While surfing the web i came across this website payperpost, and i couldnt believe! it actually paid the bloggers to write posts. I had some doubts first about the genuinity of the site but, but later i found out its a high reputed site ran by izea!. I said its worth giving a try. I joined and found what? There are thousands of oppurtunities waiting for all, i couldn't grab the oppurtunities in the begining as my blog was started few weeks before i joined payperpost. I waited for some time and found my blog was approved there!.

I am very happy im now a part of payperpost. The best thing i found about payperpost is that the oppurtunities they provide, guarantees you high return of what you do, a mark of quality. Im also part of izea's new website Socialspark which provides a platform for advertisers and bloggers.

The income i get from payperpost, i will use part of it for the my blog promotion and remaining for shopping :P . I recommend all my visitors to join this community, it provides lots of oppurtunities to bloggers.

This is my first contest i am holding on my blog. I have no previous experience of this, and at this stage i have only 500 ecs of entrecard (of my own :)) to give away. I wont make this contest very complicated, telling you to blog about my contest on your blog or even subscribe to my feeds to win prizes(i dont like emotional black-mailing :P) and its just absurd. Ill be frank , i even didn't try to find any sponsorers as this is my 1st contest, as and if popularity increases i'll try increasing the prizes. This is just like a initial survey to start off to find what response i get.

Actually i have opened a new forum site, and im very excited about that and this contest is fully dedicated to it. I just wanted to celebrate the forum opening with you all.

So the contest goes this way. Comment on "plagiarism" (2-3 lines) on this blog with your Name, URL, email, entrecard name and nickname you registered on the forum. Best entry wins the prize (500ec)!. If the competition is healthy i'll try my best to include 2nd and 3rd winner too (250 & 100 ec resp.). Cya for the contest till then i will try collecting more entrecard credits to give away. Any one like to sponsors anything(even a small prize) a warm welcome. The contest will run for a period of 1 month.
Also comment on, whether you prefer only one prize of 1000ec or three prizes of 500, 250 & 100 ecs.

Just give it a try, thanks.
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You must have come across ads that promise you to give you visitors for cash. I have never tried that because i believe its not worth buying. These ads are the other ends of the ppc or gptr sites. This means the visitors are members of these sites who are payed to click on links. You just buy the packages of how many visitors you need and asap you get those. But such visitors are of no use in an interactive site, or even a normal site/blog. The reason im saying this is that the visitors they send you are money oriented, who have joined those ppc or gptr sites to earn money for themselves and have no interest in your site. They will just come visit the home page, the next moment surfing another homepage ;). If you are buying visitors for a forum or a social networking site, its of no use !

If you are concerned about your rank only than it may benifit you in terms of pagerank,alexa rank or so on. But if your site is running on ad revenue, such visitors wont even bother to look at you ads ! So if you are interested in just visitors i would recommend entrecard is the best way for driving traffic (that too for free!) instead of wasting money on buying visitors. Genuine traffic (coming from sources like search engines,blog communities, etc) are better, as they will be one who will bother to read your post and comment on your blog (also to click on ads :P).

A good blog design is one of the important aspects that bind your visitors to your blog. Users prefer to surf a good design blog for a longer time than one with dull appearence or too reflective design. It can automatically create interest in your visitors to read your blog post. Visitors are the one which make your blog run so its neccessary that you keep them happy when they are at your place :).
You can design your own template too, and ofcourse you will be admired for that. I tried to design my own but it went in vain lol :P. Still im working on it so that one day i may come up with one.

Ive come accross many beautiful templates while surfing, wish i could have all of them installed. There are lots of beautiful templates for wordpress blogs available at their official site Wordpress themes
For blogger, there are typical themes available at their official site, so most of the bloggers prefer using external templates. You get thousands of results when you search for blogger templates. Im using theme designed by Jacky Supit a cool theme designer !

I have heared that some themes give problem relating SEO, that they conflict search engines due to stuff like css. I dont know much about this, but will write about this if i find anything.

If you are interested in working part time then you should go for freelancing jobs on net. Freelancing job is the one which is done on temporary basis. There are lots of such jobs available and most are short termed. These jobs include providing website design service, designing a logo for a website, programming and software designing, Database management, account management, etc. The amount you will be paid for such work will depend on the type of work.

You can find these freelancing jobs by just searching the web or if you are a member of a wellknown forum you will find many people who are in need of help and are ready to pay you for providing them service. Third source is online job search engines like monster.com, timesjobs, naukri.com. You subscribe to them and they will mail you loads of job u are interested in.

Firstly i would like to start with what blog and a normal website mean. A blog (weblog) actually a e-dairy, like your daily dairy, through which you can express your feelings and write your experiences. Blogs can be of 2 types : public or private. A public blog can be viewed by all the users on web but a private blog can be viewed just by its authors(just like a personal diary) . Today most of the blogs are used are public and used for information/knowledge sharing purpose. Blogs are used when the content is not static and needs to be added or modified on regular basis. The blog scripts are readily available for free and needs only to be installed on a webspace. You can download one from Wordpress. Or an alternative is getting a free preinstalled blog from Wordpress or Blogger

Talking about normal websites, it is used wherever the content is static, in other words the content is not changed regularly. I prefer blogs for the following reasons :
->various predesigned blog themes (templates) are easily available. U can choose required design for ur blog just at the click of a button(template chooser) . If ur using a website u need to edit ur files to change their appearance or use website editing software on your pc.
->There is no need for uploading an stuff (exept images). Inbuilt editor allows you to add content directly and saving it. Websites need their files to be edited and uploaded many times.
->Easy interaction with users using "comments" . Normally websites use communication through email (non server side execution scripts).

The first best thing a blog owner will wish is, to get his blog sponsored. If you have started a blog yesterday and come searching for sponsors, its very rare that some one will sponsor your blog because sponsors too want themselves to be promoted on reputed blogs. So this is a job of lil bit patience, experience and your networking capablity.

First thing you need to make sure is that your blog is fully "Ready". By the term "Ready" i mean is :
->Your blog should have enough posts.
->You should write quality posts.
->Older your blog better it is, Old is gold :).
->Good page rank, which depends mostly on your blog age, in other words i mean a blog will have better page rank if promoted for longer time. Also visitors build up as the blog is more older and is indexed efficiently by major search engines.

Where will you find the sponsors?
As i had mentioned before, your social network should be large enough (more friends on web). Be in touch with as many bloggers you find on blog communities like mybloglog.com and blogcatalog.com. Some will willingly tell you about the sponsors you need. Also you may come across sponsors directly, all you need to do is know what are their needs and are they related to your niche (topics you work or write on). Do not expect high paying sponsors in the begining, but as time prevails you can get good sponsors with your experience in this stream.

While surfing the web i came across a site that provided an interface between bloggers and sponsorers - Socialspark. Its a community where you can find not only sponsors for your blog but also find offers of writing a sponsored post on your blog.

Backlinks contributes a lot to your pagerank. More the sites linking to you (backlink) , more is your pagerank. And more famous the site linking to you,the more credit you get. Backlinks in other sense increases the
visibility of your site on web, which is the actual reason for higher
pagerank. So here are some points how you can increase your backlinking :

->Dont forget to comment on each and every blog you visit (Do not spam).
What i mean is, write some good things about that blog (not your blog),
and include your URL over there.

->Participate in forums, include your URL whenever you post an entry.

->Linking within your sites, for eg. if you have 3 pages on your blog/site, add a link to 2nd page from 1st page, add a link to 3rd page from 2nd page, and from 3rd to first. If you are using a blog then each post will act as a new page, so what you can do is link the main keywords of the site to the main page eg. for Make money online add <a href="http://www.cool-blogger.com">Make money online</a> to the blogpost.

->You can do what is "Link Exchange" with other blogs. This simply means
you put his URL on your blog and he puts your URL on his blog. If you
dont want it to appear to your visitors (anyways other person wont get
loads of visitors from your site to his through this link) just use the
link name as . (dot) eg.
<a href="http://www.cool-blogger.com">.</a> will look like
. . Human eyes wont read it, but search engine crawlers will!

->Whenever you join any community or a social bookmarking site dont forget to add your site in your profile.

->Submit your site to all free directories available on web.

Here are some tools which will help you to keep an eye on no of backlinks :

Seopro.com.au

Submitedge.com

Rankalert.net

Smartpagerank.com

Here is a link to submit your site to top search engines/directories :

Addme

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