A research can bring up any fact that make you think twice before you do something. Same thing happened with me to0, after reading this research, I trippled washing my hands than earlier.

The research says that some computer keyboards carry more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat. Tests at some London offices found equipment carrying bugs that could cause food poisoning. Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harbored five times more germs than one of the office’s toilet seats. A microbiologist found the worst keyboards to be so dirty that he ordered them to be removed, quarantined and cleaned. They had 150 times the recommended limit for bacteria — five times as filthy as a lavatory seat tested at the same time, the research found.

Aren’t the results quite scary! This reminds me to clean my keyboard though it is not dirty as it’s shown here. By the way, how often you clean your keyboard?

Till now, I was using Krizka’s Kontera wordpress plugin, to remove kontera ads from the blog posts I desire. It’s pretty useful plugin because not all the posts I would like to have Kontera ads displayed on, and Kontera in-text advertising initially did not provide any option to do that while installing the code in our wordpress blog.

I had also contacted Kontera long back [I even don’t remember now when] on this issue and on their failure to do so, we had removed Kontera ads from many of my blogs. But now, looks like many publishers contacted Kontera on this issue and they realized that they should have provided such add-in or plug-in right in the beginning.

Late than never, Kontera released wordpress plugin that allows me to do few things more [in bold] than what Krizka’s plugin allows.

• Add the ContentLink tag to all your pages in one click
• Block ContentLink ads from appearing on particular posts or categories
• Determine when ContentLink ads will begin appearing on new posts- you can choose to block ads for a particular number of days
• Display ContentLinks only on posts
• Display ContentLinks only on comments
• Change ContentLinks color

Download the Kontera wordpress plugin directly from here, It’s a plugin zip file and it will download right away. But do you think these two additional features would induce me to install this plugin- would I replace Krizka’s plugin with this official one? My chances are 50-50%. What about you?

I and my wife always debate [I said we debate not quarrel] on some or the other things. Last week we were discussing on Inflation and sub prime issues affecting global share markets, couple of days back we were discussing on George Bush’s comments on oil and food consumption in developing countries [read India] and today we are discussing on modeling industry and size zero fad. If you don’t know what zero size fad is -

It is a concept within the fashion media relating to models with low body mass.

While discussing we slipped to discussion on supermodels and our favorites. As always, we never come to a common point where we both agree. She likes Adriana Lima and my favorite is Gisele Bundchen [or Gisele Bündchen]. Sometimes you don;t have reasons for something being your favorite, so same is the case with me - still it provoked me to think about her more.

So why Gisele Bundchen is called a supermodel, you know that? These supermodels are always reputable in the fashion industry and have been working with top fashion designers and labels; no need to say they sign multi-million dollar contracts, endorsements and campaigns.

Gisele is simply on the top of my charts because of her “athletic and curvaceous” body and that’s why she is still a supermodel appearing on covers of magazines like Vogue, Time, Vanity Fair etc.

Now let me come to the point, the discussion just provoked me to find Gisele Bundchen Pictures and here I find some of them, nice ones! Well, well, well don’t get offended with the beautiful picture right away on the homepage. That’s the reason she is earning billions of dollars and we are still playing here in thousands… LOL!

I went ahead and checked out the available pictures. There are some nice ones out there but I wanted more. The site I found is pretty neat & clean, though this site has lost on the real estate of the website, by placing the large image on all the pages of the website. Of course the picture is certainly eye catching. Don’t forget to check out all the picture galleries, there are many more eye catching pictures of this supermodel, Gisele.

Immediately webmaster in my mind woke up and I thought I could suggest few more things. First thing as a reader, I would like to see is, tons and tons and tons of pictures if I am coming to a pictures website. Also, how about providing very high resolution pictures. You know what people go mad for high resolution pictures, including me honestly. It’s just the quality of picture attracts at times, not the model. What the site owner can do is, to add same picture in different resolutions. That triggered one more suggestion, how about having wallpapers of Gisele. That’s an awesome idea isn’t it?

What I would do with this website more? I would also post some text articles on her with top searched keywords about this celebrity. But why? Simply because Google loves lot of text [and images with titles as well] and anyone searching anything about Gisele in Google shall land up on my website.

I noticed one thing - he has monetized the website very well by placing ads above and below the actual picture. Once the website gets popular and gains lot of traffic, it will help him a lot. And yes, if you are one of the webmasters that would like to link to him, check out there link exchange program as well.

Gombos Atila is a young blogger with 8 yrs of experience in art and advertising industry who decided to blog this year and has started with a design blog that not only talks about web design but also money and life. Do you think it’s a similar theme like mine. My blog is all about seo, internet, technology, reviews money and life. Looking at this aspect, that induced me to take more interest to browse through his blog.

At the very first glance, what impresses you - the blog design, correct? And it’s human nature that we first give attention to look and feel of anything and than the core content. The thing that impressed me at this blog is simplicity in the design, I am not sure whether it’s customized design or any available free design but certainly it looks like it’s customized by the blogger himself as his top level domain points to a custom web design services website. It looks like a blog that could help growing his business, and that might be the reason Gombos did not monetize the blog at all. In a way, he would lose lot of money lying on the tables if he does not monetize his blog once it becomes a popular blog.

When I decided to look at the first ever post of this blog, I was little fumbled. There was only one way for me to go back in the past, and that was “Old posts” link at bottom of page. It was a little absurd, but this blog does not have Archives or Recent posts which is little unlikely not to have for any blog. So the author should certainly give a serious thought to add these features to make the navigation easier for readers. Of course he has links to his posts but those appear randomly or only featured ones. There is one more important point about Archives and Recent posts, that helps in internal link building and let search engines know how to index more and more pages from the blog.

Finally I reached to the first ever post, and I realized that this blog has started this year. Still Gombos has achieved to have 50-60 odd posts in this short period and did a commendable job in being regular in posting. Remember, to get a loyal readership - you should be always regular in your postings or at least set expectations of your readers that you would post at certain intervals.

Even though there are many posts, I would have been happy to see the posts distributed more or less equally in each category or section as he has these sections prominently displayed at the top of the blog. I give benefit of doubt to him at this moment, considering it’s pretty new blog and has enough time to develop this blog.

While talking about posts, there are couple of very interesting posts to talk about. I observed that this post on user account control behavior has a damn good information on user accounts in Windows XP and Windows Vista, and it’s not only I say - but the 95 trackback links prove it as well. Another post on spyware community that talks about Windows defender tool suggesting membership in the SpyNet community during setup time. I seriously did not understand why this post must have been so popular but later realized the secret :-). I leave it to you to find it out.

As I myself liked to browse this design blog with different flavors, and I should be regular to this blog if he continues to post regularly but before that I would suggest one more thing to Gombos; to fix up or modify the sections or categories as more or less they look same to me. Overall, I would rate this blog as better quality blog specially for technical people and also non techies to see some information available in simple words.

Very interesting question in my mind today. Would it be unacceptable if I mention about any online casinos website here? I don’t think so and why it should it be in first place? Had you been to Las Vegas or Atlantic City in the States? I had been many times. I have spent so many $$ there from my pocket, I earned many $$ back and believe me even I am at loss or profit, I enjoyed those moments. If in real life, I could go there, visit casinos, gamble, play - did I do anything wrong?

I am not a gambler, but I enjoy visiting casinos at times and pass the time. It’s very important for me that I get to learn all possible things in life whether it’s playing golf, or playing blackjack. At least I try from my side, that I know everything around. Do you try to learn the things, you always wanted? This thinking help us and provoke us to try new things, and eventually learn new things. Life is what - nothing but a learning process.

I always was fascinated with playing games in casinos, never went beyond slot machine, and always have been thinking how to play blackjack and all. But what if you never get a chance to actually enter a golf course or any casino? I believe it must be a case with many of us. You know what I did in past before going to real casinos, I found out some good USA online casinos or at least websites that direct me to good websites of some online casinos. I browsed through various games and browsed through their rules. I could be confident and enter actual casinos and play for real money.

By the way, there you won’t get many bonuses, or options that you can get at comfort of your home online. At least that’s what I read on those online websites that they get you bonus, and certainly options to pay by credit card to play online, comprehensive guides on how to play, no deposit options. If it’s allowed [by whom? you know it], and you like it - I would suggest to try online stuff first and then enter the real thing.

Hurray! There is a reason to cheer, reason to celebrate and reason to share!! We have crossed $10000 in our online earnings this year on 7th May 2008 and it’s an achievement in itself. The earnings by end of day on 7th May reached to $10150.93 to be exact. If you count, it’s 128 days we took to achieve this milestone. That’s a whooping $79.30 per day online earning.

We give all the credit to the readers of this blog, advertisers and blogger friends. I also give credit to one more thing - my passion of making money online that I expressed many times before in my monthly earning posts and also introduced money meter as my self-motivation pill that is helping me to drive that passion to keep the consistency in my efforts.

This blog has become my favorite place to hang out since last year, and I am always on this blog to approve comments, keep the posts ready in drafts, publish some of them, read the comments and reply to them and so on. I started this blog on 24th May with an idea of sharing my experience in SEO, making money online, blogging niche etc with a kinda different slogan “Life is Colourful - Making 2 cents per minute”. Even though the blog covers various topics, I wanted to give way to my experiences in Internet advertising domain on an authority blog, and this is how “Life is Colourful” was born. Honestly, I was more into doing something here that’s not bound to one particular niche like travel or health or finance; and if you read the posts on this blog - you would find them from all over.

I think it’s time for me to change the slogan to “making 5 cents per minute”… You know what - this slogan must not have been giving readers of this blog big picture in mind what they see when read making $5000 per month or something like that. Making 2 cents or 5 cents per minute is nothing but if you imagine that it’s being made every minute, that piles up in 1000s of $$ every month and that’s the consistency where the success in making money online lies.

So have you participated in the dummy domain auction here yet? No… Look what we are predicting and then compare with what fate Traffic East Live Domain auction would decide for these valuable domain names. There are opening bids set for each domain and this is list of some of those super value domain names that are $1MM and above.

I am happy that I could value Pay.com and Jackpot.com above everything else, but Israel.com was a surprise for me. It just outperforming every other domain. It will be pretty interesting to see the live auction.

These are some more high value domain names in terms of opening bid.

Here is the complete auction inventory catalog [in excel format] available for download. I wish I could have foreseen the growing domain industry a decade back and booked few of them, don’t you think too?

As anyways, I touched to the subject of web design companies, let me quickly have a round at a web design blog as well so you people who are interested in web design should be having something to read over this week. Robert at stylishdesign.com has a good blog in making on web design. He has some  pretty interesting  blog posts like Top 3 web design basics,  HTTP requests and responses and many more. This post on issues in the world of Web Designing brought up a well known opinion difference between two groups of web designers. Few of them like to use a method of designing that others might not be finding correct. Whether to use liquid layout or fixed layout, whether to use CSS or tables and the debate on this goes on.

The blog certainly has been touching variety of topics related to web design and development and you would find good amount of read but looks like many of the articles are not written by Robert but some of them look like PLR articles. Whatever it is, as long as I get something good to read, I am happy.

I always get mesmerized with the website designs that attract eyeballs. And that’s what exactly happened while I had a look at this website IKEA - Be brave not beige – it was not only the design but the use of brain behind that idea was impressive. That website shows apartment windows, and clicking on any of those windows, it would take you inside and show the interior decoration. You keep on playing with the interior design with your mouse, and you can add rugs, change bedding, put on the fabric on table top. You should experience it yourself, it’s very well developed and designed website and worth mentioning here.This website is developed by a web design, development agency in London, datadial.net. If you look at this company’s website, you would find that the company is versatile and has it’s presence in almost all areas of web development and promotion. Internet marketing is one of the areas where they not only provide client with web development but can also take it further to promote client’s website to establish it on the web.

When you are company in web development niche, you have to be at par in the competition and provide client something that others cannot provide or competitors are not even aware of it. And here datadial.net is surpassing the competitors. How they are doing it? Let’s see what they are doing differently.

The web development company gathers the requirements and starts design and development. Until they finish testing the developed project, and make it full proof to present online on a web address, that web address is not ready for promotion and marketing, isn’t it what you think? No, they do it differently. Their Search Engine Optimisation Services start the promotion of the website in search engines way before the date of actual launch of the website. So the time in development phase of your website is used for promoting your website for relevant and desired keywords for your website. This is where they have found the key to success in business.

It’s not all in theory, they have practically implemented it for a start up clothes brand company, Chin Choi which was based on Data dial’s ecommerce software and saved lot of cost on expensive PPC Adwords campaigns in early days. The website was appearing in Top 10 in search engine result pages for relevant keywords anyways.

So Internet marketing is not all about following the proven success but going out of the way and delivering quality at the end to the customer with less cost in same time. Do you have anything different in mind? Let me know here in comments.

Auction - It’s always exciting and when it’s domain auction, it adds up the spice. The TRAFFIC East live domain auction in Orlando, Florida is will have hundreds of premium quality domain names as contenders. I heard there are around 110,000+ domain names that have been submitted for review. Ofcourse not all would be in live auction but very few chosen ones, rest of them should be available in online auction.

The premium live auction is scheduled on 23rd May 2008 from 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm EST. There are some interesting high quality domain names that might be chosen for live auctions [The fully finalized list will be available at Moniker at end of this week though]

Had you seen last time, TRAFFIC live domain auction had gathered whooping $4.3 million. It will be interesting to see what price these domains above draw in the live auction this time. No doubt, you would see a follow up post on this at end of this month.

But let’s play a game here, dummy auction and lets see if we value the domains the way they do in live auction, here are some simple and quick rules

1. You have to choose any 5 domains out of the list above
2. The bidding starts at $5000, with increase of $1000. If there is no bid for your selected domain, you can start that with $5000.
3. We will compare our selections with final results of TRAFFIC Live domain auction and decide if we can be part of next year’s domain auction.

So here is my bid:

• Athelete.com - $5000
• Pay.com - $5000
• Jackpot.com - $5000
• DiscountTravel.com - $5000
• Men.mobi - $5000

My simple logic to choose the five favorite domains of this list is various niche. Athelete.com from health / sports, Pay.com from Finance niche, Jackpot.com from gambling, casino niche, DiscountTravel.com from travel niche and Men.mobi is looking at the increasing demand to .mobi domain names.

What’s your take?

Update: Now here is the interesting thing, You only have total $30000 with you and you can bid on 5 domains maximum. It would be interesting to see what all you can get in $30000… haha!

I just received this link to be reviewed and amazingly, I tried from all possible way but I could not go past homepage to any other page except 3-4 outgoing links to web hosting companies. Now I am sure you would laugh on this idea of the website when there is no other page that can be browsed except the homepage. You would say, think about the bounce rate of the website - people will just come and go back. But bounce rate won’t be 100% isn’t it? Many of them would try those 3-4 outgoing links on the homepage and why they would try because that information on homepage interests them, right? That’s why I salute this webmaster that brought up this idea of no other page on the website except 3 important links that he wants his readers to check out.

What he is providing on the website is valuable information about top three web hosting companies. What these web hosting companies provide as basic necessary hosting facilities and what are the topping, I mean what are the bonus features of these web hosting companies. As you see at the website, webhostingrating.com - you need to visit that web hosting company’s site to check out for more information. The information that would be needed by the reader is available in short on the homepage but he would visit the web hosting link for more info, but what I would have preferred is to see a ratings in terms “points out of 10″ or “star ratings” etc.

I would expect lot more than what there is right now, though whatever currently there is good enough information to start with. I would like to see a feature that allows me to rate the web hosting companies based on my experience. But all these web hosting rating should be reviewed by admin before bringing into effect because the competitors can try to bring down the ratings by giving lowest to each other.

This website shall also allow the webmasters to add their reviews just like this web hosting reviews website does, so that as a webmaster I don’t rely only on stars or points, but also get to know what’s the experience of existing webmasters. So stay tuned guys, there is lot more to see at this web hosting rating website. I would check back there and let you know the updates.