September 15th, 2008 by shoppingmum
All my domains could not be loaded again this morning, and it’s due to server down. Frankly, it’s quite frustrating when the server is down if it happens when I have the urge to blog. Nonetheless, I’m still using the service from my current Web Hosting company because the webmaster has helped me a lot since the day I started my first domain. I just hope that the server down time will not happen so often. 
Previously, I tried private server, but it’s very costly. Unless you are willing to pay for the hosting fee, if not it’s best to look for other hosting options. You can check out the web hosting reviews and find any hosting company that suits your need. Lunarpages is having a special offer right now, so maybe you might want to have a look.
I don’t think I will change my host for the time being. I’ve just renewed it for another year! Luckily, I don’t have a lot of link ads now, so at least I won’t be seeing those spider crawlers sending emails asking about the ads. But if you are making money from Adsense, paid reviews and link ads, you can’t afford to have your sites down huh?
August 27th, 2008 by shoppingmum
I have a few blogs in different niche, and most of them are hosted with the same company. I don’t have any preference when it comes to web host, as long as it’s affordable and the down time is minimum. Furthermore, I might be deleting some of the blogs, so I won’t be looking for a new web host company now.
However, if you are looking for one, check out the hosting packages offered by WHR. If you are not sure on how to choose a hosting company, check out the article section for more information and tips. I’m not familiar with cPanel so maybe those cPanel tutorials might be useful to me.
July 23rd, 2008 by shoppingmum
Suddenly, I feel the pressure of blogging. I like to curi curi blog about my kids when I have time at the office and of course, my boss aka hubby knows about it. LOL! I told the rest that I blog a lot too, so as long as I get my work done, what’s the problem woh?
I hardly blog for money since we moved here, but if I manage to get the offers with friend’s help, I will still do the posts. No point wasting the offers and my blogs! The money can still be kept safely back in Malaysia mah. Maybe can get some interests leh? LOL!
Anyway, I will be blogging like a freak for 2 days. Gee…long time din blog like this….
March 25th, 2008 by shoppingmum
I can’t update the blogs for a while because my sites were being migrated to another server. But now, I’m back! There are some backdated posts, but I will try my best to update all of them. It’s for the kids’ reference anyway, so I’m obliged to write.
Frankly, have you ever thought of how long your kid’s blog will last? I think it will come to a point when I will stop updating about them in public but make this site private. Maybe one day my kid will ask me to do so, then this blog will not be found in the search engines anymore.
Or maybe I will just post about them without the photos? Mmm…I haven’t made up my mind.
January 24th, 2008 by shoppingmum
I’m trying to clear up some of my blogs because I am obviously spending more time on knitting other than blogging. It’s tedious to manage multiple blogs now and I might delete some of the blogs. But no matter what, I would like this blog to stay as long as possible, maybe until my kids are older. I might stop posting their photos if they are not comfortable with it. Nonetheless, I may find another way of sharing our precious moments with friends and relatives.
If you don’t have a blog and would still love to share your baby’s photos, you may upload their photos to the Baby Photo Gallery of Gurgle.com. I found a few nice photos there, but the best thing is, if the photo of you baby or toddler is chosen for the month, you will win £200 worth of Mothercare vouchers. Of course, we might not be able to use the vouchers here, but it’s still worth trying out!
Besides, it’s still a good way of sharing your photos and making friends with other parents who might share the same interests as you. But then again, I won’t upload my kids’ photos there. They already have a blog dedicated to them, and it’s more than enough.
This post is brought to you by http://www.gurgle.com/gallery/default.aspx.
November 15th, 2007 by shoppingmum
Blogging from the heart, I got this from Doris, when we were chatting. You see, a lot of blogs were demoted lately and most of us hit PR0 today. Frankly, I’m not surprised nor I feel sad about it. Page rank really doesn’t affect me anymore, emotionally, of course.
I started blogging with PR0 on one blog. It’s only after monetizing that blog that I went on to create more, but all with its own niche. So if now all of them are PR0, will I dump my blogs? No lah, fren, dump apa? LOL! Just blog as usual. It’s just an ego issue. Without PR, my blogs will just be like this, maybe they won’t be updated that frequently as I don’t have to rush for interims. LOL!
But one thing for sure, I will just get back to blogging for fun. If your readers love your blog, without PR also they will return and read. If they are just there for the PR, alamak, what for??? Maybe the organic traffic from search engine will be pathetic, so what? Not that I get a lot also? LOL!
Nay, whatever the digit is, just blog from the heart. The worst thing is only $$$ affected. The contents will still from me, ok mah hoh? See? No PR issue, I can blog in campalang language also can. Ang moh scratch head liao reading this post. LOL!
October 25th, 2007 by shoppingmum
I saw an opp from a blogger being featured at one of the paid post networks and I am wondering if it helps to pick up the ranking now. Most of the blogs are really badly hit by Google, except those blogs that are not monetized. So, this biz is over soon huh? Or is there another story behind this?
Frankly, I won’t buy links to pick up my page rank now. No one knows how the algorithm works anymore, and most of the speculations are still not being confirmed yet. So, are of you have plans? I certainly don’t. LOL! Anyway, there is no way I can afford a website optimization firm to work out my sites for me. Unless I own a big company which is has higher ROI from online business, if not I won’t do anything much. I will just blog like usual. But if the companies are badly affected, then they will need to hire a website optimization firm like Think Big Sites to solve out their problems.
Even if we are saying the page rank is not important anymore, but if you search with Google, it still rules! Luckily most of my sites can just be my own journals, but with niche topics. I’m not so bored by it.
Let it be lah. There is nothing we peanut bloggers can do.
October 24th, 2007 by shoppingmum
Out of so many blogs I have, I love this blog the most. It has a lot of posts about my kids and it’s something I would like to show them when they are able to read. For the time being, they are only retrieving the posts about trips and just look at the photos. If it’s not because of this blog, hubby and I would have forgotten about those memories. Just now, we were arguing about the last time our kids had a trip to KL and we found the proofs. LOL! I’m bad huh? Even if he told me a thousand times that we will not be having a holiday, I still don’t feel like giving up and keep trying for other places, even if it’s as near as KL. LOL!
That’s why I moved all my sites to own server now. Previously, the sites were down for a few times and I was worried that the posts were gone as well. But by having a server, that means I might need to get Raid Data Recovery Service from Data Recovery New York. I have no idea how much it costs, but I don’t think that it’s cheap. Maybe I can’t even afford it!
But for the sake of this blog, I better start backing up again. I just can’t lose anything here.
October 17th, 2007 by shoppingmum
Sasha is very so good. She kept changing and changing the header tonight just to make it close to perfect. So, does it look better now?
She designed some “buttons” for me too, but give me some time to put them up. I would like to help her to get more biz as well. Seriously, her work is much better than a lot of ang moh designers. If you have requested anything from them, you should know how lansi they are. But with Sasha, you will get what you want. LOL!
Go contact her! Let’s make Sasha’s popular as our local header designer.
October 12th, 2007 by shoppingmum
Sasha is going to help me on designing a new header for this blog. The main reason why I have to change the template is to please my boy, who’s sick of his pictures on the header, and also to make some space of the header. However, it seems like it’s a bit tight for the new design and I’m clueless on how to widen it!
But she will try her best to get the header done and I have seen the draft. Let just say I love the drawing. 
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