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Most of us can ' t afford college in the first place... So how are we supposed to afford life while in college?... That was the very first thing that caught my attention when I visited Mike ' s blog at College Students Are Poor Dot Com ... Honestly I too went through some hard times trying to make ends meet when I was studying for my degree a couple of years ago... So when I stumbled across Mike ' s blog, I said to myself, "Hey, Mike ' s got a point there, many of us did or are going through tough times!"... It ' s blog with a mixture of making money tips, being cost savvy, how to save money as well as finding free resources for college students... In fact as a working adult, I actually learn a thing or two from reading Mike ' s blog... … View Post »

What makes 23Blogs different from other link exchange sites?... always get requests to place exchange links onto my blog roll... 23blogs.com is a free 1:10 text link exchange that provides blogs the ability to cross-promote each other... you place our html code within 24 hours.)... Next up is to grab the codes for the 23Blogs widget... You would then be brought to the page shown in the screenshot below: Click on the "HTML Code" link to get your 23Blogs widget code... The idea of using 1:10 text link exchange is well worth a try and I don ' t see the problem of blogs being blacklisted by Google for link baiting since links come from blogs which are also related to your own blog (in other words, under the same category)... Till my next post, cheers and happy blogging!... … View Post »

Among all the free Blogger template sites, I would personally say that EblogTemplates rank among the best... The cool thing about this site is the integrated template preview function... You would then be brought to the preview page of that template as shown in the screenshot below: Clicking on the template immediately enlarges the template, allowing you a better view of it... See screenshot below: If you ' re still unconvinced, click on the small square logo as shown in the screenshot below to expand the template to it ' s actual size: Check out how a full size template would look like: If you fancy a particular template, just click on the "Download Now" button and the template is saved directly to your PC... Now that ' s what I call a user friendly site and EblogTemplates is certainly one of those sites that deserves this status... Till my next post, cheers and happy blogging to all!... In addition, a Digg or Stumble for this post would definitely make my day... … View Post »

Want your readers to know what you ' re up to?... Well here ' s a cool widget from Twitter.com that might just serve that very purpose... By installing a twitter box on your blog, you can start chirping away....erm I meant update your readers with what you ' re doing... Get yourself registered at Twitter.com ( you don ' t even need an e - mail verification in order to start using twitter ) 2... Click on the Home tab and you should see this page below: 3... Write about what you ' re up to currently on the" What are you doing" text box... Now to get a twitter box installed on your blog, click the" Put your updates on your site!" link as shown in the screenshot below: 5... You should see the" Display Twitters on your web page" page as shown in the screenshot below: 6... In my case, I ' ve decided to use the" Other" option as I prefer to install the widget manually using the code provided... Selecting the" Other" option would then bring you to the" Which type of badge would you like?... Customize the color of your badge to suit your blog by clicking on" Badge Color"... In fact if you see screenshot from point number 2, you have the option to add your friends and track what they are up to as well... … View Post »

Perhaps it ' s time to find out by using this backlink checker from Backlink Watch All you need to do is just to enter your blog ' s url and let Backlink Watch do the rest... … View Post »

Special thanks to scrapur for providing this wonderful hack!... Go to Layout of your blogger account... Search for this code ] ] / b:skin as shown in the screenshot below: 3... Copy the following codes below ( provided by scrapur.com ) script src= ' http: / / scrapur.com / index / wp - content / uploads / 2008 / 02 / smile.js ' type= ' text / javascript ' / 4... Paste the code right below the ] ] / b:skin code as shown in the screenshot below: 5... Use the following keywords below to display your preferred smiley / emoticon on your blog post... In order to add a smiley / emoticon to your blog post, press the SPACE key first followed by the keywords that signifies the smiley you like... … View Post »

I love it whenever I come across widgets which are FREE to use... When I say FREE, I meant no registrations or e - mail required in order to get a widget... I recently stumbled upon a cool widget called FineTune Radio that lets your readers enjoy songs from Akon, Avril, Beyonce, Cristina, Coldplay, U2, The Killers, Green Day, 2 PAC, Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, Creed, Radio Head, John Mayer and many more right from your blog... This 215 x 220 pixel size widget should fit perfectly on most blogs especially if you place it on the right or left sidebar... There ' s also a built in SEARCH function on this widget that lets your readers search for their favorite song or artist... If you like your blog to have its very own FineTune Radio widget, head on over to Widgetbox and grab the code at FineTune Radio Widget With this widget in place, rest assured that your readers would be treated with some pretty cool songs while reading from your blog... … View Post »

In order to place an ad space on this blog, you ' ll probably need to fork out a couple of hundred dollars... Dispair not my fellow readers and bloggers as there is another way to get your blog to appear on Problogger... The answer lies is in Entrecard... The image above is infact a screenshot of ProBlogger ' s account at Entrecard... If we take a look at the Price portion right below the 125x125 banner of ProBlogger, it cost about 8192 Entrecard credits just to advertise on ProBlogger ' s blog for one day... Perhaps a day of fame by having your blog appear on ProBlogger ' s blog is well worth all the 8192 credits... In fact my blog also had its very own one day" fame" on ProBlogger ' s blog at the expense of 2048 credits!... Take a look at the screenshot below: 2048 credits for 82 clicks from ProBlogger ' s blog to my blog in my opinion is not a profitable Return of Investment considering the fact that ProBlogger has thousands of unique visitors daily... … View Post »

As promised, the results for the Bloggerfocus" Guess My Blog Traffic" contest: 1st Prize of 500 Entrecard credits and 5000 Beer Credits goes to Meehoon of Fark.my 2nd Prize of 350 Entrecard credits and 3500 Beer Credits goes to BobbyT of Bobbytoat.blogspot.com 3rd Prize: No takers Since only two comments were made for this contest, both commentors automatically won themselves the first and second prize... Although this contest drew little response from the readers ( perhaps due to the unattractive prizes on offer ), I ' m still happy to receive comments it... For the winners, do claim your prizes by e - mailing me at sksee82@yahoo.com Since the third prize of 150 Entrecard credits and 1500 Beer Credits has got no takers, I ' m gonna award it to the 8th person that leaves a comment here... In fact I ' m also throwing in a blog review from Bloggerfocus Dot Com to the 8th person who comment here!... … View Post »