Earn $10 USD for subscribing to my email rss feed

It’s been a long time since there’s a contest here in this blog, so here’s one small one. As I am looking to increase my email rss feeds count, instead of using the money to buy links or advertisements on other website, why don’t i offer it as a contest to my visitors?

How the contest works?

1) Subscribe to my email list by using the form in this post or the form at the sidebar of my blog.

Remember to verify it and activate the feed. Inactive feed will not be counted.

2) Reply to this post with your email ( Linked with paypal )

3) On 20th August 2008, a lucky winner will be chosen from those who participate and win $10 via paypal

Just only for a 20 sec effort, you stand to win $10 paypal.

Benefits for subscribing to my email rss

1) You stay up to date to the  latest update in this blog. Everytime when there’s an update in this blog, such as new blog post or contest, you will get the first hand information. (Daily post send to your email)

2) Informative content. Though this is not a money making blog, every now and then, useful articles or tips on how to improve your blog traffic, how to monetize your blog, webmastering tips, web development, techniques will be discussed here. You will be able to benefit from those information.

3) I will not spam your inbox with alot of useless email.

What to do if i don’t have paypal?

Simple, just sign up for one account with paypal, It’s free. To sign up, click on the linksbelow for direct access.

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Happy subscribing. Contest Ends at 20 August 2008

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How to deal with stress

Busy with your work? Busy with studying? doing marketing? working outside or rushing project? If you are doing so, i believe there will be a time where you feel stressed and frustrated with your work. That’s normal, everyone feels that. How to deal with stress?

From my experience, once you reached that stage of time, you definitely need a rest. Forcing yourself to keep moving on and continuing with it will not help. Infact, the results will be negative. Results in terms of quality of work produced, unhealthy lifestyle etc. Same for studying examination, imagine you have one paper tomorrow and you have not even start studying for it. So i guess, the first thing that you reached home is to start studying for it. Am i correct?

However, you are so tired that your mind doesn’t work effectively, not to say you have to study a 300 pages book for the exam paper tomorrow. This is one scenario that i encountered when i was in school. And to overcome it, when i reached home, i have a 3 hours short afternoon nap to rest my brain. After then, i started my studying and i can say that the effects are positive. Instead of just forcing yourself to complete that 300 page book for the exam while you are beat tired, why don’t you take a short rest. Let your brain and body regain the energy. You will be able to absorb more in that manner. Study smart and hard. ( P.S not “study smart, not hard”), that what one of my friend told me.

Here are some of the methods i used to de stress or inspire myself when i was on the verge of giving up

1) Open up window media player and listen to Avril lavigne’s songs for a few hours. LOL, i don’t know why, but i feel very refreshen up and charged after listening to her songs.

2) Take a short nap. ( Remember to set your alarm clock or you will be in deep trouble).

3) Go for a short walk near your house. Breathe in fresh air and absorb the power of nature, look at green trees or plants.

4) Go to popular blogs/forums and get inspired by them. The ones i frequent are digitalpoint forum and http://www.webmaster-talk.com/real-life-stories-of-inspiration/

5) Talk to your friends in msn, they will motivate you if they are real friends. (P.S You can talk to me online when you are about to give up, i will stop and try to motivate you. Just add me in my personal msn)

6) Visit successful blogs and read their entries. Blogs like shoemoney.com, johnchow.com, theuniversitykid.com.

7) Play with kids or babies. They will brighten up you alot. ( P.S, this method only applies if you have babies or kids at home)

8 ) Go find a mirror and tell yourself. “I won’t give up”.

9) Go youtube and watch some video clips.

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Google adsense support

Yesterday, i was tweaking and playing with the placement of my adsense code in this blog and i recevied this email from google adsense saying that they stopped serving me ads to this blog due to me not complying with their polices. I was actually stunned when i received their email. I believe any others will so so as well. I had make a screenshot of the exact email. See below for the email contents. Well, their email is very well written, stating all the mistakes that i had made in my ad placement. Adsense team really makes their effort to review websites.

I didn’t do that on purpose. As i am very new to optimizing adsense placement in my blog, these are the two fatal mistakes that i made that caused me to nearly get my adsense account banned. Just wanted to share this post with you guys so that you won’t make the same mistakes that i made while tweaking with the adsense placement.

So i went to reply that email, stating that i am very sorry. I removed adsense from those “offending content” and replied the team to ask them review my site again, to ensure that i am “safe”. Unexpectedly, i received the reply email in just a couple of minutes. Kudos to the adsense team for the hardwork, their support is really fast and good. I didn’t expect them to be so efficient. 

Here’s the reply i get from them:

I hope this post will be a great reference resource for the other adsense users.

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Lot of things to settle before serving the nation

This post is rather personal and it’s the list of things i need to do in this coming 40 days.

I have around 40 days to my enlistment in army and there are hell lot of things to settle. List of task that i have to complete before going in.

To finish custom coding of the community (vbulletin software) that i am developing. And ensure that everything is going fine with no errors. It’s a waste that i could not finish the new site sooner. If not, i would have the time to build up the traffic before going into army. Currently, this community is draining alot of my effort, time and money.

To sell of all the advertisements in this blog, so as to offset my expenses for my server.

To transfer the blog that i just bought and finish monetizing and all necessary stuffs. Recently, i just bought a new blog and will be sharing it in the coming next few posts after i have set it up and ready to release to public. It’s a blog in a general niche and it will be a place where everyone can blog about interesting stuffs and maintain it.

These 3 things are my current top priority. It’s a really bad timing for me to serve the nation. Currently, this blog traffic is improving day by day from around initial 200+ uniques to 700 uniques daily. Reason is due to that i am blogging everyday and seo is taking effect. Just when the Traffic boost and effect is going on, i need to neglect it once again to serve the nation. I seriously think it is wasted. After all, i will only be gone for 1 week, i guess i will be starting to search guest bloggers or i will be paying bloggers to make a post daily here for 7 days. So, if anyone of you are interesting in doing a guest post in this blog, please email me. I will be doing an official announcement in here in the coming next few posts.

Ok, after i settled all my online stuffs, i have to start shopping for my army stuffs. I have’nt really buy my stuffs yet. Stuffs like new spectacles, socks etc. How i wish i can stop time!

Now, i need a short rest, i will be off the cruchyroll to watch some dramas / movies.

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