Wordpress Blogging Mastery Malaysia

Olive Riley, one of the “world’s oldest blogger”, an Australian woman made her last internet blog post in her blog at http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com with a message about singing “a happy song” in her nursing home at the ripe old age of 108.

It had been reported that she passed away peacefully on July 12 and thousands of her Internet friends as far as Russia and America including family and friends will be mourning for her.

Read more about the world’s older blogger is dead from this article.

Have you downloaded the latest browser yet? Mozilla has just been launched in the updated version a week ago.

I noticed the new look in the Firefox Search box browser that looks like the above. In the previous version of Firefox 2, the Search box browser only displayed the website’s URL.

The new Firefox 3 Search box browser displays both the website’s URL and the Title too. Some find this rather annoying and took up too much space. However, you can revert back to the old look with an extension.

On the same note, you can Bookmark (marked by ’star’ button) any site you visit on the new browser straight away. You do not need to go and open up Google Bookmarks to add a bookmark in the future.

The other interesting features are the Go back one page in Green button, Go forward one page in Grey button and Home page with a house icon button.

John Chow has been making money by blogging about making money blogging for more than a year. This 42-year-old Richmond, British Columbia entrepreneur has been reportedly making his income from John Chow Dot com which has increased more than 50 fold since he began blogging. From a mere $353 a month to an annual income of $300,000. Chow makes an average of $25,000 a month for sitting at home doing what Chow describes as “rambling.”

And he is not the only blogger who makes money by blogging. Over the past year the blogosphere has changed significantly. With already-huge community doubling to more than 114 million blogs worldwide and as many as 175,000 new sites springing up daily, according to Technorati.

Many like Chow, Perez Hilton and Arianna Huffington whom all explored this new moneymaking service by exploring the territory beyond Google AdSense. Chow uses more than 100 ad networks, like AuctionAds and Kontera ContentLink to earn money online. He said people keep coming up with new services that can help bloggers make money.

A recent study by the Society for New Communications Research suggested that in the next five years, conversational marketing will attract as many ad bucks as traditional channels.

Chow’s traffic-generating success is not clouded by product sales, avant-garde content or attractive page design. He was not even selling “himself” like some personal expertise financial blogs. His blog content is a combination of his money count and what he had for lunch - blogging “about nothing”.

With the free blog platform WordPress and an accounting degree, Chow has monetized “nothing” into a No. 39 ranking on Technorati’s Top 100 List of most-linked blogs. His reported overhead is about $550 a month and the remaining of that monthly $25,000 goes to the bottom line.

Chow’s other success was with his reviews-oriented blog site, TheTechZone. Chow used what he has learned at John Chow dot Com to help him monetize The TechZone and his new TZZ Media advertising network. Altogether, Chow’s revenue income came close to a $1 million annually, making him a web marketing expert by any sort of measure.

If you want to make blogging your career, Chow has a 59-page downloadable ebook at johnchow.com to help you monetize your business blog.

Blogging isn’t just a pastime or marketing gambit anymore; it’s a living.

I have the privilege to introduce to you to an established Wordpress expert, Steven Wong who has been invited to be a feature writer and contributor to WP Adsense Mastery blog. I have been lucky that he has agreed to come on board to share his wordpress expertise with readers of this blog.

Steven Wong is the owner of the successful All Niche Video specializing in Internet Marketing videos for beginners and he believe with the help of the video tutorials in his membership site, normal people will be able to learn most of the online tactics & how-to with less painful experience. He is also a Consultant for a active PR4 Wordpress forum in Malaysia. He has been a full time online marketer since 2005 and has worked with a number of other successful marketers in Malaysia and done joint venture with other marketers internationally.

He will also be a speaker at the WP Adsense Mastery Workshop.

So watch out for more juicy, spicy, interesting and regular posts from Steven Wong in the near future.

Let us welcome his contributions in this blog.

These are the few mentors whom May Ong have been trained and mentored by, throughout online marketing learning experience.

Just to share with you some of the photos taken with them.
Alex Mandossian (Traffic Conversion Expert) from USA and Armand Morin.

Derek Gehl of Marketing Tips for Beginners and Newbies into Internet Marketing, from Canada

Jay Abraham, an established Direct Marketing ‘Guru’ from the USA

Brett Mcfall of World Internet Summit from Australia

Patric Chan from Malaysia

Stephen Pierce from the USA