Blue Oasis, Online Marketing Greenery

Affiliate marketing is a form of marketing or advertising used on the internet that connects several party that produce/sell/promote relevant products or services. Say for example, you visit website A. Website A presents a link / advertisement that introduce services or products in website B.

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When web surfers search on google, yahoo, msn, they create special permission for advertisers to actually ’sell’ them their products and services. It’s a Reverse Broadcast Network. The search engines took full advantage of this ‘reverse broadcast network’ and enable advertisers to market themselves through extremely-targeted advertising platform. Unlike the conventional advertising which is intrusive, search allow every business to sell their stuffs to people who need them at exact time when they need them.

so what are you waiting for? Start your way through search engine today! :)

Being one of the hottest issue discussed by all Malaysian, the result is indeed very anticipating. I’ve been told by my friend in Kedah that DSAI win with majority of 16,210 votes. Landslide winning. It’s unofficial result released at 8pm at malaysiakini. More info please visit here.

So maybe you’ve just wrote yourself a good post in your blog and you feel like hook up with, linking it, or just simply notify those related post from other blogs about your newly written post. This is what you shouldn’t miss out doing.

Pingbacks, where the author request for notification when they link to their documents / articles / blog post. This can be done by embedding URL to the words in between your post. Say if i want to link to meshio.com’s article - Money or Time? I’d highlight any of the related words ..

and embed it with URL like this..

While Trackback, functions exactly like Pingback. The method of doing is different. In wordpress, there’s a Trackbacks option below the box where you write your post. Copy and paste the url inside the box. Like this..

Due to both Pingback and Trackback functions the same way, you don’t have to do the same thing twice. If you’ve already Pingback the URL inside your post, you shouldn’t Trackback the same URL again. Once you’re done, publish your post and it’ll look something like this at the comment section of the URL you tried linking it to.

This is my favourite drink of all time.

I must admit that my eating habit is unhealthy. I enjoy food that doesn’t favour to my health. Well, i’m a generic Malaysian. :)

It’s been running in my mind for quite some time that i should go for a blood test. It’s time to pay some attention to my health situation. I need to understand what are the ‘damages’ these food had made to me. In order to live a better life.. so to speak ( i think i should start to sleep earlier instead ). Well, maybe not friday night, because i’ll be busying with my ‘new toy’ LOL.

So i did. The report of my blood test is still pending.. i’ll just keep my fingers crossed.

I was asking my opinion about some advertising channel that’s good for my blog. K has some personal opinion to share.

me: yo
me: just wanna ask for your opinion..
k: ok
me: have you heard of widgetbucks?
k: yes
me: how do you find it?
me: i’ve been reading for some materials and find the comments quite contrasting
me: alot of users are complaining that they’re not paying and all that.
k: my opinion
k: dun use it
me: i see..
me: what other ad channel that u propose?
me: other than text link ads and adsense
k: tnx.net not bad, but it hurts ur PR
me: how come?
k: text link ads type of ads always hurt PR
me: i see.. including text link ads itself?
k: yes
k: paid post does too
k: I will remove all my text link ads and paid post next month
me: so it’s adsense left.

K mentioned that when the traffic is not much, probably at the rate of lower than 50 visit per day, you can leave the ads alone at the moment and concentrate on…

k: then my suggestion is - dun insert any ads first
me: oo.. y is that?
me: not much conversion?
k: nope
k: u should concentrate ur content first.
me: i see.
k: Ads on website actually drive away ur traffics
me: so what’s the avg number of visitors we’re looking at if we were to put ads on the site?
k: at least 50
me: i see..

Lastly, K shared a golden tips on blogging..

k: one litttle reminder
k: u need to be persistence in blogging
k: on and off bloggers do not really make money from it

Despite all the huss and fuss of the important people trying to cover things up with lies, and more lies, here’s some facts that really refresh your mind. Click on the following links for more.

http://us2.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/10901/84/ (source by Malaysia Today)

I’m not sure how and when they’re going to shut the content down, but as for the time being, it’s viewed and released so that all of us Malaysian know what’s going on.

It’s the Hungry Ghost festival soon. It’s a real irony that human are scared of the non-existence while the real monster is living inside everyone of us. It’s just the matter of how far we’re driven by greed. As far as this matter is concern, they ( the so-called important people ) are those worse than anything else that could be imagined.

Thanks for the info sharing. Tribute to RPK, true Malaysian hero.

I’ve been looking for a way to add RSS into my vista gadget so that i can view RSS feed directly from my desktop with it rotating from feed to feed. So here’s the way i found that is useful.

1. Surf with internet explorer, go to a website and subscribe feed like this.

2. And a pop up window will appear, save the rss feed into feed folder.

3. Click on ‘tool’ at vista gadget.

4. Choose the RSS feed or just simply choose all and then save it.

Now you’re able to see the vista gadget at your desktop displaying RSS feed that you’ve just saved.

I was working fairly late last night and my friends Eisen and Ammie messaged me. They asked whether or not i would be at pin’s office tomorrow. There’s something in the pantry for me. The first thing that came into my mind is food LOL. Well, it’s placed in the pantry area and of course my first thought would be food-related. Ahem, pardon me :D

Well, they sounded so mysterious and i didn’t get to know what was it until i was there today. Well well, it’s a pleasant surprise from Ammie. Red roses and lilies placed inside a vase with water and flower food. Sticky note says :” To Marcus, from lefiores :) ” hehe. Nice~ I love it alot. Thank you very much to brighten my day with a roses and lilies. I’ve talked to Ammie and she taught me how to manage the lilies and the sticky stuff on the tip. I thought it’s honey… hmmmmmmmmm… anyway, she said she’s going to teach me more when we meet haha. Sounds exciting!

Here’s the a few shots of the roses and lilies in action in my office!

I’ve came across widgetbucks when i was browsing through for some reading materials online and i happen to drop by at earnmoneytoblog.com. I saw this interesting money making method that the author is trying to promote through his blog. The author suggest that Widgetbucks is another method of making money through blogging apart from google adsense. I googled and found comments on both extreme ends talking about the good and the bad about Widgetbucks.

Some blogger says it does pay really good. Widgetbucks pay you 25 USD upon signing up, which caught my attention too.

Some blogger complains that it’s actually a trap that lure bloggers to put their ads up, help them expand their advertisement network, but they didn’t actually pay. If you look up for widgetbucks scam or keywords of these sort, you can see alot of the similar comments that’s featured at iguides.org, moneyblogger.org, blogstorm.co.uk or googlelady.com.

Well, it’s pretty hard to determine who’s actually right and who’s actually wrong. Much observation need to be done before actually get these widget ad tool installed on your blog. That’s what i think.