This post is probably not suitable for my blog but I was hoping people will find this useful when they have a similar problem with me. I actually wanted to say that I am very pleased with Yahoo! Answers with this issue.

Needless to say, my computer was infected with autorun.inf which will auto run their affiliate file name called affi8l.exe. Fortunately, my anti-virus program could find out easily the exe file and remove it right away though I cannot remove autorun.inf and that file has been annoying for a few hours. So, I finally do web search and after 6-7 search engine results, I must admit it was pretty much disappointing as I could not find the correct solution. I was about to feel Google is no longer dependable on search results. And at the eighth link, I finally found the solution on Yahoo! Answers, and that answer was in fact easier to find in Yahoo! search engine. My point is, Yahoo! sometimes provides better search results and relevancy despite Google has been the number 1 search engines for ages.

So, I will directly quote from Yahoo! Answers referenced to here. Thanks to the original person who answered this perfectly.

You can boot up your PC in safe mode command prompt.

unhide the autorun.inf
c:\attrib -r -s -h autorun.inf

rename it the autorun.inf to txt
c:\ren autorun.inf to autorun.txt

create a FOLDER call autorun.inf to prevent re-infection
c:\mkdir autorun.inf

find out the virus file name
c:\type autorun.txt

It may show something like this

[AutoRun]
open=virusname.exe
shellexecute=virusname.exe
shell\Auto\command=virusname.exe

unhide the virus
c:\attrib -r -s -h virusname.exe

remove the virus
c:\del virusname.exe

del the autorun.txt
c:\del autorun.txt

Keep the autorun.inf folder to prevent future infection

Below is quoted from the website “Virus Removal Guru”

Affi8l.exe is a dangerous file which creates activities on a user’s computer which may be highly undesirable. This file is totally unsafe.

Type: Trojan Virus (Click Here To Learn More)
Location: C:\Affi8l.exe (Click Here To Learn How To Locate)
Risk Level: Moderate (Learn More About Risk Levels)

Affi8l.exe has been identified as a computer virus. The file is generally bundled with another trojan virus, herss.exe, and additional files which include cvasds0.dll, cvasds1.dll, and cvasds2.dll.

As a conclusion, nowadays, search engine world is pretty much monopolized and we don’t seem to bother about it. And this is probably one of the very few times I gave credits to Yahoo! Search in past 9 years.

Lately, I have been using this service, Twitoaster.com, for my tweets. It is really awesome service and I actually enjoy using it. It can actually track your twitter discussion, hence whoever replies to your tweets, will get indexed in Twitoaster.com.

How does it work?

As usual, it is basically an external API, so when you login at twitoaster, simply use your twitter login and password there, and that’s it. It will actually index all your replies, retweets that are in public timeline.

What’s the catch?

Why do we create accounts on facebook, friendster, myspace, twitter, digg, technorati? It is basically understandable that they give you traffic, search ability and special add-on functions that you can actually link back to your blog, profiles, websites, etc. Twitoaster can index your tweets, RTs, therefore, in a marketing point of view, when you post a URL in your tweets and someone replies you, your URL will get indexed which is good for extra traffic when someone search as many of internet marketer uses twitter to gain more traffic. Google index pretty quick with Twitoaster and I sometimes found my tweets while I search some of the keywords I posted in Twitter. That means, you don’t need extra time to input your tweets to be seen, not only in twitter, but also in Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live.

Usability

It is similar to blog commenting and it works with the feed, so, it is extremely easy to use and very user friendly, whatever you post in Twitoaster will be posted in Twitter, but it is not very good to spam because you have limits to use external APIs in Twitter, nevertheless, if you post something really good in 140 characters, it is possible that you will get some replies and that will actually make your tweets easily found and more popular not only in Twitter, but also in the web.

So, give it a try at Twitoaster.com and tell me what you think.

Have a good one.

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

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

It is important that you need to choose a niche that can do e-commerce related or hardware related industry, so that you can probably make more money. This e-book is based on health and diet related pills monetization, so you can say it’s pharma-industry niche is based on.

Yahoo! Answers Monetization e-book FREE download

Happy making money just to spend 30-45 minutes a day.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading.

There are alot of sites that are receiving several traffic from many different sources. If you have Google Analytics or Yahoo! Site Explorer or MSN Live webmaster center, you will be able to analyse how has your website been accepting traffic. One of the most important thing about analysing the website is to understand how you get traffic to your site and which sources have potential more in the future.

This is how we generate more traffic and more traffic, for example, in wordpress, I have posted one entry about how we can install google analytics on wordpress as a plugin. Ok, enough with the small talk.

Yahoo! Answers

Recently, I have been testing my Yahoo! Answers account which I created over 2 years ago, I used to help and answer a lot of questions in the past and I felt like it is time to test my traffic on Yahoo! Answers for a change. So, I went back and answered a few questions and put my website InfoMM.com in the resources where relevant, not very surprisingly, I have been receiving quite a lot of traffic from Yahoo! Answers. I think it is very good if you are selling some products or services, you may be able to get more traffic than you may expected. Of course, you need patience to earn respectable traffic. You won’t get 1000 unique visitors in a week, but you might get close to it depending on your luck and niche. 

So, the bottom line is, for driving good traffic, you need to know the relevancy and niche in order to succeed. For example, if you are selling iPod, I think Yahoo! Answers is pretty nice place to start with. You can probably get hundreds of visitors a week. Or if you are selling pet accesseries online, because they are very frequent and many questions have been asking every single day.

So, if you think your niche could fit in Yahoo! Answers, without spamming, LOL, then, go ahead and expand your web traffic more than ever.

Cheers for reading.

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

Webmasters use these words very often, search engines and PageRank. They are the sources of income. In fact, because the more links you are exposed and linked to, the bigger chance of getting more traffic, that will eventually bring possible visitors to become your customers. 

Therefore, Link building becomes one of the excessive used terms among webmasters and SEO experts. As I have explained about how Google and its technology regarding page rank system and hypertext analysis, It is important to build links around your blog/site. I  have submitted to several search engines, you can see major search engines and directory list to submit on the above link. So, that kind of link building is easy to implement. Make sure you have done the same for your website too.

It is important to build quality links and how can you decide what are the quality links? It’s the key of the link building, if you submit at low PR ranking sites and not usually updated sites, it is waste of your time to submit your link. Some blogs are dead and you comment on their sites with your URL, that’s another waste of time.

However, I encourage you to comment on quality blogs (you need to make sure they are not copy/paste, scams, pushing you to click their affiliates or ads and etc). I have made some comments on some quality blogs, I have already saw my sites as back-links because great blogs actually update regularly, keep in touch with readers and utilize SEO properly. So, when I check my links associations, I can easily find out whose sites have quality links and regular updates. So, comment on quality blogs in such a great manner and proper way. Commenting others is not to judge for what they have written, but to understand what the message is all about and contribute your suggestions regarding to the original article. 

Don’t just put your URL and write “visit my site” or “nice one”, if you do not mean it read it, I do not think search engines will not value your input on particular page because you do not really mean it too. Remember, search engines use millions of conditions to index a particular web-page, if you don’t mean it, they won’t feel it too.  Most importantly, discuss in the blogs related to your website you are linking. For example, if you have a “fashion online shop” and if you are writing unrelated comments at “online gamers” site, search engines may not index your site as a qualified back-links. 

So, back to my topic, it’s always good to link to others. And let others link back to you, whatever your site and niche may be, it has to be consistent, regularly updated and keeping the communications alive with your readers/visitors/members.

Also I always allow ping service to my wordpress blog. So, if you are using wordpress like me, when you do the link reference, your website link will be already added. This is one of the powerful features that I have enabled in my blog. So, just feel free to link to my site as a reference, your site link will also be published, as I am always improving my site with search engines, your site will also be counted as a back-link. Because I always do the same when I reference someone else links. It is a win-win situation and very ethical way to link up to one another. And that’s the way google, yahoo! and MSN live bots index the links too. My techniques are simple and no tricks required. But it will also prevent you to get banned from major search engines. 

But please bare in mind, when you write something for your readers, Write for readers, don’t write for google, yahoo or msn, but always comply with what search engines want. Word of Mouth is indeed a powerful thing. That includes people volunterily linking your site and you will get more exposure.  Just remember to give something useful and nice to your visitors/readers. There is always reward for your great hard-work.

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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.

• Adding Manual Sitemap to your WordPress as a Page
• Big G and its Technology
• Make Search Engines to Cherish your Blog/Website
• Setup your uniform domain address

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