So finally the day has come to announce the Winner of Blog Contest “Chance to Win $50” on technogati.com.

During the contest period,I have noticed following activities:

• Contest increased feed subscribers.
• Loyal readership based increased.
• New readers increased and interacted.

There are few other things which help a lot when you run a blog contest and I’m sure if you have run a blog contest ever, then you’ll know what I’m talking about. All the entries were really good and I would like to thank you all the participants of this blog contest.

And finally the winner of $50 is……

• Mohit Pathania.

and the second price goes to:

• Sagar Gholap

and

• Mahesh Kukreja

Claiming your prize:

To claim your prizes, please drop me a message at surender[at]technogati.com,I will redirect you to the processing details.

Note:You can claim your prize before 15 December 2010.After the last date your claim will not be accepted.

THANK YOU!

As an end-note to the conclusion of this contest, I sincerely thank all of you who entered and contributed. You have really made this contest a success and I really appreciate it.

Cheers!

Surender Sharma

Today is our 12th day of WordPress Master 25 Days program.

If your are visiting this blog first time or you have missed any one unit of WordPress master 25 Days program then you must read previous units which I have compiled in single post.

• My 7 Days at WordPress Master 25 Program

Today is our 12th Day of WordPress Master 25 Days Pro.I know how important is Search Engine Optimization for any blog to get the traffic,Search Engine Friendly Url optimization is one of the SEO part of your blog.Here you can find the tips on Search Engine friendly urls customization.

Day #12: How To Customize Search Engine Friendly Urls

Step:#1

Login to the Admin panel of your WordPress blog.

Step #2:

Click on Permalinks under the Setting tab on the dashboard.

See the image below:

You’ll find following url structure under default which is not search engine friendly url.We can say it “Ugly”.It doesn’t look nice.

http://example.com/?p=N

Then how to choose your own Search Engine friendly Url ?

It is very simple to choose your own Search engine friendly url.Follow the steps to optimize Search Engine friendly Urls of your blog.

1. Go on Permalinks Setting under the setting tab on your admin panel.
2. Check the Radio Button of “Custom Structure” and fill the following Tags:

/%postname%.html

3. Click on Save.

View the following image carefully:

Urls of your blog posts will be optimized for Search Engines by following the previous steps which have mentioned in this post.

If you think that the WordPress Master 25 Days program is useful for you or you need any other blogging support and guidelines in future,you can subscribe my newsletter by filling the email id.

NOTE:

YOU CAN GET MY COMING EBOOK ABOUT BLOGGING TIPS BY SUBSCRIBING TO MY NEWSLETTERS NOW.

Hello dear Technogati readers and my friend bloggers.I’m really excited to announce the Technogati Blog Contest here at Technogati.

Ok straight to the Details……

It is purely based on your luck or you can also say it is bases on Randomness . Participating in this contest is very much easy . I Invite everyone to participate in this contest which will run for 30 days.

Prizes:

1. First Prize will be of $50. (Only One) Will be paid by PayPal.

Or

Amount will be deposit in your account by Cash/DD/Check only for Indian winner. In SBI, PNB, ICICI directly within 2-3 business days after the result of contest.

2. Second Prize:300×100 ad spot free for One month on Technogati sidebar. (2 Prizes)

How to enter in this contest:

All you have to do is just,

• Subscribe Technogati Newsletter via Email:                                                      3 Points
• Subscribe to RSS feed of technogati :                                                              2 Points
• Post on  Facebook wall using Facebook post button near  the title:         2 Points
• ReTweet this post using Re Tweet (Green) Button near the post title :    1 Point
• Publish about the contest in your blog post :                                                     3 Points

You need only Minimum 5 Points to enter in this contest.

Winners will be selected based on the site,  http://www.random.org/lists/ , this site will select 3 winner randomly from all the given lists .This contest will run up to December 12,2010.

Subscribe to RSS Feed here and Win $50

Subscribe Technogati Via Email

Other Notes:

After that, you just have to leave a comment here saying you already have subscribed to Technogati. No comments, no points and that means no entry !Just make sure you include your valid email while commenting so that I can contact you if you’re the lucky winner.

I will not know if you subscribed to my RSS feed or not. Yes, you can cheat by leaving comment there but subscribing to my feed will have advantages.

Contest Hurry;

Find how Lucky Person you are …. !!

I am excited to publish our very first earning report of Technogati and its group sites.We are on the road which is leading us in the right direction.

I am running number of tiny sites along with our technogati.com.We also started the service for bloggers like thesis theme customization,WordPress blog setup, and Website development under the brand 5Lemons Interactive Media on 15 July 2010.

We are growing rapidly.Last week our internet business and blogging brought us a Maruti A-Star  Zxi Car.

In our 5Lemons Team one another Lemon (Shabnam Sultan) has joined as a technogati editor.

Now the time has come to share our revenue report with our blog readers and friend bloggers.We don’t want to show you how much money we are earning on technogati.com but we want to inspire the newbie bloggers to make money online.

Here is the report of our earnings in the month of September 2010.

• Google Adsense:                                          $345
• WordPress Setup                                          $550
• Adsense Optimization                                  $215
• Thesis Theme customization:                       $300
• Website Development                                  $670
• Domain Selling                                             $170
• ———————————————————
• Total:                                                         $2250

If you are newbie blogger or want to join our 5Lemons Family,you can get handsome amount of money and other perks which we are already paying to our Lemons (Bloggers,Developers and contributor authors).You can apply as a contributor author in technogati team.

About One year ago, April 6th, 2009, I had my first post( as Public) in Technogati. At that time, I was just thinking of a place to share blogging ideas with others. I had not thought to build a site that would one day have hundreds of reader’s everyday from all over the world (and the number is still growing dramatically). Be honest, it was just a little bit more than a dream for me, and we know that there are thousands of this type of new blog sites created every day!

During the past year, there are 450+ posts in Technogati.Maximum posts are on WordPress and Social media.To celebrate this special occasion with my blog readers,I have announced the Thesis customization contest.Now the time has come to announce the winners of this special contest.

The winners are…..

1st Prize Winners

Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats

Cebu TechBlogger

2nd Prize Winners:

Dev | Technshare

Robin Benedict

Consolation Prizes

Vaibhav Kanwal

KS Chen

Ning

Sagar Gholap

SmashinGeeks

sonmanutd

Ankit

Wp Hosting Discount

VISHAL

Mrle

Congratulations for all the winners.

Please get in touch  within 3 days  with me about thesis customization banners publishing in Technogati.After 10th,I’ll not entertain any winner.

Dear readers and friend bloggers, I am really very excited to announce that we are celebrating 1st anniversary of Technogati on 6th April 2010 .There are many things I learned in the way of blogging.I’ll share my complete story with you on 6th April 2010 how I have started the blogging business.Let’s talk about the contest which I am announcing for completing its 1st year.

We are giving following prizes to the winners of this contest:

1 Thesis Customization: 2 Prizes (Don’t worry if you are not thesis theme users,let me do at any time within 6 months.

2 Free Ad Space 300×100 (banner on sidebar): 2 Prizes

3 Free Lifetime membership on Bloggers Commune :10 Prizes

Required Steps To Join The Contest:

• Blog about the contest (5pts)
• Subscribe to my feed. (please verify your subscription) 5pts
• Be a fan of Technogati.com on Facebook. 5pts

To increase your chances of winning:

Follow us on twitter (Let me know your twitter username in the comments)5pts.
Let me know the link  in the comments. 2pts.

The contest is open to all readers,

Contest ends on 5th April at 11:59 PM. A winner will be chosen randomly and announced on 6th April.

Good luck!

Note:Without your blessings and the grace of God,I am nothing more than the statue made by wooden.