No doubt – One of the great way of making money online for bloggers is by joining online contest. However unfortunately for me, I never join any contest due to low motivation and lack of confidence. But that’s in the past! Now I am going to go for any contest held by other fellow bloggers (especially bloggers with great influence) and get as much lesson and knowledge as possible!

It is not a matter whether you win the contest or not, but the lesson and experience that you earn from the contest. Winning the contest is a bonus but getting yourself in and get the experience is crucially essential.

Currently Famous Bloggers is organizing a contest which is open to bloggers and marketeers – The Best Selling Affiliate Products Blogging Contest! I’m pretty sure Hesham put a lot of efforts for this contest and that is why you should join too!

The rules and guidelines are quite simple buy yet you have to understand it one by one. Become an author at FamousBloggers.net, create your piece of mind, submit your post and then start doing promotions to your article! The score will be calculated 15 days from the date the article has been published so you got ample time to score as much as you could!

You can submit your article by the end of October 2011 and this contest got $2550 cash prizes so far so act now and I wish a good luck for all participants!

Visit Famous Bloggers Contest page for more details of this contest.

Phew, Hesham! You did a good job especially for the online community!

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Recently WordPress had released the latest version of WordPress that is WordPress 2.9 “Carmen”. The version named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. This is a major upgrade and comes with new features such as:

• Trash Bin where you can restore the deleted posts or pages
• Built-in image editor
• Easier video integration
• Etc.

And the usual question is – should I upgrade my WordPress version?

I read a lot of opinions regarding to this matter. Some people say yes and the other say no. Some people choose to stick with the older version for several reasons such as (as they say) faster to load, easier interface and etc. Some people had faced difficulty and somewhat trauma when upgrading WordPress such as failure or missing the database while upgrading the WordPress especially when upgrading the version manually (Note: The other way is by using WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin or upgrade automatically from CPanel if you have any)

Technology is being developed from day to day and same goes to WordPress version where newer version got more user-friendly interface and functions. Some people might facing difficulty in the previous days while upgrading WordPress. Yes, upgrading sometimes gives you difficulty because it involves changing thousand lines of codes but today the upgrading process is easier than before where you can just upgrade in one click.

So I guess there’s no reason anymore not to upgrade your WordPress version but it’s OK if you want to stick with older one. However you should consider this point as older version might opened to security problems and could easily being hacked or harmed.

I’d upgraded my WordPress to the latest version and eagerly waiting for the next version this spring!

                          

Twitter is an effective medium to tell the others about your latest updates as well as your latest posts and articles. I believe some of us will tweet new posts and articles in order to attract more readers to read the article. The retweet service also helps to spread the word of your article to their followers and now – you can automatically tweet your new posts easier and faster with the new tweet feature from Feedburner.

The feature is easy-friendly where Feedburner gives you several options – you can add your account to your Feedburner account, setting your formatting options and item selections, where you can limit what and the number of posts that will be tweeted.

The new URL Shortener by Google, goo.gl is also used as the medium to bring your followers from your tweets to your latest post and articles.

This is a nice feature as you don’t have to tweet your latest posts manually or using any plugin, especially for the bloggers using free blogging platform.

To use this service, login into your Feedburner account, go to Publicize tab and click Socialize. Then you will be displayed by several options and there you can set your Twitter account, formatting, items and etc. based on the options. If you need any help, you can refer to the guide here.