Ways 2 Earn Online

Entrecard isn’t just another free advertising network. Unlike other free ad networks, you can spend your points for advertising of your blog or you can sell them also! And earning of points in Entrecard depends on you and your blog, which is another difference between Entrecard and other such networks.

Let me introduce its working in simple terms, because more details about its mechanism you can read on www.Entrecard.com itself.

So, there are two ways to earn ec (Entrecard) points (and so the money!). First way : You can let other bloggers to advertise on your blog and earn ec points on daily basis (minimum 2 ec/day). The advertising cost for your blog (which is 2ec/day at the start) can be increased if the rate of dropping of card on your blog increases. Don’t panic, the dropping of card is described below.

Dropping of card is the second way to earn ec points. If you are logged in to your Entrecard account, then you will find a “Drop” button on other blogs (which are joined in Entrecard program). Just hit that button and you have dropped your card into that blogger’s Entrecard-inbox. Each drop earns you 1 ec point and the maximum limit is 300 drops per day. Of course, you can drop only 1 card per blog per day. You can browse all blogs joined to Entrecard by going to Campaign page in Entrecard account. So if you have enough time, you can earn daily 300 ec points!

As this post is just an introduction to Entrecard, more posts related to it will be posted soon, which may include my success story in Entrecard!

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If you are using a Wordpress based blog, you have the power to customize your blog in your own way, to feel something unique. But in case of plugins, there are some general steps to follow to make your blog work better for you and your readers (so please follow them without being unique )

So, let me first list down the most important plugins for your Wordpress blog. Here is the list:

(1) All in One SEO Pack - This plugin helps you to make your blog easily indexed by major search engines. You can easily manage meta tags, a description of your blog, title format for your posts and many other things.

(2) Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin saves your time in generating a site-map for your blog. Again site-maps help your blog or site to be crawled by search engines easily. And if your are using Google Webmaster service (it’s free ), then you must have your site-map to find out detailed analysis of your blog or site.

(3) Akismet - This plugin is already installed in Wordpress. This plugin fights against spam comments. In their words-“Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.”

(4) WordPress Database Backup - This plugin makes it easier to backup your data. If this data is lost by any means, your blog will lose all postings and comments. So it’s very important to backup your blog’s database. You can automate the backup process at certain time interval using this plugin.

(5) Subscribe Remind - Want your readers to subscribe your feeds? Then remind them by putting a reminder at the end of each post, which is the function of this plugin! You can edit the message shown at the end of each post. The message contains a link to your subscription page.

(6) FeedBurner FeedSmith - This is the plugin who use FeedBurner service for their blog’s feeds (who doesn’t use it?). In their words-“this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.”

This plugin also solves a problem related to Subscribe Remind plugin. If you don’t use FeedSmith, you will have problems concerning your Feed URL, because in the reminder message, your feed URL will be different than what is provided by FeedBurner and that will be ended up in a broken link. By using FeedSmith plugin, that problem vanishes.

(7) WP-ContactForm: Akismet Edition - Be professional on your Contact me page. Don’t put just your email address, but put a contact form using this plugin. And yes, this also provides protection against spam as do the Askimet.

In addition to these, you should also use plugins related to Social Bookmarking. There are many plugins related to this topic, and so I don’t suggest one. You can choose anyone for that which matches your taste. Just Google for that

Hope this plugins will work for you and save your time. If you have time, you can go through a list of 101 Top Wordpress plugins here.

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In the process of submitting my blog to the blog directories, I came across www.blogcatalog.com which is not just a blog directory.

BlogCatalog is like a large social networking site specially created for bloggers. You can find many other blogs belonging to your niche and see their content. You can also contact any blogger there by sending him (or her) private message or a message in his shoutbox. So, you can request a blogger to have a look at your blog and can get some feedback about your blog’s design and content.

There are also many communities on BlogCatalog. Joining communities related to your blog’s niche or related to new bloggers can help you a lot. You can easily get backlinks by posting on such communities. But don’t spam there, let it be clean forever.

BlogCatalog has a search engine too, which really brings appropriate results. You can get another source of traffic from there. And yes, BlogCatalog gives a Rank to the submitted blogs, which is out of 100. Better blogs will have their rank towards 100, and low quality blogs will have it nearer to zero. There is no authority-like option as in Technorati. So, it prevents tricky link exchanges as found in the blogosphere due to Technorati rank.

The best part of BlogCatalog is its helpfulness to the new blogs. In Technorati, your new blog will have no authority and hence the worst rank. In contrast, BlogCatalog doesn’t give a zero rank to new blogs. One another thing is pinging. You don’t need to ping your blog for BlogCatalog. It automatically does it for us, without any errors as found in Technorati.

As you may know Technorati publishes a list of Top 100 blogs. This is really a killing thing for other new but useful blogs. People love to see most popular things and so, the most popular things become more and more popular. If you love to see only popular ones, you can’t get out of it! I am a big fan of Stumbleupon and now, you should be knowing why (and why I don’t like Digg much).

In conclusion, BlogCatalog seems to be more dedicated to bloggers and readers than Technorati. I would like to see your feeling, so comment on!

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