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Google Pagerank (PR) - is an index of value of web page used by google search engine. Please note that PR goes to each individual page of web site, but not to the whole website. Every site has pages with different PR values.

PR value is usually treated as site rank, which is not correct - that’s website front page rank. Web page PR value is calculated out of number and rank of linking pages.

To get PR2 your site needs to have :

• 101 linking pages with PR1
• or 18 linking pages with PR2
• or 3 linking pages with PR3
• or 1 linking page with PR4 and up

This is true only in that perfect case if that linking page has only one link going to your site. In real world number of pages has to be higher.

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In my previous article Hiding Affiliate links: advantages and disadvantages I was writing about pros and cons of hiding Affiliate links. It’s up to each and every online marketer whether hide affiliate links or not. Here I will tell you how actually you may hide, or mask your affiliate URL, if you decided to do so. There is many different techniques to hide links, here are the most commonly used:

.htaccess file
Your visitor will see a link to one of the files on your website, for ex.: http://www.yoursite.com/product.php and actually this link will forward him to your affiliate URL http://www.merchant.com/?affid=yourname. How can this be? Here’s how: In your www (which is public_html) directory should be file named ".htaccess". If there isn’t - create one. This file you need to edit and add folowing lines:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product.php$ http://www.merchant.com/?affid=yourname [R]

Now as you go to http://www.yoursite.com/product.php you’ll get redirected to merchant’s website.
Please note that this does not work for IIS (Internet Information Server). If your website is on Windows Server, make sure your Web Server is Apache, as .htaccess files are not supported by IIS. You may use your web host control panel to set redirects like this under IIS Web Server.

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There is different opinions on subject. Some people believes that affiliate links has to be visible, to be honest that this link is actually makes some financial income to site owner. Some even states (aff.) after an affiliate link (aff. means affiliate link). Others are sure that showing affiliate links equal to loosing money. Yes, marketing work should be rewarded, but is it right to hide affiliate links? Here’s few points I have to share:

Advantages of hiding affiliate links:

• Bypassing th link. I have been writing about this in my "The value of affiliate links " article. The idea is that some of us, specially those involved in internet marketing would remove affiliate ID from the link and go directly to merchant’s website. So only merchant makes money, and this is really bad thing.
• Links Hijacking. There is opinion that some savvy guys may hijack your link. Then they would change your ID to their to get affiliate commissions. Continue reading »

WebPictureGrabber is a software product created and originally promoted by my friend. Now we have a deal and I do promotion work for the project. I like to call what I do - monetizing. So I’m a monetizer…
Okay, let’s back to the product. It’s actually a nice piece of software. The idea was taken of Picture Grabber, the tiny project I did years ago. Idea was extended and put into software instead of web script I originally made.

This program grabs images from websites. Sometimes you are able to grab even those images that are unaccessible to general public. WebPictureGrabber is mostly useful to grab wallpapers from wallpaper websites, or other images. Continue reading »

Hello,
my name is Oleh, I’m a bux.to member just like you, and I’d like to take one minute of your time, to share with you my bux.to experience. What I understood, is to make some significant cash at bux.to , we ALL have to click ads everyday single day and get referrals. On a bux.to forum I saw a message of a guy, who has few thousands dollars and  few thousands referrals in his bux.to account, and still, he clicks every single day every single ad.
Personally I have little more than a dollar a day from bux.to so far. It’s not much, but it’s ok for a 10 minutes of time a day, to do some different than my regular work stuff. Continue reading »

First article in "Inspiring Articles" category goes to Jeremy Schoemaker, also knows as “Shoemoney”. Webmaster and Blogger Shoemoney have answered 7 most common questions on his blog, about the famous photo, where he is holding in his hands a $132,994.97 Check form Google Adsense. It’s hard to believe, but ts is a real check:

Shoemoney even a got permission from Google AdSense to display CTR and eCPM rates! He shows full month report from AdSense for August of 2005:

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In short, bux.to offers to pay you for viewing websites. I managed to sign up with them just for fun. They pay you only $0.01 per each site you visit for 30 seconds. Well, if you could just auto surf this sites, may be this would be something to look at just to pay few bills a months. But bux.to limit amount of sites you can visit each day - this depends on advertiser amount they have at the moment. They advertise minimum 20 links a day available to visit. So their offer isn’t good for us, targeting thousands a month, well, it’s good for fellows from country with low salaries.

Okay, so the reason why I’m writing about bux.to is that I have found that they are selling unreferred referrals. People that just came to site and signed up. And there is people put there who brought referrals packages, and are making hundreds of dollars a months. That’s pretty good, as just for having account with bux.to . Continue reading »

I’m so exited today to get new version of Opera browser - the one I like more than others and mostly use. Actually I use FOUR browsers: Opera, Safari, Firefox and yes - IE. I do web developnent so I have to use ie to check for compatibility, sometimes websites are just IE optimized, so we have to use it, otherwise I use one of fist tree browsers. I’m not a big fan of IE.

So what i exiting about new Opera. As I mentioned, I have downloaded new version of Opera. I was hoping at last to have more than nine Speed Dial items at start page. To my dissapointmen - there where same 9 items. I was looking in register to add those Speed Dial items, was I even trying to edit Speed Dial config file - no result. I got a bit angry and decided to go to opera.com and recommend new feature to developers. So I did, as I expected, it’s not that easy to contact support form website. And there is a reason for that - lots of users whyle product is free. So I have started browsing Opera forum, and - yahoo! yes that’s what i needed.

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Over the web we all met links to a website with affiliate code in it. Some of us notice this codes, some doesn’t, and some does remove them. Those, who removes affiliate refering part from link, don’t want to bear with the fact that someone will make some money on their click-thru. This is wrong. Let me explain why.

Mostly this happnds to website registrations, but it also often happends to web services and offline services. For example, let’s take a dating website. On some website you found great decription of dating site, it meets yours expectations of dating site, and you know you will go there and register. But, you see that link contains affiliate code. Here some of us are thinking close to this: “why someone will be making money just for refering me there? I found this site in Google, now I just click a link on it, and it’s owner will make some cash of it. I could find that dating site some other way!”. Usually after such thoughts, visitor copies a link, removes affiliate part and keeps only dating site domain name and goes there. This is tragedy. Why?
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Hello Web! Hello All! Hello World!
Ahh, so much time I’ve been waiting for this moment! I’ve just found 30 mins in my work shedule to open this blog. I belive another my dream just came true, and I make promise to myself and all Web society to blog at least few times a week! Yeap, I’ve just said that. So it will be. Alright, I think I can find few more minutes to write a line, and that will be my first post, as hello world is not in count!