Money Makers
17 Best Sites to Get FREE Images For Your Blog
Using images in blog posts not only complements your content, it also makes your readers stay longer on your blog. An image speaks for itself so your readers will be more inclined to read the posts. Even if an image isn’t going to complement your text, it will still pretty much enhance the visual appeal of your blog significantly.
Where to get FREE images for your blog? Finding quality images for your posts is already a challenge in itself. Imagine how frustrating it can become when you can’t find ones that you can use without having to pay for royalties or subscriptions. Therefore, to make your life easier, I’ve compiled a list of my favorites that I normally use whenever I need a free royalty-free image. These are the sites from where you can get any high-quality images of your choice at no cost – 100% FREE. However, remember to always check the licensing terms of any image you plan to use, crop, edit and photoshop. And, always credit the image owner. Here you go,
3 tips to being a different blogger
The company that I’m working for often sends its employees to training programs, both internally and externally. I personally think that it’s a good long-term investment in the employees as well-trained employees are able to improve or at least maintain the company’s readiness to respond to the market. I was recently asked to attend a 2-day external training on “Handling Customer Complaints”. The trainer, Dr Allen, was indeed an experienced speaker and the content was very informative. I learned something new and during the whole course I was trying to relate it to blogging, hoping that it could add value to what I’m currently doing. To my surprise, the findings were of satisfactory and here are some points that I think you can apply to your blogging model.
1. Do what people don’t do
You probably remember Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart which generated $245 billion in sales last year. He was once asked what his secrets to building the multi-billion retail empire were, and one of the rule of thumbs that he shared was “What people do, you don’t do; What people don’t do, you do“. In today’s blogging world, it’s getting difficult to make money from it as it has become more competitive. What other bloggers are already doing is no longer as worthy because it doesn’t deliver the uniqueness of your blog. Therefore, if you wanna stand out of the crowd, then do something that other bloggers don’t do, this way you will most probably be the first to capture the major market stake. A very good example would be John Chow, he was the first blogger who gave away prizes while converting visitors into RSS feed subscribers, and it created amazing results in his feed count leading to an increasing income. So, start thinking something that the rest are not doing and be the first to do it. I’m yet to experiment this golden secret, let’s try it and let me know if it creates opportunities and increases your online income by any chance.
Malaysian finally can withdraw Paypal funds
This is the best news ever to me and of course to all Malaysian. Malaysian can finally withdraw their hard-earned Paypal funds. Ever since Paypal was introduced back in year 1994 in Malaysia, we had been going round and round searching for the solution to withdraw our Paypal funds, we ended up paying more unnecessary fees for the access to US bank account, lot of time and money were spent in order to get the withdrawal work. Now, the withdrawal option is finally open to 26 more countries, including Malaysia.
Withdrawal limits and fees
There’s a minimum withdrawal amount of US$10. Paypal withdrawal to your Visa Debit Card costs US$5 per withdrawal and you can withdraw up to US$500 per day, meaning that you can withdraw up to US$15k per month, that’s good enough for me since I haven’t managed to earn that much in a month yet.
Should you use www. or without www.?
Your blog can be accessed either through www.yourblog.com or yourblog.com, how convenient it is! However, it also means that your blog has two different PageRanks. Go to SmartPageRank.com and see it for yourself. Google and other search engines often regard www.yourblog.com and yourblog.com as two different blogs, and therefore, some of the inbound links may point to www.yourblog.com and others to yourblog.com.
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