Generally, New post that just posted for around 3-5 days will not have enough power to show higher in the SERP. So it’s rarely to see your post listed in the first page of SERP (except if your posts get a lot of supports). Only those posts that have been aged for more than 1 week will get a good search engine traffic (at least, that’s what happened at my blog).

So, I will only show ads on posts that I posted 5 days ago and avoid showing ads on the newer posts. The steps are easy. Follow this tutorial and start time-basing your advertising!

Image Credit: Leo Reynolds

First, let’s say you want to time-based an adverts on your single post page below your headline. The steps are as follow (for Wordpress only):

1. Find the following code:

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<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

2. Copy this codes:

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<?php $u_time = get_the_time('U');
$selector = 0;
if ( ( time() - 432000 ) >= $u_time ) { $selector = 1; } // 60*60*24*2 = 432000 = 5 days
?>
<?php if( $selector > 0 ) { ?>
//Paste your Adverts Code here - Adsense, YPN, Chitika, etc
<?php } ?>

3. Paste it between the div entry and the_content:

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<div class="entry">
 
<?php $u_time = get_the_time('U');
$selector = 0;
if ( ( time() - 432000 ) >= $u_time ) { $selector = 1; } // 60*60*24*2 = 432000 = 5 days
?>
<?php if( $selector > 0 ) { ?>
//Paste your Adverts Code here - Banner, Adsense, YPN, Chitika, etc
<?php } ?>
 
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

4. Replace the text “//Paste your adverts code here - Adsense, etc” to your Ads Code and Change the time as you wish.

What we need is the time in “second”. So, to display ads on 5 days posts, you need to convert it to second.

60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 5 days = 432.000 seconds

Look at my example at my blog about hardware and gadgets. I set it to display Google ads on post that have been aged for 2 days. It’s pretty useful for gaining new readership as reader hate ads and blind on it. But it’s useful for monetizing Search Engine traffic as the visitor is more clicky.

Hope this simple tips useful for you. Have a nice day!

I remembered I’ve posted about ping list/update services in this blog. If you look into that post, you’ll find a small list of update services that I took from several reliable sources in 2007. Since the internet grow fastly, that list is also growing and become more crowded now:

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com (double)
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

See? It’s a whole new set of ping services that you can use to ping your blog. But what I’m going to tell you is not about how useful this ping service is. This service is actually ‘dangerous’ if you don’t use it carefully.

How dangerous? Your blog could be banned. Yes, B-A-N-N-E-D!

One of my friend (who have a decent skills in SEO) advised me to take a special care on this subject. He saw through my bad habit in writing (lots of correction after publishing a post) and warn me to take off the ping list from update service option and ping manually using pingomatic or use a plugin to solve this problem.

At first, I don’t see where is the problem located. But after he explain it to me, I finally realized how silly am I and how LUCKY I am! (Not being banned although I ping so many times!)

Editing a post after publishing will make the ping services to re-ping my blog to the exact big list of ping server which I’ve shown you above.

This trigger an “alert” at those ping server because of a ping spamming is most likely happening on my blog. I’m not sure how many times of pinging is indicated as spamming, but I’m sure that editing a post twice after you hit the publish button is extreme dangerous.

The easiest solution is to use plugin called Smart Update Pinger. It has the capability to disable update service to ping your post when you edit published posts. Smart Update Pinger also ping your future / timestamped post, which the current Wordpress is not capable of doing so.

Although it’s dangerous, using this service properly can give you a good result. What good result? There is a possibility that your post is indexed within 7 minutes!

Want to know how? Check out what’s Robert Lang tips to Get Published in Google in 7 minutes. Hope it’s useful for you.

Best luck for you!

I’ve seen all of my stats and traffic drop significantly and I know I should do something to turn the table around and set a new direction for the better future of this blog.

Although a new theme is created for this blog, IT doesn’t bring more traffic. It’s only an eyes-candy and a visual attraction for increasing readiness of reading and understanding ( and… some targeted clicks on ads too. ).

Image Credit: Right Direction - KKTP

The future of this blog is going to be more on to technical matter. Just like what this blog meant to be long time ago. It’s My Sites Advisor, its goals is to sharing simple yet effective tips to build a better sites/blogs and not about how to make money with it bluntly.

Anything about making money tips and earning boosting matter I’ll hand it over to those A-list bloggers like Darren (problogger.net), John (johnchow.com), Cow, Conn(Garry Conn) and many other great MMO niche bloggers.

I’ll retreat from there and cover only the technical matter and better marketing tips to increase traffic and visit to your blog (you who read this blog). Not about how to monetize the traffic anymore.

It’s a hard decision for me and I took months of time to decide this new direction. I think I must do what I like and where I have skill instead of following the crowd to blindly blog on something that I need to learn from zero.

Well, let’s see what I will presented for you in the upcoming days. I’ve numerous blogs that I blogged at now, so it’s depend on the sum of free time to update this blog. I will update this blog as I found new idea or new technical tips for blog building. But don’t worry, I will update regularly now and forward. Blogging is so much fun and I can’t live without it anyway…

So why should I quit?!

P.S.
Sorry for you guys who have a chance to chat with me lately. I’m in a desperate condition and said something wrong and want to quit blogging. No, I won’t quit although the sky fall down on my head!

I guess I need to give a short report about my condition and situation that made me unable to blog for 5 months (yeah, it’s a long and boring holiday for me). I’m not actually having a holiday for that long. A long white beard could have been grown healthily on my chin!

The truth is, on the early december I suffered from a serious illness that I can’t even explain it in English. I lost 10 pounds because of this illness (a virus exactly) and I have become a more sexy than before (all my ribs looks like a guitar strings. I can play guitar with it now! ).

It takes two months to cure this strange illness and 1 month to recovered. I got to stay in the bed laying there doing nothing but staring at the pale ceiling. It’s really a nightmare for me who love to do lots of activities and move around a lot.

Image Credit: Maneki Neko - Welcoming Cats

Well, it has passed and now it’s a whole new life for me to begin something great. As you can enjoy now, MySitesAdvisor have a new blog redesign again. I guess I need to have a new and fresher theme for welcoming myself to the blogosphere.

I code them myself, used up to 1 month to finalizing this theme (less free time to do things I like). I hope you would like this theme and visit more often. I have check for the server load time. You won’t have a trouble to load my blog even if you use dial-up internet connection.

I will update you more about the feature of this theme and I’m going to release my previous theme as a free download with a demo site.

I guess many blogger have use this feature to the fullest. For example, John Chow or may be one of my buddy, Nirmal.

He scheduled up everything before he went to his sweetest memory of his life (wedding) and I saw his blog still moving properly although he didn’t take any serious part in the discussion of each blog for 1 month!

Actually I want to do some testing to see what is the result. I am going to use up all my weekend (Saturday) to write 6 pillar posts for next week and I will focus on bringing in more traffic on the next Monday thru Saturday.

I will have the answer next Sunday. If it prove to be able to increase a my stats, I write about my progress into one report/post that you can use to help yourself too.

See ya again!

Believe it or not, blogging on blogging is not the tao to make money online anymore. The reason is because the blogging subject has been covered by whole lots of expert like Darren and Lorelle. It’s never become easier to find topic that they haven’t covered to blog about.

As far as I learn, this niche isn’t where the Tao of Online Money Wealth located. You should seek for other niche or may be you can keep spinning your blog to another type of blogging niche that not discussing about blogging but have the relation with it.

For example, you may cover the coding and design if you have the interest and a set of skills in this subject. Or you may be can spin the subject to some other mentality development subject to empower a blogger’s soul.

Blogging on Blogging is dead because it’s saturated or jammed by blogger. You’ll just keep echoing the idea from experts (You know, there are so many of them out there and they might have covered most of the evergreen articles) and you can’t pull much attention from readers.

Although there is an advice about being a purple cow in your niche, blogging niche is certainly not a great niche kick some ass anymore. You will struggle sooo hard to be able to get some benefit out of it.

While you can actually get lots of benefits from other niches, why you should struggle your life-and-death in blogging niche?

Except you are a great blogger like Lorelle, you might be able to find some great idea to turn this around and keep exist in the strive competition. How about if you are a complete beginner?

One word - Avoid it.

Guru like Yaro also say the same sentence. Avoid to blog your subject about blogging. It won’t worth your time.

I tasted the experience and I’ve felt the result. To tell you frankly, I build this blog by focusing around 70% of my roam time and 30% for other project. Believe it or not, other blogs that stand on a different niches, is proved to be able to generate much more income than this blog!

I was surprised too. At first, I thought if I devoted more on a blog so I can get better result! But that principle seems to be wrong.

Almost 90% of my income is not from this blog. At first, this blog is genuinely blogging on blogging tips, tricks and tweaks. My old readers will know what I’m talking about. At the time, I got no serious traffic from search engines, only from some famous social media like digg.com and StumbleUpon (with the helps from my buddies).

I decided to take a different action to spin my presentation. The result are, since I spin my subject slowly away from blogging (getting away from blogging but still related to it) , I’ve seen some nice improvement in search engine traffic, referral, and more subscribers to my feed.

Those action give me an understanding about:

Targeting a popular niches with a different approach and perspectives is better than meddling inside those niches.

This is my understanding as far as my experience growth. Blogging on Blogging is a hardcore road to blogging success. As an advise, try to switch your attention to what you love to do, instead of putting your perspective on what other peoples love.

Follow where your passion is, and the money will follow you.

It’s wise not to follow the same mistake as I did. Don’t play with fire and be a little obedience to what those experts teach us. For sure, we’ll get what we want!

It’s not limited to blog, actually. Everybody who step their foot on the web will seek for traffic to empower their businesses.
There are more than 7 positive web traffic sources (proved) that you can drive to your blog. Begin from:

1. Search Engine
2. In-Links
3. Niche Forum
4. Ezine Directories
5. Squidoo
6. Blog Comments on Niche Blog
7. StumbleUpon

To drive a search engine traffic, of course you will need to learn the skill to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) your blog. This is probably the most well-known strategy to drive more traffic to your blog since the early launched of Search Engine.

You could learn more about SEO by surfing for content about it out there or buy SEOBook (aff) as your guidance to SEO. SEOBook is a comprehensive book on SEO that teach you from the very basic skills to expert tips to play around your which is authored by a well known expert in SEO industry.

In-links, Niche Forum, Ezine Directories, Squidoo and Blog Comments are traffic that you must seek diligently. You won’t get any link-in if your write a bunch of BS posts and writing at your reader, not to your reader.

In niche forum, you will need to contribute a lot to make yourself visible. And you will need to write a catchy signature file at your bottom of your messages to generate more click-through.

Ezine Directories and Squidoo are actually similar. I post regularly on Ezine Directories and Squidoo to sell my affiliate stuffs. The result is amazing. I’ve reach my $15 a day with them. Of course, all my recommendation is what I’ve tried. Not an empty babbles to scam peoples.

The last one is my favorite one. Stumbleupon has become my greatest tool to rise my visibility since long time ago. Although there are lots of Social Media out there like Digg.com, Sphinn.com, etc. StumbleUpon still excellent in many area.

As your information only. From all of the seven sources, my biggest stream of web traffic is #4 and #7. From them alone have generate me 80% of my income thorough the month.

Although recently I’ve seen some some nice increasing in my organic search result, it still cannot match with the traffic they drove to my blog. So, what traffic are you driving at now? What is the best for you? Tell us in your comment!

Ok, I know I need to give a sufficient explanation on why I suddenly disappear from the blogosphere surface for 10 days without any voice at all. The main reason was about my primary job.

I got a killing project that I have to devoted all my time to serves it well. I’ve been working like a killing machine actually. It’s not a project that I could enjoy a bit. Well, It’s a 2 weeks project and my responsibility on that project is going to end tomorrow, anyway. As I got some spare time today, I’m going to use as effective as I can to where my passion is.

But before anything, I really need to say “THANK YOU!” to some of my loyal friends who still keep supporting me when I’m not around. It’s the greatest gift I’ve ever get in this blogging world. I realize that blogging friends it’s so caring and some with a very warm-hearted friends keep sending me email to ask my whereabout :).

Some of them that I couldn’t bear to not mentioning them here are YC from InternetMarketingMind.com and Pearl from FreshPerspectives.net. May be they’re not realizing how much support they have gave to me, but one thing that I can make sure is that they have put me in a condition that I’m not “forgotten” as I’m not posting for more than 10 days.

I believe every blogger will scare for this scenario, where they are forgotten as they are not posting regularly. I’m thinking it as a grace from God to reward me at what I’ve done for my audience since the last 7 months. I’m feeling really good as if I have a sufficient energy to blog thru the next 365 days!

Well, I know this post has no benefit at all for you. And may be your will unsubscribe from my feed or immediately delete me from your bookmark. But I have a request for you. Please don’t leave me yet. Why? Because you will be missing out some great content in the upcoming days. I promise you that you will feel the benefit of staying up with me a little longer.

If for the next 3 days I couldn’t make a great contents to tickles your creative brain, feel free to leave me without second thought!

Oke, with this post I was re-surface again and will back to my regular posting frequency. Once again, I deeply apologize for what I’ve done (dissappear like ninja!) and thank you so much for everyone who have support me directly or indirectly.

See ya again on the next post.

You know, it’s pretty interesting to see how we develop our body. I found myself become more bloated then before because of blogging.

I found an interesting post about this topic at moneymakingscoop. He asked whether online business make you fat or not.

Of course, my answer is yes, absolutely.

I have grown my ‘fatness’ around 10 more pounds lately. It’s a shame, but can’t do anything about it because I’ve full-packed my schedules with several hair pulling jobs and only have around 15 minutes a day to do exercises.

heck, I choose to do Simple Yoga which couldn’t burn enough fat in my stomach fat bank!

The result is clear, I gain more fat and I will become a sumo-fighter if I continue to let it for 10 more months!

I guess it’s not about the blogging that make me fat. But it’s myself that cause the fatness on my body. Well, we’d like to ‘always sitting’ in front of PC or Laptop and keep clicking and pouncing keyboards to fill our blog.

We sometimes are too lazy to stand up and do some small stretching before going on a long hours of typing.

There are several part of our body that will bloat as we blog to much. The most visible area is our stomach. I hate it, but really can’t do a thing and continue witnessing the grow of fat in that area.

That’s the area that never get a sufficient exercise. Of course, from all of our body, the most slim part is your blogging fingers!

Working on pouncing everyday, every week, every month. I’m kind of pity of them sometimes.

Well, I need help actually. If you know some tips to remove fat (in a natural way), please kindly email me your tips.

Fatness is not good for our health. Especially for our blood vessels. The more fat you are, the higher the possibility for you to get stroke or other hard to cure diseases.

Please make sure don’t learn my steps. It’s a failure progress that I want to eliminate, including the fat. Make sure to exercise properly, and take an extra care of your stomach and fingers.

My private doctor ask me to take care 3 part that may get a serious syndrome because of too much blogging (sitting and typing for a long time):

1. Eyes
2. Hand
3. Backbone

You eyes will be infected by the light or contrast level of your monitor. Change are, you will get a disease called ‘Floater’. Floater is a disease that every times you look at a bright area, there is a little thread-like or black dots floating around your eyes corner.

It’s not fun and sometimes the floaters are really annoying (I got this disease too actually…). But it’s no harm. Just don’t overuse your eyes to avoid the infection to be worsen.

Hand and backbone are the part that supporting you when blogging. Hand playing on the keyboard while backbone keep supporting your body to sit firmly on your chair.

If you force them to maintain and keep working for a long time, change are your will feel hurt around your shoulder, wrist, etc.

My advise it not to sit for more than 2 hours and should take a rest about half hour before continue your works. Of course, I will take my own advises and will see the result in the upcoming month.

My friend told me about “Health is one of your wealth” and I’m totally agree with him. It’s the most valuable opinion that I’ve ever heard since the last 7 months of my blogging journey.

Health is everything and it’s part of your wealth. If you are chasing for the true wealth on your life, never miss the health as one of your wealth that you must have too!

Cheers!

Have you ever facing this problem before in your area? Well, I faced it the last 3 days and I even can’t check my mail and read any news.

It’s absolutely like the online world is collapsed! No Google, no Blog, no browsing, no chatting, no, no and no online activities. It break my working pattern into piece. It’s so stressing at first. But if you can shift your attention to other things, the situation may become beneficial.

I succeed to shift my thinking into something more useful than keep opening the “Server Not Found” Page on my FireFox.

I tried to do the following things and it proved to give me more meaningful knowledge and valuable information:

1. I read my e-books collection

You may be never realize it and never care about it when you activities is filled with blogging and communication channel building. You will find your hard drive full-packed with e-books from several Internet gurus and experts that you don’t even have time to read although you have downloaded it.

I was so surprised when I open my e-book folder. There are bunch of nice e-books that I forget to read! I happened to download and bought a lot of Internet marketing books in the last 2 weeks and I haven’t read it yet!

Re-visit your own e-books folder will bring you lots of fresh idea for your blog.

2. I arranged my stuffs - Give me more Fresh view of my desk

You may realize that your surrounding have been like a rat nest if you are a messy worker like me. One thing that I never realized it the post-it notes that sticks on my LCD screen. It’s has become a post-it notes jungle!

I forgot to remove notes and just keep stickin’ all the weeks. There is also a pile of print out papers containing lessons from several gurus. And again, I never read it! Just a glimpses and I threw it away to the corner. Bad habit.

I start arranging from my upper desk to my inner desk (Ouch, the dust is so thick! I could imagine that I actually using the desk! ). Cleaning here and cleaning there. Finally everything is settled!

The desk is look fresher now. It actually stimulation my brain and I feel I have a brand new story to share on my blog!

3. I optimized my PC - Fasten the working time

The longer you use your PC, the slower it will be. Especially if you use that PC for multiple uses. Like Multimedia, Gaming, Design, Blogging, Surfing and Downloading.

I used several program to do the task automatically, but my favorite is Tune-Up Utilities(aff). Yup, you must buy it. But you can try the free trial version before buying.

With the PC free of trouble, I can blog my day with less headache. Never looked down on computer problem if you have some. Get it fix by software or by your trusted technician ASAP.

4. Is there a point 4? Nope!

I use my 3 days time effectively to improve the other side of blogging to support the blogging itself.

Well, it’s my own activities that I transform it into a tips. I hope it could help you shift your bad day into a meaningful day.

How about you? Do you have any good tips to spend in the connection down moment?