Sitemap

Everyone of you must be wondering what on earth a "sitemap" is for when you visited any website that was designed by a respective web designer. A sitemap is actually NOT for human to view but more for a web crawlers to go through in order for "them" to recognize and establish your site. It may sound a little bit too technical but you can actually do this. Here I would like to quote a little bit of what Scott Raven said in his Easy Traffic Now: Your Definitive Guide to Traffic Generation;

"Site maps are basically a file that shows the entire structure, including linking, of your entire website. Google has a service where you can submit your site map directly to them in much the same way you submit your site to the search engines. It does require you to have a site map in XML format, but you can find site map generators all over the net. To submit a site map to Google, simply create an account with Google Site Maps and submit the link to your site map. Google will give you a file name that you must upload to your site in the root folder. All you do is open up Notepad and click “save as.” Copy the file name exactly as Google gives it to you and then change the “file type” to html. Once you save this file, upload it to your site and tell Google that it is completed. Google will verify the file and your site map is submitted. That’s it. Very easy."

Maybe easier said than done for most people who are still a bit blur as to what I'm talking. Anyway, I've received an e-mail this morning from Jayde saying that as of April 11th, you no longer has to manually submit your sitemap to search engines.

"Last fall, the major search engines agreed on a sitemaps format. You can now add a simple line to your robots.txt file and let the engines know where your sitemap document resides on your site. Just include the following line in your robots.txt file and you should be all set:

Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Robots.txt has traditionally been used in a more prohibitive fashion - by telling search engine spiders where not to go on your site. This latest sitemaps implementation of robots.txt however is telling the spiders where TO go."

~ Chris Richardson of Jayde ~

So update your sitemap today and make it more search engine friendly!

Blogging

"Anybody can blog" - it's just the matter of content. By the way, this is not exactly my main point. The main point is the footer of this comic strip - Get a 10% discount on a domain name at GoDaddy!

Blog for $$$$$$$

You've read my blog and most of the time I talked about my achievements in blogging for gadget reviews. Now, you must have been asking yourself where to get this kind of opportunity, right?

Well, wonder no more because you can do that at PayPerPost! Just visit them and sign up as a member and you'll get the opportunity to see what are the topics available to be reviewed. You can sign up by clicking the button available on the dashboard at your right-hand side. Oh, by the way, you need a PayPal account to sign up.

P/S: Did you know how to roughly check either a site is a secured site or not? Look at the URL. A normal site would start with "http://" but for secured site it will be "https://"

Nickelmaniax | A new way of marketing

Did you know that there are a LOT of different types of internet marketing and the number is increasing each day? The method varies according to the creativity of the person doing it and for Keith Wellman & Gary Ambrose there are no limits.

Nickelmaniax is one of their project and I bought it after several seconds of going through their newsletter because it was just for a mere $3.60!!! Get Nickelmaniax today to know more on how their market THIS product and they will send the DVD straight to your home address no matter where you are!

Hurry! Because the price will increase by 5 cents everytime a new visitor secured a price for themselves!!

Editted: As of 26th April 2007, the price of this CD had been locked at $14.95. For those who still are wondering what is this product all about, go to nickelmaniax NOW!

Happiness

Another GIANT Step | Subscribing My Hosting

I have been very busy throughout last week, both at work (compiling written offs records for monthly review meeting - luckily my work was highly valued by the very fussy boss), at home (tuition classes to replace, dissatisfied parent to take care of & stubborn student to handle, new prospecting housemate visiting, gadget reviews to make, business records to take care of) and personally (my brother's wedding). In the midst of all these I haven't manage to update my blogs or even login into the forums I joined.

So after all the fuss, today my head was a little bit clear, so I took the initiative of the beautiful morning to do something that has been expected for a long time but was not done because I didn't have the guts yet back then - subscribing to a webhost. All were done swiftly in about 25 minutes from the time the idea hit me this morning, to the time I searched for the discount coupon at InternetMelayu, to signing up and payment. SWIFT. NO HESITATION. I think whenever the time has come, it will come. So no matter how much you prepare yourself for it, it will be meaningless until the actual time comes...

1. Chosen webhost = Hostgator
2. Amount paid = USD 0.01
3. Package = Baby Package
   

• Diskspace = 100,000 MB (100GB)
• Bandwidth = 1,000,000 MB (1000GB)
• Domain = Unlimited
• Subdomains = Unlimited
• MySQL database = Unlimited
• Interface = Cpanel
• Features = Fantastico, Zen Cart, Cube Cart

Cannot believe your eyes?? Well, yes, 1 USD cent. That's all I'm paying for this month. But next month it'll be USD 9.95 /month ler... Heheh... this is kind of a trial version. An opportunity to learn everything there is under the Baby Gator Package.

Wanna know how I got those awesome discounts? Simple. Just key in either one of these words (in Caps);

1. HOSTCRITIQUE
2. ICEISHOT
3. HGC25
4. MUSICA
5. JURY

So go get your hosting today!

The Don'ts of Gathering Traffic

A dear friend who was also a participant in one of the seminar I attended asked me yesterday regarding how to attract traffic to her shopping site. To her, whatever you do Kak Nur, just don't do these...
1. Buying e-mail list - no matter how cheap it seems $29.90 for 100,000 emails or whatever, don't buy it. Because...

• You'll be a spammer - strictly unacceptable in some countries
• The e-mails could be obsolete or several emails own by the same people

2. Advertise at free advertisement site, unless it is really an established one.
3. Buy traffic - because usually it is not a targetted traffic (i.e. targetted to those who are really searching for products such as what you're selling)

So, I hope some of these will help.

Work Smart AND Hard

I've been lagging in posting my achievements lately. And I had not update you guys on any tips for IM either... So, here goes the best part:
1. IdealGadget's payment has been increased! (thank you Liew!!) From USD 1 per post to USD 3 per post published. Muahahahaha... such a great motivator to keep on writing gadget reviews! Yeah!
2. I had finished up on the "wedding favours" project and received the payment for it. To view the hantaran I made... you can visit ThinkTankerTwo_Town. Do please drop by, I'm sure you'll love it! ;p
3. SaifulSham's VIP Lounge: did I mention that I was upgraded as an admin to the forum? :p I did some tweaking to the system, seems ok now although it's not up to my par yet.
4. DigitalPoint Forum: I've posted 41 posts in there, although it is 50% lagging from the target but I made quality posts in there. Received reps as well. Heheheh...

Sunshine!

My boss is officially retired and his last day was on Friday 30th March 2007. Now I'm all alone as the highest authority under this subdivision of Operation namely Production Services.

Sounds so GRAND?? Not really.

For one thing the salary is not so grand... the title is just an executive... but handling all managerial responsibility. I have to sign and apporve the leave for subordinates, clean up all their messes, plan and approve for OT, and it doesn't ends there. Today I have to sign the utilities bills for production. The XXX,XXX.00 bills and responsibility scared the hell out of me.

But I still consider myself lucky. Because I have another boss (quite handsome arr, but really strict one... another reminder of the ever intimidating Dr. Rozainee, hahah) to guide through, who understands that I'm soooo greeeeeeeen and also another 'boss' to help me. And a quote to live by... Remember, HAPPINESS IS WITHIN YOURSELF! So...

Stop Worrying... Get started!

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

~ Benjamin Franklin ~