I just hope that the new core will not break my current theme and modules so much.

The best thing I like about Drupal is their administration interface that can be blended with the theme that I am using.

And currently, the latest version of Drupal was released. You can download the 6.17 version at Drupal website.

The reason most blogs are not well known is because they stuff many information into one blog. To make a famous blog, we need to focus on one thing only that is also call niche blog. By making a niche blog, we can show to readers that we are really expert in that area and not just junk writing.

However, we need to know how to choose the right niche before decided to make any niche blog.

1. Find keyword relating to the niche:

Firstly, I will use Google Adwords Keyword to find the keyword with high hits per month. Then I will search at Google the keywords to find the overall results for the keyword. The overall results will symbolize how many your competitors. If the overall results are lower than 100 thousand, than the keyword is suitable to be optimize into niche blog. 

2. Find niche with high paying keyword:

You can also use other services such as keyword country or wordtracker but I prefer Google Adwords Keyword because you can filter the results based on country and you can also see the estimate Cost Per Click that you will get. This thing is not a mandatory but it is better to have a niche with high paying keywords.

If your niche is not a high paying keyword, you can write article that contains high paying keyword. For example, your niche blog is about how to fish trout. Then you can make article about buying insurance before going fishing since ‘insurance’ is a high paying keyword.

3. Killer tactic, list the titles first:

The drawback of niche blog is that you need to concentrate on one area only. If you really do not expertise in that area, sometime you will lack idea to write. If you still insist to write, the produce article will be reduce in quality and thus will affect your readers’ perception towards you.

To avoid this, I really suggest that you write at least 30 titles of relating niche. Titles are important, the contents are second. Logically, our way of thinking always change by time and our knowledge always increase. If you can list the titles, it will be easy to write the contents anytime since you already know the main idea. Besides, you can arrange the titles according to it sequence so that your blog posts will look related to each other.

If you think that producing article will consume your time, you can always ask freelancer to do the dirty work. It is also best if you can find team members for blogging.

Once you have setup the niche blog and have a few posts, you can try to be an affiliate partner of someone selling products related to your niche. For easy access of affiliate products, you can register with clickbank.

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As stated above, Namecheap is going to give renewal promotion for one day. USD 8.99 is kinda cheap compare to the USD 10 actual price.

For those that have domain with Namecheap, make sure that you do not let go of this rare opportunity.

I just surfing Godaddy site and then there is a hot video at the main page. So, it’s just normal to play and watch the video. The best part is after the video is finished. I never know before this that Godaddy also gives promotion at the end of video ads.

At the end of the video ads, Godaddy offers me new domain registration for USD7.49. The best of all is that you can still pay for the promotion by using Paypal, unlike most promotion code that only enable you to pay using credit or debit card.

Besides that, the price is still the same that is USD7.49 per year if you choose to register for more than a year. Although most promotion code out there is very cheap, it’s only applicable for the first year. The price for second years and above is still USD10.69.

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In some case, Akismet becomes too strict and even detect proper comment as spam. So it is good idea to seldom check your spam comments.

Both of them are commercial but they work great. From my research over the net, WP-Robot is worth to try. WP-Robot can grab contents according to specific ‘tags’. That’s really awesome way to start an automatic niche blog. Besides that, WP-Robot is the best plugin for moneytization. Not only RSS feed, you can choose to insert Youtube video, Yahoo answers, Clickbank and E-Bay products too.

If you are really interested with autoblog, you should aware of certain issues. Firstly, autoblog generated duplicate contents that is hated by search engine. If you don’t tweak the generated contents manually, you may suffer to get organic traffics. So you still need to put a lot of efforts in driving traffics to your autoblog manually. Remember, no traffics, no money.

The most important, all of the contents at your autoblog are not yours. And will never be yours. If the contents owner decided to take law action, then there is nothing that you can do. If you want to play safe, at least use whois privacy or use fake identity at your whois.

In order for Google to send web crawlers to your site, Google need to  know the address (or URL) of your site. This can be done in two ways, the first way is too submit your site at Google Add URL, while the second way is by placing your website link at website that most likely to be visited by web crawlers. In this case, social bookmarking sites like Digg and Magnolia are  good choices.

After Google has indexed your site, it needs a few time for your site to appear in search engine. Meanwhile, make sure that you updates your blog or website frequently because Google loves it. And please don’t put duplicate contents in your website because Google is smart enough to differentiate duplicate contents.

If there are too much duplicate contents in your website, Google might consider your website as spam blog or website. If this happen, you never need to dream about getting your website appears in Google anymore.

Just some webmaster putting a lot in SEO to get good ranking in Google. They spam the post with certain keywords like spoiler, chapter, and episode so that they will rank high in Google. Indeed they are.

If there is only one person that do like that, I am sure there are visitors that would click their ads. Somehow when there are more than one, I would not bother to read at all.

I will just give them an ‘X’.

Namsahaz web hosting is taken from the name of it owner that is Zahasman. For this web hosting, I don’t need to search for other people point of view since I am still using this hosting right now.

First class and fast supports

What other users and I  really like about this web hosting is their first class support. Before this hosting, I was being dump by hostpack.net. Luckily I already decided to move from hostpack.net to namsahaz since the ‘chipsmore’ hosting is closed a few weeks after I moved. 

Namsahaz can help you move

The great thing about Namsahaz is that they help me to move to their server. I don’t need to anything since all of the process is handled by Namsahaz team. To learn more about Namsahaz, you can go the website and see the testimonial from their users.

However, this hosting having a severe problem during August 2008 since they are upgrading their servers. A few weeks later, a major problem occurs when their hard disk is damaged. Luckily, they have backups and everything is solved. Although I want to, I can’t blame them for this since this issue is outside their range.

Cheap but reliable

Namsahaz is different from other web hosting provider since Namsahaz provided shared hosting only. The basic price for 1GB of space is RM60 right now, and you will get a huge discount if you buy larger space.

- Buy lumpsum 1500MB (or more) and get 500MB FREE!!
- Buy lumpsum 2000MB (or more) and get 1000MB FREE!!
- Buy lumpsum 3000MB (or more) and get 1500MB FREE!!

How about bandwidth?

You do not need to worry about bandwidth by hosting with Namsahaz since they are giving unlimited bandwidth. So you do not need to worry for your account to be suspend for over usage of bandwidth.

What I don’t like about Namsahaz

• Usually customer will buy hosting and domain name from Namsahaz. I will not do this since .com price at Namsahaz is RM40. So, I bought my domain at Mercumaya.net and then propagate it to Namsahaz web server. By doing this I already saved RM10 per year.
• Besides that, Namsahaz only supports 2 add-on domains for every account. If you have more than 3 blogs, than Namsahaz is not for you. However you can try to contact them to discuss about this matter. Who knows they are willing to give extra add-domains for a price.