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Terms of Service - www.BloggingMix.com 2007-07-23 01:36:00 I. AcceptanceRocky John M. Tayaban (owner and maintainer of www.BloggingMix.com web site) provides its service («Service») to you, subject to the following Terms of Service («TOS»). By using the Service you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions.II. Your obligationsYou should be at least 13 years old to use this Service.You should use the Service for personal non-commercial purposes only.If you use the Service to make profit either directly or indirectly, including, but not limited to, republishing articles with your own advertisements inside, publishing articles for your own commercial web site, you must provide a 'follow' link to the specific URL from where you have obtained it.III. RestrictionsAutomated creation or modification of feeds and articles (e.g. by «bots») is prohibited.You may not use the Service for any illegal purposes.You must not modify, adapt or hack the Service or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated wit ...

Blogskins.com - Free Templates for Blogger, Xanga and Movable Type 2007-07-22 03:27:00 Do you want to improve your blog's layout and design but you don't have the necessary skills to do so? You can hire someone to do it for you or you can just join Blogskins.com and redesign your blog's layout by yourself. Continue reading to learn more about this.Today, I've just received 9 emails from different people extending their appreciation for making it convenient for them to search for free blogskins that they can implement on their blogs. I'm really glad that my previous posts on Free 3 Column Blogger Template - I and Free Templates for Blogger.com were useful. I just hope that next time when you want to appreciate any of the articles here at BloggingMix, leave it in the form of a comment. I regularly check on new comments and try to respond to it if necessary.In my post on Free 3 Column Blogger Template, one of the links I have mentioned is a link to Blogskins.com, which by its name alone you already have an idea of what they're offering.Free Blogskins and More at Blogs ...

Disclosure Policy - www.BloggingMix.com 2007-07-22 01:53:00 This policy is valid from 23 July 2007This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact bloggingmix[at]gmail[dot]com.This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. I believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.The owner of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers' own. Any product claim, statistic, quote ...

Search Status Plugins - Know More About the Websites and Blogs You Visit! 2007-07-21 06:21:00 Links, links and more links is an important issue for most people who are interested in improving their website or blog's search engine ranking. Previously, I have written about the 7 Blogging Mistakes That Bloggers do When Building Links. You might want to check it out and learn how to optimize the links you build to your blog.One of the most common ways that bloggers employ to build links to their blog is to leave comments on other blogs with a link to their own. Normally, this should work but there are webmasters and bloggers that adhere to a 'NOFOLLOW' link policy for some reasons. This simply means that the link you've created to your blog from a blog that implements a 'nofollow' links policy is not at all going to boost your page ranking. If your purpose of leaving a comment is to improve your blog's PR, then I must say you've failed. In order for the links to be counted, the links you've created for your blog should be a 'Follow' link.The question now is, how do you k ...

Increase Technorati Blog Reactions and Authority Through Webetur.com 2007-07-20 03:04:00 Technorati blog ranking is widely used as a gauged of a blog's popularity. It is also used to appraise the value of a blog. The formula on how Technorati arrives at its blog ranking is quite similar to how Google does its page ranking. Everything boils down to the number of links to your blog. Technorati calls it 'Blog Reaction'. The higher the number of links to your blog, the higher your authority and blog rank is. Although the competition to be included in Technorati's top blog is fierce, it is still worth trying. As your blog reaction and authority increase, your visibility to the Technorati users increases as well.Increase Technorati Blog Reaction with Webetur.comI have discovered Webetur.com when I was going over the communities at Mybloglog. Out of curiousity, I clicked on the link to Webetur homepage. I was directed to a community of interesting people. As soon as I've seen the page, I applied for free membership because I know that this is a great avenue for me to interac ...

Hittail: Works Best with Mozilla Firefox 2007-07-19 03:07:00 I know that Hittail has been reviewed several times by the Blogging Community and I won't be surprised to know that you are already using it. I've been using Hittail before on my other blogs but since I don't get as much word suggestions, I've started to look for alternatives. After doing my research, I've found out a service offered by 103bees.com that functions in the same manner that Hittail does. I've written an article about increasing your blog traffic using 103bees.com, go ahead and check it out.For those of you who are not familiar with Hittail, allow me. Hittail is a service that "reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising search terms hidden in the long tail of a Website's natural search results." In simple words, Hittail gives you suggestions on words that you should use on your posts or articles to get your blog better ranked in organic search. Organic search pertains to inquiries done by individuals using search engines such as Google, Ask and Alltheweb ...

Blog Directories - Free Submission 2007-07-18 07:44:00 Free submission to blog directories is one of the phrases that is usually searched at major search engines. I guess it's innate for everyone to find an easy way to do things. In my previous post on 1000 Blog, Search Engine and RSS Directories - Free Submission, I have discussed that there is no such thing as automated submission. Hence, free submission to 1000 blog directories does not exist. For more details, read my previous post.The best and only alternative is to submit to blog directories manually. I was able to collect a large number of blog directories for free submission. Visit the link and submit your blog manually now.When I was starting to blog, I have discovered ineedhits.com. It's a website that offers some free tools that you can use to evaluate your blog's performance and submit your blog to 20 popular search engines with relatively good PR (Page Rank) for free. This service is ideal for bloggers who are just new to blogging, or who have just created their blog. Here ...

Free Three Column Template - II 2007-07-17 05:52:00 After checking my posts on free three column template and cost free three column template for new blogger and you still haven't found the right three column template to implement on your blog, hopefully this post will be helpful.In my commitment to making your search for the right free three column template as convenient as possible, I've tried looking for more useful websites that offer free three column templates. Here are some links I have discovered that you can check out.Pannasmontata Free TemplatesPannasmontata has one of the largest collection of free templates that you can download and implement on your blog. Although most of the templates are themed two column templates, it still has a huge archive of three column templates that I'm sure you'll be delighted to use. Go check and see for yourself.Free Three Column Templates (blogspot)Free template offers unique collections of free templates both two-column and three-column you can download and implement on your blog. Althoug ...

Free Three Column Template 2007-07-17 04:00:00 Three column template is one of the hottest craze among users of Blogger. A huge percentage of Blogger.com users are looking for free three column template they can download and implement on their blog. Unfortunately the free templates offered by Blogger.com are only two columns.I have received several emails from readers of Blogging Mix asking me to help them with their template customization. Most of the emails were asking where they could get free three column template. I have a post on free three column template before, it might be useful to check it out. For those who want to get free three column template other than what's offered in GeckoandFly, Blogcrowds and Psyc.horm, here are some of my new discoveries that will surely be of help.The Blogger WorkshopThe Blogger Workshop offers a free tutorial on how to use Blogger.com. It also offers free three column templates both for New Blogger and Old Blogger. Once you're on the page, you can find the three column templates at the lef ...

How to Get Stumbled by the Top Stumblers of StumbleUpon? 2007-07-15 09:44:00 StumbleUpon has been a great source of traffic for most bloggers and getting attention from the StumbleUpon community is GOLD. I have experienced sudden increase in my traffic everytime I get stumbled by top stumblers so I have decided to ask the Top Stumblers these two questions:What do you usually look for to stumble (article, video and podcast)?What do you advice bloggers to do in order to increase their chances of getting stumbled upon?After three days of waiting, I was able to receive some answers from them. I hope that you will find their answers useful as I did. Without further ado, here are their answers.I mostly stumble news. I have bookmarked all major newsagencies of the world. In addition I do stumble a few high quality blogs, and follow their links to the original info if possible. I do not much like to stumble videos. Usually I search for specific videos pertinent to a topic I am interested in.Your best chance to get stumbled upon is to NOT pester stumblers with requests ...

7 Proven Effective Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog - Part II 2007-07-15 00:31:00 This is the second part of my series on the effective ways to drive traffic to your blog. If you haven't read the first part of the 7 Proven Effective Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog, I suggest that you first read it. Here's another list of 7 proven effective ways to drive traffic to your blog.1. Create an RSS for your blog.RSS also known as Really Simple Syndication allows your readers to read your post from their chosen Feed Reader or News Aggregator. If there's one thing I've learned about blogging, that is to give as much convenience to your visitors. Creating an RSS feed of your blog is just one way to do it. You can visit RSS Tutorial for a comprehensive coverage of this issue.If you create an RSS for your blog, I highly recommend that you use FeedBurner. Creating an RSS with Feedburner is really simple plus it's free to use their services. I've been using feedburner since I've started blogging and I've found their services really useful. Now that Feedburner has been a ...

136 Free Links - Submit to Article Directories Now! 2007-07-11 08:46:00 [SCROLL DOWN TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE 136 ARTICLE DIRECTORIES.]Submitting articles to Article Directories is probably one of the best ways to get links to your blog or website. Getting your articles published on Article Directories will have a big impact on your blog's performance. In fact, several Search Engine Optimizers make it a habit to submit an article to article directories once every week.What benefits do you get from submitting articles to Article Directories?1. LINKS.Most article directories have good page ranking so getting links from them is definitely worth your time.2. Get MORE LINKSArticles submitted to article directories are usually free to be republished on other blogs or websites. To do this however, bloggers who will republish your article need to include the link to your profile. As this happens, links to your blog increases.3. INCREASE TRAFFICSubmitting articles to Article Directories is a good way to reach a wider audience. One of the articles I have submitted to ...

Blogger Behind Blogging Mix - Rocky John Tayaban 2007-07-11 08:39:00 This is my first blog entry. I was bribed by Rocky into sweet-talking you guys about him. I am not a blog expert, I don't even have my own blog but for Rocky… I'm willing to lie.Jokingly aside, Rocky John Tayaban is the Blogger behind Blogging Mix. He is a fan of Darren Rowse of Problogger and Brian Clark of Copyblogger. Currently, he is finishing his Masters in Business Administration at Durham University, United Kingdom. He graduated Accountancy and Commerce, major in Financial Management at Saint Louis University, Baguio City, Philippines.His passions among others include Blogging and Debating. Rocky John became the first President of the prestigious Northern Luzon Debate Council and was a representative to the Worlds University Debate Championship 2005 held at Melaka, Malaysia. Rocky was also the former President of the SMA-CAT Alumni Association.During his free time, Rocky John can be found at the basement of the library dating his Sony Vaio laptop. He spends 5 hours blogging ... Blogging

Traffic Referrals From Blogcatalog - Traffic Tips to New Bloggers 2007-07-09 05:55:00 Traffic generated from referrals is the best shot for bloggers who are just starting. Natural traffic from search engines will follow after you have optimized your blog. On the other hand, you can opt for paid traffic. If you have just started blogging, I do not advice you to jump to buying traffic. This is for the reason that you may not have enough content to offer or you may not have optimized your blog yet. If you want to avail of paid traffic, do this at least after two to three months of blogging. By then, you should have at least a relatively large content. In the meantime, concentrate on generating traffic from referrals.Generating traffic from referrals can be done in several ways. You can join forums like Authority Blogger and link to your posts. You can answer questions at Yahoo Answers using your post and link to it. You can also join social networks like Friendster, Myspace, Mybloglog and Blogcatalog to promote yourself and your blog.I have done all of these ways and I fou ...

7 Major Traffic Killers 2007-07-09 00:36:00 Traffic is the lifeblood of most blogs or websites. Because of traffic, bloggers are able to successfully monetize their blogs. And because of traffic, bloggers continue to improve blogging. Having been able to establish the significance of TRAFFIC to a blog, I have decided to talk about it in today's post.Generating traffic to one's blog or website is one of the hottest topics that bloggers usually look for using search engines. A lot has already been said about how to generate traffic or increase traffic to your blog so I came up with the idea of presenting traffic in a different paradigm. In this post I will be talking about the major TRAFFIC KILLERS; the common futile practices that bloggers usually do to attract traffic to their website or blog. I will also detail the impact of these traffic killers and provide you with some suggestions that will help improve your traffic.An Overview of TrafficTraffic used in this article pertains to the visits made to a certain website or blog. ...