SgZappel : Have Money Will Blog Lah !: 2008-03-16

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Free Image and File Hosting

Hi Bloggers !!! It’s a brand new day !! Had fun uploading your blogs with plenty of images, audios, videos or files ? Reality check, you find your storage space running low. Either you buy additional storage space, OR you can also upload them onto third party hosts and show them in your Blog page using Links. A simple search on the net will reveal many such sites, some of which I will highlight below.

As these are free sites, you can expect them to impose limits on their bandwidth and storage space usage. Read their terms carefully and try them out if you'd like, but as a precaution, keep backups of all the files in your computer or CDs.

Free Image Hosts

Free File Hosts

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SEO and Blog Indexing

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) aims at increasing the volume and improving the quality of traffic to a blog from search engine results. Search engines work on different algorithms to analyze the contents and keywords, and present the search results. Google, for instance, assigns page ranks, and blogs that rank highly will appear early in the results.

Many other factors are also considered by search engines, such as relevance, unique content and quality of links. The major search engines know that revealing these factors will only encourage manipulation of the ranking system and have thus been secretive about how the ranking algorithms work.

The common agreement is that the more visible your blog is on the internet, the higher your ranking will eventually be. Hence, having your blog linked to by many other blogs and indexed by different search engines increase its exposure and visibility.

Blog Indexing

Following up from my previous post, I assume that your blog is now up. It is a matter of time that your blog is indexed by the major search engines like Google and MSN. One of the fastest ways to have your blog indexed is to get another blog that is already in the search engine listings to link to you. When the search engine crawlers visit that blog, they will find your blog and index it.

When submitting your blog, you can just submit the top-level webpage and for Blogger Blogs, it will be an address like this http://blogname.blogspot.com without the www.

Some of the sites send advertisements and newsletters to you in exchange for free submission. If you don't want that, remember to opt out of it. Note that different search engines have different standards of content, design and technical specifications, submission of your blog does not guarantee that it will be included in their database.

Search Engine Listing

You may submit your site URL to these search engines to see if your blog has been indexed.

And the list goes on .........However, this should be more than sufficient to get you going.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Getting Started : Blogging and Webhosting

So you’re looking to make some nice cash on the side? Have a great product or plenty of great ideas but do not know where to start ?

You’ve come to the right place! All you need is a blog or a site and you too can tap into this unlimited source of online income.

BLOGGING

Blogging has taken the online world by storm. It started out as dynamically editable websites people used to talk about topics of interest. Now, however, blogging has become a high-powered business tool.

The easiest and fastest way to get your blog up and running is to use Google's free Blogger tool @ www.Blogger.com, which is also where my blog is hosted.

Just follow the simple instructions and you are up ! Make sure you choose a sub-domain unique to what you are going to do as you can't change that later.

Click here to create your own Blog Spot !

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

Another way to showcase your products and ideas is to set up your page on a social bookmarking site like www.Squidoo.com.

Squidoo is a very popular site for building free, single pages about your passions -- Highlight products, books, blogs, vids, online shops, or just spread the word about the stuff you love.

From an Internet marketing perspective, Squidoo is vastly different from other social bookmarking sites. You can sell blatantly without worrying about somebody shutting you down, as is the case at MySpace. The Bonus feature is, it allows you to raise money (for you or charity) at the same time.

Go create your free Squidoo lens now and join the niche groups that suits you.

MANAGED WEBHOSTING

Another solution to start your website or blog is to engage a hosting provider to manage your site/blog for you. This is an excellent choice if time is a factor or you find it difficult to install the software, make your own theme, add plug-ins and upgrade it without loosing all your posts.

A managed hosting provider addresses all of them at a fee ranging from $5 to $20 per month depending on the package you choose. For something more than that, then either it is too expensive or you are a really big business owner.

Anything between $7 to $12 per month is a good deal.

Providers will come equipped with an easy-to-use website builder, customised ready to use design templates or site integrated themes, click-drag-drop plug-ins, plenty of other unique features and your site will be up in no time. And of course, you get to have your very own domain name !

My personal recommendation is Micfo Group Webhosting Company. For $9.95/month, Micfo comes equipped with 5G disk space, 100G bandwidth, unlimited domain names/FTP/email accounts setup and an excellent 24x7 Email/Ticketing/Live Chat/Phone Technical Support and a 30-day money back guarantee if you are still not satisfied with their comprehensive and affordable service.

Site management tools include : cPanel, RVSiteBuilder, Frontpage, Dreamweaver etc. Micfo also offers Webalizer statistics software, pre-installed scripts like Wordpress Blog, and other awesome database and multimedia support (like Flash and Shockwave.

Lastly, an added bonus for readers is that you get 1 month free webhosting if you sign up for a 6 month membership, while you get 2 months free if you sign up for its 12 month package. This works out to $8.29 per month (16.67% discount) compared to singularized monthly renewal @ $9.95 per month.

To find out more, please proceed to Micfo Group Webhosting.

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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Introduction

Hello everyone ! A very big Welcome to my Blog !! My name is Albert and I hail from the sunny island of Singapore ! If you see me chatting on irc channels, do remember to say hi hi !!

So you like to blog ? Why not try to make money at the same time ?

My blog serves to review and showcase popular money making tools, eBooks, traffic generators, web hosting sites and plug-ins found on the Internet as well as provide helpful tips on monetised blogging.

As I populate and grow my blog, I hope you will continue to come by and check out the stuff I have for you. And while you are at it, do remember to add me to your feeds :) Errmm I will cover feeds in another post.

Okay let's start and cut to the chase !

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