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Guest Posting on Webmaster Zone

These days I am very busy. I will go to different city and live in hostel after some days for my study. So its not possible for me to make lot of blog post. I have made only 1 post in last 15 days.
If you want to make guest post on my blog then you can contact me any time at my mail address admin[@]wmrzone.com

The post you make must be related to webmasters or worth being posted here. You will get your name and link to your site with article you make here. You can’t use refferal / afflietes links in posts.

If you have any question, ask them in comments so I can clearify all things and add them to post.

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Paid posts - Do it or don’t

If you a blogger then you are familiar with paid posts. Paid post are more popular these days because more and more blogs coming to blogging world. For most of people this is main source of making money from blog.

What is Paid post?
This is like a normal post made by blogger but he is getting paid for it by advertiser. He make a review of site/service of advertiser. Bloggers earn money and advertiser get buzz on their sites.

Where from to get it?
There are many ways to get advertiser. If you are a famous blogger then just put a link at your blog where people can buy reviews on your blog. If you are new then you can get them on Webmaster Forums or you can try some sites that connect bloggers and advertisers. You can use SponsoredReview, LinkWorth etc.

What is the risk behind this?
There is no big risk in paid post if you do it carefully. If your blog related to cars then you must review only car related sites. You should never post any review for money, first check that sites yourself then decide. Wrong choice can decrease your blog’s popularity. Try to do less amount of paid post as they don’t looks better. Make them useful so people enjoy reading them.

Who do paid posts?
As I know most of professional bloggers do paid posts including John Chow, Jim Karter , Tyler Cruz etc. I also do it but most of posts are on my other blogs. All new blogger do this for starting money.

Do it or Don’t?
This depends on you. If you have good traffic and earning good money from ads then you don’t need it. If you are a webmaster then it hard to earn money form PPC type ads as Webmaster are banner/ad blind, they can’t see ads. For webmaster its good to make relative site reviews. For software related blogger its easy to make of paid post of software because paid post looks like normal posts on these blogs. If you have educational blog then I advise you to not to make paid post, If you need money then ask for donation. If your blog is helpful then you will receive more donation then you can earn from paid posts.

If you have any questions/myths to paid post, you can ask them in comments. It will be my pleasure to help you.

Earn $500 from your blog

If you have a blog then you have a chance to earn $500 without any hard work. Jim Karter, owner of Jim Karter is giving $500 in a contest where any blogger can take part.
To enter in contest you need to do 2 simple steps.
1. Subscribe to Jim Karter Blog RSS Feed by email.
2. Make a blog post about contest in your blog and link to jimkarter.com homepage, then contact him with the post URL

You can get money by paypal and if paypal is not available in your country you can take amazon gift certificate by him.

Wordpress 2.3.3 - one more security release

They have released one more security release on wordpress. The last security release was on 29 dec 2007. I was waiting for new version of this blogging system but one more security update. Its an urgent update but for me its not really urgent because I don’t use features that can make problems. But I think I will update my blog as soon as I move it to my new hosting account that I register last night at hostgator.

WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs. If you are interested only in the security fix, download the fixed version of xmlrpc.php and copy it over your existing xmlrpc.php. Otherwise, you can get the entire release here.

Also, there is a vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin that is being actively exploited right now. If you are using this plugin, please remove it until an update is available from its author.

Since we are talking security, remember to use strong passwords and change them regularly. While you’re updating WP and your plugins, consider refreshing your passwords.