tamal.me -My personal website, design feature and updates

No I haven’t launched a new site or blog, it’s just a personal space of mine located here: tamal.me. For the last few days I’ve been quite fascinated about my new site plus having pending tasks on other websites, so far the last 3-4 days were very tiring, multi tasking on my site + client’s site + publishing here at BlogKori. So there’s you have it:

In the past I never had a personal website, I bought my name domain (tamalanwar.com) from a local provider here at Dhaka and lost the domain later on. Now this domain is owned by some guy living in Morocco. This is why I hate local domain and webhosting providers. Ohh well, I created a small personal blog at blogkori.com/tamal and it was going great there. But I didn’t like the concept of having a sub directory/ sub domain for my personal site and it was conflicting with the SEO terms in search engines.

So after a long wait I was finally able to get a good, easy to remember personal domain tamal.me -isn’t that great? I imported all of my personal updates from blogkori.com/tamal to the new site’s blog located here: tamal.me/blog. Now I didn’t knew before how to make your wordpress blog section separate from the main website, so it was a great learning experience.

I used my thesis dev edition to design this site. Made a page called main for the home page and set it from the wordpress Reading options. Now when you do that, you have a page headline on the top which I don’t like to have. So I added this to my thesis custom file editor:

.pagename .headline_area {display:none;}

Where you change the pagename to your page’s title like in my case I added main. If you have a page like My home page, then it will be my-home-page. I also created a matching twitter background with a few details and social media links:

When you browse the internal pages (like the blog) then you will have a narrow sidebar on the right. I placed facebook badge, twitter updates, flickr pics and some other things there.

So what’s the plan for this new personal site? Currently I just love to see the site. Let me tell you, it’s nothing so serious at all, just a place to share my personal updates and bragging. I want to have something as a retirement plan, maybe when I’ll retire from Blogkori, then I will still have a place to post some updates (cause I love blogging)

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InfoLinks: Earn Money with text links – Get paid via Payoneer Mastercard

InfoLinks is a cool contexual advertising program for publishers like you and me who are having good content rich blogs. What’s more fun than selling words from your blog posts? For the last few months I’m using LinkWorth to monetize my blog, they added text links in my content, I didn’t even wanted to have them, it just added auto with the plugin. Now I have removed the LinkWorth contexual ads (LinkWords) to give a try to InfoLinks.

To add the links on my blog, I just installed a wordpress plugin on my site and start earning money. I can customize the color to make the links look exactly like the regular links from my blog. It offers upto 12 links per page, a good way to monetize the blog.

They offer different ways to get paid like check, paypal, wire etc and recently they have added the Payoneer prepaid debit mastercard as their payment option. That’s way cool! So I went to my account to apply for a card, where I found you can link your existing mastercard with InfoLinks. Instead of getting a new mastercard, I linked the account with my mastercard that I got from odesk. And technically it’s a wise choice, because you don’t have to pay additional monthly charge for having another card. But if you don’t have a prepaid debit card at all, then you have to apply for one.

I’ve earned $7 so far and the minimum payout is $100, so I guess have to wait a few more weeks before getting paid. You do tell me what you feel about monetizing your content with contexual ads and join InfoLinks today.

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Review: Free Annuity Rates Dot Com – Compare Annuity Rates

Thanks to the world wide web, everything’s under your reach no matter what are you searching for. If your retirement is close to the door and if you’re planning how to use your retirement funds for a profitable venture, then log on to FreeAnnuityRates.com for free information on annuities. The website features 150+ articles on different company annuity rates, free tools such as the annuity calculator, ratings for all major insurance companies and a live blog.

You can also get an immediate annuity guide and many other free information which will help you to get to your goals and secure a good financial future.

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10 Ways to Earn Money Online from Bangladesh

Are you from Bangladesh and looking for legit/ real ways to Earn Money Online? Then read this guide which will help you to learn, understand and Earn Money Online from Bangladesh. This guide can be a reference to online money making because there are so many ways where you can stay at home and earn money online. But let me inform you, online money making is just like earning in real life and it’s not that easy. Some of these ways are easy to start but won’t generate much revenue where other guarantee you a better payout and a regular income stream. So here are the ways to Earn Money Online from Bangladesh,

1 Earn Money Online with Paid Surveys

Surveys are old concept & I think you should know about this method of money making. On a survey site, you have to to register and wait for the surveys to come; fill in the form with your opinion and that’s it! You earn money on every survey you take. Some of these sites offer paid emails where you have to send/ read emails. One of the popular paid survey site is AWsurveys. Update: Yes AWSurveys is a SCAM site, thanks for letting me know about this because I was sending you at wrong direction. One of the popular and legit survey site is SurveySavvy.

2 Earn Money for Writing Articles

There are so many websites which runs on user generated content and articles. Some of these sites share the revenue with their writers. The more traffic you get for your article will earn you more money. One of the website that shares 10% google adsense revenue with their writers is called Shvoong.

3 Earn Money with Paid To Click PTC

With paid to click PTC concept, you earn money for browsing websites (sponsored sites); there are other concepts like paid to surf, paid to view and paid to search. Frankly speaking, these sites are big time wasters because the amount they pay is very little comparing to the time you spend for each unit of ad. One of the popular PTC site where you can earn good amount of money is Bux.to.

4 Earn Money with your Photos

If you love photography and a good photographer, then you can sell your exclusive photos online. This is a cool concept where you earn money online by selling your photos. Designers need photos for their projects and one of your pictures can be sold to many authors. You can sell your photos on sites such as iStockPhoto.

5 Earn Money Online with Google Adsense

To earn money using google adsense, you need a running website/ blog, read this post on how to start a blog. You must have seen billboards and ads where they claim you can earn money online $10-20/ day using adsense -THAT’S A LIE! Adsense is a legit way for money making and you earn revenue when some one clicks on your ads. Before having this status, you need to build up a content rich blog; but those suckers teach people how to build a dummy blog with copied content, it’s not real and it’s a SCAM! google.com/adsense

6 Earn Money for your Opinion

Yes, this is the new era of money making, now you earn money for giving your opinion by writing a blog post on your weblog. Thanks to paid review sites, they pay you to write about products, websites and brands. Your opinion gives them buzz, traffic and customers. One of the popular paid review site is SocialSpark.

7 Affiliate Marketing to Earn Money Online

This is a method where you promote a product on your website/ group and when you sell it, you get the commissions. There are lots of digital and real goods available that sell well and people love to have them; you can be an affiliate and earn money as you go on. You can be an affiliate and sell goods from ClickBank.

8 Earn Money Selling Banner Ads

If you build an established website/ blog, then advertisers will love to pay you to put banner ads on your website. This is called banner ads or direct income opportunities. The more traffic and link popularity you generate for your site, the more money you can earn with your website.

9 Earn Money Online with Freelancing

Freelance jobs provide a great way for web users to work at home and earn a good income. You may have skills like data entry, graphics design or administrative tasks; you will get work online and for this you will be paid. You can start a career with freelancing. One of the good marketplace I recommend for freelancing is oDesk.

10 Earn Money using Twitter Advertising

Advertisers are looking forward to bring their campaign go viral with twitter advertising. You don’t even need a website/ blog to earn money with twitter. Read the step by step guide on twitter to learn how it works; there are many companies who work with twitter advertising like Be-A-Magpie.

How to receive the money in Bangladesh?

Receive Money by Check

This is a bank check which you can cash out from your bank. Different sites such as adsense and others pay via bank check. This is absolutely the basic and most popular way to receive money in Bangladesh.

Receive Money in Bangladesh using PayPal

PayPal is a popular payment processor that helps you receive funds online. PayPal is not yet available in Bangladesh but it will be soon. read this: How to use PayPal to receive money in Bangladesh.

Payoneer Prepaid Debit Mastercard

This is a great new way to receive money in Bangladesh; you get a mastercard from sites like oDesk and can withdraw money from ATM’s, read: Receive money in Bangladesh using the Payoneer Prepaid Debit Mastercard.

Receive Money using MoneyBookers

MoneyBookers is just like paypal and it’s liked to your bank account. It supports Bangladesh. MoneyBookers

Receive Money using AlertPay

Same as PayPal and supports Bangladesh. You can withdraw using the check or can use Western Union. AlertPay

Receive Money using E-Gold

Same as PayPal.. e-gold

How much Money can I Earn Online?

Depending on your effort, skills and method, you can earn from TK 5,000-10,000/month. Earning online really depends on your commitment and your effort, so you can even earn from TK 15,000-30,000 or even 50,000 a month. Take my advice, there’s serious money can be earned online and it’s not fun, whatever you do, just be serious and work hard on it; don’t scam, cheat and be honest on what your method is.

Share your thoughts

Are you from Bangladesh, and do you earn money online? How do you do it? How did you get started in it? Please let me know and leave your questions (if any) Please do share this post using your favorite social media site, thanks and Best of success!

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7 reasons why most bloggers quit blogging within a year

I have blogger friends and also friends who are new, excited about the concept of internet marketing. Most of them have started to blog or either planning to start off a blog. But as the time goes, these faces disappear from the online world and soon I wonder what happened, why they are not actively blogging like before? Most of the enthusiastic blogger friends of mine don’t even make it up to at least one year as they fall.

Now today I’m sharing a few reasons why most bloggers quit blogging within a year. I want you to read them below if you are a newbie blogger and make sure you don’t quit blogging.

1 You don’t love blogging

You will quit if you start something that you don’t love at all. Sometimes bloggers blog just for updating their site or to keep up with the audience. If you don’t love blogging or even blogging on this topic, why blog? You have to care about your blog and your readers. You never know who is following your blog and waiting for great new updates.

2 You run too many blogs

I know few people who manages too many blogs like a main blog, tech blog, personal blog and another blog about their blogging habits. After all that you also have to manage being you, your family and work too! Running too many blogs at once is really hard and you will get bored with it real soon. When I started blogkori, I had another regular blog running and when blogkori started to take off, it was really hard to manage 2 blogs at once; so I quit blogging at my first blog and focused on BlogKori.

3 You want to make money online

No there’s no problem at making money online with your blog but the fact is that majority of the bloggers start to blog just because they want to earn money from their blogs. You can’t earn money with a blog before building a content rich website. You have to provide the content and a reason to read from your site. Most bloggers get frustrated at this and at some point when they see it’s impossible for them to continue, they quit.

4 You didn’t invested any money on it

Blogs are free with blogspot or wordpress but it needs investment if you want to own a domain, have to host the content at your webhost. I’m running BlogKori on HostGator servers from January 2009 and since then I have paid $130 so far, that means almost TK 9,000 alone in the hosting. Additional money spent on buying and renewing domains, contest giveaways and the bills I paid for my PC upgrades and internet subscription. So just because I have spent so much money for my blog, I won’t stop blogging that easily.

5 You are not blogging with wordpress

The majority of the bloggers are using free platform and have never tried out wordpress. Wordpress is cool for bloggers and web site owners with so many great features, themes, tools and flexibility. Just because you have a blogspot blog, you don’t care about your blog and finally you quit.

6 You are not even writing your own posts

Most bloggers are too lazy to write blog posts themselves and what they do is to copy paste content from the web. They think they are smart and nobody will ever know. You won’t attract people with copied content even if they are great writings, google won’t give you good rankings either.

7 You are not reading other blogs

You don’t read other blogs at all and you quit saying “Blogging sucks!” -you have no rights to say this buddy, the blogsphere is a tremendous place with high quality professionals. If you don’t read other blogs, you will soon run out of ideas and motivations. Also reading other blogs will give you new tips to maximize blogging efforts.

Add another point

Do you know any more reason for people to quit blogging? Please share your thoughts and share this post with your friends.

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5 Crazy but Natural SEO optimization tricks for your blog

These are some of the crazy but natural SEO optimization methods that we don’t hear a lot but it really works in the long run. So let’s read, learn these crazy but effective SEO tricks.

Keywords in image alter tags

We love to add images on our post, don’t we? Images are labeled as IMAGE1, PICTURE1, PHOTO_1 etc. I have labeled my image acording to what the image represents. This is a cool way to get search traffic even from image search results.

Popular forum and discussions

When you write a new post, add the same post on forums/ popular discussion sites. It’s not spamming, some site allows you to promote your blog posts. Add the post title as the thread title and linkback from the thread. Here you get some traffic from the forum, get a link and additionally these established sites rank higher in different keywords. So where your main article is no where near in the top listing, these forum thread will be there who are linking to your original article.

Social media aggregators

Most people don’t care about aggregators such as friendfeed, peoplepond or facebook. If you post your links on social media such as twitter or digg, it will appear on different aggregators too. The cross linking works well in SEO terms and soon you will get more links pointing to your article as the snowball rolls.

Links on the footer

Most website owners love to put the important page links on the footer section; it’s not only making the site user friendly, but also giving a good SEO boost. The footer appears on all of your blog posts or pages, that means you are getting linked back from all of your pages back to your own site.

Using heading tags

You see when I write posts, I make my whole article into small paragraphs, plus I add a sub title for each of the paragraphs. I do this because I want my reader to feel comfortable while reading short paragraphs. The sub title also gives an idea on what the paragraph is all about. But the main thing is, the sub titles are done with “Heading 2” tag. Search bots take good care of the text inside the heading tags and because I add keywords inside the heading, I get more SEO juice.

What else can be done?

Please tell me what things you do to make your site SEO friendly? For good seo, we get better traffic and can earn more money online; please do share your personal SEO tips and share this post on your favorite site.

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