Yes thats right! We have just turned one (well on monday that is) and were celebrating big by holding a contest thats worth over $1300 in value.

We are notorious for giving out big prizes to all our readers and to make sure we continue our tradition, we will make sure every single prize is given out no matter how long this contest takes. Infact, its as simple as commenting to enter with additional tickets for subscribing to our RSS FEED or writing a short blog post.

What You Can Win:

1 - (The Big Prize) :- $100 Cash + Review - We will give you $100 via paypal (or other method) and a free 300-500 word review of your website or product. This gives you the chance to market your business/website/product to a readership of over 60 Thousand strong (monthly). There can only be 1 winner for this spot. Total value = $200

2 - (468×60 Banner + $10) :- This is the one you see on every page on top of SweetHacks and currently costs $100 a month so your getting $100 value for free as this placement will last for 1 month. Just to sweeten the deal, were also giving out $10 in cash with the banner! Only one winner may grab this spot (468 banner). Total value = $110

3 - (300×250 Banners + RSS FEED Links ) :- Currently worth $50 a month so its a nice saving. These banners go in all posts so its a good way to advertise or promote your brand/service/website/ to all our dedicated readers as banners are located to the right handside of every article written. Furthermore, how does a free link in our RSS FEED sound? Spot Open to 5 Winners! Total Value = $60

4 - (125×125 Banners) :- Thats a $50 saving and free advertising! 5 People are free to win these 125 buttons as long as they simply comment below. Total value = $50

5 - (PR5 Text Link) :- The last of the folks (the last 10) will all be given a free link from our blog which is currently a pagerank 5. Total Value= $45

Total number of spots for advertising: 22 (10 text links, 10 banner spots and 1 review). Cash being given out: $110. Total Value available for the taking: $1310!!!

How To Enter:

Simply comment. All entries will be processed and then randomly selected out from a hat. To make it fair, the contest will end after 2 weeks which means the deadline = 13th June 2008

Make sure to have your entries in as soon as possible to be able to participate in our 1 year anniversary give away.

A multiple ticket/entry will be given to people who subscribe to our RSS Feed (AND VERIFY), and another 2 entries to anyone that blogs about it, i.e:

“SweetHacks is running a fantastic new contest where you can win advertising spots for 1 month. Head on over now and enter, its as simple as leaving a comment!”

Make sure to link to http://www.SweetHacks.com and the contest page (http://www.sweethacks.com/1-years-old) to be able to have your blog post counted as an additional 2 entries.

Total of 4 entries to be won by each person:

Comment: 1 Entry
RSS Feed Subscription (BY EMAIL ONLY): 1 Entry
Blog Post: 2 Entries.

If you have subscribed to our RSS FEED or linked to our blog through a blog post, then please contact me to let me know. PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT when subscribing via email, this can be done by clicking the confirmation link sent by feedburner to your email.

Now, remember, only one comment is required to enter so no need for multiple comments although we welcome all comments on all posts.

Good Luck!

P.S All Advertising spots available for one month only.

PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT when subscribing via email, this can be done by clicking the confirmation link sent by feedburner to your email. A lot of you subscribe but dont verify so therefore you have not really subscribed. This will NOT gain you an extra entry to the contest unless you subscribe & verify.

Winners have been announced, please click here to see if you won!

Most webmasters know that Adsense generates a sizeable source of additional advertising income. That is why most of them use it to go after high paying keywords. They have with them the lists that tells what the keywords are and have already used various methods of identifying them. And yet, after putting up these supposed-to-be high paying keywords into their pages, the money they expected to come rolling in is not really coming in.

What is it that they are doing wrong?

Having the pages is with the proper keywords is one thing. But driving visitors to those pages is another matter and often the factor that is lacking.

The thing is, to get visitors to your high paying keyword pages, you need to optimize your site navigation.

Stop for a moment and think about how visitors are using your website. After a visitor has landed on a certain page, they have the tendency to click on another page that sounds interesting. They get there because of the other links that appears on a page that they initially landed on. This is site navigation. It is all about enabling visitors to move about your site. And one way of maximizing your Adsense earnings.

A typical website have menu links on each page. The wording on these links is what grabs a visitors attention and gets them to click on one of the links that will take them to another page of that website. Links that have free downloads are often good attention-grabbers.

This navigation logic can also be applied to driving traffic to your high paying pages. There are some websites that are getting a lot of traffic from search engines, but have low earnings. The trick is to try and use come cleverly labeled links to get the visitors off that pages and navigate them to the higher earning ones. This is one great way of turning real cheap clicks to real dollars.

Before you begin testing if this same style will work for you and you website, you need to have two things. Something to track and compare and some high earning pages you want to funnel your site traffic to. An option is to select a few of your frequently visited pages. This is ensuring fast result to come by.

Now, the next thing to do is think of ways to get visitors viewing a particular page to try and click on the link that will take them to your high earning pages. Come up with a catchy description for that link. Come up with a catchy and unique description for the link. Think of something that people do not get to see everyday. That will trigger their curiosity enough to try and see what that was all about.

You can also use graphics to grab your readers’ attention. There is no limitation to what you can do to make your link noticeable. If you are after the success of your site, you will do everything it takes just to achieve that goal. Just be creative. As far as many Adsense advertisers are concerned, there are no written and unwritten laws to follow regarding what they write. Just as long as you do not overstep the guidelines of the search engines, then go for it.

Also remember that it is all about location, location and location. Once the perfect attention grabbing description has been achieved, you have to identify the perfect spot on your page to position that descriptive link to your high paying page.

There is nothing wrong with visiting other websites to see how they are going about maximizing their site navigation. Hot pages? or Most reader? lists are very common and overly used already. Get to know the ones that many websites are using and do not try to imitate them.

Another way of doing it is to try and use different texts on different pages. That way you will see the ones that work and what does not. Try to mix things around also. Put links on top and sometimes on the bottom too. This is how you go about testing which ones get more clicks and which ones are being ignored.

Let the testing begin. Testing and tracking until you find the site navigation style that works best for you site.

Post written by the happy folks over at the google fund! For more useful tips & hints, browse our website :-www.thegooglefund.com

Geared Up with a website and lots of energy to make a mark online? Spare some time and go through this. You’ll be glad you did. If you don’t already, this is something you MUST know!

1. Maintain an easy to follow Navigational system throughout your website.
2. Do not use frames unless it’s really important. Visitors detest getting stuck up in frames and Search Engines find it difficult to index websites with frames.
3. Avoid using scrollbars horizontally. There is nothing more annoying than having to scroll both vertically and horizontally at all screen lengths.
4. A full Flash Website may look very appealing, but that’s the last thing your visitors are going to wait for to load. Instead try embedding Flash on your pages to get the same look.
5. To minimize download time, use tables with different background colors to add life to your pages, instead of using too many graphics.
6. Do not cluster too many animated buttons and banners throughout your site. Your visitors will not be able to browse comfortably with all that blinking going on and will surf elsewhere.
7. Keep updating your website. People will not return if they find the same old stuff lying there.
8. Put up a message board, feedback form, guestbook etc. to add a touch of interactivity to your website.
9. Make it a point to return the visits and/or answer all e-mails/messages within a reasonable period of time.
10. Provide links to other websites, even your competitors, if possible. This shows you are not conceited and are willing to help your visitors to find what they need. This little gesture goes a long way to earn you goodwill.

About the Author

Lata Tokhi is the joint owner of Elements Web Services, a website dedicated to providing quality web services and products like banner design, website content, website templates, info-products, scripts etc. Visit her website at http://www.elementswebservices.com

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According to our good friends over at mmocrunch.com, Blizzard may be working on the third installment of Diablo, thats right, Diablo 3 is around the corner.

In the latest edition of PC Gamer magazine, there seems to be couple of hints towards Diablo 3;

?NEXT MONTH
Have you ever had a secret that you?re just dying to blurt out, but you can?t for another month, and the stress of holding it in makes you want to do the pee-pee dance? That?s what the PC Gamer staff is doing right now, because the August issue will be chock-full of exclusives, including a top-secret cover story so huge we had to go to [CENSORED] to get it. Just 30 days more ??

For more of this story, head on over to mmocrunch.

We all want to get exceptional rankings in google and other search engines therefore many of us resort to low level tactis such as spam. We should not spam simply because google knows it exists!! Watch the video below to see Matt Cutts on what google knows about spam:

So SEO is good and recommended…now to find me cheap a whitehat SEO activist .

Via Matt Cutts Blog.