Affiliate marketing is an easy to start online business. It is really easy to start but requires the hard work to become successful. In this article you will learn the six basic steps that are required to enter in this business. The steps are brief and quite simple. You must follow these steps in order to become successful otherwise you would not get the desired results.

1. Pick a Market

Why to choose a market instead of product? The reason is quite clear that you would like to put more products in your pipeline. You have to choose a market which suits you. You must obtain detailed information about it.

2. Pick a Product

When you have picked a specific market, now it is time to select a product. You will definitely want to add all the products at the beginning, but it is advised not to do this in the start. If you choose more products in the beginning, you will not be able to focus. Your attention will be diverted to different products. So it is better to choose one product to get best out of it. When you have started getting the sales then you can add more products.

3. Build an Autoresponder Series

After you start your business, you must create a follow up series, which is also called an autoresponder series. This series must have the information about your product. There you can add contents of your product. If you are selling golf clubs, you can build a series having some basic information about it. There you can tell your visitors how they can purchase golf clubs. You can also add some advantages or the profiles of some major golfers in the world. You should try to be more and more creative. It is observed that during the period of first few months affiliates do not get reasonable sales. But after six months, they expect to gain much better sales.

4. Build a Page to Capture Emails

Create a page in your website where you will capture information about your prospects so you can send them your follow-up series. If you are building a business, having your own web site is a necessity. This website will be needed to show your affiliate products to the website visitors. You will grab the visitor’s emails to promote your email campaigns.

5. Use Traffic Generation Techniques

Once your website is up, use some traffic generation techniques. After applying the traffic generation techniques, you should wait for some time to get the results. Try different techniques and see the results. Then on the basis of your experience, continue with the technique that shows best results.

6. Find additional related products

Once you have started to make a good and reliable income with a single product, then you should add some new products to your products list. But you must carefully select new products to put them in the list.

Always start with a single, hot and demanding product to gain good results. Concentrate on this single product, make your website to display the product and capture the email addresses of visitors. Use these email addresses and your website to start a powerful advertisement campaign. Use the techniques to drive maximum traffic to your website. Once you have started earning with a single product, add more products and repeat the process.

Blogging is very famous nowadays not just among businessmen but also to the students and other people. Aside from it is a funny thing to do, it gives something that no human being could ever explain.

On the psychological perspective, blogging helps a person express himself thus giving him an outlet of his hidden outrages in life. All things that a man has to say that can alleviate his emotional state can actually be posted to a blog.

Businessmen, on the other hand, use blogs to advertise and also to sell their products and services. Blogging is very essential in their line of work. Aside from they are profiting from making business through their blogs, they can also garner patronage over their clients who had been satisfied by their services.

Students, use blogs to post their shout outs regarding their academic problems and also their scholastic related issues. There are also students who post articles on their blogs that wish to help their fellow students that are also on the same situation as they are.

Aside from the fun it brings, blogging can also give you profits even if you are not a businessman. In fact, there had been many people of different jobs that claimed to have gained benefits through their blogs. There are many ways one can profit through blogging.

1)   Trade Advertising – the most common way to generate income through your blog is by means of selling spaces in your blog to business institutions. Through this, you may directly consistently earn money.

There are bloggers that offer the spaces in their blogs for a certain period. This would mean that a space can expire depending on the agreement of both the blogger and the business institution. You just need your blog to be known in order to garner more business institution to advertise in your blog.

2)   Trade the Products of Others – This sounds illegal but its not. On this type of profit making, you’re actually helping businessmen sell their products. There are companies that offer equivalent compensation to bloggers who mentions their product in their blogs.

Through it, the company may have a larger chance of selling the product. The product and company that one will mention in his blog will be highlighted. Whenever a reader clicks on the highlighted product or company, the reader will have direct access to the seller.

3)   Ask for Contributions – there is no limit in blogging except those moves that are abusive to others. You may initiate and make a club through your blog and ask your members to pay for the membership.

Think of a good service that you may offer to your members. It can be a finding-your-match service or whatever that comes out of your mind. Let them pay for the service you are offering and that’s how you profit.

4)   Sell Your Products and Services – Enough of the boxed idea that blogging is solely made to air opinions. You can make use of your blog to market you products and services to others. These can help your earn money anyway.

There are many people out there who made use of the bogs to find the products and services they want. This is because in blogging people are actually dealing in real time. In addition to that, hoaxing and fraud is very minimal in blogging since people do negotiate personally and directly.

These four ways are not just the ways one can earn bucks out of blogging. You may as well visit sites pertaining to blogs and blogging. For sure, there are topics and articles there on how to earn money by blogging.

There is a lot of competition in catching the attention of the subscriber in the email world. In order to distinguish from the rest of the clutter, communication must be made easier for the receiver. People always get attracted to things which are easy and go away from things which are difficult to do. Because of this hallmark of services and products like Google AdWords, Turbo Tax, etc., they have gained popularity all over the world.

Like they say it is easy to say but difficult to do, so is the case with making each and every thing easy for the customers and subscribers. Sometimes it might happen that the things which are easy for a group of customers might not be easy for the rest. This case is true especially with new customers.

The very first step in making things easier is to have a simple email address, link or opt-in form field in a promotional email or newsletter. Also this information must be included on every page of the website. There should be provision of a web version of the emails which are in HTML. It helps to include a send-to-friend link or functionality in every message. The subscribers must be able to take actions in spite of the images being blocked. Every submit button should be labeled with the action to be taken like ‘buy now’, ‘Subscribe here’, etc.

If any of these functionalities are missing, then Email Management and Accessing Content should be considered for simplification.

Subscription must be made easier by working on email ids, links and sign-up form and post this information on every page. Every email should have the subscribe link in order to tempt the readers, especially those who have received the message from a friend. In order to subscribe, the steps to be taken should be minimum. According to a survey, marketers who had cut down the subscription steps from 9 to 3 saw an increase of 300% in the subscription rate. More personal information need to be collected from the subscriber in order to send more relevant emails. It also helps in maintaining the email list effectively. But email marketers should know where to draw the line as too much information can turn off the subscriber, especially those who haven’t subscribed yet but intend to do so.

A separate page can hold the opt-in form to collect relevant information. The critical fields on the form should be marked with a star and the other extraneous field should be left on the subscriber’s choice to fill. The setting and updating of the customer’s preferences about the content must be made easier. Password can be allowed along with the inclusion of link for the retrieval of password, in case it has been forgotten. These links should stand out on the web page and in the email. The email should have software which provides ‘Mail-to-friend’ option and it should be easier than the forward function.

The email should stand out amongst the rest of the emails. The sender should be easily recognizable and the subject line should be catchy. Emails should have provisions to take action in an easy way. They should be text based as well as HTML based. Include a link of the web version of the email, so that more vivid information can be seen. Obviously, the emails should be printer friendly; if not a printer friendly version of the email should be provided.

It is very important to check the working of each and every link, including the unsubscribing link. Clicking on the link, it should take the reader directly to the web page, image or file. Subscribers find it very tedious to hunt for the desired content. Another important point which most of the marketers forget is to make the unsubscribe option easy. This strengthens the trust of the subscribers. More can be gained out of the unsubscribing process by including various options such as address change or changing the frequency of emails.

When all these points will be pondered upon, you will be certainly surprised with the subscription turn out.

Marketing on the Internet involves online advertising to reach out to potential customers. It requires creativity like designing, development and technical aspects like marketing and advertising. Affiliate marketing, email marketing, search engine marketing and interactive advertising are all different facets of Internet marketing. It also includes sales, public relations, information management and customer service. Ever since the advent of Internet, it is widely used for all kind of purposes. Among the advantages of Internet, some helps in doing business, shopping, etc, from the comfort of the house. According to a research, a quarter of the Internet users shop online. It has also helped grow electronic commerce and Internet marketing is a part of electronic commerce.

Direct marketing techniques like radio and television commercials, mails, and newsletters are the inspirations for Internet marketing, which involves direct response marketing strategies and is rapidly growing. Business-to-business, also known as B2B, and business-to-consumer, also known as B2C, are the two business models to which Internet marketing can be linked. B2C companies were the first to start when Internet marketing originated. They are companies that sell directly to the customers. B2B companies are meant to do business with each other.

Websites built for Internet marketing are slightly different than others. There are peer-to-peer modeled websites which are used to exchange products and services between each other. Other is name-your-price, where the customers have to specify their price range that they can spend and select products that fall in that price range. Priceline.com is an example of such a website. Amazon.com is a website which is based on find-the-best-price model, where customers can find the lowest prices. Last are online auctions sites, where items are bid. Ebay.com is an example.

The companies who use Internet marketing are at an advantage. They don’t need to put in huge amounts of energy and time in Internet Marketing like other traditional methods. With the help of only few resources national and international markets can be reached. Because of very low investment, even small businesses are turning to online marketing. Websites and blogs have been developed for this purpose. Internet marketing is advantageous in the sense that the data is easily available on the Internet. Newsletters can be directly sent to customers and if it doesn’t contain the information they are looking for, they can search for information about the product online, make a decision and purchase it online itself.

One of the factors that hinder the growth of online marketing is delayed loading of the page. The web pages that take a lot of time to download test the patience of the consumer. To add to that, if the businesses design complex web pages with lots of graphics and animations, it will slow down the speed even more. Another minus point of online marketing is that the customers cannot feel, taste, smell or try products in order to make a good decision. To over come this, some of the online stores have created liberal return policies with the help of which the customer satisfaction is guaranteed.

Another biggest threat of online shopping is identity theft. Paying online using credit cards, e-checks are susceptible to hackers and information can be stolen and used. Many hackers and websites have been caught who were involved in buying and selling of personal information. Most of the websites have taken measures and incorporated good security on their websites. One of the best methods is encryption. When the data is being transferred between two computers; there is a possibility of a hacker intercepting it. So the data is changed by applying some encryption algorithm and is sent through the network and upon receiving, the decryption algorithm is applied to bring back the data to its original form.

Online selling is influencing all kinds of businesses like banking, advertising, music, etc. Instead of going to a store for buying cassettes and CDs, music can be bought online. Bank transactions like depositing, withdrawing, transferring funds, and paying bills are all performed online. Billions of dollars are invested every year in online advertising alone.

As you guys know, social media is becoming an important factor in marketing. From my own experience, it can bring you a good massive amount of traffic to your blog in a short span of time and it can last for sometime too. You can also read up on one of my post on this blog about How To Generate Traffic With Stumble Upon. Somebody just stumbled my previous post and I received 500+ visitors today just from SU alone, how wonderful is that? Now here’s a big list of social media sites that you can use to submit your articles to and watch your traffic explode!

Allmyfavorites - Create an organized page for your bookmarks that you can share with friends and family, access from any computer.

Backflip – Check out the most popular links each day, set “The Daily Routine” as your homepage so you can visit your must stop sites each day with ease.

Barksbookmarks – is a website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control.

Bibsonomy - BibSonomy is run by the Knowledge Data Engineering Group of the University of Kassel, Germany. Its specifically designed for researchers, in sharing bookmarks and bibliographies.

Blinklist – Social bookmarking with slick interface and new ways for organizing tags.

Blinkpro – Dynamic folders, bookmark all links of a page plus all the usual features.

Blipoo - Meet Blipoo, a social bookmarking site for “cool” people sharing “cool” stories. It claims to help bloggers drive more traffic to their blog because they allow self promotion..

Blogbookmark – Designed specifically for Blog hunters, BlogBookmark.com claims to have the hottest news, gossip, and blog chatter from around the web. I highly suggest that mainstream bloggers bookmark their entires here.

Blog-buzz – Similar to Digg, but for blog posts.

Blogmarks - Save your bookmarks, tag them with keywords for easy searching amongst your list, share with others.

Blogrush - The fastest and easiest way to drive traffic to your blog automatically. Not actually a social bookmark site but helps a lot in building traffic to your blog.

Bluedot - Tabbed user page showing a network of friends, bookmarks, and related tags. Allows you to import contacts from all the major mail services such as GMail and Yahoo.

Blurpalicious – Get Blurped! Not too different from other social bookmarks, but I love the tagline.

Bmaccess – Bookmark a site, add tags, when you look up a tag, you get the names and a little thumbnail image of the site along with it.

Bookkit – BookKit.com is an absolutely free web service designed to facilitate bookmark (favorites) management needs.

Bookmarkall – Organizer for bookmarks, calendar, diary and knowledge.

Bookmarktracker – Free online storage, management, synchronizing and RSS sharing of your bookmarks.

Bookmax – You can store your bookmarks and links to your favorite sites online and access them from wherever you are : basic Social Bookmarking.

Buddymarks – The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.

Bukmark - Bukmark is a social bookmarking website.

Buzka – is a free and easy way to share your favorite web stuff. You can save and organize all your favorite web pages by creating Spots on any interest or topic.

Chipmark – Browse random “chipmarks”, share them, sort, filter, and get personal recommendations.

Citeulike - Social bookmarking for academic papers.

Claimid – Manage your online identity. Although this is not a normal social bookmarking site, users can bookmark sites which reference their identity and build backlinks in this fashion.

Clipclip - Like an online scrapbook, you clip out the part of the site you want, then share it with whomever you want, and discover new places to visit.

Clipmarks – Allows you to clip just the chosen bits of a webpage, save them to the main website, or even insert them into your own blog. Think of it as fancy block quoting.

Cloudytags - A unique word analyzer connects to your page, gets all the words and suggest you the real tags your site is showing to the world.

Complore – 10MB of file storage, public & private sharing, tag cloud, popular feeds and more.

Connectbean - A themed social bookmarking site for enterprise-scale business.

Connectedly – Import your bookmarks, batch edit them, check in on hot topics.

Connotea – A themed social bookmarking site specifically for researchers, clinicians and scientists.

Contentpop – It has the latest Web 2.0 features such as social bookmarking, blogging & RSS. It also uses the word POP in the title which means it must be good.

Corank – coRank is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion.

Crowdfound – CrowdFound is essentially a social bookmarking website, but with a different vision in mind.

De.lirio.us – Social Bookmarking, Tagging, Blogging & Notes. Mmmmmm, Notes.

Del.icio.us – You add your bookmarks and access them from anywhere. Check out what others are saving and see where it takes you.

Digg - Synonymous with social bookmarking: you Digg a story, others Digg it, the more popular it gets the better chance it has of hitting the first page.

Digmypage - Build links, increase traffic, and make money. A fast growing new social bookmark site.

Diigo – Highlight portions of a page, write on it like you would a piece of paper, share with your group, and search all publicly saved pages.

Dzone – Fresh links for developers.

Easybm – Allows users to bookmark their frequently visited sites on their private page, allowing 1-click access to their favorite web sites.

Ecites - Organize your bookmarks by tags, add comments and notes, share publicly, subscribe to certain tags so you can be notified when a new site is added that may interest you.

Enroll - Social bookmarking system based in India.

Entrecard – Not actaually a social bookmark site but rather a great traffic tool for bloggers. Like blogrush but in my own opinion more effective.

Ez4u Social Bookmarking - Ez4u to Bookmark : “Ez4u to Organize Ez4u to Share with Others Ez4u to Remember”.

Fark – Social bookmarling community.

Favoor – Favoor is your personalized new start page. Collect your favorite internet addresses.

Feedmarker – A free, Web based RSS/ATOM aggregator and bookmarks manager.

Feedmelinks – All the usual social bookmarking goodies, but you can also add links via email.

Flipskipper – social bookmarking manager that allows users to pull concurrent searches from Yahoo!, Google News, and del.icio.us when surfing.

Folkd – Folkd is a social web-service about pages, news, audios, videos and blogs.

Frassle – Frassle helps you read and publish weblogs, track bookmarks, and find relevant content organized your way.

Freelink – Freelink.org provides free pages of links that you can access anywhere at anytime.

Freezilla – FreeZilla claims to be the first Web 2.0 freebies and promotions social networking site.

Friendsite – Get free storage and share your photos & videos, get your own url and customize your page, create free evites and invitations, add friends, message people, create discussion forums and groups, blog, share and store your bookmarks & much more…

Fropjack – FropJack.com is a social content website and owned by the ExactSeek company.

Fungow – Fungow was designed to help better organize and keep track of your bookmarks.

Furl – Not only can you do the standard bookmarking and sharing, you can save archived versions of a webpage and even export all your saved pages to a ZIP file.

Fuzzfizz – FuzzFizz is a brand new social bookmarking site, where users vote for the most interesting and important news stories.

Gather - Gather is a place to contribute articles and content, blog, tag and connect with people who share your passions. (Plus you can link out from the articles in this authority site).

Getboo – GetBoo.com is yet another free online bookmarking service which allows you to store, edit and retrieve your bookmarks from anywhere online.

Givealink – Donate your bookmarks to this site to help them recommend sites and get a better understanding of how each person bookmarks.

Hanzoweb – Hanzoweb – Bookmark, tag & share knowledge online

Hyperlinkomatic – Hyperlinkomatic – bookmark list manager.

I89 - Export to several formats, see popular & recent bookmarks, ability to shorten URLs.

Icio - Danish Bookmarking engine.

Ideanotes German - Social notes manager. Easy integration of references to books, news and articles.

Ikeepbookmarks – Folders, search folder names and more.

Iloggo – Simple web based bookmarking tool that you can use f

Indiagram – Allows social bookmarking. Aim is to develop a community that shares information about websites on diverse topics.

Jigg – Jigg.in is a socializing community with the latest stories / news submitted by users and has a familiar name

Jots - Jots is a collaborative bookmarking system that allows you to Store, Share and Discover relevant links. Store your own links and choose whether to share them with the world, with a select group of people or just for yourself to use.

Jumptags – Jumptags.com is a revolutionary Web 2.0 social bookmarking web service for collecting, storing, sharing and distributing web bookmarks, notes, RSS feeds, contacts, and much more. Based on AJAX and other next generation web development techniques.

Kinja – Kinja is a blog guide, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web.

Leze - German Internet Bookmarking Service.

Librarything – Deli.cio.us for books. Cataloging based on some 30+ libraries using the Z39.50 protocol.

Lifelogger – LifeLogger is a great way to keep things that matter to you alive and sparkling.” And worth considering in a bookmarking campaign.

Lilisto - Lilisto lets you store, manage and find your favorite links (or bookmarks) and removes the need to maintain them through your browser.

Limca Bookmarks - another new social bookmarking site.

Linkagogo – Favorites and Social Bookmarking Application, its unique dynamic toolbars automatically adapt themselves.

Linkatopia – Keep private, share, mark as friends only, edit bookmark dates.

Linkblog – Portuguese Social Bookmarking

Linkfilter – Linkfilter.net is just what the name implies, a link filter. All links are posted and moderated by users. Links can be ranked on several levels: clicks, votes, age, or a combination of all three called points.

Linkkarera - German Social Bookmarking site.

Linkroll – Links open in new window, subscribe to tags, browse by archives.

Linksnarf - Social link sharing with groups of friends.

Linkswarm – Our little collection of links has been prepared by vast forces of evil to allow you a little pleasure. We want to make it all worthwhile for you, so sign up. I

Listerlister – ListerLister is a social list building community where you can create, add to, and vote for both lists and the items added to them.

Loom Delymyth - Collaborative bookmarking application written in PHP.

Ma.gnolia – Discuss all the saved bookmarks in groups, see what the Featured Linker is all about, join discussions in the Hot Group.

Markaboo – MarkaBoo is tool for saving websites, files, and notes from your browser, email or mobile phone.

Marktd – Marktd is a reference & voting system that highlights marketing articles considered valuable by the marketing community.

Memfrag - MemFrag stores your favorites personal notes, making them globally accessible from any computer.

Memotoo – Lets users centralize and share your personal data.

Mister Wong – Bookmark and tag, search for tags that interest you, make buddies with people who have interesting saved sites.

Mixx – An up and coming bookmarking and social news sharing network which should rival Digg, Reddit and others, Mixx blends popular photos, videos and stories.

Mobleo – Allows you to easily add, organize, and share your mobile phone bookmarks with your friends using your desktop computer.

Multiply – Florida-based social network Multiply, which reports nearly 3 million users and $6 million in funding,opened its social bookmarking site recently and has done well. Definite authority.

Murl – My URLs is a free online bookmarks manager, think of it as a bookmarks community.

Mybookmarks - MyBookmarks is a free Internet service that allows you to keep your browser bookmarks and favorites online so you can access them from anywhere.

Myhq - Store your bookmarks in one central location. Fast, text-based, banner free

Mylinkvault – A free online bookmark manager. Other bookmark managers can be so clumsy to use – trying to rearrange your bookmarks can be slow and frustrating.

Myprogs - Social bookmarking for programs you use.

Mysitevote – MySiteVote is a community where you can vote your favorite site/s and view how popular a site is.

Myvmarks – An online bookmark and online favorites manager.

Myweb Yahoo – One button click adds your bookmarks to the search engine giants system, features duplicate detection to help you keep your bookmarks tidy.

Mywebdesktop – A collaboration and communication tool, designed to be as generic and easy to use as a telephone and email.

Netscape - A former contender in the browser wars, and the “mother” of Mozilla, it’s now a a social news aggregator with voting of stories similar to Digg.

Netvouz – Save your bookmarks in folders, tag them with keywords, share them with others or password protect them.

Networkmenus – Social Bookmarking within a web browser toolbar.

Newscloud – Provides community-based media distribution services and solutions along with BitTorrent hosting and consulting for individuals and organizations of all sizes.

Newsvine – Users can write articles on current news events, save links to external content; vote, comment and chat on article pages created by both users and by journalists.

Newsweight – NewsWeight is a democratic news, information, and entertainment resource.

Nextaris – Folders, tags, clippings; store up to 100MB for free.

Oyax - A fast and quick social categorized bookmarking service with groups.

Philoi – Person-to-person link sharing community. Save bookmarks and share links with your friends.

Plugim – PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page. If its internet marketing related, plug it on PlugIM.

Propeller – One of the most active and professional bookmarking site today.

Quikieclick - QuickieClick is a second generation social bookmarking website with a visual twist.

Rawsugar – Can cluster your tags for you based on recommendations by other users.

Reader2 – Share the list of books you read or recommend, find new books by tags/authors. Multilanguage.

Reddit – You vote up or down on a story making it move around on the home page.

Searchles – Owned by the DumbFind search engine, in my opinion Searchles is a much overlooked bookmarking tool and loved by Google, Yahoo and the other major search engines with its passing of link juice and high rankings for terms within search results themselves.

Segnalo - Italian Social bookmarking site.

Shadows – Share your already existing bookmarks, discuss and rate sites and see what you can find.

Shoutwire – Similar to Digg, except instead of “Digging a story”, you “shout it”. Still a way to vote on unique Internet news stories.

Simpy – This social bookmarker does all the usual plus detects links that have changed, and distributes your bookmarks via your blog’s RSS if you like.

Sitebar - A solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them

Sitejot – Free online bookmark manager. Like every other social bookmarking site, it allows users to manage all of their bookmarks online in one convenient place.

Sitestagger – SiteTagger.com is a bookmark/favorite organizer. You can bookmark websites you find on the internet via a simple button/favlet/bookmarklet that you can add to your browser link bar.

Sk-rt – is a social media ranking platform of “pure goodness”, targeted towards women. Given the right story, Sk*rt can send A LOT of targeted traffic.

Slashdot – The godfather of social news, SlashDot bookmarks are still quite powerful .. keep in mind the site has a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.

SocialBookmarking – User and global tag cloud, blogs, social networking, avatars and more.

Socialdanger – SocialDanger is a Web 2.0 open source content management system

Socialogs A Digg - like Social Bookmarking Service.

Sphinn – Very popular search marketing oriented social news and discussion site run via the Pligg system.

Spotback – Spotback is a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering and aggregated knowledge technologies..

Spotplex – What people most read today.

Spurl – You can upload your existing bookmarks to get started, add more for centralized access, check out hot lists and recommendations.

Startaid – I’ve noticed that StartAid bookmark pages rank highly in Google and other search engines. This basic bookmarking service allows users to describe, tag and categorize sites.

Stumbleupon – Lets you “channel surf” the Internet and review sites; it learns what you like and recommends more of the same.

Stylehive – The Stylehive is a collection of all the best products, brands, designers and stores discovered and tagged by the Hive community

Sync2it - Effortless social bookmarking, millions of hand-picked sites, real-time RSS feeds, public & private collections. Features automatic clustering technology.

Syncone – SyncOne is an Internet aggregator of bookmarking and browsing.

tagfacts Basic bookmarking and tagging, a social knowledge base.

Taggly – Store, share and tag your favorite links

Taghop -Taghop is a collaborative thoughtblog. A thoughtblog is a combination of some of the existing ideas behind blogs, with some ideas of its own. It is a web site, search engine, wiki, blogging system, social network and community site all rolled into one – o

Tagne – TagNe.ws is user-submitted, community voted links and resources related to SEO, Blogging, RSS, Tagging, Internet Marketing and more.

Tagtooga – Says that this bookmarking engine can be used to discover great sites difficult to find in Google/Yahoo by browsing categories.

Tagza – A very young Social Book marking web site mostly being used by Indian and Pakistani web masters.

Tailrank – Tailrank finds the best content from thousands of blogs so you don’t have to!

Technorati- The best place to advertise your site. Technorati is the most realibale authority in sites’ ranking.

Tedigo – Personal and social bookmarking in Spanish and English made simple.

Thethingsiwant – Universal wishlist service with Social Bookmarking and RSS feeds.

Thinkpocket - Lets users pocket websites you find valuable. It is a web service that aims to help store, organize and share your favorite sites

Thoof – Add news stories you find interesting, anyone can “improve” the article by fixing the URL, editing the summary and more.

Totalpad - TotalPad is a new online news and article community where people are free to voice their opinions

Unalog – A basic social bookmarking site, but with the ability to look back at specific days and see what was going on.

Urlex – Inbox, group creation, directory, all of the usual features, plus being able to send your RSS feed to the site.

Uvouch – Another basic social bookmarking site, users can save their findings with one click, at one place and access it from anywhere.

Voteboat- VoteBoat is a user-controlled rating and voting site.

Votelists – VoteLists lets users create a list of rankable items. Other can add items, comment on them, rate them and more!

Vuju - Vuju allows user to submit/publish content which can be tagged and promoted.

Wazima – Coupons clipped by robots. Wazima scours the web and shows you the deals you are most interested in.

Web-feeds - Web Feeds is a social bookmark site with a difference, users moderate and decide which items make it to the home page

Wetogether – Social bookmarking site where people will have great opportunities to promote their own sites.

Wink - A social search engine where users can share results and answer questions. Users build profiles which can link out to bookmark pages or other web sites (hint hint).:

Wirefan – You can vote on links as well as add thumbnails for sites.

Wists – Visual bookmarks, wishlists, photoblogs.

Wurldbook – Share web references and rss feeds with others and more

Xilinus – Organize and manage bookmarks online.

As an attempt to search for the best and most suitable wordpress theme for my blog, I have surfed and hopped many wordpress theme sites. Here is a good compilation of sites that offer some good themes that you guys can use if you are looking for a change. I will probably try to gather ideas and start creating one myself. Good luck!

1. Theme Viewer – Official wordpress theme website
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Finally, a breather to write something on this blog!

I have been flooded with design orders recently and have been neglecting this for a bit. Since it is the beginning of a new month, I would like to share with you guys my earnings record for my past month.

1. Services – $2315.17
2. Banner Ads – $540
3. Text Link Ads – $42.90
4. Adsense – $145.76

Total: $3043.83

As you can see, my earnings from services made up the bulk of my earnings this month. I haven’t done much on affiliate marketing and the earning was minor, so I decided not to include in the report.

So, what are your earnings for the month of July? Hope to know how some of you guys are doing!