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If you ever wondered if posting frequency affects readership then you best believe it does. I’m not saying that if you switch from 7 days a week to 5 days a week that there will be a drastic drop, but if you start blogging every other day, there will be a change. I know that in the past 3 weeks I have had my ups and downs due to school and I realize that readership levels fluctuate greatly. Why do you think it happens, is there a reason? Lets think about a few things here:

Youre NOT Consistent!
The main reason readership fluctuates is because youre not consistent. If you think about it, I have always posted 5-6 times a week and when it drops to 2-3 times a week, it makes a major difference. Readers expect that you’d continue posting at 5-6 times a week. They want consistency.

Although, your readers understand that sometimes there are other circumstances that arise, it still results in a drop in readership. Im not saying that you can’t bring it back up again. I had recently re-invented my blog in August of this year, so it is possible. Its just that if you’re not as consistent as you used to be, you’ll see a drop in readership and visitors.

Lately, ive been using twitter quite a bit before class, during boring sections of class and in between classes on my ipod touch or my phone. If you’re not being stalked by me on twitter, I mean followed by me on twitter, then you need to add me so I can follow you too.

At first, I didn’t understand the concept of twitter but I think its really fun and highly useful to a blogger, not only for marketing but also communication/interaction and getting information or insight on several issues.

Marketing - if you have a new interesting post then you can always link to it on twitter to help get more attention st np cost. You can really reach out to people and twitter is a great tool to help you accomplish that. This is even useful for you to promote your ebook, contests, new blogs and products that you may be selling. Its important to know however, that marketing does not mean spamming and you can be banned from twitter and you definitely wouldnt want that.

Internet is a place where you can make money in so many ways by just sitting at home. There are a lot of jobs online that pays you well if you have talent. Most people think they don’t have the talent, so I have compiled a long list of things you can do to make money online. So just look. There are some ways you can make money online by spending a fraction of your time. I am not saying you will make millions. But you will make some extra money on the side. Below are 113 ideas / ways you can make money online.

Note: I am giving ideas in this post. You would have to do a little research on your own as well to make these ideas work. You will not do it successfully unless you do a short amount of research on these topics.

Love Books?

1. Write eBooks and Sell them.
2. Write Books and sell hard copy through a publisher.
3. Buy Books from Good Will and Sell them on Amazon / Ebay.
4. Buy Books from Garage Sales and Sell them on Amazon / Ebay.
5. Review Books and Get Paid.
6. Sell other people’s book and get referral fee.
7. Sell your own used books on Ebay / Amazon.
8. Sell other people’s old book on Ebay / Amazon.

Good at Writing?

1. Write quality articles and charge per 100 words.
2. Write essays for people.
3. Create a blog and Write about something you like and sell ads on it.
4. Proof Read for students. Review grammatical errors etc.
5. Start your own content creating service.
6. Write email templates for small start-up companies.
7. Be a Paid Guest Author.
8. Get Paid to Post on empty Forums.
9. Get Paid to post on forums you regularly visit. There are some that offers cash.
10. Get Paid to write comments on Blog.
11. Enter Writing Contests.

Know HTML?

1. Code templates for others as a free lancer.
2. Make Custom Blog / Forum Templates.
3. Make Blog / Forum Templates and release them for free with sponsor links.
4. Create Myspace Layouts.
5. Code templates for different scripts.
6. Become an administrator of a site that requires few updates a week.
7. Fix small errors on websites.
8. Make Websites W3 valid.

Can you program?

1. Develop a script and resell it.
2. Develop a paid plugin for another script or platform.
3. Develop facebook applications for other companies.
4. Develop websites for others.
5. Make Canned Websites - Develop a website in a specific niche and sell multiple copies of it.
6. Edit scripts and customize it for people.

Web Industry?

1. Buy and Sell Domains for profit.
2. Buy and Sell websites for profit.
3. Flip Websites.
4. Start your own website / product.
5. Invest in beginning online business.
6. Start your own website and sell ads.
7. Start an Online Store that sells products from Ebay and others.
8. Make a website and use adsense to make money.
9. Start some affiliate marketing. Refer people to make money.
10. Start your own blog and sell reviews.
11. Start a Paid Directory.
12. Buy a site that makes money and keep it.
13. Do directory submissions.
14. Do social media submissions.
15. Be a Link Builder.
16. Be a SEO Consultant.
17. Get Paid to Surf Websites.
18. Data entry
19. Take Surveys
20. Become a Virtual Assistant - Help people find something. I know I have paid people in the past to help me find a certain script that I was looking for.
21. Get Paid to Search - Services like Scour pays you to search.
22. Enter contests to win the prize. Then resell the prize.
23. Resell Web hosting. Start with a reseller. Then move on to a server if necessary. Support is required.
24. Sub Host Forums - There are places that let you run multiple forums under a server. So start charging people to host a forum. Maybe place some ads on them if you offer it for free.
25. Offer redirect services.
26. Image Hosting / File Hosting - Simple upload the site and let it run.
27. Install applications for others and charge them.
28. Install applications for others for free and just ask them to do you a favor like Install Wordpress. This website is a perfect example. They just ask the user to sign up with their partnered host and get commission from them. I can tell you that each host is atleast paying over $80 / person they refer.
29. Start a Proxy - I wrote multiple articles about starting a proxy. They are easy to maintain and they are profitable. I have one on the side that I just let it be and it gets me good cash every month from adsense.
30. Offer hosted emails - Just sell some emails from your domain. If any of you guys want email that says @balkhis.com I might be able to hook you up for a fee.
31. Offer Remote Storage - Simple just rent a server and charge for space.
32. Provide Site Testing - Developers are always looking for site testers on webmaster forums.
33. Buy Domains and Park them at Sedo or other parking companies.
34. Start a domain registrar - Small one but it works.
35. Start a Page Rank / Other site stat check. Tons of free scripts. Just upload and place ads.
36. Provide Site uptime services. There are scripts out there to do this also.
37. Answer Tech Questions - I know that Expertbee let people ask a question and specify a price for the answer.
38. Sell SSL Certificates - Tucows lets you sell these and a lot other things.
39. Start a Subscription Website - If you are someone who likes to cook and try new recipes. Start a website where you share your recipes. The ones that you try. You do your hobby while you are getting paid as well.
40. Convert e-currency - Simple people are willing to pay you to convert money from e-gold and paypal. Have an account on both places. It is like saying they pay you 24 in paypal so you pay someone 20 on egold etc.

Good with Designing Softwares?

Fake commenting is a habit that I see a lot of bloggers get into. Whether it is intentional or not. I don’t know. But I know that I have seen quite a few bloggers do it. I will not name anyone just so I don’t start a war of words.

What is Fake Commenting?

Spam commenting that authors often do. When they reply to each comment in a hope to start a long conversation. Or sometimes they comment with two different names.

Market Leverage Contest Leaderboard Update
First off, let me get to the leaderboard update. This update is as of today of all the contestants that are entered. There are currently 5 contestants with the top 2 contestants running very close to each other. Here is the leaderboard:

1026 - $1,213.70
1024 - $1,017.50
1025 - $25.00
1023 - $13.05
1027 - $12.75
1028 - $0

The contest is running pretty well and if you haven’t entered then please do so by going to the original post or send me an email with your ML Publisher ID and you’ll be added in.

Monday is always sweet isn’t it. Well this one was as well. Because my experiment last week that I was trying on Balkhis worked. Traffic, the entire week was crazy high. So keep your eyes open to see the update on what I tried. Other than that the important thing you need to know. If you live in U.S, and you are planning to attend one of the blogger/webmaster conferences then you are in luck. Get 250 free post cards. So I got a few emails to mention their sites.

So check out Atif’s new plugin that he wrote. It is called Techytube. What it does is embed your youtube videos to your blog posts in your admin panel. You will say that it has already been done. But wait there is more. His codes actually converts the youtube videos into being XHTML Friendly.

Alright my good friend Gyutae Park from Winning the Web has launched his ranking system for blogs called IM Top Blogs short for Internet Marketing Top Blogs. If your blog is not in there. Then get it in there. Even though I am not ranked very high, I still got 25 visits from his list in one week.

I know there hasn’t been a contest lately on Balkhis. Well Uprinting and Balkhis decided to throw this mini contest where one lucky reader will be rewarded 250 free post cards. That is a $50 value delivered to you for free.

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As many of you know, I have been busy with school for a long time now and I apologize for keeping you waiting but some things just have to be done. It was a hectic past 3 weeks but it has finally come to a close with only a 120 page report due later this week which is well under way. I have done exceptionally well on all my exams (just so you know, I scored over 90% on all of them) and my GMAT exam which is a required exam for an MBA also went very well. Again, I score over 90% on the GMAT as well which is quite a big achievement, the way I see it. I think it was a good birthday present after all!

Since all this has been going on in my life, I decided to talk about how it is that I manage my time. Theres just so many things to do and sometimes I know that I feel that I hope that there were more hours in the day. Lets see if you agree with how I manage my time:

1) To-Do List - Everyone has a cell phone and if you don’t, then all it takes is a pen and paper to create a to-do list. A To-Do list can help you keep track of what needs to be done and when it needs to be done. If you are like me, my cell phone, ipod and my computer are all equipped with a to-do list so that I can make sure to keep track of everything that I need to get done.

So a few years back the only real browser designers and web developers really worried about was Internet Explorer. Now even though IE is still the majority, there is too much competition. Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome. So now designers like me and webmasters like you have to worry about all these 4 browsers. Now it doesn’t end here. These 4 have their versions. Like IE 6, 7, and 8. Firefox 2 and 3. I mean all of them are still widely used, so which one should you design for. Features that work on newer versions, does not work on older versions. So how exactly do you make it compatible, or how do you go about it?

Know your users and their preferences

It is pretty simple. Monitor your users and see which browsers they are using. And then determine your priorities. I can assure you that if you are running a webmaster related blog, most likely your users are using Firefox. But you can check this simply head over to AWStats, or your stat tracker. Then find the browser area. In AWStats simply just scroll down and there will be a screen that will look like the picture attatched here.

Writing words to get more readers. What is the point when they don’t know who you are. Internet is all about marketing yourself. Once people know you, they know who they can associate the site / product with. So you need to make yourself known to others. Specially people who read your site. In this post I am talking about the about page of the blogs. People want to know why their blogs never get anywhere. That is because so many of those don’t even bother creating the write about page.

I did a small search by copying this whole paragraph below. It is the wordpress default about page text. About 173,000 blogs found. Now that shows how many people never bother updating that page.