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Over at mens lifestyle and buying guide Gear Crave, this weeks mens giveaway is a good one. So far there are only about 40 entries, and since there will be 4 winners (of $50 each) this is looking very win-able.

Gear Crave is a blog about and for men, they feature lots of cool gadgets regularly, how to articles, plus interviews and weekly contests. This week the contest is sponsored by a company called Molla Space.

Check out below some of the very hip guy stuff they carry.

all black playing cards

gun mug - kill time coffee mug

To enter to win one of four $50 gift certificates from MollaSpace, visit Gear Crave and follow 2 simple steps:

1. ) subscribe to their newsletter

2.) leave a comment on their blog specifying which item you lust after

That’s it, go to Gear Crave now and enter. Good Luck!

Today is the day one lucky blogger walks off with 2,200 Entrecard Credits. Nice!

I want to thank all who participated, and made the contest a success. My goal was to ramp up the comments on the blog, and this contest garnered 31 comments in one post. Sweet!

What’s Next?

I still have lots of EC credits left, and plan to giveaway some more.

But next time the giveaway will be held at my other blog, G34 Media.

So be sure to subscribe to my network blog, to be notified of the next EC credit blowout. The contest should take place within the next week, or two.

Who Won Grand Prize?

Enough with the updates, let’s reveal who won the 2,200 EC Credits.

The winner is…..(drum roll please)… Adiska @ Money Bag Blog Congrats to Adiska!

Hope he accomplishes what he wanted.

Who Won Second Prize?

The winner of the 100 EC Credits is……Khyle @ Entrecard Contest Blog. Congrats to Khyle!

An email will be sent to the winners, and they have 2 days to claim the prize, otherwise new winners will be announced. The credits will be pushed, via the “give credits to” feature on EC.

P.S. Thanks again to all who participated.

I’ve decided to hold my first sweet contest here at Bloggers Search. I have accumulated quite a number of Entrecard credits, and want to give them to you.

What is Entrecard?

Entrecard is a cool service for bloggers, that allows advertising of various types, via an exchange of credits. You can grab an ad on popular blogs like John Chow, and receive tons of traffic to your blog. There are lots of cool things bloggers can use EC for, such as promo for a contest, introduce a new eBook, etc.

I admit i’m not as active on Entrecard, as i use to be, but not because it isn’t a useful resource, but because i’ve just gotten lazy with it.

Now on to the 2,200 Entrecard Credits Giveaway

To enter the giveaway and get a boatload of Entrecard credits, all you need to do is:

1. Write about this contest on your blog
2. Leave a comment below that you are entering (be sure to leave a valid email address)
3. Tell me why you should win. What are you planning on doing with the 2,200 EC Credits?

Starts: July 28th (Monday - today- now!)

Ends: July 30th @ Midnight

Winner Announced: July 31st, 2008

Prize: 2,200 Entrecard Credits

Special bonus:

100 EC credits to a random entry. (So a total of 2 winners) Starts now!

Good luck to all.

UPDATE: The contest is officially over, as i have picked winners. I ended it early by mistake. Apologies to all. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT ANY MORE ENTRIES.

If you’re having a giveaway on your blog this week, be sure to enter it in the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival. This is a great BIG carnival, with loads of contests and giveaways, all by fellow bloggers.

It takes places every quarter, and this one just started today, ends Friday. My entry is the 2,200 Entrecard Credits Giveaway which ends this Wednesday.

Grab some prime ad spots with 2,200 EC Credits, and you have till midnight July 30th, to enter.

So you want to blog for money? As in a blog job. This is one solid method to fund any business venture(s) you have ruminating in your head. Pay the bills first, then branch out on your own. Or stay put.

In April 2007, i found my first gig through Craigslist. But i have found other gigs since then, through some of the sites mentioned below. If you are looking to get a blog job, below are the 9 best resources to find a blogging job. These are the best of the best.

9. Yahoo Pipes

8. SitePoint

7. Digital Point Forums

6. Performancing

5. Cragislist - San Francisco

4. Freelance Writing Gigs

3. Blogger Jobs Biz

2. Craigslist - New York

1. Problogger Job Board (no big surprise, to experienced bloggers)

There you have it. The 9 best places for bloggers/freelance writers to find blog jobs. Remember sometimes you have to take a low paying gig, to learn the ropes or spruce up your resume. Do it, it will benefit you in the long run.

Prepare like you would for any job

I have found several blogging gigs through the resources listed above. These are your best bet in landing that coveted blog job, or even a part-time assignment. Browse, do your research, apply, submit your best work samples, and establish your rates ealy on.

Any that i missed, share in the comments section. Good Luck in your search for a blog job!

Looking to squeeze more pennies from Adsense? Don’t under-estimate how the type of wordpress theme you use is key, in generating more clicks from Adsense.

The secret? It’s all in the placement. You need to place your Adsense ads in the most visible and highly trafficked part of your blog.

It’s All In The Placement

You can spend time messing around with code, and your theme editor in your wordpress dashboard, or you can simply find Adsense optimized wordpress themes.

Adsense ready themes have done all the hard work for you. The themes are designed and optimized specifically to generate clicks. Remember, its all in the placement, and Adsense ready themes are created by those who have figured this out, and have the best placement spots built-in.

All you need to do is grab one, download it, activate it, and add content. Lots of content. Drive steady traffic to the blog, (minimum of 200 to 300 visitors a day), and watch those Adsense pennies come rolling in.

Do this over and over. Start with one blog, and then add another. Rinse and repeat.

Ready to give it a try?

Start with these 12 Adsense Ready Themes, create a blog, add content, drive traffic to it, and wait for your Adsense paycheck in the mail. It really is that simple.

Any questions, leave them below in the comments section. Good Luck!

Why do people blog? Why has blogging exploded in the last year?

There is a blog for every conceivable topic imaginable, everything from vegetarianism to green living, from blog flipping to reggae music, living more frugally. On and on it goes. You name it and someone somewhere writes a blog about it.

But why?

Why the fascination, why this need to share with the WORLD our thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Why this very public dissemination of information.

In a nutshell, blogging is just that. An incurable case of sharing (via the written word), our personal view on a give topic.

We are writers, communicators, info seekers, but most of all we LOVE to share. We spread each others content around the web, like wildfire.

We network like crazy endless hours everyday, and we look out after each other.

We have our own ecosystem, to survive we need one another. No blogger can sustain him or herself, without the web of each other blogger.

Bloggers are info addicts. We consume ungodly amounts of information daily.

We read voraciously, and again we share what we consumer, what we read.

Bloggers cannot get enough. We are info junkies, we subscribe to hundeds of blogs and news sources, which we actually read.

We visit each others blogs, and we comment when we have something to add.

But why?

Why do we do all of the above. Could it be as a friend of mine said, “bloggers blog because of money”.

Let me answer that. No! We blog because we are the future, the future is here, and it is us.

Old media is dead, NEW MEDIA has taken over.

There is too much information, and we have taken over to disseminate, share, and opinionate. There are millions of bloggers, and more join the ranks daily. Fact is there are a variety of ways of making money online, besides blogs and blogging. So those who specifically choose to blog, are a different animal.

Blogging is alot of work, it isnt as simple, as writing content. There is alot of behind the scenes stuff that needs to be implemented, in order to take a blog from zero to hero.

Bottom Line

Bloggers blog because we love to share of ourselves, we love to participate in the dissemination of information, and because we feel we have valuable gifts, to give to the world.

I’ve gotten emails asking what theme is this on Bloggers Search. This is a FREE premium theme created by the wordpress design team at Unique Blog Designs. (a/k/a UBD)

The UBD Premium Theme is a two column widget ready theme, that has a series of built in features, and wordpress plugins.

UBD Premium Theme Features:
Support for Feedburner
Support For the My Blog Log widget
Ad ready
Share This plugin built in
UBD Block Ad Manager plugin built in (great for adding and managing ads on the sidebar)
Recent Readers plugin
Top Commentators plugin
SEO Ready
Compatible up to WP 2.5
100% Free

The guys are hard at work upgrading the theme to Wordpress 2.6, the update (according to their blog) should be coming soon.

This theme design is lovely, that is why i picked it. Has great use of color, and it was made by bloggers, for bloggers.

To download it, go to UBD.

To read an exciting interview on Australian blogger Darren Rowse, head on over to the Pepperjam blog.

This interview is part of an ongoing series of interviews with affiliate bloggers. Problogger Darren Rowse is probably the most well known of the Aussie bloggers. I’m telling you there must be something in their water. Just makes you go hmmn!

Tremendous talent coming out of Australia.