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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Hmm… I am not a Google Chrome fan. I use Firefox most of the time. But this Chrome extension ~ iPageRank ~ SEO Tool for Chrome really makes me wants to use Chrome. This plugin gets PageRank and calculates how much PR is transferred to external links, analyzes keywords, Alexa, TIC…

iPageRank

iPageRank New Features

• Shows PageRank in Google search results and highlights your websites in the search results (with position)
• Gets Alexa
• Gets тИЦ (TIC) from Yandex
• New toolbar added that automatically moves when mouse is over it.
• Shows keyword frequency and performing keywords (ie in title, headers, description etc). It will alert you of user defined keywords when found.

PageRank in Google search results

Love this feature. Firefox should have similar SEO add-on like iPageRank. Going to search for it. By the way, I am not sure about the accuracy of iPageRank. Do let me know after you try it out. And no worry, I will still comment at your blog even your PR is 0.

Download iPageRank Chrome extension ~ SEO Tool for Chrome here.

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Can a blogger earn RM500 per month? These are the keywords that show up in my Google Analytics account. Interesting keywords indeed. Can a blogger really earn RM500 per month? Yes and no. It is depended on bloggers.

Earning RM500 per month is not an easy task. It took me 15 months to achieve that. Some lucky bloggers take less time. However, most of the bloggers take longer approach. Are you the lucky one? If no, it’s time for you to learn how to earn money by blogging. Blogging is not just posting whatever you like. You cannot make much money this way. The approach that I took ~ search engine optimization (SEO). Be friend with search engines. They will bring lot of visitors to you then. Or write your blog creatively like one of the Malaysia famous bloggers ~ Kenny Sia.

I cannot write the way like Kenny. I don’t blog about my life. I write mostly in software, hardware, photography and mobile topics now. And talk about travel, food and drink sometimes. Of course, I do write some popular search engine keywords’ topics too (when I have the mood. Don’t purposely find popular keywords and blog).

Learning is the key. And do get your own domain like ‘spblogger.com’ directly if you really want to make money online. A little bit investment is must. Don’t bother to use free blogspot or wordpress.com hosting then migrate. Get your own domain NOW!!! That’s the first step…

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Shared IP vs dedicated IP… Do I need dedicated IP for my blogs? That’s the question that I asked on July 2009. And I got myself a dedicated IP in the end. Thought of lot of things back then. SEO, traffic, search engine ranking were the factors that I made the purchase. Does it really help in SEO on improving my blogs traffic?

What is a dedicated IP?
You will get 1 unique IP number for your web hosting account – your primary domain. For my case, 70.40.213.222 is the dedicated IP that I own. When you type 70.40.213.222 into your web browsers address bar, it will route you to the main domain which is JayceOoi.com.

What is a shared IP?
Most of the websites have shared IP addresses. Depend on web hosting provider, 200 to 300 websites sharing the same 1 IP in shared web hosting package is normal. Some have less than 100 websites sharing 1 IP.

Who need a dedicated IP? What benefit does dedicated IP bring?

• Having your own Private SSL Certificate.
• Anonymous FTP.
• Access your website with IP even when the domain name is inaccessible.

Okay, there is lot of myths about dedicated IP on SEO. Some said it did improve Google PageRank and search engine ranking while some denied. I saw some blogs which rank higher in Google does have dedicated IP when I purchased it last year. It is just USD 2.50 per month for dedicated IP. Can’t you earn that back with your blogs? I asked myself. After using dedicated IP for more than 6 months, does my blog traffic increased? YES. But I did lot of other SEO optimizations too. So does dedicated IP really help? I don’t know…

Will you purchase dedicated IP for your blog?

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I did not have the chance to read both of the Blue Ocean Strategy and Red Ocean Strategy. Just know the high level meaning of them. Red Ocean Strategy is the way that fights hard in existing market while Blue Ocean Strategy values innovation on getting new market. These strategies do not apply on business only, it applies to blogging too.

In SEO world, everyone is fighting to be the highest ranking on a good keyword. I tried lot of efforts to fight a particular very hot keywords (let’s said it as A) by commenting on lot of dofollow blogs with CommentLuv. I also write another post with cold keywords (let’s said it as B) but without any marketing. Based on 1 week Google Analytics traffic, A got 1000 visits and B received 800 visits. I really did lot of works on A but nothing on B. In return, I rather write more articles like B. Normally, I don’t active much in commenting on other blogs. I focus on writing more.

Based on the experiment, the result tells me… Write more valuable articles to get more traffic. The articles must be hot and latest topics. And thanks to Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking too. It tracks even more accurate. Hitting 5k visitors per day by March 2010 is not a mission impossible.

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