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Do you really need to update blog everyday?
2007-11-28 15:10:00
It has been well over a fortnight since I last posted on Webtalks [you can still be with me and my mates at the Ashtech Blog ]. It would have been a prediction that this blog did experience a traffic slump, a decrease in feed count and obviously a decrease in earnings.I'll say a big NO to it.There was a slump but nominal one and has fully recovered now.Instead of decreasing, the feed count is showing its highest yet(125)As for earnings, Google AdSense team narrowed down the click able region of AdSense which had its effect but not that big. But now, accidental clicks are negligible and hence we prove we are promising :)Now let me tell how did the poor posting frequency didn't effect my blogEvergreen Posts As a part time blogger(or I must say occasional blogger) it is essential for me to write posts which are useful to for visitors even though they are reading it after a long time.For eg, posting about new AdSense feature will not be as effective as a review with your personal touc...
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Manage Ads: A promising feature in AdSense
2007-11-09 07:04:00
Google AdSense, few days back added a new feature in their AdSense program for all publishers.You may be knowing about this feature from a coming soon status message in your AdSense dashboard or from a sneak peek previous post from the AdSense Blog or from a Breaking news post from Problogger still here is a quick definition for itThis new ad management feature means that your ad unit settings (such as colors and channels) for new AdSense for content ad units will be saved in your AdSense account every time you generate ad code. Then, if you'd like to change any of these settings in the future, all you do is make the update within your account -- you'll no longer need to manually replace the ad code on all of your pages. For instance, you can quickly change the borders of all your 300x250 medium rectangles from red to blue with just a few mouse clicks.As a blogger I think the key lies in experimenting with your Ad slots.For even changing the border of an Ad unit, I had to generate...
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Site Report for October, Perfomance report of AdSense referrals
2007-11-01 13:44:00
Its the first of month again, so here comes my site report.We got 8,037 visitors who get generated 11,452 page views with 81.65% being the new visitors.Again Google organic search brought me the maximum number of visitors with the templates post being the most popular.During this period, Webtalks crossed the 100 RSS readers mark...Blog Income Report This time, I can see a good rise in the the Blog income.Here's a reportAdSense : 26$Template business : 100$Widgetbucks : 25$ + 4$ + 8 referralsReviews : 60$Other :15$Total : 230$This time the earnings have tripled itself from the last month's.I draw three major reasons for that:-Pagerank export.We got a PR of 5 while many others got slapped-100 RSS subscribers.-Alexa Rank in top 200,000Google AdSense Refer rals 2.0 performance ReportAs some of you maybe knowing, I changed few Ad units on my site from AdSense to Content to Referral Ads.They hav...
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Webtalks Pagerank 5
2007-10-27 10:51:00
Greetings.Google today, rolled out the snapshot of current pagerank.This blog is getting a PR of 5 this time.This is a good jump from PR 3 which had been there for quite long.Surprisingly, this time there was no BackLink export, but who cares? Its party time here as I have over taken some top-notch blogs like john chow(4) and dosh dosh(4).This update is accompanied by the feed chicklet getting into 3 digits.Currently, it is showing 101 readers.Thank you for subscribing to the feed and if you haven't yet, please do so:they are fast and ad freeThe secretNothing.Avoid too many links on home page.Get relevant quality backlinks.Focus on content quality more than on PR and last but not the least follow Google Webmaster guidelines.The Webtalks EffectI'm not going to talk about traffic.Its about a single site wide link on my blog which linked to the domain(ashtech.info), I bought few months back.The result? Its now Pagerank 4.You can check, its not even indexed by Yahoo!See how powerful m...
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Widgetbucks outperforms AdSense
2007-10-26 18:40:00
WidgetBucks, a newly launched monetizing service is these days gaining popularity as a worthy AdSense alternative.Officially, you can call it that WidgetBucks features pay-per-click shopping widgets that help their customers make money fast. They instantly display the most popular products based on buying trends of 100 million shoppers. Thus they are highly engaging, which means instant dollars for our customers.I was keen to know how it performs on my blog.I implemented a skyscraper few days back, and the results, well, it outperformed AdSense who had that spot before.The 25$ sign up bonus adds spice to the whole program.The Ads had a visitor attracting animation but unfortunately, the loading of this blog got double.I wasn't alone in this problem.Soon they announced fast loading widgets.Though, its better now but still below perfect.Soon, they came up with a new format, 300 x 150 which perfectly flushes in my sidebar.The loading time is now half of what it used to be earlier.The ...
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Lets prove Google we are promising publishers
2007-10-23 14:31:00
I was a bit sleepy today.I used to check my AdSense earnings on every odd day since I was in the nervous nineties. today, when I logged in, I felt happy that my gross earnings are now in 3 digits( for some of you, you can do so in a day) but for me its a good experience to be there for the first time.Now, as I have crossed the minimum payout limit, I want to be nice with them.Earlier I was a naughty chap creating hundreds of channels and changing ad placement almost daily.I want to prove that this blog is visited by a high quality traffic.The best way to do so is to put up referral Ad units instead of the normal AdSense for Content Ad units.I'll be going for non-Google referral 2.0 Ad units.Recently they implied a limitation on first few successful conversions done by a publisher.So far I have done one only one successful conversion.They will be probably remove the limitation once I do 5 more to to enable me full payments.I'll be replacing the most visible Ad unit, the post inline...
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Should you Digg or Sphinn it?
2007-10-21 09:15:00
The Digg effect, everyone's familiar with it.Just in case you don't know, being brief, it will bring just around 30,000 hits if you somehow get on the first page.But with millions of blogs out there looking for the same, your chances are low unless you are blogging live or have a got an ultra creative post up on your blog.Sphinn on other hand is a quite new social site out there.Their about page defines it asA social site for search and interactive marketers. It's designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others.In short a BINGO for make money online blogs like WebtalksSphinn uses almost the same scripts as digg and has nothing new as a social site but it's biggest advantage is its topics.For digg, if I have to submit a article about Google AdSense, I dump it in the Tech Industry News section.Fortunately, Sphinn has a special directory dedicated to AdSense itself.Sphinn doesn't rec...

Anything new?
2007-10-16 18:30:00
Quite a few things have been happening in the blogosphere.I'll just sum them up.Today's Blog Action Day when bloggers write to promote environment.My contribution is today I wrote a poem on a chart for my class soft board on Nature title "leisure" by William Henry Davies.Its a good one.AdSense team has blogged about a quality control over the inventory by placing a restriction for publishers monetizing Displaying non-Google referrals.In this case, you'll just earn a little less than the price you get for a successful conversion for the first few times, after which you'll earn normally.If you don't display Google AdSense referral 2.0 ads, its out of your business.This happened just a few hours after I received my first successful conversion :)Webtalks has been experiencing a poor posting frequency over th past few days.The reason is here.I was busy with the launch of another Tech Blog, And now I'm proud to announce that we just launched the Ashtech Blog (Go grab the RSS).Reas...

Make Money Online with Tnx
2007-10-12 17:53:00
With Google reducing pagerank of sites selling links (Eg .Stanford Daily) the Link business has a got a big threat from it. If you don’t know what I am talking about, Google is strictly against paid links or in Google terms “selling PR� .Probably, this is the reason why the Pagerank export hasn’t happened for over a five months now. But the subject of our today’s post is about another Web service called TNX which lets advertisers buy links and thus improve search engine rankings and publisher generate revenue from his site by selling links, but in a different manner with a mission toAssist website owners in attracting targeted visitors and clients from search engines and relevant websites.Reduce the dependence on search engines.Improve quality of the search results for those websites that join TNX system.Increase the income of every webmaster who joins TNX system.The workingTNX combines the benefits of Contextual Advertising, Text Link Brokers and Relevant Exchange of per...
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Is Google facing Hacking Threat?
2007-10-07 12:04:00
The big G seems to have landed under trouble.My newspaper daily, Times Of India reported that Picasa, Gmail, Blogger and the search engine itself are vulnerable.Indian Computer Emergency Response team has warned users against a virus called "googbot" It has been observed that a mass-mailing worm named Googbot is circulating in the wild. It propagates by exploiting software vulnerabilities.The worm has its own SMTP engine to send mass e-mails. It harvests the e-mail addresses from the infected system and sends malicious e-mails to the collected addresses. The e-mail body contains a malicious link which entice the users to click upon using social engineering technique.The e-mail contains the following : Subject : (any of the following) Someone has sent you a Private Message! You have just recieved a NEW message! You have (1) NEW messages! Body : (any of the following) You have j...
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How many jackpots does your inbox win everyday?
2007-10-01 17:52:00
They are OK in the SPAM section but what will you do if you win millions or maybe even more than that twice or thrice a day.As a normal blogger, I've left my email address at countless places causing automated messages to be sent directly into the inbox.You cannot do anything instead of reporting as Spam but that won't be much effective as such SPAMMERS can riddle the basic algorithmBasic Characteristics of Such EmailsText would be bold and capitalizedUrgent Claim requiredFake Email IDsReply to different email address than the one which actually sent that messageYour information such as Name,Address,Age,Contact Number,Age,Occupation,Nationality requiredWhat next?I took up the challenge and did as directed.Not to mention, I gave all false information.Then their Email came saying that my money is in ***** Bank with **** Account number.As a security, they would be requiring some money (they asked for 4,000$) for smooth transaction.Their intentions were clear.They had just found a fis...
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Site Report For September
2007-10-01 15:08:00
Its the first month after holidays, but with a day less.So here's my site reportStatisticsWe got 10,486 pageviews according to analytics by 7,289 visitors.Interestingly Adsense Dashboard says we got 11,140 pageviews while statcounter says we got 9,000 pageviews!Google Organic Search continues to dominate the referring source while most visitors were from United States and were after Templates!We have done pretty well in Technorati as we currently rank #400Blog Income Report Adsense :31$Test Link Ads :25$Template business :20$Kontera :1$ (lolz)Which adds upto 77$.Ther has been a certain dip from the previous income report reason being I have removed 2 Adsense Ad units.Adsense has displayed consistence performance while I managed to refer one advertiser to the TLA network.I have done 2 design makeovers 15$ and 5$ respectively.While Kontera has been a poor perfomer.I am thinking of removing Kontera from this site, its making the thin...
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Best online tool to relax your mind
2007-09-30 10:54:00
While stumbling upon, I noticed a very nice little tool, so I thought to blog about it.Shark Break is simple online javascript & a funny tool, which helps your mind to relax.Before coming across this site, I was designing a web template and it had some little css error that was making the whole site looking crap.My mind was irritated.I was about to throw my monitor in the dustbin when a thought of stumbling struck my mind.First few sites were spam, this was the third one.Believe me, it is a very simple tool but it will definitely bring smile on your face and let your evil mind relax.It also has a mini version that can be integrated in social sites like Orkut, and even blogs.Just try out the mini version below!www.SharkBreak.com© 2007 Webtalks by Ashwini Khare | We are looking for good writers
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View Alexa Traffic graph for any rank
2007-09-29 19:22:00
Alexa data is still being used at many money making places like Text Link Ads, Review Me,Sponsored Reviews and so on.Alexa shows only graphs for those sites which rank above 100,000 (means any site below 100,000).Getting into top 100,000 is a quite difficult & time consuming process as Alexa calculates using an average of last 6 months.The current numbers for Webtalks are 231,570.All I used to see when I visited the Alexa site was this embarrassing graphI did a bit of experimentation with my evil mind, and here I come up with a simple trick.Goto your Alexa traffic graphs page (you can use mine).Then compare your site with another site of a nearby Alexa rank.For instance, I took Techzilo.com .Enjoy your Graph !Related:Increase your Alexa Rank © 2007 Webtalks by Ashwini Khare | We are looking for good writers
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Review of a Review Site
2007-09-29 12:30:00
I was a bit surprised to see a Review Me review application (I normally receive from sponsored posts & smorty).Coming back to the review, this review is about another review site called Online casino blue book which has reviews on Top 10 Online Casino Site s.Being inexperienced in Casino business,I will review the field in which I am good atDesignThe Webmaster I think, has used Macromedia Dreamweaver for designing this site.It has a simple all text design.I think a site of this kind needs a design makeover from a quality Web Designer.There are few cheap ones out there.They may also consult a Logo designer as there present logo is of text and a such a wide used site requires to have its own trademarks.The above screenshot has been took by using Mozilla Firefox.However the border colors change while in IE.Why so? 40% net suers are using Firefox.The Firefox/IE problem would be for sure solved by a good designerOrganizationThis website loses it here also.I can see 4 links from the ...

View the best review we had so far...
2007-09-28 18:34:00
Thank you so much Charles Lau for reviewing Webtalks visually and that too free of cost! Charles Lau has an excellent screen casting software called HyperCam 2 with which he reviews the sites.Its really an awesome experience to watch how do my visitors behave when they visit the blog.Enjoy the 10 minutes video below.Infact, this is not the end he must have spent long time typing about Webtalks too, roughly about 400 words.To be frank, even I couldn't have done it that well.Jealous? Your blog too can have a decent video review but you need 10 paypal bucks from Charles.More detailsBut from my opinion its worth more than that!We love you Charles Lau!© 2007 Webtalks by Ashwini Khare | We are looking for good writers
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Make Mooney Online
2007-09-27 19:09:00
Ever visited John Cow dot com ? What I say about them is that they are creative instead of a ripper.Just because of there creativity, they were featured on many high profile blogs like the link building blog. Now you got the reason why, all successful make money online blogs have evil marketings behind them...One more interesting fact is that this is the first blog that I read ahead of John chow dot com and infact I am writing this post ahead of the review of john chow dot com for winning A LCD monitor.Sounds good.eh?John Cow is a blog on making money online and rank #29 in the top 100 make money online blogs without any PR!Actually this post is for an entry into their $500 cash giveaway contest whose deadline is the end of September.If you too are interested in earning big bucks you only have to write a post of 200 words like this one, link to micfo.com with the anchor tag Web Hosting,and a link back to the contest post.Thats real Making Money Online !What will I do with the amoun...
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Did you miss the action? I did...
2007-09-27 11:36:00
Over the past few days, our blog went without any updates, reason is I had few exams on head.Now, they are over but I'm expecting more of them soon.Incase you missed out, I'll just summarize what happened in the blogosphere in the last few days.Google adsense have anounced Adsense for mobile.A very useful feature for those websites who won't to monetize the mobile version of their website.I've not started yet with Adsense for Mobile because I am already using Feedm8 services to monetize the mobile version of Webtalks.Google Adsense have also anounced Google Gadget Ads.It goes just like video Ads.For that you need an advertiser whose using Google Gadget Ads feature with Adwords.Don't forget to enable image ads option.Yahoo bought Zimbra... Lots of cash involvedJohn Cow, have launched a MillionEuroWiki similar to MillionDollarWiki on their success and look what, they 've already sold 25 pages.Now how about a MillionRupeeWiki ?Don't forget to have a look on their design.Natewhit...
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Money in experiments
2007-07-15 11:10:00
Failure takes you to success. Failure here referred is of my sponsored posts. I have done two them, one by smorty, and another of Fring both have pocketed me 12 $ only. I haven?t yet received a customer from Review Me marketplace, so to give out my blog a bit exposure and also fresh air, I have signed up with Sponsored Reviews .There are many causes that have led me to this decision and I?ll point out a few for you I received less amount from services such as smorty and didn?t receive any from ReviewMe . Limitless LimitsMy Review Me price for a sponsored post cannot be decreased below 60$. I think that was too high but for sponsored posts, I can pick my price anywhere between 20$ ? 100$ I want ?profits?Payout for review me review is 50% of the total amount whereas for a sponsored reviews review it is set at 65%.Moreover I can bid for the amount below or equal to the settled amount Its Vice VersaAny Advertiser on Review Me will look for an appropriate blog fr...
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Review:Aloe Vera Products India
2007-07-14 14:50:00
The winner of our second contest was again Nauzer instead of John Chow {as many thought} because his review came just after my hint.Nauzer as you remember was the winner of our first contest too.. others please gear upThis blog is about Aloe Vera based Health, Nutrition and Beauty Products from ,Forever Living India .Its again a blogger blog and is using one of our 3 column template.The site's homepage is all text and well managed, well done Nauzer! {All text means a very quick loading time}. The site's homepage contains an static title less posts which serves as an introduction to its visitors. How did she do that?A Blog is like a diary where the newest entry is placed first.Remember you can change the date of your publishing by going to Post options and then changing it.You cahange the year to 2099 as I have done{just example} to make the post a static one at homepage.Similarly, if you want a separate section for links , publish a post dated 5-6 years back {depends on blog age. ...
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Its all in the URL and title
2007-07-13 15:46:00
I recently conducted a small survey across the google searches and concluded some interesting things:Say we are searching for the most blogged person of 2006 - "Harry Potter"The first result comes out to be harrypotter.warnerbros.com. Actually harrpotter dot com auto matically redirects you to this site, transferring all of the google juice to it. Interestingly, backlinks for this site according to Google were some 1,340and the fun is the site ranked #6 for the same query have sum 2,500 backlinks according to Google. Mugglenet dot com is a fan site of Harry Potter and contains the term Harry Potter in its title too.So why is it ranked below Harry Potter dot com?1.Dont stuff excessive keywords in your titleStuffing excessive keywords in your homepage may lead the Google Technology to think that the site is targeting many search terms via title eg. Mugglenet besides targetting Harry Potter also targets, Daniel Radcliffe,Emma Watson , Rupert Grint... wheras Harry Potter dot comtargets ...
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Get your blogger drafted'
2007-07-12 14:50:00
Just when blogger used to sounded boring, blogger has something for impatient bloggers like me, The Blogg er in Draft.Blogger in draft is a special version of Blogger where we try out new features before releasing them to everyone. Think of it as our sandbox, or laboratory, or just ?Blogger + new things.? By taking your feedback and looking at what works and what doesn?t, we?ll be able to make features that much better when releasing them to everyone.To enable some of the most cool widgets, you need to log on from draft.blogger.com/draft instead of blogger.com . Don't be scared your posts won't be lost neither would be your template and also when you feel Blogger in Draft is crap, log in back from blogger.comwhat will I win?Some of the most cool widgets like a dynamic poll element {of course adfree) which is already published for regular users too.A search box powered by Google coop which collects sources from your entire blog and also linked blogs/websites and too is dynamic.A Vid...
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Managing your feeds well
2007-07-06 16:00:00
A web feed is a document (often XML-based) which contains content items with web links to longer versions. News websites and blogs are common sources for web feeds, but feeds are also used to deliver structured information ranging from weather data to "top ten" lists of hit tunes to search results. The two main web feed formats are RSS and Atom.A {new} blogger blog by default comes integrated with many atom feeds.Summary: When submitting your blog to blog directories, they always ask for a feed URL. I always used to submit my full RSS feed, and I was surprised to see that in My Blog Catalog neighborhood, there were many members who read my blog feed daily but didn't subscribe to it.If you want a bit more traffic to your site instead of giving your full feed, you can give summarized feed which comprises of headlines and only some portion of the post and excludes images within posts so visitors who click any one of the headline will reach straight your blog's post. URL ishttp://your...
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John Chow - Blog Review
2007-07-04 15:07:00
"Make Money Online" what a keyword targeting tactic! Just because of this keyword john chow dot com receives atleast 150 unique visitors a day that too only from GoogleJohn Chow dot Com is a blog that helps you make money. If you review his blog, he?ll link to it and send you a lot of traffic.John chow has been recently an internet celebrity not because he earns 12,000$ but he is featured at Leo Laparte.Google has already issued a yellow penalty card that means has will not be featured on the firt SERP for popular searches just because of his overloading link baitInterestingly, all other search results for john chow showed that publishers are celebrating when Google penalized him but to the rescue, until he receives a red card from from Google there are 100% chances that he will be back. Infact two of his unique words mogul and ramblings can be found in many blog's descriptioncoming back to the review, John chow dot com was started by john chow to write down all of his thoughts {r...
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Hint to our Riddle Contest #2
2007-06-30 16:05:00
So.. it was a bit tough? because most of the people couldn't figure it out, the second hint to our Riddle contest#2You need to follow linkYou may visit sourceHope this makes it all the more clearThe winner will get an exclusive free blog review {including linkback}
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Webtalks Contest #2
2007-06-25 17:53:00
As I promised, here's the second contest. The winner of course gets a free blog review on Webtalks with a linkback."You need to go to the link page on my googlepages"Hint:You can find my googlepages account in my templates postThen follow the instuctions Another interesting info, we have got into the top 10,000 Tchnorati Blogs and are currently ranked5,000cool? .. looks like template business is gaining popularityBut we are hungry for more
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Buying/Selling Links? Google May ban you from their indexes
2007-06-20 12:32:00
This is true, a wake up call for all those who are earning by selling or buying links. This all those participating in Advertising Programs like Text-Link-Ads. This is an effort to stop buying Google Pagerank which is mainly based on incoming external links. The paid links reporting form is directly available in the dashboard of Google SitemapsHow will Google punish?A complete exclusion from Google´s SERPs is only one possible consequence of a spam report. Google might also choose to give a site a "yellow card" so that the site can not be found in the index for a short time. However, if a webmaster ignores this signal, then a "red card" with a longer-lasting effect might follow. So it's possible that Google is already aware of an issue and communicating with the webmaster about that issue, or that they have taken action other than a removal on a spam report.Are you the first to be punished?You can still send your Application for reconsiderationBut you can still sell links by-Addi...
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Check your back links in Live Search, Yahoo Web Search
2007-06-16 19:20:00
Google recently updated its site links Google Webmaster tools{Sitemaps} which it does monthly.Not surprisingly my back links were some 1043. I had a quick look on Yahoo Site explorer results.{Backlinks 789}.But according to Google Web Search , my backlinks range around 50 thats because Google Linking Index only displays those pages which are previously having a Page rank. I was pretty excited about viewing my back links in Live{MSN} Search. But unfortunately, Live search have disabled the old "link:" operator due to abuse of their technology and Yahoo Web search automatically redirects you to the Yahoo Site Explorer when you use "link:" operatorI received an anonymous tip in my mailbox that we can also view back links in Live Search by just changing the keywords.Have a look at thisReplace Link:webtalks.blogspot.com with webtalks.blogspot.com -site:www.example.comWhere webtalks.blogspot is your blog/site.Don't change example.comNow view your results in Live Search and view your ba...
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The riddle is Solved
2007-06-13 15:07:00
Today is the day for me giving you the second hint for solving out the riddle in our first riddle contest. But the riddle was already solved by the webmaster of tech4novices 24 hours before. If you missed it, here?s how to solve itThecash.finoThe three repeating alphabets were from my name{Post Author}AshwiniNow give numbers to alphabets1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11T h e c a s h . f i n oNow arrange these alphabets in order5 6 7 1 3 4 2 9 10 8 11Which Gives Ashtech.infoCool?But may be you lost a golden opportunity. But don?t lose heart. I will continue such contest(s). And the next being on 25th of June .So make sure you visit Webtalks on regular basis.Now as per promise the blog review?Tech4novicesTech4novices,authored by Nauzer Elavia is a blog published via FTP and hosted on a custom domain.WithGood use of Feedburner Roatating HeadlinesStarted on May 20Using Minima white HTML template which suits 800 x 600 Screen ResolutionPossibly using Google Apps.SuggestionsAdsense above the...
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Webtalks Riddle Contest
2007-06-11 18:30:00
Marking the 500 Technorati blog reactions, I have to give you something in return.So here it is.. my first contest.There will be only one winner who wins,A free Blog review from Webtalks{Adsense postionaing,Design,Content..}A link from Webtalks{PR 3} with Anchor tag of his choiceIf he wants, a guest post on WebtalksSo whats the contest?I have bought a domain from Godaddy.All you have to do is to solve the riddle below which indicates the URL of that domain.thecash.finoHint:three alphabets are posted in every postIf nobody is able to solve the riddle by 13 June.Next Hint would be givenIf you have solved the riddle.Go to my domain.There you will find a five digit code,Gmail it to me with your details or leave back a comment.The one who solves it first wins
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