The ever popular and free blogging service at MyBlogLog.com is now part of the Yahoo Services and you will need an existing Yahoo user ID to log into MyBlogLog.com. If you do not have one, you can sign up for one Yahoo ID for free.

After which, you will be asked to merge your MyBlogLog account with your own Yahoo user ID.

I guess this new move will get Yahoo more users (most notably web site publishers such as bloggers) in their worldwide community, even though some of you may use your Yahoo ID just for logging into MyBlogLog. For users who use Yahoo accounts, I think this will be a welcoming change for them since they have one user ID less to remember…

For me, Google is still the number 1 Internet company in my heart. No one else comes close…

It is companies like Google who constantly innovates and provides the opportunities for average folks like you and me to stay at home to work, and not stick our lives in a 9-5 job forever…

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 traffic generation site that you can have today. And the best part of it? It is free.

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.

This is very easy to implement:

Sign up using my link here, 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.

Check it out here immediately. Oh BTW, this is from John Reese, one of the most recognised traffic specialist on the internet.

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’s going on in the world of Internet marketing for many years!)

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.

The site claimed that there’s a way to legally “steal” 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.

4 simple steps to start in less than 5 minutes:

Step 1: Sign Up For A Free Account (time: 20 seconds)
Step 2: Put The “ExitExplosion” code on your web site (time: 3 minutes)
Step 3: Bring in as many people as you can “under you” (time: up to you)
Step 4: Sit back, relax, and watch the traffic roll in… (time: immediately)

As of this writing, the site has just been launched 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!

Are you itching to find out how it works…? Then click here to find out more.

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.

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!

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.

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!)

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 reviewback.com. 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’s blogs to generate more traffic and backlinks to one another’s blogs!

ReviewBack is basically a free blog review and exchange service!

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 ReviewBack.

Cool stuff! If you like this post, please social bookmark me or give me the StumbleUpon!

DropJack.com is a new social content web site powered by users like you. Anyone familiar with the popular Digg.com site will understand how DropJack works. You can register as a member to submit content and to vote on content. It is that simple. The more votes (jacks) a story receives, the better placement it receives.

Anyone can join the Social Content Revolution today at DropJack.com and participate!

Some of the Member Benefits are:
- You can submit and promote your own original content, or you can submit stories, videos, articles or news items that you believe are newsworthy and that would be of interest to others.
- Vote to “Jack” or “Drop” news items posted on the site.
- Post or respond to comments.
- Send and receive messages through your private Inbox.
- Add Friends to your member profile.
- Review a list of your previously submitted, published or upcoming news stories.
- Read member comments about your stories.
- Review votes cast for your submissions in date order.
- Read news stories you have saved to your member account

And, of course, you can use the same features as non-members – search, bookmark, tell a friend and recommend stories to other social content web sites, like Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, Yahoo!, Blinklist, etc.

Go to DropJack.com for more information!

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 should carefully take the following into consideration.

1. Own your domain name
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.

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.

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.

Branding is very important if you want to succeed online.

2. Paid Hosting
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.

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!

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:
http://www.donaldlim.com/go/webhosting

3. Web Site Design
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.

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 http://wordpress.org.

Follow the instructions to downstall the software and you will be up within 5-15 minutes.

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.

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 http://themes.wordpress.net

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.

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: http://www.donaldlim.com/go/webhosting

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.

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 freenvu.com

4. Paid Autoresponder
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.

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.

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.

One of the most popular autoresponder services on the Internet can be found here:
http://www.donaldlim.com/go/autoresponder

5. Internet Traffic
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.

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)

6. Traffic Monetization Systems
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.

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!

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)

Hi friends/visitors,

I have just created a MySpace.com profile at www.myspace.com/singaporeinternetmarketer for any Internet Marketers located in Singapore.

If you are keen to be part of this network, please add me as a MySpace friend. If you do not have a MySpace profile, do sign up. It is free and is great for generating traffic!

I am currently only accepting Internet Marketers physically residing in Singapore. You can be a Singaporean or Permanent Resident, newbie or guru.

See you around on the Internet!

Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived on-going transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of web sites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes.

It also refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services – such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies – which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the web as a platform. Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Some technology experts have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of “Web 2.0″ have existed since the early days of the Web.

In alluding to the “2.0″ version-numbers (in the term “Web 2.0″) that commonly designate software upgrades, the phrase may hint at an improved form of the World Wide Web.

Advocates of the concept suggest that the technologies such as weblogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds (and other forms of many-to-many publishing), social software, Web APIs, Web standards and online Web services imply a significant change in web usage. In other words, genuine interactivity if you like, simply because people can upload as well as download.

As used by its supporters, the phrase “Web 2.0″ can also refer to one or more of the following:

• the transition of web-sites from isolated information silos to sources of content and functionality, thus becoming computing platforms serving web applications to end-users
• a social phenomenon embracing an approach to generating and distributing Web content itself, characterized by open communication, decentralization of authority, freedom to share and re-use, and “the market as a conversation”
• a pronounced distinction between functionality and web technology, enabling significantly easier creation of new business models and processes by using readily available intuitive modular elements
• enhanced organization and categorization of content, emphasizing deep linking
• a rise in the economic value of the Web, possibly surpassing the impact of the dot-com boom of the late 1990s

During the first Web 2.0 conference, the key principles of Web 2.0 applications have been identified as follows:

• the web as a platform
• data as the driving force
• network effects created by an architecture of participation
• innovation in assembly of systems and sites composed by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers (a kind of “open source” development)
• lightweight business models enabled by content and service syndication
• the end of the software adoption cycle (“the perpetual beta”)
• software above the level of a single device, leveraging the power of the “Long Tail”
• ease of picking-up by early adopters

If you like to read more about Web 2.0, you can visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

If you have been on the Internet for a while, and especially if you have been doing Internet Marketing, I am very sure you have come across the terms “syndication” or “web syndication” before, even though you may really not understand what they are all about.

Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a web site is made available for other web sites to use. This could mean simply by licensing the content so that other people can use it; Generally though, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site, in order to provide other people with a summary of the web site’s recently added content (for example, the latest forum posts or news and announcements).

A large scale web syndication of content started only in 2001. Today, many different types of content are being syndicated on the Internet. Millions of online web publishers such as newspapers, commercial web sites and blogs now publish their latest news headlines, product offers or blog postings in a standard format news feed.

Syndication benefits both the web sites which are providing the information and the web sites which are displaying it. For the receiving site, content syndication is an effective way of adding greater depth and immediacy of information to its pages, making it more attractive to users. For the transmitting site, syndication drives exposure across numerous online platforms. This exchange generates new traffic for the transmitting site — making syndication a free and easy form of advertisement.

The prevalence of web syndication is also of interest to Internet marketers, since web surfers are becoming increasingly wary of providing personal information for marketing materials (for example signing up for a newsletter) and expect the ability for them to subscribe to a feed instead.

Although the syndication format could be any thing transported over HTTP (such as HTML or JavaScript), it is more commonly done through XML.

The two main families of web syndication formats are RSS and Atom, which are also the most well-known formats available.

A lot of online publishers are taking advantage of web syndication to market and promote themselves online.

The world’s best search engine Google has a very popular revenue-sharing program known as AdSense. It is a fast and easy way for web site publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google advertisements (ads) on their web site’s content pages and earn money from Google. Because the Google ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your web site (or matched to the characteristics/interests of the visitors that your web pages content attracts), you finally have a way to both monetise and enhance your content pages to make some money from Google online.

With Google AdSense, it is also a way for web site publishers to provide Google web and site search functionalities to their site visitors, and at the same time, to earn some money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.

Google also provides many useful tools for their publishers to increase traffic, provide smart analytics, or add interactivity to their web sites when you are accepted into their program, for example, Google Analytics.

So, how does Google AdSense work and how you can make money using Google AdSense? The concept is simple, if you go to Google.com and do a search for something, most of the time, you will see some “Sponsored Links” that appear on the top or right side of the screen that are relevant to what you have just searched for. Advertisers basically pay Google to display these ads and they are charged a pre-determined amount every time their ad gets clicked by an internet surfer. This is known as the Pay-Per-Click advertising in the industry, also known as PPC advertising for short.

With the Google AdSense program, your web site will also display these same, sponsored ads on your site, just like on the Google search engine, and you can get paid for it by Google for visitors’ clicks. Every time a Google ad is clicked on your site, you will receive a certain percentage of what Google receives from the advertiser. Once your account reaches $100, you’ll receive a check in the mail.

The Google AdSense program is free to join, and it combines pay-per-click (PPC) and pay-per-impression advertising – meaning that you get paid for valid clicks on the ads on your site or search results pages as well as impressions on your content pages. You will need to have a web site in order to apply for AdSense. (If you need a professional web site, check this out. You will get a free domain name with unlimited domains hosting with this! If you need help, contact me via this blog and I will show you how you can create a beautiful, professional, designer web site within 1 hour even if you do not know any technical skills like HTML! What I am going to show you have put some freelance designers out of job! )

If you already have your own web site, you can also implement AdSense on your web pages immediately after you have been approved by Google for the program.

Google will review your application and follow up with an email to you within 2 to 3 days of your AdSense sign-up. If you are accepted into the program, you can log in to your new Google Adsense account and get the HTML code to insert into your web pages. This is a very simple procedure to do so, hence do not worry about the technical implementation of the program on your web site.

However, I have a tip for you. Build up some contents on your web site or blog first before you apply to Google AdSense, if not, they will likely decline your application. Also, just for your information, there are some people who earn a 5-6 figures income from Google every month just from Google AdSense alone!

You can sign up for Google AdSense using the banner link below: