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The monitor JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com) is currently down.
Alert Details: No Response From The Website (The server that the website is hosted on can be down)
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Monitor Is Up: JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com)

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The monitor JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com) is back up.

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I receive lot of spam comments lately. They managed to slip through Akismet spam filtering. Something likes “I would prefer Infolinks over Kontera because they pay much better.” Hmm… Did Infolinks have something to do with it?

Spam comments

Got these 2 comments on different blogs. Both coming from the same IP but with different name and email address. Look like spam comments to me. So I spammed them.

How to block WordPress spam comments? Do install Akismet plugin on your blog. It will help filter a lot of spam comments. One or two spam comments might slip through from time to time. But Akismet plugin does block most of them. You can help Akismet too by identify spam comments by spam it.

Download WordPress Akismet plugin here.

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Search… Search… Search… We cannot live without searching in this information edge that full with lot of precious information. Google search engine is the best out there. I wish to integrate it into WordPress long time ago due to WordPress blog search engine is not perfect. I cannot find the stuff that I want most of the time.

Google Custom Search

I took half day to change the blog theme. Created Google Custom Search for JayceOoi.com and spBlogger.com. Integrated it to WordPress then. You should be able to get more accurate data with Google Custom Search’s help now. And I can make some money from AdSense for Search too (if someone click on the ads). Will come out a guide to install Google Custom Search and AdSense for Search soon. Stay tuned…

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Facebook is part of our life. Yes, lots of us are addicted to this social networking site. Some play games, some get to know new friend, some do business with it… Lot of things can be done in Facebook. And it is a great place to get more visitors to your blog too. All you have to do is create a Facebook Page and Facebook Like Box. Facebook Page is like user profiles to connect and engage with your customers and amplify your voice to their friends. And Facebook Like Box is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website.

Facebook Like Box

How to create Facebook Pages?

1. Visit Facebook Pages creation page- here.
2. Click on ‘Create a Page’.
3. Select one of them – Local business, Brand, product, or organization and Artist, band, or public figure.
4. Enter your page name.
5. Check ‘I’m the official representative of this person, business, band or product and have permission to create this Page’.
6. Finally, click on ‘Create Official Page’.

Yup, you have created your own Facebook Page. You need to upload a picture and put some information about your page. And you are done. Let’s go to the next step…

How to create Facebook Like Box?

1. Visit Like Box creation page – here.
2. Put in your Facebook Page ID there.
3. Select the box width that matches your blog layout.
4. Enter how many connections to show with Facebook Like Box.
5. Decide whether to show Stream and Header or not.
6. Finally, click on ‘Get Code’.

You can select either iframe or XFBML code. Paste it at your blog theme sidebar or anywhere you want. I selected iframe for the moment as I don’t know much about JavaScript SDK. And I also edit height in the code. Well, you are ready to do. And wish you luck on getting more visitors.

By the way, do click on spBlogger Facebook Like button beside here. Thanks.

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Err… I hate HostMonster Web Hosting. JayceOoi.com was offline for 2 hours today during lunch time. HostMonster support team was doing something to fix the issue. And don’t want to let me know the issue that they were fixing. But why sign up HostMonster Web Hosting then? Well… I have been using HostMonster Web Hosting for 2 years. I did face several downtimes. But there downtimes were less than 10 hours in 2 years (there might be some downtime that I am not aware).

JayceOoi.com site performance from Google Webmaster Central

Okay… I would like to thanks HostMonster support team for speed up my blog ~ JayceOoi.com. I am doing research to improve blog loading speed since Google implemented website speed as one of the factors in search ranking algorithms. I use WebPagetest to test blog loading speed. I got around 15s load time for first view previously. And got it below 8s after this maintenance. Check out JayceOoi.com web page performance test result here. So what are you waiting for? Sign up HostMonster Web Hosting to speed up your blog performance and improve your ranking in search engines.

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