Have you already heard of the contest that is currently held at Fuel My Blog in collaboration with Snorgtees? There’s a top prize of $500 and a Snorgtees t-shirt plus 99 other people will win a t-shirt each too.

$500 sure sounds awesome. Can buy an iPhone with cash to spare, even! But although I am someone who loves to participate in contests, this is too much work. I would have to solicit for votes and would have to be at the top position at the end of the month to be able to win the cash prize plus a t-shirt. It is too stressful to try to hit the jackpot and I would risk getting pimples pop up all over my face! Haha!

Since I never like to bother people to vote for me in contests, I shall pass this. Awesome as it may be. Besides, I won’t play if I can’t win. So good luck to you all who are participating and most of all HAVE FUN!

Have you heard the news that almost all the big time bloggers have suffered a penalization on their Page Rank or search results? One thing could be because we are leaking Page Rank here, there and everywhere while another issue could be because we have linked to bad neighborhood. Whatever the case, it looks like those who are affected will have no choice but to live with it until the next update.

Meanwhile, we can get help from a website optimization firm. This is the kind of company that would help us to get relevant links and raise the PR of our website. This is especially crucial for commercial sites because the more links pointing to our site, the higher our search results will appear on the major search engines.

If we are selling a competitive product on the internet, all the more we have to get ahead of our competitors and come out higher in the search results and we could do this with the help of a reliable website optimization firm. We all know how internet browsers search for their favorite products online and then go down the results list one by one. More often than not, I give up after viewing the second o r third pages and I believe I am not alone. Therefore, the higher our site is listed on the search results, the more web browsers we are able to attract.

Some of you know that I am hosting my blogs for free. In other words, my hosting is sponsored. On one hand, it is great that I do not have to fork out any money, keep remembering when to pay in case I am locked out of my own host for not settling my bill, yadda yadda yadda… I have been thinking IF I should host them on virtual private server and pay for it. I was told that it’s 66 per month. USD or MYR?? Per blog or multiple blogs?? HHmm I am so unsure I need to find out more details.

While free is good, I am afraid that sometimes the server goes down and I would not be able to do anything for hours. Sponsors will also be fuming if they cannot access their little virtual real estate and may flag or ban me. I think sponsors do not realise that blogs can be offline sometimes too, just like people can fall ill once in a while.

So, it may mean extra expenses but it will keep my blood pressure low 😀 What do you think?

If you have been reading my blogs, you would know exactly what I think of credit cards and their “evil” temptations. Yes, I know that credit card owners should be blamed for not having the discipline to use them well but then who would admit wrong doing, right?

This morning, I was surfing the internet when I came upon the website of The Debt Settlement Company. Some of you may know that I have debts to settle after taking over the responsibility of them from my parents but upon further reading, The Debt Settlement Company is actually helping people with credit card debts.

In any case, I continued to read the article son the site because I have a group of friends who are facing exactly this dilemma as described on the site, they are absolutely bogged down with credit card debts.

There are many types of Credit Card Debt Help actually, the site explains and Credit Card Debt Consolidation is one of the more popular option.

Of course, with every debt help option provided, they may not be suitable for everyone. Some may find that they actually like to accumulate their debts into a single credit card debt account while some would absolutely feel swamped by such a huge monthly settlement. Some, on the other hand prefer to get debt counselors to help negotiate a lower interest rate. This too may not be suitable for everyone.

Whatever the case, check out the terms and conditions carefully first before signing on the dotted line.