Bored and frustrated of using free urls like yourname.blogspot.com etc. ?
You can buy your own domain name, ofcourse not for free, with some annual fee. The annual fee is not much !. It may range from $7-$15/year. Paying $10 for entire year, not a big deal, in return you get a unique personal domain name like yourname.com yourname.net etc !. You may search for free domain names and you may also get some results ! but mostly these sites will be fake, the reason is a person wont run his servers for free to provide domain names (he has to pay electricity bill, maintain his servers, etc). You may ask why there is something called free webhosting, the answer is that they may provide web hosting for free but inturn they earn by placing ads on those free sites. You promote your site and indirectly theirs too. Any ways this is out of scope of our discussion. You may come across url redirectors but these are not much efficient. You can read more about them in Start your own website. There are many other reasons you should buy a domain name, you can say its just like a key for treasure. The reasons are listed below :

- It gives proffessional look to your site.
- Visitors will trust your site.
- It helps in SEO.
- User will prefer to go to your site rather than any free site listed in search results.
- You get a personal email @yourdomain.com .
- More chances of getting selected for advertising programmes like adsense etc.

Here are some of the sites which provide Domain name services :

Godaddy.com
price- $9.99+0.10
1and1.com
price- $6.12
Yahoo
price- $9.95
No-ip.com
price- $15
Dnspark.net
price- $8.95
Jollyjodomains.com
price- $7.15
Namecheap.com
price- $9.29
Domainstudio.com
price- $7.15

If you want to use domain name with blogger you need to 1st register a domain name with any of above services. Login into blogger->Go to settings->Publishing->Switch to custom domain->Switch to advance settings-> then enter appropriate details. Read setup instructions and follow them.

When going through any money making sites you will constantly come accross these terms. So before getting started it is better to be aware of these terms and what they mean :

CPM-Cost per thousand impressions.
The amount an advertiser pays for one thousand advertisement impressions, regardless of the consumer's subsequent actions.

Impressions - The number of times an advertisement is viewed by web surfers.

PPC-pay per click
Advertising model in which advertisers pay for click-throughs to their website. Ads are served based on keywords or themes.

SEO-search engine optimization
modifying your site for efficient appearance in search engines

PR-page rank
How well a particular web page or web site is listed in a search engine or advertising results.

CTR-click through rate
The percentage of clicks on a link. This is usually a percentage based on the total number of clicks divided by the number of impressions that an advertisement has received.

CPC -> cost per click
The cost or cost-equivalent paid per click-through to an advertiser's website.

CPL -> Cost Per Lead
Advertising expenditure required to obtain each new sales lead

CPS -> Cost Per Sale
Advertising expenditure divided by sales generated to determine the cost to make each sale or the commission payable for each sale generated by an affiliate.

CPA -> Cost Per Action
Cost to an advertiser for each visitor that takes a specific action in response to an ad, such as subscribing to an ezine, requesting a free trial, or making a purchase. Also used to describe advertising employing this model.

CR -> Conversion Rate / Ratio
The percentage of respondents to an ad, or readers of a sales message that complete the action desired

PPA -> Pay-Per-Action
Affiliate commissions where a set amount is paid for generating a specific action, such as taking a free trial or subscribing to an ezine. PPL, PPC and PPS are usually considered as PPA.

PPI -> Pay Per Impression
Where an advertiser pays for each display (impression) of their advertisement (usually a banner)

PPCSE -> Pay Per Click Search Engine
A search engine where the results are composed of advertisers who pay a fee for each click on their listing. Using a bidding system, the advertiser willing to pay the most is ranked highest.

PPS -> Pay-Per-Sale
Where a commission is paid for each sale generated by an affiliate. The commission is usually a percentage of the sale, although sometimes it's a fixed amount.

SEP -> Search Engine Positioning
Getting your page listed on the search engine results page. Similar to SEO.

PTR -> Paid To Read
PTR is the term used for the programs that pay their members to receive their emails.

GPTR -> Get Paid To Read

GPTRE -> Get Paid To Read Email
Above 2 terms are same as PTR.

PTP -> Paid To Promote
Paid to Promote actually means getting paid to send visitors to a site or sign up or refering some product.

PTSU -> ‘Paid To Sign Up’
PTSU could be part of a PTR program. In PTR programs you can often be paid to sign up for other PTR programs.

PP -> PayPal.
This is the payment processor that is most often used in the PTR industry.

EG -> Egold.
Another important payment processor often used in the GPT industry.

You can fetch a lot through online tutions. Some students prefer taking online tutions as a lot of travelling time is saved also they dont have to face the tutor or the tutors scolding probably ;). There are a lot of websites providing a medium for online tutions. The rates are applicable per hour or monthly basis. The students pay you directly or you are paid some percentage of what a student pays (rest is kept by the website as service charge). Some may require minimum qualifications like BE degree etc. If you think you have time and you are really qualified for taking tutions you can go for this.

Here are some websites below you can go through :

Tutor.com
Is looking for tutors to join the live homework help program for assignments in Math, English, Science or Social Science from grades 4-12.College students are also eligible.Tutors can also take sessions privately for about $30/hour. A tutor can work for a maximum of 20 hours a week, and payments are sent once a month.A tutor has to download a program for the virtual classroom.

Universalclass.com
A teacher can create a virtual classroom online on the subject you are knowledgeable about using the tools provided. Teachers get 60% of the course fees for all students who enroll and US$5 for each certificate sold. Payments are sent once a month, after the account balance reaches US$50 .

Hodesiq.com
Provides live instruction for students in grades K-12 via the internet. Require certified experienced Maths and Reading teachers working from home anywhere in USA. Compensation is US$10/hour



Smarthinking.com
Requires part time online writing tutors to work between 6 to 20 hours per week. They can work from any location with a computer and internet access. The candidate should have relevant experience in teaching and a degree in English language.

Ehill.org
Tutors who Hold or are working on a college degree
Earned teacher certification

Limu.com
Get paid for teaching any professional, academic or hobby related subject. Teachers are paid a percentage of the fees they charge.

Homeworkhelp.com
Provide online tuitions or homework help to students. Payment once a month by check.

Homeworktutoring.com
Homework help required for engineering, history and law

Coursebridge.com
Offers courses on a variety of subjects. Qualified instructors are paid 55-70% of the registration fees paid by students. Instructors provide course material and evaluate student assignments by email. Cheques in US$ are sent by postal mail

Kidspan.com
Provides online tuitions.Teachers from all countries can apply. You have to specify experience and expected hourly teaching rate.

Have you heard about getting paid to answer questions? It may sound wierd, but there are people on web who genuinely pay for answering their questions. Questions may be something related to health, web service, pc, etc, or even homework! For eg. Suppose a person has some problem in his pc and he cannot find help anywhere on web, in this case only a real person having this knowledge can help him. Also a student for example has some important homework or an assignment, further suppose he wants a solution for a problem (maths, physics etc), its rarely possible that you can find a solution directly on web unless it is a common problem. In this case there are some websites which allow you to post and answer questions. A user in need of answer may post his/her question for some price set. He inturn will recieve number of answers from other users. He can choose the appropriate answer which satisfies him. Some sites may pay you directly to post and answer questions (price not set by users).

Here are some site listed below who serve this purpose :

Duno.com
Pays 10 cents per post

Guruza.com
User sets price for his questions

Iwantyouranswers.com
Get paid to answers questions from different categories

Helium.com
Get paid for writing your articles

Justanswer.com
Answer according to your own rates

Expertbee.com
Price for answers set by users

Knowbrainers.com
Get paid to share your knowledge

Studentquestions.com
Get paid to help solve homework

Smallbizadvice
For business expert advisors

Problima.com
Users submit questions within categories and accept answers from Solution Providers.

Have you ever wondered of getting paid for writing posts? , isn't this cool. Its true, you get paid for writing posts. The amount they pay you differs. Some site requires your blog to be few months old also with some average posts every week.
what you need to do is write reviews about some products/services ie. you are indirectly promoting the advertisers content (the reason to get paid).

The advertisers will choose you only if you have lots of visitors and importantly a good page rank. Some sites also require you to have your own webspace hosting your own blog (wordpress) so using free blogs goes out of the list there.
These oppurtunities fetch you a lot.

You are provided with vast topics on which you can write posts. So its upto you to choose a right topic, on which you feel ur capable of writing a post or a review.

Here are some top paid2blog sites :

PayPerPost
Payu2blog
Blogitive
Blogvertise
LoudLaunch
Bloggingads
BloggerWave
V7n
Money4blogs
Sponsoredreviews
LinkWorth
Blogtoprofit

Your website traffic is directly related to your rank in search engines. Now how can you improve your rank ? There are few criterions to keep in mind. These may be simple but very imortant! for eg. google does not just scan your site and rank you it also consideres how many sites contain backlinks to your site, does your site contains speling mistakes etc. so here are some points to keep in mind to increase your website visitors :

→Keep your overall site presentative and eye catching so that so that a user who visits should be willing to visit it again.

→Avoid spelling and grammatical mistakes.

→Backlinks from other sites (other sites containing your site address). Backlinks count for your pagerank. You may have some visitors coming through these backlinks. Sometimes while searching for your site, your site may be listed in top results because your site may have been added to a site with a greater PR.
When i created my blog it didtnt appear directly in google for weeks. But when i added my site to mybloglog.com it was there in google before my eyes! Again i checked for seo at seobugz.com it was there again!

→Alexa rank : Your alexa rank is based on the number of visitors visiting your website. Alexa rank comes into picture when you are selling you site or an adspace on your site. Alexa.com monitors your visitors with the help of their alexa toolbar. You can get it for mozilla and Internet Explorer. To get it installed visit Alexa toolbar. When a user having alexa installed visits your site you get a hit. The more of your users visit your site using alexa the more is your rank. So suggest your visitors to install it.

→Add your sites to these blog communities :
Mybloglog
Blogcatalog
Bumpzee
FuelMyBlog

SEO means search engine optimization. Inorder for your site to efficiently get displayed in search engines you need to optimize your site. optimization includes creating a proper title, description and keywords based on your content. Based on these criteria search engines find your site.

Check for bugs in your site and suggestions for search engine optimisation. Here are some sites :

SeoBugz