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Polls. Publish your blog as a book for free. There is no doubt that one of the most efficient sources of information today is the web with millions of blog giving you very detailed information about anything and everything. If you like to preserve all this information into your library as hard copy, Now You can now convert your blog (rather any blog’s posts) to pdf and download them as ebook for free or buy a printed copy of the same PDF. Recently a Bangalore,India based startup which runs Pothi.com has created opportunities for people who simply love their personal blogs. Their new launch BookSmith which is an on-demand publishing platform will convert blogs to books. The tool takes the URL of a blog and converts it to a print ready book that can be ordered via Pothi.com’s Print on Demand (POD) platform or you can download its eBook free of cost for on-screen reading.

That’s not all, you can even select of customize the cover from the list available and add preface, dedication to the book. How To Use Amazon EC2 Cloud Computing for Your Website. 6 Pieces of Open Source Software for Your Blogging Toolbox. If you’re new to full time blogging it makes sense to keep your overhead costs low. So why shell out for software when chances are there’s an equally good free alternative available? Open Source means that anyone can access the code to it – develop add ons, make changes for the better – it’s a truly great concept. There’s a great community of individuals out there who give their time to Open Source software and in many cases it can actually be better than the paid solutions that exist. So here’s 6 tools to that you ought to start making use of: OpenOffice.org OpenOffice is the the equivalent of Microsoft Office and it does an equally impressive job.

Firefox If you haven’t already, give Firefox a try, it’s way and above the traditional Internet Explorer. Audacity You might not think you need a sound recording and editing program but as you blog more often and develop your skillset it’s a likely tool you’ll be using. Gimp VideoLAN Notepad++ This is such a handy tool. Tests Document Readability. Free Keyword Research Guide from TrafficPRM ? SEO Tips for PR and Social Media Pros | Buy Links | Sell Links | BulletProofPlan.com Backlinks. Top Page for a Very High Competition Keyword in 3 Months Part I. I have always seen the Google SERP as a relentless battlefield, and up to now I stand to that belief. Though one thing that I really enjoyed with SEO is the piece of competitiveness it breathes out from me just to be on top of it.

I must say, I’m very persistent and can be easily obsessed once focused in achieving a certain goal. My Google adventure just started a few months ago – but I’m no stranger to SEO – and I seriously enjoyed this particular experience. So what was this adventure? I started working with a website which I had completely no idea about its niche and having only a few arsenals in building links as well as online reputation management. Here’s the deal, I was assigned to promote an online bingo site, wherein the targeted keyword to be optimized were “uk bingo” and “bingo uk”, and of course there were also other keyword sets included (uk bingo online, best uk bingo, uk bingo site, bingo in the UK etc…).

Here are the site’s stats before I came in: Keyword Ranking – How To Reach the Top Page in No Time. Updated: This post was originally written on August 11, 2010, unfortunately, I messed up my database last week and had to redo this blog from scratch (good thing this post was still on Google’s index and I was able to copy its cached version). The summary of the story: I reached the #20 position for the keyword “SEO strategies” from #484 in 2 weeks. Three weeks ago, I started shooting for this blog’s first objective, to dominate the search engines for a particular keyword – a highly competitive keyword to be precise.

I was 40 pages away from my goal 2 weeks ago (484th), but now I’m just 10 spots away from reaching it, the top page of Google SERP! I was thinking that perhaps this is the right time to share some of the things I’ve done in making it to the spot where this blog is currently sitting at. ADS – well that’s what I call it – was the strategy I used these past three weeks for my own off-page SEO campaign. ADS Factors: How? – PR 7 – PR 6. 15 websites offering free stock photos. We present to you a list of 15 best free stock photos sites . Some of these sites sell photos and along with paid offer free stock photos. Such photos usually have Royalty Free license and called royalty free images . It means that you can download these photos free of charge but you can not sell or distribute them in any way.

Also in our list you will find the sites offering only free photos, backgrounds, wallpapers, images. Before you download free photos we strongly recommend you to review the terms of use at each site. Alamy Alamy – one of the oldest Stock Photos site – contains the largest collection of stock photos. Bigstockphoto Bigstockphoto contains a section "Royalty Free Photos". Everystockphoto Everystockphoto contains more than 3 million free photos from various sources. Corbis Corbis offers an excellent collection of free stock photos. Stock.XCHNG User-friendly site with free pictures in big sizes. 123rf For downloading free photos from this site you need to register. ImageBase. Video of creating a newsletter | MailerLite.