When it comes to websites in the web 2.0 age not many stack up to the standards we all expect. However when it comes to finding a good place for Credit Card Offers you can search high and far and find nothing worth while!

Thats why today I am showing you extracreditcards.com, sure it looks simple but it does the job its suppose to with class. I think all to often people think a site has to be this super big extravagant site in order for it to be trustworthy when in fact a lot of the smaller sites offer better support then full companies.

To be perfectly honest with you “Why do you trust my blog over someone else’s?” I mean I am by no means a great blogger or even a good one just a decent one yet you all listen to what I say as if it actually matters.

Why not trust a credit card offer company the same? What makes them any less trustworthy of your time, they are just like me (starting up) and trying their best.

I encourage you to test them out, if it doesn’t work out then you haven’t lost anything but a couple minutes of your time, but what if you uncover a goldmine opportunity? Just think about it guys!

In this post I will show you how easy it was for me to double my 70 twitter followers to over 140 in just 1 day for about 20 minutes of work! Oh, did I mention that one of the new followers sent me a guest post to use on my blog?

Connections do make a difference and social media aka Twitter is one of the best ways to do it, read along and I will show you my easy process!

Step 1.Do you have a twitter account? OK so your reading about how I doubled my twitter followers in one day but do you even have a twitter account? If you don’t then go sign up for one right now, twitter will be vital in the future “trust me on this guys”.

If you do already have a twitter account then here is all you need to do…

Sit back and think about what you currently blog about, is your blog focused around baseball cards, books or perhaps baby bibs? Think deeply about it and decide what your blog is 100% mostly about!

Lets say your blog is mainly about baseball cards and the people who would most benefit from your blog are of course other baseball card collectors.

Step 2. This is so easy a child can do it, seriously guys all you have to do is go to the twitter find people page, once you are their simply type in a related key-word to your main blogging topic. In our case type in baseball, you wouldn’t want to type in baseball cards because your searching peoples names on twitter not their likes.

You will then be presented with a list of people that have the word baseball in their user name!

Step 3.This is easier then you thought, from here you can simply click follow on every person on the page! But wait their is a second page (go on the second page and beyond adding every possible person with the word baseball in their user name).

There could be thousands or just a few hundred, it really does not matter. What we are doing is called targeted searching on twitter, once you follow all these people the fun part begins!

Step 4. Automatically people with like-minded baseball minds will begin to follow you back.

Now don’t get to excited here, they have only started following you and remember they can stop following you very easily at any time.

This is the hard part, once they have actually started following you don’t go blasting them with your blog url and asking them to subscribe. Instead send them a message and ask how they got into baseball and what they like.

Twitter is about relationships and developing them can take time, I have just started using twitter but because im gracious and reply to the messages I get and of course send messages to other people I am connecting with people on their level. In a couple months I can then hit them all with my link by doing a tweet and they will all see it.

What do you think? Is twitter for you, can you see yourself making friends on twitter, I know I can but id love to see and hear your thoughts!

Thats right everyone, the time has come and the new IBB has arrived!

If you can’t already see it all around this post then your not looking very hard, we have spent several weeks readying this new look for Infected By Bugs and we believe its a winner! We have done this for a few reasons and in this post I want to outline a few of those and also cover some news that is coming next month for Infected By Bugs!

Why The New Theme?

The main reason I decided to go ahead and get a new theme for IBB is because the old one simply did not offer anything to my readers that made them say wow this is a site I can trust upon their first look. I am by no means saying we accomplished that with this new theme either but I believe its a huge step in the right direction, what do you think?

Along with the fact that our old theme did not scream professionalism, the theme really did not have any more room to grow in terms of advertisement slots and places for highlighted content. Our new theme offers both, advertisement wise there is a new 468 x 60 slot which you can grab right now if you want along with a new system we plan on trying in the coming months. On the other hand I believe highlighting top priority content / reads for my readers is important but the old theme had no place to do that on. This new theme actually does this with the new javascript / flash 4 feature post rotators that’s on the homepage.

That brings me to another interesting point, did anyone notice how clean-cut the homepage now looks? It no longer is a super long page with the last 5 posts on it, instead its showing snippets of the latest 4 posts which shortened the page up to about half the length! I am hoping this speeds up loading times and bot search ability for better seo overall.

Another great thing about this new theme is the fact that our menu is now at the top of the site, before it was hidden down on the bottom right of the blog and the pages got barely any clicks because people simply did not see them.

One of my favorite new things is the logo we had created by my buddy who helps video tutor over at PixelForLife. He did an awesome job and I recommend you contact him if you need a logo or any other graphics work done!

How does the new look help in terms of traffic / social media?

This theme is built specifically to help increase traffic and help you all connect with me on other social sites such as twitter and youtube. If you look at the footer, there is a place for all of these where you can visit me and just say hi or see what I am currently doing.

Not only that but by me only putting snippets on the home-page instead of the full posts I have instantly generated an extra click from everyone who reads my posts, why? Because you can’t read it without clicking the link into the post! I am hoping this increases my page-views which in turn will allow me to up my advertising prices!

News for later on!

That brings me to my last words for this post, I have so many things in the works for you guys its not even funny but one that I want to reveal is probably going to be the biggest of all (maybe not, we shall see). Here it is…

You know my old IBB theme? How about the themes I have had on other blogs before? Does anyone know what I did with them?

Well to be completely honest I didn’t do anything with them, they have been rotting away hard-drive space on my machine for far to long, so now its time to kick things up a notch here on IBB and here is what I am going to do.

We are going to start a wordpress theme section which can be access anywhere in the site on the top menu once the project goes live.

From this page you will be able to grab one or all of my themes completely free of charge!! The only catch is that you must leave my footer link on but guess what? For only $9.95 you can have that link removed and your readers will never know where you got the theme.

I hope you all enjoy the new theme along with the new features I have planned, be sure and leave a comment below and let me know your thoughts!