Rice Blogger

This is your opportunity to grab some nice name for Ymail.com and Rocketmail.com.  Rocketmail just remind me of the older days. I have them but did not maintain them and was deleted already. I still remember having type username.rm in order to log into my yahoo mail account with my rocketmail.com address.

I have manage to register my name and one other good name. I don’t find the point registering a lot of username but I tend to do that a lot previously. If your name is very common, and you would like your email like andrewsmith@ymail.com (it is gone by the way).

Register Ymail or Rocketmail here

I am usually delighted to see comment when I enter into my dashboard, as it is always good to hear others opinion or feedback regarding a post. But with Top Commentator WordPress Plugin installed, there will be someone out there who take advantage of this in the wrong manner. Lucky for blogger who use wordpress, it takes less than a minute to moderate most of my comments each day.

Personally, I would not approve some comments base on some criteria:-

Keyword as the Name – This are the type of comment I would take note. I do not flag out all keyword, but if their comment are short and meaningless. This would go to either my trash or spam. Sometime, I would just remove the website url.

Commenting Time – Yes, we could see the time. If you comment too fast and short, the chances you are here to only look for a link.

Commenting with different URL – This is what I have seen recently, someone who came into my blog and comment in few post but with different url (same domain). We could see your IP as well even if you use a different name.

URL for porn, scam or illegal downloads – This would go into spam immediately even if your comment looks great.

Have you encounter any funny comments? How did you manage them?

I am currently doing a Internet Marketing plan for my friend mainly for the experience, and I am not earning anything from this. But the good thing is that I have some budget to play with. I am able to try my Internet Marketing skills on a real business.

His business is mainly focus on electronics dropshippers and he is doing quite well in Hong Kong. Two different methods have been used for the current Internet Marketing. Adwords and directory submission.

I would actually advise people to choose the currency with USD during the signup of their adwords because you would not be able to alter it later. I am bidding with HKD and it always seems high to bid because their currency is much smaller.

Also, you will not be able to see the advertisements since it is currently only targeting at certain countries. It is effective because you will not spend money advertising on countries that are not buying your products/services.

The main things I set in this campaign setting are the “Networks section” and “Target Audience”. If you only want people to see your advertisements on Google Search, uncheck others so that you will not see your advertisements on blogs, and other search network.

Changing the location is very good because you could set different budget for different location.

I have actually registered with Woopra a while ago and they also took some time to approve my websites and blogs to use Woopra Live Web Statistics. Woopra will really bring the Web Statistics to a whole new level and I am pretty sure that the consumption on their server is high on this kind of statistics.

The interface of Woopra looks very neat and navigation is very easy. Also the interface is interactive, which is very similar to Google Analytics, but you could track everything up instantly. While I have some problem with Google Analytics to adjusting the time of my account to +8GMT.

Best thing is that you track everything up until your past minute.

Another neat feature that no other website statistics is the live chatting with your website visitor. Although it is odd to use them and chat, but this enable you to have communication with your visitor live and you are able to track them live.

Although this chat is easily blocked by popups, you will definitely be able to talk to some of your visitor for opinion and feedback.

Sign up for Woopra Web Statistics here

If you don’t know, Petrol price have increase 40% in Malaysia. There will be a lot of people trying to earn extra side income. It is always good to see people trying because we know some will end up earning some money when they are persistant enought in this field.

It takes a while to get the money rolling if you are planing to blog. There is NO instant money, NO making fast money, and you should NOT click on the advertisements yourself. If you have this mindset in your mind, then blogging is not you way of earning this extra side income.

There is different ways you could learn about blogging and internet marketing.

Seminar / Boot CampsThere is a lot of seminars and boot camps about Making Money Online, Blogging to make money and earn money with Clickbank or Amazon. It is costly but will save you some time searching for answer.  I tried this and think that it is too costly to learn and most of the people will end up excited the next few weeks, but will give up very soon after that.

Usually you learn too much and get too excited and most of the time there is too much to be learn by a beginner in a few short days.

Self Studies
Buying books or learning via online seminar methods are usually much cheaper method but requires self learning skill and not delaying your studies. There are a lot of great ebooks that you could buy or get them for free to learn.

Other ways is to learn from other bloggers as a lot of them expose how they would make money online after they have succesfully tried them. Although it is not always the latest trick, and you may be slow to jump into the bandwagon, you could always reinvent/modify the idea and try something new in the future, which will earn you even more income.

I have written some basic tips and tricks for blogging from scratch and part two of it. This will be the very basic start. Hopefully it will make someone some extra income.