Castle Age Tips and Strategies

My old Castle Age tips site was also taken down (similar to my Mousehunt Tips and Strategies site) due to some sort of "Terms of Use" violation which I find really bogus. But rather than whine I took the liberty of creating a new Castle Age Tips and Strategies Site with new well written articles.

6 Useful Tips to Help Get the Most of Google Docs

Google Docs has been a very useful tool at because of its flexibility and easy project management. I found this article by SixRevisions.com very useful for like of my who are using Google Docs at work.

6 Tips to Get the Most out of your GoogleDocs

Mousehunt Tips from an experienced player

I was scouring the Mousehunt forums when I found this in depth tips on playing Mousehunt for beginners and I would like to share these to all of you Mousehunters out there. to join Mousehunt you need to have your own Facebook account


Thanks for the tip: Watson Yuk Fai Shum

I have been playing MouseHunt for 2 months, during these 2 months, I have made alot of mistakes and now I am stuck at Lab using DB/ Exp/Swiss trying to save up gold for DDB and BG. Now I have better understanding about the game, I realise how silly I was and I don't want other new hunters make the same mistakes I did, so here are some tips to avoid it.

1) Tacky Glue Trap vs. High Tension Spring. Tacky Glue Trap will be a better choice because the 40% Accuracy bonus will help you attract mouse. Don't worry about it if you chosen High Tension Spring already, you will change your trap in no time.

2) Stay in Town of Gnawnia using Cheddar Cheese until you are Apprentice, don't bother going to Meadow and using other cheese. You will save up gold fast this way.

3) Buy Wooden Base with Target as soon as you can afford it. The addition 20% Accuracy bonus will boost your attraction rate.

4) 500 Pound Spiked Crusher vs. Mouse Mary O'Nette. Mouse Mary O'Nette will be a better choice because it is simply more powerful, attract better and luckier. If you are using 500 Pound Spiked Crusher already, don't buy Mouse Mary O'Nette, save your gold for a better one.

5) Once you are Apprentice. Stock up Marble Cheese and travel to Harbour. You can either use your left overs Cheddar at Harbour then swtich to Marble or you can sell it to buy more Marble. Stay hunting there until you reach Journeyman.

6) Buy Stone Base as soon as you can afford it. Although this upgrade you will lose 20% Accuracy bonus, the power increase makes it a worthy upgrade.

7) Mouse Trebuchet vs. Mouse Rocketine. Mouse Trebuchet will be a better choice dispike it is less powerful. It is a more balance trap overall and it is cheaper. If you are already using Mouse Rocketine, stick with it until you can buy better.

8) Travel to Mountain once you are Journeyman, hunt with Marble until you have Swiss Army Mouse Trap and Explosive Base (Exp). You should consider changing your bait to Swiss Cheese after the upgrades if you still don't have the Laboratory Map Piece from a Ninja mouse. Or you can simply try your luck with Marble and save the gold for your next trap.

9) NVMRC Forcefield Trap (FF) vs. Mouse DeathBot (DB). FF will be a better choice. Slighty less powerful, but it is the luckiest trap you can buy now. Sometimes it seems like luck is all you need to catch a powerful mouse.

10) If you have the reach Master already and still don't have the map piece, you should really consider changing your bait to Swiss or even Brie if you are desperate although not recommended.

11) Travel to Laboratory when you reached Master and have the map. Use Swiss as your initial bait. It is very important to stock up as many cheese as possible before you goto Lab because the travel cost is very expensive. Stay hunting at Lab until you have both the Key to Digby from a Dwarf mouse and Tattered Mousoleum Cloth from a Zombie mouse.

12) While you are hunting in Lab, it is time to stock up Super|Brie+ (SB) so you can convert them to Radioactive Blue (RB) later. There are many ways to obtain SB, the easiest way is to donate, other then that, you can do buy some and win some on the fourm. BUT DON'T BEG! No one like begger!

13) Once you have obtained the key and the cloth, stay in lab untill you have atleast 15 potions, if you plan to stay in Mousoleum (Moz) for awhile, you should stock up more potions, maybe around 30 or even more. Before you travel to Moz, buy a shadow trap from Town of Digby.

14) Sinister Portal (Sin) vs. Ambrosial Portal (Amb). This is very debatable, but my choice will be Sin because in Moz, I don't have any trouble attracting mouse, but I have a really hard time catching them and power is what you need to catch them. Both very similiar, doesn't really matter what you choose.

15) Try to stay as long as you can in Moz, convert your SB to RB one potion at a time, keep looking for SB until you get your Lycan mouse with Shredded Furoma Map Piece.

16) Once you have your map piece from Moz, you can either stay in Moz until you reach Grandmaster. Or if you hate looking for SB on the forum, you should use up all your SB then move to lab until you are Grandmaster.

17) I don't recommend you hunt at Trainning Ground (TG) without a Digby Drillbot (DDB). I had really bad time at TG using DB, not sure how well will FF do.

Note: These tips are only what I think I should have did, they might not be the best choices, so please don't burn me into ashes, just trying to help.




More tip can be found at Mousehunt Tips and Strategies Site

Free Essential Tools for Blogger Blogs

I found this website in which the author shared a list of essential tools for Blogger blogs.

Here are Essential tools for Blogger.com Blogs

How to Use Forums to Drive Laser Targeted Traffíc to Your Site in 7 Steps

Article By Iyabo Oyawale (c) 2008 reposted from an email newsletter

There is no doubt about the fact that Forum posting works when it comes to driving traffic to a site. On many occasions, I have successfully used posting to forums to gain exposure to my affiliate landing page, squeeze page, sales page, etc.

I tell you, if you're really smart, the goal of every forum post you make is to get as many people to subscribe to your líst! Posting to forums is a very fast and powerful way to build your base of subscribers in as little as 30 minutes. Below is a step-by-step guide:

Step 1 - Find Forums About Your Niche Very Easily

Just Google the following:

+"your niche" +forum
or
+"your niche" +"discussion board"

For instance, if I am looking for Forums in the Internet Marketing field, I type +"Internet Marketing" +forum. The results show the top Internet marketing Forums such as:

www.im4newbies.com/forum
www.warriorforum.com
www.forums.digitalpoint.com

Step 2 - Join the Forums and Set Up Your Signature

Remember to include your website address in your signature. Signature is another name for your resource box. Your resource box is just like an 'about the author info'. This appears at the end of every post you make and drives traffic to your website.

Step 3 - Read the Rules and Regulations of the Forum Before Posting

This ensures that your posts are not deleted by the Administrators of the Forum. Now, don't go about spamming all members of the Forum with your website advert. In fact, I will advise you not to post an obvious ad. It's a pure waste of time because it will be deleted.

So, what's next?

Step 4 - Ask for Input

Approach from a weak man's position. Assuming you've written an article on your site entitled "13 Ways to Drive Traffic to a New Site." You could make a post asking folks to check out the article and see if you missed anything. Or you can ask for additional points to add to your article. Of course you'll have your opt ín box at the end of the article with a compelling offering.

Let's say you've written an article on meeting the right partner. You could post a message like this: "If you had a chance to learn how to meet your right partner now, what would you do?"

It's a great way to get the attention of forum members to your article. You also get them engaged in the article by asking for their input. And who knows, you may also get other publishers who would use your content in their ezines, thereby getting more exposure for your site.

Some Blogging Tips That Worth Trying

I was reading some of PinoyBlogero's post when one of his post caught my attention. He posted about tips on how to get a lot of topics your blogs depending on the niche you are into. Personally this really helps because my niches are usually about "web development", "graphic design", "search engine optimization" , "blogging" and of course "heavy metal music".

Here are list down his tips:

• Feeds - Subscribing to blogs that you find interesting or within your niche


• Blog Aggregator - MindanaoBlogger.com is an example of a blog aggregator


• Google Alerts - Google Alerts is a nifty feature from Google that alerts the user if there are newly indexed posts under a specific keyword


• Twitter- Some bloggers make use of Twitter to twit about their new posts or interesting articles that they have discovered


• Mailing Lists - you find any interesting groups or community on yahoo or google, you can susbcribe to their mailing list.


• Forums - forums are one of the best possible sources that every blogger should hunt down, people like to disc

How to Increase Your Blog Traffic by JehzLau

Here's a post from one of my blog friends which talks about how to increase your blog traffic. I did try some of his tips and it really works. For details you can follow this link.

My Tips and insights on blogging ,web researching and social networking

As of late I've been so active in blogging (maintaining over 10 blogs (8 here in blogger.com, 3 in wordpress.com and a self hosted tech blog) that I would like to share some tips on blogging, web researching and social networking.

Here are the tools I can recommend:

Firefox add ons:

Scribefire
a blog editor directly from your Firefox browser. No need to log in to each blogs just to posts.

del.icio.us and Stumble upon
Its better to bookmark all the sites you like using these tools for easy retrival. StumbleUpon is also a social network site, so you could meet some new friends while "stumbling" on new sites.

Squidoo toolbar
here's an add-on for those having a Squidoo lens account.

TwitterFox
a third party - Firefox addon that you can use to post your twits for Twitter. You can also see your friends' latest using its pop-up alert.

To increase your traffic and some SEO tips

Express Submit your Blog
Submitting your blog to all search engines and directory is a very tedious task. To lessen the load, you can submit your site using Express Submit . They have a free service that would submit your site to over 40 search engine site in just one submission.

Blog Hopping
Blog hopping is method on which you jump from one blog to another using the blog site's link list or blog rolls. If the blog site has has a shout box installed leave a message requesting for exchanging of links.

that's it for now, more tips on later posts...