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Welcome to Raakesh.com

Hello and Welcome to Raakesh.com

Raakesh Blokhra, is a programmer who develops web applications and software. Some of his products that you may be aware of are Affiliate Radar, Offer Vault, Long Tail Magic, Desktop Counter Pro besides other sites and scripts that you may have used like AffiliateSpell.com, Rase Desktop Counter, Affiliate Link Rotation Script and others.

Some of the key features of Raakesh.com are:
  • Raakesh's Product Gallery
    An overview of products Developed by Raakesh Blokhra. This section also gives you all the information you need about each product.
  • Product Reviews
    These are unbiased reviews for the products that Raakesh has used and feels are worth a mention here.
  • Video Tutorials
    Video Tutorials by Raakesh are a good way to educate yourself on stuff you would like to learn. In the coming months you will see a decent size library of videos, but there are some already to get you started.
  • Podcasts
    If you are the busy entrepreneur who's always on the run, just download Raakesh's Podcasts and enjoy the content through your Ipod / MP3 Players.
  • About Raakesh
    ... and of course, a lot of information about Raakesh including his team, products, his interests in Photography, his experience with Motor Sports, his contributions towards nature & wildlife conservation, and a lot more.
  • Raakesh's Newsletter
    To stay on top of all the above mentioned features, Raakesh's Newsletter provides you an option to subscribe to all his updates. So let that be your first step here. Signup for Raakesh's Newsletter here.

Podcast: What makes Drupal a good Content Management System From a SEO prospective?

Are you curious to know why Drupal Content Management System makes a good candidate among other Content Management Systems from a SEO prospective?

Download the podcast if you are interested in listening to it. The podcast covers each component of Drupal that helps you get organic traffic and explains why is that feature so important and likable by search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.


How to setup Drupal from Scratch (Video 1/3)

How to Setup Drupal from Scratch


The video below gives you the basic overview of how you can install Drupal Content Management System (CMS) on your website through these easy steps. I thought a video will be better than textual instructions as it gives you the ability to pause, rewind and re-view any step that you find confusing.

In this video, you will see:
- How to download Drupal.
- How to unzip Drupal from Archive
- How to upload Drupal to your website
- How to create a new database using Cpanel
- How to add a new user using (MySQL Databases in Cpanel)
- How to add the user to your database

Callwave Review (Internet Answering Machine)

Internet Answering Machine
I have one cell phone, and one business phone and both these numbers are provided on my business cards, because I want to make sure that I get the calls and not miss them. I also have voicemails on both these numbers.

So technically I am totally covered, one way or the other I will get the message if I miss the call.

Commission Junction Datafeed are now Self Serve

Great News for CJ Publishers (Affiliates)

Commission Junction just gave access to the "self serve" option for Datafeeds (also referred to as Product Catalogs). Using this feature you can now subscribe to any number of merchants and get all their products through these feeds and then use this feed to make an affiliate website to promote their products. www.ebooks.com-deals.info is a good example for an (ebooks.com) datafeed being used by CJ.

What is new about this?
Well, CJ did not have this option till May 2009. To subscribe to a datafeed (firstly you had to pay $250) and then for adding or removing a new merchant to your subscription, you had to send out an email to CJ and they would do it for you. This process did take some extra time, and surely time as always, in a constraint. So the above is a great news for people like me.

What exactly is a product Datafeed?
Product Catalog feeds allows you to receive product data from advertisers who have product catalogs. www.ebooks.com-deals.info is a good example of a

Affiliate Link Rotation Script (Uses iFrames to rotate URLS)

iFrame Rotator Script


This script can help you by alternating traffic to different webpages. For example, if you are an affiliate, and have a site on which you are promoting car insurance offers, you can promote Geico Car Insurance, All State auto Insurance and Progressive insurances from the same page by alternating them using this script.

Alternatively, if you have a site and want a tool that sends traffic to your sponsors, advertisers, or partners, you will need this script to manage the forwarding for you. Read how this script works and use your creativity to use it for your benefit.
THIS IS HOW IT WORKS:

You may configure up to 10 URLS on an easy to read configuration file. The script takes one link at a time and opens it in an Iframe on your site itself. When another user comes to your site and goes to the same page, this script will take the next URL and open that in an iframe and this process keeps repeating until the last link has been opened. Once all the links have been used,

Datafeed to MySQL Database Integration Software

Datafeed to MySQL Database Integration Software

I started my career as an Affiliate by creating a Datafeed driven site that still generates a passive income for me without any ongoing time or monetary investment. The only task I had to do was to update feeds occassionaly. I promoted Circuit City on line through Commission Junction affiliate network and made sales till the day they stopped advertising online (as you all know, Circuit City was among the first few companies to go out of business as the recession kicked in). Well, I feel bad for them, but it took me 20 minutes to setup my site with another similar vendor and my site making a passive income again.

So before I feed the Techie Audience with this information, I want to make sure I cover each aspect of using Data-Feeds here so we call can be on the same level of understanding of this ever fascinating technology which is yet to be explored by the majority.

What is a Data Feed?
A Data Feed (or Product Catalog - as referred to by Commission Junction) is a database of products for any merchant that has all the information about the product, along with the Affiliate's unique affiliate link for each product, that redirects to the same product page, on the merchant's site.

Let's say you want to promote ebooks.com. eBooks.com has hundreds and thousands of ebooks to sell. Now if you had a website for promoting ebooks, you could

Instant Landing Page Builder

INSTANT LP
"The Quickest Landing Page Builder"

Now you can build a website from Scratch in just minutes

I know you have been waiting for this for quite some time now, but your wait is "almost over". I just finished developing and testing this software that can make your 8 year old create websites like a pro. I am not just saying it, my 8 year old nephew did create a full website and I will be uploading it on his new domain shortly.

If you are an affiliate, you are in for a treat as this software will prompt you for your input on the HTML code of creatives provided by affiliate networks, and will spit out a landing page for you using the inbuilt templates.


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What is Twitter - Let this post explain

What is Twitter and Why is it so Important?

Twitter is a web site (twitter.com) where you (as a tweeter) can create a free account and start posting your 140 characters long updates that can be viewed by people (other tweeters) who decide to follow you (in other words follow your updates, on their twitter homepage, and/or via emails). The power of twitter comes from its simplicity, the opening text box simply asks, "What are you doing?".



In one word, twitter is the second name for Micro-Blogging.

Printed book: The True Power of Visitor Data Tracking

The True Power of Visitor Data Tracking (Analytics)

This book is my first book in print and the information contained in this book is purely my own experience and how some tweaks, scripts and experimenting allowed me to use a self made tool to double and even triple my online income.

This book talks about the value in tracking visitor data and how each piece of this data can help you get an edge over your competition.



Here is what one of the readers has to say about this book:

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