Sexy Urinals

Clark Sorensen has created some of the most amazing and beautiful urinals one is likely to ever see. Each is meticulously hand built and one of a kind - formed from high fire porcelain and fired to cone 10 (2300 deg.). They are fully functioning vitreous porcelain fixtures that can actually be plumbed and used in a bathroom or simply displayed. The show even contains three functioning urinals that you may flush! Clark hopes that his urinals will be put to use in uniquely designed bathrooms around the world. He has a gorgeous Calla Lily urinal in his studio from a previous show that is plumbed and fully functioning.

Clark has been perfecting his ceramic technique with these pieces for several years. Because of the size and complexity of the forms they must be dried slowly and evenly - taking five to eight months to complete each one. Achieving such rich vibrant colors at such high temperature has also been a challenge. This will be the first time any of these beautiful flower shaped urinals will be offered for sale. Don't miss your chance to see these exquisite and rare sculptures.

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Make Money by Selling Your Photo

If you're an photo-addicted guys, there is a news that you're waiting for! Sell your photo (or lend it) and make a huge money. Roezy, a chat friend of mine, has made thousands of dollar per year just by uploading his high quality photos to various services like fotolia, shutterstock etc.

Total Revenue from Microstock in 2007: US$25,662.79 Total Revenue from Microstock in 2006: US$23,725.79

Woow, twenty five thousand dollars? If you curious, you can read the original post here.

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HOW to Rank #1 in Google for a Highly Competitive Keyword

This subject is one of post in DigitalPoint dot com's forums, wrote by TNX.com. Regarding the pros and cons, this poll is definitely worth checked.

TNX wrote some tips which will help to get number one in Google Search Engine Result Page:

• Don't buy (or sell) sitewide links for serps.
• Don't look for high PR links only
• Control link placement speed
• Control the number of outbound links on your pages and on pages where you place your links
• A link from a relevant website is excellent, but a link from a quality site of other niche or other language can also boost your ranking
• Make links look natural
• Don't do reciprocal link exchange

When it comes to google, everything is blur because nobody knows google's exact formula on SERPS or on anything they control. So Trial and error on any rational advise is a good start.

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How to Remove Public Service Ads (PSA) in Google Adsense

Some ways to remove PSA, written by quickonlinetips.com:

• Develop sufficient good content with keywords on your webpage related to the topic of interest
• Ensure that META tags like ‘title’ & ‘description’ and the headings tags like h1, h2 etc. have content which matches the rest of your site
• Add specific keywords in your text which will help the google bot to determine and understand the content of your website
• Try to keep the entire website focussed on a particular theme, so that even if the content on a particular page is lesser, the ads wil show
• Do not place multiple ad units if there are not suffcient ads to display on all of them
• Use section targeting - you can target an ad unit to a specific section of your blog, as well as block out irrelevant sections like navigational links

The complete article is here, along with the reason why we must remove the PSA ads.

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Spend no dime for Automotive Manual

Insane collections of free automotive manual, although it seems that the admin only collect links (hence the site does not host the car manuals), still he/she has made really good efforts... Two Thumbs Up for him/her.">

Name you car, the type and click .. you will be presented with a huge inventory of car manual for free! There are manuals for Acura, Alfa Romeo, Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Daewoo, Daihatsu, Dodge, Ducati, Ferrari, Ford, Honda, Hummer, Hyundai, Infiniti, Isuzu, Kawasaki, Lancia, Land Rover, Lexus, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Peugeot, Pontiac, Porsche, SEAT, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, Vespa, VolksWagen, Volvo and many other.

But my car is SAAB ...$@#$&*

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The Importance of Meta Description Tag

Meta description tag plays vital role on driving your site(s) traffic from search engines. It gives descriptions of the page's contents accurately, search engine grab description as a short resume of your page content. And with an algorithm that I myself don't even know how it works, search engine put your page on a result page .. thanks to this awesome meta description.

Wordpress have an 'add meta tag' plugin, to put your meta tag (not only decription, it could be keywords or some others) on your post.

But how can I put meta description (which are varying from page to page) in blogspot?

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AdSense Notifier - Displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar

Adsense Notifier simply shows your adsense stats on the status bar and updates the stats automatically. This is wonderful for anyone with OCD ( or GAD as some have called it ) who needs to check their stats every three seconds to see if they have gotten any more clicks.

Adsense Notifier is highly configurable and should be useful for everyone that uses adsense. Download the latest AdSense Notifier here

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Ways to Monetize Your Blogs

There many ways to monetize your blogs, it applies on your free blog such as this blog or your self hosting blog, eventhough blog services (specially the free one) has different policies on the money making stuff but it seems the free blog services are the first delicate way to start online earning, specially for the low budget blogger.

The first thing to remember is, that there's no such proven way to make you rich in one night, you set something online and you take some sleep, and wake up as a rich man! No .. in fact you're losing a night and get poorer, because instead of sleep you can do something better!

Every online earner (e.g people who gets money online) is a working hard person, no one stall in their laziness. Everything is a result of their efforts, a hard and smart efforts. So work, analize and be patient!

I have tried everything Listed below, some works some does not, but different blogs, layouts, niches are having different monetization ways. Works for me does not mean it will work for you and vice versa.

Pay Per Click, you get money when visitor clicks ads served on your page(s):

• Google AdSense
  Google AdSense was my first ever online dollar's source, I've been joined as a publisher since almost 3 years ago. It was doing fine, until lately the eCPM dropped a half less than normally I received 6 months ago. But overall it's the most powerful way to get your first online dollar.
  Tips: be good with AdSense, never try to cheat them, believe me they have the best resource and script there and they'll catch you sooner or later if you cheat them.
• Bidvertiser
  Bidvertiser pays worse than Google AdSense, it is not a contextual advertising. So it displays anything but your blog theme :), you write automotive theme, you can have some bathroom ideas in your advertisement.
  It does not work for me, but you can give them a shot here.
• Chitika
  Chitika can be set as a contextual advertising or a non-contextual advertising. I never tried the contextual one, hence I don't have something to say. But the non-contextual was okay, cost per click is less than AdSense, but I have to say I had received worse. The problem is, their links contains images .. hence visitor will likely know that what lies in front of them is not a part of the content.
  I removed the ads sometimes ago, because it was not look good in my blog.:)
• AdBrite
  AdBrite offers publisher two ways to monetize their blog, a pay per click scheme and a cost per mile impression scheme.
  Judge yourself, I've been with it for almost a years and have made as high as $12.
• Widgetbucks
  Some friends say that widgetbucks have a high rate per click, but not for me, I receive a third of their cost per click. It is a newly launched service, I haven't had enough experience to write it here.

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YPN Placement Tips

"It really depends on what you're trying to do," says Margaret Holland, when asked about optimal ad placement. A senior account manager here at Yahoo! Publisher Network, Margaret helps publishers get the most out of the Network. "From a click-through standpoint, most publishers get the best results when they place a ‘leaderboard' above the fold between the top nav and their rich content."

But not everyone wants to be that up-front with their advertising. Some prefer to place their ads in less-obvious but still eye-catching places. Eye tracking studies have shown that people tend to look at the top-center or top-left of a site first, then track to the right and down the right side, slanting back up across the page to just below the upper-left corner and down the left side – all in an instant.

In general, Margaret has a found that the second most active placement in terms of click-throughs tends to be the right-hand rail or margin. "Skyscrapers" and vertical banners do well when placed next to the content in the main body.

Square and rectangle ads placed within the center column also do well, provided they are placed in context to the content. Ads placed below the fold tend to perform least well, although that isn't a hard-and-fast rule. If you have some useful functionality or eye-catching media near the footer, that may be a good place to put an extra ad unit. Bear in mind, however, that when pairing ads with media or images, it must be apparent to the user that the media is not a part of the ad. Placing images next to ad units can be construed at an "inducement to click," and goes against Yahoo! Publisher Network's Terms and Conditions.

"Each site is different, and each publisher has different goals," Margaret notes. "Publishers should experiment with different placement, layouts, Reporting Categories and Ad Targeting combinations to achieve the best outcome."

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Earn More Money by Eliminating the Low Pay Ads

AdsBlackList.com is a unique project designed to enable you to dramatically reduce the amount of MFA (made for ads) and LCPC (low cost per click) sites which appear through the use of PPC systems such as Google Adsense™, Yahoo Publisher Network™ and Chitika eMiniMalls™

There are 3 types of account. A basic account is completely free of charge (see faq for details). A Premier account allows you to generate a full list of 200 sites and costs just £2.50 p/m. A Premier+ account allows you to control your Adsense account directly through ABL. If you opt for auto-updates, ABL will regularly update your Adsense filter for you, removing the need to copy & paste from one site to another. Premier+ accounts can cost as little as £4.99 per month, and we'll even throw in a free blog/wiki site for you to display detailed information about your business & sites.

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AlternateURL - Earn revenue from your default ads

If you use Google AdSense or any other ad program to earn money from your website, now you can increase the amount of revenue you make automatically.

Most online ad programs, including Google, will sometimes show default ads, or public service announcements (PSAs) when they have no paying ads to show. This can happen for many reasons, especially when their ad code crawls your pages.

AlternateURL lets you replace those ads with paying ads. Just use the code we provide to replace your ad program's default ads.

For use with Google, FastClick and many other ad programs. Or you can use AlternateURL as your primary ad program.

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Google AdSense Preview Tool for Mozilla

With just a few clicks, you can see what ads may appear on your new web pages, or make an educated decision on whether to add AdSense to your existing site pages. In Firefox, the Adsense Preview Tool is installed in the main toolbar menu.

This is not the official google adsense preview tool, but it exactly has the same ability which is to preview adsense that may shown on any web page.

Latest version available is 1.0.1, this preview tool was designed by Yellow pipe and works only with Mozilla Firefox.

With this tool, you can safely check what ads will be displayed on any online page. It currently works with 8 types of ads which are: Leaderboard (728x90), Banner (468x60), Button (125x125), Skyscraper (120x600), Wide Skyscraper (160x600), Square (250x250), Medium Rectangle (300x250), Large Rectangle (336x280).

You can download this tool here, it's free!

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Tips to Earn Money from Google AdSense SAFELY!

Applying to AdSense is easy, approval is the matter of time, but after those processes can you make money from this program? Some say that it is the best programs to make money online, but some can't make a decent enough and rest of that are ended with only can afford a cup of evening coffee.

There are also a few 'bad publishers' that do anything to get it clicked no matter it is a legitimate click or not. But believe me they will be caught sooner or later.

Here some tips to safely play AdSense and get the earning:

• Follow the Rules
• Leave the Code Intact
• Never ask nobody to click it
• Put 'advertisements' text above the ads
• Put the ads in pages that have contents
• No ads in popup window
• Don't put your adsense in jeopardy
• Put the ads above your content
• Use the 336x280 ads
• Blend your ads color with your layout colors
• Use channels to determine where's the best placement
• Stay cool and don't be rush

Trial and error is the best way to determine which, where and when it perform good.

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Google Toolbar - A Must Have Tool for Webmaster

Google Toolbar can be downloadaded here for free. The google toolbar is a must have tool for webmaster and seo guys.

Although there are many toolbar out there that provide pagerank information on it, the google toolbar is the only choice for displaying the exact pagerank information. It also has a less consuming time on searching on google, show how many url linked to particular website, and don't forget a popup blocking tool to prevent your browser to display otomatic triggering pop up page.

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