A blog about anyInput, experiences running it, and thoughts about my day job

Advertising revenue through Google adSense is my primary business model. The revenue I earn is in proportion to the number of page views my sites get. As the number of page views increases so will the revenue. Unfortunately, you can’t survive on the advertising model because the earnings are not high on sites with a low number of page views. Unless your site achieves millions or billions or page views per month and costs little to run don’t expect to quit your job or earn thousands.

If I achieve say 1 billion page views a month, then advertisers will come pay me directly and I will earn some serious $$$$. I will not need to use Google adSense as my ad middleman any longer. However, with the current concept of anyInput, achieving 1 billion page views a month may unrealistic in the short term. Sites that get 1 billion page views a month quickly are sites that are interesting to the majority of people out there. Social sites where you can view profiles about people such as facebook, plentyoffish and etc. are interesting to people.

Advertising revenue should be my secondary business model since the earnings are low. In the short term, relying on advertising model will not produce a sustainable business and the advertising model will not allow me to survive in the short term. Therefore, my primary model is changing to the collection of a monthly subscription fee from small businesses interested in using the anyInput concept.

So, I have my laptop and I am bringing it in the office. But as time goes by, I realized that I might over use my laptop’s screen, since LCD screens have lower lifespan compared to the CRT (Desktop Screen/Monitors). I am bringing my laptop at office, because all of my important documents and accounts are stored on it, so there is no choice left for me. One day, it came to my mind why not use the company’s desktop while using my laptop, in that way, I could save my laptop LCD’s life while still use my laptop efficiently. So, how did I temporarily disabled my laptop screen and utilize that of the company’s?

Doing this in Windows Operating System is just in a blink of an eye, same as with the Linux environment but is more secured, well that is the essence why I decided of having an Ubuntu software to govern my machine.

So, I will make the procedures in step by step way on How To Utilize Desktop Monitor Instead of Laptop’s LCD

1. Connect your CRT data cable to the laptop’s extended video port.
2. Start your Ubuntu Operating System.
3. Log-in to your account.
4. When you are already logged - on, Click on the System > Preferences > Screen Resolution menus.
5. On the Screen Resolution Settings Window, uncheck the Mirror Screens checkbox. Then you will see the current monitors being used by the system, both (CRT and Laptop) monitors are displayed since you are connected currently to them.
6. Click on the Laptop (your screen viewable measurement), i.e: Laptop 14″ , then click on the “Resolution” menu item and set it to “Off” using the drop down menu .
7. Your Laptop screen is now disabled.

** If you want to bring the display back to your Laptop LCD, follow steps 4 until 6 and set the “Resolution” to your desired values from the drop down menu i.e.: 1024 x 768, etc.

Enjoy the tweak! More on other tweaks later.

These are the summary of the things you need in preparation for your web-treprenuership

1. Research for the Best Keywords for your services, products or ideas you want people to search that will drive them into your site. You can use thousands of tools that can be found in the internet to discover them for you. I am sure Google has it that is free and ready to use. Give it a try to search them. Proceeding to your on-page optimization, use your keywords as part of the title tag, say if you’re site is about programming, include that phrase in your titles too.

2. Include your search keyword in the header of your web page, the spider would love to see them there, they are attracted with the headers, so eventually, if your keywords are included in the headers, you will get indexed easily.

3. Use your keywords in the body text, since spiders are also looking for keywords in the body of the web page.

4. Do not limit your mind setting to keywords only, the relationship between the context of the body with respect to your search keyword term are also important, so get around the whole thought and try to be creative in writing articles perhaps.

5. Use H1 tag for your keywords. H1 is used by webmasters to intensify attention for a particular word, same way as spiders, they are paying attention to those words in big and bold letters, so why don’t you start to present your keywords in a highly regarded style?

6. Use Keywords in domain and URL. Search engines are looking for links that is matched with the search term that is queried by the users, and if your keywords can also be found in your domain and URL, for sure you will be indexed by search engines in a speedy way.

7. The reasons why SEO people are submitting their links to thousands of Directory Submission Sites is because of Link Popularity.

8. When submitting to Directory Submission Site or doing link exchange, make sure to post your link to relative topics or sites.

9. The age of your site is also considered in search engine indexing and Page Ranking procedures.

10. The number of pages that are indexable in your site are also being taken into consideration.

With all the list above, I am sure you have a lot of ideas on how to start your own site that is search engine friendly and are easily be indexed.

Good Luck and have a great day ahead of you! We’ll see you you later.

Firstly, Google indexes all pages initially. If you have new pages, Google likes this and indexes them. The indexing process can take up to one month from page creation. It is important for Google to store your pages in its index so that traffic may be sent. If someone is searching for a keyword that exists on a page of your site, then Google may display that page in the results page.

However, Google will drop your pages at their discretion. Perhaps the dropped pages do not have enough content. Or you are penalized for having duplicate pages on your site. Or the page has no inbound links. Or your site has low PR and too many pages. Google, in an effort to reduce the storage space for the index and processing time on the index simply drops pages that it considers weak. It does not want to index every page on the web because it can’t.

If the indexed pages contain keywords that have little competition, then that page will be ranked higher for that keyword in the Google results. But keywords with little competition are not searched as much and result in a low number of hits to your site. When people search for these type of keywords they are known as long tail searches.

If the indexed pages contain keywords that have high competition, then that page may not be ranked or ranked lower. High competition keywords are what site owners compete heavily for and are searched very often. A high ranking for these types of keywords would result in many hits.

Getting your pages ranked highly for high competition keywords has something to do with page rank (PR). My sites do not have high PR and I have not had a high PR site. If your site has an overall high PR, then I would assume more of your pages would be indexed. As a result, you would get more long tail searches. I will tell you more about my thoughts on PR later.

I’ve been doing some thinking lately about what my criteria is for starting a business. Why did I choose the software field for a business? Some people I know run “conventional” brick and mortar, business to consumer, type businesses such as stores and hotels. I could use their expertise, contacts and advices in starting a Subway, Quizno’s, Marathon, Super 8, or Liquor Store. Sure, in those types of businesses I would probably make money and more importantly be self employed.

However, starting a conventional brick and mortar type of business gave me an uneasy feeling. I don’t think I would like it. It is important you like the business you run. The criteria I have for a starting a business I like is as follows.

Starting a Business Criteria

• Must leverage my software background and expertise.
• Must use the internet, databases and web servers.
• Must “piggyback” on another companies success
• Does not require constant customer attention. Customers can be really high maintenance.
• Has the potential to incorporate “data analysis” into the business model.

• Must not cost a gazillion dollars to start up. Especially, does not need venture capital to start.
• Does not cost to much to run the business.
• Does not require a business plan to start. Just a hunch or intuition.

• Allows me to continue to work at a job while working on the business.

So over the last year I have tried to find SEO’s in developing nations that my parents are from – India and the Philippines. One of the reasons I was looking for Filipino SEO’s was because they are cheaper. It turns out that the Philippines has an active Filipino SEO market.

I did a Google search and found http://forums.seo.ph/ and posted an ad up. To my surprise several Filipino SEO’s replied and I currently have two working for me. I understood that employing Filipino SEO’s was risky.

They can take your money and not do what you ask or what they say. After all the Filipino SEO’s are from different time zones and really far away. You will probably never meet them. I decided the risk outweighed the potential reward since the cost monthly cost for Filipino SEO’s is relatively low.

However, it still pisses me off that one Filipino SEO ripped me off. Her name was Angel Lim or Anna Ida or something like that. I employed her for two months and gave her two months pay. That Filipino SEO would not respond to many of my e-mails and she would agree to do what I asked. The fact that she did not communicate well should have been a red flag to me after the first month. You must make sure that the Filipino SEO communicates well. In the end, Anna Ida did not do work for me. Another SEO that charged too much in proportion to while Filipino SEOs make and was also unsatisfactory. He did some work but never did what I asked.

These two Filipino SEOs that I have working for me currently, Oliver and Snow, are pretty good. Oliver reports to me. Snow reports to Oliver. I chat with Oliver every day. He gives me ideas and I tell him what to do when I have ideas. He seems to do it. They send progress reports almost every day outline what they have done. I pay them bi-weekly.

One thing that you cannot confirm is if the Filipino SEO put in the amount of hours they claim. All I can do is confirm that they work based on the materials they send and chats we have.

December 1, 2008 - anyInput has launched and released anyUI.com. anyUI.com is based on the same platform as anyInput but differs in its customizations to the particular market we are targeting.

From our experience, many websites such as government websites have public database data that they are sharing or want to share. These websites often place text files of public database data on their web sites for interested people to download and consume. Unfortunately, the downloadable public data is not easily accessible to the normal web browser. It is really suited to technically minded people. Further, additional steps must be taken for the downloaded data to be viewed.

These websites can make the public database data more accessible. However, this requires additional resources such as programmers to build a database user interface. anyUI.com is essentially a user interface for your public data that can be viewed and easily manipulated for the normal web browser. You just tell us where the data is on your site and we will download it, process and build a simple web interface for you. Provide links to your anyUI homepage on your site and let users know that the public database data can be viewed right away through a simple web browser.

Sorry for the long delay in posts authored by me. I am only one person and can only do so much. I actually have been working very hard over the last year in creating sites based on the anyInput platform and testing internet marketing methods. The sites are anyAssets, anyUI and anyInfos. The internet marketing method that seems to work is based on data aggregation. More on this later.

You may have noticed that the blog has been active over the past year with posts about anything. Well, those are from my Filipino SEOs. More on the later as well.

The story starts with the main character, Haruhi, looking for a place to study in. As the library was full, Haruhi looks for another place where he can study in peace. After going around the castle for a while, he comes upon the host club in the third music room. Here, he tries all means of escape and unfortunately breaks a very valuable vase worth eight million yen in the process. He is made to pay it off by being the club’s errand boy for the rest of his stay in that prestigious school.

The next day, he is introduced to the club members and oriented to what their club is all about. While learning the things that he is supposed to fulfill, the club members somehow caught a glimpse of his eyes and are intrigued by how they are like those of a girl’s. He thereby becomes an official member with his attribute being that he looks and is sensitive enough just like a girl.

Given his very first desinations, the president of the club gives Haruhi his attention to the point that a customer by the name of Ayanokoji became jealous and with no fault of his own, Haruhi gained an enemy in the person of Ayanokoji.

As Haruhi is getting better and better at playing host, an incident with Ayanokoji arises that requires for her to change the uniform he is wearing. We are then shown a very disturbing sort of revelation. Haruhi, the main character and the most recent addition to the host club, is actually a girl.

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Summary:
Haruhi is a poor tomboyish student at a school for the ultra-wealthy, able to attend because of a scholarship, and unable to even afford a uniform. One day, she stumbles across the decidedly peculiar but very popular Ouran Host Club. She tries to leave, but accidentally breaks a vase, and unable to pay for it, she’s told that she’ll have to stay and do odd jobs. That is, until they decide she would be more valuable as a club member. Not realizing she’s female due to her appearance, they fix her up and give her a male uniform. She’s an instant hit, so they decide to have her keep up the charade even after they find out the truth. Haruhi, being average almost to a fault, doesn’t know what to make of the unconventional activities of the Host Club (or of the even more unconventional members), but having little choice, she plays along. Before long, real bonds are formed, friends made, and Haruhi finds herself accepted in a way she could never have been otherwise in this affluent school.

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