An old classmate of mine, whom I recently reconnected with thanks to Facebook, asked me how I get advertisers to advertise on my blogs. I don’t know how she found out that I make an income from blogging but found out she did and she is thinking of doing the same. Well, she is an architect and I don’t think she needs to waste time on blogs. After all, blogs are like bad girlfriends who need constant attention!

I told her that I have tried many programmes and the one that I would recommend her is Google AdSense. Although I am not using it on my blog, the reason I recommended it to her is that it is a large company with solid track record.

Of course, I didn’t tell her that there have been complaints from publishers who suddenly found their accounts locked when they were close to payment threshold but I did let her know that it is against the terms of the programme to click on her own advertisements or ask friends to do so.

My friend has no definite plans on starting her blogging project yet but I do not relish the thought of starting a new blog from scratch. It is a long and lonely process!

A blogger friend achieved the blogging milestone of ten thousand unique visitors a day to her blog. While it may not be a figure to shout about for professional bloggers, it is a cause for celebration for my friend, who is a stay at home mother who only picked up blogging six years ago with a personal blog, like most of us.

With this milestone, come problems with her blog host. It is not that her host could not handle 10,000 visitors. My friend has almost fifty blogs of various sizes to her name so you can imagine the traffic that she garners daily, so much so that her hosts suspended her account temporarily thinking that it was a DOS attack.

My friend is now hunting for a host that could provide her with dedicated hosting at a reasonable rate. Although she does make money from her blogging activities, if you are a blogger too, you would know how erratic blog traffic could be, affecting blog income as well. My friend is looking for affordable dedicated hosting so that she doesn’t have to worry about her hosting bill even if income from her blogs dips a little.

I told her about SingleHop Inc.’s most affordable QuadCore dedicated server package at US$189 per month which come with free setup. She could easily customize and order it online. Hopefully, she could get her hosting issue resolved as soon as possible and hit her second milestone of 20,000 unique visitors a day to her blog!

I just received a friendly web hosting service renewal reminder from my web host. It’s yet another year. My, how time flies! According to my web host, there is no change in the hosting fee but I am still going to check up other web hosts and see if they could offer me a similar package at a more competitive price since I am not making much money from my blogs and websites that are hosted on that account.

If you are a blogger or web master, I am sure making web hosting comparison is like an annual affair. I do this more frequently because I have multiple hosting accounts and they expire at different times of the year.

However, if the differences in new packages and prices are not too wide, I do not bother to switch web hosts. I am not a technical person and really do not want to trouble my new host with migrating my sites but mainly, what I do not want is any downtime for my site and migrating hosts would mean a downtime of one to two days. That’s why when I plan to set up more websites on a new hosting account, I would rather start on the right hosting package.

The blogger, Rosemary Port, who used Blogger.com, a Google blogging service, for her “Skanks in NYC” blog and who named Vogue model Liskula Cohen as the skankiest of them all, will sue Google for US$15 million for outing her.

Liskula Cohen took Google to court recently to force it to reveal the identity of the blogger so that she court sue the blogger for defamation. Google at first protected the identity of its user but was ruled by the New York State Supreme Court, the highest civil trial court in the state, to do so.

Even though Liskula Cohen has dropped plans to sue Rosemary Port for defamation, probably because she would have to prove in court that she is not the skankiest, Rosemary Port, a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, claims that Google has failed to protect her identity and her lawyer is prepared to take the case up all the way to the Supreme court.

Google meanwhile defended their actions saying that they had to turn over the blogger’s email and IP addresses because of the court ruling, which is covered in their terms of use, which I believe, NONE of us Blogger.com users spend time to read (LOL). “Skanks in NYC” has also since been deleted.

It would be interesting to see how this case would close though I think that rightly or wrongly, Google’s got to do what the Court rules. Just like what happened to Yahoo.com in China.

The New York State Supreme Court, the highest civil trial court in the state, has ordered Google to reveal the identity of a blogger who blogs on Blogger.com, for describing model Liskula Cohen, “The Skankiest in NYC”.

Google has tried to protect the identity of the blogger, since a blog is supposed to a gateway for personal opinion and is not factual or a personal hit, still, the Court has ordered Google to hand over the user’s IP address, which means that in this case, Google isn’t able to protect its user of free speech, which America champions.

Of course, freedom of speech and personal opinion are very subjective issues. Law suits in different states in America or even in different countries for that matter, could produce different results.

Liskula Cohen says that despite being called “The Skankiest in NYC”, which harms her reputation in the industry, she is willing to forgive the blogger, an acquaintance.

Blogs are very public domains and I think that we have to be careful of what we write and how we express our opinion. Even with the best of intentions, there could be readers who would purposely read between the lines, if there were any, or simply misunderstood our meaning. In any case, I feel it is the blogger’s responsibility to blog right. Yet, at the same time, for some small opinion like in this Liskula Cohen case, the blogger’s identity should be protected.

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A friend, who is a professional blogger, used to boast to me that she runs multiple blogs and still have time to take care of two kids at home sans a maid. I marvel at her time management because I run less than ten blogs and already feel out of breath keeping up but that was until I went to her various blogs to read, only to notice that they are pre-written articles that she has copied from somewhere to publish on her own blogs.

I think many of us who run blogs and websites know that search engines would penalize our sites for copied content. Also, the more original content that one publishes, the more frequent the site is crawled by search engine robots. This is also one of the reasons that some webmasters rewrite their old articles or use automated rewriters to do it. They don’t expect human to read these recycled articles so they don’t care if the sentences do not make sense.

Just last night, I got to know of a website that offers Human Rewriter services whereby we provide them with articles, any kind of articles, and their team of writers will rewrite them within 36 hours for us. These are real people, people whose first language is English and who are based in the United States, who would read and understand our article and reproduce it. This ensures that every article or post that we have on our blog or website is coherent.

I actually like this concept except that I haven’t reached that stage to require third parties to generate content for my blogs!

I viewed one of my Blogger blogs this morning like I always do and was surprised to see that the layout was broken. The sidebar fell to the bottom of the page. It was fine just yesterday! At first, I thought that this is a Blogger issue so I went to my two other Blogger blogs which are also using the same theme, except different headers, and they were fine.

I thought that I would change a new layout then, but if you are a blogger using Blogger.com, you will know the hassle of changing layouts. Why do we have to redo out links and sidebar and everything else? If there is something that I DO NOT like about Blogger, it is this.

I decided to put this task off because I wasn’t free anyway. This afternoon, I went to see what was wrong with my coding, and comparing it with the codes of my two other blogs which are using this theme as well and found that it was actually a script that I have embedded to this blog only.

I have since taken out the script and am happy to know that my Blogger blog is now A-OK! Thankfully I did not have to reload my layout!