Yellow Pages Search

What are Yellow Pages? Yellow pages is the term given to the listing of business. Usually these refer to the listing of telephone numbers of various business. Yellow pages are generally huge directories with indexes spanning tens of pages and hundreds of categories. It would take a person a long time to search for a listing from within this huge list. Now image the information of the Yellow Pages couple with the ease-of-use and the power of the internet.

Enter Masterseek (http://www.masterseek.com).




Masterseek is no less exhaustive and no less detailed than any yellow pages directory. In fact Masterseek has been able to do what no yellow pages could do before - to integrate all the yellow pages listing from all over the world into one single directory. Imaging the size and complexity if all business listings from all over the world are in just one book and you would have to refer to that everytime. Now with the power of the internet, this amount of information under a single roof is a reality and the footprint is just one webpage. This service contains the business listings from more than 45 million companies spread across 75 countries. The listing are available in as many as 20 languages so as to cater to a huge audience from all across the globe.

You can search based on companies, products or descriptions and also country-wise. The user interface is intuitive and searching for information is free of cost. Advertising charges would vary depending on the content of the ad and these are mentioned on the site. This may well be the newest way on how you would list your company for a wider audience.

Blogging - A potential to earn?

These days blogging has moved from a way of expressing oneself to a way of making money online. Most of the bloggers have ads on their sites which fetch them some revenue or at least they have an idea of how to make money by putting ads on their blogs.

Then there are some other sites which pay you to do some activities related to blogging. Bloggerwave (http://www.bloggerwave.com) is one among those. This site uses blogs as ads. They give you certain assignments, which they term as 'Opportunities'. Each opportunity is based on a product - which can be websites (from what I have seen of their current portfolio) or anything else. The idea is that you create awareness of that product among your reader circle and hence are advertising for that product. So they will give you some money as payment for advertising. This is definitely a good concept and if it catches on, it can lead to some excellent advertising opportunities, especially seeing the reach bloggers and blog have on the internet.

The opportunities have various parameters based on which a blog might be accepted or not. These parameters are mentioned on the opportunity page itself. Eg: Inclusion of some links, some keywords, the tone in which the post should be, and also other advanced parameters such as page ranks. It remains to be seen how this concept catches on and how the bloggers out there are able to make the best use of such opportunities.

This post was sponsored by bloggerwave.