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1. 

   Who is viewing your MOLI profile? Are you getting the most from MOLI? Must read for Business profiles

   10.May.08, 08:00 EDT
   
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   Do you know who is viewing your MOLI profile? Do you know where they were coming from? How much business can MOLI bring you?
   
   Here is something that interested me about who is viewing my MOLI profile. First of all, MOLI has been a great source to bring some traffic from my profiles to my real web site. However, the matrix doesn't seem to be as good as it sounds.
   
   The following chart is showing the unique visitors by country. The interesting thing is that most of my viewers are not from USA. The unique visitors includes those visitors that found my profile from the search engine such as Google and Yahoo. They found my profile on MOLI, because of my popular blog post on the front page or MOLI web site.
   
   It's also very interesting that most of them are non-MOLI members based on my observation. If they are MOLI members, my profile page views will rock to the sky. In other words, many of the unique visitors who viewed my profile are no registered MOLI members or are not lgged in to MOLI.
   
   
   
   From my observation, MOLI seem to be very popular in UK, Europe, India and Mid-east countries. This makes me wonder how MOLI is going to help business profiles to target the right customers? If MOLI claims to help the business make money on MOLI, they must have ways to drive right traffic to the right profiles.
   
   If most of my viewers are from the countries that I don't do business within, I don't really know how much business I can get from MOLI.
   
   Here are the issuess with MOLI.
   

   1. If you don't keep active or being on the front page of MOLI, your page view drops. In other words, your business on MOLI die.
   2. Page views != Business. With so many page view on your profile pages doesn't mean you get business. The page view only counts those unique views from logged in members. Non-members or not logged in members don't seem to count as page view. In other words, the conversion rate on your business profile could be very very low.
   3. Low conversion rate! Only member can purchase your items. This really limit the potential of your business. Let's assume that you got a 1000 unique visitors to view your profile pages. Only 30% of them are logged in members. So 300 members are reading your profile everyday. If your conversion rate is 1%, there will only be 3 purchases a day. It actually should be 10 purchase from the 1000 unique visitors, if non-MOLI member can make purchase too.
      [Update] Correction. Non-registered member can make purchase with PayPal account.
      

   
   Do you see what I see?
   
   There is something that MOLI can do to help from the Marketing stand points.
   
   

   1. Allow business profile to target their visitors by their geography.
   2. Allow to promote business profiles to the visitors by their geography
   3. Allow to search user based on their interested in their profile
   4. Allow to search user based on their geography
   5. Add top business profiles by country on the MOLI font page. There seem to be too much white space under the Community section. :-)

   
   What do you think? Please leave your comments!
   
   
   

2. SEXY SHOES on SEXY MOLI = SEXY Traffic

   07.May.08, 12:30 EDT
   
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   I am shocked that my Angel's Desire profile was getting so much attention in one night.
   
   Although, we offered sexy shoes, sexy lingerie and sexy boots on our profile, we also collect some great sexy-or-not angel smiles on our profile too. What amazed me was the sexy traffic send to our sexy online store.
   
   For just one night, our profile was viewed 80 times. This does not include the profile views that are from none MOLI members. In other words, the organic traffic from search engine to my profile page or blog pages.
   
   According to my stat counter, my profile was viewed 730 times in the past 9 hours from 337 unique visitors. About 158 visitors went to my online store. It's about 50% conversion rate! WOOHOOO! The bounce rate for those 158 unique users are about 34%, which is not bad at all. That's just the traffic in the past 9 hours.
   
   So far, I think MOLI is a great traffic resource! Regardless what you do with you profile, if you do it right and keep up with it. It will generate some good traffic.
   
   What have I done to get such a short term traffic boost? To be honest, the traffic is less than StumbleUpOn brought to us, but the visitors seem to stay longer on our profiles and on our store web site longer.
   
   Do you have some great experience with MOLI? Please share with us!
   
   

3. 

   MOLI Hacks - Prevent distored image

   06.May.08, 12:27 EDT
   
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   Just realized that in the detail view of BlankBoard box, the first image is always distored and stretch to the width of the box (644 px). It's very annoying to the viewers.
   
   So here is the hack. Upload a blank image (all white) in 5x5 size. Include the image as the first image in the blankboard. WaLa!
   
   Problem solved. You can also use transparent gif image if you decided to use different color background.
   
   You can see my "Featured Angel Smiles" blankborad and "Angel's Favorites" for example.
   
   Enjoy!
   
   

4. MOLI features request - Member activities

   03.May.08, 23:11 EDT
   
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   It will be great to have the following features on MOLI. It will make life easier.
   
   1. Knowing who was viewing my profile. A list of members in the profile page, only the profile onwers can see.
   2. Soft members by number or views. Don't need to show the number of views. - This allows member to see who are the most popular members in the browser members area.
   3. Be able to records the activities. After leaving few comments on member's profile pages, it's very easy to lost track where the comments was made.
   

5. 

   MOLI - Are you reading? What's the quality control standard?

   02.May.08, 13:19 EDT
   
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   Before heading out to my BEAD EXPO event, I would like to address something that caught my attention.
   
   As a business owner seeking alternative ways to increase revenue, MOLI gives me new fresh ideas about how to drive business forward. I really appreciate that. However, the quality control on the content are not very impressive.
   
   I don't know how MOLI qualify a blog post as top popular blog post, in order to include the post on the very high visible home page.
   
   I am wondering where is MOLI's content quality control. I post one message on "Promote Yourself" message board on Jenny's profile. The message introduce my business with the links to my online stores. There is just only two normal links to my online store. No spam!.
   
   Few hours later, my message was removed. OK. I can understand that "Promote Yourself" may not mean promote your business. In this case, what is the purpose to have business profile? Or are we not allowed to add external links to our own company web sites?
   
   Now there are few posts on MOLI's home page as top popular blog post like this.
   
   
   
   See the bottom two blog posts. What do you feel about that? Now look what is included in the blog post. Do you call that spam or a quality content?
   
   Are they quality to be a popular blog post? Does my message look like that and get removed?
    
   
   
   It's been hours, and the post is still up there.
   
   So where is the quality control standard? May I ask?
   
   If this blog post gets removed, I think I am done with MOLI.
   
   MOLI staff! Are you reading?
   
   
   
   
   
   

6. 

   Live chat while I am away from MOLI

   02.May.08, 03:08 EDT
   
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   Do you see something different in the above screenshot? That's right!
   
   MOLI Whisper! Powered by AIM WIMZI.
   
   It's awesome that MOLI provides built-in instant chat. However, it is not perfect for few reasons.
   
   1. Slow.
   2. The member may not be on MOLI, while it shows chat icon.
   3. The member is online, but there is no icon to start chat session.
   3. You won't be able to chat with friends while they not on MOLI but still online.
   
   I got the solution for you. You can simply send me your live whisper, which I am on the Internet somewhere but not on MOLI.
   
   To chat with me, you simply go to my profile here.
   
   1. There is no download.
   2. It's fast.
   3. It's FREE!
   
   Social network is all about communication. Without a smooth communication, relationship won't start.
   
   Just remember, be nice and don't spam. Angel has the right to kick you out of heaven.
   
   MOLI is a great place to build the greatest community, so be nice to everyone!
   

7. The Happiest Blog in the World!

   01.May.08, 17:30 EDT
   
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   For those who has a great smile on their face and those who want to smile, please check out the happiest blog in the world.
   
   I am sure you will smile too. Oh .. Not to forget that there are some sexy smiles too. The idea seems very simple. You smile at the world, the wold will smile back at you. It's a blog about helping people finding their own happiness and live happier. You can help yourself find happiness and be happy too.
   
   Isn't that sounds good?
   
   Smile is very contagious. Check out those happy faces!
   
   

8. MOLI - Bugs found 2

   01.May.08, 16:44 EDT
   
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   Continue my testing about MOLI ....
   
   I have found some bugs on MOLI, which you can find it here.
   

   MOLI - Bugs found
   

   It's very nice that MOLI allows member so share photos as slideshow and display the slideshow on other web sites.
   
   Now there is a small issues with the slideshow code.
   
   When you generate the slideshoe for your photo album, the photo marked as NOT shared will still show on FireFox browser. They do NOT show in IE browser though, which is correct.
   
   The problem is that the XML datafile containing the list of photos to display in the slideshow are different between IE and FireFox.
   
   I guess the programmer behind this slideshow either forget to include FireFox browser or just don't even check the permission options.
   
   MOLI? Did you hear me?
   
   
   Do you wondering who I am? To be honest, I have been in IT fields and Web application programming for ages. As chief software and data architect for software company for years, those bugs can run but can't hide from my eyes.
   
   :-)
   
   MOLI. Wanna hire me? ;-)
   
   

9. MOLI - Bugs found

   01.May.08, 02:52 EDT
   
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   Just sent an email to MOLI about the bugs.
   
   My system config:
   Browser: FireFox
   Javascript: Enabled.
   
   
   

   1. I can add bookmark, but I can't seem to delete them. I think the Delete link is not working. The javascript function seem incomplete.
      [Update 2008-04-30 - 2 days] The bug seem to be fixed.
      
      
   2. The edit bookmark link is not working too.
      [Update 2008-04-30 - 2 days] The bug seem to be fixed.
      
      
   3. The popup window for adding hyper link in the blog of editor is too small.
      
      
   4. Can't seem to add javascript in the Blankboard.
      
      

   
   I think MOLI has a lot more work to do to compete with FaceBook.com and MySpace.com. For shopping cart feature, Facebook.com has marketplace that mix all on-sale items together in one place. Don't know if MOLI can that or not.
   
   
   
   
   

10. How Sexy can it be?

    30.Apr.08, 03:10 EDT
    
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    I am not sure how sexy this site is going to be..
    
    I definitely have fun here. Just wondering how other people are doing on this site in terms of running a store?
    
    Do you run a store on this site? How does it goes?
    
    
    
    

11. 

    Alexa Ranking Super Star - Can MOLI keep up with it?

    29.Apr.08, 16:59 EDT
    
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    This is going to be interesting. I was checking out the Alexa traffic ranking and found this interesting site.
    
    Look at the Alexa traffic ranking. It's amazing how a site can jump from low ranking to such a curve in less than a month. The Alexa Traffic Ranking super star is - MOLI.com
    
    It's far from catching up with facebook.com and myspace.com, but it's not too long.
    
    
    
    So I thought it is interesting to check it out. Here I am.
    
    Now you can reach me at http://www.moli.com/p/views/v2E0TNmbf-sUX6HUEQErFVjw../