As a blogger/webmaster we use image(s) on every post to and try to make it informative in every manner. After using images form third-party or from any external source we forget to give credit to others and forget their hard work (amount of time they put in taking and making these beautiful pictures).

This is a beautiful poster which clearly show how to credit any photographer and how to use any particular image on website/blog. This poster is a collective effort of Pia Bijkerk, Erin Loechner and Yvette van Boven.

Share your views in comment section and let us know how you credit images on your blog.

[Via] Designspongeonline

WordPress is most commonly use blogging platform that it used beyond the limit of blogs to the extend of CMS. Many highly traffic sites and e-commerce site use wordpress as in back end. Many times we need to monitor the server load and SQL queries running in wordpress in order to maintain the smoothness of websites. We know that poor and damaged performance is due to poorly designed database or SQL queries (for example, when the table does not have indices that the query can use or when the query uses unnecessary performance killers such as ORDER BY/GROUP BY).

If you are not familiar then i will also recommend you 13 useful wordPress SQL queries you wish you knew earlier and  top five WordPress SQL queries.

How to monitor the SQL queries in WordPress Blog

SQL Monitor is the WordPress plugin for developers, theme designers and site administrators who wants to track and resolve the quality and performance for site.

Note:  SQL Monitor is incompatible with plugins that install their own db.php into wp-content directory (DB Cache, DB Cache Reloaded, probably W3 Total Cache).

For anyone who constantly logs on to the Internet on a daily basis, there is only one plausible phrase that can describe the information highway. In the realm of the World Wide Web, content is king. And this could not be any more true for the Internet marketers and blog owners making their daily living off the Internet.

The fact that there is so much going on all at the same time is the basic byproduct of having a faster information gateway. A faster and more convenient platform that enables us to share information at a speed of light. And this is why we are able to get our hands on everything we need to know at the approximate time we need it.
A snip from wikipedia about saying “Content is King”

The phrase can be interpreted to mean that – without original and desirable content, or consideration for the rights and commercial interests of content creators – any media venture is likely to fail through lack of appealing content, regardless of other design factors.

Content can mean any creative work, such as text, graphics, images or video.

“Content is King” is a current meme when organizing or building a website (although Andrew Odlyzko in “Content is Not King” argues otherwise). Text content is particularly important for search engine placement. Without original text content, most search engines will be unable to match search terms to the content of a site

For bloggers, business owners and Internet marketers alike, content is the driving force that attracts Internet users to what they have to offer on a specific subject. So without content, there can be no traffic, no visitors and no earnings. This is why, as long there are marketers who believe that they can sell things online and there are people who look to the internet for things to buy, there will always be a great demand for original content.

Blogging has become a worldwide phenomenon as more and more people are starting to realize the importance of staking their claims on the Internet. For most, It’s a way to prove that they existed and that they matter in this world, similar to why ancient cavemen left behind their handprints on the wall long time ago, while for others it’s an opportunity to earn a bit more money during this economic downturn.

Ever since the day that advertisers and publishers have struck gold with advertising their products and services on the Internet, blogging has never been the same again. As there are millions of blogs all over the internet, each having their own niche, advertisers and publishers then thought of a way that they can use these blogs as a means of leverage to increase traffic and awareness for their own sites. The blogger will then be duly compensated depending on whether there was active explicit advertising and the degree involved.

There is a lot of money to be made on the internet, even until today and this is why many people’s interests are shifting towards maintaining money earning blogs instead of getting a regular 9 to 5 means of employment. And although the movement still hasn’t reached a massive scale, it’s very much on its way nonetheless.

The proliferation of mass information over the years has caused all people in general to become more aware of their surroundings and events happening all over the world. And because of the Internet’s capabilities to deliver the exact information whenever you want it, many people have decided to take advantage of this arrangement by creating their own blogs and becoming evangelists in the own right. But not all blogs or bloggers are alike.

With so many things going on, having just one niche or specialty can be a daunting task, especially if you’re the type of person who has a lot to say about anything. Having a wide understanding of different things may make you an interesting conversationalist in the real world, but on the internet, you might want to just concentrate on one thing if you want to be able to attract visitors to your site. Avoid information overflow in your blog by becoming an expert of one industry.

The only way that this can be achieved is by becoming focused on the subject that you’re good at and know like the back of your hand. So whether it’s about celebrities or golf, as long as you stick to one niche, your blog will surely attract the attention of your specific market and advertisers alike.

"As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes." –Denis Diderot, "Encyclopédie" (1755)

Do you want to know about the tricks use by famous bloggers on their blog to make it powerful. There is a service known as Sitonomy from the help of which you can know more about different blogs.

According to Sitonomy “Sitonomy is a free service that allows developers and designers to find out which technologies are used in a specific blog/site. Together with the provided statistic information of popular technologies, this service makes it easier to decide what technologies are suitable to your own site. List of top alternatives are provided for the following categories: affiliate networks, advertising networks, analytical tools and more.”

Here is a snapshor of a result of Problogger.net which is the most famous website for bloggers. This site is maintained by Darren Rowse.

You can easily see that he use Chitika Advertising service to monetize his blog. Also he use Google admanager to manage Google ads.

This service also told about which blogging platform is used by the blog. Also it gives information about server IP, programming language, stats tools, Javascript libraries, and feed subscription.

Overall, this service is very useful to know about bigger players, also you can know about the top blog of the world like Techcrunch or Mashable, its surprising to see that both are using WordPress as a blogging platform.

TwitteReader  is a new and free service which turns Twitter into something resembling Google ReaderThis web app is basically a Google Reader clone, except instead of managing general RSS feeds, it manages your Twitter account.Just like Google Reader and Gmail, you can move up and down the list with the same J and K keyboard shortcuts. You can also star items, which adds them to your Twitter favorites list. The application keeps track of what you’ve read and what you haven’t, which, depending on how many people you’re following, could be useful. If a system like Google Reader’s trends were to be applied to this you could see which people’s updates you’re not reading and cut them out of your followers list.

As you can see in the screenshot above, the interface is very clean (some would say sparse). It certainly does feel a lot like Google Reader, and supports using the J & K keys for moving up and down. It loads 20 tweets per screen (same as twitter.com) but rather than display the entire tweet, it just shows the first line of each tweet. This makes the display nice and compact, but given how short tweets are, it feels silly having to open each one to get another line of content. The good news is that tweets open automatically when you select them, so there’s no additional mouse clicks. Having them closed by default just inhibits fast scanning.
You can mark tweets as favorites and TwitteReader keeps track of what you’ve read and what you haven’t (but there’s no way to hide tweets you’ve read, leaving you only unread tweets to scan). You can mark a tweet as unread if you like. Every tweet has kind of a time stamp (day of the week and month, as of GMT time) but not the “2 hours ago from web” info nor the “nor the “in reply to” link that you’d get on twitter.com.
As an app it’s a nice start, but I’d like to see some additional features. First, the option to “expand all” tweets would be very welcome, as would a setting to load more than 20 tweets per page. Being able to fly down a page of open tweets via keystrokes, having them marked as read as I went, would be a very nice user experience, I think. And the “in reply to” information is pretty critical for those of us who use Twitter to carry on conversations with friends. It can often be tough to puzzle out what someone is replying to when each tweet in a conversation can be posted hours apart. Lastly, it’d be nice to be able to hide all read tweets, or to show only Favorite tweets. Basically some way to tag a tweet to “save for later” while you’re scanning.

I feel it’s important to emphasize again that this is a beta release and the developer seems to be actively working on the app, so don’t consider this a review, but rather a first look at a product still in development. As it stands today, TwitteReader feels like the start of something really nice.

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We all know that the internet, a.k.a. the World Wide Web, was once owned and utilized only by government officials, scientists, professors of universities, and others who had a knack at using the Cyber-world for important purposes. These involved business, scientific discoveries, reports, etc. But now with the growing development of the World Wide Web, we’re seeing a whole new virtual arena where normal regular people can use all kinds of online applications and integrating them with different aspects of human life such as social networking or making money online. This transition or innovation is known as web 2.0 and is coined by O’Reilley Media back in 2003 to refer to sites and services that utilize the internet as their medium or platform.

Web 2.0 has basically changed the way we once used the internet. People can finally share their interests and even earn more money just by setting up a website. By using all kinds of online applications and internet tools, and eventually become an online community that shares the same interests and even hold transactions with one another, the internet has obviously become our virtual playground. You can also see the big change through the birth of new terms associated with web 1.0 applications, which have no empowered social networking and the growth of active online communities. Lastly, for those leaning towards the internet marketing industry, harnessing the powers of web 2.0 have broaden their scope in terms of target audience, effective increase of traffic, advertising, and the like.

Have you more than one social network to update? Tired of downloading and logging into multiple apps or web sites on your mobile phone? Xumii makes socializing easy and mobile. Xumii’s free iPhone application, expected to be in the App Store Feb. 16, allows you to see and contact all your friends across all your networks with ONE easy service. That includes Facebook, MySpace, imeem, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, MSN and Flickr.
Xumii is an easy to use free mobile application that allows you to stay connected to all your friends.
With Xumii keeping track of all your contacts in one place, you get the latest status updates from your friends, chat 1:1 or in a Group, post items on a mobile Wall or share the latest pictures from your phone or online album.
Xumii makes socializing easy and mobile. Xumii’s free iPhone application, expected to be in the App Store Feb. 16, allows you to see and contact all your friends across all your networks with ONE easy service. That includes Facebook, MySpace, imeem, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, MSN and Flickr.
Functionalities of xumii……
Share Photos Does your best friend keep photos on MySpace, Facebook, flickr or imeem? You’ll be able to browse their snapshots from your phone. You can share all the photos from your social networking albums in chat as well!
Status Updates See all the latest status updates from all your Facebook and IM friends. Let everyone know what you’re doing with a single status update to Xumii
Group Chat Create a private group on the fly to chat and share photos and videos in private.
Mobile Wall Post messages, videos and photos to your mobile wall for all your friends to see. Download the Xumii Facebook App so your Facebook friends can post gifts, photos and messages as well!
Watch YouTube Videos See the Top Rated, Most Viewed and Featured videos on YouTube. Share videos with your friends in chat sessions as well as posting on their walls.
Latest News Feeds Get the latest gossip and world event feeds!

SEO  short for search engine optimization, the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. The higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user. It is common practice for Internet users to not click through pages and pages of search results, so where a site ranks in a search is essential for directing more traffic toward the site.

The concept is simple. It’s about ensuring that your content is found by the millions of people every day who use search engines as their first filter for news and those who don’t search at all but trust an automated aggregator, such as Google News, to filter stories for them. These people are essentially asking a computer to tell them the news. If you want your story to be read, you’d better make sure the computer knows what you’re writing about.
I carefully chose keywords for the title on my post ”How to” (do what they want to do).I thought about the words that a user would type in when looking for an answer to their question, and tried to include those words in the article. I also tried to think of a few word variations and included them where they made sense (file vs. files, Firefox and Mozilla, etc.).I’m targetting a long-tail concept where someone will be typing several words, so I’m probably in a space where on-page keywords are enough to rank pretty well.
The utility of an article is paramount. If you write 2000 words about mortgage loans and never discuss the industry landscape or impart some useful, concrete knowledge to your reader, that should set off a warning flag in your head. So use this advice only for good (high-quality articles), not for evil.
To do that you need to ensure your article contains certain keywords. That means not only the words that someone types into a search engine but also the keywords that the search engine knows are commonly associated with the search term. So if someone types “credit crunch” into a search engine, the computer knows that an article about the credit crunch often contains other words, such as financial crisis, bail out or bailout, banks, recession and so on.
The algorithms that determine how a search engine evaluates and chooses between keywords are complex and frequently kept secret. Search companies don’t want their techniques to be stolen by rivals or exploited by publishers seeking to gain an unfair advantage. As a result, the rules of SEO are constantly changing as search engines refine their techniques both to improve results and to close loopholes. There are lots of factors at play in SEO and I won’t go into them here.

Do you know that the basic concept of shared online bookmarks innovate in around April 1996, in an official launch of itList which features to included public and private bookmarks. As the time passes, web 2.0 is emerging as an infant and after that are series of launch of several online bookmark services like Blink, Backflip, Clip2, ClickMarks, HotLinks, and so many others. They provided folders for masterminding bookmarks, and some services offers automatically synchronization of the bookmarks into folders.

What is the benefits of using Social bookmarking?

If you are a webmaster,blog owner or a blogger then you alreday known with the benefits of using social bookmarking services. Some of the important reasons to go for Social bookmarking are listed as follows:

1.To get unique traffic from various zone of social networks. Unique Traffic= Profit =Aim= What you want !

2.In order to create a social buzz on your product and brands. Buzz=Get More People=Networking !

3.To get faster indexing of the website in the search engines like google,yahoo and msn live search. SEO=Profit !

4.To get high Google page rank from various back links and bookmarking sites. Good Content=Buzz=High PR !

5.To get a good alexa ranks with the help of target traffic coming on your website from classified origins. Traffic=Good Alexa= Profit !

What to do if we don’t have time?

Socail bookmarking takes time and you need to work upon creating a profile first. This can be explain in the same way you create you facebook profile i.e more you update your status with facts and figure – more the people will know about you. You need to make the optimized profile in all social networks (which you are following) and try to avoid the incomplete profiles without avtars, images , intro , about and other details.

If you don’t have time to buzz your brand then you can ask your friends to do so or the best way is to get some Social Bookmarking Service that may enrich the above 5 benefits like Buzz,traffic Google indexing and if you want you can also go for the Link Building Service to get better juice of google page ranks.

Every one here is quite experienced with word internet marketing.The Internet has contributed many unique benefits for the people and creates a openhanded platform to earn money.It is one of which being lower costs for the statistical distribution of information and media to a global audience this is the only reasons why people are jumping more into the online business. The interactive nature of Internet marketing, both in terms of providing instant response and eliciting responses, is a unique quality of the medium for the mortals who are interested in making money.

Their are various ways to make online money but you have to feel and research yourself in order to conclude that which one is best for you.

Research can be none other than your perfect companions so while researching on how to make money online i found few blogs that are basically magnifying the basic ways of earning online money that are as follows:

Affiliate marketing – is an Internet-based marketing pattern in which a business reinforces one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought.In a direct way its the form of customer and profit sharing marketing.Their are certain methods to earn money in affiliates marketing that  include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and customer referral programs.

Blogging is most  popular nowadays and about 75% of the active internet users are visiting the blogs.So here is the chance to earn money online but writing about your dreams, you like- your dislikes,your reviews on the products and other similar eye candy ways.You may check the three blogging tips for successful online marketing and can analyze how to make money online from blogs.If you making money from blogs the please do remember these point to avoid failures:

1. Don’t forget the blog branding and maintaining your niche.
2. Don’t forget to maintain the authority of the blogs by helping other in a unique way of providing source full contents.
3. Please keep in mind to provide products and methods of promotions only after research as with a proof it will be a FAIL.
4. You contents should be fresh and not already present in the internet

Blog Networks – You may start your own blog network to provide a wide range of services and offering for the product reviews.Starting your own blog network may increase the tendency of generating immense profits. Their are more chances that your blog network will convert into media agency depending on the performance and your efforts.

Open Source – If you are an open source evangelists then you can try for service and support for open source software.If you want to know more check how does one earn money from FOSS

Post on Forums – The new forums need discussions and threads to carry outs so their is always demand of forums posters.If you want to know more comments below and i’ll get a job for you.

Design T-Shirts and logos – Designers have always the best way to earn online and If you are are a designer then you may anticipate a new way to make money either by on your own site or by participating in designs contests. Check out these sites for if you want to know more about how to make money online form designs and creativity :

• Cafepress
• Spreadshirt
• Zazzle
• 99designs

Paid survey – A paid survey is used to gather valued data about the products / services participants’ personal and economic habits set against their particular demographic. These surveys can provide incentivized  to get huge buzz and  a more representative range of respondents compared to disincentive surveys.Paid survey is about taking survey from the Internet market research companies. These companies generally will reward you cash or gift for the online survey your completed. In a simple worlds paid survey can’t offer your full-time income can be proved as extra income source.

Few things that may enhance and exaggerate your possibilities of making high amount of money:

1. Use the power of FREE– Unless and until you have a vast range of portfolio no one going to pay you for your products.So the best way is you can use the power of Free . Provide every thing as a free and Charge for support and your time.
2. Become Creative – This is as simple as it looks like ,generating new ideas and sales materials for marketing a product is the best way to sand out of the competitions.
3. Testimonials.- Recommendations magnate as trust enhancer and provide unbiased reviews in front of your potential customers.You may have  some clients/ customers or group of peoples and offer them services in return of the reviews.This will sure boost the business values and the tendency of high profits.

Blogging is one of the most popular ways of earning money nowadays. From merely being a medium of self-expression, blogging has become a money-making tool that integrates both creativity and online marketing. Basically, internet marketers use blogs as a way of reaching out to readers who can become potential customers or clients. They write about products, services, and all kinds of topics and hopefully get readers and customers to visit their online businesses like club par excellance

There are a lot of ways on how to really boost traffic through blogs. The basic tip here is to improve the quality of entries posted in the blog and to continuously update them, especially if you’ve got a list of readers waiting for newer entries . To makes things more simple, here’s a list of blogging tips that might help you in your online career.

1. Research, research, and more research. You may have what it takes to be a writer, but without enough knowledge on the topics you’re going to be writing about your credibility as a blogger or writer will go down. Make sure to have enough information before starting a blog entry.
2. You have to know what interests you to write. Writing about topics that don’t even interest you will only produce bad entries and low quality articles. Start by knowing what your niche is and expand from there.
3. Once you’ve started, make sure to update your blog everyday or at least once in a while. Especially if your blog host has the RSS feature, you may have readers subscribed to your blog and expecting an entry or two to come out regularly. Don’t leave your blog for too long; make sure to update it regularly.

Note: I recently going the some articles on the blog of  club par excellance and analyses that if you are a company then you use blogging as your buzz creating tools.I know this advice is not new but thing is that how to use blog for effetely creating customers.In short you socialize on the various hot topics and your association with those topics and technologies.Last but not least i’ll came up soon with a special report of the corporate blogging styles.