A mathematician turned plumber.

My husband’s procrastination killed my patience. I could not stand his laziness anymore. This is too much.

After all, I bought the Delta faucet set with my credit card. It is me who is going to pay for it. I only need my husband’s help to install it in the guest’s bathroom and he has been giving lame excuses.

So, I decided to do it on my own. I bought a DIY (Do It Yourself) book on bathroom remodeling. After reading a couple of pages, I was stuck. Those plumbing tools made no sense to me. I don’t have them in the first place and even if I had, I would not know how to use them.

I avoided my husband’s scornful look. I knew I am taking a beating. Fixing faucets is just not a woman’s job that has never used any tools in her life apart from the whiteboard marker if at all that can be considered as a tool.

Finally, some compassion oozed out from my husband and we both installed the Delta faucet with the help of the self help book. Look at them, aren’t they gorgeous?

Create your own free header image.

Once I envied bloggers who have uploaded stunning images on their blogs' header. I cursed myself for not possessing the technical skill for even uploading beautiful header images leave alone the resources for free header images.

Today, I have found a resource from where I can create header images of my choice. Hey, I just found it and I am yet to learn how to create header images.

I am happy to share my find with you. My Theme is the tool with which you can create images for your blogs' header. As I am looking at it now, the interface seems to be user friendly alright but I am yet to try.

I think you can edit pictures and videos and make an animated image too. Even the embedded texts can be animated.

For novices like me, there is even a video tutorial on how to use My Theme.

Thank you My Theme.

Bloggers and Writers are needed.

There are two offbeat sites that are in need of Bloggers and Writers are needed. The reason behind the words bloggers and writers is because for one site, mere blogging experience is not enough.

Blue Mountain Arts is the leading greeting cards manufacturers and publishers. They are in need of very creative writers who can write the appropriate message either in the form of text or poetry for various occasions.

This is a tough job for me but what about you or your friends?

The other site that requires bloggers is Eco-friendly Solutions at EcoFuss. This is a familiar subject for hundreds of bloggers. I know many a passionate green bloggers (can I call them like that?) would jump at this opportunity.

Oh, I should give you the URL for applying- right?
Blue Mountain Arts
Eco Fuss

Bringing more traffic to your blog - 11th Ed.

Welcome to the February 27, 2009 edition of bringing more traffic to your blog.

Welcome to the 11-th, February 27, 2009 edition of "Bringing more traffic to your blog" Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 87. Published
Articles - 40. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

American Entrepreneurship presents 3 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website posted at American Entrepreneurship.

Viraj Sawant presents Blogging and Online Entrepreneur Interview - Leo Babauta of Zenhabits.net posted at New-web-business.com.

Tim Grice presents Seo Advice - Link Building posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "It is familiar seo advice to hear how important inbound links are to your site and site ranking. Both reciprocal and inbound links have the potential to bring you a lot of traffic and not just from the search engines. Both reciprocal and inbound links can effect your current rankings within the major search engines, however they somewhat differ in strengh."

Leo D presents 114 Things I Wished I Knew as an Internet Marketer When I First Started posted at Strategic Internet Marketing Blog.

Kevin Dawson presents Case Study: Controversy in Marketing Part 1 posted at Kevin Dawson’s Copywriting & Traffic, saying, "Using controversy in marketing"

Thursday Bram presents Comment Response: Three Thoughts posted at thursdaybram.com, saying, "Responding to comments can be important - but how much is too much?"

Tim Grice presents Seo Expert Services - Site Visibility Issues posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "Any form of expert seo services should also include a service which detects and fixes potential site visibility issues. When we talk about site visibility what we are really referring to is the compliance of a page’s source code with the requirements of the search engine spiders or bots."

Burak Bilgin presents Offer Your Best to Your Readers posted at Distiller’s Corner, saying, "Why are the best of links are one of the most important ingredients of any blog, and how can you maintain them in a proper way?"

Andy presents Micro Blogging | Personal Hack posted at Personal Hack, saying, "Micro blogging is simply writing smaller blog posts. It kinda of started with twitter and now is becoming more popular online."

Peter Jones presents Bauu Institute: Resources for website page rank building posted at Bauu Institute and Press.

Leo D presents Take Back Your Life…How to Get More Traffic to your Site With Just One Post a Week.. posted at Strategic Internet Marketing Blog.

Kelli-Ann Hopewell presents 4 Steps To Effective Forum Marketing posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

Tim Grice presents Search Engine Optimisation and Outbound Links posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "OK I was in a consultation with a UK client over the phone yesterday, he explained he had attempted to rank high on Google by learning SEO himself and had lost the will to live. (Fairly common problem :) )"

Jesse presents Blog Keywords: How They Can Help You posted at insideWebmaster.

Andy presents How to Easily Get Tons of Free Targeted Traffic To Your Blog posted at Personal Hack, saying, "This is a great technique that I learned about from other bloggers."

Donald Latumahina presents A Simple Tip for Finding Good Ideas posted at Life Optimizer.

Raivyn presents Why Should I Subscribe to Your Blog? posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging.

Tim Grice presents Is SEO A Dieing Art? posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "There has been a lot of talk recently in the SEO world about Google’s new personalised search and how it will affect the industry."

Erika Collin presents 100 Inspirational Posts to Make You a Better Writer posted at Online Best Colleges.com.

Guffin Mopes presents The Art of Deception: Writing a Good Title posted at Guffinmopes.com, saying, "This post is for the uninitiated. When writing online it’s easy to overlook the importance of the title. It’s the attention grabber, and many new to publishing content online don’t realize how they may be handicapping themselves. This post focuses on the three main aspects of writing a title for online content."

Thursday Bram presents Alphabetizing Doesn’t Work Online posted at Hyper Modern Writing, saying, "Alphabetizing is one of the print writing models that don’t translate well to the web - knowing these models can help improve your blogging."

Jim DeSantis presents The Web’s Best-Kept Traffic Secret! posted at On Line Tribune | You Can Blog Too, saying, "The Web’s Best-Kept Traffic Secret! Here is a guest article from syndicated newspaper columnist, Jim Edwards. It outlines, in my opinion, the best way to get consistent, targeted traffic to virtually any type of website without costing you any money up front, no matter what product or service you sell! It’s my main method to generate traffic, as well."

Leanie Belle presents 4 Steps To Effective Forum Marketing posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

Leanie Belle presents 1 Simple Reason Why Nobody Wants To Buy Your Product posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

Viraj Sawant presents 5 Lessons that Hitler taught me about blogging posted at New-web-business.com, saying, "How Adolf Hitler taught me valuable blogging lessons and improved my website business"

Kathryn presents 25 Ways to Get Links to your Blog posted at Kathryn Vercillo on HubPages, saying, "Methods of getting links to your blog to increase traffic."

Tim Grice presents SEO - Clearly Defining Black-Hat Techniques posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "As an SEO consultant there is nothing strange in speaking to a potential client who has never heard of black hat seo. This is slightly worrying as many unsuspecting online business owners may fall into the black-hat trap and find their sites banned."

Niels Hoven presents SEO Keyword Analysis: How to Use Data Visualization to Make it Quick and Easy posted at Official Blog of Tableau Software.

DebbieDragon presents Freelance Writers Starting Out Without a Portfolio posted at Freelance Sprout.

Raily Arena presents Make Money Online with Blogging posted at Make Money Easy Online.

Andrew Rondeau presents How To Choose A Website Name posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, "Check out this short video to see and hear the do’s and don’ts of website names. Getting your website name right is crucial to your future website success...here’s how to get it right"

C.F. Jackson presents Website Makeover Monday - Choosing Your Keywords For Google posted at Website Makeover Workshop, saying, "So in this week’s Website Makeover Workshop, we’re talking about choosing keywords in order for Google to help you reach your market, your buyer, or where you want to be on this World Wide Web!"

Pinyo presents Improve Search Ranking With Google Analytics Advanced Segments posted at Blogthority.

Isaac Yassar presents Free Text Ads Here posted at Yassar Ads, saying, "Put your text ads here free, fast, permanent, and do-followed. Increase your traffic and pagerank now!"

Isaac Yassar presents Post Title First + Blog Title Later = Traffic (Blogger) posted at Isaac Yassar’s Overture.

Thursday Bram presents Ebook Review: Any Lucky Day posted at Hyper Modern Writing.

Sam presents Ten Fantastic FREE Ways to Market Your New Online Business posted at Surfer Sam and Friends, saying, "Thanks for including my article."

Raily Arena presents Cash Those Words: Making Money Online with Your Blog posted at Make Money Easy Online.

Jim DeSantis presents 4 Ways I Have Improved My Adsense Earnings posted at On Line Tribune | Internet Marketing Blog, saying, "Here are 4 easy changes I have made to improve my Adsense earnings on the blog your are viewing right now."

Tim Grice presents A Few SEO Issues posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "After doing my usual SEO reading over the weekend (like a good SEO consultant should) I stumbled across a few things that a) I don’t agree with and b) provoked thought."

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of bringing more traffic to your blog using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

I can be appointed.

If only the manufacturer of Viraguard Antimicrobial Hand Wipes tracks down their sales, I am bound to be appointed by them as their brand ambassador. Apart from the Viraguard Disinfectant Wipes, I don’t use any other skin care products.

I have this questionable belief; if my hands are clean, then my entire body is clean. And the sense of feeling clean is the ultimate confidence giver. I know not all people realize this basic health ingredient but if only they try and keep them clean not with all those other kinds of skin care products like moisturizer, fairness cream, anti-wrinkle lotions etc but clean their hands with a antibacterial napkin, they are not likely to give up that habit.

I have inculcated this habit to all my former colleagues and they spread the valuable tip to their friends. Medical shops in our locality started stocking the product that is supplied by Allegromedical.com, the leading life enhancing products in the U.S. since 1996.

Collecting all online traces at personal Web page

In one of my previous posts I have presented Sweetcron as automatic lifestreaming solution for bloggers http://blogging4good.blogspot.com/2009/02/automated-open-source-life-stream.html).

If you did not like the presented solution at the time, Frindo might cover your needs. Take a look!

FriendFeed is an excellent web service that collects your online activity to share with others in a social setting. It automatically picks up the stuff you share on over 40 web sites, like YouTube and Flickr.

FriendFeed

But you may want to embed this information at your virtual home and have people that visit your website to get all of your Diggs, Tweets, YouTubes, Flickrs, etc. So Frindo is just a simple script that uses the FriendFeed API to put your life stream on your website in a highly customizable way.

An example of Frindo in action can be seen on the home page at http://screwtheman.com

Requirements

• Web server running PHP4
  
• Friend Feed account
  
• Minor knowledge of CSS, HTML, and web servers

Directions
1. Download the zip file and unzip it. The result should be a folder named ’frindo’.
2. Upload this folder intact on to your web server to a place that it can be seen by a web browser.
3. Temporarily make this folder writable.
4. Further information on embedding frindo into your site is on the configuration page when you run it. Frindo will detect that that it has not been configured and will show the configuration and usage interface.
5. Fill out the form and hit submit.
6. If everything is fine change the permissions on the frindo folder and frindosettings.php back to read only. If you ever want to reconfigure it, just remove or rename the frindosettings.php in your folder and follow the configuration process again.
Note: For additional security, you may want to put those files in a differently named folder than ’frindo’. As long as they’re together, it doesn’t matter what the folder name is.
Developers: http://code.google.com/p/frindo/

Automatic commenting on 'Do Follow' blogs.

Whether or not you remove 'no follow' attribute from your template, if you say, "You comment; I follow" in your blog, you are sure to attract commentators. Of course a seasoned blogger can find out the deception but then I suppose no one deceives in this fashion.

Commenting on blogs is much easier than finding blogs that pass on link juice. I have posted a big list of 'Do Follow' blogs long ago in this blog. Find here the 'Do Follow' blogroll.

Today, I came to know about a software that crawls the blogosphere and find for you all the 'Do Follow' blogs. I appreciate the developer of this software called 'Instant Blog Links' because he clearly understood the bloggers' drive to get as many backlinks as possible from blogs that pass on link juice.

This is a new tool from Rod Beckwith who is know for his other software creations that include top-selling tools Adword Generator, Article Equalizer, Instant Affiliate Submitter and many more.

Instant Blog Links is an easy-to-download PC software you can run right on your computer.

Over a period of 6 months to one year, you can build thousands of one way backlinks by using 'Instant Blog Links' that enables you to locate 'do follow' blogs and submit useful comments to countless high-PR blogs that is always accompanied by a link to your website.

Anyone has tried this before?