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Limited time offer three months for the price of one month! Just 8 links available and this offer will only be available for the next two weeks ending 14 August 2007 Save $60 Now! Check out site stats here.

Text-Link Rules
Text links are located site wide on the right sidebar, above make money online section. Only 8 links are available. Pricing is currently $30 $10 per month per link (25 Characters with Spaces). Three month term; therefore either party may terminate the agreement at the end of the three month term unless both parties have entered an agreement for a longer term.

Act now and get your PR5 link now before the PageRank update occurs! Almost forgot to poor to pay all $30 at once I’ll even let you pay it monthly!

Overcoming writers block from time to time to be honest can seem quite annoying especially when you have been on a role for a while! What do you do if you are faced with writers block?  Well for starters you could write an article about how to get around writers block.

Popular Articles
Use a combination of checking stats and how many comments are on a respective post to determine its popularity.  There are two methods that you can use; expand on the topic in a new post or add more points to the same post and change the time stamp.   

Old Articles
This is actually one of my favorites that I use from time to time. When you first start out blogging more than likely you do not have loads of traffic coming to your site and a lot of the older articles you have written more than likely do not have comments or very few comments. Filter through these articles revise, add to them and even change the article title if you think of something catchier.  Then change the time stamp and republish.

Subscribe to Full Feeds RSS
Subscribing to related blogs in the blogoshpere is an excellent easy way to get your creative ideas going in the much needed times of writers block. Use your mybloglog community to find new interesting related sites and you can even search for sites that you can relate too. Then just subscribe to their RSS feed.  

Readers Just Ask Them 
An important aspect that you may have over looked in the past and something you may want to start paying more attention to in the present. When reading comments and responding to them occasionally other topics of discussion will come up and you could use this in a future post since it is already of relevant interest to your readers.

It happens to us all and to be honest since leaving for Romania last week I haven’t really felt like writing with the stresses of work/being away and it’s been hard for me to stay focused on blogging.     

How do you find advertisers for your blog? This is the second most difficult problem you will be faced with in the blogging world if your goal is to become a top blogger! Original content is the most difficult in case you were wondering. There are two methods of finding advertisers; find them yourself and using ad networks. Below are some simple methods of finding advertisers yourself.

Premium Ad Locations
First you must determine the number of advertising spots that will available in your inventory. Then place an advertising page that is easily found on your site with clear instructions of what advertisements you offer. Key: people never liked to be first insure that you have added a few links or ads to sites of your choice to feel the emptiness of the ad location. It’s even possible to make money from blog posts!  

Commentators
Most of the time readers that are commenting have a strong interest and a site that is related. Contact them and ask if they would be interested in advertising with your site. 

Sites that link
When a company/site has already linked to your site or one of your articles the chances of discussing advertisement on your site has increased significantly. Always take the time to check out sites that link to you and then contact the related sites. 

Sites That Advertise
Most companies use some form of advertisement and are already aware of SEO advantages. The key here is to pay close attention when surfing the net and start tracking these sites & related companies that are already advertising with companies such as; AdWords, BlogAds, ClickBank Ads, Text-Link-Ads, ReviewMe, Azoogle Ads and then contact them.

Search Niche Sites
This has been the most successful method for Ja Kel Daily.  Simple & straight forward open up Google start your start with keywords that are related to your niche.  When the search results return the key is to email every site that comes up in relation to your site and eventually you will get a sell – persistence pays off. On this method set up a goal of emailing 5 sites daily!

Stop paying ad networks to sell all of your advertisement and increase site profits by utilizing the simple methods above and start taking responsibility for selling a percentage of ads on your site.  A healthy mix of you marketing your site and the ad networks will pay off in the long run - just stay persistence.

Have you ever felt a little unsure about what exactly RSS is? Then this is the video for you and if you are an RSS pro watch it anyway you’ll find it funny - I did! After you’ve watched the video and learned how RSS works you can subscribe to my RSS full feeds below if you have not already.   

YouTube RSS In Plain English

Now that you are completely educated on RSS please take the time and please subscribe to my RSS!

I’m back and blogging from Constanta, Romania now! Before I left I had the impression that things would be extremely busy/fast passed and it would be near impossible to keep up with daily posting on my personal blog. 

Well I’ve since then found that I will after all be able to keep up with work during the day and still have a fair amount of time in the evening to post my daily articles to the site.  

World Geography Education:
Constanta is Romania’s second largest city and also hosts Europe’s south eastern entry port harbour located along the Black Sea capable of receiving the largest ships between Europe & Asia as well as the main port used for transporting crude oil/containers benefiting many international operators.

A few sites from Constanta, Romania and if the project lasts the full amount of time my wife (Kelly) will be flying over for a week and we plan to travel to Bucharest, Romania (the capital of Romania) for an extended weekend.

Mosque Downtown, Constanta, Romania

Casino, Constanta, Romania (Constructed 1909)(A Restaurant Now)

Mamaia Beach, Constanta, Romania

The past two weeks I’ve been giving much thought as too what I should do about posting frequency on the site while away for work.  Presently I am unsure as to how busy I will be and how this will affect posting for the three month duration (flying today).

I was actually considering guest posting for filling the gaps for when I would not be able to post and recently decided against the idea since this is my personal blog and feel that guest posting takes away from that aspect. So I’ve decided to go with option ’B’ and let posting frequency decrease during this time period.  

I’ve posted 178 posts to date on this site so I’m hoping those will keep you busy during my down times in the next three months.  Here’s a few to get you started with:

• Make Money from Blog Posts
• Prepare For the Next PageRank Update
• 7 Personal Values to Live Life
• Blog Tips for Search Engine Optimization
• How to Increase and Build Blog Traffic
• Top Blogging is Not for Everyone

Please be patient with me during this busy time in my life. However if you like celebrity gossip my wife will be updating her site daily so click the link below and catch up on the latest Hollywood juice! 

There are many different methods to increasing and building traffic to your blog site. Traffic comes in two forms targeted and non targeted. Do I personally think one is better than the other – No! My opinion is advertising is a gamble because you never really know who will stick around in the end whether it comes from targeted traffic or non targeted traffic. So my conclusion you may catch a customer from either method traffic is traffic never rule out the unknown.  

Content Rich Site

I’ve talked about this many times create original timeless content and maintain it the search engines love it!  You need rich content to prepare for the next PageRank update and for search engine optimization!  

Google AdWords

Google AdWords have you heard of it, thought so.  Yes, I am a user of AdWords not a mega rich campaign but a tidy budget of $30 per month.  At present for this month my ad has 162,849 impressions with 228 clicks average CPC is $0.09 and average CPM is $0.12. 

Microsoft adCenter Ad

I first talked about Microsoft’s new PPC adCenter on 12th of June when they released it and started promoting with a $50 promotional coupon for signing up.  Here’s the update! I signed up and was charged the $5 fee as stated in the agreement.  Setting up the ad campaign was simple just like Google AdWords except different looking dashboard.

The first two weeks I had the campaign set at .25 cents per click and the results were only two clicks.  Since the promo coupon had to be used in a time period of two months I then decided well I’ll just up the click amount to 1.30 per click since I had only received two clicks in the first two weeks.  Ok, so end results 40 clicks total charge $52.87 minus $50.00 equals $2.87 plus the $5 activation fee. Result: I do not recommend it I deleted my account and staying with Google AdWords.

Text Link Ads

Maybe you are a new advertiser or blogger and have not yet heard about Text Link Ads. At the moment you can use this coupon to get $100 off your first purchase.  You will have to make a $125 purchase to get the discount but just enter the promo code at checkout and your total will be adjusted to $25. 

Then if you wanted to be sneaky you could email the blogs you advertised on and let them know that you hope the links work well because you will be considering on renewing it. With a little luck some times the blog editor may even give mention to his new advertisers that month.

Review Link Exchange

Straight forward offer a link exchange program on your blog in return for reviewing the site. Review My Blog for a PR5 link back!  This methods works well and in my opinion is definitely targeted since the bloggers reviewing more than likely have a desire to come back to your site.  Personal results around 180 reviews and still going and if I had to guess I’m sure at least 35% of those bloggers that reviewed the site are now readers. 

Blog Commenting

Commenting on blogs is an excellent free traffic generating method (time consuming though). Many bloggers have joined in on the Dofollow wagon and you can now get a full credited backlink when commenting on a blog that has it.  If by chance they do not have the dofollow turned on then you will most times find a top commentators section that if you comment enough your link will appear on the side bar for a full linkback.  Sometimes blogs have both like this one so you are in a sense getting rewarded twice for commenting.  

MyBlogLog Communtiy

MyBlogLog is a great widget that you can add to the sidebar of your site that allows readers to join your community.  Another great aspect of MyBlogLog is that when you set up your account you can upload a unique picture that will appear on ever blog you visit that has the widget install.  Why is this great? Well if most bloggers are like me and if I had to guess I’m sure they are because most people are curious by nature they will click your picture and then give your site a visit.   

Logo Contest

This traffic generating method is a win win in my book!  Most computer related forums have a contest section where you can start a contest of some sort related to the category and rules of the forum. 

At Digitalpoint I’m running a logo contest for the sum of $20 to the winning designer that designs a logo for my site.  So far this ad has generated 1219 unique site views and I have a disclaimer that the contest will continue until I select the winning design but I also reserve the right of not selecting a logo if no entries satisfy my requirements.

Sell Your Blog

Something that will cause a load of comments/controversial on your site but who cares it generates traffic.  How do you sell your blog and where?  For $40 you can place a premium ad on SitePoint for a duration of up too 30 days. This traffic may not be targeted like with Google AdWords but its traffic and there are never any guarantees with advertising that potential customers will ever come back again to your site.

Presently as of writing this article attempting to sell my blog has generated 1972 unique site views on my ad at SitePoint!  What if it sells? Then start another blog site simple as that!     

When I decided to address time management I did some research and thought about the courses I have taken in the past in my university studies. This subject can be long and discussed forever but that is not truly necessary in my opinion. Personally I think when it comes right down to it everyone knows what it takes in order to effectively manage time but only a small percent of people actually take those steps. The number one reason in my opinion is laziness and the unwillingness to except change and work hard towards that specific path!

When it comes to blogging time management becomes something that you are hit with right in the face!  My personal situation is I’m married with two children and work a full time job so time management plays a big part in making or breaking my continued rising success. 

Blogging from looking from the outside may seem very easy to the untrained eye but to actually maintain a family, job and write one article daily can deem to be impossible sometimes with out the discipline of following a success plan.

What is my plan? Simple, kick myself in the a** and then an article takes me about an hour to write and at least thirty minutes to gather my thoughts before hand. When am I able to write my article? The average time that I am able to do this is between 7:30 p.m. & 9:00 p.m. Then any time I have free for; commenting, emails, tweaking, optimizing, researching and reading I take it. 

• Manage your time by making decisions and acting on them.
• Establish a plan for success.
• Decide what your priorities are and then concentrate on them.
• Apply all to 80/20 Principle of Pareto / Juran.

Time Management Education: 

Time management defined is simple just the management of your time into the most productive path for successful outcomes. As simply as it sounds it seems that so many people out there are lacking in this area to an instant that they reach the end of their lives without actually ever succeeding in this area. The time is now to take action and start making decisions that produce results.

There are many time management systems out there that try and entice you into paying money for what ever their given system may be at that time. The reality here is that these plans take your money and distract you from actually accomplishing what it is that you set out to do in the first place. The fact is until you establish a plan that you are willing to go forth with you will never successfully manage your time effectively. Start by finding out what you feel is your blogs purpose and use that reason to coerce yourself into making those needed improvements. Now decide what your blogging priorities are and then start concentrating on them.

Apply the 80/20 Rule by Pareto he established that 20 percent of people owned 80 percent of the wealth. In Juran’s work he identified that 20 percent of defects caused 80 percent of the problems. Ok so given this the 80/20 basically means that 20 percent is essential and 80 percent is inconsequential.

Using this method what you should do is remind yourself daily what 20 percent of blogging is important for success and begin focusing on it first. What are your thoughts on time management and blogging?

Top Blogging is not for everyone! Starting a new top blog site has to be one of the hardest things that I can think of that someone can attempt to do in life.  After you have the site completed and you think that all the bugs are worked out there are most times always extra things that have to be done. Such as with a Wordpress blog, I started this blog 10 February 2007 and I have been installing and tweaking almost everyday it seems. 

Anyway so finally you think you are out of update hell and your site is ready to show the world but wait a minute there are 11.5 billion or more other websites on the net.  Now being faced with that it is time to give up right, no this is where the hard work comes in and never stops it’s constant!

Take it harsh/blunt or however you like if you can not communicate/write then you should delete your blog now. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again content is key and with out it you will fail regardless if you want to make money or give advice/stories away free. If you have not deleted you blog just yet then I would suggest asking yourself a few questions such as:

• Can I communicate well?
• Can I write effectively?
• How computer savvy am I?
• How determined am I?
• What is my blogs short & long term goals? 

Answering questions on paper (or in word) is quite easy. Now all you have to do is come up with the content! The most important aspect of your site, original content that people want to read and then tell others about. The thing that makes a personal blog superior to other websites is that it’s a personal site that allows interaction and bond forming with readers.

Top Blogging is not for everyone and that’s why only a mere 1% out of 100% succeeds. Any Thoughts?

My 7 personal values that I live a better life from are Integrity: Do the right thing! Courage: Face your fears accept and take on new challenges. Passion: Live your life to its fullest potential. Contentment: Fulfillment of human needs. Action: Now is this best approach. Respect: Treat others as you would like to be treated. Expectation: Live with hope and set achievable goals.

• 1. Integrity This is the most import value in my opinion and I consider it to be the foundation of achieving a better life. Integrity is the value in which a person’s character can be determined by others. People that hold high integrity portray this in their work and everything else they strive to achieve has a sense of superiority.
• 2. Courage The moral and mental strength that allows for the acceptance of new challenges without regards to the fear that may lie beneath. Start a method of thinking boldly and greater results will follow in the recreation of a better life.
• 3. Passion Live life to its fullest potential by taking an enthusiastic approach and start by becoming a self motivator. By keeping your mind constantly renewed at the highest possible level you will begin your path to happiness which in turn will empower your passion.
• 4. Contentment The pursuit of contentment is a state of mind established by fulfilling your basic human needs. The basic needs that need to be fulfilled include; shelter, food, health, hope and love. Many studies have produced results showing that content people are more; energetic, decisive, trusting, creative, flexible and happy in society.
• 5. Action Now not tomorrow an expression I use when I want something done and do not want to wait a lifetime for it. Nike’s slogan Just Do It! This is an excellent catchphrase do not wait until tomorrow when it can be accomplished today. Stop the procrastination and start taking action.
• 6. Respect To treat people as you would like to be treated. This is of great significance in everyday life and without it life can seem intolerable at times. First establish self respect by determining your identity and value. Then begin respecting others by formulating a positive judgment about them by evaluating their character.
• 7. Expectation Hope should be the number one tool for overcoming situations that life throws your way that seems discouraging. Hope can come in many forms; spiritual, people, events and family. Set the expectation and use the power of hope to drive this goal or inspiration.

Generally people that set values to live by are more successful in life and become an example to follow.  Some self improvement spokespeople say that if you write your values down on paper then you are on your way to success.  I do not agree with this at all, writing them down is the easy part in my opinion it is the actually doing part that shows success.  A piece a paper with some writing on it is useless if it is just collecting dust beside your bin at home.  So Just Do It, like Nike has been saying for years. 

Whether you are an experienced blogger or new looking to attract interest in your blog post there are few things you definitely can not afford to miss! Losing potential readers to competitor blogs and wasting your time on ineffective articles.      

Regrettably, this is something that continues to take place everyday. So why is it some articles do well while others fail? Some may say it’s due to their lack of knowledge of editing.  When in fact what successful blog editors do is follow a strategic plan of writing effective articles the pre sell the advertisement (affiliate).

There are many important aspects that go into producing an effective blog post. Before you begin writing any pre sell article take a few minutes to ask you’re the following questions:

• Is the article targeted to the reader?
• Does the article have a unique factor?
• Is there a motivation (urgency) incentive?
• How does article compare to competitors?
• Does it generate curiosity?

In order for your article to be effective it must be more than just creative.  Think of reasons why you would buy (or did buy) this product/service and start listing those reasons. When listing these reasons for purchase what you are doing is adding more value to the Why factor, it serves as the driving force behind the readers response.

Headlines
One of the most important essentials in creating an effective article whether it is for selling or just informative.  The headline is sometimes referred to as the voice of the article. It pulls the reader into the article (get to readers to keep reading): “Get 120 Back Links in 24 Hours!” Rather than using: “Blog Network Get Backlinks” 

Keywords
Consider these keywords when writing your headline: How, Get, Do, Why, Save, Fast, Limited, Guaranteed, and Now.  Those keywords are just a few that work well in headlines and just keep your eyes open for the next time a headline grabs your attention!   

Visual
There are no set rules of where images must be placed in your articles.  However, when selecting images (screen shots) relevant to display the product/service I recommend that they be placed at the top of the article or in the middle.  My experience (as well as others) shows placing images in articles will enhance your message as well as grab the reader’s attention into the article.
Body  
Ok, you’ve accomplished getting the reader past the headline into the body of the article, the energy must continue throughout the post with each written word satisfying their every desire. Things to remember; keep words simple and to the point, make lists (bullets), offer benefits, testimonies, keep paragraphs short and avoid over writing.     

Ask
Create a sense of urgency, but remember to give a valid reason as to why they should act now.  Remember people love deals/bargains! If a discount is available take advantage of it and let the readers know that there is an expiration date to the offer and it will not last.  Remember to ad details of how the service/product can be obtained and then ask the reader for the sale!

For a limited time (expires 23 July 07) Get 120 Back Links in 24 Hours – For $15 (a savings of $10) just email jason@jakeldaily.com and mention this article!!!  A Technorati Authority Increase of 40 Over Night!!! 

Just yesterday I noticed new categories were available on AdSense referrals ads for selection and setup in my Google account. Since I was in the dark on this one I did some checking and the release to all publishers was 28 June and beta testing started back in March. 

What is an AdSense referral ad? The ads work the same as the normal Google ads on a cost per click action with the exception of one thing if a person clicks the ad and then buys/downloads/signs up then you do not get paid for the click but instead you will be paid  per action/sale. 

To get started with referral ads, click the AdSense Setup tab in you account and then click Referrals. There will be a list of products/categories (example screen shot below) and here you can choose one to the entire section of best performing ads to use as referral advertisements.

Get the Free Google Pack:

Get Fire Fox with Google Toolbar:

To select an entire category choose your ad format (all standard Google AdSense formats available including text links like the two I used above) in the upper right hand column and then click add category to cart then click continue.  Now just copy the code just like a normal AdSense Ad and place it were you would like it to show on your site. 

One thing I did notice however was when testing the new referrals ads the customization for colors was not available but it was an easy fix just grab the color code from a normal AdSense Ad and then add it to the referral code. If you are just using a text link refferral ads no customization is needed it will use your default link color on your site (note: I noticed a max of two links will show in a post). 

Good luck on making more money from Google! 

Search engine optimization for a blog is similar to optimizing a website but since they are updated frequently and use very little html search engine results are much higher than static website pages. 

Keyword(s) In Your Domain

When ever possible you should try and purchase a domain for you blog that uses a primary keyword you want to become optimize for.  This is something that I did not give any thought too but have noticed that others that have used this method are more successful for being optimized for a particular keyword.

Primary Key Phrases

Primary key phrases such as “make money online” a key phrase that took the bloggingworld like the black plague.  Insure your phrase is included in the title of your blog <title>your phrase</title> and it should also be included in post titles though out your site. Keep in mind though if you are optimizing for a key phrase such as the one above you will have steep competition - maybe consider using a different variation of it for better results.   

Keywords In Your Post

Use keywords sporadically in your posts; body text, links to posts (deep linking), images, and outbound links. Now identify a keyword(s) that you hope to get indexed by Google.  Keyword(s) should be used though out your article and insure that you use it in the title of the post and it’s within your first two sentences. Remember do not spam your articles with your keywords because it’s off putting to readers.     

Get Backlinks

I been successful for get getting backlinks with the following methods; review blogs for link back, commenting dofollow sites, blog networks, free directories, good content and speed linking. Read more about these methods of getting backlinks for search engine optimization.

Update Regularly

Using the rules outlined above update your site daily with quality content. This principle is thoroughly taught by SEOs and they establish principles as to why this is beneficial to search engine optimization. My opinion on updating; it takes good content to keep you readers coming back, linking to your articles. Then eventually search engines will take a hint and index your article to the top by the amount of interest it has.

I remember back when I first start this blog back in February and was completely new to the Wordpress world! Little did I know Wordpress was just an empty shell just dying for a plugin or two. Do you think Wordpress did this purposely since they knew programmers would do them a favor in return for traffic to their new plugins?   

I’ve actually had thoughts of designing a plugin in return for traffic!

To get started I made the famous list that millions of other bloggers have posted ‘The Best Wordpress Plugins’ that I use for this site.  There are so many plugins being made everyday you could almost start a site just talking about new plugins.  Here are 5 more to take a look at but I personally only use the duplicate content cure for this site.

• Duplicate Content Cure (stop search engines from indexing duplicate content)
• Bankroll (sell your own reviews)
• Postviews (show the number views per post)
• Tiger Admin (change the look of your wordpress dashboard)
• Feed Footer (add messages under your posts in your RSS feeds)

My Favorite Plugin 

Have you ever received an email after commenting that welcomes you to the site? At first you may have thought that was really nice for the blogger to email you personally welcoming you, right. Well sorry to burst your bubble but that is a plugin also called comment relish and I highly recommend it!