Well, I’ve been tagged by Christine!. So this is my promised post.
THE RULES:
1. Post these rules before you give you the facts.
2. List 8 random facts about yourself.
3. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names (linking to them).
4. Leave them a comment on their blog letting them know they’ve been tagged!
8 random facts about me
1. I’m married with beautiful wife and currently expecting our first baby
2. My new favorite movie – Transformer
3. I love SUV very much. I hope to buy one by 3-4 years from now
4. I love my previous job rather than what I have now 
Too much works. Thinking of quitting days job 5 years from now, hopefully.
5. Blogjer is my first real blog.
6. When I was in secondary school, my English so bad, so bad that I’m sit on the last class (Err, am I better now?)
7. I’m phobia with speed
8. I’m staying in Penang Malaysia. Come visit Malaysia 2007!!
I’m tagging few commentators, my friends and traffic sources into my blog. You’re free to continue this train, but this is something that I can contribute to you guys who made this blog cheerful !!
1. Raymond of Law of Attraction
2. Zool of Liga Kampung
3. Sha of eMenang
4. Etienne of Profit-Line
5. Bharadwaj of Readbarbi
6. Sully of LifeLearningToday
7. paypal2u blogger Paypal2u
8. Cikgu Azleen of CikguAzleen
How deep do you know how your website performed? Your website loading time is one of the key factors that will attract your visitors to stay longer in your website . Luckily there is Yahoo YSlow that can give us answer about that.
Installation
This is Firefox add on which can be installed easily from Yahoo YSlow website, but you must have Firebug installed prior that. Installation process is straight forward and it can used it right away
How to use it?
Click small speedometer at the bottom of your Firefox browser. It will divide you screen to 2 part where there the bottom one would be your Yahoo YSlow menu. Click Performance, Stats, or Components to have YSlow analyze your page.
Perfomance. – You will see how your website page is measured and graded (with point) It describes each metric briefly and the best practice to optimize you website
Stats – Your cache
component – list down all files such as javascript, CSS,doc, image and etc
Print your report
This is very useful especially if you want to view the report off line. From Tool -> Printable View, you will be able to view the whole report in 1 page
More info
Read their FAQ and help pages for more information
How to get accurate result?
Please clear your browser cache before running YSlow. Why?
Performance Grade
This is the grade some of major websites that I have tested using this tool
Google : A (99)
Yahoo : get A (90)
Dell: D (66
Ebay D (69)
Something interesting to share about Friday.
- The 13th day of a month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day. In each 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar, 170 years have one Friday the 13th, 171 have two, and 59 have three.
- It is impossible to have a year with no Friday the 13th or a year with four or more Fridays the 13th.
- When there are three Fridays the 13th in a year, they occur in February, March and November except in leap years. In leap years, they occur in January, April and July.
- When there is only one Friday the 13th in a year, it falls either in May, June, August or October.
source: newsletter
I have diving deeper into Google Analytics this week to optimize and to know more about my websites. This is some of the articles that I think is worth of your reading
Beginner guide for Google Analytics
Google Analytics post from Problogger. This is where I found above post
A lot of Google Analytics posts at Labnol Digital Inspiration
Lengthy post from kaushik.net about new Google Analytics version
Google Analytics practical guide (in pdf format) from morevisibility.com
SEOBook guide how to use Google Analytics to track down your Google Adsense click
Google Analytics plugin for wordpress
What Matt Cutt said when Google Analytics just released
Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin for WordPress (and it fix)
I’m thinking of writing about this after I win podcast set from createbusinessgrowth on earlier post. I feel too excited like a kid getting transformers robot as a present from their parents during birthday (I wish I have transformers robots too).
I’m not yet monetizing this blog, so another ways of getting something back from your blog is by joining contest. Since I join my first contest from John Chow, it grows to quite a numbers after that. Contestblog is one of the earliest blog on this topic, and it still one of the blog that I frequently visit if I’m looking for contest. I strongly recommend it to you
I enjoy participating in any contest since it build up my writing skill as well as adding more friends, but does contest good for your blog? Yeah I admit that for something that exist, there are always pros and cons about it. Here is what I think
Pros
- Additional income – Of course but only if you win
- Publicity – Same as above, if you win the contest.
- Additional link to your blog via comment submitted, or the sponsor is kindly enough to list down all participant
- Enhance your review skill – Review require great observation on the whole blog including design, post, category and etc
Cons
- You looks desperately looking for something as a return to you blog; maybe
- You looks greedy – If you join too much contest without posting anything else (unless your blog is specifically for contest); Who cares
- Possibility of losing your readers – Your readers getting bored with your blog since there are too much contest posts; This is not good
- You will spent more time on contest rather than your topics; absolutely
Contest as one of you post
The greatest challenge to make a review for any contest is to make it not looks like a review. The way you include the anchor text required must be well blended with your sentence. Except for paid review which requires you to give a great length of full review, review for any contest is not that length and details. Make it interested but simple with what you have observed on the blog that you reviewed. I admit I’m not very good at that yet, but I have read a lot from great reviewer such as Kumiko, John Chow and Contest Blog
Sample of bad and good anchor ext placement
eg: Bad : You can get the more info about blogjer contest here
Good: Blogjer contest is offering fabulous prize for those who review his blog
Look at the different. Second sentence is more lovely than the first one!
Contest Blog
Btw, this is some of the contest blog that I found when I do searching on the net. If you have better contest blog, why not post it here!
contestblogger – Simply the best
blog-contests
emenang.com – Fellow Malaysian blog
blogcontestsite
