Cape Town in the News 28 August 2008 August 28th, 2008
What if your blog becomes to big? August 25th, 2008
Dont for one moment think its not possible. By having to many categories and sections about varies topics you cant take over search engines for all topics. So what can you possibly do to get more search engine hits for the variety of topic instead of letting Google pick a keyword for your site and only send you traffic for that specific topic?
The answer is subdomains. By making subdomains you can have a site that gets listed on most search engines and that way you can take over many niche markets using only one blog.
Another reason for doing this is because niche markets make more money than normal blogs.
Why everyone should learn survival skills August 24th, 2008
Survival skills are not only for when it looks like the world is going to end or total war breaks out, survival skills is basically what it says.
Skills to survive does not always mean war or choas, or being lost in a wilderness. We need a few things to survive in life and that includes food,water,shelter, health and basic things you probably have now.
So surviving means anything from making your own small garden in your backyard to get food and boiling water if you dont have access to nice clean water.
Survival skills can mean to save extra money or staying healthy by not spoiling your food with chemicals.
Survival skills can also be used at times when you really dont have to use them. For instance cooking skills can come handy every day.
Small things can be learned by learning survival skills that can help you in any day life.
Virgin Mobile Cape Town Fashion week: They all look so bored. August 23rd, 2008
Yeah, yeah. Apparently most people went to the fashion show to watch the fashion. But just look at this, nobody is actually looking at the model. Why pay R100 if you dont even look at the model. There are only like 10 and they walk really fast. I mean the entire fashion show is about 10 minutes. But still, what a waste of money for the ALL to be looking somewhere else.
Cape Town News Links of 22 August 2008 August 22nd, 2008
The perfect survival cooking pot or for bushcraft August 21st, 2008
These pots are sold everywhere in South Africa and you can pick them up for as little as R60 from Checkers or most shops that sell braai equipment. They are quite heavy but really worth the money.
The reason for this is they last years. Whether you just want to go away camping or need to stay in the wilderness for years this is the pot you need to take with.
These pots are called bush babies if I am correct. They are made of cast iron and will probably be the most heavy thing in your survival kit or bug out vehicle or bag.
Some stainless steel pots are not nearly as thick as they should be and soon after some fires they just break and get holes. These dont. Even after years of use they last. Really worth it.
Cooking Pot for bushcraft. August 18th, 2008
When you go live in the bush for unkown lengths of time you need something that endures, some thing that wont break 1 month from starting to use it. They sell these pots in South Africa also known as a "potjiekos" pot. Its made of cast iron and weights quite a bit but its worth carrying and using when staying for long periods in the wilderness.
A lot of times fire destroys the pots real quick. But these pots can be used for many years, even generations and can be bought for about $7 or R60 and is really worth the money.
Virgin Mobile Cape Town Fashion week - My thoughts. August 17th, 2008
So Last night we went to the Cape Town Fashion week, the Black Coffee exhibition. We arrived there about 6pm and started taking photos of some well dressed fashion freaks, walked around for a few minutes and started wondering where the heck to go. There was a lounge but we just stood around acting like we know someone. It was me and two girls with me so at least the company was good.
Eventually we went for the queues, although we did not know it was the queues and by that time it was around 6:50pm and we were kinda bored, no beer thus far could be found so was getting real boring.
Around 7:10 the well dressed security opened the rope and we all marched in what looked like a scene from dracula, massive long drapes hanging from the roof and just around the corner behold, the catwalk.
So we sit and watch people coming in bearing in mind the show had to start about 25 minutes ago and by this time it was around 7:25. Some guy was just repeating himself like a broken record saying you’re gonna lose your seat if you dont sit down. By this time I stopped worrying about the time, watching the Thunda.com people taking photos and me taking photos of them taking photos.
So eventually the lights went off followed by some loud music and 3 ads we have probably all seen on tv. It was like a giant show of sabc.
A bit later some other lights go on and this camel (model) walks out looking like a tree that got nuked by the wind. Fascinating I thought here goes the photos. So it finally started.
There came about 10-15 models out before I could even figure out who made the clothes, i noticed some of the small outfits while trying to get my camera to unjam.
Suddenly it was finished and people started running. Sitting in total shock and horror the entire show that we had to pitch up 100 bucks each was over. It was less than 10 minutes. What a total waste of money. For me at least.
When we finally got out of shock and figured we had to get out of there before they come bug us we joined the heard of people pushing for the door all in their skimpy model clothes. So much for fun I thought.
Afterwards we just walked around and I thought i’d just waste the rest of the space on the camera and go photo wild. Got some nice ones though.
La Med was next and the conversation and beer was nice but they closed like 10pm.
That was the end of the night.
Cape Town News Links of 11 August 2008 August 11th, 2008
The blog startup resource list. August 10th, 2008
Increase your earnings online by not making your title linkable August 10th, 2008
I dont know how often you browse but I browse every day all day.
One of the trends I have now noticed people do is to make their Header or Site name not clickable. Especially on Stumbleupon.
Now my explanation why they do that is to increase their earnings, especially photo and picture sites. They stuff the page with ads and then you cant really click on anything else except the ads and because most people are lazy they would rather click on something else than go to the browser and type in the homepage url.
In short people are to lazy if you provide means for them to be lazy further you can make more money. But its not a wise thing to not make you Sitename linkable if you respect your visitors.
Nigerian Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 84, has advised other men not to follow his example and marry 86 women August 9th, 2008
This guy marries 86 woman and has 170 children then he advises others not to do the same. I wonder why.
Imagine feeding all those children and wives. Then comes bed time and all the children cry. Bath time happens in the city swimming pool while they need as much beds as a hotel. If you aint rich dont do it.
He refuses to say how he makes enough money to pay for the huge cost of feeding and clothing so many people.
Every mealtime they cook three 12kg bags of rice which all adds up to $915 (£457) every day.
Cape Town News Links of 8 August 2008 August 9th, 2008
Strange stuff, sounds like something out of a movie. The guy that gave the info died when he drove off the road last year. Reports said his alcohol level was 7 times over the limit while his friends claim he stopped drinking.
I wonder what really happened. But it really sounds suspicious.
Here is a extract from News24.
Killed in car accident
A few weeks after Madaka spoke to risk analysts about the allegation, he was killed on August 21 when his car veered off the road near the Brakfontein off-ramp on the N1.
There is evidence that he was speeding and that his blood alcohol level was seven times over the legal limit. But some of his friends told the Mail and Guardian that he had given up alcohol, although another said he had started drinking again before the accident.
Madaka was friends with Vusi Mavimbela, who was director general of the NIA and Gibson Njenje, who was forced out as NIA deputy director general by Mbeki in the so-called hoax e-mail saga that saw director general Billy Masetlha loose his job. Madaka was also the brother-in-law of Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mphahlwa.
The Presidency has denied the allegations on several occasions.
“The Presidency categorically rejects all allegations made in the so-called report. The Presidency denies categorically that the president facilitated any money,” Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad told a media briefing in Pretoria earlier this week.
“In the Presidency we have decided to take legal advice and once the legal advice is given the president will take the necessary steps,” he said.
How to start a blog and get into blogging. August 6th, 2008
To start a blog you need money. Hosting costs money, a domain costs money and you probably want to have a nice professional designed theme.
That is the basic things needed to start a blog:
A domain
A domain name (obviously a domain is the domain name but I want to seperate looking for the domain name and paying for the domain)
A hosting package
A theme.
Common sense and interest in the topic you are planning to blog about
So. First of all register yourself a account at Google.com/Adsense. That is how you will get the money to pay for the above. Next you create yourself a free blogger account. Takes about 5 minutes. While you register there you will need your site url. But you dont have one, so before you type the url into Google Adsense you quickly register your free blogger account and use that as your blog url for registering with Adsense.
So now you have your blog and you have your method to get a domain and some hosting.
Next up is getting some traffic to your blogspot blog. Start blogging on blogspot about a niche that you have interest in. Whatever it is as long as its not tech or News, you will be safe. After about 10 blog posts you then insert your Google.com/Adsense codes into your blogspot blog. Your blogging should be aimed towards search engines not caring about regular readers. Traffic from search engines are most likely to click on your ads.
So blog till you have the required $50 or $10 which ever you need to get payed by Google. This might take some time. But remember to back up your posts.
Payday
When payday has come and you get your first paycheck from Google, buy yourself a domain name using checkdomain.com to look for it. Once you find a great domain name register it. Use Siteground or find a good host for your blog and domain. Remember to get hosting for your blog as well.
The blog
Once you have your domain and hosting you need to upload a wordpress install file from wordpress.org and install it that way. Installing wordpress with fantastico will give you a lot of issues later on. Install wordpress and get a theme. Do a few searches on Google for nice gpl wordpress themes. Setup your blog and remember to choose the correct url format otherwise you will have more issues later.
So you have your own blog now, get thunderbird and start commenting on blogs, comment only if you have real interest but read a lot and comment a lot. Network with other bloggers.
Install entrecard from entrecard.com and start clicking.
Register at blogcatalog and mybloglog and embed.
Remember to move your posts from blogspot to your blog and redirect your blogspot to your new home.
Embed your adsense in your blog and start blogging.
Install stubleupon and read blogs about blogging.
Your blog will now start to grow.
I guess its as easy as that.
originally published April 6 2008 republished 5 August 2008
The only way to succeed in blogging is to keep on blogging August 5th, 2008
When browsing through the thousands of make money sites invading the internet i often stumble upon a site that tells you how to succeed and have a successful money making blog. The thing that gets me is that the average blog only lasts 3 months. Most of these that tell you how to succeed is less than 3 months old. I guess the point of a money making blog is to blog about well the obvious but how can you show people how to make that cash if the blog is only 3 months old or less.
The way to succeed with blogging is not to give up after 3 months. Well this may sound totally obvious and you might be annoyed by the fact that you have read this far into my blogging statement.
But most blogs only survive and grow massive to the point where someone actually leaves a comment or subscribe if they keep on blogging. Some take longer to realize than others that you actually have to post things to see a response, they start a blog and wait for success.
Bloggers are the new media of choice, for me at least.
So keep on blogging and your blog will make it.
Cape Town News Links of 31 July 2008 July 31st, 2008
Sheep charging the hay, bloggers charging the fame. July 30th, 2008
Why to people have the perception that fame equals rich and money. This is not true, many people in Hollywood that have played in well known movies are broke. This is because they dont manage what they have and they dont stay in the fame.
(what the heck am I doing awake at 2am?)
Every blogger links to the so called A list bloggers, why? Its not like they will return the favour. Its not like your readers will think it makes you any better that you link to the so called a list bloggers?
No rather link to people on the same level as you. It benefits you more. Linking to people on the same level will also give you more incoming links.
Once again this post has no point. Hence, I am stopping in the middle now.
(I am sure I had a point when I started.)
Who cares.
Following so called A list bloggers wont help you. July 30th, 2008
People can say what they want. Everyone wants a piece of the cake and everyone that wants to make money online keeps an eye on the so called A list bloggers. Now lets say there are 100 thousand real bloggers that go after the goal with everything they have. If 50 thousand read those same blogging tips as you I bet you they will also blog about it at some time. What you learn you will blog, so now everyone has this so called secret to success. I dont think so. A secret is something that is hidden. Do you think I will share my traffic tips if I had any? No I dont think so.
Just imagine, you read those tips on famous blogs but half the blogging world reads them as well. It just does not make sense. Part of being creative is thinking of your own ways of doing things and making money. That is the fun part as well.
I will carry this on at Bloggingniche.com
