How to do a page break in Excel

You can control the line breaks for multiple-line headings or labels in your Microsoft Excel worksheet, just like you do in Microsoft Word. Here's how to do it.

1. Click the cell where you want the label or heading to appear.
2. Type the first line of information.
3. Press ALT+ENTER.
4. Type the second line. Then repeat step 3 if you have additional lines to enter.
5. Press ENTER when you've finished typing.

New Income Tax for Garment Factory Workers in Cambodia

Beginning this month, staff at gar­­ment factories that earn more than $125 per month will see their sa­laries deducted between 5 percent and 20 percent in income taxes to the Ministry of Economy and Fi­nance, several union leaders claim­ed Thursday.

Chhuon Se, head of union workers at Phnom Penh’s Terratex garment factory, said his company post­ed a notice stating that the tax will take effect June 1 and will be de­­­ducted from workers’ salaries at the end of the month.

Workers earning more than $125 per month will be taxed 5 percent; those earning more than $250 will be taxed 10 percent; workers earning more than $2,125, 15 percent; and more than $3,125, 20 percent, Chhoun Se said, reading from the Finance Ministry’s no­tice.

Chuon Mom Thol, president of the CPP-backed Cambodian Un­ion Federation, said the income tax has, in fact, been established under law for years but has not, until now, been implemented throughout the industry.

He worried that the tax would even­tually extend to those garment workers who earn lower wages.

“If the government asks our work­ers, who earn $45 to pay sa­lary tax, it means they kill them,” he said. “This tax should be first practiced with NGO workers and em­bassy staff who earn upwards of $200 per month in wages.”

Mam Nhim, president of the Na­tional Independent Federation of Tex­tile Unions of Kampuchea, de­plored the tax, which she said would hurt those workers who labor overtime to support their families.

“They just earn $45, which is not enough to survive, so they work over­time to earn more for their daily living, so why does the gov­ern­ment tax them [for] overtime?” she asked. “They work so hard to earn $100 per month. If the government taxes them, how will they live?”

Mao Thura, undersecretary of state for the Commerce Ministry, de­­­fended the tax on Thursday, saying it is common practice in other countries.

“I’ve paid [income tax] for years already. My salary is $350 per month,” Mao Thura said. “The more you earn, the more tax you pay for the state.”

Attempts to reach Finance Ministry officials were unsuccessful Thursday

Testing Your UPS

To test your UPS, throw the circuit breaker with the UPS on it to simulate and outage and see how the transition goes. Note that in general testing an UPS by pulling the plug from the wall is not a good idea. Electronics like to always have a good ground reference. If you unplug a UPS, it's still powered but now has what electricians call a "floating ground". Not only can this be bad for electronics, but it can be quite dangerous as well. It is likely that unplugging just about any UPS for a short amount of time isn't likely to result in disaster (don't take our word for it, though!), but in all cases, throwing a circuit breaker would be a better thing to do.

It might be useful to install a GFI (Ground Fault Interrupter) on your UPS-covered outlets to facilitate this testing without having to throw a breaker, especially if you don't have your UPS protected machines on an isolated circuit (which you probably should). These are the sockets found in most modern kitchens and bathrooms with a red and a black button. You push the latter to cut power and the former to restore power.

How To Select A UPS

UPSes are nowadays very inexpensive. In the U.S. in 2006, quite capable ones are available for less than $100, and prices are heading down. In fact prices are so low now that we're not going to walk you through the elaborate optimization step that would have been important even two or three years ago, of estiming the watt dissipation of your computer and matching it to a UPS rating. Instead we'll explain why this would be a waste of effort and how to buy in a simpler and more effective way.

Bear in mind that the UPS systems that you're likely to buy in a store or computer catalog are not intended for safety or life-critical equipment. These devices should be considered to be pieces of consumer electronics. As such, the number-one basis on which most of these devices compete with each other is on price, not quality. Cost-effectiveness is more important to UPS vendors (because it appears to be more important to their customers) than ultimate reliability. If your life depends on computer uptime, you need a special purpose, online, big, redundant, expensive system. These systems are beyond the scope of this document. When you buy a UPS at your local computer store, you are not buying this sort of system.

UPSes are rated by the watts a full battery can put out before it drains. However, they are marketed using a VA (voltage-amps) figure; often, consumer-grade UPSes don't even specify a wattage on the box where you can see it. This is because the VA figure is larger and looks sexier. As a rule of thumb. assume the wattage is half of the VA rating; for an explanation of the complexities involved (if you care) see the white paper Understanding Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor on the APC website.
But even if you know the watt rating of the UPS, it is the ratio of that figure with the wattage dissipation of your computer that controls the dwell time. Your dissipation is hard to predict; it can even be effected by things like the size of monitor you use (big ones can be quite power-hungry).
Manufacturers try to get around this technical thicket by putting an expected dwell time on the box. But they exaggerate and even lie about their dwell times a lot (this is called "marketing"). What they'll do is quote you the dwell time you would get driving a bare minimum system with the disk drives shut off and a tiny monitor, in much the same way laptop manufacturers lie about their battery dwell times. The more honest UPS manufacturers give you a little table showing expected dwell times for different system configurations ("desktop", "tower", etc.). As a rule of thumb, assume you will get about 50% of the dwell time listed on the box for your configuration type.
My advice is to forget the numbers game. Just go online or to your local computer store and buy one of the higher-end consumer or home-office models from APC, Best, Tripp-Lite, Belkin, or some other reputable manufacturer. Go ahead and grab the model with the longest dwell time, highest watt rating, or biggest VA number you can find; the premium for it is not likely to be more than $75 over the bargain-basement model. I guarantee you will feel very good about your decision not to pinch pennies come your first extended power outage.
Perhaps a more compelling reason it is better to over-buy capacity rather than ending up with a UPS that is too weak for your power drain is that overstrained UPSes can fail in ugly ways, including catching fire and exploding.
Be sure you get a line interactive UPS rather than the older standby or SPS type. The older technology doesn't actually filter your power through the battery, so you're not assured of good voltage conditioning. The main advantage of an SPS (low cost) has been eroded now that line-interactive UPSes are so inexpensive. There are other UPS types, but they are either obsolescent or targeted at large data-center installations. For a detailed discussion of the different UPS types, see The different types of UPS systems, a white paper on the APC site.
Another important consideration is how your UPS will communicate with your computer. Do not buy a serial line UPS (one that communicates via an RS-232C cable). These are passing out of use in favor of UPS designs that use USB or Ethernet, for the very excellent reason that RS-232C interfaces are flaky, difficult to configure, and difficult to debug. Ethernet is overkill for this application; UPSes simply don't need that kind of bandwidth. We recommend sticking with USB, which is well-matched in price/performance to this job and relatively easy to troubleshoot.
Until recently there was an important distinction between smart and dumb UPSes. Dumb UPSes did voltage-level signaling through individual pins; smart ones used the link as a primitive character channel and could pass more status information over it. But if you avoid RS232C UPSes you will never see a dumb one; indeed, it is likely that by the time you read this no dumb UPses will be in production any longer.
Some UPSes advertise that they deliver a sinusoidal waveform. Those that don't may be delivering something more like a square wave or a very noisy sine wave. There are differing schools of thought about how important this is. One school of thought holds that one should always run equipment on the best approximation of sinusoidal input that one can, and that deviations produce harmonics which may either be interpreted as signal if they get through a power supply, or may actually damage the equipment. Another school holds that since almost all computers use switching-type power supplies, which only draw power at or near the peaks of the waveforms, the shape of the input power waveform is not important.
Who's right? We don't know. Nick's opinion is that sinusoidal output is worth the extra money, especially for on-line UPS systems that continually provide their waveform to the computer; Eric is inclined to doubt it matters much with modern power supplies. If you don't know that your equipment has a switching-type power supply, you certainly might want to think twice before buying a low quality UPS.
Personally, I (Eric) like APC UPSes (nether Eric nor Nick has any connection with the company). But this is not the kind of widget for which manufacturer makes a whole lot of difference as long as you stick with one of the reputable brands.

 Deploying your UPS and other devices: the total picture

Our recommendation for a production Unix environment is a configuration like the following:

1. An UPS for the computer system.
2. Surge suppression on all phone lines, and also on serial/parallel lines that leave the room.
3. Line conditioners on any devices not connected to the UPS. If you do take a power hit, it's cheaper to replace a $50 line conditioner than a $1500 laser printer.

If this is too expensive for you, then downgrade the UPS to a line conditioner like the TrippLite. But don't go without at least that. Running unprotected is false economy, because you will lose equipment to electrical storms — and, Murphy's Law being what it is, you will always get hit at the worst possible time.
One thing to note is that you typically shouldn't put a laser printer on the brownout-protected sockets in a UPS — toner heaters draw enough current to overload a UPS and cause a shutdown within seconds. Modern UPSes generally have some plugs that are marked surge-suppressed but not filtered through the battery; plug your printer into one of those.
A UPS should be wired directly to (or plugged directly into) the AC supply (i.e. a surge suppressor is neither required nor suggested between the wall and the UPS). In addition, a surge suppressor between the UPS and the equipment connected to it is redundant.

Software Assistance

Your UPS communicates with your computer so it can gracefully shut the computer down when an outage has lasted too long for the battery to cope. In order for graceful shutdown to actually happen, your computer needs to have a background process — a daemon, in Unix terms — watching whatever messages come over the UPS cable for the one that says terminate. Then it needs to tell the operating system to shut down.
Your UPS probably comes with a CD full of such software. Throw it away, as (a) most of it will be useless bits written for Windows systems, and (b) in the unlikely event you get Linux software it will almost certainly be stale binaries for a version you don't run.
Back in the days of dumb serial-line UPses, there used to be about half a dozen different open-source UPS monitor daemons: apcd, dumbupsd, genpowerd. powerd, smupsd, usvd and more. These were fairly stupid programs for a simple job. Many required you to hand-wire a custom RS232C cable to get around various evil things that UPS manufacturers did to their ports in order to lock in customers.
Those days are gone. USB UPSes get rid of the cable-hacking and hardware klugery, but require a bit more smarts from a monitor daemon. Accordingly the field has narrowed considerably. There appear to be only two such projects left standing.
The Network UPS Tools project is a generic UPS monitor daemon that aims to communicate intelligently with all current UPS designs.
apcupsd is a daemon specifically designed for communicating with UPSes made by APC, the American Power Corporation.
Both are solid, well-run projects. Their development groups are mutually friendly, and there has been occasional talk of a merger. Awkwardly, the apcupsd project is in many ways the more featureful of the two, with, among other things, better USB support and better documentation — but the NUT tools have a cleaner architecture, more developers, and acceptance in Red Hat and other major distributions.
My advice is simple; run apcupsd if you buy an APC UPS, and the NUT tools if you buy anything else. RPMs and Debian packages (which will modify your system's boot sequence appropriately as well as installing the daemon binaries) are available for both, so installation should be easy either way.

 Preparing Your System For Auto-Reboot

If you are using your UPS to try to keep a DNS/Web/mailserver up 24/7, you will want to make sure the machine can be configured to boot automatically when it is powered up.
This is not the normal behavior of most computers as shipped from the factory. Normally after the power is cut and restored, you must explicitly press a button for the power to actually be turned on. You can test your computer by powering it down; shutting off the power (pull the plug); then plugging the cord back in. If your computer immediately starts up, good. There is nothing more to do.
If your computer does not start up, manually turn on the power (by pressing the power on button) and enter your computer's SETUP program (often by pressing DEL during the power up sequence; sometimes by pressing F10). You must then find and change the appropriate configuration parameter to permit instant power on.
Normally, this is located under the BOOT menu item, and will be called something such as Restore on AC/Power Loss or Full-On. The exact words will vary according to the ROM BIOS provider. Generally you will have three options: Last State, Power On, and Power Off.
Some BIOSes do not support such an option. This is idiotically bad design, but it does happen. If so, your only practical remedy is to get a new motherboard.

An Overview of Power Protection

Power protection guards your equipment against blackouts, brownouts, surges, and spikes. All these events are anomalies in the flow of mains power that can damage your electronic equipment.

A blackout is a complete interruption of power; some literature considers a voltage drop below about 80V to be a blackout as well since most equipment will not operate below that level.

A dropout is a very short (less than one second) blackout.

A brownout or sag is a decrease in voltage levels which can last for periods ranging from fractions of a second to hours. This can be caused by heavy equipment coming on line such as shop tools, elevators, compressors etc. Also occurs when utility companies deliberately do this to cope with peak load times.

A spike is a tremendous increase in voltage over a very short period of time often caused by a direct lightning strike on a power line or when power returns after a blackout.

A surge is a substantial increase in voltage lasting a small fraction of a second, often caused when high powered appliances such as air conditioners are switched off.

There are three levels of power protection available to the home computer user. The levels are:

1. Surge Suppressor
2. Line Conditioners
3. Uninterruptible Power Supplies

While this HOWTO mainly focuses on UPSs, we'll start with some basics about the other two kinds of power filtering to help you understand where UPSes fit in. This is useful even though plummeting UPS prices have made the low-end alternatives less interesting than they used to be.

 Surge suppressors

These are basically a fancy fuse between the source and your hardware; they clamp down spikes, but can't fill in a low voltage level or dropout.
This is a bare minimum level of protection that any piece of expensive electronics should have. Note that this applies to more than just AC power; surge suppressors are available for (and should be used on) phone lines, and RS-232 and parallel connections (for use on long lines; generally not needed if the devices are colocated with the computer and all devices are protected from outside sources). Note also that all devices connected to your computer need to be protected; if you put a surge suppressor on your computer but not your printer, then a zap on the printer may take out the computer, too.
An important fact about surge suppressors is that they need to be replaced if they absorb a large surge. Besides fuses, most suppressors rely on on components called Metal-Oxide Varistors (or MOVs) for spike suppression, which degrade when they take a voltage hit. The problem with cheap suppressors is that they don't tell you when the MOV is cooked, so you can end up with no spike protection and a false sense of security. Better ones have an indicator.
You can buy surge suppressors at any Radio Shack; for better prices, go mail-order through Computer Shopper or some similar magazine. All of these are low-cost devices ($10-50).

 Line Conditioners

These devices filter noise out of AC lines. Noise can degrade your power supply and cause it to fail prematurely. They also protect against short voltage dropouts and include surge suppression.
The Tripp-Lite 1200 I used to have was typical of the better class of line conditioners; a box with a good big soft-iron transformer and a couple of moby capacitors in it and no conductive path between the in and out sides. With one of these, you can laugh at brownouts and electrical storms. A fringe benefit is that if you accidentally pull your plug out of the wall you may find you actually have time to re-connect it before the machine notices (I did this once). But a true UPS is better.
Netter Trey McLendon has good things to say about Zero Surge conditioners. He says: "Our systems at work [...] have been protected for 2.5 years now through many a violent storm...one strike knocked [out] the MOV-type suppressors on a Mac dealer's training setup across the street from us. The Zero Surge just sort of buzzed when the surge came in, with no interruption whatsoever. The basic principle is this: ZS units slow down the surge with a network of passive elements and then sends it back out the neutral line, which is tied to ground outside at the box by code. MOV units shunt the surge to ground at the computer, where it leaps across serial ports, network connections, etc. doing its deadly work."
Price vary widely, from $40-400, depending on the power rating and capabilities of the device. Mail-order from a reputable supply house is your best bet. Line conditioners typically don't need to be replaced after a surge; check to see if yours includes MOVs.

 Uninterruptible Power Supplies

The remainder of this document will focus on UPSes. A UPS does three things for you. First, it filters the power your machine sees, smoothing out spikes and voltage fluctuations that can stress or even damage your electronics. Secondly, it provides a certain amount of dwell time in the event your power goes out entirely — this can often get you through brownouts and short blackouts. Third, when the UPS is about to run out of power it can arrange a graceful shutdown of your computer so that no unpleasant things happen to your disk filesystems. While the risks of unexpected shutdown are much lessened in these days of journalling filesystems like Linux's EXT3 or JFS from what they once were, ensuring a clean shutdown is still a valuable contribution to any system administrator's peace of mind.
Here's what a UPS will do for you:

1. Absorb relatively small power surges.
2. Smooth out noisy power sources.
3. Continue to provide power to equipment during line sags.
4. Provide power for some time after a blackout has occurred.

In addition, some UPS or UPS/software combinations provide the following functions:

1. Automatic shutdown of equipment during long power outages.
2. Monitoring and logging of the status of the power supply.
3. Display the Voltage/Current draw of the equipment.
4. Restart equipment after a long power outage.
5. Display the voltage currently on the line.
6. Provide alarms on certain error conditions.
7. Provide alarms on certain error conditions.

Many pronounce UPS as "ups", but most of the literature seems to favor "you pee ess", since they use "a UPS" instead of "an UPS". This document will try to follow the literature. Neither pronunciation will get you laughed at by those who are experienced in the field.

Why UPS is Important?

An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is an important thing to have if you live in an area where power outages are at all common, especially if you run a mail/DNS/Web server that must be up 24/7. The aging power grid in the U.S. has made this a more urgent issue than it used to be even for American hackers, but everyone is vulnerable to outages caused by storms and other natural phenomena. This document covers both the software and hardware aspects of protecting yourself.

The advice in this document is aimed primarily at small installations — one computer and one UPS. Thus we'll focus on consumer-grade UPSes, especially those designed for home and small-business use. If you are a data center administrator running a big server farm, there is a whole different (and much more expensive) range of technologies we'll do no more than hint at here.

The people who contribute to this document can speak only about equipment they have experience with. This may reflect a bias toward or against certain brands, features, functions, etc. Please keep in mind that the suggestions, brand names and functions here are by no means exhaustive, or even necessarily applicable to your situation. Also, if you have information that is not in this document, please submit it to the maintainer listed above. If you submit information, please say whether you'd like it to be attributed to you or not. We are more than glad to give credit to the fine people who helped with this document, but we want to respect the anonymity of those people who would prefer it.

Maintaining Your UPS

Make sure the UPS keeps in contact with its electrical ground at all times. Don't overload it. If it shows signs of misbehavior or malfunction, yank it until it's repaired, or replace it.
Your UPS has a battery inside it. Usually it is a lead-acid type (those are the least expensive for the manufacturer), but both lithium and gel-cel batteries are sometimes used.
The battery is by far the most vulnerable and failure-prone part of your UPS. If you have your UPS long enough, you will probably have battery problems. Once every six months to a year or so you should recalibrate your UPS's battery sensor, and once every several years you will have to replace the batteries.

 Service contracts

Some consumer-grade UPSes, and all UPSes designed for serious data-center use, can be bought with vendor service contracts. These don't make sense for low-end units that can be replaced cheaply from a local electronics store. If you're an IT shop with a bunch of UPSes scattered over a campus, a service contract might make sense, depending on circumstances. If you have a larger UPS in the 5-10 KVA range, a service contract may be a valuable hedge against extended downtime.

 Extending battery life

To extend your battery life, (a) avoid deep discharges, and (b) don't expose them to extremes of heat, cold, or humidity. Unfortunately there is not much you can do to avoid deep-discharging your UPS other than living in an area where power outages are few and short.

 Recalibrating Your UPS

Your UPS's dwell-time calibration will lose accuracy over the life of the battery. The usual symptom of this problem is that the UPS overestimates the dwell time it has remaining during outages, but occasionally it can also lead to an actual bad-battery condition going undetected and very odd symptoms as a result.
UPSes have a recalibration procedure built into their firmware. It generally involves deep-discharching and recharging the battery while the UPS is in a special test mode. Your recipe for triggering such a recalibration will vary according to your UPS software.
You always need to do this when you install new batteries (see below). It is a good idea to do it once every six to twelve months as routine maintenance, but no more often than that; as we noted previously, deep discharges shorten your battery life.

 Replacing Your Batteries

All modern UPSes have a low-battery alarm and run a periodic self-test; they will alert you when replacement is needed. Usually they both flash an indicator and make an alarm sound. If you have a monitoring daemon set up, they will alert it and you will probably get warning mail. If you ignore the alarm it will time out, but be repeated at intervals.
You will occasionally get a false alarm. It's a good idea, if you get an alarm, to explicitly trigger a UPS self-test the next day and see if the alarm goes away (the procedure for doing this varies depending on your UPS software). If the alarm is persistent, you need to replace the batteries.
It has been reported that bad batteries can also produce symptoms that mimic inverter failures or wonky control electronics. Even if your UPS is displaying epileptic symptoms like repeating alarms and flashing panel lights, a bad battery is the first thing to suspect.
UPS manufacturers would of course prefer that you replace your entire UPS when the batteries die, since they make more money that way. But in fact there is nothing unique or magic about UPS batteries. They are standard types also used for other applications such as powering marine electronics, with standard connectors. You can buy them from sources other than the UPS manufacturer, and sometimes replace them with equivalents that are better and less expensive.
It's best to wait until the low battery alarm before ordering a replacement; keeping batteries on the shelf reduces their life unless you keep them fully charged.
Do not throw old batteries in your regular trash! They contain toxic metals and acids. Be kind to your environment and hand them to a qualified party for recycling. Most battery dealers will cheerfully do this for you. If not, your local garbage company or waste-disposal authority can explain to you how and where to turn them in safely.
Many UPS models use gel-cel batteries in standard formats like 12.0 V, 7.2Ah (151x64x94 mm). Warning: Many manufactors sell two or three different types: standard use, cyclic use and high-current use. UPSes require high-current and some UPS don't work well with batteries for standard use, because the voltage goes low too early under high load (the UPS turns off too fast or the output voltage drops so that the computer turns off). Standard batteries are for alarm devices, emergency lights or things like that. For instance Panasonic sells the "LCR127R2PG1" (standard), and "UPRW1245P1" (high current), Fiamm the "FG20271" (standard) and "FGH20902" (high current), CSB the "GP1272" (standard) and "HR 1234W" (high current).
Below, you will find some suggestions for buying replacement batteries. One important note of caution: at least one user purchased one of the aftermarket batteries noted below and found out that they would not fit into his unit. This required cutting and soldering and other very undesirable things, so be extremely careful in measuring your batteries — including every millimeter of the terminal connections, which can cause problems.
Although you can do a hot swap of your batteries while the computer is running, it may not be very satisfactory, because the unit will not know that the batteries have been swapped and your monitor daemon will continue to show a low-battery indication. To correct this situation, you must do a discharge and recharge of the battery. At that point the battery should be calibrated better.
It may take several discharges and recharges of new batteries before they reach full capacity and the dwell-time calibration is accurate. If your UPS contains two or more battery units and your monitoring software reports separate voltage levels for them, one way to tell is to watch the divergence in voltage levels. As the cells reach nominal full capacity, their voltages should converge.

 Buying Batteries

APC makes "Replacement Battery Units" for each of the SmartUPS models, but they sell them directly only in the U.S. Your local Yamaha SeaDoo shop (if you have one) carries 35 ampere-hour deep cycle marine batteries that are direct replacements for the kind APC uses in many of its models. These are gel-cel and will double the runtime and/or cut your recharge time in half. Here are some West Coast sources:

Jet Works 1587 Monrovia Ave. Newport Beach CA 9266? Tel: +1 714 548-5259 J-W Batteries, Inc. Tel: +1 714 548-4017 WPS 49-1200 GEL-CELL KB-35 BATTERY

The company I've heard most strongly recommended (by Carl Erhorn, a core developer on the apcupsd project) is called Battery Wholesale Distributors of Georgetown, Texas. If you have questions, you can reach them by phone at (800) 365-8444, 9:00AM to 5:00PM (their local time), Monday through Friday. Carl reports having gotten email from them on the weekends, although the office is not open then.
The web site, with current pricing, is www.batterywholesale.com. They will ship outside of the US, they take all the usual credit cards, and they accept orders by phone or Web.
Carl reports that BWD has found manufacturers who make batteries in the standard case sizes, but have additional capacity over original UPS batteries. Often, the difference is as much as 15% or so, and this can result in additional runtime. It's a nice upgrade for a minor increase in price.
BWD is also 'green-aware', in that they encourage you to recycle your old batteries, and will accept the old batteries back from you if you cannot find a local place that recycles them. You pay the shipping but other than that, there is no charge.
Carl says "I've been very pleased with their products, service, and pricing. I hope you find them as helpful to you as I do. I've been dealing with them since about 1994, and have never been disappointed. The owner of the place also is very good on technical issues, so if you have questions on their products, he can get as technical as you need to go."

Make Extra Money Online With Web Hosting Affiliate Programs

Making money online is one the most searched thing on the internet. Some of people have succeed in this and others are still finding it. Well, There are many ways to make money online on the internet and I also had discussed some of them here. Today I'm going to share another way of earning bucks online which is specially for Bloggers and Internet Marketers. It is making extra money web hosting affiliate programs which I'm going to discuss below. I'll describe each and every thing about it in such way that even beginners and anyone should understand it easily. So listen to me carefully.

What Is Web Hosting Affiliate Programs?

First of all, I would to tell you about web hosting and it's affiliate programs because understanding them both is important to get started with this. I'm going to write two passages about them below which will help you to know about them.

Web Hosting

In simple words, It is known as company or website where people can buy the domain names and also it's web hosting. Actually, Every site which is being used on the internet has domain name and web hosting. Lets take the example of Facebook. Open Facebook and in the Address Bar you will see www.facebook.com, here thefacebook.com is the domain name which is bought by its owner. In simple words, the owner has registered facebook.com domain from any web hosting company. Lets know about the web hosting. The website owner also needs to purchase the web hosting so that he should get the domain control panel where he can develop his site, store data and all other managing a site tasks are done there in domain control panel. In simple words, web hosting gives you the control panel for any domain which you've registered.

Affiliate Programs - How To Make Money With It?

Mostly every web hosting company or site has its affiliate program by which people and their users can easily make money. There is nothing any big story behind affiliate program just the simple concept which I'm going to about it. First of all, go to any web hosting site and look for its affiliate program. There you will need to register yourself by filling the short form. When you're successfully registered there then you will get your referral or affiliate by which you can money. Now, you've to send that link to other people and ask them to use that hosting site which's affiliate link you're promoting. You should promote that link on blogs, social sites and anywhere where you can. Just ask people to use that web hosting company through your link. Now the more and more people will buy the hosting with your link, the more you'll earn. Each company has their different prices for each sale and it's fixed rate. That's all about.

High Paying Web Hosting Which You Should Use!

After knowing about the process of making money with web hosting affiliate sites, you might want to get some of the high paying web hosting companies which's affiliate program you should use and earn with that. Below, I'm going to share the most popular and high paying companies.

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Final Words

So friends that was how we can make extra money with web hosting affiliate programs. I don't think it is too hard to earn bucks with this kind of method but it is known as one of the best method and also easiest where you just need to refer people. I hope you will be helped through this guide and keep visiting us so that I should share more easiest ways for earning online. Take a lot of care and Happy Earning!

Top 20 Google AdSense Alternatives - High Paying

AdSense Alternatives ! - This keyword is started searching by bloggers and publishers when they're fed up of getting disapproval mails again and again. So, If you're also one of them than don't miss this post because below you'll be getting some high paying Google AdSense alternatives.

As it itself proves that Google AdSense is the world's best advertising platform where both advertisers and publishers are busy and happy in ad serving. Most of newbie bloggers only depends on adsense for monetization while its not good and also apply their blogs to get approved adsense account. On other side, Adsense network is growing day by day and their policies are also being very strict in which newbies are unable to get approved account. Even sometimes those blogs are also denied who comply with policies but Adsense has its own choice to make someone publisher or not.

So, newbies get disappointed at that moment and lose hope of making money with blogging. But wait, world do not end here, take a little usual daily life example. When you're buying something on any shop; just suppose of a mobile and its not available on that shop than what you do at that time? You probably go to another shop as you're in mobile market. So, if adsense is not giving you ads for monetization than you can go for other alternatives. Well, you may be new and don't know about other alternatives so here is a list of some adsense alternatives with some information.

1. BuySellAds

BuySellAds is one of the best Google AdSense alternative which you can use for to monetize your blog. This is little different from adsense but you can make even more money from this than adsense. First, you'll need to apply for a publisher account and once approved than you're ready to go. There you'll need to create ad slots of your blog and your blog will be listed in BuySellAds directory. There advertisers can look your blog and if someone is interested than that advertise may buy any ad slot of your blog for 30 days or some months. The price is fixed of every slot. The more traffic you've, you can increase the ad slot price yourself and the more you'll earn.

2. Media.net

Yahoo Bing Contextual Ads Network also known as media.net as because they had contract between. You can also make money from your blog with media.net by displaying their ads on your blog. This is CPM (Cost Per Mile) or RPM (Revenue Per Mile) advertising network that pays you for having miles of impressions on ads only. As usual, you need to apply first and get approved than implement ad codes to your blog to start monetizing your blog. In the reports, you'll get RPM that gets set automatically and high RPM depends on traffic quality. If the ads get 1000 impressions than you'll get that RPM price lets suppose RPM is $1. If the RPM is $2 and the ads get 5000 impressions than you're earning will be $10. 

3. InfoLinks

People also use InfoLinks to monetize their textual content. We're bloggers and we mostly write articles on different niches so InfoLinks is only for text content websites as their ads are something related to that. After getting approved and implementing the ad code in your blog, ads will appear differently. After adding code, when you'll check your blog, some words in the text content will contain links on that. Actually, In this ad network, ads are displayed on textual content in which some words will be converted into links with relevant ad as that script does itself. So, when your readers will be reading your articles and someone clicks on that ad links than you'll be paid.

4. Peerfly

Peerfly is something what that can help you to earn high budget in less traffic. This is completely different from all above networks and also from adsense. It's completely different adsense alternative. It is CPA (Cost Per Action) international affiliate ad network that pays you for action. First, you'll need approved account there and than you can browse different type of affiliate offers there. It is international and has every category of offers so you'll need to browser your niche related offers. After finding any relevant offer with your blog niche than you can promote that offer on your blog by putting a banner, sending custom emails to blog readers, blog post etc and when any of your reader will take action for that offer just suppose offer is for buying something and your reader makes a purchase than you'll be get paid easily.

5. Chitika

Chitika is also popular and best adsense alternative. Chitika is almost same as adsense but few things are changed in chitika. You'll need to create a publisher account and take ad tags from there which you've to implement on your blog. The most relevant ads will start appearing on your blog and when someone clicks on the ads than you'll be paid. The advanced things Chitika has that it has popup ads, frame ads and some more ad types that help you to earn extra income. Payments are easily made with PayPal and if PayPal is not reachable for you than you can use Check method to receive payment via Check.

Other AdSense Alternatives

1. Kontera : Cost per click based ad network which contains In-Text, Mobile and Display Ads. Minimum payment threshold $50 with PayPal, Wire and Check payment methods.
2. Clicksor : In-Text Ads, Text Banners, Display, Pop up and Interstitial ad types can be found in this network. Minimum threshold $50 and Payment time is net 15 days.
3. Bidvertiser : CPC based target text banner ads and also display ads. Net 30 days payment time with $10 minimum threshold with PayPal. Wire Transfer and Western Union are also available.
4. Qadabra : Only display ads Qadabra has and pays on CPM. Minimum threshold is only $1 with PayPal and $500 with Wire Transfer. 
5. Link Worth : This network has many type of ads including Targeted text, display, sponsored posts and also In-Text. Payments are made after every 30 days and minimum threshold is $25 with PayPal and $100 with Wire Transfer.
6. PublicityClerks : This is direct ad banner buying and selling network just same as BuySellAds. You'll be paid when any advertiser will buy ad slot on your blog for 30 days. Payments are only made with PayPal.
7. MadAdsMedia : Cost Per Mile based ad network that pays on 1000 impressions. Note : Their ads had caused malware detection few days ago. Sooner or later, they may fix that but beware of them.
8. AdSide : Target text, Mobile, In-Image, In-Video, Pop-unders ad types with $50 minimum payment threshold with Check.
9. Vibrant Media : Screen takeover, In-Text, In-Image and Display ad types are available in this network $50 minimum threshold by check and wire transfer. Payment time is net 45 days.
10. Intellilinks : In-text ads only with PayPal payment method and 30 days net payment time.
11. BlogAds : Direct banner ads selling and buying network where you can sell your ad slots for 30 days. Ad slot prices are your own choice and payments are made with PayPal and Wire Transfer.
12. Tribal Fusion : Seems the best CPM ad network and perfect alternative of adsense. The earnings are high on this network being a member their may be difficult. Minimum payment is $100 with PayPal and Wire Transfer.
13. Casale Media : This is also CPM based ad network that pays on impressions. It can be perfect adsense alternative for you if you get approved there but they only select high traffic sites. $25 minimum payment with PayPal and Check.
14. ShareASale : Cost Per Action based affiliate ad network that pays on completing an action. 
15. Exit Junction : Pop-under based ad network that display ads when any visitor leaves your website popup ads comes and pays on when someone clicks on ads. 
16. Is there any adsense alternative missing? Drop an email to us to list that here!

How Were These AdSense Alternatives?

Don't worry man! If adsense is not approving you than you can try these ad networks for monetization for your blog. Some of these pays lower than adsense and some also pays even higher than adsense but blog traffic also matters. If you've high blog traffic than you can earn more and more. Hope you liked these AdSense alternatives.

Who is the Highest Paying Sponsored Content Network?

Content.ad is one of the oldest and largest “sponsored content” networks, serving over three billion page 
views and 55 billion sponsored content recommendations per month. Content.ad distributes high-paying premium content that doesn't look or feel like advertising and delivers engaged visitors to websites.

Content.ad is focused on generating the highest possible CPMs & revenue for its publishers. Content.ad works very closely with advertisers to craft content and creatives that drive consumer interaction, which boosts your revenue. Through carefully developed algorithms Content.ad is able to run the offers that make publishers the most money possible. To top it off, Content.ad also offers a healthy rev-share rate of 70% to publishers instead of 50% like other networks.

Content.ad will not force publishers to commit to long-term contracts. If the Content.ad solution isn’t performing for you, the team will be happy to discuss solutions with you or you can remove it, simple as that. After all, it’s your site and you should be free to use whatever service you want whenever you want. Test Content.ad for a week, a month, or set-it and forget-it

Other reasons to work with Content.ad:

The Content.ad widget can be customized to fit cleanly on any website and can be used to promote a publisher’s internal content 100% free of charge.

Content.ad will not reject any site due to low traffic level.

Content.ad’s sponsored content is free of malware, get rich quick schemes, and other shady offers. The Content.ad team manually pre-screens every ad offer before allowing them access to be displayed to the network.

The Content.ad reporting dashboard is highly revered for being sleek and simple, yet powerful.

The Content.ad team is highly responsive, knowledgeable, and friendly.

Over 2,000 publishers, from small blogs to top tier sites, have signed up with Content.ad. Click here to find out how to get started.

To find out more, contact:

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Business Development Manager

Tel: 949.419.0262 ext 237

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No AdSense - Ways To Monetize Blogging Niche Blogs

We all know that adsense is one of the best network to monetize blogs and sites but it doesn't work anymore for blogging niche blogs because there audience already know that these are adsense ads and they won't click ads. Another thing is that adsense has been strict from long to approve new applications and many bloggers don't have even adsense accounts for this reason.

Well, those who still think that adsense is just only way to monetize their blogs, I would like to tell them that adsense is not everything there are many other networks and strategies for monetization. Yes, adsense is owned by dominating company but some things can't work with everything.

So, today we've brought some methods and networks specially for those who're running blogs on blogging niche and also for those who hate adsense.

1. CPM (Cost Per Mile) Ad Networks

When paid per click is not working, try cost per mile ads. Simply, you'll be get paid for thousand impressions on ads. More the traffic, more money you make. While adsense also pays you for impressions but those who don't have adsense can go for CPM networks. Media.net, Madadsmedia, etc are the best networks that you can go for. Personally, we're using media.net and our experience is even better than adsense. So we'll say that media.net is a great alternative of adsense.

2. Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs are best for blogging niche and they're many relevant programs that you can join and start promoting their products. You can find affiliate programs on web hosting sites, blog theme sites like themeforest, plugins, SEO products and many more. If you can't affiliate products for your blog that simply go to ClickBank which is most popular largest affiliate network, there you'll get tons of products to promote and earn commission. You can put product banner in your blog or even can write review about them to generate sales and enjoy the commission. 

3. Banner Advertising (BuySellAds.com)

Another best method for monetization blogging niche blog is selling ad banners in your blog. BuySellAds.com is one of the best network for this kind of advertising. BuySellAds is a bit difficult to get approved account but if you got quality blog with huge traffic than chances are higher to get listed in BuySellAds directory. Once your blog is listed in BuySellAds directory than advertisers will be able to view your blog and any advertiser can purchase ad slot on your blog which will have fixed price and advertiser's banner will displayed for next 30 days. Give it a try and if you're approved than you won't be disappointed.

4. In-Text Advertising - InfoLinks.com

In-Text advertising is also popular these days in which some words in your content will be converted into ad links. On hovering, it will display ad overview and if these links got clicks than you'll be easily paid. InfoLinks.com is one of the top first ad network for this type of advertisement and is considered the top AdSense alternative. Even if you got AdSense, you can run both AdSense and InfoLinks on your blog to generate extra income. If your most of the blog traffic is coming from top countries such as USA, Canada, UK than InfoLinks got highest payout rates for you. 

5. Sponsored Reviews

When everything above doesn't work for you than this will surely work for you. Don't know either you've heard about it or not but once you know and try this method and you'll surely love it. Sponsored Reviews - Here we need to contact some relevant companies to blogging niche such as Hosting companies, SEO companies, Ad companies etc but these companies must be new and recently launched. Okay, so we need to get in touch with them and ask them an offer that we'll publish their product review on your blog which has decent readers to increase company's audience and users and you'll charge some amount in back. Before you contact any company, make sure you've good page rank and alexa and also use some email tactics to let company accept your offer.

6. Start Coaching & Service

Well, you can turn your readers into clients through this way but here you must be experienced pro blogger. You can start coaching where you can teach blogging SEO and other money making strategies to your readers and you'll charge them reasonable amount. Well, you can also start service in which you'll can provide different type of blogging services such as SEO service, creating backlinks, WordPress setup, content writing etc. This will need you to create pages where you can describe fully about your service & coaching along with price quotes. Also create a nice form for submissions. 

7. E-book Selling

Got epic writing skills? This method is only for you! You can start writing e-books to make even more money. E-book writing can be difficult because here we need to both e-book topic expertise and also writing skills. You can write e-book on SEO, blogging, money making strategies and try to put them on Amazon Kindle where you can generate a lot of sales. It needs loads of hard work but remember hard work always pays.

Money is waiting for you!

So, what you've thought to go for? Think wisely and try these methods because money is waiting for you. AdSense is not everything and you can make hell more than AdSense. Hope this article will help you and also share this article with your friends. Got some more metods? Let us know in comments because sharing is caring buddy!Cheers!

RevenueHits: An Ultimate Source to Monetize Your Super Blog

As a blogger, grabbing Adsense approval becomes a dream come true. But how many of you reading this post, have really got their Google Adsense approved. I am sure most of you have NOT and this is what has enticed you to read on this ‘Title’ further. At the same time, you must be aware that getting Google Adsense approved for your site is not cakewalk.

Well, let me tell you that there are several companies coming up as alternatives to Adsense. This companies help you generate revenue from your site by providing the option to website owners and bloggers to place ads on their sites and earn money. Although you will get several options when you look for alternatives for Adsense online, but as a reputed and intelligent blogger, you must make sure that the platform you use is worth trusting and the best one to earn high revenues. In addition, you should not only be aware of their publisher policies but advertiser policy as well in order to know how they are transferring revenue to your accounts. This will even make sure that you earn long term with these platforms. RevenueHits is one such source that has recently build trust and won the hearts of bloggers.

RevenueHits: The Trusted Source To Earn Bets Revenue

RevenueHits was established in 2008 and build great repute in no time. They help in easy revenue generation for publishers with high end Geo targeted and Contextual Ad serving technology. Managed and operated by an Israel based company called MyAdWise Ltd., RevenueHits helps publishers to monetize their sites using innovative Performance Base Ad Network.

For Publishers

Built by and for publishers, RevenueHits treats its partners like a family as they say. The features for publishers include:

• Display and Rich Media: You will get range of banner sizes and formats to choose from. You can pick them according to your blog theme and access wide variety of advertisers available. The algorithm is such that it can find the best performing offers for your blog in order to get the best of earnings. 
• Pop Ups/Unders: You can add Pop Us and Pop Unders and see your revenue boosts in no time. Don’t worry, it will be popped in quite a controlled way so that your site is well optimised. 
• Apps and Widgets: It is not only through the site, you can make money  but even from your Apps and widgets. They offer specialised formats to make the most of it.
• Custom Formats: They even create custom formats according to the needs of the publishers. 

For Advertisers

You must know about advertisers policies laid down by RevenueHits as well even if you are a publisher or a blogger as this gives you genuine reasons to trust them. The features for advertisers include:

• Global Reach: The platform displays 2 billion ad impressions each day covering millions of users all over the globe. This way the advertisers not only get exposure, but make the most of their advertising opportunity. 
• Multiple Verticals: The advertisement is available on almost every niche you think of. So, even you as a blogger get an opportunity to earn more and more through this. Whether it is mobile, shopping, Coupons, Dating, Entertainment, Travel, Software or anything, all can advertise here.

Revenue in eCPM

There are publishers signed up with RevenuHits who are enjoying eCPM rato of up to $30eCPM. It all depends on your site traffic. revenuHits can offer you maximum monetization within few days if you get decent traffic on your blog.

Advantages Of Using RevenueHits

• Range of Monetisation Methods
• Easy Creation of Ad Scripts for non-tech Bloggers
• 100% Fill Rate
• Accepts Traffic from all over the globe

How To Start With RevenueHits?

Sign Up process is convenient and takes no time if you have decided to give this wonderful platform a great try. Run through the following process and it is done:

Go to RevenueHits and ‘Sign Up’ as a ‘Publisher’ if you want to monetise your blog. However, if you want to advertise (to add to your knowledge), just go to ‘Advertisers’ section and Sign Up. I am here to guide you as a blogger and therefore I will tell you how to join as a Publisher as I know most of you must be looking for this.

• Click on Sign Up to Become a Publisher
• The first tab prompts for your details. Fill in the following details:
• Give the Title Nam
• Select Your Niche
• Add the URL of your Blog
• Write a small description describing about your blog. Make sure it is in the best of its form. Lastly click on ‘Continue’
• Next tab prompts you to fill in the Username and Password and other details like your name, phone number, Skype ID.
• Thereafter click on ‘Continue’ again
• The last tab wants you to select the Billing Preference. This means what would you like your Payment Method to be. revenutHits offers four options for payment method:
• Decide Later, Payoneer, Wire Transfer and Paypal
• Once you have selected your mode of payment, click on ‘Continue’. A pop up will appear prompting you to accept the terms and conditions of the site. I would suggest you to read them before you do the final sign up.

This is quite simple and you can get the ball rolling once you sign up. You simply need to login with your credentials and create ad unites to be placed on your site.

Considering the above factors, RevenueHits has recently become one of my favourites when I suggest my fellow bloggers. As a blogger, I am sure you will be benefitted to generate revenue through this source which is certainly a great alternative for Google Adsense. So, what are you waiting for? Simply sign up and start earning for yourself. Create the best of ads and welcome those bucks you have been dreaming for. 

How To Get USA and Canada Traffic To Blog

As everyone wants to get filled their pockets with online earned money, internet users are now turning into bloggers! The reason why everyone is choosing blogging because it's best way to make money online as recently I also wrote about that why blogging is best method to make money online. Well, blog can be created easily in seconds but driving traffic is the matter!

Even some people also get high traffic through different methods but unfortunately that traffic is not profitable. Profitable means that traffic is not valuable for generating money. Valuable traffic depends on the country from which we're getting the highest traffic. If that country is poor in reality than chances are low to make enough money but if the country is very rich than you can also be rich! United States, United Kingdom and Canada seems to be rich countries so many bloggers try to get targeted traffic from these so that they may earn high. Today, we're going to learn that how can we get traffic USA and Canada traffic to blog.

Tip 1. Target Keywords For USA and Canada Locations

The first and very best tip is that we should target some keywords that are highly searched in USA, UK and Canada. First we'll need to do keyword research and also need to select locations "USA, UK and Canada". If any keyword is having high searches and it also has high CPC than target that keyword with closed eyes. Try to create quality and unique content on that keyword and also do proper on-page optimization so that your keyword should rank well in SERP. Put keyword in post title, permalink, meta description, H2 headings, content with 2-4% keyword density and image optimization. Once you've published that post than also create some backlinks and set anchor text same as your keyword. Don't do spam in link building it can do negative effect. If you succeeded in getting first position on that keyword than no one can stop you from getting US and Canada traffic.

Tip 2. Social Promotion in US and Canada Communities

Social promotion has always been helped bloggers to drive traffic and it is completely easy! The thing there we need to do is just sharing blog posts but sharing posts with technical ways can help to get more traffic. Well, There are many social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn etc that you maybe using already. In order to drive US and Canada traffic with use of social sites, you'll need to join some communities or groups in which there we should be US and Canadian people. Also try to find the relevant communities with your niche or posts so that you may get proper profit and don't join such communities that don't allow to share links. Once, you've got some communities than easily share your blog posts in those communities but try to do not break community rules.

Tip 3. Engage With US and Canada Blogs With Same Niche

So, This is the third tip that you're going to get! Here you've to engage with some blogs same in your niche and those blogs must belong from US and Canada. Engaging with other blogs means reading out their posts, commenting on them, making discussions with blog readers and owner and also sharing each others ideas. There is another thing that you can do to get US and Canada traffic. If those blogs belongs from US and Canada than they maybe having most of traffic or readers from their own country. So, I think you're well known about guest posting and what if you request blog admin for contribution and publish a guest post on these blogs? It can really help you to do blast of US and Canada traffic. So, keep engaging with these countries based blogs!

Tip 4. Submit Blog To US and Canada Directories

Directories are also useful as people are using them to find interesting content on the web. There are also some US based directories that can help you to more American and Canadian traffic. You can easily submit your blog to US and Canada based directories and I'll suggest to go for USA Listing Web Directory as there are so many directories that you can search in Google. Once you've submitted your blog on these directories than it may require approval to get placed in public. And for approval, your blog should have best well written content and rankings should also be good because it helps to get approval. Well, After being placed in some American directories, you'll get traffic if anyone is interested in your niche.

Tip 5. Advertise on Popular American Websites

In case, if you can invest some bucks to get more bucks that this tip is specially for you. Instead of hiring some experts to drive american traffic, you should advertise on popular US and Canada websites to get american blog readers. You can use BuySellAds to find popular US site and also purchasing an ad slot on that. BuySellAds is completely easy and reliable to advertise on best sites. There are even more ways to advertise like you can advertise with Google AdWords that can also help to drive US traffic. Even you can also use Facebook now to advertise your blog to american people specially. In Google AdWords and Facebook, you'll need to select location as America or Canada for the best result.

Tip 6. Set US Geographic Target in Google Webmaster Tools 

There is an additional option in Google Webmaster Tools that we can target any specific country to show our website in that target country mostly. Well, It can be formality or maybe it works but I'm not sure! Instead of missing this, I thought why not mention that here also. Here is the tutorial how can we can target US in Google webmaster tools.

• Go To Webmaster Tools >> Site Dashboard 
• Click Gear Icon At The Top Right Corner and Go To "Site Settings"
• Tick The Box "Target Users in" And Choose Country "United States" or As You Like.

• Click "Save"
• It's Done!

Final Words

So blogging folks! That was my ideas to get USA and Canada traffic to blog and hope you've enjoyed reading out this article. Are we missing some tips? Hey buddy! Please share creative tips with us because sharing is caring! Keep blogging, producing creative content and also earning bucks. Have a nice day!