September 30, 2006 By

WordPress Help in Your Language

There aren’t enough WordPress help sites in various languages, but there are a few. The number of supported languages for WordPress and wordpress.com users is slowly rising, but what good is that if there is no support for when things go wrong?

This article gives an ever changing and growing list of support sites and forums in many different languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Russian and many more. Also, if you can speak fluently in both English and another language, and know WordPress inside out, then there is a shortage of volunteers for WordPress support. The article gives more information on how you can help out.

Filed Under: Free Tips
September 29, 2006 By

Feedvertising

Feedvertising Feedvertising is the new beta version of Text Link Ads.com’s feed advertising. Feedvertising makes advertising in feeds easier, especially for WordPress users, by displaying ads in your RSS feeds as well as your blog. Not only that, but you can also reserve spots to highlight your own links and sites.

Though a lot of people may not want to give regular readers who subscribe to the blog the inconvenience of ads, it could be useful for blog marketing and promenent adsense users.

Filed Under: Free Tips
September 29, 2006 By

WordPress Editor Doesn't Support Safari

Bad news for Safari users: no one know yet how long it will take before Safari (default browser in Mac) will support the editors used in WordPress. As a Safari user myself, it find it better than Firefox, faster and easier to use too.

Unfortunately, this is all I get with the Visual Rich Editor turned on:
Wordpress Editor in Safari

According to the WordPress support forums:

In Safari, the WYSIWYG editor and Quicktag buttons will function, but not as intended. Some earlier builds of the WYSIWYG editor for WordPress v1.6/2.0 even caused Safari to crash whenever the editor was loaded. This is due to a bug in Safari’s javascript support, not WordPress. Since the WordPress developers have no way of correcting this, they have chosen to disable the WYSIWYG editor and Quicktag buttons for Safari users

Link: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52848

The editors will (hopefully) work in the next versionn of safari. Right now I’m in a fix – I browse the Internet with Safari, and switch to Firefox when I need to blog :)

… and that sucks!

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September 29, 2006 By

The Best Way To Learn Anything?

Where is the Secret of Life?

Here’s the next few lines from the comic (according to me):

British Dude: Yes I did. All I found was splogs and irrelevant content.

Guru of Gurus: Ok. Have a seat cos it’s going to take a while. My RSS To Blog needs a TextPod.

Filed Under: Free Tips
September 28, 2006 By

My New Niche Market

My new Internet marketing niche market – cooking for people who don’t know how to boil water, and don’t care.

Test project:

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Take the erm…. and cut some of the … what you call it… then chop it up. [Read more...]

Filed Under: General
September 28, 2006 By

Lies About Being Number 1 in Google

This especially goes out to anyone new in Internet marketing.

(thanks James)

You will find some people out there that take advantage of the fact that you know nothing about Internet marketing, and they will generally feed you these lies:

Lie: I can guarantee you the number one ranking in Google.
Fact: No one can guarantee a top 10 in Google or any other search engine, unless it’s for a unique term that no one is searching for (read more below)

Lie: World’s number one in blah blah blah “as ranked” by Google
Fact: Google does not rank or recommend anyone. They are a search engine. Even if you are number 1 in Google for a search term, it doesn’t mean that they rank you or your company as the best. It just means you have the number 1 position in the search engine.

Here’s one such claim of being number 1 in Google: [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scam Or Real, Search Engine SEO
September 28, 2006 By

The Setback of Having a WordPress.com Blog

WordPress.com, the hosted version of the WordPress software, has it’s pros and cons.

The most obvious being the possibility of having your blog terminated due to violation of terms of service.

I actually know this person, and her blog didn’t seem to have any content that may violate WordPress T&C. Then again, I havent been able to contact her on this matter..

If you content is “questionable” or if you want to have advanced monetization options including Adsense, get your own web hosting and install WP on your own server.

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September 28, 2006 By

ASK Gobala – September 2006 Questions Answered

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This is my reply / advice for all questions submitted to www.AskGobala.com. If your questions is listed below, I have answered them on this week’s podcast:

1) uzair: i have been down because i dont know what website i want ti built and what the niche product.i want to be your protege

2) Jee: Hi Gobala, Do you know where to download free autoresponder with email verification? Means when someone keys in the name and email address, an email while be sent to his email address to confirm the opt-in, then only send him the landing page. Hope to receive yr reply ASAP.

3) sathasivam: i am a malaysian, can i receive money from paypal e-mail? if yes how? pls reply me as soon as possible.

4) sjaffril: Hi Gobala, Have you or any of your local malaysian friends tried money bookers before ? If you do, what is your opinion or any feedback from them.

5) albert: Are you selling your e-book using USD and not RM? It is rather strange to do business in USD in Malaysia. Customers will pay more for nothing ‘cos of the loss in the exchange rate.

6) Dundang Bantin: It’s almost 3 months now I work through site after site and buying their products (such as 404 secrets.com, HomeDataTypers.com, PowerlinkGenerator.com,) I still cannot start with my business and haven’t earning yet. Where shall I start? I am still hoping to use PayPal without to open an account in Singapore. I hope the Malaysiapal can help me with this later. Thank you.

7) faisal: Hi Gobala..good work on chapter-m, but is there any bank in malaysia that can accept U.S Dollar cheque from clickbank? so cheques sent to virtual office in singapore can easily be deposited into malaysian bank without cirrus/maestro withdrawal charges?

8) syed: dear gobala, how can start an online biz without any knowledge of online marketing, furthermore, i don’t even know how to create a website. thanks for your help.

9) Zaleha: Hi Gobala, Can you spare me a few reliable Affiliate Programs/Networks that do not involve Clickbank? Thank you.

10) senja: Hi Gobala, I really want to start Affiliate Business, but do not know where to start. I am planning to take a class room like affiliateclassroom, what do you suggest ? I think I need a coaching. 2. Do you have any idea where can I start building my website. Site Build It is expensive and it does not has monthly payment. You said frontpage can be used , does it easy if we want to upload it into hosting. Does it compatible with affiliate business. thanks

11) Paul Richard: Hi Bala, I am very interested with the Forex Internet Exchange Business but I am having a problem of creating the E-Gold. I am most gratful if you could advice me how to create the E-Gold and then how to convert it back to Malaysia Dollar.Looking forward for your advice.

12) Rammel Firdaus: Hi, I would like to know, how to insert google adsense in a blog page? Thanks

If your questions are not answered, I’m really sorry. I’ll try to answer them in the next FAQ Podcast. Also, sorry I don’t have a text version available as there wasn’t much time.

One reminder: Don’t submit product-related questions (billing, payment method etc) to www.AskGobala.com. Use my support center instead. Please?

Filed Under: Ask Gobala, Podcasts
September 28, 2006 By

Beat Plagarists With a Digital Fingerprint

According to State of the Blogosphere, 2006, seventy percent of all blog postings are spam. Usings RSS feeds and WordPress plugins, spammers can very easily repost other blogs to earn themselves money from ads, increase their Pageranking or get more visitors.

The Digital Fingerprint plugin allows users to insert a unique “Digital fingerprint” into their blogs, which can be searched for using Google, MSN or Yahoo! search, integrated into the plugin for easy searching, to find any stolen blog material.

Also included in the plugin is tips, links and resources to help combat the spam, should you come across any plagarised material, and you might also want to take a look at this article; “What should you do when you’ve found a plagarist?”

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September 28, 2006 By

Unusual Theme with Content in Scrolling Boxes

Scroller isn’t your average theme. In fact, it’s hard to be described without actually seeing it. It comes in two versions: light blue, or dark brown, both of which work well and create interesting, unorthodox blog layouts.

The theme consists of four boxes with scrollbars, one for the blog entry or main screen, one with the comments in, one for category archives, pages and an about section and one which on the test site contains flickr thumbnails and a meta section. The seperate sections of each box can be switched with attractive and easy to use tabs over the boxes.

Scroller is Standards compliant for XHTML 1.0 Transitional and works in both Firefox and IE.

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