Do you know how many times your site go down, and you don’t even know. Well, if you are serious into making money online, and you have some sites that you can’t afford going down. Do you check them 24/7? Of course not. Because time is money and no one have time to watch the site for 24 hours in a day. Well then how can you sit with patience?

Let me tell you how. The answer to this problem is Just uptime.

Just uptime is a service that monitors website and server for uptimes, and if your site happens to go down. They will notify you through email notifications, and through text message alerts.

Features

• Alerts via SMS text message + email
• Monitor uptime and response time
• Detailed reporting
• Multiple check locations
• HTTP, TCP, Ping, & UDP checks
• Uptime & load reports
• and much more….

Now you might be thinking that it is some type of developer tool, and you won’t get half of it because you are not very tech savvy. Well no. Just uptime have a user friendly interface that doesn’t require you to have a techy background. As soon as you login, you see a dashboard that tells you the update on all of your sites, latest notifications. Your credit summary. It also have a graph that tells you everything that you need to know in a short form. Now you are thinking man this service sounds good but I don’t want to pay a whole heck alot. Well than just sign up for the trial version.

Aside from the report that you get on the home page, you can get a detiled report:

If you are thinking, this is some type of service that will try to trick you with their credits, and if you hit one count over, you will be charged more. Well no think again. Because they give you full control of your credits, so you can manage them the way you want to.

The bottom line is that this service is terrific. Obviously something that is this good doesn’t come free. But they do have a trial version, so you can try it before hands.

They have two plans which are at a relatively cheap price:

Just Uptime Basic – $9.95 / month

• 5 checks included
• 20 SMS text message alerts
• 100 E-mail notifications
• Unlimited contacts

Just Uptime Premium – $39.95 / month

• 30 checks included
• 200 SMS text message alerts
• Unlimited E-mail notifications
• Unlimited contacts
• Discounted Credits

So now it comes down to do you care about your site? If you do, and you don’t want it to suffer downtime when you are out of town on a vacation. Then make your vacations safe by joining Just Uptime. If you don’t want to pay remember a 30 day trial waits for you. All free. Take advantage of it. Sign up for the trial version now.

ViralBlogAds has been launched. With their launch, they are holding a small contest. Well the price adds upto be a little over $1100 value. Now this company is co-founded by Simon Emery (Developer of OIO Publisher) and a good friend of mine Colin Klinkert.

What is ViralBlogAds

ViralBlogAds is a small PPC banner ad network that focuses on simplicity. They offer high referral incomes (15% for life!) and a lottery-style “bonus fund”. Viral Blog Ads is relies on user experience. Therefore they care about what their members have to say. They run polls on the site, and also have a feedback system, so your voice can be heard.

Who is ViralBlogAds for?

For Advertisers

ViralBlogAds is a PPC banner network that allows advertisers to reach a wide audience in their niche with their banners (If you want a good looking banner, Contact me for Rates). Advertisers only pay when a visitor actually clicks through to their site. Real-time click fraud protection and statistics are also provided in the members area.

For Publishers

ViralBlogAds guarantees you related ads on your website. These will not be just any ugly looking ads, but majority of them will be creative and match your niche to target your visitors. These ads will be easy to intergrate into your template. You get paid for every valid click that you deliver! If you wish to sell ads on your site privately, they have an awesome plugin that ensures that you never have empty ad spot on your site, and at the same time it let’s you control your own ad space!

OIOPublisher

I have always recommend everyone to get OIOPublisher. This wordpress plugin, allows you to maintain the ads you sell on your website. Everything is automated, except for the ad review. It lets you choose which ads you want to display. If you are using OIOPublisher, and you have empty spots, you might want to consider joining ViralBlogAds because it will fill up your spot. Intergration is easy as well because OIOPublisher have an option where you can simply connect viralblogads to your ad system without a hassle. So get OIOPublisher if you haven’t already.

Contest

It has started on September 1st, 2008 and will run for 30 days. (Official Post)

List Of Current Prizes (Note: More To Come):

1) Provided by Adii
- 6 Month Developer Subscription from WooThemes ($375 Value)

2) Provided by Ades
- $50 and free Review on Ades Blog ($400 Value)

3) Provided by Syed
- 125 for a month on Balkhis ($40 Value)

4) Provided by Mr. Javo
- Review and 125 spot for month on Mr. Javo ($85 Value)

5) Provided by Alvin Phang
- 5 x copies of Atomic Blogging Course ($47 Value Each)

6) Provided by Mike
- 125 for a month on Mike’s Blog ($15 Value)

7) Provided by Darin
- 1 Free Website Review, 1 Month 125×125 banner ad, 1 Month Ad in MaxBlogPress Stripe and 1 Month Ad in RSS Footer ($150 Value)

There are more prizes that will be added over the course of the competition. If you want to offer a prize and be a sponsor, please email to contests@viralblogads.com and they will explain in more info. Please include the prize and value.

How you can Win?

* Add Your Website as a Publisher and then Ad The Code To Your Site!
* Have a click trough rate of 0.05% or better (this is very easy, just place the code near the top of your site)

You will then be in the running to win. To increase your chances of winning you can do all/any of the below. Post in the thread what you have done, you can even link to it (getting you traffic) and we will confirm that you did do them.

To Earn Extra Entries (each is worth 1 entry):

* Write A Review on your blog, using your affiliate link to VBA (Aff Income For You) & also link to this thread
* Digg, Stumble and Yahoo Buzz This Thread (Please Do all 3 for us to count as another entry for you)
* Follow us on Twitter and Join Our RSS Feed

Want to know the Bonus Entry? Read their full thread.

Bottom line is Join ViralBlogAds Now.

As you know that Balkhis has been redesigned. Along with numerous additions to the new theme, there is one that stands out. That addition is adding the Peel Away to the page. I got multiple emails, questions on forums, direct messages on twitter asking me how did I add that. Well I am using a script called Peel Ad Software.

Before I put it on Balkhis, I tried it on separate page and see if everything worked fine so I can eventually review it on Balkhis. You have seen similar idea being used on multiple places such as Enkay Blog, John Chow, and now here on Balkhis as well.

There are many vendors that sell this sort of script. But I picked Peel Ad Software because I have known Lance for about 1.5 years now. The price of this script is relatively cheaper at $27 rather than some other places where it was $37.

Let me tell you how it works.

Note: *This script does require a MYSQL Database*

Its quite simple, you upload the file in your public_html directory. You follow the simple guide and install the software on your webhost. Then you paste a simple code in your header and you are good to go.

Yup thats right, no need to edit the codes or enter images manually. Everything is done via an admin panel.

As displayed in the image above, you just need to enter the image url, and the targetted url. This script also allows you to set the maximum views, if you are selling your ads through views. You can also set the click limit. So if you are selling 1000 clicks, then you can do that. You can put as many ads in rotation as you want. Just simply add them and keep it active. They will rotate.

This software actually comes in with sample images that you can use to make your own images. Like I have done so. It is very easy to install.

If I have to say what level should you be on to install this script on your website. I will say a beginner can easily do this job without any assistance.

Now this idea is still very new compared to alot of other ideas like sidebar buttons and more, so you will not see this type of ads on alot of websites. But the demand for these ads are high because they are at the very top. Some people find them annoying, but I think they are not annoying as long as the page have limited amount of ads.

I noticed that the site load time was not affected by this script. It might have increased a little bit but nothing significant.

If you are not a designer, then your best bet is to use one of the sample images that comes with it. Otherwise Uzzz Productions is available to design banners for you for peel away ads.

Direct ad sales are a significant source of income on some blogs, if you have one of those blogs, then this can be one of your option.

Another reason why you should get Peel Ad Software is if you want to advertise your own products. Perhaps like a contest or something. Rather than having it featured on the top of your blog like this site, you might as well get Peel Ad Software. Because it gets annoying to the new readers. When I first visited Net Strife after a long time, I didn’t realize that change and thought the blog wasn’t updated in a long time.

Well don’t wait, if you want to get specific parts of your website some exposure, then get Peel Ad Software Now.

Blogging is fun. Why? Because it gives you freedom of speech. A way to share your thoughts with your family and friends. Thats how Lifeofblogger.com came in place.

Lifeofblogger is about a 4 year old blogger named Zain Balkhi. Yup thats my youngest brother. Zain is the youngest member of Balkhis Crew. He is the first 4 year old blogger who was featured in the newspaper. He is also the first 4 year old blogger who have a wordpress theme and phpLD theme named after him. Zainu Theme.

Zain is also one of the 4 year old bloggers who is listed in Google. Top 3 are about him.

Zain has been recieving gifts from companies. First one was Market Leverage, who sent him a Future Blogger shirt which he loves alot.

Zain has shown alot of interest in computers and making graphics. He loves to paint and run his remote control cars.

I was being asked by many when will my Future blogger start? Well this is the time. When he is 4. I have registered lifeofblogger.com. This blog will contain fun and embarassing moments of his life. The only real competition I see for his blog is Sallychow.com. But Lifeofblogger is already a step ahead because of the cool custom design that was done by Uzzz Productions.

Another reason why I started this blog was because I have family in many different countries who would like to keep up with Zain’s life. So this will be a way they can see him grow up. This is the way you can see a future blogger grow up. I am hoping that this blog stays live for about 10 years until he is completely sensible. Than he can do whatever he likes with it.

I have given him a head start. The blog will be updated periodically. With zain’s video. Right now the videos are being published by my sister, Sameen. I bought her a new laptop just because of that. Zain and her shares their new Vaio.

If you see some babblyboo language than it means it was zain who wrote the post. Since he is starting Pre-K now, he should be able to write well. Atleast better than me

Lifeofblogger is still not entirely done, because I need to give Zain’s website it’s identity. Meaning Favicon. The blogs promotion needs to be started. Well it is being started with this post.

Here is how you can help. I mean I know you all love him, and this is something cool. So write about it on your blog. Digg this post, stumble this post, add it to all of your social bookmarks. Show some encouragement for a 4 year old blogger. If you like to see him grow up (which is exciting) than subscribe to his posts. You won’t recieve emails daily. Probably weekly

Visit LifeofBlogger.com NOW. If you don’t like zain, just visit to see the design

Angadsodhi is a regular reader on this blog, and I have been checking out his blog lately so therefore I have decided to review his blog because of the reader love on Balkhis.

Angad’s blog is a personal blog which is crowded with advertisement. I like the way he shares his information. Alot of the articles there are interesting because they are from various different sources. But there are several tips that I will be giving in this post to Angad.

Before I start with that, I want to say that the content on this site is very interesting. Posts on this blog are also being displayed in an orderly fashion. The design of the site is decent for a personal blog. You should get a better banner on the header for the empty ad spot. A banner that is eye catching.

Few things that I noticed that needs to be fixed urgently are: the over advertisement. You have too many ads in the sidebar. I scroll down the sidebar and I see ads and content. Sidebar ads are more prominent than the sidebar content.

As you see I have commented on your blog multiple times. You have comment relish installed, but for some reason it is not working correctly. I got the thank you email after every single comment. After 3 I stopped because I didn’t want to get any more emails.

Work on the footer. On pages like this it comes all the way to the top in IE 7.0. Only browser I checked in. Make the footer below the sidebar, so it looks like a footer.

Pagination needs to be somewhere better. I just don’t like the style. Even if you leave the pagination the way it is, take care of the problem on this page. Because pagination box is blank.

I like the idea of your Best Posts. I liked the comic one as well.

I understand that you want to make money off your personal blog, but keep the advertisement to a limit.

I am not doing reviews in great details so these are the quick things I noticed on your blog Angad.

Guys visit his blog, it is cool and he is a fellow reader here at Balkhis.

Visit AngadSodhi.com