The Failed Quest for $500
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If some of you remembered [and as if you cared], I posted a goal to reach $500 of online earnings by October 9 (which is my 21st birthday) and I named it The Quest for $500. And the start, everything went well. A steady earning on Adsense (a few cents a week), approved blogs for paid-postings and etc. until the inevitable happened. On that span of time, I lost my Google PageRank 3 and it dropped to 0. After 2 months, another misfortune happened after I exceeded my monthly allowable bandwidth for the month of August and September. I was charged $140 dollars for it and just 3 days ago, I received another invoice of $31 dollars for the excess bandwidth that was not charged on the same month.
I was able to pay the $140 charge for the excess bandwidth using the earning I earned with paid posts and others. The other $31 dollar invoice was paid using money from a donation of John because he liked the GreyMonger Wordpress Theme that I created (check out John’s page to see his artworks).
As a conclusion, QUEST FAILED! But I did learn new lessons during that span of time that will, in the future, help me earn more online. From Google’s PR to SEO and to lame-ass hotlinking (that was the main culprit of the excess bandwidth). So we have to move on and find better ways to make money online.
P.S.
Happy 21st Birthday to me. This is by far my best birthday so far, in 4 years, as I spent if with people that are really special to me. (OMG! that sounded so mushy!)
GreyMonger Theme is up for Download
The 2-column Wordpress Theme that I have created and submitted to Wordpress has been approved and is now available for download.
Congratulations, your new theme GreyMonger Theme is now available to the public at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/greymonger-theme
I’m still planning to make the 3-column version [still planning! LOL]. As of now, enjoy this theme.
Friendster Blogs now on WORDPRESS?
Friendster Blogs now on WORDPRESS? Was just checking on my mail when I hovered through a mail in my Spam stating that Friendster blogs are now placed on a new platform, so I had to check it out, and at first glance, my blog really looks like a WordPress blog with the defaul theme on it. Anybody who has friendster blogs? Can you justify that the blog platform is indeed Wordpress?
My first blog existed in Friendster but I have to leave it cause I had difficulties with the platform they are using. The platform was just too lame, I had to let my dog do the “friendster blogging” for me. Friendster was using Typepad as their blog platform before, and honestly, I should say that Typepad Sucks big time! You don’t have to agree with me or anything but I just simply hate the platform. So now that friendster has switched to Worpress, it’s a good news for us who has come to love Wordpress and its power (LMAO).
The main problem now is with the Friendster Bloggers who has come to love Typepad and its lameness. If any of you have any problem with the new Wordpress Friendster platform, you can alwaays drop a line here, I will be glad to help you with any problems.
For the past years, this has been the best move of Friendster so far, having WORDPRESS as the Friendster blog platform! Friendster Blog 2.0 powered by Wordpress.
P.S. I think I stayed in a cave for some time as when I checked Google SERPS for the news about Wordpress on Friendster, everybody has been talking about it. ;(
Looking for a new Webhost
After having some problems with the bandwidth usage that I had a while back that ballooned to 400GB, I am currently searching for a new webhosting company to handle my site. I was not certain as to how the bandwidth grew that big for only a span of 8 days but I now have a slight idea. While looking a new webhosting company, I stumbled upon this site which showed the Best Web Hosts for 2008. What caught my attention was that, most of the top Web Host offers Unlimited Traffic and that alone is music to my ears. For web newbies also looking for good web hosts, you can also try to read some of their articles for a guide in looking for a new web host. For me, I still have to think on how I’m going to pay my remaining dues with my current Web Hosting Company.
Alexa Rank Jump
Phew! I have had constant traffic on this site that the Alexa Rank has improved from 2,000,000+ to 800,00 [check the Alexa Badge on the right sidebar]. For the first time, I can now see progress on the Alexa Graph for my site. I have been getting constant traffic from my posts about Arnel Pineda, Pacquiao-Diaz bout, July 18 Earthquake Prediction, Michael Phelps, FHM Philippines Top 100, The Swimming Cat and Becoming a YouTube Star. More articles for everybody to read, more traffic for me, it’s that simple. I will try me very best to keep this site updated for everybody.
Now, back to work! xD
Building a new THEME [UPDATE]
I have finalized and submitted the wordpress theme I have created and I am just waiting for the confirmation if it was approved.
Your new theme, GreyMonger Theme, has been added to the directory and is pending a review. Once your theme has been reviewed and approved it will be available for download from the directory. You will receive an email notifying you when this happens.
As of now, I am just waiting for the confirmation mail that the theme is already available for the public. Before Wordpress will make it available to the public they will be taking it for a test drive and I will just get another email from them after that.
UPDATE:
I just received an email from Wordpress containing some of the fixes needed. Here are the 2 most important fixes needed:
- Shows post categories, but not post tags
- Doesn’t support Gravatars
Have to work again, I’ll be updating later. If you want to check out the theme, here’s the link to it: BUSBY SEO CHALLENGE
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