Joyce Babu

Today while visiting DigitalPoint I noticed that my last post was more than an year back. Hmm…That is a pretty long time. Many things happened during this one year. Now I am no longer a student, but runs my own web development firm with my brother. The new role brought with it new responsibilities too. So I could never find time for blogging, even though I really wanted to. Anyways, today I decided to spend some time to upgrade my blog, change its design and write this update.

I am so sorry for not updating Local Analytics for a long time. I heard that it does not work with newer versions of WordPress. I can’t make a promise, but I will try to update it when I have time.

Thats all for now. Have a great day

It has been almost a month since my last post. I will be extremely busy till the end of this month. The new year has been going great so far. All my exams, except one, were easy. Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year (Yes, I know it is a bit too late ).

Today early morning, my brother rushed in to my room and told me that our latest site, www.love-meter.net, is being reported as fraud site by Opera. I ran to my computer and found that it was true. I was surprised because the site is not yet complete and still it is being reported as a fraud site. I reloaded the page and it was then I noticed that it was not actually our site, but Google’s cache of my site that my brother was referring to. I checked my site and found that it was not showing any warnings. Next I checked for Google’s cache of www.google.com and found that it too showed the same error. But the warning is not being shown on the datacenter homepage. I checked the page cache in some other datacenters [ 64.233.161.104, 209.85.165.102] and they were not showing any such warning.

BTW, I had received several feedbacks and comments on Local Analytics. I am sorry, I wasn’t able to respond to your comments and fix the errors you have reported. I will try my best to fix those errors by the end of this month or early February.

Today, on this beautiful day, I would like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas. Also as this year come to an end, I want to thank all my readers for your support for my blog and my plugin. It has been more than 6 months since I started blogging. Compared to some other blogs that started at the same time, this blog did not grow much in terms of visitors or RSS subscribers. But I am content with the current standing.

Achievements in 2007

• Readers Appreciation award for November, 2007
• Won 5 contests throughout blogosphere
• Released one Wordpress plugin and another one under development
• Released the software bundle TorPlus
• Made over 60 posts with more than 300 comments
• Rankings and Ratings
  PageRank – 3
  Technorati Rank – 61,585
  Alexa Rank – 249439

Once again thanks to all my readers. I will try to be a better blogger in 2008. And till then, happy holidays.

Sorry for being a little late. As promised, I am releasing the latest version of Local Analytics today. Thanks to Carl and DG, this version is compatible with the latest update to code update to Google Analytics. This version also includes Adsense and YPN ad click tracking. The ad click tracker is based on the Free AdSense Tracker by Aaron Wall.

BTW, I have obtained access to the WP-Plugins.org SubVersion repository for Local Analytics. From now on, you can download the current version and the previous versions of the plugin from the WP Plugin Repository.

I have also fixed a mistake in the version number pattern. The last version was renamed to v1.1.3 from v1.13 to prevent conflicts in future.

Change Log

• Included compatibility with latest Google Analytics Code Update
• Added support for Adsense and YPN ad click tracking
• Changed the version number pattern

Sorry, this is not a post announcing the release of the latest version of Local Analytics. I wanted to update the plugin to the latest ga.js from urchin.js yesterday. Unfortunately, I couldn’t turn on my computer yesterday due to power failure. I have my first exam tomorrow and I’ll try to release the updated version after that.

Thanks to Carl and DG for notifying me about the update to Google Analytics.

When posting my previous post, I never thought that I will be writing another post so soon. But on seeing the prize, I couldn’t keep myself from entering Thor Schrock’s Secret Classroom Blog Contest. The prizes are

1. USD 1000 via Paypal
2. A Copy of Joel Comm’s Secret Classroom DVD Set
3. A 22″ Wide screen Acer LCD Computer Display

What is Secret Classroom?

Secret Classroom is an internet marketing course in a set of 12 DVDs featuring all the 12 episodes of reality show, The Next Internet Millionaire, with 2 hour sessions on internet marketing by experts like Jeff Walker, Rich Schefren, Ray Edwards, Mark Joyner etc. These experts teaches a handful of aspiring entrepreneurs, the secrets of successful internet marketing, as if in a classroom. This much awaited course was released on December 5th and became an instant hit among internet marketers, both amateurs and professionals. The Secret Classroom is not a get rich quick gimmick. It is an education that will improve your income and your internet marketing business for the rest of your life.

I would have really loved to have a copy of the secret classroom. Unfortunately, the prize of the set is unaffordable for me right now. But I will surely get a copy when I can afford one. Have any of you bought a copy? If so, can you please tell your opinion on this internet marketing course?

So stop thinking  and enter the Secret Classroom Blog Contest at the earliest. Remember that time and tide waits for none.

Since my exams are round the corner, I won’t be able to post on this blog for almost a month. I would like to thank each and every visitors of this blog for the support you have provided so far. I will be back soon and take care till then.

Btw, if anyone is interested in Guest Blogging on this blog, while I am away, I will be only happy to allow you do that. Thanks.

I feel greatly honored and really happy to let you know that I won my first award for this blog -  The ‘ Readers First’ Award for November 2007. The award is given by the Readers Appreciation project for blogs that appreciate the value of their readers. I am in November’s winners list because I always ensure that I reply to each comment I get on this blog.

Joyce is also very good at responding to readers in the comments section, which is always commendable.

I was recommended for the award by David, for the support I provided for Local Analytics.

David: I would like to recommend Joyce for your readers first award. I am not sure whether he is a member of Reader Appreciation Project, but he has been providing very good support for his plugin.

David, if you still read this blog, please leave a comment on this post so that I can give you some link love .

And before I conclude this post, I would like to thank David and all my readers for visiting the blog and sharing your opinions.

BTW, Freezing Hot, an Internet marketing company specializing in small business seo and ppc management, is running a contest and giving away a search engine optimization package worth $400 to the winner. Check out the contest on their internet marketing blog and subscribe to the RSS feed. And be sure to check out Contest Blogger, the number one source for prizes and free samples. The only entry requirement is that you post a small paragraph of text on your blog.

Do you love learning new languages? Did you ever wish to become a polyglot? Well, here is your chance to learn almost a dozen new languages for free.

Mango Languages is an online language learning system that facilitates you to learn almost a dozen new languages through their interactive website. According to the Mango Languages site,

Mango ^beta is an online language learning system freely available to everyone. Learn at your own pace with a suite of features that make language learning more engaging and fun.

Each language is divided into 100 lessons with each lesson having almost a hundred slides. Mango Languages actively engages audio and visual cues to help you learn the new language. The language lessons includes audio from native speakers of the language and phonetic transcriptions, so that you can learn the language with the correct pronunciation. Mango Languages also include quizzes to test and improve your language learning. The interface is created in Adobe Flash and I felt very much comfortable with it.

Mango Languages currently supports the following language lessons

• Brazilian Portuguese for English Speakers
• English for Polish Speakers
• English for Spanish Speakers
• French for English Speakers
• German for English Speakers
• Greek for English Speakers
• Italian for English Speakers
• Japanese for English Speakers
• Mandarin Chinese for English Speakers
• Pig Latin for English Speakers
• Russian for English Speakers
• Spanish for English Speakers

By early 2008, Mango Language plan to launch an updated version of the site by polishing the existing languages and by adding new languages to the system. Newly planned languages include Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Polish, Vietnamese, Thai, Cantonese Chinese, Irish Gaelic, Farsi, Hindi, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Mango Languages also allows offline learning using downloaded mp3 files, which can be burned into a CD or played using iPod. But, unlike the web learning, offline learning is not free and costs you $1.50 per lesson or $149.95 for an entire language.

If you are interested in Mango Languages, you might also be interested in the post How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour by Tim Ferris.

 I had always stayed away from Link Trains because of the fear of search engines penalizing my site. But today I found this Link Train on Jon’s site and found it interesting, because the links have a no follow tag on it. Since the Link Trains follows Google’s guideline of using the nofollow attribute, I too decided to join the train.

Why Join?

If the links have a nofollow tag, then why should you join the contest? There are four reasons.

1.  Helps you get backlinks which will improve your Technorati ranking
2. Increased exposure for your blog
3. 10 lucky winners will get a copy of the book The 4-hour Workweek courtesy of Blogging The Movie
4. And finally, each of the 10 lucky winners  will be able to host their own contest which will be sponsored by Blogging The Movie.

How to Join

1. Write an original short snippet introduction to avoid duplicate content.
2. Just copy the section between the start and end.
3. Add your 3 favorite blogs with rel=”nofollow” in the link on the code page.
   

   <a href=”http://url.com/” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>URL.com</a>

   This is extremely important to ensure that Google won’t ding us. Make sure you contact the bloggers and insist they participate so they can keep this going.

4. Email your URL of your blog post to Free4hourWorkweek@gmail.com
   [Deadline: 12/31/07 ]

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