May 31, 2007 By

Professional Web Graphic Set for Online Marketers

How can you avoid paying someone $40 – $200 to design a professional web graphic set?

Well if you look hard enough, the answer won’t be too far away. My friend Aurelius Tjin mentioned his Copy & Paste Web Graphics a couple of days ago, and I just purchased it. For under $10, it’s a no brainer really.

If you have a direct response type of website (salesletter pages selling e-books or software), this will be the perfect solution that helps you save time and money. You can mix and match the header sets, icon sets, order button sets, background sets, e-book cover sets and other professional web graphics to create an unlimited amount of web pages. In fact I think the web graphic set is meant for these type of sites, but you can also use the header graphic sets for your blog or other type of sites.

Check out all the Internet marketing forums. There’s bound to be at least one post each day about the topic of “web graphics”. There’s quite a few designers out there but what’s lacking is a professional web graphic set that comes ready-made with styled buttons, seals, bullets, minisites and more like the CopyAndPasteGraphics set.

You can also try one of the advanced packages or even join the site as a member and continue to received full web page designs every month.

I think this is good value for money, and even if you don’t need to use it right away you can still get it while it’s so cheap and add it to your design library. It will definitely be useful someday. Sign-up here.

Filed Under: Ebook Marketing
May 30, 2007 By

More Pictures from The World Internet Summit

Some more pictures from the World Internet Summit in Singapore.

With Aurelius Tjin, owner of Copy and Paste Graphics. His web graphics package is excellent and a real value for money.

David Cavanagh and family. David is also a speaker at World Internet Summit.

Vince Tan (left), Dennis Sim and Khai at the Singapore food fair, at the Singapore expo.

Me, Dee and Bob Bastian from Indonesia, and Khai.

Patric Chan also showed up at the World Internet Summit, probably to catch up with some old friend.

My first time meeting Richard Quek from Malaysia. Richard has several books and e-books on Internet marketing and MLM.

On the last day. Melvin Ng, James B. Allen, Aurelius Tjin and me.

Filed Under: Internet Marketing Singapore
May 30, 2007 By

WIS Warrior Members Gathering

I have not been posting for a while, was away at the World Internet Summit Singapore from 25-30 May. The entire event was filled with so much fun, beginning with a pre-WIS meeting organized by Warrior Forum members.

Admittedly, I am rather inactive in the Warrior Forum but that will definitely change soon. In fact, during the gathering I declared that I “average 3 posts a year on the Warrior Forum” and that’s the truth :)

Anyway, here are some pictures from the Warrior Members gathering.

Smartzul from Malaysia, a prolific Malay-medium blogger who blogs about making money online.

Edmund Loh and James B. Allen. James is always smiling and really funny, a very nice guy and I’m glad I met him.

Ladan Lashkari from Iran. Yes, she really is as good looking as the picture on her blog. The Internet marketing world needs more women :)

Ian Del Carmen from the Philippines. Owner of Fireball Planet and a slick online marketer.

Hafiz & Najmi from Malaysia, owners of Cheapest Covers

And to all the other Warrior members who I couldn’t take a picture with on that day. It was a really great experience meeting everyone.

Filed Under: General
May 27, 2007 By

WP Plugin – Adsense Manager

Adsense Manager is a new WordPress plugin that helps to manage Adsense ads on your blog. Unlike other plugins which require you to copy and paste the code from Google Adsense site, Adsense Manager can generates the code automatically for you.

This allows you to modify Ads right from your WordPress admin panel. You can change colours, type and size of ads with a push of a button. On WordPress Widgets enabled blogs you can also drag the Ads around your Sidebar to position them as you like.

Details instruction on plugin usage can be found here.

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May 27, 2007 By

WP Plugin – Skypi

This is the first version of Skypi a widget to show a Skype-Button for direct dialing in Your sidebar. It s easy to configurate and You can change the image by replacing the default skype.jpg in the image-directory of the Skypi widget plugin.

As a widget, installation couldn’t be much easier:

  • Unzip the downloaded package and drop the folder in your WordPress plugins folder
  • Log into your WordPress admin panel
  • Go to Plugins and “Activate” the plugin
  • Go to Presentation, Sidebar Widgets
  • Drag the Skypi widget to the widget-bar
  • Click the Widget-Options button (small blue-topped square)
  • Enter a headline and your Skype-ID
  • Return to the Widget panel and click “Save changes »”
  • Check your blog to see if it’s working!

Download Skypi Version 1.0 skypi.zip

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May 27, 2007 By

WP Plugin – TinyMCEComments

Why the need of a preview box if you have the What You See Is What You Get Editor in the same place as your visitors type in the comments?

This plugin turns the comment field from a primitive <textfield> into a WYSIWYG editor, using the internal TinyMCE library bundled with WordPress 2.0 or up, without the need of another separate installation. Functions that only available to writers like adding images were removed and will not show up in the toolbar.

To download, click here. (Rename the extension from phps to php)

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May 24, 2007 By

WP Plugin – Firefox Popup

This plugin will be showing a pop up to IE users to download the Firefox browser. What best with this plugin is that you can configure it to promote Firefox while earning from the Google adsense affiliate program. Just be sure that you still adhere to the TOS given by Google.

Installation was pretty easy, just extract it to your usual plugin directory and activate it.

To have an overview on how it should looks to IE users, check this out. Just don’t bother much with the language. ;)

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May 24, 2007 By

WP Plugin – TinyMCE Advanced

Basically this plugin enhanced the existing TinyMCE that is built-in within the WordPress cpanel. It adds up to 12 plugins including Advanced HR, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Full Screen, Layer, Media, Print, Search and Replace, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras. Together these plugins add over 30 new buttons to the toolbar, which is now two rows plus one hidden row.

We might not be using if not all of the buttons, at least it gives us more spaces for better editing of our posting. The plugins should work fine up to WordPress v2.2, however it has being reported to have some glitch with IE6 and also Firefox users in certain areas.

Some of the new features added by this plugin are:

  • Imports all CSS classes from the main theme’s stylesheet and add them to a drop-down list.
  • Fullscreen mode.
  • Support for making and editing tables.
  • Much better (advanced) link and image dialogs that offer a lot of options.
  • Search and Replace while editing.
  • Some support for XHTML specific tags and for layers.

To get your respective download, heads up to the developer’s site.

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May 23, 2007 By

Windows Vista

Microsoft are experts at selling you things you don’t need, and they did it again with Windows Vista.

Today I decided to buy a new laptop, and from a week of surveying I finally decided to get a Fujitsu Lifebook. I have always loved the look and feel of Fujitsu laptops, and after my iBook died a premature death I thought of finding a new life partner.

The Fujitsu was as good as I expected. But the crap it came with certainly was not. Slow on startup, messy and overall a bad rip-off of the Mac OSX Tiger, this must truly be Microsoft’s biggest scam to date. If there’s anyone who can sell ice to the eskimos, it’s definitely Microsoft. I am sure Vista has tons of features and subtleties that I will never explore before the next Windows Armageddon is released.

It’s true what they say: “When you go Mac you don’t go back”. After more than a year using my iBook, I can’t help but make comparisons, and the Mac is truly the better machine with the better operating system.

The only reason I have Windows Vista now is because I had no choice. My Fujitsu Laptop came preinstalled with Vista, and to change the OS to XP would cost me 300 bucks.

Microsoft is crap. It’s all a big conspiracy.

Filed Under: Product Reviews
May 21, 2007 By

Using Wordtracker Keyword Research Tool

wordtracker In Keyword Research 101, I mentioned a tool called Wordtracker. In this post we’ll take a better look at Wordtracker and see why it’s an Internet marketer’s number one marketing weapon.

Essentially, Wordtracker does two things:

  • Helps you develop a list of likely keyword phrases. Wordtracker searches other Web site’s KEYWORDS tags and searches a thesaurus, to help you create a preliminary list of keyword phrases.
  • Based on these keyword phrases, it shows you what people using the Web’s search engines are actually typing into the search engines.

Almost all Internet marketers I know swear by Wordtracker, and the main reason seems to be in it’s accuracy and reliability.

  • The Wordtracker keyword research tool compares your keyword queries to a database of over 350 million searches, taken mainly from Metacrawler and Dogpile.
  • You can create and manage as many different projects as you want, and the Wordtracker keyword research tool will allow you to store each project individually, in their project “baskets”.
  • You can then email or export your keyword research data and save the entire list to your computer. Therefore, you can subscribe to Wordtracker for a single month, and do all your keyword research, then analyze them in an Excel sheet later.
  • Unlike the Yahoo keyword research tool, Wordtracker will differentiate between singular and plural words. That’s one of the things I learned the hard way. There’s a world of difference between ranking for the singular and plural versions of the same word
  • Wordtracker also give you other related keywords, some of which you may have never though of. They do this by taking a single keyword or phrase, checking for related keywords in the meta tags of other sites, and adding them to the research project

The screen above is the main function in the Wordtracker keyword research tool. You type in your seed word into the window, select Us or UK keywords (mostly use the US version) and click on Research. The tool then generates an entire list of related keywords for you.

As you can see, there are three columns:

  • Keyword – your seed keywords as well as all related keywords from the Wordtracker keyword research tool database
  • Searches – The amount of searches made on the Internet, specifically from Wordtracker’s partner sites. Unlike other keyword research tools, Wordtracker constantly removes old data and add new data every day, that’s why it’s more accurate
  • Predict – The amount of competing websites out there for that particular search term

Based on these data, the Wordtracker keyword research tool comes up with a statistics they call Keyword Effectiveness Index or KEI. This statistic basically tells you the chances of ranking high in the search engines for that particular search term.

wordtracker reports

Wordtracker also publishes top-keyword reports that allow you to see what keywords are hot right now. It’s no surprise that most of these keywords are related to porn, so you’ll need to filter them out to see anything meaningful.

According to the Wordtracker keyword research tool FAQ:

We publish two lists. The Long Term list is a compilation of the most popular search phrases over the last couple of months—the most popular phrases out of over 300 million searches. The Short Term list is the most popular phrases over the last 48 hours. The Short Term list includes many items that are temporary, related to recent news stories. But it can also indicate the beginning of new trends that may not be visible in the Long Term reports.

Even if you’re not ready to get into heavy keyword research, it pays to understand your market more by using Wordtracker. You can just take the free trial and work your way around it, and for starters you can then choose the one-month subscription and build your keyword list.

You can sign-up for a free trial of the Wordtracker keyword research tool here.

Other useful keyword research tools to have in your marketing cabinet:

  1. Good Keywords – A keyword research tool that you can download and use for free. It works great and if very user friendly, but for the sake of accuracy my opinion is that you’ll need to pay for a service like Wordtracker above.
  2. Keyword Elite – A keyword research cum keyword analysis tool. It basically automates all the processes I mention in this article, and more that I don’t. It allows you to find related keywords based on one keyword, so you can end up with a massive keyword list using this tool. It also allows you to group keywords together, and mix-n-match between different groups. As I said, this is one heck of a tool to invest in
  3. SEO Elite – This tool only makes sense after you have decided what keywords you want to target, and your overall keyword strategy. It helps you analyze the websites that are ranking for the keywords you target, and how to beat them to the top.
Filed Under: Search Engine SEO