Blogger integrates with Amazon Associates

Earlier this year we simplified the process for monetizing your blog by adding a “Monetize” tab in the Blogger app. We started with AdSense, which allows you to add contextual advertising to your pages; more recently we added AdSense for Feeds to help you generate revenue from the distribution of your blog via RSS and Atom. Today we launched a third option: direct integration with Amazon Associates to search Amazon’s product catalog and add links to products that earn you commissions when your readers buy products you recommend.

With this feature, you can search Amazon directly from the Blogger editor and add pictures and links to Amazon products right into your posts. Your readers will earn you commissions whenever they buy the products you recommend, and if you don’t already have an Amazon Associates account, you can sign up for one for free without leaving Blogger.

If you’ve ever written a blog post about a book, recommended a gadget, or reviewed a toy you bought for your kids, you’ve likely gone through the process of drafting the post, opening up a separate window to go to find a site that sells the product, then going back to Blogger to paste the link to the product into the post editor.

Starting today, you can search the Amazon product catalog without leaving the Blogger interface and insert links to the products you find into your posts. Not only is the process of linking to products more efficient, but Amazon makes it easy for you to earn money whenever your readers actually buy the products you write about. This is known as an “affiliate program”, and it’s designed to let you recommend products you like to your audience — if they buy the product, you’ll earn a commission on that purchase. (For more on affiliate programs in general, here is a good overview at ProBlogger from this summer, and Darren’s “11 Lessons Learned” post about Amazon Associates is a good review of how to get the most out of the program.)

To get started, click on the Monetize tab for your blog and click “Amazon Associates”. Walk through the setup wizard, and add the Product Finder once you’re done.

Now for the fun part: when you are writing a post on Blogger, you’ll see an Amazon gadget to the right of your post editor (the “Product Finder”). You can search the Amazon product catalog from within Blogger — type in the name of the product you are writing about, and insert a link to the product, an image of the product, or an iframe containing the image, price details and a “buy it now” button. Every link that’s created contains your unique Associates ID, ensuring that Amazon will credit you for any purchases that result from readers clicking the link on your blog.

If you’re an existing Amazon Associate, completing this setup simply makes the Product Finder available on Blogger for you — you continue to earn the same referral rate from Amazon. New Associates receive the same referral rate from Amazon that they would have received if they signed up directly. If you’re not interested in earning a referral, you can still install the Product Finder: from the “Amazon Associates” page under the Monetize tab, click “I'll do this later — show me more Amazon options” and then click “Add the Product Finder” button.

A quick note about trust: affiliate programs work well when readers trust you. You should avoid promoting products simply because of the referral fee you might earn — readers may lose some of that trust if they sense your posts exist solely to make you money. You may also want to disclose to your readers that you will earn a commission on their purchase — some readers even prefer knowing that you benefit from their business.

Auto Pagination on Blogger

by Vardhman Jain, Software Engineer, Mountain View
Source: buzz.blogger.com
Latency is a word you hear a lot at Google. We are always looking for ways to make our products faster, because we have consistently found that faster page loads mean more satisfied users. This post is the first of an occasional series that will discuss ways in which we’re working to make blogs load faster for all users.

A few months ago, we took a look at ways to improve the performance of Blogger blogs, and noticed that many pages — particularly search results pages, label pages and archive pages — were taking longer to load than they should.

This has lots of implications. Users suffer — pages take longer to load, and for anyone around the world who pays for their bandwidth, they can incur unneccessary charges as their browser downloads more content than needed. You suffer, because as latency increases, pageviews go down. (See here for a study Google did last year for this phenomenon at google.com.)

Starting today, we’re rolling out a change that affects how we paginate webpages on Blogger. We will dynamically adjust how much content to send to the browser depending on (a) the amount of HTML on the page being requested (in kilobytes) and (b) the number of images on the page. Users can continue to use “older posts” and “newer posts” navigation elements to see additional posts.

For major changes like this, we do incremental roll-outs so we can monitor performance as they progress. We expect the change to be fully deployed over the next week, and once fully deployed, we expect to see several results:

• pages will load faster
• pageviews, if impacted at all, may increase

We will keep an eye on things, and if we see anything unexpected, we will update this post. Otherwise, keep blogging - and we’ll keep working to make your blog faster for you and your readers!

Perfect Utilities

Perfect Utilities is a freeware PC optimization tool. It combines more than 20 tools in one bundle to clean, optimize and speed up your system performance, It offers an attractive and easy to use interface that organizes all tasks into categories and provides

graphical statistics whenever possible.
The tools include Junk File Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Disk Cleaner, Memory Optimizer, System Information, Registry Backup Tool, File Encryption Tool, Safe Uninstaller, Duplicate File Finder, File Shredder, File Recovery Tool, Disk Defragment Tool and much more.

Perfect Utilities also includes an Internet Tracks Eraser with Cookie Manager and Secure Deletion. Overall,

a great bundle that offers a wide range of system tools with extra benefits which are not easy to find. Perfect Utilities allows Windows to run faster, more efficiently and gives you more hard disk space.
Features:

• Quickly find and wipe away all the garbage files
• Detect, clean, and repair invalid Registry entries and errors
• Clean online activity tracks and protect your online privacy
• Support to quickly maintain your system with one mouse click
• Schedule your maintenance tasks that take place automatically
• Defragment your disks and improve computer performance and stability
• Clean, optimize, and free up your computer’s memory
• Fix the invalid shortcuts from your system
• Trace and remove the unintended duplicate files
• Organize and manage your Windows settings
• Remove BHO(s) you don’t want to keep
• Manage program execution at Windows startup
• Schedule your computer for shutdown at a specified time
• Manage currently running programs
• Uninstall programs you don’t need anymore
• Provides comprehensive information on your computer
• Provides an easy way to launch Windows Tools
• Back up and restore the Windows Registry
• Search the registry by specific wildcard
• Recover deleted files on NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12 volumes
• Delete files securely, ensuring that they cannot be recovered later
• Split any type of file into smaller pieces
• Protect any Windows executable file with a password

Publisher : http://putils.com/

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