Did you hear the latest shout about social bookmarking?

After reading so many short and big reports about social bookmarking, I have concluded that I can never know the full workings behind social media marketing that is essential for all bloggers.

I just came to know about another report on the essential of social bookmarking where you will discover:

* How different social bookmarking services work

* How they are different from the other.

* How to ensure fast indexing of your webpages by leading search engines using social bookmarking

* A strategy that works for you uninterrupted to bring visitors to your website.

And much, much more!

There is no dispute over the importance of social bookmarking in your marketing efforts. I foresee more new technologies are going to evolve in social marketing. The power of social bookmarking is going to sweep the the blogosphere soon.

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Parting with my silver wedding anniversary gift.

I was glad and very happy to part with the stunning crystal gift that I received from my husband for the 25^th wedding anniversary. I heard your gasp. Nevertheless, that is I.

When I told my husband that I want to give the silver anniversary gift to my sister, he silently went about repacking the gift in a new box while carefully remembering to remove that card that said crystal gift for your anniversary in silver letters.

He somehow managed to get the same words in golden letters, tied the gift box with a green velvet band. I know what is inside the gift box. However, I only know that it also holds a man’s appreciation for a woman he married 25 years ago.

Yes, he loves me but he admires me more and respects my decisions.

Squidoo lens creation-video tutorial.

Traffic - it's all the entire Internet is striving for all the time-right?

Organic traffic alone can get you targeted visitors and organic traffic alone will be effective in the long run. To get real visitors from search engine, you need to rank well in the search engine search results pages.

To achieve that, your site needs to get backlinks from authority sites like Squidoo. A squidoo lens is one the most valuable traffic producer for your websites and blogs.

But not all are web savvy to create their own Squidoo lens. I too have developed an illustrated tutorial on how to create a squidoo lens. But, a video tutorial on squidoo lens creation is easier to understand by anyone.

This brand new Squidoo Lens Genius video tutorial contains:

* Two hours to Squidoo Lens Mastery
* Learn to set up a squidoo lens step by step

Grab your own copy of Squidoo lens creation video guide.

How to Add an Online Image Editor to Your Website?

If you have a website which works with images (for example, lets users upload images or share images on your website to their social media networking accounts) then it would be a great idea to provide your site visitors with the option to edit images online. If a person wants to set his profile picture on your site, he can upload the original photo and then edit it in the online editor (available on your site) then put up the resultant image as the picture. Similarly if you have a funny picture up on your site which users can share on Facebook, enabling them to edit it online makes things more convenient in case they want to crop the image.

You do not need to do anything extremely fancy with you site’s code to add an online image editor on your website; all you need is Picmeleo.

Picmeleo is a free online photo editor that any third-party developers can integrate to their website. To use the service, click on the blue SIGN UP BUTTON on the homepage and create an account by entering yours and your website’s details.

After signing into your account, you can obtain the code for the editor; all you will need to do now is embed this code into your site and you will have given your site visitors an online image editor.

You can also preview the editor before actually pasting the code on your blog. The loading process may take a little whole so give it some time. Here’s how it looks

Some of the tools this editor contains are Crop, Scale, Rotate, Auto-fix, and Filters. If you do not want your users to be able to extensively edit the image on your site, you can choose to exclude some tools which Picmeleo offers in its editor. This is a unique feature of this online image editor.

Overall the easy integration of Picmeleo into your website is what makes it so special.

Recently, Picmeleo have launched a new photo tagging tool called Picmeleo Alive (Beta) that allows you to tag photos with mouseover bubbles. Bubbles appear only if you move your mouse over the photo so they don't affect your original photo. Tagged photos can be embedded to blogs or shared with a permanent URL.

Website: http://www.picmeleo.com/

Why not a pink diamond?

“Don’t look at this rare pink diamond with eyes too close to it Mala; hold it at a distance and look at it to appreciate its fineness”, told the jeweler with a slight ridicule in his voice.

I did not mind it. He taught me something new. To appreciate the quality of a diamond, you need not depend on the certification of a gemologist. Mostly, your family diamond merchant from whom you have been buying diamonds traditionally will tell you how to select an original diamond.

My son’s fiancée wanted a pink diamond studded engagement ring. Her wish took me by surprise. Pink is associated with melancholy. However, I wanted to fulfill her desire and called our family’s diamond seller to my house.

He showed me a rather large pink diamond that perfectly matched the size I had in mind. Without bargaining, I agreed for the price the jeweler asked me.

When I showed it to my husband, I did not forget to remind him the cheap diamond engagement ring he got me 25 years ago.

.co domains are available now.

Welcome to the .CO era!

Highly alert and well read internet marketers must have read a few articles about the probability of .com domains getting rarer for new internet entrepreneurs. These articles appeared a couple of years ago.

Now, I think it is going to be reality soon. Why else a new era of domains have been launched? These domains are .co

This new extension of URLs are perfect for all kinds of websites like .COmpany, .COrporation, .CO-operative, .COmmerce, .COmmunity etc. .

So, if you were unable to buy a .com name that you wanted it very badly but could not do so because of non-availability, you can the same domain with .co extension. Rush now to book your .co URL

Have you prepared your Cyber Monday shopping list?

“Look, I am not interested in knowing how the name Cyber Monday came into being and who coined it; I am only interested in saving big, big money by shopping on Cyber Monday”, I told my sister-in-law, whom, I will be visiting soon in Virginia.

I hope to be in time for the Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday is the first Monday after Black Friday.

I envy the Americans for the online and offline shopping opportunities available to them for huge discounts. There are absolutely no limitations of what are offered on sale. This is the uniqueness of the American economy.

In Madras too, there are opportunities for discount purchase on a couple of occasions but all we can purchase is cheap clothes and rejected and refurbished gadgets.

I have been saving for the last two years for my first Cyber Monday shopping. Imagine the length of my shopping list.

You can’t sell Saint Gaudens gold coins.

I wonder whether the U.S. Gold Bureau would agree with Harish Gaipelli who has predicted that the gold may continue with its downward trend this week because the bullion investors feel that the price of gold is over priced. Harish is chief of research in a leading wealth management organization.

However, whether the world authority in precious metals, the U.S. Gold Bureau agrees or not, I think small investors like me would buy gold coins when the price is low. Even big players in bullion market would step in to arrest the gold price fall.

Two major festivals are coming up in August. Historically, these two festivals have always pushed up the price of gold. Trust me; this is the best time to invest in a few gold coins. You can see profit in less than two weeks.

When you have decided to buy gold coins today, see if you can buy Saint Gaudens gold coins. They are beautiful and priced at just $20. However, I warn you, you will not have the heart to part with them.

Is affiliate marketing profitable?

A few of my friends who are experienced article writers have started diversifying into affiliate marketing. Still they use their article writing experience to earn money by selling digital products.

Their success is a revelation for me. Thus far, I have been focusing on blogging only. Since last 5 years, I have become more passionate about blogging. Blogging comes easily to me due to experience of writing more than 6000 blog posts in the last 5 years.

I feel I should also explore the affiliate marketing avenues if I am serious about earning more. I am knowledgeable in affiliate marketing and I have earned some money in the past. Even two days before my blog post generated a sale but it is all small money.

I am going to learn the hidden nuances of affiliate marketing from today. I am good at finding profitable niches.

Discover income potential for your blog with AdGenta

AdGenta is an easy and powerful way for you to unlock the revenue potential of your website or blog. It offers you an opportunity to embed ads anywhere you can place a picture – in your blog post, on your website, in your RSS feed. Because you choose the keywords for your post, you are in a better control of the ad your website visitors see – it is no longer bound to the content, but to your knowledge of your readers and what you are writing.

AdGenta is a powerful way for you to monetize your content – you are free to choose when and where your ads are placed, what they look like, and what ad is displayed. You can use them as little or as much as you want.

What is AdGenta?

AdGenta is an advertising network that frees writers from traditional constraints in advertising. It delivers relevant advertising, based on user defined keywords, as image based text ads that can then be used on websites, in blog posts, and in RSS feeds.

                                       

Signing up is easy 
                                                                                                                                                                         

1. Fill out the form here
2. You get a confirmation email, than just follow instructions to confirm your email address address.
3. Start placing ads!

Customize AdGenta

You can customize the appearance of your ads, choosing from a wide range of colors, sizes, and formats. The default ad performs highly on all blog types, but you are in full control to customize your ads.

Choose when & where

                                                                                                                                                                                                              

AdGenta is not a program you turn on or off for your entire site. AdGenta lets you insert keyword-driven advertisements when and where you want. You can choose to put it in all your posts, or only a few. Each time you insert an ad, you have the option to change how it looks.

You can place the ads anywhere you like in your post, allowing you to decide how things look. The ads are totally flexible because they are images.

Comparing Keyword vs. Contextual Advertising

Keyword advertising focuses on the human brain - what a person really thinks about what they've written, and how they think readers will interact with that. Many bloggers will describe their posts in specific terms, often using the same words to tag a post, but some bloggers choose complimentary words - those words that may appeal to the readers, even if not specifically mentioned in the post.

Advertising options

• Aside from keyword vs. contextual, you have the option as well of image/banner vs. text ads. Each has shown to be effective in certain situations, but text ads perform overall far better
• Text ads have the advantage of looking like content, and seamlessly integrating with it.
• Ads placed close to, or within, content perform better
• Ads that can be formatted to alter size, color, etc to customize to blog features will outperform those that cannot
• Putting ads in blogs can be post- or blog-centric

Post-centric vs. blog-centric or feed-centric advertising

• Advertising on blogs can be focused on the blog itself, the feed, or on the post.
• Blog-centric advertising treats the blog as the main element for revenue. The concept behind this is to capture people who physically go to the website to see the ads. This usually requires placing the ad code into the blog template, and knowledge of HTML at minimum.
• Feed-centric advertising is designed to attract people to ads in RSS feeds. These ads are not visible on the blog/website, and are only visible through RSS readers to the blog subscribers.
• Post-centric advertising is focused on a combination approach that will captivate attention from people at the site, as well as subscribers to the RSS feed. Ads are placed within the blog posts individually, and these ads will flow through to the RSS feed where they can also be seen.

Company Website: http://www.adgenta.com/default.shtml

Guest bloggers wanted.

Still working for one or two bucks for a 500 worded blog post? Want to be paid for your real worth? Interested in working as a guest blogger?

Can you write blog articles on?

• Weight loss,
• dating,
• sexual health,
• beauty, hair loss,
• flu prevention,
• allergy relief,
• stop smoking,
• acid reflux,
• skin care,
• fitness
• Senior baby boomer market.

Do all of them look familiar to you? They are all your cup of tea? I too am tempted to apply but as I said, my bags are full working two leading Internet Marketing Companies.

There is a catch. You must a blog on your own that accepts guest bloggers.

Pay rate?

You are paid a whopping $35 per blog post.

Who hires you?

Secure Medical Inc is based in Arizona is the company that has posted the advertisement in Blogger Jobs.

How to apply

Send your complete contact info with your Paypal address to BlogWriterGigs@gmail.com

Your email should include a few of your sample work and the blogs in which your guest posts will appear.

Which food is the best to increase testosterone?

All world cup football players are skinny. I mean, they don’t possess the so- called ‘six pack’. They are unlikely to use testosterone booster or any other artificial androgen boosters. Players of all the outdoor games that give energetic exercise to legs don’t require big frame with tight muscle in order to be fully fit.

Leg exercise naturally increases the level of all the necessary hormones for men. Still, I have noticed sales flyers of testosterone boosters boldly advertise that their product is the favorite of popular athletes. I wonder why!

Which food is the best to increase testosterone?

The simple secret is to reduce the level of estrogen in your body and naturally, you can increase your androgen level. Try to eat more of cauliflower, radish, cabbage and ….yes, broccoli; vegetables that belong to the cruciferous family will reduce your estrogen level considerably.

Do you know that even mustard seeds can help you to maintain a better level of androgen?

Next week, I will write about a few herbal recipes of drinks that will boost your testosterone.

What to do after creating your first blog?

After you have created your first blog, you should seriously start promoting if at all you wish someone to read your blog.

Today, I am going explore publicly some of the blog promotion avenues. This blog post is only for newbies to the world of blogosphere.

Social Networks

Let us go with crowd. If every blogger is tapping the huge traffic potentiality of social networks, then, you should also follow them. Register yourself in all the major social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Linked in and Digg and explore the possibilities of showing your blog in front of millions of Internet marketers.

Stumble Upon is also a strong recommendation as it can instantly pump in new and targeted visitors to your blog.

Note:

Don’t be selfish. Reciprocate others’ visits, read sincerely their blog posts and leave feedback with a link back to your blog or vote in Digg or Mixx.

Blog Networks

Mybloglog and Blog catalog are the best available options for all bloggers to establish regular readership. The potentiality of building up long-term relationships with bloggers from all parts of the world through bloggers’ network is big.

Search engines and directories.

Don’t ignore the importance of submitting your blog home page URL and RSS feed URL to all the major blog search engines like Technorati and RSS feed directories like RSS Hugger.

I know of 100 plus useful blog directories where you can submit your blog under proper categories.

If you find it hard to compile a list of best places to submit your blog, email me and I will sell you a list of 121 places to submit your blog for just $5.

RSS Graffiti – Automatic Updates of your Facebook Wall with your Blog Posts

The popularity of Facebook has skyrocketed over the past few years, making it a valuable tool both for friends and families who want to stay in touch and businesses who want to market their products on social media sites. One great way to do either of these things is to set up an RSS feed on Facebook.

Using these steps, you can have your personal blog post automatically to your Facebook news feed, so your friends and family can keep up with what you are doing. You can even post your Twitter updates to your Facebook wall, and even make your Twitter status become your Facebook status.

For businesses, posting the company blog on Facebook can be a great way to keep customers informed. You can even post an RSS feed to a Facebook fan page. Setting up an RSS feed on Facebook can also do wonders for writers who want to promote their writing on the web.

To publish your blog posts to your Facebook profile or fan page automatically you need to add an application to your Facebok account first. There are many RSS applications to auto publish your blog’s content. These apps adds your RSS feeds, monitors for any update and publish it automatically to your Facebook profile and/or fan page so you don’t have to share your blog posts manually to your Facebook friends, every time you update your blog.

RSS Graffiti is one of the apps for this purpose I personally use and recommend to fellow bloggers.  

This RSS feed application is simple enough to set up in a few minutes, yet offers enough customization that you can really make your RSS feed appear the way you want it to look.

Some things RSS Graffiti can do:

1) Display your articles with or without the associated images.

2) Append a prefix to your article posts.

3) Display Twitter tweets in a short format.

4) Convert Twitter status updates to Facebook status updates.

How to install?

1. Sign in to Facebook.com

2. Open RSS Graffiti App

3. Choose your profile and/or fan page from left column and click green

“+Add Feed” button on the right.

4. Put in your blog’s feed URL and make other changes below that.

Click Preview to confirm the link and to view how it will look like as an update status.

5. Hit “Save” and that’s it.

Developers’ website: http://www.rssgraffiti.com/

How Blue Advantage can change your life?

There is something about the way the citizens of North Carolina carry themselves that I could not put into words. I thought their face showed no signs of concern that we all inevitably show. Is it because of the security that the Blue Advantage gives them?

I once participated in a friendly car rally in NC and I had to stay there for a week. During that time, I interacted with many people of NC. They seemed to be care free about something that I could not detect immediately.

Later I learnt that the health care in NC is really good and citizens of NC have access to the best hospitals that are covered by the Blue Advantage, America’s number one health care insurance provider.

I intend to know more about Blue Advantage and Blueoptions HSA.

How to increase blog traffic in simple ways?

One of my friend has been desperate to increase his blog readership and another friend of mine got Google PR4 without doing any Internet marketing at all! How did this happen?

Hey, I know Google PR doesn't mean big traffic. It also didn't mean that second friend's blog as no traffic.

So, how to increase blog traffic simply?

* I have learnt that the topic of the blog decides the traffic. There is really no point in blogging about a subject that has no search volume at all.

* Participate in revenue sharing sites where you get instant readers o your post.

* Submit to RSS feed directories.

* Use Facebook effectively

* Use Zemanta as your main blogging tool.

* Use Google groups to increase visitors.

* If you can write a press release, it will be a great traffic puller.

Try all these one by one and you will certainly see results.

Red clay based acne creams.

There is no need to be confused over the choice of acne relief products. Most of them work. I know it from my experience. Still, if you don’t take my word, click here to know which acne treatment is currently rated as number one?

Nevertheless, remember, the ranking might change. What is rated at the top today might go down tomorrow. However, that doesn’t mean that it won’t work anymore. Every acne cure cream or pill will bring about the declared results. The only difference between various acne treatments is the price and the time it takes to get rid of the pimples as well as the blemish it leave behind on your skin.

I could give one very useful tip when selecting acne creams. See if they contain red clay as one of the ingredients. I know it takes the full credit to cure acne. Red Clay is a potent ingredient for acne removal.

New paid blogging service.

Hello probloggers, have you tried this new paid blogging service called Link From Blog? I am yet to try it. I could use your feedback for the benefits of other bloggers from India.

The reason I did not try it yet is, my bags are full right now. I don't think I will apply to another paid blogging company.

I read a few reviews of linkfromblog.com. Generally, such reviews don't throw much light as they are based on individual opinions. What might work for you may not be the same for another.

Of late, the problogging community seems to be to busy and consequently, there is a demand for them. New paid blogging services find it hard to get experienced bloggers who know the art of writing reviews of products or services.

May be one day, when I have nothing in my bag, I will look into linkfromblog.com

Food supplements and weight loss.

Do you know that some weight loss supplements when combined with dual purpose have failed to deliver the promised results?

At the same time, diet pills that promise to reduce your excess weight and also work to improve your metabolism have really produced the end results.

Lipofuze belong to the second category and that is why it is rated as number one in many weight loss supplements review sites. If you care to read health related forums, you can read many positive feedbacks.

Generally, your body’s metabolism can be improved if accumulated toxins are removed. Some diet supplements work first towards detoxifying the body and then proceed to suppress your appetite for food.

I favor this concept. It is the toxins in our body that is the cause of many ailments.

Better Post Preview in Blogger

Many bloggers are previewing their posts multiple times before they are satisfied with them for public viewing. Blogger in Draft now supports a new, improved preview feature that allows you to see how your post will actually look to your readers.

On the New Post page, click on the Preview button (this is a new button that we’ve just added), and you will see a new window open with the WYSIWYG preview of the post. This is how your blog post will appear to your readers when you hit publish, with the same format and style of your current Blogger theme.

Please note that the preview page does not automatically update as the contents of the post changes. To make sure the post looks OK after you've done further editing, you can refresh the preview page manually, or click the Preview button again.

Source: http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2010/05/better-post-preview.html

Revenue sharing feed directory.

Users of Feedburner are aware of integrating their RSS Feed with Google AdSense. Some feed directories share their AdSense revenue with users.

Here is one such Feed directory known as FeedShow. Like all feed directories, Feed Show too is free to use by bloggers and webmasters.

Feed Show’s revenue sharing ratio is 50:50 They use two methods of revenue sharing.

All you have to do is insert a code with your AdSense id in any post of your blog or all on posts. The code helps Feed Show to identify you.

There is another way to use Feed Show but it is not for all of us. Only those who have access to their RSS feed structure itself can use that type.

However, why would anyone use Feed Show when they can get 100% of their clicks revenue by using Feedburner?