So very few applicants get through the first phase of application / website screening, i.e. Acceptance of your website/blog. But Google Ads is not the only way around. There are several other advertising services that are a quite lenient than disciplinarian Google. One such site that I came across was Bidvertiser & that is where I first earned advertising money.

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Well it’s not like Google who will ask you to have make a total of 100$ before requesting a payout, Bidvertiser allow its publishers to have payout at just 10$. So it was very easy for me to reach that payout threshold.

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Outsourcing in a Nutshell

Since its widespread use by many large corporations, outsourcing has become a way of life for many web designers, bloggers, and small businesses. Due to the large demand of overseas employees, several websites have been set up to provide outsourcing services with only a minimal fee.

There are many benefits to outsourcing: A large flexibility in your available options because of the affordability, ability to manage an effective workforce from the comfort of your computer, and the availability of  low-cost labor force with lots of experience and talent.

The Best Outsourcing Websites :

1) Odesk

I listed oDesk first because its the outsourcing service I use and have the most experience using. oDesk allows employers to set either a project fee or an hourly fee. If you choose an hourly fee, you can monitor your employers via software installed on their computer which takes a screenshot every few minutes and records the amount of keystrokes and clicks. If you chose a project fee, you don’t have to pay for the service until the entire thing has been delivered to you. Of course, some workers will generally ask for a portion of the money as a deposit.

The great thing about hourly work is that tou don’t have to pay for the hours that the employee is not fully involved in the work. Odesk is the only outsourcing company I know that gives an in depth summary of your employers work habits.

Every time I post a job, I get anywhere from 5 – 50 qualified candidates within an hour. You can interview the candidates you want and choose who to hire. Odesk has a dynamic pool of workers in many fields and boasts testing to provide you with the best workers.

The list of features on Odesk.com is many and an entire article must be devoted to fully understand it.

2) Elance

Elance is another outsourcing service which I used once for a small coding change on a website. When you sign up to Elance, you’ll be able to search for freelancers and invite them to bid on a project or you can wait for them to find your project and submit their bids. It has a real auction feel to its interface but has less function than oDesk.

3) Rentacoder

Before hiring any workers, I would test them with a small assignments. I have heard of some complaints against the Rentacoder Scam escrow service, so keep an eye out for scammers. Be sure not to give anyone any money upfront – be careful.

4) Guru

Guru is one of the largest providers of freelancers for your position with over 1 million. It is one of the most stable outsourcing websites because a lot of the freelancers are from US and Canada. Sometimes, you are going to get bids that are going to be very unreasonably high from local providers, but if you sift through them you will find yourself some great deals.

5) GetaCoder

GetaCoder is a website especially for coding, whereas other websites had writers, graphic designers, and everything else. Its a bit difficult finding the right coders on GetaCoder.com because a lot of them specify fake information and cross link accounts to boost their rating. I would recommend them only if you have experience with outsourcing and you can separate the junk offers from the real professionals. Again, asking them to code a small script will work in your favor.

Outsourcing is a win-win situation if used correctly. These are some of the best legitimate outsourcing websites I have heard of. How do you outsource? Do you have any good or bad experiences with the above websites ?

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In my previous post I discussed about how you can earn money from other advertising services other than Google AdSense. Few days back I came across one such site called Chitika. These guys have low payout threshold just like Bidvertiser, only 10$, paid via PayPal, again a very convenient source. Read more how to join PayPal.

Chitika ads are carefully optimized to appear only when a user from US or Canada comes to your site from search engine results. So that means it will not appear to your regular readers without bothering them with big advertising banners.

How Chitika works :

If you are already using AdSense you can use Chitika side by side adding another alternative income source to the ad serving potential of your site. Chitika will show only relevant ads, of what the user was searching on the web.
Chitika has an affiliate program as well where you earn 10% of your referrals income for the next 15 months. Wow, isn’t it great.

See how Chitika Ads appear in your site when someone comes from search engines. Otherwise there is no ads for normal visitor.

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In RAC you should not forget those buyers are people like us who want quality work and not irrelevant bids. They seek serious people to get their job done. Gradually is started toe brush my bidding style and started giving the buyers about how I may complete the job and how I will offer better quality jobs from others.

In RAC many buyers want small projects for them, ranging from making of a small logo for a website to making applications for Iphone. The list is exhaustive. But you have to start from bidding.

Please remember the following rules while bidding :

1. You have a Free PayPal account
2. Bid an amount that is not higher or lower. It should be appropriate.
3. Make contact to the buyer as what he wants and ask for more details. This shows you are serious about the job.
4. Don’t just bid in a project which you don’t have knowledge on. Your inability to complete project on time may leave a negative remark and trouble for you to make future bids.

In Brief :

1. Create your free account
2. Choose your field of expertise and qualifications and work that suits you.
3. You will receive mails according to your qualification or you can start a search. Bid for the project.
4. Win bid and complete project to get payment in PayPal

Link : Join RentACoder here

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Future Problems :

The bounce rate and downtime causes 404 not found , 500 sever internal problem and other issues that makes Google search engine that ranks web pages to think that the affected site is broke , and they take back the crown of page rank , hence affecting future traffic from google searches.

What did i do ?

Inspite of raising several ticket with the Hostgator Complaint System , the administrators were only able to fix the issue for a short period of time , and the problem returned after 48 hrs or even less. This was caused due to the shared hosting , where several hundred sites are hosted on a server. According to the terms of shared hosting , followed everywhere in the world , every site hosted in a shared serves is allotted a limited resource , and when they use more than that , they are banned or temporarily disabled .

This is a short notice from my responsible web host :

This is to notify you that please optimize or take care of your mysql query time,because you have already aware that your website hosted on a shared hosting server and in the same environment, we allowed a maximum of 4-5 seconds query time for your mysql application/queries ,so please take care of your mysql query time,other wise we will have to suspend your website on temp basis after intimating you,because this process can affect all client’s applications. For more information please raise a ticket or consult with a DBA.

What was the problem :

The problem with Hostgator , was it did’nt disable the affecting site that was taking up all its resources  , and hence every other site in the server was going down.

Conclusion :

It took me almost a month to believe that Hostgator , has switched from cheap and quality service to cheaper and poor hosting service . So i recommend every new blogger who are thinking of taking a new web host , should not move to hostgator .

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