What Internet Marketing Has Got to Do With Selecting Your Niche
February 23, 2007 by Gaman · 2 Comments
I like nothing more then a contradicting opinion that encourages a healthy discussion.
My previous post here has received a response from MSScholars.com and he disagrees with it.
Over at his blog he writes
“If you are new to internet marketing, you shouldn’t have read all the negative reviews too much. Don’t reallly believe in this.”
I think the response is partly as a result of me assuming that my readers understand the difference between selecting a niche you can be successful at and doing marketing itself.
Reading his post, perhaps to him Internet Marketing is about joining commission junction, Linkshare etc or Text Link Ads to monetize a blog.
Let me quote another paragraph
PayPerPost Review At Sabahan.com
February 23, 2007 by Gaman · 13 Comments
I am thinking of joining ReviewMe and experiment with pay per post review on Sabahan.com.
Like I said in one of my earlier posts, I feel it’s OK for commercial blogs to use this service but caution must always be exercised because your readers expect some level of subjectivity.
What I like about ReviewMe is that the blogger is required to disclose whether a post is a paid advertisement or not. He can freely write positive or negative reviews and give their honest opinion.
One blog that I see has used pay per post review effectively is JohnChow.com. Of course I’ll only review products or services that I feel will benefit my readers. The post topics should be those that match what I usually blog about.
Tell me what you think and your experience with pay per post if you’ve participated in it.
How to Protect Your phpBB Forum From Spam Bots
February 23, 2007 by Gaman · 11 Comments
While forum spamming either caused by bots or humans are not a security threat, it’s still very much a nuisance to the forum admin.
I have several phpBB forums which have running for a couple of years now and they were like magnets to spammers especially spam bots.
Deleting these spam bots manually was tiring and time wasting.
At some point, I turned off automatic registration completely and requested potential members to write to me manually if they want to join the forum. This of course presented another hurdle to users and had decreased the registration rate.
You can enable the built-in Visual Confirmation during registration but this measure can be easily defeated even by the simplest spam bots.
Then I searched for a MOD that I can install and came across Textual Confirmation by olpa.
How to Surf As Someone Else & Trick MyBlogLog
February 22, 2007 by Gaman · 4 Comments
I don’t know why MyBlogLog leaves this vulnerability literally in plain sight.
Jeremy of ShoeMoney shows how you can surf the web as other MyBlogLog members.
If you are using Firefox, locate your cookies.txt file and look for the line that says something like
.mybloglog.com TRUE / FALSE 120364175 mbl_sid ****************
Where ************* is some string of numbers to identify your MBL id.
If you want to be someone else, just change the string to whoever you want to be. You don’t need to be a member of mybloglog to exploit this bug.
To get someone’s MBL id,
- visit their page where the MBL avatar is displayed.
- Right click their avatar and click View or Copy Location
- You’ll see a URL ending with 200705112235594_avatar.jpg
- The string of number is the SID
How to Get Or Not to Get On Digg’s Homepage
February 22, 2007 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
If you have been dugg before, then good for you. But for the rest of us who haven’t had such luck, the following articles might offer some clues to help us improve our chances.
Three Proven Steps For Getting On Digg’s HomePage
Rather than concentrating on gaming Digg, the article guides you how to use common sense to increase your chances of hitting the homepage.
How to Not Get On the Digg Homepage
Google Blogoscoped takes a different approach and looked into a surefire way of ensuring your site won’t make it to the Digg frontpage. If you are trying to avoid being dugg, for whatever reason this article is for you although I would wonder why you prefer that.
The irony is, this article will probably be dugg.
10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page
Where Are People Making Money Right Now?
February 22, 2007 by Gaman · 13 Comments
There’s a lot of newbies who think that the only way to make money online is to get involve in Internet marketing and teach others how to make money.
If they themselves can’t make money, there must be something wrong with the path they have chosen in their money making journey.
Here’s a problem, there’s just too much competition in the Internet marketing niche and you need to be real good or offer something different in order for you to stand out from the rest.
I am no guru but I do have some experience in making money outside of the Internet marketing niches and I know it’s not easy to make money from the Internet Marketing niche.
There’s a long list of other niches that people can take advantage of and are profitable right now besides the make money online niche.
Someone Is Stealing My Blog Posts
February 21, 2007 by Gaman · 19 Comments
Someone is stealing my blog posts, making them as his own and trying to make money from them using MIVA and AdSense.
Here’s what I am going to do.
Contact MIVA and AdSense to cancel their account.
Notify their web host about it.
Contact Technorati to ban the blog
Contact Google to delist the blog from their index.
It’s bad enough to copy someone’s work without the writer’s permission. It’s even worse to use the stolen content and make money from it.
Check http://www.veryzoo.com/
The Z-List & Malaysia’s Most Influential Blogs Post
February 21, 2007 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
My intention when I wrote the post about Malaysia’s 50 Most Influential Blogs was to arouse some discussion around the Malaysian blogosphere and arouse it did. The post has caused quite a stir in the local blogosphere apparently.
It was talked about and linked from many blogs which naturally brought in tremendous amount of traffic to this blog in a short few days.
Some like it while others disagree with it. I already knew that would happen even before I posted that article. Like everything else, you can’t make everyone happy can you?
One blogger sees it as an attempt in link baiting. I don’t think he understands what link baiting really means.
Link baiting does not have to have negative connotations with it and the post certainly doesn’t. What I did was generating some interesting information that people talk about.
I am The Winner of The UK National Lottery!
February 21, 2007 by Gaman · 20 Comments
My dream to win a lottery has finally come true! I was alerted today by the following email.
We happily announce to you the draw (#963) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on the 20th of Febuary, 2007.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188, with Serial number 5368/02, drew the lucky numbers:02-05-13-30-39-49-03(bonus no.), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.ematch 5 plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
Alexa Introduces New Traffic Features
February 20, 2007 by Gaman · 4 Comments
Alexa recently introduced new traffic features which offer more granular view of your blog’s or website’s traffic.
Alexa now reports where your site’s visitors are from geographically.
From the stats, I now know 48.4% of Sabahan.com’s visitors come from Malaysia and 13.5% are from the US.
One way how this can be useful, you can use it to convince advertisers where the majority of your visitors are from. This new data can also be useful to potential advertisers. It will help them to size up an audience before making an ad purchase.
Of course you can always get this info from your own traffic log but it’s usually not accessible publicly.
In addition to the geographical information, Alexa has also changed their Reach per Million stats to Reach Percentages. For example as of today 0.002% Internet users have visited Sabahan.com.
