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How To Get Started Doing Survey

If you are looking for ways to get started doing online surveys and earn extra cash, here are a few tips to get you off the right path, the right way. There are simple and easy to follow tips to get you started doing online or email survey and get paid for it.

A few insider tips to get you started on right foot to earn maximum amount on online paid surveys from home.

1. Make you have an email (free one is good). You can get one from Yahoo mail or Gmail. If you already have a personal email already, still we recommend that you create special email for paid surveys to keep email separate.

Check your email daily once (or more) to see if you do not miss any new offers to do survey and earn cash. It is vital that you keep up. Many people sign up for program but lose motivation to do surveys. Keep up the motivation. The money you will earn will not you retire but help you pay extra dinner, or nice gadgets or stuff you always wanted to get.

2. You will need to fill out lot of same information on various sites, it can get boring and time consuming. We recommend free tool to automatically fill redundant information to save you time on mundane task and focus on money making part: Taking surveys.

3. Sign up with right partner, such as based on your country and locality. Signing up with top survey sites means that you will have best survey offers to do and best income so check for it.

4. Fill out profile fully to get appropriate and best survey offers. Do survey honestly.

5. Sign up for paypal account (free), so you can get paid electronically via paypal account.

Seven Best Decisions You Can Make About Blogging

There are seven best decisions anyone can make about blogging and being successful at blogging. Hope you enjoy it.

Blogging Tip 1

Do not spend more than you earn on blog tools, specially with money you do not have. It is tempting in blogging world with various software and tools to buy to make your blog life easier. There are always new ebooks and courses out there promising you riches if you buy them. We know as we have bought quite few in our early stage of blogging.

There are so great and not so great products out there to make you successful. Buy only what you can afford after making a little money. At most you need to spend money for domain and hosting, rest of the products can wait, if you do not have extra money.

Blogging Tip 2

Do no expect blogging or money help from anyone. There are plenty of bloggers and experts who are more than willing to share free tips and suggestions on how to make your blog grow. However, no one is going to hand you everything on platter or do work for you.

You must work hard for it, for example asking and preparing for a guest post or leaving thoughtful comments and linking to right posts on your blog. Do not feel bad if expert blogger does not return favor by commenting back on your blog. It is not personal, every relationship takes time to build.

Blogging Tip 3

It is okay not have niche but more planned you are about your blog, the better it will be for people who are searching for information to find you. It will also be beneficial to search engine to figure out what is your blog is about. Yes, there are many mega site and article directories have multiple subjects and niche, but they balance it will quantity. If you have large site, you can get away with many niche subject, when you are new try to stick to general niche or subject if possible.

We are not saying, multiple niche does not work, it might take little longer but it will work eventually.

Blogging Tip 4

Be kind and helpful to other bloggers, big and small size. Many times we have seen blogger only writing about successful bloggers and commenting on only their sites. Now following successful blogger is good idea and we do that too. However, you want to also focus on same size or little blogs too. Sometimes it works out best when you are nice to medium to small size blogs.

It is just like real life, you do not want to be friend only with rich people, you want to be friends with people who have same amount money or even bit less than you. Diversity is key and being genuinely nice helps out in blogging world.

Blogging Tip 5

Plan for busy times, emergency situation such as blog crash, family and work issues; You can always predict what will happen but you can prepare extra post drafts when you have time so when you are busy, your blog still have content flowing. For other emergency situation, just take one step at the time and get help from web guys or forums. Have blog schedule if you can. Some blogger post everyday, some every Monday, Wednesday or Friday, and some do not have schedule. We fall under later category, as we do not want to be bound by deadline to have our creative juice flowing. But we agree, having regular schedule even when no one seems to be reading you blog, will make you more credible in reader’s eye.

Blogging Tip 6

Most important thing about being successful is to provide valuable information to your readers! Pat at Smart Passive Income provides great value to many, which is not found anywhere else on blogsphere. Therefore, he gets big following from readers everywhere. Pat’s posts are well thought out, helpful and honest. What I also like about Pat is that he is family man, when he went to Blogworld, he came back early as he has young infant son. I like that that family is his first priority over fame or money.

Other value providing bloggers are Devesh from Technshare and Ishan from Blogging with success provide. They both are young teens who write with other authors and who all are amazingly talented. I love their blogs from short time I have been reading their blog. Although I am older than them, I still have lot to learn from these teen bloggers.

Yaro, Daniel from dailyblogtips, Darren from Problogger are few of the experts who provide value to bloggers and readers everywhere. If you want readers to stick around and keep coming back provide the best valuable information to them.

Blogging Tip 7

Content is king or queen (if you are girl blogger), so write great and unique content that is helpful to people. You do not need to be copy editor but make sure your spelling and grammar is correct before you hit publish on your post. We know we have made in past and it is only human thing to do. The best way we found to correct this is to read your post aloud and you will see if there is something not working right away. If you realize later after publishing a post, don’t fear. Just change to mistakes as soon as you find them. If reader or blogger tells you about it, thank them without feeling that you are being criticized. They are just trying to help you.

Final & Extra Blogging Tips

Treat other bloggers the way you want to be treated!

Write from your heart!

Rome was not built in a day and same goes for your blog success. Don’t hurry success!

Happy Blogging!

5 Tips for Creating a Website

Note: This is tips article is written by Matthew MacDonald who is Author of Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual .

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5 Tips for Budding Web Site Creators
By Matthew MacDonald

These days, aspiring Web site creators like you pick up a lot of Web-design theory before you start working on your pages. But as deadlines loom and the value of “do it right” falls victim to the imperative to “do it right now,” even the best of us sometimes toss good practice out the window. That’s perfectly understandable and no cause for panic—after all, if Web weavers waited until their pages were perfect before uploading them, the Internet would be a very lonely place indeed. However, sometimes innocent-seeming shortcuts can cause headaches later on. Here are a few pieces of Web advice that site creators ignore at their own risk:

1. Always include a doctype.
Web browsers can translate two languages into Web pages: old-school HTML and today’s XHTML. You have to tell the browser which language (called markup) you use, and you do that with a document type definition, better known as a doctype. Doctype is arcane code that looks like this:< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

If you forget to include a doctype, your pages will appear annoyingly inconsistent. That’s because some browsers, including Internet Explorer, switch into a backward-compatibility state known as quirks mode when they encounter unidentified markup; in essence, they attempt to act like an outdated browser from the 1990s. Common problems that result include text that appears at different sizes in different browsers and layouts that wind up in different configurations depending on your browser.

2. Keep formatting instructions out of your markup.
In a rush, it’s easy to get lazy and apply inline styles (or even worse, formatting tags like < font > ) to a page’s XHTML or HTML. But it’s rare for a web site creator to use a particular format just once. Most often, you’ll use a design–say for a column, heading, or note box–elsewhere on the same page or on another of your site pages. To ensure consistency across your site and to make it easier to fine-tune the look and feel of your pages, move all your formatting instructions to a central location: an external style sheet. That way, when a browser processes a page, it grabs this central set of instructions and applies them to the page (see the illustration for the sequence of events).

3. Be under renovation, not under construction.
Think of your favorite store. Now imagine shopping there if you had to wander around half-lit floors while dodging ladders, pylons, and heavy-duty construction equipment to find the aisles that still have products on the shelf.It’s a similar story on the Web, where a site with empty pages, “under construction” messages, and vague promises of upcoming content will send visitors away in droves. Yes, it’s true that your Web site won’t be complete when you first upload it. But make sure that what’s there is genuinely useful on its own, and don’t draw attention to gaps and shortcomings. Instead, keep improving what you’ve got.

4. Think twice before you adopt copy-and-paste design.

Typically, Web sites use the same page design across all their pages. For example, noodle around Amazon and you’ll always see a menu header at the top of the page and a sidebar on the left.

There’s a very special circle in Dante’s Inferno reserved for Web developers who try to achieve consistent design by copying and pasting their XHTML from one page to another. It’s almost impossible to manage or modify this mess across all your pages without making a mistake, even if you have a small Web site.
If you need a repeating page design, pick a suitable solution from the available options, each of which comes with its own caveat. Your can use server-side includes (which require Web host support), page templates (provided you have a Web design tool like Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web), frames (which can exhibit quirks), or a Web development platform (if you’re willing to take a crash course in programming).

5. Keep an eye on your visitors.
Is anyone here? There’s no point in having a Web site if you’re not willing to pay attention to what content draws and keeps visitors and what falls flat on its face. Remarkably, the best way to do that is with a free yet industrial-strength service called Google Analytics. You simply copy a small bit of tracking code to each of your pages and within hours you’ll be able to answer questions like “Where do my visitors live?”, “How long is a typical visit?”, and “What pages are their favorites?”

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