Two more blog awards!

The Glamorous Housewife gave my blog 2 more awards! Thank you so much, Lindsay!

I will update this post with the blogs I will be giving these awards to

I just love it when my blogs get awards. It makes my day, to say the least. It makes me want to exert more effort in making my blog informative enough for my readers and visitors. Thanks again, Lindsay!

Sasha's Corner is back up!

Thank goodness I am done with my transfer of my other blog, Sasha’s Corner! After some issues, I was able to resolve everything a few hours ago and the blog is now back up.

Please go and visit Sasha’s Corner. Thanks!

Work in progress: Sasha's Corner transfer

I am currently transferring Sasha’s Corner from Blogger to WordPress. I already did but I am still waiting for the new DNS to propagate. Meantime, I am redirecting it here.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

All posts under Sasha’s Corner is under http://sashashe.blogspot.com for now.

Thank you.

Monday morning

I woke up early to be able to finish all the pending tasks I have. Yesterday, I was feeling so bad, my stomach doing funny things to my whole body, that I was not able to finish anything except drop cards. Today, I still feel a wee bit off but it’s little things like this that makes me feel good and ready to take on the world

Lindsay awarded me not just one but THREE blog awards!

Thank you so much, Lindsay! I really appreciate it. What a way to start my Monday morning

I am passing these awards to Pauline, Wiehanne, Modern Mom, Entrepgirl, and Ode to Adrienne.

And another survey for you before I end this post…

Happy Monday everyone and have a great week!

Little things that need attention

When you are working at home, you notice so many things that need to be replaced or repaired, scrubbed or repainted. Just like the walls in the kitchen. When I was brushing my teeth the other day, I noticed that the paint on the kitchen walls is already faded, scratched out in most corners. I also noticed that we have poor outdoor lighting. And there’s the peeling wallpaper in our bedroom. So many little things that need our attention that I only notice when I was busy doing another thing.

Get the money back

I was really wrong in buying the laptop instead of buying a desktop right away. A desktop is intended for prolonged use and that is what I really need. Thank goodness I earned more than enough last month so I have some money to spare that I used to purchase this desktop.

Now, all I have to worry about is how I can get back the money I spent for the desktop. Here’s to more opps!

Technorati Authority

My Technorati Authority took a nosedive!!! From 400-something, it’s now down to 258. Now I am thinking of how I can make it go up again. I guess the incoming links are now 6 months old. I have to do something to make this go up again because I know a couple of advertisers who look at this number.

I was once told by a Technorati support that the viral tagging is something that they will work on to stop in the future. I was emailed about it, especially the most recent one I joined. Even the new blog I have is tagged “for review” because of that viral linking post.

Oh well…

Lesson learned: Update your anti-virus program!

Today is a very disappointing day for me. I lost all 3GB of my files! It’s not much but it contains all my photos, blog files, drafts I have yet to publish, wordpress themes I’ve used and chosen for future use, notes, and so much more. I lost the heart of my blogging life. All because I don’t update my anti-virus program. I turned off updates and have forgotten thrice now to buy a new AV. My cousin had to do a full reformat of David, my laptop

It hurts to know that I can never recover those files anymore. Thank goodness I don’t delete all email attachments. At least I could find some there. But the important ones are forever lost to me…

So lesson learned for today? Update your anti-virus program! Scan your computer daily. Beware of what you download on the net.

I hope you don’t have to learn it the hard way like me.

Entrecard woes

I bet a lot of you EC droppers out there are having the same problems like me. Entrecard loading is horrible for the past few days now! It’s taking me forever to load a site. Accessing the inbox is out of the question. It takes forever to load a site. I checked on both Chrome and Firefox. The same horrible loading.

I was wondering what Entrecard is doing with this problem. I mean, I can understand the server load and all. But what’s their proposed solution to this? And what’s the fixation on monetizing blogs this time?

Entrecard has given this blog tremendous traffic. And for that I will always be thankful, especially with the Alexa rank boost.

But in times like this, it makes you think about driving traffic to this blog the hard way again.

Changed!

As I have said in my previous post, I am thinking of changing my theme. But instead of the theme itself, I just changed the header hehe… Like it?

Anyway, I will be posting some Dneero surveys here from time to time. And here are two of the surveys…

Changing themes again?

Those who know me from way back I started with Akoni, knew my penchant for frequently changing themes. Whenever something happens, blog got slapped for instance), I have this overwhelming need to change something in my blog. Don’t ask me why. It’s just one of my quirks. It is the same way with my offline life. When I feel helpless about something, even little things like missing a tv show, I channel my frustration in my blogs. Maganda na rin di ba kaysa kung saan ko pa ma-channel frustrations ko hehe

Or you know, maybe it’s just my fickle mind! I easily lose interest in the same colors. I think I don’t like the orange in this blog anymore. I feel more like Christmas colors. Hmm…

Slapped once more

Last year, I believe around this same time, this blog of mine Sasha-says.com was one of the casualties of the big G slap. That was the first time it happened across the blogosphere and I was not spared. I had several blogs with PRs ranging from 5-3 that were all slapped. I was so depressed that time, worrying about its effect on my monetizing activities. Thank God advertisers considered other type of rankings that time. Technorati, Alexa and Link Popularity. I was earning A LOT before the slap but then, in His goodness, I even earned more afterwards. It was as if the slap never happened. Of course, my PR4 blog that was earning buckets that time was hit the most. This blog which was a PR2 that time was slapped with a 0. But then, opps kept pouring in that time. I even had a single offer worth $200 for 200 words!

In other words, even with the best earner hit the most, other blogs picked up the slack. Maybe, it was also because there were just a few of us monetizing our blogs that time. Now, every where you look at, it seems everyone has joined the bandwagon.

Oh well, I am just hoping that this time around, even with the slap once again, opps would still keep pouring in. Christmas is just less than 80 days away. I am sure we all need a few more bucks in our wallets come Christmas time