Alright everyone, today is March 11th and our contest is over today. Below are the rankings

1) TopMP3Songs
2) Madmouse
3) TheWWWBlog
4) Zorg-Directory
5) Clickmate
6) YoMobilez
7) KoolCorner
Word Scrawl

Prizes are listed here

For the cash prize winners, (1st and 2nd place) Email me and add your paypal address as well as your business address where you want the shirt to be sent to.

Rest of you guys need to email me and let me know your address so the shirt can be mailed, and i will link to all the sites where my banner was posted on the blog under the category called Contest Winners

Hopefully you guys enjoyed the contest, I will keep more coming in the future.

Digg is one of the nicer resource for blog in the market. What is digg? Basically a website which lets you submit an article or story which people can vote for (digg) and make it popular. I always thought about how to get my posts to get dugg by many users because i have a new blog. Even if i post a phenomenal topic, it won’t get noticed because i only have so many users. And NO, you cannot buy diggs because it is against the Terms of Service (TOS).

How you can use digg for advertising?

It is very simple. Just have an article, and submit it in digg if you think it is worthy. Now don’t go submit all of your articles because you can be banned. But you may submit the cool ones that you think other might want to know. This will get your site some exposure.

How to get more Diggs on your post?

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O kool, Finally someone has sent me a free shirt and decided to use Free promotion at Balkhis to their advantage. I recieved a really cool Shirt from the team of Aviva Directory. It is a really cool polo shirt that i wore when i went shopping yesterday.

The shirt says, Join the A List, and have a url: http://www.avivadirectory.com

Thanks for the really cool shirt guys, especially Jeff, the owner.

A little closer look to the logo,

If you still can’t see the logo (You definately need glasses)

That was all for Tip Sunday. If you want your business to be featured follow the guidelines at Free promotion at Balkhis

We are running a web business, but we do not live on the web, and people who you are targetting also does not live on the web. They most certainly browse the web often, but not live on the web. I found the success point of business is to be in local advertising. For every business branding is necessary, and you have to start somewhere. While i was promoting Balkhis on the web, I actually decided to promote it locally in the Gainesville community. So i decided to get some shirts with Balkhis logo on it and started distributing it to close friends.

Yes that is necessary. All of my friends really supported me and helped me by wearing the shirt around, and you will not believe how many people will ask you. Hey What is Balkhis? I went to this group thing for an association, and this was a completely public event. I went and sat with some people, and this one girl asked hey what is Balkhis? Is that a new brand or something. I said yeah this is my brand, and then i explained to her and all who were sitting on my table, and they were really impressed.

Words getting around…. Now you will see that from my friends the words moved onto their friends, and Balkhis spreaded across the town. Now i have majority of my traffic from my friends and supporters here in Gainesville. While alot of it is coming from other places, but a big chunk of the traffic is from Gainesville. This gives my U.S traffic a little boost. Now if you live in United States you should actually use this to your advantage because there are alot of the affiliates program i see on Azoogle Ads that specifically requires United States traffic and they have one of the highest payouts.

There is a Video inside the full post so don’t forget to watch it

Top Level Domains (TLD), there are just to many of those. I was asked a question through the email which TLD is the best for SEO, and which one I should register for my new website? I looked at the question, and i said this will make a perfect post for my SEO Category, so here are what i think about TLDs and SEO based on my experience.

Before i go on and tell you which one is the best first i need to get the basis so we can start. While there are many extensions as there are so many countries in the world each are having their own two letter or three letter tlds such as .in or .pk etc. The main ones that i consider are .com, .net, .org, .info, .us, and sometimes .biz …. While i am a big fan of .in (India) because the extension just sounds cool it is not in my list of the Main Top Level Domains.

Now we all know which is the most popular. So people make the most popular ones and start ranking them for SEO uses as well. So .com will get you a higher pagerank and a higher SERPs, and then after that it is .net and so on so forth. That is not true. In reality these extensions at the end of the domain does not matter at all in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). It will not get you a higher Search Engine Position Rank(s). Also known as SERPs. You might see sometimes a .net website outperform a .com website in search engines. It is really a matter of branding. If i get tons of backlinks for a .net website, I am very sure that i will get it to pass a .com website in SERPs, and this go for all the extensions. Now why do people think one is better than other?

From the past domain sales, and current ones as well more and more buyers prefer .com because that is the most popular one. When a normal person types a website they will unconsciously put a .com in front of the website if they don’t remember the url. Once that doesn’t work, they will try .net, so your website can be on a .tk for all what matters they won’t find you. It is really hard to get that into peoples mind. You will loose alot of traffic that way, and buyers of websites and domains doesn’t want that. They want all the traffic thats why they prefer .com websites.

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