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Blogging

Alternatives to Free Webhosting

Most of my friends who are into blogging are not very familiar about the technical details of web hosting even if they do have their own blogs already. Usually, my techie bro do the domain registration and blog installation for them, all they do is just provide the domain name, the blog title, username and […]

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Blogging

For those who are new to website building and blogging

A friend, who’s a newbie to websites and blogging, asked for help regarding his plans of creating his own personal website. He’s an architect and wants to have a site where he can express his interests in design and music. He would like his site to be a venue for online ventures as well. Just […]

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Blogging Technology

Getting the top rankings in search engine results

Recently I renewed one of my registered domains. Although I have not built a website around it yet, i.e. set it up with a webhosting service, I decided to keep it because it’s a good combination of keywords. It’s just waiting for me to tinker with it for who knows when. Maintaining more than one […]

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Blogging

Building a home in the blogosphere

When my friend decided to have her own travel blog, I had to guide her through with choosing a domain name that would make her website more visible to search engines. We made a shortlist of travel-related keywords for her domain name, while checking the web if they were already taken. Glad she heeded my […]

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Blogging

My i.ph story: Service shutdown and lessons learned

Continued from: My i.ph story: Fun blogging times and letting go Reasons for the shutdown Here are some factors which, in my opinion, were the main reasons for ultimately shutting down the i.ph blog service: Competition from other free and more popular social networking sites. Most Internet users prefer Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter accounts to […]

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Blogging Life

My i.ph story: Fun blogging times and letting go

It could be one’s innate need for self-expression that prompted me to blog way back 2006. I started blogging at Yahoo! 360°, a likely choice for me since I was already using Yahoo! Mail which was pretty much popular that time. However, after visiting some blogs, I realized Yahoo 360° had limited features. I started […]

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Blogging

Just some blogging issues

Yesterday I got engrossed with some blogging issues. It’s part of the website project I’ve been planning to do since last year. Until now, I still have not focused on it because so many other things came up. Well, at least yesterday I took some few steps forward to that goal and managed to download […]