Qadabra – A Self-Serve Ad Platform with A Lot To Offer

By / Make Money Online, Reviews

Display advertising has become one of the highest sources of income for millions of sites and blogs.  With this, the rise of self-serve ad platforms provided publishers with a practical monetization solution for their site, but whoever thought it was a one man game was wrong.  A good ad platform will make your life easier and give you the tools; the rest is up to you.

There are many self-serve ad platforms to choose from; among the top AdSense alternatives is Qadabra.  Qadabra is a self-serve ad platform designed for publishers all over the world looking to make revenue from their website traffic.

Qadabra at a glance:

  • 1$ minimum payout
  • No minimum impression volume
  • State-of-the-art optimization algorithm
  • Immediate extraction and implementation of ad-code
  • straightforward, user-friendly interface
  • Ad fill in all geographic locations
  • Rich media creative
  • Live and historical reporting
  • Dedicated 24/7 support

 

 

 

 

 

 

Qadabra

Qadabra’s Mission:

To make publishers’ lives easier by providing them with something that wasn’t available to them before: A simple, easy to use, accessible ad platform that is all about performance. With Qadabra, publishers can sign up, open an account and start counting their profits in no time.

Straightforward:

When it comes to user experience, especially as far as ad platforms are concerned, simplicity is the most important thing; a straightforward, easy to understand user interface makes a world of difference to a publisher. At Qadabra, they believe that every publisher needs to have an effortless experience with their ad platform; it needs to be intuitive and hassle-free. Their goal is to help the publisher as much as possible while giving him complete control over his website content.

Immediate banner auditing:

Qadabra is built on performance; it doesn’t waste time on lengthy bureaucracy. Qadabra’s automatic auditing system and team work around the clock in order to allow publishers to immediately implement their ad tags and get started without delay.

Optimization algorithm:

Qadabra’s state-of-the-art optimization algorithm has been developed after years of experience with direct response campaigns, generating eCPMs much higher than industry averages. Qadabra is connected to thousands of advertisers around the world, allowing a worldwide fill and a large variety of campaigns.

Rev share payment model:

Qadabra works on a revenue share payment model that allows publishers to make the most of their traffic revenues. The revenue share model evolves together with a website, always working towards giving the publisher the best profits for his traffic.

Payment method variety:

Qadabra offers a variety of payment methods in order for publishers to choose the best, most convenient way to receive their earnings (e.g. PayPal, wire transfer, Payoneer and prepaid MasterCard)

Dedicated Support:

At Qadabra, you’ll always have someone to talk to. The support team is available 24/7 to solve or help with any questions/issues.

No minimums

Qadabra’ minimum payout threshold is $1. Additionally, require no minimum impressions volume. Of course, the higher volumes, the higher the revenues.

Performance based

Sites/blogs do not require content rich sites to be approved or make money off their sites. At Qadabra, priority is high performance and sky-high results.

For more info visit www.Qadabra.com or Sign up now!

What Makes ABT a Successful Blog?

By / Announcement, Latest News

Ok, so you too want to know what makes ABT (AllBloggingTips) a successful blog.

Right?

Trust me, I don’t know myself ;) and am still wondering what the secret behind it is. May be we can ask Ammar Ali, the man behind this beautifully maintained blog, himself to write an extensive post on it.

But, with my three months in blogging field, the mention of ABT and Ammar Ali, is not new or rare. I am sure one year back; everyone would have thought it to be yet another blog from a teenager.

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ABT Completes One Year of Successful Blogging. Thanks For Your Continual Support.

Am I not unnecessarily glorifying the blog?

Has it anything to do with this blog post?

Incase you are not aware of, its ABT’s first anniversary. Many congratulations to it and all its readers, including myself. Here I would like to suggest the reasons for ABT’s success and how newbie bloggers can take a lesson or two from these.

Awesome Domain Name

The best thing about AllBloggingTips is the choice of its domain name. Although at first looks to be a cheeky long URL, but if you see it from SEO point of view, it is one of the best I have seen so far.

Because of the commonly used terms like All, Blogging and Tips, its post usually ranks higher with search queries related to blogging tips. And considering that the domain is just one year old, it is indeed a good find.

Un-paralleled Generosity

Apart from being generous in terms of sharing resourceful information over the Internet, ABT also engages its readers. Periodically it conducts giveaways to make its readers something to look for.

On the occasion of its first anniversary, a lucrative giveaway comprising of 5 web hosting from a2hosting for one year, has been announced. You can see details here. This shows the level of commitment ABT has for its loyal readers. :D

Purposeful Blog Branding

Ammar takes full advantage of ABT’s social presence and popularity, for branding purposes. Being a PR 3 blog, it receives about 4-5 guest posts each week. So ABT is never short of quality content for its readers. This gives Ammar plenty of time to create a brand out of ABT.

If you take a look at ABT’s archive for the month of November, then I am sure you would be amazed at first. Just by posting only five blog posts in 30 days of time, how come ABT been maintaining an Alexa Rank of around 13,000 constantly?

And, yes, 13,000 is not a very stable rank to hold on to for long without posting regularly. It’s all about creating a trustable brand and few SEO techniques. That’s how ABT has been drawing traffic towards it seamlessly.

Social Presence

ABT has strong fan following across all major social networks. Apart from blogging, both ABT and Ammar spend valuable time with readers on social networking sites and forums.

Currently, ABT has 2846 Twitter followers, 267 have it in their circles and 3363 Facebook users have liked it. This is a testimony of the fact that, ABT must be doing something right for which it is so admired.

  • Twitter: 2846 followers
  • Facebook: 3362 likes
  • Google+: 267 circles

Reading Experience

And last, but never the least, in the end its all about improving reader’s experience. Without this, all other fails. ABT makes sure all its content is effective, informative and easy to follow.

Other that the content, it also facilitates distraction free reading. It’s lucid Thesis typography with minimal text formatting, simple website design and color combinations, inviting internal link positing, makes browsing very soothing.

Oh, I forgot to mention. AllBloggingTips is a weblog belonging to the blogging niche. Its CEO, Ammar Ali, is a passionate Blogger, Entrepreneur, Affiliate marketer from Pakistan.  ABT covers regular fresh updates on WordPress, Blogger and SEO related topics. It has been maintaining a constant Alexa Rank of 13,000 for the last three months. It’s a PR 3 blog that accepts guest posts. Feel free to write for it. Also do not forget to subscribe its newsletter.

Stay updated about latest posts and giveaways on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

This was my three months experience with ABT. Feel free to share yours in the comment section. If you have any suggestion for ABT, do mention too.

Note from Ammar: 

Hurray! One year has just gone. I’m really impressed and excited!! :D

All the credit goes to you. Without YOU I can’t reach this position so fast. As you all know that I started this blog a year back. And it has been growing super fast from then with your support.

A year with many creations, important decisions, new friendships, new ideas. I’m really happy that in one year I managed to have best blog www.allbloggingtips.com. Love all the comments and all the creations that you share with me!!

Thanks for your love and I will promise you that I can do more better for you in the upcoming days.

If you guys want to ask me anything you can comment below. I’ll be happy to hear from you! :)

Giveaway: 5 Web Hosting Accounts For 1 Year [Closed]

By / Giveaway

All Blogging Tips is going to be 1 year old on 1st Decemeber.

I’m so happy. :D

To celebrate this birthday, I am hosting Advance birthday Giveaway on my blog. That is 5 Web Hosting Accounts For One Year from a2hosting.

This giveaway is sponsored by TechFilipino.com

Giveaway

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  •  UNLIMITED Space
  • UNLIMITED Transfer
  • UNLIMITED Email Accounts
  • UNLIMITED Domains
  • UNLIMITED Databases
  • 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
  • 24/7/365 Guru Crew Support
  • CloudLinux OS
  • cPanel + Softaculous
  •  DIY A2 SiteBuilder

For more complete list of features you can visit their a2hosting.com

Giveaway Prize:

We’ll choose 5 winners and each winner will get Unlimited Web Hosting Account. Isn’t that good? You can start your own new self hosted wordpress blog.

Contest Duration :

This contest will be open for 12 days. So participate now!

Contest Starts – 18 November 2012

Contest Ends – 30 November 2012

Winners Announce – As you know this is Advance Birthday Giveaway, as All Blogging Tips is going to be 1 year old on 1st December So, Winners will be Announced on 1 December 2012.

We will contact you through your emails for prize. So please make sure to provide valid email address while entering into giveaway!

How to participate in this Unlimited Web Hosting Giveaway ?

It’s very simply to Win or Enter in to Unlimited Web Hosting Accounts For 1 year, just follow the Rafflecopter below and post a Quality Comment with your valid email.

Enter Now!

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Quick Tip! Tweet and Share this giveaway everyday to have a higher chance of winning

Best of Luck to all Participants! :D

Condition : So simple, Each winner have to add 1 link of my website to your website. (Blogroll). Services provided by a2hosting but not sponsored by them. All technical support concerns can use a2hosting support 1 year hosting.

Update: Thanks to all the participants. Each Winner will be get email from us soon to setup hosting account. Stay tuned.

CSS3 Thread Out Social Sharing Widget for Blogger

By / Blogger

When it comes to attracting attention to yourself on the internet, nothing does a better job than share buttons. ;)

Whether its twitter or google plus, social media probably has a huge impact on your traffic. I set out to create an attention grabbing way to display buttons, and came up with this: a circle that expands revealing a bunch of Social Sharing Widget on hover.

This widget is created using Pure CSS3 and ShareThis social sharing plugin. This widget have 4 buttons: Facebook Like button, Google +1 button, Tweet button and main ShareThis button for more social sharing links.

social sharing widget

Note: This Blogger Social Sharing widget animated zoom out feature will only work on latest Browsers and won’t work with Internet Explorer ( not tested with IE 10 ).

Live Demo

Add CSS3 Thread Out Social Sharing Widget in Blogger

1. Login to Blogger Dashboard > Design tab > Edit Html

2. Click on Expand Template widgets check box

3. Search for <div class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1′> HTML tag

4. And Put Below Code immediately after it

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style type="text/css">
.ringMenu {
width: 100px;
margin: 150px auto;
}
.ringMenu ul {
list-style: none;
position: relative;
width: 100px;
color: white;
}
.ringMenu ul a {
color: white;
}
.ringMenu ul li {
-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
}
.ringMenu ul li a {
display: block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: rgba(50,50,50,0.7);
text-align: center;
line-height: 100px;
-webkit-border-radius: 50px;
border-radius: 50px;
font-size: 20px;
}
.ringMenu ul li a:hover {
background: rgba(230,150,20,0.7);
text-decoration: none;
}

.ringMenu ul li:not(.main) {
-webkit-transform: rotate(-180deg) scale(0);
-moz-transform: rotate(-180deg) scale(0);
-o-transform: rotate(-180deg) scale(0);
transform: rotate(-180deg) scale(0);
opacity: 0;
}
.ringMenu:hover ul li {
-webkit-transform: rotate(0) scale(1);
-moz-transform: rotate(0) scale(1);
-o-transform: rotate(0) scale(1);
transform: rotate(0) scale(1);
opacity: 1;
}
.ringMenu ul li.top {
-webkit-transform-origin: 50% 152px;
-moz-transform-origin: 50% 152px;
-o-transform-origin: 50% 152px;
transform-origin: 50% 152px;
position: absolute;
top: -70px;
left: 50px;
}
.ringMenu ul li.bottom {
-webkit-transform-origin: 50% -52px;
-moz-transform-origin: 50% -52px;
-o-transform-origin: 50% -52px;
transform-origin: 50% -52px;
position: absolute;
bottom: -70px;
left: 50px;
}
.ringMenu ul li.right {
-webkit-transform-origin: -52px 50%;
-moz-transform-origin: -52px 50%;
-o-transform-origin: -52px 50%;
transform-origin: -52px 50%;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
right: -50px;
}
.ringMenu ul li.left {
-webkit-transform-origin: 152px 50%;
-moz-transform-origin: 152px 50%;
-o-transform-origin: 152px 50%;
transform-origin: 152px 50%;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
left: -50px;
}
</style>
<div class="ringMenu">
<script type="text/javascript">var switchTo5x=false;</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">stLight.options({publisher: "ur-e9856caa-8f3b-40a6-82af-461e390fe167"});</script>
<ul>
<li class="main"><a href="#main">SHARE</a></li>
<li class="top"><span class='st_fblike_vcount' displayText='Like'></span></li>
<li class="right"><span class='st_sharethis_vcount' displayText='Share'></span></li>
<li class="bottom"><span class='st_plusone_vcount' displayText='+1'></span></li>
<li class="left"><span class='st_twitter_vcount' displayText='Tweet'></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</b:if>

4. Save your Template and Done!

Related Widget : Animated Social Sharing Widget with Cool Hover!

Customization

The demo and post codes are same. You have to adjust this widget with your blog design ( how do I know your blog design look like ;) ).  No more customizations needed for this CSS3 Thread Out Social Sharing Widget CSS3 Thread Out Social Sharing Widget for Blogger for Blogger, but if you want you can replace ShareThis script with your regiestered ShareThis account script.

Once you’ve done that, save everything and check it out! Thanks for reading, and if you liked this little tutorial and socal sharing widget don’t forget to share. It really helps. :D

Click here for more stylish widgets

Twitter For Bloggers: 4 Ways To Be Successful

By / Blogging, Social Media, Twitter

Twitter is one of the largest social networks out there today and with millions of people using Twitter everyday it is one of the best places to be active on as a blogger. Through using Twitter you can easily grow your blogs social media presence and find new readers. I like to think of Twitter as free advertising for my blog and therefore I am always using it to promote content and drive targeted traffic  to my blogs.

The problem with Twitter is that there is no handbook on how to get the most of Twitter and this often leaves a lot of people confused on how to gain followers and use Twitter as a great tool for their blog so in this post I am going explain 4 techniques I use to be successful on Twitter.

1. Follow People

Many people I see try to take after celebrities; following as few people as possible whist trying to gain a lot of followers. Well unless you are very popular online then you are not going to gain hardly any followers.

Following people back is not a bad thing and in my opinion.  :D

Been seen as someone who follows people back is one of the fastest ways to gain followers and it is a good idea to put that you follow back in your bio as people will follow you just because of this.

Further more you should also try following people in the first place as well, most likely a lot of them will follow you back with  in a few days and if not then you can just unfollow them and go follow some more people.

  • How to Get More Twitter Followers?

2. Be active

Another thing I see a lot on Twitter is accounts that have not been active for weeks but expect to gain followers. If you’re not tweeting then you are not going to get followed as no-one is interested in someone who does not tweet. Now I know a lot bloggers may not update their content for a few weeks so may not think they have no need to update but this is where you are wrong.

In my opinion as a blogger you should be tweeting at least once a day to promote your content. If you cannot find time to tweet then you can schedule your tweets using a website such as Hootsuite so that you can post your tweets at peak times to be seen by the most viewers as possible.

 

3. Use Twitter in your blog

If you are going to be successful on Twitter then it is key that you integrate it into your blog and there are two ways that you can do this. The first is to add a Twitter widget into your blogs sidebar. This will also readers to see your latest tweet and to easily follow you on Twitter direct from your blog.

The second way is to use social sharing widgets at the bottom of your posts. These will also readers to share your content on Twitter and other social media websites. By doing this you can get free promotion as other people are sharing content for you.

4. Keep track and Analyze your account

Just like with a website it is a good idea to monitor and keep track of your Twitter account. By doing this you see when you are tweeting, what you are tweeting and how often your reply to people in your tweets.

By doing this you can see where you need to work on to get the best results our of Twitter. For example I noticed that I was not Tweeting that often in the evening so I knew when to start tweeting more.

Don’t forget to read : Top 10 Best Twitter Applications Of 2012

Did I missed any point? Do let me know in comments! :)