Finances

Read All About Oregon Mortgage Refinance

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A friend of mine told me that he is looking for Oregon mortgage refinance but d not know where to start searching on the internet. I did not ask why he specifically wanted a remortgage in Oregon. I figured that he must have property there.

I did help him with the search though because I remember stumbling upon a information and resource site on Oregon mortgage refinance. I just needed to back track because I have forgotten the web address.

However, I finally managed to find it in my bookmarks and showed it to him. I told him that if he is serious in applying for a remortgage then he should read the website and absorb as much information as possible. It is very convenient to apply for a remortgage once he is ready. He could do it online via the website of Oregon’s Best Mortgage as well.

Even though I myself do not have any need for Oregon mortgage refinance, I also read up on the articles found on the site just to be up to date with the market trends. I think that since the interest rate has gone down, my friend is taking a right step in seeking a remortgage. Besides remortgage, there are also lots of information of other loans as well.

General

The Long Search For An Executive Post

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If you have ever searched for a job before, you will appreciate how tough it is. Career opportunities are not easy to come by and this is especially true when you are looking for an executive post or higher. I once spent ten long months helping a friend look for a job. He wasn’t even choosy but because of his age, qualification and experience, I had to leave his resume with an executive search firm.

Of course, I am happy to say that in the end, after a long antagonizing wait, he managed to secure a job befitting his stature. I believe that he would not be able to do that without the help of an executive search firm. I think this is partly due to the fact that companies with vacancies in high positions in the management team do not simply advertise these vacancies and they prefer to go through executive search firms or head hunters.

Though the wait was long, it was worth it.

Computing & Internet

Is RealRank Flawed Too?

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I was blog hopping when I came across the link to check our RealRank. I know that it has been open to some beta testers but I am not one of the testers and I did not check the forum because frankly, PPP is not as relevant to me as it was six to twelve months ago.

Anyway, I went to check out a few of my blogs and I am not surprised with the low ranks. I know I haven’t been networking because I am basically an introvert. I could write and have no one reading and I would be just as happy but then I would feel bad for my sponsors hence I do try to get the blog out a little now and then.

You may wonder why I questioned if RealRank is flawed. I have read many people saying that page ranks, Alexa, Technorati ranks and what-have-you could be easily manipulated. So can traffic.

The thing is, I checked a few of my blogs and I found that the blog that received the most traffic and page views daily on the average and has a link weight that is heavier than all the rest has a low Rank. Well, that is not a problem because maybe the scale is high for RealRank and my site is really that lowly ranked.

The problem is that when I checked my new blog, only two months old and do not even have twenty posts in it, no traffic at all unless I publish a post, not linked to except for two kind friends who included me on their blogroll, unclaimed on Technorati, do not have any Page Rank history yet and an Alexa reading exceeding a million because it is so new, has a way higher RealRank than any of my more established blogs.

I don’t know about you, but this certainly looks screwed up!

Contests & Entries

I Wanna Win Some Stuff

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This is an entry to win a freezing hot SEO package for my blog. As always, I enter to WIN but it will go down to the luck of the draw so I hope that I am lucky enough to win. All these links in a short post isn’t really a good idea but what the heck, my blog can’t get more injured than it already is!

If I do win, my headache will be, which blog to revamp? Haha I have so many, I lose track of them myself! Wish me luck!

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Computing & Internet

They Say It’s Manual

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Well, people have been saying that our sites are getting smacked selectively. I have to agree. I know of many other sites with blatant advertisements or call it whatever you like and yet their ranks are not tanked. The problem with this issue is that bloggers have been linking out to anything and everything for years but just because some are given a little compensation to pay for the hosting and upkeep of their blogs, they are smacked. Heck, I have a blog that I link out to websites in every single posts and I did not get any compensation at all but I still link out just because I like and want to. Why is this a problem NOW?

Today, I decided to reveal this screen shot that I took from my stats tracker. I discovered this visitor from Georgia, Carollton, USA visiting all my ‘working’ blogs persistently a few times a day almost every day since July or August this year.

I remember mentioning it to my friend and told him that this is not a good sign and he told me that I am being paranoid. No, I am not! I labelled the IP as “SPY” and he or she truly is! You can see for yourself! This is why I have been keeping a low profile all these while. Maybe it’s not low enough!

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General

Shopping For Baby’s Needs

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My friend whom I wrote about who got married a little late in life but is now a parent told me that he prefers to shop for baby items online. I can understand that he is uncomfortable with the busy body sales people.

This friend says that although there are quite a few baby shops that he came across on the internet, he would only shop from those that are highly recommended by his friends. I think trust comes into play here!

I know of this website called Lila Guide that allows parents to share their experiences with the upbringing of their children and also their shopping experiences. I think that this friend, whom I shall not name, in case he gets mad at me, will benefit from the website, even though it is geared towards mothers.

Computing & Internet

Update: Entrecard – Blogger’s Call Card

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As an update on my post on Entrecard a week ago, I finally found the time to register my blog last night. Yea, see, I am so free now /sarcasm GGrrr

Anyway, registration is very simple and I think every blog will be accepted by default until they are manually reviewed. Blogs must be in English with fairly good content, not offensive, racialistic and bla bla bla the usual negatives.

I placed the widget on my blog and went visiting to other members but I could not find anywhere to “drop my card”. I did however, receive cards that were dropped to me and also “advertisement” Yay.. happy, happy!

Because I am a new member, my credit is low. I think it’s a 2:1 ratio on the rate of dropping a card and receiving one. In the morning though, once again I visited all the blogs and this time, I could find the “drop my card” link. I think it took a little while for the widgets to recognise me as an Entrecard holder or something.

So off I went visiting blog after blog and dropped my card. With the cards I dropped, collected and also advertisements bought from my blog, I have more than 100 points already. Happy!

Like I said, this is a great way to get your blog out. I have many visitors from my participation in Entrecard 😀

It would be great if we could register different blogs on Entrecard on different categories and different images and respective widgets like how we could do it on Fuel My Blog. Graham Langdon, the CEO, personally replied my email on Sunday (impressive) that they will be working on it but it will take a little while.

I think that the earlier we participate the better because we will have more chances to collect credits plus it will be cheaper to advertise on big name blogs.

ETA: I would also love it if there’s some way for us to see which blogs were newly added to the system, so that we could visit to drop our cards.

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