Archive for July, 2007

How to start a website?

Are you feeling of starting a website or blog after you read my previous post - I Got My First Google Adsense Cheque?
Here are some tips you can count on.

Tip 1 - Select A Good Niche
Select a good niche you’re passionate with, and of course it’s better to have experience on what you’re going to show and talk about. A website doesn’t mean you must make it as a blog. There are many CMS(Content Management System) free engines can help you to create forum, online database and e-commerce site easily. If you purchase your webhosting with cpanel support, you can even install these CMS engines through your fantastico within 5 minutes.

Tip 2 - Get A KEYWORD-RICH Domain Name
After you have decided your website’s niche, you should start to think for a good domain name. Choosing the right domain could BOOST your search engine rankings. By having a KEYWORD-RICH domain name is an important factor of Search Engine Optimization. You can check for KEYWORD-RICH domain name’s availability here.

Tip 3 - Get A Webhosting
If you’re Malaysian, I would like to suggest you to get a local webhosting plan instead of foreign webhosting plan. The reason is simple - stupid Streamyx “lets” you load the local sites and servers much more faster than foreign sites and servers.
I am currently using Datakl.com’s linux webhosting plan with cpanel support. Everything is fine so far and they really provide me a very good service(7 days 24 hours technical support). Moreover, the price of their package offered is reasonable.
Get the cheapest webhosting package+1 domain name = RM165 per year only. Remember type in the promotion code before you put your order so you can get the discount up to RM50.

Tip 4 - Installation
Select the most appropriate softwares in fantastico and install it.
If you’re going to start a blog, WordPress is the one you shall install it. :D Then, you can select thousand of free WordPress themes and install free WordPress plugins to enhance your blog.

Tip 5 - Make Money Online & SEO
Read k-director.com to learn how to make money online and how to deal with SEO.

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I Got My First Google Adsense Cheque

I got my 1st Google Adsense cheque today. :D

My first Google Adsense Cheque

Therefore, “Make Money Online” this term has been proven again in k-director dot com.

As you see, I received U$D314.84 from Google. U$D250 was earned via Google Adsense Affiliate program. Someone has signed up as a Google Adsense publisher through k-director dot com and he/she has made his/her 1st U$D100 within 180 days. That’s why I got the bonus U$D250 from Google Adsense. The other U$D64.84 was my 3 months Google Adsense earning.

So this is my 3 months Google Adsense earning after I applied Google ads in k-director dot com. It’s quite slow if compare with other bloggers I think. But k-director dot com has more stable visitors per day now. The earning is increasing from day to day. This is definitely a good sign after I made some changes to make more money from Google Adsense. I think now what I need to do it write more good content and have more fun with blogging SEO.

If you have a blog too, you can read my “Make Money Online” post to learn how to make real money online.
But if you don’t have blog and you wanna to start one, you can read this post too. :)

This is not a big money but I believe this cheque is enough to pay my domain and webhosting anual fee plus my car’s monthly instalment plus July streamyx fee plus July electricity bill plus July Maxis bill plus July water bill as well…

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Game - Planarity

A simple game for you to practise your brain.

Unwind an entangled web so that no lines cross each other.

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The Soccer Referee

I never seen any referee can be so high during a match.

Have fun!
(Was he drunk?)

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Top 10 Socialbookmarking Sites

Backlinks,’ which is a major factor for top search engines. The backlinks from a site with high PR is more valued by searchengines in deciding the rank of the website. That’s why it’s important to create an account in following socialbookmarking sites in oder to get us free placement in high PR sites. :D

a. Technorati
b. Digg
c. StumbleUpon
d. NowPublic
e. Del.icio.us
f. BlinkList
g. Simpy
h. Furl
i. Slashdot
j. Spurl

It’s highly effective to raise your site’s rank in major search engines for top keywords Socal Media Searches. :D

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BidVertiser offers $20 FREE Advertising Credit

Free Advertising Credit
Bidvertiser is a CPC ad network works similarly like Google Adsense. The most interesting part of Bidvertiser is definitely its low payout - U$10.

I did signed up as Bidvertiser’s web publisher for my another site last week. Just before I applied the ads on my site, I received an email from Bidvertiser saying that BidVertiser now offers $20 FREE advertising credit for current publishers!

We are so confident that BidVertiser will work well for you also as an advertiser that we will immediately credit your advertiser account with $20 worth of funds, no deposit on your part needed!

Therefore, I accepted the offer since it’s free. :D The minimum cost for any ads in Bidvertiser is U$1.00 per day. That means you can advertise your site FREE for 20 days!
I spent U$2.00 for last 2 days, and this is what I’ve got:
Ads Impressions: 116,336
Ads Clicks: 40

So I got 40 visitors from the ads for free! Not bad huh?
Make money from your Website or Blog with BidVertiser

*Someone please remind me to pause it before I finish my U$20.00 free credits. If not, it will continue charging my credit card for U$1.00 per day. Thanks!!

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Reset Computer Shut Down and Logoff Option

Are you facing the problem of having a drop down menu option for your “Turn Off Computer” just like the image below?
reset computer shut down and logoff option

Here’s the solution to reset it:

Step 1:
Go to “Control Panel”.
reset computer shut down and logoff option

Step 2:
Select “User Accounts”.
reset computer shut down and logoff option

Step 3:
Click on “Change the way user log on or off”.
reset computer shut down and logoff option

Step 4:
Check “Use the Welcome screen” then click on “Apply Options” complete the setting.
reset computer shut down and logoff option

See, the normal big buttons logoff option is back.
reset computer shut down and logoff option

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Game - The Fancy Pants Adventure

A very interesting flash action game.

Impale the ranks as you find secrets and more!

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Share Your iGoogle Tab

iGoogle(formerly named “Google Personalized Homepage”) has added a new feature for users to share their customized iGoogle tab.

Here are the steps:

Step 1:
Click the “arrow” next to your tab’s title. Then select “Share this tab”.
iGoogle - Share This Tab

Step 2:
Type in the email address of your friend(s) in the pop up message box. You can attach your message too. After that, click “Send”.
iGoogle - Share This Tab

Step 3:
Your friend will receive an email like this.
iGoogle - Share This Tab

Step 4:
This is how it would be if your friend clicks the link given in the email above.
iGoogle - Share This Tab

By the way, don’t forget you can select a theme for your iGoogle page too. :D

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iPhone Theme and Plugin for Wordpress

iPhone Theme and plugin for Wordpress

iPhone fever does not stop until it burns all the related application and gadgets.
Contentrobot dot com has released a Wordpress iPhone theme and plugin which allows you to reformat your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone.

It detects the iPhone’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special theme only to iPhone visitors, all other browsers will view your WordPress blog with your current theme.

Features:
• Formats your blog content for optimized viewing on the iPhone.
• Automatically detects the iPhone’s Safari browser and only displays the custom theme to iPhone visitors, other visitors get your standard theme.
• Simple iPhone-like theme with common interface elements that compliments the iPhone’s internal applications.

You can view the demo site here.

Of course, you’re required to have WordPress 2.2.1 and an iPhone for viewing. :D

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