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How did “Howcomeyouarehere” get so much traffic?

I am puzzled, how come a blog that started just a month ago with little/no original content get so much traffic?

So it is time to do a little investigating.

On his blog, he was quoted to be saying:

will be sharing with you some tips!
On how I increase my blog traffic!
How to make your blog like a brand!

For this Monday,Tuesday and today which is the Wednesday.
I’ve this amount.After having every tips applied.

Here’s the tip

1)Comment on others blog
-Comment on someone blog humorously or make it interesting that visitors of the other blog would want to check out your blog.

2)Social Media Sites
-Submit your posts on Social Media Sites.You are able to get an instant boost of your blog’s traffic

3)Forum
-Posting in forum and advertising your blog in a forum works well as it is a forum with large amount of visitors and it will boost your traffic and do add a signature with your blog url to widen the chance of getting your blog visited by the members of the forum.Some of the forums I would suggest would be Hardwarezone - EDMW , SGCLUB , VR-ZONE , Playpark & STOMP !

4)Blog Directories
-Submit your blog on Blog Directories : Submit your blogs to Technorati, Techmeme, Blogcatalog and other blog directories. Blog directories are also a place where you could submit your blogs and get traffic and when your blog is fairly new to everyone.

5)RSS Feeds
-Syndicate RSS through feedburner.Because it’s the best. Syndicating feeds also results in increasing traffic, as the people who are in list of your feed will come back.

6)Link others.
-Yes,linking of others will definitely helps alot.By linking more people and more people liking you back you will get a higher chance of increasing your blog’s traffic.If you wish me to link you,post a comment :)!

7)Technorati tags
-Tagged every key word in each of your posts.I found that by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and it’s definitely an advantage.

8)PING
-Ping your blog with websites like PING.SG & BLOGEXPLOSION

9)Title tag
-Based on default, Title tags in blogger can only show the first title set in the blog.
It will be hard to increase the blog traffic and Search Engines Optimization, because the keywords appeared would not match the Post title.
Then, how to make the title tags appear as the Post titles?

It is simple. Some steps you have to do:

1. Log in to your Blogger Account.
2. Go to Layout > Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard.
3. Search (CTRL+F) for this tag:
4. Add this code (Bold) with the following:

Note:Remove the spacebar for tit le.

10)Blog!
-Yes,you do have to blog something interesting that will attract visitors to your blog.Make sure you update your blog at least once every week.Make your blog like an entertainment station :) Jokes,riddles,etc are proven to increase your blog’s traffic.

What is so interesting is point number 3 and 4.

In point 3 where the cloner (lets call him a cloner, he is not a blogger, he copies all his content from other sources with no original input from himself at all) says to post the blog links on forums such as hardwarezone, I promptly went over and did a search for “howcomeyouarehere”. This is what came up:

Someone is already warning us not to visit the howcomeyouarehere blog! There is also some mention about blatantly using the blog to earn money, but lets leave it for the moment.

Next we look at his next tip for increasing blog traffic, point number 4. Submission to blog directories. I think this is something that the cloner did very well.

Ping.sg works by promoting blog entries that has more user clicks (or pongs) to the top 10, and by being the top 10, that blog entry gains even more exposure and hence translate into tonnes of free traffic. This is what howcomeyouarehere did:

Pongs can only be given by registered users on Ping.sg, and it is not uncommon to see that a blog entry can have a dozen of reads but only 1 or 2 pongs. However, howcomeyouarehere’s entries get ponged as soon as they appear, and have almost the same number of pongs and reads. What is more, the first 5 people who pong those entries are the same, in the same exact order.

6 pongs and 4 reads!

It is quite obvious that he had created multiple accounts to ping his own entries. This is how he get so much traffic.

Next, remember the experiment I conducted earlier on Ping.sg, where I posted an entry with the title “Singaporeans only care about sex, and here’s why”. It immediately become the top story on Ping.sg, hence proving my point that Singaporeans only care about sex.

And how is the content in howcomeyouarehere like? All about rapes, penises and testicles. I expect he go to google news everyday to search for those obscene words and just copy and paste whatever latest sex related story he can find. This greatly boasted his traffic too.

Now we know how did howcomeyouarehere get so much traffic. The remaining question is WHY?

The answer is obvious:

Advertisements are meant for allowing products/services to gain more exposure. In this case howcomeyouarehere has trampled on this very fundamental definition of ads by essentially saying,

“Come on sucker, let me earn some $, click on all the ads you can find on my blog.”

Update 130309: The cloner has since removed the pop up alert.

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Yongfook’s blog blocked in SAF network as “Adult, Mature Content”

I was in camp to pack up my barang barang in lieu of my ORD on Friday. Waiting for an officer to come and sign my clearance and with nothing better to do, I went to use the INET at the INET room and tried to visit YongFook’s blog. There was much hu-ha over him by prominent local female bloggers so I was quite interested to take a look at his blog. To my surprise, this appeared:

(Screenshot stimulated, not actual screenshot taken in camp)

YongFook’s blog has ADULT, MATURE content!

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14 years old ONLINE SCAMMER Caught!!!

I was checking out various emails and tagboards around my site when I saw this:

This spammer is really crazy. So I checked out his site!

Ok lor. Win liao lor. Some silly blog selling pirated PS2 and PSP games. Ok lor.

Pwned.

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ACJC Student blogs on ragging: ACJC is part of a school of elite JCs in Singapore which are not meant for prudes anyway.

Here are some insights on what an ACJC student feel about the media publicity over the ragging incident.

From an ACJC Student, Javier Yeo

Ok first of all, I don’t even understand what the hell is that reporter’s problem. If it was that such big a deal, shouldn’t the girl be traumatized? She would have gone for counseling, leave school and stay at home and not eat, turn anorexic and run away when she sees a cake, eventually culminating in her suicide.

EVIDENTLY that did not happen.

So, this “concerned” retard’s argument doesn’t even hold.

Secondly, tagging the video “loser” is done in FUN not to mock and ridicule the person. Ok to be fair, the whole attempt was to make fun of the birthday girl. But that is what happens when you are a teenager! This is how, you learn to rise up from all these “mocking” nonsense and develop some sense of humour and become a social being, not some moron who stays behind the computer screen and analyze these videos secretly wishing that someone would pay her that much attention.

AND I MUST say that this was done for fun. It was obviously very elaborately planned and no one would give 2 hoots to show someone they care that its their birthday if all they want to do is to make fun of them. USE YOUR BRAINS! Put it to better use.

“It is an awful sight and there is no way the victim is enjoying this.”

Err excuse me, are you the victim? If you’re not then DON’T SHOVE WORDS INTO HER MOUTH. That’s worse then stuffing her clothes with cake and milk.

“The birthday girl even broke down and cried in the video.”

And at the end of it all, a staff member was seen admonishing the students not for doing these to her, but for messing up the place.

“Dragged and humiliated”

First of all, you are not even the discipline master, let alone a teacher. So thats one reason that you should shut your trap. Secondly, I BELIEVE that our school teacher has a better sense of judgment then you do SINCE YOU ONLY SAW THE VIDEO and he was actually there. If the girl was REALLY CRYING don’t you think that he would have done something? Like I said USE YOUR BRAIN! Gosh.

“And to top it off, with reference to the attached picture , “tagged loser.jpg”, it’s disheartening to see that the person who uploaded the footage actually personally wrote “loser” as one of the tags to the video.

“Is it merely a celebration on the surface or just a facade to intentionally cause emotional distress to someone?”

No no I’m sure the computer will tag loser instead of the person. OF COURSE THE PERSON WHO UPLOAD MUST PERSONALLY TAG LA! RETARD! I’m so sorry but we’re not that advanced yet. We must wait longer for all computers to have AI. And even so, I doubt the computer would be smarter to understand that “loser” in this case is not derogatory at all but just plain fun.

“What kind of a birthday celebration is this?”

One that you clearly won’t get to enjoy coz lets face it. No. One. Cares.

“I do not want to be the next person nor anyone else to be in such a state.”

Awwwww…well here’s a comforting thought! You won’t have to worry! You didn’t have to worry, and you won’t have to worry.

I’m just sooo!!!!!! ANNOYED! That someone would have so much free time to bother about ridiculously insignificant stuff like this. If you really care so much go and save the Earth! Stop global warming. Now THAT is an embarrassment that the whole of Mankind has to live through, not some stupid HARMLESS video which clearly has no malice intended.

“I am not exaggerating this incident but if such things were to happen to me. I will not be able to control my emotions and I wouldn’t be able to study in such an environment with peers like this around. Unmistakably, I will be mentally and emotionally hurt being embarrassed in front of everyone in my school, and also the entire footage being uploaded onto the internet allowing everyone else in the world to watch me being humiliated.”

It’s fine. ACJC is part of a school of elite JCs in Singapore which are not meant for prudes anyway.

Just in case the blog got deleted, here is a screenshot..

JC students are just so… unbelievable nowadays compared to when I was one.

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I am fucked up

I am fucked up..

Grave mistakes were made, trust was broken, work (shit would be a better word) is piling up and I can feel my brain freezing up.

I used to be unable to make such grave mistakes. Now I make them. And I have broken people’s trust, and my own dignity and reputation. I didn’t even think through what I was about to do, whether I really meant it, its consequences, and whether it is a right or wrong thing to do. My ability to discern right and wrong is eroding.

I do not know if this is because of the grave financial situation I have put myself in… now I suffering the onslaught of my spendings in the past few months. And as a result there are things that I had to give up. Things I dream about every night. Things that bring me joy. Things that provide me a healthy outlet to relieve my stress and give me time to rest my mind and to relax. My mind is in such a mess now.

I love radio controlled toys ever since I am young. I would always ask my parents to get one for me, and due to their love but weak financial capabilities, I often get cheap toys that spoils within a few months. It has always been my dream to get a hobby grade remote control car, one that could cost a few hundred dollars. I got my wish first with the purchase of a off-road buggy, and then an on-road touring car. Running the cars on slopes, doing drifts, getting the cars chased by small children. Sitting alone at an open court undisturbed and unconnected to everything. Just squeezing the trigger and enjoy the speed. Those are the happiest days of my life. But having a $440 monthly allowance pay from the Army does not allow me to substain this. Random repairs and monthly tire replacements can take up to as much as 1/4 of my allowance. Another 1/4 goes to transport. Damn the high cost of public transportation. I only have 220 to spend on meals. That is like $50 per week.

My savings soon dripped from 5 digit to 4 and when my radio control set developed problems, I held back my tears and told myself, this is it. I love remote control cars, and I love audio gadgets. But I had to sell them. I have to control my spendings. Off goes my Koss PortaPro headphone of 4 years to some lucky buyer. My girlfriend misses it too because in my JC days, she would always help me fold and keep it neatly in its pouch when I was too lazy to. She loves its sound and even its look. I sold off my $300 brushless motor for $165. I sold off Lipo batteries and charger for my remote control. I sold off the only portable headphone amplifier I currently own. I sold off my interconnect cables. I sold off the MylarOne X3i that I so happily keep in an Impact Candy case and love to surprise friends by pretending to offer them sweet and then opening the box to reveal the earphones.

I watched in misery as all these items I so loved landed onto other people’s hand. Once I sold my stuff to a buyer I would turn around and walk away quickly, fighting the terrible urge to turn back and get my stuff back from them. For many weeks I forgetfully open the drawer where I always kept my Koss Portapro and want to use them, only to remember that I had already sold it. For many nights I dream about playing remote control car. The first few dreams I dreamt that I was playing with my own. In the subsequent dreams, I dreamt that I had to borrow cars from my R/C buddies and play them. Whenever I pass by Saujana court, the place where I always play with on-road car, I would feel sadness overwhelm me and I had to turn away. Once I saw an Uncle playing with an on-road there, I walked over to him and asked if I could join him, only to check myself and remember that the only R/C stuff I have left are a few unused wheels.

All these somehow threw me out of whack. I begin to lose interest in what I do. Nothing feels worth doing in this world anymore. With stupid excuses I delegate all my office work to my understudy. I started to treat my friends badly. When an error-filled submission from an Admin Specialist arrive in my mailbox, I would email back in a very “chee bye” manner and CC the email to my superior and his. When Jaben Forum banned me, I went crazy and posted a silly thing on another forum. When my understudy to ask me things he obviously did not know about while I was on leave, I scolded him. I know it is obviously I am becoming what I know I am not and I could not help it.

My hobbies and obsessions and silly spendings had bled my wallet dry, and when I tried to fix it, I bled my soul dry.

I don’t know what to do anymore. I know that not knowing what to do is a common excuse for doing wrong things, but I really mean it when I have no idea what to do.

Can someone please help? What is right? What is wrong? What is my core personality? What should I believe in? Can I ask for forgiveness? Can I ever get out of this rotten feeling and state of mind?

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Weikiat.NET is moving again!

I’ve finally bit the bullet and purchased my own web hosting plan. Will be transfering everything over there in the next couple of days, so expect some down time and stuff.

Meanwhile, all blogs will be entering hibernation while I do the database transfer. Slops will still feature a new blog shop daily, but submissions won’t be processed until the server move is completed.

There will also be more services coming up at Weikiat.NET, so stay tuned!

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Singaporeans only care about sex, and here’s why

The screenshot below depicts it all…

Update:
This is such a self serving post…

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Blogging from my ipod touch

Hehe I’m blogging from my ipod touch using the official open source wordpress app!

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100% proven and tested way to boast your blog traffic with minimal effort

After visiting Ping.sg for a couple of time and getting a few “test” entries ponged on the site as well, I begin to realise there are indeed very cheapskate and evil ways of driving tonnes of traffic to your blog, although some come with unwanted side effects. These are retarded method but 100% proven working methods (as seen from other blogs that employ them) which I do not use myself because they all seemed too… unethical and stupid. I call all these blogs retarded blogs.

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100% proven and tested way to boast your blog traffic with minimal effort

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