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Tags: Blogging, Blogging Resource, Make Money Online

I started a blog contest in the beginning of this month, thanks very much for your enthusiastic response. You guys rocks, but one thing is for sure that if you want to learn how to do a blog contest? Learn from these blog design experts guys from Unique Blog Design (UBD). I always try my hands whenever they toss a free WordPress blog theme in their contest after all they are the best in designing WordPress themes. This time they have come up with this Apple iPod Stuff along with a free WordPress theme called Citrus to be released soon. This time occasion is also something special - Unique Blog Design turn one year old.

Let me tell you now how you can enter this contest:

• For one (1) contest entry - just reply to this post with a comment.
• For five (5) contest entries - write a blog post about the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest and link back to this post

Official Contest Rules:

• The contest runs from 12:00AM PST Friday, August 22nd, 2008 to 11:59PM Sunday, August 31, 2008.
• Winners will be chosen Monday, September 1, 2008 through a random drawing.

Prizes include (1) grand prize of an Apple iPod Touch 8GB ($299 value) and three (3) copies of new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme ($99 value).

Go for it - It really big but not as bigger then THIS ONE

If you planning to jump into this contest then hold on also CHECK OUT THIS CONTEST.

Tags: Blogging

Skill to pay the bills - Thats what his Meta Tag Title conveys - He never claim himself a SEO but love to move up his thin (once Fat) ass among SEOs . I admire him for his wittiness, this super kid Jeremy Schoemaker did a fun.

At SES I thought I would spice it up a bit and wear my “Seo Sucks” t-shirt as a bit of a social experiment to see what kind of reaction it would get. Being at the largest and most respected SEO gathering/conference I was curious to the reactions.

So guys whats your take on his social experiment. Do you really think SEO Sucks?

Tags: Blogging, Ramblings

I never hit the Digg front page, they say its a big thing, yes it is, but its also not the real thing my boy, Hitting Digg’s front page is not that you have some great story to blow up the blogsphere, it just about the strategic tactics that help you to hit the front.

I know some of you guys would not agree with what i had said above, but some time its true. By the way i found this very interesting joke about Digg on internet, Immediately i decided to share it with you guys.

And yes would you help me hitting the digg front page for my this article.

See if you can Digg some help.

Digg it :

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/List_of_500_Do_Follow_Blogs

Tags: Blogging, Blogging Resource

People put different words in search engine when they make search about any specific product or service. The idea is to write the article or post on your blog using some specific words or keywords to rank high in search engine results for that particular targeted keyword.

Keywords are a list of words and phrases that help search engines index your website, they are part of the hidden HTML code called Meta tags.

Reality -seo

A word used by a search engine in its search for relevant Web pages

TrendMX

So it is very important that you should use some specific words in your blog post to be rank high in search engines for that specific word or keyword. The search engine uses the keyword to decide which webpage or site is providing information related to keyword and displays result in that particular manner. So ultimately keyword becomes very critical tool to market the content available on your website or blog to various search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask or for any other search engine for that matter.

Finding out High Value Keywords

Okay, now after learning the importance of keywords we have to find out what are the tools available on internet to find valuable keywords for our post. One of best keyword search tracker is available with Wordtracker. You can use their FREE keyword suggestion tool and if you wish you can opt to join free 14 days trail for just $1. In return you will get:

• How to create your first list of money-making keywords.
• How to build a basic, traffic-generating keyword strategy..
• How to avoid the biggest SEO blunders made by most people.
• Four simple ways to optimize your web content.
• The right way to use Pay-Per-Click
• How to find profitable new niche markets..
• How to get external links that will promote your site for free.

Keyword Management with WordPress -All in one SEO Plugin

If you don’t want to do search and all before writing every article on your blog then just install this WordPress Plugin and it will take care your keyword related worries.  This is the most popular Plugin for your WordPress Blog. It will help you manage your Meta Tag Title keyword for specific post. Title of your post is important for search engines and with “All in one SEO Plugin” you can choose fancy title for your post and interestingly the Meta Tag of that post can be something else a search engine keyword oriented.

Learn about “All in One SEO Plugin” HERE.

Download and install “All in One SEO Plugin HERE.

Now let’s end this post giving a practical example

Take this example of iphone launch in India. It was launch on 21^st August midnight, so it was the right time to write a post about iphone 3G as there would be a majority of people searching for this particular keyword in various search engines.

Let’s check with our Wordtracker which are the most searched about terms in search engine after launch of iphone in India.

Now if you look at the list above iphone in India is the top keyword related. Now let’s see who comes on the top of search result when we put this phrase in Google search box. Following is the top result page.

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Now if you click on first result of this search you will see yourself that the guy on top place has very smartly used this keyword “iphone in India’ in his article. Here is the screen shot of article with keyword “iphone in India” highlighted.

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So this is as sample to grab the top position in organic search results of various search engines. But please do remember don’t fill in up your article full of targeted keyword, make sure the keyword should not disturb the tone of that article and it should be use in article again and again without any purpose just to enhance the chance of search results.

Tags: Blogging, Blogging Resource

This news hit the world today. Barack Obama’s long brother found in Kenya. This Twenty six year old guy Named George Hussein Onyango Obama found in a hut on the outskirts of Nairobi. The youngest of the presidential candidate’s half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender for the most powerful post in the world. “No-one knows who I am,” the younger brother of the White House hopeful was quoted as saying by the Vanity Fair magazine.

According to Italy’s Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother — born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael. Embarrassed by his penury, he said, “If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed”. “I live here on less than a dollar a month,” he claimed, adding “I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist”. He has only met his famous older brother twice — once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi, Daily Telegraph newspaper said in a report.

Obama mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as a “beautiful boy with a rounded head”

News Courtsy : Telegraph , Times of India

Tags: Ramblings

I gave you a list of about 500 DoFollow blogs a couple of days back. If your blog allows user to get a back link through comment form by installing do follow blog Plugin and adopting DoFollow comment policy then you can ask me to include your blog entry into DoFollow Blog List.

But yes, before including your blog in the DoFollow blog list I check your blog is really a DoFollow blog or Not.  I don’t know about your method but let me explain what method I employ to check.

No DoFollow add-ons for Firefox

I installed Firefox add-ons called “No DoFollow”. Right click on browser and click at No DoFollow and you are done; it will mark all DoFollow Link on the site in BLUE and all NoFollow Link as RED as shown in the picture below. Its as simple as that.

Install FireFox No DoFollow add-ons HERE

Tags: Blogging, Blogging Resource