Blogger Lounge

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Blogger Lounge On.Top

Welcome to the Blogger Lounge OnTop. In this section you´ll find the latest top lists about the blogging world and other interesting facts. OnTop is a compilation of top lists about some of the hottest topics on the Web, we are trying to give you the best resources and tools for your blog. Take a look to our top lists you might find some interesting facts, if you have your own top list or any suggestion please send it to us and we will post it. Enjoy!.

Top 10 Largest Blog Networks
Top 10 Search Engines

Posted by George C. at 2:35 PM

Thursday, August 10, 2006

AdSense Preview Tool

Have you ever wondered which AdSense ads are you going to get in a certain page or post of your blog ? Well Amit Agarwal´s blog Digital Inspiration has a very useful tool to preview the AdSense ads you might get in your blog or website, actually it is called "Contextual Ads Preview and Comparison Tool " and it also a preview tool for Chitika and YPN.

This tools allows the user to put his URL or the keywords of his blog or website and displays the posible ads for that website or for those keywords, but that´s not all you can even "play" with the colors of the ads to see which combination is the best for your website or blog.

This sandbox tool displays text ads, adlink units, image ads, chitika malls, yahoo ads and others. and and shows you wich ads your site is likely to show. You can use this preview tool to see if your content is good enough or if you are actually going to receive high quality or relevant ads in your site. This is a very useful money making application, and let me give you one tip, try to find the ads your blog´s competitors can display, in this way you can see if they are getting relevant ads or if they are just playing around.

You can find the "Contextual Ads Preview and Comparison Tool" Here.

Posted by George C. at 2:32 PM :: (0) comments

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Email subscription services

Everyone owns an email account, then ,why not promote your blog via email? This will help you to increase the number of subscribers of your blog and will also allow you to deliver a newsletter to each subscriber. This tools enable you to send your readers a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest posts right into your visitor´s inbox.

Email subscriptions is very important for blogs because this will also increase the loyalty of your readers that will be waiting for the next update of your blog. These tools enables you to manage you email subscribers and to design your own newsletter to match your blog´s design. Another advantage of this applications is that you will be able to schedule your newletter for a certain day, week or month. Here is a list of some free and useful email subscritption services. Enjoy them.

Zookoda: Is a free email marketing application specially designed for bloggers with many features like real time reports and broadcasts.

FeedBlitz: A leading blog and rss email subscription service, boost your readership!

Mailer4U: Create and send newsletters via email.

ListPower: Is a free mailing list manager that enables you to send a custom newsletter to all your subscribers.

Posted by George C. at 1:09 PM :: (0) comments

Blog Polls

Have you ever participated in a poll? I´m sure you have, even if you just saw it on a website and you answered in your mind. The truth is tha online polls are a very good way to increase visibility, interest and traffic, they can boost your number of readers and attract more. If you own a website or a blog you can make a poll about anything you want, money, business, favorite place, favorite color or favorite car, anything. Online polls are also a very useful statistic resource because you can analize the results and see how your readers and visitors think or what they need.

Make polls in your blog and you´ll see the response of your readers you´ll also increase your traffic and you can analize your results. Here are some free resources and tools to create, manage and analize polls.

Polldaddy: Offers free online polls for your blog, just copy and paste the code wherever you want the poll to appear.

Pollverize: Create as many polls as you wish.

Easy Poll: Create and mage your polls and questionaries.

Snapoll: Change colors and layout of your polls and use them in your blog.

Vizu: Create polls for your blog readers and for your email subscribers.

Ballot Box: Keep your visitors coming back to see your polls.

Poll Pub: Create your own free polls and contest for your readers.

Remember that the use of polls is a very successful strategy to draw visitors to your blog.

Posted by George C. at 12:18 PM :: (0) comments

Blog Statistics

Stats are very important to analize your traffic and to kinow how your blog is working, there are many free stat services that offer you a great range of features that help you successfully analize your blog or website. If you want to be a professional blogger and make real money then you need something to measure your traffic. Some of the features of these services and tools are:

Hit counters: This feature gives you a report about how many hits your blog or website receives during a certain period of time, lets say hits per day or hits per month or total hits.

Visit counters: This special feature reports how many visits your blog or website received during a certain period of time, some of them are real time counters, this means that they are updating constantly and giving you a general report at the end of the day.

Referrers: This nice feature allows you to analize where your traffic is coming from, you can actually see if your readers come from a search engine or form another website.

Keyword analizers: This feature gives you a report about which keywords where used to find your blog or website.

Users Online: When this feature is enabled gives you a constant report on how many users or readers are reading your website or blog in that exact moment.

If you use a statistic system for your blog and if you analize your traffic and your readers then you would be able to apply new strategies and your blog is going to grow along with your income. Take a look and use these free professional stats analizers.

Blog Patrol: Measure your blog stats with these free ready to use counters and tools.

MapStats: Track your visitors and submit your blog.

Histats: Very useful statistic software for website and blogs, track your visitors, analize your traffic and predict it.

Free-Counter: Get free counters and stats for your blog or website and add your blog to their directory.

Stat Counter: Very reliable tool to analize your traffic with invisible counters.

ShinyStat: Real time counters and traffic reports for your blog or website.

FeedBurner: Attract readers and analize your subscribers.

Posted by George C. at 11:53 AM :: (0) comments

Affiliate Programs

So you want to make money online, ok let´s talk about affiliate programs, for those who dont know what this means let me give you a brief explanation. Affiliate programs are very popular right now. An Affiliate program or an associate program is an arrangement between two parts, the merchant website and the affiliate website, the first one pays the second one for a certain service in many case they pay their affiliates to send them traffic, But there are many ways to get paid with this affiliate programs. you might have heard of many people making money with affiliate programs.

Each affiliate program has its own terms and conditions but the main purpose is the same , affiliate programs are to make money to generate an icome for websites or blogs. You can use many of these programs in the same website but there are others that don´t allow you to do so. Affiliate programs are one of the best ways to quick cash on the internet. You don't need to sell your own products and in some cases you don´t even need to own a website.

The most popular affiliate programs are Google AdSense and YPN , these kind of programs put special ads in your website and pay you each time an ad is clicked. One of the best things about this programs is that you can sign up for free. The amount of money you will receive per sale or per click depends on the affiliate program that you signed up for. Most companies offer on average about five to ten percent commission on every sale and from $0.05 to almost $50 per click, depending on your keywords and content. Some companies will give you money for every referral you send to them whether they buy a product or not. Just take a look into each company guidelines before signing up and find the one that best suites your needs.

Here is a list of some of the most profitable affiliate programs available. Choose your the one you prefer and start making money.

Google AdSense: The king of all affiliate programs, with this simple Pay-Per-Click program you can make lots and lots of money almost without effort.

Yahoo Publisher Network: Pay-Per-Click program, display ads that are relevant to the content of your site and earn money from qualified clicks.

ClickBank: Internet´s leading retailer of digital products, you can promote their products in your website and get paid for each sale, with commissions as high as 75% and more than 10,000 products to promote.

Amazon.com Associates: Displays ads with products of amazon.com, you can earn up to 8.5% in referral fees, create and post links to amazon.com and get paid.

eBay Affiliate Program: Earn money just bu driving traffic to eBay.com , earn up to 65% commission on eBay Revenue, earn up to $22 commission for new active user referrals.

CPays: Claims to have the highest commissions in the industry and they say it is guaranteed. More than 70% commissions. Another good option.

Forex Affiliate: Affiliating in the Forex market (currency exchange and trading) offers you a great earning potential. This program offers various earning options , just select the one (or more) that suits you best.

AdBrite: Write your own ads and start making money.

Text Link Ads: Publish simple text link ads in your blog and get paid.

Chitika eMinimalls: With more than 10,000 participating blogs and websites, promote products and receive money.

These are jus some affiliate programs we recommend but there are hundreds of them, you take a look to each one and choose the best for your online business and start making money online. More Affiliate Programs.

Posted by George C. at 11:12 AM :: (0) comments

How to host ICO files for free

As you know there are many kinds of images, there are .jpg, .bmp, .png, .ai, .eps etc. all these image formats are used to build websites and blogs. But if you want images in your blog you have to host them first, if you dont want to pay for a hosting service you can always use a free image hosting service, but there are some restrictions for image hosting. Let´s see, you can easily upload almost any image you have in your pc, but the problem comes when you try to upload .ICO files (stands for Icon) in that case it´s for sure that you are going to get an error message, something like " We are sorry but we couldn´t upload your image, please select only supported files" but Why would you want to upload an ICO file? well these kind af files are used to create what we know as Favicons. Favicons are those tiny images next to the title of a website or blog, and they are used to distinguish a website from another or just to provide a professional touch. Anyway if you want to upload an ICO file there are some options you might want to try.

How to host an ICO file for free

1. Go to one of these free hosting providers.

Freewebs They allow you to create as many accounts as you wish.
110MB They give you not 110 mb but 2000 mb of free hosting but for an ico file you just need about 5 kb.
Bravenet You can create more than 5 website in one account and they support all kind of files.
50Megs A very reliable free hosting service.

...and create an account.

2. Go to your control pannel or to your file manager in the members area of the service you chose.

3. Look for your icon in your hard drive and then upload it.

4. Copy the URL of the ICO file and use it in you other websites or blogs and that´s it.

As you can see this is very easy to do and sometimes it is even obvious but many people dont know how to host ICO files. Dont forget that if you are hosting a favicon you cannot host two of them in the same location, why? because in order to use a favicon for you blog or website you will have to name it "Favicon.ico" therefore if you try to host another favicon in the same folder the first one will be replaced by the new one, but no problem, remember that you can create another folder and upload the new favicon to this new folder in the same account.

Posted by George C. at 10:45 AM :: (0) comments

The power of FeedBurner

We all know what FeedBurner is, but if you dont let me introduce it to you. FeedBurner is the largest and most popular feed management provider int he world. They help bloggers, podcasters and web publishers promote themselves and their content on the web.

FeedBurner also offers a large advertising network for feeds. If you use it in your blog it can help you to increase your traffic and your feed subscribers. Let me give you a brief review about FeedBurner for blogs. For all those bloggers that want to successfully promote their blog it is not enough just to publish posts and feeds (a feed is the format that allows your content to be delivered on the web to all subscribers) they need something more powerful. With FeedBurner you can also analize your traffic with their "Readers Tracking Tool", you can also track your most readed articles and posts to see which content is hot for your readers in your blog.

When you analize your traffic with FeedBurner you can learn how many subscribers you have and where they´re coming from and what they like more. Make your content available for everyone and increase your presence. Remember that traffic increases your income. Burn your feed.

Posted by George C. at 10:43 AM :: (0) comments

Premium Blog Editors

Nowadays there are several options in the market to create, edit and manage our blogs, some of them are free but very useful and efficient tools , each one of these blog editors offer different features that help us to make the most of ours blogs, lets review these powerful money making tools. I hope you try and ejoy each one of them to see which tool is the best for you.

Qumana: Great blog editing tool.

RocketPost 2: A very smart blog editor designed for serious bloggers.

w.Bloggar: A cool piece of software to edit and manage your blog.

WB Editor: Nice blog editor with a very simple to use interface.

BlogDesk: A very simple to use blog editing software.

Zoundry: Blog editing software that can make yoy earn money from product reviews.

Posted by George C. at 10:04 AM :: (0) comments

Top Paying Keywords for 2007

Good keywords are essential to improve your AdSense earnings, in order to get more money out from AdSense you have to make a good keyword research to see which words are the best ones for your blog or website, You have to find the most profitable keywords that make your online business grow, All the best AdSense earners are also good researchers, if you want to make more than just $100 a month (and maybe that´s too much) , make keyword research. There are many keyword services out there but some of them are not very reliable, and for this task you will need only reliable and professional sources. One more time, if you want to make a constant income from your website with AdSense pay more attention to keywords because good keywords are going to pay you more. After doing some research on the Internet last night, searching and studying all the best keyword resouces for AdSense we came out with a list for the most profitable AdSense Keywords for 2007, so study the list and select your keywords and start earning those bucks.

Top Paying Keywords for 2007

answering service--------$9.73
air charter---------------$8.00
auto insurance-----------$7.84
automobile insurance----$7.84
accept credit card--------$7.50
asset management-------$7.00
attorney michigan--------$7.00
air filters-----------------$6.74
auto insurance quote-----$6.48
affordable web hosting----$5.96
business intelligence------$12.50
budgeting software-------$12.10
bpm----------------------$10.01
business web hosting------$8.00
bad credit mortgage-------$7.53
bad credit home loan------$6.43
bill consolidation-----------$6.24
bankruptcy----------------$5.99
business phone system-----$5.95
california mortgage--------$19.39
car donation---------------$17.03
conference call-------------$15.65
california home loan--------$14.11
crm------------------------$13.00
crm software---------------$12.77
customer relationship management------$12.60
call center------------------$12.52
currency trading------------$11.71
cerebral palsy--------------$11.00
conference calling-----------$10.15
content management--------$10.05
drug rehab------------------$20.04
donate car-------------------$17.03
debt consolidation-----------$10.00
debt consolidation service----$10.00
equity loan-------------------$9.68
equipment leasing-------------$8.60
employee surveys-------------$8.01
edi----------------------------$7.00
florida lawyer----------------$12.55
florida mortgage--------------$12.55
forex-------------------------$10.23
help desk software------------$15.01
home mortgage refinancing----$13.79
home equity loans-------------$12.57
home equity loan---------------$12.57
health insurance california------$10.20
help desk-----------------------$10.08
investment fraud----------------$14.10
lead-----------------------------$13.42
laser hair removal---------------$9.00
llc-------------------------------$8.75
life insurance---------------------$7.72
life insurance quote---------------$7.16
life insurance company-----------$7.03
life insurance rate----------------$6.04
mesothelioma--------------------$75.01
mesothelioma attorney-----------$39.00
mailing lists-----------------------$8.82
medical billing software-----------$8.08
nevada corporation--------------$12.00
network security-----------------$10.10
new york lawyer-----------------$10.00
physician job----------------------$9.01
payday loans----------------------$8.97
point of sale software--------------$8.51
payroll service--------------------$8.50
payday advance-------------------$8.03
recruiting software----------------$19.00
refinance home--------------------$14.87
refinance home loan---------------$14.87
refinance home mortgage---------$14.87
refinancing home------------------$13.70
refinancing home loan-------------$13.70
refinancing mortgage--------------$10.65
sales lead--------------------------$15.63
second mortgage--------------------$11.25

Posted by George C. at 9:49 AM :: (0) comments

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Top Active Partners

Here is a list of our active partners. All of them are helping us to provide only the best information to create successful blogs and to make money from them. So take the time to visit their own successful blogs and to learn more form their experiences. "Thank you" to all of them.

(You and your blog can be part of our list)

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Be an active partner

Everybody has something to say, and I imagine that you have also something to express or to share with us here in the Blogger Lounge, if that´s the case then this post is for you. We would enjoy to learn about your experiences and ideas. It is our goal to post useful information for you to build a successful blog, but because of the great amount of information out there it is almost impossible to gather each piece of it and post it here, that´s why we need your help to increase our archives and to provide you only the best information. We are concient that there are maybe some things that we are missing, therefore we are asking you to share your knowledge and your ideas with us, almost any thing that helps us improve Blogger Lounge , because all the information here is to help you achieve your goals and to help you make money with your blog.

Let´s do this together, if you find something interesting that deserves attention about how to build successful blogs and how to make money with them, share it with all of us. Be an active partner and post it. Send us your own posts or tell us what you want to post at our email and we will post it for you giving you all the credit.

This is also a very good way to promote yourself and your blog. If you post something we will also include a brief description about you and your blog in our special section of "Top Active Partners". What are you waiting for? start sharing and posting. I want to post!

Posted by George C. at 4:02 PM :: (0) comments

Best website and blog design galleries

The following post is a list of the best website and blog design galleries where you can fin the most beautiful and impressive designs on the Web. A good design is essential for any successful blog or website, if you really want to make money with your blog then it must have a professional and unique design. We´ve all visited many cool websites and blogs, but what if you dont have a creative mind for design? or what if you dont have enough inspiration? well, remeber that beauty is very important; your readers want to visit a blog where they can feel comfortable and a good design is going to do just that. Take a deep look to this list and to each design you might find many interesting ideas for your blog, but remember to be unique and different. If you have a suggestion please let us know in your comments.

Blog Boom: A blog design specialized gallery.

CSS Drive: A huge compilation of some of the best designs on the Web.

CSS Import: This web design gallery has a lot of blogs submited to its database.

Web Creme: One of the best resources for those seeking for design inspiration.

Design Shack: A british showcase of web designs including blogs and websites.

Design Beauty: Is a blog that shows many blog designs.

Posted by George C. at 2:46 PM :: (0) comments

Free Image Hosting

There are many options for those who want a free image hosting service. These free services are very useful to upload and host almost all kind of images and then use them in your blogs or websites, but there are some advantages and disadvantages.

One advantage of these free hosting providers is that you can upload almost any kind of image you want without restrictions, another advantage is that you can easily copy the given url of your image and use it in your blog or website. You can upload as many images as you want.

Some of the disadvantages are that many free image hosting providers are not very reliable, this means that if you upload some images for your website maybe the next day the hosting server will be down and all your images will be gone, another disadvantage is that sometimes after you upload an image if you dont copy the url you wont be able to find it anymore, in that case you´ll have to upload it again. These services only allow you to upload images in formats like .jpg .bmp .gif .tif .png for other kind of images like .ico (icon) you´ll need another kind of hosting, you might also want to check our "How to host ICO files for free" guide. Take a look to this list of our recommended free image hosting services they are very reliable and useful.

Imageshack
Photobucket
AllYouCanUpload
FreeImageHosting

Posted by George C. at 10:00 AM :: (0) comments

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

About Blogger Lounge

Welcome to Blogger Lounge. All bloggers are blogging for a reason, some of them want attention, others just want to express their feelings or their opinions, but most bloggers are blogging for success, they want to get more visitors, more subscribers, more customers, more traffic, more partners and of course more money!. Well if you are one of them, you´re in the right place, because Blogger Lounge is going to tell you how to create and manage a successful blog and make money from it. This is the first step to succeed, because first of all you have to learn everything about successful blogging, and then you can apply the most profitable and useful strategies to make your blog grow.

Posted by George C. at 2:45 PM :: (0) comments

Change/add your "Blogger Lounge Partner" button

If you are a Blogger Lounge Partner maybe you want to try another button to link back to us. But if you´re not and you just want to link back to us add one of these buttons to your weebsite or blog. just copy and paste the code in your blog template where you want the button to appear.

Remember that if you are not a Blogger Lounge Partner you can be one just by sending us a request. Learn more.

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Contact Blogger Lounge

Please share with us your comments and feedback, send us an email, we try to answer every email, but sometimes it takes us a while. If you want us to post something please attach it to your email and we will read it.

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Free WordPress Buttons

It´s true that Blogger is the major blog building service but there are other great services like WordPress. There are many successful blogs powered by WordPress out there, thats why we also include a small but nice collection of buttons for this great service. Just copy and paste the code where you want the button to appear in your blog template.

Posted by George C. at 12:53 PM :: (0) comments

Free Rss Feed Buttons

Rss buttons are very important if you want more visitors Adding this buttons to your blog can increase the number of subscribers to your blog substantially. generally rss buttons are small and orange, but if you want something different for your blog then here are some options for you, just copy the code and paste it in your blog tamplate where you want the icon to appear. Remember to insert your own blog URL.

<a href="Add here your feed´s URL"><img src="http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/4216/34vu5.gif" alt="Subscribe to my Feed" width="45" height="45" border="0"/></a>

Remember to replace "Add here your feed´s URL" with your own Rss Feed URL.

Posted by George C. at 11:24 AM :: (0) comments

Free Blogger Buttons

Blogger is a very powerful tool to create blogs. Blogger is also the largest service provider for blogs, they have millions of blogs under their domain (http://blog.blogspot.com) If you have a blog powered by Blogger then you must have a linking button to Blogger. Here is a very cool collection of free buttons for Blogger, just copy the code and paste it where ever you want in your blog template. Some of them are for black background and others for white background.