Beginning of December 2007, I ran a PayPerPost blog advertising campaign for my free advertising site webcosmo.com. Target was to create a buzz getting neutral reviews from bloggers. I always like to do Acid Test before taking anything seriously when it comes to marketing/advertising. So I bought small amount of blog reviews.
What does blog advertising will do for you?
- Backlinks Most blog advertising entries are permanent. You can improve your search engine ranking some selected keywords getting more backlinks. And most of those links are DOFOLLOW so you get PR …

One more day, and 2007 will be over. Its time again to look back to think of what we did last year, and what to wish for in the new year.
Last year been pretty busy for me, lot of things happened. In the new year I am looking forward to work hard, make things happen. Hopefully I will get little touch from luck as well!
Are you ready to make the wish for the new year?
Happy new year to all Web Cosmo and Cosmo Central members and visitors.

Last week I bumped into a thread at DigitalPoint forum somebody claiming had great results with StumbleUpon paid advertising. Generally I follow the rule “Nothing is proven to work until try it myself”. I decided to give it a try, since I am working on Creating a Buzz for one of my sites.
How StumbleUpon works?
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share websites. As you click on the Stubmle button they deliver pages matched to your personal preferences (you have to install the stumbleupon wizard on your computer). These pages are generally, …

A generic error occurred in GDI+
I know how frustrating it can be debugging this problem. One case when it occurs is when you try to save an image created from a Stream e.g. using Bitmap Save function.
Few things to consider overcoming this error:
- Make sure you allow the write permission on the folder where image is being saved.
- Release resources after saving the image. For example if you create a Bitmap object from a stream dispose resource by bmp.Dispose() or similar syntax
I will suggest using a try catch finally block …

Whatever way like Happy holidays or Happy christmas, have a good one.

Sex, in this context, offers us tons of benefits, most of which aren’t touted nearly enough.
Here are few benefits, you may discover more yourself:
1. Weight loss and weight control
Forget torturing yourself with the latest fad diet or hours on the elliptical machine when you can burn about 200 calories in 30 minutes of sex! Lovemaking lends itself to improved strength, flexibility, muscle tone, and cardiovascular conditioning. Plus, there’s something super sexy about getting to sleep with your very own “personal trainer.”
2. Pain management
Forgo popping a pain killer and opt for …

Two U.S. researchers took seven common beliefs and searched the archives for evidence to support them. The complete lack of evidence on these myths has been recorded in a study published the American Journal of Psychology, they said.
So here are the seven myths revealed by them:
1. Drinking 8 glasses of water is good for health
Despite frequent mentions in the popular press of the need to drink eight glasses of water, they found no scientific basis for the claim.
2. Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight
The majority of eye experts believe …

I am not a “How to make money” guru. But I will tell you some ways I have been using to earn a few bucks from your blog.
Affiliate Program
Affiliate programs generally pay 5-10% or so for any sales made by any visitor to your site. A good place to put the affiliate links are BlogRoll. When you choose affiliate programs best idea is to pick something related to your site content.
Google/Yahoo/MSN Ad Networks
Search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN offers ad networks like AdSense etc which you can use to show …

Blog commenting used to be a popular way of getting traffic as well as link juice. Then bloggers started getting huge amount of spam comments spending much of their time cleaning them or deleting them. When Google and Yahoo introduced the NOFOLLOW tag for links, it was quickly adopted by many bloggers. Using NOFOLLOW will make sure a link does not get any credit towards its rank.
Commenting for traffic
Blog Commenting still is very handy in getting traffic. Some blogs get thousands of daily unique visitors. And you can …

I will start with the picture below. This picture is from Compete.com comparing three popular blogs of today JohnChow.com, JohnCow.com, and ShoeMoney.com.

Do you see anything odd?
Just in plain first glance you would be able to tell probably, all three sites hit the Traffic Ramp on June, 2007.
Is it a coincidence?
I don’t think so. John Chow on his blog admits the fact that he abused social networking sites like Digg.com to hit the traffic ramp in June until he got banned. On the contrary John Cow and Shoe Money claims themselves …