How to Find Halloween Wordpress Themes

1. Visit Kate’s Theme Viewer website. Kate’s website has several free WordPress themes available to blog owners. Kate’s Halloween Theme is a two-column theme that is Google AdSense-ready.

2. Look at the Scary 2 Columns Halloween WordPress theme that is available from Bobek’s WordPress Themes site. This theme is available free as part of a Creative Commons license, but links that are already part of the theme must remain intact.

3. Point your web browser to the Blogflux website. Blogflux has a search engine that will look through WordPress themes of all styles. Enter “Halloween” into the search box and you will see five Halloween WordPress themes to choose from.

4. View the Halloween theme available from the Ozzu Webmaster Forum site. This theme has a sinister looking pumpkin as the primary graphic and supports three-columns. Unlike the other themes, there is a fee associated with this Halloween WordPress theme.

5. Consider working with a theme designer to have your own custom Halloween-themed template created. The WordPress Themes and Templates Forum is a good place to connect with theme designers.

Top Ten Money Making Internet Affiliate Programs

Commission Junction

Commission Junction is a ValueClick-owned affiliate company and one of the largest affiliate networks in the world. All affiliates and member sites are screened by the company's staff, helping to increase the quality of the overall network. Unlike most other affiliate programs, Commission Junction also posts average earnings per affiliate link so that marketers can choose the best-performing links to promote. Products and services from major global brands can be found within Commission Junction, including Starwood Hotels, Pacsun and Lending Tree.Commission Junction

530 East Montecito Street

Santa Barbara, CA 93103

(800) 761-1072

cj.com

Clickbank

Clickbank's affiliate program specializes in online products and digital downloads such as electronic books. With more than 10,000 products available, online marketers and site publishers have a wide selection of links from which to choose to promote on their website. This program is best for those running niche sites that can capitalize off of Clickbank's industry-specific online products, such as e-books about making money on eHow or guides to making money on eBay.Clickbank

Click Sales, Inc.

917 S. Lusk Street, Suite 200

Boise, ID 83706

(213) 403-0156‎

clickbank.com

Amazon Associates

As America's biggest Internet retailer with billions of dollars in annual revenue, Amazon's affiliate program offers site owners and marketers an exhaustive library of products to promote. Individuals earn up to 15 percent on sales generated through affiliate links. Links can direct users to a specific book or product, and site owners can publish dynamic banners and widgets that display products that change every time the web page is refreshed.Amazon, Inc.

605 5th Ave S.

Seattle, WA 98104-3886

(866) 216-1072

associates.amazon.com

Linkshare

Created in the mid-'90s, Linkshare is one of the Internet's oldest affiliate programs. Marketers can choose to promote standard affiliate marketing, as well as niches such as search marketing. Search marketing involves promoting a link by buying ads on search engines such as Yahoo! or Google. Linkshare offers a wide range of recognized brands, including many Fortune 500 companies like American Express and Avon.Linkshare

215 Park Avenue South

9th Floor

New York, NY 10003

(800) 875-5465

linkshare.com

Google Adsense

Though not typically perceived as an affiliate program, Google AdSense's network of advertisers include many affiliate programs that are designed to match the content on a website. Online marketers often opt to use Google AdSense due to the company's trusted status among readers and visitors. Ads are displayed by inserting code into a site, which then delivers ads from Google's servers.Google, Inc.

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View, CA 94043

(650) 253-0000

google.com/adsense

eBay Partner Network

As one of the most recognized online auction sites in the world, eBay offers an affiliate program that allows websites to promote specific auctions and earn a commission when individuals win an item. The list of products changes daily and includes enough variety to meet the needs and niches of most sites and companies.eBay Partner Network

2145 Hamilton Ave

San Jose, CA 95125-5905

(408) 376-7400‎

ebaypartnernetwork.com

Azoogle Ads

The Azoogle affiliate network was founded in 2000. Azoogle places advertisements on social media websites such as Myspace and Facebook and does other kinds of e-marketing. Azoogle's relatively easy acceptance process makes it popular among smaller website owners that do not have the traffic required by larger affiliate programs such as Commission Junction. As of 2009, Azoogle has more than 40,000 individual affiliate markets in its network.Azoogle Ads

512 7th Avenue, 12th Floor

New York, NY 10018

(866) 891-0300

azoogleads.com

Clickbooth

Clickbooth specializes in exclusive affiliate deals, meaning many of its affiliate networks and partnerships with retailers cannot be found on other affiliate programs. As of 2009, products in its affiliate bank include Gevalia, AOL and Blockbuster. This program is best for those who want a 100 percent fill-rate, meaning affiliate ads never display filler ads that do not generate income potential.Clickbooth

301 N Cattlemen Road

Sarasota, FL 34232

(941) 483-4188

clickbooth.com

ShareASale

This affiliate program has consistently won affiliate marketing industry awards for its publisher-friendly policies and wide selection of merchants. The company is known for carefully screening its affiliates to ensure marketers don't find themselves accidentally promoting unscrupulous companies or adware manufacturers. Though smaller than most other affiliate networks, ShareASale has some of the industry's best customer service because of its smaller size.ShareASale

15 W. Hubbard, STE 200

Chicago, IL 60610

(312) 321-0487

shareasale.com

Private Affiliates

Some of your favorite websites, companies and products operate their own affiliate programs. Payout for independent programs typically occurs on a shorter timetable, and commission is often greater. Promoting a private affiliate program is best for those who are passionate about that specific brand or service, as well as those in small niches in which there is not enough interest in larger affiliate programs.

How to Share Documents Online

1. Go to Google Docs. Sign up for an account or log in using your user name and password if you already have a Google account (for Gmail, Adsense, Adwords or any other Google product).

2. Upload documents by clicking the 'Upload' button and choosing the document from your computer that you want to post online. You can also create documents online.

3. Share your uploaded documents by choosing the documents you'd like to share. Click the 'Share' button and then 'Sharing settings.' This will pull up a box in which you can type the e-mail addresses of the people you'd like to share information with. You can also choose whether to let the people you're inviting edit or simply view the documents, and you can add a message to personalize the invitation.Before being able to view the documents, the people you invited will also have to sign up for Google Docs if they don't already have a Google account.

4. Another method for document sharing is Google Wave. Sign up if you don't already have a Google account and log in with your user name and password.

5. Start a new Wave by dragging and dropping documents you wish to share into the open Wave. To add new contacts, click the plus sign in the 'Manage contacts' box. This will pull up a box in which you can type the e-mail addresses of those people you wish to be able to see and download your documents. Any collaborators you invite will also need to have a Google Wave account before they can participate in the Wave.

How Does Google AdSense Track Fake Clicks?

Background

Google's AdSense program is a pay-per-click advertising models through which advertisers pay a certain amount of money each time a person clicks on an advertisement. The amount paid per click is based on the popularity of the keyword and how frequently the ad is clicked compared to competitors. With Google AdSense, the ads appear on specific Web pages relevant to the ad content. Businesses who advertise through Google depend on the fact that a certain percentage of those people who click on their advertisement will make a purchase.

Click Fraud

Click fraud occurs when someone clicks on an advertisement -- often a large number of times -- without any intention of making a purchase. The intention of this is to make an ad campaign appear more effective than it actually is. Websites that host ads through Google's AdSense program earn a commission each time an ad is clicked, which means that publishers of such websites can repeatedly click on an ad appearing on their website to keep increasing its commission. According to PC Magazine, some websites have paid workers in third-world countries a few cents per hour to sit at a computer and click ads on their websites.

Monitoring

Google monitors clicks on Google AdSense ads to detect unusual activity. The company uses a proprietary technology to detect whether there is any unusual activity intended to drive up an advertiser's clicks. Numerous data points are analyzed on each click, including the IP address of the person who clicked on the ad, the time of the click, duplicate clicks, and other click patterns. If there are 'excessively repetitive' clicks, those are filtered out by Google's system. If there are known sources of invalid activity, such as an IP address, those are automatically discarded, according to Google's advertising guide. Advertisers are not charged for clicks that Google determines to be invalid.

Legal Issues

Click fraud is a multi-million dollar annual problem for advertisers. In March 2006, Google agreed to pay a $90 million settlement to a group of its advertisers, including Lane's Gifts & Collectibles, which advertised through Google and headed a class-action lawsuit claiming it was being improperly charged by Google for fraudulent clicks. The lawsuit claimed that Google's technology to detect invalid clicks was not effective. Google has repeatedly said that it's not possible for its automatic filters to catch 100 percent of the invalid clicks, but that a very small number of clicks are fraudulent.

How to Set Up Your YouTube Partnership Program Account

1. Create a YouTube user account by clicking the 'Create Account' link in the upper right-hand corner of the YouTube home page and following the prompts. Select a user name and password and supply your e-mail address, country, date of birth and sex before accepting YouTube's terms of service.

2. Upload videos to your YouTube account. Your videos must be original. If they are popular, your likelihood of getting approved for a partner account will improve.

3. Apply for a YouTube partner account. You must supply details about yourself and the videos you have uploaded to your user account. You must also supply your reason for applying to the partnership program.

4. Create a Google AdSense account. The YouTube partnership account application process allows you an opportunity to do this. You must supply your name, age, and nationality, and identify whether you represent a business. Google will send you an e-mail containing your AdSense account number.

5. Link your partner account to your AdSense account. Use your AdSense 'My Account' tab and follow the prompts. Open your YouTube user account, click on the link in the notification box of the YouTube home page and enter your AdSense account information.

How to Make Money Online with Google Adsense

1. Sign up for a Google AdSense account. From in your account you will be able to set the options that you want in regards to the ads that will display, the number of ads that will show at one time, and the colors and layout that your advertising boxes will use. The HTML code for these advertisement boxes will be automatically generated by the Adsense website for you to copy and paste onto your website or blog.

2. Place the AdSense code wherever you want it to display on your website or in your blog. Keep in mind that AdSense ads rely on the text that is located on your site in order to display ads that are relevant to the content of that text. If your page is made primarily of images, there will be very little for the ad code to pick up on and you may not get ads that will count toward your AdSense account.

3. If you have a specific theme to your website or blog, make sure that the text that appears on the page with the ads has keywords specific to that theme mentioned 3-8 times. This will help the ad code to recognize those keywords as important so that it will display ads that are relevant to those keywords so that visitors will be more likely to click on them.

4. Monitor the hits and clicks that your AdSense code registers by using the report functions that your AdSense account features. This will let you monitor your earnings while also helping you to keep better track of the amount of traffic your website is getting and how effective your advertising has been.

How to Add a Social Network to TypePad

1. Log in to your TypePad Dashboard and click 'Account.'

2. Click 'Other Accounts' in the sidebar.

3. Select a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace from the drop-down menu and click 'Add.'

4. Sign in to the network when prompted if you're not already signed in, then click 'Allow' or 'Authorize.'

5. Click 'Save' to confirm, if prompted.

6. Click 'Edit' next to any social network in your list to view settings. Click the checkboxes to turn sharing on or off and hide or display your social networks in your TypePad profile.

7. Click 'Other Accounts' in the 'Modules' section, then click 'Add This Module.'

8. Click a button to select a layout in the pop-up window, then click 'OK.' Your social networking accounts are now added to the sidebar. Click, hold and drag any module to move it to another position on the page layout.