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I though that with the recession my online income will drop due to reduction in marketing budget, but it will be soften with the good exchange rate of RM3.60 to USD1.00. Fortunately,  my online income actually increase and with the better exchange rate, I am actually doing at all time best. It is now closer to my goal of $100/day with adsense. The main increase I g ot is from altering my adsense layout on a website and also increase of few websites into my portfolio.

Therefore, I strongly others to take chance to change the adsense layout like change colors, changing banner size and now we could also pick few 3 available fonts. You may not notice your full potential of the adsense until you had try others. On top of that, because regular visitor may know that advertisements are always place on the same location and same shape, they tend to avoid looking/reading it. This increases my CTR and result in a higher earning.

Increase of new website deem profitable, and I have more to come but this is not as much as the above strategy. It still contribute to the total online earning.

I hope that all of you out there are also doing better each month as I am working harder throughout weekend taking Internet Marketing and Online Venture as my second job for side income. Remember to Stay Strong.

The main goal of any website is to be able to get Traffic. The best designed website, most user friendly website, quickest website or a brilliant website idea are useless without people visiting them. Getting Traffic is the primary goal of Internet Marketing. There is tons of method getting traffic and some may just cost your some money and others are simply free.

Let us explore some method that we could get traffic that does not cost us a single cents.

Digg
It is not easy getting to the very first page of Digg or getting 100+ diggs is already hard for me. If you were to hit the front page, you will easily get more than 1,000 visitors on that day.

But the very fundamental of Digg is to participate in their community. In this game, you needs friends to help you out while you had to help them at the same time.

StumbleUpon
It carries a very similar effect from Digg, but rather than having friends stumbling your post, you have other users who are stumbling post when they see a good one. Write something good, something different or something unique, then you will get a good chance of getting Stumble.

Friends do help a little since they are able to view your profile but StumbleUpon have a low limit of friends.

Feed Aggregator
I like this a lot because they provides a more consistent traffic compare to the two method above that would give you a huge spike in your traffic. There is a lot of feed aggregator out there and some may just be regional and others are categorizing according to categories. Currently I am using PPS, Blogged.my, Ping.sg and PlanetMy. These are great service and requires little to no effort. I have used them since day one.

As for PPS, I am doing it automatically through trackback, so it is easy as well.

Social Networking Website
I like Facebook features because I could use it to post my feeds and share them with 500+ of my existing friends. Plus on top of that you could do it automatically through Wordbook. If you have more time and would like to get more traffic, post a summary and then link them to your Facebook’s short message that says “What’s on your mind?”

Also you could try starting a group to generate discussion that is related to your website and include a link on the group. I have few groups that have decent members and it does bring in some traffic.

A more direct method is to message all your friends regarding your website. You can do this often as it will be regarded as spam and you will lose the effect easily. It is only good to promote a new website or something special about your blog post.

I have also covered some other method that was used previously to gain traffic from Social Networking Website.

Microblogging Platform
This is all new to me. But if you want to be connected to your reader, this is definitely the way to go. Twitter is the king right now, so you should start here, but other platform are also generating traffic. The easiest way is to have your RSS to update Twitter automatically but it is advisable to have conversation and replies to other Twitter’s Tweets.

Another platform that I like is Jaiku. Not because it is owned by Google, but because it started with RSS feeds feature and I like the design and the usability better. Not to mention it has groups too.  Unfortunately feed is no longer supported after Google decides to let to community to develop the site.

A recent service that I used is Trigga.me because it updates my Twitter, Identi.ca, Plurk and many others with just one post and I could access m.trigga.me through my Opera Mini. Unfortunately, it does not support feeds and any url shortening service, but once it does, it will rock!

Forums
This is a lot of work but you basically have to do a lot of posting to get backlinks and to get your link visible to more people. Some forum like Digital Point that allows feeds to be included are good source of traffic. It will always depends on your credibility (number of posts) and the attractiveness of the text you used for your link.

E-mail
Email is usually sending towards your friends & family. Because it is more direct and people intend to check their primary email daily, the chances that your email is looked is high, but clicking the link to visit your website will all depends.

You have notice that this mainly covers the Internet or Website Marketing, but some of them will have double effect on Search Engine Optimization at the same time.

Okay, I am testing this out since I registered this account a while ago thinking for a website idea. Unfortunately, I am stuck with a lot of projects of my own and will not be able to push this project ahead. This is basically a Twitter account, if you are interested to get updated with the latest Malaysia News. Follow with the latest update from Malaysia News, all you need is your twitter account or you can just grab the Malaysia News feed from this account.

I have include news from New Straits Times, Sinchew, Malaysia Kini, Guangming, Malay Mail and Utusan. But I could not get the feed from TheStar due to their feeds no having date & time. Tried forwarding the feed to feedburner, but still have the same problem. If you know any local newspaper with feeds, let me know and I will include them into the list.

So now is your chance to follow Malaysia News via Twitter.

Yup, there is a bug, and when I checked my version, it says version 1.02. I was too dependent on the plugin auto-update that comes with wordpress 2.2 above. Unfortunately, there is some who would just slip away. Thanks to CPU from Belarus who leave me a comment notifying me about the loophole. I am now updated with the latest version of Show Top Commentators plugin, version 1.06.

The loophole from the previous version even 1.05 is that when someone new comments with the same name from the top commentators list, but replace the website url with their own homepage, the original commentator will not get the credit rather the new url will replace until the original commentator come back to comment again.

Also, remember to visit my list of wordpress with top commentators plugin if you wants to get some do-follow link.

It seems to me that more and more companies are using social networking sites, especially Facebook to do marketing. Personally I had some groups on Facebook that is somehow related to some of my websites, however I never really did any promotion on my websites other than putting the link on the group.

Prior to facebook, I do have some account on Friendster that targets towards a geographical location. This is because I was poor and had to utilize every Internet marketing technique I can do that will not cost me money, this was one of the method used. I would post some updates on the bulletin. I believe that it does bring some users, however I am unable to track them.

One obvious observation is to when my friends started organizing an events at Facebook to his restaurant’s Grand Opening at Jaya 1. More than 200+ people turned up to his restaurant opening. And the opening ceremony did pretty well, with people flooding the restuarant. Plus it is quite easy to invites friends that are not so close to you and you are shy to call them one by one.