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To start a new home based online business, the first thing you should do is, of course, decide on one. The decision step goes fine with most of the people. But it's the next step that most of the people fail at: Most of the people pursing home based business fail to take proper preparation.

Millions of people have tried doing home based online business and tried milking some cash out of the internet cow. Home based businesses usually have a good success rates and tens of thousands have actually realized their dreams come true using a home based internet business.

I did a very brief research and found out a few methods that can help one do successful online business at home:

1) Get yourselves involved as an online retailer. Try out various companies which you like or have positive experience with. Then start your own websites, preferably blogs, and start off with writing reviews and start forums etc, with links that lead to your company. The links should be something like referral link and so you can gain money for customers.

With this, you minimize the probability of spending money from your hand- especially if you are using a free domain. In that case, the only expense incurred by you would be the internet charge.

2) Ever heard of eBay? There might be a very few internet users who might not have heard this word since eBay gets 4 million unique visitors a day (and still counting). If you have some old possessions that you want to auction off, you can do that at ebay for minimal entry fee. And almost everyone who auctions reaps profits.

3) Have you ever read an ebook informing you about something, for example, cooking? Well, that's actually an online business. If you are knowledgeable about something, you can write an ebook and start reaping profits from it using:
Clickbank.com
eJunkie.com
ebookAd.com
eBay.com(I guess you will need to burn it to a CD before selling it at ebay.)

As mentioned earlier, it's preparation and commitment that does the job. You should read some good books on marketing and other tactics before attempting any sort of home based business. Just keep this in mind: Be committed. Research startegies. Try new strategies. And tune your marketing to the optimum performance and reap benefits out of your home based business!

Are you expert in using internet? An online professional or master marketer? Well, you might not be, and so let me ask you something- can you really use ebay for making profits?

Well, yes, you can. Because you neither need to be a computer geek or an internet freak to get your products sold at eBay. Because ebay gets more than 4 million visitors a week and most of them might get get introduced to your product, for free! Now thats an enormous savings for advertising campaigns right?

All you have to do is DISPLAY. Display the best in your sales page at ebay so that your customers get convinced about your product. For this you should pinpoint all the information available to you on the product and evade vagueness or confusion that may creep into your sales page at ebay. Satisfied people evolve into good customers.

This post being the first let me introduce you to ebay. Ths steps are basic and i guess only beginners can get something good out of this.


Step one: First of all you need to give your private data for registration. You have to be very sure about the address, and rest of the personal detail's. If wrong it could hamper the progress of the delivery as well as it is against the norms of ebay. Once banned you can never enter the website again because it plants a permanent cookie in your computer.

Step Two: Give a unique username for accessing your login. The name should preferably refer to your name or your company, try to as formal as possible.

Step Three: After that, you will receive a confirmation email in your email account and you will have to validate your account by clicking on the confirmation link.

Next step is the most major of all. You will need method to send and receive cash from and to ebay. There is a solution for all ecommerce transaction problems in Paypal, which is the best methods accepted by most of the ecommerce institutions- and ebay is no exception.

Join paypal by clicking the link below:

Alright! You are redy to buy and sell goods at ebay now. So let's start selling. To sell, you need an ebay seller's account. There are many ebooks that offer various tutorials for ebay, but I prefer you to choose what ebay provides: many tutorials and "how to do" articles. These are the best. Some eboks point out some tricks to make your ebay selling easty and powerful. Read it only after you have read everything what ebay provides. You might refer: http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/n-selling.html

Good Luck selling!

“Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware” is the best free Anti-Malware I have come across till date.

For those, who are unfamiliar with the term Malware, Malware stands for Malicious software. These kinds of software are used to either damage the computer system or infiltrate it. Malware includes all sorts of unwanted software like worms,trojans,spyware, computer viruses, unwanted adware etc.

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware can be downloaded for free athttp://www.malwarebytes.org
Updates are just a click away. All one has to do is, go to the “Update” tab and click the “Check for updates” button. If one does this every 2-3 days, they are set.

One must remember that an Anti-Malware working with a good Anti-virus is the best kind of protection that can be provided to the computer system. They are meant to work in tandem. Anti-Malware cannot replace a good Anti-virus. Every computer must have a good Aniti-virus, Firewall and Anti-Malware.

When it comes to Anti-Malware software, Malwarebytes’ is without a doubt among the best ones available.

What actually is a CD ripper?

The only solution for hearing the music in a whole different way is to use a CD Ripper. A CD ripper actually opens a new window into your personal world of listening to music. What a CD ripper does for you is simply 'rip' any song you like from the audio CD. Generally, audio CDs are meant only for listening using a CD Player. But with a CD ripper, you can copy the music files from the CD and store them as seperate files in your computer so that you can copy it or share it with someone else.

More latest versions of CD rippers not only help you to rip the content, but also to convert them into various formats like mp3, WAV, OGG, or WMA files.


Where to find a CD ripper?

There are umpteen number of CD rippers, and most of them are freewares. And since these are freewares, a lot of trouble could be hidden in them. Choose only after reading reviews and testimonials. To find a CD ripper, just type 'CD ripper' into google or yahoo or any other search engine.

What to do after downloading?

Learn it! Every software has its own style and interaction. It has its own abilities. SO be sure to read the manual and understand the complete details of your software. To use a software without knowing doesn't help anything.

Quality CD rippers help you in every step: whether you are trying to cut it or whether you are trying to change the bitrate or anything. There are some CD rippers that guides you through modifying the metadata. Metadata is actaully a collection of variable data like Song title, Artist, Album title, Track number, etc. High quallity CD rippers actually searches online so that a thumbnail of the album or artist is added (whichever preferred) is put up inside the summary of the file.

What is the Advantage?
Well before the days of CD rippers, audio CDs had to bought from the store, put on a CD Player or Computer and listened. With the arrival of CD Ripper, one can rip these songs from the CD and put it on a portable mp3 or an ipod. One can also make the files available on the net for downloads and even burn it to a new CD to create a mp3 CD of his/her own favorite collection.


Name some CD Rippers?
Here goes:
Blaze Media Pro
VIP CD Ripper
Easy CD Ripper

An Autoresponder or an eMail Auto Responder, nicknamed as EAR is one of the most important tools for a serious person involving in ecommerce. What is an autoresponder? Autoresponders are basically computer programs that specialize in sending a particular pre-written email to people who ask you questions or give you suggestions. It is, in short a human controlled robot.

The biggest mistake a marketer can make would be to design a perfectly eye appealing website and rest on his couch waiting for checks in his mailbox. Appearance is a good tool, but general appearance is actually the last addition to the inventory of internet marketing. It is the trust of the clients and frequent communication with them that actually drives lot of cash into ones pocket using ecommerce. For that almost all the marketers use auto responders.

Well, responding is automated. But that's not it! That's never it! For a successful online marketer, non-auto responding, aka, Customer Support is as important. Until the time when we develop a robot that does automated email customer support, we have to stick on to manual! Yes, automated emails does bring in a lot of customers to your websites, but they can only be identified as 'potential' customers. It's the duty of the marketer to make the customer Purchase the product!

As more and more potential customers take a look around your website, you will have to know this fact that they also carry with them a lot of potential questions. They will have numerous requests. It is your duty to respond to them. But how can auto responders help you with that? Simple. According to basic psychology, most of the thoughts that pops up in any customers mind has a similar structure. You can can make ready made emails before hand that could be sent using the autoresponder.

An autoresponder responds immediately. There is no delay. This inculcates a feeling of
satisfaction and appreciation in your customers which is the key to any sort of marketing- Online or Offline!

Moreover if you are a busy businessman, you will never have a chance to contact or send correspondence to all your customers. And here too, Autoresponder allows you to send 'thank you' messages, pre-written letters, informational newsletters, brochures,etc. to every single one of them.

And by the way, there are lot of serices that help you provide automated responses. All you have to keep in mind is that 'Service Does Matter'. Yes, check out for best services. It should be 24x7 and it should send out the emails immediately- also ensuring that the subscriber actually receives the content. Another factor that really governs the success of your automated replies is that they should be flexible.

What is flexibility? By flexibility, an auoresponder shouldustomers should get targeted emails- specific emails that makes them feel that their problems are being taken into consideration and that attracts them to buy the product. Don't create an impression among your customers that they are talking to a robot!

All these factors if taken into consideration can give one a boost in their marketing career.

Accodring to the tons of emials that clog my Junk Folder and Inbox everyday for Affiliate trainings,etc., I think The best preferred method is Aweber.

As far as I have walked around in the roads of Myspace, I gathered that pulling a lot of traffic is quite vital! I have met a few people in person and many people online and out of the questions I asked, I gathered that people crave for traffic for 3 reasons:
*Popularity
*Pay Per Click Money
*Dating

Whatever your concern is, here is what I have to tell you about attracting some traffic!



First and the foremost duty of a Myspace owner who wish to drive traffic into their profile would be to own an attractive and appealing profile. You must update trhe content frequently and the content should be genuine. One way to enhance the appearance would be to upload as many pictures as possible.

One of the many features of Myspace is Profile Music that plays automatically once a user has opened your profile. Please try to avoid these annoying songs that take an eternity to load.

Another feature you are provided with is to add many silly scripts that take a lot of time to load and instead of receiving praises for your work, you might end up with grumbles. Because many a times we think that adding scripts is cool! But not always. A script is a potential power of a Myspace owner which can help him/her dramatically increase as well as kill traffic.

Scripts that should be used might vary from recommendations to recommendations. Many ebook writers and big bearded professionals might suggest many scripts. All I have to say about using scripts is to choose a minimal amount of it! Don't overdo. Please keep in mind that all the internet users might not have a high-speed internet connection like you. Moreover, too many scripts may even make your myspace uglier and muddled up!

Another important thing you must do is choose an invariably good profile picture. From the crude minds of people from time forgotten, marketing usually use a female model in some pose. It is something like a bane for humanity, and being a man myself, I have to admit- sometimes this works! Anyway, I do not recommend this! If you are a band or some group, you can use this female model holding a banner or something, but what if you are an individual??

No problems there. Actually I blabbered about the female models with an aim to impart a message! I know- some of you might have stumbled over it! Yes! It's not the female that actually attracts, it is the attractiveness! Make your profile pic seem stylish and natural. Another tip would be to browse many Royalty Free photographs to get an idea of various poses and angles of taking photos so that they get famous. Websites selling royalty free photos accept only the best, so what you see there is actually a live example of how to take photos. Or simply purcase a photo of a female model and consider integrating your photo into it. If you can't take a good photo yourself, consult a photographer, he knows the solutions!

More attractive profile pic you have more RANDOM visitors you get.

An example:

P.S.: This is an image I got from iStok Photo without any effort! Please choose a 'less glamorous' photo if you are going to choose one!

More than anything-have fun!

I just used Stumble upon feature of www.stumbleupon.com and stumbled on this amazing article! It was actually a picture hosted by Udderbuffooneries.com and I was awestruck! Just read this:



Got it?
Now tell me, how many of you liked this?
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I have found this method only yesterday and thought I would share it here. Most of you might know this, and this is really simple. Almost a no-brainer. But still, I thought sharing this might beof help to someone.

First of all, yes, open Winzip. Once you have opened WinZip, click on the button New Archive. An Archive simply means that the files you are about to combine into one will get saved into a single file. A new window will appear from which you will have to find an option box named "create" (might vary in newer versions) and give the path of the target where you want the new compressed file to appear.

Give a name your new archive. For example, if you are going to combine a photograph about nature and a video you took about nature that you wish to upload to your website for others to download, you might give the name your file as nature_scenes.zip.

After that you have to add files to the new archive you created. To do that, click on the icon that says 'Add'. A new window will appear. Browse through the various folders until you find the first of the desired files that you are about to combine. In case of the above example, it is the photograph about nature.

If you want a particular level of compression, you can select it from the compression menu. The more you compress the selected files, more smaller will be its size and lesser the space of your disk will be utilized. The only problem will be that you will have to decompress them if you wish to open them the next time. Decompression takes more time if the level of compression was very high.

Sometimes you may want to protect the document with a password. You can do that by going to the 'Add Password Option'.

Now click on the button Add. You will automatically return to main window of WinZip. The file you had selected will be displayed in this window.

Now click on Add option again. Select the second file you want to add. Click on Add. Similarly add more files if necessary. Done!

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it's hard for reporters to become experts, but it's easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I'll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven't established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it's easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc� experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There's nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it's a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don't Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a �guru� (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it's next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it's fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It's a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let's face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven't spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people's work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It's okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it's fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there's. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don't regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don't do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don't leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of�well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven't much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from �scratch�, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it's okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that's all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

www.BlogMastermind.com

Magazine style themes are turning out to be a hit among bloggers. Primarily designed for Wordpress, the craving for magazine style templates for Blogger has caused a drastic increase in the number of magazine style templates which are usually based on the Wordpress themes. Wordpress adaptions are rising up every day. Though not as effective as being hosted on Wordpress itself, Converted Wordpress templates reflect many features as that normal Blogger templates lack. That calls in for some extra work. Especially for setting up the 'Featured Posts' and other feed widgets. In Wordpress templates these are almost 'automated'. But for blogger- you need to configure it! Especially image resizing and all similar stuff.

In Short: Magazine style Blogger templates are to be configured and it could be a tedious job for a novice in HTML editing. Luckily, the creators of these Blogger Templates have also attached with them a configuration guide. You can find them at their respective websites.

Many of the blogger templates are already configured with Adsense ads. You simply have to change the publisher id of the respective blog owner to your publisher id. (Instructions will be provided.)

These magazine style templates are arranged in alphabetical order only! If you have any other suggestions for magazine style templates for blogger, please mention in the comments section.

1.A-Click-Apart
Author: Our Blog Templates

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2.Alpha
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3.Arthemia
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4.Bizmax
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5.Bluelove
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6.Bluesteel
Author: Blogger Buster

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7.Business Ads Ready
Author: Ipietoon

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8.Cellar Heat
Author: Magz Network

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9.Clinic
Author: Templates Novo Blogger

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10.Complexion
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11.Conservative American
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12.Daily Planet
Author: Cahaya Biru(Converter)

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13.Daily Inspired Blogger
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14.D'Bluez
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15.Dreamy
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16.Fundamental
Author: Our blog templates

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17.Gamezine
Author: Cahaya Biru(Convertor)

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18.Gamma Ray
Author: Insight your Blogger

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19.Grid Focus
Author: Blogger Buster

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20.Gumball
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21.Imprezz
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22.Indomagz
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23.Langit
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24.Magasin Cuatro
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25.Magazeen
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26.Magazine 1
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27.Magazine 2
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28.Magazine Style Red Blog
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29.Magzmo
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30.Milano
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31.Mimooza
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32.Newspaper Blogger
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33. Natural Mag
Author: Cahaya Biru

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34.Personal Mag
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35.Rebel Magazine
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36.Revolution Church Blogger
Author:Bloganol

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37.Revolution Code Blue
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38.Revolution Code Gray
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39.Revolution Code Red
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40.Revolution Lifestyle
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41.Revolution Theme
Author: Brian Gardner (Ported by Aborregate)

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42.Scarlett
Author:Cahaya Biru(Converter)

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I should recommend you to read the instructions to modify this magazine style blogger template by using this link: http://www.cahayabiru.com/2009/03/blogger-template-scarlett.html

43.Schemer
Author:Bloggertricks

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44.Monezine
Author: Cahaya Biru(Converter)

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I should recommend you to read the instructions to modify this magazine style blogger template by using this link: http://www.cahayabiru.com/2009/03/blogger-template-zinmag-monezine.html

45.Kitty Park
Author: Cahaya Biru

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I should recommend you to read the instructions to modify this magazine style blogger template by using this link: http://www.cahayabiru.com/2009/03/blogger-template-kitty-park.html

46.Simple box
Author:Subagya

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47.Simplicity 4 Column
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48.Tekikon
Author: Template Godown

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49.Turnout
Author: Blogger tricks

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50.Vibrant
Author: Gosu Blogger

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51.Visionary reloaded
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52.WP Polaroid
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53.Writers Blog
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54.Zine Press
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55.Zinmag Primus
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56.Zinmag Remedy
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How Training Benefits Both Pet Owners And Pets
The Dog trainer's Manual: Issue#1.
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According to Sharda Baker, an expert in dog training field, there are five main benefits of training:

1. It builds a relationship.
2. It corrects behavioral problems.
3. It stimulates intellect.
4. It encourages inclusion.
5. It saves time.

My recommendation:

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How or Why is This "Free Cars" Program Possible

Mobile advertising companies have realized that thousands of people will see their client's advertisements on your car every day. It's like having a moving billboard or a regular billboard even when your car is parked. Mobile advertising companies all over the world currently have over 100,000 brand new cars already wrapped in advertisements that are ready to be driven by you.

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else's blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that's about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn't news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don't have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that's the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you've done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people's blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger's article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it's sort of like your blog telling someone else's blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it's so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it's worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn't bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it's worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I've listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won't stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I've put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it's certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

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