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PayPerPost.Com has recently announced yet another way for bloggers to start monetizing their site. For those who might not know, PayPerPost.Com is a blog marketing service that helps monetize your site. Their new Review My Post program pays the blogger every time someone signs up with their service and reviews a post on the blog. For instance if you post a Review My Post article on your blog titled “10 new SEO ideas” and someone signs up and writes a review of that post you get paid.

The whole process couldn’t be simpler. You merely click on the Affiliate Tools tab in your PayPerPost.Com account, get your Review My Post code, and tag that on the end of any post you want reviewed. That is the end of the process from your end.

PayPerPost.Com handles tracking the signups, ensures the reviews are valid, and pays your account once everything is complete. Simple, the kind of description you like to hear when it comes to monetizing your blog.

I recently added this service to my blog, and while I haven’t started rolling in the excess funds, I have seen an increase. This isn’t going to make you a fortune overnight, well it might but hey if it does let me in on the secret ok? Instead it is another stream that you can add to your blog to help it towards the goal of self-sufficiency and perhaps even profit.

To help further along the quest for creating a profitable if not self-supporting website there are two new options when it comes to placing search ads on your site. Yahoo and Fast Search and Transfer have both unveiled offerings. Both companies have similar offerings but there are a few major differences.

For those of you who have been following the Panama project by Yahoo you will find this to be the supposedly last piece of that new search marketing ranking model, titled Search Marketing. For those of you who may not be familiar with the Panama project, it is a new take on the way the ad service decides where on the page to place a particular ad. The difference is that it now takes into account performance of the ad versus simply who is willing to pay the most for an ad. Historically the best positions were always awarded to those advertisers who offered up the largest payment for a particular keyword. Now they are going to look at not only how much you pay but how well your ad is received. Those ads that get the most clicks will migrate to preferential spots on the page. Those with less return will be delegated to lower profit areas.  This process has several advantages in that it will cause advertisers to pay more attention to the design and function of their ads, which will ultimately benefit everyone.

Fast Search and Transfer is revamping the entire idea behind publishers having control over their ads versus the companies that push the ads. The advantage here is more profit for the publisher which should ultimately mean more profit for Fast Search. Their solution isn’t a better marketing platform, but instead a while label solution that would allow publishers to manage and monetize their sites as they see fit, effectively cutting out the search engine. Granted it seems they are marketing more to enterprises than the run of the mill blog or website. Still, the idea seems sound and if it works should quickly be picked up not only by the major names but by the thousands of little guys and gals out there as well.

Only time will tell if these new ad solutions will outperform the current reigning champion, Google. I for one am all for competition and hope this helps to spread the wealth out even more. Especially if that means just a bit might come my way

I recently had the need desire to find a new tagline. Yes I know taglines are so old school, but I never recall saying I was anything but. Anyway, this particular account is for my university email so obviously I wanted to find something Education related. I stumbled upon a great site called Quoteland.Com that has literally all the quotes you should ever need. I dropped a few into the snippets section of Flock and thought I would post them here for your enjoyment.

“…[Federal aid] promotes the idea that federal school money is ‘free’ money, and thus gives the people a distorted picture of the cost of education. I was distressed to find that five out of six high school and junior college students recently interviewed in Phoenix said they favored federal aid because it would mean more money for local schools and ease the financial burden on Arizona taxpayers. The truth, of course, is that the federal government has no funds except those it extracts from the taxpayers who resided in the various States. The money that the federal government pays to State X for education has been taken from the citizens of State X in federal taxes and comes back to them, minus the Washington brokerage fee.” - Barry Goldwater, Conscience of a Conservative, 1964

Quoteland :: Search

Ultimately I used the last sentence from the following quote for my tagline.

“If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.” -John Henry Newman, Idea of a University, 1852

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“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.Also in “Cosmic Religion” -Albert Einstein, “New York Times Magazine”, November 9, 1930

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“The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.” -Martin Buber

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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” -Calvin Coolidge

Quoteland :: Search

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841

Quoteland :: Search

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I have been having a fit trying to get Pretty Permalinks set for the site. Everything I tried just seemed to make matters worse. The only thing that would work intitially was putting :

/index.php/%pagename%/

This to me was not a good solution, I wanted to have just /%pagename%/. Finally after mucking around with all the different solutions offered in the forums and multiple websites, I fixed it by accident, or rather by chance. My .htaccess file had the following:

# END WordPress
# BEGIN WordPress
ifmodule
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
/ifmodule

Well my server certainly didn’t like this bit of code so on the off chance, that I really couldn’t muck it up any more than it already was, I removed the

ifmodule
/ifmodule

And amazingly enough it worked like a charm. Now I have nice Pretty Permalinks. Oh note those if statements were in <> but I had to take them out for the posting.

Welcome to WordPress. No you didn’t type the address incorrectly, well you did if MonkeyBit.Com isn’t where you intended to land but since you are here take a look around. I decided that I could no longer resist the urge to try out the WordPress.Org software and switched the site over. Yes I am sure many of you are a bit confused but check out this theme. It is so ….. Fresh (pun intended)

Anyway I will be restoring the posts over the next few days. Please comment on whether you like the new format better or worse.