After upgrading some of my sites to WordPress 2.7, here comes WordPress 2.7.1 public release. I haven’t updated any of my sites to Worpdress 2.7.1 as of this writing although the update is available to Wordress 2.7 users (from within the dashboard). Simplescripts even offers an automatic update/upgrade to WordPress 2.7.1 (from within my web [...]
February 12th, 2009 | Posted in WordPress | 4 Comments
I used to be active in advertising products in my sites for about a year now. When started blog advertising with PPP, the offers were huge (for a PR4 site, about $30-45). Lately, even for PR3 sites, the offers seldom reach $15 per opp. Now, this is the shocking part. Just a few hours ago [...]
January 18th, 2009 | Posted in Make Money Online | 15 Comments
Unlike Widgetbucks, Chitika actually pays. Chitika, for your info, is a company that offers publishers the chance to earn extra cash through CPC advertisement. The sad thing about serving Chitika ads is that, ads won;t show up unless the visitor to your site is in the US, Canada and other supported countries. If your site [...]
January 7th, 2009 | Posted in Make Money Online | 7 Comments
Here is the complete list of voters in the contest discussed in the preceding “Winners of Free Web Hosting for One Year Plus Cash“. However, only the first five (5) in the list have won $10 each. The random selection of five winners was done using Random.org’s list randomizer engine. Congratulations to the following:
December 31st, 2008 | Posted in Contests | 6 Comments
After going through the votes/links/requirements several times for both the contestants and voters of the “Win a Free Web Hosting for Your WordPress Blog” contest (whose updates have been posted in this site and in the sponsor site, Technology Talks), I have come up with the final tabulation of valid scores. This is not yet [...]
December 31st, 2008 | Posted in Contests | 9 Comments
It’s been almost 10 since my last blog contest and I am holding another series of contests in my two blogs: this one and my Technology and Gadgets blog. My last contest (Top Commentator of the Year, Best Commentator of the Year and Best Tagger) will all be revealed before Christmas in time for a [...]
December 7th, 2008 | Posted in Contests | 10 Comments
More than a week ago, I got another cheap web hosting plan for some of my new sites, friends’ sites and business partners. One of my offline projects is an official website of a town in Ilocos Norte. Another one being designed is a buy-and-sell website (cars, SUV’s, Vans, etc.) which I’m itching to finish [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Web Hosting & Web Development | 2 Comments
I haven’t been online for 3 days. After 10 months of blogging and publishing articles online, I am finally saying goodbye to blogging. Some of you reading this might feel sad. Some of you might find this a good news. In my alone time, I have realized that I should really be saying goodbye to [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 27 Comments
A few days ago, I’ve written in my other site that the Payperpost Site is Down. This was brought about by the “cleaning and trimming” process being done by the PPP administrators where blogs are screened/filtered for quality. I’m not sure how PayPerPost and Izea define the phrase “quality blogs” in their article but I’m [...]
September 1st, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 20 Comments
My head is aching with the frequent updates of WordPress (now version 2.6.1). Last month, I posted about the WordPress 2.6 Upgrade and Fixing Image Alignment Problems and Errors in WordPress 2.6. Now here comes WordPress 2.6.1 with the new features especially targeting international users.
August 16th, 2008 | Posted in WordPress | 2 Comments
Sitemeter, a site statistics tool used by many site owners or webmaster to track performance (traffic) of their websites or blogs, is causing the loading error of their sites in Internet Explorer (IE). Now, this convinced me that I made the right choice for choosing Histats instead of Sitemeter in measuring the traffic of my [...]
August 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Technology | 12 Comments
A friend (who is also a blogger) once asked me what Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques have I employed on my websites. Tough question to answer, really. You know the reason why?
July 31st, 2008 | Posted in Business | 9 Comments