Global Financial Crisis affecting Bloggers

Well you might be knowing about the Global Financial crisis going on everywhere.If not then turn on your T.V channel you might get to that in news.US citizens surely knows about it.A quick review of Google Trends shows that the number of people searching for information relating to the ‘financial crisis’ or ‘global financial crisis’ has increased dramatically in the last month.Well going to the topic,I think these crisis are no going to over soon and due to which it is going to affect blogosphere specially those who are earning through advertising like adsense.

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Entrecard Takes Strict Steps For Better Economy

Entrecard, which came like a “GOD” for bloggers to boost their readership with their dropping style promotion.After some good years of making buzz all around Entrecard have taken some strict steps to balance it’s economy from further loses.On 29th September Entrecard sent all it’s member a e-mail regarding the changes that are going to happen.The reactions of the bloggers were not good against these changes.

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Top 5 Micro Blogging Sites For Blog Promotion

Micro-blogging is a new form of blogging which allows people to write small text updates (mostly up to 150 Character and publish them easily, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group by adding some tags or like that can be chosen by the person. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, MP3 or the web.

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Top 5 Free Blog Header Image Websites

Your blog is a representation of who you are so it should be unique, right? The only problem is most free Blogger templates (if not all) are available to anyone so chances of you stumbling across another site that looks very similar to yours is going to be high. It’s like going to a party and bumping into another girl who’s wearing the exact same dress as you. It’s something you hate and try to avoid.

The good news is you can easily make your Blogger site unique just by changing or adding a header image. Usually that move alone will make your blog stand out from the crowd (as well as customizing your sidebar widgets).

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So here’s a couple header image sites I’d like to recommend to help you dress up and personalize your blog.

  1. 45 Free Beautiful Blog Headers – This is a great list compiled by Smashing Magazine. Some of the headers include the .psd source files so you can really customize the header if you’ve got Photoshop experience.
  2. Free Webpage Headers – A very nice collection of hundreds of 800 x 200 website headers which can easily be used for Blogger. Images are organized by category which makes it much easier to find what you’re looking for.
  3. Dreamstime – This is actually a pay for image site but they have a free images section you can benefit from. Click on the “Free Images” tab once you get to their home page.
  4. stock.xchng – By looking at the name of their site you wouldn’t think it was any good but looks can be deceiving. They’ve got thousands of free images that would work for your blog header or for inserting them into a blog post.
  5. Stock Vault – This free image site is dubbed the stock photo sharing website where designers and photographers can meet to share their images. Decent selection and more targeted towards designers but you might be able to find some goodies for your blog.
  6. FreeFoto – This last one is a bonus since the list was only supposed to be 5. It’s a pretty good site where you can find all sorts of images for your blog header, etc.

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Here’s some other sites that are great but you have to buy the images. In most cases it’s actually worth spending a few dollars just to get a perfect header image for your site. Remember, your blog is a representation of you so it’s a good idea to dress it up nicely.

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  1. Fotolia – This is my favorite stock image site since you can find some great unique blog header images for as little as $1. Easy sign up process and you buy credits once you setup your account.
  2. Stockxpert – Here’s another good one if you can’t find anything you like on Fotolia. Same plan since you pay per image starting at $1.
  3. Shutterstock – This site is different than others since you pay on monthly basis and can download up to 750 images over the course of 30 days. It’s great if you just need a ton of images in a short period. Sign up for one month, download your 750 max, and then cancel your account.
  4. Photo Library (also known as Index Stock) – It’s kind of hard to navigate their site but the images aren’t watermarked meaning you can right click and save them.
  5. Getty Images – This is truely the cream of the crop when it comes to high quality images. These images would be overkill for your personal blog but it’s still a beautiful site to check out.
  6. Photos.com – Another great high-end photo download site. You pay $99 per month but can download as many photos as you want. This is a great package for small businesses or corporations looking for stock photos for their website.
  7. Creastock.com – They offer royalty free high quality stock photos and images but their price point is a little higher than I prefer. This site is more for the true professional looking for really high quality art for their site.

This list should give you more than enough sites of places to get free images for your blog. I’d love to hear if you’ve got some other sites our readers might be interested in as well. Also, if you’ve pimped out your blog with a new header image post your link below to share with everyone!



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Killer Referral Contest – Win Prizes worth over $1000 And Much More Gifts

Rockfuse Alongwith Many Other Sites as sponsors Including me i.e Templates Treasure Is Organising A “Killer Refrell Contest” by which you have a chance to win prizes worth $1000.
The Contest Will Run till 20th September 2008.

So, let me first tell you what are the prizes you can win before telling how to participate in this contest…


Prizes To Be WoN!

  • $100 Cash from Pepperjam and an autographed copy of “Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprint for effective Internet marketing” by Kris Jones – To claim this prize, you must have a Free Pepperjam account. Create one and get $10 FREE Sign-on bonus if you already haven’t. Takes less than a minute.
  • Two licenses for the News Friendly Theme from Motion ThemeNews Friendly is a 2-column killer sleek WordPress Theme with Ajax Widgets and other important CMS features.
  • Any two Revolution themes (Chosen by the winners) by Revolution ThemesNeed I introduce Revolution Themes? One of the most popular theme “factories” online. And the winner has the ability to select the revolution theme he/she wants.
  • 1 copy of Auction Site Writer worth $25 USD with Free upgrades for life by 1 Cool FileAuction Site Writer is a killer tool to make money online. And you can win a free copy of it by entering the contest. And there’s more! If you’re a ROCKFUSE reader wanting to but a copy, simple contact me and I’ll direct you to the guys at 1CoolFile who will give you a 10% discount.

This is What Offered By Me:

Total
Premium
Prizes: 20

FREEE ADVERTISING

Total Advertising Deals: 10

Blog Consultation

  • 2 x 1 hour consultation time, worth $50 each by Jason Pereira of The University Kid
  • 1 hour consultation valued at $50 Money Bites
  • 30-min blog consultation with Jim at TheNetFool
  • 2 x 1 hour blog SEO consultation with Nadeesha at ROCKFUSE
Total Blog Consultation Prizes: 6


Entrecard Credits

Total EC Prizes: 9

So That was a whooping, long, awesome, kick ass Prize list. i don’t know what more to say about the list.But it sure gonna be amazing.

So Do your really wanna join that contest? then tune into Rockfuse here.

Any More Questions??