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Article Marketing has been around for some time. Even before the Internet boom! Articles about products, about activities which get people interested in products have always found a place in magazines and newspapers. Recently Article marketing has started going hand in hand with Search Engine Optimization. Articles are being written and pointed to pages of interest to the writer. The articles have content which complements the page being pointed to. This leads to a better “Page Rank” of the page in question.

The question is, IS article Marketing worth the effort? I believe there is no clear cut answer to this. This really depends upon the quality of the article. But one thing is for sure, you WILL get a whole lot of traffic. Is your article convincing and informative enough is left to you. Here are a few PROS and CONS of article marketing.

PROS:

• Article Marketing generates targeted traffic. The readers of our article will ONLY visit your site if they’re interested in it and like your article.
• Article Marketing generates good backlinks! This one’s a no brainer. More links = improved SERPS.
• Article marketing sites have a lot of in site traffic. This is true, most article marketing sites have their own SEO-ed ways of getting good traffic to THEIR sites, which opens new doors to traffic when they read your articles.
• Articles written in article directories can get published! Both on paper and electronically. This can really improve your exposure!

CONS:

• Writing quality articles takes time and effort. Sometimes the same amount of effort can be spent working on your own site instead of on an article site.
• Posting to many article directories is manual “boilerplate” work. You may need to invest in article submission software (which do not always work) , or hire people to post.
• SOME article sites have the habit of rejecting your articles for no apparent reason!

After a long break I’m back to blogging! First of all I had a major server issue. My hosting company suddenly decided to close down! Luckily I recovered most posts from google cached pages! Now slowly re-hosting the site on a different host!

Things have been a little hectic in the past few weeks. Have exams coming up. I’m working on a project in the field of computer vision using OpenCV. Will upload details in the project section soon. Also learning up AJAX because I’ll be working on an authoritative website of 100 pages with a friend. Planning to use whatever I’ve learnt about Affiliate marketing to monetize this site. List building will be crucial. So a lot of design work in the future!

On the Online earnings section I’m still going pretty good even though I’m not actively doing too much work. Re-starting this week! I’m planning to expand this into a full fledged Internet marketing venture. Will take a lot of work and some nice co-workers

My future plans have changed a lot. I’m really interested in the field of computer vision and want to start an indian company which deals with this (there is NONE as of now). Also I’ll use my “fortune” from Internet Marketing to fund most of these projects! Lets see how things go.

Keep reading!

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Some of you have had problems installing and running OpenGl on your comps. Here is a guide on how to do it. I would like to make a point that you DO NOT need to have VC++ to write programs using OpenGL. You can use the SDK with any compiler. Im showing you how to run it in both TurboC and VC++ 2008 express edition.

DOWNLOAD the OpenGl SDK and extract it.

Now Copy the file glut32.dll into C:\windows\system folder. If you are using vista or windows 7 you need to have admin rights and may even need to turn off UAC to do this. Google for how to copy files to system folder.

Now follow the instructions depending on which IDE you want to use :

1)For people who want to use Turbo C++ :

Copy the file glut32.lib into the C:\TC\LIB folder

Copy the GL folder as it is to C:\TC\INCLUDE

Thats all! Now write programs as you normally would and include header file.

2)For people who want to use Microsoft Visual C++ :

Download VC++ express edition from here and install it.

Copy the file glut32.lib into the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\lib folder

Copy the GL folder as it is to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include folder

Thats all! Now write programs as you normally would and include header file.

Dont forget to copy glut32.dll into system folder. Programs wont work without this!

Have fun coding…

EZA is probably the highest ranking article directory out there and provides significantly more article views than any other article directory. The only catch here is that EZINE have a very strict policy about accepting articles. We all are familiar with being rejected by Ezine. Here are a few things I have learnt from my own experience which have helped me getting articles approved at EZA. Hope they can help you too.

• Always have a 100% complete profile with filled in extended profile and a portrait pic of yourself uploaded. Users and Ezine tend to trust you more if you have a complete profile

• Almost never have any links in the article body. I have figured out that having links in the article body(even TLD’s) can lead to then rejecting your article. They seem to be inconsistent with which links they allow and not allow.

• Try having only ONE link in the resource box for the article. This should be a TLD as much as possible. From my experience having one link in resource box and no other links generates about 30% click rate. Which is about the max you get on EZA thanks to all the ads.

• Never have closely packed keywords in the top 30% or so of your article. This used to be a major reason for rejection initially for my articles.

• NEVER submit an article that you have already submitted to other article directories several days ago. Even if its genuine work they will reject the article saying it’s a copy from another site. So submit your articles to all directories simultaneously.

• Check your grammar thoroughly before submitting the article. Grammar mistakes wont turn up on your spell check so you need to be careful about this.

• Try not to insert too many HTML elements into your posts.

• Never Insert copied or spun contents from sites like ehow etc.

• If your article IS rejected try not to re submit it if there are major flaws. And under no circumstances send EZA and pissed off mails! Just delete the article and restart!

These were a few handy tips I can give you to get your article accepted by EZINE articles. If you have any other tips please comment here!

Good luck!

Hey guys, as you probably know I’ve been doing some affiliate marketing and received my first paycheck sometime back from clickbank. It was for $175.03, even though its not much its still something to start off with. The check took about 10 days to reach me and took 28 days to cash. Luckily I don’t have to receive anymore clickbank checks as I have opted for direct deposit, which means that money is directly deposited to my bank account weekly.Even though I get a slightly lower exchange rate via direct deposit this is still better than receiving checks because of the delay encountered in processing checks.

Anyways, to this date I have made around $1200 via online earnings . As a student this is a very valuable source of income and goes on to prove that there IS money to be made if you’re smart enough to cease the opportunity. I would like to thank DP forums for so many valuable tips I picked. Also would like to make a mention of a couple of members petehols and precious007 whose posts I benefited from a lot.

Heres a snapshot of my first clickbank check!

Hey guys, some time back I had posted a tutorial for modem reset and torrent scheduling or for the bsnl home 500 plan to utilize the night ul downloads. Here is the ultimate version of the same which makes use of free software and absolutely no gui methods.

This tutorial can be used for ANY modem and can also be used for modem resetting even if you don’t use bsnl dataone. Here I assume that you have a dataone connection and want to download rom 2:10 am to 7:50 am using torrents. The timeframe and download program can be modified if you are using some other connection or a different program(like download managers).

Getting down to business, the problem with directly scheduling something is that the modem is switched on during the whole process. As in it is on before 2 , from 2-8 am and after 8. And dataone is designed in such a way that it’ll charge you for the whole night if this happens! So we need to find a way of switching on your modem at 2 , downloading, and switching it off before 8, automatically!

The solution requires you to install an SSH emulator called ZOC which can be downloaded from here. ZOC basically creates a shell like any unix shell and comes with a telnet application. We basically write scripts to send a kill signal to the telnet session at 192.168.1.1 (your modem). I have written the script for modem reset in REXX , the scripting language used by ZOC. You don’t need to modify the file unless you have changed the password/user id of you router. The script assumes the defaults admin/admin.

The other 3 files are simple batch files to shutdown your comp and stop utorrent and the script. Heres the sequence of steps you need to follow.

1. DOWNLOADthis package. It contains everything you’re gonna need.

2. Install zoc169 from the unzipped package.

3. Now goto start->run (windows key+r) and type taskschd.msc .This will star

4. the windows task scheduler.

5. Goto actions->create basic task.

6. Add name as reset1 select next, select daily in trigger option NEXT.

7. Don’t change anything here only set the time as 2:06:00 AM. This is when the first modem reset will take place select NEXT and select start a program. Select next.

8. Select browse and goto the folder where you unzipped the package and select modres.bat. NEXT.

9. Now click finish and voila! Your first task is added!

10. The next task is to start your torrent client(utorrent). Repeat the steps 4 through 8 again but in name field write start_utorrent, time field write 2:10:00 am . and for program select utorrent from the program files folder.

11. This will reset your modem and start your download.

12. Next you need to close utorrent at 7:45 am. Repeat steps 4 through 8 but set name as close_utorrent, time as 7:45:00 AM and select close_ut.bat from the unzipped folder as the program.

13. Next we reset modem again. Follow steps 4 through 8 and select name as reset2 and time as 7:46:00 am. Select the same modres.bat program.

14. Finally we shutdown the computer. follow steps 4 through 8 and change name to shutdown, time to 7:50:00 am and select program as shut.bat from the unzipped folder.

That’s it! Now your comp will reset modem, download and shutdown automatically while you sleep! Your final screenshot should look like this.

You can download about 3 GB per night this way and is much more than what an unlimited bsnl connection can download in a whole day. If you liked this tutorial please bookmark my site and visit regularly for more!

I have finally moved to wordpress after a long wait and am really happy. Had a few problems with setting up the domain and stuff but apart from that it’s been one smooth transition. I needed the flexibility that wp provides as im planning to host a couple applications on the same server.

In the last month I’ve had a good time with affiliate marketing and also bought a new phone. The nokia xpress music 5800. I’m developing two unique apps related to both. The cell phone app is related to s60 v5 hacks, basically makes the process of signing your applications very easy. The second app is a clickbank goal tracker which makes the process of tracking your cb monthly goals easier and also generates a neat userbar which you can use as forum signatures to brag.

I’m learning a lot of php scripting designing all this. Much more than I could ever learn going to any classes. Will keep working on these apps over the month so keep reading for more info. Follow me on twitter for more updates.