Blogsvertise is a site where bloggers can write about blogs, sites and services for other bloggers for a fee.In order for your blog to get approved, you write a blog post about Blogsvertise of around 100 words or so and submit your blog in order to be accepted for doing tasks for other advertisers.

First of all, you sign up,write your post about Blogsvertise and wait to be approved.It takes about 24 hours for them to approve you blog or not.They don’t accept wordpress.com blogs.It seems that self hosted ones are preferred and it would be a complete surprise if my wordpress.org blog got accepted.Wish me luck.

You get paid via Paypal and you can accept or not accept tasks that appear in your dashboard when you log in.Myself, I would not insert a slogan underneath saying,”Sponsored by Such And Such” because you will  get penalized by Google for doing that, and this affects your page rank.So to be on the safe side, just write the post, do the task and play it safe with your tags.

Technorati Tags: blogging, blogsvertise, social blogging, write

This second title is optimized for both ‘Valentines Gifts’ as well as ‘Gifts for Valentines’. With our available space of 65 characters, this title is also optimized for ‘Best Valentines Gifts’, ‘Valentines Day Gifts’, and the long tail of ‘Best Valentines Day Gifts’. Some people would argue that this page is now attempting to optimize for more than one keyword phrase. Our strategy, in this example, is to primarily optimize for ‘Valentines Gifts’ and then to find the best keyword phrases to use for our variations.

via How Many Keywords Can I SEO Per Web Page? | SEO White Hats.

Technorati Tags: keyword, seo, suggestion

The first thing you will want to do is fine but locating blogs that are in the same niches you. You can probably already find some off of the top of your head or by doing a Google search for them. If you want to look up only blogs is going to use a site like Google’s blog search and Technorati. When you find similar blogs it is important to subscribe to their RSS feeds so that you may be notified when there are new postings. You can also get Google to notify you when a blog is updated by setting up Google alerts. You can learn how Google alerts work by simply typing in “Google alerts” into the Google search engine. I find blogs that target the same readers that you are targeting you are finding people who will want to read what you have to write about. In order to get the most trafficked from commenting other people’s blogs you will want to look for blogs that get a lot of traffic, it helps to be aware of that blogs are Alexa rating. Even if a blog does not receive the kind of traffic and may be a good place for you to comment if the visitors are part of your target audience so it is important to comment on a broad spectrum of blogs that get different levels of traffic.

via Wordpress tips, tricks and tools.

Technorati Tags: tips, tools, tricks, wordpress

First, let’s look at the original question and the situation that brought it about:

via Efficient permalink strategies for WordPress - geek ramblings.

Technorati Tags: permalinks, wordpress

WordPress by itself is very simple — what makes it compelling for most of its users is the wide array of plugins (and themes) available for WP. The average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed! Today we just passed 4,000 plugins available in our plugin directory. (Which is also embedded into everyone’s WordPress 2.7 or above.)

I declare January 28th our official “Thank a Plugin Developer” day. To celebrate take a look at the plugins you use and love, visit the author’s site, find their contact form, and drop them a note thanking them. (Or Paypal!) Look for the links in the plugin directory to “author homepage” and also to donate directly if they’ve specified a Paypal address.

Thank you to everyone who has ever written a plugin for WordPress, and here’s to the next four thousand.
via WordPress › Blog » Thank a Plugin Developer Day.

Technorati Tags: blog, developer, plugin

500 ec credits from Chetan

1 site-wide 125×125 ad banner for one month

$1 in cash

1 site-wide text-link for one month 1000 entrecard credits from The Positive Life

500×2 entre card credits each from 2 blogs:Better Interpersonal Communication and Free Famous Quotes

500 ecs from 3arn.net

1,000 ecs from Random Detoxification

One month 125×125 ad on Blogging From Scratch

From the friends of Blogging From Scratch: 1 month text-link ad at Ragnarok Guide

Text-link ad on Project Runway Philippines

400 ecs from Nugrohoadipratama.com

1000 ecs from The Wedding Resources

500 ecs from Fashion Link.com

One 125×125 ad spot for one month and500 ecs from Cheapest Airfare

500ec from The Path To The Pegasus Letter

Text-link ads and 1,000 ecs from Momma Wannabe

125×125 ad for 30 days at Serradinho.com

How Do I Enter This Contest??? I will make it super easy to enter and participate in my contest,starting on the 25th December.Just tell me “What Christmas means to me” and the 5 best entries will be chosen with the best answer to my Christmas Contest.Just email me with your site and email details or better yet leave a comment at Jo’s Reviews And Free Ad Space and that will qualify as an entry to the contest.

The contest was going to end on New Years Day (January 1st 2009) but this has been extended to 14 January 2009.
The winners will be announced on this blog in approx 3 days time after the 14 January.Winners will be chosen at random once the turkey has been fully digested and the hangover has worn off.I will email the sponsors as to sending the prizes to the eventual winners.Unless they have sent entre cards prior to it. I would also appreciate bloggers generally writing a blog post about my contest and spreading the word. Merry Christmas! Ho,Ho Ho!

Postnote: This contest was cancelled due to a lack of response and me not having the comments ticked and switched on.

Technorati Tags: Christmas Cards, prizes, sponsors

Also having the onlywire button at the bottom of the post helps in submitting the post to the social bookmarks that you have signed up with.

You just point your mouse arrow over the title of the post and right click and select ‘copy link location’ so you get the right url and press ctrl/v

to insert it into the field where the url is supposed to go.Then you enter your

title tags for your submission.Then your post will be hopefully submitted to all the bookmarking sites you have joined via onlywire. It works for me.

Technorati Tags: bookmaking, figure, onlywire, submit

So for many people, myself included, we are going to be renting for the rest of our natural born lives because of the cost of the current rents.The older folk, the earlier generation, the ones who were lucky to own a house in their lifetime - were lucky to get the work so they could pay the mortgage and eventually own their piece of property, a house to call their own, a roof over their heads for life, if need be. Freehold is ideal as you don’t have to content with what the council might do to the land.(Like decide to create a road that cuts your house in half) As well you don’t have to pay rent for it every week,only the rates every four months or so.

Things like houses do not come easy to my generation.I would have to inherit a house from a family member or relative.Even so, it might go to some other family member in their will or something like that, a favored relative.Having a partnership might improve my chances, although what do you do if you broke up? the house would have to be sold with a mortgage not fully paid. Or house assets split up and the house sold to cover costs of legal issues. And maybe finding another house, renting again, starting all over.And even if you are lucky to own your own home,there might be family squabbles over your estate, in terms of
who gets what in the will concerning who gets the property after you have died,who gets the furniture,that sort of thing.

I think I’ll stick to renting.At least the property belongs to the landlord, not you.It would be much easier than owning it yourselves.You wouldn’t have to fix the blocked toilet that has been stuffed with crap and needs a plumber to come and fix it.You wouldn’t have to pay rates on the property,or have to insure the property against damage or natural disasters.Remember all those floods that have been happening lately in England? God, the mess they had to clean up…..

But then the landlord might increase the rent to cover costs like paying for insurance on the property.So I am basically stuck with renting.

Technorati Tags: housing, mortgage, new zealand

Premium Sponsors

While we link out to all sponsors as a way of thanking them for adding to our prize pool, we also wanted to thank the premium sponsors, who went the extra mile to add larger prizes to the contest.

Pinky Arcade

The 5 member team at Pinky Arcade contacted us early on to ask if we’d like to have a 160GB Sony PS3 to give away in the contest. If you are a gamer, you would notice that this system isn’t released yet and it’s going to be the latest model for the widely popular, PS3. No strangers to giving away tons of free prizes, Pinky Arcade has already given away huge gift cards, consoles, and mp3 players. All these given away for simply playing some free games on the site.

BadEvan’s Gay Blog

Evan also joined up as a sponsor early on, not only by helping promote via Twitter, and other “new media”, but also by throwing in around $1,500 in advertising, reviews, and cash.

EcoPower and EcoVista

The other day, the sales team at EcoPower sent me an exciting email. They had heard about the contest and wanted to sponsor it with some unexpected, but cool, prizes. Their EcoPower and EcoVista products help you save fuel in your automobile and electricity in your home or office. The products are pretty inexpensive, too, so they offered up three of each!

Platinum Sponsor Prizes ($100 and up)

Sony PS3 from Pinky Arcade

$100 cash from JoeTech.com

Citrus theme license from Unique Blog Designs

1 Year of hosting on DreamHost from afrogtokiss.net

125×125 banner ad for one year from afrogtokiss.net

125×125 banner ad for one year from JoeTech.com

Text link AND 125×125 banner ad for one month from Anshul Affiliates

125×125 banner ad for one year from BadEvan.com

one month of pimping from BadEvan.com

one month of pimping from BadEvan.com

Site review on BadEvan.com from BadEvan.com

Gold Sponsor Prizes (under $100)

10,000 ec from JoeTech.com

125×125 banner ad for one month from Winning the Web

125×125 banner ad for one month from Name Sherry

EcoVista M1 from Eco Power

EcoVista M1 from Eco Power

EcoVista M1 from Eco Power

EcoVista M2 from Eco Power

EcoVista M2 from Eco Power

EcoVista M2 from Eco Power

Silver Sponsor Prizes (under $50)

EcoPower from Eco Power

EcoPower from Eco Power

EcoPower from Eco Power

$25 cash from BadEvan.com

$25 BP gas card from AutomoBlog.net

Review on sitegorge.com from Web Buzz

Review on sitegorge.com from Web Buzz

SEO consultation from Web Buzz

SEO consultation from Web Buzz

2,000 ec from Realm of Prosperity

2,000 ec from Random Detox

125×125 banner ad for one month from Heart Random

125×125 banner ad for 3 months from Lankapo.com

125×125 banner ad for 3 months from Damia.Lnkapo.com

Review on needlessproductions.com from NeedlessProductions

125×125 banner ad for one month from Contestu.com

Review on anshuldudeja.blogspot.com from Anshul Affiliates

2,500 ec from sofhaljamil.com

3,000 ec from BadEvan.com

5,000 ec from TechByPC.com

125×125 banner ad for 12 weeks from TechByPC.com

125×125 banner ad for one month from MyFashionLink.com

125×125 banner ad for one month from MyGossipGirl.com

125×125 banner ad for two months from The Positive Life

Blog makeover from The Positive Life

125×125 banner ad for one year from Alanzain

Text link for one year from Alanzain

125×125 banner ad for one month from Nspeaks

Bronze Sponsor Prizes ($10 and under)

$5 cash from The Positive Life

1,000 ec from Journal of Journey

125×125 banner ad for one month from Multiply Themes

125×125 banner ad for one month from 24patrol

1,000 ec from Web Buzz

1,000 ec from International Freebies

125×125 banner ad for 3 months from Better Interpersonal Communication

125×125 banner ad for 3 months from Free Famous Quotes

125×125 banner ad for 3 months from Gift Reviews

1,000 ec from Contest Whiz

1,000 ec from LOL Celebs

1,000 ec from kisahberuang.com

1,000 ec from MichealPark.org

1,000 ec from Anshul Affiliates

One Secret Tip on the winners blog from Anshul Affiliates

1,111 ec from The Chetan

125×125 banner ad for one month from sofhaljamil.com

Text link for one month from Blogging from Scratch

Text link for two months from The Positive Life

1,000 ec from The Positive Life

125×125 banner design from The Positive Life

1,000 ec from DailySMS.in

125×125 banner ad for one month from Submit Your Contest

1,000 ec from Jo’s Reviews and Ad Space

1,000 ec from Programming The Life

How to enter

There are a lot of ways to enter. If you do any of the following, you get entries into the drawing. Even though we have over 70 prizes already, making it easy for everyone to win, your odds of nabbing the Platinum prizes increase with each entry you earn. Most of the ways mentioned below are very easy and take very little time, so try a few or all of them and good luck! Entries must be earned before January 1, 2009 to be eligible.

- Tweet the contest at Twitter.com (must include “#joetech”) (5 entries/once per day)

- Tweet “@joetech I hope I win” at Twitter.com (5 entries/once per day)

- Follow joetech on Twitter.com (10 entries) (all current followers already entered)

- Blog about the contest (must include the pre-formmated contest html, unedited, with working links and images) (100 entries)

- Stumble the contest at StumbleUpon.com(10 entries)

- Comment on the contest post (1 entry)

- Subscribe to JoeTech.com via email (existing subscribers will be entered automatically) (20 entries)

- Subscribe to sponsors via email (20 entries each/participating sponsors only)

- Email me (joe@joetech.com) a blog post title or other detail proving you visited a sponsor’s site. (Subject must include “NMSC ENTRY” and you should include the url of the sponsor site.) (10 entries/once per day)

Badges, Buttons, Banners, and HTML

This contest is about spreading the word about new media and by new media. That said, it’s important for you to have the tools to help you promote it. It’ll earn you more entries, too. Below are some blocks of HTML to make it very easy for you to post about the contest or add a badge or button to your site or blog. Please note that it is important for the images to come from JoeTech.com (as they do in the codes below) so they will automatically update with new prize total information.

Blog post HTML

Get the HTML here

Badge HTML

<a href=”http://www.joetech.com/suggests/nmsc” mce_href=”http://www.joetech.com/suggests/nmsc”><img src=”http://www.joetech.com/ads/prize_total.gif” mce_src=”http://www.joetech.com/ads/prize_total.gif” border=”0? /></a>

125×125 Button HTML

<a href=”http://www.joetech.com/suggests/nmsc” mce_href=”http://www.joetech.com/suggests/nmsc”><img src=”http://www.joetech.com/ads/nmsc_125.gif” mce_src=”http://www.joetech.com/ads/nmsc_125.gif” border=”0? /></a>

Text Link HTML

<a href=”http://www.joetech.com/suggests/nmsc” mce_href=”http://www.joetech.com/suggests/nmsc” alt=”New Media Super Contest”>New Media Super Contest</a>

How to sponsor

Although the contest is already under way, we’ll accept sponsors and prizes until the very end. Currently we’re looking for more cash and electronics like laptops, iPods, etc., but feel free to be creative. Remember to think big. The better your prize, the more attention you’ll get in the contest. Premium sponsors will receive special mentions in contest posts, in addition to all the name recognition and traffic the contest will bring naturally.

To sponsor, just email joe@joetech.com with the subject “NEW MEDIA SUPER CONTEST”. Each prize should be worth at least $10 U.S. Include the details about the prize or prizes you are offering, the U.S. dollar value of each prize, your site or company name and the URL to link to. All sponsors will be added to the list as seen above and updates will be posted on every Thursday.

Technorati Tags: new media super contest

By Shanker Bakshi •
November 1, 2008

Lets win this contest together is back with Season 2, getting much bigger and better then this previous contest.
As you know the uniqueness of this contest is that it’s a contributory
and number of prizes and winners are more then any other contest you
can see on blogsphere. So this time again there will be 77 Winners for winning prizes amounting to US$ 1442.99.***

Here are the Prizes to be WON

Themes Logo/Banner/Design (Total 8 Prizes worth $533)

1. Two Custom Banner Design from Buy Templates worth $99
2. One Custom Logo Design from Logo Angel worth $99
3. Premium WordPress Theme plus Bonus Make Money Online Theme from Neil Duckett dot Com worth $75
4. Two WordPress Template Design from Buy Templates worth $60
5. One logo Design from Mr Javo worth $50
6. One Professional Header Design from worth Graphics Design by Nilo $50
7. One professional Header Design from Mohit Aneja worth $50
8. One professional Logo Design from Photoshop World worth $50

Some More Prizes (Total 8 Prizes worth $189.99)

1. One copy of WP Auctions Gold V.2.0 from Sponsorview worth $24.99
2. One Free Review from WebTrafficROI worth $25
3. One Free Review from NSpeaks worth $25
4. One Free Review from Inspiritblog worth $50
5. Cash $20 via PayPal. From JoeTech
6. One 468×60 banner for one month from Submityourcontest worth $10
7. One 468×60 banner for one month from NSpeaks worth $20
8. One Free featured listing of winner’s contest on Submityourcontest worth $15

125 x 125 Square Ads (Total 13 prizes worth $ 173)

1. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Abhinav Sonkar’s Blog worth $30.
2. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Mr. Javo Worth $25
3. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from WebTrafficROI worth $20
4. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from NSpeak Worth $15
5. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Eyespi20 Worth $15
6. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from JoeTech Worth $10
7. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Name Sherry Worth $10
8. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Shopping ad space Worth $10
9. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Submit Your Contest Worth $10
10. 125×125 Square ad for Two months from My Life’s Adventure Worth $10
11. 125×125 Square Ad for two months from Wonderful Things In Life Worth10
12. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Tech By PC Worth $8
13. 125×125 Square Ad for One month from Slightly Mordant Worth $5

Link Ads (Total 5 prizes worth $91)

1. One Featured link for One Year in PR3 Directory Dawsoneng from Abhishek Deshpande worth $36
2. Two featured links for One month from WebTrafficROI worth $20
3. One featured link for One month from Medan Daily worth $20
4. One featured link for One month from NSpeaks.com - worth $10
5. One featured link for One month from Ragnarok Guide worth $5

Entrecard Ad Spot Sponsors (Total 33 Prizes of 65000 Credits worth $390)

1. 5000 EC Credits from Techbypc
2. 5000 EC Credits from slamblogger
3. 5000 EC Credits from nukeit
4. 5000 EC Credits from snapshotcap
5. 3000 EC Credits from semuaorank
6. 3000 EC Credits from abhinavsonkar
7. 3000 EC Credits from gewgawwritings
8. 3000 EC Credits from JoeTech
9. 2000 EC Credits from babyerika
10. 2000 EC Credits from sofhaljamil
11. 2000 EC Credits from wpbeginners
12. 2000 EC Credits from realmofprosperity
13. 2000 EC Credits from jdoqocy
14. 2000 EC Credits from suki-desu
15. 2000 EC Credits from days of my Life
16. 2000 EC Credits from impnerd
17. 1000 EC Credits from Kisahberuang
18. 1000 EC Credits from Random Detox
19. 1000 EC Credits from Google Stalking
20. 1000 EC Credits from Moneyne.ws
21. 1000 EC Credits from communicatebetter
22. 1000 EC Credits from work-at-home-wealth
23. 1000 EC Credits from Getting Personal
24. 1000 EC Credits from theonlydevice
25. 1000 EC Credits from tenforty
26. 1000 EC Credits from skidzopedia
27. 1000 EC Credits from eleanormordenoaguilar
28. 1000 EC Credits from sofhaljamil
29. 1000 EC Credits from seo-tuneup
30. 1000 EC Credits from medandaily
31. 1000 EC Credits from lolcelebs
32. 1000 EC Credits from bestjoanne
33. 1000 EC Credits from ajabgajab

Other Entrecard Credits Sponsored (Total 10 Prizes of 11000 Credits worth $66)

1. 2,000 EC Credits from Wonderful Things In Life
2. 1,000 EC Credits from Make Money Online
3. 1,000 EC Credits from My Life’s Adventure
4. 1,000 EC Credits from SimplyWP
5. 1,000 EC Credits from Wiehanne Lounge
6. 1000 EC Credit from Michael Aulia
7. 1000 EC Credit from Contest Whiz
8. 1000EC Credits from Heart Random
9. 1000 EC Credits from Fantasy Baseball Advice
10. 1000 EC Credits from Amorfrancis

How to Participate

The other uniqueness of this contest is that its very easy and very simple procedure to participate.  Here is the method:
[1] Blog about this contest -You must include in your post Links of contest contributors and link back to this post. Give your blog post link in comments below. [This will give you 2 Ticket of participation]

AND / OR

[2] Subscribe Shanker Bakshi dot Com by e-mails

Only those who subscribe by e-mail during contest period (i.e. 1st November 2008  to 30^th November 2008) will be consider for lucky draw. [This will give you 1 Ticket of participation]


Enter your email address to participate in the contest:

That’s all.

Please Note: For participation in winning prizes under Themes/Logo/Banner Design category you must fulfill first condition i.e. “blog about this contest”. That
mean if you will only subscribe to shanker Bakshi dot com only and do
not blog about this contest then you will  be consider for all other
prizes except Themes/Logo/Banner Design. Sorry but I’m doing this to
give contributor of this contest maximum exposure. Hope you will
understand.

Results

This contest will run all through November 2008 and winner will be announcing on 1^st December 2008 by randomizing entries with random.org. Like I did while announcing winners in previous contest; to maintain the transparency I will publish the screen shots of randomized winners list.

There will be 57 Winners of this contest,
do you think yourself lucky enough to be in the winner’s list, ohh come
on, you must be crazy if you will not participate

So hurry and Jump in to win this contest together. All the Best to all participants

UPDATES

***Now the Total Prize money stand at US$ 1442.99 and No. of prizes to be WON stand at 77 .I wonder How I will manage such a huge amount of Winners.

*I am not accepting any Prizes contribution at this moment.

* A prize contributor can also join as a prize contestant.

* You can blog about this contest on more then blog, if you have.

Thanks very much.