Monday, March 19, 2007

Make Money With Metacafe Producer Rewards

You can make money from your videos with Metacafe. Maybe you already uploading your videos on Youtube or other where, but nobody pay you about this.
My friend kochvideo told me about this before a couple of months.

Metacafe Producer Rewards program pays you $5 of every thousand of viewers of your movie. Payments starts when your video reaches 20,000 views ($100), and the rating is 3.0 or higher.

The video requirements are:
1. The video and the music must be owned by you.
2. Your video must be suitable for everyone, no porn and violence.
3. You need signed permissions from people in video, if any.

kochvideo has already earned $700.
Some of his videos which earned money
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/457866/street_defence_part_1/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/446758/turn_fart_into_energy/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/350943/very_cool_cool_dart/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/351122/amazing_inseparable_books/

The top earners are made about $20,000 - $25,000 from this program.
There are a single clips made about $2,000 - $3,000.
It's sounds very cool, isn't it?

Sunday, March 18, 2007

How to prevent yourself from clicks on your own AdSense ads

Everybody which using AdSense should know that he can't click on his own ads because, it is against AdSense polices, and can be banned for own clicks.
But you can click accidentally sometime when you look at your own site.
To prevent myself from this I making the ads hidden for me.

I will describe some ways to do that. This are not all possible ways.

1. AdSense Preview Tool
this is a tool from Google to test what ads will appear on your new pages, or on your old. You can select ad formats, colors and geo-targeted location.
You can see how to install it here.
I never used it, because it is for Internet ExploDer, and I am using Gentoo, and there isn't IE for it (actualy there is some like IEs4LInux and other).

2. Disable Javascript
AdSense works with javascript, if you disable it for you sites, your AdSense will not shown. But if you have parts of your site which works with Javascript you will be unable to use it.
How to disable the Javascript on different browsers:
Opera - open your site, right click on the page, select "Edit site preferences...", select the tab "Scripting", uncheck "Enable javascript" and press "OK" button.

FireFox - you can install some extension like NoScript or AdBlock.

Interned ExploDer - I don't remember/care

3. hosts file
This is another way to disable AdSense, and this will disable not only your sites ads but, and every site ads in any browser.
All AdSense clicks get through the host pagead2.googlesyndication.com, if you set static IP address for it in your hosts file, yours(and others) AdSense will not appear any more in any browser. What you need to do? Just add the following line in your hosts file
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

Where is this hosts file?
On Linux/UNIX - /ets/hosts
On Windows -
Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista - %Systemroot%\System32\Drivers\Etc
Windows 9x - <drive>\<Windows folder>

4. Server side scripting (PHP/ASP/JSP/Whatever)
You can write a function which checks is the visitor IP match with some in list with your IPs, then if not you show the ads, else you don't.


What is your way?