April 30, 2007 By

FeedZilla RSS Syndication

FeedZilla LogoFeedZilla is a unique provider of real-time news and web content solutions for webmasters and bloggers. It provides a platform where webmasters and bloggers can find a variety of of easy-to-use, professional and relevant content widgets so as to improve the online experience of their visitors.

On Feedzilla, webmasters and bloggers can choose from a selection of unique aggregated content by picking from thousands of predefined categories or using keyword search utility that has been provided. The widgets provided include :-

  • Content Widgets (Content can be selected from media news,quality blog, keyword search, rss feeds, about.com guides etc)
  • Rss Feeds ( 1000+ categories of RSS news feeds available in XML format)
  • Video Widgets (Choose from Feedzilla’s video search engine)
  • Feedback Widgets ( Create Forum, Polls, Ratings Box for your websites to increase stickiness and interactivity)
  • Feed Builder ( Create, track and use your own feeds)
  • Syndication Widgets ( Syndicate your RSS feeds for free with our easy-to-use Widgets and earn revenue with FeedZilla’s referral program)

To Webmasters and Bloggers the benefits of using FeedZilla are as follows:

  • Saves time necessary to keep updating your blog by using FeedZilla’s constantly updated aggregate content.
  • Access immediately to the information you need for your website or blogs by using Feedzilla’s variety of tools such as their pre-defined categories or news search engine.
  • Access to unlimited range of easy-to-use widgets.
  • Improved online experience for visitors to websites and blogs.
  • Improved search engine rankings for websites and blogs.
  • No technical ability required on behalf webmasters because widgets are easy to set up and Feedzilla does all the rest.
  • Your website visitors get unique information relevant to their interests.

I recently subscribed to FeedZilla bronze plan and currently testing out the Feedback widget on another blog. With this widget, you can add a forum to your blog to increase your website or weblog stickiness and interactivity by enabling your visitors to have ongoing discussions among themselves. Alternatively, you can add a simple poll to ask you users about a hot topic in your niche. And finally, you also add a rating box to see how visitors to your blog rate some specific information.

The beauty of the Feedzilla package is that whether you are an beginner or experienced blogger, they have a variety of solutions that will enable you to add constantly updated content to your website.

Feedzilla allows you to test drive their product using a demo service set up on their site.

Filed Under: Free Tips
April 28, 2007 By

WP Theme – Rockin Black 3-Column

black wordpress theme

RockinBlack is a black and white, clean and simple, three-column theme designed with little elements for the minimalist in mind, includes an easy-to-replace graphical header.

Key features:

  • Black minimal theme
  • Widget ready
  • Three columns
  • Super easy to customize
  • Easy-to-replace graphical header

My 2-cent

If you’re the type into gothic kind of theme, than this is the theme to go for. Overall the theme was pretty simple with a black background and less graphic, which make it fast loading. To test it, just go here.

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April 28, 2007 By

WP Themes – Luxury 1.0

Luxury 1.0 is an elegant real estate blog theme. If you’re within this niche, than this is the kind of theme you should be getting. At first glance, I thought it was some kind of site setup on the Joomla platform. Site layout was good with good placement of header, site navigation and image link.

PSD files are included for editing the various images. You can use your own image where applicable.

Luxury 1.0 is Licensed under the creative common license, so be sure to read them before editing or distributing this theme.

Check it out.

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April 28, 2007 By

Ladan Lashkari Internet Marketer from Iran

In Malaysia, a lot of people are quick to give excuses on why it’s so difficult to make money on the Internet.

My friend Khai said on his blog of a particular incident:

At that time we were asked to sit in a large circle and discuss what are the major problems faced when starting your Internet business for the first time. My girlfriend and I were sitting there stumped, unsure what to say as we were swamped by the whole thing.

I kept on hearing complaints about how to start a Paypal account in Malaysia. People kept on discussing about it until Fabian had to interrupt them and get them to stick to the important issues.

Way before I wrote the Paypal for Malaysians ebook, I already heard all those complaints. In fact I still hear them today. A couple of cheapskate Malaysians discussing how to create a free website, find a bank that does not charge them anything, free payment processor, free ebooks, free seminars, free this, free that…

When in fact, most of them should really be focusing on more important issues.

And today I learnt about Ladan Lashkari, a young woman from Iran who is actively building her Internet business with no complaints at all. You’ll be able to tell from her life story that it was not a joy ride for her either, but she’s not complaining :)

Some parts of the story:

Although you wouldn’t know it from her articles and sales letters, Ladan was not born into an English-speaking family. She started learning the language at eight years of age, and devoured every English book she could get her hands on.

Even at such a young age, she began to realize that her fluency in English would open up more doors of opportunity throughout her life. Throughout her teen years, this fervor grew as she tackled the language head-on.

A true entrepreneur, she decided that she wanted to become independent and produce her own income. When her family bought a computer, she quickly began experimenting with ways she could turn it into an income stream. She tried all kinds of business; teaching Windows, graphic designing with PhotoShop, website design, and even learned C++ programming.

Even though she was able to make money through those avenues, she knew that there was a bigger opportunity out there.

At sixteen years of age, she discovered the world of Internet marketing through the late Cory Rudl’s website. She bought and studied his internet marketing course, along with other ebooks and resources.

She knew right away that THIS was the business she wanted to be in.

Some of the problems she has faced:

  • She has limited rights as a woman in Iran
  • She couldn’t get a credit card.
  • She can’t open a PayPal account.
  • She can’t get a merchant account
  • She can’t have a bank account in US dollars
  • She can’t cash any USD checks.
  • She can’t travel / get a visa to many countries

The good news is that she will be at World Internet Summit in Singapore. So I wish her all the best, hopefully I’ll get some inspiration from her story. And hopefully, you will too..

Read her complete life story here.

Filed Under: General
April 24, 2007 By

Free Ticket to World Internet Summit Singapore

I just got my tickets to the World Internet Summit in Singapore on the 26th May. And guess what, I can also bring a friend. Would you like to be that friend?

Here’s all you need to do to get that free ticket:

Leave a comment below and tell me why you want to go to WIS, and why you deserve a free ticket more than anyone else in the world.

…and the ticket will be yours. Just leave a comment below and tell your story. My final date is on May 10, so get writing now. Best entry wins, and I’ll announce the winner.

More information on WIS Singapore: www.worldinternetsummit.com – ticket price at $197 Singapore dollars, and about 3000 – 5000 participants estimated. A great opportunity to meet and network, and listen to about 10-30 sales pitches, upsells, downsells, and get massively confused about everything (just kidding)..

Before I forget…food, travel and lodging are not covered :)

Filed Under: Internet Marketing Asia
April 24, 2007 By

Google History – Now Google Knows You Better Than You Do

Confused about your personality traits? Need to feel important? On a quest to find the unique you?

Who can you go to for advice.. someone who knows more about you than you do?

Well, Google of course. Silly me, this should have been rather obvious!

With Google Web History, now Google knows more about you than you want to know yourself. In fact, it’s now easier than ever before to put your entire life details in a binary data file in a remote server miles away from home, and leave the tedious management work to someone else.

Ok, maybe I’m exaggerating. But Google says they want to “organize the world’s information” and that’s exactly what they are doing.

According to Google…

With Web History, you’ll be able to:

  • View and manage your web activity.
    You know that great web site you saw online and now can’t find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you’ve visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.
  • Get the search results most relevant to you.
    Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you’ve searched for on Google and which sites you’ve visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History.
  • Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
    Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends on your web activity.

After checking my own file, I decided it was “safe” enough to show you a sample.

Summary of my Internet activity: [Read more...]

Filed Under: Search Engine SEO
April 24, 2007 By

Top 10 Keywords Searched Across Categories

From Clickz, the Top10 keyword searches across categories. This is a good place to see what’s hot in major categories, but it doesn’t cover niche markets.

Read full list here.

Filed Under: Search Engine SEO
April 24, 2007 By

Vince Tan Community + Adsense Revenue Sharing

My friend Vince Tan just launched his own community portal for Internet business owners, and he’s sharing Adsense revenue with a forum members.

If you start a post, then you’ll get a certain percentage commission from the Adsense clicks generated from your post.

Registration is free, of course. You should head on to www.VinceTanCommunity.com and get started.

A little on Vince here…

I first met him at the World Internet Summit, and from our encounter I can tell that he’s extremely knowledgeable in SEO and search engine matters. He’s also a very helpful friend and someone I go to for advice on a lot of things.

A few months later Vince launched his Blackhat Edition Ebook and it was a great success.

More recently, I did an intensive interview with Vince on Blackhat Adsense techniques, and I learned quite a lot about “the dark side” of SEO from that single call. Previously I was too scared to venture into the black areas of IM, but after meeting Vince though I’m more adventurous :)

I’m not in the black area now, but somewhere in-between I’d like to call “Grey Hat” :)

His other sites: Vince Tan Blog

For those that want to know, you can also have an Adsense-sharing form with these 2 components: (1) VBulletin forum and (2) Adsense sharing plugin

Filed Under: Google Adsense
April 23, 2007 By

Develop A Great Sales Process

You can consider this as the most challenging. The difficulty lies not in the principle but in its applications. In other words, the real challenge is in knowing what works and what doesn’t. Here are some some basic steps that you can follow

  • Find a great website name (a “dot-com” is best)
  • Register your website address as your business name
  • Develop a compelling sales letter
  • Develop an effortless sales process
  • Obtain the necessary e-commerce services
  • Develop systems for fulfilling your orders
  • Develop good customer service strategies
  • Capture visitor names and email addresses
  • Remain in contact with your customers and visitors
  • Design, optimize and upload your website

Develop strategies attract visitors, such as:

  • Search engines
  • Newsletters
  • Classified ads
  • Banner ads
  • Affiliate programs
  • Articles submissions
  • Linking strategies
  • Content development
  • Online publicity
  • And offline publicity

This may seem like a lot, but don’t worry. It’s not as difficult as it appears. Just remember that the process is a never-ending job. You can always find ways to improve sales, new marketing methods with which to experiment and methods to automate the process.

Always keep your eyes and ears open for the new ideas, tactics and software that can help.

In other words, keep learning.

Filed Under: Free Tips
April 23, 2007 By

WP Plugin – HighSlide JS Plugin

Highslide JS is a brilliant thumbnail viewer written in javascript.

WP-Highslide is a wordpress plugin that allows you to easily use Highslide by automatically inserting the necessary javascript into your posts or pages. The plugin makes uses of a wordpress quicktag to make the insertion process painless.

Also, for users looking to customize highslide, this plugin gives you the flexibility of editing the javascript object settings, setting global options through the options page, or overriding the global options for indivdiual images, all without having dig through the plugin code.

For changelog and installation procedure, just visit the author’s site.

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