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No longer are bloggers tied to their desktop computers and Modems.

There are now many ways that a blogger can write articles whilst on the move.

Wifi is becoming more readily available, from homes to libraries to coffee shops, so any wifi equipped device from Laptop to iPod touch can be used to go on line and blog.

So what happens if you haven’t got access to Wifi but want to blog, well there’s the 3g mobile networks.

Most modern mobile phones include an Internet browser which can be used to write blog posts and some will even provide dedicated blogging apps, but for longer posts the lack of  a dedicated keyboard can be a problem.

The Mobile Internet can be provided to laptops or netbooks through 3g usb dongles,  where a true Internet experience at a respectable speed can be achieved for a reasonable cost, but this only allows one device to connect a once, and the device needs to be a computer.

Another option is to get a 3g to wifi router like the 3 Mifi. Theses devices provide access to the 3g data networks through a portable wifi router, so any wifi enabled device can access the net and be used for blogging. These devices also allow multiple devices to connect at the same time.

So never feel that you can only blog from home, there are many options that allow you to blog from anywhere.

Some Blog Carnivals are run very well and some aren’t. This carnival is an example of one of the better ones:

Have a look at : http://bestblogreview.com/2010/02/family-health-wellness-carnival-2/.

The blog is well presented, contains good articles and the owner has emailed all the contributors to ask then to put a link to the carnival.

Check it out.

In this post I discussed a method of automatically re-posting old posts on Twitter.

I’ve implemented this system on Jpmblog.com, Netbook-experience.com & Techplay-experience.com along with a link that appears on the end of each post which provides the link for visitors to start following me on Twitter.

Has it been successful? I think so. I’ve picked up 15 extra followers on Twitter, so that’s 15 extra people that everyday see a link to an article from each of my Blogs, and in addition all 3 blogs are getting traffic back from Twitter.

The great thing is that as it’s an automated process it’s not taking any extra of my time.

Twitter is a popular micro-blogging site that allows users to post short messages and message other members through the site.

I’ve found a way to automatically post links to your Wordpress blog posts on twitter, so that your twitter followers may read your blog articles in full.

There is a plugin for Wordpress called Tweet Old Post ( search for it through the add new plugins option ), which when installed will automatically post a link to a random post from your, it will even convert your post url to a short form URL.

You can set how often a post from your blog is posted on Twitter

Sponsored Blogging is a way of creating income from your blog or website.

By writing articles about specific topics including keywords from advertisers you can earn credit, and it can pay quite well.Even if you don’t have a very popular blog you can still make decent beer money from sites like pay per post and Social Spark.

However there are some rules that you should follow for all your hard work to pay off. Make sure you make regular non sponsored posts, each provider of opportunities will have different rules around how many non sponsored posts you are required to make in between sponsored, but importantly you also need to keep your readership happy with your own posts.

If you have your own domain name then you will get more opportunities, so this should be considered a must do.

Make sure you don’t put Ad’s, eg banner Ads ( Google Ads) or context sensitive pop ups in sponsored posts, as these will get your posts rejected.

Finally Make sure you follow any disclosure rules set by the provider, if you make sponsored posts you must let your readership know.

Welcome to the December 19, 2009 edition of blog it and earn it.

Ziki presents How to Find High Paying Adsense Keywords – Make More Money with Google Adsense posted at Make Money with Youtube.

Ziki presents Make Money with ClickBank Part 3 – Avoid Sneaky Vendors Who Might Steal your Commissions posted at Make Money with Youtube.

The Smarter Wallet presents Small Business Financing: How To Fund Your Venture posted at The Smarter Wallet, saying, “Funding your small business.”

Amik Kumar presents Sponsoredreviews – Get Paid to blog posted at Fosteronlinemoney – Guide to make money online.

Amik Kumar presents List of 35 Get Paid to write websites posted at Fosteronlinemoney – Guide to make money online.

Amik Kumar presents Make Money Blogging and Top Earning Blogs posted at Fosteronlinemoney – Guide to make money online.

Effective Blogging

The Dough Roller presents Powerful Internet Marketing for Small Businesses–A Case Study posted at The Dough Roller, saying, “Part 1 of a series on how to run an effective Internet Marketing program for a small business.”

Anne Simone presents 100 Best Social Sites for Entrepreneurs posted at Career Overview.

Barbara Williams presents 100 Open Courses to Learn About the World Without Going Anywhere – Online Degree Programs.org: Top Online Degrees posted at Online Degree Programs.org.

Angela Martin presents 50 Great Blogs for College Admissions posted at Online Colleges.org.

Anne Simone presents 50 Great Business Law Blogs posted at Career Overview.

Barbara Williams presents 100 Amazing Writing Tools You Never Knew You Needed – Online Degree Programs.org: Top Online Degrees posted at Online Degree Programs.org.

SVB presents Find The Best Web Host For Your Online Business posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Thanks!”

Mike King presents What is Learned From Running a Blog? posted at Learn This.

Leon N. presents The Science of Niche Internet Marketing posted at How to Build Residual Income, saying, “Although it would be great to just write about anything you like and make money, that’s not the reality. You need to be able to pick the right niches.”

Gracie Turner presents 50 Essential Blog Posts on Education Reform posted at Online Courses.org.

Monetizing Your Blog

20smoney presents Monthly Blog Update: November 2009 posted at 20s Money, saying, “Details on my November traffic and online income plus some commentary on the trends I’m seeing with my blog.”

Arthur Pledger presents Blogging as a Side Hustle posted at World Domination with Arthur Pledger.

Problogging Facts and Fiction

Andy Hayes presents Five Myths About Great Websites posted at Travel Online Partners (TOP), saying, “Think you know what makes a great blog? Here are five myths, and what you should be doing instead.”

Joe Bestler presents Why BLOGGING as an Internet Business | Blogging | Profit Center Online posted at Blogging | Profit Center Online, saying, “Why using a blog to start your online business makes sense.”

Viviana Widjaja presents How to Start a Professional Blog posted at Guide to Pro Blogging.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of blog it and earn it using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Following on from this article I thought I would see which days are the busiest for Internet traffic to my sight.

The general opinion across the Internet is that weekends are the quietest time for Web hits but my original investigation for Septembers traffic on Netbook-experience.com showed that Fridays were the quietest.

How that I have more data to examine, 3 months on Netbook-experience.com and 1 complete month for Techplay-experience.com I wondered if my results changed.

Here are the results:

As you can see Tuesdays and Thursdays are the quietest but Weekends continue to be amongst the busiest day.

Welcome to the December 5, 2009 edition of blog it and earn it.

Debbie Foster presents Niche Marketing – A Smart Way to Increase Your Online Profits posted at Internet Income – The Journey.

Camille Hensley presents 25 Open Source Software Projects that Are Changing Healthcare posted at Masters in Health Informatics.

Barbara Williams presents 100 Open Courses That Will Make You an Internet Expert posted at Online Degree Programs.org.

Leslie Brown presents 40 Must-Know Google Hacks & Tips for Medical Professionals posted at Online LPN to RN.

Mattg presents How To Get More Done Each Day posted at Matt Garrett.

Effective Blogging

Linda Jones presents 100 Must-Read Blog Posts for Aspiring Entrepreneurs posted at Online Classes.org.

Rose King presents 100 Must-Read Blog Posts for Aspiring Entrepreneurs posted at Online Classes.org.

Paul Piotrowski presents Taking Your Life to the Next Level posted at Inspired Money Maker.

Gracie Turner presents 100 Ethics Blogs Every Business Student Should Read posted at Online Courses.org.

Diane J Corriette presents If you can’t stand the blogging heat then LEAVE the kitchen! | Make Money Blogging with make money blogging expert Diane Corriette posted at Diane Corriette.

Monetizing Your Blog

U.S. Common Sense presents When the government and internet advertising collide posted at U.S. Common Sense, saying, “Looking at the Federal Trade Commissions possible increase in authority over online advertising.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of blog it and earn it using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Welcome to the November 21, 2009 edition of blog it and earn it.

Redfire Atkinson presents Top 50 Blogs for Sports Agents & Sports Managers posted at Sports Management Degree.

kaisan hogda presents Profitable Website Ideas – In Just One Click? posted at Big Selling Website Design, saying, “7 step checklist for assessing profitable website ideas”

Barbara Williams presents 100 Educational Lectures for the Small Business Owner posted at Online Degree Programs.org.

Anthony Stewart presents Top 50 Journalism Blogs posted at Journalism Degree.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents American Express Rewards Credit Card Offers A $25 Sign Up Bonus posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Thanks!”

KCLau presents Are You Rich in Internal Assets? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “pay attention to the internal assets”

Harold Gelien presents The World’s 50 Best Open Courseware Collections posted at Online University Rankings.

Harold Gelien presents Top 50 Free Open Courseware Classes for Journalists posted at Journalism Degree.

The Smarter Wallet presents Do Debt Consolidation Programs Work? Reviewing Debt Consolidation Care posted at The Smarter Wallet.

Effective Blogging

Kaitlyn cole presents 100 YouTube Videos for Your Business Education & Enlightenment posted at Online Colleges.net.

Barbara Williams presents 75 Coolest iPhone Apps for Lifelong Learners posted at Online Degree Programs.org.

Linda Jones presents 100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators posted at AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.

Brian Terry presents Profitable Website Ideas – In Just One Click? posted at Big Selling Website Design.

Linda Jones presents 100 Great Twitter Tips, Tools & Tutorials for Serious Students posted at AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.

Monetizing Your Blog

MBB presents Net Worth Report With New Home Update posted at Money Blue Book Blog.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of blog it and earn it using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

PageRank is a Google metric that represents how important a webpage is on the web. Each time a webpage is linked to by another page Google considers the page to have become more important.

How important Google Pagerank is to webmasters, is the centre of many debates, to some (certainly to some sponsored post portals) it’s considered to be very important to others SEO techniques are considered to be significantly more important, it is at least a method to see how well your page or blog is doing on the web.

If you treat PageRank simply as a measure of how well linked your Webpage is then it can be a useful tool, personally I consider links to your page to be very important, as the more links your page has, then it follows that more people have the opportunity to visit your site.

Sites with a higher PR that link to your site will help increase your PageRank more then sites with a lower PageRank

This Blog has jumped from having a PR of 0 to a PR of 2, where as netbook-experience.com is still ranked as 0, so why the difference?

Well this site has been featured in more Blog Carnivals, and also featured on EzineArticles where I wrote an article and linked to this site in the footer. If I repeat this process for Netbook Experience I’ll see if it’s Page Rank increases.

Welcome to the November 7, 2009 edition of blog it and earn it.

KCLau presents Case Study: Consolidating Personal Loan, Mortgage and Credit Card Debt posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “Managing debts”

Frederick Yarmy presents Top 50 Blogs By Undergrad Students posted at Undergraduate Degree.

Alisha Harmann presents Top 50 Health Administration Blogs posted at Master Of Health Administration.

Allison Johanson presents Top 50 Blogs for Ultrasound Techs posted at Online Ultrasound School.

scheng1 presents Using most expensive adwords to increase earning potential of your article posted at How healthy is your personal finance.

Shawn Taylor presents Surveillance Video Recorder ? Which One is For You posted at Hidden Surveillance Camera.com.

Effective Blogging

Suzane Smith presents Ten Rules of LinkedIn Etiquette for Business Professionals posted at Executive MBA Programs, saying, “Unlike Facebook and the like, LinkedIn is strictly a social network for professionals with over 48 million members in over 200 countries.Here are the top ten rules of LinkedIn Etiquette for Business professionals.”

Barbara Williams presents 50 Eye-Opening Women’s Studies Blogs posted at Online Degree Programs.org.

Rose King presents 101 FREE Tools to Design Your Own Degree posted at Online Classes.org.

Joe Revod presents Repurposing Content posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

MBB presents Start Blogging To Make Money Online posted at Money Blue Book Blog.

Rose King presents 100 Best Websites for Your Business News and Know-How posted at Online Classes.org.

Monetizing Your Blog

Nannetta Turi presents World Class Customer Service – How To Handle Customer Complaints posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

Evan Gould presents Eight AdSense Money Making Steps To 12K A Month In Revenue posted at Internet Income Formula – Earn Money Online.

Dollar Fanatic presents Why Do I Want to be Rich? posted at Dollar Fanatic Personal Finance, saying, “Why do you want to build a million dollar website?”

Kano presents Free Keyword Research Toolkit posted at Online Money Making Guide, saying, “Search engines are a great way to get traffic to your blog. But in order to get search traffic, you need to know what keywords people are searching for. This list of free keyword research tools will help you discover new keywords which you can then target to bring traffic to your blog.”

Problogging Facts and Fiction

bm presents Online Postgraduate Degree Stigma posted at Accredited MBA Online, saying, “Many times people will think that using shortcuts like free blogsopt blogs are cheap and unprofessional and that is what you fear. Similarly you fear that this is what employers will think when they see that you obtained an online MBA degree rather than spending the extra time and money to go to a traditional business school. Don’t fall into that trap.”

Max Money presents Yes, You Can Make Money Online posted at Max Money Online, saying, “It is possible to make money online. In this post the author discusses some of his internet marketing experiences over the past year. While not yet earning a full time income, he has managed to go from being a complete novice to making a reasonable part-time passive income. And the good news is that there is significant upside from here.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of blog it and earn it using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Blog directories are huge online listing of Blogs that can point users to your Blog.

Think of it like an online Yellow Pages, but does it actually drive traffic to your Blog?

The answer is yes but I’m not sure in what scale yet.

Why do people join Blog directories?

Firstly people need to be able to find your Blog, readers go to Blog Directories to search for a specific type of blog, and they may find your site, there’s no guarantees but they certainly won’t find your site if it isn’t listed.

Secondly links are important and most Blog Directories have high Google Page Ranks, eg Blog Explosion has a PR of 5, so it may follow that using Blog Directories improves your own Page Rank. Although others hold the belief that Google ignores Blog Directories.

So have Blog Directories sent me any traffic….yes they have, I’ve registered this site and NetBook-Experience on Blog Explosion and:

Since October 4th Blog Explosion has sent 24 Visitors to Netbook-Experience.

Since October 4th Blog Explosion has send 25 visitors to JPMBLog

In this post I asked how long it would take before Google would start to send traffic to my brand new site Techplay- experience.

Last night I received  my first  traffic from a Google search, 8 days after the first post was made. I suspect this would have been quicker if I had been able to put more content on line at a quicker rate.

At least this proves that the process works.

In this post I asked how long it would take for Google to send traffic to my TechPlay Blog.

The blog was born on 21/10/09 and currently has 9 posts.

6 days later Google hasn’t sent a single visitor, but does this mean that anything is wrong – I’ve search Google for my blog’s domain and it is listed so I know that Google is crawling the blog, so why no visitors?

I suspect that the answer is content – when I launched Netbook-experience.com I had a library of posts that I could copy across quickly, more posts = more content = more Google traffic, but with Techplay-Experience I’m having to start from scratch.  So it is going to take a while  to build a good solid  selection of content for Google  to see.

Videos can be a useful addition to a blog or website, they add interest for your audience and drive repeat visitors to your site, videos can be a very useful form of sticky content.

There is also a way to make money from videos using Voxant Newsroom who provide a wide selection of individual video articles and also Video feeds. The videos carry advertising and some of the revenue generated gets passed back to you.

For every 1000 views of a video you get $3.50.

There is also an option to auto play videos where the videos automatically start to play when your site loads, these carry a lower rate of pay pf $0.50 for every 1000 views, but if you have high traffic this may work form a good source of income.

The video belows shows how the video can be integrated into your posts.

Welcome to the October 24, 2009 edition of blog it and earn it.

Web Traffic Network presents Web Marketing with depending on anyone posted at Website Traffic For Sales.

Redfire Atkinson presents Top 50 Biotech Blogs posted at online MHA degree.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Cheap Web Hosting Services For Those On A Budget posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Thanks!”

Raivyn presents My Advice to Aspiring Pro Bloggers posted at Quoth The Raivyn.

Harold Gelien presents Top 50 Blogs to Help You Apply for College posted at Undergraduate Degree.

Effective Blogging

Carolyn Friedman presents Top 100 Graphic Design Blogs posted at Graphic Design Degrees, saying, “Got a creative mind, love of technology, and tons of ideas? Then graphic design might be for you. Learn more about this profession, along with thousands of insider tips, by taking a look at these top 100 graphic design blogs.”

Viswanathan presents The Ultimate Paid To Click Guide – The Good and The Scam posted at Paid To Click Guide for Beginners, saying, “Visit here to learn about the best and reliable sites in paid to click business that offer free money. The blog also lists some of the PTC sites that users should stay away from.”

Angela Martin presents 100 Best Professors Who Blog posted at Online Colleges.org.

Nigel S presents Halloween Web Traffic Isn’t Scary « SEO by Swaby – Utah SEO, SEM & Social Media posted at Seo by Swaby, saying, “Optimize images for greater site traffic.”

MBB presents How I Started Blogging Online posted at Money Blue Book Blog.

Mike presents Blogs for Business posted at The Blog Builder Guy.

Mary Jones presents The Top 10 Free Sites to Find Reliable, Authentic Customer Product Reviews posted at Accelerated Online Degree, saying, “Consumer reviews make purchasing products or services much easier. Unfortunately, you can’t always find an honest review for everything you need, but you can check these 10 websites to see if the product or service does have a consumer review listed somewhere online.”

Mark Wadinski presents Get More Buyer?s with Credit Card in Hand posted at Make Money With Blogs.

Andy Hayes presents Are you blogging with a strategy? posted at Travel Online Partners (TOP), saying, “To blog it and earn it, you must have a strategy. What’s your focus?”

Monetizing Your Blog

J. S. presents Blogging Theory: Everyone wants to be a Bum Marketer posted at Blogging Theory.

Jacqueline Gharibian presents My Newest Recommended Traffic Tool-Free posted at Start Your Own Online Business With $ Zero |How To Start An Online Business,Free Tips,Tools, saying, “It isn’t often that I find a traffic tool that is truly unique.”

Brian presents Increase SERP Rank on eHow posted at Earn Residual Income Online, saying, “A case study on increasing SERP rank and the resulting web search traffic to a published article.”

bm presents Online MBA Degree Program? posted at Accredited MBA Online, saying, “Does an MBA mean anything anymore? I got mine and it helped at work but I see blogging as a viable employment option these days. That MBA is arguably helpful from a bloggers perspective.”

Kaitlyn cole presents 100 Must-Read Blog Posts for Networking in a New Age | Online Colleges posted at Online Colleges.net.

supermom_in_ny presents Getting Out of Debt: Two Paid Blogging Sites Offer Affiliate Programs With Residual Income posted at Getting Out of Debt, saying, “This is a great way to get paid to blog and create a passive income. All you have to do is introduce others to the sites!”

Problogging Facts and Fiction

The Investor presents Weekend reading: End of summer update posted at Monevator.com, saying, “Personal finance blogger shares thoughts on the progress of his two-year old blog and its earnings.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of blog it and earn it using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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I’ve previously written about the difficulties I had in getting Google to send traffic to  My Netbook-Experience site. I eventually made a break through and managed to get Google to send me traffic by following these instructions.

With this is mind I thought I would investigate how long it would take for Google to crawl through my blog and send me traffic if I follow these instructions right from day1.

I’ll give it a go and report back here how it goes.

I’ve found myself posting more and more technology and videogame news and articles on this blog, and as they are topics that really interest me I thought I would create a dedicated blog where I can write just about these subjects.

I’ve registered a Domain name: http://techplay-experience.com/ and created a blog there and my first task has been to install Google Analytics using the Google Integration Tool Kit.

Many web sites and blogs use Google Adsense as a revenue stream to monetize their pages, but how many actually read the terms and conditions that you are required to accept when you sign upto Adsense?

One of the terms and conditions is that you need to publish a Privacy Policy on your site. If you haven’t done this before then you can view an Adsense compatible Privacy Policy Template  by clicking here.

Make sure you follow those Adsense  Terms and conditions or you might get a nasty suprise.

Its now been a month since my last update on how Kontera compares to Adsense so I thought I would see how the comparison is going but over a slightly longer Time Frame.

I’ve install both systems on a number of my sites and here’s the results between 2nd August and 13th October.

Adsense:
Total Page Impressions: 6953
Number of Clicks: 30
Earnings ($): 4.22
Average earning per click ($): 0.14
Average number of impressions per click: 231.77

Kontera:
Total Page Impressions: 6,014
Number of Clicks: 64
Earnings ($): 1.42
Average earning per click ($): 0.02
Average number of impressions per click: 93.97

In summary, my comparisons continue to show that Kontera gets significantly more clicks then Adsense but Adsense has significantly better rates of pay.