Desktop Art - Creating Designs from lousy folders

All I have ever filled my desktop with is crap Krap. I think it has never been that my desktop or any inner space of the hard disk was organized. I mean that usually I get a cluttered look on my desktop when there are about 50+ files on it. To fix the whole thing up I make a folder called ‘Desktop 1′, pretty neat right? Well it would be good enough if I would stick to just making one of such folders but I actually end up getting my desktop filled with one of these every 2 weeks and I do not want to delete the most temporary file that I had created. This screen shot would help you get a view of the folders I copied from my old computer to the new one:

Exactly, previously I had been running on 5 desktops and you can just imagine what I had to go through when I was to look for a file. It is usually best to keep your desktop as small as possible in terms of files as it may improve your loading time. Although now I have begun serious sorting out on the folders to keep my new computer organized. I wonder how organized other people have their desktops, and recently I was experiencing some design patterns while I was fixing my folders, I thought that it was just me but a little search showed me a lot of creative stuff. It is a lot of fun to try out these type of things, and I’ll leave you with this very nice desktop Art that I found at Gizmodo showing Homer Simpson doing that spider pig stuff from the Simpsons Movie all made up with folders, you should try this as well:

 

Happy Birthday To The Kid That Makes Money

I reconsidered the title: Happy birthday to the kid guy that makes money. Ouch,  that is about 12 days without an article. You might be thinking where I was, but to tell the truth I have final examinations coming up and I needed to study and so I was a little more than busy to blog. Anyways, you read the title.
Today, 9th May I have turned 16 years old. Wow, I feel big. Not in terms of weight, I mean colossal. 15 years seemed a little more than kiddish, but 16 years is an age which makes you legal for a lot of things. I mean you can make more money, hehe.
By the time you read this article, I will be having a birthday party with my family and friends or probably studying for my exams. Dang, I wanted to write a lot more for this but unfortunately I am short of time. I have already time-stamped an article in the coming days so that you don’t see my blog completely out-dated. I will be back by the 1st of June. Since both my birthday and my blog’s birthday will be pending here, I will hold a grand contest with the come back.

Who’s The Money Making Happy Boy?

I know you have a routine full of crappy things to do like spamming, but I suppose taking a few seconds out of your busy routine to wish me a happy birthday will not harm you. While I might be happy, but I’m a little tensed as well. Studies are tought especially for a 16 year old who makes money on the internet, and I cannot afford to get off the A grade in any one of the subjects. So wish me a happy birthday and wish me luck for my exams.

I Just Turned 17 - Belated Birthday Post

It’s 4 days past my birthday, and I wasn’t able to update my blog on the day of my birthday. Thanks to my examinations. Anyways, here I am, a year older since I last posted. Thanks to all those who prayed for me, my exams went good. I’m three down, seven to go.
Yeah, that’s right. I’m no more that 13 year old that just entered his teens. I’m all grown up, and damn, I feel old . Life’s ticking time and money away (Courtesy: Linkin Park), we just have to make the best use of our time.
The funny thing is, by looking at all of my blog entries (Over 150 to date), I can see myself growing up through my words. how I used to make money online back then, and how I’m doing so now. I changed this blog when I turned 15 and since that time I’ve been writing quite periodically.
With time, as we grow up. Life brings more problems and you have to deal with more obligations than you had to deal withyesterday. This hinders your progress a lot. It’s only a year till I’m 18 and then I go to university and become super busy.
Internet marketing, the word I use to summarise the ton of different things I do online, is definitely not a part-time job. This is especially in the case if you want to make some good money. But oh well, enough of my ranting.
Be kind enough, and wish me a belated birthday through a comment. It won’t cost you a penny, nor would it take more than a minute. Here’s something in advance: Thank you! Now you owe me a birthday wish.

Who Else Is Coming To YLES 2010?

I’ve been pretty busy these days due to on-going events. I had examinations at school, I was launching a few new website and other routine stuff. Some time back I applied for YLES (Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs summit) and our team got accepted.
This business event is being held at LUMS university, Pakistan. I know there are not a big number of pakistani bloggers out there. But I think many people might be coming to this event. It’s the first time I’m attending YLES, and I’ve heard good stuff about it in the past years.
Moreover, since it’s the young leaders and entrepreneurs summit, I’m not going to bored at all. I look forward to learning lots of new stuff. Because if you know about me, you’d know that business and entrepreneurship runs in my blood.
It’s a 4 day event, with different forms of activities that are all fun-filled. I’m mostly looking forward to the business events and would love to hear from fellow pakistanis. Since, the main motto this year is ‘Sustainopreneurship’. I would be keen to know how people integrate this into their business plans.
It’s a four-day event from 19th to 23rd January. Oh well, if you are coming to YLES 2010, then let me know through the contact form or through the comments below. I’ll definitely be looking forward to meet new people. Tell them how cool I am. Maybe we could learn a thing or two from each other. So let me know if you’re coming through the comments below and we can meet-up at the event.

Keeping Up With Studies And Blogging

It’s been a while since I last posted. Well, life has been pretty busy with me for the last few months. I’ve been preparing for my cambridge examinations and the SAT Reasoning Test; studies aren’t easy in the last year of school. Plus, there are some project you just can’t overlook.
I’ve been replying to mails as soon as I get time, I’m sorry if I can’t get back to all of them. I have also composed a few articles for beginners who want to make money on the internet, since my previous articles are quite out-dated by now.
I’ll be publishing the articles very soon and I’ll also be completing the series on making money online in pakistan. I know it’s been a while and I didn’t do the follow-ups to it, but you can expect to get some more specific information on how to make money if you’re a Pakistani.
The most important news (and probably the reason behind this post) is: I’ve been interview by Smash Magazine. Smash Magazine is a youth magazine in Pakistan and they have interviewed me for being among the Youngest Pakistani Bloggers. It’s a 2-page interview under the title: Youngest Pakistani Blogger. If you’re a Pakistani, get a hold on the magazine; you’ll get to know me better and gain few tips from me.
As soon as I get time, I will post up scanned pages from the magazine for those of you who just want to check it out. Till then, bless me with your comments

A Quick Update On My Exams

I have not been able to blog for a while now, you might have noticed that. The reason is that, off the internet, I’m just like any ordinary kid who has to give exams. I’m in Grade 11, AS level and 11th marks the start of my cambridge examinations.
I scored 10 A’s in my o levels and definitely have to maintain those A grades. Though there are only 5 subjects this time, but it is much more difficult as compared o the previous level.
I’m appearing in the Maths, Economics, Accounting, Business studies and thinking skills papers. So getting those 5 A grades is my main concern at the moment. As I type this, I have my thinking skills book open next to my netbook begging for me to read it.
Other than that, since the last time I posted, 3arn.net has progressed quite well. It is getting over 800 visitors daily and gets a lot of pageviews too. The main reason being that it is ranking number 1 for the term “make money on the internet“.
This had been my main aim since I started blogging, and it calls for a more detailed write-up which I shall do soon. Bottom line, I am in quite a very tense position right now. Please, wish me luck and pray that I succeed in my examinations. I’ll start writing as soon as I get time between my exams.

How I Increased My Daily Adsense Revenue By 53.66%

I mentioned previously that I gave adsense a chance once again. I already have a lot of places to play around with adsense at. I did realize however that Adsense can be an effective way to make extra money at home. I started with around $5 a day at 3arn.Net which increased to $12 maximum.

The Great Jump Of Adsense

I was still playing around with adsense on my sites and I was testing out new and better things. My initial experiment started with 3arn.Net after I moved onto further sites. I knew 3arn.net wasn’t the perfect fit for adsense so I couldn’t expect it to make much, adsense on 3arn.Net is just an extra waistband on my wrist. But I knew that it wasn’t really hard to increase adsense revenue.
However, there are different types of blogs and websites that make more money with adsense. Namely, those which get most traffic from search engines. My results from those were much better in terms of making money with adsense.
My optimization sucked at first and I was hardly making enough money from Google Adsense on other blogs. By enough money, I mean over $50 (It’s best to clarify!) . Some websites were even pulling measly cents, which was very annoying! If you think out of the box, you might realize that you can create a steady income when the cents start to add up. After all, it is a 100 cents that make a dollar.
I just had to optimize more if I wanted to make some good money. But I’d say it was too early to make strong decisions, so during my usual play around with adsense. I tried switching the positioning and tried blending in the ads and my results were way above awesome!

The Revenue Climax

I’m a big fan of spiky graphs and I got excited to find a nice big spike in my google analytics account showing google adsense stats. A 53.66% revenue increase! Since then, my websites have been making as much.

What Caused The Increase In Google Revenue?

I could have put it the other way round, but below are a handful of things that helped me increase my Google revenue:

1. Better Positioning of the Adsense unit.
2. Blending the ad color of Adsense with the rest of the page.
3. Removing Adsense from more than 90% of the pages on my websites and removing it absolutely from 4 of websites!
4. Making sure that the right ads were being displayed.
5. Making the ad prominent towards the user with the help of a few things.
6. Getting it the right traffic.
7. Knowing about the right time to display adsense ads.
8. Filtering low-paying ads.
9. Tracking channels to find out the best performing ads.
10. Trying to put Adsense more sensibly within the page.
11. Using a demo for testing the usefulness of the adsense ads.
12. Trying to completely avoid the useless traffic.

These are some of those things that I implemented before I saw a spike. I was already making the previous amount, but the new added income is how I made easy money. I had to do next to nothing to experience a big boost in my adsense revenue.
You must be thinking that it is a whole lot of things but I took out a Sunday to do it all at once and then see the results. There was not much to figure out, however I found out that all the websites that implement blogging have a little better results with adsense.

But I’m Confused, Could You Be A Little More Practical?

Sure, I know that I can be a little hard to understand at times. I’ll be writing a follow-up to this with explanations with each one of the things that I mentioned here. You might want to subscribe to the feed if you do not want to miss it out.
I already have a lot of things in mind however if you write something exceptional  in the comments and I like your idea then I might give you credit in the next article. So get those useful tips coming. However, please note that you will not get credit if I already had that in my list.