External inbound links are an important tool of search engine optimization (SEO), but how do you go about creating them? The definition of an “external” link is one inbound to your web site from someone else’s web site. You don’t control the content of someone else’s web site, so how can you create such links? Here are several ways you can do this.

1) Write articles containing links to your web site and submit them to publishers online, such as EzineArticles, iSnare, etc. If the articles are well-written and interesting, they have a higher chance of being accepted and also of generating traffic through the links, which will improve the quality.

2) Participate in and-and-answer blogs or discussion sites and (without spamming, of course) incorporate the link to your site into your contribution. One way to do this without it being spam is to put the link into your signature. This makes it appear in every post, without making your actual posts one-note symphonies.

3) Contact the webmasters of high-traffic web sites relevant to yours, and arrange for them to link to your site. You may have to pay them for the privilege, or sometimes you can trade link references. Be careful and selective in doing this, however. Search engines are becoming pretty sophisticated about determining whether an external link is coming from something that has anything to do with your site, and if it doesn’t the link will not be rated as high-quality, precisely because this method is often abused.

4) Create a blog on a blog site such as Blogger or WordPress. Contribute to the blog frequently, and incorporate links to your web site into the text. Again, be careful about spam. If the blog gives the impression of existing only to create links to your web site, that will often be recognized by search-engine algorithms.

5) Write high-quality, unique content for your web site.

This last is actually the best way. If your site is high-quality, people will tend to link to it and, over time, you will develop an array of incoming external links from web sites run by people you don’t even know about. But this takes time, creativity, and hard work, and it also relies on people finding your web site before it has any external inbound links to speak of and thus before it is likely to appear very highly in search engine rank.

For that reason, you would be wise to make use of some of the other methods as well. That can generate traffic into your site and allow people to know about the wonderful content you have on it – which in turn will generate more external links, and push your site higher on the search rankings. It’s a nice self-reinforcing spiral.

Before agreeing to partner up with a blog site or other webmasters, do a free people search. Don’t give your site a bad name but letting it be associated with the site of a dishonest person.

Nowadays blogging is one of the most famous ways using the web worldwide, thousands of people daily update their personal blogs while millions are following them, tweeting about them and like them!
Every blogger or web master can potentially use a handful of tools, free and paid, available to make their job easier and faster. I thought to create a post where I m going to list 10 free and must use tools that will make your blogging or web developing more efficient and fun, so here we go:

Fontstruct

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Find beatiful and free to use fonts online and create colorful and pleasant to read content. Fontstruct lets you build, share, and download fonts directly from their website where you also can create your own fonts using their FontStructor font editor.

GIMP

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GIMP is one of the best open source raster graphics editor that lets you edit your photos and graphics as easy and professionally as other paid graphic editors like photoshop and fireworks

Pixlr

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Pixlr is an online photo editor that has a really useful firefox and chrome addon called Pixlr Grabber that lets bloggers to grab screen shots on the fly and paste them directly to their content editor or just save them for later use.

Adobe Browser Lab

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Adobe browser lab offers webmasters and web developers a free service to test their website layout compatibility against all available browsers in many resolutions and o/s.

Color Scheme Designer

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Color Scheme Designer will help you find color schemes for your theme, in addition it has some other interesting tools such as Colorblind filters and export schemes in various formats like xml, html+css, text, ACO(which is the palette for photoshop) and GPL(palette for Gimp).

Gazup

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Gazup is a mirror file sharing tool that lets you upload simultaneously your website files like images and pdfs in multiple hosts around the world, that way you achieve far better speed results for your website files while at the same time you save precious bandwidth from your hosting account.

Embedit

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Easily embed documents in your website, no code needed.

CSS Type Set

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handy online css preview editor that lets you test your css code nice ‘N’ sleazy!!!

Wordoff

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Wordoff is an online tool that strips special characters, like empty elements, s and

Favigen: Favicon Generator

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Every website that respects its visitors should have a favicon installed! If you don’t know how you to a create a favicon or just don’t have the time or needed software to do it you should pay a visit @Favigen. This website automagically creates your favicon, you only need to upload your to-be-a-favicon image, choose preferred size and click “Create a favicon”.

You should already know that Adsense ads perform better when blended inside your blogs and articles in a natural way. That is why many of us use Adsense custom styling options to change Adsense ads background color, border color title color etc.
While this is a good way to make your ads look good inside your posts many of us fail to place them in appealing positions such as left or right of our content like screenshot shows below.

If you like to make that extra step and place Adsense ads inside your article aligned left or right then copy code below(displayed in red) and paste it inside your post or article.

<div style=”display:block;float:right;margin: 5px 5px 5px 20px;”>
ADD CODE HERE
</div>

This code aligns your adsense ads on the right, if you want to align them left just change:

float: right;

to

float:left;

URL: Clicksor.com

Brief desription about service and company behind it:
Clicksor.com Inc is a sister company of YesUp Ecommerce Solutions Inc. YesUp was founded in 1999 and incorporated in 2001 under the name YesUp Ecommerce Solutions Inc. headquartered in Toronto, Canada. YesUp delivers e-commerce solutions to its clients in the areas of high quality design, programming, technical expertise and marketing innovation.

Any required specifications to be accepted into their program:
In order to be accepted into their network your website should NOT have anything to do with the following:

1. The following are some examples (including but not limited to) of the type of sites that are not allowed to participate in our network:

* Sites displaying child pornography and zoosexuality, or contain links to such content.
* Libelous or defamatory sites.
* Sites containing or linking to software piracy.
* Software trading (warez) sites.
* Sites containing or linking to any forms of illegal activity (i.e., how to build a bomb, hacking, ‘phreaking’, etc.).
* Sites with gratuitous displays of violence, obscene or vulgar language, and abusive content or content which endorses or threatens physical harm.
* Sites promoting any types of hate-mongering (i.e., racial, political, ethnic, religious, gender-based, sexuality-based or personal, etc.).
* Sites that participate in or transmit inappropriate newsgroup postings or unsolicited e-mail (spam).
* Sites promoting any types of illegal substance or paraphernalia or activity sites with illegal, false or deceptive investment advice and money-making opportunities.
* Sites that are under construction or incomplete.
* Sites with any types of content reasonable public consensus deems to be improper or inappropriate.

It is the affiliate’s sole responsibility to maintain acceptable content, as outlined in the eligibility requirements, after their acceptance to the Clicksor Network. Any violation of these rules will result in immediate removal from the Network. Your account will be cancelled and your payment will be null and void.

2. Company/Individual may not artificially inflate traffic counts using (including but not limited to) any device, program or robot.

3. Each affiliate may only hold one account with Clicksor. Publishers can have more than one URL in their account, each of which should be submitted for review prior to placing the code on each individual site.

4. Code Placement:
Clicksor ad codes must not be modified from original format without consent from Clicksor. Affiliate agrees to use the ad code provided for displaying Creative not more than ONCE per page view. Ad codes may only appear on (root) URLs that Clicksor has reviewed and accepted for participation. Ad codes cannot be placed in email messages.

5. Traffic Requirements:
Affiliate must have at least 50% + US, CA, GB traffic or will result in account suspension.

Registration process:
You can register with Clicksor by visiting this link, fill in details in the registration form such as username, website and email. Right after you are going to receive a confirmation email that you must open and click link inside that will redirect you to the welcome page of Clicksor. When done you must wait for Clicksor approval which usually takes no more than a few minutes. Keep in mind that you can also same procedure for signup with YesUP company from where you can reach all sister websites such as Clicksor.

Advertise and revenue features, how they let you use their service and make money from it:
* Clicksor allows publishers to display advertisements that relate to their website content by using keyword-based contextual technology. As publishers display relevant ads, the chances of having a high click-through rate will increase. When publishers receive the ads from Clicksor, one can build up on their revenue. Publishers also have options to choose from different size and formats of advertisements, as well as different types of advertisements.
* Publishers can get paid 60% of advertising revenues generated by the website. The actual rates may vary depending on the website performance and market conditions. Geographic location of your site traffic levels can also play a part in determining your overall revenue potential.

Ads display info:
1. Banner formats:
* Show Text and Graphical Ad.
* Show Text Ad Only.
* Show Graphical Ad Only.

2. Banner Sizes:
* Full Banner (468 x 60 pixel)
* Leaderboard (728 x 90 pixel)
* Skyscraper (120 x 600 pixel)
* Wide Skyscraper (160 x 600 pixel)
* Button (125 x 125 pixel)
* Vertical Banner (120 x 240 pixel)
* Medium Rectangle (300 x 250 pixel)
* Square Box (250 x 250 pixel)
* Large Rectangle (336 x 280 pixel)
* Small Rectangle (180 x 150 pixel)

Payment process and any tax identification requirements for people living in the US or outside:
* Clicksor offers three payment methods: PayPal or check in US or Canadian dollars with a minimum payout of $50, or Wire Transfer with a minimum payout of $1,000 and $75 administration fee.
* Standard Clicksor payment rate is up to 60% of the bid price paid by the advertisers. Actual payout rates may vary with Web site performance and market conditions. Affiliate will be paid via PayPal or check in US dollars ($US) or Canadian Dollars ($CAD), fifteen working days (15) after the end-of-15-days-period. Affiliates will be paid at the account level. No payments will be issued for any amounts less than $50US. Any publisher payment that is unclaimed 6 months after the issue date will not be compensated.
* All unpaid earnings will roll over to the next pay period. All payments are based on actual as defined, accounted and audited by Clicksor. Clicksor reserves the absolute right not to issue payment to any accounts or affiliates that violate any of the terms and conditions set forth herein.

URL: Chitika.com

Brief desription about service and company behind it:
Chitika was founded in 2003 is a full-service on-line advertising network that is currently serving over 3 billion monthly impressions across more than 100,000 websites. They can either serve ads to publishers or publish ads for advertisers.

Any required specifications to be accepted into their program:
In order to be accepted into their network your website should NOT have anything to do with the following:
* Adult content.
* Sexual content.
* Excessive profanity.
* Illegal drugs or related content.
* Hate speech or hate graphics content.
* Website under construction.
* Engage in illegal acts.

Registration process:
You can register with Chitika by visiting this link, fill in details in the registration form such as username, website and email. Right after you are going to receive a confirmation email that you must open and click link inside that will redirect you to the welcome page of Chitika. When done you must wait for Chitika approval which usually takes no more than a few minutes.

Advertise and revenue features, how they let you use their service and make money from it:
Bidvertiser asks you to display text ads inside your website and let advertisers bid against each other for the ad spot, highest bidder wins.

Ads display info:
* Option to choose Reporting Category with Channel and Username.
* Search Targeted Ads, Search Keyword Targeted Ads for YOUR Search Traffic.
* Mobile Ads, Pay-Per-Call Ads for YOUR Mobile Traffic.
* Local Ads, Relevant Local Ads for YOUR Local Traffic.
* They support custom width ads trough their Get a List Unit feature from which you can define the width of your ad depending on your website free space for advertisement ensuring no ugly white-space and thusly a clean user experience.
* Various Ad formats such as 550×250, 500×250, 728×90(Leaderboard), 120×600(Skyscraper), 160×600(Wide Skyscraper)468×250, 468×180(Blog Banner), 468×120(Blog Banner), 468×90(Small Blog Banner), 468×60(Mini Blog Banner), 550×120(Content Banner), 550×90(Content Banner), 450×90(Small Content Banner), 430×90(Small Content Banner), 400×90(Small Content Banner), 300×250(Rectangle), 300×150(Rectangle, Wide), 300×125(Mini Rectangle, Wide), 300×70(Mini Rectangle, Wide), 250×250(Square), 200×200(Small Square), 160×160(Small Square), 336×280(Rectangle), 336×160(Rectangle, Wide), 334×100(Small Rectangle, Wide), 180×300(Small Rectangle, Tall), 180×150(Small Rectangle).
* Various of Ad Types such as Multi-Purpose Unit, Map Unit(Available only in certain Ad Formats), Mobile Units(Available only in certain Ad Formats and do not support fallbacks).
* Various Fallback options(for Multi-Purpose and Map Unit Ad types) such as Collapse, Show an Alternate Ad, Show Chitika Backfill.
* They also support showing ads on Blogger accounts.
* Keep in mind that you can server Chitika ads along with Adsense as long as they dont look like each other.

Payment process and any tax identification requirements for people living in the US or outside:
Chitika charges advertisers to be featured alongside your site’s content. At the end of every month they pay you based on the previous month’s earnings (Net 30). Payments are sent after your account earns at least $10.00 (USD) for PayPal payouts or $50.00 (USD) for checks.

URL: Bidvertiser.com

Brief desription about service and company behind it:
Bidvertiser offers services for both advertisers and publishers. Their advertising network lets you publish their ads and get paid per click. They ‘ve been online for many years now and are considered a serious alternative to adsense.

Any required specifications to be accepted into their program:
In order to be accepted into their network your website should NOT have anything to do with the following:
* Adult content
* Sexual content
* Excessive profanity
* Illegal drugs or related content
* Hate speech or hate graphics content
* Website under construction
* Engage in illegal acts
* Sponsor incentive clicks by campaigns or by encouraging visitors to click on links or require visitors to click ads in order to use or download content
* Spam content
* Publishing ads inside widgets or toolbars

Registration process:
You can register with Bidvertiser by visiting this link, fill in details in the registration form such as name, surname, nickname, email, preffered payment method etc.

Advertise and revenue features, how they let you use their service and make money from it:
Bidvertiser asks you to display text ads inside your website and let advertisers bid against each other for the ad spot, highest bidder wins.

Ads can be displayed in the following formats:
* Wide Skyscraper (160 X 600)
* Skyscraper (120 X 600)
* Half Page Ad (300 X 600)
* Medium Rectangle (300 X 250)
* Vertical Rectangle (240 X 400)
* Square Button (125 X 125)
* Along with the pre-configured Ads, Bidvertiser allows a free design of ads, with customized sizes
* Ads For Feeds, Bidvertiser lets you publish ads within your websites feeds

Payment process and any tax identification requirements for people living in the US or outside:
* Paypal payment is available, Bidvertiser will issue payment 30 days after the end of each calendar month that your ads are running. Payment wil only be sent if your balance is $10 or greater, in case your balance is less then money will be carried over into the next month.
* Payment by check is available, Bidvertiser will issue payment 30 days after the end of each calendar month that your ads are running. Payment will only be sent if your balance is $100 or greater, in case your balance is less then money will be carried over into the next month.

It doesn’t matter if you are using adsense for years or you just launched your first adsense banner, you all know that Google pays less and less for each click that is made through our websites each month that passes by.

You should also know that when it comes to monetize your websites diversity is very important so that you don’t become too dependent to Adsense therefore loose all your income if one day adsense bans you from their network. You should always practice and try to find alternative ways of making money other than Adsense.

For example you can put up some banners that are linked directly to advertisers or insert affiliate links in your articles or even write up useful posts with any leads available on your niche, all of these to work must be revelant to your website content so that your visitors don’t confuse themselves and walk away from your website in a matter of seconds increasing your overall bounce rate.

In this article I m going to introduce 10 alternative solutions to Adsense that can help you find more ways to make money from your blog or website.

Each presentation has the same structure so you can compare proposed solutions more easily, each of these alternative to adsense solutions have been personally tasted by registering and using them on various websites of mine so feel confident that this article is as unique and as useful as it can get to all of you.

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Every now and then I invest my free time brainstorming about new website projects, some times these ideas transform into a developed website that eventually gives me some nice roi in very short time after launching website.

Over the years I fee that I can predict easier if my newly developed website will have some roi in a short time period or not, my latest development makes me feel that way.
Online Financial Calculators is currently under beta receiving only paid targeted traffic via Adwords for testing purposes.

I already created a widget for calculating mortgage payments with monthly amortization tables and ability to send results to your email so that you can archive all this reports for future use and comparison. Next step is to create another calculator for Mortgage Affordability and make a related wordpress plugin out of it.

All my future development plans are based on making Financial Calculators WordPress Plugins and submit them in the wordpress plugin directory.
I haven’t decided yet if I m going distribute those wordpress plugins for free or if I m going to put them under a subscription, time will tell.