News for March 2009

Spam Comment. How to …

If you like me, whos has a blog exposed very hard to spammer, sure it wis a boring task to delete all the spam comments.

Maybe for 1st month, you can tolerate with those spammers. You go through every comments inside your spam comment’s folder. 

Sound like you ?

But then, you realise, almost the comments inside the spam folder are really a spam comment.

Comments like "Awesome template, where you got it?" repeatedly sucked inside your spam folder. At last, you decide to hit the button "delete all". Easy….

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But how sure are you that the comments are really a spam comment ?

Here are some tips to detect the kind of that comment.

1. Username is not a username

Can you differiciate between a username of "Make Money Online" and "Johan Chow" ?
Which one do you think is a username?

Most of the time, spammers used a keyword to make a comment. This happen for most of do follow’s blog like mine.

The more comments there successfully penetrate inside the blog, the highest the backlinks there get.

 

2. Email 

If your commenters really sincire to give a comment, it should not a problem for them to give a real email. At least, look like real.

if the email used is like "2jasd9@sdaffuijh89123.com" then it is a spam comment. 

 

3. The comment

Your post was about a healthy lifestyle but you got a comment like;

"Nice template" .

That are the 3 tips from me. Actually, what I am trying to say is, whicever techniques you tried to get rid of the spammers, they always come with something more powerful.

PS : For wordpress users, use Akismet !

 

Edited: March 24th, 2009

How to get blog’s idea ?

Yesterday, I went to Kinokuniya bookstore at KLCC. What a hectic day.

So many book. I went from section to another section. Looking for interesting book. Actually, I didn’t look for any book. It was just my new hobby to visit any nearby bookstore.

When I was at bookstore, what I looked, was not the book’s  title only. I also looking for its cover design and how the presentation being made. It gave me new idea on how do I blog.

A second before I went out from the bookstore, ideas triggered. I was looking for one specific book. I wen from category to another category and, bump…the idea came in.

It happen when I suddenly got the answer for one of the question emailed to me.

"Where to get the blog’s idea ?"

One of the answer is, BOOKSTORE. Yes it is. If you don’t have idea on what o blog. Why don’t you go to the nearby bookstore?

How its work? If you really don’t have the idea, why don’t you use categories as your niche. I mean, most of the bookstore out there, categorize the books into their categories. As example, War & History. You can write a blog talking about history, war or even both of it.

What to write?

Don’t worry. Write about the book you found on that categories. You can write the summaries or even a preview on what is written on the book.

Get the idea?

Nah, I hope your  "What to blog" problem will be solve with this idea.

PS : Inspiring Business Quotes

Edited: March 15th, 2009

Another scammer, selangor2u.com j/k

Almost every evening is raining at my place, Perak, Malaysia. I always want to get back to see my mom and dad. Really miss them. But financially, I could not make it happen.

This is another hard time for me. 

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I went to selangor2u.com. I thought it just another "make money online" website. Well, yes it was. It was a blog talking about how to do this and that to earn bucks. Sound pretty good huh?

But yesterday, when I came to the blog again, I  checked my browser again, to see whether the URL is correct (I remember this website since I was the owner before I sold it). Well, why I said that, it is because, the content is totally not selangor2u.com that I know before.

Its took me to be on the website for almost 2 hours, reading all the articles there. Really informative, from sports, entertainment to current issue, all are there. 

Hey selangor2u.com are you going to be news website or what ?

I bet you must have heard about "13 years old kid being a father" right? I know the stories from selangor2u.com. Hurm, pretty informative. At that time, I thought the owner just want to write something, but actually selangor2u.com had changed his niche.

Good luck selangor2u.com on this niche.

PS: A little complain to selangor2u.com. :)
Your blog quite confusing. In harsh words, messy.

~gambate selangor2u.com

 

Edited: March 8th, 2009

7 days to blogging success : Day 7 | Build the Benefits of Your Blog

Build the Benefits of Your Blog

 

Blogging has many benefits, among them more publicity for your business, more hits for your company web site, and a better public image. However, these benefits will not automatically come to every blogger. You must work in order to build these advantages in your blog.

 

Step One: Make your blog a better publicity machine.

 

If you want to make your blog a publicity-boosting machine, you will have to make sure that you work at making your blog a marketing tool rather than a personal expression:

 

Offer something for the media. Offering free articles that web users can reprint elsewhere and offering media kits can help make it easier for the media and other online users to generate publicity.

 

Add pictures and ads to your blog that can promote your company. Small banner ads or promotions can let readers know what you are offering without bogging down your blog with sales copy.

 

Do not be afraid to enthuse about your company. You can easily talk about your business without sounding like an annoying salesperson. For example, note the challenges you faced to start a new project or service in your business – this will help sell the new division or service without sounding too pushy.

 

Step Two: Create more hits

 

Some experts claim that many new blogs are created each second of the day. The sheer number of blogs makes it unlikely that others will find you unless you encourage hits:

 

Link from your website to your blog for easy access. Also, include your blog’s address on your business cards and letterhead, along with your email address and your web site address.

 

Offer incentives for reading. Whether it is a blog-readers-only contest with a great prize or a free ebook for blog readers, offering incentives is a great way to generate hits – and to please customers. Plus, you will get a sense from the responses how many readers you have.

 

Write and speak about your blog. Whether you are writing an article or giving a speech, you can mention your company blog as a place to get more information about your business.

 

Offer a newsletter. Many blog writers offer a newsletter to readers. This newsletter lets readers know when an update has been added – and ensures that the blog stays fresh in readers’ minds. It can also be a good way to keep track of how many readers a blog has and can be a good way to add more value-added content.

 

Offer an RSS feed of your blog. Most blog software today does this, and it allows your blog to be “syndicated” in other online areas and often to cell phones, increasing your exposure and creating more readers.

Edited: March 6th, 2009

Seminar F2R and Arbitrage

  According to wikipedia, arbitrage is 

 

Edited: March 3rd, 2009