I am an Entrecard user for just about a few weeks and I love it. It significantly increased my traffic in a short time and because of it connects many bloggers like me, I discover a lot of new blogs and I even bookmark some of them.

Build Traffic with EntrecardTo those who does not know what an Entrecard is, it is a social site where bloggers join and promote their blogs by placing ads on another blog and inviting visitors to your blog. It helps other people discover your site when you advertise on another blog by buying ads using your Entrecard credits. Entrecard credits are earned by dropping cards on another blog which displays the Entrecard widget. When the owner of the blog sees on his, Entrecard account that you dropped a card on his blog he will also drop a card on your site. This way, the more Entrecards you drop, the more users will visit your site so they can drop their cards too. Read the rest of this entry »

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WordPress 2.5.1 is now available for download which contains performance enhancement, bug fixes and security vulnerability patches.

According to the WordPress Blog, you can choose to either perform a full upgrade or download only the corrected copies of files which includes wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php.
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Yes, it is a $100 contest sponsored by Joe Tech, and definitely worth blogging about.

If you haven’t noticed, I keep on joining blog contests sponsored by more successful blogs. Not only I get a chance to win the prize, I also get ideas on how to run my own online contest. Some of the benefits of doing an online contest is having an increased traffic which basically means more readers are visiting your blog. The more people you reach with your blog, the better.
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Being a blogger means having your own online journal about your personal life, some else’s personal life, a technology blog like PinoyTux or anything and everything under the sun! But most of the bloggers not only publishes their life for all the world to read just for kicks, some of the bloggers (like me) also earns from our published works. What could be more exciting than writing about things that you love (or hate) and get paid for it?

There are more than a few ways to reap the benefits of creating original works and earn from it, the most common would be Google Adsense and AdBrite which puts ads on your site and you will be paid if someone clicks the ads. There is also Text Link Ads which basically sells link from anywhere on your site and you can buy links from them too. Another way to earn is to write about a certain topic or review a product or just simply spread the word about something that you really like and, you guessed it, get paid for doing it.

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