I guess many blogger have use this feature to the fullest. For example, John Chow or may be one of my buddy, Nirmal.

He scheduled up everything before he went to his sweetest memory of his life (wedding) and I saw his blog still moving properly although he didn’t take any serious part in the discussion of each blog for 1 month!

Actually I want to do some testing to see what is the result. I am going to use up all my weekend (Saturday) to write 6 pillar posts for next week and I will focus on bringing in more traffic on the next Monday thru Saturday.

I will have the answer next Sunday. If it prove to be able to increase a my stats, I write about my progress into one report/post that you can use to help yourself too.

See ya again!

It’s not limited to blog, actually. Everybody who step their foot on the web will seek for traffic to empower their businesses.
There are more than 7 positive web traffic sources (proved) that you can drive to your blog. Begin from:

1. Search Engine
2. In-Links
3. Niche Forum
4. Ezine Directories
5. Squidoo
6. Blog Comments on Niche Blog
7. StumbleUpon

To drive a search engine traffic, of course you will need to learn the skill to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) your blog. This is probably the most well-known strategy to drive more traffic to your blog since the early launched of Search Engine.

You could learn more about SEO by surfing for content about it out there or buy SEOBook (aff) as your guidance to SEO. SEOBook is a comprehensive book on SEO that teach you from the very basic skills to expert tips to play around your which is authored by a well known expert in SEO industry.

In-links, Niche Forum, Ezine Directories, Squidoo and Blog Comments are traffic that you must seek diligently. You won’t get any link-in if your write a bunch of BS posts and writing at your reader, not to your reader.

In niche forum, you will need to contribute a lot to make yourself visible. And you will need to write a catchy signature file at your bottom of your messages to generate more click-through.

Ezine Directories and Squidoo are actually similar. I post regularly on Ezine Directories and Squidoo to sell my affiliate stuffs. The result is amazing. I’ve reach my $15 a day with them. Of course, all my recommendation is what I’ve tried. Not an empty babbles to scam peoples.

The last one is my favorite one. Stumbleupon has become my greatest tool to rise my visibility since long time ago. Although there are lots of Social Media out there like Digg.com, Sphinn.com, etc. StumbleUpon still excellent in many area.

As your information only. From all of the seven sources, my biggest stream of web traffic is #4 and #7. From them alone have generate me 80% of my income thorough the month.

Although recently I’ve seen some some nice increasing in my organic search result, it still cannot match with the traffic they drove to my blog. So, what traffic are you driving at now? What is the best for you? Tell us in your comment!

You know, it’s pretty interesting to see how we develop our body. I found myself become more bloated then before because of blogging.

I found an interesting post about this topic at moneymakingscoop. He asked whether online business make you fat or not.

Of course, my answer is yes, absolutely.

I have grown my ‘fatness’ around 10 more pounds lately. It’s a shame, but can’t do anything about it because I’ve full-packed my schedules with several hair pulling jobs and only have around 15 minutes a day to do exercises.

heck, I choose to do Simple Yoga which couldn’t burn enough fat in my stomach fat bank!

The result is clear, I gain more fat and I will become a sumo-fighter if I continue to let it for 10 more months!

I guess it’s not about the blogging that make me fat. But it’s myself that cause the fatness on my body. Well, we’d like to ‘always sitting’ in front of PC or Laptop and keep clicking and pouncing keyboards to fill our blog.

We sometimes are too lazy to stand up and do some small stretching before going on a long hours of typing.

There are several part of our body that will bloat as we blog to much. The most visible area is our stomach. I hate it, but really can’t do a thing and continue witnessing the grow of fat in that area.

That’s the area that never get a sufficient exercise. Of course, from all of our body, the most slim part is your blogging fingers!

Working on pouncing everyday, every week, every month. I’m kind of pity of them sometimes.

Well, I need help actually. If you know some tips to remove fat (in a natural way), please kindly email me your tips.

Fatness is not good for our health. Especially for our blood vessels. The more fat you are, the higher the possibility for you to get stroke or other hard to cure diseases.

Please make sure don’t learn my steps. It’s a failure progress that I want to eliminate, including the fat. Make sure to exercise properly, and take an extra care of your stomach and fingers.

My private doctor ask me to take care 3 part that may get a serious syndrome because of too much blogging (sitting and typing for a long time):

1. Eyes
2. Hand
3. Backbone

You eyes will be infected by the light or contrast level of your monitor. Change are, you will get a disease called ‘Floater’. Floater is a disease that every times you look at a bright area, there is a little thread-like or black dots floating around your eyes corner.

It’s not fun and sometimes the floaters are really annoying (I got this disease too actually…). But it’s no harm. Just don’t overuse your eyes to avoid the infection to be worsen.

Hand and backbone are the part that supporting you when blogging. Hand playing on the keyboard while backbone keep supporting your body to sit firmly on your chair.

If you force them to maintain and keep working for a long time, change are your will feel hurt around your shoulder, wrist, etc.

My advise it not to sit for more than 2 hours and should take a rest about half hour before continue your works. Of course, I will take my own advises and will see the result in the upcoming month.

My friend told me about “Health is one of your wealth” and I’m totally agree with him. It’s the most valuable opinion that I’ve ever heard since the last 7 months of my blogging journey.

Health is everything and it’s part of your wealth. If you are chasing for the true wealth on your life, never miss the health as one of your wealth that you must have too!

Cheers!

Global Search Report 2007 give you the detail of 15 countries spreading from Bulgaria, China, Japan, Italy, UK, etc.

This report is the compilation search engine usage and Pay-per-Click Campaign which held in those countries. If your have the desire to target a multilingual (Japan, China, Italy, etc) this report will help you a lot to understand their online habits.

This e-book describe clearly who is the strongest Search Engine in each of the country and what is the prediction on how each Search engine is going to make their moves.

Global Search Report 2007 also give you the estimation of Internet penetration in those countries. It’s a great information for you to know your target country is a web-savvy market or not.

So what is the relation with blogging?

You target a keywords and do SEO, don’t you? It’s pretty useful for to know what is the penetration level of the country that you make as your marketing target.

The wider the penetration, the more user that will online and sometimes it indicated a stronger buying effort online. This especially useful if you are targeting a PPC (adwords, for example) campaign with country selection.

It could help you save money by targeting the right country to invest your bucks and avoid low buying potential countries.

So, what are you waiting for?

Grab this Global Search Report 2007 now!

I have heard about Bumpzee but never heard about Bum Marketing. It make me laugh at first because I interpret it like this:

Bum = Poor People on the Street

Bum Marketing = Market the poor people on the street??

Is that the right meaning? Hmm… Let’s check it out!

So, What is Bum Marketing?

There is nothing special, actually. Bum Marketing is another spin of the classic ‘article marketing’.

If you are beginner to the world of online marketing (like myself), this kind of marketing seems new and interesting. In fact, a lot of web gurus has use it since the first birth of internet.

Bum Marketing is the mastermind of Travis Sago with the name chosen by his wife. why using bum?

My wife (Jeannie) named this the “Bum Marketing Method” because she thinks it is so easy that I could take a bum off the street…take him to the public library…and have him earning cash within a week.

Is that true? Oh, I want to learn more about it now!

So, How Bum Marketing Work?

In a flash, it work like this:

• Find a niche market
• Select the products to promote (around 5 with high pay out products is recommended)
• Brainstorm a keywords for each products
• Research the themes/topics for each keywords
• Write Articles for every keywords - preferable at 350-500 words is enough
• Submit to Squidoo-lens or Article directories
• Begin to reap the results after some time.

Notice that I put ’s’ on every noun above. Why? because you need to do a lot of tasks on every part of it(research products, research keywords, research topics, etc).

You will need to create massive amount of articles for every keywords from the products that you want to promote. It’s tiring wor, but you have no need to think a lot.

I think It is kind of ‘firing thousands of arrow to hit a single prey’ type of marketing strategy.

Positive Side of Bum Marketing

Sure it does have a positive side. If not, people will have eliminate it long time ago. Bum Marketing has a pile of positive effects for a bum, but not for a true blogger.

See for yourself:

• Low / no cost to do
• No need to understand any specialized skills
• Low / risk-free
• No need a present of a Website or Blog or even an email list
• No need to create your own product
• Promising result if you do it like a bum

Negative Side of Bum Marketing

Positive have also accompanied by Negative to balancing the world. So It’s time to look to the ugly face of bum marketing. Although it has a bunch of good benefits for you, Bum Marketing also have a bunch of Negative side:

• You will need to write a lot of articles a day
• It push writer to think in a non-creative ways to produce an article (combining other articles, modifying, etc without touching own idea)
• Bum marketer don’t communicate as good as blogger
• Bum Marketing is a solo play
• Write article with focus to earn money without caring the fact of the product because they need to write quick and earn quick
• Always rush a content out without checking the quality
• Want everything at a quick pace
• No credibility
• etc

It’s my short opinions about bum marketing. I think It’s all the matter of producing a massive amount of articles to promote a single product to increase the conversion rate. My Question is, should blogger do Bum Marketing too? or, blogger already bumming like a crazy now??

It’s been 6 months since my first post, and today I’m having my golden time.

I was just woke up from my bed, and got a surprise from my blog stats. May be today is my lucky day or something, my Stats showing me a huge number of 2000+ Visitors and my Adsense impression is more than 3000 overall!

Here is the picture:

Ow… I was so happy and I couldn’t blink my eyes! My normal impression is around 800 with visitor average on 400.

This stats just so amazing to make me want to share it with you.

Thanks for all of your support, It’s always happy to see stats passing 1000+ and keep rising to 10.000+

Unfortunately, My Adsense performance is not so good in this golden day. From thousands of Impressions, only 17 clicks filtered by Adsense. It generate me about two dollars only. Ow…

This is the lowest income I’ve ever had a day with Adsense.

Well, overall, this is a good start for me to break my 6 months wall of myths this 9th September. Soon, I will be able to smell the fresh wind beyond the wall of myths!

Hope everything going to be fine, and once again, thanks for your support and encouragement. I hope I could write more pillars articles to support your needs.

Have a nice day!

Today, I got a contest that I would like to enter. You know, I personally not so interested in contest. But this GIANT contest assure me to enter and I have no reason to refuse this FANTASTIC PRIZES!

The owner who held this contest is David Airey. David is a Logo Designer who host a logo design blog with his own name at www.davidairey.com.

David held this contest to celebrate his blog first Anniversary. It is a great idea of David to celebrate it with contest. It makes people aware of his blog birthday and creating huge buzz to leverage his blog.

To enter his contest, you will need to read the detail instructions in David’s Contest Post so you can start posting and gather some entries for the contest.

The winners of this contest would be announce at Monday, September 26th. Three bloggers will be award with the following Medal of Honor:

Gold award

The ultimate business blog package:

• Logo design from David Airey. Add a touch of professionalism to your business with one of my logo designs.
• Custom WordPress theme design from Nate Whitehill of Nate Whitehill dot Com. It’s vital to set yourself apart from the crowd, and Nate will help a great deal with your very own custom WordPress theme.
• Personal marketing / advertising plan from Maki of Dosh Dosh. Maki is an expert where blog advertising is concerned, and he is kindly donating his time to help you make the most of your new custom blog.
• One year’s hosting and blog setup from John Boardley of I Love Typography. John has kindly donated his time and will do everything you need to get your new custom blog hosted on one of Media Temple’s dedicated servers.
• Signed copy of Blogging Tips by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress. I bought this book myself, and it contains excellent blogging tips for beginners to pros.

Silver award

• Logo design from Tara Roskell of Graphic Design Blog. You only need to visit Graphic Design Blog to realise that Tara really knows a lot about great design.
• Website critique from Randa Clay of Randa Clay Design. If you want some expert advice on how to improve your website design, you won’t be disappointed by this offering.
• One hour SEO consultation with Lyndon Antcliff of Cornwall SEO. Lyndon will conduct a Skype consultation with the winner of this prize, and he comes highly recommended for search engine optimisation and linkbaiting.
• $60 of books from Amazon courtesy of Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. Is there a book you’ve been meaning to buy on Amazon? How about getting it free? A great donation from a professional blogger.

Bronze award

• Logo / blog header design from Jonathan-C. Phillips of Smart Wealthy Rich. Jonathan has donated his expert skills to help your blog stand out from the crowd.
• One hour blog optimization consultation with Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips. This consultation will cover design, SEO, monetization and blogging strategy, from the author of one of blogging’s most useful resources.
• Revolution Premium WordPress theme package (personal package) from Brian Gardner, WordPress designer and consultant. Brian’s WordPress skills are second to none.
• Blog review and email interview published on Make It Great! with Phil Gerbyshak. The man to ‘make it great’ will critique your blog and feature you on his very own PR5 blog.

Bonus prizes

Another 23 bloggers will get the following nice prizes. It’s a bonus prizes. It’s not that amazing than the previous 3 awards, but it’s enough for you to feel good for the entire day!

The following prizes will be drawn individually.

Podcasting kit

• Behringer Podcastudio USB Podcasting Kit, kindly donated by Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog. Looking for a new way to express yourself? Ever wanted to be a famous producer? Then podcasting is the answer and the BEHRINGER PODCASTUDIO USB bundle has all you need to make high-quality podcasts and home recordings.

Free money

• $25 via PayPal courtesy of Gayla McCord of Mom Gadget. Free money! Who doesn’t want free money? Very kind of you Gayla.

USB storage keys

• 2GB USB storage key x 3 courtesy of Jamie Clague at Terinea Weblog. Three USB sticks will make up three separate prizes, with free worldwide postage. Jamie, Edinburgh Computer Services, has also kindly donated his valuable time to helping with the prize draw administration.

Blog reviews and design help

• Full blog review with deep links and images published on Blog-Op with Chris Lodge. Chris knows how to piece together an excellent blog review, giving you an added insight into the impression your website is giving.
• Blog review from Aaron Russell of miLienzo. Aaron has been coding WordPress themes for a while now and certainly knows his stuff where blog design is concerned.
• Expert WordPress blog help from Lakshmi Mareddy of Chilligavva. Have you ever had any ideas for your blog that you haven’t been able to incorporate? Lakshmi has kindly agreed to offer her WordPress skills, helping you out with either code or graphics.
• Blog review from Hock Ng of Marketing Tools Review. Hock will focus his review on your blog content, design, SEO and usability.
• Blog makeover from Charles Jordan of The Queer Chef. Charles is proficient with design for the Blogger platform, and can also design WordPress. He’ll tantalise your taste buds with one of his blog makeovers.

Telephone and Skype consultations

• Blog writing consultation with Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog. Ben has offered his expertise to review 3–5 of your articles, providing tips and giving suggestions on writing, plus a quick guide to social media and how you can benefit from it.
• Two 45 minute coaching consultations with Mark McGuinness of Wishful Thinking. Mark specialises in coaching creative professionals, and is a real expert in his field. The first session will involve goal setting, with the second session reporting on progress and making adjustments.
• 4 hour business growth consultation with Rebecca Caroe, via telephone / Skype, or face-to-face in London / Cambridge. Rebecca is a business growth consultant for creative agencies, so if you’re looking to expand your company then this is the prize for you. If you want Rebecca to visit your offices simply pay her travel expenses.
• Tele-Coaching with Tammy Lenski. A one-hour, private telephone consult with professional mediator and conflict coach Tammy Lenski. Figure out how to deal with a challenging client, strengthen your contract negotiations, or confront difficult conversations with more confidence and success. Free call within the U.S., via Skype outside the U.S.
• One hour product launch consultation with Design Translator (DT) of Design Sojourn. Whether you’re launching a line of t-shirts, custom furniture, electronics, or any other product, DT will lend you his product launch expertise.
• Blog improvement or monetization advice with Easton Ellsworth of Business Blogwire. You choose, do you want to generally improve your blog or do you want help making money from it? Easton has kindly offered his help.

Art and literature

• Two premium quality books designed and produced by David Hyde of david the designer. John Hinchcliffe, internationally acclaimed designer-maker, is the subject of the richly illustrated first of two quality books. Crafts in the 20th Century is the second book kindly donated by David.
• Copy of Brand Aid by Brad VanAuken of The Blake Project. Brand Aid is a practical how-to guide on building winning brands. Derrick Daye was kind enough to offer this great prize.
• Watercolour print from Ed Roach Watercolours. Ed has quite a talent, and will graciously ship your favourite print from his watercolour studio.

Online advertising

• 728px by 90px banner ad for 30 days above the fold on The Blog Experiment, courtesy of Sara. This is quite a new forum for bloggers, but already there are approximately 5,000 posts! You must supply your own artwork.
• 125px by 125px image ad for 30 days on Smart Wealthy Rich. An excellent donation from top blogger, Jonathan.
• Ad icon located site-wide in the top left of Blog-Op, courtesy of Chris Lodge. Another kind gift from a fellow blogger in Scotland.
• 30 day text link ad shown site-wide on Contest Blogger. This is a great way to advertise your very own blog contest. Blogging is about giving something back, so get your contest featured.
• 125px by 125px image ad for 30 days on Freelance Folder. Another superb offering from Jonathan a.k.a Smart Wealthy Rich.

Forum membership

• Lifetime membership to the paid membership site that Andy Beard, WordPress SEO and Niche Marketer, will launch on Andybeard.eu (eta and value yet to be determined). If the prize winner already qualifies for membership (some people will), then Andy will kindly come up with an alternative prize.

Good luck!

To tell you the truth, I didn’t know any friendship day exist in the calendar and have never learned about friendship day before. What a outdate person am I!

I’m really happy for this kind of celebration is actually exist in this world. It make me remind of my past experiences with my friends, and remembered my forgotten Friends.

Oh well, since today is a Friendship Day, I’m going to wish a “Happy Friendship Day!” to all of my friends who love and care about me.

I need to mention some of my Indian Friends because I got this wishes from them. They are my friends and they are my biggest supporter in my blogging history:

• Ashish Mohta
• Ariel Garcia
• Benedict Herold
• Shankar Ganesh
• Mayank Gupta
• Nirmal
• Rishi Raj
• Dj Flush
• Thilak
• Joel
• Sankar Anand
• Hans
• Santaram
• Listikal

I don’t care it’s India’s Friendship day or International Celebration. I will also name some of my great Friends across the world. It’s my greatest gift to have you all to be my friends and hope our friendship’s will never end.

• Kuanhoong
• Pearl
• Jamy
• Nirmal
• Chee Kui
• Maris
• Ray Dotson
• Andy
• Sunny
• Myo Kyaw Htun
• Char
• Rex Dixon
• Paul
• Blog Cave Owner
• Victors (webetur.com)

Thanks all!

Please have a nice day!

Hello again!

I’m sorry to not updating my blog for 2 days. My Computer operating system’s going nuts and not making any respond yesterday. I had to fixed it myself because technician is not doing offline business on sunday here!

I use this chance to upgrade my OS too! Microsoft Vista ultimate edition has become my first choice. Since the only hardware that have no compatible driver is resolved now, it’s time for me to make a big leap ahead to own and use it everyday!

I spent almost $200 buying OS and software. Almost spending all earning of my monthly online income!!!

I still need to upgrade my RAM. I found some slow down after upgrade to vista. Oh, another spending…

Well, I hope vista will make things different. Oh, well. No need to hear me whining anymore.

I will award my all top commentators with this link love in exchange for the sunday review:

1. Jamy and her latest post: 4 blog that convince you that you should be yourself!
2. Pearl and her latest post: Make a decision and Stick with it!
3. Benedict Herold and his latest post: Transform your blog into PodCast using autocasting
4. Kuanhoong and his latest post: Triller Videos
5. Shankar Ganesh and his latest post: 3 windows Vista Theme for Windows XP
6. Nirmal and his latest post: Exploring Murdeshwar
7. Chee Kui and his latest post: MyDeathSpace for the Deceased
8. Myo Kyaw Htun and his latest post: Make your Post Available for PDF Version with Web2PDF online

Ok, everybody share the sweet now. What’s next?

I have a new focus schedule (except Sunday-off). I’ve got many advises from my kind heart bloggers. They ask me to at least let myself off at Sunday. I valued their opinions and applying it directly on my schedule.

The result is, I will take a Real off, No touch to computer and make sure to make my day enjoyable and cleaning my mind from the monday-to-saturday rubbish of thoughts.

It is an important steps to fight blogger’s block. Since the block comes frequently, a “clean and clear” mind will help a lot!

I will cover up my 4 pillars and the money subject form monday to friday. I couldn’t post at saturday because I have a scheduled appointment at AskKen Corner. You may visit me if you like.

Interested to follow my blog post? Consider to subscribe to my feed. This blog will make 5-7 posts a week. I won’t stuffed and overloaded your brain. Just a compact information to help you blogging for a better day.