Everybody wassup, today I’m starting my first blog contest ever, I am doing this to reward my blog readers and to increase my RSS subscribers too. I hope that I get your support and I’m asking everybody to participate. If this contest work well, I’ll start more contests soon in a regular basis.

First of all, I would like to thank MeetHere from DigitalPoint for being a part of the contest by giving free 125×125 Banner on problogineer.com worth $20 which gets 500+ Uniques a day and is a PR3 with 102,000 Alexa only!

The cash is gonna be shelled out from my pocket itself

First thing: The Prizes.

$50, $25 and Banner ad to the Winners..

Total number of Winners for the Round will be 3!

The participants names will be put on a lucky draw and we will get 3 winners total,

Contest will end on October 15th! (sorry for the delay guys.. due to some real reasons)

What should you do?

1) Subscribe to my Blog feed via E-Mail, which can be found in the right sidebar or Here (5 Points)

2) Write a Blog Post about my Blog in your Blog (5 Points)

3) Stumble/Digg any Post (1 Point)

4) Reply to this comment after you have done it..

5) Email me at esidyo[at]in.com with your email address used for feed and your name used to comment in this post!

6) The 1st winner will get $50 and the 2nd one will get $25 in their PayPal and the 3rd winner will get a banner ad on problogineer.com

So guys?

Go for it!

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Flash gets a bad rap, undeserved in my opinion, for harming search engine visibility. Why are search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners concerned about Flash Templates, and how can we SEO Flash content? Flash content is often heavy on images and interactive features, and light on text. As of 2008, the leading search engines are heavily dependant on text to understand the meaning of pages.

We all know the leading Web Development tool i.e The Dreamweaver from Adobe, it encourages Flash and we can edit Flash intros etc. using it

The April 11, 2006 release of Microsoft’s popular Internet Explorer (IE) browser includes an update (”Eolas”) that prevents ActiveX-based Flash controls from working properly. When the user attempts to interact with the Flash, a tool tip appears, stating, “Click to activate and use this control.” That extra click is an annoyance. In addition to helping search engines, the programming techniques described in this article solve the Flash Eolas problem.

Requirements for Successful Use of Flash

Flash animation is a great way to present complex content because it allows the designer to put more content in a finite space, without wrecking page design. For technology sites, Flash is an ideal way to present a slide show or movie explaining a complex product. At the other end of the spectrum, art and entertainment sites have a real need for multimedia, and Flash is the perfect solution.

When using Flash, we’d like to satisfy each of these objectives:

• Clean design
• Search Engine Optimization
• Accessibility for a wide variety of browsers, including screen readers and mobile phones
• Code validation and standards compliance
• Correct functionality with IE

Flash is not used much these days due to better technologies than flash, Free Templates aren’t RARE, but still used in a little sum..

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This blog is a bit of Web-Freak but a bit different too, it is based on my internet nick, and the blog is Esidyo.com

Just let me know hows the theme etc.

Thanks

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Hey guys,

Google has just updated the PR’s of all blogs/sites, Also to remember that its a Google Birthday, so maybe this was a gift from them

Some people lost their PR, I feel bad for them as I have personal experience on how it feels to lose PR

Anyways, I am enjoying my PR3, hope you guys are also happy with the new PR’s

- Esidyo

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Check out here!

You could earn upto $2,000 at home!

Contest will start September 1st when the forum opens. The winners will be based on post count, referrals, and blog entries.

Currently over $2,000 in prizes!

Grand Prize
$500 via Paypal from SEO Bum and an offer to become a moderator

2nd - 4th Place
Rob is offering 3 copies of Blogslammer software. So 2nd, 3rd and 4th place will get one of these in addition to their other prize. - Value $69.95 each

2nd - 8th Place
A choice of one of the following. Second place chooses first then third, ect.

1. Kris from Pepperjam is offering $100 deposit in affiliate account and also an autographed copy of his best-selling book on search engine marketing
2. Brent from Hostgator is offering web hosting for 1 year with swamp plan - Value $180
3. Adi from Two Believers is offering Guaranteed Press Release Writing service - Value $195
4. Mike from Better Visitors is offering a 30,000 visitor campain - Value $115
5. Melencio from DesignFXpro is offering a custom mascot (check his portfolio, amazing) - Value $100
6. Jason from Iwhic web hosting is offering a 1 year advanced reseller plan - Value $108
7. Matthew Rochow is offering 1 free PSD to HTML/CSS coding with all the bells and whistles - Value $175

9th - 20th place
$50 via Paypal

Referrals
Your code for referrals is in your UserCP
Each referral is worth 30 points. Referrals must make at least 5 posts to count.
Please do not spam your referral code.

Posts
Each post is worth is worth 2 points.

Threads
Each thread is worth is worth 5 points.

Blog Posts
Each blog post in your blog is worth is worth 3 points.

Blog About The Contest
You will be rewarded 50 points for this. See more details.

Moderators will be strictly monitoring each thread and post to look for people trying to cheat the system. If a majority of your threads or posts are just one liners, they will be deleted to keep the contest fair.

All points are calculated daily and can be viewed on the contest leaders page. Moderators and Admins appear on the contest page but are not in the running for prizes.

The contest starts September 1st and will end November 1st

So what are you waiting for?

Register now! and participate in the contest… It will be a must experience!

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Many people ask me how to access gmail when we are at work/school.. Well, I will tell you how we do it, after knowing it.. You would say “I never knew it was so easy”…

Also remember, there are 5 Steps given below, 1st step is the easiest and 5th is the hardest, the difficulty increases on every step..

Lets start

#1: Use different web addresses

Instead of using http://mail.google.com use https://mail.google.com

You can also try

• http://www.gmail.com or https://www.gmail.com
• http://gmail.com or https://gmail.com
• http://m.gmail.com or https://m.gmail.com
• http://googlemail.com or https://googlemail.com
• http://mail.google.com/mail/x/ or https://mail.google.com/mail/x/

#2: Configure your mail program to access Gmail (through POP)

If none of those sites are available the simplest solution might be to configure your mail program (Microsoft Outlook, etc) to connect to Gmail. Instructions can be found on Google’s Help Center.

#3: Access Gmail through Google Desktop

Another alternative is to download Google Desktop on to your PC. It will bypass proxies to access Gmail. Unfortunately, Google Desktop may also be banned at some workplaces.

#4: Use a web server with Gmail Lite installed

If you’re dead set on accessing your mail from the web you can try searching an application called “Gmail Lite”. This is an application you can install on your own web site.

Of course, most people don’t have their own web site. But if you keep searching through the results you’ll find websites that have Gmail Lite installed for anyone to use.

Make sure to bookmark the site for later.

#5: Bribe the IT guys at your work

Always be on the good side of the IT guys. It makes life so much easier. They accept bribes.

1. Food
2. Booze
3. Movies
   • (preferably pirated copies — although IT guy probably has a better movie collection than you)
4. Anime
5. Flirtin
6. SEX (don’t ask what it is)

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What are the benefits of sponsoring a Wordpress Theme?

Theme sponsorship can be an effective method of link building that may help your SERP (Search Engine Results Page) ranking because you have the option of choosing the specific anchor text to use for your link.

This can be a long-term link building strategy that helps you to increase your keyword rankings, which means a lot more search engine visitors to your website and higher ad earnings as well as product/service sales.

Successful theme sponsorship may also help you to rapidly increase your website’s Google Page Rank, because it will receive a large volume of one way incoming links, each with a certain amount of PR and authority.

While nobody knows for sure how Google calculates its Page Rank algorithm, we can assume with some level of certainty that a large variety of incoming links with PR can help to positively benefit any website’s Page Rank.

An Example of a Sponsored Word Press Theme

All (or most) of the themes from Thomas Silkjaer aka the Undersigned, a popular Wordpress theme/plugin creator, feature sponsored footer links.

Here are screenshots of a theme with a specific link to an advertiser site.

Note that you can find many live examples of blogs using his themes by running this specific Google search.

The white theme above is known as Water 1.1 and is one of the 10 most downloaded Wordpress themes (with over 22,000 downloads).

As a result of this theme sponsorship, there are literally thousands of blogs with sitewide links to a website that sells Poker Tables. A peek at Weber Poker Table’s backlinks with Yahoo Site Explorer confirms this.

Theme Sponsorship As Link Building Strategy

Most of the Wordpress theme designers I’ve come across are rather discreet about their sponsorship arrangements. However, I recently noticed that several webmasters have started explicitly pushing theme sponsorship as a link building strategy.

One of them is Themey, a website that openly promotes Wordpress Theme sponsorship and purchases. They are currently charging a minimum of $200 for a footer link in their Wordpress themes.

An excerpt from their website on the topic of theme sponsorship reads:

Wordpress 2.x has had over 1.2million downloads (and that statistic is from October 2006), whereas themes.wordpress.net has less than 1,200 themes for users to download (as of today, 21 January 2007).

Some very quick math shows that there is only one theme for every 1000 Wordpress downloads.

Imagine the cost of buying a text link ad on 1000 blogs?

Popular themes can easily achieve more than 1000 downloads in matter of weeks so I think the estimate above is reasonable. It should be noted that not all Wordpress users agree with the practice of leaving unrelated sponsor links in the blog template and some have actively taken steps to remove the advertiser links. I do however think the majority of Wordpress users either do not care about that extra link or are oblivious to its presence or function.

My personal take is that if you don’t like themes with sponsored links, you shouldn’t use the theme. This is because using it and removing the sponsored link might not cohere with the designer’s stipulated copyright regulations.

Making Money with Word Press Themes

From the perspective of a website designer, Wordpress themes can provide you with a relatively decent source of side income. Let’s suppose you produce one Wordpress theme a week and charge $150 for a link. You’ll make around $600 a month for your efforts.

Judging from the recent theme sales in various webmaster forums, one can safely assume that there is a strong demand for Wordpress theme sponsorship.

Perhaps we can assume that there is a steady market of webmasters out there who view theme sponsorship as a viable long term link building tactic.

Where can you find Wordpress Themes to sponsor?

If you’re interested in getting your link in a Wordpress theme, I would suggest privately contacting specific Wordpress Theme designers and asking if they could create a custom designed template that allows you to sponsor a specific link.

Another alternative is to browse around the various Wordpress Theme websites and email specific theme authors who have a history of allowing sponsored footer links in their theme.

Occasionally, theme authors will also hold theme sponsor auctions in various webmaster forums and you might want to visit Digital Point Forums if you’re interested in participating in a theme sponsor auction.

Reference

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New NameCheap coupon (for September) is BACK2SCHOOL .. Valid 09/01-09/30 for gTLD registrations/transfers.

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You can download the chrome here: http://www.google.com/chrome

I have not used it yet, will post a review soon when I use it

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