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Is web hosting with dedicated IP address better than shared IP address?

spBlogger — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:00:53 +0000

Shared IP vs dedicated IP… Do I need dedicated IP for my blogs? That’s the question that I asked on July 2009. And I got myself a dedicated IP in the end. Thought of lot of things back then. SEO, traffic, search engine ranking were the factors that I made the purchase. Does it really help in SEO on improving my blogs traffic?

What is a dedicated IP?
You will get 1 unique IP number for your web hosting account – your primary domain. For my case, 70.40.213.222 is the dedicated IP that I own. When you type 70.40.213.222 into your web browsers address bar, it will route you to the main domain which is JayceOoi.com.

What is a shared IP?
Most of the websites have shared IP addresses. Depend on web hosting provider, 200 to 300 websites sharing the same 1 IP in shared web hosting package is normal. Some have less than 100 websites sharing 1 IP.

Who need a dedicated IP? What benefit does dedicated IP bring?

Having your own Private SSL Certificate.
Anonymous FTP.
Access your website with IP even when the domain name is inaccessible.

Okay, there is lot of myths about dedicated IP on SEO. Some said it did improve Google PageRank and search engine ranking while some denied. I saw some blogs which rank higher in Google does have dedicated IP when I purchased it last year. It is just USD 2.50 per month for dedicated IP. Can’t you earn that back with your blogs? I asked myself. After using dedicated IP for more than 6 months, does my blog traffic increased? YES. But I did lot of other SEO optimizations too. So does dedicated IP really help? I don’t know…

Will you purchase dedicated IP for your blog?

Blue Ocean Strategy vs Red Ocean Strategy

spBlogger — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:02:05 +0000

I did not have the chance to read both of the Blue Ocean Strategy and Red Ocean Strategy. Just know the high level meaning of them. Red Ocean Strategy is the way that fights hard in existing market while Blue Ocean Strategy values innovation on getting new market. These strategies do not apply on business only, it applies to blogging too.

In SEO world, everyone is fighting to be the highest ranking on a good keyword. I tried lot of efforts to fight a particular very hot keywords (let’s said it as A) by commenting on lot of dofollow blogs with CommentLuv. I also write another post with cold keywords (let’s said it as B) but without any marketing. Based on 1 week Google Analytics traffic, A got 1000 visits and B received 800 visits. I really did lot of works on A but nothing on B. In return, I rather write more articles like B. Normally, I don’t active much in commenting on other blogs. I focus on writing more.

Based on the experiment, the result tells me… Write more valuable articles to get more traffic. The articles must be hot and latest topics. And thanks to Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking too. It tracks even more accurate. Hitting 5k visitors per day by March 2010 is not a mission impossible.

Asynchronous Tracking ~ A new way to track in Google Analytics

spBlogger — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:42:45 +0000

Thanks to Ah Hong for letting me know about this new feature from Google Analytics ~ Asynchronous Tracking. What is asynchronous tracking?

Unlike a traditional installation, asynchronous tracking optimizes how browsers load ga.js so its impact on user experience is minimized. It also allows you to put your Analytics snippet higher in the page without delaying subsequent content from rendering.

Yes. I always wanted to keep track of my blogs’ traffic totally and without slowing the blog. Therefore, I put Google Analytics code before tag. This will not slow down the website loading but will fail to capture some of the visits due to certain pages did not finish loading until footer and visitors left already. However, with the new asynchronous tracking, thing become totally different. I can keep track all of the visitors and also keep my website loading speed at optimize level.

Testing had been done for few days. I did notice the increase of page view track by Google Analytics. Yeah… I have certain very long pages that can’t track by it. Now it can be tracked with new code. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and install the new Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking code. Let me know the outcome then.

How to get traffic to my website for free?

spBlogger — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:16:31 +0000

How to get traffic to my website for free? This is a question that being asked by many of us including me. I have been blogging for almost 3 years. What have I done to increase my blog traffic? Well in short, I took the slow and steady move. Being as an application developer in MNC, I blog for part time only. Therefore, I do not have time that most professional bloggers have. However, it does not stop me from blogging professionally.

JayceOoi.com traffic sources on November 2009

JayceOoi.com is the first blog (I called it website for last 2 years as I did not want to admit that it is a blog) that I have. And then PrettyGirl2u.com and spBlogger.com. All of them have traffic from search engines for free. I am not going to discuss on every single step here, just high level as most of us know to do so already.

Things that I do to get traffic to my website for free…

Make my website a search engine optimized (SEO) website.
Comment at others’ blog.
Active at famous forums.
Don’t stop learning new stuff

Search engines love SEO websites. You will get lot of traffic there. All you need to do ~ get lot of incoming links as you can. Personally, I don’t blog purposely for search engine. There are some who do so in order to make money online. And it is proven that it work. I would like to have more direct traffic. Why? This mean that your blog is informative and people are willing to visit again. And indirectly, it will bring more incoming links too. Finally, I always keep this in mind.

Write good content, do proper marketing == ~~money money~~ traffic traffic come.

Nuffnang Analytics get updated

spBlogger — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:56:58 +0000

Nuffnang Analytics is one of my daily visit website. I use it to track my blogs’ unique visitor by hour. With it, I can understand my visitor visit trend on hourly basis. And will use Google Analytics as advanced tool for daily, weekly and month.

Nuffnang Analytics

Hehe… The new Nuffnang Analytics is not perfect. The chart title is always “This Week’s Visits: ” no matter which period you select from today, this week, last week and last month.

Boost up your WordPress loading speed ~ use WP Super Cache plugin

spBlogger — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:04:39 +0000

Does your blog have lot of Digg or Stumble Upon traffic hits? And your web hosting cannot take that hits and crash. Fear no more. WP Super Cache WordPress plugin comes to rescue.

HostMonster CPU Limiting Factors (Throttling)

Some said that HostMonster CPU Limiting Factors (Throttling) data is not accurate. I tried WP Super Cache for 1 day. It does reduce CPU usage a little bit but not much. Why? My blogs don’t have many hits from SU and Digg. So far, I only got around 80 cache pages. Let’s monitor when I get more traffic hits.

Download WordPress plugin ~ WP Super Cache here.

Traffic == Income

spBlogger — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:04:36 +0000

Traffic == Income

Yup. The more traffic that you get from your websites, the higher income you will get. I am on turbo mode early this month when ADSDAQ performed extremely well (for few days only) and turbo mode again this few days when Innity Performance Network is crazy also. Woo… I am a little bit tired but happy with the result.

JayceOoi.com weekly traffic from Nuffnang

Getting 5000 visitors per day is still a very far way to go. Maybe I set a too high target already. 3000 daily visitors should not be a problem on JayceOoi.com next birthday. Hmm… Need to work hard to reach there.

2 days left on October. On my daily checking on revenue (yup. I do daily checking on online income), October should be the highest income month so far. Nuffnang and Innity are fighting very strong. But Innity might not able to beat Nuffnang due to less CPM ads show already. And it still has RM100 to go. A very tough fight indeed. By the way, both of them beat ADSDAQ. Wow…

However, November is another story. Nuffnang don’t have much earning to bring over. Innity should win Nuffnang easily if performance is maintained. Innity == a bright new star? Yes, when I get the first payment.

Facebook ~ one of the best marketing tools

spBlogger — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:39:29 +0000

Facebook? If you still don’t know what is Facebook. You are totally out of this Internet world. Facebook is so famous that almost everyone connected will have 1 account there. I created my Facebook account last year but inactive until lately. I was using Friendster back in 3-4 years ago. Should switch to Facebook sooner. Anyway, it is still not too late.

Facebook

What makes Facebook one of the best marketing tools? It has lot of users. That’s one of the advantages. And whenever you update something on your Facebook account like post a message, photo, comment. It will show up at your friend’s main page. So they will know what you are doing… You can also import blog RSS to Facebook. Isn’t that great?

I just started to be very active in Facebook lately. Will monitor how much traffic that Facebook will bring.

Focus on getting traffic not revenue

spBlogger — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:41 +0000

Money… Money… Money… Not everyone loves money. However, we cannot survive without it. That’s the simple rule of life. We need money to buy food, pay for daily needs and a place to stay. I am one of the participants in the rat race. Hopefully, will get out from there sooner.

Getting more advertising in your blog does not mean to bring more income. And it will slow down the loading of your website. Some of the readers might go away due to too much advertising. They will like to get the information that they need and not the advertising. Unless the advertising match their interest.

My blogs’ loading speed is slow lately. My friends told me else I did not notice it also. It is not directly due to many advertising but the hosting server response. It is slow when you key in the address and you need to wait until around 10 – 20 seconds for the page to start loading. Hmm… What is going on here?

Anyway, I will focus on the content rather than advertising from now on. With better keywords, they do bring more traffic. And that’s good if you have more CPM ads. Else you will have hard to earn if readers don’t click on CPC ads. Just take my blogs for example, my readers don’t like to click on image CPC ads. Therefore, the CPC ads earning is too low compare to CPM ads.

Finally, read more to gain more knowledge. It will help you to write better article == bring more traffic. And make sure your marketing is correct too.

Internet income report for July 2009

spBlogger — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:08 +0000

Yes! Google AdSense broke USD 250 level. Another historical record high of USD 251.86. I like this kind of income source ~ passive income. All you need to do is writing article on your blogs, you can schedule the posts too. No time constraint like office work from 0800 to 1730. However, not everyone can make money online. Time is needed and the correct way of doing so is the most important. You will end up with nothing if you don’t know the correct path and waste lot of energy.

Internet income report for July 2009

Google AdSense – US$ 251.86 (RM 878.61)
ADSDAQ – US$ 59.58 (RM 207.84)
Nuffnang – US$ 32.87 (RM 114.68)
Infolinks – US$ 18.96 (RM 66.14)

Grand Total: US$ 363.27 (RM 1267.27)

Only the strong will survive. Every advertising company earning is increasing. But Nuffnang earning does not match to increasing traffic. I am thinking of dumping Nuffnang from the list. And will use existing Nuffnang ad placements (top header, before comment and sidebar) for direct advertiser. These locations are good and should bring more income to me if I sell them directly. What do you think?

Internet income report for June 2009

spBlogger — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:00:52 +0000

Go… Google AdSense go… Go… Go… Go… Yes. My Google AdSense earning finally broke USD 200 level. Historical record high of USD 236.06. Jayce Ooi’s Paradise itself contributed USD200. Follow by Pretty Girl 2u and SP Blogger. ADSDAQ also performed better than usual. Passed USD 50 cash out limit. Infolinks earning increased too.

Internet income report for June 2009

Google AdSense – US$ 236.06 (RM 823.54)
ADSDAQ – US$ 51.60 (RM 180.01)
Nuffnang – US$ 44.52 (RM 155.32)
Infolinks – US$ 15.70 (RM 54.77)

Grand Total: US$ 347.88 (RM 1213.64)

Well… Nuffnang was the only one that contributed lesser income due to less advertisement assigned to 3 of my blogs. 5xmom managed to get RM 3000 per month from Nuffnang. Why I cannot? Hmm…

Internet income report for May 2009

spBlogger — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:20 +0000

May 2009 was the month that I received lot of affiliates’ payments. I received payments from B&H Photo Video and HeartBeat. I joined these affiliates long time ago. And I just managed to withdraw the payments. B&H Photo Video paid in cheque. How much will I get when I clear a US cheque? I have USD 20.63 only. Which bank in Malaysia offers the lowest charges to clear US cheque? I don’t want to lose my precious money to the bank charges.

Internet income report for May 2009

Google AdSense – US$ 171.19 (RM 590.26)
Nuffnang – US$ 63.85 (RM 220.18)
ADSDAQ – US$ 42.57 (RM 146.78)
Text Link Ads – US$ 40.00 (RM 137.92)
B&H Photo Video – US$ 20.63 (RM 71.13)
HeartBeat – US$ 17.69 (RM 61.00)
Infolinks – US$ 11.47 (RM 39.54)

Grand Total: US$ 367.40 (RM 1266.81)

More and more bloggers nowadays. Some of my friends also involve in blogging actively lately. Hopefully, all of us will earn more online income. I like to earn online income as passive income because I still can earn money even without doing anything. Some bloggers manage to maintain its earning even without writing anything for months. That’s cool…

Internet income report for April 2009

spBlogger — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:31:02 +0000

Time flied… It passed another month again. Time to calculate my Internet income. I was able to cash out Nuffnang earning this month. Nuffnang consist 2 months earning this round. US$ 105.06 (RM 371.81) / 2 == US$ 52.53 (RM 185.90). Nuffnang earning is getting better than usual RM 100 range. Way to go Nuffnang!

Google AdSense broke its all time high again ~ the highest earning that I got for Google AdSense on January 2009. Looking forward to break US$ 200 record.

Infolinks had a very good first week result ~ US$ 0.73 daily average. Earning started to slowdown after the first week then. And I got US$ 0.49 daily average in the end. Infolinks earning almost double when compare to Kontera (US$ 0.26 daily average). This is a better in-text advertising that I had. Any in-text advertising company better than Infolinks?

Internet income report for April 2009

Google AdSense – US$ 180.27 (RM 637.92)
Nuffnang – US$ 105.06 (RM 371.81)
ADSDAQ – US$ 41.35 (RM 146.32)
Infolinks – US$ 14.68 (RM 51.94)

Grand Total: US$ 342.36 (RM 1207.99)

I started to post my Internet income on April last year. I got US$ 90.4 (RM 280.24) only that time. And I got US$ 342.36 (RM 1207.99) after 1 year. That’s 278.71% increment in my Internet income. I love it. Can you get this kind of increment when you are employed? Therefore, stop looking around for higher pay salary job. And start having your own website to generate income online!

Internet income report for March 2009

spBlogger — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:14 +0000

How much will be March 2009 earning? This is the question I asked myself before writing this post. Why I ask? Nuffnang did not meet the cash out limit (RM50) on March. Therefore, no Nuffnang earning will be counted for this month. However, I publish another new in-text advertising company ads ~ Infolinks. It replaced the poor performing Kontera. And it gets better earning than Kontera.

Internet income report for March 2009

Google AdSense – US$ 169.34 (RM 611.68)
ADSDAQ – US$ 56.72 (RM 204.88)
Infolinks – US$ 10.51 (RM 37.96)
Kontera – US$ 2.58 (RM 9.31)

Grand Total: US$ 239.15 (RM 863.83)

Woo… The earning still better than previous month even without Nuffnang earning. Google AdSense and ADSDAQ helped to push the earning by performing better. The new comer Infolinks also helped some even started on 17 March. For those still using Kontera, you can try out Infolinks. It does better than Kontera.

Internet income report for February 2009

spBlogger — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:03:21 +0000

February is the shortest month of the year. And the Internet income also reflex to it ~ getting smaller amount for all the income sources. ADSDAQ’s fill rate is getting lesser and lesser. Therefore, income from ADSDAQ dropped from normal range US$ 50 ~ 55 to US$ 35 only. Overall, I still manage to get above RM 800 due to poor Malaysia Ringgit (RM) ~ US$ 1.00 == RM 3.684.

Internet income report for February 2009

Google AdSense – US$ 150.16 (RM 553.18)
ADSDAQ – US$ 34.92 (RM 128.64)
Nuffnang – US$ 27.45 (RM 101.13)
Kontera – US$ 5.52 (RM 20.33)

Grand Total: US$ 218.05 (RM 803.28)

By the way, I dumped Text Link Ads (inLinks). Why? I can’t seem to get it work on my blog. After emailing Text Link Ads support several times, they still can’t solve the issue. I kept getting warning letter stated that the widget is not working on my site. Oh well, what should I do? Removed it is the best way. Google will be happy to see that anyway…

4th ADSDAQ payment from PayPal

spBlogger — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:46 +0000

Yoo… Yoo… Here comes the 4th ADSDAQ payment from PayPal. It only has 3 combos which I received 3 ADSDAQ payment continue on these 3 months. However, I did not able to cash out on January. Hmm… My blogs traffic increased on January but ADSDAQ earning dropped due to low fill rate.

4th ADSDAQ payment

Hopefully, ADSDAQ fill rate will be higher in the future so that I can cash out every month.

Internet income report for January 2009

spBlogger — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:00:48 +0000

The first month of year 2009 ~ January. Everything getting better? Google AdSense earning breaks it all time high record. Nuffnang earning is getting better than normal rate. However, ADSDAQ earning dropped due to low fill rate. And we have a new advertiser ~ Text Link Ads.

Internet income report for January 2009

Google AdSense – US$ 179.08 (RM 640.03)
ADSDAQ – US$ 43.74 (RM 156.32)
Nuffnang – US$ 38.30 (RM 136.89)
Kontera – US$ 5.99 (RM 21.40)
Text Link Ads (inLinks) – US$ 1.42 (RM 5.07)

Grand Total: US$ 268.53 (RM 959.71)

RM 1000 target… When can I maintain the earning above RM 1000 per month? Oh, before I forget. Google does not like Text Link Ads (inLinks). If you want your Google PageRank, don’t use Text Link Ads (inLinks). Only use it on the websites that you don’t care about Google PageRank.

Internet income report for December 2008

spBlogger — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:33:31 +0000

The last month of year 2008 ~ December. How was the internet income? Most of them dropped. The poorest was Nuffnang. Nuffnang contributed RM 15.80 from Ads only. Compare to normal rate ~ RM 90 to RM 100. The rest income came from Nuffnang advertorial. Do some math, you should know how much Nuffnang advertorial bring.

Internet income report for December 2008

Google AdSense – US$ 127.58 (RM 436.96)
Nuffnang – US$ 97.67 (RM 334.55)
ADSDAQ – US$ 50.53 (RM 173.06)
Kontera – US$ 5.93 (RM 20.31)

Grand Total: US$ 281.71 (RM 964.88)

Traffic is getting better. However, Page eCPM from Google is going lower. Same apply to Nuffnang. Luckily, ADSDAQ still performing based on page per view (CPM). Getting steady income from ADSDAQ.

8th Google AdSense payment received

spBlogger — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:05 +0000

8th Google AdSense payment received. 8… 8… Chinese like number 8. Why? Because number 8 in Chinese means prosperity. Therefore, most of Chinese love it. Same to me. But I also prefer other number that I like.

8th Google AdSense payment

You will have more Google AdSense income if you have more traffic from search engine. Is this statement correct? I think so. Because most of my blogs traffic is coming from search engine. And people from search engine are interested on certain keywords. Therefore, they might interest to click on Google AdSense Ads.

How much traffic did Lowyat Forums bring last week?

spBlogger — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:07 +0000

Hmm… After 1 week of joining on some postings at Lowyat Forums, how much traffic did Lowyat Forums bring? I created my own forum signatures at Lowyat Forums to attract traffic to spBlogger.com and PrettyGirl2u.com. Based on the statistics, people like pretty girls more than money. Why? PrettyGirl2u.com has more referral than spBlogger.com ~ 18 visits vs. 8 visits.

Top referral to PrettyGirl2u.com

Top referral to spBlogger.com

So how is the traffic from Lowyat Forums? Nice? You decide…

JayceOoi.com September traffic review

spBlogger — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:39:29 +0000

I ran several marketing campaigns ~ RM210 (US$63) cash giveaway at JayceOoi.com to bring traffic to JayceOoi.com last month, September. So how much traffic did I gain during the whole campaigns? Is it worth to continue the campaigns this month?

I checked Google Analytics data for September. The traffic did not increase at all for referral traffic and direct visit. Or should I say that JayceOoi.com traffic dropped compare to August traffic. Besides, it also took some of my time to come out the contest questions, post the gifts to winners and other more… So that is a NO to continue running these campaigns.

I might continue to run the referral campaign because that really brings traffic to JayceOoi.com. Oh well, let’s continue to monitor and see.

Advertise with Entrecard to bring traffic

spBlogger — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:19 +0000

Part of the interesting stuff of Entrecard is the ability to advertise on other blogs. You can advertise at other blogs to bring traffic to your blog. Just make sure that you have enough Entrecard credit to purchase Ads space from that blog.

Advert clicks

Above are the clicks from the blog that you advertised. Use your Entrecard credit wisely. Advertise on the blog that will bring traffic to you only. But how are you going to know before you advertise?

Top advert clicks

Above is the most advert click for the last 30 days. You can track your ads performance based on this chart. It will help to determine which blog that actually brings traffic to you. However, not all the higher clicks are worth the price.

Credits per click

Above chart displays credits per click for the ads that you purchased. The lowest credit == the better. You spend less on the Entrecard credit to bring more traffic.

Finally, plan well to get more traffic with less Entrecard credit.

Entrecard brings traffic to your blog…

spBlogger — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:15 +0000

Entrecard is one of the social networking tools. It helps to bring traffic to your blog. How? Whenever you drop a card at other blogs, others will know that you drop a card on them. In return, they might visit your blog and do the same too. However, not all bloggers are returning dropping. So choose your drop site wisely.

Daily card drops on Pretty Girl website

Based on above chart, you can see that Pretty Girl website has average 20 to 30 cards drop daily. That’s mean, Pretty Girl website has extra traffic from Entrecard. Besides, a good number of drops improve your blog’s advertising price. And your blog’s position in the Campaign listings at Entrecard.

Top droppers in last 30 days

You can know your blog top droppers too. In return, drop your card in their blogs to return the favour.

Find out where your readers come from with Google Analytics

spBlogger — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:11 +0000

Why do we need to know where our readers come from? Don’t it is okay as long as we have readers? No… No… No… If you want to make money online, you need to know the majority readers of your website coming from. Because some advertising companies choose to advertise on certain country only. Especially, those local advertising company. They will only provide Ads on local country mostly.

Map Overlay

Take Make Money website for example… Most of the readers are from Malaysia. United States readers are the second largest and following by Singapore readers. Therefore, in order to make more money from this website. I need to have these 3 country advertising company Ads running. So that I can earn to the maximum.

Map Overlay Details

Find out which pages bring traffic with Google Analytics

spBlogger — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:47 +0000

Hmm… Do you know which pages of your website are read by your readers most? Which interesting topic will catch the readers’ heart? By studying Google Analytics’ top content listings, you can know which pages have the top hits.

Content Overview

Based on below picture, you can know that readers are interested with Advertlets. So what topic of Advertlets catches their eyes? Advertlets.com – Beware of this online advertising company and Advertlets – The slowest payment advertisement company in town. Both of the topics were hot. And it should be still hot because Advertlets is delaying in payment now too.