Welcome to the 13th edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival! And the last one! Wow, I didn’t premeditated this, just I don’t have time anymore to hold this carnival, and it seems that many people wants backlinks, but nobody want to do a little work.

Eh well, it was a good carnival, with a lot of good articles and I, as well as you, I hope, have learned a lot from them.

Let’s see the best articles submitted for this edition:

Blogging Trutyhs presents All About Blogs Blogging Blog History Common Blog Terminlogies posted at Making Money Online, saying, “A weblog (the word was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997) is a log or record or collection of stuffs like personal opinions, links to different websites, and written advice.”

Raivyn presents What Are You Offering to Your Subscribers? posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging, saying, “Are you having a hard time getting people to subscribe to your blog, just like thousands of other bloggers out there? Here’s something to think about.”

Raivyn presents Make More Money With Multiple Income Streams posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging, saying, “Blogging for money has become a popular career choice among many internet users over the past few years, and continues to grow steadily. Unfortunately, only a select few of these bloggers manage to earn a decent income. Why is this?”

Woman Tribune presents ScratchBack: Because the PayPal Donation Button is Ugly posted at Woman Tribune, saying, “Making money for your blogging/website endeavors isn’t new, it’s actually a big reason why so many people are starting their own websites. There are many ways that you can make money blogging including putting a PayPal donation button on your site.”

Nesher presents BlogDesk – free software for Blog writing and publishing posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World, saying, “BlogDesk is an offline software client for the following blogging platforms: WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity, and ExpressionEngine, that assists in writing and publishing new blog posts.”

Kurt Schmitt presents The 9 Myths of Duplicate Content posted at Free Website Traffic Tips, saying, “Do duplicate content penalties exist? There’s a great deal of confusion over this subject, and you need to know how to cut through that confusion if you want to have a successful website. I’d like to share with you some myths and what my take on reality is.”

Kurt Schmitt presents WordPress SEO and Robots.txt posted at Free Website Traffic Tips, saying, “One step in the WordPress SEO process is to properly set up robots.txt so that you avoid indexing duplicate content. I’ve spent the better part of two weeks setting up my blog and ran into some conflicting information on the subject. I decided to test things out, and found some interesting things. I thought I’d share my results.”

Sally Thompson presents 50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Online Writers posted at JobProfiles.org – Job Descriptions and Online Schools to Start Your Career, saying, “With the popularity of blogging and online journals, writers working in the online realm have a growing number of opportunities all the time to practice and refine their craft, and maybe even get paid for it. And if you’re working online, why not take advantage of all the opportunities to get great free and open source resources that can help you to write, edit and organize your work? Here’s a list of fifty open source tools that you can use to make your writing even better.”

Cindy King presents Book Review – Landing Page Optimization posted at Cindy King, saying, “There are a few books out there on landing page optimization.Everyone recommends the Landing Page Report published by MarketingSherpa. But at just under $500 this is too steep for many budgets. Tim Ash’s new book is a very good alternative. In fact, it is probably a good idea to start here.”

Kathleen Gage presents Blogging is so simple virtually anyone can do it posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, “Blogging is one of the easiest points of entry to Internet Marketing. If you can write a shopping list, if you can journal, if you can write a letter to a friend or business associate, you can blog. The key though is to simply get started. And once you begin, get in the habit of blogging at least three times a week. You can actually schedule time into your day to blog. There are so many incredible benefits to blogging; visibility, credibility; opportunity to express your opinion, opportunity to create a dialogue where none existed; a chance to be heard; you can use a blog to write your next book, and more.”

Robert Phillips presents I’m Not as Bad As Others posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY, saying, “This is the perfect example of how you can’t please everyone. Many people like the fact that I try to inject some of my personality into my posts and this is part of it…but some people don’t like those posts. I can’t please everyone all the time.”

Anthony presents Powering Up Your Blog With These 26 Power Lists/Rankings posted at Blog Me The Money, saying, “Want to increase your Brand Awareness? Maybe increase your traffic ? Or perhaps you just desire a nice inbound link with some good Page Rank behind it? Whatever your decision may be, (it may very well be you are competative and just like the thrill of competing against others) Blog Power Lists are one sure fire way to help in your quest to increase traffic, better your inbound links count with a quality link, as well as build a Brand Name Awareness for your blog as it climbs the ladder of success.”

Anthony presents 42 Adsense Ready Wordpress Themes Optimized For Monetization posted at Blog Me The Money, saying, “When planning and laying out your blog, it is important to think ahead, not only in terms of “look”, “Feel”, and “Seo Optimization”, but also “Adsense Optimization”. But I am sure you already know that, and so do the creators who dreamed up these themes and optimized them for you. The following themes offer distinctive ad placement spots that blend in well with the rest of the theme.”

Christine presents Money Making Blogs and Websites posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France, saying, “Is it possible to make money online? I must say that I used to be a skeptic. That being said, I wanted to start my own website where I could share information about topics that interest me as well as information I felt could help other single moms and free spirits. The questions were: Would it be a hobby or could it generate an income. Could I create a money making website or a money making blog? If so, how much could I make? A couple hundred bucks a month? Could website monetization support me?”

vjack presents Creating Great Blog Posts: Chasing the Elusive posted at Atheist Revolution, saying, “A good blog post is one that is interesting, informative, or enjoyable to read. But a truly great post goes beyond that and is thought-provoking in an enduring and perhaps unexpected way. It sticks in one’s mind, and inserts itself in one’s thoughts hours to days after one encounters it. These highly elusive posts are like buried treasures in that they are rare but well worth the effort to uncover. So how do we bloggers create more of these treasures?”

Carol Bentley presents Don?t assume all is OK. . . posted at Carol Bentley, saying, “You’ve worked hard to make sure everything is working properly. Whether it’s a process in your administration, in your production, in your marketing or on your website. Now it’s time to relax, safe in the knowledge that everything is running smoothly. Think again!”

Craig presents Internet Business Techniques posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, “The advent of internet has revolutionized the entire world. As a consequence of this, the latest hit among the marketing professionals is the internet marketing or e-marketing. As any other profession, internet marketing too has its own competition. Here are a few internet marketing techniques that would help you perform better with better results.”

Heather Johnson presents Protect Online Reputation posted at Daily Biz Solutions, saying, “One of the newest aspects of running a successful business involves “online reputation management.” While most entrepreneurs and managers understand why it is important to create an official Web site, some don’t realize that their online reputation may already precede them. Have you Googled your company’s name lately? If not, then what you find could be distressing.”

Brian Terry presents 259+ Great Resources for Great Web Design posted at Big Selling Website Design, saying, “Finding useful and informative information for great web design can be a time consuming task. Apart from the time involved you really need to know what you are looking for.”

Tejvan Pettinger presents The Basics of Affiliate Marketing posted at Net Writing, saying, “I have experimented with several affiliate schemes and these are some of the things I have learnt.”

Cindy King presents How To Set Your Computer To Read Foreign Languages posted at Cindy King, saying, “Small businesses, or website owners who do not have the budgets for full fledged website localization, can still market to foreign cultures using little tricks to get around common cultural hurdles. One of these cultural hurdles can simply be related to the different alphabets and “character sets”. How can you communicate with a foreign country if you can’t even type in language?”

aLien presents aLien bake web site with CMS posted at aLien Blog Shop, saying, “Funny way to learn CMS.”

Marcus Hochstadt presents Why I Do Not Use FeedBurner posted at Internet Business Guide, saying, “It seems as if the majority of bloggers use FeedBurner to distribute and track the use of their RSS feeds. Marcus Hochstadt has his reasons for NOT using FeedBurner though.”

Raivyn presents Writing Exercise: Speed Posting posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging, saying, “It is not uncommon for bloggers to invest a lot of time into writing their posts. It can take anywhere from ten minutes to ten days (or longer) to create a post, depending on the length, how well you know the subject, distractions, and a number of other factors. The only way to speed this process up is through practice.”

MBB presents How To Get A Free Laptop or Plasma TV posted at Money Blue Book, saying, “If you’ve ever encountered sites on the internet that claimed to offer brand new laptop computers, mp3 players, or even plasma TV’s for free, I’m sure most of you jumped to the immediate conclusion that they must all be scams. What I’m about to share may be time consuming and require almost anal, obsessive compulsive organizational skills, but the potential payoff at the end is quite substantial.”

Carl Ringwall presents Set Up WordPress Pay-Per-Post With iSubscribe posted at Data SystemsPlus, saying, “In a forum post, I explanied how iDevSpot’s iSubscribe could be used to set up a membership site with WordPress. While you can use iSubcribe to protect an entire WordPress installation and have it function as a membership site, it’s also a snap to set up a Pay-Per-Post system with your existing WordPress blog with iSubscribe. In fact, I’m getting some Premium posts ready to use this method myself.”

Traffic2mypage presents Spread Your Word The Viral Way And Boost Your Traffic posted at Traffic2MyPage Blog, saying, “Viral marketing is highly effective in generating giant streams of traffic to your page which requires little effort once you have created it.”

Cindy King presents Book Review – Letting Go Of The Words – Writing Web Content That Works By Janice Redish posted at Cindy King, saying, “Letting Go Of The Words is a must read for anyone involved with a website or blog. This is not about the tools you need or anything technical. This book is about web content and information strategies. It’s about “planning, selecting, organizing, writing, illustrating, reviewing, and testing content”…that gives readers a successful and satisfying web experience.”

Ed Rivis presents Question Time Answers, Part 1. posted at Ed Rivis, saying, “There are some powerful tips in both the answers AND the questions themselves – I hope you’re able to use this information with great effect.”

That concludes this edition. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Thank you all for participating to all editions of Resource for Bloggers Carnival.

Now it’s time to move on…

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Welcome to the 12th edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival!

Even if there are fewer articles than in the latest edition, you still have something to read. I’m sorry that I didn’t include all the articles I’ve received, but not all was appropriate for this carnival.

And here are the articles:

Les Dysom presents 5 Keys to Successful Internet Business posted at Internet Business Coaching by Terry Dean, saying, “Here are the five principles of being successful in your business. Write all 5 out and post them on a post-it note right to your computer monitor.”

Pinyo presents Use Blurb Exchange To Promote Your Niche Blog posted at Blogthority, saying, “With all the rave about niche blogging and linking only to related sites, bloggers are overlooking a powerful marketing tool. Sure, its great to get targeted niche traffic but some niches are universally appealing to most readers.”

Christine presents How to Get Ideas for Writing Blogs and Creating Website Articles posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France, saying, “The easiest way to write prolifically for your website or blog is by having a website or blog that addresses your passion. If you love gardening then it might be easy for you to write endlessly about the subject. If you blow glass you might have a wealth of information on the subject that you wish to share with others. Therefore, the easiest way to get ideas for your blog or website is to be inspired by your topic.”

the baglady presents Weekend Musings on Blog Promotion – The Baglady posted at The Baglady, saying, “I have been tinkering with a few new programs to promote my site and generate more revenue. Here are my trials and experiences.”

Joel presents Mark Your Calendars, The Blog Revolution Project Is Coming… posted at So You Want To Teach?, saying, “I am going to spend the month looking in depth at ways to start your very own Blog Revolution Project. I’m going to challenge all of my blogger friends (and anyone else out there who wants to join me) to do the daily projects.”

Kevin presents 101 Internet Traffic Generation Strategies – Part 1 posted at Trafficteria.com Blog Optimization, saying, “Just because you build a website does not mean traffic will come. I found that out the hard way. Over the past several years I have tried many ideas. Some winners and some big losers. I have compiled a list of 101 ideas that have helped generate internet traffic to my websites.”

Steve Faber presents - How to Increase Targeted Website Traffic For Free – and 2 Big Mistakes That Can Keep You From Doing So posted at Home Based Business Success, saying, “Nothing occupies the minds of most Internet (and any other) marketers as much as the question of how to increase targeted traffic to their websites. If that traffic happens to be free, so much the better. One of the ways used by marketers to get more targeted traffic is through article marketing. Writing articles and letting others publish them in exchange for a link back to your website is a powerful technique. It’s used by experienced and newbie marketers alike.”

Cancerkitty presents Setup a Personal, Portable Web Server posted at DelSquacho, aying, “An easy to follow tutorial for setting up an Apache web server on a thumb drive. Great for developing blog themes.”

Martin Russell presents Long Copy Vs Short Copy – The Final Say. posted at Word of Mouth Marketing For Small Business, saying, “In copywriting circles the battle rages. Which is better long copy or short copy? Getting to the point quickly with short copy, or giving them every possible detail they need to know with long copy.”

Carol Bentley presents Twitter, twitter posted at Carol Bentley, saying, “Have you come across Twitter? There’s a lot of interest in Twittering; lots of people are getting involved. I can understand how it helps people communicate on a regular basis – especially socially. It certainly seems popular with younger people, almost as an adjunct to their mobile texting.”

Michael Bass presents Stumbleupon.com Brought Me 60,000 Hits in 60 days posted at Debt Prison, saying, “There is no comparison in Digg.com and Stumbleupon.com. At least not when you are talking about the ability of a webpage to be seen quickly by many readers. Stumbleupon.com can create such a surge of traffic to your site, you’ll think something is broken.”

One Language presents Learn English Articles » Blog Archive » Effective Ways to Practice Business English posted at Learn English Articles, saying, “Chances are, if you own or operate a business, you’ll either need to converse in English or make sure that someone in your business is able to do so. Regardless of whether you need to generate sales flyers or negotiate complex contracts, being able to understand business transactions in English is crucial.”

Paul Piotrowski presents 14 Most Common Fears in Life and What To Do About Them posted at Inspired Money Maker, saying, “An Inspired Money Maker is a person who has found his purpose and passion in life and has chosen to make money by doing what he/she loves. Pursuing this path will require that you overcome some, if not most of the fears discussed. Start with one and work on overcoming it and then move onto the next one.”

Dana presents How online communication has affected me posted at Principled Discovery, saying, “The research initially discussed dealt with having people interacting through a digital avatar and measuring how people behaved based on the kind of avatar they used. And, like I mentioned then, the most disturbing thing to me was not that there were measurable changes in behavior off-line, but that the people did not even recognize the changes nor how they had been manipulated. What they saw was perceived as real.”

Raivyn presents How To Write a Great “How-To” Article posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging, saying, “A good thing about writing how-to articles is that anyone can do it, regardless of the subject. You can write about anything you want, whether it be about blogging, or building a boat, or playing the guitar. Write about what interests you. More often than not, someone else is bound to have an interest in it as well, and may benefit from the information you are offering. Here are a few tips to help you write a link-worthy how-to.”

Sarah Paine presents Is Risk Aversion Ruining Your Business? posted at Sarah Paine, saying, “When you run an internet business do you avoid making any decisions that might involve risk? Are you failing to swap over to your own website due to fear of failure or additional risk? Even if you are running your own site do you avoid making purchases that could dramatically enhance the amount of business you do? It is easy to make these types of decisions and stunt ourselves because society has taught us to avoid all risk whenever possible.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of resource for bloggers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

The next edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival will be held on 13th May. The submission deadline will be on 12th May.

I didn’t find yet a new host for this carnival. If someone want to do a little work to edit the carnival and to host it, please leave me a comment here, or contact me.

Thank you all for participating to the 12th edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival.

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Welcome to the 11th edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival! First of all, sorry for the little late, I totally forgot that yesterday was 13

Well, let’s see what we have in this edition:

Caroline Middlebrook presents Make Money Blogging By ‘Selling’ Your Knowledge posted at Caroline Middlebrook, saying, “Making money blogging is a popular way to start making money online but the common monetization models bring in very little revenue for the amount of work needed to really get the blog off the ground. If you are going to bother building a popular blog then don’t just give away all your knowledge for free and rely on selling other people’s knowledge. Sell your own!”

Maureen presents What is a Pillar Article, and How Can You Use It for Your Site? posted at 5 Star Blog, saying, “I’m going to introduce you to the reverse concept, called Pillar Articles. On the surface, they are no different than your other blog article, but for some reason, you generate a bunch of traffic from them. People find that information useful, so they stumble or digg your article, or they link to it from inside their own blog.”

Christine presents Incorporating a Blog on My Website posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France, saying, “If I have a website and blog which are on the same topic but in different locations it would hurt my overall traffic because it would appear that I did not have as much content in either location and that would decrease my traffic.”

Carol Bentley presents Writing to your audience posted at Carol Bentley, saying, “Tell me, how well targeted is your audience? How well do you know them? Are you writing your letters with their circumstances in mind and in such a way that you are not eliminating a good portion of your recipients?”

Ed Rivis presents The correct course of action for online success. posted at Ed Rivis, saying, “Whatever Internet Marketing material you buy — audio, video, ebooks etc… — make sure you use it and exhaust the advice in it.”

Lee McIntyre presents Looking For Desperate Niche Markets? posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog, saying, “If you’re looking for desperate markets then this really is an essential resource.”

Lee McIntyre presents 3 Tips to Blog Like a Manic and Still Have a Life posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog, saying, “Want to know how to blog more regularly and still save time? Then check out the 3 tips below….”

Lee McIntyre presents Do What You Love Not What You Hate posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog, saying, “When designing your Internet Business don’t become too concerned with how much money you can earn each and every month. Instead focus on doing what you love and not what you hate.”

Sarah Paine presents Run a S.W.O.T. Analysis On Your Blog posted at Sarah Paine, saying, “When you look over your blog do you ever wonder what it is that you could improve? Why not take an analytical business approach and run a S.W.O.T analysis on your business? If you are not familiar with this tool…no problem. It simple stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.”

Bill Mcintosh presents Google AdManager: The First Product From Buying DoubleClick posted at Bill McIntosh, saying, “An ad serving tool for publishers of small and medium sized websites. With it you can serve ads from AdSense and other networks along with serving in house advertising as well.”

Marcus Hochstadt presents Think And Grow Big posted at Marcus Hochstadt, saying, “Have you ever asked yourself why so many people spend all that time dreaming, but so few actually manage to live the life of their dreams?”

Mark @ TheLocoMono presents Should I have a Blogroll or a Sushi Roll? posted at TheLocoMono Website, saying, “Yet another algorithm for your blog and whether having a blogroll matters.”

Tip Diva presents Tip Diva | Top Ten Tips – Beating Writer’s Block posted at Tip Diva, saying, “When Tip Diva is not thinking of advice and how-tos for this website, she writes for a trade magazine. Writing for both a magazine and a blog can be pretty taxing on her brain, and she sometimes finds herself continuously staring at a blank Word document. Writer’s block happens to the best of us, but there are some ways you can beat it.”

Lee McIntyre presents 28 Free Marketing Tools I Couldn’t Live Without – Part I | Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog, saying, “Below you’ll find a list of internet marketing tools that can be used to take your business forward.”

Lee McIntyre presents 7 Easy Steps to Build Your List For Free posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog, saying, “If you’re serious about making money online then you really need to build leverage. If you want to maximise your profits then you need to be able to work today, and get paid tomorrow.”

Lee McIntyre presents Do You Need A Squeeze Page For Your Business? | Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog, saying, “Put simply, a squeeze page is a basic web page which has one very specific goal in mind. The goal isn’t to make a sale, or to review a product. The whole purpose of the squeeze page is to get as many people as possible to sign up for your email list.”

Traffic2MyPage presents Viral Marketing Methods and Applications posted at Traffic2MyPage Blog, saying, “Viral marketing is simply a strategy that encourages individuals to “willingly” pass on a marketing message to others. It takes advantage of rapid multiplication to explode your marketing message to thousands or millions of people.”

Stephen Pierce presents Overlooked Fast Forum Marketing Tool Uncovered? FREE! posted at DTAlpha TalkBack with Stephen Pierce, saying, “To succeed in today’s marketing environment you have to boost your interactions with your market, which can then boost your transactions and thus your profits.”

Terry Dean presents 7 Steps To Start A Blog Today posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean, saying, “One of the best steps you can take in creating a successful internet business is setting up a blog. Blogs can be used to promote your product, generate a loyal following, build a list, and more.”

Debra Moorhead presents Make Money with Retreat Affiliate Program posted at Debra Moorhead.com, saying, “I know that most of you are familiar with affiliate programs. If not, it simply means that I pay my affiliates a commission for every sale they make on one of my products or services.”

Rickey Henderson presents Marvel as Rickey Tells You How To Blog! posted at Riding with Rickey, saying, “Rickey’s fantastic guide to being a sucessful blogger.”

Steven Lohrenz presents Unique Article Marketing Software For Free posted at Steven Lohrenz, saying, “Drive Interested Traffic To Your Site By The Hordes With This Free Article Submission Software.”

Cindy King presents How Top Submit Your Website To The Leading Russian Search Engines – Yandex And Rambler posted at Get International Clients, saying, “In Russia, Google holds a distant third place in the search engine domain. Yandex is the country’s leading search engine and Rambler is second. Google only has 17% of the market share in Russia.”

HL Grove presents Blogging For Beginners – Part 1 posted at Hennie Grove, saying, “Even though blogging has become one of the most popular things to do online these days (except maybe for shopping and dating!), there are still people who are too afraid to try it and don’t know exactly what it is about.”

Vandelay Website Design presents 6 Steps to Building Diversity In Traffic posted at Traffikd, saying, “Some tips for building more traffic from more sources.”

Jeremy Neal presents 10 Things I’ve Learned about Professional Blogging posted at Lead Inspectors, saying, “I’ve learned a lot about blogging over the past year, and the more I learn the more I appreciate the medium.”

Brian Terry presents Top 10 Posts To A Big Selling Website posted at Big Selling Website Design, saying, “Since starting this blog I’ve been able to help you with things like creating profitable website ideas, techniques on helping you convert more visitors into customers and of course generating web traffic itself. So what I decided to do was give you the links to the top 10 posts that help you create a big selling website… as voted by you.”

John W. Furst presents Discover A Free Mind Mapping Online Tool posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “Mind mapping allows you to lay out your ideas and thoughts kind of visually. Related items are close together. Therefore, you don’t need much space and keep the overview easily.”

Woody Maxim presents Traffic Questions Answered posted at Woody Maxim.

Raivyn presents Comments – Are They Suitable for Your Blog? posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging, saying, “Comments do not necessarily make a website a blog, nor does a lack of the comment option make it not a blog.”

Kenton Newby presents Website Content Ideas: 7 Templates Every Blog Owner Oughta' Try For Effortless Content Creation posted at KentonNewby.com, saying, “Stuck for ideas for what to write for your next article or blog post? Here are a few time-tested, proven templates for content ideas that will work for any market.”

Jason presents Be a Blogger: Five Cures for Writer?s Block posted at The Frugal Dad, saying, “I have five proven ways to generate inspiration for articles.”

Craig presents Turn Bad News Into Profits For Your Internet Business posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, “As many Internet marketers and online business people struggle to find a niche that is perfect for them, most of them ignore what is right in front of their noses every single day. All you have to do is go to Yahoo, MSN or your nightly news and read the headlines and there is your niche!”

Kelly Ifrah presents Adding The Category Description To The Category Page posted at OnTheNetDollars.com, saying, “Firstly, why would you want to do this? It can be changed as often as you like which can be seen as new content and it can give important information to your readers as to what they can find in the category and should encourage them to dig deaper than the front page.”

Cathy Stucker presents Create and Sell an Audio Product – Fast! (Part 1) posted at Cathy Stucker, saying, “One way to make money with your blog is to sell information products. In this series, you get step-by-step guidance on creating and marketing an audio program as a download or on CD.”

Erica Douglass presents Three Business Ideas That Will Help You Thrive During A Recession posted at erica.biz – Erica Douglass challenges you to change your life! What is holding you back from your dreams?, saying, “Tired of hearing doom and gloom articles about how the upcoming recession will cause lost jobs and lower wages? Here are three businesses you can start in your spare time to make MORE money during a recession!”

Pinyo presents Revolution Money Exchange and $25 Sign Up Bonus posted at Blogthority, saying, “Discusses Revolution Money Exchange. Bloggers can make $25 in sign up bonus and $10 from each person they refer.”

Sarah Austin presents If You’re a Blogger, You Can (and Should) Use Technorati « A Fool of Myself posted at A Fool of Myself, saying, “How to use Technorati.”

Alex M presents Affiliate Marketing: Increasing your Traffic – Increase your Sales posted at We talk on making money on the Internet, saying, “Affiliate marketing is advertising for someone else in exchange for a cut of the sales you generate. You’re sharing your traffic for a price. It’s a great way to capitalize on the traffic your website’s already producing.”

Raivyn presents 12 Reasons Why Most Bloggers Don’t Make Much Money Online posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging, saying, “Despite all the free advice available to those who want to blog to earn a living, the vast majority don’t make much money. A blogger will read a blog or ebook that says “do this” or “do that” and will do “this” and “that” and a number of other things, but to no avail. Why? There are a lot of reasons why a blogger is unable to earn a decent income from his or her blog(s).”

Blue presents Blogging For Passive Income posted at Money Blue Book, saying, “I’ve come to realize that the key to building wealth and reaching financial prosperity is to build up multiple streams of alternative and passive income, apart from your primary full time employment.”

Blue presents Making Money With eBay posted at Money Blue Book: Personal Finance Blog, saying, “Anyone can make a lot of money on eBay by selling products, but you have to be prepared to put in a lot of time and effort doing manual labor, packaging, and shipping goods.”

Blue presents Blogging Business Trade Name posted at Money Blue Book, saying, “Although I see blogging as more of a hobby, I think I should start treating it more like mini-business. I could choose to set up the blog business in a variety of ways depending on my choice of business entity.”

Ed Rivis presents Traffic, the number one frustration. posted at Ed Rivis, saying, “Traffic, the number one frustration.”

Life. Money. Development. presents The 7 Attributes of Leadership posted at Life. Money. Development., saying, “An excellent presentation of the attributes every leader should have.”

Tash Hughes presents Correcting spelling, yes or no? posted at Word Constructions, saying, “I have just been asked if it is rude to correct the spelling of comments added to your blog. An interesting question!”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of resource for bloggers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

The past 4th editions have been held on Simonne’s blog, All Tips and Tricks. Because I haven’t find yet another volunteer to host this carnival, I’ve choose to post this edition on my blog. I hope to find another host for the next 4th editions. Until then, I’ll receive your submissions here.

The next edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival will be held on 26th April. The submission deadline will be on 25th April.

Thank you all for participating to the 11th edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival.

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Welcome to the 5th edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival! The only thing I could say for this edition is WOW! what a great participation. It seems that everybody is fresh for a new year. I’ve received a lot of articles and even if some of them didn’t meet the carnival criteria, I would thank you all for your participation.
If you want to see the previous editions, you can find them here:

1. Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 1
2. Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 2
3. Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 3
4. Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 4

Well, let’s see what we have in this edition:

Saedel presents How Viral Linking Taught Me To Be Patient posted at Planet Saedel, saying, “In this post, I discussed what viral linking is, why it is tempting, and how it taught me to be patient.”

Karen Zara presents Should Blog Comments Be Moderated? Why? posted at a1-fan-fun, saying, “Three reasons why blog comments should be moderated and three reasons why they shouldn’t. What side do you take?”

PabloPabla presents What Makes Me Stumble and Digg Your Post posted at Blogsreview.Net, saying, “Why is it that nobody stumbles your blog posts or articles? Or why is it that you don’t get a Digg? In this article, I will share with you what makes me stumble or digg a post when I visit a blog. By the time you complete reading this article, you will have an idea of what goes on the mind of a StumbleUpon stumbler or Digg digger.”

Vishnu presents Domain Name change – Issues – Tips – Tricks posted at Beautiful Minds, saying, “The issues a blogger is gonna face when he/she is gonna change the url of the existing blog.!”

Saedel presents 10 Commonly Used Net Lingos To Improve Your Internet Experience posted at Planet Saedel, saying, “I am going to share with you my top 10 popular internet lingos to help you improve your online surfing experience.”

James Alenteal presents 5 reasons Why Blogs & Content Marketing Beats SEO & PPC. posted at James Alenteal’s Conversion Rate Clinic, saying, “Two Classic Online Marketing Models — One Depends on blogging.”

Isabella Mori presents compassion and social media posted at change therapy, saying, “This article talks about the community and compassion that can develop among bloggers. ”

Vahid Chaychi presents 5 Things that All Bloggers Have to Know or Have posted at Weboma Work at Home, saying, “What is blogging? Is it just signing up for a free blog at www.blogger.com and start posting? Definitely not! What are the most important things that bloggers have to know/have?”

andrew784 presents 33 Reasons to Start a Blog posted at Personal Hack, saying, “Have you thought about starting a blog but never actually followed through? Or did you start your blog a long time ago but stopped posting to it, and are now wondering why you started it in the first place? This is a great post to get you motivated to start your own blog, or to regularly post on your current blog.”

Summer presents 5 Things You Should Be Doing Online In 2008 posted at Wired For Noise, saying, “Sites to ad to your blogging arsenal to really beef up your blogging power.”

Hill Robertson presents Sometimes External Links are Bad posted at Hill Robertson, saying, “A lot of plugin or add-on features for many blogs and other websites use external links do display data (in this case image files) that is stored on external servers. They can be nice when everything works but they can also be a real pain when they don’t.”

Christine presents Finding Your Special Talent posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France, saying, “Most of us are told to get a practical job and to ‘deal with it’ because ‘that’s life’. Remember, you don’t have to be one of those people when you raise your own children or choose a direction for your own life.”

Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips – Getting Out In The Blogosphere posted at Tip Diva, saying, “Congratulations, you’ve started a new blog. Whether personal, business or even an interest-based blog, you’re now in a word filled with millions of other blogs. But how will you ever get noticed? Here are some tips to draw visitors to your blog.”

Saedel presents Improvement Using Addition By Subtraction posted at PlanetSaedel, saying, “Have you heard of the phrase “addition by subtraction?” If you have not, I’m inviting you to read ahead, I’ll explain it using simple examples. Otherwise, stay with me, you might be able to share here or learn new perspectives.”

James Alenteal presents A subtle conversion rate & response booster from 3 masters. posted at James Alenteal’s Conversion Rate Clinic, saying, “Article on increasing blog & website opt-ins.”

Brett presents Are You Making The Most Of Google’s Search Statistics posted at Monetize Your Blog, saying, “Google Webmaster Tools is a great resource to optimize the search traffic to your blog.”

Pearl presents Interesting Posts Around the Web – Jan 4 posted at Interesting Observations, saying, “Check out his blog, I am sure you will like it.”

Troy presents All The Free Domains You Could Want posted at The Free Website Project, saying, “If you pay for only one thing on for website, make it a good top-level domain name. Free TLD services are hard to find, but I’ve compiled a little list here.”

Steve Osborne presents Blog Writing Tip: “Has Got” Has Got to Go posted at TheWritersBag.com, saying, “Two phrases should be banished from the English language: has got and have got. The contraction forms of these phrases (“he’s got,” “I’ve got,” etc.) should also be banned. Why?”

Lin Burress presents Social Networking Tips For All You Whiners posted at Telling It Like It Is, saying, “What does your blog offer that would make anyone want to visit, comment, subscribe or link to your blog? Who are you anyway? Does anyone even know you or know that your blog exists? You can join all the social networking sites that you want, but it won’t do you one bit of good unless you actively participate in getting to know your fellow bloggers on a more personal basis.”

Dan-O presents Learn the Proven Money Making Keys to Successful E-commerce posted at Danogo.com – Discover. Inspiring. Media, saying, “Outlines the critical factors used by sites like Amazon and eBay that can be used to put together an online money making business.”

Christine presents Monetizing Your Website Through Inspiration and Desire posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France, saying, “There are several ways of making money from a website. You could sell a product or offer a service. Another way to make money from a website would be to place ads on your site which bring an income when people visit the site – which creates page impressions – or when people click on the ad itself, hence a Click Through Rate (CTR). This article will discuss making money from your website from the ads which you place on your site.”

Marc Berry presents What is Web 2.0? posted at techne-eikon.com, saying, “Web 2.0 is not a suite of technologies, but rather the people of the internet, and what they are doing with those technolgies. This is the first in a series of articles that will be exploring the nature and style of this brave new, people oriented internet.”

Alfa King presents Enhancing your authority posted at Alfa King Memories, saying, “It’s the aim of every blogger to become an authority in the blogoshpere. For whatever reasons; little does it matter. And once they accede to a certain level, it’s legitimate to want to reach the summum bonum.”

Aaron Anderson presents Are These 3 Blogging Mistakes Costing You Readers? posted at Online Business Blog, saying, “There are a ton of blogs that are basically asking there readers to leave. They are so confusing that it actually starts to give you a head ache. And it’s not something that would be all that difficult to fix. All that matters is consistency. Consistency not only in what you write… but also in the way you present it.”

Brian Terry presents The Law of Necessity posted at Big Selling Website Design, saying, “What motivates people to buy and then by pushing all the right buttons increase your sales conversions.”

Brett presents SEO – Backlink Anchor Text Optimization posted at Make Money Blogging, saying, “Learn how to make the most of your backlinks. Its on of the key planks in a strategy to gain for search engine traffic.”

Dave Origano presents Be Likeable And Be Controversial – Writing Your Way To Success posted at Online Marketing & Exponential Business Growth Blog, saying, “Millions of new websites, blogs and businesses are made every single year. The world is changing at such a speed almost noone can keep up-to-date with everything. There are so many solutions to any problem you have, that standing out from the crowd is slowly becoming the only way to grow your business.”

Graphic Identity presents 10 Enhancement Ideas to Optimize your Design Blog Topic posted at Graphic Identity Tutorials, saying, “We often read SEO tips for general blogs. I was so curious how to implement those tips and tricks to my design blog topic. Because a design blog niche (like any other niches) always has uniqueness in context, and therefore I always experiment and doing trial and error to improve my blog. Here are 10 enhancement ideas to optimize your Design Blog Topic.”

IMZ2H presents Make your own Wordpress widgets in 10 easy steps! posted at Internet Marketing Zero 2 Hero Blog, saying, “A tutorial I wrote about how to make your own custom Wordpress widgets. As easy as copy / paste / change a couple of words. You can put almost anything into a widget (provided it fits into your sidebar).”

Chris Christensen presents Twitter and TwitterPod posted at Inside Chris’s Head, saying, “Use Twitter to connect to your readers and other bloggers. This is a review of TwitterPod.”

FitBuff presents DVT Symptoms – Do You Have Any of These? posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog, saying, “Blogging isn’t a very high contact sport, but new research indicates we may be at increased risk of DVT (it’s not just limited to frequent fliers anymore). Check these symptoms to see if you’re suffering from any, so you can catch it before it’s too late…”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of resource for bloggers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

This was the last edition held on this blog. This is the rule of the game. The next 4 editions will be hosted on Simonne’s blog, All Tips and Tricks.

The next edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival will be held on 26th January. The submission deadline will be on 25th January.

Thank you all for participating to the 5th edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival.

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Welcome to the 4th edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival! This month was a busy month for everyone, so this edition has less articles than previous ones. Though, for this month, the participation are great.
If you want to see the previous editions, please read Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 1, Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 2 and Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 3. Thank you all for making time to submit your wonderful posts!

PabloPabla presents Simple Tips To Please Your Readers posted at Blogsreview.Net, saying, “A blog requires a blogger and readers to tango. Many bloggers dig through countless articles on how to improve the readership numbers but fail to realise that there are some simple tips to win your current readers over. One step which is often neglected is the conversion of a regular reader into a loyal reader – one who will stick through with you no matter whether your blog is going places or going through a slump. These simple and obvious tips are based on effective business marketing tactics, psychological methods and common sense.”

Raj presents The Secrets of Successful Blogging posted at MT Herald Dot Com, saying, “How to keep the flame of your blog get going without getting extinguished? How to keep away from getting demotivated? The answer is traffic! Traffic is the ultimate success of any blog. If your blog is without a single visitor, you lose confidence and enthusiasm. So, how to bring in traffic? How to sustain such brought traffic? How to prolong the initial enthusiasm that you had? How to be a successful blogger? I have amassed a few guidelines (which I’ve learnt over a short span of time) to withstand the pressure of getting withered out and to have the fun of blogging. All these tips are interconnected; hence, try to adhere to every single aspect because every small deed that you do in the right direction is a keystone in constructing your blog. Assuming that you are coming up from scratch, I begin here.”

Ian Richardson presents Would you like an Ezy way to manage multiple Wordpress Blogs? posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “While a typical website can take hours to update, a site built around a blog can be updated INSTANTLY and search engines quickly take notice…”

James Alenteal presents Do your prospects scan or read your sales pages? Part 1. posted at James Alenteal’s Conversion Rate Clinic, saying, “Did you know that the great majority of readers scan through your sales page without giving it much detailed thought? And after all that time you put into your copy. Carefully crafting that lead-in paragraph. Making sure your above-the-fold area was appealing and appropriate to your message. All this, just to have your prospect scan past it?”

James Alenteal presents Do your prospects scan or read your sales pages? Part 3. posted at James Alenteal’s Conversion Rate Clinic, saying, “One of the ways to approach the problem of people scanning (instead of reading) your sales page is to make your page “scan friendly.” This is consistent with what I teach elsewhere, which is to not fight your visitors, but to join them in their Inner Dialog, their sub-verbal language that we call “thought” that occurs between our ears.”

j blu presents 5 Tips For Preventing Blogger’s Brainfreeze posted at Blogging Tips & Fresh Perspectives – Fresh Geeks, saying, “Blogger’s Brainfreeze is a sharp and painful headache caused by excessive time spent blogging, researching, or promoting the blog-related. This can be harmful because it could potentially cause Blogger’s Burnout. So, how do you prevent the dreaded condition?”

Sharon Hurley Hall presents How To Promote Yourself Through Guest Blogging posted at Get Paid to Write Online, saying, “As you know, I think all writers should blog. That’s because blogging is a great way to sharpen your writing skills in a relaxing way. Having a blog is also a wonderful way to connect with potential clients, with other writers and online friends. And of course, it’s a fantastic way to promote yourself. However, there is a way to increase the promotional juice that you get from blogging, and that’s by sharing some of your writing savvy on other blogs by guest blogging.”

Nadim presents How to write an Outstanding Post? posted at Blogging and Search Engine Optimisation Tips – B4 Blogging, saying, “In today’s blogging days its is pretty much obvious people springing out with post for the blogs but as you read there is nothing which you find is away from each other, compelling the user to come back again to your blog and be a imperative reader of it. Blogging is not just about submitting or writing content which can be found on 100’s of other blogs with the same content its about what you give you reader apart from what others say.”

Karen Zara presents How To Get Ideas From 66 Lists – part 1 posted at Abaminds, saying, “Suggestions on how to generate new content based on 24 existing articles. Various inspiring topics are discussed, from business ideas to password recovery.”

Diana Bajenaru presents Free traffic requires hard work posted at My lucky number 13, saying, “Free traffic with minimum effort is a fairy tale! In this 3 month of blogging, I’ve learned that free traffic requires hard work. And by this, I mean free traffic requires a lot of time to get it. I’ve tried different ways to bring to my blog free traffic. I’ll list here what I’ve tried with some good results.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of resource for bloggers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

The next edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival will be held on this blog, on 13th January. The submission deadline will be on 12th January.

Thank you all for participating to the 4rd edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival.

Happy New Year to all of you!

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