Yeah, I know I am two days late with this post but I have been lazy to blog! I was preoccupied with categorising my posts, installing plug-ins and changing the templates of three of my Word Press blogs! Yes, that was that I was “busy” with over the long weekend haha!

Did you know that 15th October, 2007 was Blog Action Day? This was supposed to be a day where bloggers from around the world publish a post on the environment. Did you do it? Sad to say, I only found out on 16th October, Malaysian time. I don’t even remember how I got to know of it but I am a chronic random link clicker! Ah… I think it was through Blogger.com!

Every time we talk about the environment, I will think of my friend who was an advocate of the three Rs: Recycle – Reduce – Reuse. He is not with us anymore but I am very sure that if he is still with us, he would have participated actively in something like Blog Action Day.

I purposely made this post hoping that I would remember about this and participate next year.

My friend told me that I am charging too low for my Directs. At $15 per post, I think I am being reasonable. On the other hand, my friend has a Page Rank of 4 and worse Alexa Ranking than me, and yet she told me that she regularly gets offer for $60 per post even on Blogspot blogs.

According to this friend, I am showing advertisers that I am being desperate. In her case, she bids up to $100. She said, if the advertiser wants it, then accept her bid, or counter bid. If not, it is no big loss to her, since she started the day WITHOUT the job, you know what I mean?

Also, she told me that I myself must not show discrepancy between a free hosted blog and a paid domain blog. If I do, so will advertisers. She told me that she bids the same price for all the blogs, free or paid. I think this is a good point to note.

Well, do you think I should up my price?

A few days ago, I change the layout if one of my themes and to make sure that all most posts are in order especially the images are in place, I flipped though all the pages of my blog from the beginning until the most recent post. There are more than seven hundred posts in the blog that is not even nine months old yet but I was surprised that I wrote so many posts in a niche theme.

Frankly, if I were not writing all those sponsored posts, I would not have come up with so many topics to write on. The most I would publish per day would only be two at the maximum unlike right now where I would publish anything from three to ten on a bumper day.

In a way, I am glad that I am pushed this way or I would have let my blog be a post a day kind of blog. Pretty boring, unlike now where I do a lot of research for niche blogging and look at things from a different perspective and come up with interesting posts to blog about.