Jyve is a new website which allows you to earn money by offering advice and consultation services online. Like Bitwine and Ether, you’ll interact using Skype or online IM chat with other users who need answers for specific questions. Jyve takes 20% of the setup fee and lets you decide the amount you want to charge for a consultation session. You can also create professional listings that highlight your expertise in a specific field. These profiles will be listed in Jyve’s online directory.

Let’s take a quick look at how you can use Jyve to make money online.

How do I make money with Jyve?

Here’s the 411 on how you can use Jyve to make money:

1. Sign up with their website.
2. Download their message notifier toolbar (optional)
3. Visit the live discussion webpage to see the ongoing discussions.
4. If you see anything you’re interested in, click on the thread and start answering the question asked.
5. The asker can choose to tip you or arrange for a private consultation via Skype.
6. The consultation session rates are determined by you and you make money when a asker decides to engage you in a private session.
7. Remember to create a free profile to advertise your services on Jyve’s directory. This is for users who may browse or search through the directory for assistance on a specific topic.

Basically, Jyve is like IRC (Internet Relay Chat). A user enters into something like a chatroom and asks a question. A bunch of other users, including yourself will try to answer the questions.If the user likes your answers, she might tip you or she might not. Private consultations might proceed from the discussion, or it might not. The whole process is unpredictable but it seemed fun while it lasted.

If you’ve ever wanted to cut out middlemen like Payperpost and still get paid to blog, the Wordpress BankRoll Plugin will be just what you need. This plugin automates the process of selling a paid post by allowing advertisers to buy blog posts from you by simply clicking on a link and paying the designated price.

All you’ll have to do is to write the post or approve it once it has been submitted. Very easy and hassle-free way to make money blogging.

How does the Wordpress Bankroll plugin work?

The plugin works in a fairly straight forward way for both advertisers and the bloggers. Here is a step by step outline of the process:

1. Install the BankRoll plugin and place the plugin code on your sidebar or any other location on your blog.
2. A link called “Sponsor a post” will appear and advertisers can click on the link if they want to buy a sponsored post.
3. Clicking on the link brings them to a submission form where they can choose to submit a pre-written post or have you write a post for them.
4. The buyer will also be able to select the category for the post, include the title as well as the specific links and anchor text they want to use. They can also choose to feature the post on your sidebar for an additional fee.
5. After making an option and filling up all the post details, they’ll click on a link which will send them a Paypal page that allows them to make payment immediately.
6. After payment has been made, the submitted post becomes a draft post and is marked as paid and ready for review or approval. You can then start to write the post or simply publish it so it’ll show up on your blog.
7. Check out this demo page to see how the plugin functions.

The admin panel for this plugin allows you to have control over specific details such as your designated Paypal ID, how much you want to charge for a post, the number of featured posts to display on your sidebar, your disclosure phrase as well as a list of posting guidelines for the advertiser.

You can also choose to disallow paid posts in specific categories and decide the length of a paid post as well as the number of anchor links that are allowed.

The plugin is available for free but requires a link back to the plugin homepage. Paid licenses are also available for single and multiple domains.

The paid version of the plugin is exactly the same as the free version except that there is no link back to the plugin page. Note that the support forums are available for both paid and free version of the plugin.

Currently, the price of a paid license for a single domain is US $19.99 and a unlimited license is US $49.99.

My suggestion would be to try the free plugin first and to see how fits your needs. If you find the plugin useful, you can consider buying it.

Two new features added to the protocol will help webmasters govern when an item should stop showing up in Google’s web search, as well as providing some control over the indexing of other data types.

One of the features, support for the unavailable_after tag, has been mentioned previously. Google’s Dan Crow made that initial disclosure.

He has followed that up with a full-fledged post on the official Google blog about the new tag. The unavailable_after META tag informs the Googlebot when a page should be removed from Google’s search results:

“This information is treated as a removal request: it will take about a day after the removal date passes for the page to disappear from the search results. We currently only support unavailable_after for Google web search results.”

“After the removal, the page stops showing in Google search results but it is not removed from our system.”

Fully removing something from Google still requires the URL removal tool, found as one of Google’s Webmaster Central tools.

Google also extended some control over assets beyond web pages to webmasters. Those who publish PDF, audio, video, or other file types can direct the crawler on how Google should manage access to them from its index.

“We’ve extended our support for META tags so they can now be associated with any file,” said Crow. “Simply add any supported META tag to a new X-Robots-Tag directive in the HTTP Header used to serve the file.”

Supported META tags include options like noarchive, nosnippet, noindex, and unavailable_after. Google sees these as offering enough flexibility to satisfy site publishers; we imagine they have organizations like AFP and Copiepresse in mind here.

Author: David A. Uther 

Top 10 Yahoo Searches 2006:

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. Shakira
4. Jessica Simpson
5. Paris Hilton
6. American Idol
7. Beyonce Knowles
8. Chris Brown
9. Pamela Anderson
10. Lindsay Lohan

Stock photography websites contain thousands of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time, effort and money. Typically publishers can either purchase exclusive rights to a single image or they can purchase a subscription of sorts. The subscriptions allow publishers to download a limited number of photos over a specified period of time.

Stock photo websites allow webmasters, marketers and publishers to locate pictures for their marketing and promotional materials without the hassle of organizing a photo shoot. With copyright laws businesses must be very careful in using unlicensed photos.

There are also risks to using “free” photographs. Many of the free websites contain collaborative works from multiple photographers and artists. While the websites attempt to monitor the images in their collections in violation of copyright laws, there are no guarantees. If you opt to use photographs or images from a free portal, it is important to keep this in mind.

The following are a large number of reputable stock photo websites available:

Photo-Wizard.net - The Photo-Wizard’s website contains thousands of fantastic, high-quality photographs, in more than 30 categories. Photos can be used on websites, in promotional materials or educational materials. The Photo-Wizard’s stock photo directory is packed with eye-catching photos that will meet the needs of graphic designers and webmasters looking for exceptional quality images at reasonable prices. The site is filled with inexpensive, professional quality royalty free photographs. There is no longer a need to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a single photograph. Single images can be purchased for $.99 each or subscriptions can be purchased for $49.95 - $ 179.95.

Photo Wizard - http://www.photo-wizard.net

Photos.com - Photos.com contains professional royalty-free stock photographs available via a subscription. Pay only a single fee and download up to 250 photos from the Photos.com collection per day. The photos.com collection contains more than 325,000 professional quality stock photographs. Subscriptions can be purchased for $149.95 - $ 699.95 .

Photos.com - http://www.photos.com

ClipArt.com - The ClipArt website is exceptional, known for its large variety. You can filter images based on file formats, (photographs, photo objects or clipart) so only the specified format appears in the search results. Subscription can be purchased for $ 17.99 - $ 269.99.

ClipArt - http://www.clipart.com

Morguefile.com - The term “morgue file” is popular in the newspaper business to describe a file that holds past issues. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. Photos on Morguefile can be used free of charge, but only for personal use; but are not available for commercial or business use.

MorgueFile - http://www.morguefile.com

PixelPerfectDigital.com - PixelPerfectDigital contains 4,000 images. The website uses a forum format to display the images, many of which are clipart rather than photographs. The images can be used free of charge for personal use.

Pixel Perfect Digital - http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free_stock_photos

StockVault.net - StockVault contains photos and logos that are free for non-commercial use. They have additional image packs available for fixed prices.

StockVault - http://www.stockvault.net

Free-Photographs.net - The Free Photographs Network is an online resource for royalty-free stock photographs for non-commercial use. The collection is very limited and a search function specifically for the site is not available.

Free Photographs - http://www.free-photographs.net

FreeStockPhotos.com - Photographs on Free Stock Photos can be used free of charge for non-commercial use, but the photograph must include credits to FreeStockPhotos.com when used on the Internet, in a web page, in printed publications, or in any product, advertising, or packaging. This credit, however, may be cropped out or digitally removed from the photograph if it is included in readable type near each photograph, group of photographs, in the text, or in the credits. The collection is limited and a search function is not visible.

Free Stock Photos - http://www.freestockphotos.net

FreePhotos.com - FreePhotos is a collaborative website that contains photos. The website contains many different image categories, but not a large variety in each category. In order to download an image users must register.

Free Photos - http://www.freephotos.com

ArtFavor.com - ArtFavor contains a limited selection of small high-quality photographs. The images are not available for commercial use.

ArtFavor - http://www.artfavor.com/types.php?type=12

FreeDigitalPhotos.net - The photos on Free Digital Photos can be used for commercial and non commercial interests. If the images are used for promotional items (greeting cards, mugs, t-shirts, screen savers) there is a $ 20.00 charge for the use of each image. Some images also stipulate that they require a link back to the FreeDigitalPhotos website.

Free Digital Photos - http://www.freedigitalphotos.net

FreePhotosBank.com - Free Photos Bank is a collaborative website with a number of attractive photos. Photos contained on the Free Photos Bank are from a variety of photographers and the reprint permissions may vary.

Free Photos Bank - http://www.freephotosbank.com

DesignPacks.com - Design Packs offers free, high-quality image collections that can be used in both personal and commercial web design projects. Each collection features a group of 15 images that share a common theme.

Design Packs - http://www.designpacks.com

ShutterStock - Shutterstock is a large subscription-based stock photo agency. They have an outstanding collection of premium, royalty-free photographs, illustrations, and vectors. Subscription can be purchased for $ 199.00 - $1,999.00 and allow subscribers to download up to 25 images per day.

ShutterStock - http://www.shutterstock.com

ComStock - ComStock contains a large collection of royalty-free images. ComStock offers three purchase options images can be purchased individually, CD options are available or publishers can purchase a subscription for $299 - $1999.00 which allows them to download up to 50 images per day.

ComStock - http://www.comstock.com

These are all a number of options available for webmasters and publishers in need of images for marketing campaigns or packaging. Regardless of the website selected, be sure to read the agreement terms carefully to ensure that you are adhering to the guidelines.

Author: Sharon Housley