23 Jan 09 All about Domain Names – Free e-book

In IT world, even a little thing matters, at least that’s what I think. I was so keen with the domain names since 1997 where we can register at Internic solutions.

Vividly I remember, It was $50 per domain for a year and not many domains areregistered unless you have extra funds available for most of the webmasters until it hit 1999, Internic started selling $35 bucks. Nowadays, most of the domain names are selling averaging like $10 per year and the domain name business has been doing pretty well. Even, you can have parked.com offering just to park and generate some income.

So, I wanted to share this fantastic free e-book to all my visitors because it is a good read and will always help you to assist making decision effectively. Thanks to Joseph Naymache for creating this e-book.

Enoy your e-book “Introduction to Domain Names 101“.

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27 Nov 08 Fantastic WordPress Plugin – Clean Archives Reloaded

I would like to introduce an awesome little plugin for your wordpress. In default setting, wordpress does not have archival function, and I sincerely think it is very important that you have archive function on your site, not only it will help you index your posts faster, but also your readers can see the chronological order of your post entries and complete list of your creation. 

There are about 3-4 plugins for wordpress archive process, but I picked this one because It is very easy to install and absolutely effective to view. Thanks for the author viper007Bond for this fabulous script. You can download the plug-in here. According to viper007Bond,

Clean Archives Reloaded generates a list of all of your posts, sorted by month. It’s enhanced with Javascript to allow collapsing and expanding of months.

It’s highly efficient and won’t kill your server with tons of MySQL queries.

I’ll quote directly from the installation page, so that you will have no error to intall this fantastic plugin.

Installing The Plugin

Extract all files from the ZIP file, making sure to keep the file structure intact, and then upload it to /wp-content/plugins/.

This should result in the following file structure:

- wp-content
    - plugins
        - clean-archives-reloaded
            | readme.txt
            | clean-archives-reloaded.php

Then just visit your admin area and activate the plugin.

See Also: “Installing Plugins” article on the WP Codex

plug in install

Here is my example screenshot from my blog. Enjoy your plugin.

Thanks for reading.

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19 Nov 08 Viral Marketing and Online Advertising

Viral marketing

Many people would have seen the keywords “viral marketing” around the internet. To most of you, this may not be so new, but techniques are pretty amazing. I will just start from the part “what is viral marketing?”.  It’s marketing for advertising like the way virus does. That would be my simplest explanation. In order to know what the IT world’s current buzz is all about, you have to keep an eye on the current developments and technologies. Consequently, you need to create a virus for your marketing plan so that you can sell successfully.  Fundamentally “Viral Marketing” and “viral advertising” particularly online, is a way marketers can take advantage of pre-existing social networks to get a message out there using self-replicating viral processes, which are comparable to the way a physical virus or computer virus would spread (Mike Filsaime 2007).

 

The Techniques

You have to ask yourself what makes you so special or what makes you unique from the crowd. That is an important question. Many people turn to creative ideas or new innovations in the first place, I do not mean that’s typical but that’s old. There are more than that you can actually do. Of course, innovations bring a lot of attention whereas there are many innovations every month, you might as well get drown into old ones after a while. Or use Apple’s iPod method; just create a buzz with variable sizes and designs where the basic functions are basically the same since its first product. Another technique is to create a controversial situation to get an attention. It is however likely to have both positive or negative effects, for example, whether the Hitler is still alive or not. That kind of blog or article might intrigue majority of people. In addition, another fantastic viral marketing we have to accept today is, funny comedy video shared online. Funny stuff is fast spreading type via internet. Last month, Obama vs McCain’s dance showdown on the internet has been so famous because of election period. Let me remind you not to discount the effect of funny stuff because they are unbelievably easy to be contagious. Another controversial technique is to provide emotions, some people use emotion and heart-warming techniques as their viral marketing. You may probably have seen somewhere on the website or a web link or an email that explains how poor the kid is, contribute to feed the children or how dangerous drunk driving is. However, this one would mostly become scam or NGOs asking for donations. On the other hand, E-cards and celebrities speaking for good cause are precisely the kind of viral marketing that provides emotions. Last but not least, create a curiosity by building anticipations to your audience is one of the most effective methods I have ever experienced. For example, Sony Play Station IV will be launched by this or that date. That will create a serious curiosity to Play Station players around the world. It actually did stir the audience in previous releases as well. Or Harry Potter series, you let audience to anticipate and expect what is going to happen next about 4 years prior to JK Rowling’s final release.

Did it work? 

Of course it did. Back in mid 90s, hotmail and yahoo put their sponsored link on every bottom of the sent mail. “get your free-email at yahoo.com”. Just after a couple of years, they are the two biggest web-based email providers for next 10 years. The built-in signature spread like a virus every time a recipient reads an email sent from Yahoo! and Hotmail. Today, more of less, everyone has Yahoo!, Hotmail or Gmail nowadays.

My Opinion

Well, I use it indirectly and sometimes directly, it is not a one time hit, once you start it, then you have to keep it going. For websites and blogs, you constantly need to have regular readers and audience, so that you may monetize your traffic. But that’s not just that, sharing valuable information is one of my main objectives as I would try to monetize in other sites. Tell a friend script or social bookmarking or forum signature posts are part of the viral marketing as well. So, if you have perfect examples of the techniques I have mentioned above. Then, go for it. It could never go wrong because viral marketing is one of the most effective methods available on online marketing.

 Any comments and suggestions, feel free to comment. You may as well want to subscribe my blog for my regular blog entries. Thanks for reading.

 Reference: Mike Filsaime, 2007, “Virology: The Secret Science of Viral Marketing”

 

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28 Oct 08 Cuil – The Next Big Thing Or NOT

Nowadays, everyone is talking about cuil search engine, yes, it is pretty much popular lately. Because Cuil could be the next big thing in Search Engine world. It may not compete well with Big 3 (Google, Yahoo and MSN Live), however, Cuil (pronounced “cool“) is definitely shaking and making the headlines. 

Cuil’s bots are pretty active around. However, google webmaster tools & google analysis do not mention cuil’s search engine bots, and I have no idea why. I feel a bit angry that Google sometimes do not display truthful information regarding other search engines in their webmaster tools and google analysis. But one of my forums has cuil bots visiting almost everyday now. However, CUIL’s search relevancy is not up to the standard of Google, I must admit, however, it is good to get indexed your site with CUIL because you never know what’s going to happen in next 10 years, Last 10 years ago, we use Yahoo! as our main search engine, a decade later on, we all use “google”, don’t we? I remember when i watched the movie “Frequency”, Yahoo! was used, but now, in the movie “knocked up”, Google was used. So, get your site indexed with this cool “Cuil.com”.

Ok, what is Cuil?

It is said to be biggest search engine on the planet, already indexed 124 billion pages as of today, October 2008. The biggest question for webmasters, make money online and work from home people is here. Where do we submit it?

Well, here is where you can submit to CUIL service. So, If you would like Cuil to crawl your site and have it included in our index, please submit your site here. And get your site indexed.

Twiceler is the name of CUIL’s robot Web crawler. So, Keep in mind that the user-agent is “twiceler.” For small sites are bandwidth-limited, so CUIL also support the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive. 

So, here is the website that you can generate your robots.txt file and put it in your root folder of your blog or website.

Any comments and suggestions welcome.

Thanks for reading.

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25 Oct 08 New domain and Hosting just registered

Well, Today, I have just registered new domain and hosting for my another site. I will not actually implement a lot but I will setup and configure a little bit. I had a chat with my webhosting online for about 30 minutes. Now, there are many coupons that we can use when signing up.

I used “summertime” code as a coupon and i got further 4.95% discount, LOL. It is just joy to use my web hosting. They have actually upgrade to all our accounts in the past without any charges, but same price. Every year, it’s either bigger and cheaper, but of course as long as we live by their TOS. I have been with them for over 5 years and running, we always get to a conclusion where we can fix all the issues. 

At the moment (as of Oct 25, 2008) at my webhosting, coupons that can currently use are 

• summertime
• secretcode
• 2008

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