Learn to make money from blogs

Special foam mattress for stomach sleepers.

2012-02-02T09:24:00.000+05:30

Would you have believed if I told you that there is a special Memory foam mattress for those who habitually sleep on their stomach? In addition, do you know that the thickness of the foam mattress for stomach sleepers should not exceed 2 inches?

People who find comfort if they sleep on their back have reported no pain on their lower back. Do you know the scientific reason behind this?

I have more information for people who sleep on their sides or on back and what kind of foam mattress should they choose and why?

What should be the ideal thickness of the foam mattress that gives you more relief from pressures?

I am sure you are amazed at all these information. There is more to buying foam mattress for different kinds of sleepers.

I think I have to buy myself a separate foam mattress which implies that I have to ask my husband to sleep on the couch.

Google is redirecting blogspot blogs to country specific domains.

2012-02-01T11:20:00.002+05:30

Are you aware that Google is redirecting blogspot blogs to country specific domains? In order to comply Indian Government censorship rules, Google has taken this measure.

Example:
This blog of mine http://income-opportunities.blogspot.com/ is 6 years old is now redirected to http://income-opportunities.blogspot.in/

Losing the pagerank and Alexa rank
It has lost its PR2 and the Alex rank has slipped from 500k to 10 million.

I do not like it but then, who am I to question my Government or Goggle?

What type of guitars are suitable for learners.

2012-01-27T15:31:00.002+05:30

That someone who had been teaching guitars for over a decade was found to be wanting in suggesting what types of guitars are suitable for learners. My disapproval was obvious when my son told me that he knew someone who is good at teaching guitars and keyboards.

I asked my son what the teacher’s name was so that I could inquire around. What I gathered did not impress me. Since my son insisted, I choose him as his guru. In addition, the music teacher’s proximity to my house stood in his favor.

As per his musician’s suggestion, my son bought his first learner’s guitar which has now taken refuge in the garage attic. Being a self learner, he soon learnt all about guitars and essential accessories.

In exactly 7 months after he joined guitar learning, he performed before a small group of audience.

The most profitable blog monetization.

2012-01-25T15:09:00.005+05:30

The most profitable blog monetization.

There may be differences of opinion but I would like to emphasize that affiliate marketing is the most profitable blog monetization strategy. This is applicable for those who don't have their own digital information products which is of course anytime more profitable than promoting others' products.

My next argument is, I don't prefer to put my efforts in promoting clickbank products because the reward is not instant when you make a sale. I have about $50 in my clickbank account for two sales I made 7 months back. Clickbank has its own rules to release payments.

So, what I prefer?

Instant PayPal Commissions:
I have joined several affiliate program network that pay the commission instantly into my PayPal account as soon as the sale is generated. In fact, the commissions are mostly 100%.

High Paying affiliate programs:
If I come to know of any hot selling product, I check to see whether it is in the database of high paying affiliate programs. If it satisfies my metrics, then, I think of ways to promote it.

Less profitable ways of making money by blogging.
Selling ad space in your blog is the easiest method to earn good money by blogging.
PPC advertising is the least profitable way to monetize your blogs.

Fastest YouTube downloader.

2012-01-23T08:36:00.005+05:30

If there is one web application that is instantly downloaded whenever it is announced, it is youtube downloader. From schools students to professional college students, from casual browsers to serious internet entrepreneurs, downloading video clips from Youtube is the most frequently carried out action.

Even though online sharing of any file is made easy through various media, people still download their favorite videos to store and share offline with their family members and friends.

Educational institutions are the biggest users of YouTube videos. For them, video downloading application is very handy.

The latest YouTube downloader is from bestvideodownloader.com. The site has published exceptional screenshots for the benefit of skeptics like me who are nervous about downloading anything online.

The different screenshots explaining the downloading of this useful web tool for various browsers that include Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome are clear and to the point.

I downloaded it as a Mozilla Firefox extension.

Blogging for Children as an extracurricular activity.

2012-01-21T12:49:00.001+05:30

A couple of hours ago, I happen to read a PLR article on the topic of introducing blogging to the children. The piece was pure garbage.

However, it gave me a blogging topic and here I am, thinking aloud.

I think it is about time that children are taught the art of blogging. Starting them young would enhance their worldly knowledge, introduce them to new technology and they would learn to get along with children as well as adults from various nations.

Children’s writing skill would vastly improve. This move might bring forth future geniuses in the world of new blogging platforms, web designs and Internet marketing.

Already they are used to social networking sites. Why not make them spend their time usefully?

By the time children complete their school final, they world enter the world of Internet for some purpose or other. Getting to know to search and compile information quickly using search engines would become a mandatory qualification. I am sure bloggers would very soon become adept at this technique.

It goes without saying; the creativity can be kindled on children. They would learn to offer their feedback on comment forms which would encourage the author of the blog to write better to attract more comments.

Would educationists consider including blogging as an extracurricular activity?

Buy nursing scrubs at just $5

2012-01-19T12:28:00.001+05:30

Isn’t she smart looking in one of those Marcus nursing scrubs? What a change nursing garbs had undergone since the first nursing school was opened in England way back in 1960 when nurses wore full length dress similar to a nun’s habit.

Convenience of moving around compelled for evolution in medical uniforms. Getting in and out of lifts in a jiffy, jumping two steps at a time in staircases required nurses to wear shorter garbs.

Only a few months ago, I informed my sister-in-law who is a gynecologist about Marcus’s range of medical accessories that include nursing uniforms, hospital shoes and stethoscopes.

She did not show much interest in shoes and stethoscopes but she evinced keen interest in nurses’ accessories. She especially liked the colored and flowered scrubs sold at just $5.

She owns a specialty nursing home that always runs short of nurses. As she has to frequently employ nurses, she used to buy medical uniforms for them in large quantities of different sizes.

I think the prices of Marcus nursing scrubs suited her.

Can affiliate marketing be taught personally?

2012-01-16T08:11:00.005+05:30

A young person tentatively approached me and inquired if affiliate marketing can be taught personally. I thought for a while. Who taught me affiliate marketing?

None that I remember. As ever, I learnt it online on my own. I read affiliate marketing forums, subscribed to several blogs' newsletter, poured over Squidoo lenses to grasp the basics of affiliate marketing.

I told the youth it is possible but he needs to put in an honest effort first to learn the basics of online income earning ways through promoting products developed by others.

I showed him an extraordinary video tutorial on affiliate marketing which would teach him the fundamentals of ClickBank, keyword analysis, article writing and Internet marketing through web 2.0 properties.

I also gave him a list of forums that discussed affiliate marketing, asked him to search for Google groups on the topic and subscribe to them.

After going through all these and equipping himself with some fundamental stuff on affiliate marketing, he can ask for a two hour consultancy.

Free e-course on affiliate marketing.
As a measure to induce him him into affiliate marketing, I led him to a site free he can grab a free e-course on affiliate marketing.

By the look on his face, I thought he would not dare to open his computer again.

Get to know about all discount sales in one place.

2012-01-13T15:12:00.003+05:30

I must admit I did not expect to find so many electronic and consumer goods sold at big discount prices. I must thank the Apple Store coupons link that took me to geekalerts.com, a big compilation of discount coupons and promotion codes on hundreds of gadgets.

As an experienced online shopper, I usually search for online shopping malls that accept discount coupons that I am able to get through promotional campaigns, winning free giveaway events and online contests.

Not many people are as smart as I am when it comes to smart shopping. I know new product launches always come with promotional discounts. Typically, products such as SLR cameras that are outdated are put up on discount sales.

While one can collect discount coupons from various other resources as I mentioned above, some websites like geekalerts.com has listed out discount coupons offered by big names such as DELL, JVC and HP through reputed outlets like Buy.com

I am sure such hot deals are not known to millions of hungry buyers. For example, do you know about $40 off on this printer you see below? It is an all-in-one Printer from HP, a wireless officejet. After discount, it comes to just $90.00

Here is a real surprise for you. Under the best buy coupons, there is a $200 off Sony’s Tablet and wireless network speakers. You need to hurry though as this offer ends on 6^th Feb 2012.

New Tourmaster jackets for women with more features.

2012-01-12T14:06:00.003+05:30

When it comes to winter dresses, I am poor. I always borrow my husband’s tourmaster jackets of which he has several. During this March, I am planning to my son who lives in Oslo, Norway where the temperature hovers around 4 degree even in March.

Though my husband would be willing to lend his jackets, I thought for once, I would wear something that fits me perfectly and one that is made for women only. I hate rolling up the sleeves of my husband’s Tourmaster jackets that extend over my hands by about 4 inches.

I came to know about the closeout prices for Tourmaster Trinity jackets for women. It has so many features that include as many as 5 packets and three vents for free flow of air.

Ideal for me!

Earn money by placing text link ads.

2012-01-06T14:23:00.004+05:30

Once again I stumbled onto a new money earning opportunity through blogs. Who said pro-blogging days are thinning out?

Look at this web site Linkvehicle.com
The site is a marketplace for bloggers and advertisers. Bloggers can earn money by placing text advertisements on their blogs and also by writing about advertisers' products or services in their blogs.

Money by placing text link ads
Bloggers can either allow the ads to be placed automatically through a script or choose to place them manually. The payment share is only 50% of the revenue received by Link Vehicle from the advertisers who bought the ad space.

Money by writing reviews
Bloggers are paid for writing 200 word blog post. The number of links inside the blog post is decided by the advertiser. The price per blog post is set by you subject to approval by the advertiser. A tricky one for beginners to the pro-blogging world.

I always set my price and never compromise on it.

Click on the 'marketplace' tab to know how other bloggers have set their price based on the pagerank of their blogs.

Spread the word plaese!

You are a blogger; but are you there?

2012-01-02T13:27:00.006+05:30

My surprise took a back seat when a person expressed incredulity when I said to him that I make money by blogging. Who is a novice here?

My assumption that everyone in the world knows money can be made by blogging is obviously wrong! Not even 1% of the world population knows pro-blogging is possible. For millions of Indians especially, professional blogging is a very new concept.

Even IT professionals with a basic understanding of today’s interactive web technology are not aware of the frontiers of pro-blogging. My relative’s son who is an IT graduate was agape with open mouth when I told him what I know about the types of web hosting, web 2.0 properties, social media signals in Internet marketing and so on.

Millions of online income opportunity seekers have absolutely no idea that every day there are more and more people are managing to turn their weblogs into cash cows to supplement their income. The number of pro bloggers is growing by leaps and bounds. One particular blog marketing company that I work for has 55,000 pro-bloggers in its database.

I participate in several bloggers’ communities. I personally know many bloggers there that dream of entering the sphere of professional blogging. However, not all of the aspiring pro-bloggers are willing to devote an hour or more each day to their blog.

Will pro-blogging continue to exist after 10 years?

I believe so because, not all pro-bloggers know the art and meaning of blogging. They all fall victims to the demands of web content managers who want 400 to 800 words articles. They too are mistaken about the structure of a blog post. I foresee a big fall in this trend of making every blog to look like a pointless article directory that is only filled with re-written garbage.

I once read a sentence somewhere in the web. It is an apt outcry.

“You are a blogger; but are you there”?

Since it very clear that the world of pro-blogging is constantly changing and the bloggers are forced to dance to the frequently changing tunes of the mighty Google, it is very difficult to predict exactly where the pro-bloggers will be or what kinds of blogs will be floating alive, five or ten years down the road.

How to setup your own Beauty Parlour.

2011-12-30T09:55:00.006+05:30

Another question that came to my mind when I happened to read the news of continued expansion of Regency Beauty Institute was, would a student of Nashville beauty school get training on setting up a beauty parlour of her own apart from the usual beautifying skills?

It is encouraging to that the students of Regency Beauty School are given more practical training in the beauty salons inside the campus. They carry out real life beauty treatments to the customers of the in-campus beauty salons at discounted rates. This would expose the students to the accessories and makeup items of a beauty parlour.

If the Regency Beauty institute management takes the students to various makeup rooms of celebrities and beauty parlours located in hotels and ships, students would be inspired to start their own business when they graduate.

I believe Hayes Batson, Regency’s president and CEO is capable of motivating her students to launch their own beauty business.

This blog post was based on information provided by Blogitive. For more information, please visit Blogitive.com or contact Regency Beauty Institute – 3583 Alpine Avenue NW – Walker, MI 49544

Unable to earn money blogging? You are not alone.

2011-12-27T14:26:00.002+05:30

I am telling you from my 6 years of passionate blogging! Never enter the blogsphere with a sole aim of inserting a few sentences imagining incredulously to make you million.

Budding bloggers have so much to learn. This learning curve is really steep but that doesn’t mean you will roll down.

If you are so much interested, you can hold my hand; I will safely see you to your first destination of earning at least $200 per month. Well, I am earning at least that much and I can willing to pass it on what I know.

Are you ready?

Fine! Just discard all your preconceived notions about how to earn money online and read on with open mind-as open as the sky.

Why finding keywords are important?

I have trained several people the art of blogging. Majority of them have informed me that they have abandoned their blogs because they didn't see a single dollar.

Do you know the reason for their failure?

They just started blogging whatever came to their mind. Sure, it is what blog was created for originally but when you want to earn by blogging, it is not the correct way.

To make money by blogging, your blog should contain solutions for what people are searching for-right?

How do you find what people want in the web?

There are tested methods to find hot key words. Internet is abundant with keywords research tools. You should use those tools, get profitable keywords and weave content around them. However, even to use the keyword research tools, require a lot of practice.

Most of you would not want to go through the pains of keyword research and analysis. You would simply ask me to just hand over the keywords.

Ok, fine with me. I understand how you feel. I know of a database of 400,000 keywords on which advertisers currently placed a bid of at least $1.

Your 400, 000 high paying keywords.

The best gift idea for Baptism.

2011-12-23T15:23:00.003+05:30

With the big change in the religious outlook in contemporary world, gifts for baptism need not necessarily be like the gifts of yesteryears such as a silver cross or a lovely ivory box of Rosaries.

Grown up children don’t care much for gifts received in the childhood. They treasure gifts received only till they are 6 years old. Considering this, my suggestion for a gift on baptism day would be a guardian angel cross.

If children are repeatedly told stories of guardian angels by their parents, they would soon realize they are safe in the presence of a guardian angel cross. Some children, when they are grown up and have kids of their own, they would cherish to recount their beliefs in religious gifts.

Every blog is slowly becoming an article directory.

2011-12-19T09:19:00.005+05:30

A week before, I received an email from Technorati, Internet's number one blog search engine, asking me to contribute to an ongoing discussion on the basics of blogging.

I have been waiting for such an opportunity as I have some very strong views of what bloggers should not do while blogging. There is a distressing trend about problogging and guest blogging industry.

Misguided by the demands of article marketing, I have read in various places in the blogosphere that even a guest blog post should have a minimum of 400 words. In one particular instant, a very popular blog demands that guest blog posts are accepted with 800 words (minimum).

The very purpose of blogging is defeated. Some of my guest blog posts were rejected because they were written in first person. My God! How ignorant they can be when it comes to the fundamental meaning of a blog.

Every blog is slowly becoming an article directory with banal information that no one is simply interested. Personal touch in blogs is fast disappearing.

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Don't be a content rapist.

2011-12-15T13:07:00.000+05:30

Like you, I too got attracted to the words, 'content rapist'. I stumbled on to this somewhere in the web and that too long ago. Suddenly I remembered it and thought in what context the term content rapist might have been used!

I could think some of the following popular internet marketing strategies:
* Using PLR and rewriting it
* Autoblogging software

I could accept the rewriting of PLR content to some extent but never the creation of blogs using automatic blog post. It can be termed as content raping.

List of Bloggers Communities.

2011-12-11T08:43:00.002+05:30

I like to linger around bloggers communities, read others' blogs, leave comment and ask question to enhance my blogging knowledge. I firmly believe that blogging communities are very effective avenues to get visitors to blogs.

I used to get good traffic from mybloglog.com owned by Yahoo! but now closed. I really miss mybloglog.com Since then, I started looking at other such bloggers community and compiled a short list.

http://theblogfarm.com/

http://bloggers.com/

http://blogcatalog.com

http://www.blogengage.com/

http://www.blogged.com/

http://bloginteract.com/

http://fuelmyblog.com/

http://theblogfrog.com/

http://www.blokube.com/ (more of a social voting site similar to social bookmarking)

http://www.spicypage.com/

I hope you would find them useful. Please add to the list whenever you come across another site.

As a matter of fact, please share any other way to promote blogs (links to sites only please with a sentence of description). It would help the overall blogosphere wanderers.

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E-book on building a profitable blog.

2011-12-11T05:18:00.000+05:30

I think every blogger who has been making money online consistently for a few years would have published his own e-book guide on how to build a money making blog. That is why there are so many guides to blog for money through e-books and video tutorials.

May be one day, I too might develop blogging guide outlining my own experience as a problogger.

In the meanwhile, I came across one more e-book on building a profitable blog. I know every blog created ever would have brought some profit to its author provided he maintained it for at least 3 months.

Learn to master Clickbank through video tutorials.

2011-12-07T14:11:00.003+05:30

Clickbank-it seems it is another Google that is difficult to understand and master it. Trust me, I have been promoting clickbank products since 2000 but had made only 6 sales so far.

I am also a member of a few other affiliate networks from which I can proudly say I earned more than I expected.

To understand how clickbank works, one can buy any number of e-books and video guides but they would still be inadequate as far as I am concerned. May be I missed something there.

Three days before, I came across a 10 Part video tutorial that promised to take me step by step the complete secrets of the workings of clickbank. The steps include how to sell your own digital information product in clickbank, how to capitalize the experts affiliates’ experience in making you money and so on.

Have you had a chance to use it?

Why you should buy Kelty’s backpacks?

2011-12-03T08:12:00.005+05:30

I know, I know, there is nothing womanly about this backpack. I spotted this from kelty backpacks because it was tagged as, ‘woman’s Redwing’. Come on, I suppose I can have that much whims to yield to-don’t you agree?

Nevertheless, when it comes to buying manly packing materials such as rucksacks (I like the sound of it, it is manlier than backpacks), sleeping bags and camping gears, I prefer Kelty’s.

The reason for my preference is the quality and appearance of whatever they manufacture. I firmly believe Kelty has one of the best people with great eye for colors in their purchase department.

Just browse through the site rockymountrail.com and look for Kelty’s outdoor products. You would return here to leave your feedback that would conform to my views.

How to develop a money making blog.

2011-11-29T08:25:00.005+05:30

Today morning, I was forwarded a link in email which when I clicked on, took me to web page that asked me only 30 minutes a day to get a money making blog.

Just 30 minutes a day? Man, I have been slogging for more than 4 hours a day maintaining and updating my 14 blogs and I hardly have a handful of them making money!

Ask me what blog promotion avenues I have not tried. You name and I can fill you in with hours and hours of my experience to promote my blogs.
* Submission to blog directories, RSS feed directories and blogging communities
* Participating in most of the bloggers forum and IM forums
* Guest blogging
* Hosting blog carnivals
* Blog commenting
* Social media marketing

Above all, thus far I have composed more than 5000 blog posts that are 100% unique since I started blogging in 2005!

The one important aspect of blog marketing is writing with high search volume keywords which can guarantee a full time income with just one blog.

I know how to do keyword research. I am just too lazy to apply my knowledge in keyword analysis.

Get paid for writing blog posts.

2011-11-26T10:14:00.000+05:30

Attention pro bloggers who want to earn money by blogging!

This a very low paying blog marketing company. The payments per blog post starts at $0.50 ! I saw some featured opportunities on the home page of http://www.bidpostblog.com/index.php. The highest paid blog posting job pays only $2

It is a Florida based company; apart from that, there is no information about the owners.

The minimum payout is $20 which I believe would take long for even their top blogger named Rajesh to get it. As a top blogger, he has earned a whopping $3 this month.

You can add up to 5 blogs of yours which is an encouraging sign.

Hey, do you know that bidpostblog.com also pays through Liberty Reserve?

Sign up if you are interested.

Who guarantees a trouble free motor home?

2011-11-22T13:29:00.004+05:30

Yes, there is Good Sam where you can get your motor home repair done by the best RV expert if you buy comprehensive breakdown insurance from Good Sam, American’s top rated and most sought after RV people.

I know your next question:

“What if I have a new motor home and the vehicle is protected against manufacturer’s warranty?”

No issue dear. Good Sam’s breakdown insurance would take that into account and the insurance coverage would apply after the expiry of manufacturer’s warranty. This would mean, your RV would have a continuous coverage giving no tension or worry at all about repair expenses.

Good Sam’s breakdown insurance offers more unheard of benefits such as travel benefits (visit goodsamesp.com/benefits.aspx), 30 days money back guarantee and more.

The offer of money back guarantee speaks highly of their confidence in their products and services.

I wish Good Sam operates in other nations too.

Write blog posts and get paid.

2011-11-19T12:34:00.003+05:30

Here is the first British blog marketing company that I came to know of a couple of days ago through Google PPC advertisement. At first, I was reluctant to join as I was (in fact I am still) skeptic because it is a tough field to compete with 50 other U.S. based blog marketers.

Then I thought I would join anyway and blog for the benefit of British bloggers who might not yet know of this Blog Marketing Company yet. Once, long ago, I received an email from an European that only through this blog, he usually comes to know of sponsored blogging sites. What a compliment!

Post Genius insists on verifying your blog's ownership at the time of registering with them. In fact, it is to be completed on the first step itself before moving further with the signup process.

Blogs on all blogging platforms are accepted provided the blogs sport at least Google PR1.

Apart from that, there is nothing for experienced pro-bloggers while signing up. There is a bit of encouragement for bloggers that have wide contacts and can induce people to signup by clicking on their affiliate link.

I am assuming myself as one such blogger . Therefore, if you signup by clicking on the image below, I stand to gain financially provided you earn through Post Genius. Decent disclosure-eh?

The sound of diabetes has not subsided!

2011-11-16T08:20:00.000+05:30

Even after 48 hours of observing the world diabetes day, you can hear sounds of warning against diabetes, prevention methods of diabetes, increasing support for victims of diabetes cure Actos and so on.

Free distribution of various diabetes medicines, free blood glucose test were widely reported all over the world. Amidst all these sound, the sound of an actos law firm is unfortunately submerged.

I am referring to the actos law firm, Watts Guerra Craft LLP that has announced free legal case evaluation for those who are contemplating to file a law suit against the manufacturers of Actos that caused severe damage to their bladder.

Some have even reported to have contracted bladder cancer. The world should raise their hands in support of the actos victims.

Video Tutorials teach you how to upload a website.

2011-11-16T05:55:00.001+05:30

I am an avid buyer of readymade sites, MRR sites and PLR sites. These sites are also known as ‘turnkey websites’. The big advantage of buying these pre-built sites is you don’t have to do:

· Product Research

· Niche finding

· Create eye catching graphics

However, the disadvantages I faced when I bought them are:

* Creating the sub-domain or sub-directory

* Uploading the site files in my server

* Changing the payment button

Frankly speaking, I used to be dazed and I committed mistakes in truck loads. One day, I saw the offer of teaching me all these cumbersome tasks through video tutorials. Without blinking an eye, I bought them.

I spent several hours watching the FTP video tutorials, took notes, experimented and today, I upload the sites files on to my server like a pro.

Here are the extraordinary video tutorials that teach you all the work related to setting up your websites.Click on the image below to find out more about this video guide or copy and paste this URL in your browser.

http://bit.ly/uMxtnb

Why it is easy to make money by reviewing CB products?

2011-11-15T12:13:00.002+05:30

We all know how powerful a blog can be. Many would agree that blogs are the most suitable form of CMS (Content Management System).

Don't ask me why. You know that within a span of a few years, blogs have grown and matured in an explosive manner.

Personally, I like to use blogs mainly because search engines like
blogs so much. So whatever search engines like, I like. What do you say?

I know many Internet Marketers who spend 4
hours of their 12 hour day just creating new blogs. They
spend one quarter of their precious time in doing no value
added monotonous task to create blogs.

Let me assure you that you do not and will not need this. Your time is should be spent better on strategizing on your marketing techniques. However, you should begin by manually creating just one niche-specific blog and drip feeding content into it over time and monetizing it with
ClickBank products.

If the idea of creating your own blog and feeding content into it sounds alien to you, you may want to check the new video series on blogging with ClickBank products.
http://onemoresales.com/reviewblogging/

Who supplies Prototype SMT Stencils?

2011-11-14T19:47:00.004+05:30

I am sure you might have seen a finished printed circuit board (PCB). Have you ever seen a raw stencil (the basic metal board before mounting the electronic components)?

Look at both the images here.

PCB manufacturers first outsource a prototype SMT Stencil. Since the cost of developing Prototype SMT Stencils is high, PCB assemblers always outsource them from leading Prototype developers who employ Fine Line Stencil technology these days.

This involves applying laser to create the cut out of the basic metal board called stencil. The electronic appliances and gadgets have undergone a sea of changes. We all want everything small.

In order to manufacture small electronic devices, PCBs should be very small so as to hold components measuring just a few millimeters long. They are called 01005 components.

To mount such micro size electronic components, the SMT stencil has to be precision made using laser cutting technology.

You must be wondering why I am writing all these! I just asked one of my ex students what is he currently doing and for the next two hours I had to listen to his monologue. The above was an excerpt.

How bloggers should react to Google Freshness?

2011-11-12T09:07:00.006+05:30

By now, the entire blogosphere must be fully aware of the 'Freshness' algorithm that the mighty Google (I always call it mighty) has started implementing in its search results indexing. It is barely 10 days old I believe.

How bloggers are affected by Google Freshness?
After reading the Google Blog several times, I understood this much:
* Blogs that are not updated at least thrice a week are likely to lose out organic traffic

As Google right said, different searches command different freshness needs. To explain this further, Google aptly pointed to the search term 'fast tomato sauce recipe'. Even if the recipe was posted a few years ago, it might be still be useful as it is very unlikely that another recipe for the same would contain new ingredients or a different method of preparation.

Bloggers who rely on search engine traffic more than other avenues, should stay updated on their topics of interest and post it in their blogs within a few hours preferably.

Overall, I firmly believe blogs command more chances of appearing in search engine results than other forms of websites.

Here is the proof:

I searched this search phrase: "how to manifest "
Look at the screenshot of this term in Google keyword tool that shows 1.83 million searches per month.

Now look at the Google search results below. It is the first page of the search results. Most of them are blogs.

I am surprised to find even my blog post wrote two years ago, sits at the bottom of the first page.

Feedburner launches new interface with several tracking stats.

2011-11-09T07:04:00.000+05:30

Casually I logged into my Feedburner account without any real purpose. At the top, I saw the message 'Try new Beta version'. I obliged. I noticed a lot of changes.

My feeds were tracked and clicked monitored. I jumped with excitement when I noticed the feed of Laws of Universe blog is attracting several clicks. It is the top feed among the feeds of my other blogs.

To get more information on the traffic that my blog got, I clicked on the 'Feed name' and wow, there was so much information like from which countries the clicks originated and the traffic source such as feed subscriptions, social bookmarks and so on.

If you are in a hurry, you can view the new Feedburner interface at http://feedburner.google.com/gfb/

Put at least one log furniture in your house

2011-11-05T14:09:00.002+05:30

Man, how I hated to part with a massive cot made of high quality log! My husband inherited it from his great grandfather who was a forest ranger during his period. When I moved into my in-law’s place after marriage, I openly appreciated their tasteful log furniture that looked very appealing to me.

Now, after so many years of serving us, the giant log bed begged to be put into the fireplace. During my 25 years of married life, I changed the bed furnishing more than 8 times. I enjoyed shopping for cushions and covers for the log furniture in my house that included a set of lounge chairs, a rocking easy chair apart from the big sized bed.

The smaller furniture had to be thrown out long back. My husband somehow managed to maintain the log bed but finally gave up.

Try to put at least one log furniture in your house and see the difference in the overall appearance of your home.

Don't waste time by commenting on blogs.

2011-11-05T12:07:00.000+05:30

I read several blogs daily by subscribing to their RSS feed. While I remember some of the blogs and their author, I don't remember many though I remember their useful content and never fail to give credit to them.

Hellbound Bloggers is one such blog that has great content for bloggers. It publishes some extraordinary guest posts. Today, I read in one such guest blog post in Hellbound Bloggers that the Google Panda algorithm has busted the technique of building backlinks by blog commenting on do follow blogs.

The author of Hellbound Bloggers is Pradeep Kumar and he is from my dear old Madras. Now, I will remember him for long.

The ethics of a collection agency.

2011-11-04T08:27:00.002+05:30

Would all the money lenders decide favorably on a loan application considering they can always seek the help of a collection agency as a last resort in case of default by the loan receiver or do they purely consider the credit worthiness of the receiver?

This thought came to my mind after reading a series of newspaper stories of the success of collection agencies all over the world. Contrary to the popular belief that loan collectors use unsavory methods to collect money from the defaulters, I hear highly professional collection agencies engage only M.B.A.s and lawyers, who would certainly not stoop down to other ways to collect the money,

For example, if you care to visit the kgaction.com of the Kaplan group, you would know about the educational qualification of their collection staff and also read that it is a member of International Association of Commercial Collectors (AICC).

No fee guarantee!

The respected collection agencies don’t charge a fee if they fail to collect money from loan defaulters.

A valuable ethics-eh?

A site that hires bloggers, pay up to $10 per blog post

2011-11-01T07:04:00.001+05:30

A site that hires blogger pay up to $10 per blog post. After reading this title, I dug up more and followed the trail. I kept reading so many money earning opportunities for bloggers through more attention pulling titles some of which I reproduce below:

* If you are ready to complete a blogging assignment in 48 hours, you can sign up to receive paid blogging assignments.

* If you are a mom blogger from the United States and if you already blogging, how about earning money for the traffic your blog attracts?

* Would you like to earn $17 plus per blog post of 500 words?

I have no time to list out all that I read regarding sites that hire bloggers. If you care to share your encounters with similar sites, please post it in the comments box.

Thank you in advance.

Capture your own skiing motions with camera ski goggles.

2011-10-26T07:49:00.001+05:30

I am glad that my son listened to my advice and bought anti-fog skiing goggles. Originally, he was not inclined to use ski glasses because they tend to fog up. I told him that he can buy anti-fogging ski goggles which seemed to have convinced him. He admitted that he was not aware of this feature.

A year ago, he went to the snowy mountains as a beginner skier. At that time, he only used sun glasses that proved to be inadequate in protecting his eyes. Sun glasses don’t fit snugly while skiing. In addition, their small lenses don’t provide large field vision like ski glasses.

I read somewhere that skiing glasses now come with a built-in camera. Skiers wearing these skiing glasses can capture their own motions easily. This information was late to my son who already bought a pair of basic ski glasses.

I decided to save money to buy him a pair of skiing glasses with camera next year.

HTML-cPanel Video tutorials. Dirt cheap.

2011-10-22T13:15:00.000+05:30

Do you know that that it can take you several weeks, or even months, to learn the basics of HTML?

Wouldn't it be easier if someone just SHOWED you?

Ah yes, your Control Panel given by your hosting service provider-it will be mind boggling to understand all of them on your own. Trust me, I am yet to click on all those colorful icons in my CPanel. I am simply scared!

The Wacky Gals have combined TWO hot topics for a "Wacky Sale" - HTML Simplified for Beginners and Cpanel Basics...

There are a total of 36 videos that will show you step-by-step what to do and how to do it!

Head over now and grab your videos so you can finally start making the money you deserve!

A review of Blog Distributor.

2011-10-18T13:42:00.000+05:30

Has anyone had any success with Blog Distributors? Only yesterday I stumbled on to https://www.blogdistributor.com/ and wondered why it did not come to my attention till then!

It is probably not a favorite among my fellow pro-bloggers. The site does not have any information about the owners though it has published its full street address.

I believe bloggers can submit their blogs of lower page rank too. Blog Distributor gives just 48 hours to complete a task but they pay only once in a month which might put of several bloggers who are used to get their payment in one or two weeks.

A review (http://www.toasteggme.com/index.php/money-making-opportunities-site/get-paid-to-blog-at-blog-distributor/) of Blog Distributor said that only U.S. and Canada bloggers are accepted though I did not find it in the FAQ of the site.

What I like about the site is you only need to a write a 100 words review to get paid.

Improve your blogging with Franklin Language Master.

2011-10-16T12:50:00.002+05:30

Shamelessly, I was looking at the gadget that you see here at the hands of a blogger-a professional blogger to be more specific. He caught me; rather I got caught staring at his language master franklin. He did not mind the privacy intrusion. On the other hand, he looked pleased that he possessed one.

Silently, he passed it on to me. As I was not wearing my reading glasses, I asked him why he bought it instead of when and where. I know it from The Source.

He admitted quite frankly that his English vocabulary is not yet suitable for a professional blogger. Once, he happened to do a review of the Franklin language master dictionary and he bought it actually before he wrote his review.

From then on, he carries it always with him and confessed that his written English has definitely improved.

I appreciated his genuine interest to excel in his work.

Are you still buying backlink packages?

2011-10-15T12:31:00.002+05:30

Have you noticed a surge in backlinks providers? Apart from newbie bloggers who offer backlinking services through DP forum, a few are further encouraged to put up a website selling their backlinks packages.

The business must be good else how come there are several of them advertising backlinks packages through Google AdWords? A few minutes ago, I was tempted to click on a Google ad from my email screen, The subject line said $30 per PR 6 backlinks. However, when I landed on the advertiser's site, I was greeted with $395!

I quickly exited. In my opinion, getting links back from sites that are not in way related to your blog's niche is absolute waste of time and money irrespective of the PR of the sites that are going to link to you.

Image courtesy: Google images

The stanchions for trade shows.

2011-10-14T10:06:00.002+05:30

I must admit I was terribly embarrassed when I failed to act as per the announcement on microphone calling me to present my identity papers at the counter inside any one of the stanchions. The bloggers conference hall was yet to get filled up even though I walked in exactly at the scheduled starting time of 1.30 PM. The reason for my embarrassment was I did not know what a stanchion is.

Eventually, when I reached the counter to register, I smiled sheepishly at the pretty young girl and frankly asked her whether she is one of the stanchions. She burst out laughing. She could not control herself for several minutes.

I reddened but waited patiently, the sheepishness was then as broad as the ball room. Finally, with a look of understanding, she pointed to the shining brass poles that held a silk ribbon.

Ah, there! The ubiquitous crowd control system that we see near the checkout counters in shopping mall and in trade shows is called stanchion post!

My dear, what a way to learn English vocabulary!

Chennai bloggers thank Tata Grande.

2011-10-11T09:29:00.004+05:30

The four plus hours I spent on 9th October at the ballroom in Hotel Hyatt Regency was memorable. The event, "Chennai Bloggers Meet" was organized by indiblogger.in and sponsored by Tata Grande.

The man behind the whole show is Renie Ravin, a silent man who works behind the screen but ably assisted by Anwin . Both of them have made a quite few changes in the events when compared to the last year conference.

49 seconds to fame:
This is the introduction session that all the bloggers usually love and wait for. On the giant screen, the blogger's username in the indiblogger network was displayed along with his approved blog URL. With this info on the background (foreground rather?), the blogger was asked to speak a few words for 49 seconds which when exceeded, the horn will be honked by man at the wheel of Tata Grande.

Group discussion:
This is another new concept this year. A couple of groups on specific topics like blog monetization, automobiles, travel etc were formed and bloggers with interest in these groups huddled together and tried to make conversation because of a boisterous group.

During tea time, a reporter named Sagar from Indian Express asked me a few questions. He showed surprise that I maintain 16 blog out of which 4 blogs belonged to the category of blog sitting. His blog http://www.sruthisagar.com/ has a post on Advaitham of which I strongly disagree because I am a visihstadhvaithi.

One of the bloggers I met was Sanjeeta K.K. whose food blog titled Lite Bite located at http://litebite.in/ has got a huge number of followers which may be due to her stunning images on her blog.

The high tea was good and the free t-shirt too.

I thank indiblogger.in and Tata Grande. Hope to meet next year.