Oo if you guys didn’t know, I went to Island of Adventures in Universal Orlando. It was a family trip. We left on Friday and came back on Saturday night. It was heck of a day. We stayed at a motel for the night.

Since we were on a trip that I will be blogging, I thought of wearing my cool shirt that says: “I am Blogging This” which was sent to me by Market Leverage. I wore it all day at the park. Believe it or not, everyone asked me whats my blog and if they will be in the picture lol. One time the guy at the Jurrasic Park Ride who was checking the belt said if you want to read the review of this ride, he will be blogging this so check out his blog. So I will add a review for that ride All to all Market Leverage got good promotion out of it. (Thanks ML for the cool shirt, if you dont mind send me a few more because I wear this one alot hehe )

Alright, well I got my tickets online for $52 at Ticketmaster using a cool coupon which was through a membership so I can’t give that away I went on the following rides: Hulk, Dueling Dragons, Jurrasic Park, Spiderman, Popeye and thats all ….

Yeah do you know why? I was dumb enough to not buy the $45 express pass in the morning. Later on the day, I thought its a waste if I buy it now. Each line had a wait of about 45+ minutes. It was fun though because all guys with me made a big noise in the line.

Lets review all the rides:

Hulk - was had a pretty cool start, but after a while it got boring.

Dueling Dragons – Is a good one. Fire and Ice two dragons. Ice is a bit rougher so I liked that one. Tip: sit on flip flops if you are wearing those otherwise they will drop.

Spiderman – Much better than Back to the Future. Very Very cool ride.

Popeye – Prepare to be Soaked. Hope that you get a good side, so you are only wet not soaked.

Jurrasic Park – Its full of surprises. I loved the ride. First time it didn’t work well, so I complained and got to ride again without standing in a line. Which was cool. I rode all together 3 times on this ride. The surprises didn’t get old.

As for the meals, I got a $22 unlimited one adult meal plan. It worked at 4 fast food places in 4 different Islands, so you have food wherever you go. I paid $9 for unlimted refills. The best thing I did for myself. You walk so much that you get thirsty. Get your drink for free. Otherwise the price for water was $2.75 for one bottle, or 2 for $5 which is insane. If you didn’t buy a meal plan than you have to get the other glass with discounted refills. The glass is $7 plus $0.69 cents per refill.

O O did I mention. I got a Picture with Spidey

It is a well recommended place to go. Don’t go there on the weekend because it is more crowded than usual. If you do end up going don’t be stupid like me..BUY the Express Pass and avoid the lines. Get there early. Go on all the rides I went on because they were all fun. Take an extra pair of clothes with you incase you are wet which you will be. Let me know if you ever go. And believe it or not I do wear all the shirts that I get one time or another. So if you want me to advertise your brand send me a shirt.

After my post that announces that my readers can get a free blog review and free text links here at balkhis, I have been getting some good feedback. This question was the first one that I recieved via email.

Angad Sodhi asks:

Will/Has the ‘recession’ affect the incomes of us bloggers?

This question is more targetted towards the bloggers in United States. U.S Economy has been in a recession and it got to the point that a bank in California closed down. But that is whats going on in the U.S Market.

Blogging is more of an international business. My advertisers, affiliate marketing companies have contracts with advertisers worldwide. I believe that blogging is spread out worldwide, the income of bloggers will not see a significant effect from the recession in United States.

You might see some U.S Webmasters pulling out on advertisement because they can’t afford it but you can always make up for the income. The tip is don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Spread out.

Key to be successful is don’t rely on one source of income. Spread it out.

Adsense – It is always good in the beginning and sometimes on tutorial posts.

Private Advertisers – They are always good, but you should not rely on them for all your income.

Affiliate Marketing – Market Leverage, Commission Junction, and Azoogle Ads are the ones that I am with. I run their campaigns. Not relying on one entirely.

Other PPC – That I have mentioned on my Make Money Online Page.

All to all the answer to your Question is that No I don’t think Bloggers will be impacted in the recession. Maybe and Maybe if U.S goes in depression, then it will be a different story.

Well, Yesterday I wrote a post in which I am allowing users to share their social media profiles. So all Balkhis users can add each other as a friend more importantly, I can add all my readers as friends on social media networks.

Well, I am not done giving back to my awesome audience.

I have decided that once every week for the next 4 weeks, I will be writing a review about the blogs of one of my readers. Well, how would I notice your blog?

Simple. Comment on Balkhis and have your blog’s link in it. If need be I might even do two per week. Depends on the contestants.

Another way is letting me know about your blog via Plurk. How would you do that? Add me as a friend in Plurk, and simply contact me via Contact Page. Once you have done that keep commenting here and I will write about you.

Not Just that, I am also doing a Question Answer Session. Send me all your questions and I will try to answer them in details. Either in one post all together, or separate posts. The best question will get a free text link on Balkhis under cool sites.

What are you waiting for. Lets spread the Love and start commenting.

Well, I am sure alot of you noticed that I wrote an ebook about How to Make a Magazine Style Theme in Wordpress. Its been 2 days and I am very delighted by the results.

I don’t know if I have mentioned it before, I have never written an ebook or a book in my entire life. This was a first time and I was very nervous. One of the main reasons were the grammer. Knowing that english is not my first language, I was already frightened by the results. I didn’t ask anyone to proof read the book. I thought it would be worth a try if I write and just be myself in my book.

Apparently thats what everyone liked. Within the course of 48 hours, I have had 826 Downloads of the ebook. Usually it takes a while for my zip files to get these downloads. Specially this quantity. Within a day, I saw the book breaking the 500 mark and I was very happy that each of my reader got the copy.

Balkhis is still growing, and I cannot rely on subscribers to see how many readers I have. The downloads from this book and the comments I have recieved from multiple places were the true indication of how many readers I have and how happy they were to see this addition to the blog.

Before I begin to celebrate, I didn’t do this alone.

As you all know Blogosphere is more like a family where everyone helps each other out. My fellow friends helped me by writing about this book on their blogs, or at different places.

Enkay Blog

Jim Hutchinson, I met him on Plurk. If you are on Plurk do add him as your friend. Jim’s Plurk Profile.

Themerious

Aravind Jose – He is a regular reader on balkhis and we have talked via email before. Thanks for the link buddy.

Some other Plurk friends who wrote about my ebook on their plurk pages. And everyone who dugg, stumbled and added it to other social media.

I try to do the most by helping other people and I believe the good Karma returned. When I needed people to blog about this ebook, some of my friends jumped up and did it.

I myself wrote it about on all wordpress related forums which also got me results. I have been getting very good reviews of the ebook. So if you haven’t checked it out yet.

With this kind of encouragement, I will write another ebook in coming time that will be a bigger and much better resource. It will list all the details that I know about Wordpress, Marketing, SEO, Designing and much much more. Ofcourse since it have so much stuff, It will take time to write it.

Stay Updated.

I have emphasized it multiple times on this blog about about a good design. I try to do my best in explaining myself, but can it get more creative then Poetic Prophet. He raps his way and explain everything well. I really like this guys rap. I am hoping that he sees my post and hopefully send me a cool rap version of Balkhis

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