Are you taking a joint life insurance?

My son threw the life insurance certificate at me with disgust. He asked me why did I take his new life insurance when he is about to get married. He argued that had I waited for some more time, I could have included his spouse also so that he can get a discount on premium.

I did not know of any such provision. I have used an online life insurance website where I was able to study the various life insurance companies’ offers and then decided what was right for him considering his young age.

Is it true that we get a discount on life insurance premium if the policy is taken jointly for just married couples?

Frankly speaking, the act of taking joint life insurance indicates a negative attitude. I think it pays only on the first death. Am I wrong?

New social network for blog promotion.

Have you heard about MMO Social Network? MMO stands for make money online.
As the name suggests, it is a place for learning about how to make money online through every known method to millions of work from home moms and dads.

As such, bloggers can use this MMO social network to submit their blog posts URLs of money making blog articles, SEO articles and Internet Marketing blog posts.

It is used mainly as a free social bookmarking site for online money making niche. After you sign up, don't be surprised to see blank page. Just go to your email account to see an email for confirming your sign up.

Then, you are intimated by message that your account is under verification before it gets approved (big deal-eh?).

The content in the site submitted by bloggers are very useful. I would urge you to join to promote your blog posts.

How to create a Free Professional Blog with BlinkWeb?

Discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the blogging platforms for the new bloggers, we often restrain our reviews by the big players in this marketing niche only (like Blogger, for example). However, there are many small players, who may offer quite impressive set of features and capabilities.

Today, we are going to present of the sites, which can easily compete with big boys – BlinkWeb.  It’s one of those websites that surprisingly offers you their services for free without any loopholes and hassles. The site was founded in June 2008 by Brad and Matthew Callen, the company is based in Indiana, USA.

BlinkWeb offers you to create professionally looking website or blog with simplicity and speed of the drag and drop functionality. You can easily create all the major website types such as a blogs, a content style websites, or a sales letter style websites. The blogging platform was developed with novice users in mind. However, those with moderate experience, basically anyone who doesn’t know the least bit about html and other coding stuff, can still very easily make use of this platform. Blinkweb comes equipped with many high quality website templates that users can select from, making the new blog unique in the blogosphere.

To get started with the service is pretty simple: you just need to sign up for a new account on BlinkWeb. It is easy as well. Simply enter your chosen username, password and your email address on the homepage of the site in the signup box. It’s free to sign up and use BlinkWeb, depending on where you want to host your site you may have to pay a fee.

The Blinkweb page builder is completely free. After the user creates their website, they are presented with 3 main options which include; get a subdomain for your website, get a domain name for your website, or download your website in .zip format. Users will be able to get a subdomain completely free, which is then hosted by our servers. Users can also choose to get a domain from Blinkweb. Domain names are completely free as well. Should the user choose to get a domain name, Blinkweb will host their website for $1.00 the first month and then $14.95 for each month thereafter. Users can have unlimited domains with Blinkweb. Each additional domain is only an extra $1.30/month. Finally, if users prefer to host their websites with their current webhost, rather than through Blinkweb, they can choose the 3rd option, which is to download their website in .zip format. Doing so costs only a very small fee. Blinkweb also offers an extensive line of training tools and guides to earning money strictly from an online business. These tools come in the form of videos, workbooks, and audio CDs.

It incorporates the following features:

• It has a very user friendly interface, even a novice can get a hang of it in no time.
• You can download website to your own computer
• It very conveniently lets you build websites by simply dragging and dropping components
• You can also add few add-on and plug-in like AdSense, contact forms, guestbooks and maps according to your requirement.
• The basic services comes for free but if you are looking for trying out and applying more advanced features then you will be charged accordingly.

Access Website Homepage: http://business.blinkweb.com/

Make $100 per day in 100 ways.

Well, if $100 per day is a bit too much optimistic,
let the system pays at least $10 per day !

Fair enough?

To be frank, I am yet to review this ebook that exposes 100 ways to earn $100 per day. I stumbled on to it just a few minutes ago and thought I would blog about it here.


If I were to write a similar e-book, I would title it as, "$15 a day assured'. However, I can't write an e-book.

For less than $10, I think it won't dent anyone's wallet. There are people who make much more than $100 daily, but they all can't pass on their ways to you and me.

Free sites to post your classified ads.

If I remember correctly, it was in 2003 when I was working as an online ad typist that I struggled to compile free classified sites. In fact, there was a rage in India for free classified sites among hundreds of home typists who earned good money by posting advertisements on free classifieds.

Slowly, the number of advertising sites increased but the online ad posting industry collapsed and I too crashed out and entered the world HYIP and made good money.

I know the online ad posting offers trickle in and there may many Indians who are working as work at home typists.

For the benefit of them, I am giving here a link to a blog post that contains 55 free classified ad sites.

Here is that link:
techshali.com/55-free-classified-sites-for-posting-ads-in-india-top-emerging/

Most of the sites in that list are new to me. A good resource for ad posters.

Acne is no scarier.

Is it true that women who sweat more are vulnerable to acne on chin or elsewhere on their face? Why I ask this is because this particular issue was discussed in an acne forum.

There wee only two answers; both were vague and did not address the question at all.

I don’t know why acne on chin bothered someone! Acne can appear on cheeks and on nose too. If they can be treated without scars, then, why can't they cure the pimples on chin? Surely, acne gel or cream is not biased about the location of the acne!

Pronexin and Acnepril are right now the most sought after acne cure products. Both contain many natural herbs though, I think, Acnepril has little more. The presence Mangosteen juice in Acnepril should be favorably looked upon by those who have acne on chin.

A big list of do follow sites.

A blogger named Darla, has created a Squidoo Lens on 'Do Follow'. Newbies who are willing to learn the importance of 'Do Follow' while building one way backlinks should visit the lens.

Darla has compiled a huge list of do follow sites that include:
* 12 blog services
* 4 Social networking sites
* 42 articles sites
* 29 social bookmarking sites
* 11 social portal sites in the likes of Hub pages

The lens links to useful articles about Google pagerank, Google's way of looking at inbound links and how the major 4 search engines treat 'no follow' attribute.

You may find more do follow links elsewhere on the web but when you filter the non-working sites from them, you will find only what are listed in Darla's Squidoo lens.

Google Instant Search and Marketing Concerns

Google recently introduced their “Instant Search” feature which starts to populate search results the instant you start typing into the search box. At the same time, Google suggests alternate search terms as you type to help narrow your search without forcing you to enter entire search phrases.

The main idea behind this new feature is to save users a few seconds on each search and cut down on misspellings for search terms, business names or product names. Users may not notice much difference in their overall experience, however, for small businesses and online entrepreneurs, this new search method carries a few interesting ramifications.

Since Google clearly ranks as the “900 lb. Gorilla” of the online marketing world, acting as de facto gateway to the Web for millions, any change to their system makes businesses nervous. Many have expressed concern that this latest change will force users of Google’s AdWords program, the search giant’s lucrative pay-per-click marketing arm, to pay for more expensive keywords.

They reason that since the most popular search terms appear in the search box first, and that most people will opt to accept Google suggestions, those most popular searches will carry the highest click prices. In other words, businesses that depend on Google to show their ads fear that Google will force them to pay more money by recommending more expensive keyword searches.

But that might not be a real future!

The suggested search term feature actually appeared on Google quite a while ago, and all that’s really changed is Google starts to display the actual search results AS you type. With the old 2-step process, Google made suggestions as you typed and then you clicked the search button to see the search results.

Instant Search just creates a FAST way to see the results for different search variations without forcing you to click the button each time to see those results. This process makes it simple to see the results, change your mind, and not wait for the results each time you change the phrase.

Most people always start with a broad search and then narrow it by including more descriptive terms (often called “long-tail” keywords) to better find what they want. This new process won’t change that.

In fact, it will give people more chances to refine their searches on-the-fly by providing Google more details of what they want. Instead of posing a threat, I believe this new Instant Search feature creates an opportunity for any business to perform high-speed market research to look for possible opportunities and trouble spots.

The following four steps will help any small business use Google’s new feature for instant results.

1. Go to Google and search for your business as if you were a consumer.

2. Make a note of the keyword suggestions Google offers as you type.

3. See if those suggestions give you any ideas for your own marketing (since they should represent the most popular phrases).

4. Note which competitors show up and where you appear in relation to them.

These 4 simple steps make a great barometer for taking a read on your local market, fast.

Who appears consistently?

Who shows up hit-and-miss or every once in a while?

Who shows up in Google Maps?

If your competitors show up and you don’t, you’ve got some work to do!

Bottom line: as a small business, use Google’s new Instant Search to quickly get the big picture when it comes to your business, industry, and local competition.

Source and Additional Information:

 http://smallbusinessmarketingweekly.com/

http://www.webguild.org/20100909/google-instant-implications-for-users-advertisers-website-operators

http://searchenginewatch.com/3641319

The latest side effect of a diet pill.

“You can’t have the cake and at it too”. This ancient proverb is rewritten as, ‘you can’t take a diet pill and still complain side effects’. The numerous side effects of diet pills are well known to every fat person who depends on fat burners to shed weight. They have now reconciled to the fact that they will experience various side effects of the diet pills and there is no way to escape.

However, side effects can be minimized if you strictly adhere to the revised food plan as demanded by the appetizer suppressants. With some experience, you will be able to detect the difference in the rate of your body’s metabolism and you will know your appetizer killers are working.

Don’t take every new side effects of weight loss product seriously. For example, a teenager recently complained of drowsiness after four dosages of his prescribed body slimmer. If there were any semblance of truth in it, there would be a mad rush for that product as a sleeping pill!

Alternative to Blog World Expo.

Like millions of bloggers from all over the world, I can't attend the Blog World Expo though I would love to meet some of virtual blogging pioneers like Pete Cashmere, John Chow, Yaro Starak and Gobalakrishnan.

I am thinking of organizing a meeting of bloggers in Chennai though it cannot be a real alternative to Blog World Expo, it will give a chance to meet the intelligent bloggers of Chennai and Banaglore.

I have many to things learn and some ideas to pass on. In fact, I want to start a bloggers club in Madras (Chennai) and I want it to be a monthly meeting affair.

I welcome suggestions.

The best colon cleansing material.

My mother-in-law laughed aloud when I read out the ingredients on the colon cleanse jar. Without talking a word, she went into the kitchen and came out with the familiar plastic box containing fenugreek.

I understood. Fenugreek is one of the major ingredients in the colon cleansing capsule I bought. Fenugreek is added in our food daily. When I complained of bloated stomach, she strongly advised me to soak a spoonful of fenugreek in a small cup of water and let it remain overnight. If I take the softened fenugreek in empty stomach daily morning for 15 days, my colon would be thoroughly cleansed.

I did not take her word seriously. Now, I am standing before with a jar of colon cleansing capsules with fenugreek as a main ingredient.

Indian recipes are no wonder considered as the safest in the world. Our ancestors were aware of all the herbs that are abundantly and cheaply available locally. In addition, they know how to add them in the food.

Improve your AdSense income.

I thought by changing the template of this blog will improve my AdSense income. The new blog design tool offered by the blogger platform provided many options to monetize the blog with AdSense ad formats.

I tried it in this blog which you can see. I also included an image in header though it is irrelevant to this blog's topic.

I have observed a slight improvement in my AdSense income since I implemented the changes. Not a big increase but still some improvement when compared to a few months before.

Do you like this template? Do you have feedback for me? I welcome criticism.

Will you recommend Phentermine to suppress the appetite?

My colleague called up from a waterfront resort. She sounded excited. When I asked her the reason for her euphoria, she told me that, her weighing scales informed her that her weight is fewer by 7 KGs. No wonder she is happy.

Her call could not have come in at a better time. I just exited from a phentermine reviews website. I am a bit perplexed by what I read in it. They have listed out in their website, as many as eighteen harmful side effects caused by Phentermine based weight loss pills. Still, they have published and rated three Phentermine products.

While most of the harmful side effects of Phentermine are known to me, I found two new ailments in arrhythmias and anxiety. Well, they are new to me. I have heard of restlessness from people using any appetite suppressant but anxiety is perplexing.

The phentermine reviews website is quite forthright in its words. It is up to you and me to weigh the pros and cons of Phentermine as the most effective diet pill.

Bluehost down.

The most dreaded issue for all the webmasters-server down! It seems the servers of Bluehost.com have crashed taking all the sites with them.

I am not able to open any of my sites hosted with bluehost.com. I have some urgent update to be completed in one my blogs and I am worried a lot.

I have been with bluehost.com since three years and I never had any issue with them. Their customer service is top class. Surprisingly, this time, there is no answer to several cries of complaints in their forum which I read is located elsewhere fortunately.

Twitter is flooded with Bluehost down complaints. Just search using #bluehost and read our owes.

I pray Bluehost to resolve the issue soon. They are technically sound and capable of rectifying.

New ingredient in weight loss vitamins.

Is it all right to call a best weight loss supplement as weight loss vitamin? My husband who suddenly put on weight bought a jar of pills that read weight loss vitamin. Somehow, the word vitamin did not fit in for the purpose.

I looked at the ingredients. It contained vitamin E-10. Yes, I do not remember seeing it in other weight loss supplements. Vitamin E-10 is said to burn the calories much faster than other calorie burning substances.

Most of the farm fresh products contain vitamin E-10 but when the farm products are processed to meet the modern need, only vitamin E remains in them. What happened in-between?

The internet does not provide more details about vitamin E-10 as one the best ingredient in weight loss supplement. I foresee more focus on this rare chemical in the weight loss industry.

The best blog traffic comes from...

The best blog traffic comes from blogcatalog.com If you are aware of the traffic analysis provided by Google in its blogger platform based blogs, you find the traffic sources for your blog.

In other words, you will know which site has sent you more visitors. My blogs are more frequented by the members of Blog Catalog. This means they are knowledgeable bloggers and internet marketers.

I have been associated with blogcatalog.com since 2006 and I must confess that I have not been an active participant in blogcatalog.com of late. I feel I should reciprocate my interest in others' blogs.

In addition, if I participate in some of the groups I have joined in blog catalog, my blogs will get more visitors.

Thank you blog catalog members for all the interest you have shown in my blogs.

Where brides shop.

I have no sharp eyes for bridal dresses but even to me, Bari Jay bridesmaid dresses meant sheer beauty and elegance. They are so rich looking. I have quite a few Christian friends and I attended most of their weddings.

However, it was all so long ago when wedding gowns and bridesmaid dresses were pretty ordinary echoing the vogue left by the British.

I think there is a still a tinge of old fashioned wedding dresses. Some fashion designers are passionately bent on bringing about a change. TJ Formal is well known even in India as a trendsetter in prom and wedding apparel.

The bridesmaid in India is generally unmarried woman and they are called ‘chief bridesmaid. They eagerly choose their bridal party dress that would attract more glances than the bride’s wedding gown.

I admire a particular community here for their bold and rather rebellious approach to wearing wedding gowns. Once, I saw a photograph of a dark complexioned woman wearing a romantic pink wedding dress.

Military friendly educational institutions.

Before I got married to a chemist, I wanted to marry a navy man. I heard they were posted in exotic locations all over the country. I was truly infatuated with living at various places without realizing that it would jeopardize the children’s higher education.

Now, the scenario is totally changed. Military employees and their family can even do research degrees online and that too, there are several universities that offer attractive scholarships and discount in college fees.

MilitaryDegree.com is doing a yeoman service by proving a huge database of educational institutions that offer online bachelor degree courses and research degrees.

One can search for custom tailored online degree programs in a range of subjects. Online education is a real boon to all, especially frequently transferred defense personnel and their families.

Portable education has truly arrived.

How to become a professional blogger?

Becoming a professional full time blogger is easy. First condition is you should not be employed elsewhere.

Next, you should be really hungry for money. I know many bloggers who are otherwise wealthy that have abandoned their blogs in just a few weeks. They just did not need the money.

Then, you must find out whether there is a blogger in you. I have a self revealing questionnaire for this purpose.

Money by blogging will take a minimum of 6 months to see the first sign of U.S.dollars. That too, your blog should have been updated with new and unique content three times a week and should have a backing with a healthy quantity of backlinks to gain a Google page rank of at least 3.

Natural blogging is a must but it should be interspersed with fairly well paying keywords.

Do you think you can do it?

101 tips for improving your blog by Ben Barden

In this post, I would like to present an ebook - 101 tips for improving your blog by Ben Barden from http://www.toptenblogtips.com/. As the title claims, the ebook contains 101 essential tips for all bloggers, no matter how technical you are, or which platform you use.

The ebook is divided into 10 sections, each containing 10 tips:

1. Advertising and Promotion
2. Blogging Personalities
3. Comments
4. Content
5. Design
6. Guest Posts
7. Networking
8. Overcoming blogger's block
9. Planning
10. Post frequency

Tip #101 is provided at the end of the ebook.

You can download the ebook here:

http://www.ziddu.com/download/11644427/Ben_Barden_-_101_tips_for_improving_your_blog.pdf.html

It's a free download, so you can share it with no restriction.

What will happen in November?

“Why you are so much obsessed with buying gold coins, you cannot carry a bag full of gold bullion even though they are portable asset”-ridiculed my husband.

I told him neither I intend to carry anything wherever I go nor I have the money to buy a bag full of bullion. I only purchase one gold coin once in three months.

“If you are still worried Mr.Badri, I will arrange for a safe storage; I am sure the U.S. Gold Bureau can arrange that”-I retorted back.

Later, I realized what my husband was driving at. Should I sell my gold holdings? I can book substantial profit though the money may not be big. After all, I have only about 14 American buffalo gold coins.

No, I will wait until November when the price of gold will be at an all time high.

Blog writing in only 3 steps.

So, you have read several blog posts that will teaches you how to write blog posts in 8 steps or 6 steps.

I beg to differ. I follow only 3 steps in my blog posts.
1. Title
2. Body
3. Conclusion

I think you are going to prove me wrong by going through some of my published blog posts and contradict me. Well, that would be welcome for my blog posts will be read again!

However, if you think for a minute, you will agree with my 3 step blog writing formula. Of course, the body might have subtitles, bullet points, links and quotations but still, they will be part of the body where I drive my point.

Generally, I don't write big blog posts; I try to keep my blog posts with 200 words or less.

Don't write articles!

If you linger too much in the blogosphere, you will soon find yourself hating the word, 'article marketing'. I know it gave me that feeling when I came across at last 15 times a day in the internet marketing related forums, blogs and social media discussions.

Those who scream at you to try article marketing to increase backlinks and targeted visitors don't ever teach you how to articles because most of them just rewrite existing articles and use automatic article submission software to propagate their junk in 100 or so article directories where they get buried quickly that even search engines are afraid to enter.

So what is the point of advising you to write articles? Why they are shouting at the top of their voice that article marketing is the order of the day?

It is just to show they too joined the bandwagon and they have claimed naturally a right to brag.

After 5 years of blogging and after 6500 posts, let me tell you one thing:
Blogs are more avidly read than articles. Every article directory is visited only by those who want to rewrite them. Information seekers treat article directories as junk with the exception of a few sites.

Blogs posts that are less than 250 words serve the purpose. They are frequented by human beings.

How to submit blog sitemap to Bing?

As you know, Search Engine Bing, powered by Microsoft, is one of the new successful additions to the marketing niche, dominated by Google. You may need to consider seriously your exposure to the Bing searchers, besides focusing on Google and Yahoo! To get more visibility, you can follow the simple steps, described below.

1. The first thing is to create an account or use one you already have for the services of pages of Microsoft, like Hotmail.

2. If this is the first time you access the service and never have sent your URL, you will see the option to "Add Site. You can have multiple websites / blogs in the same account.

3. Go to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/
* Click the "Add Site" to add the URL of your blog.

* Enter the address of your blog where it says.
* And click on "Submit" to submit your request.

4. Verify your ownership of your website.

Webmaster Tools requires authentication to ensure that only the rightful owners are provided with information about their websites. There are two ways to prepare your website for authentication, both of which rely on your adding an authentication code your website. You need to do only one of them to get verified.

* "Option 1" offers blog authorship verification by hosting a XML file on your Web Server, which is appropriate for the server hosted blogs (Wordpress.org, for example).

* "Option 2" represents a meta tag authorization by adding certain source code to your blog template (recommended for Blogger blogs).

As I am a Blogger platform user, I have applied the second approach, and it takes just a minute to complete site authorization. You can go to the panel, click on "Design" ~> "Edit HTML" and embed the generated line under the head. Then click the "Verify" button to let Bing to confirm your registration. Note that the tracking and displaying data indexing can take several days to begin to appear.

5. Adding sitemap of your blog

Now, when your blog has been successfully verified you can send its sitemap to get it crawled easier and help the algorithms to find and read its contents. Click on Add Sitemap on the line of your blog listing. At this point you have to add the address of the sitemap file to your blog.

* For blogs on Blogger (Blogspot) your map address definition is pretty simple. Just Enter the default address of RSS Feed, as in the example below:

URL- http://blogging4good.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

* For wordpress.org blogs

You may use site maps generator Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress. Simply create or have created an XML file of your sitemap, hosted on your host and add the link as explained above, clicking the "Submit".

Free investor’s kit.

It is all right if you are elated with your first online profit you made by selling bullion; however, if you want to see more such days, then you should seriously get some basic understandings about bullion market.

Yes, there are still secrets about gold market that are known only to the experienced bullion market players who got their education from the U.S. Gold Bureau from whom you can buy pure gold and silver coins and ingots with absolute confidence.

Their free investor’s kit is offered to genuine gold investors. The kit reveals the mistakes committed by new investors and also teach them how to avoid them.

See, actually, there is much more in the investor’s kit; I don’t want to take the credit of educating you. You can get the free investor’s kit by submitting a short form at the website of U.S. Gold Bureau.

New rain boots for kids.

The gregarious bunch of children clad in rain boots of various colors, were having a field day dancing and playing in the artificial rain. The children, all under 8 years, were shooting as models for rain boots manufactured by a new company.

The colors of the rain boots mocked at the colors of the rainbow that formed suddenly. I noticed some of the children looked ill at lease because of over sized rain boots. They were quickly pulled away from the shooting spot.

I thought the children loved their role of dancing in the rain and they cheerfully obliged to pose in various angles to show the sole of their rain boots that give firm grip on different kinds of turf.

I liked the idea of promoting the kids rain boots with real children wearing them and dancing in the rain.

Trackbacks-where have they gone?

Do you remember how bloggers were urged to use trackbacks a few years ago? Every famous blogger, every SEO professional took time to emphasize the utility of the trackbacks in blogosphere.

Bloggers made use of the trackbacks to know who links back to their blog posts and genuinely reciprocated by linking back to other bloggers. This resulted in targeted traffic to the bloggers.

Of late, I find bloggers are becoming selfish and not reciprocating inbound links. Either they are too busy or simply not bothered about who mentions their blog posts in their blogs.

I have been linking to all the blog posts that I mention in this blog but I don't see any improvements in my blog's inbound links.

Do you have any comments on the subject?