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Firefox Performance Tuneup Tricks

2005-01-24T23:04:00.000-08:00

Do you use Firefox browser? It's a more stable browser than Internet Explorer.

Dave gave some performance enhancing tips here. For example:

Type "about:config" in Firefox address bar.

- Set "network.http.pipelining" value to "true"
- Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
- Change “network.http.pipelining.maxrequest”â to a number around "30". This indicates that the browser will attempt to make up to 30 requests to the server at one given moment.
- Finally, you need to add in a variable to the list. In order to do so, right click and select "new --> integer". A menu will popup asking for you to enter the name of this integer. Enter "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This tells the fox not to wait on displaying the data that it has received from the server.

How To Be Notified When Google Indexes Your Site

2005-01-24T11:11:00.000-08:00

Released yesterday, the Google Index Notification (GIN) tool lets you keep track via email of what specific pages Google has indexed on your site.

Free to download, GIN shows you precisely which Web pages are actually being indexed by the Google spider and notifies whoever you want in near real-time.

Created by JRBTECH, GIN provides a useful feature for those who are publishing new sites and needing to promptly know when Google starts to indexing their site.

Setup is very easy: just include a call to a small PHP script inside your HTML code and you are up and running.

If you are a blogger or a user of a full-fledged CMS you should include this call to the GIN PHP script inside your template files.

More information: http://www.jrbtech.com/googleindex/

You can register for an account here.

Download GIN: gin.zip

The "nofollow" Tag

2005-01-19T16:43:00.000-08:00

Google has introduced a new link tag, and it's ultimately designed to tell the search engines to ignore the link when it comes to calculating their algorithm. This new link tag is called rel="nofollow" and it can be added to any typical href link. By adding the tag to a link on your site, you're telling the search engines to ignore it. According to Google, "From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results."

Yahoo!, MSN Search, and other search engines are taking Google's lead and beginning to recognize this new link tag called the (rel="nofollow") tag.

Free SEO Tools

2005-01-11T12:22:00.000-08:00

I just found out this site that lists tons of free SEO tools.

"This Free SEO Tools page has links to the best SEO Tools on the internet and these tools will help you to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher. The following free SEO Tool links are selected from the top SEO tool web sites. These Free SEO Tool links are the best of the best!"

Click here for those SEO tools.

Are you buying text links? Watch out!

2004-12-23T15:21:00.000-08:00

Brad Fallon, author of Stomping the Search Engines, posted this article about Google's new link trap:

"Recently, Google has been knocking (often highly ranked) pages out of the top 1,000 for certain keywords. One minute you're on the first page, and the next day, you're gone.

Ironically, the problem appears to be having too many of the wrong kind of links. I want to share these observations with you and tell you how to avoid this 'Link Trap' disaster."

Click here to read more about it.

What is this Instant Buzz?

2004-12-17T13:34:00.000-08:00

I heared quite few people talk about Instant Buzz at a marketing forum, some people are saying they are getting good results with this software in getting leads and sales.

So I signed up, will look into it more. Currently it's by invitation only.

They have a very active user forum, as of this writing (12/17/04, 1:30 pm PST), there are already 7615 total posts (581 new posts in the last 24 hours), amazing.

Here is what it says inside member area about how it works:

3 Ways to Earn Advertising Credits

You'll earn Advertising Credits in three different ways.
What's an Advertising Credit?
If you have 5 Advertising Credits that means that your text ad will appear on someone else's Instant Buzz bar 5 times.

1. Personal Surfing Points
You earn Advertising Credits for your personal surfing habits.

Every time you visit a new web page a new ad is displayed in your Instant Buzz bar and you earn 0.1 Advertising Credits.

For example, if you visit 100 pages in a day (which is easy to do) you will earn 10 Advertising Credits.

2. Direct Referral Points
For every person who you personally refer to join Instant Buzz, you will earn 0.1 Advertising Credits every time they visit a new web page.

For example, if you refer 10 people and they visit 100 pages per day, you will earn 100 Advertising Credits per day.

Now, here's where it gets really exciting.

You'll earn your biggest advertising credits from ... (click here to learn)

Click here to find out more, you may want to sign up and try it for yourself, it's free.

Use Google as a Writing Tool?

2004-12-17T12:52:00.000-08:00

Stephen Dean posted something interesting on Blaker forum:

Try putting these keywords into google:

your_topic "money back"

Replace your topic with whatever the subject happens to be, recipes, magic tricks, dieting - whatever. Then in quotes put "money back." Google will search for that exact phrase.

"Money back" is uncommon enough for most web pages, but it's EXTREMELY COMMON in sales letters. So what Google will return for you is nearly every sales letter for your topic listed on google.

Try those out and see what you think.

Click here to read more about this interesting idea.

Here is another post he made, offering free reports/interviews on joint ventures.

You Send It

2004-12-16T23:05:00.000-08:00

Do you want to email someone a file, but it's too big for your mail server to handle?

Now you have a free solution: YouSendIt.

Here is how it works:

Choose who you want to send a file to. It can be anyone with an email address. You can specify multiple email addresses separated by commas.

Select a file to send. You can send photos, audio, documents or anything else. Your file will be stored by YouSendIt without ever filling up your recipient's mailbox.

Click on Send. YouSendIt will automatically email your recipient a link to your file stored on our server. Your file will be deleted after seven days.

Check it out here.

Stephen Pierce's New Product: How 2 Blog

2004-12-14T15:42:00.000-08:00

Stephen Pierce, author of the popular ebook The Whole Truth, just launched a brand new product: How 2 Blog.

Have To Blog For Fun and Profits...
Real Blogging Secrets...

"Everyone's talking about Blogging but no one is showing how you can make serious money with websites that literally write themselves and elbow their way into the coveted top ten Google rankings."

Click here to read more about How 2 Blog...

Google Suggest - Search Innovation

2004-12-14T15:09:00.000-08:00

Google is testing a new interface for their search engine that they're calling Google Suggest.

One of the problems for many users of Google has been the huge number of results returned including ones that apparently had nothing to do with the original request. Other search engines have taken the approach of gathering what they feel are related results together to try and assist the searcher. Google Suggest is Google's shot at it.

The interface looks the same as it does currently - simple, stripped down and functional - but as you type in your search term, a drop-down box shows a number of suggestions based on what you have entered. It also lists the number of search results would be returned, giving a further guide to searchers.

Click here to read more about Google Suggest.

Click here to go to Google Suggest Beta

Where to learn to become a super affiliate?

2004-12-13T18:09:00.000-08:00

When I first started out on internet marketing/affiliate marketing a while back, I poured in countless hours in studying different sites, bought quite a few ebooks, hoping to be successful online.

I really wish there could be a central location where I could learn all the "inside" secrets and tricks to get my online business on a fast track, one that especially targeted to affiliates like myself. I'd have saved a lot of time and money and become successful even sooner.

That's why I'm very happy to hear that Anik Singal has launched a site that specifically shows you how to become a super affiliate.

For the past couple of weeks, I've been reading all the material on his site, I think it's excellent.

It covers all aspects of affiliate marketing, whether you are a beginner, or a seasoned marketer, you can learn quite a bit from those original material.

The site consists of a few main components:

GETTING STARTED

FORUM

STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTION

AFFILIATE PROGRAM PROFILES

MARKETING LIBRARY

INTERVIEWS

CASE STUDIES

CONFERENCE CALLS

SUPPORT & HELP

In the "Marketing Library" section, he has a seven-step "Affiliate Upsell System", that shows you:

Learn how the building blocks behind the system and why it works so well...

Learn how to write the most killer affiliate sales copy - learn the art of PRE-Selling and not hard selling...

6 Crucial Rules you have to keep in mind when you're building an affiliate site...

How to use free gifts and bonuses to build the most responsive list and make the most money...

Learn exactly how and when to follow-up with your list to make the most money...

To "really" make a killing as an affiliate, it is almost imperative that you build multiple streams of income. But, you have to do this the right way - learn how...

The one place that most affiliates begin making their mistakes - it is imperative that you build a relationship with your merchant - here's how to do it the right way...

Special report: Learn how to make money off of other 'competing' affiliates - HIGHLY recommend Report.

I'm VERY impressed with this system!

Another section is the Interview section. Anik conducted an interview with me a few weeks back, and now it's featured in that section, along with several other marketers'.

It's just too much to cover everything in this brief overview, I believe Anik offers tremendous value with most up to date material.

I encourage you to explore the site and find out for yourself, I'm sure you'll learn a great deal just like I have.

Thank you for reading, before you head off to his site and take a test drive, you may want to download this free report: Beyond Articles, Lightning Fast Content.

How to bring traffic to your blog immediately

2004-12-13T14:24:00.000-08:00

I use w.bloggar software to make posts, and it can ping pingomatic.com for the new post so that the blog search engines listed on pingomatic.com can get notified.

Below is a list of even more blog search engines that you can ping. If you use WordPress, it can be automatic: Go to WordPress->Options->Writing and add the following:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

The following is another list of blog search engines (some may overlap with the list above), you may need to dig deeper to get the exact url to ping:
http://www.a2b.cc
http://api.feedster.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com
http://bblog.com
http://www.bitacoles.net
http://blogbot.dk
http://blogdb.jp
http://www.blogdigger.com
http://blogmatcher.com
http://www.blogpeople.net
http://www.blogroots.com
http://www.blogshares.com
http://www.blogsnow.com
http://www.blogstreet.com
http://blog.goo.ne.jp
http://bulkfeeds.net
http://coreblog.org
http://www.lasermemory.com
http://mod-pubsub.org
http://www.mod-pubsub.org
http://www.newsisfree.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.bloggers.jp
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com
http://ping.syndic8.com
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://www.popdex.com
http://rcs.datashed.net
http://rpc.blogrolling.com
http://rpc.technorati.com
http://rpc.weblogs.com
http://www.snipsnap.org
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net
http://topicexchange.com
http://www.weblogues.com
http://xping.pubsub.com
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

Once they are pinged, your blog will show up in those engines, and hopefully you can get traffic immediately.

I had a new blog site, after a few posts, Google and Inktomi Slurp (Yahoo) spidered the blog on the same day.

Happy pinging!

PS. Thank Nana and popzzz at TE forum for correction.

How to Track Google Indexing

2004-12-12T23:18:00.000-08:00

Recently I sent out an email to all my customers about a tool that lets you track your site indexing on Google real easily.

Here is what I sent, and the response was overwhelming. Many customers have recognized the value of this great tool.

============================================

In this email, I want to tell you about one NEW tool that I use for my own website indexing monitoring and tracking.

It's a brand new piece of software, made by a fellow Traffic Equalizer user, Jason Bradley.

(For review of Traffic Equalizer, see http://www.successonlinemarketing.com )

I've known Jason for a while, his other product, Cover Software Pro (http://www.coversoftwarepro.com) makes excellent ebook covers with great ease. I've used this software to create stunning ebook covers and header graphics for a lot of my sites.

For the past few months, I've built a lot of sites for my clients and myself. Naturally I monitor the indexing to see how well those sites perform.

But checking indexing status is a very tedious and time consuming process. I had to manually enter each and every website in google with this command:

allinurl: www.mysite.com site:www.mysite.com

I could have spent all those time on building new sites and generating new revenues.

Jason was also facing the same problem. That's why he came up with this new tool. With the push of a button, it:

Displays and Tracks Your Entire Inventory of Websites
Reports the Total Number of Pages on Each Domain
Reveals How Many of Those Pages Have Been Indexed by Google
Produces Powerful Page Indexing Reports
Creates an Easy to Follow Indexing Graph That Visually Displays Your Page
Indexing Statistics on Each Domain Over Time
Retrieves Google Page Rank (PR) for Each Domain
Generates a Google Backlinks Report
A Notes Area for Each Domain so That You Can Record, Test and Track Your
Various Indexing Ideas and Methods
Unlimited Domain Tracking Ability
Built In, Color Coded Website Alert System
Tab Feature Allows You to Organize Your Domains into Groups, Track
Competitor's Sites and More

And much much more.

Bottom line, it saves me time and shows what pages are NOT indexed yet, so that I can spend my energy to get links to those pages and speed up the indexing process.

Jason even includes a great bonus, Template Tweaker.

I have a set of templates that do well in ranking and conversion. So I use them on every new site I build.

But there are a lot of places that I need to modify for each site, such as domain name, meta keywords, meta description, copyright notice, email address, etc.

I can use copy and replace feature in Dreamweaver, but for each field, I have to repeat the process, very tedious.

Template Tweaker lets me just fill in a few fields at one time, push a button, and all information is applied to all files and templates for a site. It's extremely helpful.

If you have multiple sites, or want to build multiple sites to generate great income, you need these software, to save you time for monitoring and website authoring.

I highly recommend them. Jason's customer support is first class.

Click here to read more about them.

Take care.

William Shi

PS. It comes with video tutorial, so that you can start using the software
right away!

How to write blogs easily and effortlessly!

2004-12-09T10:28:00.000-08:00

A while back I found a great piece of software that lets you write blogs super easy, especially if you have multiple blog accounts.

It's called w.bloggar.

It's a Windows based software, almost like FrontPage, but you can set up multiple blog accounts, just pick an account, use its editor to write a blog, then post and publish.

You don't have to manually log on to each blog account every time you want to publish a blog, it's very convenient. I use it all the time.

You can even use it to modify your previous posts.

It supports many popular blog systems, such as Blogger, Movable Type, Type Pad, Word Press, etc.

Another great feature, is that it has "ping pingomatic" option. If you select this option, every time you publish a blog, your blog is automatically submitted to multiple blog search engines/directories listed at pingomatic.com.

I'm using w.bloggar verson 4.00 RC 2, by the way.

How To Add a Comment and Trackback Function to Your Blog Using HaloScan

2004-12-09T10:13:00.000-08:00

There is a lot of discussion lately on TE forum about adding TrackBack as a way to get backlinks from other blogs.

This article discusses how you can do it even if your blog system doesn't provide trackback function, e.g. Blogger.

"Make your blog interactive with comments and trackback functions. One of the more powerful systems to use is HaloScan's service. This is a step-by-step instruction on how to add HaloScan to your blog."

Click here to read more.

Traffic Equalizer version 2.0 just released

2004-11-21T22:03:00.000-08:00

Jeff Alderson just officially released TE version 2 (PC version only). I strongly recommend you read TE Version 2 Quick Start Guide FIRST to get familiar with the basic process. The Quick Start Guide should come with the zip file you downloaded.

From what I see, Jeff combined Keyword Harvester with the new version, broke control panel up into several wizard like screens, and added an optional FTP feature.

But the data sources, templates and TE engine are still the same from what I can tell.

I'll update the TE Action Guide to cover the new version, but the templates customization process is identical with previous versions.

Traffic Equalizer 2.0 is coming...

2004-11-04T21:23:00.000-08:00

Jeff Alderson has sent out emails about upcoming Traffic Equalizer 2.0.

I've had the chance of reviewing it. It's the PC version.

It combines Keyword Harvester with current Traffic Equalizer, and split one control panel to several wizard like screens, it makes the process a bit easier.

Once it's officially released, I'll take some time to update my TE Action Guide.

If you use web version, you probably won't use the new version.

If you are my consulting client, you don't need this version either.

RSS Equalizer Quick Fix

2004-09-17T13:36:00.000-07:00

I hear some people are having problems with RSS Equalizer results, looks like Yahoo changed it's xml fomat, and causing:

XML Error

to show up.

I've found a quick fix by switching to a new feed. I've tested a few feeds, and found this feed works well.

Here is what you do:

1. Log in to your RSS Admin panel, select RSS Settings tab.

2. Scroll down, cut and paste the Primary RSS Feed text to a text file, and save it in case you need to restore it later on.

3. Replace the Primary RSS Feed with:

http://rss.topix.net/search/?q={keyword}&xml=1

4. Click on "Save Feed URLs" button.

My test shows the feed works again. Topix.net may not return as many feeds as Yahoo, but you no longer get XML error.

2004-08-29T15:19:00.000-07:00

Dear Friend,

Recently I see an uptick in Traffic Equalizer (TE) sales (see a demo/review on Traffic Equalizer here).

The direct reason? Traffic Secrets by John Reese. He uses Traffic Equalizer himself, and have achieved great results, that's why he speaks highly of TE.

Click here to find out more about Traffic Secrets.

The Blog Directory

2004-08-29T00:34:00.000-07:00

I found a new site today, that collects blog links, you can add your blog to that site.

The Blog Directory

Welcome

2004-08-20T00:01:00.000-07:00

Hi,

Welcome to my blog. Here is my main site: http://www.SuccessOnlineMarketing.com

If you want to know more about the great traffic generating software, Traffic Equalizer, please stop by http://www.successonlinemarketing.com and read my review and video demo.

William Shi