by TheWeblogZone on August 31, 2008
During the Beijing 2008 Olympics, GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name host has been blocked from being accessed in China. This has caused commotion among a large number of Chinese online entrepreneurs who cannot access their account. Those who are selling domain names weren’t able to do business for almost a month and some went through alot of inconveniences to renew their registration.
According to reports, GoDaddy.com was blocked during the Olympics to prevent Chinese nationals from registering domain names after the names of Chinese athletes who won (Gold, Silver or Bronze) in the Olympics. The Chinese government has a policy of protecting famous names from being registered and allows only the owner the right to register it as his/her domain name.
If domain names were to be registered outside China, it will be difficult for the Chinese government to retrieve them. Hence, GoDaddy.com, which is US-based and not to mention the largest, was blocked.
There were speculations that the blocking of GoDaddy will be permanent. But today, I visited GoDaddy.com and there it was.
What’s really surprising is the fact that Blogger (Blospot) wasn’t blocked during the duration of the Olympics considering the thousands of blogs criticizing China’s hosting of the 2008 Olympics. I just hope that the Great Firewall doesn’t block Blogger blogs anytime soon. 
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by TheWeblogZone on August 31, 2008
While traffic is the lifeblood of every website, links are the roads that help traffic reach its destination. The more and wider your road, the more traffic you receive. And obviously, places with more roads leading to them are more popular and frequently visited. Roads too, pave way for development and progress.
Just like roads, links are important to the success of every blog. It’s an indication of your blog’s importance and value in the Blogosphere. So… the more links to your blog, the better. To help you with links, here are some link building strategies that I’ve been using. [click to continue...]
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by TheWeblogZone on August 30, 2008
Once a year, Blog Action Day unites bloggers, podcasters and videocasters worldwide to post about the same issue on the same day. A U.N. backed nonprofit event, Blog Action Day aims to raise awareness and encourage discussions of issues of global concern.
Last year (2007), Blog Action Day successfully united more than 15,800 bloggers to step-away from their usual routine blog topic and write about the Environment. The event has generated buzz both from online and traditional media (Digg, Reddit, BBC, Reuters, Manila Standard etc.), and successfully brought environmental issues and concerns to the attention of the world.
This year (2008), Blog Action Day is inviting all publishers to unite once again. This time, to post about “Poverty”. [click to continue...]
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by TheWeblogZone on August 29, 2008
The billions of dollars spent by corporations around the world for branding purposes just shows how important branding is to a business. Branding is also important in blogging, which explains why serious bloggers pay professional designers as much as $5,000 dollars just to have their logos and banners done. Having your own logo and banner helps in building your own brand but there are free online tools that can help you create your own logo and save some money.
After going around, I compiled this list of free online logo makers and image editors that can help you create your own decent logo and banner. [click to continue...]
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by TheWeblogZone on August 28, 2008
One of the reasons why Wordpress is so much better than Blogger is the countless Free and Premium Wordpress Themes available to choose from. The templates available for Blogger users on the other hand is so limited. But due to the consistent increase in the number of Blogger users, more and more Blogger templates are made available to them. The fancied Wordpress themes are no longer exclusive to Wordpress users as more of them are converted to Blogger templates.
PassionDuo Blogger Template
PassionDuo Template was created for Daily Blog Tips by DesignSaurus as a WordPress theme. eBlog Templates then converted it into Blogger which you can download for free once you register (registration is also FREE). [click to continue...]
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by TheWeblogZone on August 27, 2008
In less than one month, I was able to make $114.84 with the Thesis Wordpress Theme Affiliate Program. Out of the 163 traffic I sent to Thesis’ sales page, 4 of them purchased the theme. Here’s a screenshot of my affiliate quick report.
Making money with the Thesis Affiliate Program is not difficult. First of all, you can be confident selling the product to everyone. Chris Pearson put alot of efforts to make Thesis Wordpress Theme one of the best themes available on the market. Secondly, the product has a huge market considering that Wordpress is the most widely used blog platform and thousands of Wordpress blogs are created everyday. [click to continue...]
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by TheWeblogZone on August 17, 2008
I just got back to China from a two months long vacation in the Philippines. To my surprise, when I was about to update my blog, I couldn’t access it. I tried using other computers but I just can’t open my blog. I also checked the status of my blog with my host and there seems to be no problem. I then used a proxy to view it and it perfectly working.
My blog has been blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Considering that TheWeblogZone is all about blogging and that I have not written anything against China, why would my blog be blocked? [click to continue...]
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by TheWeblogZone on August 13, 2008
This week I’ve noticed that some of the blogs I regularly visit are looking for contributors or guest bloggers to write for them. I would understand why they resort to this strategy to be able to provide fresh content to their readers, especially that most of them are blogging on a part time basis.
Definitely, there are benefits of opening your blog to willing contributors or guest bloggers. But at the same time, this could do more harm to your blog than the sought benefits. Today’s post will introduce you to some reasons why you should not welcome contributors or guest bloggers. [click to continue...]
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by TheWeblogZone on August 12, 2008
The once huge number of netizen is continuously reduced as the number of bloggers to share them increase everyday. And if you’re one of those serious bloggers who wants to succeed in blogging, you will work hard to stand out in an overcrowded room. As more and more bloggers start to blog about the same topic, the need to be distinct and unique becomes a key element for bloggers to succeed. [click to continue...]
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by TheWeblogZone on August 10, 2008
Research shows that more than 65% of the netizens don’t like a blog that takes forever to download. In today’s busy lifestyle, no one would like to waste their time to wait for your blog to download. As a rule of thumb, your blog should download within the next 12 seconds once it has been accessed. Otherwise, you will be missing a huge amount of traffic and you have just deprived your blog of repeat visit.
Like I’ve said before, traffic is the lifeblood of most blogs. Traffic enables bloggers to successfully monetize their blogs. Simply put, the higher the traffic your blog gets the higher the potential revenue is. It is therefore crucial that you make sure your blog downloads fast to avoid losing traffic and to get the most benefit out of it. [click to continue...]
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