I joined many social sites..er, ok not that many, but a couple of it. Friendster and Facebook the top two. Kinda like the idea of meeting back those who you never kept in touch for years, that includes your ex-girlfriends and the forget-ur-name list :p

In order to start now, all you have to do is to sign up and join 3gb community www.3gb.biz and start socialising! Its that simple..and you will meet many more new friends.

Need cash and you are out of idea? Well, people resort to mortgaging their property at times. It is safer, since you just mortgage your property and not selling it off, enabling you to actually retain the ownership back.

Traditionally mortgage lenders would expect a deposit of at least 10% before offering reasonable mortgage terms in return. Usually a bank or mortgage agent is the best and safe way for you to do dealings, if not you might end up getting cheated. hehehe!

So you better study first before making the deal. First Time Buyer Mortgages guide provides a good insight into this industry, so guys, do read and get a good understanding first.
Also, you may want to read latest news on mortgage at http://www.earth.co.uk/news.htm

Most people do not readily realize how old the Internet actually is these days. The Domain Name Server, or DNS, was created in the year 1984, and by 1985; there were already several different top level domains that could be used, including .com, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil, .cctld.

The first .edu domain names to be registered were cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu and ucla.edu, all of which occurred in April of 1985. The first .gov domain name registered was css.gov in June 1985. The first .org domain name registered was mitre.org in the month of July 1985.

The first .com domain name was registered on March 15, 1985. The first domain name ever to be registered on the Internet was Symbolics.com. Although the website is not much to look at, it is still up and running even today, more than 20 years later.

This is a list of the first 100 domain names ever to be registered. Some are well-known names, and others are less well known, though they were important companies twenty years or so ago.

1985 – Only six domain names were registered this year, which should speak volumes about how popular or accessible the Internet actually was.

Symbolics.com, on March 15 1985.
BBN.com on April 24, 1985.
Think.com on May 24, 1985.
MCC.com on July 11, 1985.
DEC.com on September 30, 1985.
Northrop.com on November 7, 1985.

1986 – The year 1986 experienced a much larger growth in domain name registrations, with 54 of the first 100 domain names registered coming into existence this year.

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Its not Rocket Science. Each of the above four elements contribute directly to the total revenue that your Adsense Ads will produce. Don’t just work on one of them though because if any one is weak it will hold your potential earnings back. Lets break each factor down….

Traffic Levels - The more people that see you Adsense Ads, the more likelihood there is that someone will click on them. As I examine the statistics provided by Adsense that report my daily earnings I notice that my earnings in the past 8 months have increased considerably as my total page impressions have increased. For example earlier in the week when Slashdot linked up to this post I had an influx of 50,000 visitors in 24 hours to my blog - it doesn’t take a genius to work out what this did to my Adsense earnings that day! Work on increasing your traffic levels and you should see an increase in your Adsense Revenue.

High Paying Ads - Once again I’m stating the obvious, but if the content you provide on your blog attracts high paying ads you’re going to do significantly better. For example it has been documented that the PVR Blog is doing pretty well when it comes to high Adsense earnings - the secret of its success is partly due to it being served with ads that are high paying. The topic of the PVR blog is, as you’d expect, PVR technology including TiVo, Replay TV etc. This is cutting edge technology and therefore advertisers are willing to pay top dollar to get their products and services out there! In comparison if a person was to start a blog on ‘toothpicks’ I suspect the ads are not likely to pay very much. It would take very high traffic levels to earn as much from a toothpick blog as it would the PVR blog.

Relevant Ads - A second reason the PVR Blog is successful is that it servers relevant ads. To put it simply people looking for information on PVR technology are confronted by Adsense ads for PVR technology. I recently visited a blog that was having trouble getting relevant ads - they had a blog on Tourist destinations in Australia - but unfortunately they were getting Adsense ads for remote control cars. You can guess what their revenue was like. Increase the relevancy of your Ads to your content and you are one step closer to increasing your Adsense revenue.

Optimally Positioned and Designed Ads - One of the coolest things about the Adsense program is that they give you freedom in choosing the best position and color scheme for your ads. Just like in the wider world of advertising - positioning is a key element to an ads success. A Billboard positioned on a road where no one drives is not likely to get the same results as one positioned on a busy intersection. The position and design of your Adsense Ads is critical - if they are out of site they’ll never get clicked on.

Bringing them Together - The above four elements are in many ways pretty obvious when spelt out like this - the challenge comes to improving each to optimize Adsense revenue.

Your revenue will only grow as high as the weakest one of these factors on your blog. For example if you have high paying, relevant, well designed and positioned ads but no traffic you’ll not do well. Likewise if you have high traffic, high paying and relevant ads but they are poorly designed an in a position where they’ll never be seen - you’ll waste all your other hard work. Its not enough to work on one element.

How do we improve each? In the next four posts we’ll examine each area in turn and suggest a number of ways that you might try tweaking them to increase your revenue.

This is the second part of our Adsense guide, first part can be read HERE.

• Google Adsense Program Policies indicate that the content of sites must not contain things like excessive profanity, pornography, illicit drugs etc. Basically your blog needs to have content that is reasonably ‘family friendly’.
• Also in their policy document is a reference to them not normally accepting pages of a personal nature. This is the topic of discussion in many Adsense forums and is obviously open to different interpretations. Many (if not most) blogs are personal in nature - however to maximize your chances of approval by Adsense a blog should be targeted on a particular topic/s. For example whilst this blog is often personal in nature - most of my individual posts (pages) focus on very specific themes which are repeated throughout the blog. update - this may have changed recently with Blogger now allowing blogger blogs to use Adsense.
• Sites accepted into the Adsense program are also required to be easily navigable, have an adequate quantity of text based content (don’t apply if you’ve been blogging a week) and be written in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, or Spanish. They may not to have excessive advertising or other contextual/competing advertising.
• Whilst not stated in the Adsense Policy document, many also believe that sites accepted into the program also need to have reasonable levels of traffic. If your blog is new, it may be worth waiting a few weeks or months before applying to build up traffic and content levels. Others speculate that a professionally designed, well-organized and privately hosted blog has a better chance of being accepted. The more professional and successful your blog appears the more likely it is to be accepted by Adsense.

If still in doubt after reading Google Adsense Program Policies you can email Google for clarification or just apply and see how you go.

Of course, acceptance by Google into the Adsense program does not guarantee your success. The fact remains that certain blogs will always be more successful than others at generating income.

Future posts in this series will focus upon strategies and tips for increasing your revenue but it should be stated here that the most successful sites are generally sites with very high traffic levels and/or content that is directly related to a particular product or service (the more targeted and niche-like the better).

It is also worth saying that Adsense works best on pages with lots of text content. It only reads text in determining ads, not images so make sure you have enough relevant content.

So how do I make money from Google Adsense? Let me share some AdSense Tips that heve helped me.

This will be the first in a series of posts on this topic. Let me say up front I’m no expert - there are a lot of people out there making a lot more money than I am using Adsense - however most of them are not telling their secrets - well not for free anyway. I’ve got no secrets to hide and am willing to share what I’ve learnt since I signed up for the program 8 months ago. If you want a REAL expert’s opinion on Adsense I’d recommend buying Joel Comm’s What Google Never Told You About Making Money with Adsense E-Book. Joel earns $15,000 per month from Adsense and has some good things to share.

I know some bloggers are put off or offended by the idea of making money from blogging so I’ll try not to let these posts dominate my blog - however if you are not interested in the topic, simply skip over these posts.

I am going to assume a few things in this series to cut down the amount of introductory comments I have to make. Here is what I am assuming:

• You have a blog. Whilst most of the following tips will apply to other types of websites I run Adsense on blogs and will speak from that experience.
• You have (or will) read a basic overview of Adsense and have some understanding of what it is.
• You have(or will) read the program policies as outlined by Google. These give details of site eligibility, ad placements and other requirements for using the system.

Enough introductory comments - lets get stuck into the Adsense Tips for Bloggers!

Will bring second part soon!

Okay, its fun to play with Paypal. What is paypal? Erk!

PayPal is the online bank lah kira…this is where you do transaction virtually. Of course there are other payment methods, but nothing comes near Paypal in terms of usage, acceptance etc. They support Visa, Mastercard credit, debit card holders. But don’t worry, you don’t have to own a credit,debit card to open a Paypal account. But having one will be a great advantage when the real-world transaction takes place. Especially when you want to cashout the PayPal money into your card.

Anyway, if you have paypal, you can use it to erm, well, apart from shopping via Ebay, you can use it to get some donations to support your blogging activities or websites. It will surely be handy when paying-server-every-year trouble comes!

We will look at how you can add the “donation button” into your website. I wanted to write it my own, but then hey, why wanna waste time when you can copy and paste! Hahaha, credits to LiewCF for the great and simple step below.

Step-by-step to create PayPal donation button

1. Login your PayPal account, goto “Merchant Tools”. Scroll down to “PayPal Website Payments Standard“.
2. There is a link named “Donations“. Click it to open donation button setup page.
3. There looks many fields need to fill in… Don’t worry, you can ignore those “(optional)” field.
4. If you want to specific a donation amount, fill in the “Donation Amount:“.Note: Once specified the amount, the donator cannot donate more than or less than the specified valune.
5. Under “Choose a donation button to put on your website (optional)“, you can choose a donation button or use your own image.
6. For “Security Settings“, I recommend to select “Yes” to encrypt your payment button. It will protect your paypal email address.
7. Then, click the “Create Button Now” button at the bottom of the page to create your PayPal donation button.
8. You will given a HTML code for the donation button. Copy it and paste into your website. Done.

PayPal Donations makes it easy for you to collect secure donations from your website. After inserting simple HTML code, you can collect your donations via secure PayPal payment pages.

Next time we shall look at how to cashout, or transfer the money into our banks!

You wish to create your own blog, but like many, you’re not sure how to. Technology and Internet scares you! Hahaha, don’t be afraid to try. Open up your mind and lets learn together on how to start your very own blog!

There are many websites that provides blog services, like Blogspot.com, Wordpress.com, Blogdrive.com and many more. We will look at the popular BLOGSPOT.com which is owned by none other than Google. (Blogspot is also previously known as BLOGGER)

Step 1: Start your favorite web browser.
Step 2: Type in http://www.blogger.com in address bar of your browser.
Step 3: You will be taken to the Blogger’s home page.
Step 4: Scroll down a little bit then page will be shown like following picture.

You can create a blog easily and quickly in Blogger. There are three steps you have to do to create a blog.

Create an account
Name your Blog
Choose a template

Create an account:

Step 5: Now Click at “CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW”.
Step 6: You will be presented a first step to create a blog “Create a Google account”.
Step 7: If you already have a Gmail account then first you have to sign in by clicking at “Sign in First” link. Then you will be presented Google account signing in page. Sign in to Google account by typing in there your Id and Password.
Please Note : If you don’t have a Google account then skip the step 7, go to Step 8.

Step 8: If you don’t have a Google account then you have to create one. For this you have to fill the form as shown above type in your Email address. You must have an email address then Enter a password and Retype your password. Password and Retype password must be same. Now type in your Display name. This name will be used as a signature of post. Type in Verification word in the given text box and click to check the “I accept terms of service” check box. Then click “Continue” button to continue the blog creation process.

Name your blog:
Step 9: Now you will be shown second step to create a blog that is Naming a blog. So you must think an appropriate a blog title and blog URL beforehand.
Just suppose blog name is “Parti Payung Cap Hujan” and blog address (URL) “partipayung”. Contoh je
Type in there your Blog name and Blog URL and click “check availability” link. It is for just checking that somebody has already taken this URL or not.
If it is available then you can proceed further, and if is not then type in some other URL.

Choose Template:
Step 11: Now after clicking “Continue” button you will be presented third step to create a blog that “Choose a template” here you can choose a template for your blog from variety of template click “Preview template” link to preview your blog. If you choose a template from here then also you can change it later. We’ll worry about nice looking template later next year okay Just choose any
Step 12: Click “Continue button” and you are done. Your blog has been successfully created.

Step 13: Now click “Start Posting” button to write a first post for your blog. Write a title of post and body of post. You can also format your post by given formatting tools like bold, italic, underline, text color, size, font and alignment of the text then click “Publish” button to publish your first post. If successful message appears then you have successfully post your blog post.

Now click “View blog” to view your blog. IF you put your URL as “partipayung” , it means your web blog is www.partipayung.blogspot.com .

Well, once you are done, leave comment here with your new blog address! Happy blogging. Majulah Blog untuk negara !

The blog or Weblog to give the full name has been around for a number of years; it’s the last 3 or so years they have started to become so popular. So what is a blog?

Here is a definition from Wikipedia (a online encyclopaedia)

A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order).

Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of “blogging”.

Quite simply they are an online journal or scrap book where the user can easily talk about (post) any subject they choose. They have advanced quite a lot in the last few years and they can know host video, audio, photos as well as text content.

The simplicity of using these online applications to put content online immediately with little or no technical know how has opened the internet up to millions of new users. In fact if you can use a word process package on you PC then you can run a blog.

In fact the blog has gone beyond a simple web journal and blogging platforms such as the very popular Wordpress have become the basis for very neat sites.

Because of the ease of creating new and unique content using a blog the search engines love them giving them high page ranking, this mean they appear at or near the top of the search results page. This is what makes them so good at making you money.

What ever you are selling if you have a good well maintained blog the chances are people searching for your product / service will see your blog , make purchase etc.

The other major benefit is the very low cost of setting up a blog that makes it an easy profit point in your business. It’s much easier to get in to profit if the investment is almost zero.

NEXT : How to create blogs !