By this moment you have my 34 ex-bookmarks directly from Google Chrome bookmarking panel. And now let me show you 28 bookmarks more. This is the 2nd part of my ex-bookmarks for beginning bloggers and for beginning webmasters.

Note: 3 of them are in russian. You can use Google translate service or install Google toolbar, which has its own high-speed built-in translator.

4 Blogging Resources for Your WordPress Blog

1. CommentLuv is a plugin for WordPress blogs.

   If you want to recieve more comments, you better start using it today. And, if you have a PageRank of 1-2 or more, your blog most likely will be soon listed in someone’s list of blogs with CommentLuv, which automatically guarantees, that you’ll start getting more and more new visitors and comments. That is why I had it in my bookmarks.

2. WP plugin Subscribe to Comments is another must-have plugin for WordPress blogs.

   This plugin enables your commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. It includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address.

   You can even integrate your blog design to the subscription manager, which I still have not done. My bad :)

3. “Previous” and “Next” Post Links code for your WordPress blog.

   This is a tutorial by DragonBlogger. I’ve bookmarked it lately and will follow it soon. Meanwhile, you can include it to your collection of blogging resources. You have one, right?

   This feature helps to reduce your bounce rate, which in turn improves your website or blog’s SERP.

4. Template Tags from WP Codex is a list of the general user tags available in WordPress, sorted by function-specific category.

   If you understand PHP and HTML at least a little, you can customize your blog as you wish using template tags.

   I have bookmarked this resource, because I needed it to fully change the structure of my blog theme.

7 Online Income Resources for Beginning Bloggers and Webmasters

1. Chitika Premium – For advertisers and media buyers, Chitika is a proven channel for targeting on-line consumers and qualified buyers. For all publishers, Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. And it can be used along with AdSense.

   They have got 3 different types of ads for publishers: in-text-ads (like Kontera and Adgitize), WhitespaceAds that appear only when whitespace is available on higher resolution monitors and integrated Chitika eMiniMalls – ads pay on a per click basis. The value of the clicks depends upon the product being featured.

   One of the most popular benefits of Chitika is that ads appear only for your traffic that comes from search engines, which means that your daily readers will never see any ad, unless they would try to come on your site through some search engine. Chitika also pays only for US and Canada traffic, though there is also an option to monetize international and non search traffic.

   This is another must-have blogging resource for your collection of useful bookmarks.

2. Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters.

   In order to make money with this platform, you have to have a lot of real followers, not bots nor internet marketing scams.

3. Ad.ly allows you also to make money and to advertise on Twitter.

   I have registered my account there a month ago or so. No results. So, I can’t say anything about how they pay and whether it is worthy or not. But I am still keeping it in my bookmarks for future.

4. Bunch of Good Affiliate Banners by Brian from BlogEngage. The list itself is great and you can save a lot of time, because if you are looking for banners to decorate your website or blog’s sidebar, then follow the link and enjoy the wide choice of banners.

5. Make Money Online Blogging by Seth from Blogussion.

   Seth introduces us to 30 ways of making money blogging. What made me bookmark this article is that the ways were categorized by 3 different blogging levels: for beginning bloggers, for beginning novices and for professional bloggers. And every way is clearly explained.

6. 15 Link Building Tips by Dosh dosh. I have bookmarked this post, because I was new to link building methods.

7. AffiliateTips is a website that provides you with a complete guide on how to make money online with the best affiliate programs. Here you will find extensive website and blogging resources on affiliate marketing.

   I have found this resource lately in Alexa’s top. Looks cool, huh? Let’s say.. I find affiliate programs working much more better comparing with annoying ads all over the blog. With this website you can find highly targeted affiliate offers for your blog’s niche in minutes. All you need is to have a ClickBank ID (or “account name” in other words).

10 Superb Lists for Blogging Improvement

1. Several High PR Forums to Boost Traffic – this is one of my oldest dusty bookmarks. You can still find there several useful forums to get traffic.

2. 100 Ping Services for WordPress Blog – simple and clear, though in russian (I have mentioned in the beginning of this post how to translate russian blogs into english).

   You can add all of those ping services to your WordPress blog through your admin panel. Find “Settings”, then navigate to “Writing”, from there find the title “Update Services”.

   Some of the listed ping services may not work. So, it is best for you to install WordPress plugin – MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. The plugin corrects WordPress’s pinging system and solves many other problems. You are also able to see, which ping services work and which not.

3. Blog with Tons of Lists of Dofollow Blogs – this is one of those blogs with very narrow niche created to beat some certain Google real-time search result. In this case, author is trying to be on the first page of Google results with the keyword phrase “more dofollow blogs” or maybe “dofollow blogs”.

   Anyways, the provided information on dofollow blogs is fantastic and frequently updated. If you are looking for dofollow blogs with your niche – start right from moredofollowblogs.blogspot.com .

4. 100 Dofollow Forums to Increase Backlinks – uncategorized, without pageranks list of dofollow forums. I have bookmarked it to make a worthy list with more details in future.

   But you can already use that list :)

5. Top SEO Blogs of 2009 – very strong list. 207 retweets and it means, that you are dealing with a worthy compilation of SEO blogs. Take several hours to read them, if you are not sure about your search engine omptimization methods.

6. Top 15 URL Shortening Services – fresh article by Siddartha from Gadget Cage. You can find for yourself almost any type of URL shortening service from this list. But use them wisely, URL shorteners can damage your SEO in the long haul.

7. Dofollow Forums – the categorized list by niche. Seems like the author updates it regularly, so it means, that the list is great. I have followed some of the links just to test them and make sure the author was doing his job right. No mistakes found, so you can freely treat it like the best blogging resource to get backlinks from forums.

8. 538 Twitter Users that Blog by ProBlogger. This one is an old list, but I bet, that Twitter users, who still exist in that list can be very useful for you and your blog. So, why not to try to add them? :)

9. List of Sites Sharing Google AdSense Revenue – if I would ever make my second blog, then it would be done on some of the platforms listed in that article. Most likely, it would be Squidoo. The opportunity of AdSense revenue sharing platform for your blog seems very attractive by this moment. Not sure how it would be in future.

   Check the list whenever you have any extra minute.

10. List of Mnemonics for beginning bloggers and webmasters. If you are using rare characters like “&” or “$” in titles, then this list of mnemonics should become your close friend :)

    I have not found any english alternative for that list of mnemonics, so use Google Translate service or Google toolbar to understand the gist of the article, if you really want it. Because, actually, you need only the list itself, which is provided pretty much clearly.

4 Unexplored Blogging Resources to Get More Extra Traffic

1. Stumpedia is the human powered search of links. You can submit any link to this directory – just like with the stories submissions. You can also find friends, join or create groups and search for some interesting stuff for yourself.

   I’d call Stumpedia a “social directory for your links”, which is fair in my opinion. Try it, this stuff is new, fresh and juicy!

2. Plaxo is a big address book and a way to stay connected with your friends, just like in Twitter or Facebook. You can also share any stuff with your contacts and Plaxo will not limit the number of characters of your messages – a big plus. You can also run polls, which is cool :)

3. Virb is the combination of Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube and Flickr.. I guess. I’ve been online there for several hours.. listening to some music and running through it. This social network is fast with a big number of daily visitors. And I should admit that I fell in love with it, because it really has a lot of potential web traffic for you website or blog. Test it.

4. Blastoff Network – is… I’m really not sure what it is. They promise you can make money, you can blast something and it’s convenient. This is how I have understood them.

   Anyways, thanks to Ileane Smith for showing this. I think it is a kind of discovery, that should be investigated a little bit more deeper.. and bookmarked, of course.

3 Ex-Bookmarks as a Bonus

1. Blog about Positive Thinking – or Maxos.ru . It is in russian, but I highly recommend it for those, who feel that it is time to fight the negativeness within you.

2. Uxbooth – a blog, that I have bookmarked, because of its design. It was long time ago and this blog was one of the first ones with unusual and great web design for me.

3. Websitebabble forum by Lisa Irby from 2CreateAWebsite.com.

   This forum is full of beginning bloggers, future webmasters and occasional visitors. I hope you know what to do with this kind of traffic :)

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Well.. no more ex-bookmarks. Now there are only 2 for you! Get traffic, earn money, improve your blogging and make new friends with these 2 parts of proven bookmarked websites, web services and web tools.

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This time let me show you several dozens of saved bookmarks on my Google Chrome browser’s bookmarking panel.

I have been saving them during several months so far. And I thought this would be a great idea to put all of them here, in order to empty my bookmarking panel and to share with you this wealth from all over the Internet.

These websites, services and web tools will be extremely useful for beginning webmasters and those, who want to find something new to track visitors, to make some money online, to improve your website or blog, to grow the number of backlinks and simply to get more web traffic.

I’ve devided the collection into two parts, because there are, let’s say, too many of saved bookmarks for one post.

All of the them are logically categorized.

9 Tools and Services for Beginning Webmasters and Bloggers

1. Page Rank Checker is a free tool to check Google page ranking of any web site pages. You also can display your site or blog’s PageRank value on your web pages using its special html code.

2. Web Site Popularity Checker is also a free tool, but this one has more features. It checks Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati and more. It also allows you to see how many times your site was bookmarked at del.icio.us. And a bunch of features more!

   I used to use only this one, because of its speed and accuracy. And you can also find useful its html badget for your website or blog to show your stats to the world.

3. Free Webmaster Tools is a multi-service full of amazing tools to improve your SEO ranking and website optimization. The first page of this site displays 8, I’d say, best tools, such as Backlink Checker, IP Address Number Converter, Meta Tags Extractor, Position Checker, Fonts Collection, Keyword Density Checker, PageRank Checker and Spider View.

   Though I’ve never used it, I’d say, that I should get back to it sometime.

4. Blog Tracker is an invisible tracker that will count your blog visits and other blog statistics. It is also free and I should say, that it works better, than Google Analytics, from the standpoint of data display. It means, that you will be able to see your last visits and hits earlier, than Google Analytics would show.

   In general, this counter has less built-in features, but faster, than Google one’s. It depends on your needs what to choose.

5. Bookmarking and Sharing Service is a free way to boost traffic back to your site by making it easier for visitors to share your content. That’s how this service describes itself. If I’m right, then AddThis really was one of the first ones of such kind. So, it’s tested by time.

6. Social Bookmarking Service, which is called SocialMarker. This service recommended itself as a free tool for spreading your links on 48 of the best social bookmarking sites like Digg.com, Del.icio.us, Propeller.com, Slashdot.org, Technorati.com, Reddit.com and many many more. They promise you, that you’ll be able to manage with it in 15 minutes. Not sure about this one, but it definitely reduces submission time.

   And you can also use their social button, which in my opinion looks not that pretty, like AddThis button :)

7. Social Networks Updater or Ping.fm is a free and simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.

   If you don’t mind URL shortening, then Ping.fm is, probably, the best one for you. But, I’m not the one and I still don’t use it. Why? I’ve explained it in my recent post about SEO risks involved with URL shortening.

8. HelloTxt is one big social network, because it allows you to read, update and organize all known social networks like Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, Flickr, LinkedIn and tons more. Its Alexa Rank is worse, than Ping.fm’s, but it’s just a matter of time. I think HelloTxt’s future is much more better.

9. NXY.IN – URL Shortener is too awesome to be a simple URL shortening service. It has built-in analytics, popular/upcoming articles feature and a feature to make money using your AdSense ID.

   It has ~38k Alexa Rank, which is not bad for a new service, but it’s PageRank is 1, which means, that Google somewhy doesn’t trust it. So, for this moment it would be better to refrain from using this URL shortening service, if you use them at all.

12 Google Resources: Visitors Tracking, Keywords and Money

1. Google Translate – this is my number 1 service. If your English isn’t your native language, then this service is indispensable. It is fast, accurate and easy-to-use. Plus – you can listen to pronunciation of some of them.

2. “Define” trick by Google – this is a simple command to search any word’s meaning. It may help you to find more keywords to the one you already have. You can also get the idea of what you should mention, when you have some exact keyword/s.

   Examples: web service, webmaster etc.

3. Introduction to Google Adsense by Lisa Irby. Simple and clear. I guess I have started iWoodpecker, because of this article. Who doesn’t want to make money online?

   Though now I have a different opinion on Google AdSense topic..

4. 7 Ways to Make Money with Google Adsense Using Only Free Tools is an article by Christopher Kyalo. These ways are, indeed, powerful. You will find this explanation useful only if you already know something about Google AdSense. I’ve bookmarked it 7-8 months ago and I still keep it. Use it for your sake!

5. Google AdSense – Display targeted Google ads on your website’s content pages and earn from valid clicks or impressions.

   Well, it’s not hard to guess why I kept it in my bookmarks. This link leads to Google AdSense account. You can register one for yourself, if you still don’t have it.

6. Google AdManager – You can manage your online ad sales and inventory. Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory.

   In other words – for advertisers. Keeping it for future.

7. Blog of Google Analytics – have not heard about this one? Then go ahead and subscribe. You will be provided with latest trends and news on Google Analytics. You can also try to ping one of their posts, in order to recieve a trackback. I bet you will be surprised with your result.

8. Google Tools for Webmasters – saved as a bookmark, because of too frequent use of it. Yeap, I’m still addicted to statistics.

   This service of webmaster tools is a straight way to high rankings. Absorb everything that Google suggests and fix anything he doesn’t like. You can also see your website or blog’s strong positions in Google real-time search. This is great, when you want to improve your best results!

   People somewhy used to ignore those errors and site defects, that Google shows.. Don’t do that. Be smart and dominate your niche.

9. Google Analytics – is another famous Google must-have-tool. Track your visitors and set goals. Discover site referrers and keyword phrases, that people were using to get to your website or blog. You’re the king here, so rule it.

   The only thing, that I’m still not used to is the amount of time you should wait until Google shows up your latest stats. It usually happens only on the next day.. but sometimes even on the 2nd day.

10. Keyword Tool by Google AdWords is a tool, which helps you to discover keywords and its competition strength. You can also see PPC prices set by AdWords. It gives you the idea of how important is a keyword, which usually lets you decide – to compete or not.

11. A Web Page Full of Google Tools – it was saved on my bookmarking panel very long time ago. This site was useful once. May be it is now for somebody..

12. Install Google Toolbar for Google Chrome If you have Mozilla Firefox, then, probably, you have heard of Google Toolbar. Well.. this is pretty much the same, but for Google Chrome. To be exact, this is an alternative way of having Google Toolbar on Chrome, because the real toolbar is not available yet. Well.. I use it this way and I must say, that there were no problems yet. Try it.

10 Twitter Tools, Services and Other – for Twitter Fans

1. TweetDeck is the leading browser for the real-time and social web, allowing users to connect with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. It is also available as a tool on your desktop.

2. HootSuite is another Twitter client. I prefer it rather than TweetDeck, because of its simplicity… I guess. It has less features and it looks not that cool, but it is still my choice. It manages with 4 networks: Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn and Ping.fm.

3. TwittGeek is a marketing tool, which helps you to follow a limited number of people per day (it’s 150). Though you can purchase a PRO access, which is pretty much the same, as the free version – PRO lets you follow 300 users per day. I used to like it, but now I prefer buzzom (it’s a secret!) for this kind of following users.

4. Buzzom lets you follow, unfollow and reciprocate. Great tool for boosting your Twitter list of followers. It also has such features like cross-following and following targeted Twitter users using search by keywords.

   I like this service, because of seeing its growth and development. I remember the time, when it was incredibly slow and buggy. Now it looks much more promising.

5. FriendOrFollow.com works faster, than Buzzom, but has less features. Though.. I should say that sometimes it finds who does not follow you and who you are not following back more accurately. I use it, when I have several users not following me back (..another secret!).

6. TwitterCounter is the very known service, that offers widgets for your blog or website like Twitter Counter (which looks just like Feedburner’s Subscribers Counter), Twitter Widget (shows Twitter users, when they visit your site) and more.

   The TwitterCounter.com site itself has a lot of things to promote your Twitter account, like tops and lists. But don’t even think about getting there, those tops and lists are already dominated by web gurus like Pete (from Mashable!), Britney Spears and Twitter itself.

7. Oneforty – lets you find, collect, rate and share Twitter apps from all over the Internet. Visit them, when you’ll have some extra minute. You may find there a lo-o-ot of interesting freebies for your future tweets.

8. Revtwt is the advertising network, to help you to earn money on Twitter.

   I’ve tried it and it didn’t work for me. But if you have more than 1,000-2,000 Twitter followers (targeted, not internet marketing bots and scams), then don’t listen to me. Go ahead and test it. They have really large network of advertisers and offers. You can even make them send daily advertisments directly to your email box, which you can use or not.

9. 5 Twitter Directories – a post by Geoffrey Gordon, who introduces us to 5 best Twitter directories in his opinion.

   You should try them. Don’t leave it for tomorrow, like I do :) I still haven’t tried these directories.

10. Twitter Search is a search for Twitter, where you can find out what is happening right now. It works the same way as the search you see above your lists in your common Twitter account.

    I’m not sure why I’ve bookmarked it… :)

3 More Great Bookmarked SEO Articles for Dessert

1. Keyword Research – big article on keyword researching methods. The site itself looks ugly and I remember the time when it was full of ads by Google, but the article is a real treasure.

   I hope you will enjoy it just like I did a year ago or so. It’s good and simple for beginning webmasters or those, who don’t even know how to find out what keywords you need and how to look for them.

2. Sebastian’s Opinion on URI Shortening – find out why you kill your traffic, search engine rankings, and revenues on the long haul using URI Shortening. And note, that he doesn’t like when you say “URL” instead of “URI” :)

3. Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic by CopyBlogger. This post itself consists of various tops on backlinks and web traffic topics. If you haven’t read that one, you will, probably, keep getting your usual amounts of web traffic instead of more.

   I still come back to this article, when I have some extra time, to discover something new. And guess what, everytime there is some kind of another case study..

PS: I have a new record. This post was indexed by Google in less, than 37 minutes without any submissions. I should find out later what were the reasons.. :)

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Her husband accidentally pronounces ‘lawfully’ as ‘wawfully,’ and she cracks up so much that they had to take a break in the ceremony.

Thanks to Ileane I’m writing this post. In the previous post “Shorten URLs with Su.pr…” she mentioned, that she doesn’t like those URL shorteners, that have frames, because they don’t count the traffic, which affects your Alexa ranking and PR a little bit. I didn’t even think about it before, so I’ve started digging the info about it.

Sebastian showed some advanced material on this topic. Thanks to that, I’ve compiled several the most important reasons why url shorteners are bad… and risky for seo of your website. Sure, feel free to shorten others’ links, but let me show you why it’s highly not recommended for your website’s links.

1. Stop working

URL Shortening Services can stop working. If you’re working with Tinyurl, then you have, probably, met that problem, when Tinyurl was off for awhile. This means, that every single shortened URL to your site is broken (not working ). You’ll get no traffic at all, because it’s not possible to even recognize the native domain of the shortened URL.

2. They absorb traffic?

Framed URL shorteners absorb your traffic stats. One word – thievery. Nothing more. Visitors, actually, visit your website or blog, but they are not counted as your traffic. It’s worsened even more, when those frames include social buttons like “retweet”, “digg” etc, because people promote not your website, but those URL shorteners – technically.

3. Less authority

With framed URL shorteners you lose also visible authority signs like the number of retweets and so on. Just look at my previous post about Su.pr URL Shortener.

You can see, that there are 14 diggs and 1 retweet (by the 25th of Jan., 2010). This is not normal, because usually the number of retweets is more, than the number of diggs.

This is because I’ve used Su.pr shortened URL of that post in tweets promoting it. Though, actually, there was a rather positive number of retweets for my blog:

4. Links don’t belong to you

All shortened links don’t belong to you. They belong to those services, which produce them. And the shortened links raise those services rankings, not yours. All the traffic data belongs to them.

5. Meaningless, unattractive and irrelevant looking

Most of shortened links are meaningless, unattractive and irrelevant looking. For example, compare http://www.iwoodpecker.com/getting-website-traffic-in-2010/ and http://nxy.in/3jlj9 . Which URL makes more sense? Yeah, the second one looks compact, but it’s just a set of letters.

6. Redirects?

301 redirects are not your friend. Every redirect slows down your page loading time. Now it’s crucial for SEO and traffic. Don’t forget about those rushing people, who surfes through the net all the time. They hate everything, which is slower, than “Formula 1″ :)

7. Short term

In the short term of using URL shorteners for your website URLs you have some nice stats and reference. But this is not what should matter, because it has too many risks. You have to be sure, that your links would be working in a year or two.

Today it’s getting popular to make your own shortened links. I think, that this is all blogs’ future. Read Sebastian’s tutorial about the integration of your own URL shortener.

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Su.pr URL shortener is one of the best shorteners ever. Previously I’ve been writing about the URL shortener NXY.IN, and I thought that the “ad” opportunity of this service makes it the best one. I was partly wrong.

Why partly?

Because the main aim of shortening your URLs is to get traffic getting more out of your tweets and profile statuses with limited characters number. NXY does a good shortening job.. but.. its name is not that attractive and popular, its frame looks not that elegant..

Anyways, let’s talk about the Su.pr URL shortener.

8 Reasons to Shorten Your URLs Using Su.pr

1. 19 characters – All of your shortened links will be 19 characters long;
2. Post messages – You can post links (messages) not only on Twitter, but on Facebook as well and optionally at the same time;
3. Schedule them – You can schedule for later your tweets and facebook status updates;
4. 301 redirect – Su.pr URL shortening service has auto 301 redirect, which makes your links SEO friendly;
5. New post notifyer – Remember the Feedburner’s new “socialize” feature? Su.pr has the same;
6. Tracking statistics – Su.pr URL shortener tracks your links, counting unique clicks, retweets of the shortened link, number of reviews and stumbles;
7. Suggested posting time – This link shortener is one step further, than other similar services. It even suggests you the ideal posting time, based on the made clicks stats;
8. Friendly frame – The final reason is the friendly StumbleUpon frame, which motivates you to press “I like this” button. Of course! It’s only one click away :) ;

When to Use Su.pr?

My suggestion is to use this service to promote your own links. Just like I do.

What about other links?

Well.. I used to shorten them with NXY, because it adds some personal profit to sharing. I mean the AdSense or your own blog or website banner feature.

Minuses of Su.pr URL Shortener

It really took me some time to come up with the possible minuses of this service. Yeap.. this is so good, that you should think a little to come up with its minuses. I’ve found just 2 of them:

• Su.pr URLs are not the shortest. There are services, that offer 14-15 characters;
• There are no “tops” of links, that are usually your potential extra traffic;
• Plus 1 (21st Jan): Ileane said about the frame “problem”. Well, this post is the actual evidence of it. You can see that it has 1 retweet – that’s mine. But there are 10+ retweets more of su.pr link of this post that I tweeted;

Anyways, Su.pr is my number 1 URL shortener now. I just fell in love with it :) My number 2 is still NXY.

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Two squirrels have a go over… seeds! what else?

What is URL Shortener?

URL shortening services are created for such social networks like Twitter. All we know, that Twitter allows us to use only 140 characters per one message. So this is very good idea to shorten our huge post links like the one I have for this post – http://www.iwoodpecker.com/url-shortener-nxy-that-earns-money-and-gets-web-traffic .

Which URL shortener is the best?

It’s easy to guess, that the best url shortener is the one, that makes the shortest URL out of your natural URL. Well, I wanted to make a list of those shorteners to choose from, but there is already some nice compilation at Wikipedia.

Why NXY.IN is so special?

First of all, NXY.IN is comparatively short itself. And it does a good shortening job as well. But it’s not the only one reason, why I’m talking about it now. NXY.IN has also the opportunity to make money for you and to drive traffic to your website.

How Does It Make Money?

It’s easy. Login to NXY with your Twitter account > go to the top option “Ads Settings” > paste your AdSense publisher ID and the ID of your channel. In order to display some special ad, you should make another ad code in your AdSense account or you can use your old one, if you’ve had some, which is not bigger, than 468×60 px. Check out the pic how your option should look like.

If you don’t want to use AdSense, you can make your own banner – 468×60 is the max size for NXY. It will appear in the top left corner. Tip: it makes sense, when you shorten others sites’ URLs. You can, actually, use your blog’s banner with NXY. So.. it lets you to promote others without forgetting of yourself :)

Moreover, there’s a distribution Twitter button in the top right corner of the shortened URL and the option to cancel that bar. So, if a user doesn’t want to see your ad or this bar at all – he can turn it off. Let me show you all those features…

How does it get web traffic?

It doesn’t get traffic directly by your wish, but it does get traffic, if your shortened links become popular. If they are popular, and you did everything you could to show those links, you can get to the section of “Top Articles” or “Today’s Hot”, which supposed to bring you some extra traffic.

First of all, track your links stats:

If you did well, then you might get to the right tab of your account, which is, actually, more like a “social activity top”. It looks like this:

I’d say, that it’s hard to make your links viewed on Twitter, unless you have more, than 2,000/3,000 followers (I’m not speaking about targeted followers). The best way is to use NXY URL shortener beyond Twitter: profiles, forums, social media sites, in comments, on your website etc.

Minuses of NXY.IN

1. Ads in shortened links. You might lose some piece of your audience, if there are those, who don’t like ads;

2. My own experience – I have a total of 300+ views. And there are still no clicks on ads. Why did I mention this fact here? Because of AdSense. I think it’s not that attractive to earn money from it. But I might be wrong and it’s all about your viewers and the number of views :) ;

3. It’s not that easy to get traffic. You have to work on your total number of views.

Updated on the 13th Jan. 2010

NXY have changed their design, but the principles are the same. You can get money, you can get traffic with this service.. blah blah blah :)

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…the kitten was not sick or poisoned nor was this planned, he just drank too much milk.