I have recently updated all my websites to WordPress 3.0 version, the initial update is not much different from WordPress 2.xx, however, I find it very fascinating with the frequent updates with WordPress 3.0 version.

I have been blogging for quite sometimes and using WordPress since version 1.xx.xx so this is actually a big improvement for me.  I am definitely loving version 3.0 and I feel this version has been very less buggy when we upgraded into version 2.0, because within a week or two, we had to upgrade, I still remember.

However, this new version has been out for a couple of weeks and it looks fine. So, what do you feel about WP3.0 for your site? I am definitely enjoying new look, so far.

Have you ever tried Google Adwords keyword tool? If you haven’t, It is definitely the time you should have. I have been using it for a while and It has actually favored me a lot of kindness. And yes, It is also a money making site that is real and FREE. In order to make money online, everyone knows traffic is the most important thing, that is why we do blogging, writing and composing something that’s useful or beautiful. With unique content and search engine friendly SEO methods, the traffic is smooth and flowing.

However, sometimes you do have heaps of traffic and do not make enough conversation on affiliates, PPC and impressions. Because It is evident that your traffic flow is not enough to make you more money. Google keyword tool is one of the big differences to those who make money on a daily basis and those who are not. And you may probably not see everyday in millionaire blogs’ about this because half of them they sent are their affiliate links and more bait traffic.

Google Keyword Tool

Always try to search the keywords within your niche, choose all countries & make sure all keywords idea is clicked. Try to optimize your blog post or web page with similar keywords, meta description, tags and most importantly page title. However, It is important that you include them at optimal keyword density level in CONTENT (normally about 7%). Of course, relevancy and human readable is extremely important as well.

This is the secret people are making money and once you test it, you will know the difference as well. Make sure you have quality content website before you do this keyword optimization and never go out of your niche just to get the traffic. There are always good keywords that are paying good or earning good, which is totally different.  Many people end up earning not much because they focus on paying good with no determination and passion. Some people do what they love and constantly improving their websites and blogs, so that quality brings money as well. I have seen many people tend to click my ads because

• Ads are appealing with my posts
• Ads are relevant to my posts
• My content is useful to the readers
• I do not sell a thing on my blog
• I do not take high traffic from the readers &
• I do not implement black hat or grey hat SEO

Since I started my AdSense account, I was neither banned or penalized. And my average Page CTR is ranged 2.7% to 3.4% each payment period. For me, It is fantastic achievement and I am happy with the pay because I actually do 3 niches. Some niches are low paying niches, but the CTR rate is absolutely amazing. So, try and take advantage with Google Adwords Keyword Tool and make sure you focus on your quality of your content and properly optimize on-site SEO and off-site SEO. And experience yourself after a week or two you publish on the web, and see the differences with previous content.

Happy Making Money.

There is no easy way to make money, however, there is easy way not to lose money. Just add your site monitoring service to your website. If you don’t feel one is not realiable, then add two or three. Some of the services offer slightly different services that is making our sites even better because we can have broader range of free services from two different sites.

As I mentioned before, i will not write too much or digress with my posts at all. If you are looking for web site monitoring online services, this is the right post.

And as I have said before, i have tested and experienced before I post my entries, so that I can share my experiences with others, you save him, I enjoyed my experiences, both win-win situation. Anyway, out of all these services below, i stick with free web monitoring and monitor. But I prefer Monitor service because they offer unlimited profiles. Good for those who have several websites on different IPs.

1. Server Uptime
2. Montastic
3. Free Web Monitoring
4. Monitor
5. SiteUptime

Anyway, that’s all about it. Take this opportunity to send you weekly reports how your site has been doing every single week. In fact, this can also help you to determine whether your web hosting really is from third party perspective views. That’s why I earlier mentioned “try more than one web monitoring services” so that you can achieve more consistency with your site up-time and performance. Also, it will also help you to decide if you need to move to new web hosting.

In order to earn and make money is never easy and you always have to be prepared and ready for expected issues and unexpected hurdles. This is one of the things that you make time for yourself let the machine takes care of you and your website(s). So, if you are a great blogger, you can earn money while sleeping knowing that you are definitely earning rather than your site was down.

Moreover, if you are an IT infrastructure business, you may need online web monitoring services as well as server & networking services.  For my professional job, I use some of these server and networking services.  I strongly suggest Cacti and Nagios for my taste.

These days, I saw more blogs, LOL, and yes, more push method sales.. I think it’s pretty weird ideas of bloggers to push sales, because most of those methods basically backfired. I will not really write cute titles like 10 things you should do, 5 things you can’t do, blah blah..

I probably would write one fact and that should be useful to my readers, PERIOD. If you are a blogger, you can put ads, 125×125 graphics, they are acceptable, because people know they are ads and they will be clicked by each own consent. But trying to embed amazon links and hi-speed download links into your blog is not only damaging bloggers’ images, but also not making a good money. If you want to sell Amazon stuff, just simply explain and sell it, the turnover could not be as good because people rather buy directly from Amazon and it’s actually their tricky marketing to bloggers, in one intention, just to get more people to know your brand.

And those direct sales links are not SEO friendly. Especially if you are using wordpress permanent link structure on your site, in which case many bloggers are using, it will just look ugly as it is, and you will be giving your good PR back to those affiliate sites. For me, try to provide information and let the consumer decides what they want to do with it, because push marketing will never be succeeded in the long run. In fact, I just unsubscribed one blog because it is turning into push marketing of its affiliates.  So, the bottom line is, I don’t know how much that site will be made and I won’t judge, but I am sure they lose one of their long term subscriber as of today.

Well, that’s for now. I write with real experience and I write only after I know. So, I am kind of not consistent with posts, but yeah, I try to blog every week as soon as I have some free time. Thanks for reading.

This week, I allocate myself to a few hours of reading time for tech blogs, and I am thankful for that, it’s been a while I have been reading blogs regularly and the improvement of my blog has been slow and poor. So, I decided that I will try to read 4-5 blog posts a day so that I can improve my blog as well as add more knowledge to myself as well.

So, today, I signed up with TubeMogul, which is a video uploading site that will enable other websites to synchronize the upload as well. I will test it and will get back to you with more details, but I feel happy that I don’t have to upload my videos to many places of course many times.

Upload a video once and easily deploy it to one or all of the top video and social networking sites. Track real-time viewership, performance and engagement analytics.

So, what are the features that’s included in TubeMogul???

TubeMogul OneLoad Supported Sites

Pretty neat? Huh? I actually like it and I will be updating how this will help me with my youtube files, SEO and SEM. So, if you haven’t given a try, I think it’s time to give it a try too. Thanks for reading.

Today, I was just so busy with everything and suddenly I wanted to try Microsoft OneNote, because I think it is pretty cool program. I was pretty much skeptical with Microsoft applications, but now I needed to use them because of my profession, so that I get to get to know Microsoft Applications anyway. I actually like OneNote now because it is pretty useful. And yes, with the RPC call setup, I can actually post it directly to my blog as well. I have tested and I loved it.

 So, basically OneNote is very convenient application that is helpful to me. I will try to write more blog posts in the future with this, However, I will have to adjust all my graphics and style to make this work first. And it’s also important to learn how this Microsoft OneNote blog capabilities will either help or not with SEO/SEM setups.

 The best thing I like about OneNote is not required to worry about saving the data that I have typed; it has pretty fast catch up the things I type and pretty awesome features that can’t be found on many applications. Moreover, I pretty much love the fact that all the Microsoft applications can be attached and shared with OneNote.

 So, do you use OneNote? If so, what is your take about this software? Do you blog with OneNote? Do you use exchange server/outlook sync with OneNote? There are heaps of questions I can come up with, for me, I am using and think I will keep using it in the foreseeable future.

 Thanks for reading.

These days, I am a regular reader rather than a blogger. It is because writing a blog can be sometimes time consuming. Besides, I have been relocating countries and it took about 6 months of my regular blogging habits. So, Yes, I will have to practice to blog again.

To be honest, nowadays, I like to read and review other sites because I find that facinating for other bloggers who have been brilliant with their blogs. I would not rather get an idea or copy/paste other people work, but I actually like to share with what I read, because some of the blogs may not be in your reach while I have done my SEO/SEM works, So, at least, this will reach out to my readers as well.. As you know reviewing is one of my interests while I am blogging.

Today, I read about the title 10 Things Your Blog Doesn’t Need. And It is simple but yet fantastic read, so that you will enjoy like I did.

Reference: Jill Smokler blogs about parenting; the good, the bad and the scary at Scary Mommy. She can be found at on Twitter as @scarymommy.

Why you should not blog?

On the contrary, there are also some reasons you should not blog as well. It is pretty bad to jump in the blogging bandwagon without knowing what to do. Of course, if you don’t care about who is reading and write whenever you like, that is not the case. But if you want to make some money online and do not have the determination, passion and time to do, it will be just like many millions of dead end blogs that people will come once and will not pay a visit anytime soon.

First thing to ask whether you should blog or not is very simple, are you a blogger or a bloggie, there are millions of people who love to read but never attempt to write for themselves and sometimes they also felt like, “oh, I can also write this and that”, sadly it doesn’t work that way especially in the long run. Then, they become neither blogger nor bloggie.

I love to read blogs as well as writing my own and I think it is actually critical to read other blogs as well. I actually enjoy reading a lot of great blogs just not for blogging or making money. I would read many sort of blogs for many types of interests. And it’s amazing how many good blogs you can actually find across the internet.

Okay, back to the topic, I have stumbled across this blog about why people should not blog, and it triggers me to write this post. So, without further ado, take a look at this fantastic post from blogussion, “Seven Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Blog”, and credits go to Blogussion.

I actually agree with all the points there because it’s sad but true. What do you think?

Why should I blog?

There are many blogs coming out nowadays and I see some of the blogs are actually just made for AdSense and it is becoming more and more typical. It is always good to earn money while you blog however; you should prioritize what is actually more appealing to you while you blog. So, following are the reasons in order why I blog.

To share what I experience and know

It’s just simply to share what I know and give you the best options to create wealth online, it is not easy task, but it’s already short cut because I would have tried many other techniques and will not mention if it’s not important.

To learn in areas of what I generally blog.

Everything is about learning since we were born, we all learn to learn. Toddler, kid, adult, we have to learn everyday as a human nature. If I want to be expert in my area, I also have to learn to improve myself too.

To interact with my readers

This is definitely enjoyable experiences of blogging for me. Apart from comment spams and auto commenters that are automatically deleted from the system, I enjoy interacting with my readers who are willing to give honest and truthful comments. Also, I got more solutions to solve on particular issue with commenting and I love it.

To earn money while I blog

This would be my last intention, however, it is always good to earn while I blog which is what I love to do.

So, the bottom line is blog the things you love to write about, enjoy and share your experiences, interact with new friends and also you can basically earn from you blog. Of course, if you want to create great money making site, it is better you should try with some sort of business plan before you start writing any. To be honest, blog can make you pretty good money, at the same time, it can also consume too much of your time. So, you need to know your limits and schedules if you want to start blogging. Any comments or suggestions are always welcome.

There are a couple of ways to initiate page relevancy for search engines. One could be on page optimization for relevancy.

It involves placing your keywords in tactical locations of the pages on your website. Remember, you always prepare for search engines, but always think of your audience first. I will not crazily use too many keywords but no information. Always keep in mind; human beings are the most important factor in success of your website, at the same time, you would love to get the job done for search engines as well.

So, what are on page relevancy and its optimization?

The significant ones are

• header tags
• internal links
• external links
• headline
• anchor text
• bold, underline, italic text
• image names, image description, ALT tags
• page name, page body, title, description and
• keywords

Well, everytime you create a page, you will probably want to rememer these tips to optimize, for example, as a blogger, you can actually develope a lot of thing in one post, different headers, URL linkages, even different headers and a little bit effort to tag and name image descriptions, of course, carefully considering page name, paragraphs, title and descriptions that can actually become a really good keywords for search engines.

Even bold color is pretty much helpful, so is italic text. These functions are not only available for differentiate, but also point out which part is imperative and what not. As we all actually scan and screen most of the known keywords if entire text is unchanged. For example, placing Ads on left hand side could attract more as people start to read from left to right in majority of languages.

Try them, and search some of your keywords yourself after you optimize, and share your experiences because it works for me.

Thanks for reading.

I have been reviewing, reading, learning and sharing all the fantastic free e-books for a while now. This one as well come in handy for many bloggers, even the newbies or old ones.

Because this particular e-book will explain you more techniques about blogging from SEO (Search Engine Optimization) perspectives that are really interesting.

This book will show you how to boost your blog traffic as well as cash flow as you go by. No tricks or affiliate links included as well. All you need is to get the idea of effective blogging tips and that’s it.

So, you can download here and enjoy your free e-book, credit goes to the original author (Karina Wright) of course. I am just happy to share with you all, because Internet is all about sharing our knowledge to each other, so that we can earn extra money on what we love to do.

Thanks for reading.

Recently, I have installed do-follow enabled comment plugin on my sites and It works like a charm. As you may all have known wordpress and most of the blogs have disabled in default, however, if you can control your spam, there’s actually better way you can take control of do-follow links.

So, i installed this fantastic do-follow plugin for my wordpress and I have actually received more comments than before just in a few couple of days. That is awesome, isn’t it?

do-follow

What are the advantages of do-follow?

Of course, there are bunch of advantages for do-follow sites, I will summarize for both myself and the rest of my visitors.

1. Default settings are always on a safe side. Once you enabled do-follow link there’s imminent threat of spamming. LOL, all you need to have a a couple of top rated spam filters such as Akismet and so on. On the bright side, it’s massive traffic. There’s always an opportunity cost for higher traffic, that comes with higher spams.

2. Repeating comments, there are two ways to follow up repeating comments, one to reply each visitor comment, and another one from visitor’s reply. Confused? Bottom line, your blog post may earn more than 2 comments from each entry because many people will comment you genuinely, on the other hand, if your visitors are clever enough, they make sure they write more than 1 comment at your blog, or reply to the same comment so that the search engine bots will read them more than once.

3. Don’t worry about PR/Alexa, they are alternative ways to benchmark your site, especially I don’t believe in Alexa ranking. I would trade more traffic than getting better PR/Alexa ranking. That’s the truth. Do-follow blogs are actually giving legit backlinks to your commentors, but don’t worry, you get heaps of traffic and your ranking will grow because It just does it.

4. Encouraging your readers to comment is best thing for bloggers. You allow backlinks, you encourage your readers that you are giving something back , rather than expecting something, that builds a great relationship to your readers as well.

5. By sharing about do-follow to those who do not know, you take control of knowledge that your visitors/readers do not know yet. It is a good opportunity your readers are bloggers and this will also help them to get backlinks which bloggers indeed love.  The more you can help a hand, the smarter you sound, don’t you?

6. Since I have carefully built my site around big search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN , ask.com , etc etc. I have very confident that every single page of mine is properly pinged and quickly indexed. Make sure you use sitemap xml and site verifications with Google, Yahoo! and MSN to get faster search engine updates. Easy Breezy method for organic search.

7. It creates a larger community. Why? Because you have no-follow blog before, now you enabled do-follow site, that’s where you have massive members and visitors to make a geniune comments and in return they get backlinks for their PR or more traffic, it’s a win-win situation and you also get to know your readers. Spam filters will actually differentiate your readers and just those people who want backlinks and etc.

8. The quality backlinks are important and half the time, many people do not understand what they mean. It depends on the place where you put your comments as well as your niche. If you are car-sales category and make a comment on this infomm.com website, you are not getting quality backlinks, that’s for 100% sure. Maybe, a legit backlinks. You need to find similar niche for your site, so that you leave comment accordingly.

9. Okay, #9 is NONE , just start doing what I have mentioned above. You will see the difference. Now, start getting quality backlinks by leaving comment on this post.

Thanks for reading