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Malaysians: Young & Poor By 2030?

Whoa' thats scary. Malaysia’s relatively high population growth rate will see the country remain comparatively young over the next two decades but economic growth is not expected to keep pace with population expansion, according to a report by Bank of America Merril Lynch. Most developed countries experience lower population growth than developing countries and thus become older as they grow richer but China and Thailand however, are forecast to grow old before they can become rich with...

Make Money With Your Blog Based On Your Traffic Ranking

So, you had a blog and your blog has a decent traffic. If I were you I wait. Waiting for the right time of course. As for me your money making campaigns must be in tune with the traffic that you are getting. Say you had like 100 page views per day, and to make it wise I think is best to have an ad or two of Adsense served to your audience. As your popularity grows say 10K of traffic per day, your campaign can be expended into more ads, more contextual linking ads, more campaign, more stuff to...

Pudu, The Pulverized Jail

Pudu jail was smacked down today to give way to development. What an excuse. Why not just reutilise the facility to cage more offenders who are littering the streets of Malaysia these days who fearlessly instil terror among Malaysians? Traffic is one issue but it is nothing much to compare to the deteriorating security in Malaysia. Along other penitentiaries that is still operational, Pudu can provide better (bitter?) lessons as the dark tale embedded within it's chilling air might as well...

The Difference Between Google & Bing in Search

Many SEO freaks will love to rank in the 3 big players of search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. While many seem to think they all work similarly, only few tend to understand the strengths and the way the 3 work differently to suit the needs of their own search campaigns. This entry is not a pro-Bing or Google, but fret not this entry is not trying to belittle any parties. This might be useful for SEO consultants who wish to know more about the strengths of Bing and what Bing can offer...

Dealing With Crap Webhosters

I learnt a big lesson today. A big lesson that all freelancers must take into consideration before composing their first contract with a potential client - their webhosting. Many freelancers are taking their client's morality to seriously that they have forgotten that the people or services that revolves around that client can also be as bad as the client if not worse. Still I am lucky that my client was alright which was god-sent, but their webhosting is one of the kind from hell. Why did...

How To Make The Most Out Of Newsgroups Marketing

Online marketing comes with a lot of marketing flavours. Now known to all are examples like search engine marketing, email marketing, social media marketing, local business marketing and so on. Have you heard of mailgroups/newsgroup marketing? Newsgroup or mailgroups some of you might have known them as Usenets. I have no clue about this when we are so much acquainted with SEM, SMM and EM etc at the beginning. Unbeknownst to many, newsgroups has been around for as long as the internet has. You...

Happy Duan Wu Festival

Bakzhang time again which is one of my favorite Chinese festivals of the year. Why i love Duan Wu? Is all down to the dumplings of course. While typical Malaysian Chinese had the normal glutinous rice in black sauce filled with meat, salty eggs and bits & pieces of grain, me & my family is enjoying the Indonesian Chinese version. Seriously, my mom can make around 3-6 types of bakzhang but my favorite has to be the marinated minced meat in glutinous rice. The minced pork meat is...

Monetize Pictures In Your Blog With BritePic

If you happens to think out of the box of ways to monetize a blog or website, many can mostly list PPC ads, affiliate links cloaked and coated in your content or a landing page grabbing email for further leads. How many of you actually think that besides RSS and contextual ads that make money, images that you embed in your post too can make money? Adbrite has offered this ingenious feature called BritePic , a monetizing service where you can squeeze out easy money just from putting up an...

Wine World Changed By Social Media Vlogs & Tweets

Social media was indeed powerful. Companies and corporation that still have not joined in the bandwagon will definitely miss out the benefits that social media have to offer. Smart enough for an online wine marketing company CataVino, they have opened up by embracing social media as a way to bond with their customers! How cool was that?? Read on: "On June 8, CataVino, an online wine marketing company, tweeted, “Social Media is Changing the Wine World!” and it appears to be the case as the...

3 Steps in Executing a Niche Marketing Model

Niche marketing, just like other branch of internet marketing is an IM field that meddles with the game of keyword researching, building hype around it and build something that the market wants to hear, and not what we (marketers) want. I define niche marketing a method of building a hype around a hot trend for money making purposes regardless of whether the niche is your liking or not. Most people tend to choose this type of method even though the niche that they have selected is not in their...

Link Assistant, A Must Have SEO Tool For Marketers

Contrary to its brand name, Link Assistant does not only assist you in link building but the overall package in what a typical SEO process should do. Link-Assistant is the manufacturer of the world’s leading SEO software. Currently they have four cutting-edge products that some of you might have already heard about - LinkAssistant, SEO SpyGlass, Rank Tracker and Website Auditor. What's cool about Link Assistant? This tool is confirmed by SEO experts and webmasters as one of the fastest link...

Tweet For Cash That Really Works

Twitter is simply revolutionary. With 140 word limit, one can turn a pitching into really short, sweet and meaningful messages/tweets. Advertising merchants who had been picky and fussy about the methods they use had pounce upon Twitter and tolerated the 140 word limit into launching monetizing programs for all of you to monetize. Assuming you have Twitter account(s) with decent followers, how do you go about monetizing them? Before monetizing, you got to have this lists on check to ensure...