The Easiest Way to Use Entrecard

By Kat Sanders

I downloaded the Entrecard toolbar because with four linked blogs, I wanted an easier way to switch between them and the toolbar shows how many EC I have for that blog. The toolbar makes this simple by clicking a menu button and selecting the blog for which I want to drop. As I was exploring the toolbar, I noticed two arrow buttons (> and >>) and being the adventurous type decided to press one. All of a sudden, my web page changed.

Now at the time, it kind of upset me off, because I was in the middle of reading a really good story and didn't really want to change pages. (Don't you just hate it when that happens?) Then I realized the significance of the irritation. I could switch from one Entrecard blog to another with just one click.

Before I had used a system called Entrecard Credit Generator to streamline the way I dropped cards. Entrecard Credit Generator is a website that host links to over 300 Entrecard blogs. For each button pushed on the site, 10 Entrecard blogs would pop up as tabs and you could switch from one to another to drop cards. That was really time-consuming with having to close the tabs. And if you have other tabs already up, it could overload your browser.

So the relative ease of switching blogs was pretty neat, but was that all it could do? Well, no! When I choose a category favorite and then pressed the arrow, it would only show those category favorite blogs. I can also choose which search parameters I want. If I want to search the cheapest parenting blogs, I could choose parenting from the favorites and cheapest from the parameters, and up would come the cheapest parenting blogs on Entrecard. And if I chose the two overlapping arrows, it will display the site in another tab. Plus, once I drop, it will give the option to buy advertising (or if you don't have enough EC - tell you that) with just the click of a button.

This toolbar is more than just another pretty face in a world of toolbars I have downloaded and then never used. I have used the Entrecard toolbar for just a few minutes every day since I discovered these uses. Put this to work for you!

PS: Another trick - Every time you write a blog post, you get 25 EC!!!! So keep writing!

Kat Sanders is Owner/Designer for Creative Pride. Creative Pride started in January of 2008 as an online chainmail and beaded jewelry store. As that business was getting off the ground, Kat found that as a way to sell my chainmail creation is was wonderful, as a way to make money, not so much. So, Kat started looking for other sources of revenue and Creative Pride went from an online store to a marketing business. She also has a blog at http://creativepride.net Please visit my company website: http://creativepride.ws and see how my business is growing!

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Internet Marketing Blog - How Visual Components Can Be Used to Create a Successful Blog

By Gary Baker

Is your internet marketing blog providing you with the income that you thought it would? If it isn't then maybe you need to step back and take a look at your blog as a whole. One of the most important points that many people over look is the appearance of their blog. What may look just fine to you may not look so good to others.

1.) Appearance

Color

When deciding on the appearance of your internet marketing blog, color can be one of the biggest turn offs for a reader. Harsh colors and those that highly contrast are hard on the eyes and may drive a potential customer away. One way to ensure that the colors that you choose compliment each other is to use a color picker. You can find these at many online paint or hardware stores. Basically you pick the primary color and the software will display colors that can be used to enhance it.

Graphics

Use as few graphics as possible. Graphics may look nice and you may like them, but they may cause your page to load slowly. In this day and age people are used to clicking a button and being rewarded with instant gratification. If your page loads slow they will simply move on. Too many graphics on your internet marketing blog can be a site killer, especially a business site.

Flashy Stuff

Macromedia flash and shockwave are interesting technologies but unless your business is sell a flash intro creation service you should leave them off of your internet marketing blog site. In the business world a flash movie intro is distracting. Offering video that teaches your visitor how to do something is fine but useless flash is unprofessional.

The visual impact of your blog can have a significant effect on it success. Bells, whistles, and graphics while interesting can take away from the positive aspects that you are working so hard to promote.

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Why You Should Learn How to Make a Blog With Wordpress

By Jared Conley

If you start your blog on the wrong platform, you are asking for trouble. Think about this: if your start your blog the wrong way, you could lose all of your search rankings and many of your readers when you try to change gears. Don't let this happen to you! Start the right way, right from the start.

So "Which blogging platform is best?" I hear you asking. The answer is simple. After years of blogging and using platforms inside and out, it all comes down to WordPress being the hands-down winner. Here are a few reasons why. WordPress has an extensive theme directory. Themes are used to change the look and feel of your blog. You don't need to know how to design or code a thing. There are thousands of free, premium, and specialty themes to choose from.

WordPress has an extensive plug-in directory. Plug-ins enable you to add interesting functionality to your blog. How about a map of your recent readers? Adding a contact form to your about page? Showcasing affiliate products? You can choose third-party plug-ins or even create your own. WordPress offers complete administrative control over your blog. There are very few things that you can't do with your WordPress blog if you're self-hosting. My stock answer when anyone asks: "Can I do _____ with WordPress?" is "You can do ANYTHING with WordPress." It won't make you coffee in the morning, but it'll handle most everything else.

WordPress has excellent user management, using a role-based security model that supports multiple levels of access. For example, authors can write articles, editors can publish those articles after approval, administrators can change the design of the blog. This is incredibly convenient if you want to allow multiple authors to write posts for a blog, or perhaps set up a membership site. Forget about hiring a developer; just use WordPress's built-in user registration functions.

WordPress has an active and enthusiastic contributing developer community. This means that software updates are frequent, bugs are fixed regularly, the software is mature, and requested features are actually added to the product by people who care about and use the product. The WordPress community is a reason why WordPress is such a powerful and easy-to-use product.

WordPress has an easy-to-use page editor. With pages, you can really blur the lines between what is a web site and what is a blog. Pages allow you to store static content (i.e. content that isn't regularly updated).

It's free! There are other free blogging packages out there, but none offer the same combination of power and simplicity that WordPress offers. Here's an interesting exercise: Google "moving to WordPress" and see how many results are returned. People are switching to WordPress software for a reason.

In a nutshell, if you're blogging, you need to be using WordPress. It's that simple. WordPress has built a fanatical community and support base for a reason: they're the best.

Jared helps new and aspiring bloggers learn how to blog professionally and profitably. You can learn more about one of the leading blogging programs available today by downloading the FREE guide on how to blog for money at Jared's site.

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Where the Heck Did Blogs Come From?

By Jared Conley

The first blogs appeared in the wild sometime in the early 1990's. Most people wouldn't recognize them as such. They were often a mixture of links, directories, personal thoughts, and commentary all rolled into one. These early blogs were really just manually updated pages of popular websites, so it was the purpose that differentiated them, and not the software. The first recognized blogging platforms came into existence in the mid-90's, the most common example being the Scripting News blog and parent company Userland.

In 1999, with the introduction of Blogger (now owned by Google), blogs became much more prevalent, and their content morphed from being link and web-driven, to being journal-driven. The word "blog" itself is derived from its more formal name, web log, suggesting that blogs should be displayed in a journal or log entry format, and should be updated frequently, much as a personal log or diary would be.

People began using blogs as online journals, connecting with people of similar interests around the world. Communities formed where bloggers would regularly visit, comment on, and interact with other bloggers in their field.

The next major paradigm shift happened much more gradually, as companies realized that blogs were an easy and informal way of keeping in touch with their customers. Journalists began using them as publishing platforms to get the people's word out quickly.

According to a 2004 Pew Internet and American Life project survey, the average blogger at the time was primarily an upper-middle class male under the age of 30 with high-speed Internet access who had been online for more than six years. In just four years, the blogging landscape has changed dramatically, leading to a much more demographically diverse group of people today.

Part of this demographic shift is due to the increased availability of broadband access around the world, but most of it is due to the variety of user-friendly tools available to create blogs. Gone are the days when only those with technical backgrounds could write and maintain blogs. This has been an overwhelmingly positive development for blogging, as now blogs exist on almost every topic imaginable, written by people from all walks of life.

Now blogs are everywhere, and they're used for all kinds of different purposes. They're no longer a curiosity, but are now both expected and respected. Blogging software has improved, the supporting infrastructure is powerful, and blogs are now one of the easiest, most powerful ways to establish a presence on the web.

Jared helps new and aspiring bloggers learn how to blog professionally and profitably. You can learn more about one of the leading blogging programs available today by downloading the FREE guide on how to blog for money at Jared's site.

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If You Aren't Blogging, You're Leaving Business on the Table

By Jared Conley

You've heard of blogs and blogging, and you might even have one, but I guarantee you that you're leaving money and business on the table if you're not utilizing them properly. In this article, I'm going to review several of the reasons why you absolutely must be blogging.

Blogs provide the most powerful available path to easily building an online presence. They're easy to setup, mature software exists to manage the experience, they're inexpensive, and they're easily customizable.

A good blog is a great way to achieve Google Page Rank. If you're not familiar with Page Rank, the short description is that it's Google's way of determining the relative worth of a web presence. The higher the worth, the higher in the search results you appear. High page rank is often easier to achieve with simple blogs than with complex web sites, all other things being equal. The exact reason for this is not that Google likes blogs better, but because of the characteristics that blogs share, which is a topic for another article!

Blogs are a great way to establish a dialog with your readers and encourage feedback from them. Similar to forums, communities form around blogs, with familiar faces frequently commenting on blog posts. You can encourage the development of community allowing your readers to help shape and spread your message, a critical component of Web 2.0.

Blogs are easy to maintain, and allow you to remain productive in your business instead of wasting time on technical issues. Any technical details that must be attended to are usually one-time operations. Day-to-day maintenance is point and click simple, putting blogs well within the reach of anyone capable of using a computer and web browser.

Blogs can make you money, both directly and indirectly. There are a wide variety of simple to implement and simple to track monetization options for blogs. This also leads to the fact that blogs can help build your business, both online and offline.

Blogs can be used to get the word out to like-minded individuals, regardless of what that word might be. You might be promoting a charitable cause, driving attention to a pressing social issue, talking politics, or providing inspiration to others. Whatever your message, blogs are an ideal, personal way to get the word out.

Aside from the usual business reasons, your opinions are important, and they deserve to be heard. Blogging is fun and is a great way for you to find your own voice on the web!

Jared helps new and aspiring bloggers learn how to blog professionally and profitably. You can learn more about one of the leading blogging programs available today by downloading the FREE guide on how to blog for money at Jared's site.

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Before You Learn How to Blog, You Better Learn What a Blog Is (And Isn't)

By Jared Conley

Thinking about starting a blog, are you? Before you learn how to create a blog, you had better get an idea of what a blog actually is and how it is fundamentally different from other online presences. That's exactly what I'll be reviewing in this article.

A blog, short for weblog (web-log, not we-blog), is an online journal. Blogs are specialized forms of web sites, so they typically contain text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, or other media related to their topics. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning "to maintain or add content to a blog."

Blog entries, or "posts," are usually displayed in reverse chronological order, and posts are assigned to categories to assist with organization. Posts refer to individual articles, or writings, in a blog.

Blogs differ from traditional web sites in several crucial ways:

• Blogs are usually updated very frequently, with inactive blogs being updated several times per month, and active blogs being updated many times per day.


• Most blogs allow readers to post comments and respond to posts. This dialog is encouraged because interactivity is an important part of many blogs, and also one of the leading sources of tips and new content.


• Blog writing tends to be much more personal than traditional web writing. Traditional web writing is politically correct sales or marketing copy, whereas blogs have a very intimate voice.


• Blogs tend to be more opinionated and partisan than web sites, and most blogs are tightly focused on a niche.


• Blogs commonly offer RSS feeds of the posts and comments contained within them.

RSS feeds?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of feed formats used to publish blog content. Feeds make it easy for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually.

Feeds can be aggregated in a feed reader, a web page or portal page, or a web browser. The feed reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds. In essence, it's a way for your favorite content to be "pushed" to you, or in this case, a way for your subscribers to get your content pushed to them as it's updated. In a nutshell, feeds make sure that your readers receive your content as it's published.

Blogs range from personal journals intended for close friends and family, to influential and significant media journals, to informal communication channels for companies. Blogs exist in about every shape, size, and topic imaginable.

The power of blogs is that they allow millions of people to have a voice. Blogs are fluid and interactive, consisting of two-sided conversations rather than broadcasts. Blogs are fundamentally changing how we use the web, so get your blog started or you'll be left behind!

Jared helps new and aspiring bloggers learn how to blog professionally and profitably. You can learn more about one of the leading blogging programs available today by downloading the FREE guide on how to blog for money at Jared's site.

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Top 3 Common Problems Faced in Making Money From Blogging

By Alvin Phang

I have been blogging for more then 2 years and I have encountered tons of problems. Because of all the encounters, now I have a great habit to start to love problems. Why do I love problems? Well you get to learn as you encounter more and more problems. The secret to my success was I learn to love problems I solved them really fast!

I do noticed lots of loyal readers have been reading my blog and wondering what are the problems encountered in blogging so here's the top 3 common problems faced by myself from my experiences in making money from blogging.

1. It's Not Easy To Get People's Attention Online

When it comes to blogging, your content is key to attracting your readers to stay onto your blog. To get readers to stay on your blog is not an easy task as at times the content will just simply piss people off if you did not craft your article well. So what content you type on your blog does have an impact on your traffic too.

What type of content should you write Alvin? Well as you can see a real example which I just did recently. I actually ask my readers what they like to read about and I just basically write what they want to know.

In that way, you are writing towards what your readers want and that would mostly likely keep your readers coming back. Or you can simply try real quality content on your blog and your readers would love it too.

2. No Traffic To My Blog, HOW ALVIN!

Well it's no point crying over it right? Well the solution to traffic is to DO MORE of the traffic tactics! That's the only solution to it. What traffic tactics would I recommend? Well here's a list of marketing tactics you can choose from.

1. Blog Marketing


2. Forum Marketing


3. Article Marketing


4. PPC Marketing


5. Press Release Marketing

There are much more methods you can adapt but I would recommend you to choose just one will do and focus on it to get the best results.

Try to get a habit to choose only one traffic tactic and go with it for at least 7 days with at least 2 hours per day to get the most out of it. In that way, after 7 days you will be able to measure how much you have improved.

3. I Am Not Technically Sounded?

Many people who want to learn to make money online have very little experience or knowledge in IT and that's really important to have in online marketing.

For me I am pretty lucky as before I got into the blogging business, I already had many years of experience in web designer and programming so picking up Internet Marketing was pretty easy for me as I was really good with computers.

The only solution to solving this problem is YOU GOT TO TRY learning step-by-step from courses or books. I have seen people who no IT skills take almost a year to making their first dollar but the key into that is he DID NOT GIVE UP.

If you are really lazy then I would recommend you can outsource all the technical stuff to others, that's another solution.

Which Traffic Tactic You Like Me To Cover More On?

I was thinking since I was writing this article, I thought of covering more on some of the traffic tactics that we use online. These are the traffic tactics you can choose from

1. Blog Marketing


2. Forum Marketing


3. Article Marketing


4. PPC Marketing


5. Press Release Marketing

All you need to do is comment below, which traffic tactic you like me to cover on and I post about it on the next post.

Alvin Phang is The Author of Atomic Blogging 2.0, Currently Ranked As The World's No.1 Blogger Who Made Over $6,665.57 in 30 days Just From Blogging! Need More Blogging Tips? Click Here To Grab Your Free Preview Copy Of Atomic Blogging Today! Or Click Here To Visit My Active Blog Today To Get Free Daily Tips

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How to Get a Blog Site

By Adriana Florian

Thousands of people are diving in the online business with a blog site. It is the easiest and fastest way you can make money online. No expensive, tedious process, it is actually a blast with Blogging Income!

PPC, SEO and other internet marketing techniques are boring as heck these days. Blog site is booming with over 4 million people using this free method. These cheap little buggers are on their way to the top. There are over 2.5 million blog site alone. This number continues to increase daily as people are becoming smarter with their money and promoting their products. Are you ready to get a blog site up for the world to see?

The problem most affiliates have is they over complicate everything. You have to keep it simple when you have a blog site. Blogging Income will personally show you how to use the software, going through the basics, and holding your hand every step of the way when you get your blog site up and running.

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