I just joined Sponsored Tweets few days ago, so i won’t go into too many details about the payouts and how much money can someone make out of it. I mean, once i get some money rolling into my account from Sponsored Tweets only then i will totally recommend it for you as a “must do” thing. Until then, atleast just join it and begin the process of what could be the easiest way to make money online just by twittering.

So what exactly is Sponsored Tweets. Well it’s a simple twitter advertising platform, owned by IZEA, which actually connects the advertisers with the tweeters. Simply put, the advertisers, already promoting the product, places the ads on twitter. You just have to spread the word and earn from it. All ethical advertisement/promotion in less than 160 characters, how difficult can it be for anyone? It’s simply PPT or we can call it Pay-Per-Tweet program.

First things first, you really need to have an account on Twitter. You should have a minimum of 200 followers and your twitter account should be at least 4 months old. So join Twitter today itself. When you have met these conditions then you can go ahead and join Sponsored Tweets, which is a white-listed twitter application and will require your twitter credentials to create an account. The advertisers simply don’t like Twitter accounts that are less than 120 days old. This factor reduces the risk of unethical business or spammy tweeters.

Although i really do not need to explain the process of joining process and using SponsoredTweets simply for the reason that it already has been very well explained on their site itself. Still, for those who have not been tempted yet to head off to their website: well, after joining in, SponsoredTweets will first of call calculate a recommended price for you that you should charge per tweet. Mine initially came out to $7.96 per tweet. Which is suggested for me to charge the advertiser for tweeting their tweets. Pretty good for anything less than 160 characters, haan? Anyways, i am really not bound to use this suggested price which actually is based on factors like number of followers, age of the account and number of tweets etc. I can put up $1.00 per tweet if i want or even $100. All up to me. And yes, i have seen many tweeple making $1000 and above already from Sponsored Tweets. Anyways, moving ahead, once you have the recommended price for your tweets, you just need add a bit of details regarding yourself and what you normally tweet about the most. That’s it. You are done. Now you just have to wait for offers to run in. Advertisers will checkout your profile and BOOM!!! the money starts flowing in.

Don’t forget, you will have the complete control on the advertisements that you want to tweet. You will get a mail from Sponsored Tweets when an advertisers shows an interest. Those ads will go into your account panel waiting for your approval. Simply reject the ad if you don’t like it or approve them. You even get the option wherein you can decide whether the tweet content has to be written by the advertiser or you’ll write your own content yourself. There are even some non-profit/charitable offers which you can enable or disable, publish or reject. That’s full control of your sponsored tweets for you!

So how does all this stuff sound to you? It sounded pretty good to me and i have already joined the program and have started making more money. There is absolutely no limit of money, that you can make from this program. It all depends on who you are and what you are with twitter. If advertisers love your tweets, then you should be ready to make a fortune, just by tweeting. Why don’t you head off to Sponsored Tweets right now and make me feel good about my post and effort, just so that you can make a good money. Ain’t asking much, Is It?

By the way, if it’s any consolation, Sponsored Tweets also offer referral program. You get 10% of SponsoredTweets portion of revenue for each successful transaction that Tweeter makes. Or, If you sign up an Advertiser you will earn 5% of Sponsored Tweets earnings for each transaction they make. That’s a bonus!

Tweet Stats : I’m ranked 20th in India and 9250th in World, with 5335 followers as on 29th September according to Twitterholic. All this in 6 months is pretty nice i guess. Just passing on little info

72 Days and counting?

It’s been 72 days since i last made an update to my blog. I realized that it was high time to stop the count. I guess, the last few (unapproved) comments, made me change my mind and come back to my blog to start blogging all over again. Last few comments being questions like “Are you alive?” “Is it a shutdown?” “Are you selling this site?“….etc etc. To answer a few, Yes i am alive and kickin. In fact i have never been in a better health since last three or four years. So thanks for asking! And God no! I am not selling this site! Who in the world can buy a personal blog? Where the hell do you come up with such questions anyways? LOL

A lot happened in my life since i last made a post. Some of which i should mention, probably in the up coming updates on this website. By the way, i turned 27 this July 11th. I did celebrate my birthday in style. Had lunch with my love of my life, Simran. Followed by dinner with my family. And the following next day had dinner party with my friends. So yes, it was a great birthday this year.

I have watched lot of movies as well. If you are a movie maniac kid just the way i am, you’ll be amazed to read the list of movies that i have watched this summer. I really cannot name all of the movies that i have seen but i think total should come close to 35 movies in all, in last 70 days. That makes it a movie in two days. Not bad, haan! Okay, so just to name a few (specially the ones i super-liked) movies that i watched this summer : Angels n Demons, City of God, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fast & Furious 4, Kambakht Ishq (Hindi), Madagascar – Escape To Africa, Night At The Museum – Battle of the Smithsonian, New York (Hindi), Notorious, Paying Guest (Hindi), Pink Panther 2, Quantum of Solace, Terminator Salvation, The Reader and many many more. I guess the best of these all were “City of God“, a 2002 movie which i guess is a must watch movie for everyone. I think it’s a little on the 18+ mature audience side as the movie has lot of bloodshed and shocking violence. Another movie is the John Abraham starrer “New York“. I think it was great movie and it perfectly shows how Muslims were treated back in USA, after the 9/11 incident.  The brutality and torture to Muslim communities in America surely brought tears to eyes and of course John Araham did a fine job in the movie. Another must watch movie!

Moving on from entertainment to my health stuff. Well, i have been a little health conscious this time around. I am exercising enough to get back into shape. Hopefully the results will be seen very very soon, i hope. I do wish to shed some 10 kilos by two months! God willingly, it should be an easy task!

As for my spondylitis problem, i guess it’s here to stay. It’ll stay as long as i do not lose some weight and get my body weight in to right proprtions. After that i guess only time will tell if i can really get rid of spondylitis. Even now, as i am writing this post, i really feel heat in my neck and pain in the spine.

I have lot more to say, i even bought some new gadgets in last few days. I’ll blog about them pretty soon! Till then, i’ll have to say goodbye and take care!

If you have been on my blog recently, you would have noticed small changes frequently being made to my blog design. In the last few days, i have tried many new stylings for my blog. I’m pretty sure that i will stay with the present look that i have given to my blog.

The cross browser compatibility has been a major challenge for me, in so called redesigning of the blog. On my Samsung SyncMaster 226BW display monitor wherein i have a 1680 x 1050 resolution, SharatJaswal.com seems to do well with all the browsers. I have tested it on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. So far so good. All looks good. However when i see my blog on my Sony Vaio laptop,  it seems that the tab which shows “Most Popular Posts” and “Most Commented Posts” is slightly falling off the theme particularly in Internet Explorer. I am so fed up of it. I have tried so many CSS changes and coding, but i don’t seem to make it any better on lower resolution. I remember when i got this new professional/custom design for my blog way back in September 2007. I even made a preview/review post about the design back then. At that time, i got the design coded by Dr. Gauresh. I just can’t find him online anymore. Else it would have been easy for him to sort out this problem. I am not sure anymore if i could take care of this problem by myself. So yes, if you can provide any assistance, help, support in fixing this issue, i will be more than thankful.

I also noticed a “stack overflow”error which popped up in Internet Explorer every time a single post page was opened. The error cause came out to be the comment page. If i had 10 comments on a post, then that post when viewed in IE, would pop up 10 error pop up windows. Fortunately, searching for the solution wasn’t difficult as it seems that many blogger’s face the same problem. So i took care of that as well.

Social Bookmarking icons was another thing i concentrated on this time. You may have noticed the new icons beneath every post. It looks really cool to me. On the right sidebar, you will also notice another set of social bookmark buttons. That’s basically how you can reach me on popular social networking sites.

I hope you like my new re-design on the blog. Hopefully the colors and structure of the blog has that likability factor in it. Of course if you find any bugs in design or somewhere else, then do let me know. I will be greatly thankful.

Apparently, this is the 100th post on my weblog. My maiden century in blogging. Stating the mini facts from the Admin’s dashboard, i have exactly 100 posts and 400 comments after this post. Thank you to you guys who made my frequent blogging possible. I hope to get better with time.

By the way, i guess you might be wondering about the title i gave to the post. Have you heard something similar before. I think you did. “Hey…What’s up Doc?” is the punchline of the famous cartoon character “Bugs Bunny”. I just wrote the title casually until i noticed that the title sounded familiar.

OIO Publisher Script

I hope you noticed the six banner set i have placed in the sidebar. Not only does it beautify my blog a little but i am easily able to display some of my own sites and few wordpress themes and web hosting services which i appreciate. I am not using a banner script or any similar plugin on my site. Rather it’s a popular script called OIO Publisher.

It’s a wonderful brilliant script which let’s you control your advertising space. You can sell banner space, link space etc directly to your advertiser cutting down the middle man commission. You can use different payment options via which the advertiser can pay you. You can pretty much do everything with it that you can dream of, expect of a ad manager. I won’t go in to too many details of this script as it may look like a paid post or a paid product review that way. Honestly it has nothing to do with that. It’s just that i have been sing this product for more than year and i really like everything it has to offer. I wish i could show you the view from admin panel of this fully loaded, heavy-duty plugin. The best part is that you can use this plugin on as many sites as you want. It’s totally compatible with wordpress as well.

If you are looking to advertise on my site, then unfortunately you are on a wrong site buddy. I do not use OIO Publisher for selling advertisements. I use it just for displaying my own banners. Of course some affiliate banners also added in there but seriously, it’s a never for advertisements. Even if OIO Publisher lists my blog at it’s marketplace. However you can use this OIO Publisher for anything, whatever your intentions are with a particular website.

Alright,I tell you what. Follow this link to OIO Publisher and buy the script. Wait!!! Don’t forget to use my coupon code mentioned below and you will get a discount of $8-$10 on the script. The coupon code is valid for a month only. I will continue to update the coupon code for you every month. But i would recommend you to get a copy ASAP so as to stay ahead of your competitors.

Special Coupon Codes:

Month Of April 2009: SPRING-SHARATJ ($8 Off)

Month Of May 2009: INDIGO-SHARATJ ($10 Off)

Month Of June 2009: MIDSUM-SHARATJ ($10 Off)

Month Of July 2009: RAINMAN-SHARATJ ($8 Off)

Month Of August 2009: BLUE-SHARATJ ($8 Off)

Month Of September 2009: TERRA-SHARATJ ($10 Off)

Month Of October 2009: TERRA-SHARATJ ($10 Off)

Month Of November 2009: FAWKES-SHARATJ ($10 Off)

Month Of December 2009: FAWKES-SHARATJ ($10 Off)

Month Of January 2010: J2010-SHARATJ ($15 Off)

Month Of February 2010: SAXON-SHARATJ ($10 Off)

Month Of March 2010: SAXON-SHARATJ ($10 Off)

Let me know if you have any questions about this script. Since i have been using it for an year, i am pretty familiar with it already. So i think i can answer most of your questions with ease and perfection

Good morning everyone!!!!

It’s been pretty long since i said these two words “Good Morning”. Yeah! that’s true. As many of my friends knows that i have a bad habit of sleeping till late. Actually i am a case of “Late to bed and late to rise”. I usually slept around 2-3 A.M and got up at 12 noon or 1 P.M. So that explains why i do not interact with family and friends by wishing them a great morning.

Anyways, today i have broken all self records by getting up at 6: A.M. Yes, that’s a big change.

I have set a new routine. From today onwards i will try hard to get up as soon as the sun rises. I went for a long required walk also. So that’s another step in my plan. Every morning a walk for 40-45 minutes is must for me now. Hopefully i will stick to it as well. Probably that will help me to shed some pounds and get back in shape! I am pretty sure that these few changes will help me get a healthy life back.

Anyways, moving on… Today morning, my mind feels fresh. Many new ideas are just revolving in my head. And i feel wonderful. That’s the new for you!

Okay, just leaving all this behind. I think i badly need your suggestion and advice. This question is actually for my webmaster friends. Specially Amit Bhawani (Its 4th of Feb and He is too busy or egoistic )

What is the value of non .com TLD?

I have few .info domains that i bought for the obvious reason. They come with a price tag of around $2 for first year. Now i have put up some good content on those sites. And i still work a plenty on few them. But they don’t get me anything. Neither traffic nor any monetary rewards. So would you suggest me to let the domains to expire and instead move the content to a .com domain? Or would you suggest me that Content and proper SE optimization is key to success and tld’s don’t matter at all.

Please answer me this question in terms of SEO, Traffic, Link Values and the Site’s value difference if i plan to sell a .info instead of .com. All your answers will be much appreciated. And thanks in advance for your help!