Earn money by selling your pictures

If you have a digital camera you can earn mony by selling your pictures on stockphoto sites. There are alot of them out there but I have tried some of them and I have sold a lot of pictures and earned some money.

To start selling your pictures you have to create an account on the stock photo site you would like to sell your pictures at or you can try to sell them on more stock photo sites. I have my pictures for sale on more stock photo sites and I can recommend this method because you will have your pictures showed to more potential buyers.

You can sell a lot of different pictures for example if you have been on a vacation you can try to sell your pictures from your trip or you can try to sell pictures of different objects/items you have at home (pictures of special or homemade items have a tendency to sell really good). But these are just examples of pictures that can be sold.

To sell your pictures you have to give you pictures a title and add some keywords. This is very important that you use some time to get the title and keyword right because buyers find the pictures by them. If you have trouble finding title and keywords try to look at similar pictures and get inspired by there title and keywords.

I have seen proves of photographers earning over 2000 $ a month just by selling pictures. They have also over 500 pictures for sale. Start making money today by selling photos and you can get a good extra income from selling photos.

Places I can recommend are:

• fotolia.com
• bigstockphoto.com
• canstockphoto.com
• shutterstock.com
• 123rf.com

I you start selling your pictures online at stock photo sites you will also become a better photographer because you can't expect that all of your pictures get accepted the first time. You may have to submit them again with better lightning or have used a noise reduction program to remove noise from the picture.

Have fun taking pictures and earn some money from selling them.

16 tips to improve your AdSense Earnings

Every webmaster would like to make a lot of money by showing ads on their websites. Some have managed to make a living by running website showing ads. You can also be one of them, if you work hard and are ready to keep optimizing your websites.

I have put down 16 very useful tips to help you improve your AdSense Earnings. Some of the tips can help you earning more right now and some may take a little time before you can see the improvement.

16 AdSense earning tips

1. AdSense don't make the money for you, but the traffic to you website do.
2. Follow Google’s rules. Read AdSense Program Policies and Terms and Conditions.
3. Don't click your own ads. Eventually you get banned.
4. Experiment with ad formats. Some work better than others and each site is different.
5. Blend AdSense ads in your blog or homepage design. Then you have a better change to get the reader to click your ads.
6. Put AdSense ads at the top of your pages. Do not try to hide your AdSense ads.
7. Use Google sitemap. Helps getting you website added to Google.
8. Use channels to track performance for ad units. If one is doing poorly- adjust it.
9. Optimize your pages for search engines. Helps getting a lot of traffic to your websites.
10. Optimize your keywords. Keep in mind to optimize to high paying keywords.
11. Add your blog or homepage to search engines like dmoz.org, yahoo and google.
12. Be patient. Don’t change your ads because you had a bad day or two.
13. Good content and a lot of advertising will eventually result in a lot of traffic.
14. Monitor your traffic to see changes. Look for good and bad changes. Remember to fix the bad changes.
15. Add you blog or home page to Social Bookmarks sites to get more traffic.
16. Learn HTML to make changes to your blog or homepage.

How to Hide Blogger Navbar in New Blogger

Do you want get rid of The Blogger Navbar/Toolbar?


The Blogger Navbar is a default navigation and search bar on top of all blogspot blogs and they allow you to change the color, but sometimes it may not blend with your template.

How to hide the Navbar

It's very easy to hide the Navbar because you can do it by adding a CSS tag to your blogger template. The code below hides the Navbar in new Blogger.

#navbar-iframe {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none;
}

If you just transferred form the old Blogger to the new you can see the code to hide the Navbar is not working. That's because Google have change the CSS tags to display the Blogger Navbar. So you have to find the code below and replace it with the code above to hide the Navbar.

#b-navbar {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none;
}

The code I have showed you works perfect to hide the Blogger Navbar, but there is alternate ways to hide the navbar. So if you don't like this solution I have showed you, search the net to find an alternate way to hide the navbar.

Is it against Blogger TOS to hide the Navbar?

Bloggers policy page don't anything about removing the blogger navigation toolbar. So you can safe full remove the Blogger Navbar if you like so. But stay updated on Blogger TOS, so you don't violate them. Read blogger TOS.

Add search box to new blogger

Blogger have a build in search box in the top navigation bar, but that search box searches all blog on blogger. You can include a similar search box on your blog template, to give your readers a chance to search your blog. The advantage by adding this search box is that the result is showed in the main body of your Blog unlike the search box in the top navigation bar.

How to add the search box

The easiest way to add the search box is under Template chooses where you would like the search box to be placed and click "Add a Page Element". Select "HTML/JavaScript".

Add the following code, but before you add it you have to change some parts of it to make it work:

<p align="left">
<form id="searchthis" action="BLOG-URL/search" style="display:inline;" method="get">
<strong>SEARCH HERE<br/></strong>
<input id="b-query" maxlength="255" name="q" size="20" type="text"/>
<input id="b-searchbtn" value="Search" type="submit"/>
</form></p>

It is importen that you change BLOG-URL to the URL or web address of your Blog. You can also change the text in top of your search box by changing SEARCH HERE to your Blog-url or what you like.

Now you only need to save and refresh you blog to see the result. Now you can see a search box like the one below. You can change the length of the search box by changing "20" to another integer. A lower number will result in a short search box and a higher in a longer search box. You can always try to change to get the search box to fit you blog layout.

Search here

By adding the search box to you blog you give the readers a better change to find more information on your blog and thereby get them to stay longer at your blog. You may also have the readers come again because you give them a good opportunity to find the information they are looking for.

How to add social bookmark buttons to new blogger blog

Social bookmarks are a very powerful tool to get traffic to you blog. When you provide this option for your readers, you are allowing them to easily save links to your blog. These Social bookmarks can be found by others and they may visit you blog and you will also get some inbound links to you blog.

I have only added some of the many Social bookmarks site out there but when you know how to add them to you blog, you can easily add more if you want to.

You can look at the buttom of my posts to see how social bookmark buttons will look like.

How to social bookmark buttons

To place the social bookmark buttons at the footer of every post you have to edit your template HTML code and check "Expand Widget Templates" to find the code to replace. When you have checked "Expand Widget Templates" you have to find:

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>

Here is the code you have to paste:

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>
Submit in: <a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Bookmark This to del.icio.us'><img alt='Del.icio.us' height='16' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/80727937.png' style='border:none;padding:0px;' width='16'/></a><a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?url=" + data:post.url' target='_blank' title='Add to Technorati Favorites'><img alt='Add Story To Technorati' height='16' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/81723336.png' style='border:none;padding:0px;' width='16'/></a><a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url' title='Digg This Story!'><img alt='Digg This Story' height='16' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/89072042.png' style='border:none;padding:0px;' width='16'/></a><a expr:href='"http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&bkmk="+ data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' title='Bookmark to Google'><img alt='Add to Google' height='16' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/10847106.png' style='border:none;padding:0px;' width='16'/></a><a expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' title='Add to reddit'><img alt='reddit' height='16' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/10796749.png' style='border:none;padding:0px;' width='16'/></a></p>

One of the next days I’m going tell how to add social bookmarks to the old blogger. If you are using some other blog platform you have to edit the code to make it work with the blog platform you are using.

Se also: Use Social Bookmarks to get traffic for your blog

Add Google sitemap to your blog

Adding Google sitemap to your blog and thereby ensure that your blog get crawled.

Google sitemap is very easy to add to your blog and by doing that you also add your blog URL to google index, so your blog get crawled by google. When Google sitemap is added to your blog your blog is added faster to google index and you may get a better crawl coverage.

Google sitemap can help you get detailed reports about how google sends traffic to your blog and see how high you blog is ranged by search phrases. This information you can use to optimize your blog to be found by specific search phrases. You can also se information about how the Googlebot sees your pages and if there is any problems for the bot to access you blog. Therefore is it a really good idea to take the time to add Google sitemap to your blog.

How to add Google Sitemap

You add Google sitemap to your blog at Google sitemap. There you have to sign in with your Google account and if you don't have one then create one. After you have signed in you type your blog URL in the "Add site" box and click ok.

Now you can see that your blog have been added to the list below and needs to be verified by you so Google can determine your ownership of the blog.

To verify your ownership you have to add a Meta tag to your blog. Click on the read "Verify" hyperlink and you are now transferred to the page where you can choose your verification method to use. Choose "Add a Meta tag" and the Meta tag is generated for you.

Now we need to add this Meta tag to your blog template and upload the template.

To add the Meta tag you need to highlight the Meta tag and copy it to the clipboard. Now go to your blog and sign in to your dashboard. Go to the template page and paste the copied Meta in between the start head and end head tags. Save and republish the template.

Now we have to go back to Google sitemap and Check that you have added Meta tag to your home page and then click the "Verify" button.

You will now see a text message “We do not know about all the pages of your site. [Submit a Sitemap] to tell us more about your site.” Click "Submit a Sitemap" and in the dropdown box choose Add General Web Sitemap".

Make sure "I've created a Sitemap in a supported format.", "I've uploaded my Sitemap to the highest-level directory to which I have access." and "My Sitemap URL is:" is checked. See picture below.

In the "My Sitemap URL is:" box. write your feed URL for your blog. If you are using blogspot then write http://you-blog-name/atom.xml and click "Add Web Sitemap" and you have added Google Sitemap to you blog.

How to Backup a Blogger Blog

If your blog is hosted on Blogspot and you would like to have a backup of the entire blog there is an easy way to do that.

You have to use DownThemAll! this is an extension for Firefox that allow you to download all the photos uploaded to your blog, all of your post, links and so on. The extension also allows you to just download files with a certain extension from the current page. Therefore this extension allows you easy and fast to download just those types of files you want or the whole blog.

To get all of your post the go to http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=X where x is the number of posts you would like to back up. To see how many post you have log into you blogger account at the dashboard you can see the total number of post on the blog. To get to first 500 use this http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=500.

You can also get all of your posts in XML format, this format is better to use if you have to put the data in a database. http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=1000

The comments you get here: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?max-results=500.