Google Knol The Wikipedia Alternative?

Google recently launched the public beta of Google Knol on the 23rd of July.

Knol is similar and yet different to Wikipedia in some ways. Firstly, Wikipedia users can create and edit any article they like (although there are some restrictions to seniority) but Knol is has articles created by authors who can choose whether to let other users or specific authors to edit their articles.

What makes Google Knol so interesting is that it allows you to place Google Adsense advertisements on your Knol’s, which means if you have a very popular Knol, you can earn a decent bit of income from it. As I had experimented a few days ago, Knol’s are indexed by the Google search engine, which means that your Knol has the potential to rank very high in the search engines results (just like Wikipedia) and if you have implemented your Google Adsense code into the Knol, you might earn a decent amount of cash. Who would have guess Google Knol becoming into a money making opportunity whilst building up reputation of the author at the same time.

Anyway, after learning about this I was kind of sad as I had gotten banned from Google a few years ago and as Google Knol currently does not accept other kinds of advertisement code on it, I guess I’ll just have to pass up this unique opportunity.

I’m still experimenting with Google Knol and seeing how it works and what other functions it can play, but for now it looks quite promising. And as Google Knol is still relatively young, we’ll give it sometime and who knows, maybe it might become the next big thing since Youtube

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Gilt Groupe Invites Giveaway

  Gilt Groupe is a private invite-only online community which is dedicated to providing its members access to luxury lifestyle brands and coveted fashion labels at a special and heavily discounted sales price.

The Gilt Groupe was even mention on Forbes and as of 25 of February this year has around 75,00 members.

Gilt Groupe sells these luxury lifestyle items during 1 day “sales”, which are quite often, where the prices Gilt groupe members pay for the items are more than 50% cheaper than retail prices. Some of the big brands that are sold here are brands like Gurhan the jewelry label and creations of Behnaz Sarafpour the fashion designer.

Look at the difference in retail and Gilt prices.

The screenshot below is what you’ll expect when you’re logged into Gilt and are doing some shopping and your looking around.

Note the minimalistic design.

Gilt Groupe has sales which caters to women, men and children. As seen below, these are some of the high end labels which caters to men that has sales in Gilt Groupe.

Note all the high end and luxury brands and labels.

If you want an invite to Gilt Groupe, please leave a comment stating your email address and why do you want the invite and I’ll be sending you some as soon as I can

As usual, first come first serve, so don’t procastinate and grab one now.

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Tradd.Us Invites Giveaway

  Tradd.us is a contextual translator powered by Google translator and utilizes a range of other services which enables it to translate, analyze, identify and contextualize information in your content in an organized way.

When you translate content using tradd.us, it uses it’s semantical analysis feature to identify and tag important information. By following on a tag, you can see a host of information connected to the tag word, helping you learn and greatly improving the text comprehension. It even lists down the synonyms of words to help you understand the content even better.

Tradd.us would be a great tool for all those of you who are weak in English and frequently translate English into your mother tongue as Tradd.us is not a normal translating service, rather it brings the whole process up to a whole new level.

All in all, Tradd.us enhances the already powerful Google translator to make the whole process of reading from translated text much more easier with much better comprehension. If you’re interested to try out this new technology, then drop a comment here with your email address and a reason of why I should send it to you and you’ll be getting your invite real soon

First come first served though.

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Get A Cent For Free

Yes, as the title says, get $0.01 for free, no catch. All you have to to do is go to GetACent and navigate to the page where you just input your Paypal email address and enter a security code to ensure that you’re not a robot and you’ll be getting $0.01. No signups or completing offers of any kind, just plain old free money. Pretty cool huh?

This website was set up as an experiment by some people to see how many people will actually claim their free cent. As the site is only ad-supported, I somehow feel the site won’t last that long, so hurry up claim your free cent.

And for those who have already claimed, you can get another free cent only after 6 months, or risk being banned by them. So that’s one free cent every 6 months.

Payment Proof:

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Monetize Your Site With Bidvertiser

Everyone, introducing to you Bidvertiser, one of the very few viable Google Adsense alternatives around. For those of you who could not make the cut to get into Google Adsense, don’t lose heart, try out Bidvertiser now as Bidvertiser is an easier advertising network to get into which still offers decent pay per click (PPC) advertisements. Anyway, here’s a review of Bidvertiser for you .

Bidvertiser is essentially an advertising network which offers pay per click (PPC) advertisements to publishers. This means that publishers get paid on a “per click” basis, which means the more clicks the advertisement on your site gets, the more money you earn. Bidvertiser is not a contextual advertising program as it does not auto select advertisements based on the content on your site, instead the editorial team assigns your site into a certain category and advertisements from that category then gets shown on your website. This is contrary to what many other webmasters who say that Bidvertiser is a contextual advertising network.

One of the things unique to Bidvertiser which separates it from many of the advertising networks out there is that advertisers actually bid on your adspace, and only the top bidder’s advertisements get shown in your adspace to maximize your revenue. According to the reports, the bids ranges from anywhere within $3.65 to $0.05. Yes, $3.65 per click on a advertisement. Don’t get too happy though, as my average income per click on the advertisements so far are only $0.07.

The current max bids on my site

One of the features that Bidvertiser offers is the ability to control the advertisements shown on our website. This is extremely useful if you don’t want your site to show advertisements of competitors on your site, or just refrain from showing the low paying advertisements.

Here’s where you can filter and decide which advertisements to show on your site

Bidvertiser gives detailed reports on how different advertisements perform on your site. A big big plus if you ask me. With these detailed reports, you can virtually track how advertisements are performing and use the information collected to better target your audience. As you can see below, the click through rate (CTR) of my advertisements are incredibly low, only 0.27%. Oh well, I’m working on it. Yea, and is shows my total earnings below, only $1.12. Ignore the dates though, as the “from” date does not reflect the actual date I started showing the advertisements. As you can see, the reports can be either in “BidVertiser Summary”, “BidVertiser Details”, “Category Summary” and “Summary”, thus giving a pretty good picture on how advertisements are performing.

Incredibly detailed reports helps you track how advertisements perform

Bidvertiser gives the publisher many types of advertisement sizes to show, ranging from leatherboard, to skyscrapers, even a free design advertisement, which would appeal to publishers with a need for such advertisements.

Yep, that is right, free design advertisements

The Bidvertiser Center is the page that will greet you everytime you login. It displays all vital information and is like short summary of how are things going. This is one page you’ll grow to like after some time. Hehe.

Bidvertiser Center

Basic Information:

• Payout methods: Paypal and check
• Minimum payout: $10 (Paypal) and $50 (Check)
• Types of advertisments shown: Cost Per Click (CPC) advertisements
• Forms of advertisments: Site text advertisements, Ebay advertisements (live ebay auctions) and RSS/Atom feeds advertisements

Yes, there are some negative reviews about Bidvertiser out there, but there are also lots of positive reviews on Bidvertiser. All in all I think Bidvertiser is one of the few Google Adsense alternatives out there.

Start making money with Bidvertiser now. Make money from your Website or Blog with BidVertiser

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