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Chris Brown

July 21, 2008 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

If you are searching for Chris Brown, here is a list of famous people by the name of ‘Chris Brown’, he may refer to as:

* Chris Brown (singer) (born 1989), American hip hop/R&B singer.
* Chris Brown (experimental music) (born 1953)
* Chris Brown (baseball) (1961-2006)
* Chris Brown (field hockey) (born 1960), New Zealand
* Chris Brown (soccer, born 1977), American soccer midfielder/striker
* Chris Brown (soccer, born 1985), American soccer goalkeeper
* Chris Brown (English footballer) (born 1984), English football (soccer) striker
* Christopher Brown (born 1978), Bahamian sprinter.
* Chris Brown (Trapt), singer for Trapt (born 1979)
* Chris Brown (American football) (born 1981)
* Chris Brown (tight end) (born 1986)
* Chris Brown (musician), Canadian

How to increase your google adsense earnings?

July 20, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

How to increase your google adsense earnings

Blogging for money is not my cup of tea, but that doesn’t mean I hate the idea of making money online, who does? Lately, I’ve noticed a large number of people decided to blog not because they enjoyed blogging but wanted to make a living out of it, and that really annoys me. Reminds me of a good friend of mine, when the blogging world was in its infant years, I proposed the idea of co-blogging, with no intention of making anything out of it, but he rejected my idea, reason is because it is a waste of time.

Fast forward 2 years, he came talking to me and wanted to know how blog works and told me he bought a book - ‘Google Adsense for dummies‘, and just like yesteryear, I politely rejected his proposal on the ‘idea’ of co-blogging with him. His sudden passion in blogging was due to the fact that he overheard I’m making a living out of it.



Anyway, GeckoandFly was meant to be a collaboration between my friends (non-tech savvy people) by it did not materialized, glad that it didn’t worked out, if it does than my earnings would be equally divided among them. Three years of blogging and numerous trial and errors, I conclude that the art of monetizing your blog comes in many forms, depending on the blogging platform, keywords, language and many more, I would like to take the opportunity to highlight some of the key issues or shall I say some really simple technique that all newbie should know.

1. Insert Ads into your post.

This is by far the easier way to increase your CTR, but be cautious that just like a sword, it cuts both ways because it can be potentially annoying to your readers knowing that you are bombarding them with advertisement. Some of my favorite formats are the 468 x 60px, 300 x 300px, and 125 x 125px. Read AdesBlog.

2. Filter unwanted or low paying ads

Rumors has it that the author of AdsBlacklist own numerous spammy websites and the only for his splog to appear in adsense is by blocking out the competitions, thus born AdsBlacklist, basically he provide a list of his competitor’s splog to be filtered by the publisher. Well, it does works to a certain extend.

3. Ping your blog, submit to all the search engines.

Based on my 3 years of experience, pinging you blog and submit it to every known search engine does not guarantee traffic, and in most cases you get spammed in returned.

Submit to Google
Submit to Yahoo
Submit to MSN
Submit to Baidu (China’s biggest search engine)

Ping Moreover - http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml

Ping MSN - http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com

Ping ASK - http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml

Ping Google - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.YOUR-NAME.com/sitemap.gz

Ping Yahoo - http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=Yahoo&url=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml

4. Sitemaps and SEO

Submit your sitemap.xml manually to Google, MSN, and Yahoo, it is a great way to monitor the keywords and your ranking in Google and Yahoo, highly recommended. The following table lists the Sitemap submission URLs for several major search engines:

Google Webmaster Central
Yahoo Site Explorer
MSN Webmaster Tools

If you are using Wordpress, then you should install these plugins:

All in One SEO - It works, based on both my blogs’ traffic, I noticed a 10 - 15% increase in term of pageviews.

Google XML Sitemaps - Will generate a sitemap.xml automatically whenever you update your post and comments, it pings all the three major search engine as well. A highly recommended plugin.

I’m not a SEO expert, neither am I a rich millionaire with tons of money lying around on the carpet. Just an ordinary kid making some spare cash for my college education. Whatever I wrote here are pretty basic in term of monetizing your blog, Google for more.

5. Drop Comments

By dropping your comments with a link back to other blogs, you’re building a social presence in the blog sphere, make it a habit, I would say at least 3 comments for each for your write.

p.s. If your new to the world of blogging, do read ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, it is very informative for beginners.

Must full time blogger pay income tax in Malaysia?

July 20, 2008 · Filed Under Life Log, Uncategorized · 2 Comments 

I’m not an accountant, neither am I familiar with the tax structure in Malaysia, the only thing that is troubling me when it comes to paying tax, should I or shouldn’t I pay tax? Clause 12 says money made outside Malaysia are tax exempted.

Tax Exemptions For Individuals
12. Income Remitted from Outside Malaysia
With effect from the year of assessment 2004, income derived from outside Malaysia and received in Malaysia by resident individual is exempted from tax. (Link)

I have conflicting answers from different accountants, and this is killing me. Do you pay tax from money made online?

Unlock Optus Prepaid Apple 3G iPhone

July 19, 2008 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · Comment 

Optus Prepaid Apple 3G iPhone Unlocked

According to Optus iPhone Prepaid term and condition, all prepaid iPhones purchased will be network locked to Optus, the only catch is the unlocking fee of AU$80 applied for in the first six months after the original date of activation, or after AU$80 of prepaid credit has been purchased.

My only concern is, does it work with other network after locking it? Anyone from Australia? Care to share your experience?

Apple iPhone 3G prepaid from Optus cost about $720 upfront and that would be a total of $800 after unlocking it, I believe iphone hardcore fans would pay $1000 just to get their hands on the brand spanking new gadget in ebay.

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