April Reflection, Recharge for May & Beyond

The first day of a new month, I wanna take a pause and recap April's activities on this blog.

An exciting and eventful month of April has just concluded, cummulating and climaxing with the beginning of the long awaited Google Pagerank update. Thanks to all the link love from fellow bloggers, this blog got a PR2 ranking. Thanks everyone!!!

The link love have come from my "review exchange and link swap" campaign started in March, but most of all, I must attribute the huge part Technorati Fave train played in attaining my current ranking. This online train was very very successful, helping many of its pioneers reach the Technorati Top 100 ranking. At the end of April, this train had sent this blog to rank under 52,000 and favourited by 148 Technorati members.

At the end of March, my technorati ranking was in the region of 1.8 million, now this update above is a classic example of the importance of back links. So hop onto this super-charged online train if you haven't and get on with the Fave exchange and reciprocal link swap by clicking

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Free Blog review #5

The birthday celebrations have come and gone, now that they are out of the way, it's time to get down to business, and return to another fresh round of blog review.

Fortunately, I'm still on time to participate in a new blog review campaign kickstarted byAziz of Hashout, review submission ends 30 April 2007. The basic rule of this review exchange seems rather complicated at first, nevertheless, I hope I'm one of the first 10 review submissions for that will earn me a full fledge review of my blog on Hashout! COOL!!

Hashout (because together we know more) was started at on the 1st of Jan 2007 after weeks of sleepless nights in conceptualizing and designing it, and finally rolling out into the blogosphere. It is all about hashing out opinions, views, reviews, rants, expert advice and general discussions on various subjects. Bright minded people with a fire inside are invited to co-author this blog and initiate topics.

One can really expect to read a wide variety of topics on this blog, ranging from the standard review of tech gadgets, to interesting articles on "How to interpret some common dog tail wags", to offering some "Money savers for your trip" and tips to prevent DVT on long distance flight. You can find a wealth of resources on Hashout!

It is not surprising to see that this blog had been nominated for "best blog design" in blogger'schoice award. Hashout is hosted on Blogger, and I never imagined Blogger template can be so customizable. Aziz had indeed done a great job in the design and layout to make this blog uniquely his own. The nomination is truly well-deserved, and proved that the weeks of sleepless nights spent had not gone unnoticed.


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Free Blog review #4

The fourth installment of my free blog review campaign brings us to a blog touted as "observations of an aspiring internet marketeer" hosted by Mr Gary Lee who is a self-confessed Apple Whore!

Gary Lee lives in Southern California and currently work from home consulting a number businesses to drive more traffic to their site and also how to monetize that traffic wisely.

Similar to my Review Exchange campign started in March, Gary is offering a linkback promotion for reviewing his blog. So here I am, taking up his reciprocal offer. Gary's blog, only 2 months young, offers many useful 'need-to-know' online marketing news and tips, as well as blog monetization secrets and tricks.

Gary's blog is not all business. Besides offering tips on how to make money online, Gary also blogs about his love for Apple products and his gastronomical experiences. If you get tired reading the tons of marketing and blogging tips, and Apple gadgets do not happen to be your 'poison', then take a stroll down memory lane with Gary or hop over to read about his travelogue.

In conclusion, "observations of an aspiring internet marketeer" is a dynamic blog with future PR6 potential that offer its readers different topics to satify different segments of readers. Invest your time in this young blog, and you will be rewarded with riches in your knowledge!

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Free Blog review - Batch 1

From today onwards, my "Free Blog Review" posting will undergo some changes. Instead of writing review to individual blog, I'll do mini review in batches of up to 5 blogs (max), depending on my sighting of interesting blogs in the blogosphere. The basic rules and objective of this campaign remains unchanged,

The reviews are as follows (not in order of preference):

1. Dawayne of Dwayne's World had earlier dropped a comment in my post for a review exchange, I'm honoured to oblige, albeit a little belated. Dwayne blog about many different topics, but mainly about how to make money online, useful tips on how to write simple, effective post and how to keep the blogging fire burning can also be found.
   
   The poems that Dwayne posted brought much joy to my reading, my favourite being "RAIN". His blog is worth repeated visits base on the quality of his poems.
   
2. 
   Acquirewisdom is an interesting blog that focus on posting words of wisdom or inspirational quotes, like Leadership, Seizing Opportunity and Success, to name a few.
   The blog title with its short write ups already sets the tone of what is to come."Wisdom lies not in the amount of knowledge acquired but in the degree of its application. We only live once. But if we live properly, once is enough" Very meaningful, isn't it?
   In a nutshell, Acquirewisdom is indeed an acquired taste.
   
3. BLOGGER LOUNGE is a relatively new blog that was started less than 2 months ago, but do not take its newness for its weakness as its popularity is evidence in the speed at which its Technorati ranking shot up overnight! BL touts itself as a place learn and share the latest trends, tips, strategies, for those willing to become part of a new breed of creatives and entrepreneurs.
   The most impressive feature that makes Blogger Lounge stands out is its uniquely designed logo and amazing icons! Its owner George C must be a damn fine web designer, although his background was not published in his profile page. He has just started a blog contest where the Top commentator will win (no prizes for guessing right)an amazing free logo design for his/her blog, by George of course!
   His blog post Top Blog Branding series teaches the essential basics of blog branding and one of the techniques is via unique design, which is his expertise! Blogger Lounge is one hell of a website for bloggers, new and seasoned, to learn, to contribute, and to participate!

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Review Exchange with Jal Kel Daily Dot Com

Today I received a surprise in my gmail inbox. It was an email from Jason Neuman of "JAL KEL DAILY DOT COM", asking me if I'm interested in a review exchange. Interested? I feel more honoured to be invited by a blogger with a PR4 blog and technorati ranking so much higher than this humble blog.

The very first impression his blog gave me was it is very John Chow-resque! Maybe it was the picture of a red Ferrari spider at the top front of his blog, making it seems all too familiar, and his review exchange for link swap bear all the hallmarks of John Chow dot com. Even the title of his blog has a familiar ring to it.

I suspended my judgement and as I continue to read on, I found many useful articles which Jason posted are in fact very helpful for newbie like me, who just started monetizing my humble blog, hoping to make money online. Jason's unique style and personality actually shines through as I read more of his posts and get to know more about his profile and blog.

As Jason proclaimed, he was accepted as a Chitika associate which only accepts sites with minimum of 10,000 monthly page views as one of its criteria, and Jason achieved that feat in less than 2 months!

Any blog which can garner such awesome traffic is not only "not bad", it is totally exceptional!

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