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Article: Mr. Rich Schefren's Strategic Profits 2006-10-18 04:44:00 I am interrupting the flow of Part 02 from the continuation of ' Market your blog - Part 01, to write this entry as it is too important to miss it.Heard about this website http://strategicprofits.com before?Mr. Rich Schefren the owner of the site, coaches many of today's most well known and most respected top Internet gurus and service providers on streamlining their businesses while exploding their profits. He's partnered with Jay Abraham, John Carlton, Jeff Paul, Stephen Pierce, Yanik Silver, and Alex Mandossian.Just couple of days ago, he rolled out 'The Final Chapter' of the 'Internet Business Manifesto'. It is a very good read that opens up many business opportunities whirling around on what really is internet marketing. Drop by his site here or you can download the 'Manifesto' here.Another one worth looking (not a free book) is from Professor James Bradley's internet million dollars, that creates waves too amongst the internet marketers.-----------Tags: internet mar Read more:Article
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Market your blog - Part 01 2006-10-15 05:06:00 Other than
advertising
your blog at other websites to draw crowds, these following parts will be on how to do so without paying a single cent. :)
What's better than getting some results without paying but just with a little more effort?
This is going to be a long entry but I will break it down into various parts for easier referral.
Lets Ping it!
So what's a 'Ping'? It is basically sending a certain information of your blog to a free service ( an XML-RPC signal to one or more "ping servers") to notify them that your blog has been updated and hopefully they will come crawling to your site, index it and then publish it at their sites.
Readers of those sites will thus be attracted to come visit your site or read thru their subscriptions (
RSS)i
f it arouses their interests too.
How to Ping?
Ask yourself this question first before you go around pinging your latest entry. Who are your target readers? If you are targeting local readers, it makes more sense to have Ping Read more:Market
Article: Why BlogRolling? 2006-10-14 11:53:00 Writing more on BlogRolling, this is one website that can help any bloggers a lot, a lot, a lot.
From
BlogRolling.com
A one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving linklist with ease. There are a lot of tools out there to help you blog without getting your hands dirty - but managing your linklist still means having to crawl through the HTML in your template every time you want to add or remove a link. No more! Now it's as simple as clicking a link or making a pit stop at BlogRolling.
Do you realize how much work it can really save you?
Say, you have like 200 website links to your close friends, colleagues, readers, not so close friends, not so close colleagues, some blogs that you like to visit ... you do the math.
It is a nightmare managing so many links, to add, to remove, to edit with some that may change their website addresses.
I strongly recommend that you pop by BlogRolling.com to take a look and sign up an account Read more:Article
Article: Who really earns? 2006-10-10 05:33:00 Recently in one of the ecommerce classes, some students and I had a lively discussions about who really are earning from all these internet marketing?
The publishers or the so-called 'Internet Marketing Gurus' themselves?
The general belief is that it is the IMG (Internet Market Gurus) that been touting on the many seminars and trainings that you must attend in order to start earning money. Why? Recently there been a great surge of advertisements both online and offline about how to make tonnes of money from the internet by selling affiliated products, services, from advertisements etc... all simply by attending some preview seminars, conferences where some heavy weighs are flying into singapore.
From the feedbacks, many see these similar to the way some other gurus from other industries pushing to charge others thousands of dollars to learn some secrets, sharing their skills on the 'know-how'. These always raise the same questions over and over again from them and many oth Read more:Article
BAK2u.com - Anti theft software for laptops 2006-10-09 07:08:00
A break-in and computer theft
last month in an office of TransUnion credit monitoring service has left 3,600 consumers at risk of ID theft, the company said Tuesday.
The theft of the computer, from a California office of TransUnion, marks the latest case of consumer information being put at risk following the heist of a PC. The PC in this instance contained sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers.
Security experts warn that the type of information that can be extracted from such computers often is used as the "keys to the vault," which enable the thieves to engage in other illicit behavior.
A small TransUnion sales office in California was burglarized and a desktop computer was stolen in October, the company noted. Consumers whose information was contained in the computer were notified of the theft and given a year of complimentary credit monitoring by the service.
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Article: Google Adsense (General) 2006-10-05 15:50:00 Here are a few good sites (with permissions from the bloggers) for anyone keen to know more about GoogleAdsense
.
Making sense of Adsense click through rate
Adsense click through rate (CTR)
and how you can use this insight to change your ad layout and improve conversion.
How to start your Adsense Empire
Must be daunting huh… hearing that there are indeed folks who make more from Adsense in a day than some salaried workers do in a month.
One very important tip that I like to share is when you are placing your Google Ads at your blog, take some time to study your site closely. Take note of the first image or text that you will notice when you first enter your site. That may give you the clue where to place your Ads!
For example, when you come to this blog you may notice
'Tips: How to blog for money'
and then probably a goon smiling away in a bright yellow shirt. Ok .. that's me :) And what's next? Maybe the BAK2u image (located on the right, in blue and white c Read more:Article
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, Google Adsense
Thank you 2006-10-04 11:35:00 Like to thank everyone for writing, sms, msn to me about my
cousin's health
. Thank
you everyone.
God bless.
Back from traveling 2006-10-28 04:54:00 Was in Malaysia since last Sat and back only yesternite.
Will be posting a few articles soon.
Market your blog - Part 02 2006-11-04 06:40:00
This is one up and coming service MyBloglog that can really helps you to increase traffic to your blog!
Not only just some traffic but huge hits coming wave after wave. How?
From MyBlogLog:
"You probably know a ton about your favorite bloggers - what they think about the subjects they write about, maybe some of their work and life history... you may even know what toothpaste they use. But how much do you know about all the other people who read their blogs? And how much do they know about you?
For all this talk of a global conversation throughout the blogosphere, there's a lot to be desired. It's a two-tiered system, with bloggers talking amongst each other and the majority of the readers looking on from the fringes. You may get to call out something from the sidelines by leaving a comment, but things could be so much better. For everyone.
MyBlogLog is launching this new Communities service to empower authors and readers to operate at the same level. For the first time, everyone w Read more:Market
A9 toolbar no longer being supported. 2006-11-09 07:37:00
This morning, I noticed something different on my FireFox
A9 Toolbar
. It requires me to sign in again which is unusual.
Upon clicking the button, was directed to this site and saw this notice:
"The A9 Toolbar is no longer being developed or supported by A9. Although the search functions will still work, history, diary, and bookmarks are no longer supported. Accordingly, we suggest that you follow the directions below to uninstall your A9 Toolbar.
Access to Bookmarks and Diary: If you had any bookmarks or diary entries, we have saved them in files for you that you can access in the Product Extras section of your Amazon Media Library. To download the file, click download in the right-hand column (if you don't see download, select list view. There are up to three files located: one with both bookmarks and diary entries in a searchable, printable form; one with bookmarks in a format easy to import to other browsers; and one with diary entries in a text/xml format."
Not all is
Tags..what are those? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 What are those 'tags' for in those blog entries? For example, in the previous entry ' Article: Web 2.0' there is a sentence below: Tags: web 2.0, google, wikipedia.A tag is like a subject or category where those words are linked back to technorati.com, where it tracks the most popular tags used. The site Technorati can be considered as the most recognized website by bloggers on what's going on in the world of weblogs. It provides a platform where readers, bloggers, visitors can search, surf, and get to know who's who in the blogsphere. When you provide such tags at your entries, the texts will be tagged by technorati.com into its own link and then organize it together with other bloggers posts with the same words. The bigger the text, the more active that tag is. :)All this tracking is monitored and indexed in almost realtime when posted by any members in Technorati. And if your tags happened to be somewhat popular, anyone that wants to know more about what others
Article: Web 2.0 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes.There are many bloggers that been touting about what Web 2.0 will be and how it will change the experience and the usability of all internet users. Also, many are pointing to Google as the one company that will mass introduce Web 2.0 to everyone, looking at the direction it is going. Watch for it as more and more of such applications and services are being rolled out. Extracts from WikipediaIntroductionAlluding to the version-numbers that commonly designate software upgrades, the phrase "Web 2.0" hints at an improved form of the World Wide Web, and the term has been in use for several years. In their first conference opening talk, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle summarized key principles they bel Read more:Article
Article: The Death of AdSense 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This is one interesting email that been floating around the internet today. I first received it from a friend and then another and another and another. Like what the email stated, sorta like spreading like wildfire across the internet marketing community.In the mail, it talks about someone finally stepped up to the plate and told the truth about Google Adsense and that it is no wonder why many have not been making the kind of income we thought.Anyway click the image below to find out more if you like:-----------Tags: adsense, death, google, internet marketing Read more:Article
Article: Google Toolbar 1970-01-01 00:59:59 One of the most useful tools available for you use to access how popular certain websites are, is from none other than from Google
.com, the Google Toolbar
.Google Toolbar
is a downloadable toolbar for browsers (IE but works best with firefox) that allows a user to do a Google search without visiting the Google website. Also it provides other value added features like AutoLink, AutoFill, WordTranslator, SpellCheck, Highlight Search Terms, Word Find Buttons and most importantly PageRank.From Google - PageRank "The PageRank button indicates the PageRank for the page you're currently viewing. PageRank is the importance Google assigns to a page based on an automatic calculation of factors such as the link structure of the web.PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the Read more:Article
Article: How to Get Started on Ebay 1970-01-01 00:59:59 A good article on 'How to Get Started on Ebay' from kgeventures.comExtract:'eBay is a 70 billion dollar a year industry giant. The really interesting situation is that they are dependent on entrepreneurs, like you, to make that business figure grow. In 2005, the number of people making money from working....'Go here:http://www.kgeventures.com/2006/09/how-to-get-started-on-ebay.html----------Tags: ebay, article, store Read more:Article
Invitations 1970-01-01 00:59:59 To increase qualified traffic to your blog, you can also invites other webmasters (owners of blogs or websites) to exchange links. Similar to trading, exchanging links is a web promotion strategy commonly used by webmasters and site owners.You can do the same by first inviting your contacts, friends, associates, partners to exchange links with you where their sites have the same type of visitors. Contact the owners by a phone call, sharing with them what your site is about and request politely to link each other's website in order to share traffic.Another benefit of linking up with each others' website is to increase the visibility to search engines. As the search engine is doing its job at a particular site and if it comes across an outgoing link, it will 'view' it as a value added link that the site sees it important (therefore the outgoing link from the site). More of such outgoing links to your site will increase your chances of being spidered, appearing in search results and d Read more:Invitations
Traffic 01 1970-01-01 00:59:59 After you installed any of the statistics counters as recommended, you will have already able to monitor the traffic to your site. From those figures presented to you, you can probably have a better grasp of who your readers are too. One of the most features in these counters is that it allows you to see where the traffic is coming from to your site. Perhaps some of them clicked from some links presented in certain search engines or some keywords that led them to you? Or maybe some other blogs with a link to yours are driving traffic? Today, we will discuss about 'Traffic' how to generate more traffic means more readers, which also means higher chance of any of them clicking your affiliate programs (01, 02) earning some cents and dollars. Search Engines By now you should have know that one of the biggest search engine in the world belongs to Google.com and Google happens to also owns Blogger.com too.Google also happens to use the many blogs created from Blogger.com as one of its m
Count it 02 1970-01-01 00:59:59 In addition to placing counter at your blog, you can also place this very nifty tool with a world map showing where your visitors are from. Clustrmaps.comLocate all site visitors. Fast. Free.See at a glance where your site's visitors are located: instantaneously, even when the numbers are enormous! Visitors don't need to click on anything: just viewing your page is sufficient.One thumbnail map on your site shows it all: We provide (free) the HTML that gives you a thumbnail map, like the one on the left. When it loads, it increments a counter and shows the locations of all the visitors to your page, cumulatively (even for huge numbers). Clicking on it zooms in to a big world map, and (optionally) lets you zoom in to the continents, as in the example below.For the fun of it, I also created one and placed it at the bottom left. Should be updated by tomorrow (take note of the time zone difference)---------------Tags: map, readers, locations, countries
Traffic 02 - Generate traffic to your blog Part 01... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 What if ... just what if you have a blog running, you update it everyday, you exchanged links with all your contacts, place your blog address at all your outgoing emails, place them as signatures in all the forums you chat but your counter just dont jump figures at all! Oh no, what should you do? It may not be that your entries are not interesting enough but more than likely your blog is not known by others YET despite all that you may have done as mentioned above.Here are a few quick and easy ways to do it. Go local First, start it off local. What do I mean? Simply start it off at your turf first, the place where you blog. Say here in Singapore, the connection between your readers to what you be writing will be easier to relate to and that, they may just come back often to visit your blog.But we cant leave it to chance, we have to push forward to create a 'pull'of audiences. Dont make the mistake of doing a 'hit-and-run' going to all popular blogs to post one or two entry and h
Traffic 02 - Generate traffic to your blog Part 02... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Coming to Part 2, you can become an advertiser yourself.Yes you read it right. Not only you become a publisher placing others' ads at your site earning some money through clicks or affiliate programs 01 and 02, you yourself can become an advertiser to promote your site to others.Adding to the list of those service providers that I mentioned in those earlier entries, which you can also sign up AdBrite, Google Adwords, Text Link Ads, Clicksor, Paypopup or Affiliate Sensor you can look into these few listed here too:Textadsit is a very straight forward process where you the advertiser can shop around it is directories to buy Ads space. From 'humor' to 'Computers' to Reference... you just pick and choose from the information provided to you to make the decision. PheedoAlso known as 'blogsnob.idya.net', this advertiser program provides tools to precisely create and target advertisements across a network of micro-publishers. Please note that Pheedo currently only accept U.S. publisher
Beta test: http://wanttotrade.sg 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Go try it out on this beta test.Kindly note that there be no actual bartering as it is still in beta testing, but you are encourage to post any items to test it out.(Bartering is within Singapore only)WantToTrade.sg will be launched officially on 1st Oct. Read more:Beta test
Bootstrapme.com 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This is most honourable with this blog mentioned by Mr Shawn Hessinger of Bootstrapme.com.I received a msg from Mr Shaw at MyBlogLog, a very exciting blog community that I signed up sometime back and I think you should go check it out too."Hey Paddy, Was reminded again of your excellent "How To Blog For Money" site over the weekend while putting together a blog list for the November issue of Practical eCommerce magazine. Unfortunately, my cup ranneth over (ha! ha!) and I ended up with more than the five they needed for the print feature, so I stuck the rest, including yours, on a Sept. 19 post of favorites at http:/ /www.bootstrapme.com. Have a look. You may also want to have a look at the other post from yesterday on scanR. If you haven't encountered this technology yet, have a look. It may also be a blog topic'Here is the article.I suggest you bookmark Bootstrapme.com, it is a very informative website.------------Tags: bootstrap, Practical eCommerce magazine, mybloglog, Shawn Hes
Article: Alexa Toolbar 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Another value added toolbar other than Google's has to be AlexaToolbar
.For my own use, Alexa Toolbar is best to view realtime information such as average traffic ranking and related links of that particular website. At times you can even find new competitors links too, just click it and you be at their sites. Gives you a competitive edge to learn more about your competitors' products and services.Together with Google Toolbar and Alexa Toolbar, you can easily verify claims by webmasters about their hits and visitors to their sites before deciding whether you want to advertise to promote your blog or not.At the same time, you can also check onto these 2 toolbars to see what you have done right that may increase your pageranking (Google) and your average traffic ranking too.Another tip is you do not have to use all the buttons from both toolbars as both will take up some space in your browser. What I did was drag and drop those buttons that I need and combine them into one single bar.S Read more:Article
Article: Get the advertisers! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Other than affiliate marketing of products or services to get some money thru your blog, what other methods can you use to widen the 'net' to earn more?Go get companies to place their advertisements at your site directly!Yes, you read it right. There is no rule that you cannot do that.If you have a good site (with good traffic) that provides added values to the readers, and the type of potential customers that the companies you approached may like, just go talk to them.Draft out a friendly and approachable email to them and offer to meet up. Include in your email why advertising at your site is a good choice and present in direct to the point why it will make them look good placing their advertisements at your site is the RIGHT choice.Prepare some simple to understand statistic charts about the kind of traffic and the demographic groups of visitors (some of these information can be obtained from your Counter). Go through a list of companies that you like to target and then put them i Read more:Article
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Lack of updates 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hi everyone, there been a lack of entries recently here in this blog. Part of it cos I been spending more time on the new web portal WantToTrade.sg and at the same on a new service that my company is going to roll out soon.Hopefully, in the next few days will publish a few articles that are halfway done.Thank you.Paddy Read more:updates
Lack of entries. 1970-01-01 00:59:59 There been a lack of updates here in this blog, my most sincere apology to all the readers.I was queuing up at Best Buy to get the PS3 .. ok ok I am kidding here.My company just launched the latest anti theft software for Mobilephones/Cellphones, PhoneBAK Mobilephone on Monday for some corporate clients. It been one hell of a ride after the Press Release was out that day. We received several emails and calls both locally and overseas asking about distributing it and also to find out more about the features since we have several version with different features for consumers and corp clients.The good thing is amidst all this, I wrote a few articles but never get the time to sit down to fine tune them. Will do so in the next few days.Thank you everyone.----------Tags: anti theft, software, phonebak, bak2u, ps3
How to get readers to come back for more? - Part 0... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This is a very challenging question that any bloggers keen to make a few cents will bound to ask themselves. How to get readers
to click on that link on the bookmark or blogrolling to visit your site. Here are some suggestions:Value added contentsProvide useful informations to your target readers. For example, if your blog is on mobile/cell phones then update it with the latest photos, specifications and the best will be a personal reviews (if you have the unit or your friends') of those nifty gadgets. Provides what you like about it and what you dont, or the expectations that you will hope the 'to be launched' phones will have.I always like to visit this blog, Mobile-SG.com and will come back for more. In this blog, it has a well balanced entries on the latest Pocket PC gadgets and also some cool plugs-in, softwares etc. It just make you wanna visit often.So now crack your head and think about what you knowledgable in, have contact with always, can write a lot, have access to, wont
Alexa Toolbar 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Do you know that when you change your webpage drastically, there is a chance that your Alexa
ranking may drop? Yes it is true. Changing it too dramatically risks you falling hard, really hard. But does it matter to retain the current ranking or to do what is necessary to appeal to your visitors? Lets take a look at how Alexa collects information from all over - Alexa utilizes web usage information, which tells us what is being seen on the web. This information comes mainly from the users of Alexa Toolbar
. This means that any Alexa users can give valuable information about the website on how it is use, what is good or bad and how it is related to certain links, traffic rankings and so on.Another that you may like to know is there is some controversy over how representative Alexa's user base is of typical internet behavior. If Alexa's user base were a fair statistical sample of the internet user population (e.g., a random sample of sufficient size), Alexa's ranking would be quite accu
Crazy days .... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 No excuse this time, I am just too tired to do any entries on this blog. The biggest difference between this blog and any other personal ones is that whatever you deliver here it has to be as accurate and as unbiased as possible too. Not that I go around posting untrue stuffs at my other blogs, but usually for such a blog like this one, you cant add in feelings, your frustrations and get derail from your original objective. You have to stay focus delivering interesting and useful informations for your readers, to aid them in earning a few dollars from blogging. :) Since last thur, my company BAK2u.com been heavily involved in the Sitex 2006 an IT exhibition show here in my country, Singapore. We were involved in supporting our partner Getzmobile.com with some marketing activities, such as distributing of leaflets whom my wife, Izel was roped in to help too despite her busy schedule running her own beading jewelry website.We hired 8 students to help us in giving out 100,000 flyers. Ye Read more:Crazy
How to get readers to come back for more? - Part 02 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Following Part 01, this is the next part of it on getting your readers
to visit your blog more often.Another method is to start an entry to let discussions take place. For example, if your blog is about movies and you have one good movie coming up in the summer. Build it up with photos, scripts, rumors, video clips and include your personal views why you think you will like it.Have the movie title display prominently at your blog, add the title into your source code to increase the chance of someone googling it to visit your site. Create as much external links as possible for your readers to read more. Dont worry too much if they will come back to yours after clicking. You cannot stop them as you are fighting for their attentions just like the many other thousands of them in the blogsphere. So might as well create value added contents and links related to your entry.Some bloggers like to go the extreme creating topics that invite others to comment after reading it. Readers get upset, h
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