Previously, I’ve talked about the importance of submitting your site to directories. Aside from being a free source of traffic, it is also categorized, hence, you are building quality inbound links for your site, which are loved by search engines. I’ve listed below the most popular directories that you can submit your new blog to.
Blogarama
Link: http://www.blogarama.com
Blogdigger
Link: http://www.blogdigger.com
Blog Catalog
Link: http://www.blogcatalog.com
Blog Hub
Link: http://www.bloghub.com
Blog Rankings
Link: http://www.blogrankings.com
Blog Street
Link: http://www.blogstreet.com
Blog Search Engine
Link: http://www.blogsearchengine.com
Blog Wise
Link: http://www.blogwise.com
Blogz
Link: http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/
Blog Lines
Link: http://www.bloglines.com
Bloogz
Link: http://www.bloogz.com
Blog Pulse
Link: http://www.blogpulse.com
Blog Universe
Link: http://www.bloguniverse.com
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Banner advertising is considered as one of the most effective ways of promoting your website or products online. One of the most important steps in banner advertising is creating an attractive banner. However, most of the time you need a costly software or pay for someone to create one. Not everybody can afford to purchase these softwares or know how to use them. Good thing there are free banner generators that can help you in creating banners and launching your ad campaigns.
Create graphical banners (this can also be used for your website headers and banners).
Banner Sketch offers a high-quality professional online banner creator. They have pre-build templates you can use. However, they only offer banner (468×60) and half banner (234×60) sizes.
Banner Break lets you create a professional-quality graphical banner.
My Banner Maker is an easy to use banner maker. You can choose any ad format that will suit your ad campaign. All banners are instantly hosted by ImageShack.
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BerryBlitz asked how to get back his PR2 (his blog now has PR0). Apparently, he is one of the millions affected by the PR sweep as punishment by Google on paid links.
Well, here’s a tip for those who were affected by PR drop:
I was Stumbling a while ago when I found this timely and interesting post from Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs Journey, one of the successful netrepreneurs and probloggers, on how he has managed to get his page rank back to 6. When the big sweep happened, his blog went down to 3 from his original PR6.
Good for him he has now managed to get back his page rank. He added no follow to all paid links in his blog, then submitted a review request with Google at their Webmaster Tools then patiently waited for Google to give him his original PR. According to him, “Google simply doesn’t tell you whether you have successfully adhered to their requests or you still need to do more to have the penalty removed.”
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Text Link Ads (TLA) has helped me a lot on my hosting and domain dues and other online transactions. Adding funds to Paypal was still not possible in the Philippines so my TLA payments are what I use to pay my hosting and domain. I don’t have a credit card (except for my mom’s GSIS e-card) so I have to depend on my Paypal balance to pay for these things.
I was earning at least $100/month with TLA and the links to this blog generate most of my earnings (>60%). For a starter in blog monetization, 100 bucks really mean a huge amount. However, after reading some of Google PR drops and sites getting banned from Google results because of paid links, I had to reconsider things.
John Chow’s blog for example was number 1 in Google results for “make money online” keywords but now it’s nowhere to be found. Some bloggers however, like Darren Rowse of Problogger.net suggested to “Forget About Page Rank and Build a Better Blog” and further emphasized that it’s the quality of content that gives you traffic and that relying in Google is a bad move. Dosh Dosh also stated that Google PR are just numbers and a “webmaster fetish”, i However, for a struggling blogger who’s still building a traffic like me, the searches from Google and other search engines really matter a lot.
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Entrecard credits these days should be dubbed as the “virtual money” of the blogosphere. It is now possible to do online transactions without the need to spend real money, using Entrecard credits. With this possibility, users are also exploring new ways on how to earn more credits.
If you visit the Entrecard Shop, you’ll find great ways to spend your ecs:
- For Advertising: You can buy an ad space or text, a blog review, and directory submission.
- Buy Products and Services: Buy an e-book, pay and buy a web space, a blog installation, graphic design, CDs and DVDs, comments for your blog (yeah, even this), search engine optimization, etc.
Of course we know that we can buy ad space on different blogs through browsing the directory. To buy all these products, you have to have enough credits. We already know the conventional ways to earn credits: by dropping and receiving drop cards from others, every time someone advertises in our widgets and receiving donations from others.
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Using magazine-style WordPress themes is the new trend in the blogging community. These themes enhances the CMS capability of WordPress.
Why is it better to choose a magazine- or newspaper-style theme?
1. It’s “pro-looking”. One of the ways to drive traffic and persuade readers is making your layout professional. Because these themes can be taking a lot of knowledge about coding, most of them are designed by professional designers.
2. You can maximize the space on your blog. You have a lot of space for advertising and other widgets.
3. It is best for multimedia. Magazine-style themes are best for video blogging and podcasting.
4. You can have featured posts highlighting a certain notable post.
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