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Today I found interesting site which gives a $10.000 rewards to books which material are originally presented on a blog. Those books are called blooks. I have never heard this kind of possibility to make money with a blog. Of course your blog has to be much content before it can be translated into a book. But this is a very interesting competition because it do not cost much to participate, all you have to do is submit a one copy of the blook and complete entry form.

The Winners of the 2007 Blooker have been announced

“My War: Killing Time in Iraq”, by Colby Buzzell, has topped 110 entries from 15 countries to win the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize. It is the frank account of post-invasion Iraq as blogged directly from the war zone. Winning the Fiction category is “The Doorbells of Florence” by British blogger Andrew Losowsky. This book of short stories based on photographs was self-published through Lulu.com. Rounding out the awards is Comics category winner “Mom’s Cancer” by Brian Fies. Originally an Eisner Award-winning webcomic, it is the true-life account of his mother’s struggle with metastatic lung cancer. See the official contest blog for more details.

You can read the winner blog “My war” from the following link www.cbftw.blogspot.com. Check out also the main page of The Lulu Blooker Prize 2007.

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Last weekend I noticed that my visitor rates had dropped suddenly. I am hoping that drop is just temporary and readers will come back. I wonder what might caused that drop? Is it something related to Google and page indexing or what? I have read that sometimes Google might lose all your indexed pages but luckily those will come back after a day or two.

Well, I still try to keep posting new posts and probably readers will come back after a while. In fact, visitor rates have already gone higher during yesterday and today.

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Today while surfing in internet I saw this invitation to AdSense webinar.

Are you looking to make the most of your AdSense account? If so, then you need to attend our upcoming webinar, Taking It to the Next Level: Improving Your AdSense Performance. It’ll be held next Wednesday, May 16th at 10:30am PDT.During
this one hour overview, our support specialists will provide you with
tips and suggestions that we’ve found to significantly improve AdSense
performance. Topics covered will include:

- Using channels to track your ad performance
- Optimizing your ad placement, design, and layout
- Noticing trends and making proactive improvements to your site
- Keeping your account in good standing

So tomorrow you have a good opportunity to get valuable tips to improve your AdSense performance. I can not attend to live webinar, but luckily those webinars are being recorded so it is possible to watch those afterwards. From the following link you can find all previous webinars.

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A couple of days ago I joined in the program called Marketing Pond. MarketingPond is a free site that will help you get referrals to many of the sites you’re already signed up to. As a member of Marketing Pond you are given your own MP site with your own member ID url. You can then promote all your referral links with one site and keep track of each of them through your own backoffice. If anyone visits The Marketing Pond via your link and joins any of the programs listed, you will automatically be credited as the referrer.

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The idea of advertising all my referral programs with one URL is really fascinating. So, I did give a Marketing Pond a try. At least it did not cost anything so I will not lose any money, but I might earn some money with Marketing Pond. Free publisity is always welcome and it helps me to promote my affiliate programs more efficiently.

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There has been a lot of new ways to boost up your blogs traffic rates. I decided to collect all my traffic boost project to one post. So here are those projects:

Technorati favorites exchange

I saw Dosh Dosh blog post about Technorati favorites exchange and decited to participate that exchange project. You can also participate Dosh Dosh project, read instructions from Dosh Dosh blog post. I think that Dosh Dosh has discovered a great idea of exhanging links.

Exchanging StumpleUpon stumbles

Inspired by Dosh Dosh Technorati favorites exchange I decided to try exchange for StumbleUpon stumbles. As you know, getting your blog stumbled may drive a huge load of traffic to your pages. And all that is totally free publicity to your blog.

Increase your Alexa rankings

Many bloggers want to improve their Alexa rankings because then you have a lot better opportunities to take for example high paying posts at PayPerPost program. Let’s take another example, if you have a choice between advertising on site A (Alexa ranking 240,000) or site B (Alexa ranking 100,000) it would not be difficult choice.

Just discovered Z-list, great way to boost your traffic rates

Today I discoverd Z-list. That sounds very interesting way to boost your traffic rates. With that list, you basically share blogs that you fing interesting or a worth to visit. But you have to remember that it is against good manners to add your own blog address to your Z-list. You only have to hope that someone from Z-list visist in your blog and somehow send a link back to your blog.

With help of those, I have managed to get a lot of backlinks to my blog. That means a lot of visibility to my blog and as you know more visibility equals more traffic.

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Now it is time to show my week 19 earnings. First number indicates this week earnings and number in the brackets is all time cumulative earnings.

Week 19 earnings report (cumulative)

Half of this week money came from Hits4Pay. It is doing better and better all the time. After I bought referrals from BuyRefs.com to Hits4Pay, my earnings are increased and I believe that incomes will increase all the time when my network starts to build their own downline. I am little bit surprised that Hits4Pay is making such a good profit per week already. I thought that it will start making money after a couple of months.

There has been nothing to digg in Subvert and Profit program. That is why earnings from that program is zero. I am hoping that they can provide more diggs for following weeks, because they are paying pretty good when you digg a story ($0.50 per digg).

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I have been very busy with our courtyard project during this week. And the next two following weeks are going to be very busy also. I have planned to put asphalt and paving stones (I do not know if that term is correct) in to my house courtyard. So I have to do a lot of ground work to get my driveway to the correct lever. Here is a one photo from our front yard. Asphalt is coming to the driveway and paving stones to the front of the house.

I have build our house about one and a half years ago. And we still have a little bit work left with our garden Well, during the following two or three weeks we are able to finish all the gardening and yard work.

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I found an evil way to get more hits to your Revver.com videos page, or it may be some other video or image service as well. By submitting your video or image collection address to traffic exchanges you will get a lot of visibility to your videos or images. Some image service programs are paying people when someone clicks their images. Revver.com(much similar than youtube)  for example adds an advertisement at the end of video and if someone clicks that advertisement then you get money from it. When more people see your videos the better opportunity to is to earn a little bit of it.

I have thought to test this theory by buying 10000 visitors to my site from BuyRefs.com. It costs only $7.45 so I will not lose much money. And in the best case I will earn that money back with my videos. I will inform test results when those are available. My plan is to buy those visitors during this week and then all I have to do is basically wait and check the result.

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I have got a lot of backlinks to my blog during Technorati favorites exchange. That is another good reason to join in Technorati favorites exchange project. As you can see this exchage project has many good effects to your blog. I have got around 100 backlinks to my blog. Getting that much backlinks for example with link exchange takes a very much hard work and time. And still with link exchange your blog visibility may not be as huge as it is with Technorati favorites exchange project.

Taking part of these exchange projects is not all of gaming favorites etc. Those exchange projects also provides very valuable backlinks from blogs where it may usually be hard to get backlinks. And when it comes time to re-check your Google Page Rank, all those backlinks are then very valuable.

Of course with all these exchange projects you are able to find many interesting blogs that you may have missed or did not found elsewhere. I personally check at least once every blog which gives backlink/trackback for me. That is the way I have found many good blogs.

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I have had Criteo AutoRoll widget now about 6 weeks in my blog. During that time I have got 10 visitors from other blogs using the same Criteo AutoRoll widget.That is better than nothing, but I must admit that traffic has been very minimal.

I will let Criteo AutoRoll to show up it’s power for another month. If traffic from other blogs using Criteo AutoRoll widget, do not seem to go higher, I am considering to remove widget from my blog. It seems that Criteo is the only site which benefits from this AutoRoll widget. What are your opinions about that widget? Do you find it annoying, or do you just ignore it?

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