Internet Meme: Poker Hitler and Privacy

.: Do internet is really a safe place for everyone? Who gets to 'manage' and 'control' all of the users information?

Skynet It's us who need to be sensitively wary and guards our personal information, not someone else we not really know...

I'm sorry for putting this video here, but if you basically ignore the real meaning of the German language, you'll found this Hitler video about Google+ and Facebook is giving you more creeps and chills to your bone... plus non-stop ROTFL too, Lol~ :-P

Here's the video. Watch and analyze~~

Hitler Learns of Google Plus

Hitler is a Poker?? Srsly???

Sometimes certain tiny little features is what the people wants, it's the real identity behind any social network out there. If Tagged is known with their 'Luv', Facebook with their 'Poke', MySpace with their customizable 'CSS Layouts', Twitter with their 'hash tags', Foursquare with their 'Badges', so Google+ should comes with their own... Circles and Huddles??

Well, the point here is if your website is unique enough, people will stays with you. Even if they might go somewhere else, but whatever they do they will remember you first. So, Aiemm should have it's own tiny little identity too like Facebook - didn't I put my identity already? :-P

• KnowYourMeme : Hitler reacts to his downfall (video).
• Via Buzzfeed.

aiemm: "Any serious and specifically internet-marketing-only social networks out there? But how do you create your own social IM networks (not using any existing social websites)?"
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Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends - A Must See Presentation!

.: I'm speechless and clueless. Does the number fooled me or I've been blown away by such an enormous opportunity??? See it for yourself.

Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends (Feb 2011)

View more presentations from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

My review about the future of mobile internet trends?

• Anything touchscreen will brings money - iPad-like tablet and smartphones is a new fast cash machine. Smartphones is definitely the next big thing - "tiny supercomputer is in our hands".
• There is no need to worry about language barrier, start with our local mobile scene because the pioneer can be the all time winner.
• That SoLoMo recipe is great for localized apps or websites. Now where can I find free how-tos on making a free great app but please-pay-for-more-premium-feature?
• iPhone and Android app store is great way to test the marketability of 3rd party apps. But BlackBerry and Windows Mobile apps can be a niche market.
• Integrating Facebook and Twitter is a must - need to learn how to integrate their APIs...
• QR codes + NFC + secure mobile e-cart/payment processor = perfect m-commerce (mobile commerce) recipe?
• Gamification -> new worldwide currency? Lol, next time there will be a market for m-forex (forex for in-game currency)?
• As a reminder, starting from the 52nd slide contains tips, ideas and cheats of future mobile trends~ ;-)

Via Tools | WatchThisSpace.


aiemm: "Ads in videos is a nuisance. But from such ads I found this useful tool. Next time, I will try to watch that space very, very closely, lol~"
:-P
:.

the Google+ Project : +1 button gets a new home~

.: First, they created the "Like" button. After some careful and thorough observations, now they create the "home" for the previous "Like" button. Smart, aren't they? :-P

The plus everything project.

Google now has it's own secondary social networks. Still in the beta phase, the new social network called the Google+ is designed to overthrown Facebook dominance ASAP make everyone's life more happier and merrier by connecting each and everyone together. By using a similar-to-groups-concept they name it 'Circles', our updates between our connected friends and relatives and work colleagues and the boss won't mix and that's definitely a plus feature from Google+.

The Google+ project: Explore Settings

Sorry, I get carried away just now. At the moment Google has shown 4 available features of their new social network - Circles, Huddle, Sparks and Hangouts, which nothing new for those who has already use Facebook before. It looks pretty simple and easy to use with their familiar GUI, but currently Google+ only invites some lucky participants to test them out. We can only hope someone will invite us or wait for it to becomes public.

Here is their 4 available features we can peek together~

The Google+ project: Explore Circles

Google+ "groups"~

The Google+ project: Huddle

Google+ "Tweets"~

The Google+ project: Explore Sparks

"Related Searches" + "Google Instant" = Google+

The Google+ project: Explore Hangouts

mIRC + Video chat = Google+

See, nothing new right? It's just a re-branding of all internet products out there that we all familiar with. It may be a good thing because everything is put and mixed together in one place so there is no need to download different software for different use or visits different websites for different service, but I still don't like the users data mining activity which I read somewhere on the Net before. (Facebook do "collect" our data, it's the same thing in any social networks).

It's up to you whether to use it or not, but I do wanna give it a try. You can read and discover more at plus.google.com.

i) lol~ (Maybe he *will* create the official Dislike button because of this?)

ii) Bye bye Orkut or integrate/migrate Orkut inside Google+?


aiemm: "Making everything social is the new war~~"
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?m=1 : Shortcut for Blogger blogspot mobile version~

.: I got it all wrong, haha :-D

Previously, I on my quest finding the online version of mobile browser on the internet, but didn't get the correct output. Mobile version of this aiemm blog should appear very simple minimalist and easy to read, like the one you see in this 'Turning on mobile template in Blogger' post. And I thought that when we surf using our mobile browser, any Blogger blogspot should be redirected to the mobile version automatically. But when I try with Opera Mini 6 Mobile, it didn't work the way it suppose to.

This brings out a big bright yellow question mark on my head, what is the problem?

• I should use mobile browser in my own mobile phone, instead of using online simulators from the internet, or
• current Blogger template were not made to automatically redirected to the mobile template version yet.. (incomplete HTML formatting?) Or
• I've used the wrong URL...

Haha, I think I made the last mistake here X-D I didn't notice the URL difference in both online and mobile version of Blogger, so that's why I can't view aiemm the way I want it to be. In order to view the mobile version of Blogger blogspot, what we must do is to open the right blog address (URL)!

Which one and how to get it?

Based on how to turn on mobile template for Blogger post, we need to add ?m=1 at the end of our blog address to view the mobile version of aiemm.

Look closely, and copy that URL parameter and paste it after
typing our full blog address~

Yeahhhh~ Now Aiemm can rocks on both world! X-D

And now I'm done. My quest is complete, and I'm happy :-) :-) :-)

Before I forget, the addition of ?m=1 works with all Blogger blogspot, unless you've already disable the mobile template then this shortcut won't work anymore. Right now I just can't wait for my Simple template in my aiemm to works like in the new Blogger mobile templates~ :-D

I hope I can get my own Apple iPhone so I can experience myself surfing the Net mobile-ly. Need to work more with this affiliates stuff ;-)

• Yoast : Google Search URL parameter cheat sheet~

aiemm: "Mobile is the new Net - but how about the radiation and cancer?"
:-(
:.

Online Mobile Browser Simulator : Preview your mobile website online~~

.: How to view the mobile version of your Blogger blogspot or your website online? :-?

At this moment, there is no stable and practical online site that can render or browse all internet website like a true mobile phone browser? What I can found is mobile browser emulator, or mobile browser simulator which kinda imitates and behaves like a mobile phone controls with mobile-sized screen.

I know that Blogger blogspot has it's own mobile template, so after activating that template settings I thought it will be a redirect from original internet template into the mobile template automatically. My phone is not configured yet for online browsing (because I prefer texting and calls more), so I like to test this aiemm blogspot and see how the mobile version looks like online. That's why this post come up, I successfully found one simulator that really "works", hee~ ;-)

Before that, I do hope you already installed Java Platform on your computer before you can use this online mobile browser simulator.

dotMobi N70 mobile simulator.
You can choose to use Sony K750 too~

Emulator | dotMobi : The first site I found is the first fail I encounter. Haha, you got me there. It's ok, I will try again~

Test browsing the internet with
your online iPhone~

TestiPhone : Nice Apple iPhone graphic there, but aiemm is not in mobile version. Maybe I got into the wrong website? Because it claims that it is for testing our iPhone web applications. (This website is very similar with this iPhone 3G/4G tester here...)

Simple minimalist TagTag mobile emulator~

TagTag | Mobile site emulator : Embed TagTag Emulator on my blog? Eh?? Nope, TagTag didn't work like what I was hoping before. Did I do something wrong here? Aiemm URL is correct, so what is the problem?

Opera Mini 6 - built for smartphones
with large screen.

Opera Mini simulator : This one is the "working" mobile browser simulator I mentioned before. It was funny looking at those lines which represents the text on my blog, but if you click on it, it will automatically enlarge the "lines" into an actual text. It's good to see it like this, but this type of mobile browser is best for touchscreen smartphones. If Opera Mini can wrap the texts to fit the screen, then all mobile phone can view it without needing to scroll to the left or to the right. And this will helps ease the eyes when we reads it ;-)

Text gets enlarged when you "click".

They also have the old version :
Opera Mini simulator version 4.2~

I am still not satisfied with all my findings here. The mobile version should be very minimalistically designed and easy on the eyes. Wait, is it because of the...

Further mobile reading:

• NOMTEK : Testing mobile web - Phones and platform to focus on.
• StackOverFlow : Simulators/Emulators for mobile browser testing?
• mobiForge : A guide to mobile emulators.
• mobiForge : Mobile emulators - Most of mobile browser simulator is available as a software, you need to install it first before you can use it. But my current target is the online version, so here we can choose to download the software so we can check the mobile version of our site or just view it online.
• Google Chrome : Mobile browser simulator. A Chrome extension installed like the Firefox add ons?
• FireMobileSimulator (A Japanese website) : Eh? Just resize the viewing area and now you got the mobile browser already??
• Techie Buzz : How to emulate a mobile web browser in Firefox? 
• Klaus Komenda : Testing on Mobile Devices using Emulators. 
• MobileXWeb.com : Mobile Emulators and Simulators: The Ultimate Guide.

aiemm: "Why must we care about our Blogger blogspot going mobile?"
Internet marketing goes all the way beyond our computer, and going mobile is a must because the total number of mobile phones exceeds the total number of PCs + laptops + netbooks in the world~~
:-O
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To LinkWithin or not to LinkWithin?

.: I sometimes envy with other self-hosted WordPress blogs out there - they had the best plugins and widgets! :-(

One example of widget that is very useful for any Blogger blog is the related post widget. Why we need to have this widget? This is because:

• it increases our pageviews, where our readers will keep reading and browsing other posts after finish reading one.
• it's indirectly help our readers search or find other related post from our blog. 
• blog with related posts looks so "advanced", thus making other blogger envy with our blog and want to have one too~ Lol~

Before this there is no official gadget made by Blogger and many have to use complicated hacked Blogger HTML script if they want to enable this related post widget, like you can see in this BloggerPlugins and JackBook example. This continue to haunts many tech-savvy blogger out there until this one site offers an easy and simple way to set up a related post widget in their Blogger blog - plus it comes with thumbnails too!~ :-)

LinkWithin, the Blogger savior is a free widget that appears under every post we had in our blog, and it links to related stories from our blog archive. The best part is it shows the image thumbnails too, so it is recommended to put at least one picture in every post we write because this picture will become the widget thumbnail.

LinkWithin works by retrieving and indexing all posts from our blog in their server, and later show them in the Blogger widget. Related posts is chosen from their title relevance, tags and their content. In my personal blog, LinkWithin shows related posts according to it's popularity - the most popular post is always shown rather than not-so-popular post. But this don't happens regularly, hurmmm.. :-?

To install this LinkWithin widget, we need to register our blog with them first. Write down our e-mail and our blog URL too. Choose Blogger as our platform (and you can choose other platform too), and then choose how many stories or related posts you want to appear in your widget. You should tick the empty box if your blog has dark background.

LinkWithin blog registration.

You should see a page similar to the picture below, and click the blue 'Install Widget' link to import LinkWithin into our blog.

Click 'Install Widget' and it will open a new window/tab.

Choose our desired blog, and click the blue 'Add widget' button.

Select the desired blog, and the title can be renamed too.

Now our blog has been related-posts-enabled~ Yeahhh, rejoice~~ :-D If you would like to see how LinkWithin work, you can see example of it under this post ;-)


aiemm: "How to persuade our readers to read more of our blog?"
;-)
:.

How to always found the correct results when you search on Google?

The 'G'.

.: Google is a search engine where it receive a zillion searches by it's users. And we know that when we type something, we will always find our answers there. But sometimes our search results didn't show us what we're looking for, or worst there is no any search results there. Why? Why typing inside Google return no matched results?

It's because we didn't search it the correct way. Puzzled? Let's take a look at it like this:

• Search engine is made based on mathematical formula with human logic, in other words it's just a machine.
• When we enter our queries into them, this machine searched for it in their enormous internet database and later matched it with "the-most-related-thing-with-90%-accuracy" and then show it as our search results.
• Because it's a machine (that is made by human, and human always make errors), when our searches somehow didn't match with the machine database, so no results is shown.
• But that machine somehow can give us other related results so we won't get upset. This is the case where we get unwanted search results. (Especially when you search using your native language other than English)
• In order to get best result, we need to craft our search techniques so it will always matched the machine database.

So, correct search queries (or techniques) -> leads to correct search results.

From my own experience, there are 3 different searching techniques available:

1. Normal search done from Google search page.
2. Quick and easy search by using Google explore shortcuts.
3. Advanced Google search for finding specific queries.

The first type is the simplest way of doing information searches, just type in the textbox, press Enter and we're done. The second one was the special search shortcut made by Google for us (you can read this in our previous post). And the last one is the advanced search, where our search queries is searched deeeeeep inside the database itself. Haaa...  ;-)

This 3 help articles can explain it better:

1. Google search basics: Here they explain how to craft our search queries. (Must read and understand!)
2. Google search basics (extended): I love this technique. This help me filter my searches into specific results~
3. Advanced operators: This article is more about being a Google detective. We may need and use this search techniques later~ 

Now we know how to always found the correct search results, so we should use it starting today. Or start using it now. Practice with the search basics is good enough, because from there we can get to know and feel how our "future audience" do their searches. Heehee~  ;-)


aiemm: "Note: this searching techniques may or may not be that helpful with our local search..."
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Time-saving search: Your daily Google shortcut~

.: Do you know how to save your extra minutes used for doing searches on Google? Believe it or not, our googling activity would not consume too much time if we know how to search it the Google way. Eh, Google way of searching?  :-?

Sometimes we need to do some unit conversion or we need to check the meaning of certain words. Usually we do this by using scientific calculator and choose the mode for unit conversion, or by referring to a dictionary to look up the meaning of a word. Actually, all this hassle can be avoided by searching it with Google.

From weather forecasts, currency conversion, online dictionary, sport scores, mortgage rates, all this 19 intelligent search shortcuts is available for us to use. By typing the correct keyword, this features will appear without us need to log in with Google accounts~

Google Dictionary shortcut.

Google Fill in the Blank shortcut.

Google Calculator shortcut.

Google Unit Conversion shortcut.

Google Currency Conversion shortcut.

I usually use the first 4 Google search shortcut for my research. Test it for yourself, and you can view all of them here at Explore Google Search shortcuts~

Do want to see this shortcuts in action?  ;-)

Healthy Habits

New Baby

Father and Daughter

Creative story-telling right? Heehee :-)

For more searching stories, visit Google Search Stories on YouTube, and don't forget to do your web search homework here on Google too~


***** UPDATE Nov 10th, 2011 *****
Link to more and more Google Shortcut Search here~~
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aiemm: "Err.. some of their shortcuts is no longer working. I've used the movies shortcut before but it won't work..."
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How to add your site into Google Webmaster Tools?

.: First thing first, if you're already using Blogger blogspot, registering your blogs with Google Webmaster is super easy. Once you've created your blog, they will ask you whether to add it automatically to their Webmaster Tool or not. But if you're not using Blogger blogspot, or you've missed the automatically 'add your blog' option, you might need to do it yourself.

Below is an example how to add a site (Blogger) into Google Webmaster manually:

1. From our Blogger Dashboard, scroll downwards and look for Other Stuff > Tools and Resources. Click on the Webmaster Tools link.

This tools is in the middle, between Mobile Devices and Help Resources.

2. Click on the 'Add a site' button, and type in our full URL address of our blog.

Whose blog is that? Haaa.. :-P

3. One yellow notification will appear on top if our blog addition process is successful.

It usually will look like this one..

4. Do not worry if our stats and analytic is empty. Give it about two or three days to see it starts kicking~

Newly added Aiemm blog in Google Webmaster Tools.

In case they need you to put some HTML code into your blog to make this Webmaster Tools work, what you need to is go to your Blogger Design tab > Page Elements > click Add a Gadget in the design area > and choose to add HTML / JavaScript > and paste your given HTML code there. Now your blog is ready to run the Google Webmaster Tools~

Add this element to paste in your HTML codes given~

If you need help adding a site or need to read more about this Webmaster tools, please refer more to Webmaster Tools Help~


aiemm: "To manage a lot of blog is not an easy task. Commitment. Responsibility."
:.

Google Webmaster vacancy: Open to all bloggers out there~

.: Ya ya yaa~ :-P

(Disclaimer: I'm not one of the googler, and this post is not from their human resource either. I'm just letting you know that this Webmaster post is still open until today~)

What is Google Webmaster?
Webmaster : The person who is responsible for designing or managing a website.

So, a Google Webmaster is : An opportunity to let internet marketers or ordinary blogger feels the Google's hardship when designing or managing their blogs and websites. LOL~  :-P

If you become one of their webmaster, you will gain access to their most powerful tools, the Google Webmaster Tool. Their most powerful tools?

Google Webmaster Tools

While originally this tools is used for helping our website or blogs to definitely appears in Google SERP, as an internet marketer this tools can help to amplify our site conversions from much more precise and better targeting.

Things inside Webmaster tools can help us as an internet marketer:

• Settings : I like this the most because I can make my blog to be specifically shown to users from my preferred geographic target (Talking about localization). Leave it unchanged if you don't wish to do geo-targeting.
• Search queries : Now we can know which searched queries that bring our readers to our blog. Because that keyword is what we're known for~ 
• Links to your site : How many times our blog is linked, plus the 'Your most linked content' can shows us which blog post gets the most attention. (That's why they link it to us).
• Keywords : This is a list of commonly found keywords written in our blog. If our blog specialize in listing eating places, our most common keywords should be related to "eateries", not other keywords than that.. 
• Malware : This one special tools is able to tell if our blog is infected by malwares so action can be taken to fix it.. X-O  

In their 2010 SEO video, this malware detection tool has been told to public. This tool is extremely important when we use self-hosted WordPress as our site. Because sometimes we never know why users cannot access to our site (because it was blocked by Firefox when they try to open it), so this tool can help us to check it out. I wonder if there is other way to check malware infected sites for free?  :-?

One more thing before we apply for this webmaster post - today I read about niche making challenge and one advice I've learn there is to not using Google webmaster tool at all. This is because that once you reach the $100/day mark from your Adsense income, you'll face the de-indexing thing... urmmmm... :-(
(This statement is still doubtful. But you can get the point.)

I thought if we play by the rules, nothing bad will happen.. :-(

So, it is up to you whether you want to apply for this webmaster post or not. I just want to try and look how this tool can help me or not. After I had that $100/day, I will think again about using other options to manage my blogs.

For further reading (and watching):

• Google for Webmasters (breeze) : Podcast about Google Webmaster tools~ 
• Webmaster Quickstart Guide : Your jumpstart to understanding this Google tools~ 
• Google Webmaster YouTube channel : Oh? #askMattCutts is here?
  

aiemm: "Why we need to be a webmaster in the first place?"
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Personally, I use internet marketing forums to..

.: ... learn other internet marketer mistakes? :-?

Define Internet forum:

• An online discussion site where people post their messages to converse with each other.
• other nickname? Message board.
• Users can be anonymous or they can register if they wish to post their messages.
• A posted message might need approval before it can become visible.
• Forum is divided into smaller groups. Forum > subforum > topic > thread.

Internet marketing forums can be used in several ways to help our online business grow, such as:

• asking for help about certain problems associated with internet marketing.
• getting more inspiration and emotional boosts from other members who has already succeed.
• looking for recommendations about the best products or services or partners to help our business.
• testing a new ideas or new technique with a lot of people joining in.
• promoting our business by sharing quality and relevant information.
• searching for a new micro niche with "starving" students~
• etc..

Top 3 popular internet marketing forums with active members~

#1: Warrior Forum.

We are warriors because we want to be financially independent!~

Sorry, I just made that up. But we do want to be financially independent right? We are warriors because we live our life the way we want it to be~  :-D

#2: Digital Point forum.

You got a point there.

In this digital world, someone's mistakes can be someone's treasure. So get more treasure and leave no mistakes!

#3: WickedFire forum.

It's so wicked and full of burning entrepreneur spirits~

To keep that fire burning prosperously we must unite as one. Internet marketing forum, your online business campfire~

There is a lot of internet marketing forums out there, and you are free to choose which one you like. My preferred local forum? The one and only WangCyber forum~

I say yes to cyber money~~

aiemm: "Lurking around? No no nooo, yes yes yesss~"
:.

Free Professional Templates for Blogger Blogspot user~

Blogger~

.: Looking for free professional-looking templates for your blogs? :-)

I used to stick to one specific template for my personal blog until one day I realize white is the most attractive easy-on-our-eyes color when we read a blog with a lot of texts. It looks best when combined with a simple layout without too much stuff laying around. This is important if I wants to write a blog with high CTR in mind and selling other online stuffs too. Hurmmmm...

Before this I love to lurk around 'googling' for free Blogger templates and tests them out, but this time I'll just use Blogger's free template service. I need to reduce my time searching for templates and convert it into looking for internet marketing lessons and tips, and one bad habit of mine is I always modifies free templates that I get according to my own taste, which wastes a lot of my time. To be more productive I need to sacrifice something, mmm.. :-(

Okay, let that thing aside, let's move on to our free and new Blogger Template Designer~~

Introducing the Blogger Template Designer

I think I already fall in love with one template from this video, heehee~ 

Looking at the video it looks very easy to create a beautiful Blogger design using their Template Designer. There is two ways to access this feature, one from our Blogger Dashboard, or just by switching to Design tab to edit our Blogger layout~

Click 'Design' to access Template Designer from our Dashboard, or..

... Click on 'Template Designer' in our Design tab~

Just in case you and me are afraid that we might messed up our current blog design, how about we do some experiments with it? Click this Template Designer test drive to test it out~

And if we are happy with the new layout, please, please back up our current blog design by downloading it's full template from Design > Edit HTML first.

Download the full template to back up our current blog design.

Another careful reminder: Some widgets might be lost when we put the new design into effect with our current blog. So, please copy and paste all of our widget HTML settings inside a new document in Google Docs first, and after finished and satisfied with the new design, we can Add a Gadget in our blog Page Elements and paste our widget HTML again~

Add a Gadget (widget) - Add HTML/JavaScript elements into Blogger~

With this many works and steps to do, we're lucky we can skip our template designing part. Eh? Is it that many? You've to try it first to believe it~~  :-P
Info:

• Blogger Buzz: Blogger Template Designer Now Available To Everyone~~
  

aiemm: "Remember not to always please our eyes only - we need to consider our blog reader's eyes too~"
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How to tease our blog readers with our links~

.: Links were made to be clicked, copied, or linked. But not to be teased. Eh? :-P

I found an interesting explanation about HTML link. I use link a lot, either for showing us interesting stuff, link to other good article, embedding pictures, videos, etc, because link is useful. What is link actually?

Link is usually written like this : <a href="http://blablabla.html">aiemm</a>.

Define HTML link:
(via HTMLGoodies):

• The 'a' there means anchor. So, 'a' is for anchor, not apple ya?
• 'href' means hYPERTEXT refERENCE. That's why href is written after a, because to help anchor refer to the desired link.
• URL (uniform resource locator) is normally written is this format http://blablabla.html or http://aiemm.blogspot.com . URL is another word is the address of our blog. Another example: Facebook URL is written like this http://www.facebook.com , and YouTube is http://www.youtube.com .
• and to close the anchor, it is written as '/a'.

The most common link properties used in this blog is the target attribute. I think I should use the title attribute from now on. Hee~ :-)

What is a HTML link attributes?

• our HTML links can be given certain emotions. Like when you click on it, it opens the target website in a new window or a new tab instead in the current window. This is called a naughty link, and it contains _blank as it's target.
• eg: <a href="http://aiemm.blogspot.com" target="_blank">aiemm</a> . Or it can be written as target="_whatevernamehere" too~
• another attribute that catches my eye is the title for HTML links. When we found links with title, that links is considered truthful and honest. Why? When we point our mouse it shows us the link name~
• eg: <a href="http://aiemm.blogspot.com" title="i like IM">aiemm</a> . To show this link emotion, hover your mouse on this aiemm link~

Wiki-chain. The HTML link to information~  ;-)

So, after learning this HTML link, now we can proceed to the teasing part~

• How to tease our blog reader with links #1 : Instead of href-fing our link to the original website, how about linking it to wrong website? :-P
• How to tease our blog reader with links #2 : Write our link title as funny as strange as we might. It must not be annoying, but helpful playful~~
• LOL~  :-P 

Now we can go practice teasing our links~ Oh yeayyyy~  X-D
Further reading~

• W3Schools : HTML links. (One of the best site to learn and practice HTML~)
• W3Schools : HTML <a> tag.
• Tizag : HTML tutorials - text links.
• W3.org : Links in HTML documents. (Kinda heavy reading...) 
• image credit to: bastique on Flickr. 

aiemm: "This post is not meant to be like this, noooooooooooooooo~~"
X-O
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What must we do after done publishing our new blog post? Ping ping ping~~ (Ahem, one ping is enough)

.: You may or may not done this before, if if you do it, you help your blog to prosper~~  :-D
(or something like that)

Usually, after finished publishing our new blog post, we should ping it immediately.

Define Ping: 
The 'pinging' (doing ping) act is considered as telling the search engines or other servers that one blog has been updated with a new content. It tells them that they should list or crawls or index our new post so it can be found when other people search for it.

Ping = door bell. It's like telling the owner that new contents is coming~~

To ping our blog is pretty easy, and it's free. We just need to write our blog name, it's full URL, or it's RSS URL and then send our pings. We can use one single website to do that, or we use other website that specialize in doing multiple pingings. Here is a decent list where we can do some pingings~

• Google Blog Search ping service~
• FeedBurner ping : If you had your blog registered with FeedBurner, this is your ping shortcut~
• Ping-o-Matic! : Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.
• Pingoat : Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them.
• PingMyBlog : is a service which notify all the major blog directories in one go so that everyone knows about your latest blogs.
• Pingates : is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them.

I usually use Ping-o-Matic interchangeable with Pingoat. Say, for today's new post I use Ping-o-Matic to ping it, and for tomorrow new post I'll use Pingoat to ping them. Why? Some services unavailable in Ping-o-matic can be found in Pingoat. Why stingy with one website? Use other websites too~ Plus, it's not the usual me-heehee~~ X-D

Further reading:

• Wikipedia : Ping (blogging).
• Google Blog Search Help : Pinging service FAQ.
• image credit to: seanmcmenemy on Flickr.

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How to add more search engines to our current Firefox search bar?

Firefox search bar~

.: Firefox search bar? Eh??

In case you didn't know, on our right side of our Mozilla Firefox browser is where our handy search bar located. If you are using Firefox 4 beta 11, your search bar will look just like this picture here  -->
(FYI, usually your Firefox search bar is the same bar either in Firefox 3.6 or Firefox 4).

Before this, Firefox search bar have 6 default search engine : Google, Yahoo, Amazon.com, Creative Commons, eBay and Wikipedia (en). Now one of them is gone and is replaced with Bing. Ouch! :-(

Okay, no need to worry. I'll share with you the link to search using Creative Commons later. Now rejoice~~  X-D

And let's look at one example on How to add more search engines to our Firefox search bar~

Adding YouTube video search into our Firefox.
First, open our YouTube page in a new tab. Then click the drop down menu in our search bar. It really should look like this.

Search bar is "telling" us to add YouTube search.

Click the 'Add YouTube Video Search'. And now our search engine addition process is complete. So, when we want to search other video to embed it inside our blog, we can just search it from our Firefox search bar~

YouTube Video Search~

We can add other search engines too, like Flickr, Answers.com, Dictionary.com, EzineArticles, localized Wiki search, etc~ Some search engines (like Creative Commons) does not support it's addition to Firefox search bar yet, but we can always bookmark them for our use later~

• Creative Commons Search page. 
• Read more about Firefox web browser features~

aiemm: "Isn't it more convenient to search from one place only?"
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How to add your blog RSS or Atom feed into your iGoogle or My Yahoo! page~

.: Another way to check if your current blog's RSS or Atom feed working or not? Add it to your own iGoogle or My Yahoo! page~~

I have trouble repairing my personal blog feed in my personal iGoogle and My Yahoo! page. My latest blog post is not shown, only my old post is available. Why? What happened to my feed? Hurmmmm... :-(

Before we continue, the very first we need to do is to find and copy our blog feed link. Where is my blog feed? In Blogger blogspot, we can scroll down our blog and look for this~

Blog rss or atom feed link is located at the bottom part of our blog.

Right click on 'Posts (Atom)' > 'Copy Link Location' if you use Firefox.
Now our blog feed link has been copied. We can add them to our personal page.

For iGoogle page:

Click on 'Add stuff' located on our right side.

Click 'Add feed or gadget'~

Paste our blog feed link inside. Click 'Add'.

Done~ Our blog has been successfully added into our iGoogle page~

For our My Yahoo! page:

Click 'Content' on our My Yahoo.

Choose to 'Add RSS Feed'~

Paste our blog feed link there and then click 'Add'~

Done~ Our blog has been successfully added to our My Yahoo! page~

Now we can do our own blog feed check after we're done updating our blog. What we see in our personal page is what will others see when they subscribe to our blog feed. Sometimes they are slow when updating it, but we should see our newest blog post appear later in our personal page.

Too bad adding our blog feed to My MSN is not working yet..

aiemm: "Our own personalized search page? Our own version of modified Yahoo and Google?"
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Your Comments Loves You More Than You Do

.: Love your comments. When commenting, please think about others feelings too. Write comments ethically as your comments will show who you are.

If you don't have anything nice to say, just don't say anything at all~

Don Gabor, Words that win. 

Whoaaaa.. Intro with poetry~~  :-P

If you know the importance of link building, this post should be an eye-opener, or maybe just another different idea of SEO in action~

CommentLuv Network.

Have you heard or use CommentLuv before? If you had, you should read this post more, but if you haven't, you better read this post and other blogs more, okay?  :-P

A note for first-timers:
CommentLuv is quite a useful plugin that you may install in your WordPress or your Blogger blog. It still use the same commenting system, but now this new comment can pull the latest blog post/feed from their commentator.

A note for not-so-firsties:
CommentLuv has "moved" to another new site. If you use CommentLuv.com before, now you can go to ComLuv.com to enjoy the same CommentLuv system. Their old site still exists, and has already "stripped down to it's bare essentials".

A note to everybody else?:

• CommentLuv works best as our indirect promotion about our latest blog post. Like the 'News feed' widget, when other people read any blogs with our CommentLuv enabled, they will know about our newest written post. This, can increase our blog reader and our presence on the Net. 
• But for blog owner, the disadvantages of using CommentLuv in your blog is, your reader can go away from your blog. Which sometimes is not a very good thing to happen today. But why worry? Our blog is our blog. They will definitely come again because our blog satisfies their hungry of information, right?  ;-) 
• One really good advantage about CommentLuv is, it attracts our readers from resisting to write their comments in our blog. From one CommentLuv, now it spread to another one, then another one, then another... Whoa...

Then, How can we add CommentLuv to our blog?

1. Sign up first at IntenseDebate.
2. After done with registration, log into our account.
3. Visit their plugins and activate~~

Maybe after watching this video will help us how to do it correctly~

Add CommentLuv to Blogger on Basic Blog Tips

It has more than my 3 steps? I need to learn that. Now our free CommentLuv has finally activated. We can enjoy more comments and commenting activity in our blog~

For further reading:

• IntenseDebate : Give a little luv to your comments with the IntenseDebate CommentLuv Plugin
• BlogsWithWings : CommentLuv | What It Is, What It Does And Where To Get It.
• BasicBlogTips : How To Install CommentLuv on Blogger
• EternalBlackZero : How To Install CommentLuv On Your Blogspot Blog. 

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