A Free Studio Package for Vloggers with 3 Cool Effects

If you are video blogger or a vlogger, then this tool will help you with your vlogging. This tool is called Eye Contact. According to the developers from NVidia:

The new Eye Contact effect moves the eyes of the speaker to simulate eye contact with the camera — achieved by estimating and aligning gaze. The eyes retain their natural color and blinks, and there’s even a disconnect feature in case you look too far away, to transition smoothly between simulated and real eyes.

This tool or effects I believe is integrated in NVidia Broadcast app. I believe this app and this tool or effects is very useful to all bloggers like me who likes to make notes or quote some research or other people's quotes. I think this is also great for online news broadcasters who most of the time reads script they have written. This will help them maintain eye contact to viewers. I think this app is available FREE for NVidia users or GeForce RTX GPU owners.

They have also included the Vignette effect which adds bokeh effect on your video and at the same time they have updated their Virtual Background effect making it like a studio package for bloggers. So that's Eye Contact, Vignette and Virtual Background. You can download the app here. Enjoy the freebies guys.

Reference: Nvidia website

Pixelpost: CMS Review

For those of you who have no idea what Pixelpost is, well it is an open-source photoblog CMS (Content Management System) application for the web. I've been on a lookout for a good photoblog application for the web for a very long time and I can only say that only Pixelpost made most of my ideas come to life.

For beginners, it is very easy to customize and the themes are very easy to install as well. Addons are very useful. You have lots of addons and themes to choose from on their website which is free for download for everyone. I am using their latest version Pixelpost 1.7.3, using the Lunas theme and it is very promising.

Friends - a sample photo from Photoblog ni Noel

If ever I am going to make a new photoblog, it will definitely be a Pixelpost. Check out my photoblog - http://photos.baulninoel.com

How to Add Google+ Page Widget

I don't really know what it is called but to give you a hint of what it looks like, you can browse my side widget and check out the widget below the Facebook Like widget that says "Xleon Tips in g+". 

Before doing that, you maybe wondering why do you have to do it. Here are some benefits to it:

• If someone follows you by adding you in their circles, you can inform all your followers about your latest article by posting it in your Google+ page. You will have repeat customers or readers if you got them interested in your new topic.
• More g+ means, more respect! Oh Yeah!
• Could be a start a budding friendship relationship.
• It's cool!

Anyways, here is how you can do it:

5 Steps in Hosting Your Site

Choosing the right tool for the job makes all things a lot easier and makes the goal more achievable. After doing an excellent job in designing and creating the content of a website, it is time to host your website or blog and here is how you do it.

1. Enumerate your Requirements
It is best to prepare all the things that you'll be needing before you jump down on the first opportunity you see. State the platform you plan to use if it is a Windows based (Net Framework) or Linux based (PHP). How much space and bandwidth you'll need or if you will be needing a database.  How many emails you'll be needing. If they have a one-click application install such as Wordpress, Joomla or whatever CMS (Content Management System) you'll ever need. This list will then serve as your guideline on every step of the way.

2. State your Budget
How much are your willing to invest with the requirements you have stated on the first step? This could be a monthly budget or a yearly budget.

3. Look for a Hosting Company
It is important for a webmaster, web developer or a blogger to know which hosting company delivers its services effectively and accurately according to the list on step 1 you have gathered. It is not an easy task to review and check each hosting companies you'll find in Google searches. Not all hosting companies you'll find in Google are excellent at their job and not all deliver what you need. I do believe that it is important to look for a web hosting review that will help you in purchasing a plan before you regret it in the future. Here are some of the best web hosting services you can ever find. You'll find detailed descriptions of each hosting companies, the services they offer and the price and bonuses they give away.

4. Compare and Enumerate Candidates
In choosing your hosting company, compare the list (step 1) you have made with the services you found on step 3. Once you found the one that fits the description, double check the price and services on their website. Write down your candidates.

5. Decide
After finding the right prospects, compare and determine which would be the best for your needs. Choose a package plan and decide.

Hope you find this useful. If it is, you are welcome to share it using your favorite social networking sites.  Good day to all.

Helpful Links:
www.consumer-rankings.com

3 Steps to Make an Article NOT Interesting

Now here is another topic that I am very good at - NOT making an article so interesting. The reason I wrote this is for us to avoid those common mistakes. I have actually made an article before entitled "How NOT to Attract Readers!" but this article is different because we'll actually concentrate on the article and not the blog. Although this will have the same positive effect on your readers - if you do the opposite :).

 

1. Bad Title

The first and most important thing we should know is that making the title for our article is very critical. Have you ever noticed yourself whenever you are reading your emails and you sometimes found yourself reading SPAM mails? That is because they have a very catchy title. The first two seconds of your blog visitor's time is reading the title so it is very important to make a very good impression.

 

2. Worst Introduction

Okay, you have caught your visitor's attention when they read your article's title. Now it is important that your first 50 words would be worthy of their time too. You have to make them read on until the end. I know it is quite hard. I still am having the same problem sometimes that is why I have lots of unpublished articles here in this blog because I don't find my very first 50 words interesting. One good tip: It must be related to your title. Believe it or not, by doing this you are actually optimizing your site as per SEO's (Search Engine Optimization) requirements. If you do this step, you'll be expert in no time in SEO Blogging. One other thing, Google is actually ranking (PageRank) your site or blog according to how related your content is to your title so be very cautious about making a catchy title but unrelated content.

 

3. Not Delivering Your Offer

Who said anything about an offer? Well, your title says you'll give pointers on how to earn $20 bucks instantly, so where is it? 

 

You've caught their attention so now you must deliver according to what you've offered which is of course what your title said. Imagine yourself seeing a grand sale of your favorite bag, jewelry or t-shirt and after standing on a long line of people to the cashier, you found out that the item your holding was not really included on the sale items. It doesn't matter if your article is long or short as long as you deliver your offer because if not, they'll feel deceived, disappointed and will not ever come back to your blog again.

image from: http://esthersteinfeld.wordpress.com

There you go. That is how you make an article NOT interesting. Thank you for your time.

How to Insert Google Adsense in a Single Post

Even wonder how you can put your adsense ads on your post? Okay, here are the instructions on how you can make an Google Adsense Ad in your post. First thing you will do is:

1. Back-up your blog's theme. Backup and Restore Blog Theme. Do this just in case you make some mistakes and you accidentally deleted some codes in your blog's theme.

Blogger Compatible Codes

When designing your own blogger theme, it might frustrate you to see the codes you are placing on the XML Blogger theme you are editing doesn't make sense at all when you start viewing it --it sometimes make an error and may ruin your blog's layout. The reason to this is that Blogger XML doesn't recognize your codes at all.

This tool will be very useful to all webmasters and web designers out there -it is actually one of their secrets. So what I am going to reveal will be useful for everyone. But before you make modifications with your current them make sure to back it up before you make use of the codes you converted here. So, where can I use this tool?

• Designing your blogger theme.
• Placing Google Adsense code to your desired position.
• Placing Javascipt codes.
• You can almost do everything here with regards to designing your blog template.

So here it is. Once again, a reminder - backup your theme first.before you place this in your current blog theme.

Got a $100 Google Adsense Coupon for FREE!

This is great news for me. I just got a $100 Google Adsense coupon from Google. I am so excited --I don't know what to do. Now, I really have to make my place presentable for my visitors. I have to make this place neat and of course make a wise decision in choosing the right keywords. I have to think of powerful keywords to make good use of this coupon and it would be exciting if I can come up with income from this like in Adgitize.

Thinking back, this SEO blogging, PR blogging adventure of mine is all about preparing myself for this. I know I may not get back the amount I want but hopefully and I think it would be the nicest way for me to earn experience in Adwords and Adsense.

How NOT to Attract Readers!

This is the type of article that I really am very good at "NOT attracting" readers (lol!).

It is true that articles or contents with interesting topics attract a lot of readers but what others fail to realize is that even if you have a very good content but you have a very slow blog - your potential readers could be one of the addition to your bounce rates. Bounce Rate is a terminology found in Google Analytics wherein it shows the rate of people "bouncing" at your site - which means once they set foot on your landing page they immediately look for the "X" button or wait for the Adgitize buttons to appear and hop on to other sites as fast as they can. They literally want to bounce out of your site as fast as they can.

It is a common mistake for bloggers, specially newbies - and I had my share too. Others over-decorate their site and forgot about how their readers feel. Instead of attracting readers - they're actually frightening them. Would you like to wait for five minutes in order for a page to fully load all its initial contents?

Isn't it frustrating that an article of your interest takes a lot of time to load and almost take all the bandwidth? As for me, when googling around for a research and found an interesting article on the search - I click on it. But once it took a lot of time to load the information, I click the "X" and look for another topic on the indexed search - and I've done it a lot of times. 

Blogging is fun and adding a few bits and pieces of widgets to decorate your blog could be taking too much of your time and will probably make it look like it was designed haphazardly. Having a very nice layout and design for your site attracts a lot of readers but too much is always harmful.

Don'ts in Words for PR

Image from The Computer Guru Website

Okay, another thing that greatly affects your site or blog's PR (PageRank) is the words you use in some of your widgets or headers. Try to avoid words My Sponsors, Advertisement, Sponsors, Featured Sites (what?) etc... Most of you probably made this common mistake, I too have made this mistake. I never really knew it has something to do with PageRanks.

Anyway, here is the deal. If Google bots think that it is an advertisement or you are trying to sell ads space or whatever - they'll stash out points in your PageRank. So as much as possible, try not to make it look like you are selling ads - you can start being creative at that point.

So there you go. Another pointer from a PR student.

How to Generate an RSS from Label

Do you have a certain topic or label in your blog that you want your users to have an information? This method is very useful specially if your blog is a mixed of articles with different categories. Let's say you want your users to be informed in case a new update has been made on their chosen category like new programs you have joined or new windows tips, new freebie application, new wallpapers, etc...

It is actually very easy.

First, here is what my normal RSS looks like:

http://xleontips.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Now, choose a topic that you like to use. NOTE: It should only be one word, if it is two words, then you have to edit all those labels and make them one word. In my case, I used payment-proofs:

http://xleontips.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/payment-proof?alt=rss

Now you go and try my link - HERE.

Blogger Theme Analyzed!

At last, I have made a great progress in making a theme for my other blog called Baul ni Noel or Noel's Chest (no, not my breast) which contains inspiring stories, articles and a lot more things anyone can treasure.

After the success of my first one, I'll be making the next theme and that new theme will be for this blog. And more will come and eventually, I'll be making a new blog especially for my Blogger Themes and they'll be all original and will be hosted by me.

The new theme will probably up in 2-3 days. Hope to finish it soon coz I still have some things to do.

Sorry about my last post. I forgot to upload my payment proof but don't worry I have uploaded it now. You can check it out for yourself.

Ratings on Your Blog!

Do you find rating other site great? Well, it is really great to have such widget on your site. It looks like the one below this article, where you'll find five stars. Would you like to have one?

It's very simple to get one. First go to Outbrain choose your blog platform like the one below:





Why are you still here reading this stuff? Click the link and follow their instructions. Hope you find it useful as I do.

Site Stats

Okay, it's been days or probably weeks since I brought the status of this blog. I can only say that among all my blog launches, this blog is the only one that brought me success and great opportunities.

First, with this blog, I was able to gather more traffic and visitors more efficiently than before. I'd like to thank Adgitize to that, it has been a great success since I've used the combined promotion of Adgitize and EntreCard.

I have made the biggest payout in my entire affiliate programs history. Yes, sad to say that I only got a few pennies from my past payouts with other network affiliate websites but it was all thank to Adgitize for a great payout. Their advertesing has just doubled but the earnings given to you are also increased by 2 so I guess earning more income this following days is much more easier or reaching my 2nd payout.

Before I forget, I have just received an email from Bux.to. To all who have no idea what bux.to is, bux.to is a PTC or paid to click site. They claim that they are the number one and that they pay their members. I got my payout from them and got my premium membership fee back. The email contains that they will now be soon closing and they are just offering more money to boost your chances of being paid before they close. I can only say that to hell with them, if they really plan on paying bux.to members, they should have just paid their members and not ask for additional $10 to be paid. This $10 will entitle you of real payment. Bux.to are SCAMS!

More updates tomorrow and may all of you have a very merry christmas.

My 1st Adgitize Payment!

Congratulations to me! I just received my first payment. Attached below is the proof of my payment. Okay, I admit that I have investment money for advertisement but it was worth it. I got the traffic that I asked for and got interest from it as well. I invested $14 (their old monthly advertisement) and got $19.77 which means I got $5.77 as interest. In reality, $19.77 is all the income I have coz I really paid for advertising and got it already.


To all those who have no idea what Adgitize is. Adgitize is a network affiliate program that increases your blogs traffic through advertisement which is by the way totally cheap compared to other advertising websites, especially PTC sites.

They are going to increase your blog's traffic and your money as well. You can earn from them as a FREE member and more income as an advertiser. One more thing, check my offer below.

Bonus from me. Join under my referral link and advertise and I'll pay you $1 back rebate and I'll create your 125x125 button ads for Adgitize.

JOIN HERE and GRAB MY OFFER!

HOW to Center Google Adsense in your Blogger and Add Your Own Ad

First of all, before you do such thing it is best to Back-up Your Current Template by downloading your template, refer to this page if you don't know how to do it - Click here.

Okay, we may start now.

1. In your Dashboard, choose the Layout. Choose Edit HTML.
2. Check the Expand Widgets Templates.
3. Look for this entry:

<b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'>

You should see the following below or somewhat like this;

<b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'<
<data:adEnd>
<data:adCode>
<data:adStart>
</b:if>

4. Make it look like this;

<b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'>
<center>
<data:adEnd>
<data:adCode>
<data:adStart>
</center>
</b:if>

5. That's it, your Google Adsense is now centered.
6. BONUS. You can even ad your very own advertisement below it or above it or totally replace your google ad with whichever affiliate tool you have. Try the code below and customize it:

<b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'>
<center>
<data:adEnd>
<data:adCode>
<data:adStart>
</center><br/>
<!-- Your own link text -->
<center>
<a
href='http://xleontips.blogspot.com/2009/10/premium-ads-services.html'>Advertise
with US!</a>
<br/>
</center>
<!-- End own Ads -->
</b:if>

7. Enjoy, and thanks for visiting.

Replacing your Google Adsense with Own Ad
Do not disable adsense from the layout, leave it as it is. Format your code like this:

<!-- data:adEnd -->
<!-- data:adCode -->
<!-- data:adStart -->

Your code below will be the one shown and the Google Adsense will not show anymore.

Earnnings Update!!

It's been almost two weeks since I started this advertising stuff to earn this blog some dough and I am glad to inform you that this blog didn't just earned traffic but money as well.

Adgitize - earnings is steady and traffic is great.
EntreCard - is also doing a great job in sending traffics.
CMF Ads - is also earning me income now.
Google - well, so far the search engine just threw 50% more of people  from my rate before, I am glad all is going according to it's plan.

So far I am very happy with the traffic and the money this brings.


I found some cool finds that may earn a promising income for this blog. The image above is one ot their logos. I'll be updating this as soon as we found a new one.

Network Affiliate Website that Works!

There are probably some great social affiliate website that really works and I am going to find it out for myself. I'm not going to hesitate sharing it to you guys so be on look out for my updates.

Right now, I would like to share the experiences I had for the past week.

1. Adsense, does it really work?
Well, since this blog isn't that big yet, I decided not to implement it on this blog for the meantime and try making space for other advertisers who would like to share a few traffic from my site. I'll also be making my advertisement cheaper.

2. Adgitize - works really great!
Being an advertiser at Adgitize really made my traffic boost high. How I wish there are a few more of this Adgitize out there that really helps people gain traffic & income. My earnings when I was just a publisher alone gained me a few bucks from Adgitize but now that I am an advertiser with them I can say that it does help to advertise with them. Advertisers will really gain back their invested 50-120% - depends.

Bonus from me. Join under my referral link and advertise and I'll pay you $1 back rebate and I'll create your 125x125 button ads for Adgitize. JOIN HERE and GRAB MY OFFER!

And I forgot to mention, the admin is really kind and honest and very supportive as well. So far the number one affiliate I've seen in my 4 years in online income business.

3. EntreCard - It helped too!
yes, Entrecard still helps you get more traffic but you have to be active in dropping in order to gain points or just be active so your popularity constantly. With the help of Adgitize, you will gain lots of points for sure.

4. CMF Ads - Not for traffic!
Well, it really doesn't work for your traffic if you are not the advertiser. I suggest it though, since it will give you the capability to earn money. I just hope they have a weekly option instead of a month so earning cash is much easier.

Thanks to the combined power of this three, I was able to gain lots of traffic. So I'm sharin' my traffic and make a promotion of cheap ads. Check out my Ad Services for the cheap ad package.

Found 2 New Traffic Boosters!

I just found out two new traffic boosters.

PublicityWheel - currently they have a promo. Check below:

Join now while it's hot! and very NEW!

125Exchage - This is another promising Link Exchange. So what are you all waiting for. JOIN NOW!

Wait for my upcoming article, it is about an Adobe Photoshop technique.

A Great Day!

It has been a very tiring week for me trying to venture my way back to the world of online money-making business and at the same time sharing the knowledge which has been lurking inside me for a long time. Once again, I managed to cope-up and catch-up to my new task. Here are some of my achievements for this past few days.

• XLEON Tips is now a Preferred Publisher at Adgitize.
• Published more than ten articles this week.
• Gained a lot of traffic in just a few days, thanks to Adgitize and EntreCard.

As I blog-hopped through the use of Adgitize and EntreCard, I found a lot of interesting ideas. Some are really helpful and some are quite discouraging. I will share a few of my views concerning those negative issues I found to give light to others who are losing hope.

EntreCard

I found some articles about people complaining about the quality of their service which I think is quite reasonable and at the same time I found it unhelpful to their case. I highly recommend EntreCard especially to all those starting blogs. It is a great traffic earner. But compairing it with Adgitize is a little bit unfair. I stand corrected if there are a few of you there who will not comply when I say that EntreCard is mainly to gain traffic. I've seen an article about earning money with them but that is not my main motive with them for now. Traffic is why I am with them. With Adgitize, the traffic it builds is actually less than what EC is giving my blog but the bonus with them is I am already earning faster income than my Google Adsense.

My point is, if they aren't benefiting much from EntreCard anymore, they can just leave quietly. Why the sour-graping? Why make a bad propaganda against them? Didn't they used to be happy when they started getting traffic with EC? I mean, EC helped them before, right? Maybe there is a better and bigger organization which can help them gain more - I think that is where Google Adwords-Adsense is for. JOIN HERE!

Adgitize

I can certainly say that this is my most precious find. Not only I get to increase my traffic with them, they also gave me something to look forward to with my online money-making venture. Yes, a real money this time. Don't wait up guys, JOIN NOW!

I am planning on being an advertiser soon coz 3 of my friends told me that they gained more traffic and $$ when they became advertisers. I tried to study their strategy and it really looks promising. Be seing you there.

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