How Do You Analyze Sites with Google Trends

Google Trends is not the latest of Google’s new gadgets but it has been around for some time. I use Google Trends charts to analyze future and upcoming trends for websites, blog or events. Of course, there are various way to analyze these trends from the charts.

Basically, all you need is to type in a keyword or phrase you want, in the Search box. I have typed in keywords ‘wordpress’ to compare trends with ‘bloggers’ below.

Wordpress’s trend is indicated in Blue and Bloggers’s trend is indicated in Red.

Wordpress’s trend has been moving upwards since 2004. That means Wordpress has been growing in popularity and has widespread use as a blogging platform.

These trends are broken down further into Regions, Cities and Languages.

Interestingly, I see Indonesia being the top region to adopt Wordpress platform, follow by Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. All from Asian countries. Similar trends are found for Cities.

What is surprising is the Indonesian language tops the list in Languages, followed by Russian and English as third.

How do you interpret these trends when you use Google Trends?

Tags: analyis, analyse trends, google trends

Wordpress Blogging Seminar at Crystal Crown Hotel

Actually I have not been posting much here recently. I have been busy preparing my Wordpress Blogging Seminar on Saturday 4 August 2007 at the Crystal Crown Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

We have had a number of blogging seminars in July 2007 at a training center but we decided to try it out at a hotel this month. And so we did.

The turn out was rather unexpected. I made arrangements for 25 seats but we had more than 30 callers who registered via SMS. Steven presented on this day and I took the role of Registration. Majority of the attendees were over 30 years above but we had a few younger ones too.

Check out these pictures. And by the way, I will be having 2 blogging seminars per month and we advertise them in The Star Metro or The Sun papers. So look out for them now and then, if you want to attend.

Tags: , malaysia, petaling jaya, wordpress blogging seminar

Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar Review 1

This blog is created by Meor Shukri and published in Malay Language. He writes about guideline on how to do business online, cater for Malay market or anyone who can read Malay language. Go here to find out more: http://jomwebtemplate.blogspot.com/

My friend, Gobala Krishnan wrote some Google Adsense Tips in his blog, you may want to find out more if you want to are already earning adsense income.

If you are looking for nice and good Wordpress Themes, you can check out this page from EasyWordpress.com. They have extensive review on the new themes from time to time. A good resource for people who want to read review on the themes before install.

CK Wong has a blog on Ambatchmasterpublisher. Trying to read his blog and understand what he does but too limited info I can discover. I guess he probably enter a SEO contest that run by Kelvin Hui of Ambatch, expect in SEO & publishing business.

Link to 2 PR4 Websites Review Exercise for Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar

My new blog site, Wordpress Adsense Mastery required back links, so I offered this link to 2 PR4 websites review exercise on certain keywords we picked.

I was referring to the recent project by my friend, Gobala Krishnan on his Internet Home Business Site Linking Project.

I just spoke to Steven Wong last week about this and my idea to build back link for our new JV – WPAdsenseMastery.com and he agreed to my suggestion here, to offer Wordpress AdSense Blogging Seminar Review linking exercise.

Very often people looking for back link from high PR & traffic site. If you review my new project site, you will instantly get 2 link back from PR 4 blog (Yes 2 PR4 site, not one - InternetOn9.com & OnlineInternetMarketingTip.com.); get more free traffic to your site and get better search engine ranking.




It is very simple to qualify for this, just follow the step-by-step instruction below:

Do a 50 – 100 words review of WPAdsenseMastery.com on your blog or website – say anything related to the workshop. You can find more about this Adsense Blogging Seminar.
Write your review on a new blog post that is composed from your blog software (either Wordpress, Blogger, Blogspot or Typepad).

Link back to WPAdsenseMastery.com using the anchor text “Adsense
Blogging Seminar” or “Wordpress Adsense Seminar“.

Complete the contact form with your blog post review URL, your targeted keyword and website URL, and I will link back to your blog in my post.

This is the example blog post on how you can write about: WPAdsenseMastery.com offers workshop that teach you on how to get started blogging. In this Adsense Blogging Seminar / Wordpress Adsense Seminar, Steven Wong & May Ong will show you how to use powerful Wordpress Blogging as a platform to make money online.

To use Adsense Blogging Seminar as Anchor Text just copy and paste the following codes to your blog post:

To use Wordpress Adsense Seminar as Anchor Text just copy and paste the following codes to your blog post:

You can post your review in as many websites / blogs as you like, as long as you own it. However, the following websites / blogs are not accepted.

Adult / Porn content websites / blogs
Gambling websites / blogs
Spam / syndicated websites / blogs – means you didn’t create content your own, but only syndicates other people website contents / RSS feeds.
No flash or image linking - means you can’t use flash or images that link to our website. All must be written in specific instruction as stated above.

Note: Limited back links from 2 PR4 sites only, please review us and submit your link before we stop this offer to get free back links from 2 high PR sites.

Thank you.
May Ong

Tags: linking exercise, website review

How To Make Money Adsense Formula Exposed

Many beginners online marketers would like to know how to make money using AdSense formula. My simple Adsense formula has been exposed below in a formula that any online marketers should know.

Money = sum ( [Price Per Click] X [Number of Clicks] )

Logically speaking, if you want to make some Adsense money, you have to either increase the number of clicks or the price per click. If you do one or the other, per the formula above, you can make more money from the program.

A. Increase the Number Of Clicks to Make More Adsense Money

Increase the number of clicks on your ads is the most obvious strategy that will make more money for you. You can look at two successful methods to boost the number of clicks:

1. Driving more traffic for your web site,
2. Make your ads more clickable and position them at the right place.

Driving traffic takes time and efforts. It‘s also a lot of hard work. There are several techniques that you can use to generate more traffic to your web site and hence make more Adsense money. I reveal several of these techniques you can use below:

* Submit your web site to search engine and optimize your web site for search engine.
* Increase link popularity by link exchange, article marketing, directory submission and press release.
* Paid Advertising through classified advertising, banner advertising or search engine advertising.
* Participate in forums/groups related to the content of your web site.
* Add comments to other blogs.

B. Make your ads more clickable is another method to increase your earnings.
This is relatively easy to achieve because you can adjust your ad format almost immediately. I suggest you do the following adjustments to your ad format to improve your click through rates (CTR):

* Make them more noticeable by positioning your Adsense ads on top of your Adsense page.
* Google states that the most effective ad formats are 336×280 larger rectangle, the 300×250 inline rectangle, and the 160×600 wide skyscraper. However you are advised to choose the best ad format that works for your web site. This requires tracking and testing.
* Create a custom palette that best suites your web site. In general, you can follow the following settings:

% Border color : no border or background color of your website
% Background color : background color of your website
% Link color : color of your links
% URL color : black
% Text color : black or color of your main content

C. Target the Higher-Paying Keywords To Make More Adsense Money

You can create unique, relevant and quality contents that target at the higher-paying keywords to increase your average price per click (CPC). Higher CPC means that you can make more money even the CTR remains unchanged. You should find out which keyword variations for a topic pay more. Often the more specialized variations and phrases pay more than the generic terms.

You can increase your CPC by reducing the occurrence of lower-paying ads. You can use Adsense competitive filter mechanism to filter out the ads that you don’t want to be shown on your web site. It is suggested by others that showing fewer ads on a page will result in higher-paying ads displayed on your web site. Many publishers reported that they make more Adsense money if they remove ads completely from pages with few or no clicks. Again you have to test whether this strategy works in favor of you or not.

As you can see, it involves a lot of hard work if you want to make extra Google AdSense money. You need to put in your time and effort to make it happen. Your patience in the long run will bring in the extra $$$ you want for your website.

Find out more about Wordpress Adsense Workshop here, to learn the skills.

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Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar

This newly launched 1-day practical hands-on seminar, Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar originates from myself, May Ong and a Wordpress specialist, Steven Wong.

Both of us have opened up this Wordpress Adsense Blogging seminar for registration from June 2007 onwards. We will both be conducting this practical training in Klang Valley, Malaysia for the moment. We are also offering ourselves for hire as Wordpress Trainers in Malaysia.

As for myself, I am also open on hire as an Online Marketing Trainer for “Create DIY Website” workshop.

Now, coming back to this Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar.

This seminar is suitable for Non-Technical Beginners with no Blogging knowledge but are very keen to pursue learning:

a. Work from home
b. Mums and Dads planning to earn passive income
c. Retirees
d. Hobbyists
e. SOHO, SME, SMI in Malaysia

Check out Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar here.

How To Add A Wordpress Theme?

How to add a Wordpress Theme to your site?

Oh! By the way, most people will tell you that it is better to host a wordpress theme or blog on its own ie. with its own Domain Name. The authority site, Wordpress will also suggest the same.

However, there are 2 ways you can in a wordpress blog theme in your site.

Method 1 - An individal site hosting a Wordpress theme/template

1. Go to Wordpress and search for your preferred Theme. Themes may come by 2 columns to 4 columns. Select the preferred Theme.

2. Download the zipped folder of the selected Theme into your local computer ie. your hard drive.

3. Next, you can upload the chosen Theme folder to your server using any FTP program.

4. Be sure you follow this path: www.yourdomain.com/public_html/wp/

That is to say, go to your domain name server and locate the public html folder. In here, create a folder named ‘wp’ in public_html. This is the place where you will upload your Theme folder to.

5. To change any of the contents in your Wordpress Theme, go to: www.yourdomain.com/public_html/wp/wp-content/

Method 2 - Upload a Wordpress template to your sub-page of your website

1. Again, repeat steps 1 - 3 of above.

2. Only this time, your files path will look different. It should look like this:

www.yourdomain.com/public_html/subpagename/wp/

You should use any FTP program to upload the chosen Wordpress Theme folder in to ‘wp’.

If you are keen to learn more about how to add a Wordpress theme on your site, please register for Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar here.

Tags: plugins, self-host blog, template, wordpress theme

Wordpress - Installation Video Tutorial

Learn how you can install your Wordpress in this video tutorial.

Understanding Adsense Jargon

Page Impressions

An “impression” is how many times your web page loads onto a real computer screen. If 30 people looked at your page on their computers, your Page Impression is 30.

Clicks

The actual number of times someone clicks on your ads.

Page CTR

CTR stands for Click Through Rate, a common measurement index for internet-based advertising. CTR is the ratio of people who clicked on your ads to the number who did not, and is calculated using the two set of data:

CTR = (Clicks / Page Impressions) x 100

Page CPM

CPM is used by older internet-based advertising models, in which you pay an advertiser a fixed sum of money for showing 1000 impressions of your ad. The reason why this is included in your Adsense reports is because some advertisers still use the CPM model, and you can compare your Adsense performance with this figure to determine if you are better off showing CPM based ads instead.

Earnings

This tells you how much money you just made today.

Common Blogging Tools

There are many blogging platforms you can use, some of which are free or partially free, some require a small amount of investment. Here are the most popular blogging tools for your information:

Blogger

Owned by Google, and it’s free. You can get your own account at www.Blogger.com and set it up quite easily. Just follow the steps on the screen.

Movable Type

Business blogging platform by SixApart meant for large corporations with multiple users. Available at www.SixApart.com/moveabletype

LiveJournal

Personal blogging platform also by SixApart. You can get a LiveJournal account for free at www.SixApart.com/livejournal.

TypePad

Entry level business blogging solution, available from SixApart for $4.95 a month at www.SixApart.com/typepad.

Wordpress

Wordpress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. To get started with WordPress, set it up on a web host for the most flexibility or get a free blog on WordPress.com.

You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address and a name. You can blog as much as you want for free, your blog can be public to the world or private for just your friends, and our paid upgrades are completely optional.