Off to Langkawi for the weekend. Hope this break will do some good to my focus and concentration.
Or maybe come up with some million dollar idea that can make me rich.
But I know it will be just beach, seafood, alcohol and alcohol.
Haha!
The first thing that comes to my mind of a rock star lifestyle is obviously the sex, booze, drugs, wealth and the care-free mindset. A running joke that me and my friends always say to motivate ourselves in Internet Marketing is;
Friend A: I think Internet Marketing blows. See you guys, I am going back to a 9-5 job, stable but boring life, work my way up the corporate ladder, suck up to my boss, settle down, get married, grow old.
Friend B: Ok, I still prefer Internet Marketing. Fast cars, hot chicks, pills, and flashy blings. Bye
For some reason, success in Internet Marketing is closely associated to the lifestyle of a rock star. I don't really know why but I guess it's because of the potential earning's someone could gain from Internet Marketing.
Yes. I must admit. I want my rock star lifestyle. NOW. It wouldn't do any good if I get rich at 50 with my saggy ass.
Anyway. I just got news of a new product in the market. It is called Affiliate RockStar Status. And because I want to achieve my rock star lifestyle, I bought it.
Before I talk about the money making contents of the ebook, there is a section I which I found extremely amusing.
Towards the end there is a bonus chapter where Eric (the author) talks about how he lives his rock star life. Things he and his "rock star" buddies do as they have already achieved financial freedom.
Standard things like fly business class, book the best hotels, live in luxury apartments. He mentions that if you want to look a million dollars you should always hire a fashion consultant and what are the benefits to looking your best.
Instead of driving in a nice flashy sports car, what his crew does is to hire a female chauffeur to drive them around in some top range SUV and hit the local scenes with a bang.
He also recommends 8 luxury items to own once you are making fast cash with Affiliate Rockstar Status.
1. High Tech Gadget : PI Elite Slim Cam ( lol I dont know why but he did give some reasons.)
2. Vacation Location: Apparently Miami, South Beach is the best place to go for a vacation. He even recommended a couple of beach hotels to stay.
3. The ride: If you like to party like a rock star then go for a Range Rover HSE or a stretch Hummer. Or if you are a sports car type (like me) go for a Mazda RX-8.
4. High end Watch: He says that every tom dick and harry wants a rolex when they are rich. Why not get a equally classy, Movado sports watch. (Never heard of it. I guess ill stick with Rolex then)
5. Restaurants: The best places to dine are in New York. (Haha. Again, I have never been there so I'll stick with my Malaysian food)
6. Wines: Buy French Merlot
7. Cigars: If you are a smoker, smoke them as cigars greatly display your new found wealth. If not, too bad.
8. Favorite past time: Attend live concerts V.I.P style.
The whole ebook states a very valid system to make money online. In fact I believe that if I follow everything step by step I generally would be able to live my rock star life. I learnt some new tips and some new methods which I have never heard of before. But before buying the book I was prepared for some rehashed fluff just like all the other make money online ebooks out there.
But I wanted to take action, so I bought it. I wanted the price to remind myself why I started Internet Marketing in the first place. I wanted to be reminded of what my goals are, which is to achieve financial freedom.
There are plenty of reviews regarding this product out there but from the bottom of my heart, the Affiliate Rockstar Status is a great way to start if you plan earn money online.
If you wish to continue your life like Friend A above, then I wish you all the best.
But if you finally come to your senses and wish to be like Friend B, then start acting!
Click HERE to achieve your Rockstar Status today!
One fine morning my tank was low so I pulled up to the nearest gas station. The moment I parked my car, this friendly guy came over and signaled me to pop the hood. I figured, well my car probably needs some battery water or maybe some black oil.
As I was refueling my car he turned and said to me.
"Hmm seems like your radiator needs some proper fluid (as he emptied the radiator of its previous contents). Look how dirty it has became. You cant run a car like that."
I was like uh… ok sure change it then.
"Great! How many do you wish to purchase?
Just one thank you.
"OH no no no, you need at least 7 to fill it up. At best 4 mix with water"
What! Fine how much is one then.
"15bucks per bottle. (while running over to get a whole box of it) You see its good quality, imported from UK"
At that point I was thinking to myself. What have I got myself into. Not only did I allow him to empty my radiator fluid, now have to buy new ones. ARGH. So that is what I did. I bought 5 which totaled up to RM75. The whole time driving to work after that I tried to convince myself that the new fluid was really worth it. I was complementing the smooth acceleration, more power in the engine and other stuffs.
What it ever it was. I had absolutely no idea what radiator fluid does and when should I change it or even whether it cost RM15 per bottle. All i know is that I was RM75 poorer when I left the gas station and I had to live with it.
I learnt an important lesson that day. If that guy had a booth on the side selling bottles for 50c I wouldnt have even bothered about it. What made the sale was the fact that he came over to "pre-sell" me. Goes to show that if you really want to sell something to someone, you have to make that extra effort. Plus if a person comes to a shop/website without an intention buy anything, at the end of the day with enough convincing, a sale can be made.
Also, Im never going to let anyone pop my hood in the gas station again :/
Yes I must admit that the title is a bit link baity but pardon my cheesiness. I genuinely want to account my details on the simple steps I took to achieve those backlinks in Yahoo. This is afterall, a blog-for-me-to-take-note-of-things 
Ok never mind.
Firstly this is done for another site (part of my work :P) and I haven't had the time to do it for this blog yet. So don't go checking my blog and claiming me a liar! (Of course you wont check my blog, I am not that famous)
Anyway the method is pretty simple, easy,and fun!. To me at least.
What I basically did was just go to blogs and post comments with my link there! Sounds like spam I know but rest assured I really did read a couple of post before doing any commenting. You might be surprised at the wealth of information you can get!
So you not going build links but you get to learn things too. What a steal i must say.
The most important factor in commenting though is that the blog owner must have the "nofollow" links disabled. A "nofollow" link will not register with the search engines as the robots and spiders will stop at that link and literally, not follow it.
I mange to find a great resource for blogs that have the "nofollow" link disabled.
http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/
Have fun commenting and please don't spam them! Everyone loves a couple of comments everynow and then. Even ME! 
So you guys must be wondering what eSpime is lol. I have been meaning to make a post about it. Anyway eSpime Ltd is the company I am currently working in. It is an internet marketing company and I must say I feel very, very thankful to have found this job!
Because Internet Marketing companies are rare in Malaysia I never would have imagined me working in one! I quit my previous job in a web hosting company 2 months ago and I found eSpime through Jobstreet.
The main company is in Finland and there is also a branch here in Malaysia. Basically it is internet marketing in a bigger scale here. I am currently in charge of the SEO for the company website so wish me luck lol. Hopefully I can do a good job cause things are looking pretty good and I wouldnt know what to do if I got kicked outta here.
They do all sorts of things to help clients boost their web presence online so if you got some time feel free to check out www.espime.com.my
Great, I woke up this morning and got this email from Clickbank
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in Clickbank. After review of your account our Security Chief has determined that we are unable to accept this account. We are given no details to the decline.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
Best of Luck
Someone take a gun and please shoot me in the face.
And oh, Hello Paydotcom.
As I mentioned before, I am currently busy trying to launch a new product in the World of Warcraft niche. It would also be my first time to try to sell a product on Clickbank.
The work around to become an affiliate as a Malaysian is pretty simple and there are a couple of ebooks on it in the market. However as I was trying to become a publisher I got a little paranoid on how to approach it.
I used to think that I could be accepted if I just used a Singaporean virtual office address but after several failures from my fried Peng Joon, I got abit disheartened.
He tried a Singaporean address once, it didnt work.
He tried to access Clickbank through a proxy, it didnt work also.
But when I emailed Gobala about it, he said he did nothing unusual and it worked for him. So I am thinking maybe its all about luck.
Obviously Clickbank would be my first choice as all World of Warcraft publishers have their product on Clickbank and affiliates are more prone to promote products if its on Clickbank. If all fails I guess I have no choice but to put it up on Paydotcom.
Last Sunday I took some extreme measures to try to set up a publisher account for my product on Clickbank. With the help of Peng Joon on my side, we instructed my girlfriend's brother (who stays in Singapore) over MSN to open an account for me
Hopefully, it gets approved. It better be!
It's been a while since I blogged! Been quite busy with preparing for my latest product launch. Alot of things in Internet Marketing are still new to me so it's better I take things slowly.
Anyway here are a couple Google Adwords tips for you. Just simple ones that maybe you might not know.
If you have ads that target other countries but not Malaysia how do you check your ad on Google?
One method that I frequently use is to enter this code after I have searched for a particular term —> " &gl=us " (without quotes)
For example I did a search on "blogs" and got this url
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blogs&btnG=Google+Search
simply add the code behind the url to look like this
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blogs&btnG=Google+Search&gl=us
'us' is the country abbreviations and as you might have guessed, that is the country abbreviation for United States. You refer to this site http://www.greenbuilder.com/general/countries.html for more abbreviations
However checking your ads constanly with cause your impression to rise so that might screw up your CTR. Thankfully Google has implemented a preview page that you can go to check your ads.
So, have fun!
Was doing my usual rounds at the blogsphere and came across John Chow dot Com,a blog that helps you make money. It's a pretty famous blog and come's out as the first result in Google for the term "make money online".
If you search it now however,It is not first for the time being due to some internal spidering error on his site but it should be back up soon. I came across his blog a long time ago and I'm really impressed with what he has built over the years. It just goes to show how powerful the blogging, as well as the internet can be these days.
I always wanted to participate in his linking batch but never came around to it. But suddenly I went to his blog today and he is having a contest! John will be giving away a 24″ wide screen LCD monitor! Wow what a gift! I don't really know what my chances are in winning but trying is still better than nothing. Plus the draw date is just around the corner.
To enter, you just have to write about it. (which is what I am doing now :P)The contest is sponsored by BlueFur, who wants to let you know that they’re hosting Canada and the rest of the world.
Now wish me luck!
This is an article I wrote that I submitted to Ezinearticles.com. Thought I just post it up here to share.
Since the introduction of the internet, many people have realized the advantage of using it as a tool for research and information gathering. And through the years, Google has become one of the most prominent search engines due to its simplicity of usage. Internet users find it very convenient to use Google’s search capability to find new information about various topics.
Google uses a very sophisticated system that employs the use of algorithm, the PageRank algorithm. This is a search method that enables the web portal to effectively search for web pages based on a particular search request.
The early development of web pages used a system that is generally different from the concept of page ranking. Even today, this type of system is employed by some search engines. Search phrases are identified based on the occurrence on a particular web page. This occurrence or hit is then weighted based on the document’s length, its presence in the underlying HTML tag or even by keyword density.
In further development, search engines devised a system which eventually makes searches more resistant to electronically and instantly generated web pages. This was based primarily on the search criteria with a more generic form of search documents. However, as this type of system did not promise to be a better approach in searching files, the link popularity was developed. Link popularity identifies the number of linked documents as the measure of its importance. Hence, a particular web page is deemed important for a search if more links are imbedded in it compared to other web pages.
This system may be more efficient than phrase searching but it does not eliminate the possibility of having dummy searches. Apparently, there are millions of websites that can be linked to each other based on a certain key path. Even though the web page is not significant for the search, it may still be prioritized based on the number of links.
How do Google Pagerank algorithms work and differ from other search methods?
Generally, when you do a search using Google, the portal searches for a document that is more important not based on inbound links. These documents are prioritized if other high ranking documents are linked to it. Thus the accumulation of higher order ranking is maintained within the search. High ranking documents are then filtered out to acquire a much higher ranking document until your search is completed.
Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin are the first to introduce the PageRank Algorithm in this formula: PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + … + PR(Tn)/C(Tn)).
A page rank system does not rank websites in general item but is clustered for each page individually. Subsequent pages under a ranked page support the overall ranking of the whole document.
For example, if we are to use a model with three pages A, B, C; with this relationship, A is linked to B and C, B is linked to C and C is linked to A.
Since A is linked to both B and C, it (A) can be supported by both pages. If in any case B and C are highly ranked by previous searches, A will definitely benefit from it to succeed as a higher ranking page. Whereas, for both pages B and C, since they are linked to A independently, they may also be hit by a search but on the lower case of rank compared to A.
