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How to Say Nothing in 500 Words (A Lesson on Writing)

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Undoubtedly Dosh Dosh is one of my favorite online blogging friends, this another lovely piece for the 'blogging champion'.....enjoy. The ability to write well is very useful for our personal and professional lives. It helps students, business people, politicians, writers, bloggers, marketers and everyone who has ever needed to arrange words together to convey ideas or opinions . The written word has become an essential means of social communication: mastery of it helps you to enthrall and persuade an audience that would look upon you favorably in return. It goes without saying that learning how to create compelling content is a part of one’s success as an online publisher. Reading widely and deeply while consistently honing your writing skills helps a great deal in bettering your prose. Sometimes, it doesn’t hurt to read a few stylebooks/essays on writing by professional teachers or authors. One of these essays on writing is Paul McHenry Roberts’s How to Say Nothing in Fiv
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So far i have been working on drawing traffic to my blogs. I found out that one of the best ways to draw triffic to your blog is by commenting on other people's blogs. Althouht many bloggers do this, this is what my friend Dosh has to say http://www.doshdosh.com/rethinking-blog-comments/ A comment left on a popular blog may be viewed by a few hundred people in one day. Multiply that by the lifespan of the blog and you’ll see that a simple comment may say a lot about you. Every blog comment is usually permanent. It’s not just a hyperlink but a long-term representation of your brand. Too many webmasters view blog commenting as only a traffic or link building strategy. This rigid marketing emphasis has led to certain modes of behavior. For example, one might make the effort to comment exclusively on blogs with nofollow turned off, while using keyword names in order to increase the search engine ranking for one’s website. Alternatively, you may also try to be the first to comment on

Making Money Online With Kontera

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In my search for more options to increase my online advertising revenue, I decided to sign up for Kontera ContentLink . Well if you are thinking of Kontera or just want to know how it works, this post if for you. So what is Kontera you ask? Kontera is a publisher network where website and blog owners join in which In-Text ads appear on their pages from some of Kontera's Advertisers. Kontera is another great way that people are making money online from home. Remember when I talked about Google Adsense, well this is very similar. With Kontera ContentLink, advertisers pay to also show their ads. The only difference is that what happens with Kontera is they are called In-Text ads meaning that words on your website will turn into links. When people point their cursor over the keyword which is now a link a small window will appear with a small ad linking to the advertisers website. Here is what this window will look like: As you can see the Kontera ContentLink Advertisement is relev