Saturday 11 September 2010

Alexa page rank statistic

I was baffled by Alexa. If  I am not wrong, my blog page rank had almost reached the nominal one million, but these days without a cause Alexa certainly raise his par. The number of visitors has not changed and at least once a month and I still add one article. If you can help me please comment on this short article. Thanks.

Saturday 14 August 2010

SEO Engine Optimization

Morning, I have wondering around to search for a good quality of article about SEO in the web and I finally find one. Hope you enjoy it. 
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is becoming more and more popular these days. If you want your website to stand out from millions of websites and get real and quality visitors to your website, doing SEO work for your website is a better choice compared to buying ads at other websites. You can get many visitors from search engines if your website SEO is good enough.
The main goal of SEO is to make your website friendly to visitors and search engines. SEO is not a difficult work, even you can learn much SEO knowledge online. There are two parts of SEO tasks, first one is onpage SEO work, such as writing your web page title,description,tag well, keep your keywords density between 3-7%, checking your robots.txt file, creating a sitemap for your website, writing alt for your images and so on.
The second one is offpage SEO work, it means linkbuilding work, you can build many quality backlinks from social bookmarking service, top web directory submission service, yahoo answers, and do-follow blog comments and so on. Doing some basic SEO work for your website is not so hard. You can do it yourself and no need to pay hundreds of dollars to any SEO company.
SEO is a long term work. Keeping your keyword ranking well in search engines is the goal of SEO. But what is the most important of SEO is your website contents. Updating your blog in time with good and quality content will make your website hot. Most of the time, SEO means no SEO. Keep working well in your website, you can get many visitors from internet.

Sunday 18 July 2010

She's Out of My League

"If she's the right one, that's all that matters"
The film is almost two hours of duration but if feels short and easy flow because it is packed with perfect comedy and great romantic actions. The story begins with the introduction of a beautiful,young  and hot woman with ordinary casual, skinny and unattractive guy. What happens next is they got into a chemistry and the story flows like a fairy tale. 
Like the tag line above, the movie tries to convey to the audience that nothing is impossible or the term of it's to good to be true does not apply if the couple already in love. Alicia Eve plays Molly as a hot girl. The innocent and skinny young man played by Jay Baruchel - Kirk. To be honest I love this movie and have saw it twice. 
You should watch this movie. From the scale one to five for the best, i picked four. Good day Friends.

Friday 16 July 2010

Leonardo Dicaprio - Shutter Island

"Your brain control everything". That's the message I get when finished watching this movie. Dark and full of mystery until the end of the story, something typical of Martin Scorsese. The story originated from a US Marshall named Teddy Daniels assigned to investigated something terrible that happened in the Island. Investigations led to some facts and illusions that make it doubful even for Teddy himself. 
Teddy Daniels played well and perfectly by Leonardo Dicaprio. Leonard's acting is very suitable with the character of Teddy Daniels who is described as a curious man, sensitive and sentimental. Without the sophisticated effect typical of Hollywood, Shutter Island is structured in such a way of acting of the actors and actresses as  well as appropriate background music.
This film has no end. The audience will be confronted with an endless curiosity. If  I can provide assessment, from a scale of one to five for the best. The film is worth five. A Masterpiece. Kindly visits my blog for more information. Regards

Shutter Island
Paramount Pictures in association with Appian Way
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Supported by Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson

Friday 2 July 2010

My first payment / income from my Blog

I need six months and a lots of effort to get this one. Read this article if you want some tips to make money online. Good day friends.

Friday 18 June 2010

Learn to Trade Forex to Start the Profits Rolling

There used to be a time when it is very hard to enter the foreign exchange market. The only way you can invest is by calling a broker and availing of their services. Now, you can learn to trade Forex with the advances in technology and the internet; you still need to contact your broker for advice but you can do the actual trading yourself, thanks to Forex trading online. You can actually play the market in the comfort of your own home or anywhere you wish as long as you have a computer and a reliable internet connection.

Like all other businesses, there are tools that can help you make a big profit as well as minimize risks of loss. These are the software that can function as your advisors or brokers and are known as a Forex robot. Another type of Forex advisor comes in the form of signals that is comprised of information about which kind of trade with what currency pair, what time is best to make the trade, etc. This software sends you several choices of currency pairs to follow and is known as the signal generator software.

In order for you to make informed decisions you have to be able to keep up with world events as this has a big impact on the foreign currency rates. You also have to be aware of the movement or trend of the market which is also affected by world as well as local events of the currency's country.

So how will you get yourself into Forex online trading? Here are the things that you can do:
• You have to research on the best way to invest your capital. Consult a trusted broker who can give you sensible advice and he should give you a 100:1 leverage on your trades.
• Study world currencies and its movements or fluctuations. Trade means there is involvement of two currencies so it is best to study a pair of your choice first and learn how to trade them.
• When you learn how to manipulate your capital using this pair, go on to the next pair but keep trading using the previous one that you know.
• Subscribe to a charting package that lets you see the current price as it happens so that you can do a technical analysis.
• Find a trading system that you can study to give you a cue of when to enter and exit trades.

Now you're ready to start trading. Practice first using dummy accounts with paper money. When you feel you're ready, you can get into real trading. If you want to have more participation with the trade process instead of relying on Forex robots and signal generators, learn how to trade Forex by enrolling in a financial educational course. This will give you an advantage over other non-educated players as you know most of what you are doing. There is no doubt that once you learn to trade Forex, you don't have to go headfirst into the water. There are dummy accounts and demo accounts you can play around with so that you get the feel of the actual Forex trading online. Once you get used to it, you can start actual trade using small amounts and then gradually going in for the big kill.

This article is written by Chase T. Barberian , will inform you soon if i find other great articles, meanwhile visit my blog http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com  for lots of useful contents and topics.

Monday 7 June 2010

How to Drive Traffic to Your Site

You've got your blog set up and you've started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?
Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.
  1. Set up an email subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.
  2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine.
  3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.
  4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.
  5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines.
  6. Submit your blog to blog directories.Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.
  7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.
  8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.
  9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.
  10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.
  11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.
  12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as 'feeds') may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.
  13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts
  14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.
  15. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below).
  16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.
  17. Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit.

Friday 4 June 2010

How to Make Money Using Twitter

Like millions of other Internet users worldwide, you may have signed up for a Twitter account. If you've been wondering how to make money using Twitter, you're in luck—there are several ways you can monetize your Twitter account. This guide will show you how.
Twitter's microblogging service has exploded in recent years and people and companies all over the world have established Twitter accounts. Due in part to Twitter's increasing popularity, advertisers have recognized the value of using Twitter as a way to promote their products or services. There are several companies with which you can sign up and sell advertising space on your Twitter profile or your tweet stream. 

Tuesday 1 June 2010

How to make money with your Blog

Now, there are several approaches you can consider to try to make money online. Sometimes it can get confusing as to which approach to pick first. The truth is that you can make good money online using a variety of different approaches from using affiliate marketing, adsense, eBay or creating your own product or service and marketing that. Here are some tips to help you succeed on your journey to making more money from the internet.

1.Set Proper Goals:
This is a very important step and it is one that very few new internet marketers actually do. Most people jump onto the internet desperate to make money without realizing that they will face many challenges along the way. Setting proper goals will help to keep you focused and on track no matter what challenges you face along the way.

The first step is to decide your real reasons as to why you want to earn income online. Maybe you just want a little extra income to pay off a car payment. Perhaps you are more ambitious and are sick and tired of working at a job and want more freedom. Take your time and get in touch with the deepest reasons why you want the money. This will be the fuel that will keep you going even in darkest of times.

Once you have clear powerful reasons you must write these down on a piece of paper. There is great power in writing things down and something almost magical happens that makes the accomplishment of what you write down a thousand times more likely than if you just chose to try to remember it instead.

Next you need to decide on how much you want to earn 6 months, 1 year and 2 years from now. You must give yourself time to accomplish your goals so be patient. Also be realistic in the amounts you choose so a good example could be $500 a month 6 months from now and then $2000 a month 1 year from now and $5000 a month 2 years down the road. Do not look for overnight get rich quick schemes. Again you must write these income targets down ideally on the same paper that has the reasons also.

Now you need to review these reasons and income targets at least once a day. It does not need to take much time, simply glance at it and remind yourself of where you are going financially and believe it. You can even carry this paper with you so it almost becomes a part of you. Reviewing these things regularly will keep your mind focused and it will also activate the part of your brain called the reticular activating system that will work for you day and night to automatically find ways to make these things a reality. Just by creating and following through on proper goals like this you are already 90 percent of the way to success.

2.Pick A Proven Strategy:
The best way to select a proven strategy is simply to use common sense. Do not fall for get rich quick schemes because they are usually a waste of time. Some proven strategies to investigate and learn more about could be affiliate marketing, adsense, eBay marketing or if you have an idea for a product or service you could do that too.

Some proven ways to market and get visitors to your site are pay per click advertising, article marketing and also learn about ethical search engine optimization so you can also get free traffic to your site from the search engines. Each of these areas will require further investigation on your part so read as many free articles as you can about them as many of these articles are written by top internet marketing professionals. Visit an article directory like Ezinearticles and read their articles on internet marketing as they can offer great free advice.

3.Stick With It:
Anything worthwhile in life will require a commitment on your part and you will more than likely experience many obstacles along the way. At the start it is best to pick one proven method like affiliate marketing and stick with that. Learn all you can about it and become a real expert at it. That is how you will gain the specialized knowledge you need to become a super affiliate. Do not jump from one method to the next like going from affiliate marketing to eBay marketing just because things seem a little tough. Stick with it and in time you will discover a way succeed and make more money online.
Well, I hope this articles helps, lots of useful articles in http://contentwriter.blogspot.com see you there.

Wednesday 19 May 2010

How to use a Search Engine

The Internet or World Wide Web can not be separate from the word of search engine. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing, are several big players of search engine industry. Most people who visit the Internet are always uses their services to fulfill their needs. I have posted several articles about Google in http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com/ , hope you like it. Here are some facts and tips about search engines.

Some basic facts
a.Every word matters. Generally, all the word you put in the query will be used.
b.Search is always case insensitive. A search for Forward and Spot Contract risks is the same with a 
   search for forward and spot contract risks.

c.Generally, punctuation is ignored, including @#$%^&()=+[]\ and other special characters.

Tips for better searches :
Keep it simple. If you are looking for a pizza restaurant, just enter pizza and the name of your town or your zip code. Most queries do not require advance operators or unusual syntax. Simple is good.

Think how the page you are looking for will be written. The search engine is not a human. It is a program that matches the words you give to pages on the web. Use the words that are most likely to appear on the page. For example, instead of saying my head hurts, say headache. Because that’s the term a medical page will use.

Describe what you need with as few terms as possible. The goal of each word in a query is to focus it further. Since all words are used, each additional word limits the result. If you limit too much, you will miss a lot of useful information. The main advantage to starting with fewer keywords is that, if you don’t get what you need, the result will likely give you a good indication of what additional words are needed to refine your result on the next search. Example, weather New York is a simple way to find the weather and likely to give better result than the longer weather report for New York, United States of America.


Choose descriptive words. The more unique the word is the more likely you are to get relevant results. Words that are not very descriptive, like ‘document’, ‘website’, ‘company’, are usually not needed. Keep in mind, however, that even if the word has the correct meaning but it is not the one most people use. For example celebrity ringtones is more descriptive and specific that celebrity sounds.

How to increase Alexa Rank

We have discussed about Alexa and Google PageRank in my last posting. Now we continue the topic to How to increase your Alexa PageRank .
To increase your Alexa rank in long run, I would highly recommended that one focus on developing quality content which attracts and maintains a large audience instead of purely focusing on artificially increasing your Alexa Rank. Great link worthy content will leads to a natural increase in site traffic and is on excellent way to passively increase your Alexa Rank. It is important to emphasize that you should devote most of your efforts in growing your site audience alongside integrated implementation of any of the following tips below :

Install the Alexa toolbar and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.

Put up an Alexa Rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks everyday. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.

Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation on their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.
Write or blog about Alexa webmasters and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic. This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.

Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums. Hope this article help my readers to increase their Alexa Rank, there is also a lot of useful article in http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com/ , i try to improve the content and share the important one with my readers.

Friday 14 May 2010

What Is Alexa Page Rank ?

Early in this morning I was surprised when I took a glance at my blog – http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com/ My Alexa Ranking is down (numbers shown at the widget is up about 5 thousands digits. If I am not mistaken, the rating has increased a couple days ago. I soon search the internet and find the explanation. What is Alexa page rank anyway? Here it is:
Alexa Traffic rank is a new tool following the introduction of the Google page rank system. Alexa gives each site and its relative pages a traffic rank which in theory shows how popular your site is on the internet.
Although the Alexa traffic rank is a lot easier to understand then the Google page rank system I feel it is important to explain how it works.
A brief description as follow :
The Alexa traffic is calculated from the millions of Alexa tollbars and their users. Each toolbar records what web sites you visit. This data is through to Alexa headquarters which is then sorted, counted and computed to produce the Alexa traffic rank that we see on our Alexa toolbars today.
The traffic rank is calculated from 3 months of historical traffic which comes from the millions of Alexa toolbars over the Internet.
The final figure is combined from measure of page views (the number of pages viewed by toolbar users) and users (percentage of all internet users who visit a given site).
Picture of Alexa traffic widget :
The easiest way to check the traffic rank of a site is to download the Alexa Toolbar which will tell you the traffic rank of a site when you surf the internet. I find this explanation from the web. You could also visit their official website at www.alexa.com for more explanation. Have a nice day Friends.

Tuesday 11 May 2010

Keywords, Domain and Blog Platform

I am proud to say that I love writing and literature. When I met my old friends, they often laugh if I told them that I am working at a Bank in a financial services department and that’s means dealing with numbers.
I created my first blog in 2008 and a lot of articles written since then. Some of my blog was closed and the rest are still active. I use blog instead of Website because my lack of understanding about programming skill. Using Wordpress or Blogger as a blog platform provide me with the simplest way to joint the internet community and get attention from all over the world through my writing.
I want to make a confession, http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com is my seventh blog, and I still make mistake when created it. Yes it has indexed by Google, approved by Adsense and my Alexa ranking keep increasing all the time,I am pretty sure when Google starting to renew the page rank review, this blog will at least get page rank 1-2. So where is the main mistake? So many mistakes, the fatal one comes from the content of the blog - the blog main topic and the domain name.
I soon realize when someone types the keywords content writer in Google search engine, it will display another websites or blogs. The search engine must find it difficulty to recognize my blog since it is followed by characters –id. The domain name should be the same with the master Keyword of the blog.
The content or articles in my blogs do not point on a special topic. This blog contains a lot of topics and discussion, it you are aiming for a certain community as your readers/visitors then you should not make this kind of mistake.
Well, as a beginner, I will never give up and keep improving my skill to become a good writer and help people who need guidance about the exciting world of the Internet.

Sunday 9 May 2010

How To Get Indexed By Google

Has your sites indexed by Google? The truth is, a doubt come out when I started to write this article. Why? From all seven blogs that I have, this is the one which get indexed by Google. Several books suggest to submit the website/blog to Search Engine Sumission such as Jayde, they will surely get your website listing, but it will not do any good if you want result in a short time. Free Search Engine Submission require times and sometimes payment to get their premium services.
I believe many beginner experienced the same problem like I do. We created a website or a blog and then get ignored by Google and make us feel hopeless. There are actually a few tips to get your site/blog get indexed. They are:

Put a link in an existing site. It is the most simple one. You could search the web and put comments on several website that has similar topic with your site. When Google found your link, they surely will put some attention to your website.



Add your URL to Google. This sentence is self explanatory. Click the link to go to page.



Use tools from Google. I personally use Google Webmaster Tools  and created a sitemap to my Blog. If you use Wordpress as your platform, you could easily set this up. Wordpress provide an automatic plug in to get indexed by Google. If you use Blogger then you should put rss.xml after your domanin name. Example : my blog name is http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com/ , so i just write down http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com/rss.xml to a blank place where they ask you to put your sitemap. After a while, kindly check your website/blog if Google has indexed them or not. Just type in search engine site:http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com , if the result is like the picture below, then you get their attention.



Hopefully this article is useful for those who wants to learn and be creative. I am still learning myself, if you have any suggestion or useful guidance for me. Kindly leave your comments. Regards.

Saturday 8 May 2010

Search Engine Secrets

Friends, today i have found a great article about Search Engine Secrets and i want to share it with you. Please enjoy, by the way i am still looking for a tricks about get indexed quickly by Google. If you think you are the one who can show the way, kindly contact or comments on one of my post.
This article are written by Todd  N. Wesley, he is an internet marketer that teaches men and woman everywhere to actually make money online from home.

If you have an online or offline business then you are probably trying to get your website to the top of the search engines as quickly as possible. However, if you're like most then you probably are clueless about how to do this. Today I'm going to share with you a few of the search engine secrets that will get your website high quickly.
The first of the search engine secrets I want to share with you is that it's not always about your direct website URL. What I mean by that is that you should use several different methods that will be redirected back to your main website URL. Why do you want to do that? Because the search engines love certain media. For instance, Squidoo Lenses or Blogger Blogs or Articles will always rank higher than your main URL. So, use that to your advantage whenever possible!
Second, another of the search engine secrets that will get you indexed fast is to have "meaty" content on your website that mentions you niche's keyword throughout. And, this content should be updated regularly in order to make your site dynamic. Dynamic sites are loved by Google and others and will improve your rank naturally. So, create RSS feeds or post articles or change photos - whatever you can do to show the search engines that you are alive!
The third secret I'll share with you today is that quality "backlinks" are a key to getting natural rankings - ESPECIALLY when someone is searching locally for your business. A backlink means that another high ranking site is pointing back to your URL which makes the search engines think you are important. Get enough of these backlinks and your natural ranking will improve within a week's time. But how?
In order to get quality backlinks you need to visit quality sites. Look for forums that you can visit and post to. Write articles that point back to your main URL. Create Squidoo Lenses that have your URL in them and so on. In fact, everything you write or create on the web should include your main webpage's URL so that the engines find it everywhere. This secret is really the key to LONG TERM rankings!
As you can see, these are a few of the search engine secrets to everyone who has a business website. If you search the web you can find other more advanced techniques but if you aren't at least using these few search engine secrets then you are missing out on a LOT of traffic! Good luck.

Mr. Todd certainly has a brilliant ideas to increase our sites, if you interested about above topics please give a big appreciation to him. You could also check this articles in http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com/, they are Google Pagerank, Making Money From The Internet, SEO Optimization and Links

 

Friday 7 May 2010

SEO Optimization and Links

If someone want to applied a good SEO optimization or SEO tips and tricks and want to increase their Google PageRank on their websites or blogs , then this following keyword are often mentioned, they are Outbound Links , Back links and Inbound Links. I will try to explain the meaning of above keywords in simple words. I search for several articles in the Internet and put it in here. Hope you all can get the benefit of this article.


Outbound Links
Outbound links is a link that point away from your website – A link from your website to another website. Usually an author will make a link to another website for more resources and information. Example, when the stocks market fall, FED take over all major role and inform the Government the urgency of the situation. You can find an outbound link in the word Government. If someone click on it then the browser will be redirect to US official website.
By linking to quality resources that help your visitors, you can improve your reputation with human visitors. That ultimately leads to more inbound links, and a higher response rates. With good information and nice selection of outbound links, visitors may even bookmark your site and use it as jumping off point. Your visitors prefer website that help them learn more about a topic of interest

Inbound Links
Inbound links are links from pages on external sites linking back to your site. Inbound links can bring new users to your site, and when the links are merit-based and freely-volunteered as an editorial choice. They are also one of the positive signals to Google about your site’s importance. Many webmaster have written about their success in growing their audience using links. When pages in your site link to each other, than the audience or readers of your blog will stay longer in your site.

Back Links
Back link is an inward link to your site that may or may not be reciprocated with an outward link back. If page A links to page B then a back link would be a link which goes from page B back to page A. For Example, let’s say you find an interesting article on web and you require the article to be displayed on your website hence you link the article to your website. Now your website acts as a back link to that article or to the URL where the article originally located.
There are several ways to increase back links, you could put a lots of comments to another blog, it is important to noticed that the blog it self should have the same topic of interest as your website or blog. The easiest way is to buy back links from back links vendor. Now days, a lots of offer are displaying in the internet. It is your choice to make.

If you applied above methods correctly, your Google Pagerank will surely increase. But I am agree with Djuyadi, he is a blogger from Indonesia he told me that links are not the only instrument that determined your page get indexed and ranked by Google. We should explore the others possibility. Good day everyone, if you have any comments, please let me know. Regards, Writer.

Thursday 6 May 2010

Never Give Up

“Never, never, never, never give up”
It is a very good quote from Winston Churcill, a British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. Today writing has something to do with above quote.
As usual at noon, I walk out from my office heading to my regular place to have lunch. The place I used to eat is actually a very simple and small house that providing Chinese menu for lunch. The price is actually cheap if I compare it with the price listed in Chinese Restaurant. That is my regular activity at noon. Actually I will not talk about the food or how delicious the soup that they offered me. I want to share to all readers of http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com something about life, to be specific it is the importance of Anger.
Nine years ago, my life has no purpose, no money in my pocket, jobless, no such things like goods friends beside me or someone I could rely to, every one avoid me cause it is no fun to get along with me. Mother passed away a long time ago and Father was too busy looking for money to support my brothers education fee. I didn’t blame him, he is the best parent for me. He has a strong dedication to his family even when everything is turning upside down at us.
At that moment, Life is blank, even the closest relative would not help us when we are in trouble. I still remembered when Fathers beg them to lend him some money to pay for home expenses, they treat us like we are begger. At that time I am so angry but left with no choice to accept their action. I said to myself ,I swear that I will never forget this moment,  I will remembered each of every one face that treat my Father and my family with disrespect and one day I will show them that we are not a bunch of useless people, I will prove them wrong.
I used this as a motivation whenever something painful or I have to go through a hard time of my live. Time goes by, both of my brothers successfully finished their high school and now working and be able to support their own need. My sister has became a Manager from one of travel Agent in Indonesia. She travels a lot to East Europe and really enjoyed herself. How about me, well I am not proud to say that right now I am able to support my family and my father, have enough money to spend, cars and home are available even it is not as glamour as you think it is.
The point is I use my weakness to support my life, so don’t hate your anger, but used it to give a strong feed back for yourself. NEVER GIVE UP and keep trying until your physical body is not able to support your action.  How about those people that I hate the most in my past time? I will be honest to you, I still hate them and also thank them for letting me know one of the secret to master if I want to change my life. I have been in a very bad and desperate situation that you will never imagine and even I could not describe it in words but I survive and live to tell the story. Something bad is not always bad if you can use it wisely.

Wednesday 5 May 2010

Foreign Exchange Risk - FX Risk

There is good saying that I recently saw in the Internet. They said that a good writer will never run out of topic to write. Maybe I am not a good writer but a fresh idea always pop up in my mind. Today topic actually just show up this morning, an Account Officer came to my office to discuss about Foreign Exchange Facility. If I am not mistaken, two years ago I had experienced the same case and close the deal smoothly and made profit. Some people always find it hard to understand when it comes to number especially about Currency Exchange, so I would like to share some information regarding how we manage to identifying and managing the risk, we usually refer the word to FX Risk.
Identifying the risk
Business that trade or have operations overseas are likely to be exposed to foreign exchange risk arising from volatility in the currency markets. The most common cause of its exposure arises from having to pay invoices for imported raw materials priced in a foreign currency or receiving it for your exported finished goods. However, exposure can also arise from your competitors having cost base and/or selling their products in a foreign currency. The impact that exchange rate fluctuations have on profitability will vary but in many cases it can be significant.
Managing the risk
There are three basic alternative methods to manage FX Risk
  1. Do nothing and buy or sell your currency in the spot market. You act on the day you want to buy or sell. This approach means you will not know how much money you will need to pay or receive until the day in question – this can be a high risk strategy as the exchange rate moved significantly.
  2. Lock in to fixed rates. As soon as you become aware of a need to exchange currency at a future date, then you can fix the exchange rate by booking a forward contract. This approach provides certainty but you could suffer an opportunity loss if rates subsequently move in your favour and you are obliged to transact at the forward contract rate.
  3. Use flexible products. A currency option will over you to the potential for upside benefit if rates move in your favour – like a spot deal, but will provide protection against adverse rate movements – like forward contract. For this flexibility commonly Banks will charge premium.
I fully understand that there are many words such as Spot, Forward that will sound strange to someone who are not involved in Economy or Banking sectors. I promise you that I will try to explain it later. There are still a lot of good article and topics in http://contentwriter-id.blogspot.com/ , you can visit them to read all interesting story all around the world from the writer perspective. If you fell confuse or need to ask a questions, I am glad to help. Kindly post your comments and you will get an answer soon. Good day every body.

Tuesday 4 May 2010

A Fight Against China

Now days, I can assure you that even a small children have heard the name of China. The largest population country of the world. Well, for common people like me who is not involved directly in Economy and business, but always keep staring at my computer writing a content for a Blog then the issue about China is still fresh in my head when they have problem with another largest player in the Internet – Google.
I won’t discuss their issue with Google since you can browse it and read it a lot in the internet. I am interested to write about China because today my friend asks me to buy a pair of sport shoes from him. It is a very attractive and beautiful one, original made from USA. If I buy it, then it will cost me about IDR 750,000 equivalent to USD 70. I almost took out money from my pocket but suddenly something came across my mind. I could find it as low as IDR 75,000 from the local market - my mistake for not mentioned before that it was Nike. Of course it is not originally made in USA but made in China with the exact size, color and shape. Do you see the price difference between it. It was only one example on how China products conquer almost the entire markets of retail products in my beloved Country – Indonesia.
A brief about how China start to penetrate ASEAN markets: China initial suggestion for the CAFTA (China ASEAN Free Trade Area) was raised in November 2000 by Prime Minister Zhu Rongji, proposed to explore the establishment of free trade relationship. By the year of 2010 ASEAN member will open their market in certain key sectors to China.
And now the threat begins, lots of cheap products had entered our local market, making local producers and seller start to cry. They can not compete with China products. Many of independent association start complaining this condition to the Government but it is too late, they have signed the agreement and there is no turning back. As I write this article, the resistance is still going on.
People are now prefer to choose a cheap and reasonable price of product rather than buying branded products, meanwhile some of them are still loyal with the branded one. How do you ask rich person who always ride a Harley Davidson as their favorite vehicle to switch using a China vehicle which is surely cheaper, attractive and less oil consumption? It is difficult , when money is not the main issue than we could stop talking about China. Actually there are a lot to talk about when it comes to China expansion in Asia and Europe. If you are looking for something to write into your website or paper regarding this topic, please let me know by putting a comment in my blog and I will try my best to assist you. Good day everyone.

Monday 3 May 2010

Making Money From The Internet

There are many ways to generate money from the Internet. If you like to read, kindly pay a visit to the nearest book stores or sit in front of your computer and open online book stores like Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Click the ‘famous’ keyword Money Online and wuzzzz, lists of books will appear for your reference. In my opinion and it is an honest one to say that almost 90% from those books will not help you much. Those books only explain the general picture on how we as a beginner can generate hundreds or thousands of Dollars from the Internet.

In this article, the writer only list a couple of examples about names of program that mostly offered to a beginner, they are :
Pay Per Click : This program is very popular in my Country, and the big player for PPC program is Google, also known as Google Adsense. Most of the books I read suggested us to start making a blog, fill it with some articles in English then submitted the Url of the blog for approval. In here we start praying and hope Google will say yes to us, but unfortunately do you know that even our blog was approved and the ads were put in our main page, the profit generated from this program is only 6 dollars for 9 months of effort? – at least that is what happened to me the first time I do exactly what the book told me to do in 2007, almost three years ago. It didn’t explain that we need to generated traffic, do the best SEO on our blog and choose a suitable keyword in accordance with our domain name. I know I rush in and feel so passionate when the first time I read the book (I can’t tell you the name or the author, we must pay some respect) but I am sure I’m not the only person who has experience it.

Paid Review : The first time I heard about what this program offered me, it seems like the world give a huge hug and big smile for me. Why? Because it is so easy to collect money and transfer all of it to my Paypal account. What you need to do as an owner of a website or Blog is to registered your blog to site like ReviewMe or PayPerPost. But dreams will always be a dreams if we haven’t woke up yet. Let’s say that they approved your Blog, if your Pagerank is still 1, don’t hope to much that there will be a lots of review to be done. I am absolutely sure that most of the book only mentioned that the higher the Pagerank is then the higher the payout will be. By The way do you know what Pagerank is? You could read my article about Pagerank in here.

The whole idea about this article is not to criticize the author of the books, because I am pretty sure that there are a lots of good books that surely can guide you the correct and reasonable way to earn some cash from the internet. I really hope that all the beginners Blogger could give extra attention on what they read before rush in and at the end got nothing but nil dollar. I am still learning too, just don’t give up easily. Have a nice day every one. If you have any ideas please don’t hesitate to put comments. Bye.

Sunday 2 May 2010

Google Pagerank

How are you today ? Have you heard about pagerank ? Well if you haven't you could read it in here. I want to share my problem through this article. Well, I found it difficult to raise the pagerank of this blog. Some suggestions from the internet saying that I should buy a domain with high pagerank, which means I must spend money, and that's what I currently avoid. Other advice is to get backlinks with the name of a famous site like Google or a web of government agencies like the Jakarta Official website or Unesco Official website
Others offer a quick and easy solution is 301 redirect method. This method was impressed illegal because it will only divert our website to another website. I am very very confused to choose the path of instant or do an hones way. By the way, one of my friends - Brother Herman has offered me to exchange link with his site, I really appreciate it , but with both of our blogs in lower pagerank I think it will be useless, but still I will give it a try. Thank you Brother.
If any of you got another idea, please email me at my Yahoo. Maybe we can share tips or exchange links. By the way when i search the internet, i found a good blog about Life, check it here, you may find something useful there. What a day .... see you guys later.