Internet Business Daily

As you can see, I have added a simple Facebook “like” button to my blog on article pages. It’s a very easy way for people to share articles they like and also helps drive more traffic to your sites. Since it seems most people have Facebook accounts now-a-days, there should be plenty of users on blogs liking things. Best part is, it’s really easy to add to your blog too. Here is the code:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php the_permalink()?>&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:530px; height:60px"></iframe>

Simply add this on your single.php page anywhere you like. You can change the parameters to customize the link button however you want. I think this is an awesome little trick and will drive more traffic than any of those “share” buttons on most blogs (including mine).

For Christmas, one of the gifts I received was Apple’s new magic mouse, which you can buy here. I absolutely love this thing. The Magic Mouse is the total revamp of Apple’s previous Mighty Mouse. Apple has take multi touch technology and placed it in this mouse. The entire top of the mouse is one big touch pad that can accept multiple gestures.

There is one glaring problem with the new Magic Mouse, which is the fact that Apple decided to not build any extended functionality into the multi touch surface. The only thing it allows you to do is flick up and down, which represents scrolling and two finger swipe right and left which cycles forward and backward in your browser. With such a powerful piece of hardware, I wonder why they made the software so limited.

Alas, all is not lost. Some awesome developers came up with Magic Prefs. Magic Prefs allows all the functionality that the Magic Mouse was built for. Pinch to zoom, three finger click for expose, and much more is now available if you install Magic Prefs (shown below). With this software, the Magic Mouse has become the best mouse on the market. It has become the standard for all other mouse makers to be compared to, just like the iPhone did to the mobile phone market. If you don’t already have the Magic Mouse, I definitely suggest getting it.

I was talking with Neil from NeilsWeb.com a couple days ago and he gave me a really cool script to deal with clicks from Facebook’s adboard. For those of you not familiar, adboard is a listing of most of the ads that are relevant to you on Facebook. There is a little link under the ads on the right side (shown below) that you can click to get there.

Problem:
Adboard is a great place to get competitive information. You can see all the ads targeting your demographic on a single page. Because of this, I assume 95% of the clicks you get from the adboard are from your competitors. This is especially true in the affiliate marketing world. So when my competitor sees my ad and then clicks it, they also can see my landing page. This is 75% of a profitable formula. So Neil gave me a great idea (and script) to prevent my competitors from seeing my landing page coming from the adboard, which is a huge help.

Solution:
The solution to this is to send all clicks coming from the adboard to a different landing page. You can send them directly to the offer, or a different page all together. I am not certain this exact practice is allowed by FB, so I have asked my account manager and am awaiting my response.

So, how do we redirect all clicks from the adboard? A simple php script below (this is a modified script from the one that Neil gave me):

<?php
$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
if ($ref == ‘http://www.facebook.com/ads/adboard/’) {
header(“Location:http://www.adifferentwebsite.com”);
exit;
}
?>

That’s it. This code basically detects the referring URL and redirects the click if it comes from the adboard. A few things to remember: 1. this does not catch clicks if the user copies/pastes the URL from the adboard, without actually clicking. 2. you are still paying for the clicks that you redirect. 3. this may be against FB’s TOS, so use at your own risk.

Problem:

I recently ran into a problem while running an affiliate marketing campaign. The problem was that since I was changing my ad copy so often, the same people would click my ads multiple times and land on the same landing page and would leave (because they had already been to it and left). This caused the amount of clicks from my landing page to the offer page to decline gradually because return visitors thought they were going to a new site when they actually weren’t (since my ad they clicked on was different).

A similar problem was people who did click through to the offer page and were back a second time. In this case they converted and won’t convert again, or did not convert because they didn’t like the offer. Either way I had to think of something else to do with these repeat visits.

Solution:

I thought about it and came up with a solution. I created a little cookie dropping script that tested two things: 1. did they already come to my landing page? 2. did they click through to the offer page? Here is the code:

<?php
if ( isset($_COOKIE['clicked'])) {

header(“Location: http://www.anothersimilaroffer.com”);
exit;
}

if ( isset($_COOKIE['landed']) && ($_COOKIE['landed'] <= time()-60*5) ) {
header("Location: http://www.adifferentlandingpage.com/");
exit;
}

$month = time()+60*60*24*30;
$value = time();
setcookie("landed",$value, $month);
?>

Put this code at the top of your landing page.

In addition, you will also have to set another cookie (shown below) called “clicked” when they click your outbound link to the offer page:

<?php
$month = time()+60*60*24*30;
$value = time();
setcookie(“clicked”,$value, $month);
?>

Basically, how it works is when a new user visits, it will set the “landed” cookie. If they leave after that nothing else happens. If they click the outbound link to the offer page, a cookie called “clicked” will be set.

When a repeat visitor comes back it will check to see if they went to the offer page first. If they did you can redirect them to another similar offer instead. If the repeat visitor landed but did not click through (left your site), you can redirect them to another landing page for the same offer, which may give a conversion. NOTE: it gives a user 5 minutes after leaving your site before the redirect will occur.

This will at least give you some control over people who click your ads multiple times and either don’t like your landing page or don’t like the offer you are selling.

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.