Baidu is the leading Chinese language search engine. It’s so big that it currently ranks as the third biggest search engine worldwide beating out Micosoft search. Baidu started in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu.

So it doesn’t hurt to spend about one minute to submit to Baidu and gain additional traffic from Chinese speaking vi

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Inspired by 5xmom to create this video as she blogged about hitting snags in upgrading her WordPress blogs. Can’t argue with a person who has 20+ WordPress blogs. Anyway, this is a personal preference of mine and I must say there is no best method. I prefer to upgrade WordPress by using CPanel. I do this by

1. uploading t

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Ok. Don't hate me because I created a splog. It's not stealing. It's "syndicating". Anyway it's a fine line between stealing and content syndication and I'm sure I'm standing on the right side. Content syndication is where I post excerpts (not full post) of your blog post on another site and link to you.

Well, I don

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Webdesigners particularly those that get involved in WordPress themes can make a good sum of money too. WPDesigner.com - now a PR7 site has been sold for USD 66K.

I’ve used themes done by the author before and I’m sure the author’s face familiar to many WordPress users. He is better known as small potatoes, a 21-year old Th

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If you live in a country that does not charge you for receiving SMS then read on if you want to use Twitter to send FREE sms or text messages to your friends. It's computer to mobile phone and the only limitations is only that you can send/receive free 250 Twitter SMS a week.

All these illustrated using screen shots and exp

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A few months ago, my webhost suspended my hosting account because of excessive CPU usage. The solution was to upgrade my hosting plan to Gold which indeed solve the problem. But that's not what I want to talk about. As a result of having my content off the web for a few months (I lost the database of content), Google removed m

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Why pay hundreds of dollars for some web designer to create a simple brochureware type company site for you? WordPress can easily fit the bill. It's so easy, anyone with a little familiarity with WordPress can do it. Here's a couple of screenshot detailing how you can go about it.

Go ahead. Create a company website with Wo

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Walking around during my vacation in Cameron Highlands I came across this adverts on the walls beside a sundry shop.

It's shocking to see the cost of USD 470- 800 per static website ? With USD 90-150 per update ? Do people actually pay for static company websites ?

Apparently they do because I was just told by a friend

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Sure, you can't make money off WordPress.com, at least, not directly. But there are many benefits of starting up a free blog at WordPress.com. Because it is unpopular with the "make money to blog" crowd, there are plenty of good subdomain still left unclaimed at WordPress.com. Besides these you have the million dollar softwa

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Ultraman is plain cruel. Whenever he sees a new monster, he pops the poor guy. No questions asked. He is a bully and a murderer. That's my thoughts about him. He's definitely no hero. I saw this kid in a cafe watching videos after videos of Ultraman on YouTube. Apparently he is a fan. I wanted to walk over and gave him a piec

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It's Valentine and Yahoo lays off 1,000 employees. Yahoo! clearly not big in showing love for their employees. Despite what some saw as good news that Microsoft was taking over Yahoo!, the layoffs are taking place anyway. Major bummer!

So what do you do when you get laid off? How do you cope psychologically? Where do you fi

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I was writing a post when I wanted to find an old story of mine. However, it was surprisingly difficult as the post was pretty old. Even a Google search did not find it. Browsing page by page to manually look for it was definitely out. So my solution was to use the Crawlpage plugin for Wordpress. It's pretty useful SEO wise

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Ok. It's possible to upgrade under 10 minutes. I did it! I never trusted the old plugin to do the upgrade for me as it crashed once messing up my WordPress installation. So this is the manual method but done in 10 minutes.

Short summary of the steps:-

1. Download the latest WordPress
2. Upload the entire zi

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I don't have a single creative bone in my body and when I see tools like a free logo generator, I immediately pounce on it and try it out. I have to say, I'm amazed at the final product. If I can come out with logos this good, anybody can!

You have to pay for downloading the full logos but I didn't have to as I ju

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Newsreaders, or RSS readers are great time savers as they collect all your favourite websites and blogs under one page. If you build an impressive collection of RSS feeds, it's like having a great online newspaper.

Google Reader, Bloglines, PageFlakes, Netvibes are just some of the newreaders that are available out th

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