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Smorty, a paid to write review site, has come up with the In-Text advertising method. The site which is well famous for it paid to write reviews opportunities has started the In-Text advertising which Kontera is pretty famous for (made famous by John Chow actually!).

What Is In-Text Ads?

In-Text Ads is something that appears like a normal link but with a double underline. It will show a popup advertising when the mouse is placed on the link. It looks more like a normal link that readers, sometimes, get confused and click it unknowingly and gets redirected to a new link.

When You Get Paid?

You don’t get paid when someone places their mouse over the link or you don’t get paid for every impression on your blog. You get paid only when the ads are clicked. The difference between Kontera and Smorty is that smorty will be showing products that are available in Ebay, Amazon and such sites in the popup box.

Surely something for bloggers who are trying to make money online. Will you be trying Smorty’s In-Text advertising or mini store (as they call it) method? Please share your views in the comments.

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Twitter is a social media site which is used to update your friends on what you are doing within 140 characters. I don’t know why the 140 characters limit. That should be another big story I guess. I don’t know why, but there is a lot of blog posts on twitter in the recent days.

Twitter is good and I use it everyday to get new friends and to have touch with those who are already my friends. Suddenly, many blogs have started to write about twitter. The reason? Well I don’t know. I have written a post on twitter too. You can read that post here which emphasizes on how to get more twitter friends.

Fine, let’s see few blogs which have blogger about twitter and also some other references.

Take a look at the Social Media category of Sphinn, a social media site which I like.

Social Media Category in Sphinn

The above is the link to the hot topic in the social media category of sphinn. You can see many blog posts in the hot topic column about twitter.

Also many big blogs have started to write about twitter.

Search Engine Land had a post about twitter. It was on the topic “Twitter Wrote This Column For Me“. It was a very interesting post filled up with the answers of the people to the questions asked in twitter.

You can also read Read Write Web writing on Twitter. It was on “How We Use Twitter For Journalism“.

So what is the reason behind sudden increase in the number posts about twitter? Please share it in the comments.

You can also add me on twitter here.

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Every time WordPress releases an update, I see few people struggling to update it for their blog. I hear it in forums. People always ask for a way to update to the newer version of WordPress. I have also seen few bloggers paying money to update to the latest version. If you are one among them, keep reading the post.

Most of you, by this time, would have heard about the WordPress automatic update plugin. If not, I’m going to talk about it in this post. That is the solution for your problem. WordPress automatic upgrade plugin does the job for you in updating to the latest version of WordPress.

Here are the steps involved in handling the plugin:

1. Download the plugin (Note: Also read the information given on that page. This is very iportant.)

2. Upload it to /wp-content/plugins/

3. Activate the plugin from your admin page

4. Backup your blog before doing anything (This is also very important)

5. Now, go to Manage->Automatic Upgrade and then select the option for automatic upgrade

6. It will take you through the process and will tell you to do few things

7. Tada! You have upgraded to the newer version of WordPress

Note: I have tried this and it worked for me. But it does not re-activate all my plugins which I had to do manually. If someone of you knows why I’m getting that problem, please tell me.

Hope you won’t have any trouble from now on. Do tell me how it worked for you.

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In freelance writing, getting a gig is tough when you are just starting. I know how hard it is to manage to get a blogging job. You cannot get a job easily without any samples. Even if you have, you don’t know whom to contact. To make this process easy, there are sites created just for freelancer writers to get writing gigs. This also makes it easy for the advertisers to get a quality freelance writer for a good rate.

Though there are many sites, only few of them become popular. Ritu, who owned (Not now. He sold it.) Work N Play blog, and Jason of JDsBlog has started a site for freelance writing job seekers and advertisers. The site is called GhostBlogging.Net. I had a look at the site and was pretty impressed by it.

For Freelance Bloggers

Freelance bloggers can apply for job at no cost. It is absolutely FREE to use. There are already a couple of good freelance writing gigs which you might want to give it a go. I have seen even big blogs like Freelance Folder posting an ad in the site. So what are you waiting for? Go there and apply for a good blogging gig.

For Advertisers

Those who are seeking freelance bloggers can post their ad in the site very easily and get quality freelance bloggers. It is only $10/month to join. I think there is a fee for joining only to avoid poor or low quality ads. They want only advertisers who are seriously looking for freelance bloggers. Also advertisers get a FREE ebook when they join. This ebook is titled SEO for Freelancers.

Whether you are a freelance blogger or a blogger who is seeking for a freelance blogger, ghost blogging is a good site for you and can get you a gig or a freelance blogger whatever you are trying for. Try it and let me know if you get a freelance writing gig from that site.

P.S: This is not a paid review but just a good website I’m pointing you to.

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TNX.net is a site which allows bloggers/webmasters to earn money and helps advertisers to place their site in front of millions of internet users for a little price. While there are many other services like TNX, what I liked about this service is that bloggers can place links in any page of their blog. They can place it in homepage and also in the separate blog posts.

TNX is a very different and unique system. You, as a blogger, will earn points when you sell a link in your blog. You can use the points to pay for advertising your website and getting good SE results. You can also use the points to earn money by selling it to TNX itself. You will earn $0.78/1000 points (at the time of writing). The minimum payout is only $5 which you can easily reach. You will need around 6410 points to reach the minimum payout.

What Advantages Does Bloggers Get?

Bloggers can place links of advertisers in each and every page of their blog or even on selective pages. Bloggers also get the rights to choose which sites should be advertised in their blog and which ones should not, so that they can stay away from linking to illegal or irrelevant sites. Bloggers can also use the affiliate program of TNX to earn money. When you refer someone to TNX.net, you get 13.3% (as long as your account is active) of all TNX-points that are generated by their websites. In addition, you will receive 5% of all payments, made by referred advertiser (this option will work after paypal payments will be automated).

What Advantages Does Advertisers Get?

Advertisers can get thousands of backlinks for a less price. Advertisers can get backlinks on many different keywords easily. There is a post in the DP forum on how to #1 in Google for highly competitive terms which is posted by TNX. Advertisers also get a free tool which will help them to make paid links more natural.

TNX are also offering free points for those who join their system. You can view about it here.

TNX has many positive reviews and a few negative reviews when you search for it in Google. So I thought I should give it a try in my other blogs and maybe in this blog too.

Join TNX now.

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