I actually learn linux all by myself too. all u need is time and self-study. If you are new to linux.. it’s best you use virtual machine or extra computer that can install stand alone.

there are many virtual machine that can install linux, my favorite one will be virtual box.. So, u can install on your windows computer, and virtual box will run as a mini-computing system. If u r very new to linux.. there are many ways you can get to know them.. First learning in Distrowatch.com and what are the core ingridients in each distribution.. I like Fedora 10 or 11 the best to learn new things, because they have apache, httpd, ftp, database, many scripting, also security and networking setup, I quite like it…

Let’s say, u want dual-boot with computer, not using virtual machine, try ubuntu 9.04, ubuntu is the best linux to install.. they have two version, desktop and server version, u can choose whatever version u want to master it.

Generally learning for Linux, for starter.. you can read through this website to get to know bit by bit.

Free trainings are starting from Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Level. Moreover, you will be able to learn some useful tips and tricks of Linux operating system and its functions. Once you complete the course, it is time to choose a particular distribution and start mastering the Linux one by one. My person choices will be Fedora 11 or Ubuntu 9.04 as of today.. These versions will change time after time as they will release more or less every 6 months to 12 months as a new version.

Thanks for reading.

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.

Ok, Last week, I got an email for my hosting, as a member there, I can give you discount coupon code, but sadly, I cannot actually register myself as my hosting can track my IP address.

So, here is what I received in my email

We have an exciting new coupon code for you.

WebHostingBuzz is offering 75% of on its shared and reseller hosting plans for a limited time.

The coupon code for this campaign is GONECRAZY.

So, there you go, the offer is valid until May 15, next month, I will post another one as soon as they sent me an offer.

So, if you are planning to have a new web hosting or not happy with the current one, take an advantage, normally, they actually can help you migrate from your old servers for FREE as well and all these deals include free domain name for life starting from 1 domain to many more. So, be sure to check out and if you are keen, enjoy your promotion.

Check out the promotion here.

What’s the catch for me?

As a member there, I now enjoy 2TB disk space and 20TB traffic a month for unlimited domains and you can only upgrade after you become first level client. I have been using this hosting since 2004 and I did not have much problem with the hosting, simply put, that’s why I am still using this hosting.

Get the best offer while you can. Any comments and suggestions always welcome.

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.

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

Well, here it is another technique that I am very happy to share. I am big Yahoo! Answers fan. Before, I didn’t really put my website link in Yahoo! answers, but after a while, I tried to put once or twice in a while. And yes, it gives me good traffic, at least, 10-15 unique hits from one answer.

Of course, your answer should be unique, informative and helpful. That’s the most important thing, once they love your answer, they will definitely try to click your website which should be the source of the answer. When I answered about sports, I never put this website as a reference, it will be spamming to the audience and also to Yahoo! and i saw many people got banned for that.

SEO point of view, you will not gain anything as Yahoo! answers is no-follow link, but you get the traffic and mostly targeted traffic, that means, your true audience will read more about your site.

Nowadays, many people abuse and use yahoo answers as a tool and the bans are more frequent, so make sure you do the reference in proper way and relevant niche. Here is my Yahoo Answers account you can view. Remember, do not put too many of your links in your answers especially it’s not relevant to your website and the particular answer. And make sure you get good percentage of BEST Answer. So that people believe and trust in what you explain more. That will also help your traffic as well.

So, here is a good e-book how to get traffic, affiliate sales, or direct sales that depend on your business on Yahoo! Answers. But I definitely tried and got noticeable amount of traffic.

Thanks for reading

Well, I am thrilled to find out that we can do the free listing to your trade shows. It is fantastic and I saw many useful trades all over the world. I think it’s a great website for those who are involved with trade shows.

I myself have to be associated with some exhibitions and trade shows. So, I was looking for some information and found this awesome website. It is great for people who want to attend exhibitions and trade shows. Moreover,  It is also fantastic for tourists and such.

I may be giving you vague idea, but all trade shows and exhibition include everything and all type of categories. From Agriculture to Travel and Tourism.

So, if you want to attend any trade shows or exhibitions in your area or going for a trip to particular country. This is the place.

Enjoy global Business Trade Shows.

OR

If you are organizing or associated with trade shows or organizing the events. Here you can do the free listing and get the backlinks and expose to the entire world.

I am actually doing site review if a site is pretty much informative,  and I am willing to exchange site reviews. Feel free to comment and write to me if you want to exchange website review. 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“.

Today, I just joined a forum which is called BRL (Build Reciprocal Links). That site is pretty cool to participate and I think I will stick there for a while, If the payment is pretty good to learn new things and help other people, I am thinking I will stick there for very long.

First off, you can use your AdSense publish ID for revenue sharing, normally revenue sharing is not really high.  But the more you participate in the forum the more money you will earn, which is fantastic. I will summarize a bit about the site that I am now currently very active. So, I hope to see you all soon. All you need is either AdSense account or Paypal. If you have both, it’s better than EVER.

I have just found this forum and I would like to invite you to be a part of link-exchange and web-master community.

Click here to Visit BRL Discussion Forum

This is a paid-to-post forum and have excellent resources available online.

BRL Forum is Webmaster oriented forum which allows you to earn money for posting and be active on their forum board. They have own good and advanced point rewarding system where you can easily earn money.

This forum have many users and you can easily find many interesting webmaster related stuffs and more. Their points are called BRL$. 100 BRL$ equals 1.11 USD $. Once you get 200 BRL$ you can request payment via PayPal.
List of BRL$:
Birthday Credit – BRL $25 (Your birthday.)
Positive Reputation Credit – BRL $3 (Awarded when you receive positive reputation.)
New Thread Credit – BRL $3 (May varies forum by forum)
Rate Thread Credit – BRL $1
Posting Credit BRL – $1 (May varies forum by forum)
Post Size Credit – 100 Words x BRL $0.001
Poll Create Credit – BRL $1

Additionally, if your answer is informative and chosen as best answer in Q&A knowledge section, you will get $50 BRL points as well.
….and many more with more details.

Daily BRL Forum admins and community posts many useful awarded contests and promotions where you can earn even more money. Once you get minimum required amount for payment request PM admin with your PayPal details and payment will be processed to you. Peoples who uses this forum says that payment is fast – usually in maximum 42 hours from your request! Register now and start making money the way you want it – it’s free of course!

Click here to Visit BRL Discussion Forum
For evidence, you can check the discussion sub-forum where all the members confirmed the minimum payout at $200 BRL points, which you will get about $150 BRL points just after joining, uploading photo, entering all the required data for your public profile. Basically, you earn money within 2 days if you make about 20-50 posts depending on the points. What is the catch for them? The BRL guys will receive advertisement generations and they will also receive valuable members who will be participating everyday.

Thanks for reading and happy making money.

Twitter’s been the latest Web 2.0 craze, and there’s no doubt about that.

What is it? Well you have a bunch of friends that follow you, and you follow a bunch of friends yourself. This creates a stable social network, and eventually snowballs into a massive online community – so to speak. The point of the idea is to allow other people to know what your doing, pretty much as you do it. You have 140 characters to say what you want to say, and let your followers know!

Now many web developers use this social media network to gain traffic and you can do the same! More traffic means more revenue What you firstly need to do is, obviously sign up for an account. Then build up a good network of friends. This isn’t a short-term or “over night” traffic booster. Getting traffic from twitter will take some time, but the advantage is that it will be EXTREMELY targeted, simply because the visitor shows great deal of interest.

Once you sign up and build a good network of friends, you can start Twittering and letting people know what your doing, and every now and post a link to your site/page/product.  Twitter will automatically cloak long URLs but that’s not a worry!

One of the biggest mistakes newbies using Twitter is that they go randomly mass adding people – DON’T DO THIS! It’s regarded as spam and you won’t succeed, just don’t even try! However, you can use the following 16 tools to maximize your Twitter Potential!

Twitter Specific Tools:

1) TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter and lets you make posts from your browser status bar. It also allows you to switch between multiple Twitter accounts in one click. This is my #1 must-have, deal-breaker, cannot live without Twitter plug-in.

2) Retweet This is an application designed for use with the Greasemonkey Firefox plug-in. It allows you to append a retweet button to the end of each Twitter entry to encourage your followers to retweet your posts.

3) Classify Twitter Users is a script that allows you to classify Twitter users and decide whether they are worth following based on their friends, followers and post ratios. Another Greasemonkey app, it’s a great tool to help you weed out the Twitter spammers and fan boys from the socially healthy.

4) TwittAd allows Twitter users to monetize their account by accepting advertising on the background image of their Twitter user profile. You decide the duration and price advertisers pay for exposure and get paíd for every hour you serve the ad.

5) TwitterCounter lets you add a daily updating TwitterCounter to your blog so everybody can see how popular you are by the number of persons following you.

6) TweetBeep is just like having Google Alerts for Twitter. It enables you to keep track of conversations that mention you, your products or your company via email. You can even keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog. It’s a great tool for online reputation management and you don’t even have to be a Twitter user to benefit from it. TweetBeep is another one of my personal *must haves*.

7) Twitter Grader measures the reach and authority of a Twitter user, calculated by the pace of their updates, the completeness of their profile, their number of followers and the network power of those followers.

Twitter Grader displays as a score out of 100 and is consistently updating and adapting as your Twitter account grows. Based on those grades, Twitter Grader lists the Twitter Elite globally and in each country, just like Technorati does for bloggers.

TwitPic, as the name suggests, is a photo sharing tool for Twitter. When logged in, it allows you to upload photos and post them with comments as a Tweet. It works with a range of Twitter clients such as Twitterific, Twhirl and MobileTwitter and stores all your photos in a single location with updated viewing stats. As far as Twitter image sharing goes, this is king for reliability.

9) Twuffer is a Twitter buffer. It allows Twitter users to compose a líst of future tweets, and schedule their release. Twuffer is ideal for making hourly, daily or monthly announcements or send post-dated birthday greetings or reminders to people about upcoming events. It’s also perfect if you’re the type of person who wants to give the impression that you don’t ever sleep.

10) Twistori I have a real soft spot for this one. One of the developers is Amy Hoy, one of my favorite speakers from Webstock 2008 and a goth geek to boot. Twistori is a social experiment that taps into the Twitter conversations revolving around life’s central activities: Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel, Wish. You can click on any of these emotions and witness a live feed of Tweets that use them. It’s voyeuristic and utterly compelling.

11) iTweet is another interface for Twitter. It has built-in auto-refresh, search and hash tags and features full follow, block and notifications features. Users can view and post user bio, location and URLs inline with their tweets. Another cool feature of iTweet is the ability to Retweet a user post with a single click.

12) Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter. Similar to Digg, on Twitturly, people “vote” for a URL. The more votes it gets the better it ranks. If it does well enough, it gets promoted to the home page and as the votes rise it gets displayed higher up the home page. Twitturly differs from Digg in that instead of voting on their site, you vote by participating on Twitter. Each time that you send a link to your followers on Twitter, Twitturly takes a note of it and applies your vote to that URL. It’s a great way to follow the loudest global conversations.

13) Mr Tweet is another big favorite of mine. Similar to LinkedIn , it looks through your extended network and makes suggestions to help you build effective relationships on Twitter. For example, which of your followers should you be following in return? Who are the most influential people you should be following? Who are your followers following?

14) Twitter Search is Twitter’s own built-in and oft-overlooked search tool. You can use it to search for other Twitter users, keywords, hash tag topics and a range of cool shortcut items.

Non Twitter Specific Tools:

15) FlipTitle is, not surprisingly, a tool that enables you to flip text upside down. It’s great for Twitter because sometimes your tweets can get lost in the conversation. Using FlipTitle makes sure they get noticed.

16) Bit.ly is a very cool URL shortener that also includes click-thru statistics. Why is it perfect for Twitter? Because the length of the converted URLs is generally much shorter than other URL converters like TinyURL. When you are tweeting, space is premium as your whole post can only consist of 140 characters including spacing.

Good luck with your Twittering Adventures!

This is actually not for existing bloggers, rather this book will guide people who want to be a blogger. This book is created from ATMleb webhosting for helping new members to join as a blogger. I think this book is awesome and helpful. Actually, I am supposed to sell for $20 as a reseller, but I am now giving it to you FREE, because I don’t like selling but to give out useful information FREE on my site.

The e-book covers everything from the start. You will be able to learn how to setup free blogs, self-hosed blogs and many information on all sort of blogging. To give you some introduction, they are as follows;

1. details in setting up your blog
2. blog content
3. blog content brainstorming
4. onpage search engine optimization
5. offpage search engine optimization
6. traffic sources &
7. many monetization sources from your blog.

It actually gives you simple and excellent suggestions and information, rather than selling something in the e-book, as you may have noticed, my e-books are not selling affiliate links or signups all the time, but mostly information related how to create wealth without using tricks or scams. And that’s the most important thing which is relevant to my site.

So, get yourself a copy of this fantastic e-book, blog for dollar. Enjoy and hope you will comment after you read. Thanks for reading.

Well, wordpress 2.6.5 is available to download now. I have just updated to 2.6.5 today as well.
so, all wordpress lovers, it’s time to download and upgrade here.

Don’t forget to view installation guides or upgrading guides on wordpress.com if required.. 

Thanks for reading.