Blogger in Draft: The Blogger Template Designer

The link I post in this article is about the new template designer of the official Blog for Blogger in Draft.
The Blogger Template designer is a great new tool that you can use to customize your blogger templates, making it as easy as possible and giving you the posibility to change things in your template as you like.

I think this is a great tool that for those that do not have a great knowledge about HMTL editing, makes things easy and understandable.

To know more about it, you have this link to Blogger in Draft where it explains with a video tutorial and an article how it works.

Blogger in Draft: The Blogger Template Designer

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How do you make money in the web

Surely if you just get started with blogs and how to win money online you have wondered what are the methods available to generate income.

There are many methods or monetization systems on the Internet. To make things more understandable I will mention the two most common methods by which you can make an extra income online.

First there are those who are called Ad Networks, within this segment, we can mention the most known: Google Adsense, this is undoubtedly the best known system for making money on the Internet and that whether you have experience or not you have to use, it is very simple and you do not need to know much about advertising. Ad networks are systems of online advertising in which ads are shown such as either text or image in your blog, and these ads are comonly related to the topic of your blog. Now, to make money with Adsense or other ad system, the reader visiting your blog has to click in the ads so you can get paid for such clicks. The values of how much you get payed depends on many factors, including the number of visitors your site has, the PageRank, content, subject matter among others.

The other system for generating revenue on the Internet are Affiliate programs, affiliate programs are excellent opportunities to make extra money online, certain sites develop programs to reach more and more people, so they offer bloggers to get affiliate to their program, so if you join the program referred to them you can manage to make some money.
It is a very simple system, but obviously requires you to get referrals, something for which you have to work a little.
If you have a blog or a site, you will have to generate lots of traffic for those entering in your blog can be potential referrals.

These are the two most common ways to make money online, there are others, such as selling links, selling domains, systems to make money with Twitter, and also create your own stock of advertising, but those systems I am going to explain more forward.

If you just start blogging, these are the most common ways to make money.

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Magpie, the best way to advertise your products in Twitter

If you have a product that you want to promote, Twitter is a great way to do it. What makes Twitter a great way to advertise your products is that advertising on Twitter is like a word of mouth publicity.
Now, to advertise your products on Twitter you have to unite to an ad network in Twitter. One of the most important is Be a Magpie, an ad network in Twitter, which currently has more than 15 million followers in Twitter, a very interesting figure, so imagine the potential for the product you want to advertise.

Among the advantages of Be a Magpie, one of the most important is that it is a member of Word of Mouth Marketing Association. It has very stringent quality standards, and therefore it assures the company that is marketing the message that is sent to Twitter, that meets quality requirements, and ensures that you do not lose money. It gives the advertising company 100% control of who Tweets.

So I think it is one of the best networks to advertise.

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Great sites for your Blogger Templates

If you have a Blogger blog and want to give your blog a professional and exclusive look; what you have to do is to look for free blogger templates and install the one you like most, this if you don´t know any HTML or how to make a template from scratch.
There are lots of sites with free templates that you can use, I made a list of the sites I consider that have the best free templates in the web, just click in each one to go to each site and choose the template you like:


FalconHive

Blogger Templates

Templates Blogger

Blogger Templates

Gecko & Fly

These are just a few of hundreds of sites that have blogger templates, but most of them have the same one. I believe that the best thing to do, is to pick up a template you like, learn some HTML and adjust that template the way you like it (remember to no remove the credits of the original designer).
Hope this information will help you with your blog and good luck.

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Easily shorten all of your long URLs with adf.ly

This is an easy way to eran some money, just register in adf.ly and start making money shortening Urls. The best way to do it is to paste the links in your blog or in forums that allow you to do it, not all the forums allow to use this kind of adverticement, you also can not use it in Twitter, they will ban your account if you do it.

This is why adf.ly is great: Get tiny URLs, great for when text space is limited. All advertising is strictly family-safe with no popups. Real-time statistics with revenue breakdown. Refer users and get a massive 20% commission. Many tools - Mass Shrinker, Easy Link, API. Easy-to-reach $5.00 minimum payout.

So what are you wainting to get paid to share your links on the Internet!, register in Adf.ly.

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Oscars Ceremony and the love for movies

I love movies, and every year when the Oscars ceremony begins I love to see if the movie I like most wins. This year, three films I liked, were nominated to win the best film in the Oscars. Finally one of the three won, The Hurt Locker, but I also liked Avatar and Inglorius Bastards, two great movies.

Why I am telling you all this, beacause I think, as I reffered to sports too, that things that make you happy are great motivators and can help you reach your goals.

If you are stuck with something try to do what you like best. You will see that it will help you to start again.

Yesterday, when I was watching the Oscars in TV, I realised that the people that were in the red carpet, are doing what they like most. They are good at it becuase they love what they are doing, and that is something you must understand if you want to get success in life.

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Why is it important to get backlinks

I am not an expert in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), but one thing I know is that if you want to get more and more visits to your blog, you have to get backlinks.
Backlinks are not only important to get a higher position in Google, they are important because every backlink you get is a door to your blog.
To clarify more what I say, think it this way, Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page, so the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page.
They are also important of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.
However, if you want to know why they are important for SEO, I give you this description about Backlinks that I took form Wikipedia:
Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the most important factors for determining that website's search engine ranking.
For instance, Google's description of their PageRank system notes that they interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B.
Therefore, that is why it is important to get backlinks, not only for SEO reasons, but also for personal reasons.

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The power of doing sports

I want to start telling you that today I had a beautiful day of golf; it passed some time since I did not practice golf and decided to go with my father to play the club where we always do.
The fact that we have a spectacular day, it was a little hot but we enjoyed the day.
The point because I wanted to write about this, is that I think this kind of activities is giving me more and more forces to achieve goals I set in life. Being able to do sports and enjoy the beautiful scenery is an activity to which no person would have to refuse.
Today in which all people are talking about problems, the best thing everybody can do is to get distracted by some activity or sport, do not let the bad vibes to harm us. Our positive thinking must continue and we must not fall into despair.
I say all this because bad times always pass, doing sports gives people the ability to not think about problems and to let your mind think about positive things, and the more peaceful, positive mind and with faith I think that good things will happen faster.
What I recommend people is to do some physical activity, you will see that you will feel better and with that, you will think clearer to achieve goals.

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