Do you change Google Webmaster Tools crawl rate? Increase or decrease its speed? Don’t increase it if you don’t have fast web server like the one that I use ~ HostMonster. Hehe. Just kidding. But by increase the crawl rate, Googlebot will visit your website more. Therefore, do make sure that your web server can manage that.

Google Webmaster Tools custom crawl rate will last for 90 days only. And you need to reconfigure it again then. For my case, I will need to update it on 19 January 2010. I missed around 2 weeks as the custom crawl rate expired on early this month.

What will faster crawl rate does? More pages will be indexed in Google search database. So do you want to increase Google Webmaster Tools crawl rate?

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WordPress related post plugin… This is a plugin that I should install back in 2 years++ ago. The theme that I use cannot work properly with WordPress related post plugin. And I did my manual work on the related posts until yesterday. Yes. I downloaded and installed the latest WordPress related post plugin. Finally, I can say…

Display related posts are a must. It will keep visitors a longer time at your website. If visitors can’t find anything interesting them anymore, they will leave. So we need to optimise the UI layout to meet the need of visitors.

WordPress related post plugin can display random posts or most commented posts if no related post is found. And it can display related posts with thumbnail too. And other nice features…

By the way, you can download WordPress related post plugin at here. It will generate related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.

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Hmm… How does Google counts the incoming links? I don’t know. Do you? Anyway, here are the incoming links for all my blogs…

As at 9 October 2009
JayceOoi.com – 225 links
spBlogger.com – 118 links
PrettyGirl2u.com – 128 links
Forum.JayceOoi.com – 71 links.

Hey… Compare to 19 July 2009, JayceOoi.com and spBlogger.com dropped. But the other 2 up. Why I cannot get more than 1000 incoming links for JayceOoi.com???

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Do you still need to manage your web hosting? Well, I don’t. After dump the poor support team ~ SmartTeam hosting, I switched to HostMonster. During SmartTeam hosting, I need to call their support team to tell them that my website database was down. And they did not even know. Come on, what is managed web hosting?

Using HostMonster… I can spend my time focus on writing better articles rather than spending time to call up support team. And I just noticed that my blogs’ bandwidth usage passed 100GB per month. Wow… That is lot of traffic there.

September 2009 bandwidth usage

3 of my main blogs (JayceOoi.com, spBlogger.com and PrettyGirl2u.com) hosted in 1 HostMonster account. Why I prefer HostMonster managed web hosting?

• Web Hosting Space – Unlimited
• Host UNLIMITED DOMAINS
• Gigs of Site Transfer – Unlimited

These are the top 3 priority that I need. And it is only USD 5.95 per month ~ discount now. Isn’t that great? By the way, don’t bother to find free web hosting. I don’t think that free lunch will give such features.

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Facebook? If you still don’t know what is Facebook. You are totally out of this Internet world. Facebook is so famous that almost everyone connected will have 1 account there. I created my Facebook account last year but inactive until lately. I was using Friendster back in 3-4 years ago. Should switch to Facebook sooner. Anyway, it is still not too late.

Facebook

What makes Facebook one of the best marketing tools? It has lot of users. That’s one of the advantages. And whenever you update something on your Facebook account like post a message, photo, comment. It will show up at your friend’s main page. So they will know what you are doing… You can also import blog RSS to Facebook. Isn’t that great?

I just started to be very active in Facebook lately. Will monitor how much traffic that Facebook will bring.

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