Archive for April, 2007
Menjadi Penulis Jemputan Di Blog Terkenal
Hai, bertuahnya lah badan. Siapa yang nak menolak kalau dijemput menulis di blog yang terkenal? Banyak manfaatnya. Begitulah, tuah ayam nampak di kaki, tuah manusia? Eh, cikgu ni bercakap tentang tuah pulak.
Tak adalah, saya bukanlah seorang yang percaya sangat dengan tuah dan nasib ni. Saya lebih percaya kepada usaha dan kekuatan diri serta qada’ dan qadar.
Apapun, agaknya memang tuah saya. Saya telah dijemput untuk menulis artikel di salah satu blog IM terkenal di Malaysia ni. Terkejutnya saya sewaktu menerima jemputan tersebut, tak dapat nak bayangkan. Takkan pulak saya nak menolak. Walau sesibuk mana sekalipun, saya pasti akan meluangkan sedikit masa menulis artikel untuk blog IM tersebut.
Kenapa Nak Jadi Penulis Jemputan?
Happy Holiday – What To Write Today?
You might not aware that I am on holiday from 26th April until 3rd May 2007. That is a very long holiday. I am searching for new stuffs to put into my eXplore Johor Blog. However, the post on this blog has to go on. Eversince joining the Cabaran Menulis 40 Hari, I believe I should post at least one story daily to this blog to ensure you readers keep coming back in here. An un updated blog is a DEAD BLOG – that is what JohnChow said.
Anyway, since I’ll be going for about 9 days, I had to write 9 post + 1 (for emergency) in advance. That’s sound crazy! After writing 2-3 articles, then I started to lost ideas.
So, What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Write?
I’ll share you one of my secret. Go to other blogs and write about their post. Don’t just write about anything they wrote. Choose something that is related to your niche and blogs about it. Create something sensational or curiosity.
Kenali Pembaca Blog Anda
Saya telah membincangkan tentang kepentingan mengetahui statistic blog anda dalam posting Tidak Ramai Pembaca Blog Pada Hujung Minggu. Melalui statistic anda boleh mengetahui bilakah waktu puncak blog anda, hari yang paling ramai pembaca, posting apa yang paling digemari pembaca dan banyak lagi maklumat lain. Maklumat-maklumat ini amat berguna apabila anda ingin membuat launching product atau membuat apa-apa announcement yang penting. Ianya juga boleh dijadikan panduan supaya anda tidak membuat pengubahsuaian blog atau mengalih server atau membuat updating sistem pada waktu puncak dan hari paling ramai pembaca blog. Itu akan membuatkan ramai pembaca blog anda lari.
Kali ini saya nak mengajak anda mengenali pembaca blog anda pula.
Aik, Nak Kenal Dengan Diri Sendiri?
Yalah, anda kan pembaca blog saya. Ekekeke.. Anda gunakanlah maklumat yang saya kongsikan ini untuk mengenali pembaca blog anda pula, OK?
73% Pembaca Blog Ini Adalah Kaum Lelaki
Putting The ‘Bling’ In My Blogging!
Currently there is only two blog advertising network from Malaysia and one of it is Advertlets.com . As a new advertising agency, well they haven’t published any advertisers yet, Advertlets need more expose from bloggers. And that’s why they ordered 300 reviews of their services from 300 lucky bloggers – hopefully one of them is ME! 
What Is 300 Reviews?
As a way to show Advertlets sincerity towards bloggers, they are very generous to donate (or merely call pay) RM50 each to 300 bloggers who have signed up for their program to do a review about them. I think apart from showing their gratitude with the program, it is also a way to show to their prospect what the bloggers will actually do for them. Something like promotion.
You know Malaysian Businessman very well. Most of them are un-IT (buta IT?) and that’s why most of people who are really making money online is at the age of 20s. So Advertlets need to convince these un-IT person to accept the possibilities of advertising through blogvertorial program.
What Makes Advertlets Differs From Other So Famous Advertising Network?
As a Malaysian, I would say because they are Malaysian, I am Malaysian and most of you my readers are Malaysian. So we will get more Malaysian products that can be related to us and useful for our benefits. Plus the fact of the easiness of getting the products or services.
Before Advertlets ordered you to do a review, they also put a poll to analyze the demographic data of your readers. Remember that yesterday I’ve told you about analysing you statistics data? How useful the info will be? Imagine that you get to know the gender of your readers, their age, their career, maybe their income? Just imagine how much that info will beneficial for you to create the content of your blog so that you can suit most of your readers?
I just can’t imagine more..
What’s The Qualification?
I think all of us are smart enough that all kind of advertising have their own requirements that usually associated with page impressions per day or per month. And for Advertlets they required 100 visits per day because it will make you easier to get more money so that you can cash it out soon.
And that’s where the ‘Bling’ sound. Hahaha.. I read today at Cari Forum, some bloggers are asking what’s with the ‘Bling”. To me it sound like putting money into the coin box. It ‘bling’.
So, if you are looking to put the ‘bling’ in your blogging career like mine, then you might want to consider to sign up for Advertlets.
Tidak Ramai Pembaca Blog Pada Hujung Minggu
Saya telah terbaca posting RajaBlog tentang Budaya Surfing Malaysia dan ianya amat menarik hati saya. Sebabnya saya juga telah perasan perkara ini.
Saya telah memerhatikan statistics blog ini sejak ianya mula lagi. Ooohh.. Pelawat harian ke blog ini tidaklah begitu banyak.. Jumlah tertinggi yang pernah dicatatkan hanyalah 69 orang saja pada Bulan Mac. Saya pun tak pasti apa yang saya telah tulis pada hari tersebut menyebabkan tiba-tiba ianya meningkat sebanyak itu. Sebab biasanya ianya hanyalah sekitar 20 – 25 orang sehari.
Bagaimanapun, kalau anda perhatikan pada graf statistics blog ini untuk minggu ini, saya amat berpuas hati dengan jumlah pelawat unik ke sini. Mungkin ianya tidaklah sebanyak pelawat ke blog anda, tetapi bagi saya ini sudah mencukupi. Kerana ianya menunjukkan peningkatan.
Kontera Approved For Ads In My Blogs
Remember I told you about Kontera TextLink Ads? In the first place, I applied Kontera for my eXploreJohor Blog. Then I thought about testing it on other blogs, this blog for example?
Then last week I read at Kontera that once you have an approved account, to add another blog, you just have to e-mail them. Just for them to check that our blog alliances with their term and conditions.
So, I’ve e-mailed them to tell them that I want to add Kontera to two of my others blogs – KelasEnglish.com and CikguAzleen.com . I’ve also explained to them about the blogs.
Oooh.. In case you want to know what I’ve told them about the blogs – you might not aware that I have several blogs.
OK, I told them that blog KelasEnglish.com teach english language to malay native speakers. Thus there is some translation of Malay Language over the blog – Just in case Kontera might have strictly English rules.
And for Blog CikguAzleen.com, it is a learning to make money from blogging blog. Most of the readers are Malaysian, so I used both language – Malay and English alternatively.
And guess what?
They do approve my blogs. So now, all my blogs have Kontera TextLink Ads.
How About The Payment?
They pay in cheque or via paypal every month.
By right, they only accept English Language Blog. But if I am not mistaken under John Chow partnership, they agree to accept non-english blog provided it is an informational blog. Apart from it, you also don’t have to meet the requirement of 500,000 page impressions per month.
So, give it a try!
MyEG Services Menaja Iklan Nuffnang
Saya telah meletakkan iklan NuffNang di blog ini pada 13hb April 2006. Kira-kira adalah dalam dua minggu, ye tak? Selepas minggu pertama, NuffNang ada meletakkan iklan di blog ini iaitu iklan GPS Tracker. Tapi tak lama – saya rasa dalam 4 hari saja. Agaknya advertiser tak suka kot sebab masa tuh iklan tuh saya letakkan di bahagian tengah sidebar.
Selepas itu saya telah memindahkan iklan tersebut ke bahagian atas sidebar – saya harap ianya tidak mengganggu anda. Dan hasilnya, pada hari Jumaat (saya membacanya pada hari Sabtu) saya menerima e-mel dari NuffNang mengatakan MyEG telah bersetuju untuk menaja iklan di blog ini dari 22/4 hingga 28/4.
Bagaimana Mendapatkan Penaja Untuk Iklan Anda?
Cleaning The Floor Like A Japanese Do
I am not very happy with the arrangements of furnitures in my house. We bought the furniture before we moved to this house (at that time we are living in KL). When we moved down here, actually we discarded a lot of stuffs and furnitures. Some of it we gave to our family, friends and neighbours, while most of it we throw away.Why? Unfortunately we were moving from a 3 rooms apartment to a 2 rooms flat. Of course we have extra furniture.
I still remember the first day I stepped into this flat. I was shocked – where am I going to stuffs my furnitures and things. But well, we did it.
And since I am spending most of my time (in fact almost all of it?!) at home, I love to see more space. I like to have places where I can sit on the floor (of course on a mat – I love bamboo mat!).
Menaiktaraf Versi Blog WordPress Anda
Dah semak daftar undi anda? Eh-eh.. Silap.. Sebenarnya saya nak tanya dah semak ke versi WordPress anda? Kalau tak silap saya tak lama lagi WordPress akan release Versi 2.2. Bagi sesiapa yang memang menggunakan WordPress Versi 2.1 tak ada masalah nak upgrade, sebab ada fungsi export file XML. Tapi kalau pakai WordPress Versi 2.0 nak upgrade ke Versi 2.1 atau 2.2 leceh sket.
Blog JAMU+Online saya merupakan blog pertama yang saya bina selepas membeli Pakej Kit Blogger. Opppss.. ini blog kedua sebenarnya. Blog pertama yang saya bina adalah blog peribadi..
Oleh kerana Blog JAMU+Online tuh dibina hujung tahun lepas, ianya menggunakan WordPress Versi 2.0.7 . Hehehehe.. lama tuh.. Saya tak upgrade kerana rasa leceh nak upgrade dan nampak macam susah jer..
Monetize Blog Using Sponsored Reviews
Many bloggers monetizing their blogs using sponsored reviews. It means the advertiser (owner of products or services) pay a fee for the bloggers to write about their products or services. Such services can be offered by the blogger themselves or through advertising agency.
Another advertising agency that offers sponsored reviews is SponsoredReviews.com . Here, you can set your price per review within the limit suggested by the agency. For my blog, they suggest me a price within 10 – 40.
For a start, I am going to set up the price at USD20. Not too low and not too high. We will see if there is advertiser interested to sponsored my review.
I do not know if this applicable to all blogs. But they paid 65% of the price to bloggers. That quite high I think. Most of the advertising agency, give 50% only to bloggers.
Instead of waiting for advertiser to find your blog, you could search for them and offer you blog to them. However, after submitting the blog, I have to wait until SponsoredReviews staff approve my blog.
OK, I’ll share the results after they approve my blogs.