From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Don’t Cheat Uncle G

by Norhafidz on April 30, 2008

I visited John Chow today and notice that he has updated his readers about his blog’s PR changing. I’m sure all of you can feel the ‘changing atmosphere’ right now. I read a lot of debates on DP about this time update, most of them are disappointed with the results. Some of them didn’t believe that their blog is in PR4 without any backlinks.

Google Knows Everything!

That’s stories are from other members on DP. At my side, I got a tough lesson from Google today, one of my blogs (which contribute more than $100 per month) went to PR0 from PR3 as a result of PPP (Pay Per Post). I noticed not all PPP blogs got penalized by Google, some of them have even increased their PR. My blog is on the unlucky side. Phew~

My blog income will be totally different after this update. Did Google check the website one by one (which is impossible) or did they completely change their algorithms? No one knows exactly what Google is doing.

As for this blog, no changes in PR at this moment. Most of the forumers at DP have agreed that PR update has almost finish and that means no changes will be made after this.

Many didn’t believe that the PR is real, because believe it or not, Google has been too generous in this first update in 2008. Many members of DP admitted that they didn’t do anything to improve their PR but they still get higher PR. Some of them even argued that PR is now just a number, not important anymore. What’s most important according to them is the SERP.

I have quite a mix feelings about PR. For me, it’s important for link seller, because the higher the PR, the more money they’ll get from link buyers. On the other hand, if you are targeting traffic from search engine, to be honest, PR is not a very important factor. What’s matter the most is the quality of your backlinks.

I’ve experimented this on my other blogs (Malay language blog), one of them manage to land on the first page of Google search result together with other blogs which is high in PR.

I am disappointed with the latest PR update, but there will be a second update later this year, so I have to start building back my other blogs that have tremendously lost their PR and also building this blog’s backlinks.

So, how’s your blog? Has Google been to generous to you?

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Migration Completed

by Norhafidz on April 21, 2008

First of all, I would like to say sorry for not posting for a little while. I had a migration for my hosting, for better performances and reliability of this blog. I requested this migration process to my web hosting provider because of certain bad factors.

Reason to migrate

Often the site was unavailable for readers to access.

Slow speed, takes hell of a time to load.

Luckily, they (the hosting representative) treated and responded me well. I’m amaze with how fast they handle my problem. They even reach me by phone and I am highly recommend them to you.

Here’s the company’s website.

Still Writing

Probably it’s fine for certain people not to write for a period of time but that’s just not me. Through the period of migration, I am still writing but in different style, it is on a piece of paper. Here’s a picture of some of my writings which include my list of what-to-do to strengthen my blog optimization (SEO), marketing-my-blog strategies and couple of articles.

Make Money Online

Although it’s quite tiring but I enjoy using this conventional way of expressing my views. Some new post will be ready soon! So, be a subscriber now.

Will you write on a piece of paper before posting?

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Free Wordpress and Blogger Themes

by Norhafidz on April 12, 2008

I was always asked by my friendly readers and bloggers where they can get a clean and nice design for their blogs, normally for free. I am a wordpress user so there is no problem on free themes. One of the regular places I went for themes is Topwpthemes.

I am also quite familiar with other blogging platform like Blogger.com. But, I discovered that this platform have less design compare to Wordpress. Eblogtemplates have a list of extremely well design, most of them are ideally converted from Wordpress themes.

You can even find Polaroid by Adii and Blogging Pro Template. The designs are quite interesting because most of them is from Wordpress.

Share your Free Blogger Templates and Free Wordpress Themes below if you’ve got any good sources.

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