My Life With IT

After my initial frustrations at Nuffnang not receiving any more advertisement because I’m not in the Glitterati band, I decided to split the advertising methods. I just want to cash out the money, that’s all. If something doesn’t work that well, I want it to cash out soon so that I can make use of other opportunities.

Web advertising is lucrative but it works for some while it doesn’t for others. For my case. I need more traffic and this site may not have the necessary traffic to attract the kind of readers that the advertises want. I’m working very hard at it. I do like the idea of advertisers here but at what risk?

I keep getting my PageRank changed each time Google updates its algorithm. I don’t even know what will make its PR up again. It does seem that one thing is for sure. PPP and other similar posts here are not welcomed and the PR will always be 0.

Something I dislike but it’s a part of life, monopoly is the game here. If you can be the one and only one, you get the largest pie.

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There are certain policies to be known. It is known that there are certain companies that dislike their workers blogging about work even without giving away any clues. I can also see why a certain company dislike bloggers. That company has official bloggers in its portal. In addition, they look as if they are able to voice their own opinions.

However, after going through it for some time, I realise that the topics are outdated. As any good blogger know, data must be fresh online. You must be the first publish any data so that you will be the pioneer of the data and all the trackbacks or ping backs will belong to you most of the time.

Google is known for indexing sites that have been around for a long time. Work isn’t meant for the online eyes. Companies are not ready for that. I doubt they ever will as the cache is known for its long memory. I have blogged about work but never where I have worked in.

I don’t give out names of the companies I have worked for and neither do I even dare to reveal to any manager that I am blogging. It’s dangerous. However, with my Facebook account linking to the blogs, I’m starting to wonder if I should have even linked them in my Facebook.

The 1st rule of blogging for personal sites is never to blog about the company’s name. You never know when your boss is going to google for you. 2nd rule, no real names on blogs. I am wondering if some blog awards like omy is giving out has a purpose besides giving out awards. They require real names and NRIC for identification purpose.

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With news that Microsoft is going to acquire Yahoo! Google has taken further steps to crush its opponent’s buying power.

It said Microsoft had previously sought “to establish proprietary monopolies”.

Microsoft made an unsolicited offer for Yahoo on Friday, and Yahoo has said it is considering the proposal.

“Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo raises troubling questions,” said David Drummond, Google’s senior vice president for corporate development and chief legal officer.

This goes to show that Google is troubled by the bid judging by the use of the word “hostile”. On the other hand, could this be a start to fight against the large hands of Google? Or just a cutthroat method by Microsoft?

It sounds interesting that the buyout would result in a name called Microshoo. Perhaps, the “shoo” part is to shoo away the giant?

When my Page Rank (PR) dropped, I was upset. That was because I had spent months on this domain and managed to get it to PR3 after 4 months of hard work only to see it drop drastically to PR0 overnight. Total devastation.

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However, there is not much I can do except not to link to link farms and those suspicious looking websites that are suspiciously looking like they are culling links to increase either Technorati ranking or Alexa ranking.

When the PR changes began, everyone was trying to figure how it worked and what to do to rectify it. How PR worked to me is a mystery despite the given equations. I get more confused even with the various examples of Page A link to Page B, etc. Perhaps with a colourful spreadsheet, this would explain Page Rank better.

The effects of the number of pages also affect PR. The equation given as below:

PR(A) = 0.25 + 0.75 (10 + PR(B) + PR(C) + PR(D))

I’m not quite sure about sub domains will cause the entire domain’s Page Rank to be affected but judging from the recent turn of events, I guess it could contribute.

The dust seems to have settled down for now for Big G and PR. I’m getting frustrated here because we are supposed to have only one source of “legal” way to make some money and it’s to be only from Big G.

I’m slow again. When it was just picking up, I didn’t utilise it. No wait, I couldn’t because I was using a free host that didn’t allow me to put any scripts. Now that I’m starting to catch on, Big G says “All those selling text links and paid posts shall have their page ranks reduced!” Something to that effect.

I have resorted to doing adsense, surveys, paid posts, participating in contests and reviews. Aye, I have to do so many things just to earn some spare cash hosting fees?

So, what else can I do? Wait? Or don’t care what it’s doing and just carry on my methods to earn some miserly amounts? I’m not saying that I want to be like some A-listers and sit at home and blog all day without worrying whether my next bill can be paid in full. I’m just saying that I want a piece of that pie. It’s a bonus if I can just sit at home and blog all day a few hours.

I’m not sure what will be going on for the next few months. All I want is that I get some hosting fees to be paid. Not asking for that 10k per month.

What does it take to get your blog or site being well known? Be affiliated with ProBlogger or John Chow? Inject all sorts of keywords so that the search engine will be indexed with them? Take part in contests to get more link backs?

Or beg Google to up your PageRank by using Adsense solely to earn your fees? I have been using Adsense for quite some time and it’s sorely losing out to my paid posts. It doesn’t work for me as I had hoped for. Perhaps my keywords aren’t used enough to generate those attractive sites to let my readers click through.

Or maybe this blog doesn’t have what it takes to attract more readers. What I wish is that we should be allowed to do what we can to earn some moolah online instead of being restricted and scared that our PageRank will be reduce to NIL/NA/0.

Why am I going through all these troubles for? I just want to earn enough to cover my hosting and domain fees. If one method is not working for me, I should have the ability to use another method that works for me, right?