If you guys do not know, I used to be very active in the Web Directory business. Back in 2006 when I entered the directory industry, some of the big names were Yahoo, BOTW, Aviva, and Romow. Recently I was asked to do a review of Romow Web Directory and their affiliate program at Balkhis. [...]
I am proud to announce the launch of my new project WPBeginner. WPBeginner is a site for New Wordpress Users. We will have tips, tools, and other advices for all wordpress users on WPBeginner. This can also be a place for new wordpress users to interact in the comments and help each other out if necessary.
WPBeginner offers a free wordpress setup service for all our users. Now this offer is available for new users and experienced users who don’t have the time to do the setup themselves. The setup will contain all plugins, tools, and necessary advices that you need to start a successful blog.
I want WPBeginner to be a community site where anyone can contribute, therefore I have left the option for anyone to contribute their resources. There is no possible way that I can collect all plugins, or new themes releases, therefore developers are welcome to write about their products on WPBeginner. This is advertising for them without any cost, and resourcesful information and tools are being offered to new wordpress users.
The goal of my team is to make WPBeginner a one stop shop for all Wordpress users. It will take time and support of our audiences. So if you have any feedback to give us, please feel free to do so either by using the contact form at WPBeginner, or the comments on Balkhis.
WPBeginner is powered by wordpress and I have to say I love Wordpress because it has infinite possibiltes. Please check out WPBeginner and follow us on twitter.
For the past few days, I have been trying out a system called BlogProfitz as they asked me to do a review for them. I have finally finished evaluating the system and in this post I will share my review of this product.
BlogProfitz is a system that brings Blogging and Affiliate Marketing together in a Wordpress blog. From the demo, it looks like a store that is running on Wordpress.
After setting up a Wordpress Blog, you start the BlogProfitz engine. BlogProfitz system injects your blogs with ten, hundreds or even thousands of affiliate products (complete with images, descriptions and affiliate links), all targeted to your blogs’ subject matter and niche. Products are organized in a ‘store’ format so your readers can then browse, read about and purchase the products they want, directly through your site. These products are being extracted from affiliate networks like CJ, Amazon, Ebay and more. With the combination of 10 Networks, BlogProfitz provide you with 24,000,000 products at your disposal.
Basically what it is doing is making your job easier for finding content. Now you can have 10 and even 100 blog if you choose to do so filled with affiliate products that are allowing you to make money. The system is providing automated content like ebay, and amazon stores does, and all you have to do is promote your site and get targetted audience to your website. To help attract the audience, BlogProfitz has incorporated Youtube Video feature in the site which lets you add videos to your articles. Along with the youtube feature, they also has a database of 15,000 articles which you can use on your website. Don’t stop here, BlogProfitz lets you add any RSS feeds to your blog which will automate the content to your affiliate site.
It comes with multiple different themes and more to come. It is very easy to setup the website claims 5 minutes. Since it is all done online, there is no need to install anything on your server which saves you the resources.
All you have to do is SETUP a Wordpress Blog! And follow this form.
If you didn’t get what I was trying to tell you then check out their How to Page and it will show you a step by step process.
Basically after evaluating this, what you have is a Huge Store Script put together with Wordpress which they call BlogProfitz. Now duplicate content worries those who are in the business for SEO and Long Term. Store sites are not long term business for the most part because they provide no useful content except for having a collection of related products. You will not naturally get visitors to these sites, and you will have to run PPC Campaigns. So duplicate content should not be your worry at this time.
What you should be worried about though is duplicating content from the RSS Feeds of other bloggers because you might piss off some of these guys and burn your bridges for the future.
Other than that it is a great product if you are just thinking of using it as a store and getting quick bucks in your pocket. Yes I said quick bucks! The system seems promising, but it will only work if you know what you are doing meaning if you know how to run PPC campaigns.
It is doing half the job for you which is getting you the content, so you can spend all your energy on marketing the site and maximizing your earnings.
Alright guys. I had this domain for a while now which I was using as a proxy site. Recently with a partner, I have decided to convert it into a URL Shortening Service, or a URL Redirection Service which we called Ekey – Your Key to Shorter URL. I thought of this idea after I got active on twitter that I should come up with my own service.
Ekey is a competitor site of tinyurl.com and many others which allows you to make your long URLs into a shorter url. The website was created to serve the twitter community and make the URLs fit into your tweet and give you enough room to write your message. But it is not limited to twitter community. Affiliate marketers, webmasters, and normal internet users may use this site for their advantages also.
Every affiliate marketer should hide their Affiliate URL if they want to maximize their revenue. Well a lot of them are not using wordpress, or don’t have enough money to buy MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate so what should they do? Well they should just head over to eKey.us and hide their URL with a smaller and anonymous URL. Since this service is by me, you know that I won’t be dishonest with anyone. I will guarantee you that your URLs are safe with us and You won’t have to worry about getting your commission stolen or lost.
Every Webmaster should use eKey if they are posting on forums. Often forums don’t allow you to keep linking to your own website. Well half the times moderators just run the query for the term balkhis.com or any other url. All they have to do is ban the user. I have been a moderator and admin of a few forums, so I know this. Well when you use a Url Shortening service like Ekey, you are getting yourself saved from one barrier. Not that I am saying that you should spam the forums with your own URL, but this is a way that you can use if you post your URLs. It is also good for your signature links because most sites have a limit on characters. By using a URL Shortening service you can simply have more links in your signature.
Every internet user should eKey.us because it helps you keep your email links safe. Have you ever received an email with a broken map link. Usually mapquest links are really long, and they usually break in the email. You can prevent that by simply heading to my website and making it shorter.
We have added a Decompress feature on the site that allows you to put in a random ekey.us URL and find out the real URL. So far aside from the redirection service, this is the other feature that is in the website.
We are working on the feature of tracking URLs, so it shows you how many hits your URL has received.
One thing is that eKey is well designed and much more cleaner and easier to use than others. Second is that eKey does not put the annoying toolbars on the new opened links. If you were going to use tinyurl.com eKey is way shorter. First our domain is shorter and we only add 5 random characters after the ekey.us domain. So your links will be very small. Lastly because you want to support me and make eKey popular.
I don’t think I need to ramble about eKey anymore, try it use it and love it. I would like to hear what you guys think.
Alright a user of mine contacted me. Well I do not know if this person is a user of mine, but since she came to my website, she is a user. Well this was a different type of offer. Most of the times people email me asking me to link to them. This time it was more like hey can I link to you.
Well first I thought it was spam, but I decided to check it out. I saw the website and basically what was going on is Corey is reviewing your design in a video. I said sure go ahead. She put out a review of Balkhis. I liked it and it was definitely more helpful to me. Not that I have plans to change Balkhis anytime soon, but I will surely use her advices and reviews into my future designs.
OK Now you are wondering well this is a review post, so It must be paid. No I found this the most suitable category because I am technically reviewing her services. Now what do you get… How is it free advertising for every blogger…
Well she is not just targetting top blogs. Because than I wouldn’t be in the list eh. But what she wants to review is a unique theme. A theme that is not a free theme. Some what modified version at least. She will review your website as what a first time user would see it.
From her about page, these are the things she would review: Layout, Colors, Branding, Number of ads, Positioning of ads, Content hierarchy, Overall Organization, Overall Presentation, Flourish. More on her about page.
I think this is a great way to get some link backs from a website which I see some potential in. All you have to do is fill out a simple Submit form.
I am not saying you will get 100s of visitors from her site, but the 20 visitors she do send you are 20 visitors that you wouldn’t have gotten if you didn’t get that review.
Get your free links from her site now.
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Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
