Blogcatalog with new revamped design and theme

BlogCatalog is a specific social networking site which targets bloggers. Apart from a bloggers social networking site it is also one of the largest blog directories on the internet.

Even if you are a not a blogger and you want to search and read blogs, to get connected with bloggers, learn more about blogging, Blogcatalog could be a prime destination for you. And if you are a blogger who wish to promote blog, Blogcatalog is an ideal place to do that. Also there are lot of discussions where you can get free suggestions and reviews about your blog contents, designs and tips to improve the your traffic and earnings from the blog through AdSense and similar content advertising programs.

Blogcatalog has revamped its design and looks to give cool effects for visitors. Changing looks of websites are becoming a new trend now a days. You can see the Big G to small g favicon change in Google.

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Simple and Easy way to promote Blog and Website where ever you go

Blog or website promotion is the most important part, if you are expecting good result out of them. Thus, its is the hard thing to achieve, unless you follow very systematic and proper way of promotion and advertising strategies.

Earlier, I have compiled about Successful ways of blog promotion. If you are not doing blog promotion in a proper way, sometime you may end up in some troubles or even may get depressed.


Now, I have very simple and very feasible way of promoting your blog or website without much investment. Just wear a T-shirt naming your website on front as well as back side. Just wear the T-shirt and go where ever you want to go. Any catchy captions and supporting figures will get you more attention.

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Promotion via spam may land you in jail

This is a warning for all those use spam mails for getting the user credentials and for promoting your website of blog for making money. Try to understand that once you are caught either you may be fined a huge amount or will be jailed for years. Sentencing of AOL spammers for 2 years in slammer is the latest evidence and warning for all spammers.


Be ethical and use good and convenient way of blog or website promotion for your business.

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Successful ways of blog and website promotion

Many bloggers and webmasters has to work a lot for getting their site or blog get noticed by more number of people over internet. There are number of ways for promoting and building traffic to your website and blog. Some methods of promotion are free and some are paid.


Here are some common methods for promoting blog or website

• Add your blog name or website with signature of mail and in visiting card
• Update your blog name or website in social networking sites like orkut, myspace etc.
• Add your blog name or website in GTalk and Yahoo Messenger titles.
• Register in DMOZ directories.
• Submit your blog name or website in search engines.
• Register your blog name or website in blog directories.
• Do link exchange with people with similar ranks and traffic.
• Join discussion forums and add your blog name or website name as signature.
• Use Twitter.com and publish your updates.
• If your blog or website targets localized customers then put banners on back of taxi and buses. Also you can set the home page of computers internet cafes in a particular area with your website or blog (Make sure to have a good relation with Cafe owner).

There are also some tips for promotion and building traffic by Liz Strauss at successful-blog.com which will be very useful for most of the people.

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Free Desktop capturing software to aid remote demonstration, education and tech support

CamStudio is a free video recording software to record your desktop activities. Just invoke this software to capture the desktop screen activities and it will take care of creating the video of your desktop activities depending on your input controls.


This software will find very useful in following situations

• Demonstrating your software product remotely: When you want to give a demonstration of your software product, you can create a video with CamStudio and circulate in CDs/ DVDs with the concerned people for demonstration. Also you can give a remote demonstration by uploading the software product demonstration video in video sharing web sites like YouTube and circulate the video url with the clients.
• Creating multimedia tutorials for students: You can make use of CamStudio screen capturing along with audio recording to create multimedia tutorials for educating students ranging from little kids to university graduates. This would aid students learning the subjects step by step, as you can deliver the step by step activities of the subject in your destop along with your own audio explanation.
• Creating How to Do Videos for customers: CamStudio screen capture with audio recording will also help your circulating videos for solving frequently asked questions about your product or technologies. This would help in reducing the cost of technical support for very common issues and doubts.
• Promoting your blog and websites: Create a video with CamStudio showing the important and popular pages of your blog or website and upload the video in video sharing portals like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video and MSN Video. By providing the blog or web site address in the video would help attracting more visitors who are watching the videos across the globe.

Download the latest version of CamStudio here.

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