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Bloggingtune.com Is A New Blog

2007-08-10T10:19:00.000+05:30

Hi Readers. Sorry for the inconvenience caused in the past few days. I have decided to start the blog "Bloggingtune.com" as a new one since I wanted it to be fresh. When I import posts there might be some problem. So I thought it is better to start it as a new blog. So do visit bloggingtune and Subscribe to it. Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll try to blog in both the blogs. But mostly I will be concentrating on my new blog.

The new posts on the blog:
1. Top 3 Best Free Blogging Platforms

2. 30 Most Popular Blogs For August 2007

Read them and also subscribe to the blog and Yes I offer FULL Feeds.

You Can Get Domains For Free - Really You Can

2007-08-09T14:32:00.000+05:30

Most of you know that I changed from blogspot.com to my own domain two days ago. I got a domain name registered for two years and it has cost me $14.30 after using coupon codes. My friend Haris wrote a post on Free Top Level Domains few days ago, which inspired me to write this post.

I know bloggers who are in blogspot because they don't have money to get a domain. I was also one in that list but somehow managed to get a domain. So if you are in blogger blog, read this post carefully because you can get Domain and Hosting without spending a penny but you have to do other things like posting in forums.

The main reason why I tell people to move from blogger is because, most people treat it as a SPLOG and hence your subscriber count and Technorati Ranking will most probably increase very slow. One blogger who is very famous in blogspot is Amit. But it is very tough for everyone to get famous with blogger blogs. So change to a domain and WordPress as soon as possible(I'm moving this blog to WordPress soon).

Note: Though you don't have to pay anything, there are certain things which you have to follow to get a domain. So read them carefully.

Haris, in his post, mentions the following sites/Forum:

1. Domain Discussion Board: You have to get 3000 ddpoints to redeem for a domain.

2. D4Free: You need to get 200 points to redeem for a domain.

3. Domain Lagoon: This is only for people living in USA and Canada and you need to get 6.29 points by filling surveys to get an one year Domain registration.

For more you can read the post by Haris.

What are you waiting for? Get a Free domain.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Do Paid Reviews:

2007-08-08T12:36:00.000+05:30

Now before I tell anything, let’s think for a moment the reason why we all blog. Is it to get connected with friends? Is it to gain popularity? Is it to show others that you can also blog? Or is it to earn money? I’m sure many will say yes to the last question. Even though you start blogging for any other reason, 90% you will end up earning money. Out of the many opportunities to make money, paid reviews is one famous way. The 5 main reasons why you should do paid reviews are:

1. Earn Money

2. Give Valuable Reviews To Your Readers

3. Get Traffic From Search Engines

4. You Get Something To Try Out For Free

5. You Get Something To Blog About

1. Earn Money:
As the name itself says, Paid Reviews, you are paid to do reviews about sites or products or anything. There are many sites, which offer this service. Some of them include:
$ Payperpost

$ Review Me

$ Sponsored Review

$ Smorty

$ Blogsvertise

You can get a list of sites that offer this service from Dosh Dosh.

These sites have advertisers and bloggers. Advertisers pay bloggers for writing about their product. But the middleman, the sites that provides paid review service, takes a cut from the price and you get only a share of it. Review Me takes 50% of what you get. Paid Reviews can earn you good amount.

2. Give Valuable Reviews To Your Readers:
When you are writing a review about a site or product, you are telling the pros and cons of using it. So you are educating your blog readers about product. But the reviews you do, offer value only when the product is of your niche. Also when doing paid reviews, you should write both pros and cons, else your readers will get irritated. If you review a site or product and if you are paid for it, mention in the post that you are paid. So whenever you get a paid opportunity, grab it if it is of your niche.

3. Get Traffic From Search Engines:
Products are searched in the search engines like Google everyday. But not all the searchers get the information they need. So when you are writing a review, include keywords that are searched in search engines. Say, you are asked to review a Nokia certain model Cell Phone. You write about it with keywords in your content. This Model might be searched everyday in Google for about 10 times. But there won’t be good reviews available for all products. So assume you reach the front page and you get 8 people out of ten to your blog. You get 240 in One month. What is the probability of 24 people out of 240 subscribing to your blog? Paid reviews or even normal reviews can get you Search Engine traffic and henceforth increase your subscribers’ count. Blogging Tips has a post on The Power Of Product Reviews.

4. You Get Something To Try Out For Free:
Yes the heading is right, there are chances for you to try out the product. I have seen offers in Sponsored Reviews where I can try the product and then do the review. But not all reviews are like this. There are few advertisers who will give you the opportunity to try a product. Say you are asked to review about a membership site. You can’t do a review unless you have tried it. So the advertiser will you the chance to try it out and then review.

5. You Get Something To Blog About:
There might be days when you don’t know what to blog about or you don’t have anything to blog about. At these times you can do a paid review. You might have a posting frequency like one post per day. Say, you don’t have just anything to blog about one day. When you feel like that, do a paid review. There are always so many reviews available in Payperpost.

Now you know the 5 reasons why you should do paid reviews. What if your blog is not accepted in those sites due to some reason? You can still earn by doing reviews. Surf Amazon or Clickbank or any site for a product, which you have already tried. Write a review about the product listing the pros and cons. You can give the affiliate links of the product, which you are reviewing.

So start doing reviews whether paid or not. Share your experience with paid reviews.

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Moving To A Domain Name- Bloggingtune.com

2007-08-07T12:55:00.000+05:30

I happily announce that this blogspot blog http://daily-tech-news.blogspot.com/ will be http://www.bloggingtune.com/ in 1 or 2 days. I have been having this plan for the past few days. I got cash few days ago after winning a contest organized by Betshop Boy. This cash helped me get a new domain. And thanks to Nirmal who helped me in registering the Domain.

Bloggingtune.com will come to effect soon. I'll be moving it WordPress and in the mean time, if there is any problem, please be patient and continue to visit my blog. I have so many plans for the new blog. You can expect something good from me. Continue to support me and my blog. I will catch you all through my new blog. Thanks to all the readers and my friends.

You can still Subscribe to our blog's FULL feed. All the subscribers will be moved to my new blog.

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Result Of The Poll: When Will You Show Your Subscriber Count?

2007-08-06T17:04:00.000+05:30

I wrote this post called The Right Time To Show Your Blog's Stats which led to the poll. The poll was started 15 days back and I also posted an update about the poll few days ago. I expected this poll to get 50 votes but I got 5 less than the number.

The poll had the result that I expected. The question was: When will you show your feedburner subscriber count? There were 6 options for it. The options and the number of votes for it are as follows:

Total Votes: 45 (100%)

1. From Start: 1 Vote (2%)

2. 50: 6 Votes (13%)

3. 100: 12 Votes (27%)

4. 250: 8 Votes (18%)

5. 500: 17 Votes (38%)

6. Never: 1 Vote (2%)

And the final result is 500 Subscribers leading with 17 votes. Which one did you vote for? And do you agree with the results?

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Daily Tech News - Winner In $77 Contest

2007-08-06T13:46:00.000+05:30

Betshop boy had a contest for celebrating the special date, 07|07|07. The rules was to write a review about his blog and give links to few of his post. Also you have to subscribe to the feeds and post a picture of it.

The prizes were $77 for one blog and $7 for 6 blogs. Luckily, this blog got the $77 prize. Thanks to Betshop Boy. He announced the winners two days ago. I was surprised to see my name on the $77 winners.

I had set a goal to earn $50-$75 this month and already $77 has come to my paypal :D Maybe I can hold a contest very soon(small contest). But this money will be helping me in getting a domain and a host. I'll be blogging on two blogs from next month. I'll update you with my new upcoming blog.

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Changed To A Different Theme

2007-08-06T00:25:00.000+05:30

I have been blogging with blog for the past 2 months and I have changed the theme twice. First I had a theme which blogger provided. It was useless and the look was very bad. So I changed to a WordPress like theme. It was the one which I had before and it worked well. I liked the theme. The previous theme was there for nearly 50 days and now I decided to change theme.

I was browsing JackBook Dot Com today and found WordPress themes for the new blogger. I liked this theme than the other over there. So I switched to this theme. I did a mistake by not importing the widgets present in my previous theme. I did one by one after making the move.

Advantages of this theme:

1. Comments can be made in one click. The comment form of blogger will be present under the story when you click on the story title. You don't need to click on Post Comment anymore.

2. You can see the Contact Me and Subscribe option in the navigation bar next to Home. So this gives more exposure to the Subscribe option. I hope this will have an impact on RSS Readers.

3. This theme looks simple and I can have blog rolls at the bottom of the theme so that it won't disturb the readers.

Disadvantages of this theme:

1. I can't place AdSense in between posts. Maybe there is a way to do it in this theme. But I'm no good at CSS or HTML, so I'll have to ask the creator of the theme about it.

2. I cannot have a big header and can only have a logo now. You can see a "D" Logo which denotes the Starting letter of this blog.

There you see the advantages and disadvantages of the theme. Hope you all like this theme. If you have any likes or dislikes about this theme, you can tell it in the comments. And don't forget, you can comment with a single click.

Update: The previous theme had few problems and I had to change the template again. Now you cannot comment in single click because it caused the problem. Other than that, this template has all the features of the previous template.

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This Week's Articles Of Interest [05-08-2007]

2007-08-05T18:40:00.000+05:30

I read many interesting posts this week. I thought linking to blog posts of two categories so that I can link to various blogs.

Posts On Blogging:

1. Daniel of DailyBlogTips wrote on The Blogger's Guide To Meta Tags.

2. Chris Garrett asks What Type Of Blogger Are You?

3. Liz Strauss writes Blog Post Fatigue? Please Take the Keys . . . Again!. Go there and have your say.

4. Now here's a different thing. Shannon Prue wrote me a mail stating a contest on web designing. The winner gets $5000 Scholarship Prize.They are now accepting applications, and the deadline is approaching very soon, on August 14, 2007. Our distinguished panel of judges will then decide on the winner. Take a look at the judges and you will be more amazed than how you were when you saw the prize amount. So go to the following link:
Web Design Contest

Posts On Technology:
1. If you are wondering how to send large files through Email, then you have to read what Nirmal has to say on 5 Ways To Send Large Files Through Email.

2. Haris has written a nice post about a firefoz extension which will Backup your Firefox profile regularly.

3. Shankar Ganesh gives you tips on how to make your XP look like Vista. See his post on 3 Windows Vista Themes For XP.

4. DJ Flush has a how to on backing up and sharing your MS Office Documents.

Hope you have a good time reading all these articles. Have a great day and Happy Friendship Day.

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Error In Technorati Showing All Blogs Ranked 1- Do You See It?

2007-08-04T23:42:00.000+05:30

I was browsing Technorati today. I wanted to see which bloggers had linked to me yesterday. So I made a search to for my blog and surprisingly it was ranked ONE. Technorati has errors now and then. Sometimes the "Technorati monster will run away". This time they ranked all the blogs at first place. Now every blog is like Engadget which is actually at number one :D My blog displayed the following results:

Authority: 71 Reactions

Rank: 1 [Top 100]

You can see the image below:

It is only a small error and Technorati will get back from it soon. So if you want to see your blog ranked at first place, go now quickly and see. You can at least feel 5% of how it would be to Rank on top of every blog. But you won't see your blog in the Top 100 blogs' list. So don't miss the chance. Go there and get surprised. Tell me in comments whether you saw it or not.

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5 Reasons To Use A MyBlogLot Widget:

2007-08-04T17:07:00.000+05:30

1. You can know who visited your blog recently. There might be certain people whom you would want to read your recent blog post. You can know it by seeing the widget.

2. It shows which bloggers visit your blog very often. There might be few avatars, which you will see on top every 2 hours. Those are your valuable readers and they won’t miss a post in your blog.

3. You can find the “regular reader but not a regular commentator” type of bloggers who visit blogs many times but don’t comment. If you see a person many times in the widget and not commenting, you can contact the reader and tell them that their comments are needed.

4. You can develop readership and get good number of subscribers using the widget. I have seen bloggers who send me a message to my MyBlogLog when I visit their blog for the first time. If you can do this, then you are on the way to increase subscribers and daily readers.

5. This is the main reason to have a MyBlogLog widget. You get traffic. You see people in your widget and sometimes visit their blog and they also visit your blog if they see your avatar in their blog.

Here’s the one reason why you shouldn’t use MyBlogLog widget:
1. It slows down your blog. When refreshing your blog, the widget might not load or load slowly. It is better to have the widget at last in your sidebar so that it will load at the end and won’t trouble you and your readers.

Do you use the MyBlogLog widget? What do you think is the main reason you use it for?

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Get Your Pownce And 8Apps Invites

2007-08-02T21:45:00.000+05:30

My friend Rishi was giving away invites for Pownce and 8 Apps. I got an invite for 8 Apps from him. Now I'll be giving away the invites I have with me.

Pownce and 8Apps are social networking sites. But Pownce is a bit different. Pownce already has big bloggers in the site. When you join Pownce, you get 6 invites and I have all the 6 now. 8Apps is also a social networking site where you can meet people of same interest as yours. You will be given 50 invites when you join 8apps and I have all the 50 safely with me to give it to you.

Now to give these invites, all you need to do is just leave a comment with your mail id. If you don't wish to leave your mail ID in the comment, you can use the contact form and give me the mail ID. I'll most probably send you the invites soon. If you want to do anything in return for the invites, you can probably Stumble the post or even Subscribe as a reader.

If you are already there in Pownce, add me here. And if you are there in 8 Apps, you can add me here.

So be quick so that you will get the invites.

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Blogging Goals For The Month Of August

2007-08-01T21:52:00.000+05:30

If you want to achieve success, you have to set plans and goals. You should have a main goal. This main goal should be achieved by achieving small goals every day or every week or every month. My main blogging goal is to become a well-known blogger. To achieve it, I set small goals for every day. But I can't write it as a post everyday. I have a handful of goals for this month and plenty of To Do's everyday. Let me list out my plans for the Month of August.

by Le Chef

August Plans And Goals:

1. To get 200 subscribers

2. To get linked by at least 5 A-List bloggers

3. Get my Technorati rank to Top 20k

4. Get my Alexa rank to Top 100,000

5. To get 30,000 page views

6. And coming to earnings, I wish to earn $50-$75 this month

I might reach few of these goals before the month ends. At that situation, I'll extend my goals and make a post about it.

Apart from Blogging Goals, I have plans to implement few things. Yesterday, I asked Links of your best blog. I'll be linking to good blog posts of my blog readers once or twice a week. So if you want to get links to your posts, submit it to me using the contact form. I have already got a handful and I'll be linking to those in two days. To know more about this campaign, you can take a look at this post.

Like this, I'll be introducing many new things in which you might be interested. If you have any ideas you can tell me through the contact form. And to know about all the updates, Subscribe to the blog, so that you won't miss anything.

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Send Me Your Blog Post Link

2007-07-31T23:38:00.000+05:30

With the end of July, I have decided to get add new features to my blog. There will be many inclusions. I want to improve the blog as much as I can. From today you can mail me your articles. I'll be giving links to some good blog posts in the blogosphere once or even twice a week. If you have any good article that you have written over the past week, send it to me using the contact form. Give the following informations in the mail, so that I can link to your posts properly. I won't be linking to all the posts. I will read every blog post you submit and I'll most probably make a comment in the post. You can give links to any topic blog post which can be read by all age readers(I think you know what I mean!). So use the contact form now and send me your post with the following information:

1. Your Name

2. Your Blog Post Name

3. Blog Post URL

4. Blog Post description

Don't forget to include the above informations. Also there are going to be many more improvements on this blog. Subscribe to our blog so that you wont miss any post or improvements.

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How To: Remove The Blogger Bar From Your Blog

2007-07-31T11:21:00.000+05:30

Few days ago, one of the blog reader asked a question on how to remove the blogger bar(The bar which all blogspot blogs have at the top). The reader, Greta, asked the following:

how can i remove the "blogger Bar" in my template ?
i dont see this at your nice blog !
do you have a tip for me ?

I'm also not a Guru in CSS or HTML but I know how to do this.It will give your blog a good look. The blogger bar looks like this:

Instructions on How to:

1. Go to Customize ==> Template ==> Edit HTML

2. Download the template so that if you make any mistake, you won't lose anything

3. Check the Expand Widget and templates option

4. Now find the following Code:

#header-wrapper {

Once you get this code, copy the following code and paste it above the previous code:

#navbar-iframe {

height: 0px;

visibility: hidden;

display: none;

}

After doing the editing work, your code should look like this:

#navbar-iframe {

height: 0px;

visibility: hidden;

display: none;

}
#header-wrapper {

Preview your template and then Save it. Now your blogger bar will be hidden.

The main purpose of doing this is to give the blog a good look. Now that my blog has a WordPress Theme for blogger, it looks more of a WordPress blog. So, if you wish to remove the blogger bar, then use the above instructions.

This has worked for me in this blog. If it is not working for you, then use the contact form to contact me. Even if you have any other questions, you can contact me and I'll try my best to give an answer.

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Have You Integrated Your Feedburner With Your Blogger Blog?

2007-07-30T17:06:00.000+05:30

Feedburner announced the Feedburner Integration for Blogspot Blogs few days ago. Though I read about it many blogs, I didn't make do the integration for my blog because I never thought people would subscribe using the Blogspot's feed. Yesterday I decided to make the integration to see if there could be, by chance, anyone subscribing using that feed. And surprisingly today I saw an increase in the Feed count. The increase was not by 5 or 10, but the increase was 21. You see it right, it increased by 21. So if you still didn't integrate your blog's feed, do it now. You can see more about it in Feedburner's blog but before that see below for how to do it.

How to do?
Integrating your feed is very easy. You can do it few steps.

1. First Login to your blogger blog

2. Then Go to Settings Page

3. In the Settings Page, you will have an option called Site Feed

You will get an image like this:

4. In this page, you will have an option by name "Post Feed Redirect URL"

5. In the text bar, enter your Feedburner's feed link

And that's it, you are done. Now if you Login to your feedburner and see the subscriber's count it will be the same. It will take time to update. So see your stats the next day and you might see a surprising increase in your feed count. And if you have an increase, tell me in the comments or through the contact form.

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Technorati Responds Quickly For Your Problems

2007-07-29T20:55:00.000+05:30

Technorati is the site in which you claim your blog and ping everyday after you write a post. Technorati started to give me a problem. Whenever I pinged my blog nothing gets updated. It was only few days back. I wrote three posts and got nearly 6 links in which not even one of them was shown.

I went to see the support forum if anyone had the problem. Surprisingly, there was one thread which had 30 posts(replies) in it in 4-5 days. There weren't many blogs which got their problem solved. You can see it here:

You can see the thread here.

After seeing it, I decided to contact them. I sent a mail stating my problem. They gave me a Ticket number. 4 hours passed and there was no change in my status. I sent another mail with the ticket number included in the body. I went to the site and saw my blog's stats. The posts were successfully updated. But wait, why is my linkbacks not updated? I sent one more mail with the same ticket number and checked my stats in 2 hours. Surprisingly, the link backs were also updated.

In the forums, I still see few bloggers telling their blog is not getting pinged. If you have this problem, contact them right now. You will get responded soon. Technorati indeed does a good work there.

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Poll Is Running And We Are At Halfway

2007-07-29T12:21:00.000+05:30

Few days ago i wrote a post, Right Time To Show Your Blog's Stats, which got few varied comments. So I decided to keep a poll for it. By this was I can find what most people think. The poll is running halfway. If you did not take the poll, you can take it from here:
Poll: When will you display your feedburner count?

The poll has got 28 votes and it will be running there for one more week to get more votes. Now whats the result so far?

No. of votes: 28

The options and the votes are as follows
1. From the start: 1 vote

2. 50: 3 votes

3. 100: 9 votes

4. 250: 4 votes

5. 500: 11 votes

6. Never: 0 votes

As from the above results, we can see that 500 option lead the poll. I wish to get at least 50 votes totally. So if you have not voted till now, please vote from here.

I will appreciate if you can link to the poll for your readers to vote. Thanks.

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How To: Add Most Popular Posts Column In New Blogger

2007-07-28T20:28:00.000+05:30

Yesterday I wrote a post on 5 Reasons To Have Most Popular Posts Column. Now adding it in a wordpress blog can be done using a plug-in. In the new blogger blog(blogspot) you can add it by an easy way. Though there might be an external plug-in to add in new blogger, it is better to add in the below way. Using an external plug-in might slow down your blog. You can see in the right side column for my Most Popular posts. The main thing here is that you have to handpick the top articles which you think are best. Now let me tell you how to add it in the new blogger.

* Go to Customize ==> Template

* Now select Add Page Element

* In the window that follows, click on Link List

You will get an image like this:

* In the title you can give "Most Popular Posts" or "Most Famous Posts" or any other thing you wish

* Leave the "Number of links to show in list" empty if you don't know how many links you want to add

* In Sorting, select Don't Sort

* Now in the "New Site URL" option enter the link of your famous article

* In "New Site Name" option give the heading of your article

Add as many links you wish to have and then click on Save Changes.

That's it. You are done. You are now ready to enjoy the 5 things I said in the previous article.

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5 Reasons To Have Most Popular Posts Column

2007-07-27T14:07:00.000+05:30

You would have visited many blogs from the day you started blogging. In most of the blogs you see a column of 'Most Popular Posts'. They would be the most visited or most linked post. Bloggers like Daniel, ChrisG, Brian and many others have this in their blogs. There are many reasons to have this in a blog. Following are the 7 main reasons to have the most popular posts column.

1. Increases Page Views:
When a reader visits your blog, the chances are more for him/her to visit the most popular blog posts. Most popular posts will have a magnetic headline. These headline will attract the reader to click on the post and read it.

2. Increase In Subscribers:
When I visit a blog for the first time, I decide whether to subscribe or not by reading recent posts and few other posts. If you can capture the hearts of your visitors by the most popular articles, they are mostly to become your subscribers. For this you should know how to Convert One off Visitors to your Blog into Regular Readers.

3. Gain Back links:
When displaying most popular posts, few of the posts might be new. There are bloggers in the blogosphere who will link to great articles in the recent days. They might just give it a link or sometimes they will add their views on the post linking to your post. So there are more chances for a blogger to link to your famous posts.

4. Exposure To Your Old Articles:
By displaying most popular posts, your old articles actually get more exposure. You can sometimes handpick few old articles that you thought would have been a success. Those articles can be linked.

5. They Stand As A Trade Mark:
If you see the blogs I mentioned above, you could see that the top articles are very different and they are the blog's trade mark. Every blogger has/should have their own trade mark post or Flagship Content however you call it.

Instead of displaying those long blog rolls and big banners(other than your advertisers'), you can display your most popular posts so that you can enjoy the above 5 points.

Do you think a blogger must have 'Most Popular Page'? Do you have any points to be added in the list?

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Moving From Google Reader To Snarfer

2007-07-26T19:01:00.000+05:30

Google reader and Snarfer are well-known feed readers. As a blogger I read many blogs but not as many probloggers. First, I used Bookmarking toolbar that was already in Firefox. But when my number of increased, I moved to Google Reader. Though it was good, I was not much comfortable with it. So I saw what my subscribers used. Many of them were using Google Feed Reader. The second most used was Snarfer. So I decided to use it.

Snarfer is a good feed reader(This is not any sponsored post). I found it hard at first. But after few minutes of playing it, I got a good control over it. The main thing which I didn't like was that it had nearly 30 blog feeds already added on it. I deleted them all. Yesterday I started to add new feeds to it. Now there is 28 feeds in the list which includes many top quality blog. This is not over yet. I'm still adding blogs to if I find interesting content in it. I gave it a try to my blog's feed too. Here's how my blog looked:

With Snarfer, it was very easy to comment from the same window itself. You can get Snarfer for free from here. Why not download the software and try adding my blog's feed to it[:D]

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Guest Blogging - Is It Good Or Bad?

2007-07-26T11:37:00.000+05:30

Guest blogging has now become famous and many blogs has guest posting. The main idea for a guest post is to give yourself and your content some exposure. If you can write a guest post at Problogger, then you will get your article read by many people and also you will get thousands' of new visitors and subscribers. Recently two videos were posted on youtube about Guest blogging. One is a post saying guest blogging is a waste of time. You can see Mark of 45n5.com in the video below:

As a response for this video, Nate Whitehill and Josh did a post on youtube which you can see below:

What is your idea on Guest Blogging? Is it worth the time? Do you Guest Blog?

Betshopboy Thought Therefore He Blogs

2007-07-25T14:53:00.000+05:30

Betshopboy is none other than Chee Wee Nq who blogs at betshopboy blog. He write on how to earn income online in his blog. I came to know about his blog when he made a comment in my blog. Also he was the winner in Cashquests.com's competition. Now he has his own contest. When I went to his blog and saw that this contest was held to celebrate the date 07-07-07, which won't come hereafter, I decided to participate in it.

Not only was that a reason but also he provided good content and value to his readers. I read his article by name Top 5 Ways To Generate Traffic. He also wrote a good post yesterday on How to Write Attention Grabbing Post Titles.

The article on How to write attention-grabbing post was not like what every other blogger said. It had as many as 12 examples of what you can do to make the post better. I'm thinking of implementing few of the ideas.

This guy is not just a normal blogger. He has in fact got the "Featured on Ezine Article" badge. This is a great achievement for a blogger. You can also see his name in the Ezine Article list.

So if you want to learn some good tips on blogging, head over to his blog and read the articles I mentioned. You would probably subscribe to his blog after reading his posts. And If you are thinking to enter his contest, think no further. The rules for his contest are so simple but the prize is too good.

You maybe new here and want to Subscribe in a reader

This Week's Articles Of Interest

2007-07-25T11:30:00.000+05:30

I have been writing few articles which you might or might not have enjoyed the past week. But being a blogger you have to link to other interesting articles in the blogosphere. This is very for your own blog and blog readers. Here are few articles which I interested me and will most probably interest you.

1. The 4 Pillars of Writing Exceptional Blogs:Leo Babauta of Zen Habits made a guest post on Problogger which was a very good read.

2. Top 25 SEO Blogs: This article is article ranks the top 25 SEO blogs combining various stats. You should give it a visit and study the top 25 SEO blogs.

3. Increase the chances of your posts being stumbled: StumbleUpon can get a good amount of traffic and also a long term traffic, if many people stumble your article. But how to make them stumble? You can know it there.

4. The One Phrase That Will Kill Your Blog: Cashquests' Kumiko writes why a blog with no comments cannot be a blog. You should read it. But you won't be able to make a comment on it as She has kept the comments Off. Maybe you can send her a mail or blog your opinion.

5. Social Media Evangelism: How to Turn Visitors into Supporters of Your Website: Dosh Dosh writes a great post explaining how you can turn visitors into supporters of your website.

6. Creating Compelling Blogs - How to Decide Your Blog Content: Chris Garrett helps his readers on how to create compelling content. You can learn from this article, how to target your blog readers.

Hope you will like the articles above. If you had missed my article which was much talked about this week, youcan it here:
The Right Time To Show You Blog's Stats

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Keep A Posting Frequency

2007-07-24T11:11:00.000+05:30

Many bloggers have talked about post frequency. But this one is not the same. It has comparison and what you can do at certain situations. Kevin of blogging tips made a good analysis of JohnTP's blog. JohnTP's blog had only one post last month due to power cuts and other things in his place. What surprised me is that his number of subscribers is still the same. His blog has a subscriber count of nearly 1600. So Kevin said not to worry if your posting frequency drops. I agree with him if it for bigger blogs. But when it comes to smaller blogs, your posting frequency can change from 2 posts a day to 1 post a day or from 1 post a day to 1 post post per two days. But small blogs shouldn't have a long gap of posts.

Small blogs don't have many regular readers. To get more regular readers, a blog should provide quality content consistently. You have to post once a day. If it increases to twice a day, then it good. When you are starting your blog, select the number of post you will be posting every week. And not only select but also try to stick with it. You should be posting at least 5 times a week.

I normally post once a day. It has been working well for me. Three days ago I decided to post twice a day. And the next day when I posted twice, my blog's page views almost doubled. But if you are going to post five times a day, don't expect your blog's page views to increase by five times. Posting twice a day got me not only increase in page views but also increase in subscribers and Alexa rank.

So what is your posting frequency? Have you even left your blog without a new post for week?

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5 Things You Shouldn't Do When Advertising On Your Blog

2007-07-23T10:37:00.000+05:30

Bloggers at one time or other start to monetize their blog. There are very few who don't monetize their blog. But one has to monetize as it is the reward for their blogging. When it comes to monetization, there are many ways to do it. You can have AdSense, you can write reviews, you can place direct text and banner ads and many more. Now considering the direct text and banner ads, there are 5 things you shouldn't do when advertising on your blog. Here are the 5 things:

1. Placing a paid advertising on a lower place in your blog:
When it comes to comes to the placement, you should place the ads where people can see it well. You can place a banner on top or place small squares on the columns. But whatever you do, place the ads on top. Top in the sense your readers should be able to see it without scrolling.

2. Placing your referral ads with the paid ones:
I have seen few blogs which has their referral ads like Text link ads and others placed together with the paid ones. There are blogs which say Featured sites and have their referral ads to show that they have advertisers. By doing this you are only losing the opportunity of getting new ads. People can easily find it when they place their mouse on the ad.

3. Keeping the prices higher:
When your blog is doing well and many advertisers are approaching you, you might ask for very high prices. You can increase a little but not too much. To check what is the correct price for an advertisement in your blog, you can calculate it using the Text Link Ads Tool. It shows you the best price. You can also calculate it on the basis of Cost per 1000 page views.

4. Advertising Unrelated sites:
If your blog is about money making and blogging tips or it is about technology, you should place the ads related to your niche and you should not be placing Gambling sites which will pay more. Placing such sites might even get you some bad results.

5. Placing Flash and Animation ads:
These type of ads will get your advertisers a very good result. But using that on your blog will lead you to losing your daily readers. It is a distraction for your readers. You should care for your readers. After all without them your blog won't be having much page views. So place only the simple and effective ads.

The above 5 things not only gives your advertisers a bad experience but also for your readers and you. You would have read all the five by now and you might be thinking of some way to give the advertisers, good value. Here's one tip for you which you can do when advertising.

1. Thank your advertisers:
Thanking your advertisers are the best way to have a good relationship with them. This also won't get any bad results from your readers. Instead your readers might be happy to pay a visit too. There are many blogs like daily blog tips, copyblogger and daily web ideas which thank their advertisers.

Please keep in ming all the 5+1 points which might help you anytime.

This Post Participated on a Blog Carnival called Blog With Me Baby: Advertising.

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