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This is a paid review for the twd.in, the top web directory.

These days its very difficult to get directories which have good page rank as well as some unique content. Around 5 days back, Swapnil asked me to review his directory called top web directory on jimkarter site.

The best part I liked about this directory is that this website also has lots of good content in terms of themes and a blog network to bring in the traffic from search engines. With PR6 on homepage and around 40,000 back-links (shown by yahoo), this website is really a good value for people who want to submit their site for $29.00 for regular listing (with 3 extra deep links) and $49.00 for sponsored listing (with 5 extra deep links). Sponsored listing will get your site ranked above the regular listings. These prices are one time prices and your listings are permanent.

The directory looks pretty good with Pr6 and 40,000 backlinks in google and a very good category structure too. But is there anything which is missing? Well, I saw that the pagerank on some of the internal pages (or actually, many of the internal pages) are missing. I asked Swapnil about it and this is what he has to say:

The internal pages do have backlinks, I registered this domain as a new domain and got PR 4 in the first update, PR 5 in the second and PR 6 in the third, in the third update the PR of inner pages was reduced but most of them still have them.

www.twd.in/blog-network.php

All the blogs here are PR 5.

Some inner categories too have PR upto 5. All my backlinks are natural and I charge for the review (the links are permanent) so everything is according to the Google TOS.

So, would I consider this as a good investment of $29.00?
Yes is my answer. This is a new directory for me as well (in the sense that I did not know about it 5 days back). So I will be submitting many of my sites to them as well.

Edit:
Swapnil is offering discounts for all the people who are referred through JimKarter.nom For Regular Links use coupon - jimkar_reg and you will get a $4 discount for regular links. For Featured Links use coupon - jimkar_fet and you will get a $5 discount for featured links.

I know its quite late to post those earnings for the month of April 2008. But I am still out of station. I am in Delhi and will be here for another 8 more days. I just received the revenue report from my team 2 days back but did not get the time to put it online. Finally today I decided to take out some time and put it online. So here it is.

In the month of April 2008, I earned a total of $63,341.16 from my various websites. This is little below my expectations. I was expecting to cross the figure of $70,000. But this is also due to a fact that one advertising network (ARICASH) cheated me and have run away with my $9,000 in earnings. Anyways, thats an expensive lesson learned.

Adsense is still the biggest earner at $35,500+ (which is less than March’s $36,780). Kontera is the second biggest earner making me around $10,000. Other big earners are Casale Media, ValueClickMedia and health affiliate programs (LECash, Market Health and Sytropin). Text link ads is also a big earner but the earnings are falling month after month, and this month is not different. I am compensating it by using TNX.

Previous Month Earnings:

• March 2008: $61,343.62
• February 2008: $55,123
• January 2008: $47,740
• December 2007: $41,300
• November 2007: $45,000
• October 2007: $41,900
• Septebmer 2007: $40,000

So, what are my plans for May 2008?
Well, I am not going any aggressive for May 2008, because I will be out of station for most part of the month. I expect to cross $65,000 in earnings.

This is a paid review of D95.com, a URL shortening website.

We need short URLs for:

• Hiding your affiliate links
• Making it short so that it can fit in at some places (like forum signature) where there is a limit on number of words.
• Tracking of sites which does not provide tracking.
• Making a URL look more beautiful and remember-able instead of some huge long useless strings.

So, why do we need one more URL shortening website when we have the famous tinyurl.com?
I used the site D95 and found two features which makes this site different (or call it unique). These are the features not available at tinyurl or other similar sites.

1. First, people can choose their own url, for example http://d95.com/joe (it can be anything, as long as it is still free).
2. Second, D95 offers masked redirects. You can set your URL to be redirected to other site, but always have D95.com generated URL in address bar. This may be very useful among affiliate marketeers, since you hide the original site URL. Tracking cookies are still transfered to buyers computer, so that affiliate gets the sale.

One more thing I like here is that, their URL is quite short than other similar services. So when you add lets say 3 or 4 word extra to it at the end, it still small. And, in my opinion, people are more inclined to click on shorter URLs than longer ones.

Any suggestions/Improvements possible?
If they create a firefox button or toolbar to create a short URL just from the browser only, it would be a great new feature.

So, next time if you need a URL shortening service give them a try. Lets say you want to advertise an affiliate program based on dog food, you can just create d95.com/dogfood. I think this will have more chance of getting clicked.

I was just surfing the DP forum (as usual) and was spying on the threads. Then I saw a thread saying Earn $40 a day from Video Sharing Websites and Parking. I see at-least 10 similar threads each day. But then I realized that the thread has reached 6 pages of content and many of the old and good members of the forum has given quite good reviews. Some members which I know, that they know what works and what not.

When I read their review, I read the thread as well. The author of the thread was selling ebook with a method on how to make money online with youtube and domain parking. I bought the ebook for $29.99 and use the method.

Damn man! After using the method for 5 days, I am just thinking, why the hell this man is distributing this method. In 4 days, I recovered the money back. And now I am making profit of $5 to $6 a day (completely passive). And it was total 2 hours work.

So, you can also do it. Just put in 2 to 3 hours of one time work and get $5/day. Yes, it is that passive income. How long will it last? I am not sure, but should last quite long.

You can either buy the method at the forum thread for $29.99 or from the site he mentioned in the thread (40BucksaDay) for $39.99

Why I am posting about it? Because this is a new method of making money, found out by somebody, and I am sure my readers can use it too to make some more money passively.

If you use it, please do let me know how well it worked for you.

Google today announced that ‘Adsense for Search’ will be now be powered by the ‘Custom Search’. If you have not yet used the ‘Adsense for Search’ as of now, it would be a good time to start ( ), because now you can do many more things with the search functionality, with the help of advanced customization options of Custom search.

Here are the list of few changes/benefits for you:

• Previously with ‘Adsense for Search’ you had to have a ‘Web Search’ with your site search. But now with custom search you can only have the ‘Site Search’. This will help you not to loose any visitors to web search and still earn the money.
• Custom search indexes “all the pages of your site, which are indexable”. So no more worrying about getting your pages indexed in Google and then coming to your ‘Adsense for Search’. They will be available fast. And, they will be available all.
• You will be able to present search results for a group of your “own sites” or a list of sites from your “friend circle”. You can even do exchange on this. Like “You list my results at the bottom of your results and I will do the vice versa”. Helpful for both.
• You can now choose a location for the ads to appear.

So, now you know that you can do many more things with it. So go and use it. Now you are not loosing your visitors to Google. That what is the harm using it. Nothing I would say.

Here is the original article from Google Adsense blog.