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Hummingbird Pictures Like You’ve Never Seen Before 2007-11-04 15:00:42 Allow me to go off topic… just once. Recently one of my best friend and I, had the chance to rescue a hummingbird who went straight into our office window. The pictures were taken 3-4 weeks ago, but it’s only when I copied my SD card over to my PC and looked at the photos on my LCD that I realized how spectacular they were. I had to share.
We found Hummy lying on the grass. We couldn’t find any sign of external injuries, but he was clearly knocked out. We gently took him off the grass and the little guy showed no signs of fear.
As found on Wikipedia, Hummingbird
s can flap their wings up to 80 times a second, that’s 4800 FPM (flaps per minute).
According to bestnest.com, there are over 300 species of hummingbirds but only 16 can be found in North America.
Depending on the angle, Hummy’s plumage appears completely different.
The name Hummingbird comes from the characteristic hum made by their wings.
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October Monthly Report 2007-11-03 07:00:07 PiggyBankPie is now 1 month old and what’s been accomplished in 30 days looks very promising. From totally unknown on September 30th, here’s where we stand now:
Alexa Rank: 689,041
Technorati Rank: 189,138 (updated)
Total visitors for October
: 4,465
Total Pages Viewed: 5151
5 authors (including myself) have contributed to write 27 posts in 31 days
Sharon Hurley Hall
Tiffany Blue
Mark Herpel
Tracey Sands
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Most Popular Post of the month: 9 Popular Digital Currency Myths from Mark Herpel
Most commented post of the month (8): How To Find Blogging Success from Sharon Hurley hall
Most famous visitors of the months: Yaro Starak from entrepreneurs-journey.com and John Chow from John Chow dot Com
Ad campaigns running for November: 468 X 60 banner on BloggingTips.com.
Soon: Pay Per Click (see below)
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How Do You Get More Traffic? 2007-11-01 08:00:52 This post has been submitted by Tracey Sands. You can find more on Tracey’s work at traceysands.wordpress.com and Branding Yourself Online.
So you have a website built, you’ve been established for awhile, but you’re wondering how to get more traffic.
You do this by having as many back links to your site as possible. What are “back links?” These are links that are on other sites but lead back to your site. Your goal, if you want to have a high page ranking in Google, is to have as many back links to your url as possible.
Some ways to accomplish this are; submitting your site to search engines, directories, blogs, write articles, etc.
Let’s look at these individually.
Once you have a website built, you should fill the content with rich keywords. Before building your website you should brain storm about what words you want people to find your site with.
Example
You have a flower shop website. Your key words would be flower shop, roses, tulips, daisies, weddings, births, d
My Pick of The Week: Oct 21st to Oct 27th 2007-10-29 03:00:10 This last week was all about Google Page Rank. Just look around, everyone’s blogging about it. Long story short, Google is penalizing those who sell text link ads.
What’s the story?
Who’s been hit?
Should you care about your Google PR?
All your questions answered in one single post from Yaro at entrepreneurs-journey.com.
Here’s the article: Possible Explanations for the PageRank Penalty Sweep.
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What’s Your Blogger Timesheet? Part 2 2007-10-28 03:00:47 7 days ago I posted What’s Your Blogger
Timesheet Part 1, saying I would count the time I spend working for PiggyBankPie.com during 1 week. In order to track my time efficiently, I listed a series of activities in which I logged my daily entries. Here’s a recap of the activities:
Stats Consultation
Read other blogs
Reply to emails
Write Posts
WordPress Administration
Development (coding)
Marketing Activities
Browse the Internet (blog related)
Record/Edit Podcast/Videocast
Troubleshooting
General Administration
How much time do you think I spent this week working on this blog?
What’s my daily average?
Which activities are taking most of my time?
If you’re considering launching your own blog and you think blogging is easy and requires just a few hours a week, well let me just tell you that You’re Wrong! Blogging takes LOTS of time, even for a part-time Blogger like me who collaborate with 4 other writers.
Here’s my weekly timesheet:
Stats Consultation: 2.25
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9 Popular Digital Currency Myths 2007-10-23 08:00:14 This post has been submitted by Mark Herpel. Mark has a strong background in DigitalCurrency
and he’s written many articles on the subject. Mark writes for DigitalMoneyWorld.com, a member of the b5media family.
Digital currency is a very special tool for transacting business online. Its versatile, used around the globe and provides great advantages for users. How can you tell if you have a digital currency account?
1 - Digital currency transactions are reversible and if I spend to the wrong account, I just notify the company and my funds are returned. If my PC gets compromised and my digital currency account hacked, I simply notify the company of the theft and the funds are returned to my account.
FALSE. Digital currency transactions are NOT reversible. Non refundable transactions are on distinguishing feature of all online digital currencies and separate them from online payment systems like PayPal. Digital currency companies like Liberty Reserve, Webmoney, e-gold, e-bullion, Read more:Myths
How I Made $300 Writing For Associated Content 2007-11-07 11:00:11 This post has been submitted by Tiffany Blue. You can find more on Tiffany’s work at Content
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.com.
One of the best places to make a few bucks online is Associated Content. There you can submit text, video, and audio content for money. You can earn money in two different ways: upfront payments, and performance bonuses. Make sure you read and follow their submission guidelines.
AC is a legit company, and is based in Denver, CO. They have an excellent reputation, I have not found anyone claiming to have been scammed, not paid, or anything like that. I have made money at AC, after my next performance bonus payment I will have made over $300.00 there. If I had written more, I could have made more.
They are good at making offers (or declining) your submitted content in a timely manner. My longest wait has been 10 days. You always have the choice to decline an offer that Ac has made for your content, you even have the option to edit and resubmit. However, in most cases you wi
Five Ways To Kill Your Blog 2007-11-06 06:00:03 This post has been submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Get Paid To Write Online.com.
You wouldn’t really want people to read your blog, would you? If you are sick of the hassle and the hype, here’s how you can make sure that no one new visits your blog and your old readers go elsewhere.
Go Off Topic
One reason why people stop reading a blog is because they don’t know what they will get. That works for some blogs, but if you have a niche and readers expect a certain kind of content, not providing it will drive them away.
Forget About Optimization
There are plenty of plugins that will help you optimise your blog post titles, create metatags and avoid duplicate content. Don’t use them and Google will soon put most of your content into the supplemental results index. With luck, your blog will never come out.
Ignore Your Readers
his one really works. When people visit your blog and comment on your posts, don’t do anything. Really. It’s that simple. Your Read more:Five Ways
My Pick of The Week: Oct 28th to Nov 3rd 2007-11-05 19:37:56 Ignoring Social Media Marketing these days could translate in failure to attract an important readership. Whether they are RSS subscribers or web site returning visitors, readers are the blogger’s most important asset. While you cannot focus all your Marketing strategy on Social Media, mostly because you will be flagged as spam, there are ways to learn how to use it efficiently. Dosh Dosh wrote quite an in-depth post on the subject titled The Importance of Social Media Marketing: Why You Should Learn and Master it. If you haven’t surf the social media wave yet, you may want to start paddling calmly by reading his post. Enjoy.
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Let’s Collaborate 2007-11-14 22:39:21 The recent Google hit over Page Rank created a wind of change on the Blogosphere. Text-Link-Ads is one that got a serious punch, when bloggers such as Yaro Starak says “Yes I do” to Google and stops selling text ads, it tells a lot. I can understand his position since he was a PR6 and therefore a huge portion of its traffic came from Google organic, so dropping to PR3 hurts. But still, what’s next? Oh have you heard about the new AdSense click zone policy? Let’s be honest here, not only we are giving Google tons of personal information, but we are also changing the way we collaborate, all in the name of Page Ranking.
This PR story has a negative effect upon smaller blogs, scaring some from extending collaboration. In a previous post I was talking about the power of blogging collaboration. We are not competitors, but collaborators. Why don’t we let Google do its things for a while, and we maximize exchanges and collaboration to increase visitors and RSS subscribers to Read more:Collaborate
Gold. Its Not Just For Jewelry Anymore 2007-11-11 17:10:30 This post has been submitted by Mark Herpel. You can find more on Mark’s work at DigitalMoneyWorld.com, a member of the b5media family, and at American Chronicle.
Where can you put your saving to protect it from the harsh reality of today’s economic world? Gold!
Anyone with a PC should already have some idea that precious metals like gold can be a good store of value during an economic crisis. Do you doubt that today there is an economic crisis already beginning?
Do you see price of oil moving closer to $100 a barrel? You know that will soon translate into a $4.00+ per gallon of gas. Plus, winter is closing in fast and heating oil for your home is going to be expensive this year….
Each trip you make to the supermarket is costing more and more for that same cart of groceries…
Now that the housing market is depressed and mortgage lenders have tightened their belts….you can forget about that home equity line of credit which was going to finance Christm Read more:Jewelry
Support PiggyBankPie for Free 2007-11-19 20:53:55 For those who’ve been reading PiggyBankPie for a while, you already know that my ultimate goal is to pay freelance writers for their work. To achieve this, I am testing a few well known moneymakers to hopefully publish a monthly report announcing revenues. To monetize PiggyBankPie I am currently using:
Google AdSense
Buy Me a Beer WordPress Plugin
The Excellent and highly recommended NeverblueAds Affiliate programs
Commission Junctions Affiliate programs
Vizu Power Polls
October was PiggyBankPie’s first month in the Blogosphere, so my expectations for profits were low and as anticipated, revenues generated from Google AdSense were under $2. But things are looking better for November. By better I mean I will be able to purchase a few articles, in other words, encourage the great writers who have been supporting this blog since the very beginning.
How Can You Help PiggyBankPie… for Free
You may have noticed that I have changed the top left banner for the Free Photo Contest. Read more:Support
The Art and Form of Blogging 2007-11-18 19:10:32 This post has been submitted by Libby Carswell. This is Libby’s first article for PiggyBankPie.com, you can find more on her work at www.emmaburns.com.
After many hours of reading individual blogs I have seen incredible posts that include pictures, video, audio tracks, some really fascinating stories as well as some that could be improved. Blogging
has become a new art. There are some that are unique and interesting and others that are not quite so. The Blog is an amalgamation of many different things where a new form of communication has taken on its own life. To those creative souls who have the Blog down, I give a standing ovation, a grand applause for the talent and ingenuity of mixing life with technology. Blogging is a sort of poetry that is free-verse, open to interpretation and out there for all to share and feel. This creates a unique experience for each individual in the blog audience. The artistry and heart that has been shown in many cases is outstanding.
With
Let’s Collaborate 2007-11-14 22:39:21 The recent Google hit over Page Rank created a wind of change on the Blogosphere. Text-Link-Ads is one that got a serious punch, when bloggers such as Yaro Starak says “Yes I do” to Google and stops selling text ads, it tells a lot. I can understand his position since he was a PR6 and therefore a huge portion of his traffic came from Google organic, so dropping from PR6 to PR3 hurts. But still, what’s next? Oh have you heard about the new AdSense click zone policy? Let’s be honest here, not only we are giving Google tons of personal information, but we are also changing the way we collaborate, all in the name of Page Ranking.
This PR story has a negative effect upon smaller blogs, scaring some from extending collaboration. In a previous post I was talking about the power of blogging collaboration. We are not competitors, but collaborators. Why don’t we let Google do its things for a while, and we maximize exchanges and collaboration to increase visitors and RSS subscr Read more:Collaborate
Ten Paid To Blog Programs At A Glance 2007-11-21 13:54:16 This post has been submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Get Paid To Write Online.com.
Everyone’s in an uproar because blogs are losing Google PageRank, mostly because of paid links. If you want to make Google money, then you have to forego paid to post programs. However, there are many people who have decided to risk all and keep taking the easy money that paid to post programs offer. All of them work with a basic format, where you include a number of links in a post of a minimum length and get a payout. Here’s an at-a-glance guide to 10 paid to post programs to consider.
Blogitive
Average payout: $5
Minimum post length: a couple of paragraphs
Number of links required: 1
Blogsvertise
Average payout: depends; you can set a minimum in your account
Minimum post length: 2-3 short paragraphs
Number of links required: 3
PayPerPost
Average payout: the sky’s the limit; I average around $12-$20
Minimum post length: 50 -300 words
Number of links required: 1+
Loudlaunch
Averag Read more:Programs
November Montly Report 2007-11-30 19:15:08 PiggyBankPie has completed its second month and as you will see, we are on the right track. I am also announcing revenues for November
. They are modest, but still, I’ll use the money to purchase articles from PiggyBankPie Freelance Bloggers who’ve been contributing with me since the beginning.
Here’s a summary of revenues and statistics for November:
Revenues
NeverBlueAds Affiliate Marketing: $46.20
Google AdSense: $14.79
Total Revenues for November: $60.99
Statistics
Alexa Rank: 490,264
Rank on October 31st: 689,041
Compete Rank: 411,553
Rank on October 31st: n/a
Technorati Rank: 121,630, Authority: 61
Rank on October 31st: 189,138
Total Visitors: 20,304
Total for October : 4,465
Total Pages View: 29,734
Total for October: 5,151
6 authors, including myself, have contributed to write 18 posts in 31 days:
Sharon Hurley Hall
Tiffany Blue
Mark Herpel
Tracey Sands
Libby Carswell
Other Stats
Most Popular Post of the Month: How To Find Tons Of New Quality Visitors To
How To Find Tons Of New Quality Visitors To Your Blog 2007-11-26 07:00:21 If you have thought about guest blogging for a while, but you still haven’t tried it yet because you keep all your pillar posts for yourself, I’m hoping the following article will inspire you to revisit your position on the subject.
I recently virtually met Mehdi from StrongLifts.com, Mark from My Tropical Escape and Monika Mundell from Blogging Web 2.0 through Maki’s (doshdosh) Team Marketing Network I’ve joined recently. I started exchanging with them on guest blogging, a subject on which I am considering writing a series, and found really inspiring stories from all of them.
Guest blogging is considered one of the best way to bring quality traffic to your blog. The term “quality” is important here. While it is fairly easy to get hundreds of Stumblers rushing to your site, your strategy should not reside in getting more hits, but instead on how to attract quality visitors and convert them into RSS subscribers or else, frequent readers.
The Mehdi&rsq Read more:Quality
, Visitors
How To Give Your RSS Feed a Little Hug 2007-11-25 12:28:28 While there are many directories available to index your blog, there’s a new kid on the block called rssHugger. The idea behind rssHugger is to ease the process of bringing bloggers and readers together.
The site offers an interesting way to send you back traffic. By displaying a link on your site to your blog’s page on rssHugger, their system will computerize all incoming traffic from your blog and rank your site according to the level of referrals you’ll generate. The more readers click your link to visit your rssHugger page, the higher you rank. This might get you featured in their monthly Top 100.
Registration
There are two ways to can get featured on rssHugger, the free way, and the $20 way. Most of the time, you’ll agree with me that paying subscribers get more and/or better services because they paid money. rssHugger sees it differently. Whether you are a free registrant, or you’ve paid 20 bucks, you get the very same service.
What’s The Catch Read more:RSS Feed
Can You Spell Blog? 2007-12-04 16:00:26 This post has been submitted by Libby Carswell. You can find more on her work at www.emmaburns.com.
Bloge. Blog. Bloog. Blug. Can you pick out the correct spelling of the word? Most people have learned to read English with a certain set of rules attached. We learn the alphabet first along with what sounds each letter makes, we learn how to put those letters together to make words and then we learn how to put those words together to form sentences. One of the most important parts of that learning process includes being taught how to spell words correctly. In the United States, children are drilled with spelling word lists each week at school. Knowing how to spell words properly helps them to know in what context words should be used and what the meanings of those words are. You may be asking, “Does spelling really matter in my blog?” In this article we’ll examine some reasons why spelling is so important when blogging your heart away.
Consider your audience
Some bloggers may
My 5 Favourite WordPress Plugins 2007-12-02 16:00:28 I have tried a fair deal of WordPress Plugins
recently and found a few ones that are worth mentioning. So I thought I’d share the info, thinking it might be useful for some of you. The Plugins listed below are all currently in used on PiggyBankPie, so I can recommend them knowing they are safe and stable.
Add Sign
This plugin adds a signature at the bottom of your posts. On PiggyBankPie, it basically handles the portion starting from Never miss a post, subscribe to receive…. and until the last sponsor (the usual group of 4 sponsors I end all posts with. Before using Add Sign I was copy/pasting this block of text and links at the end of each post, and it was a real pain.
FeedBurner FeedSmith
This one is really neat, it basically redirects you /feed folder to FeedBurner (useful if you are using FeedBurner to handle your RSS Feed). if for instance a reader goes to your blog and clicks the browser’s RSS icon appearing when it detects an RSS feed, then the user will be re Read more:Favourite
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