Wow! Is this good or what?

I’ve changed the WordPress Theme here at Online Presence yet again. The theme now being used is the Revolution Magazine Theme that I won at a contest at BloggingMix.

The home page has been tweaked a bit to suit the blog a bit. I hope you like the new magazine look to the home page.

Popularity: 15% [?]

Easy Polls on your website with ease

Easy-Poll is an easy and effective way to add variety to your online service and make it more interactive. Easy-Poll is designed in a way that you need no database of your own, no additional software or IT support – everything is handled and calculated on their servers. Its easy to run myspace polls or polls on your blog. The registration procedure is simple and you will receive polls and website components absolutely for free.

Give it a try…

Popularity: 17% [?]

I won again! This time it is a Premium Theme

This is turning out to me a lucky month for me in terms of winning blog contests.

Earlier in the month, I won a copy of OIOpublisher Direct, and now I’ve won a copy of the Revolution Magazine WordPress Theme worth $79.95. I guess I will have my hands full in the coming days migrating to both of them on this blog.

So watch out for a completely new look to this blog with some awesome new features in the coming weeks.

Popularity: 13% [?]

WordPress Plugin for BritePic

AdBrite launched BritePic, a monetization service for images, last year, which enabled you to have ads being shown on images on your blog or website.

The biggest pain point was the fact that for a blog, you have to manually replace all images you have in your post with their JavaScript code to “BritePic” the image. This is just too much of an effort due to which I stopped using it completely. The code looked like:

<script>

britepic_id="id";

britepic_src="< == ENTER IMAGE URL == >";

</script>

<script src="http://www.britepic.com/britepic.js"></script>

<noscript></noscript>

So, how can its usage be simplified? What if someone comes up with a plugin that looks for images in posts, and BritePic’s them? Sounds doable doesn’t it?

I have started working on this on my own and the plugin should be launched shortly (as beta!). This will be my first WordPress plugin.

This will be a simple way to start making money from images on your blog posts.

If someone knows of a plugin that already does this, do let me know. I will not waste my time reinventing the wheel.

Popularity: 17% [?]

Vote for Online Presence at the International Blog Cup

Online Presence has been nominated to participate at the Feb ‘08 Edition of the International Blog Cup. In the first round, we are up against UsmanMoney.

Voting begins on Feb 1st at the IBC website. I would request you to vote for me at this cup.

I think there is a widget that I can put on the site when voting begins. I’ll keep all of you posted.

Popularity: 11% [?]

Review of Top 10 Web Hosting

Top 10 Web Hosting provides a list of the best web hosting services. The list has been selected / reviewed for the 10 best web hosting companies. Top10WebHosting has been working with these hosting companies for more than a year and their clients are using it.

The list provides a summary of each of the hosting companies and a detailed review is available as well. The list includes a mix of Linux and Windows based hosting servers.

You can search based on feature sets as well. For instance, if you want to look for hosting providers with support for cPanel, you can do so. This makes it convenient to compare different solutions and services if you have a good idea what you are looking for.

The criteria for the ranking is clearly mentioned on their page header. Its is quoted below:

Top 10 Web Hosting Ranking criteria : Best service, Cheap Price, Quality, Performance and Features

I have been looking for a hosting provider that can provide me with unlimited domain hosting at a very reasonable price. This is for some experimental projects that I have in mind. I could easily locate a list of 10 such providers here.

All in all, a simple and neat little website that is useful for webmasters.

Popularity: 15% [?]

Paid to Surf Programs

I had covered bux.to in a post yesterday and another one called Hits4Pay a while back. While browsing through the bux.to forums, I came across some other similar programs:

DailyClicks

DailyClicks offers payouts that are not as competitive as bux.to. Free members are paid $0.01 for every ad they view. Free members also get $0.0050 for every referral click while upgraded members get $0.01 for every referral click.

PaidBux

PaidBux has payouts similar to bux.to free member accounts.

I’m sure there are tons of other similar sites.

If you can manage to take out about 30 minutes from your daily schedule, sign up for bux.to, DailyClicks, and PaidBux and earn some easy money. Don’t expect miracles please. These are not get-rich-quick-and-easy programs!

Popularity: 23% [?]

Review of First Rate, an SEO Company

First Rate is a company providing Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Advertising and a range of other services. The company, based out of New Zealand & Australia, has an impressive clientèle from the region, which includes ING, Vodafone, Rabobank, and many others.

The complete range of services provided by First Rate is quite exhaustive. It includes the following:

• Online Strategy
• SEO/SEM
• Email Marketing
• Performance Marketing
• Online Advertising
• Reporting, and
• Web Design and Development

First Rate has been operating in this space for the last 7 years, and currently has a staff of about 30 professionals. First Rate has 14 Adwords Qualified Professionals and currently manages over 100 Google Adword Campaigns, generating up to 1 million clicks a month. First Rate also operates a performance Ad Network serving over 55 million ad impressions per month.

Popularity: 17% [?]

Paid Reviews from BuyBlogReviews

I came across a website called BuyBlogReviews which focuses on the paid blog reviews market. Advertisers looking for blog advertising can evaluate this new service. And bloggers can evaluate this service if they want to get paid blogging! The interface is simple and easy to use.

BuyBlogReviews keeps 30% as commission. A 70% earnings on the bid amount is quite good compared to other sites. Just not this, they have an affiliate program as well. A quote from their website on the affiliate program:

We pay out 15% of total money spent on first transaction of advertisers or bloggers. Like if you refer an Advertiser and if he purchases reviews worth $500, we’ll pay you $75. If you refer a Blogger and when he gets his first order we pay you 15% of the money spent.

BuyBlogReviews launched very recently and the number of advertisers and opportunities are limited right now for bloggers. Do give it a try and keep a watch on their site for new paid review opportunities.

Popularity: 18% [?]

Get paid to surf ads using bux.to

bux.to seems to be quite a popular paid-to-surf ads program. The process requires you to click a link and view a website for 30 seconds to earn money. You can earn even more by referring friends. You’ll get paid $0.01 for each website you personally view and $0.01 for each website your referrals view. Payment requests can be made every day and are processed through PayPal. The minimum payout is $10.00.

What makes it even more interesting is the fact that you can buy various referral packages that can enable you to jump start your earning capability. All the referrals come with a ‘replacement guarantee’.

There are several forums where bux.to users have shown proof of payment.

An example of potential earnings for 100 active referrals (based on averages):

• 100 referrals click 10 ads per day = $10.00
• Your daily earnings = $10.00
• Your weekly earnings = $70.00
• Your monthly earnings = $300.00

Well, if you can spare 10 minutes each day on bux.to you may earn money from it, as described above. It all depends on how many referrals you can bring into your network.

What do you think? Will such programs be successful in the long run? Can users really earn significant amount from such websites?

Popularity: 36% [?]

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