Entries for the ‘Blogging Tips’ Category

A few weeks ago, when I (neatly) blended my Google AdSense 336×280 block a couple of paragraphs down the post content I thought I did a smart job! As a matter of fact, this was really resulting in an increased CTR (Click-Through-Rate) as well and a few readers like Hussein were interested in knowing how I went about doing it? (comment)

However, a few other regular readers like Kim, Lax and Mitch had altogether different views on this topic. Out of their conversation in my last post it was obvious that the regulars who read your blogs on a daily basis (fresh posts that is) should not be presented with the ad block in between though it’s okay for the older posts (seen mostly by search & referral visitors). Now, the following code sample(s) explains how this was achieved.
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Major financial and investment institutions declaring bankruptcy, Honda’s plan to exit Formula 1 racing and General Motors withdrawing Tiger Woods’ sponsorship are some of the sensational news about the ongoing global recession. It is not any smart guess that the recession has to affect the Make Money Online business as well and if you look around there are already several visible signs of the same.

In one of earlier posts I talked about a few tips to weather through the current situation. Some of the things that we predicted then are already happening.

Visible Impacts so far…

The following are some of the signs of slow-down that you can notice if you look around in the MMO world!
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In the last post I did a comparative study on Wordpress.com and Blogger.com (blogspot) free blogging platforms. Many experienced readers and bloggers shared their thoughts there in and felt that it is always better to go for a self-hosted professional blog keeping your long term blogging plans (or even career) in mind.

And there is no better time than right now to register your domain(s) - as a first step towards building a professional blog - because GoDaddy is offering 99 cents domain names! by using the coupon code ‘99DOMAIN‘. I first read it on SlyVisions today and I thank Sly for sharing this information.
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Free blogging services such as Blogger (blogspot.com blog), Wordpress.com and Typepad are always good for beginners to kickstart their blogging lives. Many wannabe bloggers do not want to complicate things initially and that is why they go for these free platforms, which in a way, makes sense.

Recently, in an attempt to revive, my cricket blog I did a small comparative study of two of the leading free blog platforms - blogger and wordpress.com - and this post is the summary of my findings. Hope this helps many beginners to make a decision on which of these free platforms to choose to get started. (Those who want to set up their own professional, self hosted blog may please read this article series)
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