Owner: Enghwa's Blog URL:http://www.phostan.com Join Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:20:31 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: My personal blog to pen down my thoughts, ideas, and fun/interesting stuff i found on the internet. At the same time, i want to experience for myself how internet marketing works, and how traffic generation works. Site statistics:Click here
Why you should really get a domain name asap 2007-11-24 11:15:00 Although it's exciting getting a new domain
name, it's not so exciting seeing all the technorati reactions and alexa ratings drop to the bottom once again. All the hardwork trying to increase my blog rank seems to go to waste. Thus, i really thank www.jackbook.com for inspiring me to quickly get a domain name. Imagine even more effort wasted if i were to get a domain name only when my blog is highly ranked.So, in order to help me increase the rank of www.phostan.com pls update all ur links from phostan.blogspot.com to www.phostan.com
To Blog List 2007-11-24 10:31:00 I believe that it's important to have something for people to look forward to. Knowing when's something is going to happen makes you feel like you're in control.Check out what's being planned for next week.1) How To: Getting a free custom email ownname@owndomain.com2) How To: Getting and Using your own domain name for your blogspot.com blog for $7.153) Travel Blog: Extremely cute pandas @ ChengduOf course, they will still be surprises along the way but the target for next week is to complete the 3 post.
Revamped and beefed up Joint Contest. 2007-11-24 09:33:00 Check out the latest revamped, JointContest
! If the outcome are positive, we'll increase the cash prize and offer other non-cash items. So, why wait? You just nedPrize:1) $20 cash through paypal2) Review by phostan3) Review by jaestenRequirement:1) Give a honest and clear review of www.phostan.com2) and give a honest and clear review of blog.treiziethoughts.ws in the same post3) Post as a comment, your review url on either phostan or jaesten blog.Winning Condition:1) More than 10 participants2) Best review based on votes by phostan & jaestenTerms and Conditions:1) Each blog can only win once.2) After the contest is closed, non-winning blogs may write another review to join the next contest. (i.e. Any blogs can keep trying until they win)Closing Date:30 November 2007Winner Announcement / Prize Giving Date:1 Dec 2007
Disappointing failure in the first contest 2007-11-24 09:20:00 The first weekly contest ended yesterday with only 1 participant. I declare it a ultimate failure
due to the poor response. However, what's important is to think through how it happened.Before that, i want to give credit to Erz for being the only participant of the contest. His blog is pretty interesting and from the large number of contest related post, i guess the purpose of the blog is to take part in many contest in order to generate extra bucks. However, there's also other stuff such as fashion tips and financial tips.What went wrong was the question that keeps popping up in my mind. After much thought i came to this conclusion:1. The contest was too difficult to worth the prize of $20 bucks.2. Having to subscribe + fav in technorati + review is too much to ask for $20Thus, after discussion with jaesten, we decided to make the entry requirement easier and include an exemption clause to ensure our purpose is meet before any prize is given away.
Checkout phostan.com 2007-11-23 22:15:00 My domainname is up !!!! From setup to www.phostan.com pointing to phostan.blogspot.com . It took less than 1/2 hour. Didn't thought that it would be this fast! Usually it would take a few days for the domain name to point correct.Anyway, i'll teach you how to get a domain name @ $7.15 in 1/2 hour time. Everything will be up and running in no time. All you need to do is to click and type the right info.Stay tune for the upcoming post.
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Viral Blog Review 7 - Canon Camera Competition Details 2007-11-23 21:00:00 This is another contest that i am taking part in to win a canon camera. It a pretty good idea to give away something that you already own.The blog is mostly about photography and cameras with some posts on Japan and random rumblings.The layout of the blog is pretty neat and the first thing you'll notice is the huge banner of pretty models at the top of the blog.The idea of introducing paying options for higher chance of winning is also great. Probably, i'll try it out soon.Do check out the contest @ http://neilduckett.com/canon-camera-competition-details/Overall i give a rating of 8/10
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Is technorati reaching its limits?? 2007-11-21 17:17:00 Ever encounter the case of your technorati authority and post not being updated? My blog has been expericing this for the past 5 days. Even when i ping my blog manually, the last pinged date just keep increasing as the days goes by.Is it a case of the technorati spider not being able to crawl all the massive amount of blogs now? or is it a case of buggy code? Hmmm, it could even be that my blog is flagged for review.I guess it's probably because my blog is flag for review, however, i have no idea what critera is used in flagging blogs for review?? Tried looking for answers in google but didn't really find any. The solution according to technorati is to submit the contact us form. I have done that but i received a auto-reply telling me they are now facing a backlog is support...So what can i do for technorati now? Basically i can only wait and hope for the best.Totally have no idea when my blog will be reviewed.
Busy Busy Week 2007-11-21 10:12:00 This week is a really busy week for me ... with almost everyday staying late for work or for social event. Even thought it's been really busy, i feel useful as i feel the things i have done are purposeful. Life is really all about purpose. What is your purpose in life. Once you have found your own purpose, there will be meaning to life and no matter how busy you are, you'll be enjoying every moment.However, it's not so easy to find a purpose in life, you really need to go through different experiences before you find the purpose in life. Also, this purpose might change as time goes by. But no matter what purpose you choose for yourself, you must constantly improve yourself in order to achieve higher standards and feel even strongly for your purpose.Hope you have already find the purpose of your life.
Viral Blog Review 6 - A blog on natural health and wellness 2007-11-19 09:50:00 This is a review i am doing just so that i can enter the $15 contest that is running @ http://www.gojicapital.com/blog/9.html.As you can see from the title, the blog is about natural health and wellness through goji products. You can buy their products here and you will also find what are the benefits of the goji as well.Their blog is available http://gojicapital.com/blog/ but there's not much post in it. But you can't really blame them as their focus is on selling goji juice instead of earning money from blog.Overall i give this blog a rating of 5/10
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Muar 2007-11-19 07:16:00 This weekend had been a pretty eventful one. I went to muar, malaysia for my friend's wedding dinner. The bus and accomodation were arranged by my friend and i think it's very well organised. The bus departed from Kallang Bahru Bus Terminal (Basically just a heavy vehicle park) and went to Malaysia via the Tuas Second Link. The second link is very new and pretty. As there's not much crowd, we cleared the customs very fast and before we know it, we were on the way to Muar, the trip took 4 1/2 hours and basically we slept all the way there.The wedding dinner was very grand with at least 30-50 tables. The one unique thing about wedding dinner in malaysia is that they like to have Karaoke singing for the relatives and friends.After that we went to our accomodation at a condominum hotel, there's 3 room inside and plenty of space for the 11 of us. We play mahjong and bridge till late. The next morning, we were brought to have our breakfast at a Bak Kut Tah store, the soup is very nice a
Lower Your Insurance Premium 2007-11-16 08:37:00 Insurance is something everyone should have. In case of emergencies, at least there is some one looking after you. If you are looking at this post, probably you will already be holding to some insurance and you are thinking that your premiums are too high.Here's how advantagetermlife.com can help you.1) By comparing the rates from different companies, you'll be able to find the best rates2) By offering different search options, you'll be able to find the best match.3) Once you got the best rates, you'll be able to purchase the insurance.4) The site offers many tips on getting the right insurance.Other than the common term insurance, there's information on universal insurance as well. However, information is a bit limited and i think their agents will explain the insurance in greater details after you get a quote from them.Brought to you by our friendly site
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Me and Jaesten's Weekly Contest 2007-11-16 07:14:00 As you can read in one of the conversation we have here in Jaesten's post titled $100 Prize for Lucky Number 13 Contest
, Jaesten and I decided to hold a contest in both of our blogs.Diana13, owner of the blog where that contest is on going gave us idea. And i cannot hold a contest by myself as i do not have enough fund yet. So, we came up with an idea of helping each other by holding the same contest in both of our blogs.This is a weekly contest in which one winner will receive $20 and 2 Technorati authorities every week. Because Jaesten and I will make a review of the winner's blog in our blogs. This is of course an easy one.For you to be able to join, you just need to do 3 things.1. Subscribe in our feeds both by email and reader.2. Fave us in Technorati- we are going to return the favor of course. And3. Make a constructive review about our blogs and about the contest we have.It does not need to be a flowery review. What we are asking is an honest and balance review of our blogs.Y Read more:Weekly
Look out for a contest coming soon 2007-11-15 11:12:00 In a collaboration and trial to attract more traffic and readers to our blog, we will be trying out a weekly contest real soon, the best part is the winner will get NOT 1 but 2 technorati authority from this site and my partner's site. In additional to that, the winner will be getting some monetary reward as well. So, if you want to be the first to find out how to win, subscribe to my RSS with your email.I have no idea whether this will indeed generate more traffic for my blog but it's at least the first step i can take. The worst case would be just 1 person sign up for the contest and i would just take this as a learning experience and any $$ lost as lesson fees.Keep watching this blog for the details.
Viral Blog Review 5 - 134u.com 2007-11-14 07:44:00 134u.com is a very clean and neat blog based on the number 13 Theme. There's 13 recent entries, 13 recent readers, 13 categories, and the last 13 comments. A very interesting theme indeed.The owner is Diana Bajenaru, a Romanian woman, who's very proud of her country. Her blog are about blogging, SEO, contest and some personal stuff.The interesting post she recently posted is the "Win $100 in My Lucky number 13 contest" where you can get a chance to win $100 direct to paypal. The contest ends on 13 December and all you get to do is this:Write about the contest in your blogSubscribe to her RSS via RSS ReaderSubscribe to her RSS via emailIf you does all 3 you'll get 4 chances to the contest.Overall, i give this blog a rating of 8/10
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BlogCatalog & myBlogLog really works 2007-11-14 06:26:00 BlogCatalog.com and myBlogLog.com are two social networking blogger's network website that i have joined for the purpose of getting more traffic to my blog. One thing is for sure! They really works!!!From BlogCatalog, i manage to get reviews and comments from people like coreli and JuStDeEzArTs who gave real and useful suggestions to improve my blog.From myBlogLog, i manage to get links from people like awannabewritter who was the first person i reviewed on my blog.In addition, after i signed up for both networks, my RSS readers increased to a all time high of 16 today. Before signing up i was like getting 2 or 3 readers a day.It's definitely a must to join and be pro-active in these social network bloggers community in order to generate traffic to your blog.However, without constant update and new content, you won't be able to retain all these new traffic. I am still in the midst of determining how best to retain these new traffic thus if you have any suggestions, do feel free to g
Viral Blog Review 4- Thoughts of a Blank Mind - Anything Goes 2007-11-14 06:00:00 The owner of the blog refers to herself as "Blank Mind of Treizie" and she's from Philippines and is a single mother striving to support her only son.Her blog is similar to mine, as in both of our blogs are general blog without any specific categories or topic. There's a very cute, adorable, and nice photo of her baby and she has been trying hard to get traffic to her site.The 3-col blog look cluttered like mine (I should be revamping my clutters soon) with many widgets from different website. There's the usual social networking widgets from blogcatalog, BUMPzee as well as the interesting "how much is my blog worth" widget.Her blog entries are pretty well written with well structured sentence and choice of words. The content she choose is really random from travel destination to paid reviews to happy thoughts to blog enhancement. So it's pretty interesting trying to anticipate what's she going to blog about next.Overall i give this blog a rating of 7/10
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Viral Blog Review 3 - Toast & Egg & Me 2007-11-13 08:49:00 The blog is written by kumowai, the name sound japanese but i have no idea if he's really from japan. As a matter of fact, i don't even know if kumowai is a she or a he? =PBut putting that aside, kumowai's blog offers review of several interesting website like smorty, joblighted, reviewback, authenticjobs, and various other comic jokes strip to add some humor to his site. His posts also consists of very interesting invention like the coffee rim roller, and wordpress theme generator.From the side links, i can tell that kumowai is a coffee lover with lots of links to coffee brands, coffee house and coffee info. As usual, the social network links are there as well. There's even many links to website providing free template. That's so considerate of kumowai. I won't need to search google just to find a new template for my site. :PKumowai updates his blog quite frequently with about one post a day since September 07 onwards.Overall i give this blog a rating of 8/10
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A technorati reaction a day keeps the doctor away 2007-11-13 04:21:00 I want to have a target for my blog. It would be to have at least a technorati blog reaction
a day. The current way i am doing it is by link exchange. By reviewing other people's blog, i get a link on their blog. With my review, their blog will get a technorati reaction as well. Other than doing this, i would need to come up with better content in order for other to link to my blog. The only reason why i am blogging about another website/blog is because i found the content interesting and useful to me. Thus, i would need to find a way for others to find my blog being useful or interesting to them. Some of the interesting things i found are: innovative online advertising/revenue generating site, traffic exchange site/blog, book style blog, tech review blog, there's basically no end to the countless amount of interesting subjects on the web.Should my blog be just focused on a particular topic?Should my blog still continues its direction as a very general blog and posting about every in Read more:keeps
The real juice is out 2007-11-12 10:18:00 As expected, after alexa updated the correct page rank of my blog my blog juice dropped from 2.1 to 0.7 at least it's still better than the 0.6 before i suddenly become 2.1.Now it's time to work even harder to try to get my blog juice higher.There are the things i will be doing:1) Review more blog and get them to review mine so that i can increase my technorati rankings - In measureable terms, i want to have 1 new authority everyday.2) Try to get more subscribes to bloglines by writing better contents and coming up with a way to get people back to this site - maybe a daily/weekly freebies might help?3) Try to increase my alexa rankings by getting more traffic to my blog. - I think i must join more social networking site and traffic generation site.In the mean time, wish my luck as i try to increase my blog ratings. Feel free to give your comments on how i can improve my blog. If your suggestions worked, i can be a testimonial to your success.
Viral Blog Review 2 - Chatting and Having Fun with Sweetlady18 2007-11-10 23:12:00 This is a very new blog just started about 5 days ago on 6 Nov 07. There's not much content as yet. But i hope more things will be posted soon.The blog's tag line of "1-800-TO-FLIRT 02360693" seems very adult-orientated. However, the few posts there looks pretty decent. The posts are about the definition of Happiness and what season is the author's favorite.I don't really have anything against adult-oriented stuffs but i do hope the content will continue to be decent posts.
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StumbleUpon 2 - Lego: Rubix Cube Solver 2007-11-10 20:38:00 This is the second interesting site i found on StumbleUpon
. It describe how JP Brown made use of Lego to build a rubix cube solver.It's very cool to see that it's possible to solve the rubix cube with lego. Maybe i can try it out myself someday.The video link on his site is down so here's another one that similar. Very Cool.It's amazing what you can find on StumbleUpon. All the interesting sites delivered based on your interests are great.
How to add BlogRush to BlogSpot 2007-11-10 19:03:00 This post is made due to a request from alman. So, do drop by his blog to have a look :)If you have no idea what is BlogRush.com, it's actually a traffic generation site and you can read more about it on my blog here.First, if you have not sign up for a BlogRush account, you can do it --> Here Page Elements2) Locate the column where you want to place the BlogRush Widget and click "Add a Page Element"3) On the popup, look for HTML/Javascript as shown below and click "Add to Blog"4) Paste the code you copied from BlogRush into the text field as shown below and click "Save Changes"5) You can now adjust the position by draging and dropping the HTML/Javascript to your desired location.PS: Click the pictures to have a larger view.
Cool Comments Bubble for you site 2007-11-10 10:44:00 You have awannabe's blog to thank for this post. As she like the comments bubble very much, i'll teach you how to include it for your blog step-by-step for BlogSpot.com XML template.Step 1: Go to Template -> Edit HtmlStep 2: Search for "body {" and the first occurrance of "}"Step 3: Copy the code below and paste it after the "}".no_comments { float:right; width:88px; height:53px; background:#ffffff url(http://phostan.googlepages.com/summerfruit_comment_bubble.gif) top right no-repeat; margin:0px; padding:10px 0px 0px 0px; text-align:right;}.no_comments a { color:#ffffff; text-decoration:none; padding-right:35px; font-size:22px;}Step 4: Search for "<b:if cond="'data:post.allowComments
'">"Step 5: Copy the code below and paste it after the code you found in step 4.<div>Step 6: Look for the first occurrance of "</a>" in the same areaStep 7: Paste the code below, after the code you found in step 6</div>Step 8: Save and you are done.PS: Do note that the bubble is Read more:Bubble
Free Magazine Subscription @ AdPerk.com 2007-11-10 09:58:00 Got to know about this free magazine offer from Alman's Blog. It's a very interesting concept where you can earn credits by watching video ads. Using these credits, you'll be able to exchange them for free magazine subscriptions. Currently, they are only offereing Popular Science, Ode and Alternative to U.S. RESIDENT. In other words, it's not applicable to me who's living in Singapore.However, to all the U.S. RESIDENT out there, time for a free magazine subscription.Check out the website here.
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How To: Getting a free custom email ownname@owndomain.com 2007-11-30 07:40:00 Google has a very interesting apps which allows you to have your own custom
ized email based on gmail. The number of email accounts you can have depends on the group size you tell google. Thus, the more people there are in your group, the more custom email addresses you can get. Other than customized email, you will also be able to share calender, documents, and webpages.Check out my start page @ http://start.phostan.com and my mail login page @ http://mail.phostan.comMy custom email address is blog@phostan.com
Finally accepted into payperpost.com 2007-11-30 06:01:00 After trying for 3 months, phostan.com has finally been approved in payperpost.com. It had been a very long wait as certain criteria on my blog didn't meet the requirement of payperpost. Thus, as it was finally approved, it is such a happy occasion.Actually payperpost.com is a blog reviews site allowing bloggers to reserve opportunites by advertiser as well as offer advertisers the opportunity to advertise on your site. I have no idea how much extra bucks can be made on payperpost but i will try to keep improving my blog stats in order to qualify for better paying opportunities.When i made the bucks, i'll use it to puchase books for self-improvement as well as improve my blog through maybe a customized template or a webhosting using wordpress instead of blogspot. However, i still like blogspot better and will continue to use blogspot.Since the requirement of payperpost is strict, that means that only quality blogs are accepted and that would results in advertisers' confidence which Read more:Finally
Travel: Caution - Extremely addictive, cute Pandas in Chengdu 2007-11-27 08:45:00
The panda are from the preservation centre and there are young panda who are very active as you can see from the video as well as older panda who just seat there and eat their bamboo. However, i find all of them very cute and i wish i could cuddle one of them. :DThe adult pandas eat a lot of bamboo shoots and they can just seat them and does nothing else except eating and eating and eating. Sometimes when the weather is bad, they will have to stay indoor in their air-con enclosure. The pandas are really enjoying a very good life over at the centre.The preservation centre also have various red panda who looks more like racoon but are red in colour and eats bamboo shoots. :P they are very cute and here's one that's doing a performance blowing a pipe. Cute~ isn't it. :D It's really interesting looking at all the pretty cute pandas having their lunch. So it's very important that we care for all these wild animals and protect them from being captured by poachers.
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The biggest day in your life 2007-11-27 08:33:00 What is the biggest day in your life? I suppose you can say your biggest day could be your birthday since that's the day when your life begins and that's when you made your first loudest cry to tell the whole world that you have arrived.However, to me and most others, wedding would be the biggest day of our life where we get together officially with the partner of your life. It has been a tradition to have wedding rings to symbolize the marriage.There are many different type of engagement rings ranging from diamonds, sapphire, ruby, or emerald. What is chosen really depends on likes and budget. The most common one will be diamond engagement rings which represent toughness and eternal love due to diamonds being the hardest material on the planet and the rarity of diamonds in the wild.Even if you buy a diamond ring, you'll have to chose the best cutting in order to see the brightest glitter under the dimmest light.It's really a daunting task finding the best ring. However, it will de
Reviews are the best way to know about a product/service 2007-11-27 05:30:00 Want to know what products really work on the net? At trustsource.org you can read reviews from people that have used the products you're interested in.Previously, i posted about the need for cash advance once or twice in your life journey. So how do you determine which company to get the cash advance from? How do you know which company is the best?The best way to find out is from other users of the service. There are so many Payday loans out there in the market that you'll need words from the horses mouth in order to know the truth. That's how trustsource.org works. By consolidating reviews from users, the site offers you a one-stop shop to know which payday loan is the one for you.These cash advances works by lending you some amount of money based on your credit limits and background. The interest paid will depends on how well the company thinks you can pay up. The higher you credit ratings, the lower interests you'll have to pay. This is all the natural works of the economics wh
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