What Is Green Web Hosting

A lot of us are very concerned about how things we do will affect the environment. This has spurred many people to make the decision to live in a more sustainable way. They no longer want to be contributing to the problems we and our ancestors have caused so they are trying to make more responsible choices. Green web hosting is just one of the latest in a long line of choices that we have when it comes to doing things in a green way.

From Blogger to Wordpress

I am not sure if you are going to read this post today, but I will still try to post something here anyway.

While I am writing this post I am in the process of transferring this blog to a Wordpress platform and this transfer should take effect in 24 hours.

Aside from the change in platform, I will also have to change the look and feel of my site. I will view some of the template options later and will have to decide right away so I can have this blog up as soon as possible. :)

And from my domain of www.24x7onlinediva.com, I will have to use www.24x7-onlinediva.com after the transfer. :) This is new blogging experience for me and something that I need to do ASAP. :)

Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton Fight vs Blogging

Have you thought of using Pacquiao-Hatton fight to write a blog post?

I just thought of it now. I just turned the TV on as I am writing this post. I've never been a fan of boxing. But from as far as I can remember, I have been watching Paquiao's fight here on free TV since he was made known to be the Philippines' pride in boxing.



Before I went here I saw a lot of streamers outside inviting people to watch it in pay-per-view. If you're here in the Philippines, you have to fork over almost $10 on regular establishments like restos and dining halls. It can go as high as $15-$30, depending on the location (and if free meals and drinks are included in the package).

This event also affects some call center operations as they receive a lot of calls in relation to this fight. I even heard some agents talking about their bet and almost everyone seem to be an instant boxing expert as they strongly share their opinions about it.

Let's see if this event will also hit YouTube in the coming days.
Update: Pacquiao won the fight. Check the videos uploaded from YouTube



But what I know now is a lot of people all over the globe are glued on TV, even bloggers, while waiting for the best time to write a blog post in relation to this event.

How about you? Aside from watching international events like Pacquiao-Hatton fight, what triggers you to write a blog post?


Photo credit: Pasky29

If You Build It, They Will Come

Now that's a quote from "Fields of Dreams" and it has often been applied to blogging. I encountered one person in a certain forum who is very new to this whole blogging phenomenon. He asked a question as to why is his blog still not getting many traffic (I'm not sure what is his standard of the word 'many') considering that his blog is already 3 months' old.

Three months, do you guys think that is already a good enough time to expect much from a blog? In my opinion it's not enough. And I don't know the details of this fellow's blogging habits but I'm sure that the reason why he is not satisfied is because he set quite a high standard on his blog. His goal might be too hard to reach. Perhaps he's already expecting thousands of regular visitors. But at 3 months, I'd really say dream on.

There is so much work to be done with a blog especially if you expect to earn from it. Number one would be posting valuable content on a regular basis. Valuable content because what good is a blog if all that can be read on it are pure trash? And posting on a regular basis is important because if you fail to update your blog, you will lose your visitors.

That's just my two cents on this blogging topic.

:)

Is It Just All Up in the Air?

That's what a friend of mine said when he argued that everything that I accomplished online doesn't really amount to anything because he doesn't see anything physical, tangible or concrete output.

For example, with all these blogging that I do, he argued that what if there comes a time (and it will, he said) when blogging becomes passe and people got tired of it all? Or, what if technology breaks down on me and everything that I have put up on my blogs suddenly got deleted? What now then? Everything that I worked hard for goes kaput.

Well, my reply to him was I do back-ups. :)

But seriously, I believe that all that I do online has a degree of meaning, that these are not just anything trivial or whimsical. It is important to me because it is a part of my life right now. And when something becomes a part of your life, it does become important.

24 Hours Online

Yesterday I lived up to my blog's name of being 24x7 Online Diva. How come? Well, I've let my laptop on for more than 24 hours!

It was weekend and so I did a lot of online stuff especially catching up on my blog posts, Tweets, emails, Facebook, etc. And boy, were there really a lot of stuff to be done. Two days over the weekend are not enough... who am I kidding, even 7 days in a week is never enough to fully be up-to-date with my online presence.

During this time that I would like to sing the Beatles' "Eight Days A Week". :)

And did I get much sleep? Of course not. Just 5 days of sleep time yesterday. Now that's not much of sleep on my standards because even though I'm the 24x7 Online Diva, I still honestly believe in getting a good rest.

Sometimes I even think of getting a day's off from the World Wide Web, but I just can't resist going online. Maybe I will someday.

Fun Friday - Five Things about Online Diva

I'm done with my share of making money online for this week. So while I am waiting for the next set of online opportunities, I remembered a fun, yet easy task to share here in my blog.

This theme is called Fun Friday, the first ever theme that we have for our Blogging for Fun yahoogroup. The rule is just to share five random things about you. In this post I will share five random things about me, being an Online Diva.

1. ) I have six dot.coms, 1 blogspot.com and 1 wordpress.com blogs. This is to organize my thoughts as I wear different roles everyday of being a call center trainer, fiancee, part time freelancer, online diva and chef's daughter among others.

2.) I can stay online for more than 5 hours on weekdays and 15 hours on weekends. This is to work on my different blogs, network with my other blogger friends and google on a lot of stuff.

3.) I usually listen to music while researching on some stuff online. Right now, I am listening to Ant and Dec's When I Fall in Love ( that's sooo 90's for me now LOL! ).




4. ) I am always interested to have friends overseas. I frequently send them snail mails and postcards and because of that, I was able to collect postage stamps from different countries (aside from those provided by my Dad).

5.) When I'm out, I still want to make sure that I have an online access for my blogging needs. I can stay in a coffee shop for hours, sipping cold drinks while blogging.

So that explains how I became a (self-proclaimed) online diva. How about your fun friday stuff? What were some random things that you do online?

Will Paid Posts Still Be Viable Next Year?

I do some paid posts on my other blogs and I know some friends who are into it also. But lately, we have noticed a downturn in the paid posts opportunities in the various paid post sites.

Could this be a sign that it is coming to an end? Some people have predicted that this type of monetizing blogs is just a fad and will not last very long.

There are some indications that this could be right. For one thing, I have read that Google abhors this activity because Google believes that the majority of paid posts are written poorly and do not really provide any value. I personally believe that the search giant is going to make some changes in its algorithm so they can limit blogs with such paid posts from appearing in the top search results, or even in the results at all.

Has this already happened? Can anybody tell me if it has?

Problogger's 30 Day Blog Challenge

Have you ever joined a blog challenge?

This time I'll join one. :) I just received an update on my email regarding Problogger's 30 day blogging challenge and I'm so excited that I immediately signed up.

Just like in one of the Beatle's songs, I've been waiting for this moment to arrive. :) Before, I thought of coming up with a similar idea with my other blogger friends, but I surrendered to the fact that I cannot do it at that time. I'll have to join one first, yeah, get my feet wet and learn how to swim to the blogging current, the Problogger way. :)

I am so excited on what's in store for me as I start really focusing a portion of my time everyday to blog as I follow his daily challenge. :)

So let me ask you again, have you joined a blog challenge recently? What were your experiences?

Blogging Books Anyone?

How do you want to learn about blogging?

For some, they wanted to plunge right away so they can earn money online as soon as possible. So they attend paid seminars and classes left and right. I don't see anything wrong about it. As long as you have the time and you can afford it, then I would encourage you to go for it.



For book lovers though, reading books about blogging sounds like heaven. I know, I also love reading books and this generally helps me bring back to focus. Aside from that, when we read a book, we expose ourselves to the conversational tone that we are suppose to practice in writing our blog posts.

Speaking of blogging books, can you recommend some that a newbie blogger can read right away? You will help our readers refer to that book especially those newbies who need a jumpstart for their blogging career.

Image credit: zone41

Bloggers as Character Assasins?

Probably Mayor Nasser Pangandaman Jr., googled himself these past few days.

I was watching TV Patrol (a local newscast) yesterday when suddenly they featured the follow up news about the incident involving Mayor Nasser Pangandaman Jr., his dad and their security personnel mauling golfers in Valley Golf and Country Club.

Okay, most of the Pinoy bloggers know about it. But what's new is that the news item dwell on the angle of how Pinoy bloggers treated this issue online.

Take a look at the screenshot above.

One of the Pangandaman's appeal is for the bloggers to stop doing character assasination to their family, denying that there's no mauling that had happened.

Bloggers as character assassins? What can you say about it?

One Way to Use Entrecard

I know of some bloggers who say that Entrecard is useful only when you can make 300 drops each day. While that might be partly true, there are other ways that you can benefit from being part of this blogging community.

How about this? Let's say you've just written a very informative and wonderful post that you think a lot of people would have a good time reading it. How can you, sort of, spread the word?

Through Entrecard.

After publishing your post, start dropping your EC especially to those bloggers whom you think would like your post. About 100 drops would be enough but if you have the time, by all means do 300 drops.

This is like tapping these bloggers and whispering to them, "Hey, why not visit my blog today? I've got something really nice posted there."

:)

I So Love Firefox 3 and Entrecard Toolbar

I finally said goodbye to Internet Explorer today. :) All because I've found the love of my life Mozilla Firefox 3, yey!

Well, at first I just want to download Firefox 3 because this supports the Entrecard toolbar (that I am enjoying now yeyeye!) But after I checked what's with MF3, I was finally convinced to use this browser in my other blogging activities.

Download is a breeze. You just need to follow four simple instructions and you're done. :)

What I initially like about Mozilla Firefox 3 browser:

• This browser imports my saved favorite sites and passwords in their own library
  
• You can assign tags to some sites, yes, you read it right, multiple tags for as another way for you to remember the sites
• Instant integration with your anti-virus software
• Website ID for easier site identity overview
• Built in spell checker (no need to copy and paste text on MS Word)
• Session restore (relief from unexpected closure of your search or download session)

I have yet to enjoy the rest of what's new with Mozilla Firefox 3. But if you still have IE on your PC, why not try MF3 now? Let me know your experience with MF3 and if this is also your best alternative to online browsing.

Bye Linux, Hello Windows

It's been almost almost a week since my last post here. I just need to attend to a lot of offline work lately. I'll post more of my online and offline money making adventures here anyway. ;)

Okay, going back to what I should share with you. If you've been reading this blog for sometime now, you already knew about my concern with WiGo.

I'd have to admit that I am also a fan of free WiFi service especially when I'm out, blogging inside the coffee shops around the metro.

It was the other day when my boyfriend told me about his plan of changing the operating system of his Eee Pc because one of his online jobs would require it as the OS.

Luckily, he just sold his EeePC to his aunt and we went to a computer store to buy the same laptop but this time has Windows as its OS.

He felt relieved only for an hour after buying the laptop because he remembered that he should install an anti-virus software right away.

That's when I get to really love Linux. No one (I think) will ever dare create a virus for their OS ;)

Help on Alexa Data

I need your help on this one.

I just checked my Alexa traffic details using my previous blogspot.com url. If you will scroll down on this page you will see the data on the traffic and links.

However, when I tested the same thing in Alexa using my new .com domain (www.24x7onlinediva.com), the details states No Data.

Question: When will I have the same data imported to my new url? How long should I wait if that's the case? Should I report this to them? I would really appreciate your help on my Alexa details. Thanks so much.

24x7 Online Diva is a Dot Com Now

Welcome to 24x7onlinediva.com

Yes, I got a new hosted blog aside from several other hosted ones that I just had this year. Since my goal is to share my online discoveries and make money online, I decided to add this to my growing roster of blogs.

Why should you prefer to have a hosted blog to make money online?

• Because you will have more flexibility in managing your blog's content and design

• Because most of the paid blogging activities (posts, reviews, ads) prefer hosted blogs

• Because a hosted one will give your blog a better command and positioning because of better recall from your readers

If there are some points that I missed here just share it with us okay? ;)

I Can't Drop Back Some EC's Today

I called it a day. That was after my fourth attempt to drop EC's back on some blogs that visited 24x7 Online Diva. Don't worry, I was able to drop some on other blogs but I can't continue for the rest because it took a lot of time for those blogs to load. The worst thing was that I had to reboot my laptop several times because it froze while waiting for their pages to load on my console.

Of course I won't identify those blogs here. If this will continue to happen, I wonder how many visitors will proceed to the next blog instead because of too much waiting time. This will definitely prevent them from making money online.

What do you usually do when the blog you're visiting has the same concern?

Warn Plagiarists with Copyscape

Do you really want to make money online? If you do, then make sure to come up with an original content on all your blog posts.

I've been into personal blogging since 2003 and professional blogging since March this year. Everytime I write a post, I am thinking of my blogging purpose. That inspires me to put my heart and make the most out of blogging about my ideas.

That's why it really bothers me when I read posts from bloggers about their content copied entirely by another blogger. This unjust act just under utilizes the copycat's intellect.

This brings me to check out Copyscape. You can place the banner on your blog to warn plagiarists from copying your content. You can also take advantage of their paid service so you can be informed right away if these copycats did a bad job again.

All of my blogs have these banners from Copyscape. How about in your blog?

WiGO's Kind of Customer Service

What a good Monday for me! How about you?

Did you remember my post yesterday about my concern with WiGO? Just like what I mentioned in my post yesterday, I sent a short email to clarify about their service for Linux bloggers. Here's my email message to Mr. Russ Alfonso:


Hi Mr. Alfonso,

Greetings!

I would like to inquire about your service for us Linux users. I blogged about my experience with WiGO yesterday on this post.

I hope to hear from you soon.



Being in the customer service industry for more than eight years, I can say that I was impressed by his prompt reply. Here it is:

Thanks so much for your feedback. We initially rolled out our service in Feb. at Rockwell targeted towards Windows . From that launch we received feedback similar to yours regarding interoperability issues with MAC and mobile. We addressed that issue and MAC and mobile are now integrated with WIGO. I will forward your concern to our technical crew to address the Linux side. I don't foresee any problems just a few weeks of programming time. I ll make a note to drop you an email once linux is up and hopefully you and the other linux users will be using wigo.

Best Regards,

Russ

He copied two other respondents in the email to inform them of our concerns with WiGO. This email only proves their interest to provide customer satisfaction. I really hope this will be addressed soon so we can all rejoice, Eastwood City Linux bloggers!

I Made 300 Entrecard Drops Today!

I'm very happy to share with you that I'm working little by little to promote my newest baby. One of my means to promote it in the blogosphere is thru Entrecard.

I know I missed the returning your drops lately. So if you've been dropping here for sometime now, you may check your drops inbox and you'll see my 125x125 card parking right there. ;)

If you're reading this and you're just starting to promote your blog traffic, try Entrecard. The Love Drops really work because:

• You can visit and read a lot of blogs in a day
• You can build a relationship by leaving quality comments on their posts
  
• You can earn EC credits for each visit that you do on their blogs and;
• You can also get some more EC credits when they returned your visit

There are a lot more ways to benefit from using Entrecard to promote your blog. I'll discuss some more issues with Entrecard on my future posts.

But I gotta hit the sack for now. If you just read my previous entries, you'll notice that this is my fourth in a row for today. I still have a lot of ideas to share but I also need to report to work tomorrow. Yes, I still have a regular job to attend to so I need to rest now.

As The Online Diva says:

"Time really flies when you're having blogging fun!"