For long term use, you can also add your blog into search directories to gain more traffic. They are not as useful as search engines but they are going to help in a way or two. They worked differently as search engines as search engines you normally type in a keyword then they will start to search but directory is something like a catergory of different interest and you can get your targeted audience when users are searching this system.

Anyway its free and you just have to spend a little more time to do this entry.

Some of the top directory

www.dir.yahoo.com

www.directory.google.com

www.search.com.sg

www.dmoz.org

www.searchdelivery.com

www.searchingweb.com

I have already added my site to all of the web directory, this process is boring that that also will bring many of others to you as well and its only a one time entry.

Enjoy and good traffic!

When blogging just started, new bloggers registered their URL into web directories like yahoo.com and google.com. You can still do that now, it is a very effective way of ensuring that your site will be displayed during a search is made.

Google does not have the same kind of form. Instead, the search engine will send web crawlers to all web pages and adds the informaton to its databases.

Yahoo new site submit address is

http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

Submit through this website you can noticed that many page views will be from Yahoo search engine.

Please take note that tags, title and content will be connected to each other, please spend some time to link the keyword together in all these category.

Google.com has posted some tips on how to make your site noticeable to its crawlers:

http://www.google.com/support/customsearch/?hl=en

You search for more details in the website. Some of the methods are complicated but you can do changes with your content and title.

FIrst is how to write your post. After creating a blog, the easiest part is posting to the blog. Most of the blogs will provide a simple interface for posting.

Before you post, please consider these rules:

1) Plan yout topic and words-what’s your point of your post?

2) Edit ( read at least once ). 

3) Spell Check. After finishing, before posting please do spelling check to double confirm that you have got the right word.

4) Back Up! Copy your post before clicking SUBMIT button. Often when you click submit on a site, your brower will “hang”, as in crash. You’ll lose your post.

5) Set a goal of one post a day. This is always possible, but if you have no time at least five posts a week, you are on your way to a pro blogger status.

Also pay attention to the length of your posts. Professional websites often limit posts on a blog’s front page to 2 or 3 paragraphs to give readers a rest from scanning large blocks of text.

The life span of a typical blog is about 9 months. Of course, most of the people will move on and remain consistent and you will find your target audience. Many many blogs have been existence for more than 5 years.

If you can post a blog for a day, the blogs will have a consistent theme, in less than a month you’ll find target audience with the similar interests. After you find your target audience, it is also important to add more content and explore more yourself.

Several blog-related sites that could also help you to promote your website.

http://www.nuffnang.com.sg/ - which will ping your site and gain traffic from this site. South East Asia traffic.

http://www.ping.com.sg/ - which also ping your site and gain traffic from this site. Singapore and Malaysia traffic.

One of the biggest is Technorati, which helps user to keep in touch with all topics under discussion in the blogging atmosphere by tracking the number of link connected to a post, by inference and determine a blog’s popularity in comparison to other blogs. This site is set up to automatically receive from updated web posts to keep in touch with what topic are under discussion within blog community.

Technorati provides 2 methods for you to promote your blog:

Ping Technorati - A simple service that informs Technorati that you have a new post on your website. Simply enter your site’s URL and click PING. This service captures your new post in its search engine, which other people search new blog posting.

Add blog tags - You can publicize your blog by registering it within the blog finder system. Submit registration form online, add some code automatically generated by Technorati in tour blog template, and update a blog FInder profile that lets you add suject matter tags to describe your blog. Technorati will categorize visit Technorati can type in any text, find your blog based on these tags. For example:”Find a blog about make money online.”

Choosing a Blog Platform/Blogging Software

There are now thousands of Blog Platforms or Blogging Software all over the internet due to popularity of blogging now. There are 2 main categories of blog platforms, namely, hosted and self-hosted.

List of Some Hosted Blog Platforms

• Wordpress.com
• Blogger
• Typepad
• blog.com
• livejournal

List of Some Self-Hosted Blog Platforms

• Wordpress.org (self-hosted version of wordpress)
• Movabletype (self-hosted version of TypePad)
• Apache Roller
• SubText
• typo

So which Blog Platform to choose?

All blog platforms has it’s advantages and disadvantages. It’s no doubt that wordpress and blogger are the most popular blog platforms now. Blogger is more like for beginners while wordpress is for those who wants more versatility with their blogs design and layout. It’s your choice which blog platform to choose. My personal favourite is no doubt wordpress.

So you want to know how to make money online? Making money online is a time consuming process that will lead to good rewards for you. It is a matter of choosing the right opportunity to invest your time and money in. Then it is a matter of time and hard work to see the fruits of your labors. With any type of work at home industry, it is a manner of time and patience with the labor of your choice. The saying goes that it takes money to make money. This is true especially for work at home opportunities. Each opportunity requires an investment of some kind, whether it is time or money or both.

“Starting a business in Singapore” - By Sg-classified

1. Do your homework

Visit one of Singapore’s embassies, high commissions and consulates around the world, to find out more about Singapore. Here’s a list of our Foreign Ministry’s missions and consulates.

If you have the time, visit Singapore and see for yourself. Most visitors will get a social visit pass. But if you need to stay in Singapore for a longer period to explore business opportunities, you can explore the Social Visit Pass for Entrepreneurs. This can be extended if necessary. Find out more about entry to Singapore at the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) website.

The Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) brings together a diverse group of people who want to contribute towards the creation of a more entrepreneurial Singapore. Experiences are shared on their website.

2. Take the first step

Once you’ve decided you want to start a business here, you need to apply for the EntrePass. It is valid for 2 years and is renewable as long as the business is an ongoing entity.

The application form can be downloaded here. Find out more about the EntrePass at the Ministry of Manpower’s website.

3. Registering your business

You can set up almost any kind of business in Singapore. Special licenses are needed only for a handful of businesses, such as finance companies, banks, optical discs, and cigarette manufacture. EDB is the administrator of the Control of Manufacture Act (which licenses the manufacture of beer and stout, cigars, drawn steel products, chewing gum (other than medicinal gum and oral dental gum), cigarettes, and matches), and the Manufacture of Optical Discs Act, (which licenses the manufacture of optical discs, including master discs and stampers).

If you represent a foreign company you may want to establish just a representative office (RO). In this case, you register your rep office with International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore). IE Singapore registers ROs from the manufacturing, trading, trade logistics and trade-related services sectors for a nominal fee. You can find out where the nearest IE Singapore office is here.

However, rep offices can only undertake promotional and trade liaison activities on behalf of its parent company. It cannot conclude contracts, provide consultancy for a fee, undertake shipment of goods, open or negotiate any letters or credit.

If your business plans are more extensive, you should register a business or a company with the Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA).

(”Starting a business in Singapore”)

4. Finding premises for your business

There’s plenty of choice when it comes to where to locate your business. You can even run a business from your home. Find out what you may need to do to use your home as an office at these sites:

• HDB Home Office Scheme
• URA Home Office Scheme

You can also check out the business premises offered by the 50 or so business incubators in Singapore. These incubators provide services such as “plug and play” facilities, technology collaboration, business building and acceleration, fund raising, networking and mentorship.

There is an island-wide belt of accessible, choice locations for entrepreneurial operations called HOTSpots, “HOT” meaning “Hub of Entrepreneurs”. These HOTSpots link a community of some 50 incubators and 400 technology startups and entrepreneurs.

Events such as Elevator Pitches and Investment Seminars to raise funds, and Technology Seminars and Market Pitches to find business partners, as well as networking opportunities, are regularly held at HOTSpots. Organisations that organise or sponsor these events include the Singapore Venture Capital Association (SVCA), the Innovators and Entrepreneurs Association (IdEA), and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS).

5. Getting some funding

Singapore is home to a vibrant and sophisticated venture capital industry, with more than 140 local and international VC fund management groups handling, at the middle of 2003, some S$16 billion worth of funds out of Singapore. These funds are invested globally across all industry sectors at all levels of financing.

The Singapore Venture Capital Association was formed in 1992 to promote the growth and development of the venture capital industry.

The DEALS Portal aims to match companies seeking venture funding to Singapore’s venture capital community. You can register and upload your business plan at the DEALS Portal and it will automatically match and direct your plan to the appropriate VCs in Singapore.

Banks are generally unwilling to extend credit facilities to startup enterprises as they lack a track record and assets for use as collateral. We have thus designed programmes and schemes to help startups with funding.

This agency, SPRING Singapore, manages two funding schemes for startups:

The Micro Loan Program is a fixed interest rate financing programme for startup and small enterprises, particularly those that are asset-light and knowledge-intensive. Enterprises can use the loan to establish new businesses, modernise and automate operations, expand existing businesses, and augment working capital needs.

The Loan Insurance Scheme offers loans that suit the risk profile of the borrowers, with the interest rate based on the startup’s credit assessment.

Other types of financing scheme for startups are available.

6. Protecting your intellectual property

If you have a proprietary technology, you should file a patent to protect it. The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) is the agency that looks after this. It has a slew of initiatives that promote the creation and exploitation of IPs. For more information go to the IPOS website.

The Patent Application Fund Plus encourages innovation and the commercialization of IP. It helps defray the cost of patenting, up to S$30,000, and is available to all Singapore-based small and medium enterprises. Find out more here.

7. Developing your business

If you need help to commercialize and market your product or service, there are many avenues you can explore.

Business associations like the Singapore Business Federation and the Singapore Confederation of Industries represent and promote the business interests of Singapore enterprises. They can help you plug into Singapore’s business networks via their seminars and events, and their trade partnerships and business matching efforts.

The Infocomm Authority of Singapore (iDA) has a Call for Collaboration initiative which encourages collaborative efforts in exciting areas such as mobile commerce and wireless multimedia. This creates opportunities for you to network, build up your referral base and profile yourself to potential business partners.

The Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) conducts programmes, courses and seminars on business, marketing and management that you might find useful.

The Institute of Public Relations of Singapore represents the public relations industry in Singapore. It provides an online one-stop solution to companies seeking PR consultancy and other services.

“Starting a business in Singapore” - By Sg-classified

“How to Strike 4D - 4D Prediction Method”

In 4d, there are numbers 0000-9999, which will be drawn from time to time.

The 4d numbers are classified in 5 groups of permutations.

ABCD - 4 different no. (ex. 1234)

AABC - 3 different no. (ex. 1123)

AABB - 2 different pairs of no.(ex. 1122)

AAAB - 2 different no. (ex. 1112)

AAAA - 1 same no. (ex. 1111)

The group, ABCD(360 sets) and AABC(210 sets) almost always dominates over 90% of every draw. So, always buy these 2 sets of permutations if you want to strike. All numbers always strike over a period of them. So, you must do a research of which numbers had already strike over the last few draws to furthur elminate those numbers which had strike recently. This will furthur increase your chance of striking! Of course, luck plays a bit part too, but it is much better than buying a car plate no. after it had an accident or the date of someone’s death right? Good luck!

“How to Strike 4D - 4D Prediction Method”

“How to make money from blogs?”

There are plenty of methods to earn money from a blog, which is making the whole selection like a jungle. The most common version for bigger blogs is to use multiple revenue sources instead of using just one which makes it pretty risky.

To make money from a blog today is very easy comparing to what it has been. All you have to do is write quality content and the income will pretty much come of itself. Here I will give you about 10 areas you can choose as income stream for your own blog.

Sources from income – What can I choose from?

Advertising programs (Contextual ads) – This is the most common and the most simple way of earning cash. The contextual ads will bring you targeted ads which makes the visitor more attracted to the ads and therefore it will lead to more clicks/leads. The most common contextual ad is the Google Adsense program. Another famous contextual ad program is Yahoo Publisher Network and the MSN Adcenter. The latter is one program which has great visions since Microsoft bought a piece of facebook, giving them plenty of advertising spaces.

Affiliate Programs – Affiliates are one of the eldest methods of advertising but it can still be very efficient. This will most likely require a little more effort from your side but could bring lot’s of cash if it’s successfully implemented. When having affiliate links you let the visitors see products in the area about your blog which will make them curious and maybe get them to buy the product(s). Popular affiliate programs are Clickbank, CJ and Amazon.

Digital products – Selling digital products such as e-books and courses are not the most common revenue streams for blog but a very good one if your blog has good reputation. This is not the most recommended solution for smaller blogs who doesn’t have the best reputation.

Donations – This stream is only to recommend if you’re in a niche which gives you the possibilities and it’s not the most ethical choice if you’re having a commercial blog and tricking the people that their donations will be for freeing Willy. When giving people the ability to donate they most likely believe that their money only will be used for better causes, but there’s nothing wrong in having a donation button if the visitors knows where the donation will be targeted at.

RSS advertising – This method is by far the newest in this list. There are not many blogs that makes great money from it but it can be a complement for everyone. This advertising system has been growing during the last year(s) and will be to count with in the future.

Paid posts - During the SEO hype it has opened up a new area of advertisement. Paid posts is a new, profitable way of earning money. Other webmaster around the world buy a post in your blog which will give them a targeted backlink and visitors to their own site/blog/store. This method is used for them to increase their SERPS which then attracts more visitors to their own site. Reviewme.com and payperpost.com are two common places for paid posts. Reviewme pays at least $5 for each blog-post which most commonly is 300 words and has to be unique.

“How to make money from blogs?”

Increasing income is the harder road to travel. After all, you can’t always get a raise or a new job when you need one.

But cutting costs, that’s a different story!

You’re in complete control in this area. And all it takes is some imagination and discipline-both of which are free.

Below are five major ways to save money in the basic areas of food, shelter, clothing and transportation. They’re major expenses in your life - and places for major savings.

Ways to Save Money - 1. Home Cooking

Food is a major expense in everyone’s budget.

But, in today’s convenience food society, it’s easy to overlook how much money can be saved by cooking meals at home. Plus, it’s fun, creative, and healthier to make your own meals.

The key is to cook in “bulk” to stretch the food you buy over several meals.

If you’re a busy person with little time to spare, a good investment is a slow cooker (or crock pot). Generally, they run from $20 to $80, depending on the size.

With a slow cooker, you can set aside some time on the weekend to cook stews, soups, and other delicious meals that can be frozen for weekday use.

After a hard day at work, all you have to do is pop the meal in the microwave!

More than likely, you’ll enjoy an additional benefit - your taste buds will wake up from mass produced food and thank you for the delicious taste of a home-cooked meal!

Ways to Save Money - 2. Drive less, exercise more

Is owning a car expensive?

You already know the answer to that question, don’t you?

Gas, maintenance, insurance costs. Plus the mental aggravation of being caught in traffic jams!

Why not carpool or take public transportation-the bus, train, or light rail?

Or, if you live close to work, walk or bike. You’ll lose weight, lower your blood pressure, and see the world at a slower pace.

And, oh yes, you’ll save a couple of thousand dollars in the process.

Ways to Save Money - 3. Cut housing costs

This is an easy and fun way to cut costs.

Instead of paying a contractor to come in to make changes or repairs, make them yourself.

Local hardware stores love your business and will help you with tips and tricks on home repair.

Also, do your own decorating and painting. You get two benefits by doing your own changes and repairs - you get the pride of accomplishment and you save money.

Ways to Save Money - 4. Cut clothing costs

This can be another major area of expenses, especially if you have a family.

So, try buying used clothing… dry clothes on the clothes line instead of in a dryer… learn how to mend clothes…

…well, you get the idea!

Ways to Save Money - 5. Quit your addictions

Okay, so this is not really an easy category, but if you enjoy cigarettes and a drink, this is where you can realize some major savings.

Assume you’re spending $5.00 a day on cigarettes. Added up over a year, that’s an expense of $1825.

As for liquor or wine, we all know how expensive that is.

Assume you buy one bottle a week at $10 to share with family members or friends. That’s $520 a year.

Add both amounts up, and the total is $2,345!

That’s money that could be paying down your debt or going into savings.

And don’t forget the health benefits.

You probably have many other ideas on how to save money in the five areas.

If it seems hard at times to cut costs in these places, remember one thing - you’re on the road to keeping more of your money in your own pocket!

As the old saying goes: “Money saved is as good as money earned”.

“Ways to Save Money “

Many Singaporeans know the importance of growing their wealth, but do not know where to start. In the last of a 3-part series on Personal Investing, we explain the concept of return and risk. These tips are taken from the ‘Introduction to Personal Investing’ handbook produced by the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS) under the MoneySENSE national financial education programme.

The concept of return and risk are primary considerations in investing. They are likely to form the basis for almost all your investment decisions.

Return - What Is It?

Your investment return is simply what you gain (a positive return) or lose (a negative return) on your investment after you have sold it. Even if you decide not to sell your investment, you can still calculate your return by comparing the investment’s market value against your purchase price.

The return from an investment usually consists of two parts:

(i) An interest or dividend payment in cash - also called ‘income’. When the income is expressed as a percentage of the purchase price, it is known as the ‘yield’.

(ii) The rise (or fall) of the value of the investment - called ‘capital gain (or capital loss)’.

You can use annualised returns to compare returns between investments held over different holding periods. For example, if you had an investment that gave a return of 30% over 3 years, your annualised return would be 9.1%.

Remember you will have to account for transaction costs and charges when computing returns, as these will eat into your returns. For example, you will incur brokerage charges when you buy or sell shares. When investing unit trusts, you will also have to bear management fees and other expenses.

Risk - What Is It?

There are two types of risks:

· Systematic risk - these affect the market in general, e.g. economic conditions, changes in interest rates, changes in market sentiment or Government policies.  As an investor, you cannot avoid systemic risks.

· Non-systematic risk / specific risk - these are factors that apply only to the investment you hold, e.g. quality of a company’s management, sustainability of its products and services.  This can be reduced by spreading your risks over a number of holdings.

The Risk-Return Trade-Off

Investments that offer higher expected returns are also likely to have higher risks.  There is ‘no free lunch’ in investing.  A common mistake that investors make is to focus only on the expected return of the investment.  Ask yourself:

(1) What is your tolerance for risk?  This will depend on factors such as your cash flow situation, financial position, future commitments and number of dependents.

(2) What is your investment time horizon?  In general, the longer the time you have to invest, the more risk you can take on.

Diversification - A Tool To Manage Risk

Diversification means spreading your investments over a variety of assets to avoid too much exposure to a single source of risk.
You may sometimes find that you do not have enough resources to diversify your portfolio or you do not have the expertise to choose different investments in different sectors.  Consult a professional if you are unsure about your investments.