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As someone relatively new to blogging such as myself, I have at times struggled to find good helpful information to help me on my blogging path. More often than not, what I thought was a fellow more experienced blogger, offering help for free through their blog, invariable turns into them tying to sell you something, to  find out the real secrets as to how to make your blog successful, all you have to do is give them your money.

There are exceptions to the rule, during my many hours of constant research for quality information relating to blogging, I have discovered what I consider to be the best sources of information for people new to blogging.

These following blogs offer tons of quality free information, which will make the transition to starting your own blog, a much easier and smoother process.

Problogger always offers a huge amount of very useufll advice and help, there is a huge amount of well written articles for you to choose from What is a Blog?

Entrepreneurs-journey.com for a new blogger this site is a must visit blog Blogging For Beginners And 10 Blog Traffic Tips

Nate Whitehill dot com you wont go far  wrong by paying this site a visit, inspirational adivice from a guy that knows what he is talking about 23 Things I’ve Learned After 7 Months and 500 RSS Subscribers

Blog Bloke offers some great tips and advice relating to blogging What does Original Content and Plagiarism mean for Bloggers?

 John TP Com numerous top tips, advice and help that will get the new blogger off on the right path can be found here Write A To-Post List For Your Blog

2million dollar bills my site which has its own unique style and is growing in proplualrity at an amazing rate A Beginners Guide to Becoming a Blogger

I would personally advise all new bloggers to subscribe to and read the above blogs on a regular basis, I would set aside 30 or 45 minutes every day, for learning about blogging. Do this and you will have a good chance of succeeding where many others have failed.

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For those of you that are thinking about playing online poker for money, I have put together a beginners guide to help get you started on the right path.  The game I’m going to refer to is the most popular form of poker in the world, whether its online or in the real world, Texas Hold em poker.

 I’m not going to waste anybody’s time, by explaining how to play the game, there are literally hundreds of websites that will explain the rules and how you play Texas Hold em Poker, Wikipedia explains it quite well.

 My Beginners System to learning how to start successfully playing poker.

1.  Have a look at a variety of Poker sites, get a feel for them and find one that you are comfortable with.
2. Start of by participating in  play money games for about a week or so; try to play at least an hour a day or more. Bear in mind that play money games are not really representative of real money games. The point of doing this is just to get you use to playing the game.
3. The next stage is to start playing the freeroll tournaments, which are free to enter; the casino operator puts up the prize money. They are a great way to get use to playing in a real money environment. Freerolls are a great learning tool for new poker players. Recently poker legend Chris “Jesus” Fergusson started with zero cash and turned into $10,000, he started it off, by playing freerolls. Play these types of tournaments until you feel have developed a good feel and understanding of the game, at least have a couple of cash places in the free tournaments before you move on to the next stage.
4. Start playing the 1 table, 10 person sit and go tournaments, I would recommend to playing at around the $3 mark. By playing this kind of tournament it will allow you to play a lot of hands in a real cash tournament for a small amount of money. Usually the top 3 places are paid so you have a fairly good chance of wining. Every 10 tournaments you play, you should at least win one. Keep playing this type of tournaments until you start wining more than you lose on a regular basis.
5.  Now its time to move on to cash games, I feel its best to start off by playing Pot Limit Hold em, at least this way you are never going to go broke on one hand, this type of game restricts the size of bet that you can make. Start of by playing the lowest level possible, by now you should have a good understanding of the game. Some poker players will tell you there is a huge difference between cash games and tournaments. But the Legend Chris “Jesus” Fergusson maintains you should play them the same way. I wouldn’t advise playing Pot Limit for too long, just get a feel for cash poker games. Stick with this game for maybe 10-20 hours.
6. Next its time to move on to the ultimate test, No Limit Hold em, in this game you can quite frankly lose every penny you have in one hand. Again start off at the bottom level and move up as you start winning, never play in a game with more than 5% of your poker bank balance, e.g. you have $100, start off with $10. If you have a  bad run and lose the $10 in one day. You should stop playing your luck is out for the day; we all have bad runs and need to know when to walk away.
7. Your objective is to build up your bank balance and move up the levels, don’t rush, don’t try to move up too quickly, you will invariable go bust if you do.
8. I would advise you to play a combination of cash games and tournaments, try playing some of the bigger tournaments as your bank balance grows.
9. Hold em is a simple game to play but it involves a huge amount of different strategies, I would recommend playing relatively few hands, but betting and raising often when you play your hands, you should only be playing 6 -10 hands an hour.
10. As you get better and progress as a poker player you can start playing 2,3,4,5 different poker rooms at a time, this is where the real money is to be made. 
11. Remember poker is more than a game of luck, even though luck does come into it at times, for the good poker players out there it is a game of focus, discipline, intelligence, psychology, maths, patience and much more.
12.  When you start out playing poker learn as much as you can, get yourself educated about percentages, what hands you should play at any given time, when you and who you can bluff, read as much information as you can online, buy books, never stop learning and trying to improve your poker playing skills.

Remember fish get eaten buy sharks, if you follow my advise you should be safe.

Read my other poker articles which also offer some great advice, The Online Poker Dream, Make a Million Dollars! , How to Win at Online Poker &  Making Money From Online Poker

For a good brief introduction of how to play Texas Hold Em’ …How To Play Texas Hold’em

I know the importance of playing poker at sites that are honest, trustworthy and are not scamming us out of our money, and would recommend the following 4 sites.

1. Masnsion.com

2. Pokerroom.com

3. Fulltiltpoker.com

4. PKR.com

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So you want to become a blogger, it seems that nowadays everyone has a blog or are thinking about starting one up. Whether you want to start a blog to make some extra money or are looking to promote your business or purely for fun, my simple beginners guide will help to get you started.

What is a blog, It is basically a type of website which has its content arranged in chronological order from the most recent post {or entry} at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom. Blogs are updated frequently and are fairly straightforward to publish. The real beauty of blogs is that they require very little technical skills to update and maintain them, unlike traditional web sites.

Blog Content, you will have to decide what you are going to write about, the subject matter of your blog is of vital importance to you. Whatever topic or topics you choose to write about you will have to be prepared and knowledgeable enough to do so on a very regular basis.

 Publishing your Blog, next you will need to decide the publishing method you are going to use to make your blog available to the world. The choices are either doing it the free way, through company a like, blogger.com, which is entirely free and straightforward. Or buying your own domain name, paying to host it and publishing it through something like Wordpress.

 Marketing of Your Blog, when you finally see your words published on the web, it is highly likely that you will want to share them with as many people as possible. If not why go to all the bother.  The next best thing to do, is make all your friends, family, and work colleagues aware of your blog; this will get the ball rolling. The next step is to submit every article you write to social sites such as Del.icio, Digg, Stumble Upon, Tehcnorati etc.

 These are just some simple steps to help you get started as a blogger.

Some more great tips which will help you to become a  better blogger can also be found at 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger

Some more great advise for those looking to become a blogger, which I would recommend reading can be found at How to become an authority blogger

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