Sarat’s Web - The Web {B}log

JohnChow.com and Shoemoney.com are having an RSS competition, to see who will have the most number of RSS readers by the end of October.

John doesn’t surely want to lose, so he’s running a contest to make sure that people do subscribe and make him win.

The prizes include :

• A 2GB iPod nano (value $149)
• Ad in the RSS feed (value $200)
• John Chow dot Com Review (value $400)
• 7 Winning Strategies for Trading Forex (value $20)
• $50 of cold hard cash by Preblogging.com Already won!
• Two books (The Search and Wikinomics) by Piggy Bank Pie
• A free review by CashQuests (value $80)
• One hour of free blog consultation (value $60) by Blog Louder
• Two $25 Barnes & Noble gift cards by Shaun Carter
• $144 webhosting package from Tribune Hosting
• Two text links and a review (value $50) by Online Cash Flow
• One 125×125 banner (value $15) by Etienne Teo
• Five 1000 directory submission packages (value $550) by SEO Next
• A complete Wordpress blog redesign valued at $750 by Adriann Pienaar of Adii.

You could say I don’t want to lose this competition, as well!

How to enter :

John wants you to subscribe to his RSS feed, and then check it every day for the rest of the month. Blog about it, which I am doing right now. Then, link to the post which announced the rest of the prizes, and/or link to the post which announced the RSS Competition.

How to win the prizes :

The $50 in cash was already won, and John says he will give the 7 winning strategies for trading Forex book away to random RSS readers. The John Chow Dot Com review, and the iPod Nano are going to be given away to people who come up with the most creative ideas of increasing his RSS Count. Here are some ideas from me :

• Run a VERY BIG contest, which requires readers to subscribe
• PAY every new reader who subscribes. Something like $1 or so. Expensive, but if he is determined…
• Run a contest to pay a good prize for someone who refers the most number of people to his RSS feed.
• Creative advertising! For example, promise the person who makes a video promoting John’s RSS feed, a free advertising on his blog, or something similar.

I guess I entered, huh?

David Airey, a graphic designer from Northern Ireland, is giving away an amazing $4000 in prizes, to celebrate the first anniversary of his contest. He has a graphics design blog, and he makes great logos! One of the great things about this is that he has contacted basically a lot of people to get this many prizes.

Some of the prizes include :

The gold award, Silver Award and Bronze Award : Basically, it includes everything, everything you would need to jump start your new blog.

Other bonus prizes include :

• Podcasting kit
• $25 free cash
• USB storage keys
• Blog reviews and design help
• Telephone and Skype consultations
• Art and Literature prizes
• Online advertising
• Paid forum membership

How to enter

To get one entry, all you need is to link to his homepage with logo design related anchor text. And oh, for every five sponsors you link to, you get 1 entry.

If you subscribe to his feed, either by RSS or by e-mail, you will get one entry. At the first update, there will be a code word at the bottom of the feed. You have to e-mail him with the code to get your entry.

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Of course, who wouldn’t. Unless you are already stinking rich.

Ashwin Khanna over at his blog, wants to let you win that. Entering the contest is simple; just post about the contest in your blog, and you are in. He has given a certain paragraph to quote, but I didn’t want to do just that.

Here :

Over at Ashwin’s blog, you will find one crazy blog owner!! You can win $2500!! To enter just copy this text and paste it in your blog!! But hurry, this competition will not last long! So get posting!

The deadline is on August 20, and the Payment will be sent by Paypal.

This contest is generating a lot of interest, because of a lot of factors. Whether anyone wins it or not, it is pretty easy to enter, right? So…so…

…so I am entered now. Are you?

P.S : Seems like that guy Ashwin cheated. Oh yeah, some one did win that contest, but seems like Ashwin just set up a Wordpress blog to show like someone won.

Well, John Chow, the blog to make money is conducting another contest again. This time, he is offering a 24″ Widescreen LCD Monitor from LG Electronics. The contest is sponsored by Bluefur.com, who wants to get the word out that they are hosting Canada and rest of the world.

And to enter the contest, I just have to blog about it. This is..well..my entry. After writing this blog entry, I have to.. Read the rest of this entry »

I found this online drawing tool, where you could draw your own pictures and all. Well, it may not be a new thing, but since this was the first time I found such a site, it was a great thing to me.

The toolbox is pretty simple, with minimal colours and shades, and also a text tool, eraser, and brush. You can also select the size of the brush, as well as the opacity. You can also select a frame. After you finish the painting, you can replay it, save and send it to someone, or hang it in the gallery. If you choose save & send, you can also choose whether you want the site to consider it for the public gallery.

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Welcome to dontclick.it, where you don’t have to ..yes, click, to navigate. It started as an abstract idea, as they say from their own story. Frankly, I love this site. Even though it sometimes seems hard not to click, it gets easier over time. The entire interface is so designed that you don’t have to click even once - just move your mouse to navigate.

The website also tells us about the importance of click, the click history, commercial click, and so on.

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If you know about Text-Link-Ads, you probably also know that they offer one of the best programs to monetize your blog. Really, you get paid for having unobstructive text-ads anywhere on your site, could it get any better?

Before signing up, I was looking whether there was any tool that would check how much I could earn through their program. Then I found that they had such a calculator on their website!

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CyberWyre is presenting a website value calculator, that calculates your website’s value with different factors, such as Alexa rank, PageRank, Backlinks, etc. It also gives an estimate of how much money you could make from different factors, such as selling Text Link Ads, Affliate marketing, etc.

I was never honestly impressed with Domain value appraisal sites like Leapfish, because sometimes they tend to go wrong. I like the fact that this calculator says “Website Value” and not just Domain name value. There may be inaccuracies, but hey, the stats look quite good!

According to CyberWire’s calculator, Sarat’s Web is worth,
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Yeah, you might think my review of the “Making money online” blogs might never end, would you? Rest assured, I will post only the best ones out there.

Carlocab.com is a blog about making money, run by a 14-year old blogger, Carl Ocab. He just turned 14, so you might think that he should change his blog title to ‘Make Money Online with a 14 year old’. But he doesn’t. He has built a good brand, and as he says, he should stick with it.

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John Chow did it yet again. He wrote an e-book for information on how to make money online, with the ridiculous price of $0. You don’t even need to enter your e-mail address. He just provides a link. You are free to view it, download it, distribute it, offer it for download on your own blog, anything. I like this, except I learned from his own blog why he is doing this. And the reason is truly evil…

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