Archive for February, 2010
Those who love to blog know the benefits of getting a lot of people to regularly read what you have to say, whether it’s just a random, everyday musing or a major event that happened in your city. Not only does it feel good to know that others are taking the time to read your blog, it also means that you have a cash opportunity that is ripe for the picking. You can make free money online by doing the thing that you love. Here’s how.
The Good Thing about Advertising on Blogs
There are a lot of advertisers that are looking for popular blogs. This is because popular blogs have a lot of exposure and advertisers want to use that exposure to get their products noticed by a lot more people. Internet advertising is way cheaper compared to advertising on TV, radio magazines or billboards. This makes ads on blogs such a great idea. Not only do they get to post cheap ads, but the more blogs they place their ads on, the more exposure their products get which translates into customers and revenue, all at a fraction of what a traditional advertising campaign, with posters and commercials, would cost. Another reason why a lot of brands now see the potential in posting their ads on blogs is because the internet is global and therefore their ads can be seen by anyone in the world. This is far better than magazine or billboard and even TV campaigns that can only reach a certain amount of people at a time in a given geographic area.
Is Advertising on Blogs Wrong?
Many bloggers are torn between making money off blogs and blogging for personal use. A common solution for those who want to use this medium as a way to make free money online is to make a blog for ads and another blog for personal use. Just make sure that your blog for ads is still loaded with good, interesting, and organic content. Experts also advice that if you serious about making a blog for revenue, stock up on useful internet knowledge first. Being web savvy does not mean you have to get a degree in information technology or become a web developer, but the monetary success of your blog, which is what lures advertisers to you, depends on a number of factors. These include your knowledge in HTML, Javascript, blog publishing software, pings, trackbacks, blog carnivals, search engine optimization, page rankings, bookmarking, traffic statistics and analysis as well as podcasts, email, instant messaging.
Why is It Free?
You can make free money online by blogging because you don’t have to make a dime if you want to blog. Free blog hosts like Blogger allow advertisers to post on their blogs. Unlike other business opportunities where you are required to download numerous software or sign up for a program or pay for a registration fee, free blog hosts won’t cost you a dime and you can sign up in a matter of minutes. Signing up for programs like Adsense is also free.
Fair employment and by readers as a priority will always be more credit than you need.Always remember that to make money with blogs, only relevant content is essential. If the promotion of products and services, deals still good values. Interact well with your readers, the value of their comments and views, as well.
Contributing to many votes for the products could also be a problem. Want to make money with blogs on the products should always keep in mind to make statements, which are the most reliable information. Avoid displaying too good to be true articles, the frustration that lead to your readers. Not only is your site, but as a writer and you may lose your credibility.
In the long run tend to delete many bloggers there, the previous content of their websites. They do this could see that it will not wait for this project. What should be borne in mind is how your site is launched, which will be appreciated by your readers. Remove does not appear profitable products was disappointing to your readers.
It causes confusion and distractions in your blog.Does excessive advertising, your readers can view the content of your site. Avoid too many ad networks and affiliate sales of product candidates.The addition of ads is not a very good idea. The ads are sometimes not very pleasant for the reader. Avoid animated banners.To make money with a blog effectively, you need to know what to avoid. This ensures that not only attract your readers to keep their current, but more than well.
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
The Tea Party Nation represents healthy-raw, committed patriotism. What a breath of fresh air.
So the Reps had better keep their mitts off the Nation. Let the Nation form itself according to its own basic moorings. Trust the formation.
America is hungry for true-blue citizens who don’t give a rip about political correctness, personal opportunism or blowing steamy air.
Tea Party enthusiasts are the down the block Americans who have had it with Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama and like clones hatched to his right and left. They cannot stomach Obama’s shadow government. They are ready to ax the pro-Islamic czars.
Would not thinking, righteously angry, flag-waving human beings want to turn upside down the damnable bunk load in DC? And so they are doing it. Then Reps had better let them carry on!
Therefore, today’s reality teaching that reveals Reps splicing and dicing for their own posterior protection, thus betraying common sense grassroots, means Tea baggers had better keep trucking down the right trail.
And they are on the right trail. They know it. Their heads think it. Their hearts beat it. Their souls confirm it.
That’s saying a lot more for the so-called common men and women than many Reps straddling fences looking out for themselves. Enough straddling in the name of “Republican.”
Isn’t it thrilling to see these Tea Bag zealots lifting loftily the virtues America was known for decades ago? These are the ethics that have been swept away by Obama leftists beheading the country. These are the absolutes debunked even by some chancey Reps.
What Reps need to do is go to the Tea Bag committed, ask them how they do it, what they have faith in, and then side up to their genuine postulates.
Everybody is saying the Reps don’t have a common base, a moral foundation, a solid ethical contract. There’s wishy-washy this and wishy-washy that.
So if that is true, Reps need to learn virtuous catechism from the Tea Bag Nation. The baggers know what that’s all about and are living it.
In short, Reps need to be humble enough to learn how to be red-white-and-blue Americans once again—surrendered to what made us great and sound.
The other day I heard of how someone was complaining and claiming that Adsense is a scam. When asked the number of visitors he gets in a day he said; “about 10 people”. The money making secret strategy online is driving lots of traffic to your blog. Some may think that blog marketing requires money, but this is not necessarily the case. There are other simple rules to follow to generate traffic to your webpage free of charge.
Social networking websites are so many and they get millions of visitors each day therefore providing a perfect avenue for blog marketing. The simple strategy of generating free targeted traffic using social networking sites is by connecting with many people. Having many people following you would result to free unlimited traffic to your landing page.
To make sure that you generate targeted traffic, scan the profiles of the people you intend to connect with. If they happen to be in the same market niche as you, request for connection. Also, seek to follow the people who are following renowned individuals in your market niche. This way you will have a wide range of free targeted traffic.
Adding a follow up gadget on your blog is also another online blog marketing strategy to consider. Using the same social networks, you can request your connections to follow your blog as you follow theirs too. This will in the long run guarantee you visibility online since your face will be appearing on hundreds of blogs. A follow up application helps you build relationships with other people in your market niche thus resulting in return traffic.
There is still more you can learn when it comes to generating free targeted traffic to your blog thus follow the website appearing in the resource box and equip yourself with more valuable information on blog marketing strategies.
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits at God’s right hand in the place of honor and power.” (Colossians 3:1)
Christians must remind themselves over and over where the real planetary power is. It is not in the Oval Office, North Korea or Iran. It is in heaven.
It flows from the throne.
Christians have at their disposal the mighty Christ. . .”in the place of honor and power.”
When Christians get their heads into the secular newscasts, they tend to forget that all this is temporary. Further, it can be toppled in seconds.
That which is permanent and powerfully at work on the deepest levels is the heavenly dynamic overseeing all global happenings.
“Let heaven fill your thoughts. Do not think only about things down here on earth. For you died when Christ died, and our real life is hidden with Christ in God.”
Paul continues to remind all generations throughout the church age that we must start with heaven before we can understand earth. We must begin with God before we can take in the human community.
At the moment, Muslim Barack Hussein Obama claims the power. His shadow government and the Dem Congress do the same. Even in these confusing days, they continue the mantra: We are the power. We are the power. We are the power.
That threatens every patriotic citizen except Christians. They know that Obama is not the all in all. His Islamic clique is not controlling America’s destiny.
The Christian-heritage America is watched over by God who blesses the intercessions of biblical believers. God is start and finish of everything that exists, including this nation’s welfare.
Therefore, when Christians dialogue with one another about current events, they should point constantly to the Word of God. It is there that we need to begin our discussions and end our discussions.
“When Christ, who is your real life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.”
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Can the advertised Nazarene-friendly NazNet website discover once again its holiness heritage that sparked its start at Pilot Point, Texas in 1908?
Some would have it today that the biblical call to the holy life is too difficult to understand. That is unfortunate in that for decades preachers, teachers and evangelists have given forth on the holiness lifestyle over and over again.
There are still those faithful to the holiness truth set forth in Scripture. May NazNet and all those into biblical research uncover this marvelous divine provision, proclaiming it without apology or compromise.
The nearly l20 gathered in the Upper Room were “filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:4)!
When the Holy Spirit comes upon a disciple, there are various occurrences which are primary and wonderful.
First, the infilling is a GIFT, not an achievement. All that God does in a believer’s life, from alpha to omega, is provided by divine grace. There is nothing which is trophied as an accomplishment by the human vessel.
When one receives salvation, it is by divine grace. Even the prevenient grace which precedes saving grace is emptied out upon the human heart by God Himself. So it is with the infilling. It is an act of grace executed by heaven’s powers so that the homo sapien may enter into the holy of holies provided here on earth.
Second, the infilling is bestowed by a PERSON, not an institution nor ritual nor ecclesiastical title. The origins of the sanctifying presence are from Him—the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. Therefore, one may be filled by the Holy Spirit anywhere and at any time the Spirit deems it appropriate.
Consequently, no attention is focused upon churchly leaders nor rites nor liturgies nor assemblies. All of these are extraneous to the marvel of the infilling presence. God is a jealous God; therefore, He deserves all focus—totally so—for He is the fount of the sanctifying experience.
Third, the infilling is an introduction to the HOLINESS of God. It is a holy come-upon by the divine. Why? Because the Indweller is nothing but holiness. There is no sin nor carnality within the divine nature; consequently, when He sets up residence within the human life, that housing is evidenced in the holy life. “Be holy, even as I am holy.”
Therefore, the competing spirits of this existence are left to their unholiness. These spirits are the spirits of self, worldliness, Satan, carnality, bigotry, hypocrisy, and so on. No other spirit in planetary sphere can compare with the HOLY Spirit, for all others spirits are less than holy; in other words, they are of this fallen scope.
Fourth, the infilling is MULTI-DIMENSIONAL in splendor just as the Holy Spirit is infinitely creative in power, peace and purity. These many facets of the Holy Spirit’s personality have no allowance for evil; however, within the eternal awareness of His being, the Spirit is everlastingly imaginative—far beyond human speculations.
Consequently, when the Holy Spirit explores the human personality for kingdom fulfillment, there are endless doings which the Spirit will come upon. That is why it is faulty to circumscribe the Spirit’s work within the consecrated life. That is why it is unbiblical to narrowly define what and how the Spirit is to achievement His plans for and through the dedicated soul.
One must permit the Spirit His perfect freedom to do what He wants to do, how He wants to do it, and when He wants to perform it. Openness is the anticipatory key which opens up the infinite possibilities to the loving Spirit’s chartings for good.
Fifth, the infilling is DURABLE for the Holy Spirit is God! There is no start nor finish to God. There are no boundaries to God except those which would contradict His holy nature, such as wickedness. There are no “wearings thin” with God.
Therefore, when the holy work is begun in the consecrated heart, durability can see
through the experience to heaven’s gates. There is the possibility that one can remain true to the indwelling Spirit if one wills such tenacity to be lasting. It is true that the human still deals with foibles, shortcomings, eccentricities, mistakes in judgment and performance—but one does not have to backslide into sin if one determines holiness to be set. It is a matter of persevering with one will in control—that is, the DIVINE will only.
Sixth, the infilling is ADEQUATE for the Holy Spirit is all-sufficient. His chief historical proof of such is His raising Jesus from the dead. If there is a power who can raise the dead, then there is nothing which is impossible to that mighty presence. Yes, the Spirit of God is a match and more for any trial in this existence. There is nothing too difficult for Him to conquer—again, in His time and manner.
Consequently, in the indwelt soul, “all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose”. What is His purpose? It is holiness. That is the chief desire of a holy God for His children of grace. Therefore, there is no testing which God cannot overcome. It is then a matter of faith on the part of the indwelt. One simply believes in the adequacy of the divine, no matter what may arise to threaten, even martyrdom.
Seventh, the infilling is ATTRACTIVE in that the Holy Spirit is handsome in His nature and evidence. All the beauty of creation is from the workings of the Spirit who first brooded upon those creation waters. All that is good, clean, delightful and happy finds its source in the Holy Spirit.
It is the unholy spirits which are violent, ugly and repulsive. They promise fulfillment, peace, prosperity and all the other human desires for this world. But they cannot produce lastingly any of these offers. That is why Satan is a deceiver, the Father of Lies. Therefore, when one is indwelt with the spirits of worldliness, self, lust, avarice and so forth, one is overcome with the grip of emptiness, finally controlled by these spirits.
Eighth, the infilling is HUMBLE in that all focus is upon the Provider. That is why the sermons and testimonies following the Day of Pentecost all point to Jesus, the One whose death upon the cross made Pentecost presence possible.
“Wait…until you are overcome from on high,” Jesus commissioned His own when ascending into heaven. It was Jesus who purchased our salvation and sanctification upon Calvary. It was Jesus who breathed His last by taking our sins upon His sacrificial head, becoming scapegoat for rebellious humanity. It was Jesus who rose from the grave. It was Jesus who returned as our Intercessor to the right hand of the Father in glory. It was Jesus who predicted that the disciples would be indwelt by holiness. It was Jesus who then was lifted up by the Early Church as the Supplier of the Pentecost Spirit.
Consequently, all self-glory in the work of the holy kingdom is anathema to the truth of Christianity. It must be abhorred. It must be exposed and put away immediately. There is no room for pomp and circumstance when it comes to the fleshly leadership of any Christian institution. All of that will pass as dust. Therefore, only the adorable beholding of the Sanctifying Savior is tolerable in any labor for God.
Humility is the most rare gift to be found in any generation. Yet it is absolutely imperative that believers come upon that gift in order for all ego attention to be driven from our midst. It must be a conscious effort. It must be prayed over. It must be set forth more publicly from every pulpit. It must be written across our hearts daily. We are nothing; He is everything. “For without Me, you can do nothing.” And without Him, we indeed are nothing.
Do you ever ask yourself who is reading your blog? You can tell who your readers are if they communicate with you. However, it is difficult to track those who don’t connect with you online.
The most essential way to ensure the success of your blog is to interact with your readers. The best way to do that is through comments. Once you have your first comment, you can keep building from there. A good way to get the reader to comment is by asking a compelling question.
The different types of blog readers are explained below.
Readers: The readers found your blog and liked it but didn’t comment on it. They may not have subscribed but they do visit when the topic is of interest to them.
Friends and family members: Those people are totally supportive of you and your business because of your personal connection. If they are not connected to you professionally, the reason that they are connected to you is most likely obligation.
Loyal fans: Those readers who initially found your blog and fell in love with it. They subscribe to it, comment on it, always follow you, and will always be there for you. Your loyal fans will always do their best to find new followers for you. The more followers you have, the more interesting the discussion.
There is a close relationship between you and those readers. If you want to establish a reader as a loyal fan, go to his or her blog and leave an insightful comment. The relationship that you build in that way will go very far.
Influencers: Influencers are also loyal fans with one little addition. They are influential people within your industry. When you write something profound that your loyal fans spread around, the influencers find it and want to continue to spread it. This is incentive for you to continue to post high-quality content.
The influenced: The influenced find you as a result of an influencer mentioning your blog post. They feel compelled to check you out. If an influential person mentions your posting, the influenced need to see what all of the fuss is about. It is human nature.
Watchers: Watchers can be your competition, your clients, or your prospective clients. It is always smart to check out what the competition is doing and to get a sense of who is reading their blog, based on the comments. The clients and prospective clients are satisfied that they can trust you.
Fly-by-night readers: These readers are looking for something. They find it, might read it, move on, and may possibly never return to your website.
Every person who reads your blog is one more person who pays attention to what you are offering. You really don’t have any way of knowing who, among all of those people, will become loyal fans and eventually will become clients.
All bloggers are constantly looking to make some sort of positive difference and obtain new readers. The way to really make a difference is to share thought-provoking, helpful, and educational content. These are fundamental values. All of those values, which we learned as children, are being brought out and enhanced through blogging.
Successful blogs are made by readers, not writers. As a business, you exist to serve customers. Your readers are your customers in this case. Which types of readers do you have? Maybe you have a combination of several, which keeps things interesting and stimulating.
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
In the Old Testament, God commanded the death penalty in twenty-some cases. This was not because God was barbaric, but because God was civil. The Israeli twelve tribes had no law enforcement agencies. Further, they were surrounded by barbarisms of strange magnitudes exhibited by neighboring pagan nations.
Consequently, for God to establish an Israeli civil community, He set forth stringent punishments–some being the death penalty. He Himself became, in other words, the Law Enforcement Agency for the new nation of Israel. That chosen community thereby was to model morality / civility to the surrounding nations.
Extremely severe penalties then were commanded by God in order to bring in line an Israeli community which tended to be unruly like its neighbors. If God had been lax in penalties, human nature, being what it is, would have tested gladly the boundaries. But when penalties were severe, human nature thought twice before testing the boundaries, hence the death penalty prescribed by God in some instances.
However, once Israel lost its nationhood by “going a-whoring after other loves”, Israel’s civil structure disappeared. Israel as a nation lost its temple, its government–that is, its two primary components of culture–religion and politics. Pagan nations then ruled over the heretofore nation of God. In this loss was the disappearance of death penalties previously prescribed by God. The death penalty period as dictated by divine revelation, in other words, ended near the close of the Old Testament era.
That is why when Jesus appeared as flesh-and-bones divine revelation, He pronounced, “You used to say, ‘An eye for an eye’, but now I say to you: Love your enemies.” Jesus pronounced a civility of love toward one’s enemies. “Love your foes, pray for your foes.” This was the New Testament for it was now a new way of dealing with others–all others.
Government was now established primarily within the believer rather than under Israeli kings. “The Kingdom of God is within you.” Law was now primarily of the heart. “My law will be written on your hearts.” That was the new politic. Further, the tabernacle was now primarily the human frame: “Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.” That was the new religion.
Therefore, for the New Testament Church Age, it is the law of love toward all–friends and foes. Jesus provided a simply stated ethic. He refused to garble it with amendments. But, one may ask: “What about these atrocious crimes and the death penalty?”
The biblical answer is still the same: love your friends and foes in Jesus. What kind of Christian love then can be shown to a multiple-murderer / rapist / arsonist / child molester? What kind of Christian love can be meted out to a Hitler?
It is a Christian tough love. Tough love keeps the exceptional criminal alive but consigns that one to supervised environs without parole. Hopefully, even that exceptional criminal then may come upon redemption through Christ, yet never be placed in tempting circumstances whereby he again may do others and Himself harm.
Keeping the individual alive also allows the possibility that, realizing human justice systems to be flawed, that person in truth may be found innocent though originally pronounced guilty. Indeed, the future may prove this to be fact if new evidence is forthcoming. History has case files on those in the aforementioned category.
Reason this moral / ethical situation from God’s perspective: Adam and Eve slew God’s love when they played loose with Eden’s snake. However, God did not slay them. Instead, God banished them to their own solitary isles of remorse, hoping at least for their eternal redemption.
You once slew God’s love by going your own stubborn way. In reality, you pronounced yourself Lord of your life. It is a hurtful truth to you now that you are a believer; nevertheless, living once in sin and for sin, you were once that callused toward your own loving Creator. However, did God obliterate you? No, instead God searched you out, loved you even while you were enemy, in hopes of redeeming what was left of your destiny.
He now invites each Christian to live out that same kind of persevering, at-times-tough love toward all others–especially those who are Enemy. God has already walked for us the path of love-for-foes. We, of all creatures, should know this for sure. Praise be to a loving, merciful God!
He then invites us to join Him on that love path. He has walked it for us. He asks us now to walk it for others.
In this article, we will explore whether Blogspot, Livejournal or wordpress is suitable for you when it comes to building your Blogshop
Livejournal
The key advantage of Livejournal is the social platform solution where blogshop owner can create their social space within LiveJournal in the internet and meet their possible customers.
Pluses: As mentioned above, LiveJournal has some many social networking features and communities where blogshop owner can advertise their sales item to the community. It is very easy to find new friends there and track their blogs.
Minuses: If you are thinking monetizing your blog, Livejournal will not allow that – all advertisements there are added by Livejournal company.
Categorizing your sales item is differient and the number of themes is limited. There are no plugins at all.
More importantly when it comes to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) The search engines don’t like Livejournal: It is unlikely you will ever be on the first page of Google , so all you’ll get is the same Livejournal users as you.
Blogger
IMO, Blogger is the easiet platform for anyone is starting off. Compared to Wordpress, it is much much easy. This is a platform for beginners, who just start off creating a Blogshop.
Pluses: Yes, you can monetize your blog with Adsense: the advertisements can be added in limited amounts and positions
Plugin is available in making your blog more entertaining, and more themes.
Another advantage is it allowed you to use your own domain (without blogspot) while using their template.
Minuses: It is not SEO friendly. Many beginners think that if this platform is earned by Google, then their blog will be in the Top 10 on every page of the search engines and have thousands of visitors every day. It is not true: Although there is a possibility to be on the first page of Google, it will take much more time to get there as on Wordpress.
Blogger doesn’t look nice: doesn’t allow to add categories which is vital for a Blogshop.
With the countless of theme available, It does help Blogshop who needs to create a professional image. However tweaking is limited.
Wordpress
This is the best solution for Blogshops who want to have professional and nice looking web-page. However be prepared to learn a bit more about wordpress as it is simple as Blogshop. Also for wordpress, you need to have your own hosting so it does take a little programming if you decide to choose wordpress.
Pluses: There are many professional themes and plugins, Code programming can be done with many plugins which is helpful for blogshop.
Minuses: Hosting is required, the price is not expensive and can be covered by earnings from your blog.
Excellent platform for everyone who wants to build a professional image but a little knowlege of web programming is required
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
“Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.”
William Bradford (1590-1657) wrote those words: “. . .fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven. . .”
Bradford, part of the community of believers, sailed from Southampton, England on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
In his writings, he gives forth with the Christian testimony of total reliance upon the God of the Bible.
Anyone knowledgeable regarding our early settlers realizes the trials that beset them. However, their faith in Christ remained firm.
“What could now sustain them (fellow settlers) but the Spirit of God and His grace?
“May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say ‘Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice and looked on their adversity.
“’Let them praise the Lord, because He is good: and His mercies endure forever.’
“‘Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, show how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord His loving kindness and His wonderful works before the sons of me.’”
With that, Bradford unabashedly quoted Scripture, believing it to be the infallible Word of God—sustaining, guiding and lifting high.
Was this “Lord” Oprah’s New Age god or goddess? No.
Was He the worldly deity of lapsed Catholic Nancy Pelosi? No.
Was He the Allah of Barack Hussein Obama? No.
Was this “Lord” the liberal school text authors rewriting American history so as to expunge every semblance of Christian faith? No.
The “Lord” referred to by Bradford was the biblical God who became incarnate in Christ Jesus. What courage those settlers had.
God will continue to honor their faith in Him even to this very hour. Time means nothing finally to God. God is above and in time. Time answers to God.
Those early believers’ petitions and thanksgiving are still before the heavenly throne as if placed there moments ago.
Consequently, Christian, take heart. Join your prayers and gratitude to that gracious bouquet of America’s early days. Place your offerings before the eternal throne, believing the same God who delivered them will deliver us from this present threatening age.
God is the same yesterday, today and forever. God is forever faithful. God cannot forsake His grace children. The small righteous remnant is all-important to our merciful Christ.
Then lean hard upon Him, keeping the faith strong.
