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Simple Blogger Template

May 9, 2006 · Filed Under Blogger Templates · 7 Comments 

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Simple Blogger Template

Western Civilisation Style Master CSS Editor

May 9, 2006 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

western civilisation style master

Western Civilisation’s has just released their newiest Style Master 4.5, after giving it a try, I would say it is worth the money spend buying it. Its a fantastic product, build from scratch for begineers in html and CSS. It is easy to master and has an excellent hands-on tutorial included, and the user-intuitive interface.

Contextual Advertising Software Adsense Preview

May 8, 2006 · Filed Under Contextual Advertising · Comment 

Amit Agarwal is a professional Blogger and founder of Digital Inspiration, a business weblog consulting company. He created a cool web tool that enable user to preview the type of Adsense ads that would appear on their blog. Surf to Contextual Advertising Software and give it a try if you’re curious about the type of ads that is going to appear. Below is a screenshot of the web.

Contextual Advertising Software adsense preview

Unlike other ads preview tool, Contextual Advertising Software enable you to preview various ads from different contextual advertising company, for example YPN and Chitika malls., and there is a side by side comparison, which is good if you’re wondering which ads would be better suited for that particular post.

Most Popular Free Blogging Platform

May 7, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · 2 Comments 

Which is the most popular free blogging platform among bloggers? According to Technorati, blogspot has a 44% of overall market share follow by MSN with 23%. Based on the Technorati queries part of their study, it seems that the most commonly-used blogging platforms are:

blogspot 44%
msn 23%
livejournal 8%
aol 1%
splinder 1%
20six 1%
typepad 1%
blog 1%
fc2 1%
hatena 1%

Surprisingly MSN has a 23% market share, maybe it is due to its user friendly interface but overall the design is not flexible, you’re not allowed to insert codes (adsense) and it seems that every msn space user has the exact layout - boring and dull. I would highly recommend blogspot as the first choice, mainly because of its flexibility and it belongs to Google.

blogging platform market share

If wordpress and other paid blogging platform like Movable Type are taken into consideration, Blogspot still hold the first spot with a command of 35%. Although Wordpress has a mere 2% market share, they are made of mainly hardcore bloggers, which is why there are so many wordpress templates available while blogspot user has a limited choice of templates to choose from.

Copyscape Plagiarism Search Engine

May 7, 2006 · Filed Under Web Application · 1 Comment 

copyscape plagarism search engine

If you’re wondering about your articles being plagiarize online, try Copyscape. Its a search engine that scan for identical articles found online, and for a small fees, they’ll monitor your website from time to time. Give it a try!

Binary Bonsai Single Column Blogger Template

May 6, 2006 · Filed Under Blogger Templates · 14 Comments 

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Binary Bonsai Single Column Blogger Template

Xu Jing Lei Chinese Blogger Enters Technorati Top 100

May 6, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · 1 Comment 

Not many bloggers manage to make it big when they host their blog in a free hosting server like blogspot, mainly due to the ranking system by Google. What is even more surprising would be a blog in Mandarin language and hosted in a free hosting server manage to break Technorati Top 100 list.

Chinese blogger Xu Jing Lei is the one and unique blogger. Gecko salutes you. Her blog is being hosted by Sina.com and if you’re wondering what in the world she is blogging about, try Google Translator, not very accurate but better than nothing.

How To Make Money From Blogging & Blogs

May 6, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · Comment 

Alot of people tried to find ways on how to make a living thru blogging, and sad to say that not many of them manage to make it. Reason begin that blogging for money is not something that happens over night. It is not something that one can succed without hard work and most of all patiences.

Some blog for the joy of blogging, while other blog because of money. I’ve noticed that Wordpress user tend to blog for money while a high percentage of Blogspot user blog for the joy of blogging. If you have a steady flow of traffic, there is no harm in making some money from blogging.

Three reasons why one can’t make a living from blogging:

1. Lack of patience - Blogging is not a lottery, you don’t get rich overnight. Give yourself a time frame of one year.

2. Blog Topic - Having the right topic is the key to success, and if you got thousand of visitors per day and you blog mosly about you life, chances are you’re not going to make money from adsense. Choose the right topic, blog about things that you like and things that you got a wide knowledge about. Choosing the right topic means you’re unlikely running out of things to write about.

3. Domain Names and Hosting - This is the most important factor in blogging for money rules. You may have good articles and lots of readers, but without a good search engine ranking, your chances of getting hits are hopeless, it doesn’t matter what blogging platform you are using, be it Wordpress, Movable Type or Blogger, you need your very own domain name and hosting. Google tend to rank websites with their own domain names higher than those without. Remember, visibility in search engine is the key to success.

It doesn’t matter if you make money out of blogging, the most important thing is that you enjoy blogging, and when you do something you like the most, you’ll succeed in life.

Harvard University Blog in Wordpress MU

May 6, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · Comment 

The Harvard Berkman Center blog server has been switched to WordPress. They are using MU. According to their official website, they encourage anyone with a harvard.edu, radcliffe.edu, or hbs.edu email address to host a blog with them.

Makes me wonder why in the world would I want to? Would they filter out certain articles if they contain poison words, or articles that crit the professors? Blogspot is still my first choice when it comes to free blog hosting.

Harvard University Wordpress Blog

Search Engine War Continues With Amazon A9 Powered by MSN Live

May 5, 2006 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · 1 Comment 

There is no official press release from the internet giants Google and Microsoft than Amazon A9 is now being powered by MSN Live. Its a very sudden move and a big lost for Google, this makes me wonder why would Amazon dump Google for Microsoft Live when it is so obvious that Google’s search engine is way much powerful and accurate than Microsoft’s search engine.

Microsoft fans all over the world have rejoiced about this as this is the first big victory for their Windows Live line of products. (If there is any fans out there). Yawn.

My suspect is that Microsoft must have offered Amazon a sweet deal, probably an link to their website for intergrated search into the next Microsoft Windows Vista. I can’t think of anything else that could possibly makes Amazon ditching Google for Live.

Gecko and Fly is just few weeks old and it is ranked fourth place in A9.com for the keyword “Gecko and Fly”. This goes to show how inaccurate the search engine is, but then this is suppose to be good news to bloggers like us.

Source : Chrono

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