How to Read Google Reader RSS Feed Offline
May 12, 2008 by Gaman · 24 Comments
Working from Coffee Bean isn’t fun for me when there’s too much distractions. I guess the real issue is not so much about the distractions but rather the surroundings which I feel isn’t conducive to my productivity. Probably it’s just me because I am used to working at my own place without having some waitress serving coffee everywhere.
I guess that’s what you would come to expect when you’ve been working online for yourself for quite sometime but it’s no big deal 
Anyway, now I like to bring my laptop with me when I travel in case something needs my immediate attention online; from server issues to Google AdWords alerts. It’s hard to imagine leaving without it nowdays since I got my hands on that new laptop.
How to Make Money from Your Blog like John Chow
May 7, 2008 by Gaman · 34 Comments
The first day of the month is usually the time when some bloggers write the much anticipated blog income report in their blogs. If done right, such post can be a win-win situation for the bloggers and their readers.
It can be a good way to keep your blog buzz going and attracts some link juice from other bloggers. While there’s a possibility that some readers might perceive your decision to reveal your income as bragging, most will see this as a proof of what is possible especially if you are not a stranger to them.
The Internet famous blogger, John Chow recently did his usually thing and revealed that the month of April is lowest his blog has made in 2008. Though, for the rest of us, his lowest is still nothing short of jaw-dropping as he has made USD 29,569.05.
Updating the 50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia List
April 29, 2008 by Gaman · 22 Comments
It was last year when a Malaysian Minister accused bloggers as liars. According to him out of 8000 of 10,000 unemployed bloggers are women and bloggers have nothing better to do than spreading rumors to disunite the country. Some even resorted to labeling bloggers as Monkeys, Gobloks and Pondan.
Such comments may stem from the lack of understanding of the blogging medium. A medium which may have played a role in the shocking outcome witnessed during the recent general election.
I don’t know to what extent, but it’s enough for the government to reverse their anti-bloggers stance to be the friend of bloggers. For starters, Ahmad Shabery Cheek, our new Information Minister has created a new TV show in RTM inviting bloggers to talk about specific issues about this alternative media.
Malaysia’s Top Internet Marketer Lets Domain Name Expires
March 17, 2008 by Gaman · 24 Comments
Of all people, Gobala Krishnan forgets to renew his blog’s domain name at http://www.gobalakrishnan.com/ and as it appears, the domain has expired on 14 March 08 and now redirected to Godaddy’s domain parking page.
A similar incident happened to Advertlets.com, a Malaysian own online advertising company which had its domain expired on January 3, 2008. The case attracted quite an attention as it involved thousands of publishers who sell advertising space via Advertlets.com system.
Anyway back to Gobala, he is a great Internet marketer and one can only wonder how he could end up having one of his important domain names expires. But I understand that he was probably just too busy with other important projects which could easily steal a considerable amount of his time.
Blogger.com, WordPress.com or WordPress.org – Which One Should I Choose?
March 12, 2008 by Gaman · 29 Comments
I received an email from a reader recently asking me about the differences between Blogspot and WordPress and which one is better if one wants to setup a blog with its own domain name.
This is probably one of the most common questions asked by newbies when starting out their journey in the blogging world. I’m posting my answer here for the benefit of those who may have similar questions.
BlogSpot aka Blogger.com (I’m going to use this term to refer to this service) is a hosted blogging service. Hosted means, you don’t have to worry about spending money on web hosting because they will take care of that for free.
You can setup your own custom domain name (like Sabahan.com) instead of opting for the more common blogname.blogspot.com address setup on Blogger.com. Using your own domain has the inherit advantage in that it can be used as a branding platform while helping your blog appears more credible to your readers.
Finally! My Net Connection Is Restored
February 16, 2008 by Gaman · 31 Comments
If you were expecting posts from me during the weekdays, I should inform you that I was deprived of an Internet connection when the net access for my town went kaput for 5 days.
I contacted Streamyx support for an update of a report I lodged earlier and later contacted the local TM exchange to find out what took them so long to fix the problem only to be given a conflicting information where one party basically blamed the other.
To be fair to them, I felt that someone somewhere did try to do something (after several follow-ups), just not as fast or perhaps not as competent as they should had been.
Otherwise we wouldn’t have waited this long to have our connection restored. While our online businesses were affected, the least they could do was to make the customers understand what the real issue was instead of asking them to wait.
How Not To Make Money from Blogging
February 6, 2008 by Gaman · 28 Comments
It’s usually the time of the month when many bloggers eagerly reveal their Internet income for the month of January. Ideally an increase in one’s income should help him/her to get off on the right foot for the New Year ahead.
One of famous bloggers doing this regularly is none other than John Chow.com.
Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave somewhere or probably you just don’t care about making money from blogging you know that this guy has been making an insane amount of money from his blog.
Last month alone, he “single-handedly” made $30,616.35 from JohnChow.com. That’s roughly RM98,000 in my local currency! I can only imagine things that one could possible do when making such an insane about of money as an individual.
Will I Make More Money By Placing More Ads At Sabahan.com?
November 13, 2007 by Gaman · 27 Comments
After reading an interesting post by Sha over at Shamoneymaker.com, it struck me that I’ve probably been leaving easy money on the table by not realising Sabahan.com full advertising potential.
What Sha did was calculate how much of the content are advertising space. The calculation was based on a method devised by Serverdome where they took screenshots of the visible portion of some of the top blogs and counted how much of that was paid space.
In the article, Sha asks “Does it mean that the more ads percentage has some correlation with the amount of profit can be gained from monetizing your blog?”
I believe so, but only until a certain point where it will start to get annoying for your readers. Instead of putting more money in your pocket, it’ll drive your visitors away. The level of tolerance as far as the readers are concern would be different from one blog to another of course.
Did You Encounter Any Problem When Trying to Leave A Comment Here?
November 12, 2007 by Gaman · 17 Comments
Technical problem that is… I suspect this happens to everyone who’s trying to leave a comment here. When you tried to leave a comment, did you experience longer than normal delay before your comment appeared?
Or perhaps the post didn’t load properly after posting your comment and you had to manually refresh it.
This question is for those commentators who are pre-approved, and don’t go into moderation process.
Please leave your comment below and tell me if you encounter any problem. I suspect this might have to do with my server security setting which checks for any attempt to compromise the server security.
Note that if this is your first time leaving a comment here, it will be automatically go into moderation.
ShoeMoney Reveals How He Made $132,994.97 From AdSense In a Month
November 8, 2007 by Gaman · 44 Comments
I couldn’t help but felt totally in awe while reading a post over at ShoeMoney.com where he answers several frequently asked questions about the AdSense Check in his Gallery that showed him holding one worth over $100K. Keep in mind that the check was for August 2005.
Sure, it’s a link bait post but a good one at that, so it’s worth linking to. If you are looking for a real life example of publishers making insane amount of money from AdSense, check this one out. Posting the picture again will continue to “resurrect” readers’ interest and certainly create an opportunity for him to promote his sites.
I quote the FAQ in full below:
- What site was it for? What does the site do?
The site is nextpimp. The name was kind of a joke at first… next-pimp like pimp out your nextel phone. It started as a wallpaper site for nextel phones which grew into ringtones and other stuff. All content is 100% user generated.
