Chitika Introduces Pay Per Call Local Ads

As advertiser demand heats up in the local sector,Chitika is enhancing our ads to capitalize on these exciting (and lucrative) new revenue models. Pay Per Call marks the latest addition to the Chitika local ad format:

Why you'll love these ads on your site:

Advertisers are willing to pay more for calls than clicks (anywhere from $2 to $20+) - and that's a fact. 
They increase action rates for local ads. Local viewers are more likely to click these ads because it will put them in direct contact with the advertiser.  

When money talks, Chitika all listen. Especially when it's as easy as pressing a green button.

 

Faster Ads: Massive Data Center Upgrade Enhances Performance:

As Chitika network continues to grow at full speed, our stellar tech continues to rise up to the challenge and have beefed up the back end with the acquisition of a brand-spanking new data center.

 

Because of the massively expanded capacity and some fancy new technology, in the very near future we will be bringing you:

Faster ads: Decreases page load time. Increases your CTR.
Smarter bidding: Allows us to make sure we are showing the highest paying ad to the right user at the right time. This is good news for your bank account!
More redundancy:  Maximizing uptime is what we are striving for. We've put in place new intelligent redundancies that will keep our ads running even in the craziest of circumstances.

Via:Chitika

Announcing September Special

The August Special and new flagging system have been quite a success. Thanks to your help, we were able to achieve the following so far:
516 spam articles deleted
652 insufficient quality articles deleted
362 plagiarized articles deleted
287 adult articles deleted
1,302 articles redirected

This is a great accomplishment and we want to wish a sincere ‘Thank You’ to everyone who helped us make this happen!

Now that we’ve begun getting rid of the bad, it’s time to replace it with the good!  Simply put, we need a boost in high-quality articles. In order to help facilitate this, we resurrecting an old favorite: a Quantity Challenge (Just like in the good old days!).

This time around, we want to make sure that the quantity challenge won’t result in a surge of low quality submissions. To make sure this happens, we are integrating the Quantity Challenge with the flagging system. The nuts and bolts of the new challenge are as follows:
Publish 5 articles + 5 flags and get a 10% bonus
Publish 10 articles + 2 flags and get a 20% bonus
Publish 20 articles and get a 30% bonus. No flagging needed.

 

Some important details:

Flagging will only count for articles that were published in September
Any articles you flag must actually be removed or redirected in order for them to quality you for the bonus (i.e., don’t spam by flagging)
We strongly recommend writing high quality articles. This will increase your chances to get traffic (& revenues)  and decrease the chances of your articles being deleted.

Lastly, be aware that not all sites on the Triond Network are participating. The following sites are excluded: Authspot, Notecook, Relijournal, Picable, Loudio & Kleep. The rest are fair game.

This is very exciting. We look forward to receiving lots of quality content articles and are eager to continue improving our content network. Good luck to you all and, as always, Happy Publishing!

Via: Triond blog

Infolinks Search Widget

Introducing Search Widget:

Search Widget is infolinks newest add-on, and it will revolutionize how you monetize your websites. This new ad banner activates when a visitor originating from a Search Engine (Google, Bing or Yahoo) arrives to your site. Search Widget appears for those visitors only, revealing ads related to their search. It’s a guaranteed click magnet\.Starting September 20th it will automatically be added to your site! Log in to yours infolinks account and then click the new tab and then you will find the search widget and it will be activated automatically.

Opinion:

Of late my earnings with infolinks has been dipping and this month earning is close to zero and thus slowly I am deciding whether to implement infolinks script on my site or remove it as it slows down the website but the money not generating for this I am at the cross roads but hoping this new feature of infolinks will ultimately  fetch some money to me. As i am hopeful but not absolute sure of this as previous new features of infolinks like that of tags and related posts have gained me nothing and instead it makes my website weird so in the process I have removed those and use only the infolinks original links. Let us hope against my hope this feature will succeed and for me I want to stay with infolinks but I have to see whether it is garnering me some money making or not.

Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 reviewed:2

Adding animations to yours project with WLMM:


Animation effects provide mobile transitions effects between clips so that the space between clips can be well documented and decorated and the time of transitions between clips can be managed and democratized . For the go to ‘Animation’ tab from the ribbon interfaces. Both Videos and photos can be animated with some additional effects can be employed with photos.


Adding music to yours project with WLMM:

Go to WLMM ribbon and then ‘Add’ section on the Home tab and select ‘ Add Music’ from it. The duration and bit of music time will be adjusted automatically with yours project length. Just in case yours movie is longer than the songs you have just selected then ‘Add music at the current point’ option from ‘Add music ‘ option which suo motto appends the new track after the previous one.

In addition to it audio fade in and fade out option can be corroborated into yours project.. To do this go to ‘Option’ tab of the WLMM ribbon then go to ‘Music Tools’ ,select the audio clip and then select the fading speeds between Slow, Medium and Fast.

Make a video with just a few clips with WLMM:

Go to WLMM ribbon then go to ‘Home’ tab then go to ‘auto movie themes’ from it. Here you can create a ready-to-go movie.

Conclusion:

WLMM is a basic professional tool to create and demonstrate yours video footage into a professional quality presentation. You can make it interactive by recording yours sound with it, you can make auto movie without bending yours back and professional quality products can be done with it. In the business presentations yours interactive video present with audio and visual treat can have a specific impacts on the audiences. The age of YouTube and broad band can be a boon as you can make a simple and wonderful movie and upload to yours YouTube channel for the visitors enchanting and demonstration. The only down side is cannot be used with Windows XP. The buzz is you do not need a team to do this, as you can all by yourself complete it in no mean time. DVD burning in Movie Maker is dependent on Windows DVD Maker, which is only available in Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Vista Home Premium, and Windows Vista Ultimate editions.

Downloaded through Windows Live Essentials 2011. (http://download.live.com/moviemaker) It is available for Windows vista and Windows 7. Windows XP users can not use this software.

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Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 reviewed:1

Windows Live Movie Maker (WLMM) the new incarnation of Windows Movie Maker , is now available to Windows 7 . It is a video editing software. WLMM 2011 can be downloaded through Windows Live Essentials 2011. (http://download.live.com/moviemaker) It is available for Windows vista and Windows 7. Windows XP users can not use this software. WLMM is a basic video editing software. Windows Live Photo Gallery installation is necessary with the installation of WLMM.





Features:



Create project by using videos and photos through Windows Live Photo Gallery. Customise yours collections with various mobile transitive effects say zoom and pan, visual styles, captions etc. Integrate and customise yours collections from yours music collections and other various compatible tracks.




Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 reviewed:1

 

Various smart wizard and auto movie themes which can make the process of creating the project complete automation. Instant preview of yours project , sharing yours project or movie to websites like You Tube, Facebook, Windows Live Sky Drive or through various other sites through downloadable plug-ins . After finishing then project burn it into any DVD with the DVD authoring softwares or built in softwares into the Windows.



GUI:



User interface of WLMM is Fluent User Interface introduced by Microsoft from Office 2007. Through this interface user’s confusion is reduced and more help ful options appears smoothly. Average user’s working time reduced due to the culmination of all the functionality in the ribbon user interface.



How to create a movie project with WLMM:



Click on the “Add videos and photos” from Add group and then select the file of yours choice , if you want to select multiple photos or videos then press and hold [Ctlrl] and select multiple photos and videos. You can trim the video with WLMM. If you want certain particular part of the video for yours project then you can trim that video. Original files remains unaltered with the trimming.



Go to the ‘Edit

Tab on the ribbon from ‘Editing group.and then select ‘Trim Tool’. Point exact start and the end point of the segment you want to save then ‘Save Trim’ to save yours trim. Short cut to trimming is ‘I’ key which is initialization the starting point and the ‘O’ makes the end point of trimming which signifies the over.



Adding visual effects to the project:



From WLMM workspace go to ‘Visual Effects’ tab. There are lots of choices for still and video effects integration , just hover yours mouse and you can preview the effects before implementing these to yours project. ‘Multiple effects ‘option can be a handy tool if you want to integrate a set of available effects all at once. There are options of undo and redo available in case some wrong steps you have invaded.