A web watcher's night

Often I run out of ideas what to write. Eminent bloggers say you write like hell everyday to make money from blog. I find that true enough. I run 3 blogs – one (Words2Content) scarcely attended to (short of time you see!) – and I have learned just about that much to say that content indeed brings traffic.

August 1 has seen the start of 2 month-long treats on how to make money from blogs. The ’30 Day Challenge’ will show you how to start your own Internet business and generate your first income online without spending a dime.

If that doesn’t satiate your hunger to know more, you’ve Darren Rowse’s 31 Days To Building A Better Blog. I’m a long-time fan of Darren’s blog and the more I read it the more I get fascinated by his techniques to get you hooked on his site. And yes the recent makeover of his website design is a welcome change.

If you’re into blogging and rue striking your computer keyboard 8 hours a day on an average, take heart from Janet Meiners’s short account on how she finds writing being more profitable because of the Internet.

There certainly are many ways to see your blog fetch money. Most popular for small website owners is perhaps through AdSense. Who doesn’t know how Joel Comm minted money from AdSense, so much so that he even wrote a book on it (The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense)!

Earning by displaying 3rd party video – such as from MegaVideo or MetaCafe – is increasingly luring bloggers. And though MegaVideo claims it beats YouTube, you and I know that it is impossibly tall order to overtake the Google-owned broadcast platform with an Alexa Rank of just 4.

One of the early entrants in the video field is Voxant’s TheNewsRoom. The advantage here is that you deal with real news as they happen. Nearly all major news agencies have allied with TNR to distribute their video contents. I’ve had several of them in the past in this blog.

Lastly, before I let you view 2 fantastic videos – one taken from an Air India cockpit that shows 3 planes close by, and the other a gorgeous dancing Preity Zinta – here is a quiz for my viewers.

In the pages of The New York Times (an example), if you double-click on any word, phrase or name, a new window opens promptly with a dictionary definition or encyclopedia entry.

Wonder how this happens! Any guess?



THE GORGEOUS DANCING PREITY ZINTA - The most popular videos are a click away