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The lack of high quality websites has meant that the demand for the few that are available has shot up through the roof. Webmasters looking to promote their sites find that they have cash in hand but not enough inventory to invest in. Blogs, websites, directories etc are all in high demand. Paid blogging has been frequently covered on this blog in articles like top paid blogging reviews. In this news story we look at Linkworth and see how they help the webmaster in you to make that extra dollar. Read the rest of this entry »

As promised we are back with our next photoshop tutorial. As with the previous one (the Gold text effect), this one is also targetted towards the beginners. This tutorial will help you to add neon glow effect to your text. This tutorial makes use of the stroke property of blending option to create this effect. Try it out and let us know if you liked it. Read the rest of this entry »

The launch of Smorty has added another competitor in the world of blog advertising. Smorty connects bloggers and advertisers in a seamless way. Advertisers looking for honest reviews submit their requirements to Smorty. These oppurtunities are then presented to bloggers who write on the same topic. Bloggers get paid for their activity.

Smorty differs from other similar services in that the payout offered to bloggers is not dependent only on the advertiser. Read the rest of this entry »

The internet is all about relevant content. Or as they say using a cliche ‘Content is king’. But where do you get the content. If you have a blog, you may write short articles on which you have an opinion. But not all intenet users are looking out for your opinion. Most of them are looking for data. A number of them are looking for some kind of service. They want to know where the nearest airport is. They want to know how they can create a paper plane at home. They may want to print some visiting cards overnight. So, as a webmaster and the owner of a web business, you need to find out ways to satisfy this demand. Read the rest of this entry »

A community is only as good as its members. The members need to be energetic, participative and loyal to the forum. Which is why a community like the one at DP is so full of activity. So how do you ensure that there are new members joining everyday and existing members actively participate in the forum? This is especially difficult in a new forum since members would love some existing conversation to participate in. Without the members participating how can there be conversations? A classic example of ‘which came first - bird or the egg’. Read the rest of this entry »

The internet is all about doing things differently and more conveniently. And as a webmaster, you must always be looking at ways to achieve those objectives. It may not be always be possible to ‘create’ and ‘invent’ new stuff and ideas. You can also try and look at things from a different angle. There are so many services provided (most of them free) which you can implement in a site to give it a flavor that is both refreshing and energising. One such example is this website which helps in searching for office space in london and its surrounding areas. Read the rest of this entry »

With a large number of hosting companies vying for a share of the market, a number of add-on complementary services are now provided. As a customer, you must know the best deals currently available in the industry. Also if you have your own web hosting companu, see if you are competing effectively. Naturally if your competitor is providing something ‘more’ for the customer, you need to match the offer.

Most web hosting deals now come with an simple to use professional web design software. Softwares like Sitebuilder and Web studio are usually part of most web hosting packages. Read the rest of this entry »

What is a keyword? Keywords are words which describe the nature of content on a page. These are used by contextual programs to identify which ads to serve. So if Adsense or YPN determines the keyword to loans and payday  on a page, it will serve related ads while if it finds holiday and fun, it may serve vacation and travel related ads. This means that once you are able to finetune the keywords on your site, you can control the type of ads served and in turn get higher paying ads. There are various keyword analysis tools available on various sites to help you optimise your keyword strength. Read the rest of this entry »

As most webmasters know, it is that time again where there are umpteen threads on forums asking ‘Has the PR update started?’ or telling ‘my site PR has changed’. Google PR is updated in the toolbar roughly once in 3 months. The last update was sometime in early January meaning the next one should be due anytime now. This is also the time when most webmasters regularly use pagerank checkers to find out if their hard work has paid off. Read the rest of this entry »

myContentWebsite.com is now listed on http://www.pagerank2.com/, a free Google pagerank checking site. Pagerank2.com itself has a Google PR of 5 - this means that the site is strong and itself has strong backlinks.

Pagerank2.com is a rapidly growing free pagerank checking utility website. According to the owner of PageRank2.com, the site currently receives around 30,000 hits every month. When you look at the number of sites that provide similar services, this is a very decent traffic to have. Read the rest of this entry »