Free WordPress Magazine And News Themes
Recently, there have been a spate of releases of magazine and news themes for WordPress. Many of these themes are available freely for download. Here I have compiled a list of these themes for those of you who are interested to project a magazine or newspaper look for your WordPress blog.
Click on the links or pictures to access the download page.
Quick Review Of The Year 2007
It is time of the year again to look back at what I have been doing for the past year. Generally, a lot of people would base their achievements on how much they have earned. However, I do feel that it is more important to base your achievements on how much you have had learn and understand during the past year instead. You may not agree on this but I personally feel personal development and the learning process is more important to monetary terms.
Looking back in retrospect, I have to thanks my mentor for feeding me vast amount of experiences, knowledge and skills in return for nothing. I have grown so much and this is partly due to his unselfishness in sharing all that he knew without withholding back anything. His actions have encouraged me to share what I have learnt over the years with others who are willing to learn as well.
Using Social Sites To Drive Traffic To Your Sites
December 29, 2007 by Albert
Filed under Traffic Generation
Social sites such as FaceBook, Friendster & Myspace are good sources of traffic if you know how to tap and leverage on the huge communities found on these social sites. Social sites are great for networking with like minded people with similar interests. If you execute your traffic campaign well, you can be sure of consistent and targeted groups of visitors for your site.
However, you have to take note that while social sites are good for traffic, you have to play by their rules or you will get your accounts suspended or even deleted.
Here is how you can leverage on social networks to drive traffic to your site. For making things simpler, I will use Friendster as an example.
Customize Your WordPress URLs To Be More Search Engine Friendly
If you have a WordPress blog, chances are you would have known that your WordPress blog’s default URLs consist of question marks and numbers in them. Now, the ways these URLs are structured, they are not really that search engine friendly and so you need to do some customization in order to make them prettier and easier for the search engines to pick up.
In order to change your URL to be more search engine friendly, there is a way to do it inside your WordPress admin control panel. Under the toolbar section, there is an option menu and under the option menu there’s a tab called “Permalinks”. Click on that and you will be able to change all your URLs there.
Merry Christmas 2007!
Hi everyone,
Just a quick note to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!
If you have been thinking of exploring online money making opportunities, make it a point to start exploring this coming year.
The coming year 2008 is going to be even better with tons of new opportunities for enterprising people, so make sure you don’t missed out on all the money making opportunities this coming year.
Enjoy! 
TNX Review
December 24, 2007 by Albert
Filed under Monetization Programs Reviews
TNX is a new ads network in the mold of Text Link Ads. By signing up with them, you allow them to sell links on your behalf. You get points for selling links on your site and in return you can either exchange these points for cash or use them to buy links instead. In a way, it worked something like a traffic exchange system just that the commodity now is links.
It’s real smart of them to actually implement this points system. Most people will not cash in all their points and will somehow be tempted to purchase some links instead. Once people start find that the system is easy to use and the benefits are there, more and more people will start using it. If they can ensure the whole system is bug free and works without any hitches, it will definitely be a huge success if not for the recent Google fiasco.
Paid Surveys – Online Money Making Models
December 22, 2007 by Albert
Filed under Make Money Online
Every year, companies worldwide spend large sums of money amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars on market research. A substantial part of the market research fund is committed to paid online surveys and it’s no wonder people are getting into paid surveys to make some money online.
Getting paid for doing online surveys is not something new. In fact, some people are earning full time income just by doing paid surveys at the comfort of their own home. Depending on your location, you can earn anything from $0 to $5000 a month just doing surveys. Opportunities for doing surveys are more readily available to people staying in countries like United Sates or United Kingdom.
Adsense Ads Units Are Less Clickable Now
About a week back, Google announces change to their Adsense Ads units. If you noticed in the past, the clickable area for Adsense ads units encompassed the whole background of the individual ads. Now, clicks will only worked if you click on the title and URL of each ad.
Well, it seems that this move by Google once again annoyed many Adsense publishers who see a immediate decrease in their Adsense earnings.
In their own words:
“We’re rolling out a change to our text ad formats to help reduce accidental clicks and increase value for advertisers…..This new format will match the changes we’ve implemented on Google.com to help decrease the number of accidental clicks and increase the number of ad conversions. A reduction in accidental clicks will keep users on your pages, interacting with your content until they choose to click on an ad. This change will enhance the user’s overall experience with your websites and improve advertiser campaign value, but it’s likely that your click-through rate will decrease.”
Bubble Burst For AGLOCO
The door has finally closed for one of the most promising money making programs online. It has been almost 2 weeks since Agloco update its members on their demises!
Although the signs are there as early as months back, it is hard to believe a wonder concept such as this have to meet such a fate. I just wonder whether the fault lies with the management team or is it simply a case of bad timing. Anyway, what is past is past; it is just a pity that things don’t work out for them. Luckily, I did not really push hard for Agloco otherwise I have to answer to many people.
So what about you, how do you feel about this whole Agloco episode? If you have any views, feel free to share them with us.
Selling Information Products – Online Money Making Models
December 17, 2007 by Albert
Filed under Make Money Online
The rage on the internet marketing world now is all about digital products. A lot of people are selling digital products that they produced or have resell rights to and making big profits out of them. For those of you who do know what a digital product is, then you must be living under a rock. A digital product is basically a digital file or files such as an eBooks, photos or even videos that can be electronically transmitted over the internet easily.
There are many benefits to selling digital products online.
First the setup for selling digital products is so easy to implement and best of all it can be free. You just need a Paypal account to accept money and that’s it. You do not even need a website to showcase your digital products. You can sell your products through forums and discussion boards and promote your products there provided they allow you to do so. Or you could set up a free hosted blog to sell your digital products too.
