Hello readers, every week, I will share with you posts that I find useful through other blogs. Today I will be brief. This week, I collected some useful posts while surfing the web.

Top 5 Ways To Boost Your Technorati Authority: Tim from Yimto wrote this great post the last week. Here, you could find five tips to improve your technorati authority and rank. I was looking him blog these latest month, and two months ago he had 200 of authority. Now, he has almost 600! He know what is doing, worth the read.

Get Paid to Blog: Career Blogging: Suzanne from Ez-Money-Online wrote a great post about getting paid for writing posts. She collected several good programs, which pay you to write reviews about services, products or websites.

Remember to Keep Your Chin Up: in this post, Jeff from Buzz My Blog makes a comparison between the blogging and a roller coaster, talking about the downs and ups.

Cultivate Your Writing Skills to Improve Your Blog: Plonkee from Blogthority give us a good post, talking about how important is your writing to improve your posts, a very important point when we talk about blogging.

Why You Need A Blog: in this post of The Wealthy Blogger, he talk about the power of the blogs, and how it can be used to promote your Internet marketing business.

40 Tips for Better Life: this is an off-topic post, is not related to my blog’s niche, but I found it very useful to everybody who want to improve their life.

Well my dear readers, enjoy! I hope you like these posts, I found them very useful. By the way, I don’t know what happen with my feed counter, do you noticed that it drops by 50? I was talking with other fellow bloggers and their counter is fine. So I don’t know what happened with mine, I hope that tomorrow it return to the normality. My counter is fine, it was an error of feedburner.

PS: By the way, my birthday is in 3 days! You still having time to enter in my birthday contest. Good Luck

Hello bloggers, I have something for you. This morning I have found a new site which brings free blog promotion, with a voting system where you can submit your posts and start climbing to reach the top.

Blogsvine, in addition to provide you the resources to promote your blog, also it brings free traffic for blogs. You know how work this type of services, at the beginning they are not so popular, but after a time, they are a big community with several members. This mean the more people in the community, the more will be the traffic that you will get from it.

Although Blogsvine still being beta, it provides a good platform which you can interact with the other members of the community.

You can use this service to link the content that really matters to the other members. There is several information out there, and you don’t have all day to find the good stuff because many people work, study or simply don’t waste all their time blogging and researching the web . With categories from TV/Movies to Health, at Blogsvine you can add and share all these useful stuff to the network in the right place.

Wordpress Support

Also, they provide support for wordpress blogs with their vote button plugin, which you can submit/rate any post externally.

Blogsvine could be another Digg or Mixx, who knows? You could try it and see how it works. Anyways, surely it will give you a good amount traffic and backlinks .

Nowadays, the blogs are one of the bigger sources of information on Internet. There are many facilities that services like Wordpress, Blogger and Typepad provides, giving all the basic resources to create and manage a blog, for free. Due to this, many people over the Internet have given themselves the opportunity to create a blog and experience its managing, writing about their hobbies, day to day activities or whatever their want. Now, the question is: why the blogs became so popular?

What Make Them So Attractive?

You never asked you this question? Me neither, until now. The blog is a great way to communicate many things such information, experiences and news. Many people who use their blog to write about their daily experiences, commonly do it to share all that information with their family and friends, without monetary aims, just for fun. Other people use their blog to share tutorials, giving away all their knowledge. The reasons can be many, they can feel good just doing it, others do it because their content is limited on Internet, or just because they are getting paid.

In any case, the reason why the blogs are so attractive is because they are readily accessible. Being on Internet there are several opportunities, because it can be consulted by everybody whenever they want, from any place of the world. This propriety of popularity is what has made the blogs so attractive for everybody. In addition of that, the opportunity to edit your blog easily by writing new posts and keep informed to the people who read your content.

Their Presence On Internet

Wherever you look, there is a blog. If you type anything on Google, whatever the topic, at least a half of the results will be linked to a blog. It seems like the blog became more easy to create and edit than a standard website. If you check a company’s website, you will see that they will have a section reserved to their blog, where they announce their latest products or offers.

Of the way in the blogs were established on the Web, they caused the birth of communities which offer all the support the blogs need. Communities like BlogCatalog can provide you thousand of blogs related to any topic. Something curious that I noticed is that all the communities are getting connected with the others, for example if you are a BlogCatalog or MyBlogLog user, now you can see the activities of your friends on the others networks like StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter and more.

Something amazing is happening there. If you noticed it, everything is getting connected, even more than ever. When it happens, the blogs will be the most popular method of socializing on the web, altogether with the social media networks.

Hey bloggers, today I asked me if my blog is really having the success that I think. Many people in the life, think that they are having success with all what they do, although they don’t. Why they think that? Because they are afraid to fail on what they want and like to do. Of the same way, there are many bloggers who are not sure about their success, and they blind themselves for that fear to fail.

I don’t pretend to offend someone, on the contrary, I want to help you. So in this post, I will give you the tips to be successful with your blog. It is a lie that I can give you all the tips, but I will do my best to give you what I consider important to achieve the success.

Meet Your Competitors

When you manage a blog, you need to meet your competitors to try to do it best than they. Sorry me, I don’t know what I wrote, I said competitors? Certainly, I’m using a bad term, what competitors? Don’t think that blogging is about a race that must be won. I tried to say, that you need to meet who are around you writing about the same topics than you. Meeting the other bloggers who have the same interest like you, is the first step to be successful.

Socialize With “Your Competitors”

Once you know who in the blogosphere are blogging about your blog’s niche, you need to socialize with them. A big common mistake is to think that they are your enemies. Error! Think again, remember that the blogosphere is a huge community. You can’t pretend to be successful if you don’t socialize with the people around you. Commenting on related blogs and having contact with the fellow bloggers, by chat, phone or personally, is a great way to start to be successful. You can have a great content on your blog, but if you are not friend of the surrounding bloggers, you are lost.

Analyzing Your Statistics

In the last week, I talk about How To Measure Your Blog’s Success, where I talked about how to interpret your statistics. The point of this post is not that, is not focused on the numbers. The numbers are important, that is truth, but you can’t think that you are having success if you have pagerank 5, because that does mean nothing.

Forget the statistics, all these numbers that every blogger (including me) check everyday. Don’t worry for the statistics and chill out because here, what really matters is if your content is being read. You can have pagerank 5 because you got thousand backlinks through TNX, but these number worth nothing if 20 persons read your blog daily.

What I Recommend

Based on the paragraphs above, I can tell you that you should not worry at all for the statistics. Blogging is all about be social, you need to focus primordially on meeting the people around you and be their friend. This way, your blog will have the success, even more than you want. Remember what I said about the blogosphere, it is pure social! If you don’t have contacts, you will achieve nothing.

Through the Internet, there are thousand ebooks about everything. Internet marketing, blogging and SEO, are the most common topics of these eBooks but, should you pay to get that information? I would say that you should not.

Teach Yourself

What’s the difference between an eBook and the rest of the websites on the Internet? The organization. I have read many eBooks (all them for free of course), and I have to say that I have not found one that really taught me something great. I mean, none of them made me say wow, I had not idea about this!. None of them have taught me something that really worth a price. All these information, it is available on internet for free through blogs or websites, only that all these information it is unorganized and you must to search and collect it.

They Worth the Price?

When you going to buy an eBook (if you are going to…) You should research before to buy it. Questions like It really worth?, can I find this information for free?… Will help you to take the decision at the buying time. I never (and I will not) have bought an eBook, because I think that all these information can be found on internet for free. Before to buy an eBook, search on Google for the niche of the eBook and you probably will find more than that ebook can offer to you.

The Lie

Some days ago, I got a paid ebook for free through torrents. I thought that I was lucky because I got something that worth for many bucks for free! But when I read it, I laughed as you have not idea. The eBook cost about $90 and it is totally a scam. I am wonder about how can be this possible, what I read on that ebook is scam, all the information inside I knew it before start my blogging career. Now, the big question is: Why the people promote these eBook?

Why the people promote these scam? Mr. Javo respond: that is a simple question. Many people promote these scam for two simple reasons:

1. They were swindled and they can’t accept it: this is selfish, I can’t understand it. If I get scammed by a program, I would post it here to let the people know about the scam.
2. They get commissions for each sale: may be you get scammed, but if you can get a percentage of a referred sale, why don’t promote it? Many of these eBooks have a referral program, but again I have to say that this is selfish. Leave beside the money interests and tell to the others about the scam!.

I think that may be the business is not to learn about SEO, Internet Marketing or about the eBook’s niche. May be the business is to swindle the people and get commissions for that, so what is the point?

The Conclusion

I don’t recommend you to buy eBooks. If you want to learn about something, you should search through the big G. There are million of sites indexed on Google, and surely, at least on a handful (hundreds) should be the information that you need. Believe on yourself and in your knowledge, there is not better teacher than you. If you want to learn about something, just look into the infinite resources that Internet can provide you.

Hey readers, nice to see you again. Yesterday, as the title says, I had a revelation. I woke up in the middle of the night, with cold because I set the conditioned air in 10 °C and I was freezing me. I shut it down, and then I tried to sleep again but I could not. So, I took a magazine of my desktop and I read its content.

The Revelation

I was reading something about the success of biggest men and I had an idea to blog about. Immediately, I took a paper and started to write everything that was coming to my mind. The great fact is that once I finish that idea, more and more ideas about blogging started to flood my mind, and guest what? I recorded all them on the paper .

After this entry, a series of great posts will come. Yesterday, I recorded six topics to write about, and I will be writing all these posts at the waiting of my birthday contest .

Be in tune !