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	<title>DonaldLim.com &#187; Freebies</title>
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	<description>Online Branding Strategist, Leads Generation Specialist</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Google Trends Singapore - What are Singaporeans searching for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Trends is currently available in Singapore. According to CNET, Singapore is the 3rd country outside of the USA, after India, to have it. It allows one to check on the search trend based on location.You can find out more about Google Trends Singapore at http://www.google.com.sg/trends
I have used Google Trends in the past to locate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="post">Google Trends is currently available in Singapore. According to CNET, Singapore is the 3rd country outside of the USA, after India, to have it. It allows one to check on the search trend based on location.You can find out more about Google Trends Singapore at <a href="http://www.google.com.sg/trends" title="http://www.google.com.sg/trends" target="_blank">http://www.google.com.sg/trends</a></p>
<p>I have used Google Trends in the past to locate where are most of my searches for my targeted market coming from. This allows me to know where my prospects are located so that I can do geographical based marketing. And it is working well for me!</p>
<p>I know it can help you too!</p>
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		<title>Keepvid.com - Download Youtube and other videos for free</title>
		<link>http://donaldlim.com/technology/internet/youtube/keepvidcom-download-youtube-and-other-videos-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw a video that you liked on Youtube.com and you want to download a copy for your own keeping? Check out this web site http://www.keepvid.com that let you do so for free and there is no need to install any special software or plug in on your own computer.
This site also allows you to download [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Saw a video that you liked on Youtube.com and you want to download a copy for your own keeping? Check out this web site <a href="http://www.keepvid.com" title="http://www.keepvid.com - Download Youtube video for free!" target="_blank">http://www.keepvid.com</a> that let you do so for free and there is no need to install any special software or plug in on your own computer.</p>
<p>This site also allows you to download videos from many other popular web sites.</p>
<p>This is one of the easiest way to extract videos from other video sharing web sites!</p>
<p>Hope you like it!</p>
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		<title>Free USD$20 Advertising Credits From Bidvertiser</title>
		<link>http://donaldlim.com/internet-marketing/traffic-generation/free-usd20-advertising-credits-from-bidvertiser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want USD$20 worth of PPC advertising credits from Bidvertiser for free? Say &#8216;YES!&#8217; because there is no sign up fee, no registration fee required! Bidvertiser does not require any initial deposit from you which makes the USD$20 free for real when you sign up!
I have already applied for it quite some time back, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want USD$20 worth of PPC advertising credits from Bidvertiser for free? Say &#8216;YES!&#8217; because there is no sign up fee, no registration fee required! Bidvertiser does not require any initial deposit from you which makes the USD$20 free for real when you sign up!</p>
<p>I have already applied for it quite some time back, made some sales and generated some email opt-ins for one of the products that I am marketing.</p>
<p>For one of my PPC campaigns, I generated 746,527 impressions, with 62 clicks to my site, spending a total of USD$6.95 from my free USD$20 credits, paying $ 0.11 per click. Not too bad for me considering I have not spent a single cent out of my own pocket!</p>
<p>I strongly recommend that you claim your free PPC coupons or credits from Bidvertiser while they are still available! You have absolutely nothing to lose!</p>
<p>If you are convinced, then look for the sign-up link  &#8220;ADVERTISE HERE!&#8221; directly below my Bidvertiser ads under &#8220;MY SPONSORS&#8221; section. Click on the words and sign up with Bidvertiser to claim your Pay-Per-Click credits!</p>
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		<title>Case Study Of A Teenage Internet Millionaire - Ashley Qualls</title>
		<link>http://donaldlim.com/personal-thoughts/case-study-of-a-teenage-internet-millionaire-ashley-qualls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another real-life example of the Internet making a nobody to somebody online!
Ashley&#8217;s numbers are indeed impressive. A 17 years old high school dropout who has made more than $1 million online. Her earnings can be as much as $70K a month from a web site that she owns which attracts more than 7 millions monthly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another real-life example of the Internet making a nobody to somebody online!</p>
<p>Ashley&#8217;s numbers are indeed impressive. A 17 years old high school dropout who has made more than $1 million online. Her earnings can be as much as $70K a month from a web site that she owns which attracts more than 7 millions monthly visitors and 60 millions page views!</p>
<p>Ashley&#8217;s 1st Google Adsense cheque was $2,790 and she has already rejected a $1.5 million buyout offer for her site <a href="http://WhateverLife.com" title="http://WhateverLife.com" target="_blank">WhateverLife.com</a>, a free MySpace layouts web site.</p>
<p>Hope this can serve as an inspiration and motivation to my readers on what is possible with the Internet.</p>
<p>If you use MySpace.com, remember to grab some free MySpace stuff from Ashley Qualls!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.doshdosh.com/case-study-of-teenage-millionaire-ashley-qualls/" title="http://www.doshdosh.com/case-study-of-teenage-millionaire-ashley-qualls/" target="_blank">http://www.doshdosh.com/case-study-of-teenage-millionaire-ashley-qualls/</a></p>
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		<title>Learn Web 2.0 Tools And Tactics That Generate Traffic Instantly!</title>
		<link>http://donaldlim.com/blogging/learn-web-20-tools-and-tactics-that-generate-traffic-instantly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do You Want 64-Pages Of Free Resources For Web 2.0 Niche Domination, Buzz Generation, Higher Rankings, And Endless Traffic? Then please read on&#8230;
I got hold of this report many months ago and I was really hesitant to share it with everyone else.
Nevertheless I decided to do it with my blog readers since I got nothing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do You Want 64-Pages Of Free Resources For Web 2.0 Niche Domination, Buzz Generation, Higher Rankings, And Endless Traffic? Then please read on&#8230;</p>
<p>I got hold of this report many months ago and I was really hesitant to share it with everyone else.</p>
<p>Nevertheless I decided to do it with my blog readers since I got nothing to lose by doing so.</p>
<p>I am not allowed to give away this report myself, so here is the link to the report.</p>
<p>This is one of the best and free report that you can ever find on the Internet now about Web 2.0 traffic generation strategies!</p>
<p>There is NO WAY that you cannot get additional free web site traffic after reading and applying the techniques mentioned inside this report because it is just so good.</p>
<p>And BTW, you will not have all the time to apply everything that was mentioned inside this free report because it is just too much of great information inside it!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.authorityblackbook.com" title="http://www.authorityblackbook.com" target="_blank">http://www.authorityblackbook.com</a></p>
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		<title>Internet Marketing Buzz of the Day</title>
		<link>http://donaldlim.com/blogging/internet-marketing-buzz-of-the-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Internet marketers whom I respect have been emailing me about a great traffic generation tool. Some of them include my mentor Stephen Pierce, home grown IMer Stuart Tan, WordPress Guy Gobala and even my good friend Andrew Tan.
So, I went to take a look at it. My opinion? It is one of the best [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many Internet marketers whom I respect have been emailing me about a great traffic generation tool. Some of them include my mentor Stephen Pierce, home grown IMer Stuart Tan, WordPress Guy Gobala and even my good friend Andrew Tan.</p>
<p>So, I went to take a look at it. My opinion? It is one of the best traffic generation site that you can have today. And the best part of it? It is free.</p>
<p>I signed up immediately and I urged you to do the same too because in no time, the entire internet will be buzzing with this new site.</p>
<p>This is very easy to implement:</p>
<p>Sign up using my link <a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/blogrush" title="BlogRush" target="_blank">here</a>, copy and paste a piece of code into your blog, and voila, get ready to receive free and targeted traffic! I took less than 5 minutes to set it up. If you are slow, I think you will take about 10 minutes.</p>
<p>Check it out <a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/blogrush" title="BlogRush" target="_blank">here</a> immediately. Oh BTW, this is from John Reese, one of the most recognised traffic specialist on the internet.</p>
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		<title>Internet Marketing Buzz of the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been receiving many emails promoting the pre-launch and launch of a brand new, free traffic generation site called ExitExplosion.com. (I am in a good position to know because I have been on the mailing list on many top, reputable Internet Marketers to see what&#8217;s going on in the world of Internet marketing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lately I have been receiving many emails promoting the pre-launch and launch of a brand new, free traffic generation site called <a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" title="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" target="_blank">ExitExplosion.com</a>. (I am in a good position to know because I have been on the mailing list on many top, reputable Internet Marketers to see what&#8217;s going on in the world of Internet marketing for many years!)</p>
<p>Top Internet Gurus/marketers like Joel Comm (5 figure AdSense income earner) and Kelvin Hui (Yahoo sponsored web publisher who generates 9 millions hit to his web sites) etc are all promoting this new site to their list, so it made me sit up and re-look at the site again.</p>
<p>The site claimed that there&#8217;s a way to legally &#8220;<a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" title="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" target="_blank">steal</a>&#8221; traffic from high-traffic websites and redirect it all to your website? I am not sure about you but it does sound interesting to me. It is free to sign up and very easy to implement as well. It allows one to be credited with free traffic for new referrals for up to 10 levels deep.</p>
<p>4 simple steps to start in less than 5 minutes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Step 1: Sign Up For A <a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" title="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" target="_blank">Free</a> Account (time: 20 seconds)<br />
Step 2: Put The &#8220;ExitExplosion&#8221; code on your web site (time: 3 minutes)<br />
Step 3: Bring in as many people as you can &#8220;under you&#8221; (time: up to you)<br />
Step 4: Sit back, relax, and watch the traffic roll in&#8230; (time: immediately)</p></blockquote>
<p>As of this writing, the site has just been <a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" title="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" target="_blank">launched</a> today and I recommend that you may want to take a look at it if you are really interested in driving a lot of free traffic to your website!</p>
<p>Are you itching to find out how it works&#8230;?  Then click <a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" title="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/exitexplosion" target="_blank">here</a> to find out more.</p>
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		<title>You Blog Me, I Blog You, We Create Buzzzzzz&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I do these days is to go online everyday and spent many hours checking out the Internet to see what is new and interesting. Along the process, I chanced upon many interesting web sites that may be of interest to bloggers and Internet marketers. I took a closer took at some of them and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I do these days is to go online everyday and spent many hours checking out the Internet to see what is new and interesting. Along the process, I chanced upon many interesting web sites that may be of interest to bloggers and Internet marketers. I took a closer took at some of them and thought they are really interesting to generate free traffic and make some cash for yourself online.</p>
<p>However, I have a dilemma because sometimes I wonder if I should spend my time on all these and then share all my hard work with everyone else without getting paid for it. Anyway, I am compiling all these information and packaging them up into an ebook or mini report and hopefully earn some cash for myself by selling them away. If you like what I am doing, do support me!</p>
<p>Nevertheless, today I will share something with you. That night when I could not sleep, I thought about getting my friends and associates to give me a blog review and in return, I will do the same for them so as to generate more traffic and backlinks to each other.</p>
<p>However, before I could start to contact them about it, something happened! (Well, as some of you already know that I am a firm believer of the Law Of Attraction because I know that it really works!)</p>
<p>And so the Law Of Attraction sprung into action again the very next day! While I was researching the Internet for new things, I chanced upon this web site <a href="http://www.reviewback.com" title="http://www.reviewback.com" target="_blank">reviewback.com</a>. This site basically was started on the basis of what I had thought of the night before, that is to have blog owners create reviews for each other&#8217;s blogs to generate more traffic and backlinks to one another&#8217;s blogs!</p>
<p>ReviewBack is basically a free blog review and exchange service!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.donaldlim.com/images/reviewback-steps.jpg" title="Reviewback - How It Works" alt="Reviewback - How It Works" height="161" width="487" /></p>
<p>The easiest and most effective way of promoting your content and website in the blogosphere today is to have fellow bloggers write about and link to your site. Reviewback takes all of the work out of tracking down and negotiating with fellow bloggers. Instead, ReviewBack provides a marketplace and trading ground where bloggers can get in touch with one another and help each other increase their exposure. All you need to do is sign up with ReviewBack and add your site into their ReviewBack directory, and begin swapping reviews with networked bloggers via <a href="http://reviewback.com" title="http://reviewback.com" target="_blank">ReviewBack</a>.</p>
<p>Cool stuff! If you like this post, please social bookmark me or give me the StumbleUpon!</p>
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		<title>6 Basic Core Components of A Successful Internet Business/Web Site</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last 4 years of developing web sites for individuals and companies, I came to a realization, based on these experiences, that there are certain components which a successful Internet Business or web site should have.
If an online business or web site owner is seriously about what he is doing on the Internet, he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the last 4 years of developing web sites for individuals and companies, I came to a realization, based on these experiences, that there are certain components which a successful Internet Business or web site should have.</p>
<p>If an online business or web site owner is seriously about what he is doing on the Internet, he should carefully take the following into consideration.</p>
<p><strong>1. Own your domain name</strong><br />
Technically, a domain name is where people locate you on the Internet when they are looking for you. Marketing-wise, a domain name is your branding.</p>
<p>As you market and promote your Internet business or web site, you are branding yourself on the Internet. Think of the hugely successful web sites in the world such as Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, Ebay, MySpace, Youtube. They are all very well known, established brands on the Internet. If you are tempted to create your online presence using free resources such as free hosting, free email or free 3rd party services like blogger.com, I would suggest to you that you should not.</p>
<p>Domain name is cheap these days, you can register one for yourself for less than USD$10 per year all over the Internet. You can get a domain from godaddy.com, hostway.com, namesecure.com etc.</p>
<p>Branding is very important if you want to succeed online.</p>
<p><strong>2. Paid Hosting</strong><br />
A lot of people took up the offer of free hosting from service providers like Yahoo Geocities, GoDaddy etc. In exchange, these service providers insert their own advertisements into your web site and often than not, they also impose very limited bandwidth on your web site. If you have slightly more visitors to your web site, you will realize that the traffic restrictions on your web site will start to kick in, and your visitors will have problems accessing your web sites. This is something that you do not want to see.</p>
<p>Web hosting is an extremely competitive industry globally. For consumers, these are good news for us because prices have been driven so low to less than USD$10 per month for a generously, huge amount of bandwidth, email accounts and bandwidth etc. Instead of paying thousands to buy, install, maintain a web server, you pay only few dollars a month for the professionals to take care of everything for you, including supporting and ensuring that your Internet business or web site stays up 24 hours a day!</p>
<p>In fact, these days, some web hosts even give you free advertising credits with search engines, free web site templates and other freebies when you sign up for an account with them. You can find one of the reliable and value for money web hosting company that I am using at:<br />
<a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/webhosting" title="A web host with excellent value" target="_blank">http://www.donaldlim.com/go/webhosting</a></p>
<p><strong>3. Web Site Design</strong><br />
In the past, you have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to get a web site designer to create a web site for you. Today, anyone can create a very professional Internet business or web site in under one hour using free software that you can download on the Internet. And the best part is you do not have to be a technical person to design your own web site.</p>
<p>Take for example, an extremely popular, powerful and free open source software known as Wordpress. WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. You can download a copy of the software at <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="Powerful open source blogging software" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org</a>.</p>
<p>Follow the instructions to downstall the software and you will be up within 5-15 minutes.</p>
<p>Wordpress is famous for its 5-minutes installation, hence it should not be too difficult for you to set it up, even if you are a newbie.</p>
<p>The default installation of WordPress comes with some default themes for you to choose from inside your Administration panel under Presentation menu. If you wish to look for more free Wordpress themes to be used on your new WordPress installation, you can go to <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net" title="Free WordPress themes" target="_blank">http://themes.wordpress.net</a></p>
<p>Just download the free Wordpress theme that you want to use and upload them onto your FTP server under the WordPress theme directory. For details, please refer to the documentation that comes with your theme.</p>
<p>If you are fast, you can get your new site up within 30 minutes or less. If you want to get started even faster, easier, then you can use the web host which I am recommending at: <a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/webhosting" title="A web host that support Fantastico" target="_blank">http://www.donaldlim.com/go/webhosting</a></p>
<p>This web hosting company supports Fantastico on cPanel (the control panel for your hosting account) which allows you to install WordPress within a few clicks of your mouse.</p>
<p>However, if you prefer learning and designing a web page from scratch but do not have the budget of a few hundreds dollars to buy Dreamweaver or Frontpage, you can download this free open source web site builder software at <a href="http://freenvu.com" title="Free web site builder software" target="_blank">freenvu.com</a></p>
<p><strong> 4. Paid Autoresponder</strong><br />
If you want to keep in constant contact with your mailing list or your web site visitors, you will need a way to keep in touch with them.</p>
<p>There are many ways to do so but one of the most effective and popular way is via email. You can collect email addresses from your visitors, and send your messages to them on a periodical basis, to keep them informed of new updates for your Internet business, or web sites.</p>
<p>You can make use of an autoresponder service to help you automate the process of handling subscription and un-subscription of email addresses from your mailing list, to schedule email messages to your list, to send email broadcast to your list via a mass emailing. The best part is you can also personalise your email messages to your recipients and track the deliverability and open-rate of your email messages through a centralized online system.</p>
<p>One of the most popular autoresponder services on the Internet can be found here:<br />
<a href="http://www.donaldlim.com/go/autoresponder" title="Fast, affordable and reliable autoresponder software" target="_blank">http://www.donaldlim.com/go/autoresponder</a></p>
<p><strong>5. Internet Traffic</strong><br />
There are countless ways of driving traffic to your web site. There are free ways or paid ways. There are time-tested and proven ways as well as new ways that are constantly popping up on the Internet, especially with the evolution of the Internet. There are also online or offline methods in which you can drive traffic to a web site.</p>
<p>Some popular ways to generate traffic will be via blogs, forum, social networking sites, social bookmarking sites, article marketing, video marketing, Pay-Per-Click advertising, TV ads, direct mailers and emails etc. (See my other blog posts on how to generate free traffic to a web site)</p>
<p><strong> 6. Traffic Monetization Systems</strong><br />
Now you have everything you need to be in an Internet business. However, the most critical component that you must have is the systems/mechanisms to convert your traffic, mailing list, site contents, expertise etc into money, into cash.</p>
<p>Without this, all the costs involved in getting your domain name, hosting, autoresponder, traffic etc are all losing you money. You need cash and you need enough of those cash to make yourself profits in order to sustain your Internet business and make yourself some good money online! The primary aim of being in business is to earn money, earn profits!</p>
<p>There are also many ways for you to monetize your Internet business depending on what you are doing for your Internet business. You may be selling something of your own, selling someone’s else product via affiliate marketing, building enough traffic and convert those traffic into cash using traffic monetization systems like Google AdSense, Bidvertiser, Kontera and Chitika etc. (See my other blog posts on more information about these traffic monetization systems)</p>
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