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Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:53:04 -0800

After having seen some blogs about Entrecard and bounce rates i thought i would offer this free review on Entrecard.com being a beginner to blogging.

I dont know about you guys, but lately i am finding myself spending more time searching Entrecard than searching Google.

Please i am not comparing Entrecard to Google, it is just that Entrecard, in my opinion has three features that i found worked better for me.

Let me explain.

1) Searching

When i started my first website about 2 1/2 years ago, i spent weeks searching Google for Adsense tips and SEO advice. Most of the results that turned up sent me to either forums or to sites that just told you how much money they made.

Now please dont get me wrong i learnt a lot from some of these forums and websites but it was time consuming.

Entrecard.com on the other hand has categories for different niches. So if i need tips on marketing my website, i can just search the "internet marketing or marketing" section. Easy! At least i know that i will find something relating to the topic, not just pages of websites that are fully SEO optimized or ranked well and may just contain the keyword or phrase once or twice.
Some of the blogs i found on Entrecard, actually show you step by step on how to set up a BANS site for instance, which saves the beginner an enourmous amount of time.

2) Free advertising.

When i visit a site on Entrecard and want to learn about affiliate marketing i can drop a card and collect credits to use to advertise my site on other blogs.

So i learn and earn at the same time.

Put it this way, when i first started this blog about 6 weeks ago, and not having heard of Entrecard.com, with the marketing methods i had down on paper, i was expecting 300-500 visitors a month for the first few months. Well now its 3000 - 4000 a month and still rising. I also did not expect Adsense earnings to almost double so quickly, so that is another bonus.

3) Entrecard is more personnel.

Thanks to Entrecard i am visiting some pretty good blog sites i have never seen before. And let me tell you, there are some really talented and decent folks out there.

All of the blog owners i have got in contact with, have replied very quickly. Unlike my other site zipposuperstore.com, where i just send an email and maybe half the suppliers will respond. Oh well, their loss, they are the ones who are losing money by missing out on my purchase.

In closing who cares about bounce rates when your blog is not even 3 months old. If i make money online thats all i care about. Sorry and of course i care for my fellow Entrecard members.

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Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:20:22 -0800

When i first started out with my first website, i knew nothing about CSS let alone website design. So over to the forums, learnt basic CSS and installed EditCSS. EditCSS is a Firefox add-on where you can make changes to your stylesheet and see the results in real time.

For a beginner there are thousands of free Wordpress and Joomla templates out there, but i noticed that most of the ones i liked, there was just one or two little things i did not like about it and just kept on searching for one i could use.

That is actually what got me into CSS in the first place, i was sick of seeing the same templates over and over again on different websites.

When you run this add on it brings up a left hand sidebar where you can make changes to the CSS of any page and you see the results straight away. ( See picture below )

Say i didn't like the colour of my left and right sidebar of my template and wanted to change it, but i am not sure of what it will look like, let alone what i am doing to my template!

So i open EditCSS, find the section i want to edit change the colour of my sidebar.

Oooops, doesn't look too good now does it, better change it back.

That change took 2 seconds, not only can you make CSS changes before implementing them on your website and seeing the effect, it can save you time too. At the moment i dont think you can save changes and upload the stylesheet but it is still a usefull tool to help you learn CSS.

Now the evil side come out! Whose website can i change... hehehe

I was going to do Google, but thought i better not.

If you are a beginner to CSS and just want to make changes without worrying about damage to your website, this is just one of a few Firefox CSS addons around.

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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:42:16 -0800

This post is a bit off the topic on how to make money online, but i was going through my record collection today. I was getting it ready to add it my collection website and had a thought. ( and yes i do have them occasionally )

With all the lists going around at the moment, iwould list my Top Ten Albums that i own. Some are records, yes that's right, i still listen to records. There is just something about the way a record sounds.

The Top Ten is taken from about 30 albums in my collection and i can only choose one album from a band . I will also add a few of my favorite songs from each album.

10: Credence Clearwater Revival - Cosmos Factory: Looking Out My Backdoor and Travelin' Band.

9: Little Feat - Dixie Chicken: Fat Man In The Bath Tub and Dixie Chicken.

8: Bob Dylan - The Genuine Basement Tapes Volume 4: You Aint Goin Nowhere, See You Later Allen Ginsberg and I Am A Teenage Prayer.

7: Deep Purple - Made In Japan: Highway Star, Space Truckin and Smoke On The Water.

6: The Doors - Morrison Hotel: Peace Frog, Road House Blues and You Make Me Real.

5: AC/DC - Back In Black: You Shook Me All Night Long, Hells Bells and Have A Drink On Me.

4: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon:Us and Them, Eclipse, Time and The Great Gig In The Sky.

3: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV: Black Dog, Rock and Roll, Misty Mountain Hop, Stairway To Heaven and Going To California.

2: Johnny Cash - At San Quentin: Wreck Of Old 97, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue, San Quentin, Wanted Man and Old Account Was Settled Long Ago.

1: The Band - The Last Waltz: Up On Cripple Creek, Such A Night, Down South In New Orleans, Mystery Train, Evangeline, The Weight ( take a load of Fanny ) and Ophelia.

Other albums just outside the top ten include

AC/DC - Highway To Hell ( RIP Bon )
The Who - Who Are You
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Grateful Dead - Skeletons In The Closet
Devo - Q:Are We Not Men? No We Are Devo!
Eagles - Hotel California
Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

In future posts i might do a review on some of these albums, explaining why i like each record. So if you would like to see a review of these albums or future posts, please subscribe via RSS or email.

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Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:57:10 -0800

Since joining Entrecard.com i have seen numerous sites telling you how to make money online but not actually explaining how they do it. Most tell you join this site or try this ad company while some sites just tell you how much a site made for them.

If you are a beginner and you are interested in how to make money online from home you should check out jtpratt.com

In their latest series of posts, they are explaining step by step on how to set up your own BANS site. Every detail will be covered, and as the owner explains; “I’ll write about how to customize and promote this brand new site and you’ll get to watch whether or not I can make money with “Build a Niche Store”

But i think the description of this website is what drew me in. “Make more money blogging and with niche sites by Learning from My Mistakes”.

Good, better him than me making the mistakes was my first thought.

As i have only been blogging a short time i found www. jtpratt.com a great site for all the latest blogging tips, marketing ideas and general website advice.

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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:02:12 -0800

Having been involved in running a online store for a few years, i decided to start my own blog site, so please understand this is just my opinion

Since starting Entrecard.com i have seen a hell of a lot of blog sites lately. Some of them
have had outstanding posts where i have learnt a great deal. But one thing puzzled me?

With the price these days of domain names and website hosts, why are these great blogs on a free blogging site?
So i thought we would put together a little list of the pros and cons on wether to join a blogging site, which was where i originally started.

Joining an established blogging site like blogger. has plenty of advantages, especially for the blog
novice. Sites that host a lot of different blogs often have very useful tutorials about building and updating your
blog, and you are likely to encounter a very user-friendly software interface at an established blogging
site. In addition, these sites provide a kind of instant community of fellow bloggers who can provide advice,
insight, and feedback. These established sites often keep directories of their members, which can be great news for your traffic logs because it means that other bloggers on the site will find out about your pages.

However, there are also some downsides to linking up with a large blogging site. By posting within the
established templates of a site like blogger, you run the risk of having your blog look and feel like everybody
else's. The blogging community is very much about the creation of distinctive sites and the development of
individual voices, so it makes plenty of sense that many bloggers would shy away from the standard look and feel that these blogging sites often promote. Many bloggers feel that the content of a blog is what makes it distinctive, not the look of the blog.

But with the features, ease of use and the Wordpress community, much more can be
done now to enhance and market your blog site. Throw on a few Adsense ads and it will pay for itself
within the first few months. There are many ways you can also display ads on your site and make even more money
online.

Give Wordpress a go and you will be amazed at the results you will get. It cost us less then $20 to get started. and thanks to Entrecard.com we made $8 last month through this blog site alone just using Google Adsense , so there is the years hosting paid for already

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Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:58:58 -0800

I suppose you all have seen the emails about making money online, you know the ones " look how i made $100,000.00 on the net".

All the making money online tips we had found, required us to pay someone else for some rubbish that most people give up after 1 month when they see their Adsense account with $20 in it. Like ours now!

Now! Still in the same boat, but at least now we have the arsenal to start making money online from home in the right place. Where did we find advice on making money? Digital point forums, thats where. Digital Point Forums! That's where.

These guys are great. Digital point is basically a forum dealing with webmaster help, including optimization, tools, website marketing and other web related topics. Everything is easy to find and found the Adsense category the best for making money online.

Over the next few months we are going to let our readers follow our path on how we are going in making money online. We shall let you know the results weekly.

Here is one tip, if you want to make money online from home, you need high paying Adsense ads that match your blog or site. Its no use having high paying Adsense ads like "making money from home" if your visitors are only interested in or searching for zippo lighters.

How do i know that "make money from home" is a high paying Adsense ad? Cant tell you too much too quickly, i will show you where to get the tools needed to make money online from home.

Oh did i mention that we are going to do it all FREE. None of this will cost you anything if you dont want it too. We are not going to tell you to buy and setup 5 websites and sign up for Adwords ( please we are not having a go at this method ).

This is more of a hobby and we want to make money online from home not rip people off with half truths and promises or pay for this or that. If some of our methods do not work, at least it wont have cost you anything.

All the tricks we use to make money online from home will be shown. If you are interested in our blog on making money online and SEO advice just link to our RSS blog feed.