Free ebook on blog traffic.

Alvin Phang is known to every blogger as an authority in Internet marketing.

He has published an e-book on how to get more traffic to your blog. I have subscribed to the RSS Feed of his popular blog Gather Success.

Look at his Alexa rating which is 37000 plus and his Technorati rank which stands at 24k out of 71 million blogs. Thats pretty good by any standard. It is quite an achievement.

Alvin speaks regularly at the Poly to coach students on internet marketing and he conducts seminars and courses to students both online and offline.

Get this e-book for free.

He has created a widget for members of MyBlogLog.com. To get yourself in this widget, read his blog post titled 2000 MyBlogLogs.

This is a wonderful opportunity for your blog's populaity.

Beautiful log cabins for honeymooners.

Now, this is what every nature lover would call it as an ideal getaway during weekend.

The location is Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and the accommodation is Pigeon Forge cabin rentals that one can book in advance. The backdrop is simply tranquil where one can happily merge with the nature.

No wonder Pigeon Forge is attracting 11 million tourists every year.

Situated just five miles north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pigeon Forge is primarily a tourist resort. The city's attractions include Dollywood theme park that is operated by a famous singer Dolly Parton.

The backdrop:
The West Fork of the Little Pigeon River flows north from its source high on the slopes of Mount Collins through Sevier County before linking up with the Middle Fork in Sevierville. Pigeon Forge occupies a narrow valley along this river between Sevierville and Gatlinburg.

The surroundings:
High ridges surround Pigeon Forge on three sides, with Pine Mountain to the west, Shields Mountain to the east, and Cove Mountain to the south. A bend in the Little Pigeon provides the city's northern border with Sevierville, and a narrow gorge cut by the river between Cove Mountain and Shields Mountain acts as the city's buffer with Gatlinburg.

The log cabins:
The mountain view from the deck of the cabin is pure delight. If I were there, I think I will spend the entire day on the deck. I may never wish to enjoy the other facilities that include Jacuzzi, pool game etc.

Here, I have given photographs of log cabins. I foresee you will lift your phone and call 1-866-370-3273 right away.

SugarLoaf Ridge Resort Sherwood Forest Resort

Pay per click journal.

The reason many who starts a PPC campaign lose money quickly is the lack of appropriate bidding knowledge. The bidding for correct keywords is extremely important as that decides on the websites and blogs on which the ad appears.

If not bid correctly, the ad may end on useless websites an blogs where the ad will hardly be noticed.

It is essential to gather more than sufficient knowledge in pay per click advertising before starting a campaign.

Probably subscribing to PPC journal may help you. Lot of resourceful articles appear on this journal that included proper budgeting, knowledge about keywords etc.

Earn money from blog contests.

Apart from earning from your blog through AdSense, text links and sponsored posts, there is one more method to earn and that is by participating in simple contests announced by bloggers like you and I.

If you are bother about letting as many bloggers know about your contest, here is a solution offered by Blog Contests.

All you have to do is pick a suitable category and give a write up for your contest and let them do the marketing for you for $10. They are advertising through Google AdWords. You also give them a link in your blog.

A sample contest:
Earn $50:
"In hopes of getting some traffic to my new blog I am offering a contest for the month of November.

Entering the contest is very simple, you either comment on any of the posts for the month of November, or offer a link to the contest details.

I will randomly select a winner form these two methods and send them $50 Via PayPal."

Come on, spread the word.

The Krillion inspired concept.

After fixing an appointment with all the residents in our street, an appliances dealer brought his big van containing Whirlpool range of washing machines, refrigerators and microwave ovens.

On the side of the van, a large colorful banner on which Whirlpool Ranges was written. Everybody in our street appreciated this novel concept of bringing the consumer durables shop at our door step saving us precious time.

While acknowledging our gratitude, the dealer admitted that he was inspired by Krillion, the search engine that takes into account the locality of the person searching for something and produces results accordingly.

This unique Krillion Localization Engine scours the Web to find, integrate and present actionable local search results for the ready-to-buy consumer. Krillion delivers local search results that combine very specific product information with very specific locality information.

This idea was further improved by this dealer of appliances and there it is the entire range of Whirlpool in front of us.

Hotels in Las Vegas from A to Z.

Where do you look for in-depth information in the internet? Where do you buy the latest books of your interest for a discount?

Obviously your answer will be wikipedia and Amazon respectively. You have bookmarked them because of authentic and reliable information.

Like that, when you want to travel to Las Vegas, you must first look in i4vegas.com for the finest hotels. This website is the best resource for Vegas hotels and they have listed a big list hotels sorted in alphabetical order after personally visiting them.

At present, they offer a free ticket to several exciting shows if you buy two tickets for shows of your choice. There is no particular season for Las Vegas shows. Tourists throng Las Vegas throughout the year and all the hotels vie each other to woo the tourists to their hotels.

Do you know that as many as 25,000 unique visitors per day use i4vegas.com to review detailed hotel information and photographs, compare rates and availability and book their Las Vegas Hotels?

The fact that on any given day, nearly 1000 guests are checking in or out of the finest hotels listed in their web site is itself a proof of the popularity of i4vegas.com

So, it is natural the tourists to Las Vegas don’t look any further than i4vegas.com for their hotel accommodation.

One more Blog Directory.

Blog Dumps is a blog directory plus a blogging community.

A lot of discussions are going at present about several topics that include link exchange, blog directories, networking, uploading and sharing videos, Music and photographs.

I found out this blogger group in Blog Catalog. They say that this group is for the discussion of blog resources, blogging tips and ways to increase your blog traffic.

But there is a bug in the submission process. After pressing the 'Add Link' button, nothing happened. I have intimated this problem to them an hour ago.

PS: I just received an email from the admin of Blog Dumps and he informed that the submission is working fine. Yes, I submitted this blog. Thank you Wolfbernz.

Submit blog related articles.

Every top internet marketer opines that the best or one of the ways to get visitors and link popularity is to submit articles to article directories.

I differ slightly here. While I agree that articles directories are a good source for increasing the number of visitors, I suspect no one looks for blog related articles in general articles directories. Well, I don't look for anything related to blogging tools and blog promotion in general articles directories.

I look at various other places such as blog directories and social bookmarking web sites. Today I learnt that Blogarama accepts blogging related articles. Blogarama is a big name in the blogosphere with Google PR7.

I submitted one of my blog posts and awaiting their approval. Once approved, I will be encouraged to submit more blog related articles there.


Blogarama - The Blog Directory

The easy solution for your web needs.

This is what I was looking for exactly-a web application solution that can be customized to my educational college.

My college management is aware of my internet experience and they thought I am a web developer. I admitted that I am not a technical person but I can find out a company that can give the correct solution.

Due to my prior experience in this field, I know exactly what I want. The portal software from Epazz.com is the ideal platform for creating value added content based website for my institution. Their The BoxesOS Web Portal Component is suitable to monitor students’ community activities and it can encourage activation participation among students.

I am happy to know that creating the portal with portal software doesn’t require expert technical knowledge as I feared. With Epazz’s offer of 30 days free trial, my college has nothing to lose. 30 days is more than enough to work with the BoxesOS. If we can’t create the portal within 30 days with the aid of this tailor made software, then there must be something wrong with our staff only.

When I highlighted to the correspondent of my college that BoxesOS is especially suitable for communication among students and academic staff to share data and information, he gave me the green signal to go ahead with my decision.

Blog and earn today.

Certainly there is some uniqueness in This is by us.

Yes, it is a revenue sharing blog alright but you don't have to give your AdSense id to them. So, it is not essentially an AdSense revenue sharing opportunity like Blogger Party.

The interface is easy and you make make a blog post on anything except the usual restrictions on adult, racism and hatred.

I have written an article on one of my other blogs. Please click the 'Full Details' link below.
Full Details.

If you like it, please share it with others.

Space saving stands and mounts.

On rainy day a few years ago, I was forced to enter the lobby of a star hotel to take shelter. I was fully drenched and started shivering.

I was embarrassed by odd glances. I suppose a woman staff of the hotel was also equally embarrassed to look at my state and came forward to help me. She guided me to the washroom and permitted me to use their fresh, dry towel.

Suddenly I heard a loud cheer and I was shocked and got knocked off my feet. Oh, the noise must have come from the TV high up on the wall and there was a cricket match going on. That was the first time I saw a big and heavy television mounted on a wall.

I was impressed in spite of my state and decided to buy one for my house. Though we did not have a TV that big, still it was heavy. Could there be any thing more to that wall mount? I searched in the internet and saw a plasma wall bracket that could be turned. I read that it was a multi directional wall bracket. (See picture)

Thank God, I did not straight away buy an ordinary wall mount. Sure, this multi directional is very convenient.

Have you submitted your blogs on Spicypage?

It was in September 2006 that I came to know about Spicy Page. Initially, I showed a lot of interest in it by browsing on several blogs a day.

As usual, I did not sustain my interest till today. Since I received a private message there, I logged in to see only a spam message. But it was a blessing in disguise. My account area has earned a Google page rank 3.

I was happy and submitted the rest of my blogs today. Another new feature is, you can submit individual blog posts too.

This blog has received 38 votes already. Nice going-eh?

Spicypage lets you post, comment on, vote on, share your favorite sites or blogs with your friends and others like you. Discover and bookmark the new and the best sites & blogs out there, and connect with people of the same interests as you.

Today also, I took time to notice a couple of good blogs there. And please be aware that several heavy weight bloggers also have listed their blogs in Spicy Page.

Full insurance coverage from day one.

Why people insure their life? It is only for the sole reason of leaving behind some money to their family in anything untoward happens. So, everybody or almost everybody is basically selfless. I am bringing up this subject because a news paper article really bothered me. Oh, well, for get it.

An insurance company that was started more than century ago (1951), has introduced life insurance for kids which one can buy for just $1. The special feature of this policy is, there is no waiting period whatsoever. The full coverage starts on day number 1.

And no medical check up is required.

The charm of getting to know the full details of this unique offer will spoil if you read everything in this blog-right?

So, go ahead, click on the link above to know more.

Are you a blogger from India?

If so, there is one more blog directory that accepts blogs authored by Indians. I don't know whether they accept blogs by Indians who are not residing in India.

It is totally free to submit your blog. One Mr.Puneet usually approves within 24 hours and promptly sends an email after listing it.

Oh, I am sorry, the url is http://indiablogs.org

I would have offered more categories if I were the webmaster of that directory. Reciprocal link is not a condition but we all can help him by reciprocating.

The website is uncluttered. The submission process is simple.

Oh yes, I just read there that Indians from all over the world are allowed to submit their blogs.
I apologize for my oversight(?) (smile)

Calculate exactly your odds and win.

In my 22 years of teaching mathematics, I have never encountered such a genius concept as this-the calculator that tells you what your odds are on the poker table.

Another unbelievable feature is the calculations are based on 3 million random hands. This is truly phenomenal indeed.

Preflopadvantage.com sells this poker odds calculator for only $29.95 excluding shipping and handling charges.

Who would not think of buying this calculator when they can increase their chances of returning home with a coat pocket full of greenbacks?

The Pre-Flop Advantage gives you an instant analysis of how your cards stack up against the competition and because there are only seconds to react the Pre-Flop Advantage provides you with instant real-time hand ranking and winning percentages.

Here are the basic steps to operate:

Enter number of players by pressing corresponding “Total Players” button….

Hey! Why should you bother to read this when you can see the demo in YouTube?

Promote your blog to 800k visitors.

The above claim is seen at Rate it all, the social network and consumer rating site. Clearly curious, I explored further. I was asked to submit my blog url first. The next involved in giving more details of the blog and in the final step, the widget is made after you preview it.

Rate it all built upon one of the most extensive and diverse online databases of opinions, ratings, and reviews in the world.

Earn cash:
Here is the most interesting part of it; participating members of RateItAll can earn cash for various activities on the site.

I quote them:
"At RateItAll, you own the content you contribute to the site, you can take your RateItAll reviews with you around the web via our widget publishing tools, and you can make a little money for your efforts".

What is a hosted shopping cart?

Do you know that when the first ever offline supermarket was opened, the customers were not provided any container to keep their purchases in, before checking out to pay for it? They were forced to carry their own shopping bags or baskets.

Only at a much later stage, they were provided shopping cart with wheels which they pushed it along to keep their purchases in them. This is the first idea of hosted service.

Similarly, if we want to open our own online store, we can approach a shopping cart service provider to host a custom made shopping cart for which we can pay a monthly charge. We need not install the ecommerce software in our server.

But we must be fully aware that developing such software is not very easy. The software developers are required to sound technical knowledge in several areas of ecommerce, the prime area being the security the website provides to the customer. Then, they must choose the right database management program and finally make the entire online shopping experience a smooth and glitch free one.

Now, an even more advanced technology is introduced by Ashop Commerce. With their user friendly ecommerce software, merchants can build their own custom store front.

Keep the wind and thieves away.

The north east monsoon has started in Madras. Though there is only intermittent rain, the sky is dark and the atmosphere is gloomy. We expect torrential rain in a few days and it is likely to last till middle of November.

My neighbor who just a bought a very costly car is naturally upset over the wrong time of purchase. I saw him kept looking up at the grey sky in the morning. I can understand his concern. When it rains in Madras, the city roads can get slushy with mud.

I am planning to meet him in the evening today and show him a wonderful car cover that can be safeguarded with lock. The Covercraft Lock and Cable keeps your car cover on your vehicle when high winds, vandals and thieves pass through.

This is made by Covercraft—pioneers in the car cover business for more than 40 years and is available online at BuyAutoTruckAccessories.com, an excellent resource for all your auto, SUV, van and truck accessories at an unbeatable price. They are one of America's largest and fastest growing online retailers of specialized automotive accessories!

Work at home as a jewelry dealer.

I could not decline the invitation of one of my student’s mother. She invited me and several others to her house for the Dussera festival which just concluded.

Though I was very tired after 5 hours of teaching maths, I somehow managed to attend the function. After offering prayers, we sat around to socialize. My host informed everybody to have a look at a collection of jewelry she just bought only to sell it.

I was pretty impressed by the collections (see sample below) and I am sure you also will appreciate the delicate workmanship; the prize was also very affordable.

The host had taken up this work at home opportunity by partnering with Foxy Jewelry with a minimum investment. She informed us that the investment is risk free as it is covered by a 90 day guarantee. The profit margin is as high as 100 to 400%.

Knowing the passion for jewelry among Indian women, I told my host that she has taken a wise decision that will prove to be a prosperous one.

Promote your blog on Zimbio.

Submit your bog to Zimbio.

The advantages:

1. Share your opinions with a wider audience
2. Interact with our community of like-minded bloggers
3. Generate inbound links to your personal site, helping new readers find your blog
4. Get featured on the Home Page!

How it works:

Add your blog URL

Permit them to promote your blog.

They then import your blog articles.

They submit your articles on appropriate Wikizines. Each post will include a link back to your site.

If there are no proper wikizines, you can create your own Wikizine.

I quote them:
"Once you select "Promote My Blog", we'll analyze each of your new blog entries and try to match them to a related wikizine. If we find a match, we'll automatically import your article for you and generate an inbound link to your site. We'll also post a notification so you know when your article's been auto-imported. All you need to do is write great articles and we'll take care of the rest."

Here is an example of how they posted my blog post:Click here

One stop discount store.

At last, nine days of Dussera festival was over yesterday but the holiday mood persisted in anticipation of Deepavali and Christmas. Past experience reminded us not to relax because these holidays are still a while away. Time flies real fast these days.

So, we sat together during the just concluded weekend and started preparing our wish list. Since it is our custom to give gifts on the Deepavali day (festival of lights), we had tough time deciding on the gifts. This is always a taxing exercise.

After preparing two big lists, we roughly calculated how much we need and what is our bank balance. Our next step is find out the best discount deals that are offered by Coupon Chief, our favorite shopping web site where hundreds of merchants offer big money saving discounts.

One of the gifts that we have chosen is magazine. Since we are enjoying some of the world’s best magazines, we thought, we will give away magazine subscription to a few our relatives.

Based on our past shopping experience with Best Buy, it is our best choice to replace one or two kitchen appliances. Also, we wanted to buy a mini fridge. It may be a luxury considering our present financial position but still we decided to yield to the temptation.

The final step was to prepare the list and write down the matching promo codes offered by these merchants at CouponChief.com

Hmm… the final list gave us immense satisfaction though we felt the need to stretch our budget a little more. Then I sat down to compile a nice ‘Thank you very much’ email to couponchief.com. This is our annual courtesy.

Print your color brochures online quickly.

In the middle of Christmas holidays last year, I was caught in a predicament. Appreciating my services to the students’ community, I was given a free stall at the annual mathematics project by a school nearby.

I had to urgently print out 200 brochures and 1000 flyers as news paper inserts highlighting my qualifications and services offered in my maths academy.

Desperate attempts to locate a printer proved futile in spite of my offer to pay higher rate. At the last minute, I was shown a way by one of my students. I did not think of online printing till that time. I was asked to approach areaprinting.com, the leader in providing printing solutions.

I browsed their website, did some research on their services and came to know that they offer the following services that are rated high by several corporate bodies.

Digital printing
Offset printing
Graphics design

They print catalogs, brochures, business cards, letterheads, flyers etc. My requirement was customized to the fullest satisfaction and the delivery schedule was met with precision timing.

Since they offered a live chat facility, I was able to correct the proof online and gave the green signal to print under 48 hours.

If you need to contact them, call them toll free at 1-877-268-9110.

A new Tags widget that thinks.

Jiglu tags that think! Let us take the word 'Think' as a metaphor only or a little bit of poetic expression.

Well, the tag widget is created instantly but we have to give its spiders some time to crawl and get the tags displayed.

You can view a sample widget at my blog Malas Musings.
If I add one more widget in this blog, a long time critic of this blog will literally give a knock out punch because of the length of the sidebars.

I think you will understand what’s all this about Jiglu tags once you view the sample widget. But I don't think it will contribute in any way for increase in traffic.

I am adding the following content 20 minutes after I posted the above. I quickly visited my other blog Malas Musings and had a look at the Jiglu Tag Widget to see if it had updated?

Yes, it is. Now I see he usefulness of the widget. It crawled the blog completely and came up with tags thats are sorted alphabaticaly. Even I am surprised by the number of tags it generated.

Join Buy a Blogger and earn.

I just now found out about this market place for bloggers and advertisers.

As a blogger, I registered with Buy a Blogger.

Once registered, the advertisers can contact you directly if they are satisfied with your blog's Alexa rank, Google page rank and the number of uniques visitors per month.

While registering, you must give the details of your best blog because at present there is no facility to add more blogs.

There are no fees involved to register as well as to get matched with an advertiser.

At present, there are only 167 blogs are registered with them. Not much information about company is given on the web site.

Assured tickets for High School Musical.

Yes, now I remember where I read about high school musicals. A month or two before, I was doing some research on Disney Channel and its contribution to high school music.

Image courtesy: Wikipedia

High School Musical is an American telefilm. It was first released on January 20, 2006. It was a followed with a television sequel released August 17, 2007. The first release was one of the most successful Disney Channel Original Movies. The film was shot almost entirely in the Wasatch Front in Utah.

It is always near impossible to get tickets for this show. So, to buy your High School Musical tickets online, go to Ticketsolutions.com, the Midwest's oldest and most reputable ticket brokers and a member of the National Association of Ticket Brokers.

No time to shop online? Call their customer service at 800.477.5285.

For your information, Ticket Solutions is a top rated Consumer Site awarded by Buzzle.com.

Get sponsors for your blogs.

This is a different method of getting paid to blog.

The advertisers search for blogs that are relevant to their product or service by keying in the proper words in the search box provided by Blogging Sponsorship.

It has been a month or so that my blog was listed with them but so far, no advertiser has contacted me. I believe Blogging Sponsorship requires active promotion from the webmaster.

I have noticed a familiar blogs there.

Read fully here: Get sponsors for your blogs.

For that look of elegance…

Now, any hotel would certainly hire any girl wearing such sexy costumes as in this picture as a VIP valet service provider. . But then who would not?

Lingeriediva.com has expressed it with a subtle humor, “You’ll be handing over more than just your keys”. More than the actual valet service, this sexy costume can be their best seller.

The above costume is a Snap front dress with braid accent, satin sleeves and ruffle back detail. And also comes with a hat, collar with attached necktie, driving gloves and removable is priced at $52.69 after a discount of $14.37.

There are much more a woman can buy at Lingeriediva.com, the leader in online lingerie sales since 1998. I heard that it is cine costume designers’ favorite buying spot.

Get paid for blogging by 451Press.

451 Press pays you to blog about a wide range of subjects. This is not the usual paid to blog media where bloggers post about the advertisers on their blog to get paid.

I spent sometime there and did a little bit of research. It seems they are growing at a fast pace.

It is one the largest network of blogs with more than 300 daily blogs published on a variety of entertainment and “edutainment” related topics. Unlike social networking or blogging sites, 451 Press provides real-time, on-demand content, written by a team of award-winning professional bloggers.

Steve Shickles, president of 451 Press says the company is constantly recruiting professional bloggers for their many sites. They are looking for writers with unique voices to contribute to our growing network of blogs.

You’ll get paid 40% of the advertising that your blog generates and they will look out for advertisers for your blog and work with their existing advertisers to get the best possible matches for everyone.

What is special at Cliffside Malibu?

The picture you see here is not a holiday resort but a drug rehabilitation center at Malibu with more comforts and luxuries than a holiday resort offers.

Cliffside Malibu is a residential rehabilitation center for those suffering from various addictions like alcohol, drugs etc.

Even mentally depressed patients are treated there. The treatment given is highly result oriented that includes detox, individual therapy, group therapy, depression treatment, and alternative medicine.

It is the policy of Cliffside Malibu to offer each patient an individualized clinical program that includes individual therapy, cognitive-behavioral groups, process groups, and a family program.

Unlike the usual rehab centers, Cliffside Malibu treats their patients with utmost gentleness and care and they are never punished. They are offered with 5 star luxuries and given the respect they too deserve.

Submit your blog to RSS Micro.

The word micro is added to RSS for reasons unknown to me but it sounds nice-isn't it?

It is very useful to submit our blogs not only to blog directories but also to as many feed search engines as possible.

RSS Micro is an online RSS feed search engine with more than 65 million feeds, blog posts, and news articles that you can browse and search into.

Just click on the 'Submit Feed' button, fill up a short form and hit 'Submit'. As a rule, they will review your submission before approving it.

Even their inner pages boast a PR6.

Spread the word.

A real estate company backed by General Motors.

Yes, you can find luxury homes alright throughout America but how many of them are backed by global corporate giants like General Motors and GMAC Real Estate?

How many real estate companies have published their agent’s full profile with their photo on their website?

The luxury homes offered for sale by Eleganthomes.com are equipped with real luxuries that are found only in movies.

Just take a look at the list of facilities:

High-tech computers that monitor and control everything from lighting, heating and cooling, to inside and outside security.

*Bathrooms with many spa features, complete with whirlpool, garden tubs for two (or more), saunas, heated marble floors and towel bars.

*Gourmet kitchens in are constructed with large work/conversation islands, stainless steel appliances, plenty of hidden storage in cabinets and drawers, and expansive space for entertaining.

*Remote controlled gas fireplace.

*Custom built-in Niles theatre sound system throughout.

*Centralized A/C.

*Huge finished basement with pre-wired home theater.

May be, just may be, I may own a home with all these features one day.

Submit your blog to Blog Hints.

Blog Hints seems to be a good directory for blogs exclusively.

There are quite a lot of categories to submit to. But I still feel, there are can be some more. A category suggestion facility would be a good idea.

The approval time is just a few hours. I submitted 4 blogs in the morning around 7.30 AM and three were approved by 9.00 AM.

One blog was rejected and I resubmitted it.

Above all, it is free folks.

Entertainment furniture for your home theatre.

Sentimentally attaching to our household articles will not pave way for new things to come in. I have seen many people who are reluctant to throw away old suitcases, worn out center tables in spite of criticism. But at the same time, they also appreciate anything new and unique.

Seeing the latest pieces of furniture in my house, I feel happy that I have decided to replace my ancient audio racks and speaker mounts. This is what I purchased from standsandmounts.com

It is an exquisite piece made of high quality glass. This website stores plenty of ultra modern stands for home theatre, beautiful bedroom and kitchen furniture.

I have identified my next purchase from the. It is a multimedia chair that comes with built in speakers and woofers.

Blog Lightning increases exposure.

I am sure you have noticed the new widget in the right sidebar which says, I am a member of "Blog Lightning".

It requires more members and I hereby request you to have a peep in.

The benefits of joining Blog Lighnting:
a) Using your free BlogLight.ning blog. You can add a teaser from your original blog post with a link to the full article. Each post will be featured on page 1 of BlogLight.ning giving you maximum exposure!

b) You can also head over to the forum. The forum posts will be given lots of attention because they too are featured on the main page for everyone to see.

BlogLight.ning is a network for bloggers and a nice place for blog promotion.

Invite the best appreciation.

Is there such a thing called 'appreciation' and 'best appreciation'?

Some or even most may disagree with me but I wish to emphasize that I have felt the difference when I hear an appreciative remark. Ok, let me explain it more clearly.
We all hear several thanks daily and we too say so. Most of the 'thanks' will be uttered habitually-right?

But we also say 'A big thanks' at times meaning we appreciate more whatever we have received that provoked us to express our 'big thanks'.

We had a family outing last Sunday and we visited a new hotel. I said, "Thank you very much sir, I am able to clearly see the fine artwork on your table cloth and it is done exceptionally well".

"That is because of the seagull lighting that we installed madam; Thanks for your appreciation. I am glad you noticed"

That is me. I notice many things which generally escape the eyes of my family members and I always appreciate heartily.

A blog directory cum social bookmark.

It is very unique-One India Blogs Directory, because it is both a blog directory and a social bookmarking website.

I don't remember when I submitted my blog but I received an email from them today that my submission is approved.

I thought I could submit my other blogs but I am not very much satisfied with the available categories. The webmaster should browse several blog directories to gain knowledge in this aspect.

The submission is free and easy. But I feel they are asking for too many details while registering an account.

As far as the social bookmarking is concerned, there won't be any traffic but we may expect some link popularity after a few months.

Important: Your blog must be Indian related. (?)

Ethnic mailing lists for website promotion.

A few months before, I did a promotion for a couple of dating websites that were created to target Russians and Hispanics.

I thought my blog post itself may not be sufficient to promote the website and hence I posted my work in a few social search engines.

At that time, I thought why they don’t buy ethnic mailing list from the world leader Martin Worldwide. Martin Worldwide makes targeting ethnic prospects more effective than ever.

Similarly, I have an idea to create a podcast on Bhagvat Gita. I am terribly inspired by its verses. To promote this podcast, I can approach the Mailing Lists Company -Martin Wordwide and buy a huge list categorized by cultural, religious, and geographic ethnic density to obtain optimum campaign results.

Martin Worldwide provides the world's largest ethnic database - Over 107 million records! The list comes with a guarantee, “if your list fails to perform, we will replace the unsuccessful data with new data at no additional charge to you!”

Here is more for anyone looking to buy targeted mailing list from Martin Worldwide:

* Quarterly updates to ensure each ethnic list you purchase will be the most complete, comprehensive, and up-to-date lists available in the marketplace.

* Licensed data from a wide variety of different compilers to ensure you receive the most comprehensive database of ethnic prospects.

Yes, I find ‘Indian” also in their ethnic database which I am contemplating to use for my podcast promotion.

For your convenience, I am giving below the contact details of martinworldwide.net Contact: Chip Matthews, Client Relations Manager chip@martinworldwide.net

Place a dynamic blogroll on your blog.

Let us view your existing blogroll. It is a static one with just a link to your favorite blogs.
What if that same widget of blogroll displays the content of the each blog in that blogroll?

As and when those blogs get updated, that content will appear in your blogroll.

The service is provided by Feevy.

"Show the latest posts from your favorite blogs in one column.
Put them in order according to the latest updates, which will appear on top.

With feevy, you can replace static, boring blogrolls with dynamic content and transform your blog into a web portal for your network of friends.

Initially I did not understand how it works but after reading their FAQ, everything is clear.

"Moreover, you can have as many feevys as you wish and use them to make web portals for your group of friends or for your favorite network. Organize the contents in columns, make a feevy for each one, and that's it… feevy takes care of keeping it permanently updated and you don't need to do anything.".-FEEVY

Build your own shopping cart.

A project on shopping cart software was given to my son by his university to be completed with in 6 months.

He is studying his final year B.E. Computer Science. He is teamed up with two others as collaborators.

I was relieved to know that he will be doing this project on which I can lend a helping hand due to my 9 years of internet marketing.

In fact, I have more than adequate knowledge on e-commerce. When I started my general web directory project, I equipped myself fairly well with shopping cart.

I know about the service of ashop.com.au as one of the premier e-commerce solution provider. My directory developer was an Aussie lady who taught me the basics of shopping cart software.

With Ashop.com.au, merchants are allowed to build their own custom shopping cart using the advanced merchant interface. One can build an online store capable of competing with the webs most powerful sites for a simple, low monthly fee.

Ashop Commerce shopping carts are integrated with all major banks, gateways and third party processors including PayPal and credit cards.

Sign up for a free 10 day free trial and play with the world’s easiest shopping cart building software.

Shameless promotion of your blogs.

Isn't the title nice?

Without hesitating for a second, I will grab any opportunity to promote my blog. Once, I thought, it is enough to be active in mybloglog.com

I was wrong. Of late, I get more visitors from Blogcatalog.com, though I hardly spend time there it deserves.

In it, under discussions tab, there is a thread titled, "Shameless Blog Promotion"
I posted one of my blogs there. I restrained myself by not mentioning all my blogs due to decency.(smile)

Then I visited a few blogs mentioned by others and I would like to write about one that should be useful to many bloggers. It is a blog by Kowgirl on common grammar errors.

There are quite known faces; syafthegeek, sindoo20, mrsnesbitt, ladyinfluence, karenlim, gosmelltheflowers and PhilipHarris.

Why don't you also utilize the opportunity?

Huggies for adults!

No! You don’t have to read again the title. I wrote it correctly.

Diapers, huggies, and nappies-they all mean the same thing and for the same purpose; that is to prevent leaking of unexpected bowel movements.

And don’t think that these disposable undergarments belong to the modern era. Even Shakespeare had mentioned it in his The Taming of the Shrew: "Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper".

At Disposable Medical Express, one can buy the widest selection and highest quality medical products that include disposable underwear for all ages; yes even adult diapers that one can arrange to get shipped automatically every month using their AutoShip Service.

“Shipping is discreet, hassle free, and since we're centrally located in the US, it's always fast”-says disposablemedicalexpress.com.

They have a vast product range, so it is better to download their free catalog.

A blog for babies!

Yes a blog for babies but of course not by babies. Baby stores, tips and more is authored by Nichole, a mother of four.

I have a peculiar way of visiting blogs but not always. Being a member of Myblolog and Blogcatalog, I try to reciprocate visits and also click on images of members who are attractive to me.(smile)

That is how I landed on Nicholebeard's profile at Blogcatalog.com and I am glad I did it. Rare I come across blogs that is designed with creativity. Baby stores, tips and more definitely is impressive to me. It is uncluttered (unlike mine) and simple.

Next the content:
Good! Very well written! For example, read this on "New Baby Products Abound, But Are They Really Necessary?"
"Congratulations! You're pregnant. Now comes the stressful task of figuring out which baby gear you actually need."

Pay her visit;she deserves it.

Beautiful lavatory console from Faucet Direct.

During a window shopping in Goa, I saw a beautiful green sink that is meant for bathroom because it had the facility to hang towels. I did not remember the name of the shop when I came back to Madras.

When the necessity arose to replace our wash basin, I remembered what I saw and searched online for it. Actually it was a lavatory console.

My search took nearly 90 minutes and I finally found the exact product that I saw in Goa. One of the best places to buy bathroom sinks is faucetdirect.com.

The lavatory console with a gleaming stainless bowl, sold by faucetdirect.com, can be mounted on wall

Faucetdirect.com deals with Toilets, Bathtubs, Showers, Medicine Cabinets, Saunas and drinking water fountains.

In future, whenever I like a product, I should write down the name of the store and its address.

If you can write a review....

If you can write a review, then here is another website that will pay for it. Yes, get paid to write a review.

I guess more than 70% of this blog readers are already doing paid reviews for several companies.
I am sure they all would like to add one more resource for earning money by blogging.

Shared Reviews pays $10 for every 5 approved product reviews up to a maximum of $100 per person.

I browsed around a bit but I was unable to comprehend the graphics. I think the site is not very clearly construed.

This is a Canadian company still in beta stage.

I just signed up and verified my email address. Then I was asked to create my profile which they say is important since users will have the ability to search reviews based on the info, the more accurate it is, the more traffic and revenue you will be able to generate!

Be sure to set the privacy level by clicking on the '?' beside each field you fill up, else, you won't be able to proceed further.

You can write a review on any product. Their forum is pretty good.

BTW, if you happen to sign up, you will come across a column to fill up 'Who referred you"?
Please type 'Mala' as your referrer though I don't know whether it will mean much.

If it is not a big botheration, please digg it or post it to a few social bookmarks for the benefit of others.

GMAC real estate invites you.

Next to my office, a young man named Lalith is running his real estate business. But I rarely see him in his office because he is on the move forever in his motorcycle, roaming the hot and humid streets of Madras.

The day before yesterday, he called on me and I was surprised to see a new gleaming car. He gave me some sweets and told me that he just bought the car and came to my house directly from the automobile showroom.

It seems suddenly his business is booming for which he attributed the credit to GMAC real estate. His brother, who is abroad, had worked with GMAC real estate and learnt many nuances in the real estate business and passed on valuable tips and guidance to his brother.

GMAC invites every aspiring entrepreneur to become their franchise and launch their career with the solid backing of an established brand name.

Saving money with discount Coupons.

Every academic year has been the same and this year too is no exception. I am usually bombarded with lot of demands from my son when the new academic starts. I have to be careful in not disappointing him but at the same time, I must be careful in spending.

I bank on coupon chief’s offer of discounts on various products. I generally have to buy new software and other communication devices that are in tune with the technological advancement.

Bracing myself to a lengthy online shopping, I first searched for a wireless telephone for our basement. I am given to understand that Kyocera Wireless is the leader in this sector and their products are dependable. I decided to buy the Kyocera 7100 Series smartphone that came with free shipping plus 15% discount.

Our Norton Internet Suite is about to expire. I feel jittery when my PC is not protected even for a second. I brush away recommendations of other PC security software and solely trust Norton always. Buy.com offered Norton Internet Security 2008 for just $12.99 that is shipped free of charge.

Then I thought of buying a gift for my niece. Instead of the usual junks, I wanted to get her a set of Sherlock Homes DVD collection. When I searched the coupon chief, I noticed that the A&E Television offered it with a discount of up to 50%.

I put of the purchase by one more month to see if I can get a better discount or some gift for buying that. I know CouponChief.com will constantly add new merchants and products.