Sorry For The Downtime Recently | I’m Now Using Wordpress Version 2.6

I just want to take this time to apologize for the downtime recently. Basically it was due to me trying out the InstantUpgrade Wordpress plugin to upgrade my Wordpress from version 2.5.1 to 2.6. The plugin broke my blog, and I stupidly didn’t make a total backup of my site -  I only backed-up the database. Anyway, to cut things short, my site was online off and on for the last few days and as the database had a bit of problems, I didn’t get to save al the comments during that period of time. Really sorry guys, I have learnt my lesson and am going to make full backups of my site from time to time now

One other thing,  I’m now using Wordpress 2.6 and it has quite a few useful features. The one I like most about the upgrade is that now when choosing a theme I get to preview the theme. It’s quite cool. For those of you who have not upgrade, I suggest do not upgrade yet as 6.1 is coming out soon (I heard) to fix some bugs in this version of Wordpress, and besides, Wordpress 2.5.1 works perfectly fine.

Oh, and for those of you who use Windows Live Writer with Wordpress, you have to turn on the XML-RPC option in Wordpress to able to use Windows Live Writer with it. To do that, go to Settings, then to Writing, and tick the enable XML-RPC protocol box. XML-RPC is now turned off by default in Wordpress 2.6, and to use Windows Live Writer with it, you need it to be turned on.

That’s all the site news for now guys.

Note: I’m still trying to get back my blog to how it was before the upgrading fiasco. So please bear with me. Thanks

Gilt Groupe Invites Giveaway

Gilt Groupe is a private invite-only online community which is dedicated to providing its members access to luxury lifestyle brands and coveted fashion labels at a special and heavily discounted sales price. 

The Gilt Groupe was even mention on Forbes and as of 25 of February this year has around 75,00 members.

Gilt Groupe sells these luxury lifestyle items during 1 day “sales”, which are quite often, where the prices Gilt groupe members pay for the items are more than 50% cheaper than retail prices. Some of the big brands that are sold here are brands like Gurhan the jewelry label and creations of Behnaz Sarafpour the fashion designer.

Look at the difference in retail and Gilt prices.

The screenshot below is what you’ll expect when you’re logged into Gilt and are doing some shopping and your looking around.

Note the minimalistic design.

Gilt Groupe has sales which caters to women, men and children. As seen below, these are some of the high end labels which caters to men that has sales in Gilt Groupe.

Note all the high end and luxury brands and labels.

If you want an invite to Gilt Groupe, please leave a comment stating your email address and why do you want the invite and I’ll be sending you some as soon as I can

As usual, first come first serve, so don’t procastinate and grab one now.

Tradd.Us Invites Giveaway

  Tradd.us is a contextual translator powered by Google translator and utilizes a range of other services which enables it to translate, analyze, identify and contextualize information in your content in an organized way.

When you translate content using tradd.us, it uses it’s semantical analysis feature to identify and tag important information. By following on a tag, you can see a host of information connected to the tag word, helping you learn and greatly improving the text comprehension. It even lists down the synonyms of words to help you understand the content even better.

Tradd.us would be a great tool for all those of you who are weak in English and frequently translate English into your mother tongue as Tradd.us is not a normal translating service, rather it brings the whole process up to a whole new level.

All in all, Tradd.us enhances the already powerful Google translator to make the whole process of reading from translated text much more easier with much better comprehension. If you’re interested to try out this new technology, then drop a comment here with your email address and a reason of why I should send it to you and you’ll be getting your invite real soon

First come first served though.

The Nuffnang Innit Effect – A Mini Digg Effect?

Hey guys, for the past 24 hours (nearly) my post of a list of paid blogging networks was shown as some of the most popular posts in Nuffnang Innit. Being one of the most popular posts, even though it’s only the most popular in the last 24 hours and not all popular, I received a huge wave of traffic and readers from Nuffnang Innit. I call this wave of traffic the Nuffnang Innit effect and it is a really welcomed effect by me as it brings in a swarm of traffic and new visitors.

Nuffnang Innit is a blog aggregator by Nuffnang which works like Digg where members get to vote and decide which are the more popular posts and only open to Glitterati members. Nuffnang Innit is also frequently used to drive traffic to member blogs although the success of Nuffnang Innit as a means of traffic driving has been questionable until now. In this post is all the evidence you need of the Nuffnang Innit effect.

The top 10 last popular posts are shown in Innit’s homepage while the top 5 last popular posts are shown in the homepage of Nuffnang bloggers. My post got into the most popular in the last 24 hours within 4 hours of submission and was displayed both in the Nuffnang Innit frontpage and the homepage of Nuffnang’s bloggers. Not too bad right?

See my post at the top there with 30 Nang’s.

The Nuffnang Innit effect brought me about 100 over visits within 24 hours. I never have gotten the Digg effect before, but it should resemble something like the Nuffnang Innit effect – only on a larger scale. You must admit that this is pretty good free traffic. Best of all, all this traffic originates from either Malaysia or Singapore. As you can see the average time on site is like pathetic, but then again I later found out that my posts permalink had changed and my visitors were getting a “not found” sign. What a waste of traffic, all thanks to Windows Live Writer which frequently posts my posts under a wrong timestamp as it doesn’t follow the TimeZone properly. Oh well. At least some of the visitors were enterprising enough to click on the paid blogging category and find the post.

Note: As the Nuffnang Innit effect usually lasts for about 24 hours (until it expires from the most popular in the last 24 hours category), I measure the Nuffnang Innit effect over 2 days, as I submitted quite late in the day, so the 24 hour period spills over to the next day. As the Nuffnang Innit effect also spills over the 24 hours period, some of this statistics in the picture might be an underestimate of the Nuffnang Innit effect. The statistics and figures might not be entirely accurate as it reflect some traffic from search engines and everything, but the main reason of the pictures is to show the dramatic increase in traffic due to the Nuffnang Innit effect on a macroscale and not a microscale.

See the spike in traffic?  From 20 visitors a day up to 80 visitors a day. 147 visits over 1 full day and another incomplete day (today).

Here are some more statistics of the Nuffnang Innit effect as seen by Reinvigorate . Look at the picture below, 76 from referred sites, about 70 of them from Nuffnang Innit and this only represents about 15 hours of the Nuffnang Innit effect.

Yup, the Nuffnang Innit effect is good for site traffic.

Look at the 2 tallest columns here. That’s the Nuffnang Innit effect over a period of just 2 days (the 15th isn’t a complete day as today hasn’t ended. Which means it should reflect more).From this trending data view you can easily see the difference and the impact of the Nuffnang Innit effect.

Nuffnang Innit effect again at work here.

Nuffnang Innit does indeed drive traffic to your site, especially if your posts is one the most popular ones, even if only in the last 24 hours. As the Nuffnang Innit effect is quite large for smaller blogs like mine, I suggest to you to be a Nuffnang Glitterati member if only just to be able to use Innit and gain the full benefit of the Nuffnang Innit effect.

If you’re here from Innit, please Nang me now!

So all your Nuffnanger’s, what are your thoughts on the Nuffnang Innit effect?

Get Your Harvey-Davidson Related Stuff At Team Latus Motors Harley-Davidson

If you’re one of those big fans of the Harvey-Davidson brand out there, then you might want to check out Team Latus Motors Harley-Davidson where they sell nearly everything you can imagine with the brand Harvey-Davidson stamped on it.

I’m not an expert on Harvey-Davidson motorbikes, in fact I don’t even ride but from what I see I’m pretty impressed by it. Team Latus Motors Harley-Davidson sells nearly every single part of the Harley-Davidson motorbike, which means for all of you guys who like to heavily customize their bike, then this would be a like paradise for you.

Some of the things they sell here are Harley Davidson motorcycle parts, the few different models of engines, different types of tires, lamp covers, fenders, fuel tank cover, auxiliary lamp covers, rails and racks, custom pillion and custom seats and even this thing called sissy bars.

Besides all these Harley-Davidson related stuff, Team Latus Motors Harley-Davidson does sell a bit of other things like clothing, gift cards and so forth.

If you’re a Harvey-Davidson enthusiast, then I highly recommend Team Latus Motors Harley-Davidson.

I Finally Got Back My Nuffnang Glitterati Membership

As the title says, today when I logged into my Nuffnang account, I realise I got back my Nuffnang Glitterati membership. . Actually I had been checking every single day since I got dropped from Nuffnang Glitterati to see whether I had been reinstated into the program.

The yellow Glitterati words are so much more comforting then the normal member’s one.

Remember I told you about how Nuffnang replied my support email after just 4 hours? Well I sent them back a reply and they only replied after 2 days, which to me is still kind of acceptable. According to them, I had a piece of code that I had placed in my template from Blog2U. I check my template and sure enough, there was the code from Blog2U. Actually the code is just a tracking code, but I think the Nuffnang Crawler doesn’t even like that.

Nuffnang says that their crawlers automatically adds your blog which does not contain advertisements from any other advertisement network originating from South East Asia into the Nuffnang Glitterati club within 48 hours, however, I didn’t find this to be the case. It took me up to 4 days, which is 96 hours before I got reincluded into the program. Not entirely 96 hours, as I might have been reincluded a couple of hours before that but I didn’t see it, but still more or less there. So for all of you out there who are trying to get into the Glitterati club, don’t panic too much if it’s already been 48 hours but you still have not been reincluded as it too me up to 96 hours.

Hehe. One of the reasons I wanted to get back my Glitterati membersip so badly was because without it I won’t get to use Innit, Nuffnang’s “Digg”. It seems pretty useful, that’s why I’m experimenting with it.

List Of Paid Blogging Networks

Here’s a list of some of the more popular paid blogging networks around. As this list is quite long, I’m pretty sure there are some paid blogging networks here they haven’t even heard before so you might want to give them a try. I haven’t tried all of them yet, the ones which I have tried so far are Smorty, SponsoredReviews, LinkPost by LinkWorth, Bloggerwave, BlogToProfit and a few more. Have fun trying them out . I’ll post a list of recommended paid blogging networks with detailed reviews in the near future, but for now, just know that there are more than one paid blogging network out there, which also means more money making opportunities

Some quick information for all you who are new to the paid blogging industry. First of all, you earn money from paid blogging networks by blogging about a specific product, services or other things. You can either write it as an advertorial, in a promoting manner, or just as a “let-you-know” post and paid blogging networks will pay you for the post. Once your post has been confirmed and accepted, you’ll generally get paid after a set number of days. As the money earned for every post is quite high, paid blogging is a quick and easy way to supplement your income as a blogger. Hehe.

Enjoy

Note: They are in no particular order and this list will be updated regularly.

1. SponsoredReviews

   

2. Smorty

   

3. LinkPost by LinkWorth

   

4. PayU2Blog

   

5. PayPerPost

   

6. LoudLaunch

   

7. Bloggerwave

   

8. BloggingAds

   

9. BlogToProfit

   

10. Blogsvertise

    

11. ReveiwMe

    

12. Ihype

    

13. SocialSpark

    
    Credit for this goes to Dan.

14. Blog2U

    
    Credit for this addition goes to Lalaboi. 

I’ll keep adding more in the near future. If you know any paid blogging networks that are reputable and do pay, please leave a comment here so I can put it in the list. Due credit will be given to you.

Allen Barron Inc - The 3 In One Firm

Allen Barron Inc is San Diego based law firm which offers 3 different type of services, that is, legal services, tax and accounting services and management services. This brings great convenience to people who need services in all 3 areas as they don’t need many different companies for a few services, they can get all 3 services they need from one large and professional company.

Business law and legal services provided by Allen Barron Inc are on things like contracts and agreements, international tax strategies, mediation and arbitration, shareholder issues and more.

Allen Barron Inc provides accounting services (CPA) to corporations both large and small, all tailored to meet individual and business needs. One good thing about Allen Barron Inc which has certified public accountants (CPA) is that certified public accountants are allowed to work throughout California, therefore it does not limit them to a certain place or district. Allen Barron also offers IRS Representation for those of you who are based in San Diego.

The management advisory services provided by Allen Barron Inc are quite comprehensive, from things like strategic planning to factory layout, system recommendations and product distribution. Pretty much all the management services you need

Get A Cent For Free

Yes, as the title says, get $0.01 for free, no catch. All you have to to do is go to GetACent and navigate to the page where you just input your Paypal email address and enter a security code to ensure that you’re not a robot and you’ll be getting $0.01. No signups or completing offers of any kind, just plain old free money. Pretty cool huh?

This website was set up as an experiment by some people to see how many people will actually claim their free cent. As the site is only ad-supported, I somehow feel the site won’t last that long, so hurry up claim your free cent.

And for those who have already claimed, you can get another free cent only after 6 months, or risk being banned by them. So that’s one free cent every 6 months.

Payment Proof:

Demonoid Registrations Are Open

Demonoid registrations are open! Hurry up and get your account before the time runs out. This is like the first time that I’ve seen Demonoid have open registrations. I know this isn’t the first time it had one, but this is definitely the first one I have seen with my own eyes. Anyway, please do hurry sign up as I have no idea how long this open sign ups will last.

So what are you waiting for? Go sign up now!