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The Eerie Beauty of Iceland's Volcano

2010-05-01T06:38:00.000-07:00

Public Speaking Tips

2010-04-22T19:58:00.000-07:00

Know the needs of your audience and match your contents to their needs. Know your material thoroughly. Put what you have to say in a logical sequence. Ensure your speech will be captivating to your audience as well as worth their time and attention. Practice and rehearse your speech at home or where you can be at ease and comfortable, in front of a mirror, your family, friends or colleagues. Use a tape-recorder and listen to yourself. Videotape your presentation and analyze it. Know what your strong and weak points are. Emphasize your strong points during your presentation.

When you are presenting in front of an audience, you are performing as an actor is on stage. How you are being perceived is very important. Dress appropriately for the occasion. Be solemn if your topic is serious. Present the desired image to your audience. Look pleasant, enthusiastic, confident, proud, but not arrogant. Remain calm. Appear relaxed, even if you feel nervous. Speak slowly, enunciate clearly, and show appropriate emotion and feeling relating to your topic. Establish rapport with your audience. Speak to the person farthest away from you to ensure your voice is loud enough to project to the back of the room. Vary the tone of your voice and dramatize if necessary. If a microphone is available, adjust and adapt your voice accordingly.

How to get succeed in project management

2010-01-20T21:04:00.000-08:00

1. Recruit skilled and experienced people - Today's environment is more complex than ever. Tools like WebSphere® Studiohelp; but in the end, inexperienced people produce, at best, only mediocre results and, in most cases, fail because they do not understand good project management and the best ways to apply new technologies. An excellent Project Manager and Architect or Technical Lead provide joint leadership of the project. They set the tone of the project and have a vast impact on its ultimate success. If you have this type of resource, treat them well, very well. The project manager and technical lead should interview the other team members and they should have the final say about who joins the team. The rest of the team also needs to have above average skill and inexperience. Poor performers need constant attention and usually never "get it". In the end, they usually drag the team and slow down the progress. However, that does not mean the team cannot have junior level people. Often, they are more motivated to do well and shine given the opportunity. For example, in a team of 20 people, there might be 2 leaders, 6 senior resources, 9 mid-range resources, and 3 junior resources. This team of 20 people is broken down into 4 or 5 small sub-teams each with a team lead. IBM Software Services and IBM Global Services (IGS) have experienced Project Managers, Architects, Technical Leaders, and Consultants who can help with your project.

2. Use leading edge, not bleeding edge technology - Many Fortune 500 companies have successfully used mature technologies, such as J2EE and the WebSphere product family, for software projects that have had huge impacts on the way the company did business. In some cases, it is necessary to apply a leading edge technology that helps gain a distinct advantage over competition. However, there are risks with such a strategy and in this case, it is even more important to have excellent people on the project. Because there are few people with this kind of experience, it is important to get outside expert help. Projects that employ bleeding edge or untested technology should consider research projects. It might be useful to perform early proof of concepts on an emerging technology. However, it is unrealistic that a project based on such a technology can deliver in the same way or with the same costs as a project using more mature technology.

stay tuned for another 2 tips (10 all)

Tips for Public Speaking

2010-01-05T05:06:00.000-08:00

1. Pick a topic you're interested about. Research about it

2. Practice. Practice hard.

3. Know the audience, the size, the background of them

4. Know the place

5. Relax while you speak as you at home

6. Imagine you speaking to the audience before you give the speech

7. Realize that people want you to succeed

8. Do not apologize

9. Concentrate on the message you spread out

10.Gain experience while you speak

What is tinyURL and why it is important

2010-01-05T01:52:00.000-08:00

TinyURL can be referred as the shorter version of a longer web page address. Long URLs are converted to short URLs because it is much easier to remember it then the longer URL.

Why experience matters in jobs

2010-01-05T01:50:00.000-08:00

Experience is a must in doing jobs. If someone wants to succeed in their work, they must have necessary experience to do well.

How to generate writing ideas

2009-11-26T07:13:00.001-08:00

In written memories ...
Originally uploaded by mutasim.billah.pritam [brk]

Writing something is not a big task. But writing something that attracts readers is not an easy task. A writer should always consider making different unique approaches to get the readers attention. It should be done in such a way that it is not difficult for readers to understand.

There are many different approaches a writer can take to make his writings attractive. One could take examples from their own life and tell it like some story. If it is something different which has something to get, the readers will attract to and will read it. Not only from your life but by using popular stories, a writer could always makes his writings nice and catchy for the readers.

A good writer always read. Reading is a good habit to practice if you want to be a good writer. Reading can generate you dozens of ideas when you’re writing on something. So try read a book even once a week. It would be better if you’re read things on your niche. Use catchy and meaningful quotes from famous characters. An article can gain a good reputation just by adding such quotes. Also a real story related to the scenario you’re writing about would be nice.

At last I want to say that always offer content to the reader in a unique way. Even the things which have been published before may get many visits if you write it in a unique different way.

Guide to be a blogger

2009-11-26T06:49:00.000-08:00

If you’re just started blogging, first you must aware that blogging is not easy as you think. As everything has it ups and downs blogging also has its own ups and downs, also when it comes to blogging the difficulties you’ll face are much higher than others because blogging is an activity which has no formal steps to follow. So blogging needs a good self confidence and a desire to do the best.

Here’s a list of things you must need and follow to be among the best in the business.

Self confidence
Without the feeling self confidence not only in blogging but in anything, it is very difficult to go with a good rhythm. Surely self confidence may go up and down but it is important to be focused on your future goals and improve your self confidence. As long as you maintain it the more higher and quicker you get in to the top.

Learning
One doesn’t necessarily have to start blogging in a paid domain or hosted space. You can start your blog in a free service in the internet like blogger.com or wordpress.com and after being stabilized transferring it to a paid domain and a hosted space. It is good to start your blog in a free service because you can create many websites and do experiments without any cost. It is a good learning process. So start few blog sites with different contents and keep experimenting them. Also if you find it worthy to keep that free domain keep it.

Set of tools
Using good set of tools for your blogging is also important. Use analytical software like Google Analytics to keep track of your visits and everything. Use social book marking sites like Digg, Stumble upon, and Delicious etc. to show your site to the public. Use social networks like Facebook, use mini blogging tools like twitter.com. A good set of tools will lead you to amazing results.

So if you’re just in to blogging. First get in to that attitude. First learn what you’re doing and how to do it. Read as much as you can. Everything will guide you to a good income in blogging.

Writing in Internet | Considerations

2009-11-19T03:32:00.001-08:00

I love writing
Originally uploaded by Fabio Catapano

Writing an article or a blog post to an online website is different from writing to a paper based one. As the reader reads the article on a screen you must make a good conversation with the reader so that he is more interacted with the content and read it to the end. So depending on the topic, size of it and many other, you must write the article very carefully. This is also important to get a good rank in Social Bookmarking sites. Let’s take a look at few things you can do to the article to keep the reader attracted.

Readers read web articles on some sort of screen, their eyes and mind are tired most of the time. Because of this it’s the heading of the article that catches the reader most of time. If you haven’t put a catchy heading you will be missing good number of readers for the article. Use something that is short and sweet. Like ‘25 Places to Find Photos for Your Every Need’, ‘Increase Traffic: 3C's of Blogging’ like that.

Next comes the paragraphs. You must think of how to interact and attract the customer from the first to the last paragraph. Some kind of a small story or a life experience of you will do best for you. Readers like to read something really happened or some story that they never heard of. So consider writing the content of the article in one of the two approaches mentioned. Also follow the basics accurately. Like spellings, grammar, correct and matching quotes etc.

Also try to do something different in your writing. Asking a question on top of the article and giving the answer or a hint in middle or last would engage the reader in the article. This kind of things gets reader involved in the article. Most of the time in this kind of question based articles reader tends to post comments so that they can actively participate in the conversation. Trying something like this is good but overusing this method will bring you nightmare. People won’t be like an article which just asking many questions but no use.

My last point is an important one, the length of the article. The length depends on the topic you write. For topics like gadget review, writing long articles won’t bring you anything. People tend to see gadget videos instead of reading. So gadgets reviews must be kept short and simple and also technical. But writing about some scientific matter will have a lengthy article and sometimes it could spread over few articles. In these people are looking for is more content.

Follow these steps and be a good writer. Good writing skills will bring you great opportunities if you’re in to internet marketing. Share your thoughts and ideas in comments.

Similar Page Checker

2009-11-18T00:57:00.000-08:00

Today I found a nice widget to check similarity between 2 websites. Because many people today face with Copyright issues and things like that, I thought of sharing this link with you.

Get traffic from social bookmarking sites | part 2

2009-11-18T00:23:00.000-08:00

Writing a blog post? Written one? Or have you not found the amazing results you can get from social bookmarking? If not this article is for you to achieve them. This article is a 2^nd part of ‘Get traffic from social bookmarking sites’. If you want read the 1^st part click here. Or else let’s continue.

Submitting old news won’t bring you any traffic. People are not interested in old news and they won’t bother reading them because its history. But if you’re really want to write on do so but don’t expect much traffic to generate from the bookmarking site.

Check your facts once a week after submitting; checking daily will give you bad feelings if you’re not getting what you want. Also reply to comments posted about your article so you can create genuine readers.

Some sites don’t allow editing your posts after submitting them. So double check the URL, keywords, title before you submits them.

Even you put them in a right category not all topics will do well. There’s some topic which find no interest in users. For example Apple sells well in Digg and the war in Iraq on Netscape. Sometimes negative stories too well rank on top like George W. Bush, corruption, crime etc. doing some research would be better.

Traffic from social bookmarking sites are some kind of come and gone. They come from the bookmark site, read the article and then go away. To keep them focused in your own site to make them more interested consider putting related articles or popular articles list end the end. They tend to click and go to these links.

If you have promoted RSS feeds, newsletter subscriptions people coming from the bookmarking sites can be a member of your readers club. So you can make them genuine subscribers.

Using automated submitters are big help for social bookmarking because in few steps you can put your bookmarks in many sites. But do not use automated submitters because automated submitters usually have malware in them.

As I stated above, responding to comment on your stories is important. The commenter’s may feel like they are participating in a conversion much closer. Do so will result in more subscribers and more backlinks.

Front page story in a social bookmarking site will result in unexpected increase in traffic. Because it is un expected it is better if you prepare your server for the un expected traffic.

Following these steps or even few of them will result you in increase of traffic. Don’t forget to comment about your results.

Get traffic from social bookmarking sites

2009-11-17T23:18:00.000-08:00

Writing a new blog? New to blogging? Or else written a blog post and wondering what steps to take next? The first step I would consider myself is to promote it on a social bookmarking site for more traffic.

Of course social bookmarking sites can bring you a lot of traffic. If you do the basics right getting to the front page of these sites is not hard to achieve. Here are 20 points I’ll present you to guide you through this process. You can also use it as a checklist.

Headline is an important consideration for social bookmarking sites. If your headline is not catchy enough it won’t move on to the top. Also headline is the sort of only thing readers see about your article in the social bookmarking site. So it is important to put a catchy and informative headline to your blog post.

Headline is the 1^st step. To give a little bit more information about the blog post, you must add a short description about the content of your article. 100-150 character description won’t do the job for you because no one’s going to bother read that much. So you must be very careful writing this part.

Writing a good first paragraph also important as the above two points. If the reader does not find this interesting he won’t bother to read it down. Adding a life experience of you would be better here.

I have heard this hundred times. ‘Content is king’. Writing the first part of your post won’t enough. All your content must be written well because search engine spiders are going through the content most of the times.

To your readers to bookmark your site, add a bookmark button in your every article. Sure some readers will bookmark your article if they find it valuable.

This is something to consider if you’re really up to this. The time of submitting your post to a bookmarking site is also something to think of. Because if you submit the article in a time that people in west coast or east coast are sleeping, and when they wake up your article would be 10’s of pages away from the front page and no one’s going to find you. Many people say that they get more traffic around 3 p.m. US central time, so give a try.

Category is also important; there would be no result if you published a SEO article in sports category or reverse. You should get an idea that what category the article should go when you’re writing it.

If you’re a senior member of a social bookmarking site with bookmarked a big number of blog articles chance is that your new submissions get a little bit higher rank on the bookmarking site. Also the advantage over this is you have more and more links inter connected.

Also even you’re not a senior member and if you have many blog posts published you definitely will have many inter connections of different blog posts from different social book markers. It is also a plus point you should be aware of.

Most of the readers in the world are English. And of course many programs and internet is based on English language. Even your mother tongue is not English; consider writing the articles in English. But it would be ok if you have audience of your own language.

So even from these 10 points I think you have got a good idea of how to optimize your blog post to get higher ranks in social bookmarking sites. If you want to know more about here’s my 2^nd part of this article ‘Get traffic from social bookmarking sites’.

The Beauty of Social Media

2009-11-17T21:11:00.000-08:00

Its another presentation I found interesting on SlideShare.net about Social Media and How to use them. Ofcourse with his flickr images and quotes and much much more 'Social Media 101 and Banking', will give you a good idea about Social Media and its subsidary services.

Social Media 101 & Banking

View more presentations from Five Technology.

Panadura - Kandy | No. 17 Bus Root

2009-11-17T06:12:00.000-08:00

The 17 bus root (of course not the bus but the root) is very popular among many people. Because it covers many roots in a single ride, many people including me tend to catch a No. 17 bus for my travelling. It basically covers the 183 bus which is from Panadura to Nugegoda. 163 which is from Dehiwela to Battaramulla and some part of 177 which is from Kollupitiya to Kaduwela etc. well those 3 are the only one’s I know but it also covers people travelling from down south to up country because you can skip busy Colombo and go to Hill side or the other way around.

Even when I was doing my A/L’s and when I wanted to travel to Sakya or Rotary in Nugegoda, Even I can take 183 or 100 buses for that I usually wait for a 17 bus because it is a single and a fast ride. The importance of No. 17 bus A.K.A. Panadura-Kandy bus (also Panadura-Kurunegala) came in to my mind when it comes to undergrad time. Because I’m a SLIIT student, sometimes I had to travel to Malabe (from Moratuwa) for my studies. The best option is… what else? Taking the 17 bus. It’s a single ride and I can get to Malabe in less than 1 and ½ hrs in early mornings. Other wise I would have to travel from Moratuwa to Colpetty and Colpetty to Kaduwela or Moratuwa to Dehiwela and Dehiwela to Battaramulla and Battaramulla to Kaduwela. So from myself even I think you can get a simple idea of the importance of 17 bus.

I think authorities of transportation in Sri Lanka will take more measures to expand the number of buses travelling in 17 roots. Usually its 1 per 30 minutes but hope it expands.

Many thanks for the drivers and conductors of 17 root for their kind attitude and service (which many others not have)

Why select SLIIT

2009-11-16T07:11:00.000-08:00

As a SLIIT student (<<>>), I thought of writing to the newcoming batch of 2010 about what are the basics you should know about SLIIT, its graduation process, the culture and procedure of it etc.

I think SLIIT can be classified as an institution where middle class society and the people who missed the university entrance of Sri Lanka could earn a degree at a comparing low cost. Comparing to the costs that abroad universities are pricing, you can earn a similar kind of degree in Sri Lanka and with a reasonable price you can get the degree from Curtin University, Australia in SLIIT. I think that's why Sri Lankans (even foreign students) should consider to select SLIIT for their degrees.

In SLIIT, people can meet many people with different kinds of attitudes. some with good hopes and some with the opposite of it. Actually nothing this matters if you're very focused on your studies. In Metropolitan Campus you basically meet students from Colombo and suburbs and in Malabe most of the students are come from other areas of Sri Lanka. Most of the students in Malabe campus are staying at boarding houses nearby.

There are pros and cons about both these campuses. One pro about Metro campus is its location, situated in the heart of colombo inside the high security zone of Temple Trees, Its only 5 floors of BOC Metropolitan Tower. You don't have to worry a bit about good transportation or security. Con about Metro is that its limited capacity of common area. So students here may feel like kind of trapped in a cage. Now we'll focused at Malable Campus. Situated in a scenaric area in Malabe, in new Kandy Road, Malabe campus has a wide area to stay, be socialze. Malabe campus is a ideal place for a campus life but it has some small problems like trasportation.

Of course SLIIT also have 2 centres in Matara and Kandy. So New People coming to SLIIT, its the choice of yours to select your campus to study.

Don't forget to comment on your chocies and ideas.

All the best for your campus life...

Ways to make money from websites

2009-11-16T02:21:00.000-08:00

After the article ‘Blogging as leisure time into part time’ I think it’s the best time to tell you the ways to make money from your blog.

There are many blogs on the internet with single topic having hundreds of similar things, so if you have read above article you must have got an idea that you must first be stabilized in your niche to go forward with money making. Here I’ll discuss you main ways you can earn money through blogging, even Problogger Darren Rowse is following,

Contextual advertising

Adsense and YPN could be enlisted under this. This type is the most popular method popular among the bloggers to make money online. How this type works is these programs scan the content of your blog and put ads (usually text and image) relevant to the content. Payments are made according to the CPC(Cost Per Click) method where it counts every click that was made on the ads.

Impression Based Ads

These kinds of ads pay a small amount for every person who view the ads. There are various kinds of ad systems found on the net, like FastClick and Tribal Fusion. These won’t earn you much if you don’t have a big traffic.

Text Ads

Text ads are also increasingly popular because it don’t need a big space on the layout, it just need a single line for it. The user can have more control over these ads. Examples are AdBrite, Bidvertiser and Adzaar

RSS Ads

Even most of them are in testing modes, but RSS feed ads are seem to be improving. Pheedo is a system you might like to try.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35121296@N07/3905875571/

Blogging as leisure time into a part time

2009-11-16T01:33:00.000-08:00

Since the start of blogging culture in the Internet, blogging and blog sites has been increased in big numbers. Just by searching in blogsearch.google.com for any topic that comes to your mind, you can get an simple idea about how many people are involved in this culture.

It is arguable but some can say blogging is a money making thing and some can say it is a kind of leisure time activity to share the knowledge. But blogging is actually both, you can start blogging as a knowledge sharing portal and if you wanted, can expand in to a money making blog. But you must also note that from the total number of blogs in the world (112.8 million) stated by Technorati in 2008, most of them are just knowledge sharing websites, but not for money making. If you’re interested in blogging you can start it as a leisure time and expand it in to a part time.

The important point about leisure to part time or to full time is, when you start a blog or any other website you first have to have set of unique audience to present your blog, if you do not achieve this there is no point of wasting more time on that blog, that’s why you must not start blogging as a job straight away.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/martincanchola/3067285400/

How to build the brand name over the Internet

2009-11-15T10:29:00.000-08:00

Building up a brand name from the start is a hard task. But if you're planning to do so, no matter what obstacles you will face, you should do anything to build up the brand to be popular amongst the audience.

Internet can be defined as the best place to build up the brand name, look at this slide set at slideshare.net which focuses on Building the Brand Name over the Internet.

BrandBuild - all the way to the top in 6 months

View more documents from Vellyslav Petrov.

Protect your online identity

2009-11-15T04:03:00.000-08:00

Being online is like being public, because if you uploaded something in it without any restrictions anyone accessing Internet can access them and it could be the end of your privacy. Your first date could see your new girlfriends details and your office pals could see your personal pics and the list goes on. So if you’re widely involved with internet with your personal information you must take every precaution to protect your ‘Internet Privacy’.

I found this great article at Mashable.com titled A Guide to Protecting Your Online Identity. So I request it you to read it down and get the perfect picture of this.

Greetings…

The Open Road | Movie Review

2009-11-13T01:31:00.000-08:00

If you’re a Justin Timberlake fan, you definitely should watch this movie. The Open Road, based on Carlton Garrett, adult son of baseball legend Kyle Garrett. As his sick mother promoted Carlton to see the estranged father, together with his girlfriend Lucy, Carlton embarks on a road trip with his estranged father back to mother. The movie is a nice one where I stumbled upon it from Awooh.com and watched it non-stop with buffering problems J anyway I invite you to watch this nice movie.

Directed by: Michael Meredith

Produced by: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Release date: August 28, 2009

Starring: Justin Timberlake as Carlton Garrett, Jeff Bridges as Kyle Garrett and Kate Mara as Lucy

You can watch the movie online here

Amaya Hills - Kandy - hotels in sri lanka

2009-11-12T04:30:00.000-08:00

Located in last kingdom of Sri Lanka, Kandy. Amaya Hills is one of the most prestigious hotel in the Up country in Sri Lanka. It is just 7kms away from heart of kandy. All 91 rooms of the hotel experience you with balconies overseeing beautiful valleys of kandy and all rooms have air-conditioning, cable-tv, minibar and coffee making facilities.

Amaya Hills also has a Ayurvedic Spa for your comfort. it includes

• Herbal Oil Body Treatment – oil body massage,

herbal steam and herbal bath

• Vashpa Sveda – herbal oil and steam treatment

• Avagaha Sveda – rejuvenating herbal bath

• Herbal Oil Head Treatment – head massage with

vital point treatment

• Vaktra Chikitsa – herbal facial treatment

• Reflexology – foot massage treatments with

whole body effects

also the hotel has a hall with 4700 sq.ft. for special events like weddings, conferences or any other function. For special dining resturants will gurantee you nice sri lankan or overseas food you desired.

Wrap up of 1st Year @ SLIIT

2009-11-12T03:52:00.000-08:00

1st Year of my SLIIT Life is over. 1st semester of it when like over 3 years I guess :) and the 2nd semester went quicker than a supersonic jet.

Looking back at the Uni life, it is a kind of a fun actually; much differ than the school life (which is the best time ever) uni life is a different culture, even though one wouldn’t feel it in 1^st year, studying in a uni is a more responsible job. You have to listen to the lectures carefully because no one’s come to you and back you up like in school days. And it is kind of a do or die situation, if you do this 4 years you live like a tycoon, if you don’t you live like kind of a beggar. In this 12 months(actually less than that) I saw all of these characters.

Still have 2 months to start the next year, thanks to the administration of SLIIT we don’t have any rags here like in local universities so I can finish the degree in age 23 with a 1k salary. So looking forward for that with enthusiasm

Useful Web Tools to design Websites

2009-10-22T04:40:00.000-07:00

when searching through the internet for tools to design a website, I stumbledupon a nice article which was posted on SixRevisions.com site. Even though it mainly focuses on CSS technologies I thought it may be useful to many web developers and designers out there.

20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient

How to Write More Attractive Blog Articles

2009-10-12T03:12:00.000-07:00

A major problem many writers face is getting their article popular among its readers. But it is also the hardest thing to do. There are many reasons for article being not popular among readers. The platforms you’re writing, the structure of contents, sources used in writing are major considerations a writer must consider before and on writing. Apart from these there are many other reasons for a writing to be popular.

In this article we’ll look at major 3 considerations.

1. Writing Platform

In the internet there are many platforms for web writers to write and publish their articles, the most popular are word press and blogspot.com which are free. also one could buy his own domain name and hosting space and write their articles.

The advantage of purchased domains over free domains(wordpress, blogspot) is when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) the possibility of free domain name ranking on top is less than your own domain name. but it must be also noted that if you have written a article with fresh content whether it is hosted on a free site or a bought one, you don’t have to worry about SEO.

2. Structure of Content

If you’re doing something in a organized manner you can plan it without a scratch and others can get it straight what you’re trying to say. So following a good structure when writing the article will give you great results.

3. Sources of content

When you’re writing a article whether you think the subject is popular or not there are many resources available in Internet for you to get ideas from. It does not has to be a popular article. Even for less popular subject you can get many sources to get content from.

so if you have followed these 3 steps I think you don’t need to waste much time writing the article and finding the best place to publish it. If you have written the article according to the above 3 steps in major,

You don’t have to go to the reader,

Reader will come to you and will come back to you…

most popular facebook games

2009-07-16T04:18:00.000-07:00

Want to find out what are the most popular facebooks games that people use these days?

find out here

Coming Back!

2009-06-16T05:30:00.000-07:00

Coming back to blogging is a very hard and tedious task. Because you have to win your viewers once again. Or else you have to come with different format or you have to focus on a different topic.

25 Places to Find Photos for Your Every Need

2009-04-25T00:13:00.000-07:00

When you want to find new graphics and images to your website or for your new presentation or anyother, what many people usually do is they just google the net and find the pics they want. So what you will usually find if you searched for a same topic is same set of pictures.

So when it comes to a situation like a set of people searching for a same topic, they will end at glancing at same set of images. Here I will give you 25 Places to find out Photos.

My Tip for you is don't just depend on a single picture site. Just randomly select the pictures you need from few websites from the list.

So here's the list...

Stock.xchng

Pixel Perfect Digital

Free Digital Photos

Public Domain Photos

Free Historical Stock Photos

Remeber all these websites also gives you some additional resources and stuff for you so use them for the best...

Flickr Search Engines

2009-04-23T11:11:00.000-07:00

I think you probably know what flickr is. Flickr is one of the most used Pic Sharing website in the world. You can upload and share your pics with absolute anyone who uses Flickr.

As you already know how bigger the flickr community is, it is bit harder to find out the best pics you want. So heres what you want. Here we present 5 Flickr search engines which are powered by the Flickr API to help you navigate and explore Flickr in a better way.

How much is your Website Worth?

2009-03-01T10:40:00.000-08:00

Do you know how much really is your website worth? You can guess the price but you can guess anything right? :)

All your guesses are over you can checkout your websites worthiness by going to these websites and putting your web link in appropiate place. These services won't charge you a penny and it's worthy find out.

http://www.stimator.com/

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/

http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/

Universal Writing Ethics

2009-02-13T19:29:00.000-08:00

Some times there are things that can be called as universal because they are globally recognized. Even in web writing (Especially in Blog Writing) there are things, that are globally accepted.

Here even though the writer says these are Rules, I'm not going to say they are Rules because they are actually not rules.

Here I'll list down the 5 Universal Writing Rules from a Guest Writer at problogger

Increase Traffic: 3C's of Blogging

2009-02-07T02:33:00.000-08:00

Increasing traffic to your blog is a must for every Blogger. A vital factor of achieving this goal is to develop contacts with your audience by following the 3C's of Blogging. They are comments, conversation and community

1. Comments

It’s not wrong to say comments are the lifeline of a blog. Ask your readers to leave comments. Make them feel like they all are worthful members of your blog. And spend some time to interact with them.

2. Conversation

As the comments flowing in to your posts it automatically starts to build a conversation within you and the other commentors. Listen to them. And if you have time post your own thoughts in comments. If not write a second post in connect to the comments.

3. Community

As you follow above two steps, as the conversation moves on you have started a small community under that topic. Your goal as the bloggers is to keep the community run.

So at the end with a lot of interactions you have increased your blog traffic. See it's even fun to interact with other bloggers in same niche.

8 Proofreading tips and techniques

2009-02-01T05:22:00.000-08:00

Daniel at DailyWritingTips has written a nice article about Proofreading tips, A summary of them is,

1. Concentration is Key

2. Put It On Paper

3. Watch Out for Homonyms

4. Watch Out for Contractions and Apostrophes

5. Check the Punctuation

6. Read it Backwards

7. Check the Numbers

8. Get Someone Else to Proofread It

Read the full article here from DailyWritingTips.

What is tinyURL?

2009-01-23T04:02:00.000-08:00

If you're using Twitter you may already have seen this. You must be wondering when you are updating your status via Twitter. After typing the link and updating it what you see is some link from tinyurl.com/.... Don't worry about this any more.

What has happend is because your URL is too long it has directed to a tiny URL. this has been done by Twitter. It's a link that redirects you to the orginal URL you posted.

Try the below...

You can learn more about tinyurl or you can submit your own URL's to this service free.

2009-01-22T04:00:00.000-08:00

Search engine optimization is very important if you want to get traffic from search engines. Other fact is that 70% of web searches only look in the first page of the search list. So if you're not in the first page. You definitely going to miss many numbers of visitors to your website/blog

Here I will give you the top 10 seo mistakes that people made. Read this post not once but twice and don’t try but don’t do these mistakes again.

1. When targeting keywords use keywords that people may search. Do some researches before selecting keywords. Keywords can break or make your website.

2. Nowadays leaving . It not only works as keywords. But it's what the people see when your site appears in the search results page.

3. Flash might be attractive but flash website without html alternative you're no more. :( provide an html version of it. A search engine spider can't read flash so it can't index it.

4. We know that JavaScript Menus for navigation is good for the design but you must understand that spiders don't index them. So if you're having JavaScript menus consider build a sitemap

5. seo maintenance is important. Don’t think that once you optimize your site, it is optimized forever. If you want to be successful you must look at the SEO in a regular basis.

6. Most people think that SEO is all about Meta keywords and Meta description. It’s correct! Somehow Meta tags are becoming a thing of the past. But don't depend on this.

7. Using images for headlines is an attractive thing but when it comes to SEO you are ruining your web/blog in a long run. So try modifying them in a style sheet or this.

8. Ignoring keywords in URL's is something that many people do. But just think, if you have keywords in the URLs this gives you additional advantage over your competitors. Keywords in URLs are very important MSN and YAHOO. Google, their relative weight is high. So there are no worries having keywords in URLs.

9. We all know that having more backlinks are always better in SEO. So because of this web masters go to things like link farms, forum spamming etc. but the hard truth is you could end up getting your site banned. So what you need is quality backlinks.

10.when you've written an article do some look back and check whether you're lacking your keywords for your content or not.

I Also recommend you to read Top 5 Mistakes in SEO which is similar to this.

Using Facebook for Generate Traffic

2009-01-20T01:11:00.000-08:00

Nowadays many online marketers use facebook to market and drive traffic to their websites. This trend is very understandable because presently over 150 million people are a part of facebook. It's a big way to drive traffic to your website.

Talking about driving traffic, if you're in to some internet marketing about youth addictions like sports cars, games, sports you're going to get a huge traffic to your site via. Facebook because many people using facebook are young people.

So, How to promote your blog via Facebook? Enough talking lets get down to the business,

1. Creating a Group:

One of the greatest functions in the facebook is creating a group. It’s a very simple way and the good news is all the group members don't have to be your friends. You can invite any of them and anyone can join your group. It's a very effective way to promote your business.

2. Status Update:

This is a good way to update the latest news about your blog. (Maybe about a blogpost or something) the bad news is this only appears to your friends and only they can see them.

So if you're already using Facebook Sign In or If you're new to Facebook Sign Up

What is Search Engine Spider?

2009-01-18T03:01:00.000-08:00

Well don't get confused or scared thinking that I’m going to write about that creature. But what I’m going to write about is the search engine spider that comes to your site as a virtual bot. It comes and crawls all over your site/blog content making its way through the links in your site. So basically it works as an inspector that inspects your blog and updates its content to the search engines.

What can the spider see?

Search engine spiders can only see your page source. They are blind for many extras like Flash, JavaScript, and Frames. It is worth to know what spiders like and what don't.

Feed the spider with what it need!

Flash, JavaScript and images are not visible to spiders. Frames are a real catastrophe in SEO rankings. They maybe great in web designing. A big mistake one could do is making a flash intro page. Try this Search Engine Spider Simulator to a page filled with flash and images and you will see that, to search engines the pages appears very much blank. So you can really know that they are not search engine favorites. But if you include an ALT tag in a picture. That will notify the search engine about the image. (But don't get caught to keyword stuffing with too much of this). Careful with optimization and over-optimization. Also you can use

Meta title is what reader sees in your browser's title bar when the page loads. As the spider see it. You must put a relevant Meta title.

Meta description is virtually invisible for the visitor. But it's very visible for the spider. Basically you must have a good targeted Meta description. It specify about your niche to the search engine.

Content: but at last but not least content is important than any of these. Even if you got the traffic thanks to the above things. New comer will never come back if your site's content is not relevant or not interesting. So above all consider most about your content.

Extra: Try this Keyword Playground tool to get analysis of your site regrading Keywords

Reasons why people dont leave Comments

2009-01-14T17:53:00.000-08:00

I will ask you this directly, Do you leave comments on other people's blogs? Either your Answer is Yes or No or even maybe you must read this article by Liz at Successful-Blog. She has expressed 10 Reasons why Readers doesn't leave comments. Well I'm not hasitant to say some of these applies for my self even... :)

So go on & Read "10 Reasons Reader Don't Leave Comments"

Join ONLINE PROFITS today!!!

2009-01-14T01:51:00.000-08:00

If you're following the right sites you may already heard about www.onlineprofits.com. Want to know what it is? It's the most complete Internet Marketing and Online Business Training Program that can make 2009, Your Best Year Ever.

The program mentors are the best in field. What more can you expect?

The program module is,

Module 1: Introduction and Business Principles

Module 2: Domain Names

Module 3: Setting Up Your Website

Module 4: WordPress

Module 5: Web Design for Entrepreneurs

Module 6: Business Models

Module 7: Selecting Your Niche

Module 8: Blogs

Module 9: Other Types of Websites

Module 10: Web Content and Copywriting

Module 11: Basic SEO

Module 12: Advanced SEO

Module 13: Generating Traffic

Module 14: Social Media

Module 15: Web Metrics

Module 16: Selling Advertising

Module 17: Email Marketing

Module 18: Affiliate Marketing

Module 19: PPC (Pay-per-Click)

Module 20: Landing Pages

Module 21: Selling Your Products

Think Outside The Box

2009-01-13T04:15:00.000-08:00

The definition wikipedia gives for think outside the box is;

Is to think differently, unconventionally, from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel, creative and smart thinking.

If you’re onto blogging or anything, thinking outside the box is very important to get on to big heights. It will help you to stand out from the others and shine as gold

Thinking outside the box required few things.
Ability to take new perspectives to everyday work
Willingness to do different things and to do things differently
Listening to others
Supporting others and respecting other's ideas when they come up with good one's

For further reading, I recommend this site which is full of video tutorials

How To Launch a Blog

2009-01-12T20:37:00.000-08:00

Today I went through an article from ProBlogger.Net named How to Launch a Blog and Have Fresh Content for Weeks. I was very happy to read it because I have already applied this theory in to practical.

So I thought of sharing this great post with you all.

Top 5 Mistakes in SEO

2009-01-12T17:44:00.000-08:00

Search Engine Optimization is the method of making your site search-friendly. But when it comes to Search Engine Optimization, there are few common mistakes that people incline to make when starting to submit their sites for Search Engines.

1. Lack of targeted keywords

Keywords play the most important role in Search Engine optimization. When a searcher went to a Search Engine and type in a keyword that you like to be found and if your site doesn’t have these keywords, then the searcher will not find you.

2. Poor content

Good content is the key to higher rankings in Search Engines. Content is what the search engine spiders are looking for. But if your site or blog is badly written or never updating or not on the right track, it won't be search engine friendly. You must have great content for Google spiders to crawl on.

3. Black Hat SEO

Black Hat Search Engine Optimizations are the techniques that are prohibited by search engine spiders. They include Meta keyword stuffing, doorway or gateway pages, hidden content, and Meta keywords, link Farming and many more. But search engine spiders have become much aware of these techniques and these spiders can recognize these very easily and the sorry thing is they will be banning your site. So don’t go for the shortcut which is unclear and go for the long path. You can check your website and get a analysis of it for free here!

4. Using Meta Tags unconventionally

These Meta tags include title tags, keyword tags and description tags. Put all of them in every page of your site. And link them from other pages.

5. Bad Design

This includes lack of clear navigation, unclear design frames and also sites that get much more time to load. Spiders can block these sites that have bad design.

So try to avoid these for a long run…

Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

2009-01-12T03:58:00.000-08:00

Bloggers like to have more and more RSS readers. Just imagine when you wake up one day and see that your RSS subscriber count jumped by 300 or 400. Amazing right?

So what are the ways we can pull in more RSS subscribers to the site? Here I have written few ideas for you. Try these and see the results.

1. Have a big RSS button

What everyone are looking for is big one's remind that in mind. So if you use a little RSS icon, visitors may not find it. So make sure the icon is large but not overlarge.

2. Display it above the fold

Make sure that you display it above the fold. Many bloggers don’t scroll down to find the RSS feed. Remind that in mind.

3. Display the RSS in every page

Most of the people are not just subscribe to your blog. Some might read few articles, and if satisfied then looking for a RSS feed. So you must display the feed in every page.

4. Explain RSS

Not every reader is familiar with what the RSS feed is. So write a small but catchy little sentence explaining what the RSS is.

5. Offer email subscriptions

As I said before not every reader knows what the RSS feed is! Believe it or not it's about only 10%. So one thing you can do is using an email newsletter. Make it weekly or twice a month depending on your rate. But don’t overwhelm you reader by filling out his inbox. AWEBER gives you the opportunity for this service.

6. at the bottom of every post

As explain in 3rd point, some people want to subscribe after reading the post. So put some link to subscribe just after the end of the post.

7. Don’t jumble your RSS feed with ads.

People will unsubscribe it for sure

8. Animated RSS feed icon

People like things that are attractive. So if you use an attractive RSS icon, an animated one your RSS subscriptions will jump up over night.

If you have more ideas for this topic don't forget to put a comment and go...

Why You Must Join a Blog Network

2009-01-09T06:17:00.000-08:00

There are many positives about joining a blog network as a Blogger. If I get to the points straight.

1. Relationships

if you ask bloggers who are in blog networks why are they in it, majority of them will say that they enjoyed being a part of something larger than there own Blogs and they got to know many bloggers in there same niche. Many blog networks have there own communicating systems like forums, emails, chat etc. so it's very easy to communicate with others and easy to share pros & cons.

2. Traffic

When I first started blogging it was very hard to find traffic at that time. In present even we have many ways to find traffic, joining a blog network is also a good way to drive in traffic. But you have to write good content. Many networks have ways of promoting Blogs via spotlighting top posts of that week etc.

3. Expertise

Not many bloggers have the experience in running successful blog. But if you join a blog network. These can handle many of the technical aspects like web design, SEO optimization, finding advertisers like that. This allows bloggers to simply just write. But remember you can't expect everything from the network.

4. SEO

One of the biggest plus point of being in a blog network is you can be linked to each other blog in the network. As you have many links to other web site from your site, the chance of ranking higher on the Search Engines gets higher.

5. Prestige

As the experience grows, if you can get writing for one of the biggest networks on the blog, you can put that to your advantage by building your own image.

6. Learning

If you are new to blogging, joining a blog network is a good learning material to get started. Because you can practice your own theory as you like.

These are only pros I have talked about in this post. But remember anything has its pros and cons.

Why to use Amazon Affiliate?

2009-01-09T04:32:00.000-08:00

Amazon associate program is worth considering for some bloggers. Well it's not my primary income stream but by using it I earn good money. The reasons I recommend mason associate program are,

1. it’s a trusted brand

Just ask your self have you ever heard of Amazon? I’m sure 98% of you will say yes. The reason because it has been on the internet for a long time and have registered in people's mind as a trusted brand and it is a trustworthy.

2. Commissions

Today large numbers of people are buying things online. So someone went to Amazon through your site and purchase something you will get 4% for the referral. You stand a chance to grow this up to 7%. Sounds good haa!

3. People buy more than single item

As people wandering through Amazon there's a big chance that they going to buy few items than they first thought.

4. Variety of payment options

If you want they will pay you in cash and if you want they will pay you even in products.

5. Seasons are boom

The sales you're getting from Amazon gets so high in the Christmas and New Year season because more people buying items. So remind this in your self.

SO DO YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF AMZON AFFILIATE? GO ON...

How Google Ranks Blogs

2009-01-08T01:29:00.000-08:00

Different from most blog search engines, Google blog search ranks its results by relevance. You can customize it by clicking on "sort by date", but the default is useful if you want to find the most substantial blog posts.

But how does Google rank blog posts???

Positive signs

Negative signs

Links from quality sites

Page rank

The number of feed readers

Clicks in search results

Links from mail, chats etc.

Posts added at a certain time

The size of repeat content

Using words that appear frequently in spam Blogs

Linking to a one web page

A large number of ads

We cleared that Google uses all kinds of factors to decide the popularity and the quality of a blog. But this doesn't mean less popular Blogs are dropped out if they have relevant content. But you should try to avoid the cons that may signal that the blog is spam.

Write Your Most Popular Article Ever

2009-01-08T00:29:00.000-08:00

One popular post can bring you more traffic and links than a months work on your usual method.

Below points will you give you some sort of help to tackle this task. Read carefully and take it to your self.

1. Explore

Before starting to write explore similar stories that have published before. Try to get an idea from it and try to write better than that.

2. Time is important than talent

You can improve or buy the talent. But you can't do anything to time. So what you have to do is invest more time in improving talent.

3. Write the best

Write the best ideas on posts. Think different. Think about something that will get popular that others are not writing. Use the best ideas to express your self.

4. Headlines

People read title before reading the content. So you must write brainstorming title that inspires the reader to reader to read full article.

5. Add links

If people find your article interesting they will want to read similar stories about it. Add few links that they might want to read.

6. Research

Research what have worked before. Try to answer your self, why did they work kind of questions.

7. Criticism

Take criticism. They will inspire and force you to write more good content than before. Take criticism as a bonus.

Art of Writing Catchy

2009-01-07T23:52:00.000-08:00

1. CONTENT

The more useful and catchy content a website has the more successful it will be. Because more people will want to visit it and also they will want to come back over again.

2. READ

The more you read the more ideas and creativity you will get. Then you will find a way to stand out from the crowd.

3. REJECT UNNECESSARY

A sentence should not contain unnecessary words and a paragraph, no unnecessary sentences. Don’t write just because you have to, you are not doing any good but damaging your image.

4. PASSION

You must write on a topic that you are passionate about. Only then you will get an inspiration to write. If you have passion to write the ideas will float in to you.

5. Use images

When you are entering a new web page. The first thing you see is not the content, what you see is the images that have used there. Use out of the box images.

6. Keep it short and simple

Keep it short and simple as you are talking to the person next to you. Simple words can be easily understood by your reader and it's easy to pass the message.

7. Write

Write and keep writing something. The more you write the more you read and the more you read the more you gain ideas.

8. Unique

Making up your own style of doing things is uniqueness. Its' a good way to stand out from the crowd.

Boost your blog traffic! MUST READ!!!

2009-01-06T03:24:00.000-08:00

The easiest way to give your blog a traffic boost is by submitting your web site URL's to search engines. You'll say the search engines will some how find my site even without submitting. But why not making it easy for search engines to get to know about your site, rather than waiting until they do?

Below links can submit your websites to the most popular search engines in the world.

P.S - Submitting your site to a Search Engine will not boost your web traffic by

overnight. It depends on your quality content.

Twitter What is it really?

2009-01-06T03:08:00.000-08:00

Twitter has really grown up its popularity since its start in March 2006 as a side project in offices in the SoMA in CA. now all around the world; people follow twitter to follow the blogs on their same niche.

To get the best from the twitter you can build a link on your blog and encourage your readers to follow you via twitter. On the other side you can shout about your latest post on twitter. So people who are following you can see you have posted a new one without even accessing your site. You can also update your facebook status from twitter. One thing you must avoid is overloading twitter with linking to every post that you write. It will frustrate your followers and sure they will turn away. I suggest you better pickup 1 post a day and post the link to the twitter. Another thing is posting variety of things. This will not bored your followers and you can come across more and more followers.

If you are beginner to twitter, take your time and look what are things people are linking via twitter. Try to get a good look before kick starting. This will give you a good feeling and experience how twitter can be used. Search for few articles on Google about using twitter.

I recommend you to read "How to Use Twitter - Tips for Bloggers" by problogger.

HI

2008-12-05T21:31:00.000-08:00

Hi people i have been through some tough times so for a few months, I was not able to post anything. Now every things OK and hope to catch up you all from the beginning.

Thanks for your Patience

7 Ways to improve your traffic

2008-11-20T01:27:00.000-08:00

1. Content

Your readers are like customers. They always look for new things. Having quality content that is updating frequently will keep your customers coming back and back.

2. Newsletters

These are like reminders. People always logging into their email so maintaining a newsletter will keep your readers updated. But don’t overload your subscriber’s inbox. Send it about once a week or so.

3. Running contests

These get people involved in your site very much. Make it interesting and giveaway attractive prizes. Also don’t forget to include rules page.

4. Giveaway free items

Giving away free e-books has really worked for me in one of my websites. Not only e-books, there are so many things you can give away online with less budget. You can download free e-books here

5. Analytics

Use analytics software’s to track your traffic. Do some researches and find out what sources sends you more traffic and what people read the most on your site. I recommend Google Analytics.

6. Create links

Create links to other web sites on your niche. As they see your website link in there analytic software. They will do the same and will create links on there sites linking you.

7. Give your best

Focus on your niche and give the best ideas you have. Don’t stock it on your head. Express your self to the world.

Write Articles, Not Blog Posts

2008-11-05T05:15:00.000-08:00

Recently I went through an amazing article named, Write Articles, Not Blog Posts. It's a bit long article but as I read it I got to know that even though it's long, It has many things to get not only for a beginner but for the professionals too.

So I invite all to read the article. by Jakob Nielsen

What is RSS?

2008-10-10T04:14:00.000-07:00

Rich Site Summary is a format for deporting regularly changing web content. Nowadays news related sites, blog sites and many online marketers advertise or report their updating content via RSS feed.

Advantages of using RSS

RSS feed allows you to easily stay informed by giving you the latest RSS news from the sites that you have subscribed. The advantage here is without going to the site you have the opportunity to see what's new on that site and read it.

If you want to use RSS reader you can register from any of these web based news readers. The most popular 10 Readers are,

So what are you waiting for?