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Google PR Update, Finally!

elna — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:00:05 +0000

Yes Google finally updated its toolbar PageRank! Just when I thought they already forgot about it, LOL!

Have you noticed the changes in your blog’s landing page? I was not lucky with current update. This blog’s PR is down from PR2 to PR1 and my kids blog too down from PR3 to PR2. Not that I’m surprised with the results. Lack of update, no link buildings for months, link ads, paid reviews, etc. could be the reasons. Anyway, never mind! There always be another update. Hope I’ll be lucky next time and hopefully I don’t need to wait too long like this one.

So how’s your PR going? Good? Great? Terrible?

Holiday’s Over, New Year – New Look!

elna — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:00:27 +0000

Yes, holiday’s over… weeks ago, so it’s time to change the theme! Thankfully, this time I didn’t need to Google for a new template because this free Christmas WordPress template has two different style, Christmas and regular style. All I need to do is choose the second style at my dashboard and voila it’s done!

Theme setting

There’s still some Christmas feel in this second style though, notice the RSS and mailbox icons? Will find time to change that later. The template also came with its PSD source file so I might play around with it too later if I had time. Oh I so love this template!

Anyway, how’s your holiday? I know it’s kinda late to ask that but I do hope you all had a great holiday like us did. Though not all of our plans worked out, we still could enjoy it. I will make a post about it later when I have time, right now I’m still struggling with my office schedule. You what happens after coming back from holiday, right? Work, work and more work everyday!

A New Look for Christmas Season!

elna — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:50:44 +0000

Oh I can’t believe it’s December already! Well that means… it’s time to change the theme! I know there are other important things I should pay attention to, more posts or more traffic for example, not just being busy with the looks of the blog. But I just can’t help it. When December comes the first thing comes to my mind is “Oh gotta change the themes!!!”

I was so lucky I didn’t have to spend much time searching for a new theme. I saw this free Christmas theme last night, and fell in love with it instantly! Though it’s kinda “old” since it was made two years ago, so some of the latest WP features were not included. But I love the colors very much! It’s my favorite Christmas color, maroon! Looks beautiful and makes me feel so festive

I may need to do some tweaking later though, to make it works the way I want it. Or maybe just leave it like this, after all it’s only for a month!

Have a nice day everyone, thanks for stopping by

Adwords Anyone?

elna — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:59:13 +0000

Got a letter from Google two days ago, include in the envelope is a voucher worth $45 (approx with current rate) from Google Adwords. The $45 value is valid until October 31st, after that it will be discounted to $28 only! Some of you probably already received it because I’ve seen many bloggers posted about it, and, to be honest, when I read those posts I was secretly hoping I’d get the voucher too.

Anyway, now that I’ve received it! Will I use it? Well… tempted! I always wanted to know how Adwords works, this could be a great opportunity to learn about it, and it’s free!!! I never turn down any free offer.

But err… why only $45? How long you think it would last? A day? A month? An hour? Besides what should I advertise? I don’t have anything to sell as of now. So I think I’ll pass on this one…

Letter from Google

Anyone interested? I’ll give the code if you promise you’ll give a comprehensive report about the results later.

Blog, Work and Other Updates

elna — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:08:25 +0000

Let’s start from the blog. I just upgraded my blog to WP 3.0 yesterday. Not sure exactly when the upgrade was launched, maybe two weeks ago? One thing I notice about this version is the new default WP theme called Twenty Ten 1.0 which I think is very cool! Have you upgraded yours?
I’m still disabling my Entrecard’s ad setting as I still don’t have time to do my dropping routine. I’ll tell you I kinda miss dropping EC
It’s been a crazy time at the office. Endless paper works! The company have some new business partners in Europe and I have to review all the legal matters.
But there is a consolation behind the craziness. When we reach the agreement, hopefully by the end of the month, they will send me to Europe to close the deal, yey! I know it’s gonna be a business trip, not a vacation, but I think I can still enjoy the trip. So I start dreaming about London, Moscow and Amsterdam
I feel guilty for not be able to take my son on a trip during this school break. Poor boy, it’s been a boring holiday for him. Will think of something to make it up to him.
Lastly, I got my 4th payment from MyBux last week. Unlike previous 3, the last payment was not instant. They changed their policy regarding membership and payout rules, you can read it here. Though it’s not instant, they still paying!
As a total I already received $101.89 from MyBux, means I already break even with my investment as I paid $100 for a yearly diamond membership last month. Here’s my 3rd and 4th payment proofs (the first two payments were posted here):

3rd payment from MyBux

4th payment from MyBux

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Thanks for stopping by everyone, have a great day!

And The Attack (Still) Continue…

elna — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:55:39 +0000

I got another malware alert from Avast this morning when I was in a hurry trying to finish up my dropping. Unfortunately, I didn’t know which blogs had this malware because I had several blogs opened at the time. Should I had known it, I would inform the blog owners because most likely, according to this, it was another malware attack to WP sites hosted on GoDaddy. So if your blog is on GD better be careful because the attack still continue…

Malware hosted on losotrana.com

And maybe this and this can help you to identify the malware.

I have to say, “I’m glad my blogs are not on GD”

And oh did you see bats flying around when dropping EC? I saw them, five times to be exact…

5 suspended blogs

I was not sure what happened to those blogs, seems strange to see 5 suspended bogs in one day. But anyway, note to whoever own those blogs, “Please, do visit your own blog before you visit others.”

Not A Good Record

elna — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:48:29 +0000

Two posts last month and not a single post until the third week of this month. Hmm… not a good record for a blog! I’m beginning to think that maintaining two blogs is not as easy as I thought. However, I just renewed my domain last month and two weeks ago I also extended my hosting plan for another year. So I guess this blog is still running, and hopefully I’ll be more active posting

Spammers Copying Comments?

elna — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:57:23 +0000

Today was the day to clean up my spam folder. It becomes my routine to get rid of spams every time I saw their numbers already exceeded the amount of real comments. And shame on me, I was almost fooled by spammers today.

As usual those spams mostly contained a bunch of unreadable characters, or some foreign languages with “cialis” and “viagra” mentioned several times, or the endless “I bookmarked your blog” comments. However, today I also saw few familiar comments among those spams, comments that were previously approved and published. So I thought they were accidentally being marked as spam and (without thinking twice) I just re-approved them.

It took awhile for me to realize something was wrong (yes I was slow, thankfully Askimet was not). I knew I made big mistakes republishing those comments when I saw a girl name was used for a guy author. Here’s the comment:

Spam vs real comment

That spammer copied the content of my published comments along with the commentluv codes, but somehow failed to get the original author’s name, and resubmitted them. I wonder if this will become a trend for them.

Anyway, so I ended up finding those recently republished comments, remarked them as spam then deleted them. Luckily they were all under two names, Amy and Michelle (why use girl names by the way), so it was easy enough for me to find them back. I wonder if there’s a way to kick those spammers out before they managed to leave comments because I’m getting tired deleting these spams.

Bandwidth Update

elna — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:59:20 +0000

One week after running an ad on Adgitize, I checked my bandwidth again. As expected, there was an increase in bandwidth usage (about 50%) on the second week of the month compared to the first week before ad. But it’s still far below the 4 Gb quota.

Hmm… maybe I do need to downgrade the plan later

Another Malware Attack ~ Upgrade Your WP!

elna — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:59:50 +0000

I was doing my dropping round last night when Avast warned me of a Trojan Horse found in a particular blog. The malware’s name was JS:Small-C[Trj]. Unlike last time when I found Trojan already infected my computer, this time, luckily, Avast managed to stop it before it entered my computer.

I went to Avast forum and found (at least) two threads about this here and here. Apparently this malware has attacked some websites that still running old version of WP. So if you haven’t upgraded your WP to 2.9.1 better do it now (duh) before it’s too late.

Also make sure you have the latest version of anti-virus or anti-malware software running on your computer to make sure you’re protected from these malicious activities. Dropping hundred of blogs everyday is a risky business, don’t you think so?