Blogging For Money

A local blog aggregator once touted as the “PPS Killer” (I am not going to name it, since I don’t believe in bad-mouthing the “competitor”) has banned PPS’ feeds from their system. I wonder if they are afraid of the “competition”?

Frankly the only reason I added PPS’ feed to their aggregator is because I can. I don’t really think highly of their service, since it just republishes feeds automatically with no community participation attached to it. Not to mention that it loads really slow. But I consider it a compliment for PPS to be banned from their service. I think they must be afraid of the new PPS revamp. Truth be told, however, I never considered it to be a serious “competitor” to PPS, even when PPS was down for three months.

Instead of me having to repeat the same story, why not just visit Project Petaling Street and experience the new features that it has now? I am sure many of you who have used PPS before will be impressed with the new, radical changes.

These days, whenever I log into my PayPal account I tend to see this notice in the transition window.

Not sure whether this ego-thumping attempt from PayPal is supposed to flatter their users, but I for one am not. In fact it comes across to me as quite arrogant, considering the horror stories they tell about PayPal. Not that I have any problems with PayPal now….but c’mon, is this the impression you want to send out to your users?

Finally I did what I’ve always wanted to do for a very long time: start my very own SEO and Internet Marketing Forums. There were previous attempts made by myself in the past to work on a forum, but it was either put off or lay dormant due to other commitments at the time. Well now the timing could not have come at a better time, since I’ve decided to stay away from other forums for the time being to focus on developing and managing my forum.

So I hope that you will come and take a look at the forum, for as the slogan goes, “We Make The Web!”.

Incoming search terms:

• seo marketing forums

Google have now officially announced that they have opened their goo.gl URL shortener as a public service to all users. Previously, the goo.gl service was only used internally for Google-related links and can be generated only from the Google toolbar or any service from Google. Now that Google has opened up their service, this is yet a new addition to their range of online internet products.

Personally, I believe that this is a testament to the fact that URL shorteners are not going away anytime soon and Google recognises the fact that such a service is needed for users to share links in a more convenient and memorable way. As it is, I did start my own online URL shortener service sometime last year, and it is still going on strong. I probably can tap into the market further with more promotions, now that Google is making aware of the existence of URL shorteners.

Incoming search terms:

• www //goo gl/rrODA com

I can hardly believe the news myself when I first knew about it but apparently GoDaddy.com has put themselves up for sale. For those who do not know what GoDaddy.com is, they are a well-known domain registrar and hosting company and aggressively promote their products through television and internet ads, something other domain registrars rarely do. The company is valued at USD $1 billion.

So who would buy GoDaddy.com? My guess is as good as yours, but I would not be surprised if the big G buys it. In fact I cannot imagine any other buyer apart from them would show interest in a domain registrar like GoDaddy.com

For those who don’t quite grasp the idea of how link building is possible for SEO (search engine optimisation), the infographic above should give a clear idea of how the concept of link building can be done, courtesy of Datadial London. Link building is considered as the “currency” of the World Wide Web. Without relevant links pointing to your website in large numbers, search engines such as Google will not be able to find and quickly index your web pages or rank your website well in their search engine results page. Your website will be buried under the plethora of other websites which have done their SEO homework well through link building. If you have no idea how to begin building links to your website, you can easily hire London SEO agency, which can do the relevant SEO work for you.