Free Blog with Ads - Earn Money from Ads while You Blog Free

October 4th, 2008 Ranjay Mitra Posted in Advertising, Affiliates, Blogging, Free WP Themes, Networking, Promotions, Publishing, Services, Small Business, Tools, Web Hosting No Comments »

free blog with ads - blog free & earn from adsMedia Cubs now allow new bloggers to start off earning money from ads with free blogs.

Media Cubs has already partnered with promising new bloggers & have launched the site Media Cubs to encourage new bloggers to start earning money.

New bloggers have several options to start a blog. There are free hosts & there are paid hosts. But most of the better known free hosts do not allow bloggers to earn money from ads.

Media Cubs give you a free subdomain, free blog templates & will host your blog for free. They will also sign you up with some of the best paying blog-ad companies.

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Free Website Monitoring Tool - Site Uptime Monitoring Free for Small Business

September 10th, 2008 Ranjay Mitra Posted in Blogging, Publishing, Small Business, Technology, Tools, Web Hosting No Comments »

website uptime monitoring tool for small business A website gets visitors 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. A website can sell round the clock. Good website hosting services provide various levels of site uptimes but is most cases it should be over 95% of the time.

However, you cannot leave it to the hosting service providers to monitor how long your sites are up & running .

There are several tools to monitor & alert you of cases where your website is taken offline . This could happen due to several reasons.

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Host Your Blog - Benefits of Self Hosted Blogs & Recommended Hosting Service Providers

August 25th, 2008 Ranjay Mitra Posted in Affiliates, Blogging, Publishing, Small Business, Web Hosting No Comments »

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

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5 Common Mistakes Bloggers & Webmasters Make - How to Build Increasing Traffic to your Websites & Blogs

June 21st, 2008 Ranjay Mitra Posted in Affiliates, Blogging, Publishing, Search Engines, Small Business, Web Hosting No Comments »

I have consulted small home businesses & start-up organizations on in-out media & how to leverage the powers & reach of blogs. Over a period of time, I noticed that bloggers & webmasters are prone to 5 extremely common mistakes . They are often so subtle that you don’t realize the effect until you see your traffic dropping steadily.

The purpose of this post is to highlight those 5 extremely common, and often silly, errors & mistakes that bloggers & webmasters commit. My approach on the analysis is outward-in, which means I shall analyze the mistakes by looking at why your traffic is dropping. Another indicator is the hit counter statistics that shows how many hits (referral, or search engines or direct hits) your website is getting.

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