This is a very debatable topic over the internet. Freelancing v/s typical 9-5 jobs, both have few pros and cons but i will discuss freelancing in this post.
Pros:

Freelancing gives you the freedom to do any work anytime you want, you can work late nights and get up late in the morning.
You are not answerable to anyone and you are your own boss
You choose to work on projects of your choice and which you think you can complete them.
There is no fixed pay as you are paid for the projects you …

People who want to work as a “freelancer” or work from their homes, they need the following to setup their home offices.

Room (A place which you can turn into your home office)
Computer System (minimum Core 2 duo recommended, though it depends on the type of jobs you will be working on. I am saying this because for data entry projects you dont need to have a high speed computer)
Internet connection (DSL connection recommended, again it depends on your job type, for web developers they need to upload/download files via ftp …

I have setup Wordpress MU on my new domain http://pak-blogs.com, Wordpress MU allows you to sign up for multiple blogs on your domain with a single Installation of Wordpress.

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While installing Magento when you done with uploading your Magento files to your host and about to make the Installation you come up with 500 Internal Server Error.
This error is bacause of the inappropriate file permissions. For this if you are on cpanel hosting, Error Log will really help solving/fixing this error.
Normally changing the file permission on index.php file solved this problem. If you check the error log you will find “/index.php” is writeable by group
So using CHMOD in Linux change the file permission on index file from 664 to …

Yahoo Publisher Network or YPN is a contextual publicizing method. It offers admen the opportunity to receive inexpensive dealing and publisher the chance to make wealth by displaying on-site advertisements made by the advertisers.
It has been quite ages since Yahoo Publisher has been launched against its much hyped rival Google Ad sense. But still Yahoo Publisher is bound to its Beta version. The main reason that Yahoo reveled about still sticking to the Beta version is that it says it need still some time to get the versions tested successfully …

PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders. But a strange thing about the world’s most trusted leader in online payment, PAYPAL which operates nearly in all countries even in many small economies till now doesn’t operate in Pakistan.
The reasons for which PAYPAL is inactive in Pakistan are
Regulations of State Bank
Certain rules and regulations laid by State Bank are unimaginable which made it tough for PayPal …

1. Meta Titles / Headers

Every website has a “meta” area of coding. Adding in specific keywords that can be read by search engines and that show relevance to your site is one of the main components of getting higher in rankings. To do this, go to your page source and at the top, add in a meta title and 1- 3 headers.

2. Meta descriptions

Meta descriptions are categorized by search engines and are noticed under the main title of a search engine. Writing meta descriptions into your …

If you are thinking this posting is going to be full of Tech Concepts to make the most use of Google Adsense, then my friend you are completely wrong . Here I am going to place some real and easy-to-understand concepts which any general non-techi Website Owner can use to earn a good amount of money through Google Adsense.
Adsense is the product from Google which shows Sponsored Advertisements on your site. Now you don’t need to run after the advertisers, Google has already done the job for you. You just …

I have a Magento store http://handicrafts.com.pk and using the same installation of Magento I wanted to add another store(http://gemstones.com.pk) to it.
I have a godaddy hosting so what i did, i added gemtones.com.pk on the top of handicrafts domain, you can say a kind of a addon domain as gemstones.com.pk was also pointing to the same folder containing handicrafts files that is
/webmaestros/handicrafts
By now i had both folders pointing to the same folder containing Magento files.
By going to Magento Admin > Catalog > Manage Categories, i renamed the Default Category to handicrafts.com.pk …

Suppose you have products around 35000 or more and you want them to be added to your magento store. Here are the few steps you will take to import products into Magento

Go to Magento Admin > Catalog > Manage Categories
Add your Product categories here but do note your category ids, you can make a list of your category ids in a notepad file.
There might be a possibility that you need to define extra attributes for your products so for that go to Catalog >Attributes >Manage Attributes and click Add new …

I am adding my blog to different blog directories. The idea behind adding the blog is to increase the backlinks of my blog and to increase the page rank.
Few of the blog directories that i have submitted my blog to are
Blog Flux
Blog Catalog
Blogio
Super Blog Directory
Bloggapedia
Blogtoplist
LS Blogs

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Getting your first job on rentacoder is really a tough job. I say so because when you bid on projects there are so many bidders out there with excellent feedback and ratings. When you are new to the website and you have no ratings/feedback so normally it takes times to get your first job. Being a buyer on rentacoder.com I normally ignore bids with no ratings/feedback. So here are few my points what should you do to land your first job.

Start with small projects, go for data entry/forum posts etc
Try …