As you all know the POB team is always looking to push the envelop when it comes to being the best MMO / Tips Blog around! We have been hard at work and I the owner decided it was about time to run a contest on POB!

Its really not that hard to enter either so I encourage everyone to enter the contest! Basically the contest starts today and ends 1 month from today which would be June 11th, 2008.

The Prize

Although the title of this post says what the winner gets I wanted to cover it here as well in caseby some odd reason you miss the title of this post after the word FREE was thrown in your face! As you can tell from the title of this post we are giving out a free 125 x 125 ad on our whole blog to the winner for free! This ad is worth $35.00 per month and the winner gets it for FREE!!!

How To Enter

We know you want that free banner spot like crazy but before we can give it away you have to help us out! We will be running several contests like this so please do participate in at least one of them at some time. Its good for you to learn how to win and also helps us growing as we go!

To enter you will need to earn credits, credits are easy to earn all you have to do is complete one of the following 2 choices!

1. Invite 10 Friends to Subscribe to POB (They Must Subscribe To Count, Be Sure And List Your Friends Emails To Me In A List at support@piratesofblogging.com to ensure they count for you!)

2. Comment On Every Post On POB (Approx 10 Posts, These Comments Need To Be REALLY Good. No Spamming Or You Will Be Disqualified From The Contest).

And that’s it! Pretty simple huh? POB Wants you to win so please complete at least 1 of the above. If you complete both i’ll have to totally hug you!

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Do you believe its impossible to actually make a income online through blogging or affiliate sales? I am here to reassure you that it is possible and if you keep your nose to the grind stone you will reap the benefits in the long run.

People like yourself often get into blogging or other means of making money online and they forget or never look at the rule of thumb, working hard is what pays off in the long run. If your not a determined hard worker in the short term you may see a boost of sales or jobs coming in. After some time though when someone else comes along who is cheaper and better then you they may take your business and clients without even trying. However if you stick to it and keep digging in deeper and deeper you will never be replaced!

So that leaves us with what my reasoning for this post is. Well to put it bluntly I am tired of all the flyby bloggers who think they are going to strike it rich overnight. You know who you are, its time to get to work and start making money online!

Alright I am done with my short pep talk! GET TO WORK!

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If you haven’t noticed the rather large sign-up image to the right of your screen perhaps you do now? I put this on the site for 1 simple reason, it draws readers attention to it in the hopes that they sign-up to our awesome blog!

You can do your part by signing up as well, don’t hesitate because monthly we pick a winner to take home $25.00! ITS FREE CASH!

So today I want to talk about drawing the readers attention to a specific part of a website. Believe it or not us humans are not perfect so we need to figure out (learn) what the hot spots of our blogs are so we can populate those sections with ads or places for our readers to sign-up to our blog.

Hot Spots Program

There is a program out there that does this for you its called CrazyEgg and its excellent for discovering exactly what the hot spots on your blog are.

It creates a heat map for where the visitors mouse is more then other areas. It helps you pin point words and full advert sections that are hit the most on your blog already.

Its not overly difficult to understand and I encourage everyone to at least try it out. This is not a paid review either its because I believe in this program and want everyone to try it!

The Oldschool Way

Now that program is all well and fine but its not really that great for anything more then finding out what your blog is already doing right. What about the things your doing wrong or not at all? Well this is where we turn to ourselves and say “DO SOMETHING”.

We need to figure out what the best spots are on any and every blog to effectively make money online. I have found that just below the header is a great spot to put either affiliate ads or adsense. This spot is what users usually see first as we all read from “Top Left” to “Bottom Right”.

Knowing that we read from the top left down the top left spot is obviously going to yield excellent results if we put ads there. But what about using it to increase sign-ups, not everyone will take the risk of putting a huge blatant image on there blogs telling people to sign-up as we have here on POB.

Blogging is all about experimenting and I hope this post triggers you to look at your blog through a new set of eyes. See what works and what doesn’t over time, keep what works and eliminate what doesn’t so you can get the most out of your blog! GO MAKE SOME MONEY!

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