Monday, July 19, 2010

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.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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.

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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.

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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.


Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

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.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

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
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/