Blogger Learning Points

It is now week 14. It means the end of my Digital Media Across Asia class. But of course no learning stops at any point of time because learning is an ongoing process.

In the class, I've learned how to use digital media, or more specific, the Internet, to help the business, to communicate, to market the idea, the product or the brand. We also discussed what the effect, whether it is good or bad, that the widespread and somewhat hard to manage information flow has on the society, government and business. And if it is bad, what a business or a more macro decision should be made.

The class is not really about technical side of the Internet. Although it benefits the most to those who know a bit about all the things we discussed. The course concerns more of the managerial and entrepreneurial aspects of the Internet and all the platforms within it.

I had a personal blog in the past but I lost interest in blogging just after a few months with few blog posts. And the same thing goes for other social media platforms of the Internet. I tried them out, spent some time with them and got bored of them. So I don't have any thing personal on the Internet. Instead of personal, I think of a different side of things. While people use them for pleasure, for personal purpose, I utilize them as tools for other purposes. However, throughout the class, I realized that personal does not necessarily mean personal. It can be a person taking a stand in business world. And so I started to blog again (not only it is required), using my own thoughts and words. It can be a personal touch with the customers and an effective PR channel of the business.

This class might seem challenging at first but when it was moving on, I felt like this is a great complement to my knowledge of the Internet. And I'm glad I joined the class.

Shake Your Fox With The Quake - Part 2

I already introduced to you SeoQuake in an earlier post. However, for some reason, I forgot to mention another extremely useful feature in SeoQuake. Hence, as of this time I was just using that feature, I have to make a quick new entry about it.

Together with Page Info & Keyword Density, the tool Check/Compare URLs and Domains is a very useful tool. It in fact is not useful for most people, but some of you will find it "Damn, this is what i'm lookng for!"

This tool check all the entered URLs according to your chosen parameters. As I mentioned in the other post, some of the essential parameters are PR & links.

One thing I wish from it is the ability to filter "out", now it only filters "in".

So what the URLs need to be entered to get checked? Different sources. But a certain answer is URLs from SERPs.

Some web browser like Sea Monkey has the function to extract all URLs from a webpage. But with FF and its extensions, you can do much more.

So in order to have these URLs, you need 2 other FF addons.

First, AutoPager addon. This addon automatically load next pages inline with current page. This means that you can now have 10 pages or more of SERPs loaded in only one page.

For Google, you can change the number of results per page so this addon may be not that useful. But it is still useful for other search engines and other purpose.

And second, Page Info Forms and Links. This addon extracts all URLs in a web page for easily copy. Combine with the first addon, you now can extract URLs from 100 or more search results easily.

Another addon also extracts URL is Link Gopher. But this one doesn't have direct copy so it is not really useful.

Ok, almost done. One last thing, probably, I'd like to highlight about SeoQuake is it can notify nofollow link by a cross line over it.

If you like SeoQuake, pls donate.

Foot Massage Business Joint Venture! Anyone?

I posted the magical foot massage technique in this blog. This technique is passed down from my ancestor to my father and now to me. I call this magic because thanks to implementing this powerful technique, my great great grandfather can bullet-proof like in American movies and fly like in Asian movies.

My friend Jeff checked out the post and follow exactly what I laid down. He was seeing improvement immediately. He then rushed to tell me that this should be kept secretly and I can make a ton of money out of it. And he convinced me. Therefore, I pulled down that post and now I officially call for Joint Venture in the Foot Massage Business.

If you are interested, please provide me your name, address, phone, email, social security number and bank account. I will process your information and pass to my Nigerian friend who are looking for a partner in his US$10 Million inheritance deal.

Stop Begging For Comments!

When students are given a project to create a blog and are required to have involved content. They usually misinterpret it as the blogs must have a lot of comments. What the students often do is to beg their fellow students to comment on their blogs. This begging practice is strongly objected by all professors because the begging is a sign of desperation for grades. No professor wants to be the cause of students' desperation; that makes them look bad in the eyes of students.

But if the student gives the commentors something in return, it's no longer a beg. It's an exchange and exchange is the core of business: all parties get something in return for what they do.

So STOP begging for comments. Instead, give your commentors incentive.

In this turbulence economic times, thousands of people get laid off. What people are looking for when they are jobless and the economy is bad? Answer: They are looking for a new job or another way to get rich.

Here is how you can get tons of comments without begging anyone!

Create an email account. Set auto responder for that email which has your blog URL and download link for a report.

Post ad on online classifieds sites, under "job" section, title "Comment on blog to get FREE quality report". Tell people that the report is 5 page high quality report about [how to get a new job, how to win an interview, how to write resume; how to get rich working at home, how to be your own boss, how to get financial freedom from home...]. Put your blog URL and the email address you just created. Ask them to email you with the subject line which is the 2nd word of the 3rd paragraph of certain post. They will immediately receive a reply with download link.

Now just sit back and enjoy comments rolling in, let your email auto responder handle the work.

You may question where do I get a report and give them for free?
Ok, head yourself to EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com or ArticleCity.com. Search on the topic "job", "working from home"... Grab the 5 most viewed articles in a topic. Paste them all into a pdf file and now you have a free 5 page quality report. Upload the report. Remember to include the resource box of the article.

Before you think that this tactic scams people who are desperate then QUIT thinking so, because these are quality information. You give your commentors quality information (from the articles) and the sources that they can further explore (from the resource box). You actually do them a favor. You may have people thank you for that.

I hope this helps college students reading this blog in their blogging project. If you find this helpful (which I'm sure it is), please leave your comments :)

Cookie Stuffing How-to

Blackhat is the term coined to describe unethical, against TOS activities that are employed by Blackhatters to make profit.

Blackhatters are an unashamed species because if you ask them why they do those bad things, they will respond with some emotional, touching stories ready to make teenage girls shed tears.

The story usually goes about they got deserted by wives and kids. They got broke and their friends and families turned away, condemned and humiliated them as total hopeless losers. But they stood up, fought back and now proud to say to those traitors "In your face".

Or sometimes it's about a college student coming from a dysfunctional family (drunken dad, prostitute mom, you know, same old story)
who not only has to live independently at a strange city, but also has to take care of their little brothers, sisters.

All the stories usually end that they don't wanna do anything wrong. It's that life makes a goat becomes the wolf.

After the shaking stories, blackhatters swipe the teenage girls' tears, get back to their closet and continue to take on companies that they always accuse as "the true rip-off" or pity perverts "deserved to get beef".

However, there is one practice they is considered taboo and many blackhatters surprisingly feel uncomfortable doing it. That practice is called "cookie stuffing". But secret no more. I'm gonna share with you right now, for free, the powerful cookie stuffing tactic that guarantees to turn you loser into millionaire tomorrow when you wake up (just remember to get off the bed on the left side). Follow exactly the steps elaborated in the video below and you shall be rich.

Dig The Thinkin', Spin The Writin'

College students often find themselves rushing at last minutes for a written submission or report to be handed up the next day.

Most of time, before you put down anything, you search on Google for the topic. Sometimes you find an article or part of it very useful for what you gonna write about. It's simple if you can just copy-paste the thing to your paper. But the paper will be checked for plagiarism and it scares the heck out of ya. So you spend more time just to read and try to understand the article and rewrite it in your own word. Sometimes it can be time-consuming.

I will tell you some tools to help you in the rewriting process or automate it.

There are applications to help you rewrite the article by suggesting good replacement. Some well-known ones are Power Article Rewriter or WordFlood. But you have to buy the programs.
You can also use a dictionary program that has the synonym/antonym function like WordWeb to help you spin words.

There are a number of free online services to do the job for you.
BadArticle
AutoRewrite
QuickContentWizard

Another way is to utilize free online translation services. There are many of em but Google is always preferred due to its huge language database. It helps if you know a second language. Find an article about the topic in a non-English language. What you gonna do is translate that article 1-2 rounds into other non-English languages before translate it into English. It's good if the languages you are buffering through is under same language family (like East Asian family or Germanic family) because the structure and grammar of the content will be preserved.

Now try these tools and start posting your spinned content. And remember to give me your links at comment :)

Shake Your Fox With The Quake

Shake up your Firefox with SeoQuake addon. We all know that FF has an impressive collection of addons and the list keeps growing fat. This time, I'm gonna introduce to ya'll an indispensable FF addon for all webmasters, internet marketers and interested folks alike.

You can read the whole description about SeoQuake in mozilla addon site or on its website. Basically, it is feature packed and handy addon which helps me, as an IM, perform more than enough tasks for my work.

There are many additional parameters and plugins that u can find on seoquake website. A lot of people who get spawned by the idea of "hey I know SEO" will install the addon and enable a ton of parameters and plugins. Too much information can prove counter-effective. Folks will find it obtrusive and clutter and soon uninstall the great addon because they get frustrated that they actually don't have a clue about SEO.

So, tell me what are the essential parameters and plugins?
For plugin, I only enable Google plugin.
For parameters, most of the times, I only have Google Pagerank (PR), Yahoo! Links and Google Trend parameters.

*PR: rank of a website on certain keyword, ranging from 0 to 10 with the higher the better.
*Yahoo! Links: count the inbound links into that webpage, excluding links from the same domain.
*Google pagerank: search trend, geo information, related websites, keywords to that website/keyword

What else does SeoQuake offer?
SeoQuake has some other extremely helpful functions such as page info, keyword density. Webmasters and IMs will find these functions super helpful.

*Page info has 3 sections:
page info: including meta keywords, meta description...
parameters: all installed parameters will appear here
keyword density: basic keyword analysis

*Keyword Density
advanced keyword analysis with Google search volume and estimated CPC.

Are you saying that only cool people like you can use SeoQuake?
That's right I'm cool and I'm using it :)
For people who are not cool like me, Seo is a very practical and functional task that an average web surfers shouldn't waste time bothering. Tho it's cool to play with SeoQuake to know something about the website u r looking at. If you are doing research about a brand/product in Singapore and you come across an online forums discussing about it, it's a good idea to see where the majority of traffic to that site comes from, is it Singapore or US? If it's Singapore, it's acceptable to reference those comments as customers perception about that brand/product.

That's it about SeoQuake.