Azrin's Info Web

While some of you opted that the fiver they offered were good enough, one should stop and pull a few steps back and see if the five dollars they offer you for the 300 word post is well worth it or not. Though may not be trivial for some,five dollars makes a huge difference in balancing the budget and it becomes more apparent to me with the shows like Deadliest Catch where the crab fisherman work with all sorts of danger to fish out $5 worth of Alaskan King Crab each way.

Well, the good thing about speed with the internet getting too cluttered is that Google came with GEARS, where speed is essence when loading up blogs and writing posts and such. It’s more or less using the WFW and ATOM publishing methods and pulling RSS and CSS directly instead, similar when we read a feed. Or some may monetize with FEEDSBURNER where Google is making another mess again with ancient accounts and linking with the new Adsense accounts.

Either way, it’s not doing me any favours as the pings on my backend is killing my post feed.Should have updated the feed systems earlier this month when I noticed it on the WP TRACT mailer but then I was too frigging lazy to change all my 82 blogs settings which makes me want to create another API where I can just XML call to the database to change my settings directly without this heavy graphic thingy.

Is it well worth it to sell my soul for $5 and risk my pageranks? Nope. I rather write for helium, though peanuts or $3 for the summer articles, but then I just do that more of a passion than of earning a living. Maybe I can later on develop these great writing skills to a book and really make good money like Salman Rushdie by slandering people and such, and get as many fatwas to make me a matyr or so.

What ever it is, finction or fact, blogging is slowly loosing it’s value and by writing great long articles nowadays makes it more worth than that five dollars from the paid post, because mainly Google will love you more and pay for the great feeds.

Heck, yeah, ZACKIRE, my sister has over 23000 feed reader which makes me darn wonder..or was it another hack again? I don’t know..as long she pays for the domain…heck it.

Like it or not, Blogspot or Blogger is the common platform for alot of Spam Blogs or SPLOGS as they deem it and with the Malaysian General Election just days away, there has been alot of speculation, criticism among alot of independent and related Parties.

One off note is that I got a small buzz from someone in charge of Network Management and Control at the Government side and one particularly was that the suppression of Information and Censorship of Content by means of keywords and also domain names. One thing does stick out : BLOGSPOT.

I mean how on earth can you block the entire operandi of Google? With the Nameservers based in the US itself, they really mean that you have to block Google in itself. How could you do that?! It’s like putting the Great Fire Wall of Malaysia… which just sounds like the way Singapore is separated off, by a small Straits.

So, what does it mean to the Blogger who is trying to make money by means of BLOGSPOT?
Well, you will eventually get slower packet transfers and means they will be throttling the bandwidth to those sites. Means that your ads and script will slowly load.

What can you do? One is that to have your own domain, and two import everything from your old blog to the new blog, and wordpress does it well!

How much? Domains are as low as $1.99 for some TLD plus hosting fees. I am a domain registrar and reseller myself and many of them opt to pay a nominal setup fee for the basic blog with next to no limit on the bandwidth. More info will be at my Domains Service.

How does this affect you and what do you have to gain? Mainly the Page Rank will be worth more on your own domain and you have full control over what you want in there. You can even install galleries and subdomains to befit each theme or concept you focus on, but make sure that you don’t get too side track otherwise if your blog sucks.. you bear no traffic which literally means no money!

What does it mean to me…in monetary terms is that you can do link selling or advertising campaigns. Advertisers pay as low as $1 per day for your skyscraper a day to the unethical Sponsored Link Advertorials which can be as low as $100 for a PR 4 site *(I have one which is quite dormant…so let me know if you want free mention…terms apply ah) to as much as $2500 a review for some heavy traffic ones like XBRAIN and the cronies.

So, just be prepared to be blocked off with Blogspot.. but before that, get yourself ready and avoid the rush.

Good luck!