The longest total solar eclipse this century, Wiil be seen over large areas of India and China. The Total Solar eclipse could first be seen early on Wednesday in eastern India, though in some regions there was thick cloud.
It has been moving east across India, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and the Pacific. The eclipse first became total over India at 0053GMT. It will cross some southern Japanese islands and will last be visible from land at Nikumaroro Island in the South Pacific nation of Kiribati. It will end at 0418GMT. A partial eclipse is visible across much of Asia. The next total solar eclipse will occur on 11 July next year. It will be visible in a narrow corridor over the southern hemisphere, from the southern Pacific Ocean to Argentina.
In India, millions gathered in open spaces from the West coast to the northern plains, with clouds parting in some cities at dawn just before the total eclipse. In India and Nepal, where it is considered auspicious to watch the eclipse while immersed in holy water, crowds gathered at rivers or ponds, including tens of thousands of people at Varanasi on the Ganges.
Some parents in New Delhi kept their children from attending school at breakfast because of a Hindu belief that it is inauspicious to prepare food during an eclipse, while pregnant women were advised to stay inside due to a belief that the eclipse could harm a foetus.
Authorities in China, where an eclipse was a bad omen in ancient culture, have been reassuring the public that services will run normally.
The most recent total eclipse, in August 2008, lasted two minutes and 27 seconds. This one will last six minutes and 39 seconds at its maximum point.
ReviewMe is basically some sort of a blog marketplace where advertisers can visit to order reviews from blogs. They have some strict requirements regarding the blog quality, pagerank and amount of traffic. But they don’t disclose these requirements. Some of the more ‘high-end’ or popular blogs are registered with ReviewMe and the earnings are substantially higher if your blog is well established and has a large audience. This is measured by your feed subscription base as well as the Technorati andAlexa Rank.
SocialSpark is social marketing network site. it is a new service launched by IZEA. To qualify, you must be 18 years or older. Your blog must be at least 90 days old, with at least 20 pre-existing posts written in the last 90 days. They determine value of a blog based on its popularity, quality, expertise in a field, audience size and reach, and feedback from blog posts. You must claim the ownership of your and have IZEA Toolkit (ITK) properly installed. Bloggers must include a SocialSpark provided disclosure badge within each sponsored post in order to receive payment. Payments are made through PayPal.
LoudLaunch is a medium sized paid blogging network which features a moderate amount of advertiser offers. In order to qualify, Your blog must be in English and at least 60 days old with a pattern of regular posting activity. The blog must have page rank in order to qualify. The blogger usually needs to append a disclosure badge, tracker tag or logo or the bottom of posts. They pays bloggers via PayPal within 5 days of the 1st of each month for all approved posts placed between the 1st and 20th of the prior month.
Blogging Ads started early and recently re-launched with a new look. In order to qualify, your blog must be in English and at least 60 days old with a pattern of regular posting activity. The blog must have minimum page rank 2 in order to qualify. Here you can only put up 3 posts for your blog per month and totally you can only put up 10 posts per month on all your blogs and the rate for each post is usually $5. Payment is made weekly via Paypal.
This is one of the most popular and widely recommended sites for paid blogging. In order to qualify, your blog must be at least 30 days old, with at least 10 pre-existing posts written in the last30 days. To add new blogs, you must have 10 approved posts. They will pay you for approved posts, 30 days after the original date of submit. Payments are made via PayPal. The largest sponsored blogging network, Payperpost offers the greatest amount of offers and has a vibrant community of bloggers who support each other through a forum.
Smorty rates for sponsored blog posts are $6 per post although this might increase if you have a high traffic or page rank blog. At present this network is not so active. They strongly consider for page rank website. if you have good page rank you can earn from this network. Post approvals are generally made within a week and payment is made on a weekly basis through Paypal.
PayU2Blog is a medium sized paid blogging network. They are very strict on making approval for quality blogs. In order to qualify, your blog must be in English and at least 60 days old with a pattern of regular posting activity. The blog must have page rank in order to qualify. There is no actual marketplace which allows you to browse for advertiser offers but it’ll determine the type of assignments you will receive. Payment is made every two weeks via Paypal.
In order to qualify, your blog must be at least 3 months old, indexed by Google and Yahoo search engines and receives some level of traffic. You must update your blog regularly, with at least 3 postings per week on average. Blogitive will pay all bloggers a flat rate of US $5 per advertiser offer, regardless of the size or popularity of the blog. Blogitive advantages is that they pay weekly via Paypal.
V7N Contextual is not technically a get paid to blog network because most of the time you won’t have to write a blog post. All you’ll have to do is to transform any specific keyword in your blog posts into a link to the advertiser’s website.
In order to qualify, you must be 18 years old and your blog must have unique content. There must be at least 20 blog posts in your blog in the last 90 days. The minimum length of a Blog Posting is 100 words. Blog Distributor pays you once per week via PayPal. They are accepting bloggers from USA and Canada only. Presently now the are bloggers from all the country.
It is One of the get paid to blog sites. They don’t have strict requirements for approval. All you need to have a clean blog with unique contents. They will pay you 70% of your earnings. Payments are made through PayPal. You will receive your earnings via PayPal.
They simply connect bloggers with interested advertisers. This network allows you to sell text links. So, all you need to have a clean and regularly updated blog. Once an advertiser contacts you, you can negotiate the terms, fee, review process, method of payment, posting date, etc. So, the payout depends on your agreement with the advertiser. Payments are made through PayPal.
BlogtoProfit allows you to get paid to write blog posts about each sponsor’s products or websites. In order to qualify, your blog must be in English and at least 60 days old with a pattern of regular posting activity. This company doesn’t have a user interface or dashboard and there is no marketplace which allows you to pick or choose the offers you want. At present this network is not so active.
The amount that you get paid is based on your blog value. They determine value of a blog based on its popularity, quality, expertise in a field, audience size and reach, and feedback from blog posts. It needs clear disclosure about the sponsored post. You will get paid via PayPal. There is no minimum threshold for payment. Payments are sent out on the 5th of each month.
InBlogAds is a hybrid network that allows you to sell text links as well as blog posts. I’ve not seen any new offers available and I think they are definitely outclassed by all the other gets paid to blog networks. Although they were one of the first to integrate an advertiser and publisher account within the same dashboard, they’ve definitely fallen behind and dropped out of the race for bloggers and advertisers. Currently they are updating their service and not accepting new bloggers. To qualify, blog must be a WordPress powered blog, hosted on your own domain. You will get a 60% share of every ad sold through their system on your blog. Payments are sent out at the end of each month via PayPal, with a $10 minimum.
At present this network is not so active. Not much of opportunity given from this network. BloggerWave’s rates for paid posts are generally around $1 to $10 for a single post. There doesn’t seem to be many restrictions and you’ll get paid via Paypal. Apparently, they seem to have made good on their payments and hopefully things should go smoothly from now on for bloggers using BloggerWave.
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