Best online tool to relax your mind

While stumbling upon, I noticed a very nice little tool, so I thought to blog about it.Shark Break is simple online javascript & a funny tool, which helps your mind to relax.Before coming across this site, I was designing a web template and it had some little css error that was making the whole site looking crap.My mind was irritated.I was about to throw my monitor in the dustbin when a thought of stumbling struck my mind.First few sites were spam, this was the third one.Believe me, it is a very simple tool but it will definitely bring smile on your face and let your evil mind relax.


It also has a mini version that can be integrated in social sites like Orkut, and even blogs.Just try out the mini version below!

www.SharkBreak.com

View Alexa Traffic graph for any rank

Alexa data is still being used at many money making places like Text Link Ads, Review Me,Sponsored Reviews and so on.Alexa shows only graphs for those sites which rank above 100,000 (means any site below 100,000).Getting into top 100,000 is a quite difficult & time consuming process as Alexa calculates using an average of last 6 months.

The current numbers for Webtalks are 231,570.All I used to see when I visited the Alexa site was this embarrassing graph

I did a bit of experimentation with my evil mind, and here I come up with a simple trick.
Goto your Alexa traffic graphs page (you can use mine).Then compare your site with another site of a nearby Alexa rank.For instance, I took Techzilo.com .Enjoy your Graph!

Related:Increase your Alexa Rank

Review of a Review Site

I was a bit surprised to see a Review Me review application (I normally receive from sponsored posts & smorty).Coming back to the review, this review is about another review site called Online casino blue book which has reviews on Top 10 Online Casino Sites.Being inexperienced in Casino business,I will review the field in which I am good at

Design

The Webmaster I think, has used Macromedia Dreamweaver for designing this site.It has a simple all text design.I think a site of this kind needs a design makeover from a quality Web Designer.There are few cheap ones out there.They may also consult a Logo designer as there present logo is of text and a such a wide used site requires to have its own trademarks.The above screenshot has been took by using Mozilla Firefox.However the border colors change while in IE.Why so? 40% net suers are using Firefox.The Firefox/IE problem would be for sure solved by a good designer

Organization
This website loses it here also.I can see 4 links from the homepage pointing towards the contact page which creates a 'mess' on the homepage.Adding to this, there is a huge sidebar 'blue' space in the center of the sidebar from the Inter Casino banner.I was pretty satisfied to see a HTML site map at least.

Miscellaneous
This site has some loose ends.There are many spelling errors and few pages haven't been updated yet.For example, the homepage footer consists of a statement " Please read are casino Disclaimer and Privacy Policy."Some pages still contain 2006 copyright message

Popularity
This site has a good amount of links pointing towards it.
Google:2,3450 but,
Alexa Rank:779,237
Seeing the huge difference in Alexa rank and no. of backlinks,I suspect that few of the links are paid (this one's gonna be added next time)

Online Casino Bluebook has so far reviewed many services out of which Inter Casino has been adjudged the best.

Online Casino Bluebook can be helpful if you want to know & compare gambling sites.This site includes Casino News,Casino Directory,Casino Reviews along with gambling sites.

*This is a Paid Post*

View the best review we had so far...

Thank you so much Charles Lau for reviewing Webtalks visually and that too free of cost! Charles Lau has an excellent screen casting software called HyperCam 2 with which he reviews the sites.Its really an awesome experience to watch how do my visitors behave when they visit the blog.Enjoy the 10 minutes video below.Infact, this is not the end he must have spent long time typing about Webtalks too, roughly about 400 words.To be frank, even I couldn't have done it that well.



Jealous? Your blog too can have a decent video review but you need 10 paypal bucks from Charles.More details
But from my opinion its worth more than that!

We love you Charles Lau!

Make Mooney Online

Ever visited John Cow dot com ? What I say about them is that they are creative instead of a ripper.Just because of there creativity, they were featured on many high profile blogs like the link building blog. Now you got the reason why, all successful make money online blogs have evil marketings behind them...

One more interesting fact is that this is the first blog that I read ahead of John chow dot com and infact I am writing this post ahead of the review of john chow dot com for winning A LCD monitor.Sounds good.eh?

John Cow is a blog on making money online and rank #29 in the top 100 make money online blogs without any PR!

Actually this post is for an entry into their $500 cash giveaway contest whose deadline is the end of September.If you too are interested in earning big bucks you only have to write a post of 200 words like this one, link to micfo.com with the anchor tag Web Hosting,and a link back to the contest post.

Thats real Making Money Online!

What will I do with the amount?

If I somehow get that cash, I'll save it. I have a target of buying a notebook (Laptop) for myself within a few months with my blog income. I currently work on a HP pavilion out of date computer and would be really happy if I can myself a Laptop with the money I earn online.

#1(10$) I'll register myself a beautiful .com domain.A sub domain turns away most advertisers so I think a 10$ unique domain will be much more advertiser friendly.Not to mention , I've thought of cow friendly address. Moogulmakingmooney.com

#2(30$) I'll buy a premium Web Hosting Plan for the next two years and set up a self hosted blog there.I really need one! Blogger has limited features...Wordpress themes will let me add the moo flavor in it.

#3(100$) A million Euro Wiki page please!Its getting popular and I'm in the race for the ***** keyword(why shall I tell you the keyword?)

#4(250$) I'll be one of the sponsors of John Cow dot com.To get targeted cows in my farm

#6(3$) Fresh & Healthy Daily Milk for me.John Cow exclusive

#7(100$) Get myself a cheap design makeover with the cow touch.

#8(7$) Set up a 'moo-welfare association' for encouraging sites to be cow friendly and we'll send them traffic!

John Cow dot com recently went under a design makeover and what I said after viewing it for the first time- "Moo-lah" .The Mad Cow effect!

Did you miss the action? I did...

Over the past few days, our blog went without any updates, reason is I had few exams on head.Now, they are over but I'm expecting more of them soon.Incase you missed out, I'll just summarize what happened in the blogosphere in the last few days.

• Google adsense have anounced Adsense for mobile.A very useful feature for those websites who won't to monetize the mobile version of their website.I've not started yet with Adsense for Mobile because I am already using Feedm8 services to monetize the mobile version of Webtalks.
• Google Adsense have also anounced Google Gadget Ads.It goes just like video Ads.For that you need an advertiser whose using Google Gadget Ads feature with Adwords.Don't forget to enable image ads option.
  
• Yahoo bought Zimbra... Lots of cash involved
• John Cow, have launched a MillionEuroWiki similar to MillionDollarWiki on their success and look what, they 've already sold 25 pages.Now how about a MillionRupeeWiki ?Don't forget to have a look on their design.
• Natewhitehill's busy designing blogs and has already earned well over 13,000$ after the John Chow redesign.Wow!
• Google have added a feature of slides in Google Docs.Simple but useful.

I try to deliver the best content to you, so it maybe that I'm not able to update this blog for a while.Make sure you have our RSS feeds to keep in touch

Keyword Targeting- Patience & Planning

My Blog offers some blogger templates. I had included a link back to this blog so that visitors can know from where the template has been downloaded. The good reason, the page had a good SERP rating so my templates are being used at many blogs.Some of them are having high PR's. A thought about keyword targeting struck my mind when I saw my blog reactions in Technorati.First, I included a link back to the template post with different keywords on different templates.I got the keywords from the Google results itself for "blogger templates" .

There are some other good sites targeting :"blogger templates" , to knock them of in the first page was quite a difficult task.So I started with smaller keywords like "new blogger templates" , "blogspot templates" & "3 column blogger templates".It took time for my post to get a decent ranking even with some 400 back links to the post itself.I also changes the default from "Download three column new blogger templates" to "New Blogger (XML) 3 column templates.The reason is here

Over the past few days, I have experienced a lot of Google DanceLast month I cracked into the first page result & mind you, it wasn't an easy task.2 weeks before this post got an ranking of #1 for term "new blogger templates".But the Google dance continued.We slipped from#1 to #2 and as I write this post, I saw it at the third place.But believe me, I have taken over some reall biggies like stopdesign.com {PR8} & blogger-templates.blogspot.com {PR6.Technorati Rank #4}.

As we all know Pagerank is continuously being changed and its only history that we see in the Google toolbar, does this give a hint where the template post would be in terms of PR? I am keeping my fingers crossed...

Make Money Online with Webtalks!

Not all blogs get some really good back links.I have included the keyword "Webtalks" for the homepage of the blog and I rank #1 for it{At some bad times, I slip to #2}.Webtalks itself makes no sense{if it does, I don't know what it is}I just wanted to keep the title easy.With the Blogger Title hack , I changed it to Webtalks-Blogging,Online Money Making,Tech tips. But that too was a waste.Now I'm thinking of the ever popular "Make Money Online" keyword.So in your next visit to this blog, don't be surprised to see the title "Make Money Online".Cool isn't it?

Points to be kept in mind while keyword targeting

If you get lots of links with the same keyword.You may rank better in Google.Because Yahoo & Live Search takes take domain age into consideration.

• Don't Google Bomb.Be slow but efficient.
  
• Google will also take some time to give you an appropriate rank.Till then,experience the Google Dance.
  
• Before choosing a keyword, just go through Google Trends to find out whether the number of queries are enough
  
• The title of the page dominates the SE ranking.

So which Keyword are you targeting?

Are you Addicted to Blogging?

Recently a special show on NDTV attracted my mind.The topic was about Internet Addiction.Wikipedia defines Internet Addiction as

A pattern of internet use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as manifested by three of the following occurring at any time in the same 12-month period: -1- tolerance, -2- withdrawal, -3- internet is often accessed more often or longer than intended, -4- there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful effort to cut down or control internet use, -5- a great deal of time is spent in activities related to Internet use, -6- Frequent talks about the Internet in daily life, -7- important family, social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced (3).

Some people are addicted to IM services, some others are addicted to social networking sites like orkut & mypsace.Some love sharing emails while some can't live without Youtube videos.Some run after Internet Gaming.And many of them love blogging & reading blogs.

Blogging till a hobby is alright.When you'll be involved in blogging, you'll automatically have some dreams about posts & what would be new tomorrow.Such people {leaving full time bloggers} can't even live a day without it.It has become their habit to surf for long hours on the net. Reasons, they ignore environment, your health & families.You can take yourself's a test of blogging addiction by answering to some simple questions.The results may be scary.

Here are my results...

60%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

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How to get rid of this Addiction ?

From my experience,I believe taking a holiday without laptops or mobiles and enjoying the outside world is a must for such people.Spending time with your families can also reduce your stress.

But My Blog Traffic, Feed Count will go down.

I don't say that you permanently go to long vacation (until you desperately require one).Leave a minimum gap of one day between your pervious blog update & the next one.

What I can say,is that if your content is original & interesting, nobody would un subscribe your feed.By changing your posting frequency, you will give appropriate time for your posts to be on the homepage which may be useful for SE indexing, and also may be visitor magnets.

If you are really addicted to internet, one day will come when you'll have one friend & one family, your PC.

Feedvertise on a blogger blog

You can easily sell off RSS ads if you are using self hosted Wordpress by Feedvertising program of Text Link Ads or can directly sell some text links in the your post bottom if you have got a wide RSS audience with a plugin.

Blogger too has got a similar feature but involves a game playing with it.You need to go to Settings > Site Feed > Feed Item footer .And add the desired HTML in the Feed Item footer text area.Remember to redirect your feed to feedburner, enable post pages and a full site feed.

You can also add Adsense for Feeds code here if you are participating in it.Remember  Adsense for content and Referrals ads will not show up using this trick.

This method can also be used as a copyrights measure

I have added a copyright message which includes a link back to this blog from where Technorati reactions tracker could be used.

The copyright text is shown up in feed.

And the the person who used my site feed to put the exact content is caught using the technorati tracker.I have visited and flagged the blog.Hope, Blogger tem takes an action soon so that visitors get information from original source.

We're making money online!

You read right but the message behind it is different.Thanks to Mark of 45n5.com , that he has made a top blog list of 100 blogs that are making money online.This list has already been featured at sites John Chow dot com & Problogger so doesn't want to be a part of it?

And guess where are we? Hope the screen capture helps.Yes we're at the 57th place as of now but the list updates soon.This list can really be helpful for advertisers seeking good quality blogs as it lists down the current PR, Technorati Rank and the Alexa Rank at one place of top blogs.

So far, I haven't got any advertiser request but have attracted a bit of spam.

Where does your blog stand?

Why Personal Blogging is a much better option

This week's twister.Tired of blogging for some bucks? why not try a personal blog.From my experience of personal blogging for 1 month, I'm feeling much excited blogging.Reasons?

You don't think what to write 

Things just go by and you blog them.Unlike these professional money making blogs where you need to think with an evil mind and write a unique and top notch post.Quite stressful to your little mind.

Google.Who?

Why should I care about my search engine listings? Or bite nails how much pagerank I will get after the next export {if it ever happens } .And now see, the condition of all "Pro" Bloggers, how they are sweating, running after each and every Google Data Center for just the slightest hint about their new pagerank after export.{which ill not happen this month for sure}

Wordpress or Blogger?

Why should I bother whether its is hosted on blogger or on wordpress?I just need a simple blogging software that lets me put my content in the web.And as the blogger of Webtalks , I constantly face the dilemma between Blogger and Wordpress

Dont feed your feeds

I don't care of my feed readers{of personal blog of course}  whether  they would be happy with the kind of posting frequency I'll be having on my blog.But here on Webtalks, I've kept some scheduled posts in draft so that your subscribing to this feed isn't worthless

Design? Optimization ? for what?

Since, I switched over to the current blog template, I've some 20 people shooting me emails from where did I get it and can they too have this one? Saw, people just try to copy your blog.Run after each other.As for my personal blog, Minima Black just suits it.Since it is a basic two column template , for the first time I have got a full valid CSS on w3org.And from my opinion it looks much better than Webtalks as it is adfree

But Can it make money online?

Yep.But first you need to develop it.and you must be knowing the John Chow dot com was initially started as a personal blog and used to enough traffic that will give round 300$'s in first month of monetizing by Adsense!

So how's your "personal" blog performing?

For my case, believe it or not, I've got some 30 RSS readers who just subscribed it using the common "Subscribe to Posts(Atom)" link.I haven't started monetizing it and have no plans to do so for until I really feel the need for it.

Does your Blog needs a fresh look too?

Recently, some biggies' in the blogosphere had a brush on their blogs like Darren of Problogger and the most evil blogger ever,John Chow.which are the topic of these days discussions.The big question is

Does your blog needs a extreme design makeover too?

Some say its a 50-50 case.I say there are more advantages than disadvantages.

Advantages of giving a fresh look

• We are humans.Its probably one of the most basic feature that you'll be bored with your design.You'll be more interested in tweaking the new layout rather than the old ones
• More Room.According to Google analytics,70% of my traffic uses 1024 x 768 resolution or above.There was no point to waste some precious space for the remaining 30 % who used the lower resolutions.Though while designing,I kept in mind that at least the post area is completely visible to the ones using the lower resolutions without scrolling horizontally.With more space you can of course get more Ad spots{every one wants bucks}.Moreover, you'll let your visitors rediscover your site by linking to some good articles of the past
• Impress Advertisers.Content is the King,Design is the queen.Everyone gets better with the more they write but design remains the same the one you created when you were a newbie. Advertisers hate blogs where sidebar's dropping, or some overlapping is there even when the content is better than that of A-Listers.A highly optimized and stylish look will act as an advertiser magnet
• Build Buzz.Summertime's just over and your evil mind is not giving you excellent ideas.Just go through a design makeover and you'll have people talking about your new design.According to Technorati, JC.com{johnchow} got 100 back links with blogs just talking about the new design and same goes for Darren's problogger.They are all over the forums and social networks

Disadvantages

• You'll loose originality.Some say, with the fresh design may be cooler than the previous one but it isn't designed by the actual owner of blog in most cases and hence it looses trademark of the blog
• It won't be perfect.John Chow is still not able to correct the horizontal scrolling glitch because he hasn't actually designed the blog.Though the most designers do their level best to give 100% result a few bugs are still uncovered
• It will cost you.Don't expect the person designing to be generous.Good designers charge heavily.This problem is faced especially by small bloggers.

Ok I'm interested, but where to get a new design? 

For Wordpress, JustSkins and Unique Blog designs are accepting applications

For Blogger{mind you XML commonly known as "new Blogger"}we are are pleased to say that we can offer you a good design.We have already done two design makeovers,one of them is available here

Site Report for August

Welcome to this month's edition of site report.From today onwards, I'll publish a site statistics and blog income report on the 1st of each month.So today's September, so here's the report

According to analytics, We got round 10,000 impressions with around 6,000 unique visitors.Are top referral sources were

Blog Income Report

Adsense	30$
Kontera	2$
Text Link Ads{aff. prog.}	25$
Template business	20$
Money4banners aff. prog	10$
Other	3 $

Which adds up to 90${actual figure{89.7 $}

And one day, While checking my referral sites, I got some cool view.Who says we don't follow Google?

Participate

We need writers...

We are one of the fastest growing weblogs.Advertising here won't give you nuts as we are expecting a high PR with 800 back links, Technorati rank of 800{we are going fast} and are continuously getting a better rank by Alexa. 

As of now, the prices listed are very low indeed, because the PR update happens, I'll have quite a few direct advertisers.You can check How to advertise on Webtalks

Also, I'm going to give Adsense Ad unit, right in top of sidebar for direct sales.Once the PR update happens{ok ok I know its very late , but if it isn't exported till  mid September, I'll go for advertising with this PR only}...