Archive for the 'My Stories' Category

Laziness brings us no where, hardworking does

Friday, September 1st, 2006

I have a friend (let’s call him John) that started a blog with identical topic when I started writing a similar blog some 6 months ago.
While I am getting a steady flow of visitors and starting to reap the rewards for that blog, John is still at the middle of no where. So what’s […]

Dual language ad unit in Google Adsense

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Darren from problogger.net had made a post about Google Adsense displaying dual language ad units, and wondering if it’s a glitch or common thing.
As an Asian blogger myself, seeing dual language ads is pretty common for me.
The screenshot on the left is a sample of a square ad from one of my blog, showing an […]

$132,994.97 a month? How about $901,733.84?

Friday, July 14th, 2006

My short term goal as a webmaster is to earn USD3000 a month by the end of next May, that’s when I’m going to be 28.
I was always amazed by people like Darren from problogger.net that make 6 figures income a year, but now I am having a new idol, Jeremy from shoemoney.com, this guy […]

Never give up, your chance will come

Friday, July 14th, 2006

I have a friend, Bryan, who venture into webmaster world a few months ago hoping to get a 2nd source of income.
After trying for 2 months he gave up because he was earning less than $3 in Google Adsense income and he felt disappointed.

Trying Amazon associate program

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Amazon.com has been here since the dotcom boom in late 90s and is one of the largest online store currently, if not the largest.
Amazon has introduced their associate program for years, and I joined as member last year but didn’t really utilize on it after reading some forum comments on how difficult it is to […]

Beautiful vs ugly website, never ending story

Friday, July 14th, 2006

It’s a life long argument on whether to build a beautiful website or keep it simple and ‘ugly’.
I am the kind of webmaster that believes in KISS, Keep It Simple and Stupid. Well KISS can still be beautiful but for a below average artistic person like me, it’s not easy to build a simple […]

Keeping track on site stats

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Some experience webmaster will say that newbies are wasting too much time on keeping track on site stats, partly true but in my opinion it’s important to keep track of your site traffic especially when your site is new.
A few things that I normally analyze is where are the traffic coming from, and try to […]

My web hosting advice

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

I have experience with several web hosting company before sticking with the current webh osting service. The current web hosting is the most expensive I’ve ever work with, but the service is excellent and almost trouble free.
So what determines a great web host? For me it’s great customer service, stable server, fast loading […]