Hillary Clinton ads on UMNO news

I know, right now, most Malaysian sit in front of TV, watching the election’s result announcement, so do I. What do you think? Does your favorite MP win? While Malaysian election process has reaching it’s final stage, American election still has a long way to go.

In the US, internet is fully utilize to obtain support, distributing the agenda until collecting the donation. But the situation is slightly different in Malaysia. As far as I remember, I don’t see any Google Adsense advertisement related to political on the net, be it from ruling parties or opposition parties. Perhaps, this is due to our democracy process which is different from theirs. Furthermore the internet penetration rate in Malaysia still low compared to developing countries or even Singapore, our neighboring country.

Few days ago when I’m reading TheStar online, I found 1 Adsense advertisement about Hillary Clinton’s political campaign appear on local political news. I’ve screen shot is few days ago, but only now I have time to get it posted until today. The ads is about pledging for donation, to finance her campaign to be Republican’s presidential candidate. I click the ads which land me to her donation web page, but no donation from me however icon smile Hillary Clinton ads on UMNO news The contextual engine works well, matching the news with the advertisement. Perhaps local politician can used Adsense in the next election

The news
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The ads
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Landing pages.
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50 wpdesigner accounts up for grab at Blogjer.com

wpdesigner giveaway 50 wpdesigner accounts up for grab at Blogjer.com

This is not another contest!! I’m happy to announce that there are 50 WPDesigner’s themes club accounts up for grab on first come first serve basis. No string attached

 

Last month, I paid USD5 to join this club which guarantees you at least 12 themes per year. The best thing about this club membership is, you’re free to redesign the template without having to put back the link to the original creator. In fact I’ve used in on my new blog which I’ll announce soon once it reach 20 posts

 

WPDesigner owner, Tung Do, nick named “Small Potato” is very generous to give away 20,000 memberships with certain condition. You can’t get this membership from him free of charge from him. But, the good news is, I can, but it is limited to first 50 person only

 

How to get your account? It still pending the download script from WPDesigner, but if you interested, please follow the guidelines below-

 

  1. Compose an email to zakifahmi [at] gmail [dot] com. Replace [a] with @ and [dot] with .
  2. Put subject “WPDesigner account@Blogjer.com”
  3. Write whatever you want inside (as long as not SPAM, love letter or try to sell something). Send it and done. I’ll reply with download link once I get update from WPDesigner.

 

Update 7-March-2008 : I just got the download link and pass code. All emails replied

cross domain sitemap via robots.txt

The collaboration between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft has agreed on the new sitemap protocol called cross domain sitemap, where you can hosted multiple sitemaps for multiple domains on a single domain. I love seeing them collaborated on something that beneficial to webmasters. This is very helpful to everyone, especially those who has many websites to be managed.

Robots.txt and sitemap is essential part of any blog or websites nowadays. It provide maximum exposure and website-friendly to the search engine robot crawler by telling them which one you should index and which one shouldn’t . I’m not going it in detail, but you can googling or wikipeding to find more about these 2 files.

Ok, back to the main topic, how does the new protocol help webmaster? The reason is quite obvious. All in 1!! You control everything from 1 place, save your precious time and energy.

How it works?
The sample below from sitemap.org should provide you better idea about it.

Let say you have 3 websites and each of them, has it’s own sitemap hosted on it’s own domain

www.host1.com with Sitemap file sitemap-host1.xml
www.host2.com with Sitemap file sitemap-host2.xml
www.host3.com with Sitemap file sitemap-host3.xml

Now, with the new protocol, you can host all 3 sitemaps on single host, e:g sitemaphost.com for a better control. This is how it looks like in sitemaphost.com’s robots.txt file

Sitemap: http://www.sitemaphost.com/sitemap-host1.xml
Sitemap: http://www.sitemaphost.com/sitemap-host2.xml
Sitemap: http://www.sitemaphost.com/sitemap-host3.xml

Finally, update host1.com’s robots.txt at http://www.host1.com/robots.txt to have this line below

Sitemap: http://www.sitemaphost.com/sitemap-host1.xml

Why you must update this part? By modifying the robots.txt file on www.host1.com and having it point to the Sitemap on www.sitemaphost.com, you have implicitly proven that you own www.host1.com. In other words, whoever controls the robots.txt file on www.host1.com trusts the Sitemap at http://www.sitemaphost.com/sitemap-host1.xml to contain URLs for www.host1.com. The same process can be repeated for the other two hosts.

Don’t forget to validate your robots.txt and sitemap

How to ping search engine once you have updated your website’s sitemap?
Each search engines has different method. Check out information below

Microsoft – http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=[Your sitemap URL]

Google – Follow this guide of how to resubmit your sitemap to Google
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=sitemap_url

Yahoo – http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=[your website URL] . This service applied only if you have your website submitted to Yahoo Siteexplorer

update 5-May-2008 : correcting the missing ‘sitemap‘ on the robot.txt file in sitemaphost

I have updated my Akismet but….

I’ve no idea what’s wrong. Akismet keeps on eating comments from legitimate commentators. I thought it was due to my outdated Akismet, hence I have upgraded it to the most recent one, version 2.14. I thought my problem has been solved, I can leave my spam comments folder to grow bigger, before deleting them in 1 shot. I thought I can ignore my spam folder. But I was wrong. Dang wrong.

Not only the issue hasn’t been resolved, but it’s getting even worst. Not worst until all comments go to the spam folder la, but another blogger has become a new ‘member’ and ‘loyalist’ to this folder. This does not make any sense. WHY??

I keep de-spamming their comments, but it turns out that the next comment is still appearing over there.

This happens only on blogjer. Comments on other blog is OK.

Why is this happening? Is Akismet a slow learner?? I don’t know either.

I know, I’m just a small tiny blogger, so I guess nobody will care about this, right?

What’s next?? I turn off Akismet temporarily. Perhaps it needs some rest after working almost 8 months non stop (almost). I’ll let SK2 guards my blog from the evil spammers out there who’re waiting for every single chance to sell their Viagra, apertimene , ebooks and etc (all useless stuff) on blogjer.

I’d rather de-spam the legitimate comments everyday, rather than seeing my visitor fleeing away when their comments did not appear on the post. Sometimes there are mysteries on blogging as well.

This is the deal. If your comment does not appear on the post, please shoot me an email at [zakifahmi at gmail dot com] or utilize my contact form. I’ll moderate first comment though, but subsequent comments should pass through.

Happy commenting!!!

Threesome Contest on blogjer.com

This is zakiyamani’s brain child. I’ve no idea how he get the contest’s name, ‘Threesome Contest’, but it sound quite cool to me. I feel honored and grateful to be able to participate on this contest, with a SAP ABAP’s expert and a chemical engineer who still have time to be blogger despite their tight schedule.

This is also my first ever JV so far on blog sphere. If you guys have any project that need me, you’re most welcome to contact me anytime. If it beneficial to us and our readers

Basic rules and conditions

  • How it work:
    • We are free to comment the top 3 commentators blog or site in our own best honest opinion even if it sound little bit harsh, but definitely sincere review
    • If in case the top 3 top commentators is earned by the same person, we’ll still review the same winner in our post. Cool!!
    • blogjer.com, azwanhadzree.com and zakiyamani.com are not eligible to get reviewed by any of these blogs even if they appear as top commentator in any of blog participated, but they still eligible to win a t-shirt
    • All top 3 top commentators will get a combine 300 ++ words review among each other in a single entry tentatively in the first week of April 2008.
    • There will be a link to the top commentators blog or site and this will definitely boost your traffic.

    Why you must be this March’s top commentator in blogjer.com!

    • You will get free t-shirt of course
    • This review is not done on monthly basis. March is the first to come, but we’ll do it from time to time
    • Blogjer’s top commentator will be reviewed by azwanhandzree.com. He is older (but young inside) and smarter than me. You will get a better review from him!!
    • Azwanhandzree.com has 8++K page views and 5++k unique visitors. Imagine how much exposure will you receive from his blog.
    • Azwanhandzree.com can ‘smell’ and has 6th sense to sense and write something controversial aka killer post, which in turn can increase his traffic 2 fold, like what was happen on January. Not surprisingly, he already has basic ideas what are going to be hot this month. So watch out his steps!
    • Other than commenting in blogjer, visit zakiyamani.com and azwanhadzree.com and be the top 3 commentator there as well. 3 of us will give you kaw-kaw(great & sincere) reviews from the bottom of our heart. Your blog will boom!!

    OK, now stop reading, leave your comments before someone else take the lead!!

    p/s: Few sentences are copied from zakiyamani.com. Thanks Zaki aka Alzack. I’m dried of ideas right now.