In the quest of searching for the most suitable passive income stream, I’ve landed on something new and very interesting. I’ve discovered how easy it is to setup my own Social Community Network. Oh well, setting it up and getting members hook in are two different things, the former is the easy part.

Let me tell you how the idea light up. As I was browsing different threads at bloggeries, I bumped up into an idea brought up by a certain forum member. That particular member is asking if it is a good idea to blog about your city, so I thought of why not to give it a try. So I think, and think, and think.. If I’ll be blogging about my community, do I have lots of topics to blog about? And then I think and think and think again. In the midst of my thinking, I remembered my cousin introducing me to a Ning.com community of my High School Alma Mater. And voila! Ideas came bursting like there’s no tomorrow.

So I made a few searches on what software I can use to start the project, and it wasn’t hard finding one. Gladly it is free to use too! I’ve studied the basic information that I have to know, tested it in my free webhost, and eventually failed to set it up because of the incompatibility of my free webhost to the software. I’m using Dolphin of Boonex.com btw. I found out that this software consume lots of resources and is needing a webhost that supports FFMPEG, so I’ve made searches again.

I actually got discourage of continuing the project at first because the webhosts that I’ve found is too expensive for me. But as I was starting to lose hope, I’ve discovered a webhost that I can afford. I instantly registered and started uploading my files. Below is my current webhost for the Social Community Network project that I’m conducting.

There’s how it goes. The website is now running and I’m currently recruiting members, which is the challenging part. The community is existing, all I have to do is to make people aware that the website is live. I’ll keep you all posted on how it goes. I’m giving myself 6 months for evaluation. Good Luck to me!!

As a blogger that came from a free hosted blog, the transition of transferring from a blogger.com blog to my own self hosted wordpress blog was a very terrible experience. It was really frightening at first because of the unfamiliarity that the transition brings, what makes it very frustrating during those times is that I can’t find any help, oh, I found one, but guess what he told me. “I only offer blog setup for people who have signed up for hosting through my links”, wow, that’s really sweet. So what happened is I kept the struggles by myself, and learn things the hard way..

Anyways, it took almost three days for me to finally get the grasp of installing wordpress in my own domain. It wasn’t that hard actually, but for first timers, it’s not that easy also. Because of that experience, I thought of sharing a simple guide before you host your own domain and take that uncertain transition.

• Before making a purchase of your own domain and web host, utilize the services of free web hosting companies to get a preview of what you are about to face. I recommend using the one that I’m currently using, visit this free web host. Register for a subdomain account, don’t worry, it’s free. From there, you can have a first glance of how a control panel of a web host company will look like.

• On your free web host account page, navigate and click the control panel link of your registered subdomain account, it will further lead you to the control panel page. Then look for the Fantastico Deluxe icon and click on it. On the Fantatico Deluxe page, choose wordpress and follow the succeeding instructions, and presto! You have your wordpress account setup.. I told you it was very easy.

Okay, just in case you are using a different free web host and it have no Fantastico Deluxe function, please follow the procedures below.

1. What you need to do first is to download the latest version of wordpress. Download it here.


2. In your webhosts control panel, select MySQL database ( the one with the blue dolphin logo). From there, create a database, then create a database user. After that, proceed to “Add Users to Your Databases” and find the privileges checkbox and put a check in the “ALL” selection (I believe it is located at the left side of that column), then click “Add user to database” to confirm.


3. Back to your downloaded wordpress files. After you have unzipped the file, open the file wp-config-sample.php, open it in your text editor (notepad or worpad will do), fill in your database details (now use the database username and password that you have created earlier), and save it as wp-config.php. Don’t forget this last part.


4. Now open your FTP client and open your domain’s FTP account (if you don’t have one, download it for free here). **Remember that you still have to create an FTP account in your webhost’s control panel. You can do that by accessing the FTP manager**


5. Upload all the files from your wordpress folder (only the files inside it, not the single wordpress folder itself) to the public_html directory.


6. Off you go. Just open your domain’s url, http://yoursite.com, then follow the necessary steps to finish the installation.

What’s important here is you know where you will upload your files, in this case, the public_html directory. From that directory also, you can upload your wp themes and your wp plugins…

I hope this helps. Don’t hesitate to ask me questions by using the comment form below.. Good Luck!!

So the title says it all, you are getting paid to do your normal internet searches. From my own experience, I get an average of 1 cent in British Pounds per internet query. That’s some money considering your just doing your normal internet searches, which I bet you always do.

The PayPerSearch Program that I am talking about is MySearchFunds. This is a UK based company who pays it’s members just by simply using their search box in making searches through the internet. Getting paid just by doing almost nothing, sounds good isn’t it? Well, I know that your very skeptical about the legitimacy of lucrative programs like this. Thank yourself for reading my post, I have something for you. I’ve made a search (through this money making search box of course ) and found a comprehensive forum discussion about MySearchFunds, visit this link. Please come back here and tell me if it’s a scam or not..

During the first few days of this program, which was during the early January of 2008, it was partnered up with Ask.com, which made searching a bit of sacrifice because the search results are not so relevant, compared to Google’s. Fortunately, during this week, MySearchFunds is now displaying searches from major search engines, and as of today, it is Google.co.uk. Of course, that made me use their search box more often now, increasing my earnings cent by cent.

After you reached the minimum payout of £20, you will be receiving payment through your Paypal account. Payouts are released every 30 days, every 45 days, end of the month, etc.. MySearchFunds‘ search box is compatible with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 7.

So what are you waiting for? Try this money making program now and give yourself a cash return from the thousands of internet queries you make. Do me a favor, join the program using my link below. Goodluck!

This is a quick tip to increase your blog’s link rankings, oh well, as far as technorati is concern. All you have to do is to be an entrecard member, then drop on the Entredroppers plugin users that I have provided below. Please take note that you will feel the link boost when your link is still in the entredroppers list at the time that particular blog is updated. If your in a hurry, use Ping-o-Matic to update the directories. One warning though, slow down in pinging cowboy! So what’s the moral of this? Keep on dropping on them. But don’t forget to apply the entrecard dropping etiquette huh! Read the latest post of the blog, and if possible, comment on them..

The plugin creator:

• Owen’s U-G-H.com

Entredroppers Users (with no particular order)

1. Pinoy Biz Blogger


2. First Door on the Left


3. Simply Stating the Obvious


4. Table for Five


5. Blogging Over Coffee


6. PlotDog Press


7. Whooah.biz


8. Fabulously Jinxed


9. The (Other) End of the Internet


10. Money Maker Times


11. Foolsville 2.0


12. My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings


13. Colloquium


14. Mummified Times Five


15. On the Horizon


16. The Original Mx5


17. Blogging Over Coffee


18. Multifarious Mushrooms


19. Not Just Mama


20. Mixed Metaphor


21. Dream-Act-Plan-Believe


22. PinoySkull Dot Com

As I go along with this Affiliate Marketing Campaign, I am beginning to see how broad and extensive it is. I’ve learned that there is more in affiliate marketing than just by integrating affiliate links in my blog. Keyword research, niche selection, and Search Engine Optimization, this is becoming very overwhelming for me. I’m not losing hope though, I will take it one step at a time. I will keep you updated, dear readers (if I have any), to all of my failures and progress towards my quest in gaining the grasps towards making wealth through affiliate marketing.

Regarding the previous Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign I have conducted few days ago, I think that was a very careless, newbie move (I just can’t get away of such a newbie status). Engaging on something new without gaining sufficient knowledge is a sign of stupidity, does that make me one stupid jerk? I have no regrets though. I take every failures an opportunity to learn something new, take it as advantage, rather than a disadvantage.

No doubt, my PPC campaign is a complete failure, getting 18 clicks for $27 with zero (0) leads. I don’t know the policies regarding PPC campaigns that’s why I was surprised on how expensive it was. I used Bidvertiser. I really don’t know if the system of Bidvertiser or my own choice of Affiliate programs to promote is at fault. I guess it was more on my part.

The failure of my previous PPC campaign didn’t stopped me in continuing my Affiliate Marketing. With a very tight budget for this project, I turned to Project Wonderful to promote my affiliates. Comparing to my Bidvertiser campaign, this one is far too inexpensive. I got 30+ clicks with 70000+ pageviews with this campaign, in addition, I got a few sign up for my affiliate. For how much?? I didn’t spend a dollar, it just cost me less than $.50. One thing though, I don’t think the lead results is incomparable with my Bidvertiser campaign because I used another affiliate program, but I think I’m gonna stick with Project Wonderful. What’s good about project wonderful, aside from an inexpensive advertising is that you can control lots of factors in your advertising campaign.

I also used forums to extend my affiliate marketing. I took advantage of a small online money making forum and got a very surprising results. Got a descent number of referrals, enough to say that I’m somewhat successful on that part. It really surprised me how responsive such small forum was.

So these are the tactics that I will use in my current affiliate marketing campaigns:

• I will be maximizing the benefits of Project Wonderful. I will study the most converting combinations of factors to take the most out of my campaigns.


• I will keep on searching for responsive forums. Small forums are my target.

I hope this works pretty well, I’ll update all of you on how it goes.

I have told everyone that I’m conducting a blogrush experiment for my personal skill development, so here’s a brief update on what happened and what’s going on.

As of today, the experiment has gone in a long path of nowhere. Out of an almost 3,000 page impressions (aggregate), I got an enormous Click Through Rate (CTR) of 0.067% or two massive clicks. Is this time to conclude that the Blogrush widget is 99% near to being useless in bringing some traffic? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not yet concluding this experiment, as I have said, this is just an update. The technique that I used in my previous blog post titles is in between being cautious and aggressive, although much nearer to being cautious. I tried making strong titles such as “Gaming StumbleUpon: Exploiting the Traffic” which gave me 152 unfiltered views, excluding my own page views, and two clicks from the blogrush widget, which represents 100% of my blogrush clicks. The results are not enough to conclude anything, so I’ll still continue conducting these experiment.

There are few constraints that may lead to unsuccessful results of this experiment. The most limiting factor is my blogrush credits. Due to the very little traffic that I’m getting from this blog, I was unable to gain sufficient credits to syndicate all of my posts. An average of 600 page impressions is very small. My target is to give my posts 2,000-3,000 page impressions each, which is still far out of my league. Anyways, I’m trying to work on that.

On the other hand, there are few things that keeps me from using the blogrush widget. Although blogrush failed in bringing a considerable amount of traffic, it is somehow successful in introducing to me quality