If you are serious about making money online it is important to have a self hosted blog or a website with your own domain name. You can make money using free blogging platforms like Blogspot but chances of you making money increase when your own domain. The biggest problem is finding Affordable web hosting provider that has […]

If you are serious about making money online it is important to have a self hosted blog or a website with your own domain name. You can make money using free blogging platforms like Blogspot but chances of you making money increase when your own domain. The biggest problem is finding Affordable web hosting provider that has […]

If you are serious about making money online it is important to have a self hosted blog or a website with your own domain name. You can make money using free blogging platforms like Blogspot but chances of you making money increase when your own domain. The biggest problem is finding Affordable web hosting provider that has […]

If you are an twitter user with lots of followers Twittad might be just the thing for you to make some money from your twitter account. After signing up for the service advertisers can buy an ad slot in your twitter profile. Then the Twittad gives you a new template for your Twitter page which […]

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 is currently regarded as the best anti virus solution and now you can download it for free , get upgrades and technical support free and you will also get one year subscription to anti virus updates as well. By free I mean you don’t have to pay to get it but […]

Sponsoring contests are a great way to build back links for your site and its a win win situation for all parties as well , you get back links , contest holder gets attractive prizes and with the increase in number of prizes participants chances of winning something increases.

If you are doing paid reviews , selling text links or anything that is related to advertising and making money online then it is important to improve your Alexa rank. Although I have a decent Alexa rank ( around 130,000 ) I never gave much thought about actively trying to improve it. I really started […]

I am in London stuck in a 12 hour transit, catching up on some reading I’ve missed during the last couple of weeks. There’s a bunch of people I know in the city, but the immigration chaps won’t let me go out, because, I’m um, Sri Lankan. In any case, n…

After putting it off for a while I have added a new navigation bar to my blog.The idea is to improve the page impression of the blog.Research has shown that people navigate through the blog mostly through the navigation bar so I have just made it a bit easier to navigate to my best articles.Also […]

If you are moving to a self hosted blog or website one of the hardest things can be finding a web hosting service that matches your needs. When I was first looking for Web hosting services I got a great deal from Bluefur.com ( 1 year web hosting for 10$ ) so I didn’t […]

Two years back, I wanted to share my ideas and views with rest of the world. I found that having a web site will help me to interact with the world. I’m not competent enough in English so I just wanna start my site in Tamil.
As I began to explore more about setting up […]

I’m in Canada for something. Will be travelling from Toronto to Montreal to Quebec City. Blogging will be uncertain for another couple of weeks..

In my previous post about Performancing Ads I told there was an ad exchange system where your ad will be shown in other blogs as long as you have credits.I also mentioned that they have not clearly shown how you earn the credits, but John Chow has contacted them and he has revealed the Performancing […]

Entrecard has released Entrebar a, tool bar for Entrecard , well you have to call it a Firefox toolbar because that’s the only browser it currently works on. Firefox might be the best browser in the net , but for the average web surfer can get along fine without Firefox and leaving out IE users […]

Actually its not a new header since its being there for about 10 days but if you notice there have being few tweaks done to it in the last week and this is the final version of it , hope you guys like it because I love it. This is one of the few of […]

Making money from your blog can be divided into three basic things. Publish content , drive traffic and monetize your blog , althogh publishing and moneztizing isn’t that hard driving traffic is kind of hard for a new blog , especially if you don’t have any money to spend on advertising , thats where article […]

Twitter is becoming popular by the day and lots of A-List blogger are using it to connect with there readers , but if you are a part time blogger who are doing a full time job managing another service is bit hard , thats where this new cool Wordpress plug-in , TweetMyBlog comes in handy. […]

Since the buzz is about increasing the number of comments and the quality of comments I though this is a good time to talk about how to turn that commentators into loyal readers of your blog. This is even more important to do if you are getting good traffic from search engines because they are […]

One good thing about Google owned services is they are bound to improve with time and feedback from the users. One big critizims I always had about blogger is the comments form. The comment form in blogger was a good example of how not to encourage comments .Well there were some solutions and hacks […]

I recently joined blog carnival and already seeing results from my first submission to the different carnivals. Blog carnivals are a great way to get some exposure to your blog posts and also a great way to get some back links.
What is a blog carnival ?
Basically its a blog post with links to many other […]

There is no argument that having a unique blog design does wonders for the branding of your blog. With thousands of Blogspot blogs out there its not easy to stand out as a Blogspot blog especially when you are only given very few templates to choose from.This is exactly what happens to most Blogspot bloggers […]

There is no argument that having a unique blog design does wonders for the branding of your blog. With thousands of Blogspot blogs out there its not easy to stand out as a Blogspot blog especially when you are only given very few templates to choose from.This is exactly what happens to most Blogspot bloggers […]

In my last post , How to look good in any browser - 1, I listed out three simple things you can do to improve the quality of your blog. In case you get some errors in the first validation below are some common errors and how to overcome them. Most of these are simple […]

Are you a nice blogger who cares about your visitors ? If so you should worry about how your blog or website looks in different browsers. Your blog that looks beautiful in your Firefox browser might not look so good in Internet Explorer or Opera. You can achieve this in three easy steps and if […]

Want lots of traffic ? Want to be an authority in your niche ? One of the best ways to achieve them is to add useful informative comments in popular blogs in your niche. Adding a comment is one thing but if you are the 50′th person commenting about that post chances of your comment […]

With thousands of blogs producing countless blog posts every day you need to go that extra mile to make your post stand out , and videos play a vital part in doing that. According to many top bloggers videos are the next big thing that is going to hit the net , but however cool […]

Looks like everybody decided to make their move when I’m away. Gone for 10 days and the blog world is full of new services.I guess that’s to be expected with the expansion of blogging. Finally Entrecard has given the ability to have multiple blogs in one account. This is far easier than signing up with […]

In one of my previous posts I talked about a Wordpress plug-in that allows the non technical people to add a favicon to their Wordpress blogs. Today I will show how to add a favicon to a blogspot blog without using any plug-in. Please keep in mind if you are tech savvy you can add […]

Search engine traffic is essential for growth of any blog , but whats more important is what you do with your traffic.There are plenty of free tools available to track your traffic and the one I use and the mostly used one is Google Analytics. As I said there are plenty more and its up […]

If you are using RSS and especially if you are providing a full feed RSS like me chances are others might be publishing without content without your consent and most importantly without any reference to the original blog post.This could lead to your blog being penalized by Google for duplicate content and more importantly you […]

Started using Twitter a few weeks back and I’m loving the service. Its a great way to connect with your users and best of all its free and fun.Building a good relationship with your readers is a must for any blog to succeed and providing many ways to getting in touch with you leads invariably […]

It doesn’t matter how much you monetize your website , but if your not getting any traffic you want be earning anything.Thats why I find it very strange when relatively new blogs have around four 125×125 banners in their blog with nothing but “Advertise Here” in them.If I visit a blog like that my initial […]

This is not another post advising you to drop 300 cards per day or telling you to always reciprocate your drops , Instead this post is about some of the great services available in the Entrecard shop which I think the Entrecard community is not taking full advantage of.Most of them are highly beneficial for […]

Tomorrow we will be celebrating not only May Day but also RSS Awareness Day as well. This is a project initiated by DailyBlogTips to raise the awareness of RSS  and the benefits of RSS. If you don’t know what RSS is it stands for Really Simple Syndication.Its a great way to keep track of your […]

Are you using Tabs in your blog ? If not you could be missing out in converting random visitors to potential regular readers.If one of your posts gets stumbled or dug, chances are you would get some nice traffic. When someone comes to a blog for the first time they want to find out whether […]

Signing up for an Adsense account doesn’t guarantee you will make any money off it , you need to tweak your colors and placement of the ads to get the maximum result. After experimenting with Adsense and PHP I finally managed to add them just the place I want , actually its very simple […]

This blog is not active anymore.No one will reply to your comments or at least approve them.You are wasting your time here!!!Instead head on over to Metal Cracker.

Little did anyone know, that the Secretary of the Peradeniya Engineering Faculty Student Union had a blog on Kottu. He may not have had an ideal sense of humor when it came to politics, but he did have a blog and chose to communicate his views through dialog rather than brute force. And for a […]

When a service is free to try you should always give it a try.When a service gives free traffic,back links to your blog and a share of their Adsense revenue, as a blogger you should definitely give it a try.Well Blogsvine offers all that and more. The blogsvine administrators are not shy to advertise this […]

After doing some research and reading on user friendliness , reader habits I finally decided to change this blogs theme. This was done after testing at least 50 themes , well none of them had everything I wanted but this one had most so I chose this one.The previous theme , Talian 1.0 helped me […]

How many outbound links are there in your homepage ? Well you can right click and go to view source and start counting or you can use the web developer Firefox plug in like me and get a list of the links in any web page instantly. Although I had it installed for a while […]

RSS subscribers are very important to a blog , not only it provides you a with a loyal number of readers , but the number of your RSS subscribers are considered when evaluating your blogs worth for advertising and etc, So after learning my lesson in the previous contest I’m having another contest, this time […]

After having held probably the most unsuccessful contest of all time where I had 0 participants,I have learned my lesson. I guess some of you have noticed the link shown in the top where you can win 500 Entrecards. I was just starting out with Entrecard so I thought that It was a cool deal […]

Time to reveal the details of another experiment , In the first two months of this blog I tried hard to build back links so I can get a good Page Rank in the last Page Rank update.I succeeded in doing that and got a PR of 3.Having a good PR has its benefits like […]

Looks like the Sri Lankan blogs are on the rise , This is the first time I heard of blog marathon held in Sri Lanka so I guess its safe to say I was pleased and a little exited as well.But I was disappointed to see that it was only for bloggers blogging in Sinhalese.To […]

A big apology to all my RSS readers who subscribed by e-mail.If you have gotten a older post by e-mail that was just me fooling around with Adsense in my older posts.If you are serious about making some money online and don’t have the bucks to spend on nice designs and developers I suggest you […]

Blogging is something I love doing and when I get paid to do it I love it even more. Pay Per Post is a blog ad network where advertisers can generate some buzz by getting their product reviewed by bloggers and the blogger get paid to blog about advertisers products , Its a win win […]

Yesterday was an interesting day. I had two comments which didn’t contribute (positively or negatively) to the posts, but were personal attack hate comments. I was smart enough to figure out that replying to these was the last thing I should do.
After consulting Deane who is a veteran blogger, on what to do about this, […]

Are you using Blogrush in your blog ? Getting any traffic ?
Blogrush is one of the first widgets I added to this blog in the hope of increasing traffic, But so far I have seeing very little traffic coming thorough Blogrush. One might argue that you have to refer other sites and expand your network […]

The last month was a very successful month for this blog , Traffic has increased and when traffic increase so does the earnings. So for doing some research and posting , which takes around 1-2 hours of my day I have earned a little over 100$.I had a PR of 0 in February , and […]