Few bloggers asked me this question and I thought it is important to clarify the difference between social bookmarking tools like ShareThis or AddThis and Tell-a-Friend. Here are 3 main ones:

1. Tell-a-Friend is for personal, 1-1 communication. As a visitor, if I think the page is interesting to a friend, I send a message on a personal channel like email, IM, twitter. Social bookmarking is more like “I like this so I bookmark, anyone else who uses same tags can see it also”. This would be a broadcast of my interest, rather than telling another friend why he/she might be interested in this content.

2. ShareThis also provides send the link by email, but that is no different from the typical email-the-link form. The biggest problem is, expecting users to remember personal email addresses on yahoo, gmail, hotmail etc. Instead, Tell-a-Friend lets them view their address book on all these providers and pick the friends to send the message. That way, Tell-a-Friend keeps the visitor’s focus on your site while they tell others. Anytime they have to go to a different page, for getting email addresses or to login to Facebook, they are likely to get distracted and something else may take the attention away from your site.

3. Message customization is the other difference. You get to customize the message template for each channel. That way you can help your visitors send the right message describing your content. They can of course modify or add their personal note about why they think their friend should see this content.

Tell-a-Friend and Bookmarking widgets can both be placed together, as they serve different purposes; just like you see on this blog.

Active directory is the most popular tool that helps company or individual bloggers to run their own business by selling deep links. Other bloggers or persons who are monetizing their blogs and would like to increase their ranking would be really interested in buying several deep links.The more deep links back to their blogs the higher ranking position their blogs will receive. That is why these active directory tools are now being used by many bloggers and companies the world over.

Some of bloggers and companies are now successful with this active directory management tool. However, many of them are new and not popular enough to attract more clients to use their services. But, they are using right strategies by using these as exchange tools where all members can exchange links to increase their ranking.

I have just set up my own active directory and it is now free to all for exchange and I am still learning about exchange management in the hope that my directory will be a good to make money in the near future.

Cleaner Landing Style Front Page

The most dramatic change to the blog has been the switch to a landing style front page. This gives the blog more of a content site look than a blog. The landing style layout allows me to highlight feature articles and videos, give summaries of the most recent posts and create a shorter front page that will load faster.

Those who prefer the normal blog style layout have not been forgotten. All you have to do is change your bookmark to the blog link and the layout will switch to a normal blog format.

See detailed about this V3 at John Chow

You are not allowed to put adsense ads on your adult networks and you have to switch your Adbrite account to BlacklabelAds to serve your adult blogs but ClickSor can do both at the same time upon your choice in the ad setup section.

I have just been approved to participate in the Clicksor and I am very happy to put its ads on this blog especially the Full Page Inter-Ads will be displayed while site user is being redirected to another page. This ad format offers relatively high earnings to you with a minimum of $0.009 per view is charged to advertisers. Hence, you could earn an average of $0.0054 to $0.009 per view or even higher! You may find the demo at http://www.clicksor.com/adformat/adformats_interstitial.php . (Please use Internet browser IE6+ or Mozilla1.5+)

You can obtain the Full page Inter-Ads code in your Account under Ad Setup area.

If you are not affiliated with Clicksor, you can sign up for a free account and start making a lot of money with your blogs now.

Sign up for Clicksor

To meet the constant challenge of converting visitors to buyers and giving advertisers more control, we proudly introduce our Ad MarketPlace. This is a transparent Ad MarketPlace that allows advertisers crystal clear control over where they place their ads, whom they are targeted to, and how much they will pay for this service.

AdOnion.com has been created with the mindset of creating simplicity from complexity in the world of online advertising. We seek to bring online advertising to it’s core, creating a truly transparent and open content ad marketplace where direct interactions between advertisers and publishers occurs. Not only will advertisers be directly connected with publisher inventory but publishers will directly connect with advertiser offer, creating a truly transparent ad marketplace.

What is Site Meter tracking exactly?

Site Meter tracks page views and visits. You may also have heard the term “hits”. When someone comes to your site, they generate a “hit” for every piece of content that is sent to their computer. Viewing a single web site page would generate one hit for the page and one hit for every individual graphics file that was on the page. A single page could easily generate a dozen or more hits. When you are browsing a site, every time you follow a link, it is treated as a single “page view”. Site Meter defines a “visit” as a series of page views by one person with no more than 30 minutes in between page views.

Will Site Meter delay my page loading speed?

No. Site Meter uses dedicated servers that are directly connected to the US Internet backbone. The meter will probably be the fastest loading part of your site.

LinkAdage™ has succeeded in this goal and we pride ourselves on connecting thousands of webmasters so they can buy and sell targeted, relevant text links that don’t cost a fortune in time and money.

Through LinkAdage’s Auction and Brokerage advertise channels, you can find the relevant links you need fast and spend more time on what matters: Making connections, developing content, and growing your Internet business.

At the end of the day, isn’t that what it’s all about?

Below are the five cornerstones of LinkAdage’s™ mission:

1. Privacy: LinkAdage™ understands that keeping link partner URLs secret is of the utmost importance to the long term success of your website and LinkAdage™. We will do everything in our power to keep URLs private between you and your link advertising partner.
2. Link Networks: LinkAdage™ will be a safe alternative to the “link networks” that can be ignored or banned by the search engines with a small tweak of a search engine algorithm. All link sales at LinkAdage™ are private webmaster-to-webmaster advertising sales. The links are real and there is no special code placed on your site that can be used to identify your link as part of a network.
3. Link Pages: LinkAdage™ will save webmaster time that can be better spent adding and improving web site content rather than building link pages that no one looks at except the search engines.
4. PR: LinkAdage™ will not be about buying or selling PR. It will be about Making Connections - webmaster-to-webmaster link advertising sales. PR is just one of many measurements LinkAdage™ buyers can utilize to understand the value of a link on a particular web site. LinkAdage Auctions strongly recommends that buyers take into account all of the web site metrics available to make informed buying decisions. Do not make link buying decisions based only on PR.
5. Honesty: LinkAdage™ sellers will provide an honest evaluation and description of their web site using the LinkAdage Web Metrics system. LinkAdage™ buyers will follow through on link-buying commitments. Those buyers and sellers that prove that they can not be honest can not be a LinkAdage™ member.

LinkAdage™ is owned and operated by WebOriginations LLC

Sign up for a FREE account and start making money now

With the introduction of LinkXL™ advertisers can buy links to organically grow the link popularity of their website while publishers can make their keywords available to a much wide cross-section than ever before.

• LinkXL™ enables web-based publishers and marketers to sell and purchase text link advertisting within existing content using a fully automated system.
• LinkXL™ allows marketers to organically grow their web site’s link popularity and search engine ranking through contextual text link advertising.

The goal of LinkXL™ is to make purchased text links a more mainstream, relevant, targeted form of advertising. For years the search engines have complained webmasters buy links that are not relevant, making the use of back-links in their algorithms more difficult.

With LinkXL™ links, advertisers are able to purchase extremely relevant text links that drive traffic while serving the algorithmic needs of the search engines.

LinkXL™ offers a better way to use text link advertising:

• Satisfies search engines algorithms by inserting text links in the relevant TEXT of web pages rather than in irrelevant footers and side bars tables.
• Offers webmasters a new way to significantly monetize their entire website with very little extra work.
• Offers webmasters and SEOs a search engine friendly way to incorporate text link advertising into their website marketing plan.

We’re just getting started on our first step towards creating an entirely new way to search the Web. The quality of our results will vary as we make Searchme better and better. If you have comments or suggestions we’d love to hear from you. We love feedback.

We’re also looking for more great people to join our team, as well as ways to partner with companies to deliver more value to our users. And, of course, we’re always happy to chat with the press.

Thanks for using Searchme!

The purpose of this site is to help you take maximum advantage of the software tools and web technologies at your disposal so that you spend more time doing things your really love.

Digital Inspiration averages more than 2 million page views per month and has been quoted in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, CNet, Wired, CNN Money, Guardian, Financial Times, CBC, Wired, ITWire, MSNBC, BoingBoing, BBC, Mercury News, Sydney Morning Herald, and others.

Digital Inspiration won the Best Technology Blog award at Indibloggies 2006. It is also included in the prestigious “Blogs of Note” list compiled by the Blogger team at Google.

A survey by Business World magazine puts Digital Inspiration blog in the list of most popular blogs and online youth hangouts. The site is also mentioned as one of the top 20 blogs at Microsoft BlogStars.

If you are a fan of Amit, the owner of this DI Blog, you must be aware of this changes. The new homepage looks so great, clean, fresh and eye-catching too. There is no more left sidebar and it has been combined into one sidebar on the right. The background is very simple but most of us like it. Thanks Amit.