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Too many dot org biz net com info

During one of my zany moments, I bought up all the dots. I have dot com, dot net, dot info, dot biz and dot org. It is one of those crazy ideas that someday, somehow and somewhat, the iconic 5xmom will be world renowned. (yeah…right.……I can hear you readers saying it)

Now, as I am upgrading my Wordpress, I found that I have two dots lying around, dormant. I do not know what to do with them so I just leave them as it is and renew them yearly. I can continue dreaming my daydreams…..as long as I have money to renew the domains.

Upgrading Wordpress has been my daily routine these few days. I have 4 different servers and if you add one of my church’s site, I have five servers to login to. Sometimes, I upgraded them so fast, I cannot remember which was the last blog I upgraded.

You see, after you have uploaded the new Wordpress 2.6 there, you need to log in Admin to click the upgrade button. And if you don’t sometimes, your site is inaccessible and visitors will get an error code.

Then, you may wonder, why five servers? I have three hostings and on my virtual private server, my webhost has separated the blogs into three different packages, with three different cpanel login. This is to avoid a total crash if something bad happen.

So, sigh….nothing constructive from me for the time being because after I upgraded the Wordpress, I got to upgrade the plugins. Thank God the plugin is easily upgraded from the admin dashboard or else I will go cuckoo. The other thing I like about WP 2.6 is the ability to delete plugins we no longer use. Such a breeze to delete off those lousy plugins that serve no purposes. I love to try new plugins so I have a lot on my server.

Do you secure your domain names by buying up all your dots? I only do so for one URL because I still cannot get my chanlilian for dot com. The previous owner refuse to give up because my name is HOT! *evades rotten tomatoes*

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. 17 Jul 08 | Blogging, Wordpress | Comments (5)

How long does it take your blog to load?

Okay…that’s it! I am going to change my Wordpress theme again. Had been meaning to do it but never find time to sit down and concentrate.

Six months ago, I use a theme that has only 123kb and hence, it takes a short time to load. Now, my theme is taking a long time to load and sometimes, I need to refresh before they load properly. My current theme has 806kb. This is bad news….

I am either going to Wayback machine and see which theme I was using then or I shall go ’steal’ the same Wordpress theme from those whose blogs were listed way down on PimpMyPageRank list of fastest loading blogs.

Booyeah!

Thanks, Pimp for that little comparison list! Ouch, Pimp sounds so wrong and so does Mom on the make money blogosphere. Hehehe. Without Doubt the best SEO blog in the World.

List of Make Money blogs and their page load in KB.

And if you need to ask, “Why does pageload matters?”

Of course, it is very important! People will just go elsewhere if your site takes too long to load. Who has time to sit and wait for your blog to appear? So, go for simplicity. Anyone knows a nice, clean, light, bright Wordpress theme which is free, free, free?

. 01 Jul 08 | Basics for beginners, Blogging | Comments (13)

Is your blog on Malaysia’s 70 Most Popular blogs 2008?

Most bloggers will not admit that they do care about those lists of blogs with the most, best, highest, popular and etc kind of awards. A lot of people will grip……. chey, not accurate metrics, chey, what difference does it make to my income, chey, kids’ stuffs and etc etc.

Yet, privately, they will check and compare with their blog buddies, friends, most hated enemies and etc to see where they stand. Don’t worry, there is nothing wrong with being competitive if you are blogging for money.

I do dig such lists as Malaysia popular blogs. You know why? Because if you can get on the list, you can at least get a few back links when other bloggers put the popular blogs list on their blogs. Moreover, whether accurate or not, if your blog is there, you get to show off. Doesn’t matter that there is nothing much to shout about. It is still damn wicked to brag about it, sometimes.

If you have plenty of time and wish to get notice, go compile one of those lists and hope people pick it up. However, there are risks because you will probably leave out some bloggers and they can get mean if they don’t see their blogs there. Or you will be flooded with lots of emails from people asking you to include them.

Anyway, thanks to Syed Syarul for doing this 70 most popular blogs in Malaysia 2008 because I am sure it took him a while to get the Alexa rankings. He uses the Alexa metrics as comparison. You may say it is not accurate, but there isn’t much else you can compare blogs with other than Technorati and Alexa.

So, where do my blogs stand in the 70 most popular blogs in Malaysia 2008.

1) The Most Obnoxious 5xmom at http://www.chanlilian.net - Position 23

2) Malaysia Best at http://www.malaysiabest.net - Position 46

3) Make$ Money$ at http://www.5xmom.com - Position 52

Find out if your blog is there on Malaysia most popular blogs.

. 23 Jun 08 | Blogging | Comments (8)

Can your blog survives ’sick time’?

In as much as I want to blog, I just cannot find the vigour to write anything. There are a few things to write but I am just too tired to do proper research, capture screenshots and make any decent posting due to some personal matters.

So, I have been wondering…..

How long can a blog survives if the owner is not able to update it?

Will it still continue making an income?

How much will the traffic drop?

Will regular subscribers unsubscribe?

Is it necessary for a less personal blog like this one to leave a vacation notice?

Well, I don’t know.

Let’s wait and see how things go. Though I have not been updating this blog, I still actively write on my personal blog and my Christian blog.

So, do you regularly take blog break to attend to other urgent matters?

. 18 May 08 | Blogging | Comments (13)

So you want to be a blogger too?

Dear Lyss

Thanks for your mail asking me how to blog. If you don’t mind, let me write this on a blog post so that I don’t have to repeat myself so often.

I really hope that you can be willing to spend a little of your precious to
help a newbie to get into the blogger world. To be honest, of course I’m most
interested to make some money

I would be most grateful if you can guide me on this or so much as to give me
some pointers on how to get started. I promise all your time and effort will be
very much appreciated

Here you go :

1) Go to http://www.blogger.com/ and start a new account. If you have no intention of making money, go to Wordpress.Com. Wordpress.Com does not allow you to put ads so forget it if you have intention of making money.

2) Sign up and start blogging! Try it for three months.

3) After three months and if you think you love blogging, please remind me and I will teach you how to monetize your site. I do not wish to go into this when someone starts blogging because it is very de-moralising as you cannot make money so soon. In fact, sometimes,we need a year.

4) So, what should you blog? If you write about your personal life, you need to have some weird characters to attract people to read often. (just like me hahaha)

5) Think first what are some of your strong points, something that you can continue talking and writing without running out of ideas. You need passion.

Here is another post on How to start a blog. More on Blogging Basics for beginners and some blogging tips to keep you informed.

Both Blogger and Wordpress have made things really easy to understand and manage. You can change your blog theme/template, put photos, change colours and etc. Please read their tutorial if you do not know.

Good luck! And see you in three months.

. 13 May 08 | Basics for beginners, Blogging | Comments (11)

Dissatisfied with Google search results?

I have never scroll down to the bottom of the page and didn’t notice the link to Dissatisfied with Google search results? until a few days ago. I actually learnt about it from Matt Cutt’s blog.

It is another one of those things where Google try to engage surfers to help them weed out spammy sites. It is a good feature. Depending on which angle you are looking. Good because surfers can help Google nuke out those sites which offer nothing but empty pages with no content. You know, sites who are out to make money from earning Adsense clicks?

The other day, while I was searching for information to help my in-law who has end stage of liver cancer, I really felt the brunt of stumbling on spammy sites. For once, I realised how frustrating it is to not able to find those hospitals and good cancer sites but instead, stumble on spammy blogs.

Bad because we are vulnerable to sabotage. What if we get reported? That’s why I decided to change my way of blogging from now on. I am going to focus on more neat topics and not just one blog that covers everything.

For example, if I have a 3,000 posts blog like my personal blog but I have 10 pages which are hot on the SERPs, I will find out what are those things that attract the traffic. Is it a topic that I can come up with decent posts? Can I expand that few pages to 20-30 pages of useful information that may help those people who are searching for it?

Google loves these kind of blogs. I believe they have human eyes monitoring the contents.

So, bear in mind that we are subjected to the millions of surfers out there who may report our site to Google.

. 03 May 08 | Blogging | Comments (3)

Nuffnang poll and five Chinese online money makers

NUFFNANG POLL

Do you know that Nuffnang now enables us to put up a poll on our blog? I was told we can personalize our poll questions and I had done mine. It is on my personal blog. Just some inane questions to make people laugh because I do not trust polls results. In fact, I have never bothered about those polls and though I have WP-Polls, I couldn’t care less about it.

I changed the Nuffnang Poll widget with the following questions:

Do you read 5xmom?
Answer : Read? I hate it!

Describe 5xmom?
Answer : Kreakkk…ptui!

WHAT COLOUR IS MY TOOTHBRUSH?

OK, two days ago, I got an email from Syamsulariff.com with just a few interview questions. He too asked inane questions that are not related to make money online. He interviewed JohnChow, LiewCF, HongKiat and WayneLiew. Since the questions are short and not annoying, I replied immediately.

Colour of your toothbrush? HUH?

To find out more about the interview, go to his blog at Syamsulariff.com and see what JohnChow and I have in common.

I just notice that Syamsulariff has given a useful tip on how to get more people to nang your post. Personally, I think this is a positive advice and I shall point it out to Nuffnang. I am sure it will make things easier for us to have the Nang button, very much like Digg. If Nuffnang can make it more convenient to submit our post to Innit, I think more people will do it. Right now, I really think the place is like a kids’ playground or shall I make it more palatable - like a paintball park?

. 23 Apr 08 | Blogging | Comments (0)

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Too many dot org biz net com info

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