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Free Blogger Templates With Unique Designs - For Classic Blogger 2007-11-19 04:59:00 I have received an email today from Pinay Ladies, one of the readers of Blogging Mix. Pinay suggested me to review SuckMyLolly.com, another great website that offers Free Templates for Classic Blogger. The designs of the free blogger templates available at SuckMyLolly are simple, unique and very attractive. Here are some thumbnail shots of the template designs.Sharnee, the author of SuckMyLolly started her blog because she got tired of the generic Blogger template designs and because there is a limited number of free Blogger templates available. Like she said, she simply wants everyone to have an awesome template design so don't forget to take a look at her template designs.Custom Blogger TemplateWhen Sharnee started her blog, she also accepted request for a custom blogger template. Unfortunately, the number of requests were overwhelming so she temporarily stopped accommodating requests for custom blog templates. If you would like to request for a custom blogger template you would hav ...

Blogging Challenge : Improve Alexa Rank 2007-11-18 08:50:00 Over the coming months, I will be working on improving Blogging Mix's Alexa Rank. The same thing I did with my Technorati blog authority, blog reactions and blog ranking. In as little as three months, Blogging Mix's Technorati Authority and Blog Ranking has tremendously improved from an authority of 0 to 273 and from a blog rank of 2,000,000+ to becoming one of the top 20,000 blogs. I would like to extend the invitation to everyone who would like to achieve the same objective. Continue reading to know what's Alexa Rank all about, how and why you should improve it.Alexa.com is a website that ranks other websites base on the traffic information gathered from all Alexa tool bar users. Plain traffic therefore is not enough to push your Alexa rank. To make your traffic counts, you should work to attract more traffic from Alexa tool bar users. The more Alexa tool bar users visit your blog, the better your Alexa Rank. Take note that the lower your Alexa rank is, the higher your position.Wh ... Blogging

Spice Up Your Website With Flash Components From Flashloded.com 2007-11-17 02:36:00 Flashloaded.com, a division of FFF Web Media Inc. was launched on May 21, 2003 by the same talented team that produced the Fonts For Flash website. With the launch of Flashloaded, new products were added to meet the ever growing demand of the market. Like Font For Flash, Flashloaded is guaranteed to provide you the most creative, innovative and cost-effective add-ons for Adobe/Macromedia Flash. With Flashloaded, it's now easy to create the website you've been wanting to have. Here's a list of some of products available at Flashloaded.com:Flash Components : Flash components extend the functionality of Flash by providing an easy way to enhance your Flash websites by adding features with little or no coding. These components (extensions) are installed in the Macromedia Flash authoring environment (IDE).Templates : Ready made web designs created to use as a basis for fast and high quality web development. You can easily customize these templates to create your unique look and feel.Flash ...

Blog Prostitution - Bloggers For Sale 2007-11-16 23:59:00 I have always been told that the best prostitutes in the world are those from 'Russia'. These Russian prostitutes, according to my friends, are the most expensive, most delicate, most skillful and the most versatile of all. I believed what my friends have told me not until 1 year ago when I've discovered blogging and met the greatest prostitutes the world has yet to know... Bloggers!Blog Prostitution, a ubiquitous scene around the blogosphere, is increasing at an alarming rate on a daily basis. These skillful, versatile and expensive bloggers may have not engaged into selling themselves physically but somehow managed to accumulate wealth without direct physical contact to their clients. Today's post is dedicated to the oldest profession known to man but unknown to many in its most recent form... Blog Prostitution.Opinions For SaleThe most common form of blog prostitution is selling one's opinion and the assumption of an idea different from your own in order to please the so-called ...

Why John Chow is the Paris Hilton of the Blogosphere 2007-11-14 05:59:00 Although John Chow has never been to a sex video like Paris, he has been to a lot of scandals and controversies. Like Paris Hilton who became successful after her sex scandal was exposed, John Chow thrived and became famous from the scandals and controversies he created and he has been involved to. Paris Hilton and John Chow seem to share the same passion as well… expensive cars, fine dining and publicity. Guess what, both of them earn money from the publicity that they get. Need more proofs?Paris Hilton is famous for her frequent violations of laws and regulations, the same reason that led her to spend 22 days in jail. John Chow on the other hand has blatantly violated Google's rules and regulations leading him to be demoted in Google's search result for his own name. Quite surprisingly, both John Chow and Paris Hilton manage to get away from their misdemeanors and are still beloved by many. Essentially we ask ourselves, why are these two evil icons still successful despite all t ...

Free Blogger Templates and Wordpress Themes 2007-11-12 04:02:00 To those who are looking for cool Blogger templates and Wordpress themes, you might be interested to check the free Blogger templates and free Wordpress themes available at Blog and Web. At Blog and Web, you can find Wordpress themes converted for Blogger, 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns and themed templates. For Wordpress users, Blog and Web also offers a wide collection of cool Wordpress themes and plugins that is certainly of your interest. Blog and Web has been the source of Blogging Mix's templates before I've decided to create my own.Unfortunately, Blog and Web is in Spanish but it shouldn't be a problem to download their free Blogger templates and Wordpress themes. You can always use a translator or better yet use http://google.com/translate_t to translate the whole page.Here are some thumbnail shots of the free Blogger templates and Wordpress themes available at BlogandWeb.Free Blogger Templates at BlogandWebFree Wordpress Themes at BlogandWebTo download the free Blogger tem ...

Monetize Your Blog With PayPerPost 2007-11-10 22:15:00 It's official, Blogging Mix has joined over 50,000 bloggers who are paid by PayPerPost.com to blog. It took me numerous testimonials to read before I was finally convinced that PayPerPost is an easy, effective and enjoyable way to earn money from your blog.Over the past months, I've heard so much news about PayPerPost from different bloggers. Most of them spoke of their successful blog monetization with PayPerPost. Others boast their incomes generated from accepting opportunities from the long list of advertisers available at PayPerPost. Like me, you too can earn from your blog by simply joining PayPerPost.com NOW!How Do You Monetize Your Blog With PayPerPost?Once you have joined PayPerPost and have your blog approved, you can immediately start accepting opportunities. Right after you joined PayPerPost, you can already earn $20 by simply creating a post about "what you love best about PayPerPost?", "why you signed up?" or "how you've heard about them?". You can even create a post ab ...

Simple Tips For a Faster Downloading Blog 2007-11-09 02:23:00 Research shows that more than 65% of the netizens don't like a blog that takes forever to download. In today's busy lifestyle, no one would like to waste their precious time to wait for your blog to download. As a rule of thumb, your blog should at least download within the next 12 seconds once it has been accessed. Otherwise, you're missing a huge amount of traffic and you have just deprived your blog of repeated visits.Like I've said before, traffic is the lifeblood of most blogs. Traffic enables bloggers to successfully monetize their blogs. Simply put, the higher the traffic your blog gets the higher the potential revenue is. It is therefore crucial that you make sure your blog downloads fast to avoid lossing traffic and to get the most benefit out of it. Here are some simple tips for a faster downloading blog.Tips For a Faster Downloading BlogOptimize and Go Easy On ImagesWhile it is true that images spice up your blog, it is also true that it makes downloading it really slow. ...

Tips in Building a Credible Blog 2007-11-08 20:09:00 An overcrowded Blogosphere has created intense competition among bloggers in attracting more readers for their blogs. Offered with boundless number of blogs to choose from, the netizens has now become even more picky in choosing blogs to read. This situation has positioned credibility as one of the top considerations that the netizens look for in a blog. The more credible your blog is, the more readers stick to it.There's no doubt that blogs with credibility are the blogs that are widely read. But how and what makes a blog credible? Today's post explores the possible ways you can do to improve your blog's credibility, therefore, increasing your 'readership'.Tips To Build a Credible BlogChoose a NicheHaving a niche or a specific topic to blog about is by far the most effective way to build credibilty for your blog and yourself as a blogger. In contrast to those who blog about all sort of stuff, niche blogging allows a blogger to focus and concentrate on a certain topic, preferably ...

Promote Your Blog Content For FREE! 2007-11-07 03:39:00 USATODAY.com is about to get behind Bloggers & Podcasters in a big way with the launch of The Blogger & Podcaster Guide tomorrow (November 8, 2007). This will be the first time that Blogger & Podcaster can reach beyond early adopters and reach such a large mainstream group of people (5,200,000 daily in print and 10,400,000 unique visitors daily online) to grow their audiences.With enough critical mass of listings to give a positive user experience, Blogger & Podcaster is offering all Blogging Mix Readers a one month FREE content promotion in the online Blogger & Podcaster Guide. This means an opportunity for you to reach a wider audience and a savings of $49.95 (regular 1 month advertising cost).To get your free listing, you just need to follow these easy steps:Go to www.bloggerandpodcaster.com/usatodaySelect “New User” and go through 6 Steps registration process.In “Step 2” be sure to enter ‘BP’ in Coupon Code box under Option #4. Then click “Option # ...

Bloggers Unite In BlogCatalog's Act of Kindness Challenge 2007-11-06 05:25:00 We, bloggers have always been accused of "more talk, less action". Somehow there's truth into it. Oftentimes, we have the brightest ideas but it remains an idea and are rarely put to action. On December 17, 2007 we have the chance to change how people perceive us. Join thousands of Bloggers Uniting in Blogcatalog's Act of Kindness Challenge.Over the past months, Blogcatalog has been organizing Bloggers Unite, an activity designed to challenge bloggers to make their voices heard and make a difference. In the previous Bloggers Unite, bloggers were challenged to blog about 'Abuse'. The challenge resulted in the participation of thousands of bloggers who came up with all sorts of information about 'Abuse'. This undoubtedly increased the consciousness of the netizens regarding an issue that is oftentimes ignored.Bloggers Unite - The ChallengeThe brilliant community at Blogcatalog came up with the idea of challenging bloggers to do an act of kindness and blog about it. On December 17, ...

Blogging Mix Update 2007-11-04 06:53:00 After working for over a week, I have finally implemented Blogging Mix's new template. That explains why most of the posts that have been featured here lately are revived from my archive. Anyway, the idea has worked well and the revived posts were able to receive new comments. Surprisingly, the revived posts received more blog reactions as reported by Technorati than it were when first published.Over the past weeks, a lot has happened around the Blogosphere. Google has finally updated it's most awaited Page Rank. Although Blogging Mix's Page Rank was predicted to be a 5, I'm satisfied and happy with 4. It's not actually a bad page rank considering that Blogging Mix is less than 5 months old.Why The Changes?When I've requested for feedback and comments from the BlogCatalog Community about my new template, most of the comments were positive. The decision to change Blogging Mix's template was for the purpose of monetization. I've not been able to fully monetize Blogging Mix with i ... Blogging

Michael Gray's Video Message - What Blogging Mix has to say? 2007-11-01 11:59:00 Before reading the rest of this post, please take some time to watch what Michael Gray of Graywolf SEO Blog has to say about bloggers who blog about Search Engine Optimization.SummaryIt was by accident that I stumbled upon Michael Gray's video containing words of discouragement to bloggers who have decided to blog about the same topic that he does... SEO. According to his video, bloggers who blog about SEO should step away from their keyboard because he doesn't need them. Michael further added that he has searchengineland, marketingpilgrim, threadwatch and searchenginewatch. At the end of the of the video, Michael pointed out that if bloggers don't add value to the conversation, or bring about unique perspective then they might as well stop blogging.As one of the many bloggers who have choosen SEO as one of my topics in my blog, I don't think that Michale Gray's video make sense. In fact, some of his messages are anti-SEO.Today, I've decided to give my own advice to my fellow blo ... Blogging

Free Webmaster Tools 2007-10-23 04:07:00 Here are some tools that I've found useful for webmasters and bloggers. You use them to check your blog's peformance. In case you've found some of the tools not working properly, kindly drop me a message at bloggingmix[at]gmail[dot]com or leave a comment to this post. Thank you very much. Check Your Alexa Traffic RankView and compare Alexa Ranking graphs.Check Your Website for Broken LinksUse this tool to check for broken links on a website.Reciprocal Link CheckerCheck your reciprocal links to see if link partners are still linking back to your site.Website Speed TestFind out how fast a specific website loads.Google Banned CheckerDiscover whether a website is banned on Google.Index Checker Check for the total number of pages of a specific website which are present on search engines.Page Rank CheckerView Google PageRank on different Google servers.Source Code ViewerView the source code of a page.Search Engine PositionCheck your search engine positions on Google Search Engine.Keyword ...

7 Blogging Mistakes that Bloggers do When Building Links 2007-10-19 02:24:00 Almost all bloggers will agree that 'Links' are very important for a blog to be ranked high on Google's search result. The more links you have the better your page rank is. As a result, a lot of bloggers end up doing all possible ways and means to get links from ANY blog even if the blog they're getting links from are not directly related to theirs.Here are some of the common practices that bloggers employ to be able to create a link to their blogs.1. Comment on blog posts of other blogs.2. Exchange links to other blogs.3. Submit Blog to Directories4. Submit Articles to Article Directories5. And the list goes on and on…I will not deny the importance or the value of links for every blog's performance in the search engines' ranking. The value of links however diminishes once it is not properly optimized. Moreover, the trend nowadays is no longer about the quantity of links but the quality of links that are directed to your website or blog.In today's article I will be blogging ab ... Blogging