Datadial.net – Your One Stop Web Development Service

For all of you webmasters and bloggers alike who want to needs someone to design your website, to manage your reputation, develop your ecommerce site or web applications, then I would like to recommend Datadial.net – the one stop web development service.

Why Datadial.net? Well, Datadial.net has 10 years of experience in web design, web apps development and online marketing, having been online since the year 1998. A company with that amount of experience is seriously invaluable to you, as they would know how to deal with nearly everything that you can throw at them. The other advantage of Datadial.net besides it’s experience is that all it’s services are provided under one roof, ensuring the quality and speed of work as they do not need to outsource anything.

Out of the many services that Datadial.net provides, there are 2 services in particular that I would want to highlight to you, and that is internet marketing service and search engine optimisation service.

Datadial.net is one the first UK companies (Datadial.net is based in UK) to offer online marketing services – long before Google was born, which is surely saying something. Datadial.net lets you easily implement an online marketing campaign of your site, service or brand which returns benchmarked results, helping you increase sales and awareness of your brand.

Datadial.net recently added the new reputation management tool into it’s portfolio. The reputation management tool allows you to not only be able to manage but also to maintain your online reputation. With this tool, you are able to keep track of the latest rumors and the general attitude of the blogosphere towards your brand.

Search engine optimisation is one of the most important components of a successful website. Datadial.net which has 9 years of experience in the search engine optimisation area would be able to provide you with invaluable consultancy and services to help you optimise your site for search engines. Datadial.net’s search engine optimisation service covers literally everything there is to tweak for search engines, from keyword research to content creation, and even to website redevelopment.

Datadial.net search engine optimisation services are one of the few search engine optimisation services around that do not use black-hat or unethical search engine optimisation methods, making it an extremely good and popular choice among many webmasters and bloggers.

If you have any web development needs, I highly recommend Datadial.net as they are a trusted and proven company. To find out more about them, do check out their about us page.

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Need To Choose A New Web host? Check Out Mybestratedwebhosting.com

As bloggers and webmasters, there is one thing that we all can’t live without, and that is a web host. In recent times, the number of web hosts found on the internet has increased many folds, so much that a person can never say that it was the lack of choice of web hosts that made him choose such a poor web host. Unfortunately, the overall quality of web hosts has not improved that much and there are many web hosts out there that oversell and over promise thus under delivering.

Besides overselling their services, webhost companies frequently bombard you with all sorts of details and offer things that might sound attractive but aren’t often used by people. Not only that, webhosting companies also like to add certian restrictions to webhosting accounts and by the time you find that out you would have already bought a minimum of 1 month or at worse a few years of hosting.

Because of all this scams and the complexities of choosing a good webhost, one really needs to have help in finding out the best webhost for them, and I highly suggest you check out Mybestratedwebhosting.com as I personally found their articles and reviews very useful and insightful.

On Mybestratedwebhosting.com, one can find out about the current best web hosting around on the internet among other things such as web hosting comparison charts, user reviews and ratings on the various web hosts available and web hosting tips. In short, if you are looking around for a new web host, check out Mybestratedwebhosting.com to find out which web hosting suites your need best.

PS: If you are wondering what web host is rated as the best web host by Mybestratedwebhosting.com, BlueHost gets the honour. Read the BlueHost review to find out all about it.

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Trying Out Adverlets Advertisements On Drett Again

I used to be a Nuffnang Glitterati member, which is Nuffnang’s loyalty program where you get higher earnings per click and other benefits in exchange for your loyalty in showing only their advertisements and no other advertisements from any advertisement network originating out of South East Asia. At that time I didn’t really mind not being able to show advertisements from other South East Asia originating advertisement networks like Advertlets as I thought that the benefits of the Nuffnang Glitterati program outweighed the benefits. However, after about 21 days and having only earned RM1.25 from global band advertisements (Yeah, not even band 1), I decided that being tied down to only Nuffnang was not worth it. Hence, my decision to try and start showing Adverlets advertisements on Drett again and see whether it is more profitable.

Nuffnang shows 2 kinds of advertisements, the cost per click (CPC) advertisements and the cost per unique visitor (CPU) advertisements. You only receive the cost per unique visitor (CPU) advertisements when your blog achieves a minimum of 20 unique visitors a day and maintains that amount while every blogger who signs up with Nuffnang automatically qualifies for the cost per click (CPC) advertisements. However, after all this time I have not received not even a single cost per unique (CPU) advertisement from Nuffnang even though I far exceed the minimum of 20 unique visitors a day.

Adverlets on the other hand serve cost per mile (CPM) advertisements which pay a fixed price for every thousand visitors (It’s the same principle as CPU advertisements) to all bloggers as anyone who signs up with Adverlets automatically qualify for them. As my click through ratio (CTR) so far has not been exactly stellar, I think cost per mile (CPM) advertisements will be more profitable.

Besides just trying out Adverlets advertisements on Drett, I have been thinking that maybe I should try jumping ship to Adverlets and trying to get into their own loyalty program called Titan (This Is The Adverlets Network), which has it’s own set of rather interesting benefits.

Most of the traffic to Drett is from the United States, and that’s one of the reasons I feel that both my earnings from Nuffnang and Adverlets will be significantly less than Drett’s true potential.

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Have You Heard About The Blogging Scholarship?

Are you in need of a scholarship to attend college or university? A blogger who maintains weblogs? A US citizen or permanent resident? Well then you might stand a chance to win the $10,000 Blogging Scholarship which is awarded annually to those attending college.

Why a Blogging Scholarship?

At College Scholarships.org we believe that everyone deserves a shot at a decent education. And we love bloggers. Not for the least of reasons, because we blog, and one of the founders of this site makes a living as a blogger.

We believe passion is important. As the world gets more competitive, those who are passionate about what they do, and work close to their passions, will be able to become and stay successful even as technology and automation eat away at many business models. Those who are willing to share their experiences with the world help make the world a better place, even if most bloggers only consider blogging a hobby.

We believe those who freely express themselves are far more likely to find their true passions and connect with people to bring on large scale social change.

So what do you guys think about this? I mean, who says that being a blogger is totally useless and is not time well spent? Now whenever someone says something bad about bloggers, tell them that at least bloggers have chances to win the Blogging Scholarship which is only open to bloggers .

You guys have to admit the whole idea about the Blogging Scholarship is interesting, right?

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My Review And Thoughts Of Nuffnang

Nuffnang is Asia’s first blog advertising community. Nuffnang was launched in February 2007 by Timothy Tiah and Cheo Ming Shen. Here are just some information and thoughts that I think would be useful for you guys who are thinking of joining Nuffnang.

OK. So I’ve been a member of Nuffnang for like about 20 days, and so far my current earnings is RM0.25 which I got from one CPC advertisement campaign by Digi. I haven’t gotten any cost per unique visitor advertisement campaigns yet though. Yea I know, compared to many bloggers out there, my blog’s traffic is nothing and I earn peanuts. Hey, but for me it’s a start

Nuffnang provides basic analytics information on traffic to your site, however, if you’re a stat junkie like me, the traffic information provided is TOOOO little. But hey, it’s still better than nothing, because at least they do tell you things like keywords your visitors used to find your site and what countries they come from. As you can see below, the stats aren’t real time as the statistics for today are delayed by an hour. On the bottom left corner you should be able to see some stars. Those stars are an indicator of how well your advertisements perform in an advertisement campaign based on click through ratio (CTR). I have 3 stars, pretty good .

Below is a picture of the control panel. When you click the more button (the small green one) the control panel flips over to reveal a few more options such as adding a blog, your polls and adding advertisements. The yellow band thingy you see is the Happy-O-Meter option which is supposedly to be used in a certain type of advertisement campaign. However, if you haven’t received a campaign that uses it, you still can post the Happy-O-Meter on your blog, just that you won’t earn anything from it.

Anyway, below are some information I believe you should know about Nuffnang.

What Kind Of Advertisements Do They Serve?

• Cost Per Click Advertisements – Any blogger registered with Nuffnang is eligible to run CPC advertisement campaigns. You get paid each time an advertisement is click, and your earnings appear at the end of the week. Cost Per Unique Visitor Advertisements get priority of Cost Per Click advertisements, meaning if there are Cost Per Unique Visitor advertisements, you’ll get them instead of CPC advertisements. A good thing too, as Cost Per Unique Visitor advertisements usually earn more than CPC advertisements.
• Cost Per Unique Visitor Advertisements – To run these kind of advertisements, you first have to get picked by an advertiser to run an advertisement campaign. Earnings for Cost Per Unique Visitor Advertisements are based on the number of unique visitors to a blog while an advertisement campaign is being run. You need to have 20 unique visitors a day to be eligible to  run cost per unique visitor advertisement campaigns, however, I have ran an advertisement campaign before without actually getting 20 unique visitors a day.
• Advertorials - Advertorials is when a particular blogger is paid to write about an advertiser’s product in his/her blog. The blogger will be paid per post because of its better reach. To be able to get Advertorials for you blog, you must be a glitterati member. To date, I haven’t recieved a single Advertorial from Nuffnang, but I guess it’s just because my blog so far still doesn’t qualify.

Glitterati?

The Glitterati program is Nuffnang’s loyalty program which rewards bloggers loyalty to Nuffnang. Glitterati is a status given to exclusive Nuffnang bloggers. An exclusive nuffnang blogger here means a blogger that has no advertisements from any other advertisement network that originates from South East Asia on his blog. To be come a Glitterati Nuffnang member, you just have to wait for about 48 hours or until the the Nuffnang crawlers crawl your page and determine whether you have any other advertisement from advertisement networks originating from South East Asia, if you don’t have, then you automatically become a Glitterati member.

Here are some benefits of being a Glitterati member:

• Payment Rates for both Cost Per Unique Visitor and Cost-Per-Click – According to Nuffnang, Glitterati members earn more as they have a higher payment rate for Glitterati advertisements when compared to non-Glitterati advertisements. (CPC advertisemetns for Glitterati members has a minimum of $0.25 per click while for non-Glitterati members it is $0.15 per click ; Glitterati CPM advertisements get 20% to 50% higher than current blog income while non-Glitterati get 20% to 50% lower than Glitterati income)
• Payment Terms  - Nuffnang will use it’s cash reserves to pay off Glitterati members for advertising campaigns that Nuffnang has not been paid for yet. This translates to a faster payout time for Glitterati members and non-Glitterati members.(30 days from end of month requested for Glitterati members and 60 days from end of month requested for non-Glitterati members)
• Advertorial Opportunities – Advertorials are ones that earn bloggers the most money. Each Advertorial can earn a blogger from $50 to $1500, not including freebies that sometimes come with Advertorials. Advertorial opportunites have recently been restricted to Glitterati members only.
• Community Events – Nuffnang from time to time organises community events, from free movie screenings to lunch meet-ups. Spaces allocated for these events are 70% for exclusive Nuffnang members and any guest they bring a long and 30% for non-exclusive Nuffnang members.
• Contests – Nuffnang has been known to organize contests where a blogger can win anything from free meals to mobile phones. 70% of the prizes are allocated for Glitterati members while 30% of the prizes are allocated for non-Glitterati members.
• Innit - Innit is a tool developed and hosted by Nuffnang to add the additional service of driving traffic to any Nuffnang blog. Nuffnang Innit is a bit like Digg, so those Nuffnang members who uses Digg will find this tool easy to use. I haven’t tried this yet, but trust me, the idea of getting more traffic to my blog makes me happy

With this kind of benefits, I have decided to only show Nuffnang advertisements on my blog and stop experimenting with Advertlets advertisements on my blog so that I can remain a Glitterati member. Anyway, even if they din’t have a loyalty program, I would still be showing Nuffnang advertisements as their advertisement campaigns have earned me a significantly higher amount of money than Advertlets normal CPM advertisements. For your information, Advertlets has launched it’s own loyalty program called TITAN, and so in the future I just might defect to Adverlets. Hehe.

Miscellaneous Information:

Well, if you’re from Malaysia, you get paid in Ringgit, and if you’re from Singapore, you get paid in Dollars. The minimum payout is either 50 Dollars or 50 Ringgit. You have to pay 1 Dollar or Ringgit transaction fee when you cashout. Nuffnang also has widget ads and polls for you to make use of on your blog. Look, I have a poll from Nuffnang on my sidebar, click on it to see how it works. Hehe.

This is Nuffnang guys. If you want to find out more, here is its homepage.

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