I am going on leave

Dear readers,

I am going on a holiday trip for about three weeks. As such, you will not be able to see any updates to this blog in the next three to four weeks. I may need one more week to settle things when I come back to office. So, just be patient and I will be back with more useful content. I have planned a few posts, but unable to spend some time to write it down. Will do so after my holidays.

Until then, Good Bye. Cheers!

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Feedburner Subscription Feed Error

If you have subscribed to the e-mail feed from this blog, you would have received an e-mail containing all the previous posts. This is not an error made by Feedburner. Feedburner normally sends only the latest posts from this blog. It is, in fact, due to an error on my part.

Two days ago, I was editing my blog’s feed details in Feedburner as part of some testing. Unfortunately, I didn’t restore back the settings before leaving Feedburner. I noticed the error only when I received the post update from Feedburner. I would like to apologize to all the readers for the error. I have corrected the error and you should receive only the latest posts hereafter. I assure you that I will do my best to prevent any recurrence. In case, if you notice any errors please feel free to leave a comment here.

Lesson Learnt
Please ensure that you subscribe to your own blog’s feed. It is not to show off an increase in your subscriber count. But, it helps you to monitor what exactly goes to your reader. You will be able to monitor whether the feed works properly. It gives you a chance to correct any errors in the feed as quickly as possible.

Have you faced any similar challenges before? Share your views here. Please subscribe to my feed if you like this post

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Spotplex is going offline

It seems like Spotplex is closing down. I was notified about this by one of our readers. So, I dropped into the Spotplex’ home page and this is what I read:

"We regret to inform you that Spotplex is going offline. This was a very hard decision for us and we are sure you will miss the service as much as we do."

That means Spotplex has decided to quit after being around for about a year. I had been using the Popular Posts widget from Spotplex since December 2007. My detailed post on the steps to install the Popular Posts widget for Blogger is also one of the most popular posts until now.

To be frank, I am a bit sad to let the popular posts widget from Spotplex to go off from my blog. But, I could do nothing about. If you have installed the popular posts widget from Spotplex on your site, then please remove it. It will not work from now on or you may even get some errors. Also, remember to remove the Spotplex tracking code.

Certainly, I will miss the service from Spotplex. Anyway, I take this opportunity to thank the Spotplex team for providing a wonderful widget and the analytics so far. We will discuss about the alternatives available soon.

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Clickbooth, CPA Network

Clickbooth was setup in the year 2002 with the goal of excellence in the interactive marketing industry. Clickbooth is a division of IntegraClick, Inc., based in Sarasota, Florida. Clickbooth Advertising Network is based on the CPA online advertising model.

CPA Model
CPA stands for Cost Per Action. This model is completely different from cost-per-impressions model (CPM) and the cost-per-click (CPC) model. In the CPA model, advertisers pay publishers per lead. To be clear, this online advertising payment model is based solely on qualifying actions such as sales or registrations. The advertisers have to set an action which publishers’ users must complete. Such actions range can be as simple as inputting an email address or can be complex as purchasing a product. Different actions have different payouts.

Registration with Clickbooth
The sign-up process includes three steps:

1. Personal information: You are required to give out standard information like your first name, last name, address …


2. Verification: The verification process requires you to input your phone. Please give a phone number that is immediately accessible to you. Your phone starts to ring within a few seconds. You have an automated voice message that informs you the verification code, a 4-digit number. Key in the number in the space provided. Your verification is complete.


3. Website details: The last information required is your web site/ blog details. I found that the category is insufficient. I could not find one category that reflects very closely my blog’s theme. Once you complete all the required information, Clickbooth takes about 72 hours to review your blog for approval.

Payout
Clickbooth pays out on the 15th of every month for commission earned the month prior. But, you should have reached at least the minimum payout threshold of $50.

Referral Program
Clickbooth is having an attractive referral program too. You will receive 2% gross referral credit for life plus an additional $10 bonus for every affiliate referred.

I have just signed up with Clickbooth. So, I cannot share with you how it performs. It looks good at the outset. So, if you are interested, give it a try.

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