I recently came across some blogs with really good content but with no images. I felt something is missing with those blogs though they have some good content. Images are must for blogs as they add some color and visual interest and will draw the attention of the visitors.

Just imagine a blog with lengthy but useful content and no images. You’ll get bored with even the interesting content in some minutes. It is not necessary to images with all blog posts but add images whereever it is necessary.

If you have a difficulty in explaining something, then you can use images.

Where to get images for blog posts?
Here are some sites which I usually use to get images. These images are not completely copyright free but they are licensed under Creative Common license.

www.sxc.hu
I very much like this website. I usually use images from this site for banners and headers when I used to flip sites.

Flickr
This is a community based site which has millions of images.

FotoGenika
StockCache 

You can also search google for “royalty free images,  copyright free images,  free stock images “

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Regular readers of aruntheace.com know about the Link Love Contest.
Here are the bloggers who showed some link love to me.

Contest Beat at http://www.contestbeat.com/win-some-hosting-a-domain-and-more/
MyBlogContest at http://myblogcontest.com/link-love-contest/
ContestWhiz at http://contestwhiz.com/2008/01/22/link-love-contest/
Grey at http://indo-moneymaker.blogspot.com/2008/01/arun-ace-link-love-contest.html
Carl at http://www.thatblogsite.com/aruntheacecom-review-win-prizes/
Vijay at http://www.contestradar.com/the-link-love-contest-by-arun/
MR.Gee at http://mrgee.info/2008/01/get-deluxe-hosting-and-free-domain-for.html
Rhyan at http://rhyan.net/2008/02/27/link-love-contest-by-aruntheacecom/
John at http://www.lieblogger.info/here-are-some-blog-contests/

and the winners are

Winner 1: John
Winner 2: Rhyan and
Winner 3: Carl

Easy method to get many entries to your blog contest:
Blog contests are the easy way to get some instant backlinks and also some popularity to your blog. Here is one tip for you if you’re going to run a blog contest.
For any contest, you need more participants. Here is an easy trick to get many participants.
Just goto www.contestblogger.com
Look for old contests related to your blog.
Visit an old contest page and look for the participants. All these participants are interested in contests in your niche (May be..) Contact all the participants personally and let them know about your contest. Do the same with many old contests. With this method you’ll get lots of entries which leads to lots of backlinks and popularity.

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Targeted traffic is the most important key factor for success in any business online. Coined by Mike Filsaime, there are three ways of getting targeted traffic.

Buying Traffic:
Buying links, banner spaces, PPC etc…
Creating Traffic:
Distributing free ebooks, viral marketing etc…
Borrowing Traffic:
Using other people’s mailing list, using forums etc…

All the above three ways will get you targeted traffic. Now, I’m going to tell about buying traffic. Buying traffic is an instant way to get targeted traffic immediately. Buying banner space or links will get you a less amount of traffic compared to PPC. But PPC traffic is usually high cost depends on your niche. There is one way to get targeted traffic for very cheap cost. You can get 1000 targeted visitors for just $1. It doesn’t matter about the geographic location. It is possible to get all the traffic even from USA (USA traffic is usually worthier than traffic from other locations).You can enjoy this traffic by using Adbrite’s Full Page Ads.

Most people never know about this cheap traffic. When I tried the keyword “make money online”, with USA as geographic location, I saw the available impressions are 1.20 million per day on 187 websites. The minimum amount you can choose is $5 per day.

What are Full page ads?
Full page ads will show your website in an iframe occupying 80% of the screen. These ads are better than PopUp ads because.

Here is a sample Full page ad (wait for at least 5 seconds for the Ad to load)

http://www.adbrite.com/mb/country_tabs.php

Will this traffic convert into sales?
This traffic is better than the traffic from Digg, Stumblepon or any other social bookmarking sites, though the conversion rate is very small. One of my friends tried these ads with his Diet tips e-book. The conversion rate is 2% which is not bad for this type of traffic. But the conversion rate purely depends on your niche and your landing page.

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Internet is for porn?
Not exactly. But to a certain extent, Internet is for porn. The adult industry is a huge money making industry around Internet. There is a very big market for adult products. I know some bloggers still use porn images to drive traffic from Google Images. Porn! Porn! Porn! everywhere! Okay. It may be anything! I want to show you an interesting video I found at youtube. Here it is for you. After viewing this video, just comment Internet is for porn or not!

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I saw many people talking about the power of viral marketing or word of mouth marketing. I never experienced its power until I started my DoFollow blog search engine.When I launched BacklinkSpot by Jan 18, I just posted about it at DP forum, V7n forum and NamePros forum. With lots of webmasters around these forums, I received around 2800 hits till now, which is not bad for new site with no big marketing.

The main reason for the hit of BacklinkSpot is that, this site is a viral content. As coined by sethgodin, Viral content is,

• Easy to understand
• People want it to spread
• People believe that spreading it will enhance their power (reputation, income, friendships) or their peace of mind
• the effort necessary to send the idea is less than the benefits

Here are some bloggers who linked to BacklinkSpot,

http://typelife.blogspot.com/2008/02/dofollow-blog-search-engines.html
ttp://www.yimto.com/find-dofollow-blogs-with-backlinkspot
http://beautifulminds.in/2008/02/backlinkspot-building-backlinks.html
http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/traffic/two-dofollow-search-engines/ 

Also the site was discussed at various webmaster forums.

Being viral will get you lot of backlinks and it will get you traffic for longterm. Usually top 10, top 100 type blog posts will be viral. Even I got a viral post in my blog at Strongest posts of top make money online blogs. This post was stumbled by Emoms and got lots of comments from top bloggers. Unfortunately, when I posted the article, my server went down and everything messed for around 2 months. I’m preparing my next viral content and will post it soon! Do you have any experience with viral content?

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Have any problem dealing with your electronic products? BT Home IT Support is there to fix your problems. With lots of new electronic goods flooding into the market, users are increasingly facing new problems with using and configuring the devices.

BT Home IT Support is an online support center where experts answer to your problems through phone. These people will solve any problems related to IT. They are experts in computer repair but you can even shoot them your problem about even iPod or any other electronic device.

BT Home IT Support offers their services on a monthly membership basis. They charge 9.99 pounds per month and if you ordered 12 months package then the membership cost will be 8.99 pounds each month.

The main advantage for novice users with this network is that, BT Home IT Support experts will access your PC remotely and fix your problem. This is a great deal for PC noobs. For 9.99 pounds a month, BT Home IT Support is worthy to go with.

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