Tips to promote your blog

The are many ways to get promotion of your blog. Some method that i will discuss here actually you already used it is either u know or not actually it is a  method to promote your blog. There are two ways to promote your blog. First is free method, second is paid method.

In this post i will share with you how to promote your blog with free method only. The free method is actually quite slow, but it will give good impact in a long term rather than paid method.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This method is a very effective method to promote your blog. Technique SEO easyly make your blog listed in search engine such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing for free.

Most internet users search information by using some keyword in search engine. With SEO, your blog will listed in the first page of search result and will give continuous traffic for free.

You need to use accurate keyword when write blog entry. Remember, Search engine always like new and original entry. When your writing fulfill the search engine desire, your entry will be listed in search result.

I will suggest you to do research about the keyword before proceed with SEO, as a result you will get the best and suitable to used in SEO for your blog.

You can refer this site for SEO Book , http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-information/

Focus on the topic "How To","Guide", and also "Tips" user friendly because visitor in general looking for a solution for their problem with keyword "how to" in Search Engine.

Comment on other people's blog

Have you ever write a comment on others people's blog.? If yes, then congratulation because you are already start promote your blog. Maybe you are not aware about this, In Comment form actually have a URL field. When you start giving a comment to other people's blog, it will attract readers who read the comment to click on the URL. Automatically you already promote your blog.

Email Signature

Most of the email service such as Gmail and Yahoo! allow user to put their email signature for every single mail you send. When you send an email to other person, this signature will automatically include with your sending email.

Facebook / Google+

Do you have facebook or google plus account ? If you still dont have it, register now. Facebook or Google Plus are two big social website which have high user. In many country nowadays, this two social website is the most visited site.

You can use this social website to promote your blog for example. The viral marketing concept  through this two social website very effective. But how to do this.?
First, you need to create an account, of course you need to register at social website and fill all the required information. After that, create one fan page for your blog. The fan page will allow user to click "Liked" button  or  "Follow" button and the your fans will get the update from your blog. Easy right. Make sure you add some tips or general knowledge in your fan page site so that they will feel worth joining your fan page group.

Blog Directory

Blog directory is a website that gather all type of blog in a category accordingly. When you write a blog about sports for example, insert your blog in sport category. Most blogger used directory blog for their blog promotion and also they can search and get the idea from other blogger.

By registering your blog in directory blog also will help SEO of your blog. This step will make your blog explored more faster by spider search engine that seed for new post for their search result list.
Example Directory blog is

• http://www.bloghints.com/
• http://www.blogcatalog.com/
• http://www.bloghub.com
• http://says.com

Submit Blog URL to search engine

Search engine like Google, Yahoo! and Bing have their own special website to subscribe your blog URL to them. This purpose to accelerate robot or spider search engine to find your blog and your blog will be listed for the next search result.

To submit your blog url to Google, follow on this link : https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?continue=/addurl

For Bing Follow on this link : http://www.bing.com/toolbox/submit-site-url

And for yahoo , follow this link : http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

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Tips of creating interesting blog.

How to attract visitors to your blog? The answer is do promotion.

No one will visit your blog if you do not do the promotion activity. Maybe some of you already did what i will discuss later without you realizing it. The important factor of successfully blog is a high visitors of the site. There is no meaning if your blog is so beautiful or the contents are good without any visitors to your blog.

Try to get high traffic to your blog at least 1000 - 10,000 visitors every month is good enough. The more visitors in your blog, the more successful your blog.

This are the tips that i want to share, You can combine this post also as a extra to creating interesting blog.

Good and latest contents.

Good contents will attract visitors to always waiting for a new post from your blog. Every time they start browsing, they will always visit your blog just to know any update from your blog contents. Maybe they will bookmark your blog, so that the will always remember the url of your blog. You can also attract people to join discussion with your post by allowing them to leave a comment to your post.

The blog that always have latest and fresh information always make the readers look forward for latest post from you.

Consistency update your blog

Updating the blog regularly produces a subconscious habit among readers to visit your blog every time they start browsing internet.

Make sure you consistently updating or insert new post to your blog. Do not make your visitors wait for a new content too long. If you can, update your blog everyday. Your visitors will shift towards another blog if your blog will not update for a long time.

Design your blog appropriate.

Some template or design website is not user friendly and troublesome visitors. When your choosing a template for your blog, avoid a template that use too much of animation and slow to load the content.

Interesting blog design can help marketing and branding of your blog. 

Make your post easy to read

You can also make a joke in your blog, so that readers will enjoy to read your post. But, dont put too much joke in your post until the message that you want to deliver is not deliver to the readers.

Have a clear objective and title for your post.

By creating informative post shows that you care about your readers.

Every single post must have their own objective is either you realize it or not. Before you start to write, make sure your objective is deliver. Think about what you want to deliver in your post. For example, current issue or sharing experience about some event that happen to you.

This five tips is very important to attract visitors to become one of your regular readers. You need to get more practice to create your own style of writing. You can also read other blog just to study the writing style.

Writing technique require long practices to become pro. So, try to write as much as possible. When mane people response to your post, means that your post give some impact to them. The more comments or feedback , the more successful your post. Of course, readers who always give a comments or feedback will always look forward to new post you will write.




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How to get Idea to start writing in blog

What will you write in your blog.? This is a common question and also a common problem when someone want to start writing in their blog. This is also my problem. :-D

This are the list of application that will help you to get an idea to start writing in your blog, im not an expert, but just want to share the information to all of you.

1. Youtube (http://www.youtube.com)
2. Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends)
3. AOL Hot Searches (http://hotsearch.aol.co.uk/)
4. Google Keyword Tool(http://www.googlekeywordtool.com/)

These are some application that you will use to help you to get an idea to start blogging.

Youtube

Youtube is a popular website for sharing a video in internet right now. It is a the top 3 website that always have high visitor in the world. This is the keyword, top website have a top story/video that will give you the idea , to start brainstorming your mind about what are the most popular video that people watched. What you need to do is to browse the Most Popular video in Youtube and try to identified the video that have high views in a short time. If the video has been frequently watched in a short time, means that the video can be a topic in your blog.

Google Trends

Google trends is a one program that developed to identified search trend for some keyword. By using this program, you will also will know which country that have high searching information for certain keyword. Google also will listed top keyword everyday via Hot Topics and Hot searches in America.

You can use this program for free to get an idea to writing in your blog. 

AOL Hot Searches

AOL is a shortform from America Online that provide services such as emel, internet, and also search engine. AOL is almost same like Yahoo! but more senior than Yahoo! and Google search engine. AOL have a one site that call AOL Hot Searches which will show the most widely searched keyword every day in their search engine.

Same like google trends, this is a one application that you can use to  get the idea to start writing in your blog.

Google Keyword Tool

This program is developed by Google and free to use. Most Internet businessman use this program to get new idea based on request from user in internet. With keyword tool, Google search shows estimates for each keyword related to what you're looking for.

For example, you want to create blog about Insurance. Google will list the keyword suggestions that may be related to what you're looking for with the total worldwide search, in the country and also estimates that advertisers are willing to pay for the use of the keyword. By using this program also, you can search high value keyword that can be used in your blog. Just to get the idea. 

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[Fix]Asynchronous operations are not allowed in this context

Asynchronous operations are not allowed in this context. Page starting an
asynchronous operation has to have 
the Async attribute set to true and an asynchronous operation can only be
started on a page prior to PreRenderComplete event.

The error above occur when you try to call method on web service asynchronously.
The solution is to add Async equal to true in your aspx page.

<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Application/Site1.Master" 
AutoEventWireup="true" Async="true"    %>

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Cannot Serialize The Data Table - Web Service

System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error generating the XML document. ---> 
System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot serialize the DataTable. DataTable name is not set.

This is the error occur when you create method in webservice with data type "DataTable". For Example like this :

    [WebMethod]
    public DataTable test1()
    {
        DataTable testTable = new DataTable();
        return testTable;
    }

The Example above will lead to the Error "Cannot Serialize The Data Table"

This error because of method in WebService try to return result of DataTable to whoever request  it, but unfortunately the DataTable do not have their own name. So the quick solution for this error is put the name for DataTable like this :

The Solutions

     [WebMethod]
     public DataTable test1()
     {
          DataTable testTable = new DataTable("Table1");
          return testTable;
     }

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Inheritance C#

Inheritance is one of the main features of an object-oriented language. C# and the .NET class library are heavily based on inheritance. The telltale sign of this is that all .NET common library classes are derived from the object class, discussed at the beginning of this article. As pointed out, C# doesn’t support multiple Inheritance. C# only supports single inheritance; therefore, all objects are implicitly derived from the object class.

Implementing inheritance in C# is similar to implementing it in C++. You use a colon (:) in the definition of a class to derive it from another class.

In this example. i will create 3 class which are Class BaseClassA, BaseClassB, and Main Class which is myClass

Inheritance example

    // Base class A
    class BaseClassA
    {
          publicvoid MethodA()
          {
              Console.WriteLine("A Method called");
          }
    }


    // Base class B is derived from Base class A
    class BaseClassB : BaseClassA
    {
          public void MethodB()
          {
            Console.WriteLine("B method called");
          }
    }

    // Main class
    class myClass
    {
       static void Main()
       {
           // Base class B
           BaseClassB b = newBaseClassB();
           // Base class B method
           b.MethodB();
           // BaseClassA Method through BaseClassB
           b.MethodA();
          }
    }

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Button in UpdatePanel requires two / double clicks to fire - ASP.NET

Recently in my project i was implement Update panel for my page update the content. but then i found out that my button (inside) update panel need to click 2 times in order for event click to fire. So after do some testingi found the solution.

Here the simple solution to avoid button require double click  for event click to fire :

1. Check on your page, is there any validator
2. Set on the validator attribute "Display="Static"
3. Try again your page, is the problem solved.?

example :

 <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator5" runat="server"
 ErrorMessage="*"
 ControlToValidate="TextBox4" Display="Static" SetFocusOnError="true">
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

Other Thoughts:

Is there any javascript running on the button's client side onclick, onmousedown, onmouseup?Are you dynamically adding this button to the page?Do you set the  CheckBox's AutoPostBack property to True or False? If it is set to true, you might be in the middle of a async postback while you click the button.


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Access App setting Value

Just a quick tutorial how to get appSettings elements value from web.config

let say you want to access app Settings value in your web.config file...first thing you need to include in your code behind :  using System.Configuration

This code will enable you to access from your code behind value in web.config file at <appSettings></appSettings> element.

WebConfig file

 <appSettings>
    <add key="key" value="2.0.0.0" />
</appSettings>

Code Behind .cs

using System.Configuration;
:
:  
string KeyVal = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Key"].ToString();

and variable KeyVal will have value 2.0.0.0 after executing this code.


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7 Tips to improve battery life for android phone

 

Just to share some tips to improve battery consumption on your android device. I believe when you buy new hand phone , some says that you need to charge the battery for at least 8 hour for the first time. It is just to make ion2 in battery cell to activate. But actually is it really need to do so.? Back in 10 years ago i believe you should do it, but right now it is not necessary. You just charge the phone until the battery full and then you can just unplugged it. It is because the new battery technology has already improve this problem.

Ok back in the topic discussion here. Here a few tips to share to improve the battery consumption on your android device.

Do not use phone while charging

This is simple thing to do. Do not use your phone while charging it. I believe when you need to call someone for a long time maybe couple of hour, people just charge the phone and call their boyfriend or girlfriend while charging it. It is a bad situation for a battery to charge and in a same time need to transfer energy to phone.

When the phone charging, the temperature of battery also increase at the same time you are using the phone also will increase the battery temperature. Do you know letting the phone get too hot can impact the battery life.? It is not very general knowledge to know but enough if you get the idea  do not let your phone in high heat. keep the phone out of heat.

Use auto brightness

It is good if your phone have the sensor to automatically increase or decrease the screen brightness. As you can see in Setting >> battery  it is always show that screen is the most percentage battery consumption . 

So what you need to do is to set it for auto brightness, hence the batery consumption on screen will be decrease.

Reduce screen timeout if not active

It is necessary to do this because sometime you are talking to other person while the screen active

hence will cause battery drain for nothing.It is necessary to set the interval as short as possible to increase battery life.
Some device now come with new technology like smart stay. This technology actually will use front camera and focus on the eye of user to check if user currently look at the phone or not. The idea is to dim the screen if user not look at the phone but unfortunately from my experience this functionality actually drain your battery very fast rather than improve it. Maybe i wrong, feel free to prove it by your self.

Perform Full Cycle of Charge

Do the full charge of your phone. It is recommended to do full charge every month. The way to do this is you need to make your phone battery percentage at 0% ~3% until your phone die. And then make a full charge from 0% ~ 100%. This is to calibrate the battery percentage level and also will improve your life of battery.

Disable unused app in background for sync

The background processing is a good idea but it sometime will cost your battery. As a user of smart phone, you need to be smart enough also to use it. Turn the sync off for unused application in background process. This is to avoid high charge of your 3g data plan and also will reduce battery consumption.

Enable power saving mode

If you do not want to use 3rd party application to run a saving mode on your phone, just use the stock application to run the power saving mode if your battery percentage level is under certain level. For example, if your battery level currently is at 20%, then the power saving mode will enable to turn off any possible feature on your android device to make is run in very basic functionality. So it is will impact on the battery consumption hence improve the battery life.

Turn Off Phone Vibration

If you realize, actually this feature will drain your battery so much. Turn it off if you want to stretch the battery in a busy day.

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How To Redeem SOCSO Health Screening Program Voucher

Social Security Organization (SOCSO ) also known as a PERKESO (Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial) was established to provide social security social to all employees or worker in Malaysia. Everyone who is working know the name because they all contribute to the SOCSO fee every month in order to get service offered by SOCSO.

Ok finish introducing about SOCSO. I will like to share one of the service provide by the SOCSO to all his Members. The service program called SOCSO Health Screening Program(HSP) announced by YAB Dato' Seri Mohd Najib Bin Tun Abdul Razak on 28 September 2012.
HSP is a one program that offer to all SOCSO members who are 40 years age and above to have screen for Non Communicable Disease such as cardiovascular diseases,diabetes, and cancer. This program introduce to takes initiative to improve the productivity of Malaysian workers by early detection.

Screening test for both Male and Female

Currently the support screening test that support by HSP is :

1. Full Blood Count
2. Fasting Lipid Profile
3. Fasting Glucose
4. Urine FEME
5. Urine Microalbumin ACR
6. Conventional Pap Smear(Female only)

Requirement

• Do not eat or drink anything(except water) for at least 12 hours before you go to the panel clinic for blood screening test.
• The best time to have a pap smear is when you are not menstruating.

5 simple Step to redeem  HSP voucher

1. Make sure you are 40 years  old and above.
2. Get the PERKESO HSP voucher from your HR / or employer.
3. Redeem the HSP voucher for the HSP Screening test at the nearest clinic 
4. Request your doctor to send your HSP screening test to  GRIBBLE PATHOLOGY (PERKESO registered panel laboratory).
5. Go through the  health screening reports, examination and consultation with your doctor.

You can check more details on the SOCSO website about this program . http://sehat.perkeso.gov.my/

HSPPromo Video - "Kalaulah"

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Tips to Increase Desktop/Laptop Performance

Today i want to share to you how to improve your laptop or desktop performance running on window operating system. Today every house must have at least one laptop or computer, but every day the performance of your laptop slowing down, slowing down, slowing down and at last you will format it just like a normal user.

That is normal action of user, but have you wonder why the computer keep slowing down.?

Here some tips to improve laptop and desktop performance :

Stay Up To Date

"Stay up to date"!. Always remember that new patch contains security update, and also improvement on the system processing. Just imagine the old car with new car, which one do you prefer and the more better.? Of course the new one because the new always have an improvement from the old development.

Go to Control panel and find Window Update icon

Clean Your Window

Your window need to be clean every day to avoid duplicate file, unused registry file , unused temporary file. This all thing may make your computer slow down. I will suggest software called CCleaner to do this. 

For me myself, i will always used this software to clean up my computer and laptop. 

Disk Defragment

Just imagine a store with such a many item in there. And the item are not well comosed accordingly. The worker who work at the store will have pain to search file/ item in there. That why application "disk defragment" is so need to improve the performance of your desktop or laptop.

I will suggest a month to run this disk defragment.

You can use window disk defragment application provide by window or use another 3rd party application to do this task. I recommand software Defraggler application.

Below is a picture to do disk defragment on drive C on your computer.

1. Right click on the drive C >> click on the properties

2. Go to tab Tools and click on Defragment Now button

Uninstall Unwanted Program

There are unwanted program install in your computer which will slow down its performance. It is recommended to uninstall unwanted program to save valuable resources in your computer such as memory and cpu process. 

Go to your control panel and click on the Programs and feature. The list of program install in your computer will be listed. Chose software that you not use anymore and uninstall/remove it.

Adjust Performance Setting

Before you go further, lets just tune your windows computer to have best performance or best appearance.?

Which one suite you ? For me as a developer, the performance is the most important for me. so i set my computer to have best performance by sacrifice some graphic offer by windows. You can set this by doing this step.

1) Right click on Computer and click Properties

2) Click on Advance System Setting

3) Click On Advance Tab and choose button setting under performance panel.

Turn Off Unwanted Service While Starting Up Computer

There are some service that always start along with computer startup. But not all service are used. Only certain services that you need to start to do normal job ence the other service that not used may slow down your computer. Let check the current service that running in your computer and turn it off. 

You can install CCleaner to do this.

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