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	<title>Useful Stuff &#187; Blogging</title>
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		<title>Free Search Engine Optimization &#8211; The Best Way To Promote Your Website</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/11/30/free-search-engine-optimization-the-best-way-to-promote-your-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free search engine optimization is the process to improve the quality and the volume of traffic on your website. Basically, this process is done with the help of effective and targeted keywords. It is obvious that if a website is presented with higher rankings among the search engines, it will be visible to a larger [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-387" style="float:left;" title="social-marketing" src="http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/social-marketing.jpg" alt="" width="113" height="170" /><strong>Free search engine optimization</strong> is the process to improve the quality and the volume of traffic on your website. Basically, this process is done with the help of effective and targeted keywords. It is obvious that if a website is presented with higher rankings among the search engines, it will be visible to a larger number people as compared to the lower ranking pages.</p>
<p><strong>Free <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> is a technique of promoting your website, free of cost. The main target here is to make your website appear on the top page of every search engine.</strong></p>
<p>There are several methods to promote your website among search engines. However, it is important for you to do this work carefully otherwise your entire effort would go waste. There is a certain process through which search engines give rankings to websites. These <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler" target="_blank">search engines send out spiders</a> that find and scan the whole website including its content. Then, these spiders categorize different websites according to the keywords and gives rankings to each website.</p>
<p><strong>There are quite a few ways that you can follow and make these spiders notice your website and get top rankings in various search engines</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>The <strong>most essential thing</strong> that you need to keep in mind while designing your website is the <strong>keywords</strong>. A keyword is the word that people usually put into the search engines when they need to get any related information. In order to find out some useful keywords, you can do a small experiment.  You can search few keywords on any search engines and check which one has the least amount of websites under it. Try to utilize even these smaller keywords as these can also generate quality traffic to your website. This makes keywords the most important part of the free search engine optimization.</li>
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<li> The <strong>next important thing</strong> in the free search engine optimization that you need to keep in your mind is the <strong>design of your website</strong>. Here, you should divide your keyword evenly on the content of your website. The ideal amount is three to seven times for every 100 words you write in your website. This helps your website get higher rankings quickly.</li>
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<li> Try to put some <strong>extra content on your website</strong>. Search engines love sites with lot of quality content. This will also improve your website rankings.</li>
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<li> Other important thing is to get higher rankings by <strong>advertising the page link of your website.</strong> You need to register the link of your website in to the link directories of various search engines. But this is a very time consuming process. So, in order to complete this process quickly, you can take help of the automate software. This software will automatically put your website on search engines through coding and special spider attracting tactics.</li>
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<p>Now, what are you waiting for? Just follow these free search engine optimization tips and make your website a top ranker on the search engines.</p>
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		<title>Blogging for Cash &#8211; AdSense Placement</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/11/08/blogging-for-cash-adsense-placement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogs, RSS and Podcasting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging for Cash &#8211; AdSense Placement
By Jason DeVelvis
If you are interested in Blogging for cash – Adsense placement is very important. You need to quickly learn where to place the ad units to ensure that you get the maximum number of clicks that you can possibly get with the traffic that you have. In terms [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blogging for Cash &#8211; AdSense Placement<br />
By <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jason_DeVelvis">Jason DeVelvis</a></p>
<p>If you are interested in Blogging for cash – Adsense placement is very important. You need to quickly learn where to place the ad units to ensure that you get the maximum number of clicks that you can possibly get with the traffic that you have. In terms of earning money with AdSense, Blogging for Cash – AdSense Placement is vital!</p>
<p>There are many techniques that have been tested by top marketers, website owners, and bloggers since blogs and AdSense have come into existence. What they have found is that what works for one site or blog does not necessarily work for another site or blog – but certain principles, if followed, can significantly increase the number of clicks you will receive. This ultimately determines how much money you make with Google AdSense.</p>
<p>First, let’s dispel any myths about the placement of AdSense ad units. There is no one particular place that works better than all other places on all webpages for ad units. Some people will tell you to use Skyscrapers on the right hand side of the page. Others will tell you to use Skyscrapers on the left hand side. Still others will tell you to use the rectangular boxes at the top of the page. This is what works for THEIR sites, but it will not necessarily work for yours.</p>
<p>Where your ads are placed is largely determined by what your visitors are doing, and where their attention is focused on each of your pages. If your visitor’s attention will be focused on the right hand side of the page, then by all means use the skyscrapers on the right hand side of the pages. But if their attention is focused on the content of your blog posts, you might do better by copying and pasting the AdSense code into the middle of each post you make.</p>
<p>Look at your blog from a visitor’s point of view. Where is their attention? Have a friend or family member look at the page as well. Ask them what they see first. Ask them what part of the page – without any AdSense ads on it – they were most interested in. Find out what drew their attention and why.</p>
<p>In most cases, you do not want to get in your visitors way. However, if you are hoping to earn AdSense revenue, you need to get directly in their path in order to get your ads noticed – and clicked on. This is why so many people opt to put their AdSense code directly in their entries. When it comes to blogs that is usually where a visitors attention is focused – on the entries. Try putting the AdSense code directly in the middle of each post, using one of the rectangular boxes. Just make sure that you tell your visitors that the post is continued below.</p>
<p>Be careful. You must follow Google’s terms of service for placement of AdSense ad code. If you break the rules, Google can ban you. It is important to know that Google only allows you to have two ad units per page. If you will be using your AdSense code within the text of each post, make sure that your blog does not display more than the Google AdSense ad placement limits &#8211; if you break their rules, they’ll ban you!  Otherwise, have fun blogging and making money!</p>
<p>Jason frequently gives tips like this to the subscribers to his newsletter.  Visit <a href="http://www.AdventuresInIM.com" target="_new">Adventures In Internet Marketing</a> and subscribe to his newsletter today!</p>
<p>Article Source: <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jason_DeVelvis" target="_new">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jason_DeVelvis</a><br />
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		<title>Social Bookmarking</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/10/16/social-bookmarking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article marketing is one of the best ways to generate targeted traffic for your website and improve your search engine rankings. In this article we are going to discuss how you can use article marketing to generate traffic for your website.
If you&#8217;re not interested in article marketing, but would like another internet marketing related article, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Article marketing is one of the best ways to generate targeted traffic for your website and improve your search engine rankings. In this article we are going to discuss how you can <strong>use article marketing to generate traffic</strong> for your website.</p>
<p><strong>If you&#8217;re not interested in article marketing, but would like another internet marketing related article, I highly recommend this article on <a href="http://www.eventslisted.com/eventline/socialmediastrategies/index.php/social-marketing/networking-like-a-pro" target="_blank">Social Networking</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>What is Article Marketing?</strong></p>
<p>Perhaps you have come across article directories such as Ezinearticles.com or Goarticles.com in your browsing on the internet. These article directories are full of articles written by different website owners and at the end of each article you will see an author bio box which tells you who the author is as well as having a link to their website. This is known as article marketing, it uses articles distributed through article directories in order to generate traffic for the person’s website and that traffic could also be sent to your website if you start using article marketing.</p>
<p><strong>Article Marketing and Keyword Optimization</strong></p>
<p>In order to get the most out of your article marketing it is best to use keyword optimization in your articles. This means that you choose good keywords that have a high search volume but relatively low competition. You can use keyword research tools such as Wordtracker, Overture and Google’s Keyword tool to get this information. In order to find out how many competing pages there are simply type the keyword phrase into the search box and see how many pages the search engine lists. Once you have chosen these keywords include them throughout your article, in your article title and preferably in bold somewhere near the top of the article – this will improve your article’s ranking on the search engines.</p>
<p><strong>Article Marketing and Search Engine Optimization</strong></p>
<p>Article Marketing can improve your search engine optimization in a number of ways. The first is that by optimizing your article for keywords you are optimizing it for the search engines and so the link to your website will be near the top of the search engines by accessing your article first and then from there people can visit your website. Article marketing is also useful for creating links to your website by other websites printing your articles on their websites. The search engines consider links a vital factor in determining the importance and rank of your website and so by distributing your articles you are further able to improve your search engine rankings.</p>
<p>Most people who find information on the internet will use the search engines to do so and by improving your search engine rankings you are a lot more likely to generate traffic for your website.</p>
<p><strong>Generate Traffic through Other Webmasters</strong></p>
<p>Apart from generating traffic through improved search engine optimization caused by article marketing, you may also generate traffic by other webmasters placing your articles with your resource box on their website. This means that when they do their marketing and drive visitors to their website that those visitors will see your link and so they will generate traffic for your website as well.</p>
<p><strong>Using Automatic or Manual Submission to Generate Traffic with Article Marketing</strong></p>
<p>Do you use automatic submission services for your articles or do you manually submit articles for article marketing? There are pros and cons to both methods of submission and you will need to decide for yourself whether you want to use automatic submission, manual submission or both to generate traffic with article marketing. Automatic submission is a lot faster and you will get your articles to a lot more directories then you would be doing it manually but your articles will not be as targeted and will probably not rank as highly on the search engines. Manual submission is a lot slower and you will probably only be able to focus on a few directories but you will be able to target your articles better and get better search engine rankings for your articles.</p>
<p><strong>The Best Article Directories to Generate Traffic to Your Website</strong></p>
<p>Whether you are manually submitting articles or whether you are using automatic submission there are a number of article directories which you should manually submit your articles to for best results and to generate traffic to your website. The first of these article directories is Ezinearticles.com. Ezinearticles.com is ranked very highly on Google and by placing an article on their directory it is a lot easier to get good search engine results. Another one of these article directories is Goarticles.com which also has a fairly high ranking.</p>
<p>In conclusion, article marketing is an excellent way to generate traffic for your website as you not only benefit from improved search engine rankings but also from visitors drawn to other webmasters websites and through that to your website. In order to create good articles for article marketing you should focus on keyword optimization and enjoyable content that people want to read. You may submit these articles manually or automatically but it is best to include a manual submission to Ezinearticles.com and Goarticles.com in your submission program.</p>
<p>About the Author:</p>
<p>Peter Holmes is an Internet Entrepreneur who specializes in Event Launch Marketing applying social media and internet marketing strategies. &#8220;he initially started writing to attract traffic to his websites and has since become hooked&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong> If you enjoyed this article you will enjoy this blog post on <a href="http://www.eventslisted.com/eventline/socialmediastrategies/index.php/marketing-tools/more-on-social-bookmarking" target="_blank">Social Bookmarking</a>.</strong><br />
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		<title>World&#8217;s First Internet Balloon Race</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/06/14/worlds-first-internet-balloon-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you see the animal shaped balloon on the bottom right side of my page? I&#8217;m participation on the Orange World&#8217;s First Internet Balloon Race.
Go to the site: http://www.playballoonacy.com, sign up, submit your blogs and place the code on your blog template. The race will start on June 23rd.
People from all over the world can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://imageshack.us"><img class="alignleft" style="float: left;" src="http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1103/balloonsc2.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" width="130" height="163" /></a>Do you see the animal shaped balloon on the bottom right side of my page? I&#8217;m participation on the Orange World&#8217;s First Internet Balloon Race.</p>
<p>Go to the site: <a href="http://www.playballoonacy.com">http://www.playballoonacy.com</a>, sign up, submit your blogs and place the code on your blog template. The race will start on June 23rd.</p>
<p>People from all over the world can participate, they will follow the balloon and visit the blogs/sites that are participating, this means more traffic, new visitors and possibly new readers.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>And how does the race actually take place?</strong></p>
<p>The balloons will fly across a range of sites, picking up speed &amp; distance bonuses as they fly. They can also pick up tokens for entry in to free prize draws.</p>
<p>There are already a bunch of sites signed up to support the race, including The Sun and Yahoo.</p></blockquote>
<p>Head to <a href="http://www.playballoonacy.com">http://www.playballoonacy.com</a> and participate.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m hosting this race also on these blogs:<br />
<a href="http://mydailylifeasamom.com">Laura&#8217;s Daily Life</a><br />
<a href="http://www.buylivebetter.com">Buy Better and Have a Better Life</a></p>
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		<title>Microsoft Virtual Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/04/25/microsoft-virtual-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is for everyone, no matter you&#8217;re an engineering, housewife, secretary, sales director or if you&#8217;re in Sunday suit or in your pajamas. Check out this Microsoft video:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Microsoft is for everyone, no matter you&#8217;re an engineering, housewife, secretary, sales director or if you&#8217;re in Sunday suit or in your pajamas. Check out this Microsoft video:</p>
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		<title>Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/04/22/facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like the way Facebook works and makes &#8220;friends&#8221; interact with each other, but I have to face it, I don&#8217;t have time to check Facebook everyday.
Facebook is great to meet new friends, to know what they like, what kind of music they listen to, what movies they watch, I would like to send [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really like the way <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=587143832" target="_blank">Facebook</a> works and makes &#8220;friends&#8221; interact with each other, but I have to face it, I don&#8217;t have time to check Facebook everyday.</p>
<p>Facebook is great to meet new friends, to know what they like, what kind of music they listen to, what movies they watch, I would like to send gifts to my friends, write in their <a href="http://www.laph.com/" target="_blank">fun walls</a>, grow gardens, meet other members with the same movie taste, update my mood, but the truth is I don&#8217;t have the time to do so.</p>
<p>What I did was a clean up, I had more then 100 invitations, requests, gifts, etc., etc. and I must confess I delete them all. I also removed some applications I had and never used, so my page is now reduced to only a few applications. I know some people are addicted to Facebook, well I don&#8217;t need a <a href="http://www.drugrehabsunsetmalibu.com/drug-rehab/">drug rehab</a> because I&#8217;m not addicted to it, at least for now.</p>
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		<title>Free program or plugin to hide affiliate</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/04/19/free-program-or-plugin-to-hide-affiliate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking for a free program to hide affiliate links. I&#8217;ve done a little search and the ones I found although easy to use, it takes a little time to incorporate the link in the post because we have to use FTP. I need a program or plugin I can use directly when I&#8217;m writing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m looking for a free program to <strong>hide affiliate links</strong>. I&#8217;ve done a little search and the ones I found although easy to use, it takes a little time to incorporate the link in the post because we have to use FTP. I need a program or plugin I can use directly when I&#8217;m writing the post. Nothing so complicated as <a href="http://www.prophix.com/">bpm</a> or a paid program like <a href="http://bloggingcents.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=2" target="_blank">WP Affiliate Pro</a>.</p>
<p>So, if someone reading this posts knows a plugin to hide affiliate links I will appreciate your comments.</p>
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		<title>EntreDroppers</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/04/12/entredroppers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owen from Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot has developed the EntreDroppers for those using Entrecard.
EntreDroppers is a wordpress widget that allows bloggers to include in their sidebar a widget that will list the last Entrecard droppers they had on their blogs. This widget is very easy to set, you can list as many droppers as you want [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Owen from <a href="http://www.u-g-h.com/">Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot</a> has developed the EntreDroppers for those using <a href="http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/02/18/entrecard-advertise-for-free/">Entrecard</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.u-g-h.com/index.php/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-plugin-entredroppers/">EntreDroppers</a> is a wordpress widget that allows bloggers to include in their sidebar a <a href="http://www.u-g-h.com/index.php/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-plugin-entredroppers/">widget</a> that will list the last Entrecard droppers they had on their blogs. This widget is very easy to set, you can list as many droppers as you want and even use a &#8220;drop&#8221; menu. You can find more information on <a href="http://www.u-g-h.com/index.php/2008/04/10/entredroppers-share-the-love/" target="_blank">Owen&#8217;s post</a>.</p>
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		<title>Cleaning up my computer files</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/03/17/cleaning-up-my-computer-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I decided to take a few minutes and optimize my laptop.

I took a look at all programs installed and removed the ones I never use. Some of them I installed thinking I would use them and it ended up that they did not fill  my needs.
Removed the desktop items I don&#8217;t use.
Deleted all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I decided to take a few minutes and <strong>optimize my laptop</strong>.</p>
<ol>
<li>I took a look at all programs installed and removed the ones I never use. Some of them I installed thinking I would use them and it ended up that they did not fill  my needs.</li>
<li>Removed the desktop items I don&#8217;t use.</li>
<li>Deleted all <em>temp </em>files as well as small programs windows creates</li>
<li>Images created and stored automatically in the disk were also removed</li>
<li>Error messages and possible solutions stored by windows were removed</li>
</ol>
<p>With all this clean up I <strong>freed 8GB from my disk</strong>. With these steps, I hope to get a more clean and soft working laptop and extend a little its <a href="http://www.biotivia.com/">longevity</a>.</p>
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		<title>StumbleUpon is not working for me</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/03/08/stumbleupon-is-not-working-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having some trouble with Stumble Upon toolbar. I have the toolbar installed on my firefox and each time I like one post I just have to press the &#8220;I like it!&#8221; button. Well, it should work this way but lately I have been pressing the button a few times and only today I discovered [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify">I&#8217;m having some trouble with <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/download.php" target="_blank">Stumble Upon toolbar</a>. I have the toolbar installed on my firefox and each time I like one post I just have to press the &#8220;<strong>I like it!&#8221; </strong>button. Well, it should work this way but lately I have been pressing the button a few times and only today I discovered that the posts are not showing up on <a href="http://soleflor.stumbleupon.com/" target="_blank">my Stumble Upon page</a>. Why? I don&#8217;t know.</p>
<p>I receive some extra traffic each time <strong>&#8220;I Like It!&#8217;</strong> a page and for the last week that hasn&#8217;t been happening, well I figured out today why not&#8230;it&#8217;s not working. I have to try and find out what is going on.</p>
<p>I would like some feedback from heavy Stumbles please!!!</p>
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		<title>Entrecard &#8211; Advertise for free</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/02/18/entrecard-advertise-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;

For a few weeks that I&#8217;ve been seen those banners from Entrecard and although I entered in the front page several times, I never signed up, well until last week.
Last week I signed up and at first it looked a little confused but after reading the Entrecard guide page everything was clear.
After signing up with [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/entrecard.thumbnail.png" alt="entrecard.png" /></p>
<p align="left">For a few weeks that I&#8217;ve been seen those banners from <a href="http://entrecard.com/" target="_blank">Entrecard</a> and although I entered in the front page several times, I never signed up, well until last week.</p>
<p>Last week I signed up and at first it looked a little confused but after reading the <a href="http://entrecard.com/page/guide" target="_blank">Entrecard guide page</a> everything was clear.</p>
<p>After signing up with Entrecard you just have to look around at other bloggers cards, visit their site, drop your card and earn Entrecard Credits. You can then use the EC you earn to advertise on other bloggers sites. If they accept your card you will show on their Entrecard badger. Bloggers can accept or reject the advertise request.</p>
<p>Sounds confusing? What about having to have one account for each blog? That&#8217;s really tough, worse if you have many blogs. I have three so I must have three email addresses and three Entrecard accounts. The worse part: once dropping cards is a good thing, I never know which <a href="http://entrecard.com/user/5247/statistics" target="_blank">Entrecard I am dropping</a>. I like to drop cards on my <a href="http://entrecard.com/category/" target="_blank">category</a>, once I have three categories I have to pay attention to the Entrecard I am dropping.</p>
<p>The real good thing, I&#8217;m getting to know many good sites, some of them already added to my feed reader.</p>
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		<title>Cleaning my database directories</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/02/15/cleaning-my-database-directories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clean up time over here and on my other blogs. A few months ago I wanted to change the templates so I downloaded a few, tried them and I finally made my choice. I ended up having several templates on my template directory as well as on my plugin directory. Some plugins were just for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clean up time over here and on my other blogs. A few months ago I wanted to change the templates so I downloaded a few, tried them and I finally made my choice. I ended up having several templates on my template directory as well as on my plugin directory. Some plugins were just for testing, to try if they were suitable for my blog and the ones not in use remained there deactivated.</p>
<p>All not in use templates are being deleted as well as the plugins I tested and I don&#8217;t intend to activate .</p>
<p>I recommend this to all bloggers, it can prevent some CPU over quota errors (I had this in the past) and it will make your database lighter.</p>
<p>So today instead of cleaning my house or doing a <a href="http://www.co-clean.com/">colon cleanser</a> to clean my body, I&#8217;m cleaning my database directories.</p>
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		<title>Are you really getting donations on your blog?</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/02/09/are-you-really-getting-donations-on-your-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These last few days, while catching up with my feed reader, I noticed that a large number of blogs have on the sidebar the &#8220;Donation Option&#8221;. I wonder, are bloggers getting donations from other bloggers? Do bloggers really make a donation for a coffee or a simple donation to another blogger? Is it just a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These last few days, while catching up with my feed reader, I noticed that a large number of blogs have on the sidebar the &#8220;Donation Option&#8221;. I wonder, are bloggers getting donations from other bloggers? Do bloggers really make a donation for a coffee or a simple donation to another blogger? Is it just a &#8220;bait&#8221;? Does it work?</p>
<p>If you have a Donation button on your sidebar please let me know if you are getting donations and if blogger tell you why they are donating. For sure the donations won&#8217;t be enough for a <a href="http://www.go4funding.com/">business funding</a>, but if they really help us to buy a cup of coffee, I&#8217;m in.</p>
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		<title>Twessenger &#8211; Conecting Twitter to MSN Messenger</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/02/07/twessenger-conecting-twitter-to-msn-messenger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m still trying to figure out how to Twitter straight into Messenger. I found this interesting post through TwitterFeed where OwenC writes about a MSN Messenger Add-on called Twessenger that makes the connection between Twitter and MSN Messenger. I followed all the steps but it still isn&#8217;t working for me.
What is supposed to happen is, [...]]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;m still trying to figure out how to <a href="http://askowen.info/?p=47" target="_blank">Twitter straight into Messenger</a>. I found this interesting post through <a href="http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/01/24/twitterfeed/">TwitterFeed</a> where <a href="http://twitter.com/OwenC" target="_blank">OwenC</a> writes about a MSN Messenger Add-on called <a href="http://kunal.kundaje.net/twessenger/" target="_blank">Twessenger</a> that makes the connection between Twitter and MSN Messenger. I followed all the steps but it still isn&#8217;t working for me.</p>
<p>What is supposed to happen is, each time you write a Twitter our MSN Messenger will update our status with the Twitter Message. This will bring you more exposure once, those that don&#8217;t use Twitter or are not following you on Twitter, but are a contact in your MSN Messenger are able to see your Twitter updates. I guess I&#8217;m going to go through all the steps again and see if I can make it work. This is a good service!!</p>
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		<title>Twitterfeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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I like to use Twitter and sometimes I use almost as a IM. These last 12 days, has I was at home, I used it more often and I was able to notice some messages coming from Twitterfeed.
I check the Twitterfeed site and found out that I could set an account and have my feed [...]]]></description>
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<p>I like to use <a href="http://twitter.com/" target="_blank">Twitter </a>and sometimes I use almost as a IM. These last 12 days, has I was at home, I used it more often and I was able to notice some messages coming from Twitterfeed.</p>
<p>I check the <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/" target="_blank">Twitterfeed </a>site and found out that I could set an account and have my feed checked and published on Twitter.</p>
<p>It works this way, we sign up for an account using a <a href="http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/01/21/openid/" target="_blank">OpenID</a>, we insert the feeds of our blogs and each time we publish a new post a new Twitter message is automatically published in Twitter. We can choose the way we want the message to show up: Some text and URL, only some text, a small post sentence and URL.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see the posts being published in real time. Great way for our followers to check on our blog updates.</p>
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		<title>OpenID</title>
		<link>http://www.usefulstuffblog.com/2008/01/21/openid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OpenID is the new generation of login. One login for several sites, this avoids sign ups in different sites.
OpenID is the start of the path to your code that will allow you to enter a site. By pre-choosing 5 categories among nine, each time you want to login in one of those sites you have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://myvidoop.com/help/what-is-openid" target="_blank">OpenID</a> is the new generation of login. One login for several sites, this avoids sign ups in different sites.</p>
<p>OpenID is the start of the path to your code that will allow you to enter a site. By pre-choosing 5 categories among nine, each time you want to login in one of those sites you have to enter your OpenID and you will be asked to write your code. Your code is the letters corresponding to the pre-chosen categories.</p>
<p>There are a few sites already using OpenID. I was a little confused at first but now it’s very easy to use. You just have to always remember your categories to figure out your code.</p>
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