24 Sites That Pay You to Blog

Writing paid post is perhaps one of the best ways to earn some revenue from blogging. The way pay post works hasn’t changed much; after reaching mutual agreement with advertisers, you write about them and they pay you. And if there is a 3rd party involved, they take cut. Most middle man company provides marketplace for advertisers to look for publishers, vice versa.

If you firmly believe that writing pay post is one good way to revenue from your blog, here’s a list of 24 web services that pay you to write for them. This list will be updated periodically, so if you have a paid post service I’ve missed out I’d like to add them to the list. Necessary credits will be given.

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10 Facebook Widgets and Tools for Your Blog

Facebook is the largest social networking site with more than 400 million active users and is growing larger daily! Make sure to use these Facebook widgets to connect with your large Facebook audience through your blog or website. You can use these tools to easily share certain profile information, websites, blogs, and businesses with the Facebook community.



Personal Profile Widgets

Profile Badge
Create a Facebook profile badge to share selected profile information on your website. A profile badge will allow your users to easily connect with you and add you as a friend.

Photo Badge
This photo badge allows you to share your Facebook photos on websites and blogs. Choose from a vertical, horizontal, or two-column layout and also choose the number of photos to be displayed.

Fan Badge
Display your Facebook fan pages for all to see.

Website or Business Widgets

Share Button
A powerful facebook widget which allows your visitors to share your content on Facebook!

Fan Box
Lets your users easily become a fan of your site and also allows them to view your Facebook page stream.

Page Badge
Lets you share your Facebook page (one that you have created) information on your website.

Twitter Link
Connect your Facebook page with Twitter. Whenever you update your Facebook fan page your twitter followers will be updated as well with a tweet.

Developers Widgets

Publishing to Facebook
This allows your users to publish their content and activity to Facebook.

Comments Box
Lets your users comment on your website content with their Facebook account.

Live Stream
Lets Facebook users to post and share content in real-time.

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Related Posts Widget for Blogger

This is a wonderful hack for displaying links to related posts beneath each of your blog posts. The related articles are chosen from other posts in that same category/label/tag. With this hack many of your readers will remain on your site for longer periods of time when they see related posts of interest. It also boost your traffic adn popularity!





Steps for Installation:

1. Go to Layout >Edit HTML in your Blogger Dashboard.
   
2. Back up your existing Template before making any changes!
3. Check the "Expand Widget Templates" box.
4. Search for the </head> tag. (Ctrl+F is very helpful)
5. Add the following code just before the </head> tag.

<style> #related-posts { float : left; width : 540px; margin-top:20px; margin-left : 5px; margin-bottom:20px; font : 11px Verdana; margin-bottom:10px; } #related-posts .widget { list-style-type : none; margin : 5px 0 5px 0; padding : 0; } #related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2 { font-size : 20px; font-weight : normal; margin : 5px 7px 0; padding : 0 0 5px; } #related-posts a { text-decoration : none; } #related-posts a:hover { text-decoration : none; } #related-posts ul { border : medium none; margin : 10px; padding : 0; } #related-posts ul li { display : block; background : url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhSJN71uNIWLrqp5cYyA-wiQ2hhaJd7TR5aXEZi4pawWPSkcpCyAdMbT1OeczqmlWReOaNyDiNQ0FF6YrbnodO2Sr9x2bPqlDuL5HZGDiZa9mNZPffooulUFNOvDcBiP745nvBjgUGelw/") no-repeat 0 0; margin : 0; padding-top : 0; padding-right : 0; padding-bottom : 1px; padding-left : 21px; margin-bottom : 5px; line-height : 2em; border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc; } </style> <script src='http://theblogtemplates.com/scripts/Related_posts_hack.js' type='text/javascript'/>

6. Now search for <data:post.body/>. In some of the templates this code may look like this
   <div class='post-body>
   or
     <data:post.body/> 
7. Add the following code just beneath the code you just searched for.
   
   

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <div id="related-posts"> <font face='Arial' size='3'><b>Related Posts : </b></font><font color='#FFFFFF'><b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'><data:label.name/><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <script expr:src='"/feeds/posts/default/-/" + data:label.name + "?alt=json-in-script&callback=related_results_labels&max-results=5"' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop> </font> <script type='text/javascript'> removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels(); </script> </div></b:if>

8. Now Save your Template and you're done!

Customization

• In order to change the number of maximum related posts being displayed for each label, search for the code below (within the code given in step 7) and change the number "5" to any desired number.

max-results=5

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Snap Shots for your blog

Snap Shots
See a live preview of outgoing links in a small popup which activates on mouseover. Some find this annoying, while others might find it useful.

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How to put Documents in Blogger Post

If you have a office document in your PC and want to put / add / place in your blogger / blogspot post, now you can.

Follow steps

1. Create a account at Scribd

2. Upload your document [ Supported: Microsoft Office / PDF / Open Office / Text ]

3. Choose file / document from your PC and click UPLOAD button.

4. Describe Your Documents - You can add categories / description / make it private, click Save Changes.

5. Share Your Documents [this is important] - Scroll window down and find Embed Code click Copy button.

6. Now log in Blogger Dashboard > New Post > in Post body/content [edit HTML mode] paste code.

7. That's it.

[ Supported File Types: doc, docx, ppt, pptx, pps xls, xlsx, pdf, ps, odt, odp, sxw, sxi, txt, rtf ]

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Article Submitter

Submit your website to 4500+ directories, 500+ article directories and 200 feed sites!

One of the best programs for driving traffic to your blog adn save your time for blog promotion!
This is the official description of Article Submitter from their website. Read this description below and download demo! Try it, it's really easy and very effective!

Article Submitter

◊ Do you spend all of your time going to article directories to submit your content? Are you frustrated by sites rejecting your content because it's not formatted using their specific, confusing rules? Article Submitter could be the solution you need.

◊ Save time by submitting properly formatted content to over 500 article directories using Article Submitter. Our tool offers semi-automatic submission to the most current list of article directories, allowing you focus on writing content, not submitting it.

◊ One of the best ways to market your website is to write articles and submit them to various websites and article directories. These articles can bring a lot of traffic to your website, if written in an informative or entertaining manner. The article submission process (posting your articles to article directories) is definitely a laborious and time consuming task. Article Submitter simplifies the article submission process to save you time.

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10 Ways to make your Blog more Attractive to Advertisers

This post comes from Chad Randall, the Director of Sales for b5media and the author of AdvertiseSpace. Chad has been working in the online advertising industry for over 6 years now, and has personally sold more than $5,000,000 in online ads. I figured he’d be a good person to ask about how to make your blog attractive to advertisers.

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Sharing Buttons on Blogger

Blogger has been adding new features to improve the looks and usability of the blogs. Blogger is now testing out a new Social Sharing icon set consisting of Email, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook and Google buzz buttons. The widget looks simple and elegant with some cool mouse over effects. These Sharing buttons are now available in your regular dashboard. If you need to take a peek at these new sharing icons, then take a look at the bottom of this post (and try sharing it). :)

You are still reading. So i guess that you are really interested in adding these Sharing buttons on your Blogger Blog.

Don’t wait. Just follow these simple steps

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