Internet Business Daily

I’m just going to write this short post to tell everyone I just installed a new plugin called Popularity Contest, which can be downloaded at that link. It constantly monitors the popularity of each blog post (based on views I’m guessing) and ranks each one. This data can be found in the Wordpress dashboard, and can be displayed in a sidebar widget as shown to the right. In addition, it shows the popularity of each post at the bottom of each article in percentage form. Thanks to Alexking.org for this one.

Instructions
1. Download the plugin.
2. Upload the plugin to your plugins directory on your server.
3. Activate the plugin in your Wordpress plugins page.

Everything should be tracking now. If you want to display your top posts in a sidebar widget like I have, just create a PHP widget and include this code:

<li><h2>Most Popular Posts</h2>
   <ul>
   <?php akpc_most_popular(); ?>
   </ul>
</li>

This should display your top posts in a nicely made sidebar widget. Thanks again to the creator for this great plugin. The great thing about this feature is that you can show off your most popular posts, and therefore get more clicks per user when they see more articles they may want to read.

This one should be obvious to most, but I just realized how much I really use this method. If you belong to a social networking site such as MySpace or Facebook, what better place to give your links to people than these! I am a Facebook man myself, and the reason is because MySpace is so spammy. So I am pretty much contradicting myself asking people to spam Facebook, when I hate MySpace for that exact reason…OH WELL! :).

So if you have a website you want to promote or a mini niche site you want traffic to come to, post it on your favorite social network. Since I use facebook I click on “My Shares.” I put my link in there and boom, hundreds of people see the link, a picture, and a caption. I get a decent amount of traffic from Facebook to Juicefeed.com. So go ahead and if you don’t mind doing a little spam-work, post your link to these social networks.

I was just shown this amazing little trick from Google. If you are ever lost, need a number or address, or would like directions this is the trick for you. All you need is a cell phone and a place to go and the trick is easy.

Google allows you to text message them for instant, free directions! What you need to do is dial ‘Google’ (466453…yes only 6 numbers) with the body of the text containing and place in the world and a location. For example I put in “Border Grille Santa Monica”, which is a great restaurant in Los Angeles. I text message Google at their number and within 3 seconds I received 2 text messages back containing the address and instant dial phone number of the two Border Grilles in the Santa Monica area.

I was very amazed by this, but am not surprised by Google. Some of the best features of Google are their free services (analytics, mail, etc). I am not quite sure if you have to pay for the text message you send (may depend on your provider), but regardless this is a very nice trick.

I have added a little feature to my blog. I recently signed up for MyBlogLog and love it. I get to see and possibly chat with people who come and enjoy my blog. The avatars from MyBlogLog give my site much more of a community feeling. I then saw on John Chow’s blog that he had also signed up for MyBlogLog, but found an awesome little plugin for Wordpress to make MyBlogLog even more useful. MyAvatars is a Wordpress plugin that puts people’s MyBlogLog avatar in every comment they post to.

The myavatars.zip file is the first thing you need to download. Upload that file into your Wordpress plugins folder like usual, and then activate the plugin. You will then need to put this piece of code into your comments.php file:

<?php if(function_exists("MyAvatars")) MyAvatars(); ?>

Similar to John Chow, I put the code directly above <?php comment_text() ?> in my file. Something weird happened though, two different results came about from putting that piece of code there. For John Chow, the avatar appears to the right of the comments, which looks good. For mine however, it appears under the number and date when people comment, which also looks good. You can put that piece of code anywhere to make it look however you want. Here is what it should look like:

As I am sure everyone has noticed, there has been a huge visual change to Internet Business Daily. I was getting tired of the old, bland green and gray colors and decided to change it up. There aren’t too many colors besides green and blue to choose from when deciding the color scheme for a business blog, so of course I went with blue.

Like a Chameleon
John Chow told me a little over a month ago that you need to always keep ‘em guessing. He probably didn’t think twice about saying that, but it really hit hard with me. I understood totally what he was saying. If you stay in one place too long, your competition will learn your strategy and beat you. There’s more than one reason to keep changing, regarding the look and feel of your site.

Let’s say for example that you have a loyal user-base, who visit your site daily. Eventually they will get used to the ads and basically not even see them anymore. This is exactly what happened the first time around with the Internet boom. People started getting use to the regular ads that appeared on every single popular site. This is where Google came in, they used their complex search formula to generate site-specific contextual ads, which changed the game of Internet advertising forever.

So back to the change in my site’s color scheme, what does everyone think? If you liked the older colors better, or have a suggestion for different colors, they are more than welcome! I also want to change the look of MyGamingSpace, but I have no idea what to do for that. Please comment to this post your suggestions.

I have also switched back to using Google ads on MyGamingSpace. I changed the color to be blue and orange, so the title of each ad sticks out. I am still getting a horrible 1 cent per click but have been speaking with my contact at Google about optimization to increase this number. If it stays at 1 cent per click, I am pretty much out of options.

My First Banner Ad
I am horrible with Photoshop, but I finally created my first 468×60 banner ad for MyGamingSpace. My webmaster friend let me put this ad on his website, but did not want me to mention which website it was. So instead I uploaded the ad to this site so everyone can see it:

I know what most of you are thinking, and I realize it is not that good. It was one of my first times using Photoshop though, and on top of that I have zero artistic talent. This ad took me about 2 hours to make (yes two hours), and I am proud of what came out. My friend said he will be rotating the ad on his page with another ad unit, Google Adsense. Again, please let me know what everyone thinks about the changes made to this site.

The most popular post I have ever made on this site is still to this day the article about how to hack a windows admin password. There have been many Windows updates after this post was released and I believe they fixed what was causing the vulnerability. A very nice person has just commented with a detailed explanation on how to hack the admin password on the new version of Windows. Here is it:

1.you should have ur own cmputer at home.or at least a computer from someone who can use a cd writer.
2.use nero 7 downloadable from net
3.create bootable disk.
4.bring the disk to your victims computer.
5.boot from it.(it mounts NTFS)
6.type “c:” enter
7.type “dir” enter
8.if you see WINDOWS ok fine.but if not you have to try other drive letters and do the same process (u cn try d: or e: until yo’ll find WINDOWS).
9.if succeed type “copy c:\windows\system32\config\SAM c:\folder” (this copy SAM & create folder in c:)
10.repeat but change “SAM” to “SYSTEM”.
11.remember use “c:” only if you seen WINDOWS in “c:” but if not use the drive letter that has.
12.get Offline Registry Editor from Pnordhal donloadable from net.
13.follow instructions.use it.it will blank your administrator password.
14.log on using administrator blank password.
15.non-domain users press ctrl+alt+del (press del twice, del only).type in.
16.have a copy of SAMInside.follow instructions using SAM file.(from internet)
17.export users to PWDump file.
17.have a copy of LOpthcrack 5
18.follow instructions.crack passwd using importing PWDump.browse file.follow instructions.that’s it.
19.You have ur administrator password.hack ur own PC.and bring back the original administrator password from users options.
20.blanking ur administrator pass disables ur access to “ENCRYPTED” files only, if u made one , but not all files.
21.if u dont want to blank ur password then do this at home.crack ur password at home.
22.some of these steps came from authors of mentioned products, except create boot disk part & changing back admin password.i discovered it myself.
23.thanks to the authors.
24.why use 4 application? you’ll know.
25.thanks to the crackers they are making hackers out of you.enjoy.
26.this is only for local computers.

I am not a fan of MySpace to be perfectly honest with everyone. I think it’s a place where people to go stalk other people, and get spammed out of existence. This being said, I have finally decided to join MySpace:). Yes I just said I don’t like MySpace but just joined. I just cannot deny the fact that it is one of the most popular sites on the Internet and one of the best ways to get free promotion.

I signed up for MySpace for one reason only: because my new site (mygamingspace.com) is built for putting flash games on people’s MySpace page and how can I not have a MySpace page to promote this site? The only way to show people what my new site is all about is to actually demonstrate what can be done with these games. So I created a simple MySpace profile at myspace.com/mygamingspacedotcom. Unfortunately myspace.com/mygamingspace and myspace.com/gamingspace were both already taken.

I have not “pimped” out my MySpace page yet so it’s still the simple original layout. I will eventually need to really customize the MySpace page so more and more people go there and add me to their firends. The larger the network of friends I have, the more chance I will reach a new person to come to my site. There are ways to gain friends on a MySpace page that requires a lot of spamming and annoyances, but that’s not the method I wanted to take. The first thing I had to do was get a few people to my page. To do this I asked all my friends to add my new profile to their friends list and to even put a game on their page to show off what my site is about.

This was not going to be enough to get the MySpace profile off the ground. I added a “add to MySpace friends” button to mygamingspace. Hopefully when the site takes off a little more, people will want to add the profile to their MySpace page.

Yes I know how ugly the button is, I am going to change it soon. I believe that if your site has the right demographic (the MySpace demographic), that adding a MySpace profile for your website is priceless. It’s free, easy, and will promote your site to new audiences. If you have any questions on how to set this up, including setting up the button on your website, please feel free to comment or email me and ill help as best I can.

Before our friend Kevin Rose came along and made it painless to keep up with all the technology news going on, it was very inefficient to try to read everything. The best way to stay ahead of the pack (regarding Internet business…and all business for that matter) is to know your opponent. If sitea.com comes out with this great new feature, you want to know every aspect of why and how it works for them. Then you can use this information to make it better and do it yourself.

Basically read, read, read all you can about Internet business. Ever since I started in this industry, I eat, sleep, and live the Internet. When I am not at work putting my skills to the test, I am at home reading up on every little tid bit of information I can get my hands on. I suggest everyone trying to be successful do the same. Now that social news sites and blogs are so popular and abundant, it is ridiculously easy to keep up with technology news. Here are some websites that will keep you up to date on everything you need to know:

• digg.com - One of my favorite ways to learn about anything interesting going on with the Internet or technology. Although the majority of digg stories are either about programming or funny websites, there are still many stories on there that can help you discover new ways to make money. Just don’t get distracted by a story about Jessica Alba in a bikini.
• originalsignal.com - This site is a feed aggregator of all sites relating to Internet business or technology. This is the best source for startup related news. Original signal is an automatically updated site with all Internet business news from all the top blog/news sources. This sites makes me truly believe we are in the second Internet boom, there are about 20 new startups listed there every single day.
• techcrunch.com - With many posts per day to this blog, it is one of my favorites to read. Mike Arrington knows what he’s talking about. When a blog reaches over 130,000 subscribers daily, the credibility of the blogger is undeniable.
• johnchow.com - Last but certainly not least is John Chow’s blog. He is a very successful and self named “dot come mogul.” He writes about topics that are not only useful to advanced webmasters, but also for beginners. Best of all he is always willing to help out the little guys.

Now obviously these are not the only sites I use or you should use. There are many sites out there that help you stay ahead of the competition. Just keep digging for more and more information and eventually you will be at the forefront of the industry.

I just found this nice little thing called Snap from Snap.com. If you almost clicked on that link I just gave, you will already know what I am going to say. Basically Snap is a website/blog addon that gives you the feature of link preview. It only took about 2 minutes of registration and 3 lines of code to install this and everything worked perfectly. Just hover over that link and see a preview of my site. Awesome! Also, it doesn’t overlap or give errors with IntelliTXT or my other ads. So go get Snap on your site now, its free and easy.

Windows XP has many little tweaks and tricks you can do to make your PC just a little better. Here’s one that will have you saying “Go Speedracer, Go!” You know that Windows XP splash screen you see when you turn on your computer…well, you don’t need to sit through that anymore, so let’s get rid of it so you can search for porn that much faster. Here’s what you’ll need to do:

Click on your Start Button
Click on the Run
In the browser box, type: MSCONFIG
Click OK
Click the BOOT.INI tab
Check the /NOGUIBOOT box
Click Apply, then OK
When it asks you to restart, please do so.

And wa-la, no more Windows XP splash screen. Make sure you check back soon ‘cause we’ll tell you the quickest way into Scarlett Johansson’s pants.