Here is what’s good  about air Asia

“Its cheaper than the rest”

Sadly thats where the goodness ends as i just found out. I did booking for  australia to Indonesia recently and  waited for my booking details to come through to my email as promised. In the meantime i did my hotel and insurance booking.

Booking problems with Air Asia

I waited, no  sign of my booking details coming through on email even though my credit card is debited. Frantically i go their website and try to check my booking with the confirmation  reference i got while booking ( Nothing showing up). I register with their site and login  to check ( nothing showing up).

I try  to call them on their  AIR ASIA  Australia Contact ( 1300 760 330 Operating Hours : 24 Hours)  phone line , they say high call volume  and try calling later.

I call again.I GET THE SAME MESSAGE AGAIN.

Contact AIR ASIA for problems

Finally i call and wait through the call with a auto message going on with a person speaking in a hard to understand tone and at eh end of the message it tells me to press 2 to enquire about a booking , and finally i got to talk  to a operator who confirmed my booking.

i tried their live support  chat , that was also offline ( LINK BELOW)

Got through finally to their contact line  the support guy then managed to also link my booking to my registered login  and put the booking on the website so that i could check it online.

surprisingly  my friend who flew last year also had the same problem , you think  they would fix something like this immediately. it definitely speaks for their poor service standards

This just proves that AIR ASIA has a crappy booking system, a crappy phone support system and the only thing good about them is their cheap rates.. sometimes makes you wonder if its worth it ?

some links for air asia problems solving

Air ASIA CONTACT LINKS AT BOTTOM SITE

E FORM TO CONTACT AIR ASIA , 2nd link Air asia form

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There is not much different from a new laptop and a ultrabook with the basic Concepts, but when you look much deeper into the technology and features  you can clearly see the difference.

Difference between ultrabooks and Laptops

An Ultrabook is a higher-end type of sub notebook defined by Intel. Ultrabooks are designed to feature reduced size and weight without compromising performance and battery life. They use low-power Intel processors with integrated graphics, and unibody chassis to fit larger batteries into smaller cases. Some models have limited external ports (e.g. USB) due to their extremely thin profile.

Image courtesy of Intel Free Press on WikiMedia

At a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show, an Intel Manager stated that market analysis revealed that screen size motivated some of the reluctance to switch to 13″ Ultrabooks. As a result, Intel is planning to ensure, through cooperation with manufacturers, a 14 or 15-inch screen on 50% of the 75 Ultrabooks that will likely come to market in 2012

Laptops and ultra books both have their unique features and options the laptop is the more traditional pc laptop, while the ultra-book is the more modern version of the laptop.

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This vehicle “ glides over land and water yet also soars in the air up to 70 mph with the aid of integrated wings.” That’s what Hammacher Schlemmer is promising with the $190,000 flying hovercraft. This vehicle definitely falls in the big boys toys category.

Boa that flies and runs on ground – Hammacher Schlemmer

Amazingly this hovercraft can Operate in fresh- or saltwater and up to 30% inclines over sand, mud, grass, swamp, desert, ice, and snow.

Hammacher Schlemmer -Hovercraft that can fly

Its wings and horizontal elevator enable pilots to simply hop over water- or land-based obstacles up to 20′-high unsurmountable to a typical hovercraft.

The Flying Hovercraft [Hammacher.com]

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Zurker is the newest sociial network on the scene and its got a very tempting offer for new users to join. I don’t know if this offer will last for long  as it sure sounds like a free give away  to get members for now.

What makes  Zurker different from Facebook is that its owned and run by its owners that is you and the privacy and other  features also get voted by you  to avoid over commercialisation of the network

ZURKER

When you sign on as a member you can earn Zurker Virtual Shares or vShares by recruiting other members. You get one vShare for every member you recruit.

The Zurker rules  are quite strict on multiple accounts

Alternatively, members can buy Zurker vShares for $1 each if you are in the US. For Aussie members  there is no further information on buying shares yet.

Zurker is currently in beta testing, and is not available to the general public without an invitation. ( invitation Below)

-> JOIN ZURKER NOW

once You get registered , if you gets other members to sign up rapidly  within 24  hours you get bonus shares  which all adds up in value.

or you can get a invite from facebook

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Here is a snap shot of  my statcounter  stats profile for my blog . As you can notice that  in this screen grab  the term “Make me good in wordpress”  i am ranked #52 in google search for this term, funnily enough i get decent traffic for this term even though i am way beyond the  top numbers in Google search traffic

Search for Fake chines cars, tixati torrent and Make me good in wordpress

The other two  topics fake chines cars ( #2 and #1 for many related terms for this post)  and tixati torrent (#5 in google search)brings in  decent traffic as well , but that is pure Google search traffic  as the articles are ranked much Higher than the #52

Seo For wordpress posts with google +

Infamous chines car fakes post in Google search results

Related post links

1. Get your Author Photo in Google search results to increase site Authority
2. The panda update has got you, tips to fix it
3. Making Money Online blogs

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Making money with a blog  or then a wordpress blog is not an easy task , as many bloggers would know. Lucky for some  who implement the right tools  and strategy  making money with minimum effort. Wp answers is one such tool that helps you out making things easy  for you to make money with a few simple clicks.

Click here to visit WP-Answers.

Use WP-Answers to make Autopilot Q&A Sites

Wouldn’t it be easier if you could set it ( wordpres blog or website ) and forget it? That’s precisely the mechanics behind WP-Answers, a premium WordPress theme and plugin. What do you get when you combine WordPress and Yahoo Answers?

A plugin called… WP answers! of course!

Make your own wordpress Yahoo! Answers Site

People have questions, Other people have answers. That’s how sites like Answers.com work and the great thing is that they are populated solely by user-generated content. With WP-Answers, you can effectively have the same thing and more .

WP-Answers gives you the same kind of website as Yahoo! Answers, except it is powered by Word Press. Each “question” asked on the blog by a user is really equivalent to a blog post and each answer provided is akin to a blog comment. WP-Answers is designed to be a comprehensive easy solution that provides you with passive income. The site is fueled by user-generated content and you make money from advertising.

FEATURE LIST :

1. It not only allow users  to generate content, but also  allows you the option of adding auto content  from the popular yahoo answers site. Why would you want to add Yahoo Answers content to your Blog Automatically?  Yahoo Answers is the most comprehensive Question and Answer site on the web with thousands upon thousands of Articles and Q & A on almost every subject. Now imagine taking those “How to” articles and comments and importing them into a Niche Blog of your creation and then putting new, targeted content, on autopilot.

2.Points system – the points system is one thing that really jumps out. You can give “points” to the members who participate on your site. It’s up to you how many points they gain (or lose) when they ask questions and provide answers.  You can also provide prizes or some kind for reaching certain point milestones.

3.You can use this mechanism to either  start a niche Q & A site or then  a very wide general answers site just like yahoo answers or anzwers.com all with  the flexibility of wordpress. Auto Posting Campaigns via Yahoo! Many people are  woos’ses and they won’t want to participate on a site that looks barren and deserted. To give your WP-Answers site the appearance of robust activity, they’ve included an auto-posting feature. You canget  the wp answers wordpress blog and plugin from here.

Advertising options

The provided theme is widget-enabled and it already has a sidebar widget pre-designed to accommodate 125×125 ad boxes. There is the flexibility to insert contextual advertising  throughout the site, like below the header or above the footer.

A new update has been done recently  which brings a load of new features to WP-Answers, new admin panel and some fixes / changes

Here is the new admin panel :
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New Theme:
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Check it out and see  and buy the wp answers package here

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  There  is also another wordpress yahoo answers  pluginthat does a similar job , but is not as well integrated  into wordpress as wordpress answers( details below).

  Yahoo Answers WordPress Plugin, extract question & Answers from Yahoo Answers with your niche keywords and post them to your blog. Yahoo Question becomes WordPress Blog Title. Yahoo Question Description becomes WordPress Blog detail. And answers becomes WordPress Answers. You can edit questions and answers. Plugin has the complete option to ignore the questions.

  Yahoo Answer WordPress Plugin | WordPress Auto Poster

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How to Show Your Author Photo in Google Search Results

I decided to do a detailed post on how to get your google + profile photo show up on google search results and had  made up half a post 1 week ago   but now decided not ot post about it  as the internet is full of “how to” posts within that  7 days. Serves me right for being so lazy and procrastinating.. so now i have changed my post a bit and made it short for you.

Get your picture in google search results

What you will need to check if you have done the right thing  to get your google Plus picture in google search results is the Google rich snippets checker  which is also available outside Google webmaster tools, so get a google webmaster tools account if you dont have acess to it  and add your website domain  while you are there. It will also help to get your google analytics account linked to your webmaster tools while you are doing this b, but its not necessary.

When i put one of my blog posts in this to check if my photo appeared in search results ,its gave me a warning ( VERIFY two author profiles showing up ) that two author profiles  were showing up , after a lot o checking i found out that  in my word press user profile  i had put in my google+ login username  in the google username column and then  in the theme where it asked for google username after the url https://plus.google.com  – i put in my google plus  id 103166021597134967036 , so this were actually showing up as two different  Google ids creating a problem. so i went back to my word press user  profile and changed the username over there to to the user id digits( 103166021597134967036)  i got from my google + profile and now both google plus usernames matched and it got verified.

Essentially   if you get your pic from google profile in google search results you are stealing clicks from your  google top rankers as google searchers always like a image instead of normal boring text. Getting your  author profile photos in the search results is a feature Google began rolling out in  2010.

This tutorial  is mainly for WordPress blogging platform, but can be applied to tother blogs and websites with minor edits.

Verifiying your Author Profile with Google

There are many benefits to verifying your author name and profile with Google like below

• Build Author Rank with Google search.
• Facial images in google search results are very eye-catching.
• Google will promote your content over duplicate content on the internet.

How to – Google Author Verification in WordPress

Step 1: Create a Google+ Profile

Step 2 : Make sure you list your google + user id  ( which is numbers immediately after your google + profile url) in your google username column in wordpress user profile and in your theme settings ( where it asks for google username)as well

Step 3:  Check with rich snippets tool   to verify if your author photo will show up.( link above)

If you want to read articles with more detailed post on how to do this  you can read  Micheal Grays post  or then Mohammad posts   or Virante posts on this.

Google + picture from profile not showing up

If after doing all this  and getting verified in google rich snippets , your picture in still not showing up in google search results , it can be because of this note from google (Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for this page on actual search results. For more details, see the FAQ.)

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I was surprised to see such  a good theme available for free on wp zoom. DESIGNER PAVEL CIORICI has done a excellent job on this theme.

Meeta Premuim Free WordPress theme

Meeta (which means Sweet in Hindi) is a simple blogging theme, but packed with many premium features, like: unique widgets, custom templates. This amazing wordpress premium theme is absolutely free! , thanks to wp zoom

You can download the Meeta theme here from wpzoom and have a look at the demo Wp zoom Meeta site here

Ipad  , iphone smart ready wordpress wpzoom theme

The layout of this theme automatically adapts to fit on any screen resolution on desktop or mobile devices (iPhone, iPad) and is smartphone ready

It is also worth having a look at their other themes at their Themes Page and checking out a membership option . i already am a member and use their themes regularly

Seo Ready WordPress theme

The advanced WPZOOM Framework lets you optimize the theme for SEO and you can easily customize every detail of your theme to best suit your needs.

The membership option @ 9 a month  that i have taken  gives access to all their themes and updates, i think updates are necessary to have specially in scary times like when we saw the Tim thumb hack hit all word press blogs. And their themes like the news theme and image and photgraphy themes itself make up in the quality of the themes they offer, and i have already managed a pr3 blog in a short time with thier theme.

You can get a wp zoom membership here

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The investment of a cool $1 billion from the Facebook bank account was enough to purchase the digital photo-editing app Instagram, in a deal that has led inevitably to some people claiming that Zukerberg and his firm are all cash and no sense. What, in the grand scheme of it, could this purchase mean?

Instagram to grow FACEBOOKS CLOUT

Facebook’s user lists will grow even more. For a network with a usership only slightly smaller than the population of China, it could be argued that the last thing they need is more members. However, with Instagram’s usership listed at over 30 million accounts, more viewers is exactly what Facebook will get. Many users have already speculated that it was actually this which caused Zuckerberg to get his wallet out in the first place.

Instagram Will Change. That 30 million user figure does a hell of a lot to show you that the app got something seriously, seriously right. How, though, will the new purchase change the app? It seems hard to believe that it will have no effect at all, and many users have reacted to the purchase by simply disconnecting from the app. How the changes will be made has yet to become apparent, but we’d be surprised if there were none at all.

Zuckerberg will do anything to remove competition. Whilst Instagram started as a simple photographic app, there is no denying that in the weeks leading up to the sale it was becoming a legitimate social demon. After all, the first day of use by Android users involved a massive one million uploads, making it essentially a very serious social competitor to Facebook. Or at least it was, until the ‘lightning strike’ deal was struck.

Entrepreneurs rejoice. With only thirteen staff, this sale means that the Instagram head honcho Kevin Systrom will stand to make an extra-ordinary $400 million personally, with his co-founder Mike Krieger also pocketing a cool $100 million. The Instagram sale is a proven example of what one good idea can do.

Charlotte Daniels is a tech fanatic and freelance writer working in association with FactoryFast Online Shopping.

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One of my websites got hit bad by the Panda update and i know how people feel when they get hit by google “devastated”.

Got the Kungfu Google Panda Kick ?

You get this feeling all that hard work suddenly went down the drain. there is nothing much you can do other than appealing your case and getting a standard response from google.

Tips – Fix you panda problems for Good

This can be frustrating , but you could instead get to work in the meantime  to  fix your blog. here are some “tips to fix the panda downdate”

Tip 1 – Focus on getting more natural looking backlinks to your blog, don’t excessively use your primary keyword  in anchor text-link, diversify your words (long tail it). Apply the same to in-links to other pages in your blog.

Tip 2 -Don’t rely on few or couple of sources for all your backlinks Diversify use forums,blogs , well established directories, web 2.0 property sites, niche blogs, social book marking sites, edu links

Tip 3 – Make it really easy for your readers to share your content on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and Pinterest with plugins or coding

Tip 4 – Check your blog for any broken links, use a plugin like the Broken Link Checker to find and fix broken links.

Tip 5 – Get Google analytics , its free and Work on trying to reduce your blog’s bounce rate, . Try and get your bounce rate  under or around 70%.

Tip 6 – Check your blog’s loading time and fix it if too long and don’t overpopulate your blog with ads over the fold

if you are a little bit short on time  to get these fixes all done , you can check out  this panda Update fixer link  which can also help you out

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