Choosing the right video web cam can be time consuming and confusing for many shoppers. When you look into purchasing a webcam, you will notice that there are literally hundreds of them available from a variety of manufacturers.

While the average consumer is mainly focused on using one in web cam chat rooms and with Instant Messenger (IM), there are other uses for web cams besides those. Let’s have a look at what to consider when purchasing a webcam. You might be surprised at some of the cool features.

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The quality of home web cams is determined by the type of sensor it has on-board. Many cams now use technology found in many digital cameras. Inexpensive and older model webcams use sensors which relay lower quality imaging.

It is important to choose a model that offers good resolution to give you clear images and smooth video for better live web cam display. A webcam that offers a 1.3 mega pixel resolution should be enough to deliver quality video and also acceptable snapshots if needed.

Simplicity is another key factor when purchasing usb web cameras. Most webcams available today are USB web cameras and require a USB connection, so check that your PC or laptop has this connector available.

Always choose a webcam from a reliable manufacturer that offers simple and thoroughly tested software installations, which should work with little or no configuration of your web cam chat software. The Logitech webcam is a great choice. It is a good idea to check that your webcam has a usable stand or connector to allow you to attach the device in a suitable position.
You can pay anywhere from ten dollars to hundreds of dollars for webcams, depending on what special features you want. While special features do make the day to day use of a webcam easier, you will pay a little more for their convenience.

Look for a cam with the best quality that also offers a good level of support and is compatible with your system. Be wary of offers of free web cams.

Once you have found a good quality, simple to use new webcams at a price that you can afford, it is time to look into other webcam features and settings. Some instant messenger programs support webcam video messaging.
With the motion-sensing feature, the webcam will take a new picture when it detects motion. And for advanced connections, you can use wired or wireless methods to connect your home-theater audio visual equipment to your webcam.

When it comes to web cams, it all depends on the features you want. While some people prefer one brand over another, just remember to read the specifics before you purchase a product to make sure the webcam software is compatible with your programs and system. Never purchase the first web camera you see and shop around a bit to get the best deal.

If you’re just boarding on the AdSense train, and looking to find a quick way to make the profits you’ve seen all being pulled of all over the Internet, you might be interested in a couple of tools.

These software tools are designed to aid AdSense publishers in getting a better understanding on how traffic flows through their site. Some will help you in understanding which keywords gain you more money and which locations give you the best AdSense payment.

One of the best such tools available is AdSense Gold (http://www.profitbooks.com/go/astracker) which allows you to have a better understanding of which ads and formats actually get more clicks and which are useful or nearly useless.

This program works by tracking views and clicks on all the publisher’s pages. It even goes as far as offering you the possibility to see which referrer each visitor came in through.

There’s a free tool called SynSense (http://www.singerscreations.com/RSS/Posts/235.asp) which is more of an AdSense monitoring tool. This sits in the tray and offers actualized AdSense stats as you hover your mouse over its icon. It’s a very nice tool for those which like to be informed on how their AdSense is doing at all times of the day.

Google provides you with stats in a csv format on their site. So someone made a tool that can automatically download such files and extract a lot of information from them. The name of this tool is CSV AdStats and it is available from http://www.nix.fr/en/csvadstats.aspx?q=download

It has a large number of features, including the possibility to highly customize reported stats, exporting data and charts to other formats. It’s in French but the language can very easily be changed to English.

Of course any tool can only access these stats as often as 15 minutes but the authors are well aware of that fact and none of these tools will get you in trouble with Google because of that.

If, however, you’re browsing content most of the time, and your tool of choice is the Firefox Internet browser, there’s an extension for this program that allows you to view the stats in your status bar.

Again, this software is aware of Google’s 15 minute rule and enforces its usage, 15 minutes being the minimum time between updates. The Google AdSense notifier for Firefox can be obtained from http://code.mincus.com/?p=3

There is also a program called Golden Keywords out there that helps you in getting the best keywords for your site. It’s really efficient and very easy to use. It does come with a price tag though, it costs $49.95 and it can be obtained from http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=8616-2

So as you can see, software developers are making more and more programs meant to help you in your quest to maximize your AdSense profits. But before you go out looking for them remember that Google has a few features of its own as well.

It does offer some reports (albeit a bit more limited) and using the ‘channels’ feature is a good way of finding out which ads on your site are really bringing in most of the revenue.

How to NOT win awards /website visitors

I think it might be more instructive to explain how people fail to win wanted traffic so thought it be important stress the importance of this article. I have compiled a top ten list of way’s on how not to get traffic to your site or lose potential traffic

Here are the Top 10 Factors to why Web masters lose or turn off visitors. Websites don’t get awards to and annoy their visitors by doing the following.
1 Broken images and links. Make sure all your images display correctly, double check your links to make sure they are correct – nothing more annoying then links going to page not found.

2 Spelling and grammar mistakes. If you don’t take the care and time to get these right, don’t expect the reviewer to take the time to give you an award.

3 Slow Pages. Your beautiful homepage is 200K and hosted on a free website site like Geocities. The visitor will not come back again and worst of he or she will not bother looking at your website.

4 Using a HTML generator program to make your pages. After you’ve seen enough pages, you know what pages were created with what programs; they have a “look” to them. Show you care enough to craft your own HTML.

5 Stupid Java applets. If it doesn’t have a real purpose (and you didn’t write it yourself), decaffeinate please. Same goes for JavaScript scrolling messages. Old hat, it marks you as a clueless net newbie. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to suffer through some stupid Java new sticker applet that slowed my machine to a crawl.

6 Coloured text on a coloured or patterned background. You want an award and the poor reviewer can’t even read your page! PrettyPrint

7 More than 1 ad banner on the page. The reviewer will click on the nicest banner and give that site an award! This is a serious mistake. Put 1 banner on a page, tops (or maybe 2 or 3 buttons). And if you’re smart, don’t put a banner on your main (home) page. That page should advertise YOUR site, not someone else’s.

8 Your entire site is on a single 3-megabyte page. Books have more than one chapter – so should your website.

9 Extraneous content. Don’t put up an animated gif just because it looks nice. If there’s no good reason for something to be on your page, get rid of it. “Perfection is when there’s nothing else you can remove.”

10 Music. Let us count the ways this really annoys the hell out of a reviewer. It takes forever to load. It often crashes their browser. And if they don’t share your taste in music, you’re screwed. There’s a reason silence is golden! Never, ever, ever play music on someone’s machine unless they say they want to hear it (by clicking on a link, for example).

Many people who are serious about their online online income business will have a blog as well as a main website.  Those who have blogs are usually quite happy adding content to it.  Before you write, however, you need to kee the following in mind:

a) what is needed before even writing an article is a keyword list of longtail keywords.

If you are not sure what these are, they are more like keyword phrases and if you don’t have any there is a free tool supplied by Google where you can find them to
begin building a list. Make sure that you use keywords that are three words or longer, as these will be easier to get indexed by the search engines.

Once you have the keywords that you wish to use, you can then concentrate on writing your articles around them.

b) Always make sure that your article title contains your keywords within it, and try to include them as close to the beginning as possible. You
may even want to just use them as your article title provided it is in line with the article you are writing. Just remember that these articles will be read by real people and need to make sense.

c) Use the keyword in the opening paragraph of your article and you can even bold it to make it stand out more for the search engines. It will also help to enforce what your article is about.

d) You can use your keyword in the body of the article as well, but don’t overdo it as this will be considered as keyword stuffing and is not appreciated by the search engines. It will
not give you extra benefits, if anything it will detract from the search engines ranking your blog well.

another option though is use variations of your keyword phrase so long as it is in context with the article you are writing and sounds natural. For example if your keyword phrase was business opportunities online, you could use online business from home or just online income business, as an idea.

e) The closing paragraph can again include you keyword phrase, and here you can bold it again as you did in the beginning paragraph. The reason for this is that the search engine
spiders generally check the article starting from the bottom and go up to the top of the page.

When writing an article for your blog you do not need to make it longer thank 250 words. Just make sure that you provide useful content. If necessary take your longer articles and break
them down into two or even three 250 word articles. This will save you time and it will be construed as more content as each article is a separate post.

One last thing that is well worth considering is to bookmark each post you make to your blog. You can do this using a submission site such as Social Bookmarker or Onlywire.com. You will need to join the directories that are listed on the submission site first, before you can start using them.

Writing a search engine friendly blog article is necessary if you wish to rank higher in the search engines such as Google and will help you in the long run to build a more successful online income business.

Michelle Jayes writes articles with tips and advice to help you succeed in your business online from home for more information visit home based internet business.

If you’ve been using Google’s AdSense on your pages you obviously feel the need to somehow generate even more traffic for your website, which in turn would translate to more AdSense click and a higher income.

But who do you do this? Well, the major way you’ll get visitors to see your website (other then using AdWords, which is encouraged as well) is to use some techniques to have search engines send more and more users towards your page, by ranking high in search results for your topics of interest.

Believe it or not this is a technique, better known as search-engine optimization or simply SEO. So here are a bunch of tips that come handy under every amateur or professional optimizer’s belt.

The first thing you need to take care of is the actual source code and layout of your page. This has to be kept as simple as possible. The problem comes when AdSense and the search engines themselves begin to have troubles in extracting the most relevant keywords on your site because of a too complex layout.

Secondly, try to have each one of your pages target only one specific topic. This way it is a lot easier for them to get indexed properly and for the AdSense ads to be consistent with the content of the site itself.

Also, try not to include too many hyperlinks in your page as well. This also means you should try not to use too many AdSense ads on your page either.

If there are certain keywords you wish to target, make sure the word you wish to target is present in the title, in the first paragraphs as well as in the name of the file. While you’re at it you might want to ensure the word springs up in the page’s last paragraphs.

And of course, it’s very important for your content to have original and compelling content. How do you do this? Well the easiest way to do it is to find something you’re really passionate about. That way, providing you give it a lot of effort you’re bound to have a great page quite fast.

If the content you use in your site is in the public domain (which is highly discouraged) make sure that you at least give it an original title, and add an opening and a closing paragraph of your own.

This takes a little while, but if, after waiting, you still can’t find your page near the top, you should try rewriting your title and your first and last paragraphs. It doesn’t take much, often just changing a few words will give you the right results.

And of, course there’s the use of keyword tools that may aid you in finding some good keywords to include on your page that will drive visitors to your site more and more.

So those are about the basic techniques in search engine optimization. You can find a lot of computer tools to aid you in doing this, and of course, Google is a great place to search for this.

In the end, you’ll find that SEO is a complex topic, and entire books have been written on the topic as well. You might find that you have a lot of optimization you need to do in order to get more and more visitors to your site and clicking those precious AdSense banners.