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Get Your Blog Approved - Remind ReviewMe
2008-02-28 00:00:00
Today, I received an email from the ReviewMe Support Team confirming that Blog ging Mix has been accepted to their list of eligible reviewers. It took me almost 7 months before the ReviewMe admin finally gave their approval for Blogging Mix. I first signed up with ReviewMe 7 months ago. Back then, Blogging Mix was just new so it did not meet the minimum requirements prescribed by ReviewMe. Blogging Mix was denied. It was the first time Blogging Mix was denied by a Review Site but I didn’t feel discouraged. On the contrary, I took it as a challenge, which motivated me to improve my blog statistics. After 7 months of waiting and Blogging Mix wasn’t still approved, I decided to email the ReviewMe Support Team to inquire about the problem. I have seen several blogs that have been accepted at ReviewMe, which I believe are no better than Blogging Mix. In my email to the ReviewMe Support Team, I’ve requested them to check back and reconsider Blogging Mix. They...

The Sponsored Post Phobia - Are You SP-Phobic?
2008-02-27 00:00:00
When Google started to hunt down bloggers selling their page rank to advertisers, a huge number of bloggers turned their backs on paid reviews and all forms of text link ads. Suddenly, links to advertisers now include a ‘nofollow’ attribute. Most bloggers who have been monetizing their blogs from sponsored posts deleted their accounts in all the review sites they’ve joined. Advertisers on the other hand, slowed down with sponsored posts because the Google police force has also decided to go after them. Opportunities available at PPP and Sponsored Reviews apparently went down, which affected bloggers using these services to monetize their blogs. Most of the advertisers who decided to stick with sponsored review as their marketing strategy now require their publishers non disclosure of the sponsored review. photo credit: circulating Interestingly, the decision of Google to penalize both publishers and advertisers engaged in the buying and selling of ...
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Round II - 50 Directories With Good Google Page Rank To Submit Your Website
2008-02-25 00:00:00
As requested, here’s the second batch of 50 Directories with good Google page rank where you can submit your website without the need for a reciprocal link. Don’t forget to check the first batch of 50 Directories where you can also submit your blog for free in case you missed it. Playground-3 Directory (4) Seek Ways Directory (4) Adora Directory (4) New Web Directory (4) Effective Project (4) MXDU Directory (4) SEO Web Directory (4) Web Directory (3) Mergi Directory (3) Ezweb Tools Directory (3) King Of The Web (3) Ilushkin Directory (3) Infignos Directory (3) Directory Storm (3) Directory Link (3) Skype Media (3) Directory Global (3) 99 Kat Directory (3) Red Lava Directory (3) Link Directory (3) Promoe Lab Directory (3) The Help Line (3) Ipsarion Weblinks (3) Link Directory (3) Lite Directory (3) Midsussex Directory (3) Yet Another Directory (3) Business Directory (3) SEO Executive Directory (3) NC Directory (3) Trade In Directory (3) Rank Back Links (3) K...
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Link Love Sunday - Useful Blogging Tips
2008-02-24 00:00:00
Here are some useful blogging tips I managed to discover over the week. I would recommend you to take a look at them. I’m sure you will get some useful tips to help you in your blog. If you think that blogging is all about making your next post, think again. Blogging is more than just that, especially if you want your blog to become successful. Here’s a useful post from Karlo of PinoyBlogger.com where he shared his views on Blog Marketing as an integral part of Blogging. One of my favorite reads this week is a post from Garry Conn where he shared his Ultimate SEO Trick. I don’t like to spoil the thrill so go find out yourself. Kevin over at BuzzNetworker.com made an interesting article on the Psychology Behind Design. Find out why it’s not helpful to design something that is going to function in a different manner than what its learned function is. I also would like to remind everyone of the two contest I’m currently running here at Blogging M...
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New Review Site - Make Money Blogging With SnapBomb
2008-02-23 00:00:00
Still looking for more review sites that will pay you to blog? Check out one of my latest finds - SnapBomb. What is SnapBomb? SnapBomb is a place where Advertisers and Bloggers meet. It is another review site that presents opportunities for Advertisers to generate buzz for their latest products, increase traffic to their websites, get helpful feedback from publishers and improve their search engine ranking. Bloggers, on the other hand, are given the opportunity to make more money from their blog by reviewing available products at SnapBomb. For Bloggers To be able to accept review opportunities, you will have to create an account and add a blog. Once you have submitted your blog’s URL, SnapBomb automatically calculates the value of your blog based on its popularity, expertise in a field, audience size and reach. Your blog’s value will be shown minutes after registration. To show an accurate measurement of the value of your blog to advertisers, SnapBomb kee...
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Special Contest - FruitfulTime Task Manager Giveaway!
2008-02-22 00:00:00
Whether you’re a blogger or not, it pays to be organized. Being organized helps improve your productivity and reduces the stress and pressure of daily life. To help you organize your day-to-day activities, BloggingMix in partnership with FruitfulTime is giving away 4 Copies of FruitfulTime Task Manager to four lucky participants. What is FruitfulTime Task Manager and what can it do for you? FruitfulTime Task Manager, as its name suggests, is a useful task management software that is easy to learn and operate. It helps you input your tasks, split them into sub-tasks, keep track of your notes, contacts, files and web pages related to a particular task. It also allows you to set due dates and assign reminders accordingly. Here’s a complete list of the features of FruitfulTime Task Manager. Easy to use, intuitive User Interface (UI) Create / edit / delete tasks Create subtasks to divide a big task into smaller manageable steps Set the priority for each task / ...
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Netizens - Immune To Advertisements
2008-02-21 00:00:00
Recent research shows that the netizens are becoming more and more immune to advertisements. They seem to have been trained and programmed to ignore, if not abhor it. As a result, the number of disgruntled advertisers continue to grow, which tremendously decreased opportunities for publishers. During the early days of its introduction, Adsense was thought to be an effective method to monetize blogs. Almost everyone with a website has Adsense displayed on it. Today, the once considered lucrative blog monetization method now only works to a few heavily trafficked websites. One by one, publishers started to strip off Adsense on their blogs and embrace the new face of advertisement… the 125X125 banner. Suddenly, sidebars started to become crowded with different 125X125 advertisements. At the same time, Entrecard was born giving more reasons to go with the trend. As soon as the netizens became aware that 125X125 banners are usually advertisements, they started to...
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MiddlePost - Manage Your Online Documents Safely and Efficiently
2008-02-20 21:10:00
In June 2000, the U.S. government passed the E-sign bill, which gives electronic signatures the same legality as hand-written ones. The passing of this law has made doing business online a lot more efficient and convenient. Online entrepreneurs, like bloggers, are often times engaged in contract negotiation with parties from the other side of the world. Sometimes, when both parties cannot agree on the terms of the contract, a lot of time and resources are wasted. Instead of using your time to do more productive things, you’re caught up with a lot of tasks to do including printing, editing, faxing document etc. These inconveniences can be avoided through the help of MiddlePost. What is MiddlePost? MiddlePost.com offers a service for people to send documents out for signatures. The recipient receives the document, he/she can comment, add a revision and when the document is readly, he/she can sign it online. No printing or faxing required. Middlepost stores the document for a mi...
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50 Directories With Good Google Page Rank - Submit Your Blog For Free With
2008-02-20 00:00:00
If you are building links for your blog to improve your Google Page Rank and Search Engine Position, submit your blog to these 50 Directories for free. The list is sorted according to their Google page rank. And the best part of it is that there is NO NEED FOR A RECIPROCAL LINK. When you submit your blog, use keywords and key phrases relevant to your blog that you wish to rank high on search engines result page. DMOZ - (8) Jayde - (6) My Green Corner - (6) The Living Link - (6) Can Links - (5) Search Sight - (5) Free Website Directory - (5) Miri Black - (5) Niche Listings - (5) Esearch Research - (5) Master Moz Directory - (5) Domaining - (5) Londovor - (5) The Shoppings - (5) Ldmstudio Directory - (5) Directory Dice - (5) SEO Court - (5) Publimix Directory - (5) Arakne Links - (4) Dir Submission - (4) Websites Promo Directory - (4) Environment Page Directory - (4) Directory Vault - (4) Little Web Directory - (4) Directory 365 - (4) 123 Hit Links - (4) A List Sites - (4) Sam&r...

50 Directories With Good Google Page Rank - Submit Your Blog For Free With
2008-02-20 00:00:00
If you are building links for your blog to improve your Google Page Rank and Search Engine Position, submit your blog to these 50 Directories for free. The list is sorted according to their Google page rank. And the best part of it is that there is NO NEED FOR A RECIPROCAL LINK. When you submit your blog, use keywords and key phrases relevant to your blog that you wish to rank high on search engines result page. DMOZ - (8) Jayde - (6) My Green Corner - (6) The Living Link - (6) Can Links - (5) Info Listings - (5) Search Sight - (5) Free Website Directory - (5) Miri Black - (5) Niche Listings - (5) Esearch Research - (5) Master Moz Directory - (5) Domaining - (5) Londovor - (5) The Shoppings - (5) Ldmstudio Directory - (5) Directory Dice - (5) SEO Court - (5) Publimix Directory - (5) Arakne Links - (4) Dir Submission - (4) Websites Promo Directory - (4) Environment Page Directory - (4) Directory Vault - (4) Little Web Directory - (4) Directory 365 - (4) 123 Hit Links - (4) A Li...

Make Money From Your Blog With BlgAds.com
2008-02-18 00:00:00
Lately, I have noticed a decline in my Adsense earning, after the new policies were implemented, so I decided to look for a better alternative. I was doing the usual blog hopping when I stumbled upon BlgAds, a promising blog advertising network. What is BlgAds? BlgAds.com is one of the fastest growing advertising networks that offers opportunities for both advertisers and publishers. Their system is user-friendly giving advertisers and publishers a pleasant experience. Here’s an overview of the benefits of becoming an advertiser or a publisher at BlgAds. For Advertisers Blog Ads is a cost-per-click bidding system that allows advertisers to advertise text ads on blogs registered in their network. Advertisers simply need to create text ads, set the maximum price-per-click they are willing to pay and their ads will appear in a maximum of 24 hours after advertisements have been reviewed and approved. Here are the benefits of being an advertiser at BlgAds. Pay only...
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Sunday Link Love - The Better Blogging Platform (Blogger vs. Wordpress)
2008-02-17 00:00:00
The question as to which blogging platform is better, Wordpress or Blogger , is raised time and time again. As a Wordpress and Blogger user, I find some advantages of using Wordpress over Blogger, and vice versa. For today’s Sunday Link Love , I compiled a list of posts comparing Wordpress and Blogger. Blogger Versus Wordpress Blogger vs. Wordpress by OneStoryEveryday.com Wordpress.com vs. Blogger.com by Jaya Battle of the Blogs : Blogger vs. Wordpress by Adnan of Blogtrepreneur.com Blogspot or Wordpress - Which is which? by Dexter of Techathand.com Blogger or Wordpress : Better Blogging Platform by TechnoJuice.blogspot.com To help you choose which blogging platform is best suited for you, read Darren’s post on Choosing a Blog Platform. Meanwhile, here are some posts that compare Wordpress and Blogger as blogging platforms. Why Wordpress is the best blogging platform by Shonnie Lavender. 5 Reasons Blogger is better than Wordpress by Adtracker. Reasons Why Wordpress...

Simple Blogging Tips To Improve Your Blog’s Page View
2008-02-16 00:00:00
Page View refers to the number of pages on your blog viewed by your visitors. Your page view also indicates how interesting your contents are to your visitors. A high page view in proportion to the number of unique visits means, A greater chance to earn from your blog. (PPC Ads) Your blog is well-structured and well-designed. Your visitors find your content useful, relevant and interesting. Improving your blog’s page view is therefore as important as attracting new visitors and maintaining them. Here are five simple blogging tips that will help you improve your blog’s page view. 1. Create a navigation menu and put it in a conspicuous place on your blog. The guiding principle to improving your blog’s page view is to make navigation available and convenient to your blog readers. A navigation link and any internal links for that matter, also serves an important role in optimizing your blog for search engines. Hence, without a navigation menu, you make it ...
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Entrecard Traffic - Disliked By Advertisers
2008-02-15 00:00:00
Since Monday, I’ve been exchanging emails with an advertiser interested to replace the space that Google Adsense occupies on my blog. The offer was really tempting so I decided to accept their offer. Before the agreement can be finalized, they need me to send copies of my traffic statistics, which I gladly complied with. They specifically requested for the screen shots of my daily unique traffic, daily page view, traffic source overview, traffic from referring websites and bounce rate. Here’s how my traffic source overview, traffic from referring websites and bounce rate looks like. I thought things are going to be okay after I sent all they requested until I receive their email this morning. Dear Rocky, Thank you very much for accepting our offer. It was a difficult decision to make, but, we have decided to decline from our offer because of the following reasons: The quality of traffic of your website does not meet our company’s standards. Although we ...
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How I Broke Alexa Top 100K In Less Than 3 Months
2008-02-14 00:00:00
Back in November 18, 2007, I challenged everyone to work on improving their Alexa Traffic Rank. Sad to say, there were only two bloggers who responded to the challenge. Today, I’m proud to tell you that in less than 3 months, I managed to break Alexa’s Top 100K. From an Alexa traffic rank of 174700, Blogging Mix is now ranked at 95338. I’m now officially a member of the 5 Digit Alexa Club. Hooray! To understand how Alexa works and ranks websites, kindly refer to my previous posts on Alexa Traffic Rank Challenge and How To Improve Your Alexa Traffic Rank. So, how did I manage to break to Alexa’s Top 100K in less than 3 months? If you’re looking for a quick scheme solution, this post is not for you. Continue reading if you are looking for effective tips to get your blog to Alexa’s Top 100K but will require time and efforts on your part. These tips have worked for my blog and there’s no reason it will not work for you. Here it goes. 1....
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How To Get More Information About Your Blog Readers
2008-02-13 00:00:00
Yesterday, I discussed the benefits of knowing more about the people who read your blog. Today’s post offers some blogging tips on how you can get more information about them. But to appreciate the significance of this post, you are encouraged to take a look at my previous post on the 3 Benefits of Knowing Your Blog Readers . Having been able to establish that getting more information about your blog readers helps you improve your blog, let’s take a closer look at how exactly bloggers can do this. Here are some of the available tools you can use. Use Traffic Analytics There are several traffic analytics you can use that enables you to learn more about your blog readers. For Blogging Mix, I use Google Analytics, Site Meter, FireStat and MyBlogLog. All of these are useful tools that enable me to monitor my blog performance and most importantly, helps me to get more information about my blog readers. Here’s a list of information I get about my blog readers from using ...
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The 3 Benefits Of Knowing Your Blog Readers
2008-02-12 00:00:00
As a researcher, part of my job is spent on getting more information about our client’s customers. Most of our clients are multi-national corporations and they are willing to pay thousands of dollars just to obtain more information about their customers. Why do these companies pay such a huge amount of money for these information? How valuable are these information and how do they help these companies achieve their corporate objectives? The answer is simple. Customers are the lifeblood of these companies and by having a thorough knowledge about them, these companies are able to identify the products and services that will sell and make them profit. The same concept applies to a blog. Although this time, we are talking about blog readers. Do You Know Your Blog Readers ? Did you ever try to learn more about your blog readers? Do you know what kind of posts are they interested in? What part of the world do they come from? What time of the day do they usually visit your blog?...
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Move To Wordpress Contest - 2 Years SiteGround Hosting In Your Own Domain N
2008-02-11 00:00:00
Calling all Blogger and other non-Wordpress Users! Here’s your chance to win a 2-Year Hosting Service at SiteGround.com, a Domain Name of your choice to go with your new blog (subject to availability), and a Block Magazine Wordpress Theme designed by Wordpress Rockstar Adii. That’s not all. If you are new to Wordpress, I will help you move your blog from Blogger to Wordpress, help you set up Wordpress and the necessary plug-ins, and help you install your Block Magazine Wordpress theme. I will also assist you in the first month of your blogging until you get used to Wordpress. I will then interview you about your Wordpress experience, review your blog and post it here at Blogging Mix. SiteGround Hosting Services Blogging Mix has been hosted by SiteGround and so far I’m satisfied with their services. For that reason, I have choosen SiteGround Hosting Service as the major prize. SiteGround also offers one of the most competitive hosting services at affordabl...
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Sunday Link Love - SEO Tips
2008-02-10 05:00:00
As promised, today’s Sunday Link Love goes out to Search Engine Optimization Tips . Here are the useful SEO posts I would recommend you to check out. For those who don’t know what Search Engine Optimization or SEO is all about, SEOmoz prepared a beginners guide on SEO. This post is highly recommended to SEO newbies. Traditional SEO vs. PayPerClick is a post that gives you insights on SEO and PayPerClick. It also explains the pros and cons of PayPerClick and why opting for traditional SEO is still the better way to go. This post was written by the President of searchrank.com, David Wallace. Aarron Walter answers three important questions on Search Engine Optimization, What is findability? How does it relate to SEO, and what is the web standards connection?. Read the rest of the post and find out the answers to these important SEO questions. Derik Gehl of promotionworld.com made a handy Search Engine Optimization Checklist. Derik made a list of things you can do to get ...

Blogging Tips - Importance Of Using ALT Tags In Your Images
2008-02-08 08:00:00
Search Engines can only read text so the need to add ALT tags on your images arises. In this video, Matt Cutts disccusses the importance of using ALT tags on your images. Watch the simple steps of adding ALT tags in your images and help improve your traffic from search engines. Wordpress Users With Wordpress, placing ALT tags on your images is very simple. When you upload your images, make sure to add a Title and a Description. Blogger Users Unfortunately for Blogger users, you will have to do the coding yourself. To place ALT tags on your images, you need to switch your text editor to HTML format. Then you can add your ALT tag as shown in the diagram below. ALT Tag Tips From Matt Cutts Let me reiterate the important points raised by Matt Cutts when placing ALT tags on your images. Do not stuff keywords in your ALT tag (i.e. alt=”blogging tips, tips on blogging, blogging”). Use simple description. (i.e. alt=”blogging tips”) Do not make your ALT tag ...
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Happy Chinese New Year
2008-02-07 08:00:00
I wish to greet everyone a Happy Chinese New Year . May peace, prosperity and joy come upon you in the year of the rat.
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11 Blogging Tips On Writing For Non Native English Speakers
2008-02-06 09:00:00
English is the most widely spoken language so I won’t be surprised if you choose to use it on your blog even if you’re not a native English speaker. Being a non native English speaker myself, I have decided to use English because of the huge potential readership. Blogging with your second language, however, may affect your blog especially if you fail to write quality posts. Here are the most common problems that affect blogs that are written in English by non native English speakers. Grammar Mistakes Spelling Errors Difficult to Understand The fact is, these problems are not exclusive to non native English speakers. I’ve seen a lot of blogs authored by native English speakers and yet they commit the same mistakes. It does not mean, however, that since it’s common and widely tolerated that it’s okay for you to commit these mistakes. I’m not trying to justify grammar mistakes, spelling errors and the inability to write an understandable ...
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Blog Review - JaypeeOnline.net
2008-02-06 08:00:00
JaypeeOnline.net brings you the latest news on blogging, technology and gadgets. It’s a blog authored by a fellow Filipino blogger who now resides at Southern California with his family. Although JaypeeOnline focusses on the Blog osphere, occasionally, you’ll find posts on sports, humor, health, entertainment and other interesting subjects. Last year (2007), JaypeeOnline.net became one of the 5 blog finalists who made it to the Technology category of the Philippine Blog Awards. Here are some interesting posts you can find at JaypeeOnline.net. Unethical Blogging or Freedom of Speech? JaypeeOnline Joins B5Media How Secure is Your Password? NBA All Star 2008 More On The Author Jaypee is a proud 100% Pinoy blogger who have been blogging for nearly six years now. He is a graduate of University of St. La Salle (Philippines) with a degree in Management Information Systems. Last year, Jaypee has just finished his Masters specializing on Management Information Systems. From...
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BroadBandGenie : Research, Compare and Decide
2008-02-05 08:50:00
Do you need help choosing the right broadband for you? Try the free services of BroadBandGenie.co.uk. If you are from UK and you want to find the right broadband that fits your requirements, BroadBandGenie is here to help. BroadBandGenie is one of the leading UK websites that provides useful information to aid you in your research for the best deal in broadband services. It also allows you to compare broadband providers, which will help you decide the most suitable broadband provider for you. BroadBandGenie helps consumers through the entire process of comparing and choosing a new broadband provider, from buyers’ guides and FAQs through an easy-to-use comparison process. The editorials and reviews of different broadband providers available at BroadBandGenie were written independently. These reviews and editorials will help you in deciding which broadband provider to choose. Whether you are looking for the fastest broadband, cheapest broadband, business broadband...
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SEOmeter.com - How Often Does Google Crawl Your Website?
2008-02-04 08:00:00
Does it matter? Yes. Google crawls millions of websites roughly once a month in what is known as the “Deep Crawl ”. Deep Crawling enables Google to update its index and the search result it gives back to its users. If, however, Google relies entirely on the deep crawl, its index would quickly become outdated in the rapidly changing web. To stay updated, Google launches various supplemental fresh crawls that skim the web more shallowly and frequently than the deep crawl. These supplementary crawls freshens the index by updating the content of some sites. Getting fresh crawls from Google, therefore, improves your website’s traffic from Google. Moreover, websites frequently crawled are much more credible and trusted by search engines. The higher the frequency search engines crawl your website, the more trusted it is. Also, a website frequently crawled by search engines has a better ranking in the Search Engine Result Page. The problem is, we can’t see...
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Entrecard Contest Winner
2008-02-03 08:30:00
I would like to thank everyone who participated in the Entrecard Giveaway that I organized last Wednesday (January 30, 2008). I received some feedback that the contest was ran in a very short time. There were suggestions that I extend the time but I already gave a deadline for the contest. I’ll take note of your suggestions for the future contests here at Blogging Mix. Without further ado… The winner of 1,500 Entrecard Credits and a Blog Review is … (drum rolling)…. Jaypee of JaypeeOnline.net. Your 1,500 Entrecard Credit has been sent while your blog review will be posted here at Blogging Mix on Wednesday (February 6, 2008). Congratulations!
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