These are some interesting videos about Google I watched recently. Enjoy!

Power of Google

This movie depicts that in the future the entire information in the world will be collected and controlled by Google. All your emails in your Gmail account are scanned and Google collects your personal data using cookies and account information to just display relevant text ads?

Google is also collecting user data in other ways. The Google homepage for example sets a cookie on the client computer which is valid until the year 2038.

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Maki from Dosh Dosh has created a meme about displaying Feed Count and has tagged me. The following are his questions for the meme with my answers:

Why do you display the Feed Count for your blog?

I have been displaying the feed count on this blog ever since I discovered Feedburner which was a long time ago and I had only about 20 RSS readers back then. It was late by the time I realized that I had made a mistake by displaying my feed count so early. It would be best to display your feed count when you have atleast a few hundred subscribers, as a low feed count can discourage some readers from subscribing to your blog.

Coming back to the question, I decided to keep the feed count anyway as I have a decent feed count currently and that could help me get even more subscribers.

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Affiliate programs are done on a Cost Per Action (CPA) basis, meaning they require some action inorder to get you money like signing up for the program or buying a product. Many people don’t realize that if they use affiliate programs properly, it can turn out to be one of their biggest money makers.

A common mistake made by some people are placing banners of various affiliate programs on their site thinking that it will earn just like that. I would recommend you to choose the affiliate programs that matches your blog content so that they perform well for you.

Once you find the affiliate programs matching your site content, don’t just place it’s affiliate banners on your blog. While the banners may get you some clickthroughs, the chance of conversion will be low.

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AGLOCO, short for a global community, allows you to make money by running a small toolbar, the ‘Viewbar, on your browser while you surf the web.

The Viewbar is currently in limited beta testing and is not yet available for download. In a couple of weeks, the viewbar will be put for download.

The Viewbar is what enables AGLOCO to collect the money you are earning while browsing the Internet. The Viewbar keeps track of your online interests and preferences, and uses that information to deliver advertising based on the web pages you are visiting.

The moment you learn that the Viewbar keeps track of your online interests, you may doubt that it contains spyware. This is what their site says to assure you that the AGLOCO Viewbar has absolutely no spyware.

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Recently the appearance of Vizu Polls changed to what I would say is better than the old one. Everton does not seem to be pleased with the new look as he could earlier blend the polls more to match the look and feel of his site. The poll borders and the gradient in the new appearance cannot be removed.

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Everton has mentioned a simple yet effective tip that helped him to get from 5 to 200+ subscribers to his comment feed! The number of subscribers to his comment feed jumped to 80 overnight after making this change.

The tip he gave was to add the Comments Feed to the list of feeds that are displayed when a user clicks on the RSS link in the browser.

All you have to do to make this change is to find the following line in your header.php file

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />

and add the following code below it

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Comments Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>" />

Once you have done this, your Comments Feed will be listed alongside your main feed making it easy for your visitors to subscribe to your comments feed.

I have just made this change and wish to see the same increase Everton had with his comment feed

Once a week I reward regular readers here by featuring good posts from the best commenter’s blogs. If you would like to see your blog posts featured here, join my MyBlogLog Community and start commenting regularly on this blog.

I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts

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• Evolution… A Blog’s way of Life - lyndonmaxewell
• Why taking a backup copy is necessary for your blog - Mr.Byte
• WordPress Plugin: Show Unread Comments - Ryan
• A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon - Maki
• Maximizing Text Link Ad Revenues - Everton
• Make Auction Ads Contextual - Ajay
• Bloggers Face-Off: John Chow vs. Matt Coddington - Daily Blog Tips

To get your blog post featured here…

1. Join my MyBlogLog Community
2. Comment regularly (try to get in the Top Commenter’s list)
3. Make comments of good quality and not comments like “Nice post, John!”
4. Make good posts on your blog

I will be checking out the recent comments and will visit the blogs of those who left good comments and if I find a good post on your blog, I will feature that post. And remember, if a post of a Top Commenter is selected, it will be placed on the top of the list according to their position on the Top Commenter’s list.

It would be good if you are highlighting your Top Posts on your blog so that I can easily find the best content on your blog.

A text link ad on this blog costs $160 a month, but I decided to give you a FREE site wide link here for a month if you sign up for Text Link Ads using my affiliate link.

How do you benefit? JohnTP.com is a PageRank 6 site with about 3000 unique visitors per day with an Alexa rank of 22833 and Technorati rank of 1,865.

How do I benefit? Text Link Ads affiliate program will pay me $25 if you signup using my affiliate link and is accepted into their program.

Note: Let me know your name before you signup using my affiliate link. After signing up, you will have to wait till Text Link Ads shows your name to me in the Referrals list, to get your free link. This may not happen until the end of the month. But I assure you that you will get your link as soon as I see your name.

Signup using my affiliate link and get 1 month FREE site wide link

As many of you already know, majority of your visitors land on your blog through single post pages and not through the homepage. It is usually your regular readers who enter through the homepage and hence CPC (cost per click) Ads on homepage won’t perform well as regular readers are Ad blind and will mostly not click the Ads.

Therefore I replaced my AdSense Ads (CPC) with Tribal Fusion Ads (CPM) on my homepage. I am not sure how well my Tribal Fusion Ads will perform there either as I don’t get much page views on homepage as I get for single post pages, but I believe it will perform better than CPC Ads.

What is your opinion? Will CPC (cost per click) or CPM (cost per 1,000 impressions) Ads perform well on the homepage?

Making money from a blog is an interesting topic for me and among my favorite money making bloggers, I find John Chow as one of the most interesting money makers in the blogosphere, particularly because he posts his revenue details that he makes from his blog - John Chow Dot Com.

John has been posting his revenue details ever since he first monetized his blog back in September 2006 and every month I find him beating his own record. Starting with just Google AdSense, John Chow dot Com made $352.94 in its first month as a monetized blog.

John kept adding more revenue sources and on October his revenue jumped to $1,361.64! Even after that John’s earnings continued to grow - $2,139.93 in November, $2,790.05 in December, and $3,440.66 in January.

And even though February is the shortest month of the year, it did not stop John Chow’s revenue from increasing. Guess what, he earned $7,011.05 on February !

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