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Earning Stream For Bloggers – Ideas To Make Money Blogging

Digital Assets Increasing numbers of bloggers have been developing other digital assets to support and add income streams to their blogs.

Blog Network Opportunities with the rise in popularity of Blog Networks bloggers are also being offered with more places to earn an income from their blogging by writing for and with others. While it might be hard to get a writing gig with one of the bigger networks there are plenty who are always asking for new bloggers to join and who are willing to pay bloggers using a variety of payment models. While there are distinct advantages of blogging for yourself blogging for an established network who will handle a lot of the set up/promotion/admin/SEO etc has its advantages also. More and more bloggers are combining writing for themselves on their own blogs with taking on blog network blogs as additional income streams.

Business Blog Writing Opportunities as blogging has risen in its profile as a medium more and more businesses are starting blogs. Many of these companies have internal staff take on blogging duties but an increasing number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs. Check out Bloggers for Hire if youre looking for this type of work.

Non Blogging Writing Opportunities Also becoming more common are bloggers being hired to write in non blogging mediums. There is a rise of bloggers as published book authors this is to the extent that one blogger.

Consulting and Speaking While it has been popular for recognized consultants to add blogs to their businesses were also starting to see bloggers with no consulting background able to make money by charging readers for their time in consulting scenarios BECAUSE of the profile that their blogs have built them. Blogging has the ability to establish people as experts on niche topics and we all know the value of being perceived as an expert.

Flipping Blogs Also more common in 2005 was the practice of Blog Flipping or marketing of blogs. This has happened both on an personal blog level I can think of about 20 blogs that sold this year but also on a network level the most obvious of these being the 8 figure sale of Weblogs Inc to AOL.

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How Bayesian Spam Filters Work

Those of us plagued by the onslaught of tens if not hundreds of unwanted emails greeting us as we open up our email accounts have some hope for respite in the form of Bayesian spam filters. For years spammers have been able to remain one step ahead of spam blockers simply because of their creativity and ability to adjust and evade blocking each time a new spam filter was developed. As a result antispam software developers were certain of the task before them; to develop software that could continually learn from the new and creative techniques of spammers and as a result never fall behind in the spam blocking game.

Only recently has such a solution been developed in the form of Bayesian filters. The Bayesian statistical method upon which the filters are based works on the premise of dividing emails into categories. The software takes a log of the emails which you choose to open and those you simply delete. All the while it monitors the characteristics of both those emails you opened and those you did not. Over time it learns from these aggregate figures. It will recognize certain words that appear frequently in those emails which you constantly ignore. The software will then be more prone to categorizing emails with a high frequency of that particular word as spam.

But lest you be concerned that not opening a few emails from your Aunt Sue will suddenly cause all emails with the word Sue to be categorized as spam you should know that the Bayesian filters work in the aggregate. This means that while your decisions on which emails to open and which to not will affect the algorithm so will the activities of thousands if not tens of thousands of other users. Spread across such a wide body of users and aggregating data over such a period there is only a minimal danger of false labeling. Rather what you get is a very accurate long term tool to block spam. Unfortunately those same characteristics which prevent false blocking also limit the Bayesian spam filter from blocking the front wave of a new spamming technique. So often the effect is a few days or weeks of a new technique in spamming sneaking through the cracks until it is worked out into the algorithm.

By the same token however one of the great benefits of Bayesian spam filters is that they can be individualized. If you receive a disproportionate amount of spam based upon your online interests you can actually modify a Bayesian spam blocker to treat certain words that are particularly spammy to you as such. That is to say that while unprompted a Bayesian filter will be cautious to avoid overblocking when prompted by the user the software can be made to block any specific type of spam emails.

Only recently has the technology become commercially available. Currently it is offered in a limited number of anti spam software programs which can be purchased and which scans each piece of email before it is opened. The other form is that which is actually embedded into the mail server software itself meaning that the customers emails are already scanned and classified even before he or she opens up their email provider.

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Adding A Dash Of Class?

Since the name was not available I had to come up with alternate. I have found that it is very possible to create domain names that use the dash in them and still have one heck of a good domain name. I personally have used several domain names which has incorporated dashes in them. Let us face it which of these domains would be easier to read and simpler to remember. www.survivaltraining.info or www.survivaltraining.info? That is right! The second one is much easier to read as well as easier on the eyes.

The search engines see no distinction between a domain name containing a dash in it or one without the dash. Strangebrews.com and strangebrews.com would be treated similarly when using the Yahoo search engine.

One of the major problems which I perceive in employing dashes does not focus upon the search engines as much as it does on the people who use those search engines. Folks tend to get perplexed as to where they should place the dash when typing it in the address bar of their browser. This is not a good indication and could eventually cause the loss of valuable website traffic.

Many schools of though think that it may be possible to safely use a single dash in the domain name without it appearing in poor taste however I have effectively used multiple dashes in several domain names and had encounter no problems. In fact it had a tendency to improve the way the domains ocean1outlets.com and image1photography.com appeared to the prospective visitor. This was without a doubt to my advantage as well as to the clients.

It has been assumed that you cannot foster a significant traffic base by using a dashed domain name. I do not agree with that statement as people simply do not look at the domain name and decline to do business with the vendor simply because of the use of a dash. Dashed domain can encourage an identifiable brand if accomplished in the proper manner.

As with any other features involving website design the decision to use or not to use the dashed domain name is entirely up to you and your client.

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