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I have been using this week, a software called Comment Sniper. It is one of the best software that i have downloaded lately.

What is Comment Sniper?

Comment Sniper is a free software that allows it’s user to keep track of new posts of your favourite blogs. You just add the desired blogs to the tracking list (i have around 10 so far), choose the scanning interval (i use 5 minutes), and the software will alert you with a small popup on your lower right screen corner, every time it detects a new post on any of the blogs you added to the list.

With the scan interval i choose, i will be able to read the post and comment few minutes later after the post publication, increasing my chances to be the first to comment.

How can this help me?

Well, being the first to comment will help increase your blog visitors. Usually, visitors read the post and the first comments, and sometimes (if not often) the reader will click your link to check your blog. This way, you can bring quality visitors to your blog. Off course, your comments need to be relevant to the post and with some quality, “nice post” kind of comments won’t help you bring visitors.

(just a quick note: while i was writing this post, a new comment sniper alert popped up, and again im the first guy to have a comment on a new post )

But being the first to comment and increase site visitors is not the only advantage of this software. With time and continuous posting, it will help you increase your search rankings.

I totally recommend this tool, and if you want to try just download it, and don’t worry, i know you love this blog, so the software comes with this blog already subscribed for new post alerts by default :p

Download Comment Sniper

P.S: My offer one 1:1 rss subscription is still available, read more about it here.

Why i say this? well, i know im not updating this blog as much as i wanted, first because of the exams, but now for a different reason. I have passed all my exams and this week i have time to have fun. It is the “academic week” here in Viseu. I don’t know how it is in your country but i guess it is almost the same thing. It is a week with concerts and house sessions where all college students celebrate. Im going out every night to attend the concerts and the house sessions, with a sufficient amount of alcohol to make me “Happy”! lol

The festivities started Sunday with a service at the Viseu’s Cathedral given by the bishop. All finalists are present and receive the bishop blessing.

It was very hot that day and at the end of the ceremony i was almost dehydrated! lol

Tuesday was the day of the parade. All courses make some cars to participate in a contest, and are exhibited through the city, with a lot of beer in process :p It was really fun, but the weather wasn’t willing to help, so it rained.

I arrived in the morning to my bed at 7am… im totally exausted, but after writing this post im going out again. It will be like this until friday!

This will be a crazy week!!! I just don’t want to get an hangover…. lol

Some news? the new domain name of this blog has been indexed by google pretty fast, i managed to change the blog url in payperpost and socialspark, but payperpost wanted me to change how posts were shown on the blog, so i have to change some things. :\, i don’t totally agree with the changes i had to make but ppp is one of my main income sources for the blog, although i don’t do a paid review for over a month now.

With the change of domain my alexa rank has gone, but since alexa changed it’s algorithm to rank sites, the update isn’t happening. It’s been almost 2 weeks without an update in ranking, so that’s the reason this blog isn’t ranked yet…

Btw, have you noticed changes in your PR? The blog domain is showing a PR of 3!!! What the hell? a 2 week domain with a pr of 3? let see if it stays like this

It is the end of the month and it is time to give some links from the top comentators of this month. Thank you for participating and here are the top five commentators links:

• Nelson
• Health Tips
• mr.eims
• Joe Cole
• Vending Guy

It is that easy to get a link to your blog. You just need to participate and do some quality comments A new month is beggining

Today’s post is a double post. First of all, i would like to say that my life is chaotic right now.

I have already told you that im on the final year of college. Recently, my college entered the Bologna Process. For those who don’t know what it is you can read about it on wikipedia.

This semester, i have a tight schedule. 8 weeks of intensive classes, mostly from 8am to 8pm. And off course, since it’s the bologna era, my teachers give us essays to elaborate. Right now, im with 7 works to complete, one being a seminar organized by us, and the other a presentation to a congress. And i can’t forget the final graduation essay, it is an investigation work and it will take almost a year to complete.

When i arrive at home i only have time to make dinner, and then i have to start working again, mostly until midnight…

I need some rest….

Even with this i will try to write a post per day on the blog. I have posts cumulating on the list i carry with me to take note every time i have an idea for a post

Now for the second post. Alexa as updated it’s ranks and guess what? im at number 110,227!!! Just to think a year ago i was over 1million….

Well, it would be great if i could reach the top 100,000… will you help me?

And a final note, the 125×125 ads can now be bought without the need to caontact me. The script will take all the necessary steps. YOu just need to provide with the link for the page and for the image and then pay the $5. Couldn’t be easier.

Have a nice weekend!

A few weeks ago i found an interesting post about “Anti marketing design“.

Anti marketing design are sites that use ugly designs, but manage to be very successful.

The example used was Plentyoffish.com, a site that makes more than $10000 each day with google adsense. According to the founder, Markus Frind , one of the main reasons of this success is exactly the ugly site design.

He evens gives examples of other ugly sites that are very successful such as myspace, craiglist, google.

Markus Frind says that sites with an ugly design tend to generate more revenue, build better brands, and are more fun to participate.

When i read this i thought to my self “what the hell!?”. But i must agree… I have stumbled with sites that in my opinion are very very ugly, but i was surprised with the amount of traffic they had, the amount of users, readers, rss subscribers, the money they made! Even the blog where i found this post had an ugly design and ranks 19,895 in alexa, and has more than 300 comments on that specific post.

Why do we tend to use ugly sites?

I can just give my opinion. I don’t like these kind of ugly sites. But there’s ugly, and there’s UGLY. myspace is UGLY, google is ugly, but extremely simple and effective. Web surfers like simplicity, effectiveness, quickness, and not to many information at the same time.

For me, ugly sites resumes only to a simple equation: ugly sites = less distractions

The users are not distracted by a “state of the art design” with great graphics, and can focus their attention into the content, in what the site really has to offer.

Think a little bit about this, and tell me what you think…

One of the most profitable ways to make money blogging is selling links. But some times it may be hard to find someone that want to by a link from you. The best choice is to have a “middle man”. TNX.net acts as the “middle man”, and with surprisingly efficiency.

You may sell links not only to the main page, but for all pages of your blog/site that are indexed by TNX.

How does it work?

You just need to register, add your website (sadly, they don’t accept Portuguese websites), place the code where you want the links to appear and wait for your website to be accepted.

I did this a couple of days ago, and TNX already managed to provide me with 100 possible paid links! And i decide wich to use and where to use them.

Each link you sell, TNX will take a share of the profit. Only 25% of the link price. It is very reasonable, if you compare to other sites that take 50% of your revenue!!

Tnx works on a points system, meaning that you don’t earn money right a way for selling links. Instead, your site is evaluated according to specific page rank, and yahoo back links.

So, the better you are ranked more money you will make.

The points you earn are then converted into cash by selling them. You can choose to transfer to another user (you may sell them, for example at digitalpoint forums), or sell them directly to TNX. Currently, they by 1000 points for $0,75, and the minimum payout is only $5 payable to your paypal account.

They have also a referral system. If you refer someone to use Tnx network, then you will earn 13,3% of the points earned by he/she for life!

If you are scared by the recent google slap on sites that sell links, i can assure you that TNX links look like normal site links. It’s one of the best software that i have found that can make a paid link look natural to the google bot, and preventing the publishers for being slapped and loose their page rank.

If you want to become an advertiser, then one of the best aspects is the very reasonable price of links! And above all, you can get thousands of static links that will help you improve your search engine rankings.

I admit, the possibility to have thousands of links for my sites so easily is very tempting.

The site is clean, graphically appealing but soft. The administration area could be improved. You don’t have a personal info control panel. Instead you have an advertise and publisher panel.

As a final note, i do recommend this system. It is very easy to sell links, although i admit that if you have a PR of 0, your earnings will can be limited (try their calculator to see how much you can earn).

Happy earnings!