Sponsored Reviews hires Bloggers.

Only today morning I subscribed to a Google Alert service on topic 'Paid to blog'.

Just after a few hours, I received an alert from Google from which I came to know about Sponsored Reviews which is like Pay per post and blogitive pays bloggers to make a blog post about their clients' website.

It is no miracle that I keep finding such opportunities because I am guided by the laws of attractions. I have been blogging since 2005 and I have been supported by other such players in the field that include Blogitive.com, Loudlaunch.com, pay per post, Blogsvertise and a few more.

Sponsored Reviews invites bloggers to write paid reviews for products, services, and website on behalf of their clients. Avtually, their corporate clients engage the services of sponsored reviews to promote theier web sites.

I just signed up, activated my email and added my blogs. An unique feature in this process that I notices was that the submitted blog gets a rating based on Technorati, Alexa and the rating is displayed beside the blogs.

Also, based the rating, sponsored reviews suggest a fair price to charge per post and out of which they take away 35%.

Sponsored Reviews enables blog authors to browse advertisers seeking reviews to post in their blogs. This allows us the opportunity to select from the available opportunities that we are comfortable writing about.

A big box of widgets.

Until recently, I did not even knew the meaning of widgets and how one use it in their websites or blogs.

Blog Carnival's widget was the first one I think from which I could deduce the usefulness of widgets(see at the right).

Now I am really fascinated by widgets and here is one widget box that I bookmarked.
Widgetbox is a directory and syndication platform for web widgets for blogs and other web pages. Their widgets work with TypePad, WordPress, Blogger, MySpace as well as most other blogs, sidebars or websites. No plug-ins are needed, and they're free!

Categorised under communications, blogosphere, fun and games, media etc, the widgets listed are fantastic and useful too. Just have a look at this widget that can display a slideshow of Widgetbox's Latest Widgets on your blog. These are the Latest Widgets as shown on the front door of Widgetbox.

I read some of the press releases about widget box and could see they are now very popular in cyber space.

Blog advance for blog exposure.

BlogAdvance is a community built by bloggers for bloggers. So this is more a blog directory; God knows how I am going to find time to visit this directory and find useful blogs to share with you my readers..

However, I always find it a joy to share and I thank God for giving me one more opportunity.

A usual, this blog directory contains all the usual blog sub categories. There are 53 categories that lists 3800 links in all.

First one has to sign up for a free account with blog advance giving therein your blog url also in the sign up process. Then your blog is automatically included in their directory.

I was confused initially. Only after I clicked on the activation link and landed on the log in page, I realized that blog advance is traffic exchange dedicated to bloggers.

But what about the category of my blog that I have registered during signup. Under which category it will be listed in their web directory?

I tried to surf but nothing happened. Tried again, I could just find any blogs to look at! What is this website after all?

It seems they have another blog directory (http://www.blogion.com/). I am not going to waste my time.

Your blog is a money maker.

That headline can sure make anyone sit upright and immediately pore over its contents-right?

Well, I am no exception. After I have been blogging for money since May 2006 and this could be something new.

John Chow is advertising it through Google adwords and in that advertisement, he says it is free(?) Sure I am skeptic because he has to pay per click and he is offering it free!

Ok, who is John Chow?

He himself has answered to my question and I enjoyed his subtle sense of humor.
"My name is John Chow (as you no doubt notice from the domain name). I also go by the nick name “Moto”, named after the old video game Moto Racer. On April 1999, I started a little technology site call The TechZone. That site has risen to become one of the largest hardware tech sites on the net. Currently the site has over 10,000 pages and gets over 200,000 page views per day".

That is pretty envious traffic man!

I think I need a lot of time to read his blog, so I will post again whatever interests me.

Blogging Secrets.

Thats the name of the blog by Louiss Lim, an undergraduate student in Bachelor Of Business Administration(hons) at University Tunku Abdul Rahman

My first surprise about this blog was the categories in the side bar because this is the first time I am seeing it in a blogger blog. So far I have seen only in WP blog. That shows how ignorant I am.

Though he has named it as 'Blogging Secret', he is revealing everything he knows in the blogospshere like making money from blogs, blog promotion, page rank and adsense too.

Since his blog is in the same category as mine, I thought of sharing this with you. Who knows, you may get more out of his blog than mine.

He has got already 68 readers boss, and I am the 69th reader.

Free blog script installation service.

I happen to meet this gentleman Mr.Sridhar in the pay per post(PPP) forum wherein he kindly replied to my questions.

Before I could thank him, he offered to help me in installing a blog script for me free of charge.
He is offering this service through his blog, Script Install 4 free.

When I visited his blog, I was impressed with his candidness and of course with his sense of subtle humor.

Obviously he is very knowledgeable and offers more than just blog installation.
He offers to the following:
1. Blogs like WordPress, Movable Type
2. Bulletin Boards like phpBB2, IPB, vBulletin, SMF, punBB
3. CMS like Joomla, Drupal, PostNuke
4. Gallery scripts like Menalto's Gallery, Coppermine
5. Social bookmarking/rating system or Digg clone like Pligg
6. Any other PHP/MySQL script as long as it has installation instructions.

He lives in Bangalore, India, just about 6 hours drive from my place at Madras.

I am going to request his help.

Search Engine's Domination on decline?

I love the web 2.0 technology and all those interactive tools and social networking. Isn't Myspace and Orkut and many such sites are a proof that web 2.0 is in for a big sweep with more add ons to our browsers in the offing?

There is an in depth discussion in my friend Divya Uttam's blog about this.
The blog itself is totally on blogging, blog traffic, blog tools, blog monetization etc.
Every blog post is bit lengthy to me but however with stuff.

The blog post entitled "Death of Search Engine Domination" has been on my mind for the past week as I myself found using less of Google and more of wiki search engines and social bookmarks.

I agree with the views that starts with the following paragraph in her blog post.
"Social media is becoming more mature and developed as well as crowded. New social media websites evolved, either with an original idea or clones of successful models. A wonderful system from where the world of socializing of Internet marketing started. We can say that these websites evolved out of the need of generating more traffic in a much effective way."

Use the link above to read it fully.