A regular reader of this blog, Shivaranjan, asked me earlier today on how to optimize images to speed up his site. I decided to write a post on it as I feel there are many people who do not know on how to reduce their image size and as a result slow down their site.

Images are one of the reasons behind a slow loading site and hence is necessary to optimize them before you place them on your site or blog. Photoshop includes a feature called ‘Save for Web’ which you can use to reduce the image size.

If you do not have Photoshop, you can use other image editing softwares that have a similar feature to the ’save for web’ that Photoshop provides or you can also use an online image optimizer.

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Readers have asked me several times on how I manage to get so many comments on almost every post I make. Jamdo Rob was the most recent reader to ask me this question and he suggested that I make a post on it.

hi John – I am really enjoying your blog lately. I was wondering if you might consider a post on how you manage to get so many comments on almost every post you make? It would be an interesting read!

There are already a lot of posts written on how to increase comments on a blog. Here are some of them:

• 10 techniques to get more comments on your blog
• 10 tips for attracting more comments
• How to increase comments on your blog
• Encourage your first time commenters
• Get your Blog lurkers to comment
• Getting people to comment on your new blog

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Have you ever deleted a file accidentally and then realized it to be an important one? You do not have to worry about deleted files again if you use Handy Recovery, which is an easy-to-use data recovery software designed to restore files accidentally deleted from your PC. The program can also recover files damaged by virus attacks, power failures and software faults and even files from deleted and formatted partitions.

It can also recover files moved to Recycle Bin after it has been emptied and if some program does not use Recycle Bin when deleting files, Handy Recovery can restore such files too.

Handy Recovery supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives. It can also recover compressed and encrypted files on NTFS drives.

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This is a paid review of a blog called Blogging Tips started by Kevin Muldoon.

Kevin has linked this blog a couple of times on BloggingTips.com, but I started noticing his blog only after he wrote that I was inflating my Alexa Ranking. I was actually just experimenting

Anyways…when I first visited BloggingTips.com, the first thing that caught my eye was his professionally designed mascot, a modified version of my favorite superhero (superman) with lots of money behind him and a laptop. The face of the character resembles Kevin.

Overall the mascot suggests to me that Kevin is very good in making lots of money from the internet. Now we can’t really confirm that until he reveals his earnings

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AdSense have updated their policies today and now allows publishers to have 3 link units per page. Earlier they used to allow only 1 linkunit per page.

Link units look like navigation links and when placed near your main navigation links can perform well. Linkunits got me $166.70 out of the $1,218.75 that I earned through AdSense last month.

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It’s been some time since I wanted to get rid of my old Nokia 3330 and own the Nokia N95 or the Apple iPhone. But ever since I came to know that the battery power of Nokia N95 doesn’t even last a day and is a bit expensive too, I decided to go for some other mobile phone until the iPhone is released at my place.

Also I heard that the iPhone has only a 2 megapixel camera, if that is true I am not sure if I want to buy it as I want to take good quality images and videos.

I did a research for a few days to find out the best mobile phone that can fulfill my needs. What I basically needed was a good camera and a music player, the Nokia N73 Music Edition with its 3.2 megapixel camera looked like the perfect choice for me.

I purchased Nokia N73 music edition yesterday using this blogs earnings and have been testing out its camera and music player ever since. The mobile phone offers good sound quality and I liked the camera too except that at low light conditions, the image and video quality is often low.

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After I revealed this blog’s traffic summary of April 2007, I got a few requests to do this on a monthly basis. So I thought of doing it this time too, and I revealed my AdSense earning this time since many people keep asking me.

On May 2007, this blog had 159,304 unique visitors and 252,305 pageviews according to Google Analytics.

What about this blog’s earnings? Through my highest earner, AdSense, I earned $1,218.75. Close to what John Chow earned through AdSense – $1,246.50

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The keywords in the anchor text of incoming links to a site is one of the most important factors for ranking well for the keywords you target. Knowing this well, John Chow got his blog to the the number one position for the keywords ‘make money online’ by offering a free link back to the sites that review his blog and link to his blog homepage with the anchor text ‘make money online’.

However he is making a mistake by getting people to link his blog with only an anchor text of ‘make money online’. If too many sites link his blog with the same anchor text, Google will be able to find out that these are artificial links and may soon kick his blog out from the first page of the search result itself. Infact this happened recently.

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Daniel from Daily Blog Tips has been running an interesting series called Bloggers Face-off since quite a while now. And in this Face-off, its me vs Everton Blair from Connected Internet.

The Bloggers face-Off also has a poll to let the readers declare the winner, so please do vote for me

Daniel over at Daily Blog Tips has posted a list of the Top 25 blogs about blogging based on Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, Bloglines subscribers and Technorati Authority, of which this blog is ranked at number 12.

JohnTP.com would have ranked higher on the list if it had more Bloglines subscribers, but most of the readers have subscribed to this blog using Google Reader which is what most people use these days to subscribe to a blog.

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