Submit your site link to Free PR-5 and up directories.

Here is another service that I have provided for my fellow bloggers that will come in handy when building those "quality" one way links that we talked about from my recent article. I have manually sifted and combed through these directories myself. These directories all have a Page Rank (PR) 5 or higher. Submission of your URL or link is FREE. There are no sign-ups or all that other bothersome stuff. You will have to confirm some of them from your email though, no biggie! Each week or so I will try to submit some more free directories and sites to help you along the way. Good luck. Note- I added 30+ sites for you so you can get started with at least 30 in case some of them are now closed to submissions. Some may take weeks to include your submission but is worth it.


Abacha

Acoon

Accoona

Alexa

Amfibi

Burf

Cipinet

Dramba

Entireweb

Exactseek

Ezilon

Freewebdirectory

Geniusfind

Haabaa

Homerweb

Imegamall

Info-listings

Infotiger

JDGO

Myahint

Mygreencorner

Qango

Search4i

Searchwiz

Sighbercafe

Softzdirectory

Somuch

Towersearch

Webworldindex

Zeezo

Zensearch

Zurchdirectory

How to on: Protecting yourself from article/content thieves.

Due to the recent proliferation of three articles from my site, I have decided to arm my fellow readers with some knowledge on protecting yourself from these un-original pirate scum. First off, copyright your works and content. One by one if you have to or do the whole site at one time.

Here is a great tool that I found on the net that will copyright your works for free and you can actually use it in a court of law. This site allows you to make a copyright of your works and gives you a "digital" fingerprint of your content. Now what this means is this digital fingerprint will have the time and date stamp of your content and your registration date/time with them. Here is the site. http://www.myfreecopyright.com/ It's easy and free to register and easy/free to use.

You can also use this tool to see if any of your articles are on the net. This will detect close copies of your works if there are any articles that it traces on a word for word basis. You can use this free tool here at http://www.copyscape.com/.

If you need a more in depth view about what to do when your articles/content get stolen, you can look at this site here. It serves as a great reference in your step by step recovery of your articles etc. and how and where to report these thieves. I will refer you here...http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum44/2199.htm

Hopefully you will never have to use this last site that I gave you. Protect yourself everytime you publish your article or have a new idea on your site. This will save you a lot of time and hassle. Good luck and watch out for the pirates !!

www.royalidea.blogspot.com ARE ARTICLE THIEVES!!!!

This site www.royalidea.blogspot.com has 2 articles plagiarized from me. Word for word!! They are as follows: A to Z guide from beginner bloggers. and Links, linking and SEO what they have to do with each other explained. I have seen them being DUGG on DIGG!!! This is straight out disgusting, please report this site to google and the other search engines. This will ensure that my site can go on and keep bringing you articles that help you. We will rid these pirate scums and their sites as well. You really can't come up with any original ideas can you? I'm the original writer for these two articles that you stole. Once again, that's http://www.royalidea.blogspot.com - POS ARTICLE THIEF !! I will not stop posting about their sites until my content is taken down and they are banned from the search engines !!!

WEB PIRATES - STOLE MY ARTICLES!!!!

This really makes me angry!! I am writing this post in retrospect to the events that happened today. I was going through my usual routine of checking my keywords when a second site popped under mine. Lo and behold I saw the same title for his article as mine!! These are the websites that have MY stolen content on it:

http://www.hauntologie.blogspot.com/ - has one article plagiarized from me.

http://royalidea.blogspot.com/ - has 2 articles plagiarized from me. Word for word!! Can you believe this? No link backs, mention or nothing, it's like he's the one who wrote it! They are even getting Diggs and bookmarked for MY WORKS. This is BS. Here's a way you guys can help me.

This was my original article published in Jan. of 2008 as you can see here
http://www.moonburst-tones.blogspot.com/2008/01/slim-lining-and-fine-tuning-your-blog.html. He didn't even give me credit for it!! Not to mention the gross grammatical errors he has in his article. Please, if you see any of my articles on the net, please feel free to contact me at my email address moonburst2008@yahoo.com. I have already reported this site to all the major social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble etc. since they are using them to even favorite this article!! If you see yours or my articles, images or other content that's originally yours on the net. Report them as soon as possible. If you use someone else's posts or articles, please give credit to the author!! To all of you stealing content on the net, thievery will not be tolerated on the net. I will find a way to get your site banned. I will also follow legal procedures and prosecute you to the full extent of the law. To my fellow bloggers, here is a great tool that will detect plagiarized works on the net. Use it to see if anyone has your articles on their site. Let me make this as clear as I can. I DON'T MIND you using my articles and ideas, just LINK back or give me credit. Blatantly copying any articles here and then putting your URL or link on it is disgusting and unoriginal.

“Master Plan“ Part II - Monetizing our blog:

Before we start with monetizing our blog/site, we have to ask ourselves this simple question. Why are we monetizing our blog or site? You may either choose to or not. For many of us, it’s as simple as extra income, short term income, long term income. These can be primary or secondary sources for us. Monetized blogs are different from other sites from the mere fact that they have ads pasted into them unlike the unadvertised blogs. Nowadays, it’s rare to come across an established blog with no ads. Other blogs of course are there for reference and teaching purposes only. If you want your slice of the pie in the blogosphere here are a few programs to achieve that:

Adsense: Has Pay Per Click (PPC) and Cost Per Mille – “every 1,000 impressions” (CPM). Free sign up and you can make money on their referral programs also.

Adbrite: Has Cost Per Mille (CPM) program. You can choose from automatic advertising or choose the ads that will be displayed on your page. Free sign up.

Atomicseek: Pay Per Click program. You can earn up to 50% of commissions from their revenue share.

Auctionads: Display live eBay auctions and get a commission from your site’s referrals.

Azoogle Ads: Has a Cost Per Action (CPA) program (usually form submissions or purchases made). High payouts attainable.

Bidclix: Has Pay Per Click (PPC) text ads.

Bidvertiser: Has ads (almost like Adsense) the difference is Advertisers bid for the ads by site (the better your site, the higher commission you get). Has affiliate program.

Blogsvertise: Program where advertisers advertise through way of reviews posted on your site. You can either choose to accept or deny assignments given to you.

CasaleMedia: Has a Cost Per Mille (CPM) program.

Chitika: Currently has six (6) earners for publishers. eMinimalls, Related Products Unit (RPU), Shoplincs, Shopcloud$, Owna and Linx. Free sign up.

Clixgalore: Affiliate marketing program with text and graphic based ads. Has referral program. Free sign up.

CommissionJunction: Offers Pay Per Lead and affiliate marketing programs. Hundreds of merchants to choose from. Free sign up.

Edgebiter: Has ads like Adsense and also offers graphics ads. Has an affiliate program you can join.

Exoclick: Offers graphics advertisements. Another Pay Per Click (PPC) program.
Free to join. Haven’t used them yet.

Fastclick: Offers contextual ads in either banners or skyscrapers etc. (Adsense like ads).

TextLinkAds: Sell text links on your site. Pays 50% of link ad revenue.

Valueclick: Offers CPC and CPM ads. Has referrals programs.

Websponsors: Offers PPC program. Ad network.

I know that I may have left some of the more popular programs out. Please bear with me as there are literally Hundreds of ad networks and PPC programs on the net. These are just some of the more recognizable ones. Visit each site and find the ones that you are comfortable with. Adsense is by far the best one out there.

Tips for your newly acquired ads:

Experiment with ad placements on your site.

Ads should either be at the upper right side (skyscrapers), across the top of our posts (banners) or where they are easily seen.

Ad colors can go either one of two ways. Either you can blend them into your background or you can make them stand out from your background. It just depends on the sites layout color. It will be different from other people’s sites. See what color combinations give you more clicks.

Do not!! Over swamp your articles. If people can’t read your articles or are overwhelmed by the ads, chances are they won’t come back to your site.

A well placed/colored ad will make money depending on the CONTENT of the blog/site. The more traffic your site has, the more likely that your ads will work out for you. Appropriate use of ads will ensure you have good start on your way to earning.

Trial and error is the only judge of how your site will perform with the chosen ad programs that you chose to incorporate. Give it a little time and see how each one works out for you. Good luck.

Using Stumble as a traffic generator, the easy way!!

Looking to get more traffic from your niche? Using Stumble is a great way to drive that extra traffic to your website. It won't be like the massive traffic spikes that you might receive from Digg, but will be a constant stream that should build up over time. This is the type of traffic most of us want since people from the same niche will refer to our site and just might give us backlinks. This method can be used for each "great" or helpful article that we write. What better way to spread traffic? Ok, so how do you use it? It's simple, here is the step by step on getting it and using it.

Download the Stumbleupon tool bar here!

After installation you will see a toolbar just under your Yahoo or Google toolbar that has a two blue hands, one with the "thumbs up" and the other with the "thumbs down". Your toolbar will also have extra options to show a page from any of the following topics, stumble thru a website, show a page liked by a friend, show a news item, show an image and video at Stumble. Each of these elements let you use Stumble with ease.

When you use the tool bar, navigate to your webpage, articles or home page. When you are there, click on the "I like it!" icon. You will be required to log-in with a yahoo i.d. on the screen that will pop-up. Enter the information in all required fields. In the keywords field, make sure you use the same keywords that pertain to your site. Now click "submit" and you are all done.

So what happens now? Well your "stumble" will be placed in the coinciding category that is used to separate the Stumble articles. When people "stumble" (type in keywords for articles or sites they are looking for) your article / site will be listed along with the description that you wrote or other people wrote for your articles. If you have a really great and informative article you may get hundreds or even thousands of hits driving your traffic up if your lucky. Just using this tool will boost your traffic and make it easier for you also to navigate to sites just like yours! Have fun Stumbling and building your traffic at the same time!

Add a Social Bookmarking Widget to Your Sidebar.

Why should you add this widget do you ask? This widget will let your readers know that you have bookmarked your site with all the major social bookmarking sites. You will be found easier and it's easier to use for your readers letting them enjoy the ease and not getting frustrated. Besides it looks great and makes your blog look more professional. This code is great for the blogger platform.

You can make your link code here (highlight the code + copy it). Please insert this code into your sidebar or after your comments, depending on what style you chose. If you need help with adding page elements to your blogs body look here.


Log into your blogger account.

Go to the Edit Layout tab.

Then go to the Add Page Element tab. Click on the add HTML tag and paste the code into the box.

Save it and preview it. You should see the little bookmarking boxes after your posts or in your sidebar depending on the bookmark graphic you chose and the location of where you put it.
Enjoy.

Links, Linking and SEO. What they have to do with each other explained.

After I had been asked by a fellow blogger on linking and the significance of links to your blog, I wanted to clarify a few details about linking that should help with your linking strategy. The Google and Yahoo algorithms look at the links pointing to your page. The more you have the better. BUT! It depends on the “characteristics” of the links that you have pointing to your site. There are “bad” links, “quality” links and “regular” links. I will offer more detail for the “quality” links as they are more useful and so that we know what we are looking for in a “quality” links characteristics.

Here are some few guidelines that you should follow and you will be ok and on your way to a better spot on the search eng!nes not to mention driving additional traffic to your site!

1. “Quality” backlinks are links that are:

a. Coming from another site that has a high page ranking (PR) ranking of 4 or better. (PR ranking is from 0 – 10 with 10 being the best).

b. “One” way links from similar sites as yours, as these links carry a heavier weight in the search engines.

c. Links that are coming from sites of a similar niche or nature. (I.e.: If you have an automotive repair site, then contribute to a site where they sell automotive parts or give automotive tips and tricks).

Getting these “quality” backlinks:

a. Join “niche” directories and forums where you can contribute and leave comments on their site. Leaving thoughtful and provocative comments will almost always coax a response from either the Author himself or Readers. Always input the URL of your website when leaving comments so that they can follow your URL to your site!

b. Join social community sites like Friendster, Mybloglog, Mylot, Blogcatalog etc. will help out not only with exposure of your blog by giving you extra traffic but you can also place the link of your URL on these high PR sites.

c. Ask to trade links with high PR pages. This will only work if they somehow think that you have a really good site, are really friendly or helpful. If you do get a link from them TREASURE it!

d. Befriend top-notch bloggers and learn from them their secrets also on obtaining “quality” links. Brainstorming with experienced people is always a plus.

e. Writing authoritative articles that helps or informs other bloggers, for beginners, novices and experts alike. They will link to your article if they like it! Valuable information can be passed onto others and used as references by many readers.

f. OFFLINE NETWORKING-This is one tool that is free for all of us and can play a big part in link building if done right! Tell all your friends, family, classmates, co-workers and associates that have blogs and sites about your new site. They can write a review or instantly provide a link to your site for you, over a cup of coffee or tea of course!

g. Make a business card for your blog. You can have thousands of business cards printed out for a very nominal fee. Leave them at checkout counters of stores or hand them out to your friends and family.

h. If this is your 2nd or 3rd blog, have your main blog link to it, if your PR for your main blog is pretty high.

i. Free submission directories. With this tool you will have to use your own judgment as to whether you want to submit to that site or not. Ask around the web and see what people say about that site first, it will save you a lot of time and hassle before submission.

2. “Bad links” links and other things to avoid:

a. Bad links are the links from other sites (mostly submission sites) that have nothing to do with your site. These links are not weighed heavily by the search engines but can help you drive a miniscule amount of traffic to your site.

b. Bought links in the hundreds or thousands, too many traded links and submission to link directories or FFA (free for all) should be avoided whenever possible. According to Googles algorithm, sites can be penalized if this is found to be within the site. The intermittent use of link trading is ok and manual submission to specific safe directories is ok.

c. Spamming your link to forums, sites and directories alike is a big no-no and should be avoided.

3. Regular links:

a. Regular links are the reciprocal links or links accumulated through “link trading”. This can be of good use especially if the sites linking to you are high PR sites and sites within your niche. This can also be bad if they have no PR or not within your niche.

b. Links that you use as a signature in a comment not relevant to your site can be classified as a regular link.

One thing to remember? Having a lot of “quality” backlinks to your site is good for your SEO and does wonders for your site as far as traffic and PR are concerned. Avoid the negative “linking” practices and your blog will grow and be a place that people can always come to depend on for information and knowledge. As with anything else seo, adding links and taking them out is and will always be a constant battle. Be patient when building "quality" links, have fun, enjoy your blog and be yourself. It will work out in the long run and readers will see you are real people and care about what you blog. That's the next generation bloggers way of LINKING! Happy blogging!

Blogging Tips: Driving more traffic to your site with a ping!

If articles are the blood that supply oxygen to your blog, then a "ping" would most likely be the synapses to your blog's brain. Whatever you would want to compare it to, pinging is a function that must be done in order to maintain a steady stream of traffic coming to your blog. Pinging is usually done when you have updated your blog or have changed something in it (i.e. seo tricks or what not).

Definition of a ping:

A ping also known as an ICMP (Internet control message protocol) is a program that sends an incoming "echo" request to another computer asking if it can receive information packets. It is used as an update tool for most blogs/sites. (Same as they use in a submarine to pinpoint location and distance of another sub, albeit the computer ping is not for warfare. It is only used in the ever and on-going blogwars!!).

This will give the search engines the "go" signal and spider your site to look for new materials. Pinging will also bring in some traffic that just might do your blog some good. Extra traffic is always good :-). There are a few pingers that have a good service. Here are a few that I use myself! I have included both the "manual" and the "auto" pinging services. They will ping most of the larger blog search engines and then some.

1. http://www.pingoat.com/

2. http://www.pingmyblog.com/

3. http://www.pingomatic.com/

4. http://www.technorati/

5. http://www.autopinger.com/

The first four will ping your blog and most of the pings are ok. Sometimes there are errors though, but this should not stop you. The last one can be used to "auto-ping" your blog, which is good if you are busy or need to step out. If you need to manually ping your blog also, you can do it on their site. Pinging should be done only once an hour or so. So, break out the new content, load it and ping! Moonburst

Cool blogging tips: Adding page elements to blogger!

So, you got the itch to add a smooth looking design or a cool pic to your header, body and/or footer? When you start out with Blogger, you only have limited Page Elements that you can add to. Usually, the header (top), body and footer (bottom) will not have the option to add additional page elements. The sidebar is the only place that you can add extra Page Elements. I will show you how to modify the Blogger code in order for you to add that cool pic of yours or design to either, the header, body or footer. Cool huh?

Open up your blogger account and go to the “Layout” tab. On the second row of labels, proceed to the Edit HTML tag. Open up your favorite text editor (Notepad or Word) and COPY your ENTIRE HTML code. Save it in a safe place. You should always back up your sites HTML code before proceeding to dissect/encode it. Note: I took all the opening and closing HTML tags out so I can show the code.


Now scroll down until you get to this section that shows as follows:


** Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe **


(This is your Header-Wrapper code **at the top**)

div id="header-wrapper"
?xml:namespace prefix = b b:section class="header" id="header" showaddelement="no" maxwidgets="1"
b:widget id="Header1" title="Tune-ups for your blog!! (Header)" type="Header" locked="true"b:widget


(This is your Footer code **at the bottom**)

div id="content-wrapper"

div id="crosscol-wrapper" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"
b:section class="crosscol" id="crosscol" showaddelement="no"
b:widget id="HTML7" title="" type="HTML" locked="false"b:widget
b:widget id="Text1" title="" type="Text" locked="false"b:widget
b:widget id="HTML2" title="" type="HTML" locked="false"b:widget
b:section
div


(This is your Body code **where your articles are**)

div id="main-wrapper"
b:section class="main" id="main" showaddelement="no"
b:widget id="Blog1" title="Blog Posts" type="Blog" locked="true"b:widget
b:section
div


Go to the “showaddelement=no” and replace the no with a “yes”. Do that for all 3 sections. Now you can add additional elements to those parts of your blog. Easy no?

Preview your new HTML code by clicking on the blue preview button. You should now be able to see the additional page elements in your header, body, and footer. If this is correct, (make sure this is correct first!!) press save and you’re all done. Use these page elements as you would regular page elements from the sidebar. Have fun and experiment. Moonburst

Making a blog and money the real and sure way.

First off, if you are looking into making "money fast" the easy way or any other hair brain scheme, you can forget about it. All those ebooks that people try to sell are facts and tips that you yourself can find on the internet and implement yourself. Most of us that are beginning simply do not know how to start our way to making a blog, so I will help you as much as I can. Before starting a blog, we have to have "master plan" among the other things that we should consider. We have to plan that blog of ours or it will more or less be a failure. Here are some of those few things that should help us on our way to choosing and setting up our first blog or second if the first didn't work out. This will be part 1 of my "Master Plan". Every week I will post the other parts, so stay tuned and shall we get started? This is the "Master Plan" layout. Each topic will be covered individually, since I cannot touch basis on each one here at one time. It's just too long!!

I. Setting up our blog
a. Finding a niche
b. Manually setting up our blog
c. Choosing colors
d. Adding widgets etc.
e. Setting site up for SEO
f. URL submission of site

II. Monetizing our blog
III. Optimizing our blog
IV. Traffic building
V. Re-check of I.-IV.



Master Plan: Part I.

A. Find a niche:

Finding a "niche" blog. What that means is that we should start a blog that has high demand with low supply. If we try to compete with the more established blogs or popular blogs right off the back, we will have a hard time. Find something that you enjoy blogging about. Something that you are a pro at whether it be "sports statistics", "repairing cell phones", "how to's", or "backyard mechanics" etc., the list goes on and on. Choosing our "niche" according to our skills and knowledge would give us an optimal head-start. Google the keywords for our niche to see how much competition we have and what other types of websites are out there. If we have a feeling that we can compete, then it's a "go" signal. if there is too much competition, back to the drawing board until we can find that "niche".

After we have found our "niche" we have to ask yourself, will it be profitable for us (if we would like to make money from our blog)? Or if money is no concern and we just want to spread our knowledge, that's great. Now, we have to set-up the blog. But, before we can set up our blog, there are some preparations that we should undertake! Write about 10 articles (300-500 words) on our "niche" with either Notepad or Word. A couple
"how-to's", "interesting facts" or any knowledge based articles should do the trick. If you
cannot write 10 articles, then research the net and deepen your knowledge on the subject. Your articles should also be "keyword rich". What I mean is, the articles that we write should contain the main keywords for our niche at least 10-12 times in the article. Article writing will make or break a blog. Learn how to write well and definitive. Set those articles aside.

B. Setting up our blog:

You can either choose to set up your blog with Blogger or
Wordpress if you would like. These two would be good platforms to start with as you don't have to have any/or very little knowledge of HTML encoding and they are free. We can check these two out and find the one that we would like to use. It all depends on you. If you are serious about starting a "real" blog or site, then opt to host your blog and buy your own domain name. A domain name and hosting can be had for very little these days. Just check which hosting services can accommodate your budget. Now, after you have your blog set up, it's time to incorporate these articles into your blog. Depending on your platform and hosting of course, add these 8 articles that you wrote into your blog. Notice I said eight (8). Save the other two. The method for this is, you can write two more articles. Once you are done writing those two articles, submit the last two (leftover from the original 10), that way, you always have 2 articles for a back up!

C. Choosing colors for your blog:

Choosing the right color combinations for your blog, or a premade template should be easy. Go for the "easy on the eyes" color combination when coloring your blog. After all we want our readers to be able to easily read our text, I mean who wants to read yellow text on a hot pink background, right?

D. Adding widgets and other cool stuff:

Here, we can add widgets of other stuff like Adsense ads (for serious money making), lists of other websites, our blog roll (favorite blogs), links etc. Once you have those set up, you are almost ready to go. Placing ads, hmmmm...this one's a toughy. Depending on the layout of your blog, you should have it either to the upper left or upper right. Experiment with placements and see where you can get the highest average of clicks. Placement of our other widgets is all a personal choice as to the order or place that we want them. Just make sure that they are easily accessible!

E. setting up our site for SEO

Now, we can set up our SEO (search eng!ne optimization). This is kind of tricky, so I will refer you to my OTHER article when you get to this part. Meta tags are the keywords that search eng!ines will be looking for when they crawl your website. keep it to a maximum of 20. You can also look for other SEO tips from my Blogging Tips section.

F. Submitting our site to search engines:

Search engine submission is where we can finally see our finished site on the web searches! Just go here to submit your sites to all the major search eng!nes. Here we can submit our site to all the big engines in one fell swoop, saving us time from manual submissions. Manual submissions to other directories is another SEO trick, but that's another article!

Wow, ok, if I didn't scare you away yet, congratulations on setting up your blog. We are now on our way to becoming part of the blogosphere and contributing to it. I wish you good luck on your ventures and may you succeed with your ambitions. Moonburst.

Blog it forever!!

When we blog, it's meant to be something that either helps people out or is intended to change the world as people see it from another persons perspective. We are all familiar with the phrase "If you build it they will come". Of course, the same is with blogging, "If you blog it they will read" and so forth. My question to you is, with the stuff that you are blogging about, will they be able to read it "forever"? Another words, is your content timeless? If it is, then you have just accomplished something phenomenal. You have created a masterpiece of writing that will withstand the test of time and contribute to the masses in it's own little way. Whatever you may be blogging about, put your 100 percent honesty and truthfulness into it and it will show for itself. Blog it forever, and people will remember your name. Even if its been years after your last blog, hopefully not!

Hopefully you do get my point though. People say blog as if no one is listening, but if you write that one blog that gets to everyone, then everyone is listening, no? What you have to say makes a difference to people out there. Whether it be your opinion, helpful hints or what not. Contributing to the blogosphere is something that you should be proud of. You have made your mark on this world through your writing. If you want to be remembered as a good writer, then you better pour out your heart and soul and unbiased comments on that keyboard. If you had a million people looking and waiting for you to speak, what would you say to them?

There will forever be doubters and slackers when it comes to writing good content. Others just need to brush up on their writing skills and like some of us, we are just beginning. Research everything that you will blog about, now it's not mandatory that you are a specialist in your field, but it helps a lot. People will know that you are knowledgable in what you are talking about. Increase your knowledge, there are so many blogging tips out there and blogging advice, you can't read them all in one month! Don't worry about anyone's comments about your writing or what you write. You can't please every one, but try to at least embody your writing to a broad spectrum of readers. Hopefully, you will have good luck with your blogging and as long as you have perseverance and patience, then you will succeed. Remember, blog for the people first and the computers second. That is always the golden rule. Traffic and seo will come hand in hand with your content. Best of luck to you.

Blogging tips. Free English and Grammar lessons.

I was going through my usual routine today and researching more ways on making legitimate money online and other ways of developing my blog. What I found astounded me. I was actually perplexed by it you see. There were I'd say maybe, on the short end 8 blogs that have incorrect grammar usage and misspellings. I don't claim to know everything about The English language, but I do know that Microsoft Word does have the tools for grammar and spelling corrections.

For beginners and Novices alike, it is best that you proofread your entries and make sure there are no such mistakes. It will help make your blog look more professional not only to other bloggers like myself but to the advertisers as well. I know that we are all human and mistakes are bound to happen once in a while. So, I have decided to offer beginner bloggers my services of proofreading / wording adjustment of your blog entries after they are posted. Or if you prefer, before you post. You will have to I.M. me thru yahoo (moonburst2008@yahoo.com) right after you post. You can also send your posts to my e-mail at moonburst2008@yahoo.com. All e-mail sent to me will be responded to within 24 hours (Monday thru Friday). The 24 hours will be an exception on maybe Saturdays and Sundays (Pacific Time) but I will try!! So, if you are not pressed for time on the weekends nor have a deadline due, then that's great.

If you I.M. -Instant message- me and I don't respond within 5 minutes, then I am not at the computer, seeing as I don't have my own computer set right now. Hopefully, I will acquire my own pc after 3 or 4 months. I will let you know how it goes. All material sent to me will be strictly on a confidential basis. I will not recycle your posts, and I will not steal your material. Besides, that's plagiarism and so unoriginal and unethical, which is a really big no-no when you are blogging and trying to build a reputation in the blogosphere.

So there you have it, tell all that you know, your friends, relatives and associates, that I will proofread your works and try to help you in the correct usage of the English language. All I ask of my free service is that you leave me a small donation thru Paypal if you feel that I have helped you out so that I can buy my own computer and work from my home in my uninterrupted time. Whether you give or not is up to you. Donations can be sent via Paypal to this Paypal address - gigaclix2007@yahoo.com. Thanks, and I hope to hear from you soon.