Archive for January, 2010

Web hosting promotion

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Below is the current web hosting promotion (look at the date). If the date is too old, perhaps the promotion is not available anymore.

Godaddy Promotion – international web hosting [26 Jan 10]

  • USD1.99 for .com (if you buy any hosting package)
  • USD0.89 for .info (for the first year only)

Fivio Promotion [22 Jan 10]

Exabytes Promotion [22 Jan 10]

  • Dedicated server RM350 monthly
  • 30 % discount for Ebiz web hosting
  • go to Exabytes promotion

Wawwi minisite web hosting

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Although there are a lot of web hosting available in Malaysia, Wawwi is one of the web hosting that you need to consider especially for internet marketer. Why? This is because Wawwi provides DIY minisites that available for USD 36.

For those who don’t know, minisite is a site that sell products. Some called it as sell pages. One way to identify minisite is a site that contain one long page. At the page, the internet marketer will try to provide adequate information and convince readers so that it will convert into sells.

Although you can still sell your products in your blog, a lot of internet marketer claims that minisite has higher conversion rates than normal blog. Opposite from normal blog, the sole reason for minisite is actually to make money by selling products or services compare to displaying advertisements such as Google Adsense.

Minisite looks easy to be done but you still need to have certain programming skills in PHP, HTML and CSS. This is because minisite always contain order form in it (how do you want to sell product if there no payment form). If you are really in hurry and do not have much time to learn programming, Wawwi might be the best choice to get instance minisite and then you focus all of yourself into marketing the product.

12 ways to get idea for your blog post

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

idea for blog post

Sometimes it is a hard task to get the idea for your blog post. So, below are a few ways that you can do in order to find the idea for your blog post.

Advertisements

Advertisement especially Google Ads can be seen in a lot of websites or blogs. Sometimes certain advertisements can give you an idea for blog post. Furthermore, posting based on ads that appear will likely to make the ads appear in your blog post too. Ads that relevant to a blog post always increase click through.

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From a blog to newspaper company

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

I used to think that a blog is just a mere blog. Nothing more than that. However, once I think carefully, I know that blogging is one of the easiest way to open a newspaper company.

Let start from the beginning. At first, you buy a domain name and hosting for blogging. The hard part is when you need to post something related to the niche that you choose. If you really master in the niche, that’s OK. But if you lack in knowledge, of course you need to gather it by reading other people blogs and website. Lastly, what you will have on your blog is just spin articles that come from other people ideas.

Although your blog is not great enough, lucky because you still have readers that come from search engines and subscribers. Thanks for Google and loyal readers, now you (more…)

Top Malaysian Web Developer

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

I rarely heard about Malaysian that expertise in open source development. That’s why I am quite shocked when I know that JomComment developer is a Malaysian. For those who do not know, JomComment is a commenting system plugin for Joomla.

By default, Joomla does not have built in commenting system. And commenting system that available for free is not good enough. I always get spam comment by using free comment plugin. In contrast to those commenting systems, JomComment has better features. Besides its good design, a lot of Joomla user is willing to pay for JomComment because it reduces spam greatly. (more…)

Most popular blog host

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

What is blog

Actually the term blog comes from weblog. And the term weblog comes from web log. A web log is a placed for you to log your journey or experience or anything. Kinda like online diary.

Is blog important?

  • Decades ago, people blog for fun. However, the number of blog increase after Google publish advertisement service that is Google Adsense. Internet user see this oppurtunity as a way for them to generate extra income. Not just extra income, you can also make a living from blogging. Yes, this is true since there are full time bloggers that generate more than thousand dollars per month from blogging.
  • However, there are still  a lot of people that use blog as an online diary. They talk about their development and many things regarding their live. (more…)

Miss schedule in worpress 2.9

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

After upgrading to version 2.9 of Wordpress, I realized that the posts that I scheduled will have miss schedule issue. Lucky because there is a temporary fix for this issue.

By using ‘Miss In Action‘ plugin, you do not need to worry about miss schedule anymore because this plugin will make sure that your post is published at the same time with the schedule.

Another way is by going to your Wordpress installation folder and go to wp-includes/cron.php.

Change the 0.01 from the code below to 1.

wp_remote_post( $cron_url, array(‘timeout’ => 0.01, ‘blocking’ => false, ’sslverify’ => apply_filters(‘https_local_ssl_verify’, true)) );

I hope Wordpress is finding solution for the permanent fix of this issue.

Canonical URL solved duplicate contents issue

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Sometimes, web spiders or crawlers that index your site can index your site by using a few different URL. This will lead to duplicate contents issue since the spiders will assume that both of the URLs are different pages although they are actually the same.

Canonical URL is actually a tag that is put in the header section that contain the link of the real page. Due to canonical URL tag, spiders could know whether a page is the real URL or just another alternate URL. If the spiders reach a page through alternate URL, all of related info and link juice from the alternate URL will be passed to the real URL that contain inside the canonical URL tag.

To use canonical url, you just need to insert the code below inside HTML header. (more…)

Beware with free domain at co.cc

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I used to think that Co.cc is the best site to get free domain, but it seems I didn’t do adequate research.

One of my domain that use Co.cc services is hartaweb.co.cc. After a year, the domain couldn’t be accesed. So I opened my Co.cc account to check for error. I was surprised because I was asked to pay USD 3, USD 5, USD 7 and USD 9 to renew the domain for one, two, three or four years respectively.

co-cc-is-not-free-domain

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Free Hosting versus Paid Hosting

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

I like to explore the related forums that discuss about website and I often hear people ask,  “which one is the best free hosting services…?”

For your information, I also fall into this problem before. The confusion on which one should I choose whether to buy pay-hosting, free hosting or blogging from blogspot only. At that time I just use free hosting, but I don’t recommend you all to use it. 000webhost.com is the most favourite free web hosting that I used.  000webhost.com has one of my sites that based on Joomla. Error often occurred when I want to go to Admin part. The worst of all is the server always down and I hate it so much.

Actually, web hosting is not a big deal

From my point of view, I think hosting is not a big problem for someone who just wants to create a blog and share something without any other purpose. If you don’t have any intention to purchase paid hosting, just use any of the free blog service such as blogspot.com or wordpress.com. Again, I’m not recommending you to use free hosting though.

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