Blogging For Money

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The various features in Ashop Commerce are seamless and award-winning, recognised by everyone in the industry. Security is of course an important feature for any e-commerce software and Ashop Commerce is no exception to the rule. With their 128-bit SSL checkout security and full fraud alerts, a merchant can be rest assured that their transactions will be safe and secure. Their customers are also able to be easily persuaded to use the features of Ashop Commerce. With all the features that can be found in Ashop Commerce, why not try it out?

Well I did what I can with my limited time to announce the last leg of the “Review My Blog” contest where the best review wins RM1,000 and the runner-ups get a linkback from this blog. I received two late entries two days ago but did not have the time to link to them until today.

Anyway, here they are:

• Web Herald: Critical Review of Blogging For Money
• Nimrodjo: You don’t want RM1,000?

I thank the last two reviewers for participating in my blog contest. For the reviews of the previous batches, refer to Batch 1 and Batch 2. In total, I have about 12 reviews to choose the winner from. Actually I was expecting a bit more but like I said earlier, I never did got around to promoting the contest properly.

Anyway, the contest is now officially closed. I will announce the winner very soon.

I’ve decided that I am going to merge all my online ventures into a single company. So I am going to the ROB on Monday to register my new company. Shouldn’t cost me too much, since it is only a company on paper. But after I have registered the company name, I will buy a new domain where I will display all my online ventures in a portfolio. Perhaps this whole thing is unnecessary, but since I deal with online clients all the time it would be good to show some measure of credibility, instead of the client seeing you as some random faceless stranger. I even have the company logo (see above). Actually the company name (founded in 1996) in the logo once belonged to my dad, but has now since become bungkus because of the Asian financial crisis of 1998 (and I blame Rafisuah Aziz for causing my father to go bankrupt).

Long story behind it.

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Here is an interesting article which speculates that due to the lateness of this impending Google PageRank update, it is possible that Google might totally do away with it altogether. I am skeptical that this is likely the case, but I do agree that Google PageRank will be devalued somewhat by Google in order for websites to rank highly in SERPs. Google will certainly not remove that little green bar at the top which has benefited them for years, however.

Webmasters should now focus on getting traffic and doing advertising based on that, rather than relying too much on Google in order to enhance their websites authority.

So you want to host a website? That is easier said than done, of course. You need to purchase hosting space from a website hosting company so that you are able to store your website files and publish your content on the internet. Choosing a reliable website hosting company, however, is never an easy thing to do. Over the years, I have experience with various hosting companies and I can say that not all of them offer equal service. It depends really on how well they are run or how they are sensitive to their clients’ needs. I have had good hosting providers which I have loyally hosted my websites with and bad hosting providers which I’ve dumped years ago.

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