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My blog has been alive for over five months and has been growing slowly everyday. I just want to give a big THANK YOU to all of you readers out there who have visited and revisited my blog over these months. I will continue to deliver more quality contents to everyone and I hope all of you will enjoy my blog for the years to come! Again I want to thank you all because having readers is the most rewarding gift a blogger can ask for.

So again, thank you and I hope you all have a wonderful New Year!

I’m sure a lot of you have at least one web site and I am also sure ALL of you want as much exposure and traffic to your site as possible. Traffic, and preferably quality traffic, is one of the most critial keys to enable you to monetize your web site.

In order to drive quality traffic is by ranking high on search results from search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN etc. Search engine optimization or SEO in short will enable you to achieve this goal. SEO can be intimidating to many people, especially for beginners because they have to deal with finding quality keywords, keyword phrases and long tail keywords which is just one of many tasks you have to do when performing SEO. There are companies that provide effective SEO for your web site and one such company is iMajestic Internet Marketers. Established since 2001, iMajestic not only provide search engine optimization but also provide other optimization services such as pay per click, local search, reputation and social media to complete web development.

What iMajestic differs from other SEO service providers is the fact that you only have to pay after your desired goals like keyword ranking in particular search engines, for example, is achieved and maintained. This performance based service is perfect for those worried about not getting the results they asked for because now they don’t have to pay a cent if they don’t see the expected results.

Incoming search terms:

• imajestic internet marketers
• imajestic reviews

I was looking for web site templates and I stumbled upon EasyTemplates.com. The first word that came out of my mouth (literally) was “WOW!” after previewing this Flash template. This is only one of many Flash templates available from the site and it also offers traditional HTML templates, as well as e-commerce templates that utilize PHP and mySQL database. The templates are categorized to suit everyone’s needs.

Why do I recommend these Easy Templates? You can edit the text, button labels, email form, background music, and pictures in Notepad or any other text editor. So anyone, even those who don’t know anything about Flash can make changes to personalize their web site. If you don’t want 100% Flash only website but rather a normal HTML website template with Flash elements at the top, Easy Templates offers templates with both HTML and Flash elements. There are also the more advanced Flash Templates for those that know Macromedia FLASH MX 7.0 , 8.0 or CS3/4. For photographers, with over 50 Flash photography templates to choose from, they can use these photo album templates made to show off their photographs, in a “Flashy” way.

The price for these templates are also resonable that range from USD$42 for a Flash intro template or you can have your own full-blown YouTube-style video web site to share movies with friends or to your potential customers for a mere USD$199.

Also want to note that EasyTemplates.com also offers its customers a 1-year free web hosting and for $1 per month from then on through Hostgator. Honestly you really can’t find a hosting service for $1 a month.

So if you are looking for professionally done web site templates, be it written in HTML or Flash, take a look at what EasyTemplates.com has to offer.

I have just joined Paying Post after my blog got rejected from PayPerPost recently. Mind you, my blog was accepted and I got over $100 paid from PPP in less than 2 months. PPP has been auditing blogs in an attempt to clean up the not-so-good blogs and unfortunately mine was one of them. And as the support rep stated, once a blog gets rejected, there is no way for that blog to get accepted again. I was and still am upset about it, mainly because my blog was accepted already and my blog isn’t plastered with ads or its MFA (made for adsense).

Anyway, enough venting.

I’ve joined Paying Post in late November hoping I would start earning by blogging again. As usual, I submitted my blog for approval and it took less than a week before it was accepted. I quickly went to the Open Opportunities section and found this opportunity. One noticeable difference between Paying Post and PPP is PPP has a lot more opportunities offered to its bloggers. Hopefully its because of my blog’s rank since its rather new (around 5 months) and I will get to see more opportunities in the future as my blog grows. Another difference is the payment system, although both use paypal, Paying Post will pay you after you have accumulated $50 or more on the 1st of the next month.

For advertisers, Paying Post is 50% cheaper than its competitors for the fee charged when creating opportunties.

Fianlly you can also check out the latest PP news on its blog, the most recent entry.

If you are interested to earn a bit of extra income on the side and are into writing, you should consider getting paid to blog. No its not an affiliate link, its the direct link to its web site.

If you are into real life poker, then you should be interested in online poker as well. One advantage of playing online poker is the fact that you don’t have to be IN the casino physically to enjoy the poker thrill (although its certainly a different feeling). Say its Winter time and you are snowed in and you cannot drive to your favorite casino or to your friend’s house to play some friendly poker. You don’t have to worry if you play online and you can also play with your friends as well.

Online Poker Tutor provides a large selection of tutorials from Basic Poker Rules and Basic Poker Strategy for the beginners to Advanced Poker Strategy for the more experienced players. There is also a detailed list of top 14 online poker rooms when you are ready to start testing what you have learned.

Everyone wants to make an extra buck or two, who doesn’t really? If you got a hang on the online poker field, you can try to monetize your newly obtained poker skills and check out the Make Money Playing Poker.

Aside from the information provided on the site, you can also ask the poker tutor specific poker related question and the answer will be posted on the page as well.

Overall, although the site is plain, but that’s not its selling point. This is more than made up by the sheer amount of helpful tips and information provided on the site. If you are a poker fan then you must check out Online Poker Tutor because you will never know what you will learn or discover!

I normally don’t blog about the auto industry unless its tech related but I just felt like blogging about this at the time of this writing because this is something that you don’t see everyday. You pretty much don’t want to see this happen anyway.

I’ve been reading news about the big three auto makers – Ford, GM and Chrysler asking for bailouts with GM needing the bailout asap because it will run out of money at the end of this year. More than 50% of the people oppose that idea. I too agree with these people mainly because I believe that if a company fails, it is its responsibilty to manage its own mess either by some form of restructuring and job cutting instead of simply asking for the government’s help. I think all these reason bailouts are really spoiling these bailed out companies. So people running businesses will now think that failing is ok because our government will always bail us out. As much as I don’t want to see any company fails, these companies, specifically the big 3s, need to accept failures. And I can imagine why people are opposing since the bailout money comes from tax payers.

There are different wireless companies out there and most likely you have heard of them like AT & T, Sprint, Tmobile and Verizon. Another competitor out there called SouthernLINC Wireless offers competitive cell phone plans compare to those wireless service providers. SouthernLINC Wireless also has a feature called Push To Talk or PTT developed by Motorola, which is a 2-way radio technology that offers talking one-to-one, in a group, off-network or even directly from your computer! This technology is very secure as there is no known scanners that can intercept communications between you and the other person. PTT can benefit businesses in particular because it allows employees to freely and easily communicate with one another and its cheaper than with a phone call.

Reliability-wise, SoutherLINC Wireless has a utility grade network with proven reliability through all kinds of weather and has the most comprehensive coverage throughout the Southeast (Georgia to Alabama to Southeast Mississippi to Northwest Florida).

Another thing I like about it is the fact that you will get a notification when you are roaming outside of SouthernLINC Wireless calling area so you won’t accidentally make calls and get charged because it SoutherLINC Wireless knows you don’t want to pay that high roaming charges unintentionally.

If you are looking for a different wireless service provider, you should check out SouthernLINC Wireless’ business cell phone plans as well as their family cell phone plans.

Microsoft Windows operating system, or OS in short, isn’t the most stable system among other ones like Linux or OS X (Apple’s own OS). We all know that! But a lot of people, including me are still using Windows. Errors and crashes can happen when you are least expected when using Windows. For the less tech savvy users, they will be clueless as to what may be causing the issues. One way to know what programs your system are running will give you a better idea of what is going on and what maybe rendering your system unstable. application-error.net is a blog that talks about all kinds of exe (executable) files that run on your system, whether they are legit or harmful ones. Each article talks about a different executable file and contains very detailed information regarding each one. Information such as what the file does and how to identify/spot the file and getting rid of it (if its a harmful one) to restore stability of your system.

The executable files are categorized alphabetically which allows you to quickly navigate to the page that contains all the files that start with that particular letter, therefore finding the file name of your choice faster than having to click through them from A to Z.

application-error.net provides useful, educational and detailed information of what are and aren’t suppose to be running in your system. It gives advices for each listed executable file on what it does, how to identify it and again get rid of it if its deemed harmful.