UPDATE 3/15/08 – The contest is now closed. I will post an update soon about the winners.

The contest is officially live.

Sorry for the slight delay though, I’ve got loads of things cooking for the last few days – just keep coming back or subscribe to my newsletter through the sign up form above to get informed about it.

Alright, so this is the first part of the $8,907.83 first year anniversary contest. Today the prizes are a bunch of advertising spots from 17 sponsors, bundled in seven packages, served to you in a silver plater.

The Prizes

1. Package One:
   One 125 x 125 ad spot for a month worth $20 from Putting Blogs First
   One ad spot for a month worth $80 from Gather Success
   One 125 x 125 ad spot for a month worth $10 each from Etenblog
   One premium featured ad spot for a month

Landrush .ASIA Domains

Looks like loads of domainers will make good money with the new .asia TLD this year. Although the pre-application opened three months ago, this was the first time I heard of it.

The minimum registration is for two years for $40, not bad as a lot of generic names are still available for pre-application at Godaddy – In fact, I’ve ordered 15 pre-applications today.

Learn how to advertise from a 14 year old

Carl Ocab is a great blog to highlight here on Advertising Blogger, specifically because it’s a great example of what you can do online if you work hard and set your mind to it. If a 14-year-old kid can make a ton of advertising cash with a blog—even with school and chores getting in the way—then there’s really

A lot of people have been asking me lately “Where did you get your theme?” “Who designed it?” “Can I use it on my blog too?”

Actually, this post about the new design was only half the story. You see, I ordered a PSD blog design from Design Guru Ryan for $250 to get a completely unique one. His first concept was this:

Although the design was clearly unique, the colors didn’t blend that well and some parts of the blog did not get that much importance like the signup box – that I wanted to prioritize.

After receiving the design, I requested a full revision with the colors I wanted and some more fine tunning. I then got this second one:

I was stunned with

This post is sponsored by Mini-Site Gallery and posted by Charles Lau.

If you are looking for a suitable website template to sell your digital product, you would probably have difficulty choosing the right template through the website galleries which are freely available for download. Why am I saying so? If you have noticed, most of the templates are built with the aim of a corporate look where you have some of the menus such as “About us”, “Products and Services” and “Contact Us”. You don’t actually need them in your website since your purpose is to sell your digital product effectively. What you really need is a good sales copy where the words are there to sell to your potential customer effectively.

Mini-Site Template Gallery

I have not found such specialized galleries before until I have found Mini Site Gallery. MiniSiteGallery.com is a mini-site

February 4, 2007 – Carl Ocab dot com was born. The 13-year old blogger made waves, gigantic waves in the blogosphere – up to now.

Err! Enough with the spiffy 3rd voice introduction.

So yeah, I’ve just celebrated my first year anniversary, bought a cake and took a good glance of the past. I’ll also be having a contest, but there’s more than that.

Blogging has taught me hundreds of things since then. Today, I’ve compiled them and picked the best to share it with you. I’d suggest you bookmark it, print it out and save it in your desktop.

But before that, I would like to give a little plug here to those who have helped me succeed a lot of things online, blogging and in life. Special mention goes to the Lord God for guiding me, helping me and in all of these things. My parents who have supported me all

This article is guest posted by Dianne Ronnow.

My favorite way to get traffic to my sites and blogs has to be article marketing. It’s really a very simple concept and the best kind of a win-win situation.

The first step in getting your site noticed is to have a site that is designed in a way that is search engine friendly. That is called SEO (search engine optimized). This is mostly a web designing issue. We will assume that you are starting with an SEO optimized site. Carl has some great advice for optimizing websites here: http://www.carlocab.com/golden-seo-tips

The next step in getting the search engines to notice your site, is to understand them. The search engines’ whole purpose is to find quality content– that is what the Internet is all about. Information. And the more content (related to your site’s most important keywords) that you have, the more that