Upgrade for more space with google

Official Google Blog: A simple way to get more storage

Google announcing space upgrading for most of their services like gmail, picasa etc.

With very special low price of $20/year you can add up to 6GB of space!

How to disable non-genuine windows warning msg

Just only few weeks microsoft announce to detect an display a 'warning msg' for all pirated microsoft windows software, now there is a work around to overcome that. How fast.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/04/workarounds-to-disable-non-genuine.html

Get mobile with your thumb drive

Now you can use your thumb drive to replace your hard drive. You can install portable applications on it and use it at any computers.

Check it out at
http://portableapps.com/

Get free essential applications with one download

http://pack.google.com/

included - firefox, antivirus, ad aware, acrobat reader etc.

My new blog

I've just purchased a new domain name and have my new blog over there.
From now on, I'm not updating this blog anymore. Please visit my new blog at

www.ahmadazwan.com

Content does matter. Most of the time.

What I've learnt after developing lots of websites for people and myself is content matter most.

Design goes to second place. Anyway we need to have at least an acceptable design to make it at least presentable to the website visitors.

My favorite free website template is

www.templatesbox.com

PHP MySQL development

Searching for ways to write PHP coding with MySQL database in more efficient way. Found this website that describe PHP db driven website architecture. Very complicated yet I think is very useful and efficient if it is implemented in big projects.

A Development Infrastructure for PHP

looking for a domain?

It's hard to find a good domain name since they are all taken. Now if you need a domain name, you have to find a long one, or with hypen '-', or with numbers, or with a different extension such as .cc .us .biz .info etc.

To help you finding a good left domain name, you can try
www.nameboy.com

Just enter your desired words, and the tool will list all available combination of the words with available status

Affiliate and referral program directory

Other than clickbank and commissionjunction, this website also popular among internet marketers

refer-it.com

Google tools page

This website provides useful tools to track google's stuff.

You can track
- pagerank
- back links
- indexed page

Further more you can put it on your website by copying the script and paste in your html code.

Visit Mypagerank.net

Other tools such as online stats - current user online, unique visitors, total visitors
and also google sitemap generator.

Submit your site to popular directory

Get higher ranking and link popularity by submitting your website to website directories. Some of popular directories are

http://dmoz.org
http://zeal.com
http://linkopedia.com
http://joeant.com
http://goguides.org
http://sevenseek.com

Submitting site to website directory is more important than submitting to search engine.

list of best web directories
http://www.best-web-directories.com/free-directories.htm

Apache mod rewrite

Apache mod rewrite is very useful to rewrite long url to short and search engine friendly url

For example from this url
http://www.mydomain.com/application/view.php?id=787&page=2

to something like this
http://www.mydomain.com/app/7/

The tutorial can be read at
http://www.google.com/search?q=apache+mod+rewrite+friendly+url

and the generator is available at
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod_rewrite-rewriterule-generator.shtml

has been applied here
http://www.justmoney.biz

Get link back to increase PR

PR or pagerank introduced by google to rate the website popularity. It is measured from 0-10 where 10 is the most popular (but google.com still at 8 PR)

The simplest method to increase PR is to get as many websites to link to your website. To do this you can do a link exchange.

The most important content to be exchange are
your url:
your website title:
your website description:

Make sure the website title is the same with the one you use on the website of given url.

You can make a form for people whoever want to exchange links with you by giving them your html code and let them fill a form with the above particulars

Create a 'resource' page to list all the links of website. When the list grow in size, you can categorize them into few major categories.

email auto respond and mailing list

Auto response program is used to follow up, send sequential email and automatically response to sender's email

It is very useful to be placed on every websites since people will not buy on the first visit. We have to build confidence and provide free useful information to them in order to gain credibility and trust. Then the people will come back to us and buy from us.

Some of the FREE autoresponse program

http://www.freeautobot.com/
free autoresponder with ads

http://www.sendfree.com/
free autoresponder with 3rd party ads
ads exchange programs

http://www.getresponse.com/orderfree.html
limited to 5 follow ups
unlimited accounts, changes and subscribers
pro version = $17.95/mo (cheapest)

http://www.ymlp.com/
free list with ads when subscribe only. not in mailing list
low fee for premium one. $2.50/mo

Other paid autoreseponse

http://aweber.com/
$19.95/mo (cheapest)

http://www.emailaces.com
$8.95/mo + $2.95 to start (cheapest)

Mailing list
http://ezinedirector.com/ (has free option)


MORE AUTORESPONDER (not yet reviewed)
http://xenbot.com/ - free with cashculture.com
http://www.responders.com/

Tips to choose domain name

Domain name is a name that will refer to a server ip where the website is hosted. For example yahoo.com is a domain name.

You need to have a domain name or at least a sub-domain such as yoursite.tripod.com.

Some tips to choose a good domain name:

1. Easy to remember
2. Related with what your website offer.
3. No more than 7 characters
4. Try to be descriptive

Choose a domain name based on your keyword
Examples:

www.yourkeyword.com
www.yourkeywordwebsite.com
www.your-keyword.com
www.yourkeyword.net

Or alternatively, you can use any domain name with this method

www.anyname.com/yourkeyword (keyword in folder name)
yourkeyword.anydomain.com (keyword in subdomain)

website ranking tool

to check for website ranking on search engine based on specified keyword

http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/
can check in multiple search engine. very good

http://www.rankdetective.com/
can only check in google

future google pagerank (PR). check against multiple google servers
http://www.seochat.com/?go=1&option=com_seotools&tool=9

google ranking with 10 keywords at one time
http://www.googlerankings.com/mkindex.php

Link popularity tools

Link popularity is the most important aspect to have your website ranked high on search engines list. Most of search engine use link popularity as a base to rate websites. The more quality links the website has, the higher will be the rank.

To check for link popularity
http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/link-popularity/ (web)
check against google, yahoo, msn, teoma. compared with popular websites like ebay, amazon etc
http://www.linkbuildingpro.com/ (web)
can define what websites to check against. can easily see the competitor popularity also in bold
http://www.checkyourlinkpopularity.com/ (downloadable)
more comprehensive stats. can compare lots of sites at same time
http://www.linkpopularity.com/ (web)
can check against google and yahoo only BUT can view list of all websites link to the page

To check for pagerank (Google pagerank)
besides downloading google toolbar, can use this page to check for google PR
http://www.linkbuildingpro.com/

To increase link popularity
http://www.axandra-link-popularity-tool.com/

Link hub (common link for websites)
http://www.andyhagans.com/tools/hubfinder/
http://www.linkhounds.com/hub-finder/

keyword research

When developing a search engine friendly website, we need to do researh on keyword that we are going to use. It consists of supply and demand of a keyword. We do not want to build a website around a no-demand keyword which is there is nobody is looking for that kind of keyword and that's mean nobody will visit our website

the most popular tools are:
overture keyword selector
7search (singular n plural are different)

nichebot.com


to look for competition for specified keywords. can search multiple keywords at one time.
http://www.redalkemi.com/search-engine-optimization-seo/search-engine-keyword-competition.php

Useful web tools

Free SEO tools

Freelink.org
Freelink provides free pages of links (public or private with password protection) that you can use anytime from anywhere in the world. example URL http://freelink.org/169

http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/free.html
Free newsletter management. ads in management console but not in the newsletter.

http://www.safeemail.org/
SafeEmail.org is a simple free resource which will help to hide your real email address from the spam bots. Use this simple utility to quickly convert the email address to ascii text. This makes it hard for the spam bots to read, and they will most likely ignore it and move on. This will help stop spam.

http://www.net2ftp.com/
net2ftp is a web-based FTP client written in PHP. Lets explain this in detail. Web-based means that net2ftp runs on a web server, and that you use a browser (for example Internet Explorer or Mozilla). FTP is the communication method to access files on a remote computer. You need it to access your files on the account given by your provider to host your homepage. FTP is different from HTTP in that it was made specially to transfer (big) files. If a transfer is interrupted, with FTP you can resume it where it broke off, whereas with HTTP you can not. PHP is a programming language that is used to make dynamic websites.

http://www.templatesbox.com
Free website templates

http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/list-o-matic/list-o-matic.asp
CSS navigation menu builder.

http://www.codelock.co.nz/
encrypt PHP coding . one-time purchase of usd55 for unlimited license

www.sourcecop.com/
another PHP code encryptor. cheaper and application-based (not web-based)

FREE RSS reader software
Awasu ^(TM) is a free Windows news-reader that runs in the background on your computer and monitors these sites for you. When it sees that something new has appeared, it will let you know. Awasu will also keep track of what you have already read which saves you even more time since you no longer need to search through your favorite sites for new stories.

All about RSS - create, publish, read

Free Online Survey
http://freeonlinesurveys.com/
build survey and publish online

search engine optimization

http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/relevant-link-exchange-forum.html
link exchange with other relevant website.