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Welcome to the April 20, 2008 edition of carnival of tech news.

Stephen Dean presents How I’ve Boosted My Announcement List Sign Up Rate posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Kenton Newby presents Physical Info Product Creation: Using Multiple Formats to Multiply Profits posted at KentonNewby.com.

Bill Mcintosh presents Should You Integrate Feedburner and Aweber? posted at Bill McIntosh.

Phil B. presents Google’s Problem << Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, “Even though Google has the coolness of Apple Inc., the worldwide following of MicroSoft, and the quality of Toyota, Google has at least one major problem.”

old-wizard presents Top 20 Worst Video Games of All Time posted at old-wizard.com.

Heather Johnson presents How better Technology can help the Nursing Shortage posted at InterOpNurse.

Startup Earth presents Phorm Is Watching You - Who?s Watching Phorm? posted at Startup Earth.

Life. Money. Development. presents The 7 Attributes of Leadership posted at Life. Money. Development., saying, “An excellent presentation of the attributes every leader should have.”

Startup Earth presents Anonymous Turns Its Gaze To Virgin Media posted at Startup Earth.

Computers

Phil B. presents The Merits of Two Backups « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, “This article is not to convince you to periodically backup your computer, but rather to periodically backup your computer twice.”

Dekon presents The Top 3 Best Anti Virus Software for 2008 by OMYNERDS.COM posted at OMYNERDS!COM.

Diwakar Kumar presents FC Port Addressing and Fabric Port details! posted at This Blog for Storage Knowledge Sharing, saying, “This Blog for EMC Product Knowledge Sharing”

Andrew Edgington presents Why do your prints look different from the images on your screen posted at Learn Photoshop Now, saying, “Why do your prints look different from the images on your screen…”

Internet

Tip Diva presents Tip Diva | Top Ten Tips - Getting More Out Of Google posted at Tip Diva, saying, “Google is much more than a keyword search engine. Here are some tips on how to get more out of some of Google’s other search-related features.”

Andrew Flusche presents Website Owner Not Liable For Third-Party Posts posted at Andrew Flusche, Virginia Lawyer, saying, “I hope this post fits in with your next carnival issue. The CDA is a powerful legal shield for website owners.”

D. Singh presents Make Your Website?s Graphic Design Effective in 2008 posted at Internet Marketing Blog, saying, “That phrase, coined by prominent national artist and professor Marc Dennis, is, or should be, the mantra of all marketing related visual materials. While messaging is key in marketing materials in order to generate sales, a strong message will be lost or wasted if it is set in a visual design that does not also engage the viewer.”

Edith presents Obama, Clinton and Web 2.0 posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Lelia Katherine Thomas presents Hump Day Funnies: Hilarious News Story on Internet Vigilantism posted at LeliaThomas.Com, saying, “Internet vigilantism at its finest. When this geek’s electronics are stolen, he went to the Internet to help sort it out.”

David Cassell presents Getting Help With Mathematics posted at selectcoursesblog.com.

NAOMI presents BRITISH KIDS BEING RAISED IN VIRTUAL WORLD posted at Diary From England.

vld2czech presents StockWeb: Market share for search engine results. posted at StockWeb, saying, “Find out what is the latest market share for searches on internet for major players like Google, Yahoo, MSN ..”

Edith presents Free Live Call with Marketing Guru Seth Godin - Meatball Sundae (April 9th) Hosted by SFentrepreneur posted at San Francisco Bay Area Small Business Community That Connects You With Entrepreneurs Around You.

Jamison presents Virginia Requires Internet Safety Lessons for Kids posted at techtipsforparents.org, saying, “Virginia will soon be requiring internet safety lessons for kids age 11 to 16. Waste of time or good idea?”

Neelakantha presents 101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers posted at Free Geekery.

Aravind Jose T. presents Imageshack.us’s New Torrent Service is a hit for sure posted at aravindjose.com, saying, “Properly analyzed news. Blogged this 7 days before torrentfreak blogged the same.. :P”

Raymond presents How To Get A Free Laptop or Plasma TV Through Gift Reward Websites posted at Money Blue Book.

Technology

Alvaro Fernandez presents DriveFit (CogniFit); Brain Fitness Program for Driving posted at SharpBrains, saying, “Can you train your brain with video games to become a better driver?”

David Herbert presents Videos-Iphone Pwned posted at Hyper Tech Ninja.

Jackson Kern presents The Sun Goes Around the World | Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Causes: The Alternative Channel Blog posted at Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Causes: The Alternative Channel Blog, saying, “See one man harness the solar system’s most inexhaustible source of energy and defy its laws.”

David Herbert presents Videos-Google Docs Offline! posted at Hyper Tech Ninja.

Jose DeJesus MD presents Counterfeit Drug Detection Breakthrough posted at Physician Entrepreneur, saying, “An innovative technology developed by Kodak can instantly identify genuine goods and screen out counterfeits using untraceable engineered particles. Already in use by other industries, it is now being applied to screen out counterfeit medicine.”

David Herbert presents Videos-New 2GB Iphone posted at Hyper Tech Ninja.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Cognitive Health News Round-Up posted at SharpBrains, saying, “New technologies for brain testing and training.”

Jimson Lee presents So You Want to Go Open Source? posted at CRM Help Desk Software.com, saying, “A quick roundup of pros and cons of going open source in CRM and ERP applications.”

Andy Boyd presents The Evolution Of Printer Technology: Then And Now posted at The News In Print, saying, “Details the progression in print technology from the original Gutenberg printing press through to cutting edge high definition fine art digital photo printers.”

Alex M presents Power Shirt As A Motion Power Charger posted at Video gadgets shopping.

Sam presents New Car Features and Buying Tips ! Surfer Sam posted at Surfer Sam and Friends, saying, “The News About New Cars Brand new features for fun and safety. Smarter, safer cars are taking care of us”

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There’s at least one way to promote your web site and products for free. As an additional bonus, this free method can boost your site sales, in effect multiplying your income. It is actually one of the easiest ways to promote your web site in order to generate traffic and increase your sales: Articles.

How Article Marketing Works

You write articles relating to your website and submit them to free content submission sites, or article directories. It is easy to do, takes only a little time and can increase your web site traffic, sales and of course, your income.

Boosting Traffic and Income with Articles

Each article you submit to free content sites contains a link to your own web site. Readers, after reading your articles, may choose to click on the link and pay you a visit. Having them on the free content sites also makes these articles available to other webmasters who may wish to publish them on their own sites.

If they do, that copy of your article will also include a link back to your site. And anyone who reads the article on that site can still click on the link to visit your site. So there are multiple places a reader can stumble on your article and arrive on your site.

As the list of your published articles grows longer, and more and more of them will appear on different web sites, and the total number of links to your site increases likewise. Major search engines place a lot of significance on incoming links to web sites, so they will now see your site as more important.

If you site is into promoting a product or service, as most are, the links that your articles have achieved will mean more customers for you. Even if visitors only browse through, you never know if they might be in need of what you are offering in the future. They might return.

There are also those who already have specific things they need, but cannot decide yet between the many choices online. Chances are, they may stumble upon one of your articles, get interested by what you wrote, and arrive on your site, where they became enticed by your promotion. That’s how easy it is?

Search engines do not just index the websites, they also index published articles. They also index any article that is written about your own web site’s topic. So once someone searches for that same topic, the list of results will have your site or may even show the articles that you have written.

And to think, no effort on your part was used to bring them to your site. Just your published articles and the search engines. Therefore it is no wonder why many webmasters are taking the time to write more articles about their site for article marketing.

If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent on writing one article and submitting to free content sites. In a short time those are also distributed to more sites than you can think of. Even before you know what is happening, you are getting more visitors than you previously had.

Try writing some articles and you will be assured of the sudden surge in site traffic, link popularity and interest. Before you know it, you will be doubling and even tripling your earnings. Article marketing really works, provided you have good articles.

Marketing your blog is not all that hard to do. You have to be persistent and want success however if you want your blog to do well. You cannot just make a post and forget about it. You have to continue updating your blog and marketing it so that it will become popular and one that everyone wants to read. There are other ways as well that are good marketing your blog. Keep reading for more information.

Interviewing people on your blog is an excellent way to market it. Just be sure that the people that you interview pertain to the market of your blog. You want all of your posts to be relevant, including any interviews that you might do. For example, if your blog market was vacuum cleaners, and you did an interview with the owner of Hoover vacuum cleaner; that would definitely pertain to your market.

If you hear any news on the market of your blog, be sure that you post it. Everyone loves news, and event he readers of your blog will appreciate you blogging about the current events in the market. Something to keep in mind when blogging about the news is the more current the news, the better. No one wants to reread old news, so it is a great idea to try and stay as current as possible when you are blogging about the news.

Contests are another way that you effectively market your blog. Having contests on various things would be a lot of fun, and something that will keep your readers coming back. Everyone loves to win things, and you can also make the prize that you are giving away relevant to the market you are promoting on your blog.

While good content is something that you will need for your blog, you also want to ensure that it is original content. You can market a blog with something that is copied and that you do not own the rights. Duplicate content will get you in trouble with Google as well as the person that originally wrote the content

Press releases are also an excellent way to market your blog. Sending out a press release or having one made for you is a great idea. You will find that they are even affordable for most budgets, and some companies offer a package deal for example, if you let us write your press release we will submit it for half price. Who could resist a deal such as that? Especially when you are budgeting and trying to get the most from your funds.

Comments on a blog are also a very important aspect of blog marketing. Be sure that you always answer and acknowledge the comments that are made to your blog as well as others. When you show that you are an actual person that can hold a conversation, you are showing others that you are real and that you really and truly have the best intentions for your blog. Try to ensure that no comment goes unanswered.

Marketing a blog comes naturally for some and can be a little harder to focus on for others. Another important thing that you will want to do for your blog is to be sure that you find links. Exchange links, get one way links, and ask for more and more links. You will never have enough links to your blog. The more links the better in this case.

Blog marketing is one of the latest trends of Internet marketing that you are going to find. Blogs, also known as web logs, are very popular in this day. You can make a blog on any particular subject that you want and then publish it for the world to read quite easily.

If you are just beginning in Internet marketing, you are going to find that starting a blog is very easy. Anyone can sign up for a free blog, and then proceed to market basically anything that they want to with it. Because blogs are often free, this makes blog marketing even better. If you have a website and want to market things, you would have to pay for your domain, pay for your hosting of the domain, and then know some HTML or hire a website designer.

Search engines love blogs, and are always pretty fast to index them. Getting yours out there for the world to see is not going to be hard. There is this cool tool that you can use every time you update your blog that is known as pinging. Pinging your blog after every entry that you make will let everyone know that your blog has a new entry and updated.

Depending on your overall goal with blog marketing, you can update your blog as frequently as you like. Which could be daily or weekly. Whichever you choose, just try to be consistent with it. If you start out updating daily, stick with that. This way your blog readers will know that they can check your blog daily for new postings.

If you are wondering exactly what you can market with a blog, you can market whatever you want to. However, it is best to stay within one market in your blog. If you have several different things that you would like to promote, and none of them really fit together too well, you can create a blog for each market.

Remember that if the markets are not related, do not mix them on your blog. For example, if you have a blog on vacuum cleaners, you will not want to also mix in television sets on the same blog. This is because both vacuum cleaners and televisions sets are two different markets. But, you could mix vacuum cleaners and handheld mini dust busters

There so many things that you can market in your blog. Whether you want to sell your own products and services or someone else’s and make a commission off of what you sell. The sky is the limit when it comes to marketing. Affiliate marketing works great with blogs as well. Signing up to sell other people’s products and then marketing them in your blog is a great idea.

Getting links to your blog is a good way to gain new readers. Another great tool you can use are RSS feeds. When you use an RSS feed, it allows people to publish your blog on their site, and in return it gets you more visitors and more links.

Blog marketing can be pretty effective, if it is done right. However, you cant just set up a blog and expect people to find it. Get your blog out there and make it known to others just as you would a website. Exchanging links with others will help, so will article marketing using your blog.

Blog marketing is easy and anyone that wants to can do it. Getting your blog out there and known will be your biggest challenge, but just know that the harder you work at it, it will pay off. Find sites that are related to the market you are promoting, but not in direct competition and ask for link exchanges.

Articles can be profitable in a variety of ways. Posting written articles for distribution can increase sales for you by getting people to your site. You can also use them as a free download for others to use or allow affiliates to use them to increase their own sales.

Selling the private label rights to your articles is yet another profitable way to benefit. By doing this, you lose your recognition as the author because that is given to whoever buys the articles. What you gain from this method is simply money for your articles.

Start by gathering several articles on the same topic and placing them together into a zipped folder. Upon completion, upload the file to your website and make sure there is a link to it.

If writing articles is something you like to do, you can start a site where people pay to become a member. You then write and upload new groups of articles with private label rights for the members to download and use.

You can even hire someone else to write the articles based on topics you give them. The topics will be decided by requests from your members. If the articles are good, you could make quite a bit of money from this endeavor.

Creating a private label rights license is a necessity. You will include this license in every bundle of articles you produce and will post it somewhere on your membership site so it can be viewed.

There is an option to creating your own membership site. You can find owners of already established membership sites and make a deal to sell the articles to them, and they can in turn sell the articles. It is advisable to find out before writing these articles if the owner is willing to make this deal.