Typer Tappers

My visitors count is going up and up, but its way too slow about each month I’m lucky to get a extra 50 unique visitor count but this isn’t enough.

So from now on I’m focusing all my attention to getting my SEO skills up, I’ve always wanted this website to bring me some money but so far it isn’t doing anything of the sort, I’ve tried loads of advertising methods but none of them work its driving me crazy.

So I will post all about my new findings in the world of SEO and again I will start from the beginning.

Many of you might think that passwords don’t have to be very long like for example you might want to use your first name like john which should never be done, this can be easily broken into by co workers or even people that know you.

Choosing a password can be very easy but the main rule that you shouldn’t do is using anything that can be linked to you for example your own name or the name of people in your family these will be broken into.

A correct password should contain something like 3 letters, 3 numbers and 3 symbol.

Here is a example of a password h5b&j4!5?, now personally I use about 5 different passwords that are like that I remember these by actualy putting a post it note on my laptop when I’ve learned it i will remove it.

If you want to use a generator to make your passwords you can use this from pctools.com but I prefer to make my own.

I found this absolutely amazing product its called Sierra Wireless 875U USB Data Modem basically it allows you to have a wireless connection anywhere using your cellphone provider for example this is a O2 product so i take it all you do it place a sim card in it and your ready to go.

The thing about it that i find brilliant is the idea it is wireless, you can get standard PC cards to just put your SIM card inside it to access the web but this, this allows you to (i take it) have multiple people connecting to it.

Now I’ve seen many amazing DIY wireless to carry around with you but they where very bulky this just look at it its pocket sized

You might of read my previous post on temporary email addresses but now I’m going to post about a service called temporary email forwarding this allows you to change your email address when you feel like it but the unique factor about this is you can use your original account like gmail and you can have all your emails forwarded to that account for example you can be johnsmith@temporaryinbox.com and any emails will be forwarded to johnsmith@gmail.com.

If you start getting extreem spam you can then change it to something like johnsmith1@temporaryinbox.com and still have it forwarded to your gmail account.

I checked with the creator to see if the emails could still be checked online and he said that all the email would be sent to the private account so its secure enough.

If you hate spam this seems to be a good way of getting rid of it so check the website out http://www.temporaryinbox.com.

I have a old laptop that truth be told can’t hold much power compared to new ones (3600mAH) so I need to get enough out of it to do my basic things so I’m going to tell you what I do for this.

1. Most important one turn the brightness to a minimal, now my Fn button doesn’t work so I have to do this a complete different way so I use PowerStrip which allows me to turn everything down and it saves a lot of power.

2. Use very little programs, if I’m on the battery i try to use just one program at a time for example I have a seperate install of firefox which has no addons or anything like this, means it uses much less resources saving my laptop power.

3. Do not use the CD/DVD drive, these consume a lot of power to avoid these you can use virtual drives such as deamon tools this will allow you to run a image file for your virtual drive. If you have a newer laptop as well you might find a button to disable the drive so using it will also help.

4. Turn off wireless card when it is possible, so if your writing on your blog instead boot up something like notepad and edit it later in your blog this will save even more power, personally I cant turn my connection off I’m using the internet all the time I’m on it.

5. Adjust for best performance, this is basically turning your desktop to classic style, but for even better performance you need to go to control panel >> system >> advanced >> adjust for best performance.

I hope this all helps I will be coming up with some more later on, if you like your battery these are the best ways to keep it powered for longer, using these will also help your laptop stay cool which is critical for summer.

For a laptop cooler click the image on the left, this will cool your laptop down helping your computer live longer and keeping your lap cool at the same time.

If you know me you will know I’ve tried out several methods of advertising on my sites, for example Google adsence, affiliate future, amazons affiliate, adbrite, 1and1 referral and now trying to sell advertising space.

But what has made me any money 1 has made me $2 and that was 1and1′s referral advertising but this was on one of my less busy websites, yet the popular sites haven’t pulled in ANYTHING this was a big problem when using advertising which you cannot get any money out untill you earn $100.

So my new adventure is selling my own personal advertising space, as you might have noticed I actually have some new adverts around the page for sale their cheap as you can find out on the advertising space page it is currently run using openads so if someone wants a advert on this site they can pay me say a months cost once I see the money (in paypal) I will put the advert up.

Unfortunately it isn’t all automated i need to set up the adverts myself which personally I dislike as it doesn’t insure absote accuracy on the ads compared to the client putting it in.

Which to me is bad I believe potential customers would find it bad as well, I’m only saying that because I went totally off topic.

So overall $2 made and all I’ve ended up with is a messy website and a big bill for the websites.

What I’m getting at is that if your website isn’t that popular don’t put adverts on your site use the clean and tidy look to rake in more people if you visit a site and theirs ads eveywhere you don’t want to stay do you but if its clean you consider reading it.

Only when you can put one small ad on your site and get a little money are you ready to put more on your website so be careful not to overflow your site with adverts.

The other day I came across BitLet, now I’m a big fan of bittorrent I believe it is one of the best ways to share your podcasts as once you’ve downloaded it you can then share it to the other people downloading it.

A lot of people think that P2P is a bad thing because it allows you to download music or movies but it really isn’t its a lot more something like Utorrent is a amazing client it has all these tools on it such as the encryption some ISP’s do not like clients like utorrent so it includes encryption so that the ISP’s don’t slow your downloads down.

But now if your at work or school and they don’t have a BitTorrent client visit BitLet and start the Java Applet and your ready to download.

So someone sparked up a conversation the other day about selling links in your forum signature, so I thought what the hell even though I post on small forums might as well have a go.

So a link in my signature will cost £0.03 which is equal to around USD $0.06 per post per forum.

For a avatar I will charge £3 per month which again is USD $6.

With the avatar picture I’m thinking I should offer a link in the signature for £0.01 ($0.02) per post mainly because the avatar picture doesn’t link anywhere but it could be good for pointing out a website.

So if your interested feel free to contact me, or have any better ideas or you do this your self please comment.

I will also join a forum of your request.

Today I’ll talk about blocking websites this is a simple method and very easy to add new websites.

First you need to find the host file, if you are running WinPatrol you can find it by going to the options tab and click “view host file” or if you don’t you can find it on windows XP and Vista in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc you can just run this and it will bring up the directory.
A faster way to open it is copy this C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc\HOSTS and run it by going to start >> run.

Next you want to right click on the file “host” and open with notepad once this is open you can start blocking websites, so you want to block Google add this line at the bottom “127.0.0.1 google.com” you may need to add another with www. as it can be classed as another domain.

The reason i first point out using WinPatrol is because it can identify the exact location of the host file through the registry files, the file may not work because something malicious has changed the root of the host file so that it can redirect things like bank sites to other sites which are malicious WinPatrol will monitor this file for any changes as well so if you haven’t changed it, it will point out that something has changed it.

This is one of my favorite addons and a large reason I use firefox over Opera the majority of the time, the script allows you to disable the Javascript on websites well yeah you can go to options and untick the enable javascript box but this is so much more.

Here is a screen shot of it on Jace’s website:

From this screen shot you can see a lot of things for example you can see all the different scripts from different sites like google analytics or mybloglog so you can allow these different scripts.

What is the need for it though, well if you know your stuff about internet security you will notice how dangerous javascript can be to your browsers it is a very dangerous hole in your computers defence, so only allowing sites you trust is a brilliant method or if your not sure you can temporarily allow the websites.

You can download it from the mozilla website here or from their own site here noscript.net.