determines the ranking of websites in Scour’s search results page and provides the most relevant results as efficiently as possible.

Scour provides a good platform for the users to vote and comment on relevancy of search results. This also helps users in connecting with one another, while creating a true social search community. This will definitely help them to meet the needs of today’s internet searchers.

How you can earn money with Scour?

Each registered user of Scour earns some points for each search, vote and comment they do for each search keyword. The point rate is 1 one search, 2 for vote and 3 for comment. For every friend that you invite to Scour, you will earn 25% of the points they make. These points can be accumulated and converted into Visa gift cards. When you accumulate at least 6,500 points you can cash them out for a $25 Visa gift card. Cool!

Well you must take care about legitimate searches. You can earn up to a maximum of 4 points per search, through any combination of actions. Repeat searches during the same day will not count. They also have checking systems and algorithms to find and block those who wish to abuse the comments or points system.

In my view, Scour is a nice approach to reward users, while improving the quality of search results. Become a part of the Scour community today and get rewarded for your search activities!

After recent actions taken by Google, many people stopped buying or selling of text links. Many people fears that such practices will result in Google Pagerank slap. Though it is true, many people are still making money out of it and getting advantages from the market. In my view, it is completely a personal decision and depends on your own choice and requirements. Well, do want to make some money by selling links on you blog or website? Want to look beyond TextLinkAds? Think about Back Links!

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Yes, Back Links, a text link broker that will help you to generate some revenue from your existing blogs or websites without much hard work. They offers a monthly flat rate per link, depending on the Pagerank of your site or web page. So, if you have a number of sites with good Pagerank, you will be able to enjoy a steady income from their service.

The sign up process is simple and takes only a few seconds. After sign up, you will be able to add a single page or multiple pages. All they want is at least Pagerank 1 on each of those pages. In order to show text links on your site, you need to add a simple code to your site. This will automate the process of addition and removal of links on your site. Well, to match with your site, you can easily define the size and color of fonts. They also offers you the ability to filter the types of links which will appear on your web pages by approving the categories you want.

Back Links also have a good affiliate program. With this program you will be able to earn more money by referring publishers and advertisers to their service. You will get $100 for each advertiser and $25 for each publisher referred by you.

So, if you want to sell links on your blog or website by looking beyond the services you are using right now, join Back Links today.

What is Article Marketing? Article marketing is a form of advertising, which is widely used by internet marketers, bloggers and webmaster for promoting products, services, blogs or websites. It involves writing short and informative articles related to your industry or niche and submitting your article to article directories and other article distribution services. So, in simple words, article marketing is advertising your product or website through free articles.

How Article Marketing works?

As I mentioned above, article marketing involves writing and distributing informative and relevant articles. Each article that you use in this form of advertising, carries a resource box or author bio-box at the end. The catch is there! In the resource box, you can put one or two lines about yourself or your products or service along with one or two links to the site or product pages you want to promote. Every time your article get published in an article directory, ezine, newsletter or blog, that resource box get included. And as you know, content is king, there are hundreds of publishers and bloggers willing to publish your quality articles for free. So, through article marketing there is a great potentiality of getting good exposure to your products, services or websites.

How it will help you? 

Article marketing is an effective and proven tool to promote your products or services and increase targeted traffic to your sites or product pages. If you run a website or blog, article marketing can help your website or blog to become popular, increase backlinks and produce more hits from search engines. If you are an affiliate marketer, article marketing can help you to get more targeted traffic to your landing pages and increase sales.

Many people choose to advertise through article marketing, simply because it is free to start. There are numbers of website that offers free article publishing. All you have to do is write an article about the product you are selling or advertising and post it to these kinds of websites. And if you don’t have time to write good articles, you can recruit some ghost writers for writing a few articles for your campaign. There are also some good article submission services that you can use to submit your articles to thousands of article directories, ezines, blogs or websites by paying a small amount of money.

So, article marketing is powerful and effective tool for advertising your products and services. It not only helps internet marketers in promoting their products, but also helps bloggers and webmasters in improving the visibility of their blogs and websites in different search engines. I hope that you will take it seriously and utilize it properly to achieve success. From my own experience in article distribution and marketing, I can guarantee that it works. In my future posts, I will try to write more about article marketing in details. In the mean time, don’t forget to express your views about article marketing!

So, the wait is over! I’m ready to post a new free blog review. Today’s lucky blog is Better Blogging for Bloggers. Basically it is a blog about blogging and blog improvement. But it also covers other related topics like Search Engine Optimization and make money online. It is a Blogger powered blog and is run by Liane.

What you will get on this blog? In Liane’s own words:

From the word ‘better’, you could understand the goal of this blog. It’s all about improvement fellow bloggers. When we strive hard, strive harder. When we blog hard, blog harder. When we get better, we’ll still get better. Remember when the coach in the movie says “there’s always room for improvement?”. That is the exact thing this blog will try to engrave into your skulls.

From how to be a better blogger to blog contests, Better Blogging for Bloggers blog covers a wide range of topics related to blogging. I found some interesting blog posts under the blogging tips and SEO for blogs categories. Her post, “Methods to Get Your Blog Spanked By Search Engines” will tell about you some probable reasons of Google PageRank slap. Read it, if you don’t want to lose your valuable Pagerank!

Despite being a blogspot blog, the blog design looks good. But some changes may be needed in alignment! Well, unlike most of the other blogs in the niche, this blog is not full of advertisements! I really like it. For monetization, Better Blogging for Bloggers accepts 125×125 ad spots, text links and paid reviews from advertisers. It also offers a free ebook about blogging, to it’s blog readers.

So, if you want to improve your blogging skills by learning some blogging tips, visit Better Blogging for Bloggers today. And if you want a free blog review like this, contact me today!

Recently I came to know about a new service called Posterous, which allows anyone to post anything online using email. It supports photos, MP3’s, documents and video links. In simple words, Posterous is a free blogging platform that will enable you to update your blog via email with complete media attachments.

The interesting point is that, you don’t have to create an account to post something! Just email anything you want to post to post@posterous.com. Your subject line will be the title of your post. You can add text, photos, mp3 files and documents to the body of the email. These will appear as content of your blog post. After sending the email, you will receive an email from Posterous with a link to your new blog with your first blog post. Simple!

But signing up for an account with Posterous will help you in managing your blog posts and subscriptions. You will get your Posterous site in yourname.posterous.com format. Right now, Posterous is a free service and you will get up to 1 GB of space for personal use. Posterous supports GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL or any other mail program.

If you attach one photo with your email, they will resize it to a web-friendly size and post it to your blog. But, when you attach more than one photo in the same message, they will automatically create a good looking image gallery and post it to your blog.

When you attach a mp3 file with your message, Posterous will drop the music file into a web MP3 player. This will enable your readers to listen to it right from their browser. Posterous converts any URLs on your message into links. To post a video, just paste the URL of the video and it will automatically embed the video on your new post. Right now, Posterous can automatically embed players for the following video sharing sites: YouTube, Google Video, Justin.TV, Vimeo and Omnisio.

Want to start a blog, but have no time to set up the blog and post contents? Then you should try Posterous. It will provide you a cool blog, that you can update via email. You can also interact with other bloggers and subscribe to your favorite blogs. Give it a try!

Google AdWords has updated their Keyword Tool with addition of new search volume data feature. Now, you will be able to see the approximate number of search queries related to your keywords that were performed on Google and the search network. It means that, now you will have better insight into the keywords’ monthly and average search volumes.

You can view the new search volume statistics by looking at the Approx Search Volume columns of the Keyword Tool. Just enter your keywords and you will see the advertiser competition, approximate monthly search volume, approximate average search volumes and other metrics related to the respective keywords. These statistics will help you to decide on the highly relevant keywords for your campaigns and to plan your budget accordingly.

Choosing the right keywords for the right campaigns is very important for the success of an ad campaign with Google AdWords. So, if you are using AdWords, then you must not ignore these search volume data. They can help you in creating a good campaign with highly relevant keywords, while keeping a good eye on your budget.