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October 28, 2008
Sorry everyone... if any, about my absense from this blog for a while now. I wasn't really away from blogging, just actually doing some other blogs.
Tags: Blogging, Make Money Online
How I Won a Custom Premium WordPress Theme
January 8, 2008
It's another winning without even expecting. I found Free Custom Wordpress Them and blogged about it just in the right time when I also need a New Look for My WordPress Blog for 2008.
From the beginning, I honestly complain about my current theme and tell the world that I need a new theme. After that I decide to really look at the new year themes and made a list of 5 Free New Year WordPress Themes 2008.
Tags: contest, WordPress Theme
How I Won a Comment Contest
January 8, 2008
Hi, it's been a while since my last post. Finally I made sometime to do a quick post about contests last year. My blog is new but I did participate in 2 or 3 contests, surprisingly I won 2 of them:
- Yeepage's comment contest, and
- PlainBeta's free theme contest.
Well, I don't like the idea of combining few different things into a post, so this one is about the Yeepage's Comment Contest.I was only participating in commenting on Yeepage's blog naturally. I admit that I only skimmed over Simon's My dreaded 1st Contest… and had some quick thought about some strategy to win the game. I had the idea of checking out the latest comment on the side bar and take note of the comment number in the URL. For example from this URL:
Tags: commenting, contest
How to Structure a Blogger Blog Like a Website
December 7, 2007
Nealey Russo who initiated the article AdSense Help for "Used Cars Under $1000" contacted me again via the Help page asking for help. This time she have difficulty in making a blog that has the structure of a web site. This article will answer the questions "How do I structure a Blogger Blog Like a Website?" and it has the following sections:
- Problems
- Analysis
- Answers
- Recommendations
Problems
Here is the quote of what Nealey wrote:
Hi Binh,
First I want to thank you for all your help.
Tags: blogger, Blogging, blogspot, Web design, WP
Proven Way to Gain Huge Traffic with StumbleUpon
November 28, 2007
Have you ever heard of StumbleUpon? I have an account with them but have not used since I made it. StumbleUpon is a social-media (social network) that allows user to tag and blog about things they found on the Internet.
StumbleUpon is very similar to Digg.com, Del.icio.us. However it is more blogging oriented, and hence more friendly to bloggers.
A peer's testimonial
I, myself overlooked StumbleUpon. But that's about to change. After I read Sujoy shares his own experience after submitting his own blog posts onto StumbleUpon. Sujoy claims to have few hundred unique visits a day thanks to using this social network. I found him via Yeepage's love links.
Tags: bookmark, Resources, social-media, tips
Being top 10 on rssHugger
November 25, 2007
It's very interesting event. rssHugger is a new promising RSS directory and it's growing rapidly fast during the last day. I am one of the first takers and so proudly am being on top 10 on top 100. You can see on the image, I'm 18 views away from the 11th positions. Check out my RSS on rssHugger.
JohnChow.com, the first reviewer for rssHugger did sign up himself for the first spot. He was the first, and so far the only paid member on rssHugger. Undoubtedly he got the number 1 position and... perhaps he may keep it for very long till Shoemoney.com or some other big blogs come into the competition.
Tags: Blogging, Resources, vietnam
What type of Blogger are we?
November 22, 2007
I am currently in very deep thinking and wondering how to structure my blog(s). The problem being that I have too much to share while the current structure is holding me down too much.
What do I mean?
I want to share my personal thoughts as well as professional thoughts. Those thoughts often come quickly and I may forget it later on. So I would like to post it as fast as I can to keep it and share with others. But then... people hate personal stuff mixed in a professional blog, and I want mine to be professional niche blog.
Major Issues With common Blog Layout
November 21, 2007
Yesterday I checked my blog and was too surprise about something... the actual weight in term of Kilobytes. By saying that I mean, our blogs are not just heavy, they are too heavy.
Shocking Findings
I checked my own blog and here are some shocking results:
- Over 512KB for the home page and
- Over 380KB for single post.
Currently most blogs have too heavy home page, extra heavy category pages, and heavy single post page. A very good example is John Chow dot Com. His home page cost over 1MB of disk-space and bandwidth.
Tags: analysis, Blogging, mistake, Web design
Is Technorati Authority a Joke?
November 16, 2007
I'm new to blogging. Does that make me a dumb? I don't know, because I really felt like that when i signed up at Technorati (according expert bloggers, is some sort of powerful and popular blog search engine). The story start when I got really shocked for a few reasons:
- A few of my blogs have been there for as long as it was up (good).
- I see my unclaimed Binh dot Name blog have 7 authorities (good or bad?).
Tags: Resources
Major Blog Building Considerations
November 16, 2007
At this time I'm pretty lazy at designing and coding things. I've been stumbled on the Blog World, which give me the stronger will to live (blogging). I want to write more and more. However it's time to really do some serious decisions.
I started posting my blog entries with WordPress because I felt that's a necessary initiative. However, I strongly need to consider few things.
Website structure
The biggest issue I'm having is the website structure. I'm still wondering whether
- putting niche topics on separate subdomains, and so using WordPress MU to power my site,
Tags: Blogging, decision, Plugin, Reviews, SEO, Theme, url, WP
