Site Hokage :: Internet Scavenger

Why do we love WordPress?

Not just because it is the one of the best blogging CMS that is available, but also because of the free customization options that we have for it.

As far as WP is concerned, you name it and you got it.

Plugins and themes are a craze and with so many free option available, no wonder WordPress seems to be killing all the competition around.

This blog too is powered by WordPress and the one thing that attracted us was the option of choosing from so many good free themes.

The site that we would recommend for all your WP themes requirement would be SutraSkins.com

This is a beautiful site that does not believe in numbers but quality.

At SutraSkin.com you will find the most beautiful WP themes that you can use for free.

The themes are neatly categories under blog niche topics and you can also pick a tag to start your theme search.

This site is daily updated and I would suggest that you subscribe to their feed if your ascetic are right.

The only theme site that I visit for all my WP powered blogs and sights.

There are millions of blogs out there and a few more millions being created every month.

So if you are a blogger, how are you supposed to fight such tough competition?

The simple step being to take some time and money out for your blog promotion. As money might be a concern for people starting out, there are some free means that you could adopt to get some exposure and backlinks for your directory.

One of the best methods is to start with blog directory submissions and one of the quality (SPAM free) blog directory is SpillBean.com

This is a blog exclusive directory which have a very pleasing design and have one of the best category structure. The blog is SPAM free and when searched, it does not link to and bad neighbourhood.

They have a paid option but for people that would like to get in for free, they also have a free reciprocal option that you could use.

Submit your blogs to SpillBean

Are are you in site development and would like to learn the simple way?

There are many webmaster blogs that teach one how to develop and manage their websites and at the same time make good money out of it. But, most of these websites donot over the basics and are filled with jargons that make it impossible for a newbie webmaster to comprehend anything that they read.

At kiviniar.com, the blog author has made it a point to keep things simplified and has very beautifully writing topics with great simplicity that makes everything that one reads very simple to understand.

So if you are a webmaster that would like to monetize their sites and at the same time learn a few tricks along the way then I suggest that you visit kiviniar.com

On of my favorite webmaster blogs and also they offer many free scripts.

Kiviniar

Are you looking to expand your business by making your wares available online?

Looking for new markets and customers can be a daunting task and trying to reach them via offline mediums can be unproductive and very expensive. With millions migrating to the online world for most of their purchase and product research, it is a very sensible and a smart move to expands one’s product capabilities on the online market.

You might now be in two minds as you might not have the skills required to setup an online store where you can display and sell your wares.

The golden principle of every successful business; “Outsource what you can”. You will get a number of ecommerce software providers who will help you manage you online stores.

One of the better shopping cart software providers are AShopcom.au

They are the creators of an award winning software that is being used by thousand of sites for online store management. I would recommend you check out their feature list to see the number of advance options you would enjoy with them.

If you read a few more reviews on the web, you will find that they offer great support for their product and if you would like to put your mind at ease then you could take their 10 days free trial.

All in all a great product with just every possible feature you would need.

AShop

Blog advertising is doing well in helping bloggers monetize their websites so that then can sponsor their hobby and also earn an incentive for their hard work.

With the trend catching heat we can now see many vendors in the market that provide a medium for communication between the advertisers and the website publishers. One of the better ones is Smorty.com

They might not have a vast portfolio of advertisers at the moment but look like very promising for bloggers.
Once you join their network, you can earn money by writing your opinion on various online products and services. You can list more than one blog with them and take multiple review opportunities for each of them individually. Coming to the payment front, you will get paid weekly via Paypal for your approved post and I guess that the fastest payment cycle around.

However, to join their network there are certain prerequisites than you need to confirm with. To sum it all up your blog needs to be indexed in Google and Yahoo, should be at least 3 months old, should not have duplicate posts or excessive duplicate content and should not contain any violent, hate related or adult content.

You can participate from anywhere in the world as long as you have Paypal.

So signup for making money and at the same time enjoy your writing.

Also if you have a budget for promiting your own sites, then you can use their services to advertise on blogs.

A viable option for bloggers who are trying to monetize their blogs. So now you can get paid to blog with Smorty.com

Smorty

This one is sweet and very neat. Have you wanted to show off a few websites stats with style but never wanted to go through too much hassle ?

Well this is just the right answer for that, free web counters for your website from easy-poll.com .

Use this counters creatively for you blogs, websites or even as myspace counters.

To top it all it is all free and spam free as checked by me.

As extracted from their website:

Our free counters bring to you:

* information about unique users
* occurate graphical statistics
* information about your website hits
* keywords following which the visits were made
* visitor’s computer address
* the Internet browser used
* the operating system used
* the address of the page from which the visit was made
* 10 recently searched phrases
* resolutions used by your website visitors
* detailed analysis of the most recent visitors

Free Web Counters