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Monday, February 25, 2008      www.royalidea.blogspot.com ARE ARTICLE THIEVES!!!!   

This site www.royalidea.blogspot.com  has 2 articles plagiarized from me.  Word for word!!  They are as follows:  A to Z guide from beginner bloggers.  and Links, linking and SEO what they have to do with each other explained.  I have seen them being DUGG on DIGG!!!  This is straight out disgusting,  please report this site to google and the other search engines.  This will ensure that my site can go on and keep bringing you articles that help you.  We will rid these pirate scums and their sites as well.  You really can't come up with any original ideas can you?  I'm the original writer for these two articles that you stole.  Once again, that's http://www.royalidea.blogspot.com  - POS ARTICLE THIEF !!  I will not stop posting about their sites until my content is taken down and they are banned from the search engines !!!

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SOB WEB PIRATES - STOLEN ARTICLES !! - MY ARTICLES ON MY BLOG STOLEN!!!!   

This really makes me angry!!  I am writing this post in retrospect to the events that happened today. I was going through my usual routine of checking my keywords when a second site popped under mine. Lo and behold I saw the same title for his article as mine!! These are the websites that have MY stolen content on it:   http://www.hauntologie.blogspot.com/  - has one article plagiarized from me.

http://royalidea.blogspot.com/  - has 2 articles plagiarized from me. Word for word!! Can you believe this? No link backs, mention or nothing, it's like he's the one who wrote it!  They are even getting Diggs and bookmarked for MY WORKS.  This is BS.  Here's a way you guys can help me.  This was my original article published in Jan. of 2008 as you can see here  http://www.moonburst-tones.blogspot.com/2008/01/slim-lining-and-fine-tuning-your-blog.html . He didn't even give me credit for it!! Not to mention the gross grammatical errors he has in his article. Please, if you see any of my articles on the net, please feel free to contact me at my email address moonburst2008@yahoo.com. I have already reported this site to all the major social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble etc. since they are using them to even favorite this article!! If you see yours or my articles, images or other content that's originally yours on the net. Report them as soon as possible. If you use someone else's posts or articles, please give credit to the author!!To all of you stealing content on the net, thievery will not be tolerated on the net.  I will find a way to get your site banned.   I will also follow legal procedures and prosecute you to the full extent of the law.  To my fellow bloggers, here is a great tool that will detect plagiarized works on the net. Use it to see if anyone has your articles on their site. Let me make this as clear as I can. I DON'T MIND you using my articles and ideas, just LINK back or give me credit. Blatantly copying any articles here and then putting your URL or link on it is disgusting and unoriginal.

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Sunday, February 17, 2008 
    The A to Z Guide for Beginner Bloggers:   

The following is a guideline that will help you in becoming a better around beginner blogger. Hope you like it!     A im to be a better blogger every day. Always try to learn something different and new. Here is a great site  that will help you build your site by personally developing yourself along with your blog. Either you keep up with the times/technology or your blog will eventually fade into the black-hole of the blogosphere and be but a forgotten memory.  B e yourself! Don’t try to be someone that you’re not. People will see right through it. Readers of your blog will be able to connect easier and relate to you in many ways. Being yourself lets the readers know that you are sincere and helpful at the same time. Your personality will show through your blogging and the people will love you for just being yourself!  C aring about what you blog will make you a more sincere blogger to your cause. Whether it may be helping people with HTML or fixing cars, you will be able to write better articles and will be knowledgeable in your field.  D on’t ever copy anyone else’s works on the net. Plagiarism is frowned upon and you will never live it down if you are found to have copied another person’s works. Not only that but you might find yourself in a legal battle that you don’t need.  E ntertain your readers! Entertaining your readers with great articles, tips and free stuff will always keep them coming back for more. People love a site they can have fun with and learn at the same time. Use your imagination, when we were kids we were able to do anything right (at least in our minds)? That imagination will help connect you to your inner-self and let you grow freely with your blog.  F ind your niche carefully. Finding a niche where you fit in is critical as this will help you as a starting blogger. Your knowledge of course will depend on your experiences and how much you care to expand your knowledge of that subject. We are all experts in our field, but can still master new ways of approaching problems and fixing them.  G reat articles. Great articles are the gateway to your massive traffic building. Write great authoritative articles and share information with your readers. They in turn will keep coming back for your advice and share their information with you that they think might help you.  H elp out new bloggers. Helping out new bloggers and inexperienced persons will build you great character. Your readers will know deep down in their hearts that you are willing to take time to help them and are once again, sincere about it. Helping out other people also makes a world of difference; you might even need help from one of them in the future!  I mplement all the learning and plans that you have made for your blog. Find that “master plan”, gather all the advice you have read and tips given to you and IMPLEMENT them. If you don’t your success rate will drop dramatically.  J oin articles submission sites. If you are a great writer, let the world know about it. Submitting to article submission sites will drive massive traffic to your site and earn you a reputation as a knowledgeable author in your field. Use sites like EzineArticles , Stumble  and the other article directories.  K nowledge on the blogosphere. Keep up to date with your knowledge from the blogosphere. Always find new methods that will save you time and money. Know how to work with all the aspects of blogging, from traffic building, readership, RSS feeds, link building etc.  L imitations are nothing on the web. There are no limitations on the web. You can always get help from other like minded individuals and experts in your field. If you don’t know how to do something, just ask. Most bloggers are willing to help you or will point you in the right direction. Link building is one of those areas where there are no limitations, with over 50 million sites and more being made everyday, there are no shortages of links!  M ake friends with the top-bloggers. Making friends with the popular bloggers will help you get an inner perspective on their workings and how they achieve the things they did with their blog. Brainstorming with these experts gives you a lot of advantages and in time maybe you can contribute to their sites also, earning you authority and links for your own site! Imagine what ideas you could come up with if you had Steve Pavlina  and Darren Rowse  just to name a couple, in your corner.  N etwork with as many people as you can. Even if the person you are networking with is just beginning their blog, they might eventually become a PR 5 or higher blog. Networking is a great way to increase your rankings and PR for your blog. Networking can be done “on” and “off” line.  O ffer great tips, free advice and other free stuff that your users/readers will be able to take with them and that makes a difference to them. Offering material that they cannot get from another site will have you one up on the other sites. They will love you for it and as a bonus come back often to see what they can get again.  P age rank. Your page rank will not increase unless you have useful links, hundreds and/or thousands of them pointing to your page. Page rank can be obtained by having an informative blog. A blog where people can keep coming back for more and refer other people to your site. Page rank should come second to writing great articles for your readers. Always put your readers first, PR will come eventually if you have a great blog.  Q uestion everything about your blog. Are you using an easy layout that people can easily navigate through? Is your color scheme easy on the eyes and not blinding people or make people wonder what happened to the text when they scroll through your site. Are all your links working? Is ad placement optimal, if that’s the way you’re going with your blog. There are many aspects to blogging that you must always question to yourself.  R ead other peoples blogs! Reading other peoples blogs will increase your knowledge and you might learn something that you didn’t know before. Reading also gives you great ideas, maybe you can out-do someone or write an even better article on the subject. Reading forums, how to’s and personal development sites are a great way to answer some of your questions also.  S pecial style of your blog. You got to have your own style. That’s what makes your blog unique. Your writing style and layout of your page will be remembered easier by people if it’s not in the “norm” of other bloggers. Have a great looking graphic on your home page, write with passion and sincerity. Great first impressions last a long time. Slim-lining your blog will also create a more user friendly site and get rid of the stuff that just clutters your site making for a more eye-pleasing site.  T ools and training. Suggest web tools like SiteMeter and Google Web Tools etc. that users can use for free when checking their links, traffic, ranking or site building. Train other people in your field that are just getting started. You will have a loyal following and can do site sessions/reviews of each others’ blogs on what needs to be overhauled with blogs, what can be done better and so forth. As you are the more experienced person in your group, you will be responsible for being a leader to the others.  U nderstand the needs of your readers. Understanding the needs and what they crave will help you to build a better site for your readers. User friendly, easy to navigate pages and TONS of informative articles will do wonders for your blog! Understanding your readers will also help to maintain your reader author relationship in the long run and you will have loyal subscribers that keep coming back. Don’t be afraid to ask your readers what they want more of.  V erify all sources used in article writing. Verifying your sources will help you keep from “looking like a fool” and “looking like a liar”. Be sure of your sources first before publishing your article. No one likes to read one thing and it turns out to be the total opposite of what you published! Author expertise is a must for blogging. If you are not sure about it, don’t even publish it.  W ho, what, where, when and why. Ok, I’m having a 6th grade flashback to my English creative writing labs, oh no! Actually, these are the 5 points that you should cover for any article written by you. If there is anything that pertains to these 5 points about the subject you are covering, then you should include it in your article. This basic guideline will help you also cover the basics of the articles, insert your interesting facts after the basics are done!  X -ray your blog. Yep, that’s exactly what I suggested. Just like we use x-rays to find broken bones in our body, x-raying your blog is just taking time out to find broken links and URL’s that don’t work. Nothing is more frustrating than clicking a link and going nowhere! It only takes a little time, but will show your readers that great care goes into your blog maintenance.  Y our blog is your soul. What you write about will give people/readers their personal assessment of you. It’s like meeting a complete stranger through your blog and seeing if you can connect with that person. Have an outstanding and caring blog, and the people will come back.  “Z one” out in a place where you can get ideas. Zoning out can be daydreaming, or just sitting by yourself with a pad and pen and writing/jotting down ideas or articles you would like to incorporate into your blog. The best ideas come to us when we have no distractions and our minds are free to flow with ideas and imagination!  By following this list, you will have an alliance when Traffic Building, SEO (Search Eng!ne Optimization), Article Writing, PR (Page Rank) building and Monetizing. Just follow these tips and they will open doors to the above mentioned site elements that will help you achieve your goals. I wish you the best success!

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Saturday, February 16, 2008 
    “Master Plan“ Part II - Monetizing our blog:   

Before we start with monetizing our blog/site, we have to ask ourselves this simple question. Why are we monetizing our blog or site? You may either choose to or not. For many of us, it’s as simple as extra income, short term income, long term income. These can be primary or secondary sources for us. Monetized blogs are different from other sites from the mere fact that they have ads pasted into them unlike the unadvertised blogs. Nowadays, it’s rare to come across an established blog with no ads. Other blogs of course are there for reference and teaching purposes only. If you want your slice of the pie in the blogosphere here are a few programs to achieve that: 

Adsense : Has Pay Per Click (PPC) and Cost Per Mille – “every 1,000 impressions” (CPM). Free sign up and you can make money on their referral programs also.   Adbrite : Has Cost Per Mille (CPM) program. You can choose from automatic advertising or choose the ads that will be displayed on your page. Free sign up.   Atomicseek : Pay Per Click program. You can earn up to 50% of commissions from their revenue share.   Auctionads : Display live eBay auctions and get a commission from your site’s referrals.   Azoogle Ads : Has a Cost Per Action (CPA) program (usually form submissions or purchases made). High payouts attainable.   Bidclix : Has Pay Per Click (PPC) text ads.   Bidvertiser : Has ads (almost like Adsense) the difference is Advertisers bid for the ads by site (the better your site, the higher commission you get). Has affiliate program.   Blogsvertise : Program where advertisers advertise through way of reviews posted on your site. You can either choose to accept or deny assignments given to you.   CasaleMedia : Has a Cost Per Mille (CPM) program.   Chitika : Currently has six (6) earners for publishers. eMinimalls, Related Products Unit (RPU), Shoplincs, Shopcloud$, Owna and Linx. Free sign up.   Clixgalore : Affiliate marketing program with text and graphic based ads. Has referral program. Free sign up.   CommissionJunction : Offers Pay Per Lead and affiliate marketing programs. Hundreds of merchants to choose from. Free sign up.   Edgebiter : Has ads like Adsense and also offers graphics ads. Has an affiliate program you can join.   Exoclick : Offers graphics advertisements. Another Pay Per Click (PPC) program. Free to join. Haven’t used them yet.   Fastclick : Offers contextual ads in either banners or skyscrapers etc. (Adsense like ads).   TextLinkAds : Sell text links on your site. Pays 50% of link ad revenue.   Valueclick : Offers CPC and CPM ads. Has referrals programs.   Websponsors : Offers PPC program. Ad network. 

I know that I may have left some of the more popular programs out. Please bear with me as there are literally Hundreds of ad networks and PPC programs on the net. These are just some of the more recognizable ones. Visit each site and find the ones that you are comfortable with. Adsense is by far the best one out there.  Tips for your newly acquired ads:   Experiment with ad placements on your site.  Ads should either be at the upper right side (skyscrapers), across the top of our posts (banners) or where they are easily seen.  Ad colors can go either one of two ways. Either you can blend them into your background or you can make them stand out from your background. It just depends on the sites layout color. It will be different from other people’s sites. See what color combinations give you more clicks.  Do not!! Over swamp your articles. If people can’t read your articles or are overwhelmed by the ads, chances are they won’t come back to your site.  A well placed/colored ad will make money depending on the CONTENT of the blog/site. The more traffic your site has, the more likely that your ads will work out for you. Appropriate use of ads will ensure you have good start on your way to earning.  Trial and error is the only judge of how your site will perform with the chosen ad programs that you chose to incorporate. Give it a little time and see how each one works out for you. Good luck.

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Labels: ads , adsense , affiliate program , Blogging tips , cpa , cpc , cpm , easy money , extra income , extra money , make money online , monetizing your blog  

Using Stumble as a traffic generator, the easy way!!   

Looking to get more traffic from your niche? Using Stumble is a great way to drive that extra traffic to your website. It won't be like the massive traffic spikes that you might receive from Digg, but will be a constant stream that should build up over time. This is the type of traffic most of us want since people from the same niche will refer to our site and just might give us backlinks. This method can be used for each "great" or helpful article that we write. What better way to spread traffic? Ok, so how do you use it? It's simple, here is the step by step on getting it and using it.  Download the Stumbleupon tool bar here!   After installation you will see a toolbar just under your Yahoo or Google toolbar that has a two blue hands, one with the "thumbs up" and the other with the "thumbs down". Your toolbar will also have extra options to show a page from any of the following topics, stumble thru a website, show a page liked by a friend, show a news item, show an image and video at Stumble. Each of these elements let you use Stumble with ease.  When you use the tool bar, navigate to your webpage, articles or home page. When you are there, click on the "I like it!" icon. You will be required to log-in with a yahoo i.d. on the screen that will pop-up. Enter the information in all required fields. In the keywords field, make sure you use the same keywords that pertain to your site. Now click "submit" and you are all done.  So what happens now? Well your "stumble" will be placed in the coinciding category that is used to separate the Stumble articles. When people "stumble" (type in keywords for articles or sites they are looking for) your article / site will be listed along with the description that you wrote or other people wrote for your articles. If you have a really great and informative article you may get hundreds or even thousands of hits driving your traffic up if your lucky. Just using this tool will boost your traffic and make it easier for you also to navigate to sites just like yours! Have fun Stumbling and building your traffic at the same time!

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Add a Social Bookmarking Widget to Your Sidebar.   

Why should you add this widget do you ask? This widget will let your readers know that you have bookmarked your site with all the major social bookmarking sites. You will be found easier and it's easier to use for your readers letting them enjoy the ease and not getting frustrated. Besides it looks great and makes your blog look more professional. This code is great for the blogger platform.  You can make your link code here  (highlight the code + copy it). Please insert this code into your sidebar or after your comments, depending on what style you chose. If you need help with adding page elements to your blogs body look here.    Log into your blogger account.  Go to the Edit Layout tab.  Then go to the Add Page Element tab. Click on the add HTML tag and paste the code into the box.   Save it and preview it. You should see the little bookmarking boxes after your posts or in your sidebar depending on the bookmark graphic you chose and the location of where you put it. Enjoy.

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Friday, February 15, 2008 
    Links, Linking and SEO.  What they have to do with each other explained.   

After I had been asked by a fellow blogger on linking and the significance of links to your blog, I wanted to clarify a few details about linking that should help with your linking strategy. The Google and Yahoo algorithms look at the links pointing to your page. The more you have the better. BUT! It depends on the “characteristics” of the links that you have pointing to your site. There are “bad” links, “quality” links and “regular” links. I will offer more detail for the “quality” links as they are more useful and so that we know what we are looking for in a “quality” links characteristics.  Here are some few guidelines that you should follow and you will be ok and on your way to a better spot on the search eng!nes not to mention driving additional traffic to your site!   1. “Quality” backlinks are links that are:    a. Coming from another site that has a high page ranking (PR) ranking of 4 or better. (PR ranking is from 0 – 10 with 10 being the best).  b. “One” way links from similar sites as yours, as these links carry a heavier weight in the search engines.  c. Links that are coming from sites of a similar niche or nature. (I.e.: If you have an automotive repair site, then contribute to a site where they sell automotive parts or give automotive tips and tricks).   Getting these “quality” backlinks:    a. Join “niche” directories and forums where you can contribute and leave comments on their site. Leaving thoughtful and provocative comments will almost always coax a response from either the Author himself or Readers. Always input the URL of your website when leaving comments so that they can follow your URL to your site!  b. Join social community sites like Friendster, Mybloglog, Mylot, Blogcatalog etc. will help out not only with exposure of your blog by giving you extra traffic but you can also place the link of your URL on these high PR sites.  c. Ask to trade links with high PR pages. This will only work if they somehow think that you have a really good site, are really friendly or helpful. If you do get a link from them TREASURE it!  d. Befriend top-notch bloggers and learn from them their secrets also on obtaining “quality” links. Brainstorming with experienced people is always a plus.  e. Writing authoritative articles that helps or informs other bloggers, for beginners, novices and experts alike. They will link to your article if they like it! Valuable information can be passed onto others and used as references by many readers.  f. OFFLINE NETWORKING -This is one tool that is free for all of us and can play a big part in link building if done right! Tell all your friends, family, classmates, co-workers and associates that have blogs and sites about your new site. They can write a review or instantly provide a link to your site for you, over a cup of coffee or tea of course!  g. Make a business card for your blog. You can have thousands of business cards printed out for a very nominal fee. Leave them at checkout counters of stores or hand them out to your friends and family.  h. If this is your 2nd or 3rd blog, have your main blog link to it, if your PR for your main blog is pretty high.  i. Free submission directories. With this tool you will have to use your own judgment as to whether you want to submit to that site or not. Ask around the web and see what people say about that site first, it will save you a lot of time and hassle before submission.  2. “Bad links” links and other things to avoid:   a. Bad links are the links from other sites (mostly submission sites) that have nothing to do with your site. These links are not weighed heavily by the search engines but can help you drive a miniscule amount of traffic to your site.  b. Bought links in the hundreds or thousands, too many traded links and submission to link directories or FFA (free for all) should be avoided whenever possible. According to Googles algorithm, sites can be penalized if this is found to be within the site. The intermittent use of link trading is ok and manual submission to specific safe directories is ok.  c. Spamming your link to forums, sites and directories alike is a big no-no and should be avoided.  3. Regular links:   a. Regular links are the reciprocal links or links accumulated through “link trading”. This can be of good use especially if the sites linking to you are high PR sites and sites within your niche. This can also be bad if they have no PR or not within your niche.  b. Links that you use as a signature in a comment not relevant to your site can be classified as a regular link.  One thing to remember? Having a lot of “quality” backlinks to your site is good for your SEO and does wonders for your site as far as traffic and PR are concerned. Avoid the negative “linking” practices and your blog will grow and be a place that people can always come to depend on for information and knowledge. As with anything else seo, adding links and taking them out is and will always be a constant battle.  Be patient when building "quality" links, have fun, enjoy your blog and be yourself.  It will work out in the long run and readers will see you are real people and care about what you blog.  That's the next generation bloggers way of LINKING!  Happy blogging!

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