20 Nov 09 Spam and Stats of Akismet

99.259% accurate 5,621 spams caught, 455 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.259%.

Yes, that’s my Akismet stats as of today after a little over a year of my blog. Normally, it makes me very happy that Akismet is pretty good software, I hardly missed legitimate comments and it’s pretty awesome. It is imperative that wordpress has built in for Akismet and I am really thankful for it.

How about your Akismet stats if you ever use wordpress?

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07 Nov 08 Making Money With AdSense What Google Never Told You About

Google AdSense is one of the major money generating cash cow for make money online population. It is very important to get to know that whether you know all the secrets that you are supposed to know about AdSense rather than having AdSense account and not generating attractive income for quite sometimes. I have seen many people are stuck with AdSense and finally gave up on maintaining or developing their websites and blogs because they cannot create what they aimed for.

For those who are making good money with AdSense then again hardly share the secrets because of a few things, firstly, you may not be putting enough efforts as they are, you may not understand how affiliate programs work,  you may not have unique contents, you may not work hard for search engines to love your website/blog, or you may not plan and implement nicely and effectively for long run.

So, Once you feel that you have all the requirements to earn money online, then you definitely need to know a few things about AdSense. Most importantly, you have to learn how to not get banned from AdSense by doing common mistakes or violating their TOS.

This FREE e-book is written by Joel Comm who has great writing and fantastic solutions regarding AdSense. You may also distribute freely  if you want to. The book is actually divided in some topics. They are

1. Secrets of AdSense Revenue
2. Things you should know about Adsense
3. Adlinks Units
4. Must know Google’s Terms of Service
5. Adsense STATS
6. Three Kinds of Sites That You Can Make Fortune
7. Tweaking AdSense Ads
8. Is Someone Messing Up Your AdSense?
9. The Biggest Mistake Peopel Make With AdSense
10. Making Public AdSense Serve You

Tags: adsense, ebook, free, stats, traffic

11 Oct 08 Unique Content vs Search Engines

Search Engines are clever and sophisticated. Let’s say the Big 3, they are pretty smart and powerful. Search engines are written by a bunch of super geeks and they have several techniques to index your site, not only the text based display.

I have recently written an article about Google’s technology. As soon as opportunity arises, I will also discuss about alexa, msn live and yahoo in the future. 

There are millions of web pages that will not show up in the search engines, because they are being discounted from search engines especially Google search. WHY????? Because they are not having unique contents in the web. Some people like to copy and paste the materials around the world and it will finally come to haunt them in the future because search engines determine which websites are displaying duplicate contents, there are no sense of worry about who started it, but definitely if your website is always publishing original contents, that means you will not be in the same category as “duplicate contents/news feeders” list. 

Being using a unique content, your website will be recognized as well. For more information about duplicate contents, please read the article from Bill Slawski’s article from SEO by the SEA, “Duplicate content issues and Search Engines“. 

Conclusion: Make your site/blog to be differentiated from other duplicate content websites, that’s the first step of making you more legitimate in search engines world.

Any comments and suggestions, Please feel free to comment. Thanks for reading

Tags: blog, Blog-HowTo, google, how to, massive traffic, msn, SEO, stats, unique, write blog, yahoo

09 Oct 08 Adding Google XML Sitemap to your Wordpress

When it comes to search engines, top 3 search engines always come to our mind. Of course, they are Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. So, the Internet search world become very common from these 3 search engines. And it’s very important that your website is indexed to those big 3. Some may argue that ask.com is equally important.

Yes, you could say so.. If you believe google, yahoo, msn and ask.com are your main search engines.. This wordpress plug-in will just solve all your problems all at once. Because thse XML compliant site maps will create, update, modify and send update request to google, yahoo, msn and ask.com as soon as you have composed your article/post. 

All the credit goes to Arne Brachhold, who is a creator of this plug-in.  You can download the XML Sitemaps plug-in here. To quote what Mr. ARne Brachhold’s installation instructions, the list can be seen as below. Most important thing is, when you do the ftp, please make sure you use the program that can do “change mode” functions. Some ftp do not offer “chmod” commands for security reasons. I will use the direct reference from original page, so that your installation will go smoother.

Upload the full directory into your wp-content/plugins directory

Use your favorite FTP program to create two files in your WordPress directory (that’s where the wp-config.php is) named sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz and make them writable via CHMOD 666. More information about CHMOD and how to make files writable is available at the WordPress Codex and on stadtaus.com. Making your whole blog directory writable is NOT recommended anymore due to security reasons.

Activate the plugin at the plugin administration page

Open the plugin configuration page, which is located under Options -> XML-Sitemap and build the sitemap the first time. If you get a permission error, check the file permissions of the newly created files.

The plugin will automatically update your sitemap as soon as you publish a post. So, you have been successfully completed getting index in major search engines.

 

 

Tags: blog, google, massive traffic, msn, ping, plugins, SEO, setup, sitemap, spam, stats, traffic, wordpress, XML, yahoo

08 Oct 08 Generate Income – Link Referral Dot Com

Making money online without tricks or scams come with basically THREE things. Traffic, Contents and Passion.  I sadly saw several sites fail one or two, sometimes all three factors to succeed. 

So, let’s discuss Traffic, that is one of the most important factors to generate income for your business. I have surveyed several sites and will share one of the most effective company for links exchange, Ads placements and referrals. All in one place.  So, let’s take a look at LinkReferral.com for review. 

 

 

 

Link Exchange

It’s pretty simple solution, you visit some of the millions links listed there, some members will click you back as the same way you do, the more active you are, the bigger chance that your site will get traffic. Your activity will reflect your site hits (hence traffic, hence $$$). It will also calculate your site visibility to other members depending on how many websites you visit for them, how many websites you review for them, forum contribution once a day and one bookmark/favorite site add a day. That’s all and you will get at least 50 hits from the fellow members.. Simple? Yes.. Effective? Definitely. 

Referral

If you click on my referral and join the network, I will earn about $1, if you don’t want me to earn and join the network, join directly here. I will not trick you to earn $1, if you want to use my referral that’s fine. But be warned, they have two types of membership, if you become premium membership, pay a bit, but you earn more than regular FREE membership and you can receive money & advertise/promote your site/blog. So, it’s totally up to you.. For me, I use regular FREE membership, I don’t mind earning $1 from one referral, what I want most is to build up the trust between my readers/visitors and my published articles. Honestly, I want your comments more than $1 I may probably get, you can recommend me that this site is truly sharing the insight information, I will be stoked.  Details, please read here..

Ads Placement

You can choose to display their ads on your website, they will provide you all the necessary information to insert on your blog/website. And you get the cut from them depending on the. It’s that simple. But one thing to remember, do not mixed up and over-advertise on your website. For clicks example, if you have AdSense program already running from Google, You may not use AdBrite program very similar to Adsense program, AdSense program allows third party ads on your page, but do not annoy many ads and little contents on your page. It will make visitors go away.  But you need to become a premium member in order to do so if you are publisher, but if you are advertiser, you pay for what you place your ADs. The Ads Placement campaign is not very expensive and create quite a lot of traffic.  Either way, it is a good thing, because we all are working for traffic in the first place.

My Review

I finally decided to become a member with this site, because most importantly, you earn visitors, visitors are traffic/hits, alternatively, they are potential customers for your site. With abut half a million members there, Some said that you may not get target visitors to your site, but it’s not totally true in a sense that Linkreferral actually listed  website/blogs as a directory based. So, even if you are visiting other sites, you choose what category you want to spend time on it.  So, it’s actually categorized audience you will be getting. 

Moreover, as a promoter/advertiser, you can buy traffic at very cheap price as well.  So, take advantage of this program and get more traffic.

The Host

What’s the catch for them? They get more members, they get more traffic, at the same time, they display ads to us, they can also assign revenue sharing ad-placement on our sites. It’s win-win situation, they do the programming part, we do the hits/traffic part. Most important, they get advertisers by using pyramid referral system. 

Conclusion

If you want traffic, you can create one because it is human generated categorized traffic, so more or less, you will receive hits depending on your selected niche. Also, once you want to promote, you can easily promote your site as you are already a member. It’s win-win situation for both sides. 

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