Today,I was thinking why I didn’t post since long time back on my personal blog Zebida World blog, maybe because I lost my PR of 3 and I don’t feel good about it, but I say to myself this is not a big deal, I still have PR of 1 this is not the end of the world or Zebida world! So I am going to tell you a very nice story happened between me and my wife when I first told her Famous Bloggers Club idea, and also some personal thoughts. This is going to be a nice post that I would love everyone to participate and take a place in giving opinion and comments.

I was checking the number of interviews that I made since starting New Media Bloggers blog and the Famous Bloggers Club FBC100, and I was really amazed! there 55 interviews with the best bloggers I ever meet in the blogospher sharing their blogging stories, and how they starts to blog and why! and the best part that everybody is needing to know is when you came across how they make money and how they really do it!

It’s really amazing moments that I will never forget in my life. I smiled and remembers when it was just an idea deep inside of my mind, and I was having that discussion with my wife about it as she is my best friend before she became a wife, I usually discuss with her everything I do, she told me it’s going to be a great idea, but latter I knew that deep inside of her mind she was having doubts and she was just telling that by her sweet and kind words, not to make me feel bad about it. after time passed and I get to know all those awesome famous bloggers,  she told me that she didn’t expect the success of this idea at the beginning and she is so surprised of everything in my blogging life. Anyways, I toke it in a good way because at the beginning she didn’t know what exactly in my mind and what I wanted to do with Famous Bloggers Club. but now I think she understand the whole thing!

Famous Blogger

I am happy she understands the soul if Social Networking, and the Power of Blogging, and she believed that I can pay our new house payments from my blogs, which is great you know! because she reduced her complains about me blogging for nothing, and now she knows that when ever I am behind my laptop is because I am earning money, and she is finally proud of my work

I have this strength of spending 20 hours daily working if I have to, working on my projects with non-stop, I am a guy who actually don’t like to sleep, and my blogs are my capitals now as I didn’t find a decent job at the United States yet, it’s kind of nightmare because I have to go through all of this job search again, and I am afraid sometimes to lose my earnings from my blogs -I hope this will never happen to me- and maybe this is why I want to establish some new blogs and shout them out to the internet like Cars and Limos blog that I have created it in 2 days weekend. Maybe all this hard working will bring me a kind of Stable Blogging Income -I hope so- no body knows what is hidden in the future!

Still the amazing thing is that I am learning a lot from Famous Bloggers Club, those great people who are sharing their experience with others, those who dream one day to reach the top of making money online. plz Check their great interviews, because even if you are the expert of experts I am sure you will learn something from them as I believe that no body knows everything.

Zebida Fridays is bringing new links depending on inspired me from my friends CommentLuv posts that links to their latest blog posts, and also there is more links to useful blogs and websites that I think you will like it this week.

So.. make sure to add a comment when ever you visit my blogs, if I found something interesting on your blog maybe I will mention it on the coming Zebida Fridays post, if you are an active commenter, this will give me a bigger motivation to check your blog posts, and of course if your blog is on my list of 100 blogs using CommentLuv I will be there when ever I have a chance to spend some time on your blog discovering your good stuff!

Blogging & Blogs:

• I have came across this nice post about social media experts, I think it’s a true some how that there is no experts in social media because the nature of social media and the way it changed it’s behavior all the time, read this post and you will know Why No-one is a Social Media Expert.
• Lena Khaled is working online on her blog and she still a great Mom, check her blog at Mom’s Working Online, I knew she is running CommentLuv and her blog is just added to the list of 100 blogs using CommentLuv.

Making Money Online:

More Making Money Ideas are coming all the time on New Media Bloggers network, subscribe to Make Money Ideas feed and get more everyday!

Twitter:

Kai Lo @lomak1985 have wrote a great Free Guide To Get Twitter Followers. He asked me about my opinion about his new ebook, so check my Twitter Followers number @hishaman after following some of the tips that came in the ebook and you will know my reply Kai

Websites:

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. I knew about it from a Bookmark on New Media Bloggers from Aswani the author of Feature Perfect.

WordPress:

• If you want to create a community blog with out needing to remove your blog to install WordPress MU then you should read this post from Kayla about how to Create a Community Blog with 10 WordPress Plugins.
• If you are looking for new WordPress Plugins then check out this post from George Serradinho.

Graphics:

• All of us like to have a high quality free stuff for using on our blogs or maybe for work also, today I bring you a link to a very nice set of a high quality set of icons, you are not going to belive what you will see on this 50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets.
• Here is a nice post about great Websites with great design done by awesome designers. I found it at Design was Here blog.

Firefox:

Is you Firefox browser too slow? OK in this post you will find a Firefox tweaks that will increase your browser speed. I haven’t try it yet, but I think it’s working because people feedbacks commenting on the post.

OK, before I go.. I thought you may want to check the last week  Zebida Fridays – Why you Should Add a Comment when Visiting my Blogs post.

This seem to be so difficult for some of us, specially new Bloggers which will never think this is possible, but  in this post I am going to show you how to create a 100 comment post easy, it’s just a matter of  choosing the kind of post that will attract visitors to add a comment.

Yeah, maybe you have started to get the point now, it’s all about the topic you are writing about, there is some posts that will force visitors to comment on it by their own choice, this is what I call it a forcing commenter post

How to create a 100 comment post?

If you check my blog posts, you will find that the average of comments is between 10 to 30 comments per post, and this blog is kind of new, so what is the secret?

The secret behind this average of comments is not the quality of my posts, but it depends on how active I am on other blogs, and how many comments I can post everyday on other’s blogs.

First let’s check my post that I made before about blogs using WP CommentLuv plugin, I have planned this post to have a list of 100 blogs use CommentLuv, and probably 200 comments, it was very easy to reach the 100+ comments, of course not all of them are from my bog visitors as I try always to reply to each comment on my posts, but the number of 200 comments will come soon when the list is complete!

This post is my first one that reached 100+ comments, and I was thinking about planning more posts like this one, but the main tip is to plan it well to reach your goal.

If you have a successful story or a successful post that reached more than 100 comments, plz tell me about it no matter how old it.

Make sure to add a comment when ever you visit my blogs, if I found something interesting on your blog maybe I will mention it on the coming Zebida Fridays post, if you are an active commenter, this will give me a bigger motivation to check your blog posts, and of course if your blog is on my list of  100 blogs use CommentLuv I will be there when ever I have a chance to spend some time on your blog discovering your good stuff!

Finally I finished setting up Evid theme on My Golf II blog, Evid is an Elegant Theme made specially for video blogs, it’s from Elegant Themes collection as well as the theme I am using here on this blog. I thought it’s important to pay attention to this blog as I am welling to update it to Make Money Online from auto Blogging.

My Golf II is an auto blog, I am a car lover as you will know if you visit My Golf II website, I used to have MK2 cars from Volkswagen, I owned three of these car during the last a few years, I have sold them all now, but my brother still have one that remind me with this great cars.

My Golf II is one of the most profitable blogs I have, it still with out ideal traffic, but it got the higher ads earnings on top of all my blogs, I thought to renew it and update some new post in feature.

As the work is not finished yet with My Golf II blog, Plz , give it a visit and check out My Golf II blog, and tell me what you think about it, and what you think it need?

I have set it up Evid from Elegant Themes for it’s nice options and easily integrating videos from video hosts such as Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, MetaCafe, etc.

If you would like to have a WordPress themes of quality and integrity, then join the club and get your membership, do it now, it’s only  for $19.95 per year to get a limited access.

Go through this link, it’s my affiliate link which means if you signed up through this link this will help me to get a commission through Elegant Themes affiliate program.  They have a very nice program, I am still on  Level 1, which means I will get 50% for each sale I deliver. I only have sold one membership since I registered with Elegant Themes. Of course you can do the same after sign-up too.

This is amazing! After thinking how to spend money I have earned from my blogs, I thought buying a premium WordPress theme would be a great idea, but what happened was completely shocking, I can not believe it! .. I spend the money but I have earned more!

I joined the Affiliate Program and post about it on my blog yesterday, and I was amazed because I purchased the $19.95 membership which is not expensive at all if you compare it with other WordPress themes prices or memberships, and you know what?! I have just received an email from Elegant Themes, The good news is one of my 7 blog visitors that clicked on the affiliate link yesterday did a purchase, Elegant Themes will give me 50% or the purchase payment which means $9.95, and this is great!

The Good Price will work great for you

If you are looking for premium quality/affordable wordpress themes, Elegant WordPress Themes offer a large selection of designs, all of which are included on a membership basis for the low price of $19.95 per year. That’s not all, while your membership is active you will gain access to all new themes released. So far there is 21 themes available for you, and each of the themes come with a large selection of features, including:

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Here is the email I got from Elegant Themes:

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So many of us has questions and wonders, and we all know that unsolved questions are more than the answered ones, I wrote in an older post about my dream to have a “questions and answers” website like Yahoo Answers, as it provide a great environment for generating community written posts from simple questions.

You can use this way to generate content for  you own blog by asking a simple question and share it with your friends and social net workers, since simple and effective questions attract some people to answer them, you will start gain the post body after spending a few minutes editing them to create your post.

I was checking the Questions plugin for Elgg, and decided to run a Demo website specially for it. At the same time I think this can generate some content for me when the questions start to play it’s role.

This Idea can be useful in different ways depending on the way you will use it. Some of us will use it as a fun game , I some time play the question and answers games, so what about playing it with real people with different backgrounds and ways of thinking? This would be interesting! Also if you are seeking information and knowledge then this is a nice and exiting way to do it.

I have to be clear and honest about the main purpose for creating this Demo website, I am welling to get community content for my blogs and also gain traffic to this Beta version of YourAnswer.info website. So Don’t forget you can do the same by joining now and give it a try.. I am sure that you will love it, and maybe you will apply the idea on your own blog by paying more attention to your blog commenters.

I will write in the coming posts about this experiment! Plz .. Wish me good luck!

On what I will spend my earnings from my blogs? This question toke too much time from me thinking about the ideal way to spend my earnings from my blogs. You maybe notice that my personal blog is still new, and need more traffic, this make me think about it, and I got an idea that i think it’s the best to do for new blogs.

I will spend the most of my earnings on developing my blogs and get more targeted traffic by advertising on different advertisements networks. Also I think it’s a great idea to use premium template instead of the free ones that I used before all the time. Now! It’s the time for a WordPress premium theme.

I have just started by buying a premium template that I am planning to run on all of my blogs. I have purchased ElegantThemes membership. I have paid $19.95 Dollars to get unlimited access for one year, and I think it’s the best themes membership someone can get for this price.

what you get when you purchase ElegantThemes membership?

Each WordPress theme comes expertly coded in valid XHTML and CSS, and all are made compatible with the latest version of WordPress. I make sure that each template performs flawlessly in each of the most widely used browsers to insure maximum functionality. Furthermore, all sidebars are made widget ready for your convenience.

I have used the Basic theme to run on my personal blog Zebida.com, I just made some changes to the side bar by adding some image links to my social networks and google ads, also I have added some other minor changes, and it’s working like a charm.

You also can join ElegantThemes and start using a premium theme that will work better for your goals.

If you have some other interesting premium themes websites plz tell me about it, but it should be in a reasonable price. Maybe you would like also to share your blog if you are running an ElegantThemes on it.

I was thinking about the great number of blogs on the internet, and thought maybe there is a number of people like me who own more than one blog, just thinking if bloggers who have one blog is more than who runs a number of blogs, and how they can handle their blogs if there is too much to do publishing posts, and organizing the blogs, and reply to your commenters, and other stuff related to blogs.

I know it’s not easy but also it’s not impossible, because I am doing it, but why I thought about having more than one blog?!

But why I have more than one blog?

I am from those people who runs more than one blog, and reason of that is that I use them to promote each other and get more traffic than the traffic I would get if I am just posting on one blog.  this is the way I have doubled my blog traffic during one year  from 200 hits and up to 1000+ hits on all of my blogs, I know this is not a great number, but to be in Page Rank of “4″ this is what I am talking about. Great traffic numbers need more time.

There is no big secret behind how I did that, but maybe you just don’t know about it,  probably because you don’t think you have enough time for posting on more than one blog, but let me tell you why I did that and hot a great results on my blogs traffic, it’s all about promoting , yes.. with more than one blog I am able  to promote my blogs, but I first must be sure that I am not copying my self, so when ever there is a chance to link to one of my other blogs or I remember an old post related to what I write, I just link to it, so in that way I was able to double my traffic , and here I am talking about all my blogs traffic together, I could do that by redirecting my readers always to something they probably would love to read about on my other blogs.

This is how I could attract some advertisers to offer me long term advertisements on my blogs for their clients,  I am sure they have checked my Blog Page Rank, because they think exactly like the way I think about my blogs, that they are doing good, and they will grow in the coming year.

Here is a list of my other blogs, maybe you would like to see how I am doing on them:

• My Life Thinking
• My Golf II
• Babel Talk

Of course I wouldn’t create those blogs unless I love to psot on them, but babel Talk blog, is not actually a blog by the meaning, but for me it’s like a big blog roll.

So.. What about you? Do you have more than one blog? Hit the comment button and link to them here, I would like to know what you like to write about on your blogs and how you use them to promote each other.

Today I was remembering the first domain I ever had in my life, it doesn’t exist anymore, but there is a very interesting story happened more than 5 years back when I connected to the internet for the first time, and I became a web designer!
I meet that nice girl online, and we was chatting about several things, then we came cross internet and domain names and websites and all this kind of stuff, and I told her that I wish to have my own domain name, and create a website and maybe I can make money from it.

She really surprised me when she asked me what domain name you want? Because she said it’s easy to have it, and she will give it to me as a gift. Oh.. I was flying that day!

And Yes.. I told her about the domain name and she brought it for me. When ever I remember this time I thank her for been such a great help to me, she helped me to start a new biz when she brought me that domain,  she open several new doors for me that time, actually she made my heart beet for her, I loved her that much that I got married to her

That was the story behind me and my relation with the internet, and how I started my online biz for the first time when I went to study web design, and I could make a full static website in about 6 months latter, and again I went to study website development, but the lake of education in that part of the world where I live limited my skills some how, but I was never into desperate because I have a great woman pushing me all the time forward, I spend so many hours studying and learning about how to make websites, and my biz got better as I am serving a number of clients right now.

It was a new life for me, a new beginning, new way of thinking about this life, that’s why I named my blog My Life Thinking, and started to run a community on it for all bloggers who think they can write about life.

I moved along from one idea to another, trying to catch the amazing grow process of the internet, to keep my biz up. I started to earn a few dollars now from my blogs, and I am planning to grow this biz more as I really like the challenges and have fun doing it.

I came cross blogs and CMS, I can say that I love Open Source projects, because this is the only way I can grow up much faster. I started to blog about 2 years back on wordpress.com, then I moved my blog to my own domain more than one year back, and after some hard work I got the rank of 4 on Google now!

That was a short story about me, my love, and my blog!

Now It’s your turn to tell me about your blog story behind your blog. Who showed you the way to the bloggers world? What is your blog name? Post a comment and tell all about it.

IF you know about Second Life then maybe you are imagining now this amazing virtual community, SLnews.com is the new website that looking forward to be the first Arabic news provider for Second Life community, basically for Arabic reader, it’s specialist on providing news and New Media stories from inside Second Life in general and focusing on Muslim’s News, Middle Eastern and Arabian Worlds, and also reflecting the activities of this interesting community.

Basically This website is using the CMS Joomla 1.5 to manage it’s content. And hosted by Godaddy.

I have published the website after working 4 days to finish the basic layout design and finding and installing the necessary plugins , and I will continue developing and testing it as I have enough time to do it during the coming few months.

If you are welling to provide help or giving any ideas, you are more than welcome. I would be happy if you contact me.