Last night, I was awake many hours of the night because I was installing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. It is absolutely beautiful OS with lots of easy administration. If you upgrade from 9.04 version, you will probably need 1-2 hours download and upgrade time to complete, but it is not much changed from 9.04 version. By the way, 9.10 was released on 29th October 2009.

So, if any of you are Ubuntu fan, it’s time to download or upgrade.

As nowadays, everyone seems to be have one netbook for each person, and you won’t feel left out, because you can also download ATOM version of ubuntu that is Ubuntu netbook remix and Ubuntu has optimized for your netbooks as well.

The software package manager is better than ever. Firefox Mozilla starts with 3.5 version. Overall, it’s really worth using it. I am on the verge of leaving Windows if possible. Of course, most of the working environments, It is very hard not to use Ubuntu, however, upgrade and security point of view, I think Linux aces on top of everything.

So, have you tried Ubuntu yet?

Well, I just received payment from Bidvertiser.. They are pretty easy to work with. It’s not much, but it’s a start, and I actually don’t even display their ads on my site.

I just refer members who are willing to use Bidvertiser  as either publisher, advertiser or referrals. It is pretty simple and straight forward to sign up and also easy to get paid. All you need is good website traffic to convert.

So, here’s the payment proof.

Bidvertiser is very popular, because you can get paid with paypal, which is pretty easy to setup.

So, get yourself some earnings today if you haven’t signed up.
If you have blog or website and you can display your ads easily with bidvertiser as a publisher

Or if you want to promote or advertise, you get $20 FREE when you sign up advertising campaign with Bidvertiser. Both awesome deals. Not only you can advertise your website or blog, also your eBay items and many more.

Well, From now on, I decided to write a shorter version of entry for a while to take a look at my audience reading behavior for maybe a month or so. It’s always important that I have to ensure and validate what I write, so that I do not digress.

So, what do search engines really want? They definitely want

1. text format
2. clear-cut writing
3. no frame
4. not many tables
5. not very graphical intensive
6. less java scripts
7. possibly non-shockwave files
8. no keyword stuffing/spamming
9. properly linked
10. good internal linkage
11. no html errors including any kind of programming language
12. appropriate headers and titles

This is not what people usually want but in order to persuade search engines cherish your sites by not over-accessorizing your site with bombarding these unfriendly search engine materials. Then, you are technically good with your SEO mission. Remember, you always write for your audience, not for search engines bots, but when you write, you can make use of these advantages, so that not only your audience will love it, but also search engine bots would.

Thanks for reading.

Previously, I have posted about viral marketing for online advertising. Now, I want to share a little bit further more about viral marketing and why should we use it in order to drive massive traffic to our websites.

So, cut to the chase, WHY do we use viral marketing techniques?

1. quick to drive traffic (once it’s starting to spread, there’s basically no limit, the message will pick up the speed faster and to the bigger audience)
2. cost effective (once again, no limit, easy to start and cheap to expect the traffic, make sure your site has some to offer for your visitors to become regular)
3. niche gathering (you will eventually find where your niche is headed and your target audience in no time as long as you offer unique content that are original, photographer offers photoblog whereas geek-blog offers all technology news)

Bottom Line, traffic means money, relevant niche means more money, cost effective mean more money. So, what else shall I say?

viral marketing

So, this comes the question, WHAT are the techniques?

1. I am going to repeat this again, provide quality content, products or services. (provide something which is unique for your visitors)
2. Give something away (I would recommend gmail service to my friends because they basically gave away free service for e-mail, don’t they? you gotta offer something so that will create buzz).
3. Recommendation or referral on your site. (something like share this post, email to a friend, etc etc, that will create more buzz because I would really recommend to my friend if a particular website offer something nice)
4. Have some video clips, or free e-book to give away or have a personal blog about your interest on the site (that will also give some kind of expose to your visitors and yes it does really attract traffic)
5. Social bookmarking icons and links (They are basically helping you to bookmark or submit to the sites, either way, they are good for traffic, easy for search engine to index, my personal favorites regarding SEO are reddit, technorati and digg)
6. Use RSS feed or any sort of Feed (Some of my audience like RSS feed because they are firefox fans, some of them love email feed as well, so feedburner or similar service sites can offer, I use feedburner of course, you can set up either RSS feed or email subscription)
7. Do what others do not generally offer (It’s very simple but sometimes it is easily overlooked in many cases, for example, I enabled “do-follow” plugin in my wordpress, which default is “no-follow” for commenters, so I would get more visitors who will want to have do-follow link on my site and will write more comments as well.
8. Run on-site competitions (Many internet gurus are still using this method, and that’s how they get massive traffic and regular visitors)
9. Build a community and relationship with your visitors (Communication is the key to success, if you interact with your visitors, you will build the better relationship between you and your visitors that is very good for long term)

Ok, There are main 9 methods I have tested and experimented in the past and they have created impressive traffic for me.

So, start right now because what I have suggested will cost next to nothing. You can basically start with no-investment methods such as adding referal scripts, RSS setup, email subscriptions and some fabulous content first.

Thanks for reading. Now, I will go back to build my viral marketing for another site

Google has introduced KNOL for sometimes, now they are promoting it. I definitely think KNOL will help all the information seekers better than ever. This is probably another technique of Google’s collection of knowledge base search engine, we could presume.

What is KNOL?

It’s basically units of knowledge written about various subjects. However, as like many google applications, knol is current at a beta stage.

Why should we participate at KNOL?

Many advantages, make yourself exposed to the knowledge based world, information sharing site. You can take credit for writing, provide credentials, reviews and comments. Users can provide comments, review and related information.

What subjects we can write on KNOL?

Well, pretty much everything. LOL

What are common advantages using KNOL?

You can get good back links to your website, that’s pretty good for SEO, but it’s very important you don’t spam the links. You can get credited and for me, the best thing is collaboration mode that many people can work together on a same project/subject which is pretty awesome. I think that idea is derived from online project collaboration sites as Google has capabilities for doing it so such as Google Docs.

What do I think about this?

KNOL for me is basically a combination of blog/search engine/multimedia gateway to all the information retrievers. Being a active participant on google’s main site, you will not only create traffic for your website on your niche, but also will create exposure to your materials. All you need to do is to be original, informative and unique with your content.

So, happy KNOLing.

Have a great weekend.

I would have to admit basics are sometimes very important for long run. I never really believe quick fix can definitely help you out especially when you have no basics to cover with. That applies to everything in the world and I would definitely support the fact it also applies to SEO Search Engine Optimization world.

I have come across to this fabulous e-book last week and I would love to share with you all because these basics are very important to start for your website, blog, e-commerce or even personal web page.

Many people would try to find the easy way to get traffic that are not unique and targeted, but if you can truly persuade search engine bots to index your site effectively, you will be getting the traffic from free organic search. All you need is to understand the foundations of SEO and if you keep building the same way, in a couple of months, you will see noticeable improvement on your website traffic.

This e-book explains and tells in many useful categories such as

• why us SEO
• what is the basic link structure within a site
• effective use of keywords for SEO
• how to determine keywords selection for your site
• what is search engine friendly content
• back-links help with SEO

All these mentioned above are pretty much simple you may think, but actually it’s actually very important factors for your SEO work. If you haven’t done any of these methods and kept doing what unnecessary, it will just be time wasting for you. So, get started today and get indexed your website or blog immediately.

Thanks for reading.

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.

domain-name-registration

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“.

“Content is King, It’s also Cha-Ching”

Taking into account Technorati’s count on February 11, 2008 of 185,620,000 and adding a calculated 175,000 new blogs everyday – Today, as of December 20th 2008 there are a total of 217, 236, 376 blogs! You can view the running count here. (The flash counter adds 1 new blog every 2 seconds (based on the 175K new blogs daily).

That’s a lot of blogs, and even more content! According to WordPress.com, their stats stand at 5,037,838 blogs and a whopping 43,332,247 words today! The user generated content on the internet is staggering, and you would expect that.

So, in this competitive online world you cannot be soft – go hard out with what you write and write it like you mean it. You have to stand out from the crowd because your website falls into one of the following two categories;

~ Lots of Interested Users, More Competitive

~ Not many Interested Users, Less Competitive

If your blogging for any reason other than personal “writing” you are most likely to fall into the first category.

You might ask yourself, how do I make myself stand out? Well simple, do something out of the ordinary. Everyone can write, but it takes determination, perseverance and dedication to run a website that will have your visitors returning back and back again! Look around you, see what other people are doing and try to do something better, I know this is easier said than done, but nothing’s free in this world and you got to get out there and earn your respect. Don’t worry about money as you start, because with respect the $$ piggy bank is not too far behind.

Just a last pointer, is that write in topics you are personally interested in and not for the money. 95% of new bloggers fail because they try to write for high paying keywords and niches. What good is a high paying keyword if you give up in 2 months? If you don’t see yourself writing content about the topic in one year’s time, don’t even bother starting.

Firstly find out your passion and your interests and then go from there. Good luck to you, in your journeys!

As a member of several SEO/Wed Development Forums, I’ve seen a lot of “Google Penalized” threads appearing all over the place. In fact there’s a couple, if I’ve counted correctly that just rocked up on DP today. I want to dedicate this entire post to explain to you on what grounds Google will/can/should penalize your site.

Google Penalization
Q: What is the “Google Penalty”?
A: It’s simple. When you try to cheat the system, or do something you’re not meant to Google will “punish” you and this will effect everything from the behavior of your visitors (to a lesser extent) to your monthly earnings (to a greater extent)

Q: How can the penalty affect me?
A: Well for starters, you will be deranked. Meaning you are likely to be completely kicked of the Google Search Engine if the committed “crime” is bad, i.e. using extensive blackhat techniques. However, alot of things can happen through this penalty which isn’t limited to anything from loosing SERPs to being banished from the G-Empire. It just depends how serious your crime was.

Q: What reasons can Google use to penalize me?
A: The answer to this question is mainly common sense. Much like this thread itself. Google will punish you if do the “wrong thing” but it seems that most of us, have trouble figuring out between wrong and right at times. So, let’s clear some things out! Below is a list of the most commonly used reasons behind the Google Penalization… it’s not surprising to see most of them in the list, like I said it’s just common sense.

~ Usage of BlackHat Techniques – Search the forums, and you’ll know what I’m talking about. BlackHat SEO Techniques involve “cheating” the system or finding loopholes and exploiting them. This will allow you to get great SERP boost but won’t last for long, they will find you out!

~Usage of GreyHat Techniques – Similar to BlackHat but the damage isn’t as bad. It’s like a less “bad” version of the BlackHat technique but you can still be penalized. Google will only accept WhiteHat SEO Techniques and you should stick to it too!

~ Content Duplication – This not only applies to Google and other search engines, but to us in general life too. If you copy/rip-off other peoples work, work they’ve spent time and effort to create you will be punished. It’s a form of stealing; you wouldn’t steal now would you?

~ Purchasing Links from other Sites – One of the most discussed “link building” techniques is this. People all around the internet purchase links from higher PR and niche-related sites to gain quick authority. However, the unspoken truth is that it’s against the Google TOS, so if they catch you – you will have to face the music.

~ Invalid URL Redirection – I talked about 301/302 URL Forwarding in the earlier FAQ and how important it was, well this is why. If you shift sites and don’t set up the redirection properly – when the incy-wincy Google spider comes along, it won’t realize the shift – resulting in your “new URL” to be treated as a new website al-together, loosing it’s backlinks, PR and authority!

~ Keyword Stuffing – Its name speaks for itself, if you stuff your website with keywords to please the crawlers, it will look bad to real human visitors, and eventually to Google as well. You should “sprinkle” your page with targeted keywords not flood it! Keywords are important, it helps direct the “right” visitors to your site and helps “target” your Adsense adverts. The more targeted the ads, the more clicks you will get.

~ Un-natural Link Building – This is the least of your worries, It’s true that there are penalties for websites building a lot of links in an “unnatural” way in a short time, but I don’t think it will effect normal and legitimate webmasters like ourselves . If you site contains real, unique content and a legitimate product, and should be able to build links naturally without any problems on the search engines. This “reason” mainly focuses on spammers, scrapers, or people who own a lot of domains and start “inter-linking”

Q: I just got penalized! Now what?
A: Well you can’t do much, just spend the time rebuilding and regaining the “mutual trust” between you and Google, which you once had. You can contact them, but unless your sites extremely popular, I wouldn’t bother cause neither would they.

Q: Can Google penalize me for using Auto-Surfers?
A: Obviously, it can’t be good. I’ve researched this question extensively but couldn’t find an exact answer. Then again, common sense will tell us it cannot do anything but harm. Surely “fake” views of Google Ads won’t be something to be proud of. Avoid them as much as possible, frankly you shouldn’t even be using them for anything – imitating “person’s” surfing can’t be for a good cause.

Presently, over 100 million blogs are available online. Why you are reading here? That’s because you have searched the correct keywords (organic traffic), visited high page rank site (PR techniques) or you visited the relevant sites (SEO techniques).

What makes you stand out from over 100 million blogs is not easy, but it is not tough as well. If you follow these 10 processes over a certain period of time, you will definitely achieve what you expected. That being said, it’s not an easy task to follow and usually you would have to satisfy yourself in every single phase.

1. Develop a valuable information, product or service.
2. Develop your own website in the niche that you know and love to do in the long run.
3. Develop your content with valuable resources and unique materials
4. Develop a real traffic to your website/blog.
5. Utilize your content to attract your traffic.
6. Build Trust and Credibility with your visitors.
7. Use your site to pre-sell your visitors.
8. Convert your target visitors to create sales.
9. Expand your revenue by effectively monetization of your site.
10. Continuously improve step 1 through 9.

There, you have it all. If you fulfill your website one by one, you can start having ads and affiliations at step 6. Step 7-9 will involve you to sign up with effective advertisers such as AdSense and Bidvertiser.

Happy making money. Thanks for reading.

It is believed that 97% of blogs failed because of three main things,

• They don’t write regularly
• They don’t write unique content &
• They don’t write attractively.

So, join the 3% who made the list of successful bloggers. The key to achievement on making money online is to master in demanding niches. Simply, if you niche has lower competition, you will be easily targeted, you can convert your traffic into money easier if interested visitors can find you easier. Thus SEO (Search Engine Optimization) becomes one of the most important factors.

Moreover, always deliver the tasty and theme content to your visitors. For example, if you are talking about “basketball”, make sure you always include in topics and keywords that are strong for your niche such as “LeBron James, FIBA, NBA, World Championship, Michael Jordan, and Chicago Bulls” according to the relevancy. That will not only help you indexing in search engine effectively, but also let you own more keywords as you have more contents in a particular niche. As a result, the winning formula is to create a theme-based content site for your audience. At the same time, it’s important you keep these three main things on a regular basis so that you can get repeated visitors as well.

 Conclusion: if you don’t have possession of your own traffic, you don’t own your business.