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RapidWeaver – Excellent Tool To Design Beautiful Websites In Minutes

Nikita Porwal — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:35:07 +0000

Are you looking to create a blog to display your work? Or just out of passion do you want to share your thoughts? Website sounds like a cool option to share anything these days, but then do you really have the time to spend hours on learning the codes and graphics? Not everybody, so for the people looking for a quick and smart answer towards creating a website we have RapidWeaver as a solution.

RapidWeaver is a next-generation web design applications to assist you easily create professional good-looking websites in minutes. It is a template-based website creation tool, from Realmac Software, and is exclusive to Mac OS X. You might have come across tons documentation before starting a blog or a website. But with RapidWeaver all you need to do is to download the application and start playing with it.

Interesting Features of RapidWeaver:

Offers clean, beautiful code that adheres to modern web standards.
Drag and Drop technology
CSS / HTML / PHP code inline editing
Powerful (and numerous) plug-ins
iPhoto Integration and Automatic Navigation building
FTP & Mac Publishing
Side by side, text and code
Lots of nice templates along with Flash Based Slideshows
Blogging with RSS Feeds and excellent Podcasting
Photo, Movie Albums and styled text
New version is compatible with Snow Leopard.
Scale & Rotate Images
Smart Publishing

How does RapidWeaver Work?

Well, working for this excellent app is very easy. You can choose following types when working on any new website project – Blog, Contact Form, File Sharing, HTML Code, iFrame, Movie Album, Offsite Page, Photo Album, QuickTime, Styled Text. For example, if you need to create a blog, all you need to do is click on “Add” button on the main page and select “Blog” as your option. Next give title for your blog by selecting “Save” option on file menu. To further change other elements of your blog such as caption, header, footer or other, you should open General Tab of the setup menu, where the options are available.

Advance option such as external links or other services such as Google Analytics can be added with the help of Setup menu. Next the very important part comes, which is adding content. If you want to add some text content, just type it in the top area of the right panel. The toolbar that divides this area from the Themes one offers you with buttons for altering the font, alignment, style, or the color of the text. It further comprises of a drop-down menu that is actually a shortcuts for adding titles, new paragraphs or subscripts.

Then you can choose from many themes that suits your blog best. Do a preview check before finalizing the theme. Further when you need to add images, you can use the excellent drag-and-drop technology and pull it from your desktop. Then of course you will be eager to know how does the website look with content and images, so click “Publish” and there you go.

Conclusion

Overall, it is very much possible to create a website in 15minutes with RapidWeaver, which is beyond doubt amazing. And the best thing is you don’t have to be a HTML and coding guru to build your own blog here. Just by providing some standard forms and valid server detail you can complete the task. This user-friendly editor is well-suited not only to newcomers to Web design, but is also brilliant for small business owners who don’t wish to spend a lot of time learning the tricks of Web design and development, in fact, even children can give it a try.

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Top 10 Tips To Enhance Personal Branding

Nikita Porwal — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:59:37 +0000

Personal branding has been one of the biggest trends in 2009 and one that is probably to play an indispensable role in 2010. Yet, even as everyone agrees on its importance and that it is fast growing, very few people could actually master the art. Most people mistake personal branding as to build better product, but it is actually to build better perception of yours among others. That’s because when you are online, your presence is important and people will judge accordingly whether you like it or not. So you really need to care about other’s perception about you as a brand. And most people also think personal branding is difficult, but if you believe in your skills and ability – it becomes easier for you to sell your brand. The basis of personal branding is that success doesn’t come from personal development or hard work. Instead, personal branding proponents claim that success comes from self-packaging with needed skills.

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First everyone should understand that personal branding is just not a buzz word or a way for self-promotion today. It is process by which we can market ourselves to other and this can be done not only by famous celebrities, but also by every individual online. In other words, your personal brand is who you are, what you do, and your leading quality in the eyes of your ideal target market. Through social networks or social media you can get in touch with tons of people and this network will help you build your brand. Today there are ton of social media tools available to help you achieve incredible heights in no time and each one should understand the process to master it. With that in mind, honeytechblog today shares Top 10 Things To Do To Master Personal Branding to achieve your desirable success.

1. Select Niche

Personal brand in nutshell, is nothing but who you are and so it becomes important for you to select a niche for your persona. To separate yourself from the rest of the crowd, create your own niche that increases your visibility and preserve your reputation. Your selected niche should involve the application of one’s name to various products. For example, celebrity real-estate mogul Donald Trump uses his last name extensively on his buildings and on the products he endorses (e.g., Trump Steaks). When branding yourself bear in mind that you must create a strong and reliable brand.

2. Identify Your Positives

Never be weak at your mission, you need to build up goals that can be achieved in a particular time. And for that you need to identify your positives and forget what is negative. Set up you goals and write down your mission statement along with a development plan on how to go about. Your statement must tell everyone what you do and who you serve. Note down some inborn skills that match up to your personal mission. Perfect, cultivate and grow these talents to move ahead.

3. Be Precise and Clear

It is obvious that you want all the business you can possibly get your hands on but that is not how to grow a strong and reliable for long time. You need to specialize. You cannot certainly be all things to all people. You must be precise and clear about that one particular niche that will serve your audience neatly. Don’t run behind ten different things and lose your precious clients. Accept the fact, if you might be good at one particular thing and perform that well, so that you never miss any opportunity to grab your audience. It is ok to be narrowed down than to be dumped.

4. Establish Yourself In Chosen Niche

The key to productively branding yourself and doing it successfully is to first establish yourself as an expert in your chosen field. Once you have done that concentrate on who you are and what you stand for within your selected niche. Your next step will be getting the word out through a variety of social media channels that are viewed by the people most likely to be interested in your message.

5. Let People Locate You Easily

Now that you established in your niche, you should allow people to locate you easily. Create social profiles at Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs and more, so that you are spread all over, so audience can locate you easily. But make sure you maintain your social profiles, otherwise your whole brand can go for a toss. Use business cards and email letters to strength your brand identity. Highlight your personal brand message with professional marketing communications tools. Every email message gives you a direct chance to connect your personal brand with a new company or individual.

6. Build Your Reputation

Building strong reputation is the most important thing you could do to maintain your brand. Create your own personal branding website with your domain name, so that when web surfers and other employers search your name, they get information about your career history, personal information and educations qualifications. Build a solid personal brand with online activities which will further promote your personal mission and emphasize your career success optimistically.

7. Explore Your Audience

Audience is what we need the most to build up personal brands, they are the people that would pay attention to your work and also spread the good work around. So if you trying yourself to wrong hands, and then certainly it will be a waste of time. You must locate what consumers and companies will be interested in what you have to offer. Your audience should be your niche group of people and you must try by all means to give them as much value as you can sooner or later.

8. Locate Your Competitor

This field today is too competitive to rest on your laurels. You should make sure that your name remains in consumers mind when they need you, may be in next six month or later. You cannot assume that they would remain your loyal buyers if you fail to keep your relationship current with them and your competitors will grab your buyer. So locate who is your competitor and stay ahead of them without trying to break their status.

9. Monitor Your Brand

A personal brand is just like an exotic sports car, where you cannot afford to let it run at top speed without any maintenance. If you do so, it would burn itself up. Likewise, in personal branding you got to regularly monitor your brand to keep it relevant, alert, emotionally connected with audience and to be different from the competitor. It is all about seizing every opportunity to meet someone new and maintain the pace with it.

10. Content Is Still The King

People enjoy reading fresh and relevant content, which is unique or in some way special to them. So to do this, you should customize your pitch to fit their preferences. Using social media – Twitter, Facebook or Social bookmarking sites, you can spread your information online and make connection with like-minded people. Write articles and blogs that can augment audience’s knowledge about your brand in the industry.

Of course the most important factor here is trust! You must build trust with your audience, just think about service provider in your own life – be it your manager, your hair stylist or your account – all get your business because they carry good relationship with you, and that counts in so far as the service they provide. Try building personal rapport with the things you and your audience have in common. Bottom line is trust; your consumer/buyer must trust you emphatically!
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Top 20 “How To” Sites For Just About Anything

Nikita Porwal — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:40:51 +0000

With the number of netizens increasing day by day, it would not be wrong to say that technology has bettered the way we look at our lives and day to day activities. Actually with changing times and hectic lifestyles, people want everything to be better, quicker and faster. Right from “what should I wear to today” to “how to make money online” everything is been surfed online to get the answer. With that in mind honeytechblog today will give you some interesting sites that can be used for just about anything. Check out Top 20 “How To” Sites For Just About Anything.

eHow

eHow is an online knowledge resource with more than 337,000 articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on “how to do just about everything”. eHow content is created by both professional experts and amateur members and covers a wide variety of topics organized into a hierarchy of categories.

CNET

It is a part of CNET website, where the tech expert offer you free online how to classes and tutorials on everything from iPhone technology to photography. You can search for more than 1,000 tips offered and help on various buying guides and tech related topics.

Howstuffworks

HowStuffWorks is a commercial edutainment website that was founded by Marshall Brain explaining the how many things work. The site uses photos, diagrams, videos and animations to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language. It covers hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP.

Wikihow

WikiHow is a wiki-based community with an extensive database of how-to guides. wikiHow is a wiki, which is a website that anyone can edit. It operates on open source software and an open content licensing model allowing free use and community ownership of the content. wikiHow’s mission is to build the world’s largest and highest quality how-to manual.

Howto.wired

Wired is one of the most interesting website you will come across. While many may not that that it does have a How-To section that is full of help. This is the site carries many technology tutorials that truly help you in figuring out how do things yourself. In How-to Wiki you can search the library, create an article, join the community, and many more.

How to write a resume

How to write a resume is all-inclusive sites that assist a job seeker with how to write a resume without any costly mistake. Further the site also helps you to write cover letter, distributing a resume to hiring managers, and assistance for composing a thank you letter. This site is been designed for everyone from a novice job hunter to the hr professional.

Garysimon

If you are looking for some web design information then this is your source. It gives you fully comprehensive step by step tutorial, from design to HTML & CSS. Gary Simon has over 8 year of experience in web and print industry and offers excellent design tutorials. You will also learn how to make money here.

Howtodothings

HowToDoThings strives to solve people’s everyday problems by compiling reliable information from experienced contributors and making it available to inexperienced readers. Some category would include, Automotive, business, careers, health and fitness, spirituality and many more. Explore and have fun.

How-to-podcast

How To Podcast is an interesting sites that teaches you how to create podcast in an fun way. The site further comprises of everyday terms, step-by-step instructions, informative articles, video tutorials, and real world examples.

Howtodrawmanga

Do you love manga? If so, then you will have great time visiting how to draw manga. You can find amazing tutorials on drawing manga. Apart from taking online manga classes, you can also read online manga, check the blog, and take part in manga forums for more interesting stuffs.

How-to-meditate

We all know the importance of mediation, who has time to join those lengthy classes? That’s why, how to meditate was created to offer practical information about Buddhist meditation in clear, simple and easy to understand for all. You can also check out breathing mediation, Meditation for Beginners – Videos, Books on Buddhism & Meditation, and many more links.

Wonderhowto

WonderHowTo.com is a community-fueled, search engine and directory for Free How-To Video. With an index of more than 225,000 videos (October 2008), they provide the largest, most contemporary, and most diverse resource in this increasingly vibrant space.

Makezine

MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

Howstuffismade

Howstuffismade (HSIM) is a visual encyclopedia that documents the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products. It is a free, independent, academic resource published by engineering and design students, who research and produce summative photoessays describing the life cycle of the product, with a view to improvement.

Digital-photography-school

Digital Photography school is a website with simple tips to help digital camera owners get the most out of their cameras. Discover how to use your digital camera with their Digital Photography Tips. They have a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography.

Howtocleanstuff

This is a bright and beautifully designed website offering you tips on how to clean stuffs. There are latest guides on cleaning just about anything. You can learn everything from How to wash a rabid monkey to how to clean your PDA.

Treehugger

TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. They have handful of excellent tips on how to go green on your daily life and make it better.

Howtogeek

How to geek offers awesome collection of computer tutorials that carries everything from building your own computer to how to work with open source software and much more. You should not miss this site if you find yourself in from of computer every now and then.

Video-tutes

Video-tutes is one of the most admired website that offers video tutorials for variety of software programs including Photoshop cs2 & 3, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash 8 and Flash 8 video, Adobe Premiere pro and more, 22 titles in fact. Tutorial video collection is designed to help beginners and those wishing to learn new software to become productive faster & those wanting to advance their skill set.

Blog-tutorials

At Blog Tutorials, you get help on how to build a blog (or improve your blog if you already have an existing one). Whether it’s about blog software, writing, or even earning from your blog, this is the source for everything on blogging.

These are some How-to sites that you will not regret visiting. We all are here to learn and share, go ahead enjoy surfing through. Meanwhile, you can also follow me on Twitter and bloggers here have a great opportunity to join hands together with – Bloggers On Twitter.

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Top 10 Government Sites Powered By WordPress

Nikita Porwal — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:39:54 +0000

In case you are looking start of your web based or a CMS project, then WordPress is strongly recommended. There are many reasons why we love WordPress and believe that it is the best blogging/CMS platform on web today. Some of the reasons why honeytechblog is powered by WordPress are:

Its Simplicity
Trackback Feature
Auto Ping Functionality
Easy to Customize
Variety of Design Themes Available
Outstanding Plugin Functionality
User-friendly and So on

With increasing popularity of this, many are choosing wordpress as the base platform for their project. In fact, toady you will find many .gov and .org sites are based on wordpress. Here, I have collected Top 10 Government Sites Powered By WordPress.

1. America.gov

America.gov is produced by U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP), which engages international audiences on issues of foreign policy, society and values to help create an environment receptive to U.S. national interests. IIP communicates with foreign opinion makers and other publics through a wide range of print and electronic outreach materials published in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Persian, Russian, and Spanish. IIP also provides information outreach support to U.S. embassies and consulates in more than 140 countries worldwide.

2. Congressional Budget Office

Congressional Budget Office blog is maintained by the director Douglas W. Elmendorf. He oversees the agency’s work in providing objective, insightful, timely, and clearly presented information about budgetary and economic issues. The Director also supervises the numerous analytical papers and cost estimates produced by the agency, and he testifies frequently before Congressional committees. In managing the agency, the Director is responsible for a staff of about 235 people and an annual budget of roughly $40 million.

3. Broadband.gov

Blogband is the official blog of the United States National Broadband Plan. A great way to create a connected America is to involve all Americans in the development of a National Broadband Plan. The FCC welcomes civic participation, and also look forward to more interaction through this website as they new features and functions. Through this blog, broadband tries to help spread the word about the available and imminent plans and promote what FCC is doing to educate people about it. Blogband is also one of the FCC’s major ventures into blogging and social media.

4. National Center for Preservation Technology & Training

NCPTT protects America’s historic legacy by equipping preservation professionals with progressive technology-based research and training. NCPTT advances the application of science and technology to historic preservation. Working in the fields of archeology, architecture, landscape architecture and materials conservation, the Center accomplishes its mission through training, education, research, technology transfer and partnerships. NCPTT serves the community that fostered its creation and, in turn, serves the nation and the world.

5. Speaker Nancy Pelosi

This blog belongs to Nancy Pelosi who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected first woman to serve as Speaker of the House. Speaker Pelosi has proved to be a strong, pragmatic leader, unifying her House Democratic caucus more than any other leader in the last 50 years to pass critical legislation moving America in a New Direction after eight years of Republican rule. With Speaker Pelosi at the helm, the 110th Congress has built an impressive record that has focused on the priorities of the American people and brought needed change to Washington and across the country.

6. Official Site of U.K’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown

This is the official site of the U.K Prime Minister’s (Gordon Brown) office. It is the complete source of information on Prime Minister’s performance and activity. The news feature will continue to be central to the site, allowing you to keep up to date with Prime Minister’s work. The Number10 TV channel also provide a wealth of video material, photos updated quickly to the Number 10 Flickr channel, and he will also be posting frequent messages through Twitter to keep you in touch with his day to day activities. With this site he discover what are the current issues faced by the country and locates solution to it.

7. Brazilian Culture Ministry

It is the official web site of the Brazilian Culture Ministry. Apart from daily updates, the sites shares huge information on Project support, Bids and Awards, meetings and forums and videos.

8. Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Office of the Librarian is tasked to set policy and to direct and support programs and activities to accomplish the Library’s mission.

9. Directgov | innovate

Directgov is an Directgov | innovate developer site to provide an innovative, collaborative, open source environment for Government and developers to interact, share new ideas and showcase work. The success of this space is dependent on open participation and the ability to have conversations around best use of government data, development of applications and use of new and innovative technologies.

10. Power of Information Taskforce Report

This site offers report on Power of Information Taskforce. The Taskforce brought together a group from government, industry and the third sector who all share a passion for using ICT to enable better public service delivery. All members have contributed in a personal capacity rather than on behalf of their respective organizations and this independence of approach is reflected in our conclusions. The group has itself worked largely through web 2.0 tools – communicating as a web group, publishing our progress via a blog and RSS feed, and producing this draft report on a wiki.

All these sites are powered by WordPress and doing a great job out there. Do share other wordpress based websites (only .gov) if you come across. Meanwhile, if you are a blogger then let’s join hand together via Blogger on Twitter.

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Top 10 Useful Resources for Blogger / Writer

Nikita Porwal — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:40:24 +0000

Great writers are respected all over the world for their work. Be it a columnist, editor, tech writer or a blogger you have way all around. But getting into great writing journey is not an easy task, you got to love writing and work consistently on it. You can find thousands of tips on how to improve writing and asking you to read, read and read more voraciously. But many may go wrong at what to read about. In fact, there are thousands of blog resources around the web that can create an awesome experience for anyone thinking about blogging. However, reading blogs that has good writing involved is must if you want to develop as blogger/writer. So for people who are looking for some great blogging resources here is a Top 10 Useful Resources for Blogger/Writer.

Problogger - I’m sure you know them, Darren Rowse is a full time blogger teaching the art of blogging and making money through it. Problogger is dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium. You may not find any fancy kind of writing with Darren as he maintains the traditional way of writing that is useful, impressive and easily understandable.

Copyblogger – You cannot miss on this is you seriously want to get into good writing. Brian Clark believes that Content drives the Internet, and using the right words in the right way will determine not only how well your site converts visitors into sales. In turn offering you information on Writing Headlines, SEO Copywriting, Writing EBooks, Creativity Tips, Freelnace Marketing, and also has copywriting courses that are worth taking up!

Mashable – I would be surprised if you say you have not come across Mashable. Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. With more than 10 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web and offering social media resources and guides. Pete Cashmore, Josh Catone, and Jennifer Van Grove are among few best contributor of the team.

DoshDosh – Maki is among those excellent writers that can explain things in-depths with utmost simple style and language. Dosh Dosh is a blog offering internet marketing and blogging tips, alongside social media strategies. Best consumed by bloggers, entrepreneurs, web publishers, marketers, freelancers and small business owners.

Techcrunch - Heather Harde is the CEO of this technology hub. Techcrunch is weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, they profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space. This has now grown into a network of technology focused sites offering a wide range of content and new media. One of the well-written blogs and definitely a writer’s paradise.

Phrase Finder - Phrase Finder is the authority of Gary Martin who writes the Meanings and Origins section of the site and the Phrase A Week posts. This site is extremely helpful for generating ideas for writers/blogger. You will find Phrases Thesaurus, Discussion Forum, Phrase Quizzes and many more sources for improvement.

Blogging Pro – Blogging Pro is an excellent blog for information on news, themes and plugins for blogging applications in a straightforward, no-nonsense manner. They regularly discuss a wide array of blogging-related topics, from personal blogging, to blog monetization, to the technical aspects of blogging and even other emerging forms of new media.

Dumb Little Man - Many of you may not know Jay White who is a founder of Dumb Little Man. Actually a great productive blogs around and maintain by varieties of writers producing insightful articles on how to improve your everyday productivity and organize time in a improved manner.

Daily Blog Tips – Daily Blog Tips is written by Daniel and focus mainly on blog promotion, monetization and optimization. One of the top blogs around and has carries excellent advice for writers/blogger who desires to make it huge space in the blogosphere.

Quick Online Tips – Quick Online Tips, also fondly known as QOT, is a popular blog regularly publishing Technology news, smart blogging tips, new media, web 2.0 services, useful computer software, and ways to make money online.

Some other well written stuff you can locate at – Men With Pens , Freelance Switch , Personified, John Chow, Blog Herald, Chicago Manual Of Style

These are among tops blog I love to read every day and I’m sure there are many more good blogs and I can’t possibly name all of them under one roof. But still it’s a useful list which I hope you enjoyed visiting through. Make sure you subscribe to their RSS feed if you wanting to learn and develop more on your writing skills.

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Top 10 Affiliate Programs / Networks A Blogger Should Opt For

Nikita Porwal — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:05:16 +0000

Increasingly Affiliate Programs are becoming the best ways to make money online. In fact, 70% of bloggers deal with affiliate programs as it fetches handsome income. On the other hand, many newbie’ are unaware of how to make money with affiliate programs. They may not even know how affiliate programs work. Well, the working is simple, you put an advert on your blog/website (assuming you have one), which advertises the product and services of another company. If your reader/visitors click on those ads or say make a purchase through your link then the latter company would pay you a percentage of sale or fix price on each lead that come from your site!

It would not be unfair to say that such programs have soon become the life blood of success for bloggers, webmaster, and people with internet business. But then you need to bear in mind certain things for getting those extra cash. Affiliate programs may not work if you don’t do your homework before jumping. The two most important must check is –

Having related products is the first step to success. Especially if your blog is about a specific niche then make sure you opt for relevant products. Say for example, you have a blog with web design niche, so obviously your visitors will come hunting for web design related information. But in case your ads are about a “tuxedo suit” then, your visitor is less likely to click on your ad and make a lead.

Next most important things is to consider quality over quantity. Always care about the products that are listed on your site and make sure they are of high quality. This would lead your visitors to trust you and come back if they wanna shop more. This affects your traffic as well. There is a thin line between lucrative affiliate program and poor affiliate program. So, I have listed Top 10 Affiliate Program/Network that a blogger should opt for, to make money with affiliate programs .

Google Adsense – Anybody dealing with content based networks, Google Adsense is a must! This is highly recommended program as it is easy to use and you get highly targeted ads which are of course relevant to your blog niche. Just have your ads in place and your audience would do the rest!

Commission Junction – If you call yourself an affiliate marketer then it is understood that you have already own a CJ account. This program is beyond doubt one of the best to deal with. In fact, you can also call it the largest affiliate network on Internet. Wide and most excellent choice of advertiser can be done at CJ!

Ebay – Anyone one planning to add affiliate network to their blog must look at Ebay. It sells almost any kind of product/services that can be shopped online. Another thing is that Ebay is a global company, offering products from all across the world to market. You will find easy click through traffic for your blog just because of Ebay’s brand name!

Amazon Affiliates – This is the oldest program around internet. As a blogger Amazon Affiliate Program will work superb for you, because it lets you place unique widgets to your blog/website sidebar and contents. Amazon Affiliates stands out in offering amazing holiday solution that is you can make the most money during Christmas and Halloween days!

ClickBank – Will do wonders if your blog is concerning digital product niche. It allows 75% commission for all the sales done. You can choose from more than 10,000 digital products and ClickBank is known for accurate tracking and high conversion rates. You get paid on weekly basis!

PepperJam Network – PepperJam Network is relatively new services across internet, but is swiftly moving on the popularity chart of online worker. PJN offers you unique alternative ways to advertise that many fail to provide. Their advertising model is very effective to get more leads and sales for any blog/website!

Azoogle Ads – This program has solid network and lot of potentials involved. Since its inception in 2000 it is offering different programs for publishers such as CPA and CPM programs. One feature that stands out, is their rewards program for top performing affiliates. Minimum prize would be $5000/month, which is something that is difficult for many affiliates to obtain!

Chitika Premium – Work incredible for content based networks. Note that ads with Chitika Premium are displayed only when someone comes to your site clicking on a search engine result. In other word, ads will be displayed based on search terms from which US visitors come to your blog. Advantage here is that you may get less impression but your click-through rates would certainly be greater!

Clickbooth – This is one of the advanced affiliate network comprising many quality and well-known advertisers. You are sure to take home highest payouts in the industry. Don’t forget to go through their referral program as you can get good cash by referring users to Clickbooth!

XY7 Affiliate – It is well-known for offering online marketing solution via its affiliate programs. You are sure to locate variety of products/service to market with them. With cutting-edge technology you will certainly realize the worth of joining!

Of course great blogs and websites deserve to get most out of their advertisements and so you should try out these networks. Do share your experience with affiliate networks and let me know if I have overlooked some “top tier” programs!

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Top 30 Places for a Writer/Blogger to Make Money Online

Nikita Porwal — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:49:46 +0000

If you are a writer/blogger then the power of writing is known! They say “Content is the King” and why not, a great written copy carries all the abilities that a King has. But then writing can be a challenge – be it freelance/offline/online or any other kind. You need to put in your energy and hard work to make your web writing journey successful. If you Google around, then you will notice that many websites/blogs do not have skill to generate well written, interesting and impressive content. That is where a good writer is required. You may say that the online freelance industry does not pay as high as the print freelance industry, but it does have its own benefits. Some of the advantages are that you are free to write on hobbies, particular subjects and interest; apart from that even the payment is quick with web writing. Your work with online writing can get much easier if you know where exactly to look for. So comprising the list I have come up with top 30 Places for a Writer/Blogger to Make Money Online!

Client Based Website

Working with Client based websites is easy and interesting. Here you will find varieties of client that are looking to hire you. There are clients even willing to pay up $50 for an interesting and unique piece. Ghostwriting talents goes amazing with such websites, although people also look for Private Label Rights Articles, EBooks and other kinds. These are actually forums where you can scroll and look for threads called “Marketplace”, “Services or “Buy/Sell”. Here you are free to make your own offer, but of course make sure you have great samples attached!

Shell out for Content Website

There are wonderful websites that pay you for posting your content on their sites. Usually with these websites you need to post your content and wait for buyer to purchase the same. The minimum pay out could be $3 to $8 for about 500 words. Although, there are chances that some website might even pay you about $50 for well-written article. The article that you post on such website needs to be exclusive – meaning not to be posted elsewhere! Posting Ghostwritten articles for others will not be acceptable by these websites. After you post your content it would take about 2-3 days for the site to review and make the payment.

Revenue Sharing Websites

Following are the websites that will pay you on revenue sharing websites. Usually these websites will have ads posted such as Adsense, YSM etc and the revenue generated by such ads will be shared among you and the website owner on a percentage basis. You can post your own article, essays and other interesting topics. This is purely on the basis of click-through so the more your article gets popular the more revenue will be generated, leading you with more money!

You can make up to $100/day with your writing skills, just remember to use your knowledge, interest and hard work. Writing need not be complicated always; even simple piece of article can serve the purpose at times. In fact people would love your copy if it is simply understandable and unique. There are several ways to improve your writing journey, I would discuss it soon in upcoming articles! Happy Writing!

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How To Update your Blog If You Don’t Have Enough Time

Honey Singh — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:34:21 +0000

Never-ending meetings can tie you down for an eternity so it robs you some good time to chill and relax by updating your blog. It is a golden rule that thy must not let a blog remain stagnant for a week since you will loose all the loyal patrons visiting it.

Thank goodness for the emergence of social networking sites that could be accessed, updated and even edited through your mobile phone. Wap sites are available for you to find a way to get connected with the main frame. Take for example Wordpress, Flickr, Facebook and the list goes on!

You can update your blog by sending short messages through your mobile phone. You see, it’s that simple! You not only keep your blog alive with your status updates, you also increase the level of traffic that comes to your blog site. The best examples is the use of various twitter tools for Wordpress. On the other hands you can also make interesting blog post out of e-mail and chat conversations. You can easily post to your blog using email with some unique contents , photoshoots , queries and other crunchy information’s .

There seems to be a lot of bloggers hooked 24/7 to their PDAs or even usual mobile phones. There are some instances when they are so itching to report what they have just experienced either through a written post or photo. Another ideas to drag immense pursuit and traffic is the photo blog with the help of Mobile applications for Twitter , it takes no time to update from mobile and creates curiosity among your viewers if you are interesting enough.

When the blog gets really popular while the blogger gets really busy, there’s one way to flickkeep the fire burning in your blog. You have loyal patrons? Have them submit articles, photos, some thoughts or what-have-you regarding a specific topic you want to be highlighted on. There goes your week’s worth of updates!

Be sure to credit their works since these contributors will surely hunt you down.

Note: People who don’t have time and blog for making money have hundred of auto content generated blogs. These blog are running on RSS aggregator plugins like FeedWordPress . If you have few quality blogs then i would not recommend to go for Atom/RSS aggregator as it degrade the quality of the blog.

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Top 10 great blogging services that host your blog for free

Sakib Mahmud — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:00:13 +0000

A blog is a website which is run by individual or multiple authors. On a blog site, a user can share his/her life experiences or their can be professional purpose. Now a days people are blogging just for the sake of money but their still are souls who consider it to be a passionate part of hobby.

A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.’ via blogs.law.harvard.edu

A professional can fudge his personal blogs but on the other hand, layman need to think twice about the tools, services and the way to have their own blogs.Many technology consultants earns heavily for providing technical consultancy of "dos and don’t".In different purpose a blog site feeding different interesting topics with unique frequently posts can make a blog site popular in short time.

On this post, we are trying to enlist some great blogging service, which is giving for free. While rendering this web we’ve tested maximum blogging service and found lots of website giving free blogging service without better service quality, we left those web companies.So top most services are listed as follows:

WordPress
Without any knowledge of web server, websites, bloging service or any previous experiences of blogging system anyone can signup for an free account for blogging. They are giving 3 GB free space and unlimited bandwidth and as well user can connect his/her domain with them.
Edublogs
World’s largest blogging service where only educators are gathering. A teacher and a student connect with each others with faster way and they can share, exchange their knowledge and rich self expertise.
Blogsome
WordPress MU platform based blogging platform and a fastest growing company which giving free sub domains. They says, it’s easy to signup, easy to manage and easy to get a free blog site.
Blogetery
Free wordpress hosting service giving to their user. You can connect your domain with them and it’s really awesome.
Blogger
Top one blogging service on internet. Blogger is great for customization but wordpress is smarter then blogger’s content management system. Blogger was acquired by Google Inc. Blogger giving 1 GB free space plus unlimited bandwidth for free.
Tumblr
A simple, slick, rich and smooth blogging service. A newbie can start his first blogging experiences with tumblr.com and they are giving free access, domain connection, theme customization features too.
Weebly
What to get a free site? Weebly giving free blog site opening service, free hosting, design choosing and so on features. All things are given by free of cost and as well it’s looks so professional and advertisement free.
Vox
This blogging service which is part of sixapart and you can create your personal blogging platform for free.
Xanga
By socially you can start your blogging and you can get a sub-domain for free of cost.As well you can grow your social networks under xanga’s service.
LiveJournal
If you’re keeping every day’s experiences on internet by blogging, Livejournal is a great place to express your life style. They are giving blogging space and easily to create your blog page, within a few you can get one account, as well they supporting open id access.
Multiply
Social networking and blogging service both are merged by them. When you’re opening social networks, automatically you can get blogging service beneath same user account. You can upload photos and make your own photo galleries and as well grow your networks. It has drawback that It’s showing advertisement on your networks or blog site.
Windows Live Spaces
Microsoft has blogging service, known as Windows Live Spaces. They are giving free of cost but need an email account and lots of limitations it has and as well normally it’s showing advertisement to your blog site and management system is so poor.

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Note: After checking this huge list if you are confused then you should look into who is the most reliable blogging service .Their are other tools and services which can boost your blogging experience so you should also look into this mini guide of best offline blog editors and web publishing tools.Last but not least content is the king and sooner or later you need to feel the content strategy of blogging.

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10+ Most Popular WordPress Plugins

Sakib Mahmud — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:37:56 +0000

WordPress one of the world famous open source based blogging software. Within a few minutes you can get the applications and install of your server and get the blogging experiences. Although, you can try wordpress.com — it’s providing free blogging service, just you have to signup but lots of limitations it has but on your own server if you install that software you will input more features by yourself and do some coding to make it exclusive. In wordpress it has plug-ins features, you can enable more features by using plug-ins. I’m trying to figure out some superb plug-ins which is so popular.

All in One SEO Pack — If you wants to optimize your blog site for search engine we recommending this plug-ins. To become popular in web and you need better search engine optimization and this plug-ins will handle all of your needs. Lots of customization options you will get and also you can setup the crawling times of the posts, pages and manage your blog titles, posts, pages view style in search engine.

WP Super Cache — This plug-in generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your web server will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts

WordPress Stats — How many hits you’re getting per day, per month, per year and so on status you can see through this plugins and it will show the results by using graph and easy to track the development of your websites and better to take decision by analyzing on basis of stats reports.

Simple Tags — This plug-ins brings more flexibility in Wordpress. You can embed tags, auto tagging system, relevant tags generator, Ajax based interface and manager, easy to rename, delete, merge, search, add, edit tags id and at a time you can update lots of tags.

Google XML Sitemaps — By using this plugins, your blog site will get Google Site maps compliant XML sitemaps and after the posting, you can anytime updates or edit the posts and automatically site maps will updated and the major search engine, Google, MSN Search Engine, Yahoo engine, Ask Engine will get notification that you have updated your data and the search will updated them too.

NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash sideshow option. By using this plugins you can easily handle your photos, albums, photo galleries and rounding and so on built in features.

Google Analytics for WordPress — This plug-ins will automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blog roll links and as well you can track Adsense clicks, search engines crawling information, track images queries information and working with Urchin.

WP-DB-Backup — One of the great plug-ins which will take auto backup of your data base. If anything happens on your database, or having face any error — you can replace the whole data base from the backup. You have three options to take backup and I prefer email backup and the hourly or per day you can take once scheduled backup automatically and the file will be send to your email account.

Twitter Tools — This plug-ins will create connection in between of your twitter and wordpress blog site. When you’re posting any post, your twitter followers will get notified or you can show your twitter updates by using this small plugins to your blog site.

Akismet — Without using this plug-ins, you’re can save your blog site from ’spam’. If you wants to same spam comments, you can use this plugins and it’s really great and superbly works to protect spams. Even, you can create your own black list and if matched that will be send to spam area. No worries within a click you can handle all of your works.

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Why Content Strategy Matters

Honey Singh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:27:11 +0000

When you invest on a social media, there are two important things that you must consider: content and connection. Without these two aspects, your branding strategy will not make a dent amidst the overflow of information in modern mass media.

That is why it is very important for your company to define its content strategy. Such definition becomes more important if you want to become competitive on the web. That is because virtual social media is overflowing with content.We at mediaredefined think that if you cannot position your content ahead of others and make a difference, then your content creation can be overwhelmed by the overflow of information on the Internet.

As a first step, you need to define the purpose of your content. Is your content designed to build authority or is it created to pre-sell something. Your content can also be a tool for viral marketing or simply an information resource so you can generate lots of followers. Defining the purpose of your content is the building block of your company’s content strategy.

Second, you need to decide which form of social media to use to deliver your content to the target audience. This step involves analysis on the most effective social media on the web. For example, you can venture into video streaming which is the most popular type of social media today.

Lastly, you have to develop ways how to manage your content. Citizen of the web are always looking for fresh and updated information. You need to answer this demand so that your content will be relevant to many people.

Moreover,have a look over the presentation of “alchemy content” on Content Strategies.

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Four blogging tips to consider before writing

Honey Singh — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:46:02 +0000

Blogging can be fun and productive if you have what it takes to get people to read your entries. Nowadays, companies are hiring writers or bloggers to write about certain topics like products and services. The higher the number of readers, otherwise known as traffic, the more money your blog receives. So how exactly do you set up and maintain a good blog? Here are some interesting tips you can apply before starting your own blog.

The first thing is to know just what your niche is. You need to ask yourself questions in which the answers you provide will lead you to your strengths and interests. Once you discover the topic or theme that you excel the most then you can start from there.
Set up a blog in which you feel comfortable with. The dashboard has to be user friendly and the features should be complete such as pings, RSS feeds, and comment editor. You want your blog to be as interactive as possible for your readers to have an enjoyable stay.
You have to research a lot and enough for you to be an expert in your chosen topic. You may have the creative juices to wow your readers, but if you don’t know enough about the topic or only have shallow knowledge about it, then you might loose your credibility and, in the end, your readers.
Have an email address that’s only devoted to your money-making blog. You’re going to need this as this will be the source of communication between you and your readers.

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