Using Widgets to Build Link Popularity & Blog Page Rank – Increasing Value with Customized Widgets
There are numerous articles, some quite repeating the basic concepts & expectations of building your website & blog’s value in the eyes of the search engines.
The caution always is to create a strong content oriented site that attracts continuous visitors from search engines.
However, the caution is not to create content just for search engines. There are also options to make money from widgets on blogs.
Host Your Blog – Benefits of Self Hosted Blogs & Recommended Hosting Service Providers
If you are starting off your blog or your website, and have never managed sites before, it might be a great idea to start off with a good hosting service provider like Wordpress .
Wordpress by itself is more than just a host. And I have learned this from my own experience as well as that of fellow bloggers & webmasters.
- Wordpress provides you a great blogging software – takes minutes to set up, easy to, quick to upgrade
- Wordpress keeps enhancing their software – you will not be left behind when it comes to technical advancement of your blog’s features
- Wordpress community is an active developers’ forum – the Wordpress community actively participates in creating themes , plugins , widgets as well as providing feedback for future developments
- I have made a small compilation of a handful of essential free plugins for blogs
- Wordpress hosting is stable – their infrastructure is so robust that there is no downtime for your blogs. Which means that you do not lose readers
Comscore Releases Data for Most Popular Search Engine – July 2008
Comscore has released the data for the most widely used search engines . Quoting the release:
Google Sites led the U.S. core search engine market in July 2008 with 61.9 percent of the searches conducted, up from 61.5 percent in June, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.5 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.9 percent), Ask Network (4.5 percent), and AOL LLC (4.2 percent).
Americans conducted 11.8 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 2-percent gain versus June. Google Sites handled nearly 7.3 billion core searches (up 2 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1 billion.
Ads on Websites & Blogs – Google Adsense Feeds & Great Ads for New Blogs
Once you have a website or a blog, you could be make money displaying ads . The best available today is Google Adsense .
Now Google Adsense has introduced a new ad for RSS Feeds . If you already had a feed account with Feedburner (now owned by Google), you could move your feed management over to Google.
Although Google has not mentioned what would happen to Feedburner in the future, they are encouraging users to consolidate all website ad & feed services under Google.
American Baby Photo Contest – Upload Your Baby’s Photo to Win US $ 2500
Upload your baby photo and win. The Great American Baby Contest is a popular baby photography contest where you need to upload a cute baby’s picture to win as much as US $ 2,500.
Online entries for the Great American Baby Contest will be accepted on a monthly basis beginning August 1, 2008 & ends on August 31, 2008.
All entries must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. EST on the last day of the month in order to be eligible to win the Great American Baby Contest.
Earning Money from Blogs – Perspective on 6 Figure Income from Blogs
The hot topic in many of the bloggers’ forums have always been how much money does one make with a blog. Recent article in US News had some nice thoughts around How to make money from blogs & How Much Money do Bloggers Make.
If we have to look at blogs as a means of making money, then a blog is not different from another website or maybe just another online business. It is just another page on the web that people read – however the technology made it possible to publish very quickly.
Starting with Affiliate Programs – 5 Top Tips for Beginners
Affiliate programs could be a steady revenue earner from your blogs & websites. With more & more advertisers looking to pay for internet advertising, a good blog or a website could earn you several hundreds of dollars a month.
However, you have to know what works & what doesn’t in the affiliate business. You also have to understand the success criteria & the work that goes behind a successful affiliate earning.
Google Adsense Learning – Making Money With Google Adsense
Google AdSense – useful and secret Success Tips to making money with Google Adsense
There’s a saying in the business world ‘The Moneys In The List’ and this is no different in regards to online business. It’s critical to the success of your online business that you are regularly capturing leads that are interested in receiving information from you.
These subscribers are then likely to make regular purchases from your business but to increase the chances of this happening you’ll need to do all you can to make them feel contempt to hand over their money.
Wordpress for iPhone – Publish WP Blogs from Apple iPhone iPod Touch
Wordpress has released the module for Apple iPhone . The first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch .
The Apple iPhone WP module works with Wordpress hosted blogs (free blogs), self hosted Wordpress blogs (that is, if you pay for your hosting & maintain your own blog) for all versions of Wordpress 2.5.1 and higher.
