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Just had notice about Amazon Widgets , which looks like it is tring to go down the route of auctionads . On first look you get quite a few options for what you want to do

There is quite a selection and you are sure to find something you like. After you have chosen what you want to show on your site you can move onto the next stage.

You can do a search what what products you want to feature, for example if you are using it on a blog about bloggind you could search for 'wordpress, blogger' and then you will see a selection of items you may want to add.

As you can see above you see a list of items and you add them to the selected items. You can add your own comments to try to talk people into buying the items.

After you have finished you will arrive at the content and layout screen all of the views explain themselves well and can add some extra visual feel to the widget.

After choosing the layout you then have a screen with a long list of places you may want to add the script, you could also add the script manually by cutting and pasting the script.

Once you have it pasted or added to your blog/website you will have a nice visual widget that could earn you money through referrals and sales from amazon.

I like the look and the way you have so many options for the layout and what you want.

You can find an example of the widget here and have a look in the sidebar

Still not sure how to do any fancy ones but try this one

Kukuh over at Graphic Identity has created some graphics and logos for me and you can see them here.

The Buttons above are logo1, logo2 e.t.c from to top as if you are reading normally so if you

 wanted logo4 

you would add the following

Which would show like this

 Any problems just ask

So if you are after quality graphics, why not pop over there and see what they can do for you

A huge, huge thanks for these and long may they last 

Now I am a big fan of Auctionads as its where I have made most of my money on other blogs that I have had.


As you can see they have a simple site layout with clear instructions on how what to do.




Plus with their new web 2.0 style ads the look and feel is very modern.

Signing up is simple and straight forward, and its straight into setting up your ads. The plus side of auctionads is you dont have to have your blog checked to see if they will allow you to use them or not.


As you can see from they layout of the setup its quite straight forward, it asks you for keywords which will target the ads to specific areas of items for sale. My tip is to add a little something extra that isnt related to your blog like motors or cameras, I have had the bigest payouts from these extra keywords that are non-related


Obvously match the colours as close as you can to your blog colours and keep it within the feel of your blog layout.

You will be best of adding little campaigns like blog top left e.t.c. so you can see where you are getting the most clicks and which are just wasting space.

Select which campaign you want to use and then choose what sort of ad type you want, no need for anything really big as it could viewers eyes away from the content and just make them feel like its a blog for adverts.

You can choose from the old style or the new fresh feeling style, I would take the old style if it will match your blog.

After you have done all that you can see the finished layout at the bottom of the screen so you can preview what it will look like, alter it if it doesnt look right rather than thinking that will do.

Try AuctionAds





A few sites that can offer a bit more information and some tricks you may use:

Using page title as keywords

A bit more on the new look

I dont normally have advertising in fact if you have a look at Blogsrecord there is no advertising on there whatsoever.

But I thought I would look into advertising for this little blog and see if you can earn money from networks and advertising. Note I am a total beginner at this so I may make a dollar.

Crispads.com has a web 2.0 look about it and gets of to a good impression to start with.





Signup was simple enough, username, password, email address, paypal address and blog address.

Takes 24-48 hours for them to review your blog, but you can access the backend straight away. Another plus side is not having to verify your email address, which really winds me up on some sites.



All seems simple enough, and please note they will ban your account for fraudulent clicks.

Onto the setup, first thing I notice is a very limited amount of categories and some may find it hard to find one that fits.

After going through the process of setting up the ad, Im still not sure what somethings mean.

I also note ads will only be displayed in the following areas

• United States, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland
• Spain, Austria, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France
• Virgin Islands (U.S. & British)

Heres a fun site Ive found, the object of the game is to write words by moving the fridge magnets around the board, but there is only a limited amount of letters on the board.

The biggest problem is there is other players who have great joy in taking your letters to make their own words.

Heres a challenge for you, try to spell your sites name before someone snatches your letters.

The site can be found here

Ive always been a fan of optical illusions and how they work, you will find quite a few on this page, which is your favourite.





The original can be found here



On the next one Stare at the dots in the middle for a few seconds, then stare at a wall and blink your eyes really fast, what can you see. The original is here



The next is a man and a bottle the original can be found here





What about still images that appear to move





Stare at the next images cross for about a minute and see what happens

I like to use firefox and I find it has some of the best add ons for helping how I blog and view other blogs.

This is my top ten

1 Scribefire


ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.


2: Monster Blog Sack


The Monster Blog Sack toolbar allows users to surf blogs (according to your categories of interest,) sack (a MBS rating system,) tag, search, share, and add blogs to favorites.


3: Blogger Bar


Brings the power of Blogger into a single toolbar.


4: Submit'em now


Blog and RSS Feed Submitter. It already have build in database, so you can submit your blog to 100 blog and rss directories!


5: Snap Shots


With Snap Shots™ Add-On for Firefox, you can bring the functionality of Snap Shots to the websites you surf every day, enhancing Firefox with the right content at the right place and time. * When in you search in Google or Yahoo!, mouse over the links and get videos for YouTube, summaries for Wikipedia articles, product descriptions from Amazon and more * Mouse over profiles in MySpace and see pictures and descriptions without clicking away from the page you're on * Online encyclopedias like Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database become even more useful as links turn into summaries * Plus upgraded functionality on the major blog platforms, Xanga, Boing Boing, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, and many other sites.


6: Deepest Sender


Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (GData) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too, with support for more stuff to come. Note that the actual Deepest Sender website will always have the most up to date version.


7: Breadcrumbs


Breadcrumbs is a personal search engine for your browser. Breadcrumbs saves your visited pages and allows you to search your pages from the search toolbar. It stores data locally to protect your privacy. Breadcrumbs also allows permanent offline browsing.


8: OneClick Installer for Wordpress



OneClick is a companion extension for the OneClick plugin for wordpress. It allows you to install any wordpress theme or plugin from the context menu of firefox. This extension requires the OneClick plugin installed on your wordpress blog.


9: Adsense Notifier


Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.


10: Adsense Preview



Preview the Google ads that may show on any web page.

We thought it was time, we have a few members, we like what we are doing.

But we would like a few more, I am offering a copy of Windows Ultimate Vista to a randomly drawn member, all current members receive one ticket in the hat and all new members will receive one ticket in the hat.

But the best part is you can receive more tickets:

Write a review about blogsrecord (you can put anything)

Refer new users (these are monitored from the backend)

Link to us with one of the buttons you can find in the news section

So you could end having lots of tickets and a better chance of winning.

If you don't require or need the prize you can have another prize of the same value or a cash alternative of 150 dollars

Rules

You must be a member

Contest ends 1st October 2007

Any one found to be cheating will be banned and deleted from the site

As you can see all the adverts are gone, and as a way for me to draw some income into the site I am offering reviews from this site about your blog.

What you get

$5 Review

A simple review including a general outline of your site, a couple of pictures and a thumbnail of your home page which will all link to your site. There will be at least 3 other links to your site with keywords of your choosing. You will be in the categories that I will be adding on the left for reviews/recommended sites.

WILL BE RANDOM ON THE FRONT PAGE AND CONTAIN AT LEAST 150 WORDS

$10 Review

A complete review including a general outline of your site, some details on posts contained within your site, a couple of pictures and a thumbnail of your home page which will all link to your site. There will be at least 5 other links to your site with keywords of your choosing.

WILL BE RANDOM ON THE FRONT PAGE AND HAVE AT LEAST 250 WORDS

$25 Special Review

All of the above, but will have its own page with at least 500 words on your site containing information on links, good points, graphical analysis on content and growth, links to technorati, alexa, feedburner and others that will help to produce a bit of extra traffic and awareness around your site.

WILL BE RANDOM ON THE FRONT PAGE

To pay use the button at the bottom of the page or send payment via paypal to carkian [at] aol.com

I will contact you regarding the review

Its long been the talk of webmasters, bloggers and designers about which browsers are used and what should you use for optimizing websites.

I personally think you should try to make your site appear as near to what you intend for all of them (well the popular ones), but this is not always possible.

The following is a list of the browsers that I can find.


You may find something in here you like, or you may laugh at some of the attempts that companies have made.




Firefox



Internet Explorer



Opera



Safari



Flock



Maxthon



3b



Amaya



Arachne



Aweb




Browsex



Check&Get



Charon



Chimera



Dillo



Deepnet Explorer



Dreamkey



Emacs W3



Enigma



Gollum



Hv3



Ibrowse



Icab



Kidz CD



Links 2



Links Hacked



Netpositive



Netsurf



Netsurfer



Nintendo DS Browser



Offline Downloader




Oregan



Planetweb



Minefield



Right Web Monitor



Sleipnir



Spin



Superbot



VMS Mosaic



Voyager



X-Smiles



Lynx



Lynx


There are plenty of others besides the ones shown


The following is from evolt.org and can all be downloaded from there, most of the ones I listed above can be downloaded from here as well.