Rachel McAdams blazed the red carpet this week with shimmer-rimmed eyes topped by loads of matte charcoal smoky shadow. Her eyes purred with perfection and she got a big thumbs up from us for a super gorgeous smoky-cat eye.

Beth says it’s all about where you place the color that will give you the look you desire. She suggests mixing a dark chocolate and charcoal eyeshadow together and applying from the outer corner of eye using a soft eye shadow brush. Bring it back toward the iris and blend into the crease to create the smoky-cat eye look seen here on Rachel.

An even easier way to get this look is to use the cat eye Stencil from the Get in Line Eyeliner Kit (both shadows included) placing it higher on the eyelid will give you a thick and smoky cat eye with a strong point on the outer eye like Rachel’s. Soften the edges with your eyeshadow brush and finish with an icy shadow near the inner corner of the eye that extends to the iris and sweep the color on the lower lashline too. Try Abyssinia, a delicate pearl sheen shadow from NARS.

For added eye popping appeal use a black gel eyeliner to line along the lashline. Apply to the outer eye area and blend into the center of eyes rather than lining the entire eye. Repeat the same on the bottom. Try Onyx Stay Put gel Eyeliner, $18 at bethbenderbeauty.com

You’ve got sexy smoky cat eyes baby!

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How do you make money from the Google Adsense Program? What AdSense Tips can you share with us?

I have been asked this question so many times in the past few weeks that I thought I should write something on the topic. It seems increasingly bloggers want to try to cover their hosting and ISP costs with some revenue from their blog - and increasingly they’re doing it and are able to make a few (or quite a lot) dollars on the side. Many are turning to Google’s Adsense program.

Covering costs of my Digital Photography Blog is why I originally signed up with Google Adsense - blogging can get expensive when you have high levels of traffic and a lot of pages.

Whilst the agreement you sign with Google stresses that you are not allowed to give specific information about your earnings from the program I can say that I’m glad I’ve signed up because its well and truly covered my costs - and then some. In fact I think its quite feasible to expect that Adsense coupled with other strategies for making money from Blogging could quite easily generate a decent living. It takes time and hard work, but I think its very doable. (Update: Since writing this series I’ve revealed that I am now looking at making over a six figure income this year in 2005 from blogging).

So how do I make money from Google Adsense? Let me share some AdSense Tips that heve helped me.

This will be the first in a series of posts on this topic. Let me say up front I’m no expert - there are a lot of people out there making a lot more money than I am using Adsense - however most of them are not telling their secrets - well not for free anyway. I’ve got no secrets to hide and am willing to share what I’ve learnt since I signed up for the program 8 months ago. If you want a REAL expert’s opinion on Adsense I’d recommend buying Joel Comm’s What Google Never Told You About Making Money with Adsense E-Book. Joel earns $15,000 per month from Adsense and has some good things to share.

I know some bloggers are put off or offended by the idea of making money from blogging so I’ll try not to let these posts dominate my blog - however if you are not interested in the topic, simply skip over these posts.

I am going to assume a few things in this series to cut down the amount of introductory comments I have to make. Here is what I am assuming:

• You have a blog. Whilst most of the following tips will apply to other types of websites I run Adsense on blogs and will speak from that experience.
• You have (or will) read a basic overview of Adsense and have some understanding of what it is.
• You have(or will) read the program policies as outlined by Google. These give details of site eligibility, ad placements and other requirements for using the system.

Enough introductory comments - lets get stuck into the Adsense Tips for Bloggers!

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HostGator and HostMonster is well known web host provider in the world. Both of them are the best and indubitable powerful web host.

There are many reviews about them like in webhosting.albachtimi says both of them give the best to their customer.

Here are few additional tips for you to consider one of them to be chosen:

HostMonster is more flexible than HostGator in registration process. You can register in HostMonster like the way you register with other common web host providers. Different with HostGator, they ask you to scan your ID/Passport and scan of your credit card for verification requirement. This process will make you a bit bother when you need to host your domain in a little time, because this process will take your time. But, with this process HostGator want to show you that they put security issue in the first place. This process shows you that HostGator has higher security in facing credit card fraud.
For you who need fantastico feature to install WordPress easily, HostGator and HostMonster provide this feature in their services.

HostGator still using WP version 2.3.3, while HostMonster using WP version 2.5.1.  But I think this problem can be solved with WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin.
Although both of them offer Unlimited Domain Add-On, HostMonster offer Unlimited Space and Unlimited Bandwidth now for the same price a year. For you who need high capacity for your web, HostMonster is the best choice.

In price, HostMonster also offer interesting price in their packages. But pay more attention; HostMonster gives more economical packages for 1 to 2 years. If you take 3 or 6 month duration, then you will charge $30 for additional setup cost. For limited fund you need to choose HostGator for monthly packages. But if you have more money, you will need to choose HostMonster.

For downtime HostGator has a little bit advantage than HostMonster, for you who need high website performance for your business, HostGator is the best choice.

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Have you ever heard about 3debtconsolidation.com before? Okay, in this post, I want to tell you the benefit of 3debtconsolidation.com for your financial side. 3debt consolidation is one site that gives their free services to educate people about financial knowledge, especially in credit and debt consolidation. Their free services will guide you to solve your credit problems.

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I came to their site to search for debt consolidation definition, but I have found more than I want. I can learn more than I want, because they provide huge useful information in it. At the top left corner I found debt consolidation definition, that I was searching for.

When I clicked it, one new page is load and open. Here I found complete definition about debt consolidation. Not only that, along with this, I also found one video that explain to me about the facts about debt consolidation in America. There is unique content in it; they also provide you with example of debt consolidation. This feature was very helpful for me; I can imagine what debt consolidation can do in solving my debt and credit problems. The fact is you can make debt negotiation, this is one thing I know from this useful site.

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Stop appailing your financial freedom, don’t exhaust your savings over and over. Debt is number one enemy for everyone, and most people don’t have any power against debt. Because of that, now is the right time to abolish this.

Most often mistakes in making debt are taking too much loan, and wrong usage of debt. Debt can make someone exhausting his/her savings, put his/her wealth as collateral.

People think they can repay their loan debt just because their loan application was agreed by bank or financial institution. People are just focusing to the number of monthly payment and interest rate, instead of realizing that debt is like cancer that nibbles on their financial health.

If you want to fight your debt problem, these are some kind of debt helps that you can consider:

1.    Get known your debt

Getting known your monthly payment is not enough, you have to know all things that relates to your debt matter. You can make list of people whom give you loan, your balance or the rest of your debt, the interest rate and how much the monthly payment.

May be you need to know about each loan condition, maybe the discount for today settlement, or maybe the penalty.

2.    Make debt settlement priority

Based on the list, you can make the priority to make settlement. Sort by the highest rate to the lowest, not start from the high balance of debt. Why? The analogy is as wound after accident. The wound that causing much blood will be recovered first by doctor, because could make someone die. But, this is not meaning the other loan debt ignored. This called medical debt.

3.    Stop your credit card usage

By the way, even if you have good strategy, this will not work effectively if you still use and add some more credit cards on your pocket. One good way to lessen your charge is debt consolidation.

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Optimizing your Wordpress blog for search engines can be extremely difficult, especially if you don’t know where to start. Search engine algorithms are constantly changing and new techniques for search engine optimization (SEO) are surfacing each day. In this post I’m going to briefly discuss search engine optimization (SEO) and introduce some great tools and plugins for Wordpress blogs. After reading this post you should have no problem improving your blog’s pagerank and increasing traffic.

Creating Sitemaps

Sitemaps provide search engines with important information about the pages on your site. This includes the last time each page was updated, its update frequency, and its relative importance based on traffic and comments. Sitemaps are great for blogs because of the large number of pages (posts) that aren’t linked together and only accessible through search.

Adding a sitemap provides an additional view into your site and doesn’t replace the standard method of crawling pages. Sitemap files are formatted in XML and contain just one URL with optional tags such as last modified, priority and change frequency.

Creating a Google sitemap for your blog is a simple process thanks to a plugin by Arne Brachhold. The plugin creates a XML sitemap for homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archive pages. It also calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments. The XML sitemap is automatically rebuilt after you publish, edit, or change a post and the plugin immediately informs Google about the changes through Google-Ping.

Installation is simple, you can download the plugin here and extract it to your Wordpress /wp-content/plugins directory. Then login to your blog’s administration panel and activate the plugin. Under the “Options” menu you can alter the default change frequencies, file name and other options. Click on “Rebuild Sitemap” to create your sitemap.

Google Webmaster Tools

The Google Webmaster site has a great collection of tools to help make your site more Google-friendly. It provides an overview of how your site is crawled. It also displays information about keywords that other sites use to link you, your top search queries and your search result ranking. This information will help you to understand what is driving traffic to your site.

Once your sitemap file is created you should submit it to Google Webmaster Tools and verify your site in order to gain access to crawling information. While this information doesn’t directly help to improve your ranking, it does provide you with an understanding of how your site looks to Google, an extremely valuable perspective.

Cutting the fat from Permalinks

Permalinks are the permanent links that are created for each blog post. By default Wordpress sets permalinks to: http://yourblog.com/?p=1234. Permalinks can instead be used to create more intuitive links like: http://yourblog.com/category/this-is-a-post-title/. By using the later option, search engines can see the post category and title. Search engines run the URL keywords against the content so it’s important to keep post titles short and sweet.

To edit the way your permalinks are displayed, log into your admin panel and select Options -> Permalinks. Enter /%category%/%postname%/” under the custom field and click update permalink structure. You will need to modify your .htaccess file in order for this to work. More information on .htaccess files can be found here. Don’t worry about upgrading your link structure, the older links that are already indexed by search engines and will still work properly.

Pack A Punch With Your Post Title

Keep post titles simple and straight-forward, wrap your post them in H1 or H2 tags and try to use as many relevant keywords as possible. Search engine spiders judge the importance of content by looking at the HTML tag its wrapped in, so use proper tags wisely.

Tidy Up Those Dirty Page Titles

Properly formatted page titles are very important to search engines because they use page titles as linking text for search results. The searched keywords are also bolded in the results so it’s important to keep the page titles as short and accurate as possible. This will also allow visitors to identify the link immediately. By default Wordpress formats page titles to “Your Blog Name � Blog Archive � The Post Title”. Change this to read “The Post Title by Your Blog Name”. The post title should always come before your blog title because the title is what people will most likely be searching for. The blog archive is just excess fat that you can remove, it’s not important to search engines or visitors.

To remove the blog archive text modify the header.php file in the wp-content/themes directory. Select your theme’s directory and open header.php in a text editor and locate this line, which appears near the top:

[The requested file http://www.johnwiseman.ca/code/post_title1.txt could not be found]

Replace the title element with the following text:

[The requested file http://www.johnwiseman.ca/code/post_title2.txt could not be found]

Contribute to the Conversation

Incoming links to your blog are extremely important. Search engines such as Google don’t just count the number links that come into your site, they also take into account the rank of the pages that link to you. To improve your rank and generate more traffic, comment on popular blogs. Within your comments you may want to include a link to a related post on your blog and a signature with your URL.

Wordpress Plugins That Make Your Life Easier

Here’s a list of a some useful Wordpress plugins that will help optimize your blog and keep visitors crawling through your pages:

WordPress Related Entries plugin - Wordpress plugin that displays related entries to visitors.

WordPress 2 SEO Plugin - Plugin optimizes titles, meta tag information and RSS link feeds for auto discovery.

Search Meter - Plugin stores logs of searches performed on your blog.

Technorati Tags - Plugin for tagging posts throughTechnorati.

It’s important to remember that there’s no quick fix to optimize your blog for search engines. Every little detail counts. Signup on social bookmarking websites such as Digg, del.icio.us, reddit, and blinklist and share your posts with as many people as possible through comments.

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Sometimes we can’t handle our debt. It is out of control. Your couple died, drastically change of income, or got fired may be several causes. Difficulties or barrier in financial problem especially debt, either in control or don’t is frequently happen.

There are so many ways you can do to make your life happy and meaningful. May be you can fix your financial problem immediately in just one night, but at least this post giving you advices to treat your debt.

First of all, you have to admit that your debt is one serious problem. Then, you have to change your habits. Try to hold your passion and pay with cash. Without you realize, this action will help you more to handle your debt problem.

There is one fantastic way that you have to consider, it is called debt consolidation. What is debt consolidation? May be some of you never heard this term before. Debt consolidation combines your credit card debt, personal loans, medical debt, and payday loans into a single monthly payment. This way is the best way to get rid of your high interest loans.

There are two kind of debt consolidation, that is secured debt consolidation and unsecured debt consolidation. As its name, secured debt consolidation needs you to have collateral to get a consolidation loan. Contrary, unsecured debt consolidation doesn’t need any collateral to consolidating your debt.

Debt consolidation is the best choice for your multiple debts problem. So let’s make debt settlement immediately for your own good with debt consolidation program. And you can answer a question like this easily “how to lower bills”, the answer is debt consolidation.