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This contest is open for anybody who owns blog sites. It is a boon especially to those in the verge of starting online businesses. The value of prizes awarded to the winners of the contest is worth hundreds of dollars and you could save a substantial amount if you win. Even mere participation in the contest entitles you for a fabulous prize.

Contest Rules:

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Closing Date

The contest ends on August 31,2009. So hurry up and start participating!

Death of super star Michael Jackson seems to leave a global impact and the online social community isn’t free from it too. The impact being reflected by social media has made it more easy to understand how exactly the death of a global personality can impact our planet. Mourning has now become public with people creating threads in various forums and tweeting about the sad demise after short intervals.

As per the twitter tracking tool Twist around 22% of twitter tweets contain the name Michael Jackson which is actually an estimate. It is hard to track twitter and hard to track the real collection of sorrow being reflected by online communities. This is just a hint.

Various analyzers in coming weeks will surely analyze the impact left by social media on such international level news as this is something which is totally new for the Internet. We will keep you updated.

May his soul rest in peace.

For webmasters who do not have the knowledge to work on the back of their websites, they always need an expert who can help them work on their websites so as to attract more readers. They need to understand that a professional looking website design can actually bring in hundreds of dedicated readers and exponential success for their websites. In this article we will talk about some of the many aspects that can change the future of your online businesses.

Color
It is obvious that soothing and well matched colors for a particular occasion is a necessity so as to look professional and not to look foolish. Who would appreciate colorful clothing during a funeral? Similarly well planned color coding for your website can give your website huge success and weird color styles can also bring it down in no time. One can take the example of Vista Style Icons that have become an important reason behind the success of Windows Vista OS. Looks do matter.

Position
Websites that want to generate revenue using various methods of advertising must remember that proper placing of ads in your website is the key reason behind considerable money generation from your website.

Technology
With the advancement in various technologies it has become very easy to maintain a website once it is built. You must understand that just by building a website you won’t start earning money. You will have to regularly work on the website in order to attract traffic and earn some money side by side. Like this website is using WordPress templates for its front-end which is compatible with wordpress at the back-end.

Icons
The use of various images must be thought before applying on your website else you might easily mess up your website. The clarity of these images and various navigational icons used on your website matters a lot. Like a real estate website must use real estate icons so that they merge easily with the site content.

Though Google always supports interactivity and easyness for its users but it looks like the huge cost of running orkut has forced them to optimize ad placement by compromising the interactivity. For communities with considerably large members Google used to place ads below the the block that shows community members but in last few days they have started to show these ads right above the community members block. They will surely get many more ad clicks as the ad placement now is on a very visible position.

I agree that this won’t decrease the level of interactivity too much but it will affect it by some percentage. Though they are still not showing ads on other communities with less number of community members.