I have wrote in the past on how you can use images to get your best posts noticed by your blog visitors and also implemented that idea on my blogs. But I also wanted to rotate the images so that more posts could be noticed.

I tried out a few rotation WordPress plugins but they did not work well. So I contacted Shrihari, the guy who made the useful GotBanners plugin, and asked if he could make a plugin for this.

He contacted me some days later letting me know about his new site called Rotatee, which is a remotely hosted banner rotation service. You can use it to rotate ad banners on your website.

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This is a guest post by Nelson from Help Desk Geek. If you are interested in writing a guest post too, let me know.

Hard-core Photoshoppers might claim there is no alternative to the mighty adobe image application, But while Photoshop is not about to be dethroned, be prepared to be blown away by Fauxto. This site hosts an online app that can open JPEG,PNG,GIF,BMP,and TIFF images. From there you can add multiple layers, adjustments, movable marquees, including text layers, there are even a number of common effect filters.

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I have heard about Joost many times before but never cared to know what it was until people started asking me for an invite.

What’s Joost?

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

From Wikipedia

Joost (pronounced ‘juiced’) is an interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer TV technology, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa).

To know more about Joost, go to this page and watch the video there.

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Last year after I found a porn site that got on the 16th position of Technorati’s Top 100 Favorited list by creating many accounts and favoriting their site themselves, I did an experiment to warn Technorati that anyone can get into the Top 100 Favorited list. I wanted to warn Technorati by getting into the list myself with my Technorati Favorite Exchange idea. I even wrote on how to get into Technorati’s Top 100 Favorited blogs so that Technorati would do something about it.

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Ever since ReviewMe started allowing publishers to set their own price, more and more publishers started taking advantage of it by increasing their review price to the maximum price of $750. The advantage of setting your review price to a high price is that your blog gets listed on the first page, as ReviewMe lists sites from highest price to lowest price.

Lower ranked blogs are now using ReviewMe as a source of traffic instead of a source of income.

The moment I realized that ReviewMe lists sites from highest price to lowest price, I too increased my review price from $250 to $320 thinking that I may get more review orders. But the next day I found John Chow make a post about ReviewMe price gaming and since then I have noticed an even higher level of price gaming on ReviewMe.

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After creating a robots.txt file for this site I have experienced a good increase in my web site traffic. I am not really sure if the traffic increase was completely due to the robots.txt file, but it might have helped me like it helped Neil Patel.

I just came to know through Quick Online Tips that Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! have announced support of “autodiscovery” of Sitemaps. The new open-format autodiscovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps within their robots.txt file, eliminating the need to submit sitemaps to each search engine separately.

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AGLOCO, short for a global community, allows you to make money by running a small toolbar, the ‘Viewbar, on your browser while you surf the web.

The Viewbar is currently in limited beta testing and is not yet available for download. In a couple of weeks, the viewbar will be put for download.

The Viewbar is what enables AGLOCO to collect the money you are earning while browsing the Internet. The Viewbar keeps track of your online interests and preferences, and uses that information to deliver advertising based on the web pages you are visiting.

The moment you learn that the Viewbar keeps track of your online interests, you may doubt that it contains spyware. This is what their site says to assure you that the AGLOCO Viewbar has absolutely no spyware.

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I first read it over at 901am and then at ShoeMoney that MyBlogLog tracks our visitors Ad clicks

Are you using Adsense and MyBlogLog together? Remember the rule about not being able to disclose the CTR rates to third parties? MyBlogLog is gathering this exact data on your site if you’re using the service. Using Adsense with MyBlogLog could get you banned from Adsense!

Just to be on the safe side I have removed MyBlogLog from this blog. What is your opinion on this?

MyBlogLog is a social network that allows you to connect and engage with your readers and blog readers get to connect with the authors and other fans of their favorite sites. It lets you add friends, join communities and even leave comments on other people’s profile pages.

I have added the MyBlogLog Widget to this blog’s sidebar that shows the last 15 readers to visit this blog and puts a face to each of them. When you click the readers pic it will take you to their MyBlogLog profile page from where you can find out the sites and blogs the reader runs, his/her favorite communities, contacts and view other MyBlogLog users who are part of the reader’s community.

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Google recently announced that it will begin reporting the number of subscribers any RSS feed has through Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage. Hence on February 17th, FeedBurner publishers noticed an increase in their feed count. This is great news as you can now have a better idea of what your actual feed counts are.

My Feed readers jumped from 500+ to 800+ and I am really happy about it and wish to further increase it to 1000+

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