In my previous post, I mentioned how I still prefer Firefox over Google’s Chrome. Firefox proves to be a great help for aspiring affiliate marketers or for people who wants to earn money
online because of the large number of extensions that are available. Here is the list of my favorite Firefox Extensions:

Screengrab! is an extension for Firefox that makes it easy to save a web-page as an image. With it, you can save anything that you can see in a browser window – from a small selection, to a complete page.
http://www.screengrab.org/

Video DownloadHelper 3.2
The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 2.1.0.12
If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the background to keep your bookmarks synchronized.
You can also log in to my.foxmarks.com to manage your bookmarks from any computer.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410

SEOQUAKE
Seoquake is a powerful tool for Mozilla Firefox and for Internet Explorer, aimed at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows user to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet
project under study on the fly.
http://www.seoquake.com/

Need more Firefox plug-ins? You may visit the site of Firefox by clicking here.

That’s it! Hope you find the plug-ins useful.

Live life. The purpose of life is to be alive.
James

I read in Digital Inspirations blog that AdSense click tracking is now in integrated in Google Analytics (Beta Stage). I am still not quite sure whether how old the news was, since I cannot find the “news” from the site he is referencing into.

Anyway I made a couple of Googling that lead me to Bloglines referencing screenshots to the original blog post. The buzz is really out adsense publishers can soon track their adsense click earnings from google analytics.

Here are more info.

These new reports in Analytics have enough details to help you exactly measure AdSense performance on every single page of your website.

Google dropped hints on AdSense – Analytics integration some two years but the program has finally entered the beta phase as revealed by a post on GoogleCache (offline now).

Luckily the story remained in FeedDemon’s cache and picking from there, following is a summary of AdSense related data that you’ll be able to track via Google Analytics:

1. The number of times AdSense ads were clicked on any given web page.

2. AdSense revenue generated per page for clicks mentioned in #1.

3. You’ll also know the CTR and CPM for all web pages – no need to create individual URL channels in your AdSense dashboard.

4. “Top AdSense Referrers” – this is the most interesting report as it helps you know about revenue made per referring websites.

Let’s take an example. Assume two sites – digg.com and cnn.com – have linked to a page on your website and are sending some referral traffic. Now Analytics will tell you exactly how much AdSense revenue you are making through traffic from each of these sites.

This report has enormous potential as it lends a “measurable” value to each incoming link. Some sites could even use this as a replacement for affiliate programs.

All the above information is based on screenshots that were shared by Google Cache but that story is no longer available on the web.

Screenshots. Click the pic to view in full.

I hope that the Google Adsense-Analytics integration will be out soon so that we can benchmark our earnings more precisely.

Live life. The purpose of life is to be alive.
James

In my previous blog entry about turnkey websites, I mentioned the use of turnkey sites and how they can help web marketers. If you are starting an ecommerce (or affiliate) website you may want to consider the top three open source free content management scripts. Just like turnkey sites these are simple to use and deploy.

1. OSCommerce – is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

2. Zen Cart – truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

3. Joomla – is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Of the three mentioned CMS, I personally like Joomla, because there are a lot of free plug-in and templates available in the forum site.

Another good reason to use these open source systems is that there are a hundred or so templates that you can choose, you can browse template monsters for compatible templates.

That’s it for now. Cheers and good luck to our success!