I’ve heard this questions countless times on walkthroughs, blog posts and forums. Conventional SEO(Search Engine Optimization) tell us that it is really a fake PageRank that is being displayed in the Google Toolbar. I don’t think anyone had come up with hard evidence to prove or deny this, but a lot of conspiracy theorists(including me) support this claim. It it likely that Google develops it’s...

StumbleUpon, truly, is one of the greatest concepts of social media, ever! I’m not saying that because it’s been miraculous in building my blog. I’m saying that because I truly believe in it and had “stumbled upon” few of my sweetest finds on the net. Unlike Digg, which doesn’t work really well for small and medium bloggers of my niche, StumbleUpon’s concept is very...

That’s right! No fancy rules, no fancy posts or reviews, MindBlogger’s third contest – “10-Second-entry blog contest worth over $250″ gives you the chance to win over $250 worth of prizes, for just 10 seconds of your time. So, I’ll try to keep it as simple as possible. What’s up for grabs? Four lucky winners chosen by Random.org will grab these four prices worth well...

“Make Money Online”! The magical catch-phrase, and the thing that almost every blogger seems to know about; or at least claim to do so. How much of a cliche had that come to be? I know people had wanted to earn money since few second after the beginning of time. But, don’t you think it’s a bit unnatural having so many people who claim to make a living online? Don’t you think there’s...

Well, since I had been talking about offering paid reviews through your blog lately, I thought of making Smorty a victim of my critique. What is Smorty? So what is Smorty? Well, the simplest definition would be: “It’s a network that connects advertisers and bloggers, and gives bloggers the chance to get paid to blog about the advertisers”. In another words, it’s one of those places THE...

The ethical nature of offering paid reviews through a blog had been questioned so much for so long. Some people like John Chow seem to charge $500 for a paid review while some people like my good friend Mike Huang seem to think it’s highly unethical. But, at the end of the day, what matters is what you believe. It’s your blog and it’s your morals. If you do a bad job at it, for an instance,...