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I am huge Digg Fan –self claimed of course- I could visit digg.com more than three times a day. Early in the morning, very morning before my wife and daughter wake up, at lunch break –while enjoying my lunch box that prepared by my lovely wife and the third time it’s late night, after working a day. Digg is the best social networking that able to see what is hot news and content on internet right now.
As a digger I also submit some of interesting site, but only get 3,2, or even just 1 digg from other digger. At that time I was never care about this, until I heard this statement
“Seomoz.org has been reported that the top 100 Digg users posted 56% of Digg frontpage“
So what’s wrong with this? What’s wrong with Digg power user, big names such as mrbabyman? Well nothing, it just a 18.491 digg in one day, or 9054 digg also in one day.
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Google updated their Page Rank system again on 31 December 2008. Lucky for me, some of my website is getting better PR this time, priandoyo.com PR3, priandoyo.wp PR5. Quite surprise since I guess several factor that influencing PR calculation such as backlink, reported paid link –the one that will decrease PR is not so influencing this PR update.
I think Google is getting smart and smarter and we the publisher should have no worried as long we create a good content then one day Google will recognize. So what is your opinion with latest Google Page Rank update. However below some of my tips to getting better Page Rank
1. Create a good and useful content is mandatory
2. Update at least one new post a week
3. Actively involve in community (posting relevant comments)
Install Google Toolbar at your browser, this is the most valid method. I did not recommend visiting third party website, since it using a database and somehow provide not so update information
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Satu lagi yang sedang riuh ramai dibicarakan diblogosphere, kasus ‘penipuan’ oleh Kapanlagi.com. Ceritanya si Kapanlagi.com membuka kontes banner berhadiah 50 juta. Syaratnya blogger harus memasang banner Kapanlagi.com, namun hingga pada tanggal pengumuman yang direncanakan yaitu 20 Desember, rupanya Kapanlagi tidak mengumumkan siapa pemenang kontes ini. Dus, ribut-ributlah orang-orang, Kapanlagi.com dinilai dengan tidak sehat memanfaatkan para blogger untuk kepentingan pribadinya. Simak juga surat terbukanya
Saya sendiri tidak mengikuti kontes Kapanlagi.com namun sedikit banyak bisa memahami kekecewaan yang dirasakan para peserta kontes tersebut. Dan sedikit banyak juga bisa merasakan seandainya berada dalam posisi Kapanlagi.com. Pihak Kapanlagi mungkin saja melihat kontes ini tidak seperti yang diharapkan, atau bisa jadi ada masalah internal dengan keuangan perusahaan.
Pernahkah ada kasus seperti ini?
Pernah dan saya yakin banyak sekali, saya sendiri pernah dikecewakan dalam sebuah lomba yang diadakan oleh XL dan DagDigDug.com/ dimana lomba tersebut dinyatakan batal oleh panitia secara sepihak, karena jumlah peserta dianggap terlalu sedikit. Kesal pastinya
Lalu akhirnya bagaimana?
Prediksi saya, sebagaimana kasus lomba-lomba ngeblog/internet lainnya. Panitia akan mengumumkan pemenang lomba dengan nominal yang lebih kecil, tidak mungkin 50 juta, mungkin hanya 5 juta saja. Atau mungkin panitia bisa saja membatalkan lomba tersebut dengan berbagai alasan.
Ya sudahlah, buat saya lomba-lomba di internet itu tidak lebih seperti kuis. Lebih banyak untung-untungannya dan sudah telanjur banyak dikecewakan pula.
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Setelah IlmuKomputer.com sekarang giliran CosaAranda.com yang dihack. Berat juga ya kompetisi di blogosphere. Semoga lekas pulih Cak.
screenshot: http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3742/cosahackau8.jpg
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If you’re newbie -just like me- in the internet/online business then I believe the first thing you do in this jungle is seek for role model. Yup I actually did the same thing. My first role model is Amir Karimuddin, he is friend of mine in the office, same cubicle, same chair, so I really know day by day what he is doing and how he manage his strategy in online
Amir, in some of discussion suggest me to read some of professional local blogger such as Cosa, Pogung, Dexno (really thanks for add me into your blogroll) to get some insight how to survive in this jungle. Agree, currently I subscribe their RSS, not only them but some of so called internet guru in Indonesia.
However, the problem with Cosa or Pogung is simple: I personally did not know about them. So I could not predict how long they would spend their time in front of internet. I did not know when they’re starts this business, first time learn about internet and so on. Well actually I am still hoping one day I could personally become their friends -but I did not when, since I believe they are very busy person.
Then I found Kang Kombor, he is my senior in high school and I have met him several time -he is ever come to my house in Bintaro -I planned to go to his house but always unable to set the schedule, sorry kang for this. Kang Kombor is simply a good role model for me in this business. I like the way he give update to his reader about some new thing in internet biz. And most important thing is I could directly ask or talk with him -even using mail/messenger
So some tips for you who still new in this business, well btw I also still newbie. You must find you role model. Not some of big names out there but start with the nearest possible successful player near you.
*This post dedicated to Amir, Kang Kombor and of course Zidni 
-my new role model
Happy New Year and thank you very very much for supporting me in this jungle
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Sudah banyak orang yang menuliskan betapa internet adalah sebuah rimba gelap yang tidak jelas arah tujuan kita kemana. Artinya tanpa perencanaan yang baik bisa jadi yang kita lakukan hanyalah membuang-buang waktu saja. Mulai hari ini, saya mencoba untuk lebih berhati-hati lagi dalam memanfaatkan internet, antara lain yang saya lakukan:
1. Siapkan segala sesuatunya offline
Internet harus diposisikan sebagai alat produksi, ketika kita tidak siap untuk melakukan sesuatu e.g update posting, kirim email, yang terjadi adalah lompat-melompat topik yang tidak jelas juntrungannya kemana. Jangan pernah memikirkan ide tulisan atau sesuatu konsep di depan komputer yang terkoneksi internet. Pasti ide itu akan lenyap seiring semakin banyaknya konsep baru yang muncul didepan kepala itu.
2. Jangan pernah menunda waktu
Kita tidak pernah tahu apa sebenarnya kebutuhan orang dan kapan orang tersebut membutuhkannya. Jadi ide sebagus apapun bisa jadi tidak berguna jika terlambat untuk diposting. Mulai dari sesuatu sederhana yang bisa kita tuliskan, bentuk itu akan hadir dengan sendirinya. Untuk situs-situs kecil seperti skala blog saya. Menulis apapun seharusnya dijadikan rutinitas.
Selamat menulis, ada saran agar tetap fokus dan tidak tersesat di Internet?
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Wordpress Blog of The Day (BOTD) is a simple feature from wordpress.com (WP) where WP listed the most popular blog or posting based on the visitor rate to the blog. The BOTD list is generated automatically by system, it is quite fair in several term. Since the rule ‘good content will generate good traffic’ assumed to be working properly. Maybe that is the WP taught in this case.
Also, In term of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) the BOTD is mean bigger that simple list of most popular blog. It give us an extra traffic and also some backlinks that give us very huge traffic. So once you get a chance to be listed in BOTD then the traffic to your site will be increase significantly, also if you understand the visitor pattern then you can decide what type of content that should you write: Job Vacancy, Controversy, Religion (hate speech) Discussion and so on – more over you can see it on the list.
I have been in that position before, utilizing the keyword and content that could drive traffic to my blog. I got many benefit from that system, have a lot of friend, and have a very good recognition. All of this is happen between 2007 and many people try to develop their good content so it can be listed in BOTD. However right now in 2008, I see the pattern of BOTD is changing. Most of people did not try to write a good content but only post controversy content about religion or gossip.
I am not blame anyone who used that method, although I believe that approach is not good for even myself – if you really interested in web development or something like that. Then I believe that one day, people will leave the BOTD list. Follow another pattern such as establishing own dotcom or doing something more useful.
So what do you think? Is there something wrong with WP BOTD?
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Sinyal Kuat Indosat
*Tagline of Indosat, a telecommunication provider in Indonesia. It’s mean Indosat Strong Signal
I did not know whether this is ‘pembohongan publik’ or not but the Indosat 3G connection is very bad at this moment. I have checked this connection in several places, some of taken in the CBD area in Sudirman, Thamrin and Rasuna Said. The result is very bad.
I know that the subscription fee is very cheap around 100.000 unlimited accesses with 3GB threshold. A package that everyone seems could afford. But wait, if you see the overall result, then you can decide whether this service is good or not.
Actually most of internet connection in Indonesia has very bad quality of service. Not only mention Indosat but Telkom Speedy which has a strong campaign recently also could not deliver a high quality of service. However no one protest with this. Since everybody feel happy with the low price.
So what is your opinion? Really expecting Indosat made some improvement after this.
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“…http://www.networkworld.com/ saya bisa bikin wp dengan format itu…”
Mencoba mengingat-ingat kenapa ya pada akhirnya saya lebih cinta pada drupal daripada wordpress. Ceritanya hari ini saya berdiskusi dengan seorang sahabat, designer detik.com, ceritanya juga si sahabat sudah khatam dunia design wordpress dengan sangat baik. Bisa dilihat diportfolionya, sangat mengesankan pastinya.
Nah kemudian diskusi berlanjut pada kenapa menggunakan drupal. Menurut saya kurang lebih alasannya karena design drupal yang lebih pada platform CMS sementara wordpress lebih pada blog yang simple. Tapi menurut si sahabat, hampir semua fitur yang saya sebutkan di drupal bisa dikerjakan dengan baik di wordpress.
Sampai akhirnya saya kesulitan juga untuk menyampaikan argumen bahwa drupal lebih baik dari wordpress. Seingat saya sih, drupal sedikit lebih baik dalam hal SEO dibandingkan wordpress. Ada cerita lain?
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