Table of Contents

1. Editor's Musings
2. Article: 10 Ways to Instantly Promote your Blog for Free by Chileshe Mwape
3. Recommended
4. Internet Sites Reviewed
5. Freebies and Other Good Deals
6. Joke of the Week

1. Editor's Musings

Deepest sympathy to Londoners and to all those who suffered from last week's terrorist attacks. Londoners have experienced bombings more or less regularly since World War 11. I have to admire their courage and determination in the face of such senseless brutality

2. Article: 10 Ways to Instantly Promote your Blog for Free by Chileshe Mwape

1. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. When you ping a blog, you are telling the search engine that you have updated your blog content and that your listing should be refreshed. Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes. Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the search engine robots to visit your blog. Also, many people browse these sites to find something new.

2. Submit your blog address to blog search sites and directories. You can submit your blog's url to websites such as Technorati, Daypop, Blogdex and Popdex. For a complete list of websites where you can submit your url, go to www.guidetorss.com/.

3. Set your blog to display RSS feeds and submit your blog's RSS feed to the major RSS feed directories online. A good place to start is www.guidetorss.com/ which provides a list of the top RSS directories.

4. Put your blog URL in your email signature. If you're a regular at any online discussion forum, you can also add your url to your signature line at the bottom of each message you post.

5. Install a blogroll. A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs. Services such as Technorati spider your links to tell who's linking to you and who you're linking to. If you show up on someone's Technorati link list for their site they're likely to visit your site to see what you said, increasing your exposure. Blog owners can also visit your site to check it out if you show up on their referral logs.

6. Be an active commenter. Try to leave comments on the blogs that you regularly visit. Most comment systems also provide a way for you to leave a link back to your blog which begs a visit at the very least.

7. If you plan to have anything printed up, put your blog's web address on it. You can print your blog URL on business cards, stickers, leaflets, etc.

8. Take advantage of blog software features that help to promote your Blog. For example, if you're using Blogger, you can do this by turning on: "Email This Post", "Post Pages"" "Site feed" and the Blogger Navbar. These features will help attract new visitors to your blog.

9. Exchange Links with other Bloggers or blog owners. This is another effective strategy for generating targeted traffic to your blog for free. It involves contacting other blog owners for a possible link exchange partnership. All you have to do is locate blogs that are related to yours and contact the webmaster to swap links.

10. Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish and put your blog url in the byline. The `byline' is the short paragraph that goes at the bottom of each article and describes who the author is and what they do. If you write good content, your articles will be published by other webmasters and many readers who like your article will go on to visit your blog.

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4. Internet Sites -- reviewed by June Campbell

*** Better Whois ***
Locates domains that the ordinary whois site misses. It also includes sites linking in, traffic and other pertinent information..

*** Daily Newspapers in the UK***
Read the latest on the bombing and terrorist attacks.

*** Stocks that Will Rock Your World
Motley Fool predicts Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!are the ones to watch.

*** Store Wars
Really funny and creative commercial put out by the Organic Trade Association

5. Freebies and Good Deals

a. Commodity Training ebook 2005. Everything you need to know to trade commodities successfully. Visit this link for additional information.

6. Joke of the Week: A Spiritual Concern

A politician (Insert name of your most hated politician here) fell over a bridge railing and landed in the water below.

Before the rescue team could reach him, three kids fished him out of the water. The grateful politician offered to reward the kids with the gift of their choice.

The first kid said, "I want to go to Disneyland."

The politician said, "No problem. I'll take you there on my private aircraft".

The second kid said, "I want a new pair of Nike Air Jordan's."

The politician said, "I'll get them for you and even have Michael sign them!"

The third kid said, "I want a motorized wheelchair with a built-in TV and stereo headset!"

Perplexed, the politician says, "But you don't look like you have a disability."

The kid says, "I will be after my dad finds out I saved your butt from drowning!"

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