Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Blog Transfer

Fickle-minded me attacks. Should I transfer back to wordpress?

I'm having doubts with godaddy...I purchased 3 blogs via blogger and that's 12$ yearly...I didn't get a godaddy account because I was using google apps.


For 4 months now ( I checked late, stupid me) I've been paying monthly 8+$ to them. So I cancel paypal authority of allowing them for auto payments, I then emailed customer support, got a reply quickly but I was told they need my PIN-which I don't have so I said I bought the domains via google apps.


I was sent an email on what to do, I'm a bit busy so I still haven't done anything which makes me think that if they deliberately do this and know that people are too busy, they run off with a lot of dollars in the process with no one running after them....geez! Can't trust people nowadays... :(

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Web directories

Time and again, we are reminded that the Internet is a very powerful and convenient tool. Most of us moms who used to work 9-5 are now at home doing some write-ups of products and get paid for doing so. When I was starting out as a blogger, I have literally swept the web for every free web directory and submitted my blogs to each of them. I remember then how being wife to a graphic artist who regularly designs websites inclined me to choose design over SEO. My blog looks so much colorful compared to the simplistic layout of web directories.

When submitting my urls, it is inevitable to browse the web directory itself and this made me realize that such directories are very good tools in providing information especially when looking for certain topics. They are basically a big catalog of websites. By submitting your url to a web directory, you are joining a number of other sites that tackle topics related to your blog. This can help boost your blog’s search engine visibility too. How? By backlinks…Search engines have robots to find/crawl websites and add them to the search engine’s database. Directories are manually run, editors find or receive websites and screen them for quality and relevance before adding them to the directory’s database. The human review process is the main factor between a web directory and a search engine.

There are many categories in web directories. Take for example the debt management category where topics about recovering from debt, managing finances, avoiding scams and more importantly handling one’s credit card. There’s also the health and fitness listing, which tackles stuff about boosting one’s metabolism, eating the right food, different diet programs and of course on doing real exercise.