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This post still about pay per post or pay per review or whatever they or you call it. Basicaly, a post that is made upon reservation by other blog/site either direct from blog to blog/sites or via third party (pay per whatever brokers). I have made a post about it, check it out if you haven’t read it before. Even it was just simple post, I encourage you to check it out thou.

There is no more secret for us that there are many PPR (Pay Per Review) broker spread out here, you can check it via google search for pay per review, and you will be served with around 10 big PPR players. And if you wish to dig informations deeper, you can easily notice that almost of these broker are generaly DO pay their affiliate/bloggers. Many bloggers show their earning revenue from PPR and encourage other to apply as reviewer (or blogger) under their affiliate (or not under anybody!), some of those also eager advertiser to join the network.

Blogger can earn up to a whooping thousand dollars in a month (and is increasing) but the rests, only few bucks a month although generally speak we just can earn dollars, how much we earn its depend on our work and our blog quality.

But when money is involved on something, certainly lead to pros and cons. Some ‘real bloggers’ do not agree with this scheme with their own opinions, some search engines also have their own opinion. But for me, that is currently working online, these opinions just a normal behavior that always occur when new ideas are threw publicly.

However Google, that currently is the biggest search engine has their own opinions, via a google guy’s blog Matt Cutts write a comprehensive post on pay per review and how it affects on search engine ranking, how google determine the pay per review post and how we compromising it thus we don’t lose google faith.

But, I rather skeptical on how will google search engine determine the paid links on post. Because no matter how clever is google algorithm it’s just a script and not more, just sorts of code and not a human being, definitely it has limitations. And in my opinion it rather impossible to cleverly judge whether the post is sponsored or not. Also some of pay per review brokers are still having a good pagerank on their site (almost all of these services have pagerank value minimum 4, some are PR5), and these brokers are easily determined by small sort of codes. If google DOES hate the pay per review post, why they did not ban the brokers first?

I also found interesting fact here, even Forbes has paid post on it, it’s about mesothelioma and Forbes is still gaining PR6.

There are always places for creative people

I forgot where did I find quote above, but if you think about it you will never regret your life, in fact you will thank to God in every breath you take, every luck you get and every buck you earn :). I will not talking about God, but sure, I will talking about how creative people do to earn some money on the net.

So you want domain, but you need asap AND need it with some pagerank attached because you also want to earn some money from it quickly. You can get this kind of domain from digitalpoints.com forums, specially in domain (or site) forums. You can find lots of aged domains (that’s what they call for already registered domain) in various prices, from $1, $100 to a whooping $5000 and may be more.

And how come, an already registered domain can be that valuable
I did asked this question in my first time visited there, I fully understand if that offered domain is a good, readable, short domain just like tags [dot] com, or best [dot] com, but for non-special named domains? I would not pay for a buck, I could wait it delete and than available again, so I can buy it.

Of course I was totally wrong, to wait domain name for dropping is easy but to buy RIGHT time after it’s been dropped is a very difficult process, because it machines we compete with, an not human. I’m talking about an automate script own by big domain player that automatically buy certain domains a milisecond after it being dropped! Although it nearly impossible for us to get dropped domain, but sometimes we can buy it too, like I did 4 days ago.

But buying dropped domain will delete its previous attributes, and happy or not, it will be counted as a new domain. Although the domain’s pagerank still intact after we buy it, but googoo MIGHT drop the pagerank after future pagerank update. I said MIGHT because I never prooved it myself (in fact I’m trying to proove the theori by buying dropped domains and playing some experiment on it).

Aside from buying dropped domain, buying an already registered domain will obtain many benefits:

• The domain age, domain age still intact because we only change some partial informations
• Pagerank, pagerank also intact, as long as it is fully maintained soon after domain take over
• data preservation, some of domain have been listed on archive.org, yahoo directory, etc, also it might have some links from other regular site before

And since the first impression of website is the layout and then pagerank, buying domain with pagerank is a fast solution for website that want to quickly enter the money earning gateway (of course not that fast, but you will figure it out how fast it is, it it compared with fresh domain).

And that is one of the reason why sex [dot] com are sold in a whooping thousand dollars if its not million dollars! (I forgot the exact price). And talking about creative, there are many members sell their domains, some with PR, some not, many in cheap price and the other are soo expensive. BUT please be aware too, some also playing some nuts trick by buying some dropped domain with pagerank ans sell it three times or two times higher than fresh domain’s price.

So be carefull, because like I said, there are always places for creative people and be sure don’t be a victim of creative people up here…

Some friends suggest me to join pay per review programs that are now very popular among blogger or online earner. They say that it is an easy job and pays well. One of my friend can make around 50 bucks someday from review, although that money aren’t everyday money. But at least for, say $10 - $20 is a rational value that can be earnt everyday.

I’m not interested yet, but also I can not say that I’m not going to join this business. At least I know the basic first, to register or not it I’ll think it later.

Recently Donny Simonton, a parked.com guy announced that the parked arbitrage was dead effective 1pm PST on Thursday, February 14, 2008.

Bad news? No it’s not. Good News? Probably it is!

I was not jealous on how much parked.com members generates their bucks from it (I heard one of it had made more than IDR 650,000,000 a month (Approx USD 72,000) net from arbitrage scheme they avail) but I hate them because they were using AdSense as a traffic source.

How much they bid from 1 click in AdWords? A friend of mine said they bid as low as $0.01 per click on AdWords, despite on how much AdWords share for advertisers, this low bidding would bring some negative impact on adsense publishers!

How much I got per click from AdSense ? Of course it would be less than $0.01, that’s why it’s good news to hear Parked Arbitrage was DEAD! MAY GOD BURY IT IN HELL!

Last night I watched the third season of the X-Files from the DVD which I kept several days ago. It horrified me a lot since there must be unpredictable scenes which splashed in the middle of the stories. Rather than get myself dismayed, instead the scenes gave me some kind of adrenaline rush which encouraged me to watch the next and the next episodes.

I couldn’t remember again what time should I fell asleep, but as far as I know I woke up this morning lately. Almost one hour late, and it’s not only made me went to work on rush, but also it has ruined my new daily activity: the morning jog. Whereas I’ve made some progress on this jog by adding the route length and better physical endurance. I gotta tell you that now I never yawn again in the office as if I usually did before exercising the mroning jog.

To come late at the office was a new thing to me [after the flood incident] since I never left any seconds from my time to get myself at the office on time. I hope that tomorrow I won’t be late anymore by this kind of silly accident.

I want to monetize this blog because I saw a guy that has made $300 in January 2008 from writing post that he loves and getting paid from advertisers because he mentioned links to advertisers on his post.

Such services I realize DO pay their member, I saw a lot of them upload their proven payment because some other don’t believe that such services are paying and could really generate money.

What could be better than some changes for the boring and stagnant situation? After 3 days of early jogging, I started to put changes on my room layout.

The big thing that occurred instead of arranging the bed position and the other stuffs is that the big computer desk that take place at the corner of the room. It’s a really drastic change since I have never put my computer on a large desk ever before. Previously I tend to put the computer on a small desk so I need no chair when I should work with it.

Lately, I feel some kind of backache which I assumed has come from the bad position as I should work with nothing I can laid back. It doesn’t matter if I worked for only less than one hour, but surely the fact says that I spend a lot of more time to work with computer. Then, I decided to make a big difference to increase my work performance that is bought the large desk for my computer.

Frankly, the desk took more spaces than usual since it occupy about one fourth of my room space. But I say “you can’t make an omelet without breaking the eggs”. It’s called sacrifice. It’s a good investment for my health on the next days, avoiding the rheumatics or further back aches.

A man came up to our office, spoke to our customer service that he had dissatisfied with the service. He was a Supervisor for his company for a product that he should campaign, thus he joined our exhibition program for two weeks in a supermall which titled “Audio Fever!”.

Unfortunately, there was a little problem during the exhibition. The electricity failed oftentime on the first two days which was merely the building management responsibility. But, since clients made their contracts with us as the organizer, lot of complains overcrowded our phone conversations.

Actually the building was a new one, and this was our first time to held an exhibition on that place. We thought that everything would gonna be okay as well as our previous events. But being in a new venue brought us a new experience. The building wasn’t fully prepared for our exhibition which consumed a lot of electricity, since it was an audio stuff exhibition.

The problem then solved on the third days when the building added an extra generator to support the whole activity. There were no reports of power failure the following days until the exhibitiion ended on the 10th day.

Talking about business and services, problems like complaining customers are nearly unavoidable, so taking them as a mean of self performance report would be better rather than just taking them as negative press. Customers are the nearest side that can judge and give reports to our service, instantly. Whan a customer speak their complain right to us, it means that they still have attention to our service and hope that it will increase in performance. And as they give their complains, it will be the next step for us to improve.

I search via google frequently each day, in fact maybe I search via google 2 times more often than you all :). And I search thru Mozilla.

As you might have known, that Mozilla’s google search box does not save the search history (nor provide auto complete just like google toolbar does). So I have to type queries over and over again from beginning to the end of search query, and it’s a disaster. And since some of our query are similar such as site:http://www.mydomainname.com and link:http://www.mydomainname.com or info:http://www.mydomainname.com, some I made a shortcut to ease my search.

Want to know how to make such shortcut? Here how I make it:

• Search a certain keywords/terms via Mozilla search box that usually is located on the top-right of Mozilla browser, and then hit enter. In this example, I search pages here that are indexed by Google.
• You then will be served with results of your search via google, some of the sensitive characters are converted in a safer text. However the url I marked in yellow is still intact.
• Bookmark the result page via shortcut Ctrl-D or Bookmark > Bookmark This Page and (optional) change the name to whatever you want it. In this example I name the bookmark with “checking site: with g”, then click OK.
• Now, edit the bookmark page you’ve created before by clicking bookmark, point your mouse to the bookmark name and right click the mouse then click properties.
• Edit your search query and replace it with %s, supply an easy to remember keyword, because the keyword will be called everytime you make a search.
• Now you can call the keyword (I love to say it shortcut more than keyword) everytime you want to search in Mozilla, in this example I search “site:http://www.yoursite.com/” (note: I have embbeded the “site:http://” keyword inside the bookmark’s search pattern.

Happy searching!

Before we make any efforts with search engine optimization, always a good idea to LOOK AT YOUR PAGE FIRST !, non friendly search engine page(s) will more likely tobe hard indexed by search engine crawler/robot. No matter how hard you made it, how good it’s designed, it will become ‘quiet of traffic’ because no visitors enter your page(s).

So how dow I make a friendly search engine page(s)? These are my experiences on building a friendly search engine page(s) :

• Build a simple web page first with sufficient menu
  Small sized webpage will be loaded faster on browser, hence visitors will in instance know what they deal with. They’ll leave if that page was not they want for and STAY if that page is what they looking for. No more wait, no more bandwith wasted.
• Use CSS instead of table, use table only for container
  With table you’ll be trapped on nested table which give you more filesize and sweating robot to ping
• Do not waste your bandwidth by putting too much image
  Well ofcourse except if you’re a famous photographer
• Framed page? Better strip that!!
• Use proper Mark Up languange with proper tags