How to create a favicon for your blog

For those who do not know what the favicon is, I start telling you that the favicon is that little image that appears in browsers next to the address bar.

Changing the favicon is gives a special and personal touch to your blog, since by default the entire blogger blog brings the favicon of the B in white on the orange background.
The first thing to do is create an image in a size of 16x16 pixels. The design depends on each particular blog, as well as colors and images that you want to.

Once we have the 16x16 pixel image that we want to use in our blog we save it. Here we must pay attention because we have saved Jpg image and not an ico that is the format that we have to use to upload our favicon. To convert this. Jpg image into an Ico, the best way is to use online services that let you do this in a very simple way, for example I use Dynamic Drive, there you choose the image you have created in .jpg format and create your Icon. When you finished creating your icon you download it to your PC.
Now we have our favicon format. Ico, the next step is to upload that image to any image hosting service that supports. Ico formats.
Once we have done all the previous steps we can insert our favicon into the blog. To do this we open the Desing tab in your Blogger  account, and click the EDIT HTML and look for the following code:

Just before the this code you have to paste this code:

Remember that were it says http://site.com/favicon.ico you have to replace the favicon url where you uploaded the .ico image. The you save the changes and it is ready, you have your own favicon.

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How To Find Your Affiliate Niche Market

Guest Post by: Avnery

Profiting from your affiliate niches is very possible if you truly understand the enormous potential that exists with knowing the correct niches to get into. Finding your own profitable niche online is where most aspiring affiliates get stuck it can often take months on end to find a niche that will give you a favorable return on investment. Finding your own niche though is not entirely impossible there are guidelines for finding niches and if followed correctly will get you results.
1. Pick on a broad category of ideas this could be green energy, affiliate marketing,relationships,general shopping, or sports,etc.Skin this broad category till you get to a segment of what you started with
2. Think about the subsets that lie within the broad category you picked on above for example if you chose the relationship market think about people who are just starting to date, those who are breaking up, those who are not comfortable with the other partner or those that want to make the relationship better.
3. Pick on an item to sell that belongs to one of the subsets you just identified above.
4. Continue brainstorming and finding out specific details about the people that might belong to any of the subsets you picked on above for example people who have just broken up in reality still want their partner back or would be more than willing to make up or buy products that help them understand why their partner broke up in the first place. If you understand this then you are moments away from your ideal customers
5. Next step is to determine the profit potential of the keywords you think these people will be using when looking for solutions online. The easy way to do this is using quotes when entering the keyword into Google. The results that are returned will show you exactly how many websites are competing for that keyword, the lower the figure the better, also pay attention to the advertisements being run at the top and left hand sides the fewer the better for you.
In summary that is how you find your affiliate niche market online those are the basic rules finding lucrative niches however, requires more strategies and techniques that you can find by visiting the number one place to learn about affiliate Niche marketing.

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Pareto principle or the 80/20 rule

When you start new projects, or when you are heavily involved in any project, whether personal or professional, there are always things that are priorities or more important than others. The other day reading an article, I bumped into the Pareto principle also known as the 80/20 rule, and as usually happens to me when I'm very focused on many things at once, I realized how important this principle is and that had to implement it.

What is the Pareto principle?, Well, first of all I'll tell you who was Pareto and what he discovered, and that later became the Pareto principle, Vilfredo Pareto was a sociologist, economist and Italian philosopher, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population, proportions such that the minority group, comprising 20% of the population, showed 80% something and the largest group, comprising 80% of the population, 20% of the same thing.
Why do I mention the Pareto principle?, Because this principle applies to everything in life, from economics, politics, or even when we have outstanding tasks in our lives, as an example, think that have several tasks to make, 20% of these tasks mean 80% of the work, then, the issue is to identify those tasks to develop and thus meet the 80% of the work we have to do.
So thats why I think this principle is very useful, I think that for us to make a difference in life we have to identify what are the 80% most important things to do, and not to lose time in the 20% less important thing.

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Finding the best Keywords using Google Analytics

Among the different things you have to do to position your blog among the best in Google, finding the best Keyword is one of the most important. Learning how to find your best performing keywords will help you to adjust your blog to increase your position in Google.
In this video you can see a great tip on how to find the best keywords for your site effectively using Google.

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Using polls to make your blog more interesting

Why should you have polls in your blog? there are several reasons why you should have polls in your blog.
First of all the main reason you have to have polls in your blog is just esthetic, polls give blogs a professional look, and people love to fill polls when they visit a site.
Other reason why you should have polls in your blog is to recieve information about the people that visit your blog, with polls in your blog you can get important information about the likes of the readers of your blog.
Another reason is that polls can be a pretext to write an article, for example, you make a poll and you get information, you can make an article about what the result of the poll was.
Regardless polls are easy to make and you do not lose anything making polls, there are fun and very usefull.
So go and start making polls.

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Follow your passions

How important is the passion for all the projects you start. In the case of blogs it is the same, I think that a blog to be interesting, putting passion to what you write is important, but not only this, if you got a subject that you love that is the ideal kick to start a blog.
Passion makes that what we write has a special bonus to those who read it, you probably do read articles that called attention precisely because they were writen with passion.
A year ago when I started with my blogs, I started with topics such as travel, cars and things that I love to do, and that made these blogs to success. Today in this blog I have a passion for teaching what I learned from my experience, and the first thing I learned is just that, passionately transmit what I like.
This is just a tip, many can not pay attention to it, simply copy content and ready, but those who will succeed will be those who write their own content with passion.

Writing is to encourage to feel, is an invitation to think, is to open up infinite possibilities for expressing emotions.
Is to achieve the wonderful act of contact and communication through what one writes

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A positive way of living life

I once read a phrase that changed my life, in that phrase it was reduced the way I think life should be lived.
The phrase was the following:

If our dominant thoughts are constantly focused in obtaining positive results,
in our strengh or in our habits of success (and our actions re inforze that
way of thinking) then, that would be what we are going to manifest in life.

This is is a sentence I totally agree, living in a positive way, thinking always positive and doing things, will do what we make in something we always dreamed of.

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