Do you have many domain names which you have parked and they are not live? Don’t you think they are sitting idle doing nothing for you except putting a hole in your pocket every year for the renewal fee? Here is what you can do. You can run Adsense ads on the parked domains and can earn some cash which can help you in paying the annual renewal fee. This post will explain how you can show Adsense ads on GoDaddy parked domain. As a prerequisite, you should have an already approved AdSense account which I assume you have. To show Adsense on your GoDaddy parked domain, you need to do the following:

1. Creating a New Hosted Domain on your AdSense account
2. Delegating your domain’s GoDaddy nameserver to Google’s DNS nameserver

What else? Were you expecting a long list of steps? naah…its very simple and I will walk you through the entire process in an even simpler way.

OK, Lets get started with the first step:

1. Creating a New Hosted Domain on your Adsense Account

• Login to Adsense and Go to “My ads”
• Click on “Domains” in the left sidebar

• In the next page, click on “New Hosted Domain”

• You can add up to 100 domain names in the text box that appears after you click on the “New Hosted Domain”. You need to separate every domain name with a comma, space or line break.
• Now select a language for the domains you have updated and click on “Add Domain(s)” button. You can also alternatively upload a CSV file containing the domain names.

• After you click on the “Add Domain” button, you will see a confirmation message that your domain has successfully been added. Click on Close to close the pop-up message.

• You can also click on the “View the domain setup guide” link and can note the Google nameserver details. To save you from that extra screen, I have already taken the note of them and have mentioned below which can be updated into the GoDaddy name server details page.

Now let’s do that second and the last phase of this activity.

2. Delegating your domain’s GoDaddy nameserver to Google’s DNS nameserver

• Go to godaddy.com and Login to your account

• Hover over the Domains menu item until you get a drop down with Domain Manager Link in the bottom right

• After you get inside the domain manager, you need to click on the desired domain name on which you would like to show Adsense Ads

• Now you can see the existing DNS entries of the domain name. You need to change these entries to the Google DNS nameserver entries as mentioned in the screenshot below

That’s it, As soon as Google detects the new DNS entries, it will start showing Adsense ads on your parked domain and you will start earning from something which was earlier sitting idle doing nothing for you.

The steps might be a little different for other domain registrars but the basic concept is same. You need to change the existing DNS entries of the domain name with the Google DNS entries and Adsense will start serving ads on your parked domain.

Are you thinking of using Adsense on your parked domain? Do let us know through the comment form below.

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Those of you who are regular reader of ShoutingWords might have noticed that there was not much happening since last so many months. One of the reason obviously was that I could not pull enough time for blogging but another more important reason was that I was seriously thinking about having a strategy behind my blogs. I already had 03 domain names registered with me and with my earlier hosting provider i.e. One.com, it was not possible to host multiple domains in single hosting account. Since I am not earning much from my blog, it was a tough decision for me to have three separate accounts with them. Although having a single account with them is very cheap, that is why I have already posted, why it is a good deal for a new blogger but having three or four separate accounts was not a wise decision from financial as well as manageability point of view.

At the same time, I also wanted to start my other blogs since there were times when I could not think of any content for ShoutingWords but I had great ideas for the other domains niche but I could not write those articles because the blogs were not live and I was not able to take a decision if I really want to have multiple hosting accounts with One.com or move to a different web hosting provider. While I was thinking about this, I came across an article in one of my friends blog about HostUpon which is a reputed unlimited shared hosting provider from Toronto, Canada with awesome features and at a very affordable price. They were also running an offer that time because of which there was 50% discount being offered. So considering the irresistible offer, I finally decided to move ShoutingWords to HostUpon and here is the news, I transferred my domain from One.com to Godaddy.com which also offered one year extension in addition to my existing validity. I then transferred ShoutingWords.com to HostUpon and so far the experience has been really good.

HostUpon is a good option for personal as well high traffic business sites. They also give 30 day money back guarantee, 99.9% uptime guarantee, and 24/7/365 support with typical response times of 15min or less. If you would like to transfer your website from some other provider to HostUpon, they will give free file, e-mail & transfer services and they will transfer your entire website from your current host within 24 hours or less for free. Their support team is very good and they would make sure that you don’t suffer with any downtime while your site is being transferred. On top of that they are offering hosting services in $ 4.95 for a two-year plan along with 15% off on all plans if you use the coupon code “15off”.

Note: As a part of their holiday sale, from NOW until January 1st they are giving you $50 off of ANY Hosting Services, including Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting or Dedicated Hosting plans. Simply sign up for a 1, 2 or 3 year billing cycle and enter the promo code “GIFT50″.

I highly recommend you guys to check out the web hosting services being provided by HostUpon. It provides almost all the features you would need and is worth every penny you spend. Here is a list of features being offered by HostUpon.

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Are you planning to transfer your domain or sign-up for a new hosting plan? Check out HostUpon and share your experience in the comment form below.

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There is new competitor of PayPal in the market. You might not have noticed much of fuss around it but Amex has swiftly launched a new online payment and fund transfer service called Serve. The launch of Serve is a great news for all those who have depended on PayPal for online fund transfer until now. Lately, the Indian customers of PayPal had to go through several issues with PayPal for fund transfers and I hope that Serve will give another option for doing online transactions breaking monopoly of PayPal.

What is Serve?

Serve is a next generation digital payments platform that helps you organize your money, send and receive funds, and manage payment requests from one single easy to manage online account. Since it is powered by American Express, you can feel assured that the data security and technology behind it will help you make safe and secure transactions.

How to sign up?

Signing up for serve is pretty easy. You just need to follow three steps to register yourself for serve.

1. Signup for a serve account – Follow this Link
2. Link your bank account, debit card, credit card or add cash with a MoneyPak ®
3. Fund your account

How to add money to your serve account?

To add money to your serve account, login to serve.com and click on the “Add Money” tabe. You can add money to your serve account in multiple ways as mentioned above. You can add money through your bank account, debit card, credit card or with a MoneyPak ®. The time required for getting the money in your serve account is different in each of the cases. In case of a linked debit or credit card, it is instantaneous whereas funding your serve account from a checking account usually takes 1 – 5 business days depending on your bank. Most of these transactions will process in 24 hours. Another option is MoneyPak® with which you can instantly add cash to your serve account without using a bank. This is a good feature if someone does not have a bank account (which is very rare these days).

As of now, Serve is giving a special offer if you wish to fund your account with MoneyPak ®. Serve will cover the purchase fee of MoneyPak ® for the first load.

How do we send or receive money?

Just like PayPal, sending and receiving money on Serve is like sending emails. You can send money via your Serve account to the recipient’s e-mail address. Once they’ve confirmed the transfer, your payment is complete and they’re paid in full. Similarly when you have to receive fund from someone, the other person has to follow this same process.

What are the Platforms on which Serve is available?

Serve is available on three platforms. Online, Mobile and Offline.

The Online portal is where you can login and manage your profile, view transactions, send and receive money, manage subaccounts, and more — all in one place at your dashboard. You can also carry and manage your money on the go using a mobile app on your smart phone. The offline mode is actually a prepaid re-loadable card. When you set up your Serve account, you will also receive a prepaid, reloadable card that you can use to make purchases online and offline wherever American Express is accepted. You can swipe in and buy all the stuff that you buy with your Amex card.

Can I manage funds for others?

Yes, you can. With serve, you can create subaccounts and manage funds for your family and friends. You can create subaccounts for anyone above the age of 13 and can transfer the money into and out of the subaccount seamlessly.

What about security?

Serve is powered by American Express. With its known and established security practices, you can rest assured for a safe transaction. It uses Encryption, PINs and Multi-factor Authentication to make sure that your account is protected always.

Is it free?

You can sign up for Serve for free and will get the following features at no cost.

• Person-to-person money transfers are free
• Transfers to and from subaccounts are free
• Purchasing online and in stores with the Serve card is free
• There are no load fees for funding your account via your checking account
• The first ATM withdrawal each month is free; after that it’s $2.00

However after June1, 2012, there will be fees for:

• Funding your Serve account with a credit card (2.9% of the amount transferred + $0.30 per transfer)
• Getting cash from an ATM (first withdrawal per month is free – after that, it’s $2.00)

How is it different from the existing providers?

Here is a quick comparison which will help you decide how it differentiates from other providers.

Do sign up for this new online fund transfer service and let us know your comments. We would love to hear your version of the story.

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Timeline is the new design overhaul of Facebook user information page which was introduced at Facebook’s F8 conference in September 2011. It lets you arrange your profile and your activities on Facebook in a completely different way. Up until now, you have listed your likes, interests and personal information on Facebook but this major change will let you see detailed overview of your life at Facebook with the ability of checking of what you have done at any given point of time.

This feature was initially rolled out in New Zealand only but now it is available for everyone. Like any other new release of Facebook, there are concerns raised about privacy. Some people believe it’s a new way of asking for more personal information.

Timeline is coming with a 7 days grace period during which you can check and tweak around everything that appears on your timeline before anyone could see that. You can also publish your timeline anytime during the review period. If you would like to wait, it will automatically go live after 7 days from the day you opted for it and will replace your existing profile with the new Timeline keeping all the photos and stories.

Initially your Timeline will include some of your top photos and stories. Hide or highlight whatever you want and add anything that’s missing. You can also choose how your timeline appears to other people, you can go to the settings page by clicking on the gear icon on top of your Timeline and choose the right setting.

With Timeline, you can also choose featured stories which you would like to show to people and the stories which you would like to hide.

Timeline also introduces a new tool called Activity Log which lets you see all your activities at one single place from today to the day you started using Facebook. You can choose the year or month for which you would like to see the updates and stories that you shared. Isn’t that cool?

How to Get Timeline?

To get Timeline for yourself, simply go to this URL http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline and click on “Get It Now” or you can wait until you see a notification at the top of your profile.

Want to know more?

To Know more about Timeline, visit the Official Facebook Blog.

Do share your comments and let us know your opinion about Timeline…

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In my last article, I told you about Facebook rolling out a new feature of real-time news feeds ticker. I also told you that I wanted to remove the ticker but could not find any solution. However as soon as I finished the post, I found a solution to remove the ticker. This is a small JavaScript which you can execute using Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox browser. Greasemoney allows you to customize the way a web page displays or behaves, by using small bits of JavaScript. You can find hundreds of scripts, for a variety of popular sites, already available at http://userscripts.org.

To get started, you need to install the Greasemonkey add-on. Here is the link for Greasemonkey Firefox add-on:

https://add-ons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/add-on/Greasemonkey/

After the add-on is installed, you need to visit the following link to install the user script in Greasemonkey.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/111601

Once installed, this script will run every time you will visit any of the Facebook pages and will disable the ticker box. In case, you would like to enable it in future, you can go to Greasemonkey options, Manage User Scripts and disable the user script.

Let me know if you are able to remove the ticker box. In case you would need any help, do let me know by commenting on this post below. You can also subscribe yourself to our feed to get notified for similar solutions in future.

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While browsing Facebook today, you might have noticed a cool ticker box on top of the Facebook chat box. This is a new feature which has been rolled out by Facebook which shows real-time news feed without refreshing the page. The Facebook homepage however by default gets refreshed after a certain time but if something is happening within the wait time, then we were not able to see it until we refreshed the page.

So if were refreshing the page every few second to see the latest updates, then this ticker might help you to get the updates in real-time. This also shows who has come online, which i find is really good for those who have a long list of friends and who would want to talk to a particular friend. Now with this notification mechanism, they will get notified instantly as soon as friend comes online. You can click each update to see a full version of the story. It seems that Facebook team is testing this feature since it is disappearing after a refresh.

Facebook has launched features which are sometimes not liked by users (like the chatbox sidebar), So I also tried to find out if there is any solution or workaround to hide it but could not find any solution as of now. We will have to probably wait until we get some solution. When I visited the Facebook help center, there is nothing apart from a mention in the FAQ.

Do let us know your views by commenting on this post below. Also subscribe to our feed for more updates on this topic.

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When you start your blogging journey, nothing is certain. It is so difficult to predict anything when you start giving shape to your dream of being a blogger. You are not sure of how much traffic you would get and if it would be fine to put so much of money for hosting charges just for the sake of going with the hobby of blogging. At this stage when you are starting as a blogger, it is very important for you to plan each and every step. Be it the blogging routine, blogging niche or the amount of investment you would be doing for same.

If I have to suggest you, I would NOT advice you to go with big names in web hosting. No doubt that they offer excellent services but at the same time, it is also not cheap for a new blogger to bear the expenses of web hosting services from premium hosting providers. There are many web hosting companies which give value for money when you see and compare the services they are offering but there comes a very important question – Do you really need all those features?

At the start of your blogging journey, you merely need some web space to store your files, one MySQL database, some essentials features of hosting like URL rewrite etc. and few email accounts. At this point of time, It is not a wise decision to go with web hosting companies which give unlimited bandwidth, unlimited space, unlimited domains and sub domains, unlimited MySQL databases with support for most of the languages and modules. You are just starting…right? So, do you think you would need these features? In most of the cases, the answer would be No, since you are not sure of what to expect from your blog. You have no idea about the bandwidth need, you have no idea about the traffic you would be getting and your primary requirement remains to installation of WordPress which even a very basic hosting account would do.

So going by all these assumptions, I would suggest you to opt for a web hosting provider which is cheap and at the same time provides all the features required for setting up a WordPress blog. At the later stage of your blogging journey when you see that you have significant number of visitors and your blog is really growing, then comes the time when you should decide about going to a premium hosting provider. I hope I am making sense out here.

Now coming back to the question…which is the ideal web hosting provider for a new blogger? So, here goes my recommendation, if you are a new blogger and would like to set up your WordPress blog with the bare minimum features required for WordPress setup then Go for One.com web hosting. It provides excellent features and support for a very little price and if you are from India, you can get huge discount for the first year which is enough time for you to analyze your blog growth and to decide if you need to upgrade your web hosting account.

After a year when you see that your blog has really gained popularity and the bandwidth & other requirements have increased, you can either upgrade from your existing provider i.e. One.com or you can go to some other premium providers like HostGator and Dreamhost to host your blog.

After I have suggested you this, let me share my experience with you. I have three blogs running on One.com since last three years and I have never met any problem. The three blogs are ShoutingWords.com, CustomiseThesis.com and How2Ubuntu.com and that is why I strongly believe on what I am saying.

Here is a glimpse of the various web hosting plans from One.com along with the features and pricing.

I recommend all new bloggers to use One.com for their hosting need. Do let us know if you are already using it by commenting to this post.

Link: Get One.Com Hosting Now

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In a very quiet way, Google has launched a new social contest website called Prizes.org. It is being operated by a social gaming company called slide which was acquired by Google last year. Prizes.org lets you post a task or question, offer a prize for someone who helps you out and lets the crowd do the job.

The process of making money with Prizes.org is simple, just enter a contest, make an entry, receive votes for your entry and win big amounts. The basic idea behind this website is give and take. The requester puts a task or a question, you do it and get paid for same.

Solve Problems, Earn Cash

The kind of questions or tasks that may appear on Prizes.org are many. These are mostly like what we use to discuss among our friends and known ones who have experience in that matter. It is like taking consultancy on a particular subject. Some users might ask you to help naming their kid, naming their business startups, suggest good places to visit, Good products for a particular need etc. Every task or question that is posted on Prizes.org forum has a fixed time for feedback during which visitors of the site would vote on the best advice submitted. The person who gets the most positive votes wins the cash. The cash prizes can be something between $10 to $50.

At the moment, the mode of signing up for prizes.org is by using Facebook or twitter sign in. However if you just want to see the contest line up without actually participating in them, you can visit the home page here.

Do check out and share your experience here. Don’t forget to treat me with a coffee if you win some cash.. ;-)

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On the occasion of US Independence day – HostGator, the leading web hosting solutions providing company is offering 40% discount on all web hosting. This includes shared hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting and Dedicated Servers. If you have not heard about HostGator, it is the one of the best web hosting solution provider which offers great features and value for money. With the 40% discount offer, it has become even better.

If you are using some other web hosting provider and would like to transfer your domain to HostGator, you have even more reasons to do so. It offers Free Domain Transfer, Free File Transfer, Free Database Transfer and Free Script Transfers.

HostGator Independence Day Discount @ 40%

In order to help you with your decision-making, here is a very brief list of the features offered by HostGator.

Brief Feature List

1. Unlimited Domain, Disk Space and Bandwidth
2. Unlimited Sub Domains, FTP Accounts, and Email Accounts
3. 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
4. No Contract with a 45 Day Money Back Guarantee
5. Free SiteBuilder and SiteStudio Website Building Tools
6. Free Website Transfer, Domain Transfer, MySQL Transfer, Script Transfer
7. 52 Free scripts can be instantly installed on your account with a few clicks
8. $100 in Google Adwords Credit
9. Latest cPanel Control Panel
10. Website Statistics: AWStats, Webalizer, Raw Log Manager, Referrer and Error Logs
11. Fantastico: Instant Shopping Carts, Blogs, Portals, Forums, Counters, Formmail
12. Unlimited MySQL Databases with phpMyAdmin Access
13. Programming Language: CGI, Fast CGI, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, SSI
14. Programming Modules: Curl, CPAN, GD Library, ImageMagick
15. Unlimited POP3 Email Accounts with SMTP
16. WebMail Access: Horde, SquirrelMail, RoundCube
17. Unlimited Autoresponders, Mail Forwards, Email Aliases, Mailing Lists
18. Automatic Weekly Off-Site Data Backups
19. 24/7/365 Server Monitoring
20. Instantly install over 75 open-source scripts with just a click. One Click Installation of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and Wiki

This is a never miss out opportunity and I would strongly recommend you to capitalize this opportunity and to book your web hosting account with HostGator @ 40% discount. To book HostGator web hosting with 40% discount on all Hosting Packages, click on the link below.

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WordPress has been continuously extending its reach to different platforms. It already has apps for all major mobile platforms like Blackberry, Apple, Nokia etc. The latest addition to this trend is the launch of WordPress app for HP webOS. WordPress today announced release of WordPress for WebOS, available as a download for the HP TouchPad with support for more webOS 3.0 devices coming in future.

This one is the first WordPress app which has a full featured WYSIWYG post editor. It has also been translated to all the languages available on the TouchPad. WordPress webOS app has a Sliding Panels interface which  is best suited for the larger screen of the TouchPad making it very easy and comfortable tool for blog management on the go.

Features

1) Management of Posts and Pages – Add / Edit posts and pages easily while on move.

2) Comment Moderation – Moderate and reply to comments instantly from your HP webOS device with built-in comment notification. This will make sure that you get the notification while you are working on something else.

3) Stats Panel – It also features a stats panel which lets you have in-depth information of what your visitors like the most about your site.

Anyone out there with a HP webOS device? Do check out this app and let us know by posting your comments below.

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