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.

Today, I just login to my AdSense account and see that I can now link up my AdSense account and Analytics account to each other. So, without further ado, I linked them up.

It is a good thing overall, I have a feeling google will integrate everything to Google AdSense for publishers little by little, past 4 months, i saw google integrated parked-domain ads and adsense for feeds.

The advantage is, you can actually see more detailed stats about your earning, but disadvantage is Google can track you even better whether you have duplicate AdSense accounts, your office/home IP address, and your web browsing behavior. Just my 2 cents.

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.

For we all know, twitter is coming along nicely in blogger world. However, Facebook failed to bid twitter eventually and It may be the end of the rumor for possible merger between two big guns.

Of course, the main reason is about price and structure between two companies and the most important thing is the difficulty to determine the value of the stocks of twitter.

These two companies are pretty famous for web 2.0 environment, so that people are intrigued about this particular news. However, it is actually irony that these companies do not make massive amount of revenue yet, but looks very much likely to be potential market in a near future.

In my opinion, twitter will be a next big thing for web 2.0. It is just a matter of time whether Facebook or Google will buy Twitter off.

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

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.

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.

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.

I have been sharing all the goodie for a while now, this e-book is probably one of the cool e-book to get knowledge about google adsense. Yes, I obviously learnt a lot of things I didn’t know before from this book.

So, Here I should share this to all of you. This e-book is written by Elhusseiny Shahin. He actually gave you a few good ideas about finding the niche which is pretty awesome in my opinion.

So, get yourself a copy of this Golden AdSense e-book. And tell me what you think about the book too.

Always happy to see true comments.

Enjoy your free copy.

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.