Rice Blogger

This is actually where I have started, it is my commercial website (not including my Geocities days, and my Adi Wong domain). Malaysia Classifieds was an Idea taken from Craiglists that I love to use so much when I was staying in San Francisco. Syiok.com is not an exact craigslist clone, and my initial plan was to setup something similar in Malaysia to benefit all Malaysian communities. Syiok.com was a name suggested by my brother as it is a word that is used and spelled this way in Malaysia.

Never had the intention of earning money with it, but currently it does earn me some pocket money, I still have to work to make a living. But it has been fun. This is where Internet Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and making friends online started. I have learn a lot from this website. Those were the days I have been begging for links and trying to sell the idea to my friends to use online classifieds.  

It is not the top online classifieds in Malaysia by users because other corporation started pouring money into a few Malaysia Classifieds and they have huge budget and marketing staff working full time to promote their website. While I am still runing a “one man show”.

Nevertheless, I still have great news because I notice that Google have give some priority to my website. You can see that there is dedicated link to 4 different category on my website. Pretty nice for 4 years of hard work doing marketing online…..

Anyway, I am still in need of support to beat those millionaires company who put tones of money into their website to beat my 4 years old Syiok!

PPS or also called as Project Petaling Street  is the very first Malaysia Blog aggregator in Malaysia. It has created quite a controversial when it was sold to another blogger in Malaysia. But despite the downside, I am pretty happy since someone is actually going to make a change in PPS that basically had not changed much since it started like 5 or 6 years back. The initial founder has tried incorporating blog directory, a blog, feed aggregator with few different php scripts, and other changes. Unfortunately it did not materialize and was left untouch for at least 1 year or 2 now.

Now the new PPS is selling advertisements space of 125 x 125 banner and also Text Link. It is hard to get people with high pagerank to sell text link because they also risk their hard work of getting there. Did I mention that they are DoFollow text link?

So if you are itnerested to buy some link, you can contact VCTech Network, who is the new owner of PPS.

Riceblogger is my blog that I spend a lot of time doing SEO, researching post and reading other blog to sharpen my skill in Internet Marketing. Unfortunately, when I do calculation base on time and effort compare to my monthly income from each blogs and website I own. Riceblogger seem to do badly mainly I think because I am not in a niche market.

If you plan to start a blog to make money, go niche topic where little people blog about it, but also at the same time have sufficient market for your to get reader.

Here is some reason why you should not start a blog about making money:-

1. Your reader most probably know which block is advertisements even though you try to blend them into your website. So CTR is always low.
2. They know how affiliate links work, so some of them will try to bypass the affiliate or use their own affiliate link to purchase.
3. There is too many of them out there. Unless you know you can become one of the top 5% of this group.
4. It is hard to stand out from the others because your post is most probably mentioned in other people’s blog post already.
5. You are most probably coping someone else content.

I have some blogs that takes less than 2 hours / week to maintain but does earn as much as RiceBlogger currently. But I am still using this blog as a bookmark and to keep track of the strategy I used to do Internet Marketing for all my other sites.

I think there is still a lot of people out there who does not know what is twitter and what it is all about. But it is time to learn that Twitter is a big thing and they such a huge thing that Google is also talking to Twitter, for accusition or product development.

Watch this video and you should be able to understand everything needed to be known in twitter.

Remember to follow me after that @8dee

It seems that Dr. Mahathir is here for the making money online blogging business as well. For those who don’t know, Dr. Mahathir is our Ex Prime Minister for Malaysia. The very first time I notice it, I quickly email them to enquire for the rate because I am interested to advertise my Malaysia Classifieds if I could get a great deal due to target traffic and perfect for this kind of website. Unfortunately, It is too expensive and I could not afford it at all. If you are interested to know here are the rates:-

• Side Box – 170px x 200px – RM5,000/month
• Top Banner – 728px x 90px – RM12,000/month

I did not ask for the inside page banner as I did not quite like the position, therefore I got no price on that. The placement is not bad and it is quite visible as you can see below.

 But you also have to read the terms of their advertisements as follows:-

• Discounts available for advertising periods of one month & above.
• All advertising positions are on rotating basis with a maximum of 5 ads. 
• Rates quoted above are on a per banner/day basis, minimum of 7 days. 
• For banner designs, a fee of RM70 per design will be charged. Design fees will be waived for advertising campaigns of above RM2500.
• Ads in Top Banner & Tower Box positions will appear in the Main Page & Inside Page .

Did you read fine print that says rotating basis of 5 ads max. From my calculation without the inside banner, our beloved Dr. Mahathir will be potentially earn upto RM185,000/month (approx USD51,000/month), and this is not including the inside page banner. I am quite sure this is the most succesful problogger in the shortest amount of time.

Also, I find it weird that he is using the domain of .co.cc rather than his original Chedet.com. Co.cc domain is used by affiliate markerter because when you refer someone to co.cc and they bought something, you will actually get 40% commission.

Next thing you know, you will see Dr. Mahathir blog becoming a make money online blog.