There are probably tons of website graders on the Internet. Personally I would recommend these three sites if you like to discover more about your blog's stats, performance and ratings:

1. DnScoop
Excellent web grading site that outputs details such as domain age, pagerank check, inbound links, traffic rank, domain name ip, link value report and site value report. The main attractions for this site would come from the link value report and site value report. Check out the screenshots below:

2. SEOmoz
Another excellent web grader that tells you the page strength of your blog or site. Find out the relative importance and visibility of a webpage, the potential strength and ability of a page to rank in the search engine as well as data on popularity, links plus mentions of the page across the web. Check out the screenshot of SEOmoz as shown below:
3. Website Grader
The best web grading site on the internet in my opinion. Detailed report with lots of information on your blog's such as on-page SEO, off-page SEO, blogosphere report, social mediasphere report and competitive intelligent report. The plus point for Website Grader is that they include recommendation on how to improve your blog based on the outcome of the grading. Some screenshots of Website Grader below:

Give each one of them a try and be amazed to discover information that you never knew existed about your blog. By the way all three website graders are FREE to use.

Cheers and happy blogging!

This is one of those rare moments where I tend to sit down, with nothing in mind and start typing whatever that comes across my mind. In fact, I don't even have a title for this post yet.

Speaking about title or headline for a blog post, I tend to...wait I should rephrase that with "I always" pick a title only after completing my blog post. Although somewhat similiar to having my main course first and appetiser later, I have my reasons for doing so. I meant reasons for blogging first and title selection later, not the part about how I finish my food.

When I first started blogging four years ago, there's always this tendency of me trying to come up with an eye catching, mind blowing or This Will Make You Say "Wow" title before actually attempting to write a post about it. I was like, Hey with an awesome title, I'm pretty sure the ideas will flow naturally once I start writing! That's when the problem starts.

The first couple of lines were easy as it involves the introduction of the title. When I wanted to blog about the contents, I stopped! Was I suffering from a writer's block? I seriously doubt that. The real truth? I had little idea on what to write about this "awesome" title. Feeling that the brilliant title should not go to waste (after all the brain juice I've lost in trying to come up with this title), I resorted to expand what little idea I had thought of earlier. This turned my blog post into a full blown "grandmother story" which is long winded and had little or no substance. (I'm sorry grandma if I've offended you. I hope you understand. :) )

A perfect blog post should always be packed with contents and encased with a powerful and captivating title. When a blogger chooses a title before thinking of the contents, the first mistake is made. Say for example, you have a personal blog and you see today's headline that Obama has won the Democrat Presidential Campaign. Something in your mind snap, a bulb lit and you immediately see this great title flashing before you, "Obama Kicks Butt, McCain's Ass Next!". Impressive title eh? Yet do you honestly believe you could produce a post with contents to match this title if you start writing now?

Another point I would like to stress is coming up with an excellent title yet having nothing in the contents to feed their expectations. If the shoe is too big, try getting a smaller one. Forcing yourself to wear them will only result in you tripping over, sooner or later. The same applies to your blog, if you don't have the contents that will satisfy your readers, don't trick them into reading by putting up a great title. By the way, my congratulations to you for taking the first step towards an early demise for your blog.

I admit I'm being a little long winded on this whole title selecting and blog post thingy. I hope I've got a few pointers across for newbie bloggers. I honestly can't teach you how to blog, yet I hope that everytime you blog, go for the contents first. I've emphasize the importance of contents so many times in my previous blog posts that I'm beginning to sound like a nagging grandmother! Remember, the title of a post is only the cosmetic, true beauty lies in the contents of your post.

Till my next post, cheers and happy blogging!

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1. Blog linking increases the Technorati Authority of your blog. Authority at Technorati is measured by the number blogs pointing/links to yours.

To prevent the problem of spam linking, an Authority points are calculated based on the number of blogs that links to you. Even if there are 200 links pointing to you from a particular blog, the Authority point is still counted as one. Read about Technorati Authority here.

2. Boost your Google Page Rank via blog linking. Part of the formula used by Google to determine the Page Rank(PR) of a blog involves calculating the number links pointing to that blog.
Although there's always the issue of link spamming(also called spamdexing) that Google is trying to overcome, I doubt it should be of any concern to you unless you're spamdexing as well. My only advise is to build more credibility for your blog and the links will eventually come from your readers and fans.

3. Discovering that other blogs are linking to your blog is a great confidence booster. In some ways, links from other blogs are seen as the ultimate recognition for a well written post or article.

4. In the virtual world of blogging where physical contact is not possible, handshakes and hugs between new found blog friends are made via blog linking.

5. Sharing your readers with blogs that you link to. Let your readers know that you are not stingy when it comes to knowledge and information sharing. If you lose your readers by doing so, it comes to show that there is much to improve on your blog. Blame not your readers for jumping boat(blog), but yourself for not doing enough to captivate them.
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The list goes on! Here are more reasons on why blog linking is good for your blog. Do keep them coming and don't forget to claim your Entrecard and Beer Credits from me!

6. When you link, you build your blog's brand, because in traffic reports, blogger take notice to another blog. It really makes their day. (submitted by Drburst from CollegeIntention)

7. If you blog about a small niche, say playing warcraft while underwater and you link to another blogs about playing warcraft underwater, you will promote your whole niche, bring the google page ranks of your niche up, and bring more people to your hobby/cause/army/republic/ect. (submitted by Drburst from CollegeIntention)
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There you have it, 5 simple reasons on why blog linking is good for your blog. If you have more reasons to add on to this list, feel free to drop a comment. Each accepted comment (added to the list above) is worth 50 Entrecard credits and 200 Beer Credits. I'm also throwing in a link from Bloggerfocus to your blog as well.

Till my next post, cheers and happy blogging.

P.s : Subscribe to Bloggerfocus and make somebody a happy man today.

This is one heck of a cool MP3 widget for personal blogs. Check out the screenshot below:


Although the widget is made for Myspace and Facebook users, it can also be embedded on other blogs as long as HTML is supported.

What you need to do to get this widget:
1. Go to this page
2. Register yourself, took me about 30 seconds to register.
3. Follow four simple steps and get the HTML code at the final step
4. Paste the code on your blog and you're done!

Blogger/blogspot users can add this widget using the following steps:
1. Go to the Layout page.
2. Select Add a Page Element
3. Add the HTML/Javascript to your blog
4. Paste the HTML code provided by the widget site.
5. Save Changes.

Click HERE to see how the widget looks like on blogspot.

Why use this widget?
1. Beautifully designed interface.
2. Easy to navigate.
3. You can personalize your own song playlist.
4. Fits perfectly on the side column of your blog.
5. A search function that allows you or your readers to search for songs/artists from the widget's database.
6. Songs are played automatically without the need to click on the NEXT button. Let your readers enjoy the songs while reading your blog posts.

Psst, feeling lazy to register an account?
Feel free to use the code made available from my own account registration. Of course if you do not register your own account, you won't be able to make your own playlist.

MP3 widget code:

<object enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="430" width="264" align="middle" data="http://theaymane.zzl.org/myspace/mp3player/design/dyp.swf?id=1820"&gt;
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" /> <param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" /> <param name="movie" value="http://theaymane.zzl.org/myspace/mp3player/design/dyp.swf?id=1820" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="flashvars" value="" /></object>

Bloggerfocus' Verdict:
Must have for personal blogs.

While dropping Entrecards today, I came across Hochstadt.com who is currently running a contest called "It’s The Hochstadt.com Party Contest!". Marcus, the owner of Hochstadt.com has quite a large bag of goodies for participants to this so called "party".

How To Get Into The Party:
1. Subscribe to the Hochstadt.com Blog Announcement List – 2 Points

2. Post a comment to this blog post - 1 Point (one point per person)

3. Stumble and digg about this contest and fav Hochstadt.com on Technorati - 1 Point respectively

4. Use the below party contest image(s) on your site (linking to this party contest) - 2 Points

5. Write about Hochstadt.com and this Hochstadt.com Party Contest on your blog, linking to both this blog and the Hochstadt.com Party Contest. Use your own wording, one that fits to your audience. (It shall be easy because the above prizes fit to ALL audiences!) - 10 Points

6. Write about this blog and this contest on your blog, AND link to ALL contributors (just like you see my list above including all the prizes) - 30 Points

Bloggerfocus Summarizes:
This is another large scale blog contest that I've come across in the past 2 days. The first one was from TheNetFool.com and now this contest by Hochstadt.com. I'm not so sure about how the points work. Marcus has left a vague description about the points and I hope he clears it up soon. What I'm confused here is whether More points = bigger prizes or More points = more entries?

Here's a chance for you to try and win some prizes from all these running contest. May luck shine on ye all!

By the way, I intentionally left the Prize List for Hochstadt's party last. The list is rather long, so have fun reading what Marcus has to offer.

List of "Hochstadt Party" Prizes:

These are contributions for 200+ winners (!) with a monetary value of more than $7,000+ (!!) and exactly 66,666ec (”ec” = Entrecard Credits)

Consultations, Products & Services
Max from SiteHoppin gives 10 Beer Stock Pages worth $20-$100 each = $200-$1,000 PLUS 50 One Buck Wiki pages worth $20 each = $1,000, altogether making it to a whopping $2,000!
Martin Russell from Word of Mouth Marketing gives 50 (!) accounts of 10 cards each at SendOutCards.com worth $25 each = $1,250!
Gary Evans from Law of Attraction Secrets gives 10 (!) of his Manifest A Miracle systems worth $97 each = $970!
Marcus Hochstadt from Internet Business Guide For First Class Progress gives respectively 1 of each of his 4 DVD products worth $100 each = $400 PLUS one 2-hour Multimedia Coaching Session worth $300, altogether making it to a $700!
Debbie Lane from Wisdom Hypnosis gives 7 of her Living The Lucky Life! audio CDs worth $23.77 each = $166.39 PLUS a personal 1.5 hour Hypnosis Session by phone worth $250, making it a total of $416.39!
Pat King from FitnessLifeClub gives 1 month of his Premier Health Coaching Package worth $357.98!
Keith Goodrum from On Becoming a 2%er gives 2 of his DVDs 10 Minute Blog Post worth $100 each = $200!
Andreas from XavierMedia.com gives 5 one-year VIP memberships to CreateBanner.com worth $35 each = $175!
Larry Brauner from Online Social Networking gives a personal 1 hour consultation worth $150!
Jason from The University Kid gives two 60 minute Blogging Consultations worth $60 each = $120!
Leisa Watkins from Dream Act Plan Believe gives 3 Robert G. Allan books that are personally signed by Robert (!), as well as 3 Richard Paul Evans books, also personally signed by Richard himself!
Karl Gechlik from Ask The Admin gives a professional technical e-mail support session worth $50!
Wayne from Ez DIY Electricity gives $50 in hard earned PayPal cash!
Borzack from Making Myself Extra Money gives 5 of his Page Peel Ads scripts worth $8 each = $40!
Stephan Miller from Stephan Miller gives one copy of Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate worth $29.95 PLUS a Special Report he wrote specifically for the person who wins this e-book!
Crystal from Ubiquitous gives a Site Review worth $20 PLUS a link on her Blogroll for one month worth $10, making it a total of $30!
Sam Freedom from Internet Marketing Controversy Blog gives a 2-month membership to a large Private Label Rights (”PLR”) membership site worth $30!
Kelly Naylor from Aerten Art gives one of her unique art work Acid Rain, an original water color painting worth $25!
Dwayne from Pro Blog Reviews gives a Blog Review worth $25!
Frank from Technology Blog and more gives a StumbleUpon advertisement campaign worth $20 (400 targeted visitors)!
Kacie from Sense to Save gives a StumbleUpon advertisement campaign worth $10 (200 targeted visitors)!
The Fool from Foolsville 2.0 gives $10 in hard earned PayPal cash!
Lightening from Lightening’s Blogworld gives 2 Blog Reviews worth $5 each = $10!
Constantin Codreanu from INconstantIN gives a one year .com domain registration worth $10!
Iris from thebuzz gives a link on her Blogroll for one month worth $10!
Layne from Reward Rebel gives 1 copy of Reward Rebel LOOT worth $7!
Fitz Villafuerte from Ready To Be Rich gives 2 stumbles & diggs per week for one month!
Theda K. Rogers from Crayon Writer gives a full-blown site review on her blog which will certainly increase the buzz for her winner’s blog!
Mert Erkal from Search For Blogging gives an Invitation to the May issue of www.bloghology.org, which has more than 3,000+ subscribers!
Alexys Fairfield from Soul Meets World offers to interview her winner (about his/her product, service, Web site, life, etc) PLUS providing a link from her site to his’/hers! (She used to interview celebrities, so this one is PRICELESS!)

Ad Space
KiwiPulse from KiwiPulse gives 3 x 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $15 each = $45
Deimos Tel´Arin from ahkong.net gives a 468×60 top ad banner box for one month worth $36
Anna from My Cornerstone Trio gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $35
Turnip from Turnip of Power gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $35
Wayne from Ez DIY Electricity gives a top ad space (125×125 or 468×60) for one month worth up to $30
Caleb Hartley from environmentastic! gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $25
Kathleen from Entrepreneurs Only gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $25
Marty from Money Maker Times gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $25
Constantin Codreanu from INconstantIN gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $15
Mirjam from Me Myself and I gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $10
Lee Doyle from Lee Doyle - Contains Nuts gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $10

Entrecard Credits
Marcus Hochstadt from Internet Business Guide For First Class Progress gives 12,966ec
Layne from Reward Rebel gives 5,000ec
Caleb Hartley from environmentastic! gives 3,000ec
Constantine Balbozar from Ideas and Money gives 3,000ec
Kacie from Sense to Save gives 3,000ec
Larry Brauner from Online Social Networking gives 2,500ec
Joan Joyce from Joan Joyce Dot Com gives 2,000ec
Tim from Yimto Affiliate Marketing Blog gives 2,000ec
Crystal from Ubiquitous gives 2,000ec
Lee Doyle from Lee Doyle - Contains Nuts gives 2,000ec
Art from Article Specialist gives 2,000ec
Jonathan from Archon Digital gives 2,000ec
Jonathon from Tech News Source gives 1,500ec
Gary Evans from Law of Attraction Secrets gives 1,000ec
Suzanne from Dot Com Mogul gives 1,000ec
Dwayne from Pro Blog Reviews gives 1,000ec
Michael Aulia from Michael Aulia’s Tech Blog gives 1,000ec
Stephan Miller from Stephan Miller gives 1,000ec
Dave from Is A Man’s World gives 1,000ec
Scott Main from Scott’s Space gives 1,000ec
Kumo from Toast & Egg & Me… gives 1,000ec
Mirjam from Me Myself and I gives 1,000ec
Jasmine from Pixelated Thoughts gives 1,000ec
Lincoln from Canucklehead gives 1,000ec
KiwiPulse from KiwiPulse gives 1,000ec
Lightening from Lightening gives 1,000ec
Wangbu from Hulag gives 1,000ec
Juliana from Juliana’s World gives 1,000ec
Juliana from Juliana’s Lair gives 1,000ec
Juliana from My Library gives 1,000ec
Iris from thebuzz gives 1,000ec
Anna from My Cornerstone Trio gives 1,000ec
Wayne from Ez DIY Electricity gives 1,000ec
Collin LaHay from Mixed Market Arts gives 600ec
Shelia from Black Tennis Pros gives 500ec
David Thorne from Media Morgue gives 500ec
Stan from Fantasy Baseball gives 500ec
Borzack from Making Myself Extra Money gives 500ec
The Fool from Foolsville 2.0 gives 500ec
Marty from Money Maker Times gives 300ec
Fitz Villafuerte from Ready To Be Rich gives 300ec

That's right, Jim author and owner of TheNetFool.com has recently launched "The Net Fool's Outrageous Blog Contest" offering a total of $4,500 in cash as well as prizes. Winners for the contest would be determined via a lucky draw(random draw) scheduled on June the 2nd.

Here's a brief summary of what you can do to earn entries for the random draw:

1. Subscribe to TheNetFool.com's feed. An email subscription would guarantee you at least one prize.

2. Blog about this Contest. A post about this contest on your blog gives you 10 entries for the random/lucky draw.

3. Every 4 comments at TheNetFool.com entitles you to an entry for the draw. (You can comment as many times as you want, but only 3 comments are accepted per day per reader.
Therefore you need to come back the next day, post another comment in order to meet the 4 comment quota)

4. Extra programs that could earn you additional entries. Best way is to subscribe to TheNetFool.com feed and keep up with the latest announcement from Jim.

The Official Prize List (Summary)

Cash
$250 Cash from PepperJam Network
$50 Paypal Cash from Ades Blog
$25 Paypal Cash from Sohaib Thiab

Web Hosting
1 Year Web Hosting from Young Online Millionaire

WordPress Themes & Design
$500 Custom Premium Blog Design from Pixel Jig
2 Copies of the Revolution WordPress Theme from Brian Gardner Media

WordPress Scripts & Software
2 Copies of the FruitfulTime TaskManager from FruitfulTime
Liscenced Copy of OIO Publisher from OIOpublisher
WP Auctions Gold Version from WP Auctions

Blog Advertising
Featured Listing on Aviva Directory from Aviva Directory
Blog Listing and Bundle Pack 2 from 1 Cool File
125×125 Ad Spot from BlogTrepreneur
125×125 Ad Spot from Life Is Colourful
2 125×125 Ad Spots from Webmaster Plaza
2 125×125 Ad Spots from Blog Dahh Net
125×125 Ad Spot from BobbyT Blogging To A T
125×125 Ad Spot from Hedge Against Speculation
720×90 Banner Ad Spot from Webmaster Plaza

Blog Reviews
Full Blog Review from Wayne Liew
Full Blog Review from Article Snatch
Full Blog Review from Life Is Colourful
Full Blog Review from Webmaster Plaza
Full Blog Review from Blog Dahh Net

Subscriptions
2 Year Subscription to GoStats Pro from GoStats
5 One-Year VIP Memberships to CreateBanner.com from Xavier Media
Premium Subscription to DotSauce.com from DotSauce

Entrecard Credits
5000 Entrecard Credits from Blog Dahh Net
2000 Entrecard Credits from Article Snatch
2000 Entrecard Credits from Big Free Articles
1500 Entrecard Credits from BobbyT Blogging To A T
1500 Entrecard Credits from Webmaster Plaza
1000 Entrecard Credits from Tim Yimto
750 Entrecard Credits from Let’s Talk About Money
750 Entrecard Credits from The Work From Home Professional
500 Entrecard Credits from DotSauce
3x 168 Entrecard Credits from Bloggin-Ads

Miscellaneous
Professional Blog Consultation Report from Scribbles & Words
2 One-Hour Blog Consulations from The University Kid
20 One Buck Wiki Pages from OneBuckWiki
20 Beer Stock Pages from Site Hoppin
Unique List of 20 Available Domain Names from Word Fuse
Aviva Directory T-Shirt from Aviva Directory
Unlimited ‘”Dollar Million” guides from The University Kid

Quick Recap:
Although the main draw would be scheduled on the 2nd of June, prizes would also be given out over the month of April and May.

What Bloggerfocus has to say:
This is pretty impressive for a 19 18 year old guy to offer such hefty prizes in a bid to get subscribers and traffic. As a finance student at Penn State University, I'm not surprised that Jim has managed to launch such a large scale event/contest for TheNetFool.com. Just like the principle of investment goes, the bigger the risk the higher the rewards!

1. Place hidden text or links on your blog.
You think you can outwit Google by changing your text color to blend with your blog's background? Perhaps hiding your text behind images might go unnoticed? How about shrinking those fonts to a size zero? Many in the past have used these methods to boost their blog's ranking for Keyword searches in Google, yet a few or perhaps none that actually succeeded. Care to try?

2. Sending automated queries to Google
Google hates to be disturbed. If you intend to see them, make an appointment first.

3. Stuffing your blog with keywords
"I love to Blog and I want my Blog to be read by Blog readers who love to Blog. Blog is good, Blog is great, Blog is all I wish to have" is a classic example of stuffing your blog post with the keyword Blog. Although it sounds like a retard writing and repetiting over how much he or she loves Blog, it worked great to boost a site's search rank when it was first abused. Another method is to flood your meta tags with the same keyword. Try repeating the same keyword for a thousand lines in your meta tag and I'll guarantee you that your blog would never see another viewer from Google again, ever!

4. Duplicating your contents
This is another method to get your blog banned from Google. Say you write an article about how good looking you. Finding that one blog ain't enough to tell the whole world, you create 10 clone blogs that contain the same articles as the first one. Put yourself in Google's shoes, would you read a same article about "how good looking someone is?" 11 times over without getting irritated?

5. Making your blog a threat to readers
What I'm saying here is that if your blog contains scripts that automatically install adwares, malwares, spywares or trojans on your reader's browser, they aren't going be very happy about it. An unhappy reader is potential whiner. When Google hears about your great blog making their customers whinning unhappily, I pray that you have a strong reason later when you submit your blog for Reconsideration.

There are many other unscrupulous methods that could get your blog/site banned from Google. I've picked five that I strongly believe are related to bloggers and blog in general. The explanations above are written in a simplified version to allow easy understanding especially for new bloggers. You can get more comprehensive explanations from Google Support using this LINK

If you find your site not appearing in Google searches due to the above reasons, you can still make an appeal to the great yet merciful Google. Make sure you've removed all these so called "unintentionally mistakes" from your blog before submitting to Google for Reconsideration.

Cheers and Happy Blogging!

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This is not simple copy and paste the embed YouTube code to your blog post. This is something different as it involves placing a YouTube video bar on your blog page. I wonder why YouTube does not make this function known to their users. Well now that the secret is out (ha ha), I hope you'll enjoy adding this video bar to your blog layout. Lets start first with a screen shot of the video bar customization page.

Followed of course by a short description on what customizations are allowed for your video bar.

1)Orientation

The vertical video bar displays 8 videos while the horizontal bar displays 4 videos. The size of the horizantal video bar is equal to that of a normal 468 x 60 banner, making it easy for you to display the video bar right below a banner of that size in your blog.

2)Popular Channels

You can determine what kind of videos to be on display on your video bar. Say you wish that the "Recently Featured Videos" should be displayed on your video bar, just place a check on that box and proceed to generate the code. Your video bar will then automate itself to update whenever they are new vides added to the "Recently Featured Videos" category.

3)YouTube Channels

If Popular Channels are not your taste and you wish to have more relevant videos to be on display. You can use the YouTube Channels function. Uncheck all boxes in the Popular Channels category. Enter the channel that you like and the video bar will display videos that are categorized under that channel.

Here's a list of channels from YouTube.

4)Search Expression

This is for more specific content that you want your video bar to display. Say your blog is about Britney Spears, you can enter the keywords Britney Spears in the Search Expression and your video bar will show videos related to that search. If you wish to use the Search Expression option, please uncheck all boxes in the "Popular Channels" and leave the "YouTube Channels" blank.

Once you're done customizing your video bar, click on the Show Code button. Copy the generated code and use it for your blog. For New Blogger blogspot users, all you need to do is to go to your Layout, Add an Element, select HTML/Javascript and paste the code on it.

Now you have your own video bar!

Oh, before I forget, this is the link to the You Tube video bar customization page.

If you would like to see how the video bar looks like, click here.

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After 3 years of blogging inconsistently, I've come to realize that there are a couple of reasons that lead to the quick demise of my blogs. These are the top 3 reasons why:

1. The lack of readers visiting my blog. I thought I had quality content, but why aren't there any readers after 3 months?

2. The lack of resources to guide me on how to improve my blog outlook. Even if there are, some are just too complicated to understand, not to mentioned implementing them. If improving your blog is that easy, there would be not be so many sites out there offering help and advice.

3. The internet is a cruel world. I've made my shares of mistakes and got demotivated when I realize I was forever blacklisted, especially if it involves abusing advertising. Yes I admit I was naive when I started blogging. The classic scenario of having a standard template with lots of ads in it and hoping for money to roll in.

Looking back, I realized that there many bloggers out there who face the some problem as well. Then it dawn to me that there should be a site that provides solutions and advise for many aspiring bloggers out there.

That lead me to start 4u2invest.blogspot.com.

While producing articles for 4u2invest.blogspot, I had my fair share of researching and reading. The reason? I did not want my articles to be just another cut and paste from a variety of sites. In addition, I wanted my articles to be simple and easily digested by readers.

A week ago, while doing some research for my article, I stumbled upon an article about the benefits of having your own custom domain. I decided to dig deeper. 10 more related articles later, I was convinced that having a blogspot in my url wasn't going to help my blog in terms of reaching a wider audience.

I immediately embarked on a search for a suitable domain. Thanks to MakeWords.com, I was able to find the domain name that I wanted in double the time by utilizing the site's domain name generator. To keep the story short, I bought the domain, registered with ZoneEdit.com, parked my domain in their server and defined my CNAME, did some configuration to the custom domain setting in my blogger account and I was up running. (Believe me, its not that complicated to use your own custom domain while using Blogger.com to host your blog. I shall be coming up with the guide soon.)

That my readers, was how Bloggerfocus.com got conceived.

Cheers and Happy Blogging.

From,
sksee
Bloggerfocus.com

Bloggerfocus' Resources

How To Guides:

1. How To Show Teaser and Hide Text In Blogspot
2. How To Add Meta Tag To Your Blogspot
3. How To Replace Blogspot Static Header With A Dynamic Header
4. Adding YouTube Video Bar To Your Blogspot
5. How To Backup Your New Blogger Template
6. How To Remove Blogger Navigation Bar
7. How To Add Page Elements for Blogspot Header
8. How To Replace Blogger's Boring Label With A Label Cloud
9. How To Remove Blogger Classic Navigation Bar (Part 1)
10. How To Remove Blogger Classic Navigation Bar (Part 2)
11. How To Add Pages To Your Blogspot
12. How To Add Favicon To Your Blogspot
13. How To Create Your Own PayPal Donation Button
14. Say Goodbye To Plain Old Blogspot Comment System
    

Advise on Blogging:

1. Having A PayPal Account
   
2. Want To Start Blogging? (Part 1)
3. Want To Start Blogging? (Part 2)
   
4. Pimping The Blog
5. Why You Should Have A Recent Comment Widget
6. Adsense and Life After It
7. 5 Characteristic of A Succesful Blogger
8. My Blog....Company, Friend, Child and Enemy
9. 5 Ways To Get Your Blog Banned From Google
10. Are Adult Contents Allowed On Blogspot?
11. 7 reasons Why Blogspot Users Should Get A Dot Com Domain
    

Boost Your Traffic:

1. Entrecard.com, the Next Level of Advertising?
2. Entrecard Again? Ramblings of A Tired Blogger
3. SiteHoppin.com, Entrecard Wannabe?
4. SiteHoppin.com, Beer Traffic Revealed
5. SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar, Soon To Be Released
6. Entrecard.com, Back To Basics
7. StumbleUpon - Traffic Revealed
8. SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar - RELEASED!
9. Max of SiteHoppin.com Speaks About SH Firefox Toolbar
   

Social Networking Site Reviews:

1. BlogCatalog - Blogging Community
2. BlogFlux - Blogging Community
3. Can You Digg It?
   

Monetize Your Blog:

1. AdToll - Earn From Your Blog
2. SixApart.com - Monetizing Your Blog?
3. SixApart.com - Blogger Advertising Update
4. SixApart.com - Blogger Advertising Updates Part 2
   

Widget Reviews:

1. Recent Comment Widget for Blogger
2. Blog List Widget for Blogger (Test Version)
3. FeedButton - Small Button, Big Purpose
4. Cool MP3 Widget For Your Blog
5. Cool Clock & Calender Widget For Your Blog
   

Free E-books:

1. Free E-books, Free to Download
   

Misc Ramblings

1. Just Another Money Making Blog?
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