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Archive for January, 2008

6 Best Adsense Tips

Posted by zahirblog on January 30, 2008

Adsense

6 Best Adsense Tips

1. Make quality content before anything else

Whatever niche you pick make sure you put quality content to your blog or site.

2. Don’t put ads on empty pages.

The very act of displaying ads on a page causes the AdSense web crawler to quickly fetch that page for analysis. A
page with good content will thus begin showing relevant paying ads fairly quickly.

If you don’t have any content, then, Google will have to guess as what your page is about. It may guess wrong, and
so the ads that it displays may not be relevant. You’ll have to wait until Google re-crawls the site for the ads
to correct themselves. It’s better to put relevant content or finalized the page before you start displaying ads
on it.

3. Check your keyword density

Although Google doesn’t release exact details as to how they determine the ads to serve on a given page, they do
tell us that it’s the text content of the page that matters, not the meta tags. Before serving ads on a page,
then, you might want to check its keyword density. A good, free tool for doing this is found here:

http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html

This lets you fine-tune the page before exposing it to the AdSense crawler.

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Superlicense anyone?

Posted by zahirblog on January 25, 2008

FIANever mind all the adrenaline, the horsepower and the glory. The coolest part of being an F1 driver could very well be the Superlicense. That’s the prerequisite certification that any F1 driver needs to get from the FIA before driving in Formula One.

Now, however, the World Motorsport Council has decided to raise the fees, and not by a little, either.Until now, the standard fee for a Superlicense was €1,690 for a newcomer – a sizeable chunk of money compared to the standard fee that you and I pay down at the DMV, but not entirely unreasonable in relation to all the money being spent in F1 altogether. On top of the base fee is an additional €447 for each championship point scored in the previous season by a returning driver.

The new fee structure, however, has gone up exponentially: €10,000 base fee, plus €2,000 per championship point. That means that for Kimi Raikkonen to get recertified after having won the championship last year, he’ll have to pay €230,000 (over $336k) – that’s a staggering €199,255 more than last year. Gulp.

Sure, that’s no big deal for a driver pulling in millions each year, and the teams will likely pick up the fee for their drivers. But it does seem to run counter to the cost-cutting measures that the FIA itself has been putting in place.

[Source: Autosport]

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Calling long distance the cheap and easy way

Posted by zahirblog on January 23, 2008

Well because of the nature of my job, making long distance and international calls are quite norm for me for many years now. I exclusively use phone cards to save but lately the quality is getting from bad to worse. I found a couple of good ones with nice rates and better quality but the minutes randomly disappear for no reason at all so I thought of making a complaint but theres a problem…there is no support number.

A close friend of mine told me about the phone card she’s using and referred me (we both got bonus minutes for the referral) to Onesuite. I signed up using Paypal (you can also use Mastercard or Visa) and bought $20 ($10, $15, $20, $30 are available too) of credits and in minutes I was connected to my friend in India. Rates are very good in all countries and some (about 2 dozens or so) have their own access numbers, meaning you can use your account while…say in India, China or U.K.

Onesuite is rich in features like Zipdial where you don’t need to type in your PIN and Rapidial (onesuite online phonebook) make calling so much easier and save time too. Onesuite also added VoIP in their products and their service are now more accessible than ever. Now you can make voip calls on your computer and if you are techie enough you can use ATA device and use Onesuite Broadband services without the need for computer.

Disappearing minutes are now a thing of the past because in Onesuite you can check your account history online and in real time. Calls, phone numbers, date and time of calls are just a few of information you can see and confirm unlike over the counter phone cards where you won’t know if the minutes you consumed is correct. Now no more wild guessing plus you could always phone their toll free 24/7 live customer support for any Onesuite related inquiry.

So if you want to save on your calls (who doesn’t) and get a reliable long distance service, check out Onesuite.com and get 5% bonus when you sign up plus another 5% bonus on your first recharge.

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11 tips for good blog writing

Posted by zahirblog on January 23, 2008

Here are 11 tips in effective blog writing I gathered from the net.

  1. Make your opinion known
  2. Link like crazy
  3. Write less
  4. 250 Words is enough
  5. Make Headlines snappy
  6. Write with passion
  7. Include Bullet point lists
  8. Edit your post
  9. Make your posts easy to scan
  10. Be consistent with your style
  11. Litter the post with keywords

1. Make your opinion known
People like blogs, they like blogs because they are written by people and not corporations. People want to know what people think, crazy as it sounds they want to know what you think. Tell them exactly what you think using the least amount of words possible.

2. Link like crazy.
Support your post with links to other web pages that are contextual to your post.

3. Write Less
Give the maximum amount of information with the least amount of words. Time is finite and people are infinitely busy. Blast your knowledge into the reader at the speed of sound.

4. 250 is enough
A long post is easier to forget and harder to get into. A short post is the opposite.

5. Make Headlines snappy
Contain your whole argument in your headline. Check out National newspapers to see how they do it.

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Force India F1…a force to reckon with.

Posted by zahirblog on January 23, 2008

Force India Force India F1 is a Formula One motor racing team. The team was formed in October 2007, when a consortium led by Vijay Mallya and Michiel Mol bought the Spyker F1 team for € 88 million.

Force India F1 represents increased Indian participation within Formula One, with Delhi all set to host the first ever Indian Grand Prix in 2010. The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile confirmed the change in name from Spyker to Force India on 24th October 2007.

The Team:

Dr. Vijay Mallya, is the face of the $3 billion UB Group. 52 year-old Dr. Mallya took over the reins of the United Breweries Group in 1983 at the tender age of 28 and has, since then, steered the UB Group to a multinational conglomerate.

Michiel Mol is one of Europe’s most succesful e-businessmen of the past decade. Having graduated from Leiden University with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics he started his own company, Lost Boys international (LBi), which has since grown to Europe’s largest digital agency, and is listed on both the Dutch and Swedish exchanges.

Colin Kolles began his motorsport career in rallying in 1985, but changed career path soon after to work as an assistant dentist in Ingolstadt, Germany. He later established his own dental practice before becoming reacquainted with the sport in 2000 when he co-founded a Formula 3 team.

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Top 10 things you could do with a dollar

Posted by zahirblog on January 8, 2008

1 dollar

1. Buy yourself a bottle of bubbles, take them to the park with
your friends, and pretend you’re 9 again

2. Now pretend you’ve aged a year and you’re 10. You’ve just hit
the jackpot. Proceed to take 2 quarters, 3 dimes and 4 nickels and
spend lavishly at gumball machines.

3. Visit the farmers market and ask each stall what they’ll sell
you for a dollar. Take everything home and cook it. When your family
asks what’s for dinner, tell them the dollar menu.

4. Make a game out of kicking your caffeine habit. Stop dialing
regular 411 and call 1-800-FREE411 (1-800-3733-411), which saves you
up to $2 for each call. For the dollars you save, put them in your coffee
piggy bank, and tap into it only for an emergency caffeine fix.

5. Buy a bunch of iPod ear covers, take a glue gun, and create an
ear sculpture. Display it proudly as your center piece. When people
ask, tell them it’s L’ear du Avant Garde. And yes, it was expensive.

6. Buy a phone card and leave 20 one minute messages during the
month for your Mom to tell her you love her. With each successive
call, tell her you love her more than the time before if that’s even humanly
possible.

7. Read romance novels? Sure you don’t, and neither does anyone
else you know. Buy a bunch of bodice rippers from the dollar bin at
your library’s fire sale, and send them to your girlfriends with an
unsigned note stating simply, “For your eyes only.”

8. Buy King size Snickers bars, tie a bow around each, and put
one on each of your coworkers’ chair. Sign them from the Easter Bunny.

9. Buy a bottle of Two-Buck-Chuck, draw a warm bath, light a
candle, and have yourself two glasses. On a school night. Heck, make
that the entire bottle. Just because you can.

10. Get 100 pennies, go to a fountain, and make 100 wishes.

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