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Dear readers, I am currently in the midst of preparing for several upcoming school exams. Once exams are over I will resume a more regular posting schedule. Your comments and feedback are much appreciated. I look forward to seeing you all very soon. Kind Regards, Fabien.

5 Tips For Bettering Your Lifestyle And Well-Being

1. Getting At Least 8 or More Hours Of Sleep Every Night Is Quintessential

Sleeping: Personally, I know some people that live on only three to four hours of sleep per night. I must point out that this kind of behaviour and lifestyle pattern is plain stupid and is very dangerous for your health. People sleep for one main overarching reason, you need to rest, relax and re-energize your body.

Sleep Less And Risk It All: Losing out on sleep won’t simply make you tired, for example, it increases the likelihood that when driving you’ll crash into a car. Why? This happens because you are so tired, your body starts shutting down automatically, you become less alert as a result of this lack of sleep - keep in mind that your vital organs and cells have been working flat out for the whole day…they can’t last for more than 48 hours without sleep.

Sleep Revitalizes You: The cells and the organs that keep you alert, awake and active during the day need time to restore their energy supplies - when you feel tired, go to bed, staying up or sticking it out will only make you feel worse. If you happen to suffer from sleeping disorders perhaps in the form of insomnia, you should explore all avenues to rectify this issue in order to maintain a healthy, balanced and more rewarding life experience.

2. Dedicate Some Time For Friends And Networking, Online Or Offline

Friends and Having A Good Time: We are all human, it is only natural for us to find friends and develop relationships with them. Making time for finding and creating relationships is a very important aspect of life; it’s importance to ensure you have a support group or network to ensure you can get help if you ever need it. It’s not all about getting help though, it’s also about going out with these friends and having a great time, giving you a break from computers, games and all the other modern day distractions and contraptions.

Speaking to people face to face is better for the most part, but if you don’t have too much time on your hands, use your instant messaging platform as a tool for communicating with others and having an intelligent conversation. If you want to take things to the next level, you can go further and video stream a conversation, this will help you bounce back ideas and daily happenings with other people and enhance your creative ability.

3. Don’t Put Yourself Under Any Unduly Stress Or Pressure

Stress: In life, we often take various tasks or events too seriously, sometimes we just need to learn to let go. I worry about certain things a bit too much, the best way to get out of this habit is to learn to put things into perspective and plan ahead. I’ve found that when I plan ahead and I complete tasks before a deadline, I feel much less under pressure and I feel virtually no stress whatsoever. 

How To De-Stress and Detoxify Yourself: I could go on for literally hours and hours talking about detoxification and stress relief. Safe it to say that the following strategies work best and are the most effective. Relieving yourself of stress is about getting out of your work environment, go for a swim, take a hike, go for a bike ride, do some walking, jog, run, skip, hop or go to the park. A change of scenery works wonders.

Detoxification To The Max: When you feel you’re lacking energy, something is obviously wrong with your body. The number one problem here is usually attributed to lack of sleep or bad nutrition. Getting more sleep is always helpful as mentioned above, but sometimes your body just needs to flush out the system. Herbs, Spices, Citrus Fruits, Fibrous Foods and Water play a huge role in cleansing the insides of your body, ensure a regular intake of these foods. To balance it out, continue to eat of a lot of vegetables, rice, lentils, fish and a regulated amount of meat (too much meat can be bad for the body).

4. Plan Your Time And You’ll Be Able To Accomplish More In A Day

Planning Is Quintessential: Planning seems to be something many people either like or don’t like. It doesn’t matter what you think - leave your pre-conceived ideas behind, the time to take action and progress your life is now. By planning what you need to do, setting yourself deadlines and accomplishing tasks with finesse, you will see that you can double, if not triple your day to day productivity.

How Can You Plan? So many people have different ways to plan, some people like making a daily ‘to-do’ list, others enjoying writing in their diaries, some people like using computer notification programs and others like methodical strategies. It doesn’t matter what you like, if you’ve stopped planning you may find your life being tipped off balance. Plan your work and give yourself reasonable goals and deadlines; success will come along with this if done correctly and thoroughly.

5. Give Yourself Some “Me” Time And Do Something YOU Enjoy Doing

Are You Given Orders Left, Right and Centre? If you’re not an entrepreneur or ‘your own boss’ so to speak, you’re probably being given instructions and tasks on a daily basis by a supervisor or a manager. This alone can be highly aggravating and frustrating, to the point where you get so tired of people telling you what to do. This happens, and it’s not always relating to work, but that’s a good example of how it can happen to you.

You can resolve this problem by giving yourself some more “me” time, this is when you decide to do something for one reason only - because you like doing it, and it will benefit you. By doing this you are freeing yourself from the chains of the cubicle set up, or your boss hanging over your head. Take a couple of days, go shopping, go to a day spa, go camping, do some water sports - all with the sole intention of relaxing and benefiting yourself. Your oasis awaits you.

Posted on May 11, 2008
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Focused Articles Attract A Greater Reader Response

Developing Focus In Life: Life is filled with distractions, one of the many responsibilities we have is learning to deal with these distractions to become more focused. I’ve talked about focus before, and I believe it is important because it helps you live a better life. Being focused allows you to think more clearly and make the right decisions more often. Lack of focus is destructive and leads to a disorganized thought process hence a warped outlook on life.

Writing Articles Frequently: As a blogger, my responsibility to you and to myself is to ensure that I write blog posts or articles on a frequent basis. My second tier responsibility is to maintain a certain level of relevance and context in the articles I write; this simply means that I need to post about topics which are related to the field in which I write.

Keeping Articles Focused: A common misconception with blogging is the point that, since it’s your blog, you can ramble on about anything you want, when you want. This is not a good idea as it will prevent your blog from maximizing its success potential. To attract readers, you need to keep articles focused, talking about some weird childhood experience in your post about Yahoo or Microsoft is irrelevant and it will put people off your writing for good.

Topics That Attract Readers: A huge part of writing focused articles lies in the selection of the topic or theme for the post. When you’re thinking of what to write about, try and think about it from a readers perspective, what keywords make you want to read more of a post. The next step is to ask yourself, what kind of content makes me want to read the entire post. Usually content or articles about well known companies or services do well in this area. If you have new ideas to share about blogging, writing, advertising and marketing, they can also succeed in getting people to continue reading.

Structure Is A Part Of Focus: The amount of structure and ‘calls to attention’ present in a blog post will play a role in determining the amount of focus it has. Your blog post should have a sequential flow, like this one does, it goes from a basic introduction, to a point about articles, it expands on the point about articles and then goes on to talk about what to write about in those articles; it then suggests in this very paragraph how to improve focus via structure. Then it links back to the overall theme of reader response below. Now it all starts to make sense, focused idea (topic), good headings, fantastic flow, simplistic structure, great post!

Reader Response: When you write with a certain level of conviction and coherence, you are more likely to attain response or feedback from people. Why? Simply because your title caught their attention and your article was able to fulfill the time they took to read your post. A focused article may sometimes be very simple and short, but it has the ability to evoke response because of that. These kinds of articles or blog posts tend to convert better, in terms of attaining links, comments and RSS subscriptions.

Posted on May 4, 2008
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Small Fish Super Blogging Link Love, Thank You

SmallFishBigMoney’s Strong Community Spirit: As you all know, I love the community here at SmallFishBigMoney.Com. It is continually growing and I enjoy hearing from each and every one of you, be it via email or comments. Your support is greatly appreciated, one way for me to give back to the community is by doing my super blogging link love post. In the link love posts I go over the numerous amount of sites that have linked to me and I thank them for doing so; they took the time to find me and link to me, so why shouldn’t I do the same?

Thanks For Your Continued Support…

• JohnChow, For allowing me to guest post about blog commenting, Thanks John.
• DevelopingEyes, For linking to SmallFishBigMoney.Com via blogroll. You Rock Brett!
• LearningSEOBasics, For linking to SmallFishBigMoney.Com via blogroll. Thanks Kim!
• EtienneTeo, For linking to the site via blogroll. Thank You Etienne. I appreciate it.
• DivitoDesign, Linked to the site via blogroll. It is much appreciated Stefan, Thanks!
• MixedSoup, For supporting SmallFishBigMoney.Com via blogroll, Thank You!
• Sueblimely, Linked to my blog post about Blog Profiling Sites Declaring War, Thanks!
• Diaries Of A Blogger, Linked to SmallFishBigMoney.Com, Thank You Anthony.
• WisePicker, Linked to the site and my post about link building, Thanks Ivan.
• KathrynVercillo, For taking the time to link to quite a few posts. Many Thanks Kathryn.

Thank You: I just want you all to know that your support is very much appreciated and that I could not continue to blog here everyday without you, your links to the posts, the site and the RSS feed just spur me on to keep on writing better content. I trust that you will continue to support the site and the community in any way you can and I will certainly do as much as I can to help you out. The content will continue to flow and I look forward to seeing you all again very soon.

Want To Get Mentioned Next Time? Show Your Support By Linking! Thanks.

Posted on May 4, 2008
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Is Google AdSense Still The Contextual Ads Leader?

Google AdSense has long held a status as being the leader in contextual advertising. We’ve seen companies come and go, but Google seems to stay right up there on top. Despite some fluctuations in the Google profits in the first quarter of 2008 and the last quarter of 2007, AdSense continues to stand the test of time, and I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. There are some companies trying to emulate the Google AdSense success, but most are failing. They are failing because of the very bad ad-quality that exists in their system, this is something which they ultimately cannot resolve unless they get better advertisers.

Why Did AdSense Revenues Fall? And Why You Shouldn’t Be Worried. This is some very simplistic logic that the media failed to grasp when reporting about the recent drop in AdSense click-through rates. Google decided that it is only fair to give the advertiser’s a greater opportunity for more genuine clicks, and I totally understand this. So they reduced the amount of white space that can be clicked around a typical AdSense Ad. Previously the whole AdSense block could be clicked on, but this led to false and accidental clicks, so now, more valid clicks are being recorded, hence a marginal decrease in revenue as a result of less accidental clicks.

Google AdSense Has Some Competition: There are quite a few companies wanting to reap profits from the contextual advertising market, and why not, it is quite lucrative. The contextual advertising competition are companies like Yahoo Publisher Network, Microsoft Ad Center, IndustryBrains, ContextWeb and Quigo (AdSonar) technologies. Then there are the in-text contextual advertising companies whom also serve as a bit of competition to Google AdSense for publishers who are seeking a different experience, the major ones to date are Kontera, IntelliTXT, Vibrant Media and more recently Amazon Links and Chitika Linx.

The Problem with Google AdSense, You May Want To Get Packing…Yes, there is a problem with AdSense, quite a big problem actually. AdSense currently has a huge amount of advertisers in their database (directory). Some of these advertisers lead you to sites that are utterly disgusting and unworthy of a click. The problems lies herein, AdSense is being filled by less trustworthy and less reliable sites, you’re beginning to be brought to random sites that seem very scam-like and gray area. The other companies I mentioned above tend to have more quality advertisers because they target high profiles news and celebrity sites as opposed to blogs and smaller sites.

New Technologies Being Rolled Out By Google AdSense Developers, As Google tries to combat a few problems such as click-fraud and ad quality (which is what they are well renown for), new technologies are continually being unveiled. A recent update saw AdSense publishers being able to select various ads they wanted to be displayed and not allow other ads to be displayed, I think this is certainly a move in the right direction. Webmasters want to have a certain amount of control over what gets shown on their sites, so it is only logical to allow this to occur.

Google AdSense and The Future: The future for Google AdSense is still looking quite good, despite these problems mentioned above. The competing companies are failing to reap considerable profits as a result of a bad business model. Google has grown and developed into a huge company, they are backed by a range of profitable networks and services of their own. Other companies don’t have a firm foundation that they can rely on, they rely on a sole service which they provide, therefore they can’t sustain themselves in harsh times, they are bound to fail or not be very profitable.

Do You Think Google Is Still A Leader In Contextual Advertising? Why?

Posted on May 3, 2008
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Exclusive Interview With Javier From MrJavo.Com

You’ve probably been to the site, and you’ve seen how quickly and rapidly it grew in an extremely short period of time. Today Javier of MrJavo.Com reveals his secrets to as how he managed to make his site’s popularity soar to such highs in a matter of months. We are very privileged to have had the opportunity to interview Javier and I would like to thank him for his time, you can also thank him and comment on the interview.

So Javier, You Started MrJavo.Com In September 2007, Why Did You Decide To Create A Blog And Start Blogging?

Hello Fabien, first at all thank you for give me this chance. Really, I started MrJavo.Com on January 2008, since September 2007 to December of that year, I’d blog with a blogspot. But with the pass of the time, I reach the money to switch to something better, and that is how MrJavo.Com was born.

Since 2 years ago, I felt the need to blog, but I didn’t before until September 07 because I had not found a niche. Internet Marketing and Blogging are popular niches, but over the Internet, I could not find a blog which gave me exactly what I needed. At this time, I decided to create a blog, to help the people to find the things which are hard to find, providing fresh and honest information.

MrJavo.Com has been around for less than a year, yet it has experienced rapid growth and made a name for itself as an authority site in the make money online niche, what do you attribute this success to?

Well I think my consistence and dedication were the key to give me this success. The most of the time, I write a post daily, and giving the people new content constantly, make them come back to my blog to read the latest updates. Also, I think the social networks helped me so much, expanding my brand with many people.

How important do you think creating quality content is and what techniques can you give our readers to help overcome writer’s block, which sometimes occurs as a blogger?

This is a great question. I think the quality is much important than quantity. Many people think if they write 3 post daily, their blog will have several visitors, but that’s not true. Quality is the key to get the success, this is an attribute which is not in every blog, and if you write with conviction and passion, the people will visit your blog daily by themselves.

Know, to write quality content, it depend of the blogger. However, I recommend you to make mind maps before to write, to give you a general idea about how you will structure your post. Also, you can combine this with writing the keywords of the post. This way, you can set a link between your thoughts and what you want, helping you to write better.

Your site is monetized using several different systems, is MrJavo.Com turning a profit since its commencement last year? If so, which monetization systems currently turn the biggest profit for you?

Certainly, I have used many networks, testing them and choosing the bests. When I created MrJavo.Com, I spent about $120 buying the domain and a plan for a year. In 4 months, I have earned the money to pay that stuff for the next 4 years, that answered your question :D. About the monetization systems, I recommend to use PepperJam because it give you many opportunities to make money with your website. Recently, I have being using this new service called SocialSpark, and I have to say it has the potential to improve your earnings monthly, test it!.

As bloggers, we are all interested in attaining a return on investment and maximizing profitability – but this can only occur with visitors on the site. What are the methods which have been the most successful for you with regard to attaining traffic to MrJavo.Com?

Using social networks are one of best ways to attract visitors to your blog, broadcasting your content with many users. Also by leaving comments in other blogs related to your niche, can give you waves of traffic daily, which also can give you permanent visitors.

Making blog contests is a great way to get traffic, because the people loves the fact to win something by doing nothing. So they write about the contest and spread your contest with they readers, which give you new visitors, exploding your traffic. I think using advertising is another great way, but it doesn’t work every time. Make sure to advertise in places with many visitors.

I understand you are a member of the Digital Folders Network; this is a growing network of blogs in various niches. Has it played a major role in expanding your reach in the blogosphere hence attracting more people to come to your site?

Well honestly, this network has been a little neutral in this respect. Obviously it has given me more visitors, but the amount was not significant. I sold a banner through it, so I suppose there are people checking that network constantly. Digital Folders is a good network and it’s growing as you say, so I will stay there to see what happen.

Do you believe social media plays an important role in a blogs’ success, if so, which social media sites are able to convert the most in terms of attaining visitors and long term subscribers to a site?

Of course Social Media Networks plays an important role in the blogs’ success. The more people you meet, the more success you will have. There are many networks you can use, but I recommend to use StumbleUpon and Mixx. I have attracted many users of these networks, following me constantly through the web, so I suppose the social media networks have are important in this business. There are another big communities like Digg, but all them are overpopulated and it’s hard to get traffic from them being a newbie.

Where do you see MrJavo.Com in a few years time? Do you have any plans for the further development of the site? If so, what kind?

If MrJavo.Com keep growing as it has being doing, I think my blog could be a great source of information in the future, even more than know. Sometimes I received e-mails from new bloggers telling me that I inspire them, so in the future I think this number of e-mails will increase, and will be a honor to be an inspiration to other bloggers around the world. For now, I have not plans to develop my site, but surely I will have in a couple of months, stay in tune!.

“Thank You for Your Time Javier, Your Answers Were Helpful and Insightful To All!”

What are YOUR thoughts about Mr Javo Dot Com…?

Posted on April 27, 2008
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What Elements Make For A Delicious Blog Post?

Content Is King, But What Comes A Close Second…?

We are all very much aware that content is king - it’s only been reiterated to us a thousand times over. What comes after content however is the delivery of the content. It’s all well and good to have a hard hitting blog post that has great content, but if it’s all paragraphs without formatting, you can guarantee yourself that you just made the reader lose interest in your site and anything else you have to say.

I’ve outlined several times before and I’ve placed great emphasis on the importance of structuring and formatting content well. Today, I want to talk about what elements make a post delicious for readers, what makes them want to eat the post and what makes their mouth water when they look at the post at first glance. This post will explore several elements of a blog post that make it inviting - making readers want to digest even more of your content.

You’ve Heard About Bulleted Lists…But Do You Make Full Use Of Them?

You might use them occasionally, but most people don’t make sufficient use of them. Lists are one of the best ways to keep reader attention and deliver content to them quickly and succinctly. There is no need to go into paragraphs and paragraphs of detail to explain something that be be easily summed up in a couple of dot points or less.

The impact a high quality bulleted list can have on a reader is huge, just the other day I was reading some content from a blog. I was reading a post that had a list in it…do you know what I did? I didn’t read the entire post, I skipped to the list, read what the blogger had to say - and within minutes I had subscribed to that particular blogs RSS feed. That is evidence of the power of a small and tiny thing called a list.

What About Block-Quotes…They’re Fantastic, Do You Use Them Often?

Block quotes are a great way to present targeted parts of your content to your readers. Unfortunately, people don’t make enough use of these great devices, I highly recommend using them to present important parts of a post to your readers. Formerly block quotes were used only to present direct quotes - but they are now being used as a device to draw attention to a particular part of a post as opposed to showing quoted text only.

It’s All About Stopping Readers In Their Tracks…Can You Do It?

All of this talk about lists and block quotes point to one important, overarching theme - stop readers in their tracks. Ask yourself - what makes me stop scrolling when I read a blog post or any article for that matter? The answer to this question is all to do with the formatting of the text and what the post includes (images, lists, bold text, italics, text alignment, paragraph size etc…)

How Do YOU Make Your Posts Delicious? Share Your Success Story…

Posted on April 26, 2008
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