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Year 2007 has past and it gives us a wonderful time. Let’s just hope for a more happy blogging year for 2008. Some new ideas, money making opportunity and many more. The blog started last October and it was not doing good on his first month. Mostly new bloggers experienced it, acquiring enough traffic is a very rough thing especially if you’re new. Here are the blog statistics report for 2007:

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All websites ranging from social networks, e-commerce sites to small personal blogs all start from nothing. Even the most popular website on the internet today began with no registered users, visitors or members. They worked hard getting their site known and attracting those all important visitors. It is a challenge everyday to get just one person interested enough in your site to read through it and more importantly come back.

Countless websites become stale after a big launch mostly because the site’s owners become bored or discouraged by the lack of traffic. It is important to continually be making decisions about strategic planning and marketing efforts, even after your website is established.

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There are lots of free themes available all you need is to modify it to become unique. One of the few reasons to make your blog successful is to have a presentable theme. Done some few tweaks on my style.css file to change the font face and size. The text looks more great now compare to the old one. I decided to change some stuff on my header.php and footer.php too. It would be an advantage for a blogger if he/she learn some basic coding.

Well you might wonder what an old car picture doing on my header. After lurking from one blog to another and notice there are few people putting up expensive and good looking sports car pictures. It might have a meaning/symbol or they just love cars I guess. Then how about placing up a car picture on my site too. A “1969 Shelby mustang gt500″ looks much better. This muscle car baby is pretty much cool , for me it symbolizes toughness and fearless. Well you might notice some movies are using this old school cars than your pretty damn right. My choices are the “1969 dodge charger” picture the car in “The Dukes of Hazzard” movie, “Dodge challenger” of tripple xxx movie, the “1970 dodge charger” car picture of “The fast and the furious” and the “ford mustang gt500″ from the movie ” Gone in 60 seconds”. GT500 tops them all, for sure the number 1969 stuff has no connection on it.

As the continuing saga of our funny picture. Here it is!!! Thanks to deepbox.com . Deepbox.com is one of the sources for funny myspace comments, graphics, picture codes, image codes, video codes and more. However Deepbox.com is not affiliated or associated to MySpace.com.

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We all know that people over eat and weight gain is inevitable at Christmas. New Year is traditionally the time when people make New Year’s Resolutions to improve themselves and their lives. Start Losing Weight and Feel Happier during 2008 and make your New Years resolutions your reality!

Proactol have decided to help you lose weight and make your New Year’s Resolution count this time. Yes, we have all made those New Years resolutions when you have the best intentions for the New Year. We’ve all joined gyms straight after Christmas, then felt like you don’t have the motivation to go after the first two weeks. We all know you will have lots of left over food from Christmas, unopened chocolate parcels and left over wine, which are so tempting for words.

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The Big Bald Blog sites, the official blog of Impact Marketing Technologies which deals in marketing, advertising, web design and development, graphic design, printing and web marketing is sponsoring a contest for there avid readers. This contest is part of their celebration for exceeded a 15,000 unique visitors. The said contest will end on January 4 at exactly 4PM CST.

The prizes are 1.8 Gig Ipod Touch, 500 Entrecard credits, a review by Bloggin-Ads, Some cool stuff from Big Papa Worldwide gear.

Here are the mechanics

* Subscribe to The Big Bald Blog’s RSS feed via the email subscription so I can track you as an entrant.
* Blog about this contest linking back to this post with the anchor text of: “The Big Bald Blog” and the word “contest“.
* Leave a comment on this post with the link to your post about this contest.

Bonus feature - If you have done what it takes to qualify for the contest and you are a member of Entrecard you will get 1 extra entry for every Entrecard I see in my dashboard from now until the close of the contest.

The winner will be announce by Monday January 7th. good luck

What keeps people interested to get back on your blog is to keep updated. Visitors will not come back to a blog that hasn’t been updated in months. Readers want to have something that makes them coming back to your blog. Something that is quality frequent post.

Why create 1 poor quality post per day when you can post 3 to 4 quality post per week? Posting frequently for the sake of posting frequently may not do good on your reader as well as it may result burnout on your side. Mostly blogs died because people behind it has lack of interest.

How to create a quality posting? this would be very difficult if your not a natural writer. Choose a topic that is more interesting to you and to your readers. A topic that would let them stay for a while and burn some time to read your post. A topic that would let them interact with or share there opinions. It is easy to make a quality blog posting if you know enough what you’ll write. You can deliver or explain very well if you’re more knowledgeable on certain topics you’ve choose. Try to pick some keywords that are relevant to your blog. If you naturally use keywords on your post, you will attract search engine that will intend to put your blog ranked high. One valid reason for frequent posting is to catch the eye of search engine and obtain a high rank on search engine.

Frequent posting may not be difficult if you will just take time to plan what you’ll write about. Take some time and do some research it would help a lot. Use every resources that are available then everything runs smoothly.

There are lots of different web analytics available online. Most of it provides aggregated visitor data across web pages. What makes ClickTale differ from this traditional web analytics is that they provide information about individual visitor behavior inside the web page. They show website owners movies of browsing sessions, as well as meaningful reports of behavior inside their webpage by aggregating thousands of visitor sessions.

With this information, website owner could design or enhance each page where visitors look at the most, improve website usability and increase site effectiveness.

Unique on other site analysis.

It is important that you have information on each individual pages. ClickTale-enable pages provides you that information each and every web pages on your site. They offer Heatmaps for an aggregate view of your data, advanced search capabilities, automatic tagging, and recording of https pages such as checkout and login pages.

Any Software Installation?

The answer is NO, There would be no software installation on server or client side. A small piece of JavaScript code will be added on your web pages. The JavaScript will collect data and transmit it to ClickTale servers and creates movies of browsing session in minutes. This movies can be view by website owners once they’ve log-in. ClickTale supports the latest version of Internet Explorer and Firefox on all major operating system.

Sign Ups

You can started for free sign up and change your plan anytime here: http://www.clicktale.com

There are paid version such as personal, standard and professional. But you can avail some useful information on free plan.

Free Plan subscribers could get 100 pages recorded per week and can be renewed on weekly basis. This means you could avail 400 pages recorded per month. Monthly Paid subscribers can renewed everyday.

This might be the answer to your problem regarding site analysis issue. This will give you enough advantage from your competitors because you will get to know what links are being used and ignore. It allows you to optimize link design and enhanced navigation. Sign up now and get ahead of your competitors. To avail this software which will help you provide some useful information about your site. Simply click the link below.

http://www.clicktale.com

The cat is out of the bag as more and more people are becoming aware of the profit making potential in the expired domain name market. The fact is that there are a lot of viable domain names that have expired and are available to be bought up and claimed as your own.

You may be asking yourself how an active domain that is generating business can be simply abandoned by someone but the fact is that it happens every day for any number of reasons. People change courses in their lives and simply let things go all the time, which can lead to their domain names becoming abandoned.

There are also those people that try to get rich quick who create, promote and discard domains on a regular basis. Due to the fact that many of these domains have been heavily promoted prior to being abandoned, many times they have regular traffic that which can prove lucrative if you were to place a website on that domain, or alternatively the traffic can be redirected to other websites. You may not get rich quick, but you can achieve a steady income. Overtime you could build up an impressive portfolio of domains that provide a very large income.

For affiliate marketers, these expired domain names can be a gold mine for generating traffic to their websites. Affiliate marketing is a great way for someone who has the gift of an entrepreneurial spirit to break into the internet business world. The great thing about affiliate marketing is that you don’t have the hassle of filling orders or acquiring inventory. An affiliate marketing website only needs to attracts visitors and then direct them to other websites that are selling the actual product. After a sale is made, the owner of the originating website is paid a percentage of the sale. So you can see how valuable expired domains can be in providing the traffic for affiliate marketers.

It is important to point out that there are many expired domains that were never promoted, and won’t receive any visitors. It can be a hard, time consuming challenge to find an expired domain that will provide you with visitors - you need a list of domains, then you need to find out when the domains will expire (or maybe they have expired already), then discover how good the domain may be. To discover how valuable the domain might be to you, you need to discover such things as the topic of the original website on the domain, how many links point at the domain, how search engines rank the domain, etc.

Some corporations have been making money for years by having a large number of domains that direct visitors to their business website. Some of these companies specialize in buying expiring domains which can then result in thousands of visitors each and every day to their websites. If they can do it, why not you?

Article by: Dominic Dat
For more information about expired domains visit http://www.domdat.com

Drugstore.com a leading online drugstore and information site for health, beauty, wellness, personal care, and pharmacy products. A $10 off $40 when you use Paypal at DrugStore.com well the offer is only good until Tuesday, December 18th. It’s up to you now …

$10 Off $40 when you use PayPal. Hurry, expires 12.18.2007

Lots of bloggers now are hooked up with this new Internet business card called entrecard. Well some say it really drives some traffic while other still not convinced on its performance. You might asking, “how come he get enough traffic than mine?” even though your both using entrecard. Here are some tips that will surely increase or be ahead to others who are using entrecard.

Drop and Save some credits
To earn credits you must drop your card off to other blog. At least 1x per day or more would be great depends on you. By dropping cards you will earn 1 credit per drop off. The more cards you drop, the more credits you earn. And every time somebody’s dropping his or her cards on you another 1 credit would be earn also. It’s just a matter of give and take. Save 30 to 50 credits will get you into position for great advertising.

Spend those credits wisely
Spend your credits on high traffic blogs. If you tend to advertise on high traffic blogs, it would have big chances to bring enough visitors on your site. Refer to Alexa rank, the lower alexa rank the better that blog for high traffic. Refer to Google Pagerank, PR range from 0-10. The higher number the better.

Always visit Entrecard site
Every day Entrecard community increases. A new blog that joins starts with a 2 credits. Imagine if a well-known or heavy traffic blog joins, then probably that would be a great deal right? One good example, when I snatch 15 credits to advertise on Problogger site that brought me a large amount of visitors.

Refer on your statistics
Each account in Entrecard has its own statistics button. Try to refer on your statistics that brought a large amount of clicks among the blog you’ve been advertising. Then advertise on it again.

The simplest way to make money online working only a few short hours a week is to build a web site packed with content. So much content that once you’ve made a web surfer land on your web site, they will have to come back for more again and again. Content rules supreme on the new Internet!

So where do you find a lot of it and for very little money? Well, you actually have quite a few options here. There are many article directories and many web site owners that will actually let you use their content as long as you keep the resource box intact. If you are new and you have just joined your first web master affiliate program, that’s the best way to go about it.

Free resources are easy to find and will really help you kick-start your business and earn money faster than you otherwise would if you were to write everything by yourself. Of course you will have to write some original content every now and then and the more you do the better your web site will be rated. It’s good to have something new to add each week, even when you don’t have time or inspiration.

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Marhgil Macuha the owner of macuha.com will sponsor a Mini-SEO contest. One of the Top Pinoy ProBlogger of 2007 and the one who organized the Pinay Scandal SEO project. Honestly, I really don’t know this guy a lot but some of his works inspired me to do more.

The Prize of the said contest are:

$100 for Google.COM
$50 for Yahoo.COM

Here are the mechanics:

Who can join?

Anyone with a blog and has the ability to receive money from Paypal can join.

How to join?
Simply make a blog post about anything you can think about the contest keyword. Then, submit your entries by commenting on this blog post with your full name and your PayPal e-mail. You can submit as many entries as you want, as long as it is a blog post. The more entries, the more chances of winning.

How to win?
If your blog post ranks the highest on the mentioned search engines for the keyword on January 4, 2008, 8:00PM, Philippine Time, then you win! I’ll post a screenshot of the winners on January 4.

How to claim the prizes?
I’ll send the prizes via PayPal at most one week after the contest is concluded. No other way. Prizes are not convertible to car. So, be ready with your PayPal account, ok?

Required links.
A link to this blog (http://www.macuha.com) is required. The required link should be seen on the cached page during the decision making. Link any way you want, as long as there is no nofollow on it.

Contest keyword.
The contest keyword is Marhgil Macuha Of course, I’m disqualified on this contest. Any blog posts written before December 10, 2007 mentioning my name are disqualified too.

Ok. Make your own blog post. Be creative. Be unique. Optimize. And win!

interested? join now :).

In today’s web hosting world it is difficult to select a web hosting company that truly meets your requirements. There are several reasons for this.

The Internet is a great equalizer. High quality web hosting companies look fairly similar to fly-by-night companies that rent cheap $99 servers, install control panels and set up shop as sophisticated web hosting companies. As a customer you eventually pay with poor site performance, lost time on configuring the server and customers who could not wait for your site to respond.

These are true horror stories of web hosting. The site is down for 12-24 hours. Its webmaster is sending “urgent” emails, but receiving automated canned answers. He/she keeps waiting for a resolution for hours or days. Every hour the site is down, it is losing traffic, reputation and revenues.

Below is a list of five things you should be aware of before selecting a web hosting company:

Inferior servers

In the highly competitive market for web hosting today, web hosting companies almost always scrimp on backend servers. They rent cheap servers with no quality assurance or performance monitoring. Since they don’t own their hardware, they are unable to fix the problems. Imagine a couple of college kids in India renting a few servers in a US based data center, installing some open source software and launching a web hosting company. (One does exist with hundreds of customers on it !!)

Technical Support

Most web hosting companies offer 24/7 technical support but don’t live up to the expectation. You have to wait hours or even days before you get a response from a qualified person. Often, not at all. It takes experience and in-depth knowledge of the servers, software and the network to make it all work. A decent web hosting company should offer robust service with a variety of support options, support tickets, live support chat, email support and phone support.

Shared Web Hosting

Shared web hosting is a good option if the web hosting company manages the customers and server allocation well. Web hosting companies attempt to overload the server with clients in order to maximize their revenue per server. This can lead to slow, poor-performing websites during peak load times that ultimately drive site visitors away.

Unlimited space and bandwidth

Often web hosting companies offer “unlimited” space and bandwidth in their plans. In reality there is no such thing. No matter how powerful the web server is, its storage space is limited, and it can only transfer a limited amount of data through the pipes per second. When they cram many sites on each server, the total bandwidth is limited by the pipes feeding that server split between those sites. If they claim they are providing unlimited features without any conditions, they are lying to you.

Ask yourself or your team, how large is your site likely to be? Would you really need 500GB of hard disk storage? How much space bandwidth does a similar site need? Check it out under our web hosting products table.

Up-selling

Most web hosting companies use bait and hook pricing strategies. They snag customers at a low price per month, but charge for each service request. For example, many charge for setting up of applications like blogging, databases etc.

Article by: By: Alder Mickie
Article Source: www.articlebiz.com
ServerPoint offers reliable and affordable web hosting and domain registration, dedicated server, blog, Virtual Private Server (VPS) and enterprise managed services that surpass other web hosting companies, in uptime, features and overall value.

Affiliate marketing has quickly become one of the most popular and the most effective ways to earn money on the Internet today. Here are some few good reasons, why to join an affiliate programs?

Low risk with high potential.
There are a lots of affiliate programs. Find those, which are free to join, and you can start your business. Other requires you to invest minimal money and get maximum profits. You can start promote your sponsor’s products using sales letter thru emails, or you can set up links from your website or blog.

No inventory
The great thing about an affiliate program is that there is no inventory to tie up your money and space. You do not have to be constantly worried about unsold products. Some products are downloadable like ebook and software. There is no headache in shipping and customer support, your affiliate partner will take care of it. All you have to do is promote to your targeted market and cash in the commission checks.

Support
Most affiliate programs are equipped with supporting tools such as free website templates, banners, free content for your website, tutorials, guides and other traffic generated tools. Good affiliate programs will not leave their affiliates high and dry. The purpose they set up an affiliate program is to earn more from the help of their participants.

Freedom
The freedom to work when you want and as hard as you want. You are the boss and do not have to ask anyone if you want to take a day off or only want to work a few hours. You can promote as much or as little as you want. If you just want to keep your business as a supplementary income, you can slow the pace and just collect a small check. However if you want to earn a good living and replace your current income then you can do this as well.

Make money while taking a rest
After generating enough visitors to your site every month and creating a successful website for your affiliate program. Then it’s time to harvest the fruits of your labor. All you need to do now is monitor and update your website. And keep making money even when you take a break

These are just a few reasons to join affiliate programs. These programs are only as good as the work you put into them. You can either just earn a little money with minimum investment of time and money or you can earn a comfortable living by doing whatever it takes to succeed. It is all up to you .