Moneyclicking Spamming??

Moneyclicking.net was suspended this morning by our web hosting provider, Site5, for spamming…

But we didn’t spam. We never did. Emails that goes out coming from MoneyClicking.net could from our autoresponder or from the WordPress that powers our blog.

Fortunately, it’s not a dead-set thing. Site5 knows that the spam issue was unintentional.

That’s what happen when you neglect your blog and never update/upgrades it. And not to mention never writing in ever again. It appears that there’s some vulnerability in WordPress that allows other people to exploit it and use it to spam. Discovering the issue, I immediately plug that leak by upgrading to the latest version (have you??)

On a different topic, blogging is a great tool to bring your customers and subscribers closer to you. People want to know more about you, want to learn from you and want to share their opinion, feedback with you via comments. When you use blogging well, you will be rewarded handsomely… But I have been neglecting that.

It’s been months since my last post…

Perhaps this spamming accusation is reminder from a neglected blog to its owner. The blog wants to be written. The blog wants people to come and read it, and keep coming for new stories, news, discussions, tips, insights, etc… The blog loves that… and me, the owner is not doing it any justice.

So the spamming issue is for the blog to call out to, “WRITE!” she cried!

Right now I feel like a bad pet owner :P

But it’s a good thing that it’s not to late.

For the past years, MoneyClicking.net has been providing great info. And it will do that again starting from today…

After upgrading my WordPress, I write you this blog. And more to come… perhaps a new facelift is what it needs, and also a why for me get excited again…

Do drop me comments … looking forward to it…

Web Design for Netpreneurs Starts July 2, 2009

It’s been three years or so since I last did an online coaching class on web design for netpreneurs. And that itch is here again.

So I will be doing Web Design for Netpreneurs Online Coaching Class starting July 2nd, 2009. The class will cover:

- HTML
- CSS
- Photoshop
- A little bit of PHP
- and a few more things.

This will be a 6-week program where you will learn via:

- Video Lessons (in high quality HD video)
- Assignments
- Lesson materials
- Lesson discussions
- Weekly webinar
- and of course, you get direct access to me, Kidino.

Here’s How To Become A Student For Free

Because of the actual time that I will be spending into this class, the class will be sold at $397. And I have to limit the number of students to ensure the quality attention that each students will get.

But there is a way for you get in for free…

To better deliver the course, I need to know what the students really want to learn. Therefore, I am taking as much input as I can on this. Those send me a comment at the link below will stand a chance to become a student for free (and save $397).

Click here to go to my survey page and tell me what you want to learn in Web Design for Netpreneurs.

Running A 7-Day Sale & Contest On Twitter

I am doing a 7-day sale…

I have three sets of templates (with multiple color schemes in each) and they are selling cheap. What’s cools is that there’s also the WordPress theme version. Now you can run your mini-site on your favorite CMS, WordPress.

Check it out…

http://diymsclub.com/wso

The thing about Twitter? Well, you have to read the website to know about it…

WordPress for Mini-Sites

Obviously I have been neglecting this blog for too long. What’s good about an old blog like this, it still gets traffic even when I don’t update it for months. The old content still get good search engine ranking and is still bringing in traffic. And from that traffic, I earn a bit from Adsense, a bit from TLA, etc…

Anyway, today I just want to bounce some ideas. I am working on something right now. I am putting WordPress and mini-sites together. Soon you will be able to use your favorite CMS, WordPress, to build and manage your mini-site.

Well, mini-sites can be a lot of things… landing page, squeeze page, content sites, direct response sales letter, etc… but in this case, I referring the to last one, direct response sales letter for selling stuffs online. Yep, like how most people use them to sell ebooks, software, etc…

Now, imagine that you can put up a mini-site, and have a blog with the same design, with just one installation of WordPress. And you can use our built-in theme design, or upload your own graphics — headers, background, footer, etc…

And you can also customize a lot of stuffs too. Obviously, when using your own design, your content maybe be formatted in a different way. You can set how big or small the content area is. You can set what links to appear on the top navigation, where it goes or maybe don’t display it at all.

You can also set the text formatting, choosing font and size for your header 1, header 2, header 3, paragraph, etc.

Hmmm… anyway, that is what I am working on right now. I just thought I’d do teaser here and give you a heads up.

Tell me what you think alright…

A Spontaneous Day Out…

I think that I’d do something interesting today.

It’s been a while since I travel using the public transport. I have been driving myself to all the places that I needed to go. And I think I need the exercise too. So I will taking the light railway train (LRT, or some of you guys call subway) today.

I need to go to the bank and pay my credit card bill. And then I need to go another bank to make the settlement for my first car. The car is a 1992 Proton Iswara with automatic transmission. I don’t drive it anymore but it’s still with me. It’s at my mothers house right now. Maybe need a few works tought… Hmmm… it’s been six years already… how time flies. And I have a lot of memories with that car.

OK, back to the day out planning… Maybe after that I can just hang and see what happens. And have lunch by myself, watching people rushing the food into their stomach to hustle their way back to the cubicle. That’ll be something fun to watch.

We’ll see, maybe I’ll take this laptop with me (I am still at home now) and write from there.

Oh, by the way, a few of my websites are down. The web hosting is having problems with it and I believe is working hard to get back online.

Well, everytime there’s a downtime, you see people screeching, shouting, and threatening to move their websites else where.

But I don’t think it makes sense to move your website everytime there’s a downtime. Even a 99.9% uptime has a 0.1% downtime. And 0.1% downtime is still about 8 hours and 45 minutes downtime a year.

And believe me, no web hosting can guarantee a 100% uptime…

So for me, I’ll just keep the websites there. But just to note, if you are having a big launch, you may want to inform your web hosting company. And also check the server status blog for scheduled maintenance. ;)

Alright… will be reporting again later…