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Ask2Link – the way of advertisement

SetyaPutra.Org — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:14:53 +0000

If you blog, you probably try to make money from contextual advertisement such as Google Adsense. I recently signed up with Ask2Link to sell non-intrusive text based (links) ads on my website. With Ask2Link,
advertisers can purchase plain text ads on your website.

Ask2Link is a web advertising company located in San Francisco Bay Area, California. You don’t need to live in the U.S.A or Canada though to make money with Ask2Link, since they send all paychecks through PayPal, so you will need to have a valid PayPal account. They accept international publishers (webmasters and bloggers) throughout the world.

They support WordPress-powered blogs, PHP, Ruby, Perl, JSP, and also Blogger.com/Blogspot.com and WordPress.com Blogs so sign up now with Ask2Link.

Note to advertisers, SEO agencies/SEO specialists, internet marketers, or e-commerce websites: You could visit Ask2Link - to buy static text links on hundreds of websites easily as part of your inbound link building and SEO campaign. They accept credit cards and PayPal payments and your text links will be live within five minutes after your order. Ask2Link’s text links are unique because they are rendered as plain static HTML links that could bring you more traffic and boost your organic search engine ranking for your keywords.

The fact about Internet Addiction

SetyaPutra.Org — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:40:13 +0000

What is Internet Addiction ? If you want to know about it, please answer these questions : Are you addicted to your online connection? Are you one of those crazy folks that can’t wait to read the email with your morning coffee?

Doctors are calling it serious addiction combined with: Cybersexual Addiction, Computer Addiction and Cyber-Relational Addiction. They even managed to stamp the cool names for it, like Internet Addictive Disorder (IAD) or the Internet Overuse Syndrome (IOS). According to Kimberly S. Young, PhD, from the University of Pittsburgh, in Bradford, Pennsylvania, has defined Internet addiction, based on criteria from the DSM-IV for pathological gambling, as having 5 or more of the following symptoms: preoccupation with the Internet, a need to spend more time online to get the same satisfaction, unsuccessful attempts to decrease use, feeling restless or irritable when attempting to cut back, often staying online much longer than intended, secretive behavior/lying about online pursuits, distress or dysfunction as a result of this behavior, or use of the Internet to self-medicate (eg, to overcome depression).

Choosehelp.com said that there are 6 signs of internet addiction :

Excessive thinking about the internet when not online – Thinking about what you will do when next online, and what you have done recently.
Lying to others about how much time you spend online. A sign of most addictions, if you need to lie, then you have something to hide.
Using the internet as a way to escape from problems or negative emotions – Soothing yourself after a hard day with online time, is a dangerous habit.
Experiencing any significant work or school performance detriments, or relationship harms out of your online habits. If you find yourself staying up very late at night and missing work or class, for example, this could be indicative of a problem.
Observing the development of a tolerance – If you find that you need ever longer periods of time online to achieve satisfaction, you are developing a tolerance to the internet.
Cravings to use and withdrawal symptoms are a telltale sign of a problem. If you get anxious or irritable when you cannot get online, when your PDA battery dies or when you get interrupted online, you may be showing withdrawal symptoms.

Based on the latest research and simple human reasoning. Internet addiction should not be labeled as addiction like gambling or drug addiction. There should be a strict line that distances other addictions from the “internet addiction”. Staying in touch with your friends or watching funny YouTube videos is not a destructive behavior which usually characterizes major addictions.

If you gamble on the internet then you are not addicted to the internet, but online gambling. Internet is a wonderful tool, but like everything else in this Universe there is the sunny side and the dark side of the pyramid of life.

Be Positive and Stay Positive!

GeoCities will close later this year

SetyaPutra.Org — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:51:20 +0000

Shocking!! YAHOO is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for its member, which it acquired for $US 4.6 billion in 1999. According to a post at YAHOO Help page, new accounts are no longer being accepted for GeoCities.

“GeoCities, known for its gaudy design, was a cutting edge service in the late 1990s that was later overtaken by blogs and social networking sites like MySpace. After buying GeoCities, Yahoo failed to make significant upgrades to the site, although it still had 12 million unique visitors in March, according to comScore”, SFGates.com said. In recent months, the Sunnyvale Internet company has dropped several products, including the FareChase travel search engine and the Briefcase online storage service, as new CEO Carol Bartz tries to engineer a turnaround amid slumping profits.

Later this year YAHOO will be closing all GeoCities accounts and web sites this summer. If you are a member of GeoCities customers, you can continue to enjoy their sites and GeoCities services until later this year. You don’t need to change a thing right now — YAHOO will let you know about the closure as soon as possible and more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer, and YAHOO will update the help center with more details at that time.

Can I accept credit cards in “real-time” through my web site?

SetyaPutra.Org — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:21:45 +0000

This question always said to me when someone ask me to create e-commerce website. And the answer is yes, you can. A lot of merchant solution offer by payment systems company on the internet will help you to get an account with them and use their tools to build e-commerce website. I recommend Prodigy Payment Systems for your electronic payments system solution. Prodigy Payment Systems brings you the best in electronic payment processing solutions and a variety of value-added services. Prodigy Payment Systems is a nationwide company, based in Texas, founded by four Dallas area residents. Prodigy is a privately held company focused on providing several forms of electronic payment processing solutions and other value-added services to small and medium-sized retail business customers throughout the United States.

There are 5 Prodigy Payment Systems Business Solutions :

Retail Merchant Account, Small office, storefront retail, mobile retailers, grocery, automotive. Prodigy can create a custom solution for almost any business. Prodigy has what you need : (a) All major credit cards, debit and ATM cards, smartcards, gift cards and checks; (b) E-commerce solutions that work flawlessly while you sleep; (c) Age verification – protect your business; (d) Automated settlement; (e) Fraud protection; (f) Reporting that advances your business; (g) Affordable lease finance options.
Internet Merchant Account, Ready to go onto the web with a virtual storefront and catalogue? Prodigy provides fully integrated e-commerce web sites for online shopping. Easy to use, with a “shopping cart” system included. 99.99% uptime. Also you can use Prodigy triple redundant virtual terminals work on your computer allowing you to take sales without a website or POS hardware. Perfect for telephone order/mail order.
Credit Card Processing, Accepting credit cards encourages consumer purchasing and stimulates customer impulse buying, typically increasing the average amount spent by consumers. In association with MasterCard and Visa, Prodigy Payment Systems is licensed and certified on behalf of our member banks. We can accept your application quickly and ship your hardware the same day in most cases. 98% of businesses are approved.
Electronic Checks, How does it work? Scan a customer’s check using an Prodigy payment system and receive a quick approval that guarantees the check. With this approval Prodigy accepts full responsibility for the payment of the check, you get the cash. The check is automatically deposited into your business checking account.
Wireless Payments, Portable means you’re no longer limited to phone line location or dial-up hassles. Battery powered handheld wireless terminals take your business into areas where power might be limited such as flea markets or roadside assistance. It’s a payment solution that keeps lines down to a minimum by providing multiple checkout stations – without rewiring the entire store.

Ready to get started ? Apply online in less then 30 seconds at Prodigy Payment Systems.

In-Text Advertisement with Infolinks

SetyaPutra.Org — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:20:00 +0000

What is In-Text Advertising? In-Text advertising inserts text link advertisements within the content of your website, usually in the form of double-underline hyperlinks. Upon a hover of the mouse, a floating informational bubble opens with content from an advertiser. If clicked, the visitor is directed to the advertiser’s landing page and you earn advertising revenue; otherwise, when the mouse is moved away from the hyperlink, the bubble disappears. Learn how to get started with In-Text Advertising today.

Why choose In-Text Advertising?
• User triggered, less intrusive advertising that won’t distract from your site’s content
• Highly relevant In-Text ads for your site visitors with record high conversion rates
• Quick and easy installation with no changes to your website

One of the biggest In-Text Advertising company is Infolinks. Infolinks presents the next generation of In-Text Advertising, leading the industry with the most relevant in-text advertising links and the highest revenue share – guaranteed :
• Quick and easy setup with no changes to your website
• Ads are tightly integrated with your content – no additional space required
• Free sign up with no commitments or risk

Infolinks enables website owners and publishers to benefit from premium In-Text ads without any risk while earning the highest revenue share – guaranteed. Established in 2007, Infolinks already leads the industry with the most attractive business model and guarantees the highest revenue sharing basis to all partners.

Who should join the Infolinks family of publishers?
Any legitimate website with content is welcome to integrate Infolinks In-Text ads. The higher the page views and the more diverse the textual content on the site, the greater the Infolinks ad revenue earning potential for the website. From personal blogs to international news websites, from local publications to global magazines, from professional forums to mega portals – if your website publishes content and attracts visitors, Infolinks In-Text ads will enhance your published content with user triggered, less intrusive advertising that won’t distract from your site’s content

HTTP Referrer

SetyaPutra.Org — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:41:26 +0000

What is http referrer ? According to Wikipedia, HTTP Referrer — also known by the common misspelling referer that occurs as a HTTP header — identifies, from the point of view of an internet webpage or resource, the address of the webpage (commonly the URL, the more generic URI or the i18n updated IRI) of the resource which links to it. By checking the referrer, the new page can see where the request came from.

Referrer logging is used to allow websites and web servers to identify where people are visiting them from, for promotional or security purposes. Referrer is a popular tool to combat cross-site request forgery, but such security mechanisms do not work when the referrer is disabled. Referrer is widely used for statistical purposes.

Many web sites log referrers as part of their attempt to track their users. Most web log analysis software can process this information. As referrer information can violate privacy, some browsers allow the user to disable the sending of referrer information. If you want to stop Firefox Browser from sending the referrer, here is how to do it :

In the address bar of your Firefox browser type: about:config and hit Enter.

In the Filter input field type: network.http.sendRefererHeader.

Double click on the preference name.

Change the value from 2 to 0 and hit OK.

The downside of http referrer if disabled on your browser is you can not logon to the site that using content based on referrer.

Blog Oh Blog Contest – 1000 Business Cards for Each Winner!

SetyaPutra.Org — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:35:27 +0000

Jai at BlogOhBlog are launching a brand new contest for all the cool Blog Oh! Blog readers. “New Year Contest – 1000 Business Cards for Each Winner!“ This contest has been sponsored by the owners of http://www.business-cards.com. It’s very easy to enter the contest. All you need to do is simply write about the contest on your blog/website and post a trackback (which is automatically done if you mention the contest link in your post). But unlike always, this time the winners will be chosen based on the creativity of the entry rather than a lucky draw. If your post is creative and deserving, you will win.

The rules are simple :

One participant is limited to a single entry.
All entries have to be made before February 10, 2009.
In order to qualify as a valid entry, there should be a link back to the contest here.

A total of four(4) best entries will be declared as the winners. The four winners of the contest shall receive 1000 single or double-sided business cards printed in full color with a UV gloss coating if they desire. The cards will be printed on very heavy 16pt card stock.

If you win, you can either provide your own designs for the card (a blank template will be provided to you), or, use the online business card designer tool available at the sponsors’ website to design your business cards. Its a very user-friendly tool made in Flash.

Once the winners have been decided, they will be informed through a separate blog post on February 10, 2009. Shipping of the cards is free if the winner is within the United States of America, but there will be an extra charge if the winner is located outside of the USA. So, hurry up and try to grab these shiny business cards for yourself!

For more detail, please visit:

Blog Oh! Blog! Contest

How to Choose The Best Commercial Web Hosting Service

SetyaPutra.Org — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:52:13 +0000

I know that many articles about this case which contains a guide how to choose the best web hosting services in the Internet.

In this article, I try to use a different approach for those who want to get the best web hosting services with a variety of perspectives that is rarely thought.

All my explanations below are for commercial web hosting services, so not suitable for those of you who want to find a free web hosting services, although there are some criteria that you can use to find free web hosting services.

I used to believe in the concept : “a hosting company that had been in the business for years is the best web hosting”, but things have changed. As I recall, nearly forty percent of all hosting companies out of business during the past year. If you are one of the customers of the hosting company that went out of business, you already have your own horror story to tell.

And these are the criteria of good web hosting service :

1. The reliability and speed of access

Not only the host network must be reliable and fast to ensure uptime. In fact, even 99% uptime is too low – it really should be 99.5% or higher. The host should provide some form of restitution (for example, the apportionment of the refund or discount) if it falls below that figure. However, that the guarantees are often difficult to apply to an end – the host usually requires all sorts of documentation. But without such a guarantee, the network host will have little incentive to ensure that their servers are running all the time. So how do you know if a hosting company is reliable or not? By word of mouth or feedback from others! If that’s not possible then you can yourself try accessing your site during peak hours and non-peak hours too so you can assess how well the speed of your hosting company is.

2. Amount of web space

The provider of web hosting services usually assign a certain amount of space on your server. You need to ensure that there is plenty of space for your site and business requirements. You can expand your online business tomorrow and would require much more space. It is therefore imperative that the web hosting company should be able to give enough space for your site, especially if it is rich in graphics or video clips. Most sites require less than 10 MB of web space, so even if they have a host that offers you with 200 MB or 500 MB (or “unlimited space”), be aware that you will not use all of these 500 MB, so it’s not wise to use the 500 MB of space as a big factor when compared with other hosting companies. The hosting company is also aware of that, which is why they feel free to offer you that as a means of enticing you to host there. For example, cybersplash.net, which has dozens of pages so far, used less than 50 MB to related pages and files.

3. Data transfer (Bandwidth)

Data transfer (sometimes loosely referred to as “traffic” or “bandwidth”) is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse your site. You also need to see if the hosting company provides you with sufficient bandwidth for efficient data transfer. You also need to see if the hosting company provides you with sufficient bandwidth for efficient data transfer. Moreover, it is your website and you must ensure that you get the best for the money you invest. Budget hosts almost always used to be slow and overloaded, and many still are, but with bandwidth costs as low as they are today large server farms located in managed data centers are now a very reasonable alternative, especially if you host multiple domains or require less support.

4. FTP access

FTP access is very important because it offers the possibility to load new pages. Some web hosting services only provide web builder to design your own personal page. This is useful for beginners, but it will be difficult to use when your site requires further development.

5. PHP, Perl CGI-BIN access, SSI, .htaccess, crontabs

Please note that some commercial hosts do not allow you to install PHP or CGI scripts including crontab without their approval. This must be avoided because it means you have to wait for them to implement the features on your site. This means you will lose a lot of time. While .htaccess is needed if you want to Customize error page or to protect or redirect your site in a different way. Cronjob may be required for applications that need to be run periodically. Check to see if all of these facility is provided.

6. Server OS

If you want to run ASP language then choose the server with the Windows operating system. Do not use the Linux operating system to run ASP even linux also provides aspx. Why? Because Linux is not used to run the ASP. But if you do not need ASP so the operating system that you must select is Linux.

7. Technical support

Does the web hosting service providers provides you 24×7 support ? Will they be able to respond quickly to your problem ? That is the question you should ask to find the answer directly to the web hosting service provider. Test them via email in the middle of the night and on Saturday night, Sunday morning, etc. Check out how long they take to respond to your email. In addition to speed responses, check to see if they are technically competent. You do not want to sign up to host that run by a bunch of salesmen who only know how to sell and not fix a problem.

8. Pricing plans

I note that although the price is always a crucial factor, you should realize that they often get what you pay for, but is not necessarily true that the most expensive hosts are the best. You should compare prices and services before you choose one.

9. Monthly / quarterly / annual payment plans

Most of the Web host allows you to select the annual payment plan that provides a cheaper rate than if you pay monthly. My personal advice is to pay monthly with all new web hosts until you are sure their reliability and honesty. The advantages of paying monthly is allowing you to switch a web host quickly when you find that the current web hosting company does not meet your requirements, so you do not bound to bad web host because you have prepaid for a year.

10. My Recomendation

If you want a web hosting service from the company that can be trusted, use CyberSplash.net. Affordable prices offered with a variety of features and services that support the rapid support through helpdesk, phone, email, messenger and SMS, CyberSplash.net is the best choice for your hosting needs.

Situs Bank Jateng dibobol Cracker

SetyaPutra.Org — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:16:59 +0000

Ini bukan guyonan, karena memang benar-benar terjadi. Saat baca di detikInet ada headline berjudul “Bank Jateng Dibobol Cracker” membuat keingintahuan yang besar membaca artikelnya detik.

Sebelum situs tersebut kena crack saya belum pernah nyambangi situsnya bank jateng jadi tidak tahu apakah disitu ada fasilitas internet banking-nya atau hanya sekedar portal informasi saja.

Kalau ada ibank-nya, wah benar-benar berbahaya menjadi pengguna ibank-nya bank jateng. Kalau hanya sebatas portal informasi saja, ya masih bisa dimaklumi apa lagi kalau pakai produk CMS opensource. Bukannya CMS Open Source berarti tidak aman, hanya Admin portal harus rajin-rajin update versi terbaru saat developer CMS tersebut mengeluarkan versi update terbaru. Susahnya adalah kalau produk CMS Open Source ini adalah hasil jualan dari para “opreker” yang mengoprek CMS ini sehingga layak jual (versi operakan) ke instansi tertentu dengan harga yang lumayan, maka kadang-kadang versi update terbaru tidak cocok dengan versi oprekan sehingga tidak bisa di update. Kalau sudah begini, minta pada pembuat “oprekan” atau opreker tersebut untuk meng-update-nya.

Berikut adalah ulasan lengkapnya :

Jakarta – Situs web yang tahan gempuran sejatinya sangat penting bagi lembaga keuangan seperti bank. Namun sayangnya, tak demikian bagi Bank Jateng, kantor online-nya malah dengan mudah dibobol cracker.

Pelaku aksi ini mengaku bernama ‘v3n0m’. Dalam jejak yang ditinggalkannya, ia sepertinya punya hubungan dengan komunitas cracker Yogyacarderlink yang sempat menjadi sorotan karena menyusup ke sejumlah situs lokal.

Secara implisit, dengan melakukan aksi ini, v3n0m ingin menyentil pengelola situs Bank Jateng untuk segera menambal lubang-lubang yang terdapat di situs tersebut sebelum menjadi bulan-bulanan penjahat cyber.

Alhasil, ketika disambangi detikINET, Senin (5/12/20085) siang, situs yang beralamat di http://www.bankjateng.co.id/ ini tak lagi bisa diakses.

Latar belakang halaman situs berubah menjadi warna hitam yang disertai sejumlah tulisan, “HackeD by v3n0m. Your Bank Security is null,” bunyi salah satu pesan pelaku.

Selain itu, pelaku juga menyusupkan foto wanita cantik yang dikatakan bernama Jovita dan merupakan mahasiswi fakultas ilmu komunikasi Universitas Atmajaya, Jogjakarta. ( ash / faw )

Sampai saat ini (8 Januari 2009 pk. 10:14 AM) saat saya sambangi situs bank jateng masih belum beres karena hasil loading browser saya terus looping proses yang tidak selesai-selesai.

Source : detikInet

Obeus.com Affiliate Program

SetyaPutra.Org — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:22:12 +0000

Obeus.com Affiliate Program was designed to increase popularity of Obeus.com pay-per-click advertising services.

That means that Obeus.com pays you for its advertising.

When you register at Obeus.com as publisher, you take part in Affiliate Program automatically. If you are an advertiser, you can take part in Affiliate Program with help of your Referral Link

Obeus.com determines referral relationships between users in the following way: when some user clicks an “Advertise on this site” or “Obeus.com” link on your site’s ad block, Obeus.com writes a cookie that will be valid for 7 days. If that user registers at Obeus.com within mentioned period, he becomes your referral. That’s true even if he has visited Obeus.com for several times from other sites after that.

You will get 40% bonus of any referred publisher earnings and 10% of any referred advertiser spends. FOREVER! You will be sent a payment via Paypal.

Selling ad space himself publisher faces some complex challenges. Obeus.com mission is to solve the problems for you. Let’s move point by point.

From the advertiser’s point of view it doesn’t matter if it is one website with 10,000 unique visitors a day or ten websites with 1,000 daily visitors on each. In many cases the last offer is even better for advertiser, especially if he pays money only for result. So, with help of Obeus.com you can get a complex advertiser you couldn’t even imagine before.
You don’t have to think about prices for ads on your website. Independently of what your website is devoted to, Obeus.com always knows true rates for ads on it because they are formed by advertisers themselves and depend on real demand and supply!
You could forget about any technical questions. Just insert simple JavaScript code generated for you by Obeus.com and get started! Obeus.com will do all other jobs for you.

You are welcome to join us!

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