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The average result for the first month is 5-15 visitors per day. Probably the results are not good enough and it gives me the challenge to work more enough to achieve a highest traffic for the second month. Did some research, read articles from the experts and try some new things. Some advice works a lot and it does improve my traffic.

The massive increase that’s being marked are due to dos attack from our hosting sites according to our technical support from which I’ve hosted. I was amazed when I first saw this, a 250+ hits not bad on my part. But everything goes back to normal the next day. The Last 3 days was bit a big increase because of entrecard and stumbleupon.

According to Google Analytics this we’re the source of my traffic. Entrecard really helps a lot as well as Stumbleupon . Probably the third part “direct”came from the blogs where I leave some comments, friends and fans, or somewhere else that I didn’t know. Blocatalog and mybloglog doesn’t do well.

Affiliate Article II by James Martell

Learn How ROI Rocket
Levels the Playing Field with Advertisers and How This Can Help You and Your Online
Business

Coffee
Talk with Matt Frary from ROIRocket.com

Listen below to what Matt Frary, President of ROI Rocket Inc., as he explains
to James
Martell, a successful affiliate marketer and natural search expert about how
he and his partners started as affiliates and achieved the kind of success needed
to expand and eventually buy their merchants out.

You can also learn how Frary and his team at ROI support affiliate marketers
by connecting them with hand-picked merchants within the Fortune 500 arena and beyond,
while providing affiliates with support services including affiliate managers, images,
tracking, and much more.

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Now you’ve notice that I’m running now an EntreCard on my blog. After reading some feedbacks, it turn out that this thing would be a promising way to promote your blog. EntreCard is like an internet business card.

It comes with a widget to be place on your blog. Their whole system runs on a credit system, it means you need to earn (you cannot buy them) Entrecard Credits to buy ads on other blogs. Credits could be earn every time someone leaves you a card, someone buys placement for their card on your blog, and by visiting other blogs that are Entrecard members and click the “drop yours” button on their Entrecard widgets.

Below is the screenshot from my dashboard. As of the moment it cost 12 credits a day to advertise on my blog.

Affiliate Article I by James Martell

If You Could Work
From Anywhere in the World, Where Would it Be?

Coffee
Talk with Chris Sanderson from AMWSO.com

You already know that James and wife Arlene travel frequently and believe strongly in taking regular break-ations, but did you know that they are looking at taking their affiliate business on the road for six months a year?

Looking to “see more of the planet,” James talks to Chris, who runs AMWSO: Affiliate
Program Management Services mostly from his home, utilizing his downtown office
space just about five percent of the time, and the two discuss how he went from
being an older teen in England to traveling throughout North America, then working
in Denmark and Sweden for four years, afterward applying for jobs in Japan, Hungary
(from where he couldn’t even read the potential employer’s reply to his application),
and Asia, and how he finally landed in Thailand just five days after the 1992 coup.

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How much a domain name worth? Domain name defines your identity or your company’s business online. If your planning to buy a domain name and have plans to sell it in the near future , try to take a look at this domain names sold for more than their original cost. Domain name can be sold for huge amount of money, if you have the right domain name and at the right time.

Domain who almost made the list:

Altavista.com(sold for $3.25-3.3 million in 1999), Loans.com (sold for $3 million in 2000), Vodka.com (sold for $3 million in 2006), Wine.com (sold for $2.9 million in September 1999), Creditcards.com (soldfor $2.75 million in July 2004).

And zhanzuo.com is on negotation with Facebook for $85 million this year.

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Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to start your business. You can either use it as a stepping-stone to build up income to start your business, or you can supplement your income from an established enterprise. You can even expand your affiliate marketing in such a way that you can earn a full time income from it.

Affiliate marketing has other advantages. It can be a good learning tool. Good affiliate programs will not leave their affiliates high and dry; they will provide good tools and advice to get them started. As a new entrepreneur you will be able to learn the basics of marketing for free. Plus get a good idea of how to write good sales copy from their promotional material. This will help you get a good start for any business you need to engage in.

One of the cardinal rules of Affiliate marketing is to stick with one program and not flit like a butterfly from one program to another before you have had time to test and learn about it carefully. Work a program for at least one month before you quit. By that time you may even be making money from the program. After one month add another program, test it and then move on to the next program. In this way you will gain experience and build up your income. Choose your programs wisely, so that you can get maximum benefits from them. Learning and earning is what you are looking for.

These are just a few reasons to join affiliate programs. These programs are only as good as the work you put into them. You can either just earn a little money with minimum investment of time and money or you can earn a comfortable living by doing whatever it takes to succeed. It is all up to you.

Now that you’re considering opening your own affiliate marketing website, you have to pick a product to sell. There is more to it then just writing snappy articles and providing a link at the bottom of the page. Knowing how to market your articles will go a long way in determining if your site is a success or a failure.

In the process of picking out a product, don’t be afraid to go “niche.” What that means, essentially, is don’t worry about picking an item that may only appeal to a small number of people. If you pick something like televisions or books, people can go down to their local Best Buy or Barnes and Noble and get those items. If you deal with a company that most people don’t have in their towns like L.L. Bean or Tower Records, people will be more likely to shop with your affiliate site because of the prestige of those companies. People can get a pair of boots or a CD anywhere, but getting those items from those stores is extra special.

Make sure your content relates to the demographic your after. If you’re selling life insurance, you probably want to have content that is going to connect with older folks, not the skateboarding crowd. And this advice goes the other way, too. If you’re selling skateboards, make sure your content is going to appeal to that generation. You wouldn’t want your content to read like an ad for life insurance. Of course, there are some products, like books and CDs, that cross generations, but you can still write your content so it aims at a particular audience. This is the other side of “niche marketing;” making sure that your content is written for exactly the people you want to buy from you.

Niche marketing can be a hard skill to master. Most people want to create a broad affiliate marketing site that doesn’t have a lot of focus so that it appeals to the most people. While this is tempting, you can be left with a site that appeals to no one at all. By zeroing in on the group most likely to buy the product you sell on your site, you can lock yourself into a niche market and, chances are, your sales will explode.

Simple website design is a vastly underestimated tool in a web designer/marketers arsenal.

Keeping a web page simple and uncluttered has benefits on both aesthetic and practical levels. The rise of interactive Web 2.0 sites, the need for endless plug-ins and add-ons can often deter less experienced users from a site before they have the chance to make use of anything it has to offer, so it is always important to think of you target demographic before deciding how to go about constructing your site. If your site relies on returning traffic it may be worth incorporating related features, but if your site is more angled towards one-off visitors it is more worth your while keeping the site fast and intuitive to use.

Maintaining an aesthetically simple and effective site can be achieved by ensuring your pages are uncluttered, your colour schemes are easy on the eye and your navigation is intuitive. Background tools such as CSS can help you acheive this.
The advantages of this sort of thinking in web design includes better accessibility and site recognition which will help visitors easily identify your site and also allow them to access information and services quickly and easily. Put simply, fast and easy to read websites will help retain traffic at your site.

If you have a number of related sites, maintaining a similar design scheme can help visitors to recognise your sites more easily. Familiarity and trust in your sites can help to increase the numbers of returning visitors. It will also make the actual design and construction of these websites easier and quicker with the possibility of sharing resources such as images, templates, forms and style sheets.

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Now I’m doing my tagged assignment . Been tagged by fellow blogger Ivy. Now I’m telling some things you don’t know about me.

1. I love my high school days compared to college. High school days are more exciting and thrill. Lots of crazy things happend, been to principal’s office on the first day of school. And ask me to bring my parents the next day .

2. I love dogs a lot. Rottweiler is my breed choice especially a built like “Akino von der Lauterbrucke” oh!!!! my …. his a great dog. One of my dreams……wish my babies could produced a litter like him. Just want to share Akino’s Photo.

3. I prefer Linux than Microsoft but my current desktop operating system is a Windows XP professional .

4. I’m an avid fan of Dennis Rodman not because of his colorful hair, but the way he play inside the court.

5. I love to watch anime . Me and my daughter like Sakuragi from the anime titled “Slamdunk”, she even sometimes called me sakuragi .

6. I like Vin Diesel a lot even if there are rumors that his a member of the third sex society.

7. I meet my wife online, thanks to DALnet IRC Network.

I’m passing this to ghee and julia.

Before rushing out on buying your own domain. It would be nice to think first or analyze what would be the proper domain for you. Just like a person it requires a name to have its own identity in the world, the same as your website to have its own identity in the net. The website domain name should be easy to remembered by anyone. If web sites keep its domain name altering frequently, it becomes difficult for the visitors to remember a domain name that is not easily spoken in words and relocate it.

Choose a unique name for your domain.

If you plan to choose a unique domain name like “sop” or “kthxs” a great chances of getting a short domain. As a rule a good domain name has under 15 characters. Domain name can be length up to 67 characters. And to think you don’t need to use a 67 character domain for your site. Some says shorter domain are easier to remember, easier to type and far less susceptible to mistakes.

Ranking.

To improve the ranking in the indexes and other lists of sites, it would be a good idea to choose a domain name that starts with “a” or “b”, or even better, with a number example. “143dog.com”, “allaboutrhyan.com”, “autoindex.net”.

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Let’s just set aside the techies, tips and niche talk for now and talk things which I like. Probably not all of us likes or appreciates the world of wrestling WWE to be specific. Some says it’s a scripted thing which all players are just acting to entertain their avid audience/fans. But let’s face it wrestling is one of the greatest sports if your into contact sports. During our childhood days where Hulk Hogan, Ulitimate Warrior, Undertaker and many more conquer the ring of WWE. Lot’s of wrestlers entertain us and some of them get hurt or injured by accidents. Some maybe get bored of watching it, like most people says “you can’t please everybody”. Other WWE superstars conquer the big scene or Hollywood like Hulk Hogan, The Rock and my favorite John Cena.

There are only few whom I like most John Cena, Batista and The Undertaker. I really don’t mind if Batista and Undertaker will face in the Survivor Series or any other match events. Whether Batista will execute his “batista bomb” or Undertaker will use his “chokeslam, Tombstone and Last Ride” that would be a great match-up. John Cena is also considered to be great especially when he do an entrance. I like his match up against The Edge before. He seems to small compare to most of his opponents considering his a 6 foot 1. I’m a WWE fan and I’m not sure if you’re also. Contact sports like Wrestling, Boxing, UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) is more fun to watch, It’s full of thrill and excitement. Not only you will entertain, you will also learn some tricks or techniques to defend yourself.

When we talk about server, the first thing came into our mind would be a computer or a devices that manages the whole network resources. Server are most often dedicated or multi processing operating systems. Examples are: file server which is dedicated in storing files. A web server which serves static content to a web browser by loading a file from a disk and serving it across the network, and a database server that processes database queries. How safe is your server? Are your server free from unauthorized users? You may want to double-check. This kind of questions is very important when we’re talking about servers. To make it simple, we need a security to make this things up. A Firewall which is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access from a private network.

According to security researcher David Litchfield, there are nearly half a million database servers have no firewall protection. Litchfield took a look over 1 million randomly generated Internet Protocol (IP), checking them if he can access them on the IP ports reserved for Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database. He found out 157 SQL servers and 53 Oracle servers. Litchfield estimates approximately 368,000 Microsoft SQL servers and 124,000 Oracle database servers directly accessible on the internet. Imagine how many data are at risks. Litchfield says on his interview. “I think it’s terrible, We all run around like headless chickens following these data breach headlines…organizations out there really don’t care. Why are all these sites hanging out there without the protection of a firewall?”. The security research wasn’t sure why Oracle’s numbers decreases while Microsoft’s had risen. Another disturbing finding of Litchfield 2007 survey is many of these unprotected database are also unpatched.

Via: CIO

In today’s highly competitive internet universe, the importance of attracting highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be overemphasized. Routing web traffic to your site can be your only means of survival, especially in the cutthroat world of ecommerce. Getting a high search engine ranking can be very difficult. Fortunately, there is plethora of website promotion strategies you can use to drive traffic to your website.

There is a wide variety of strategies you can adapt, from paid advertising to affiliate marketing. However, most of these techniques require payment. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use, and they can be very effective. How, you may ask, can writing articles help improve your web traffic? Here are the top seven ways in which it can help explode your business.

1.Reach more people

When you write good articles, it would be a shame not to share them with other people. You can post your articles in your website or you can submit them to other sites such as e-zines and online publishers. By submitting your articles to these sites, you give exposure not only to your ideas but also to your website. Simply include a link back to your site or include your information in the resource box. With this, you get exposure and free advertising as well. Submit your articles to popular e-zines and take advantage of their popularity. Other sites who find your article relevant may also link back to you. Thus, you increase your link popularity, which is one of the most important strategies in the internet world. Remember that most people are looking for information online and by filling this need with your quality article; you may reap the benefit of more exposure and higher web traffic.

2.Free Advertising

Submitting your articles to other websites presents an opportunity to advertise your website without paying exorbitant fees. Although you should avoid marketing language in your articles and make it informative and useful to your readers, you can always include your site’s link in the resource box. In addition, by making your article relevant and helpful to your readers, you are making a good impression for your website, which could ultimately lead to a visit and hopefully a purchase. Good quality content in an article is far better and more effective than a few lines of ad space. You have a very special opportunity to presell your product or service to your prospective customer.

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Is it time to let go or should you still wanna keep it? You’re here, She’s there. In this modern technology stage, Long Distance Relationship are common. Some begin their relationship already far from each other, which starts from textmate, chatmate or email buddy. While others are physically together until one of them has to leave for some reasons.

When your in a long distance relationship you might notice that there aren’t people on your side. Keep this in mind, face to face relationship are already difficult, what more than a thousand miles away. There are lots of cons in a long distance relationship like high phone bills, cheating and no sex. If you go to a long distance relationship, then go for it. Whether you end up or not it’s your choice.

Some tips to communicate without having a huge phone bills. Using modern technology to your advantage.

Chat through messaging software. Like Yahoo Messenger, Windows Messenger, Google Talk, Mirc and many more. Some of it has a SMS (short message service often called text messaging) capabilities. Reach him even though his mobile phone. And some has Voice message services, try to leave some sweet or kinky messages to him.

Email. Short for electronic mail. Snail mail are more romantic, but email is commonly use nowadays and it’s more faster.

Sign up for skype (skype.com) or any other internet telephony. Just an easy installation and configuration for you to hear your love one’s clear voice. Skype is free to other people on skype and cheaper to phones and mobile around the globe.

Cheap calling rates. Find out when your telephone provider cuts the calling rates or some promo. Always be updated to them.

Post some photos. Posting some photo’s on the web is one of the easiest way to let your partner know how you are at present. Sign up on some social network like Friendster, Myspace and many more. Or try some online photo management and sharing applications like flickr.

Use some prepaid cards. Prepaid cards not only offers good rates but it also helps you budget your calls.

Use a webcam. It’s not a new thing. But its one of the great way for communication. Web chat ads a little flavor in chatting as you are able to see the one you are talking to, making it more fun.