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Freelancer Not so good after all

September 22, 2013 by admin 1 Comment

They are mulling a release on the stock market (freelancer.com) , and i was also thinking of participating and buying some of their IPO stock , but after I checked my email this week and saw that i got charged $5.89 for nothing from freelancer.com, i changed my mind. I’m no more buying any Shares in freelancer.com if it lists on the stock market and just started looking for alternatives for freelancer to get my freelancing jobs done . Any company that has a sneaky tactic to charge you more and more fees, even while not providing a service can be termed bit off a rip off IMHO.

Not PayPal’s fault … just freelancer taking money outta my paypal

I had to do a bit of further investigation to see why i was charged when i didn’t even use their service in the last month or so. I found out after their last upgrade they actually upgraded my account to the Basic membership rather than the $0 fee account, which is wrong in my opinion , you just cant upgrade an existing no fee account to basic account which automatically starts to charge your account regularly for money when you don’t even use that account. .

If they were fair dinkum they would automatically change all the accounts to the $0 no fees account (rather than basic where users started getting charged suddenly) and then whoever wanted to upgrade could do so themselves.

Result:

I immediately downgraded my freelancer account to $0 fees

and cancelled freelancer authorisation to my paypal account so that they cant force bill me anymore. I can see many people going forward looking for alternatives other than freelancer who are using these kinds of tactics that lets down that trust of users and secondly also increasing and charging quite a hefty fee rapidly for doing transactions with them. They are services out there that charge less than 40 % of what they charge and I will be using them from now on.

I’m not telling that freelancer is not a good service , i have used them for my projects but when they do this kind of stuff it lets down your trust and you are forced to look elsewhere . Let me know if you have been a victim of the same predicament.

UPDATE : EVEN MORE disturbing

I got this email after downgrading … Even more P*** off now

You have successfully downgraded to a free membership. Your membership will remain active until Oct 21, 2013.

Review of traffic Travis SEO software not Affilorama

June 3, 2013 by admin 4 Comments

You have done your reviews on SEO software, reading different reviews and decided to go ahead and choose your software. Have you heard of traffic Travis , probably not – but hey wait “what’s affilorama”.

Software to help rank your blog – traffic travis

It can get a bit confusing when you go thier purchase page to buy traffic Travis with or without discount. (currently there is no “traffic travis discount” ) and you see Affilorama page instead

Snapshot of the buy page on traffic Travis below. ( Explanation below on how to order traffic travis)

Wording from above pic “Traffic T r a v i s does not auto rebill, we will contact you in 12 months to see if you want to renew. Your one month free trial of Affilorama Premium rebills after 30 days at $67/month. You can easily cancel at any time.”

If you have not checked reviews of the software , check our quick review below

You gotta be careful while ordering other wise you can get lumped with a extra $67 a month in addition to the traffic travis software valued at $97.

Affilorama Vs Traffic Travis

So just to make sure you know what you are doing , Traffic travis is the SEO software to help you with SEO for your blog or website and if your purchase a AFFILORAMA subscription, it entitles you to guides and help to set yourself up successfully as an affiliate marketer. Affilorama gives you detailed strategies to become a successful online entrepreneur and make money online

Traffic Travis provides four distinct functions that allow you to collect data and do research on your selected Web site.

The first one searches for popular keywords and competition, and another shows your site’s ranking amongst the top four search engines.

Yet another tracks point-and-click advertisements, and the fourth grades your own site for its search engine optimization.

Make sure you uncheck or untick the Affilorama check box charging you $0 dollars ( the $0 dollars is only for the first month , then they charge you from the second month onwards if you dont cancel the affilorama free trial) if you dont want both programs at the same time.

If you interested only in the traffic travis software just untick the affilorama trial second box and you should be good ( Click Here to buy! )

What is this affilorama trial ?

Affilorama Premium is an online monthly subscription product that gives you access to highly detailed advanced affiliate marketing training and powerful pro-level marketing tools.

Affilorama aims provide a step-by-step, over the shoulder training courses for beginners and advanced affiliate marketers to build a successful affiliate business online.

SO only check this second box above if you want this affiliate marketing tools and can afford the extra $67 a month.

They provide detailed VIDEO LESSONS for internet marketing fore beginners as well as more advanced marketers, If you want to know more about affilorama video lessons go here

About traffic travis v4.0 Pro ( Quick review)

Traffic travis is an awesome seo software and i totally recommend it over market samurai or SEO MOZ membership as its a simple to use software and gives most of the needed benefits that are also present in the other premuim SEO software providers.

FOR eg What you need is there in this software

* Tracking your page rank of your site and movement of it up and down the google rank
*Finding linking partners via their software ( blogs websites or directories) to get valid links from relevant niche
* Finding Do follow and No follow links on your blog and other blogs to make your linking ratio perfect for google search
*comparison of your website with other websites in relating to backlinks , keywords etc
* top ten comparison and much more features which all can be adjusted with advanced settings for that extra bit more ( you also get free flash made tutorials for every section of the software, which i didn’t need to use as the software is so easy to use)

Snapshot of main dashboard

http://www.traffictravis.com/professional/order

[This above review video showing the software is bit outdated as the current updated interface has become much more simpler and easy to use.]

Traffic Travis Free SEO And PPC Software

From Free To Professional Edition ( Click Here to buy! )

Traffic Travis is freeware, but it requires a free online registration. It comes as a compressed file.

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The Official Facebook plugin released

June 13, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

Release of the “Facebook plugin” proves couple of things for facebook.

( UPDATE : Since writing this post , i uninstalled this “facebook plugin” on my blog as it had slowed down my blog considerably, It seems they have just released the new update to this ( 1.02 – Link below) which has fixed this issue, let me know how you go with this)

1.0.2

Fixed issue where some sites were extremely slow as a result of installing the plugin (due to cURL not being installed).update link

Official and original Facebook plugin for wordpress

Facebook knows to double & promote its presence with smart innovative ways like this plugin
Its a marketing genius
Its always listening to what users want and not afraid to use it to its advantage

The release of this official Facebook word press plugin will not only create goodwill for Facebook but will surely get it more noticed through this open covert SEO tactic.

This Plugin is currently supported on WordPress.org and WordPress.com VIP

Forget erors in plugins , this plugin will allow webmasters/ bloggers to easily integrate social publishing, mentions and other Facebook widgets like Activity Feed, Recommendations to their WordPress-based sites.

How to Set up this Facebook plugin In wordpress

To set up this Facebook plugin in wordpress, first you will need to install the plugin called just “facebook” from your wordpress blog add plugins area , then you will need to fill in a couple of things like App ID, Secret, and Namespace whihc you can get by quickly creating a dummy app at https://developers.facebook.com/apps and then pasting those keys in your plugin

Facebook WordPress Plugin features

Like, Send, and Subscribe buttons
Comments, including SEO support
Recommendations Bar, which allows users to click to start getting recommendations, Like content, and add what they’re reading to Timeline as they go

Functionality also included in the widget are ability for Recommendations , Recent Activity , Like, Send, and Subscribe buttons

Online blogs that are making money – Australia

March 17, 2012 by admin 4 Comments

People think it’s easy to blog and make money, but things have changed in the blogging scene. This six figure blogpost has needed an update for a while, and so I am updating it for 2018.

The best way to make money online is to follow the people who actually are doing it, unfortunately in the online world Google slaps a Google penalty if you literally do that by copying successful bloggers . The sad reality is that some are just floggin it , while some are really blogging.

You could follow the successful money makers and learn some stuff, but they will never really reveal the real money making secrets.

I have been blogging for the last 10 years. Writing a blog is no more about just writing a 400 word article and getting a lot of eyeballs to your article. It involves a lot more.

Yet even today they are many $5000 a month $10,000 a month bloggers and some top bloggers earning $20k plus a month.

Today the fashion and food bloggers niche has become popular and there has been an exponential rise in women bloggers too. The gadget and technology niche has always been a favourite niche for people to blog about and so is a very competitive niche too.

Follow the Top bloggers to become a money making blogger

But there are some that up to a certain extent reveal the blogging secrets, and the smart people with the keen eye can get the clues from their posts and blog to apply them techniques on their own blogs. Making money online is a hard game and I got some of my favourite bookmarked blogs that give me regular useful information about this methodology, that you might find useful too.

Some of the blogs that I follow, surely are some of the biggest money earners on the internet, but in relation to handing out any useful tips to making money, only a few of these blogs occasionally post anything useful when they are not flogging stuff to their viewers or subscribers.

So I have ranked and listed these blog’s below in order of importance to me – and for you.

Some of these unfortunately as John Chow states, have pretty much become “internet marketing whores” and they sometimes are blogs that “who flog, more than they blog” ( Yeh Yeh !! sure John Chow – look who’s talking)

Check out these blogs for making money online

New websites ( 2018 Update)

MakingSenseOfCents.com ( Michelle)

michells blog

Michelle is said to earn $110,284.31 a month. However you can check her recent earnings on her blog as well.

The income sources of Michelle’s blog is from Affiliate Products, Online Courses, Sponsorship and Direct Ads

pinch of yumm

https://pinchofyum.com – Pinch of yum

This blog is a recipe and food blog that has made it big. its been around for a while and started making money with adsense and then affiliate products, advertising, recipe books. The blog is run by Lindsay and Bjork and they used to publish their income reports, but have stopped doing them now.

They started off with earning as low as $20 a month and now are earning well over $20k a month. Huffingtonpost reports,

This was their 12-month profit: $483,883.51

1. Chris Guthrie – http://www.makemoneyontheinternet.com/

Making his money selling on amazon , from his blog and now makes money buying and selling websites and also now bombards me with emails selling software and plugins daily which is just about starting to annoy me with its increased frequency . But he still dishes out good stuff , so ill hang on for a while receiving those emails

2. Glen – – http://www.viperchill.com/

Makes money from his blog, amazon and other projects . Has a wealth of seo optimization information

I recently tried his opt in membership plugin without much success and some precious real estate taken up on mu blog but then found out that i can get members more by just making my request more visible on blog on popular posts and making the request more actionable and so now don’t need his plugin. But his Blog posts are AWESOME so yeh ” look it up “

3. Michael Gray – http://www.wolf-howl.com/

Michael blogs about a good mix of everything like SEO, driving traffic , Blog optimization and more. I like his blogs name “wolf –Howl” and he always has excellent images to go with his post which makes his blog look so good. ( hmm… hes climbed up to no 4 ranking on google.com.au for SEO Blog ..good luck buddy to the top )

4. Darren Rowse – http://www.problogger.net/

Had to put in fellow aussie blogger “Darren Rowse” on this list, he not only has quite detailed posts on how he started earning his money online from his forums , but also detailed posts on how he earns money from his blogs , amazon and how he drives traffic , build memberships and makes money from affiliates.Dig deep into his blog to get a wealth of information.

4. John Chow – http://www.johnchow.com/

He used to publish interesting stuff that really helped making money online, blogging and does that now only once in a while ,in the meantime he is just flogging stuff , software etc from his website.

5. Shoemoney – http://www.shoemoney.com

I used to follow shoemoney quite fervently 4 to 5 years ago when he used to blog quite useful and details posts on makingmoneyonline , making money from AdSense , Adwords strategy and blog optimization , but now he just posts pic’s of himself with good looking chicks and occasionally writes some detailed informative posts on SEO and other stuff as mentioned above.

My blog Digital grog is already the “NO.1 on the google Australian search” for the term “DigitalGrog” and bookmark us to see whats trending and how we improve our blog.

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Underwater Drones for Recording Video and Taking Pictures

by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | 2022, Australia, Gadgets

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20 Black Friday/Cyber Monday Deals for Web professionals and more

by admin | Nov 26, 2013 | 2013

It’s a good idea to get the black friday and cyber monday deals now while the offers are on, rather than when the prices are back to normal and you are likely to be paying double the price. The biggest discounts for Australians and bloggers like me on Black Friday are things like software, wordpress themes and web hosting, you can lock in savings from anywhere between 50% to 75%.

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Alternative to Windows livewriter for blogger blogs Publishing

March 13, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

Simple Free application to make post to Blogger

Simple Blogger is a small and very easy to use FRE software application that enables you to quickly write and publish a new post to your blog.
The tool can get all your blogs from Google account making it easy to publish to nay of your blogs on your blogger account.

Image ref :http//www.softpedia.com

Blogger Publishing tool for users who dont have windows Livewriter software

It also has the ability to post with labels. This is essentially a light and simple program that you can install in a flash on any pc to manages posts to blogger( blogspot)

Key features of "Simple Blogger":

Features

Make post to your Blogger
Labels support
Local draft support
Automatically adds all your blogs from Google account
Tag templates
Upload image to Picasa web service
Image scale and align
Cross platform
Portable

You can either download this tool from the softpedia link below that is tested for any malware or spyware or then directly from the authors (Yauhen Shulitski) sourceforge webpage

Make your website faster with CDN

March 17, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

One of the best way to speed up the loading time of your blog or website is by using a Content Delivery Network or CDN. What a CDN does is distribute your blog content to hundreds of servers around the world instead of just one making it load in seconds. It works a bit like the bit torrent principle.

With most normal web hosting, your blog or website is housed in a single shared or dedicated server. Most web hosts try to locate their data centers to be as central to as much of the population as possible with most mainly being in the US.

For example, Bluehost has their headquarters in the US but their servers could be in INDIA. This provides good load time for the majority of readers from INDIA but not necessarily the readers further away in the US or Australia on the other side of the world. A Content Delivery Network fixes this problem.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottlenecks near that server.

Make slow loading websites faster with CDN

By bringing all your Blog content closer to your readers’ nearest connection point, your blog will have much quicker load times and less wait time for your readers. A faster loading site not only makes your visitors happy, it will also help you rank better with Google.

A large part of good seo Now takes into consideration load time as well, specially noticed by search engines like google which can also affect your ranking if the load time is slow for your blog. A fast loading blog will definitely help rank your blog higher than a slow loading blog.

How To Get a Speedy CDN Service for FREE

Until recently, only big sites used Content Delivery Networks because they were quite expensive. However, with advances in technology, it is now possible for even the smallest blog take advantage of the increased speed potential offered by a CDN. Thank to a service call Speedy Mirror, you can now get it for FREE!

Speedy Mirror is just that. The service takes the content of your blog and mirrors it across a network of servers around the world making it easy for a person in India or Australia or Canada to get quick acesss to your blog like it was just next door. This ensures that no matter where you readers are, they will be getting the quickest load time possible. The best thing about the service is you can try it for free.

With Speedy Mirror’s current offer you can set up a CDN for your blog for free and use the service for up to 50GB of data transfer. Depending on how much data your blog consumes, this can last you from ten days to over a year. Once the 50GB is used up, you can stop using it or you can purchase more data at only 3.5 cents per gig. This is the lowest CDN price I’ve found on the Net (MaxCDN starts at 9.9 cents per gig).

How To Set Up a Speedy Mirror CDN service

Sign up for a free account at Speedy Mirror. You will get sent a confirmation Email, Once you confirm your email address, you’ll be able to log into the control panel and set up a new mirror. You can set up as many mirrors as you like for as many blogs as you like. Just click the Mirrors link and then click the Add New Mirror button.

Give a name for your new mirror and enter the URL of your blog then hit the Detect and Save button. Within a few seconds, your mirror will be ready to use. Further instructions are available at the website

Install W3 Total Cache for easy CDN USE

After setting up your mirror, the next thing you have to do is install a wordpress free plugin called W3 Total Cache. W3 Total Cache offers transparent Content Delivery Network integration.

Even if you don’t plan to use a CDN service, I recommend you install W3 Total Cache on your blog.It’s the best caching software for WordPress that I’ve ever used.

From the General Settings of the W3 Total Cache control panel, enable CDN and choose Mirror as the CDN Type. Save the changes then go to the CDN Settings page and scroll down until you get to Configuration. Enter the URL to your Speedy Mirror blog and click Add CNAME. Click the Test Mirror button to make sure it’s working then save the changes.

Your blog is now mirrored around the world!

Before and After Test Results

Using the Website Speed Test tool at iWeb Tool, you can measure the before and after speed tests on your blog which will show the huge difference in loading times.

Because Speed Mirror is free to start, there is absolutely no reason why you should not use it. Setting up an account is free, the first 50GB of data is free and W3 Total Cache is free. This is by far the best free way to test it to see the benefit before you opt for a full paid account.

Speedy Mirror Affiliate Program – Earn 10% for Life

Anyone who signs up for a Speedy Mirror is automatically eligible to be part of their affiliate program.

Click Here Set Up Your Free Speedy Mirror CDN

Freelancer Not so good after all

Not PayPal’s fault … just freelancer taking money outta my paypal

Review of traffic Travis SEO software not Affilorama

Software to help rank your blog – traffic travis

Affilorama Vs Traffic Travis