Do you own old CDs, DVDs, Game or Book collections that you do not use anymore? SwitchPlanet lets you exchange your used DVDs, CDs, Video Games, and Books for some new and interesting ones that you really want to see, hear or play.

You may also be able to trade clothing, electronics, tools and much more soon with other members of SwitchPlanet. The best part is that it’s 100% free to use!

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Bloggers writing on different topics are joining Blogg-Buzz every day. As Blogg-Buzz grows, it will be the place where bloggers will look to find quality posts around the blogosphere and other bloggers from around the world.

Along with finding interesting bloggers and blog posts on topics you like, what about making money too? I think most bloggers especially those who have monetized their blogs have an AdSense account. So what about making money with Blogg-Buzz through AdSense?

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After reading the experiment done by Jane to test the theory that having less AdSense ads on your site gets you more money, I decided it to give it a try.

I removed the link units from this blog leaving just the 336×280 ad unit below the post title and within a few days my AdSense earnings almost doubled!

I thought my earnings would return back to the usual earnings the next day but it has continued to increase so far. If this increase in my earnings continues, it could be true that having less AdSense ads on your site gets you more money.

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A regular reader of this blog, Shivaranjan, asked me earlier today on how to optimize images to speed up his site. I decided to write a post on it as I feel there are many people who do not know on how to reduce their image size and as a result slow down their site.

Images are one of the reasons behind a slow loading site and hence is necessary to optimize them before you place them on your site or blog. Photoshop includes a feature called ‘Save for Web’ which you can use to reduce the image size.

If you do not have Photoshop, you can use other image editing softwares that have a similar feature to the ‘save for web’ that Photoshop provides or you can also use an online image optimizer.

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Readers have asked me several times on how I manage to get so many comments on almost every post I make. Jamdo Rob was the most recent reader to ask me this question and he suggested that I make a post on it.

hi John – I am really enjoying your blog lately. I was wondering if you might consider a post on how you manage to get so many comments on almost every post you make? It would be an interesting read!

There are already a lot of posts written on how to increase comments on a blog. Here are some of them:

• 10 techniques to get more comments on your blog
• 10 tips for attracting more comments
• How to increase comments on your blog
• Encourage your first time commenters
• Get your Blog lurkers to comment
• Getting people to comment on your new blog

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Have you ever deleted a file accidentally and then realized it to be an important one? You do not have to worry about deleted files again if you use Handy Recovery, which is an easy-to-use data recovery software designed to restore files accidentally deleted from your PC. The program can also recover files damaged by virus attacks, power failures and software faults and even files from deleted and formatted partitions.

It can also recover files moved to Recycle Bin after it has been emptied and if some program does not use Recycle Bin when deleting files, Handy Recovery can restore such files too.

Handy Recovery supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives. It can also recover compressed and encrypted files on NTFS drives.

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This is a paid review of a blog called Blogging Tips started by Kevin Muldoon.

Kevin has linked this blog a couple of times on BloggingTips.com, but I started noticing his blog only after he wrote that I was inflating my Alexa Ranking. I was actually just experimenting

Anyways…when I first visited BloggingTips.com, the first thing that caught my eye was his professionally designed mascot, a modified version of my favorite superhero (superman) with lots of money behind him and a laptop. The face of the character resembles Kevin.

Overall the mascot suggests to me that Kevin is very good in making lots of money from the internet. Now we can’t really confirm that until he reveals his earnings

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AdSense have updated their policies today and now allows publishers to have 3 link units per page. Earlier they used to allow only 1 linkunit per page.

Link units look like navigation links and when placed near your main navigation links can perform well. Linkunits got me $166.70 out of the $1,218.75 that I earned through AdSense last month.

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It’s been some time since I wanted to get rid of my old Nokia 3330 and own the Nokia N95 or the Apple iPhone. But ever since I came to know that the battery power of Nokia N95 doesn’t even last a day and is a bit expensive too, I decided to go for some other mobile phone until the iPhone is released at my place.

Also I heard that the iPhone has only a 2 megapixel camera, if that is true I am not sure if I want to buy it as I want to take good quality images and videos.

I did a research for a few days to find out the best mobile phone that can fulfill my needs. What I basically needed was a good camera and a music player, the Nokia N73 Music Edition with its 3.2 megapixel camera looked like the perfect choice for me.

I purchased Nokia N73 music edition yesterday using this blogs earnings and have been testing out its camera and music player ever since. The mobile phone offers good sound quality and I liked the camera too except that at low light conditions, the image and video quality is often low.

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After I revealed this blog’s traffic summary of April 2007, I got a few requests to do this on a monthly basis. So I thought of doing it this time too, and I revealed my AdSense earning this time since many people keep asking me.

On May 2007, this blog had 159,304 unique visitors and 252,305 pageviews according to Google Analytics.

What about this blog’s earnings? Through my highest earner, AdSense, I earned $1,218.75. Close to what John Chow earned through AdSense – $1,246.50

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