I was inspired to repost GoogleLady’s TimeStamp Powerful Blog Tool article because this tool is indeed very powerful and useful. Also, I was guilty on her second reason. But now I know how to use it.

I have been reading a lot blog posts saying that they are sorry for not being able to post XX days ago because they were to busy, they were on vacation, bla bla bla… But everytime that I read this on certain blogs I came to a conclusion that there are two reasons why they make this:

1. They don’t know about the timestamp tool.
2. They are not appasionated about their blog niche.

…….. I have mentioned #2 that they are not passionated about their niche blog, are those bloggers that don’t know what to write and always wait someone else to make an article and write something “similar” with the same idea.

Yes it is very useful when scheduling future posts in wordpress when you are too busy or when you are on vacation and can not go online. Cowboytf of bloggingcents showed steps on How To Schedule a Future Post in WordPress. Go play with WordPress TimeStamp feature.

Update: Feedburner RSS stats going back to normal now and still updating some blog sites.

Have you noticed your Feedburner RSS stats recently? Go check it out. While surfing and reading some post to some of my A-list bloggers (John Chow, Shoemoney, John Cow), I have noticed that their feedburner RSS stats are going down and are slashed by hundreds and even thousands. What’s going on? Is Google doing something to FeedBurner? Are they cleaning up some idle RSS subscribers or what? Or is this just a glitch in their system?

Here are some captured feeds:

John Chow from 13K+ RSS Subscribers down to

ShoeMoney from 21K+ RSS Subscribers down to

John Cow from 700+ RSS Subscribers down to

How about you? What are your thoughts on this?

Just after reading some blogs about pagerank dropping down 1 to 4 notches, I am quite relieved and excited to have read a post from McBilly, that Google or Big G also gives away pagerank and is updating.

So I check at Prchecker.info and DigPageRank.com just to be sure if the pagerank of this site, Nierva dot Com, had added up. True enough and a valid one, I have now a PR3 coming from PR0.

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First of all, Good day! Been busy with my regular day job that’s why I haven’t posted for almost a week now.

I have just read and visited some make money online blog sites and as for me, I admit that some of their blog posts are helpful, very informative and cool, that it should be shared.

Giving is good…but sharing is even better! – Joanne, the Laidback Buddhist

Here are the links for a good read blogging tips:

41 Reasons Why Your Blog Probably Sucks

13. Not posting regularly. There are two primary reasons that not posting regularly is “bad”. One is that readers lose patience when they don’t your schedule. (Not everyone uses an RSS reader.) The other reason is that search engine spiders often index your pages on a frequency proportional to your posting. The more you post, the more frequently you might get indexed, thus increasing the chances of search engine traffic. (Note that in some niches such as politics, you need to post 10-20 times per day to get noticed.) At the least, if you can’t post regularly, have a consistent schedule that’s obvious to your most loyal readers.

**Ouch. hehehe.

The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes I Made in My First Year

8 – I didn’t promote my feed.
Sure, I had the link there for people to subscribe – but I didn’t take subscription promotion seriously until 6-7 months into the game. I think my numbers would be a lot higher today if I had done some more actual promotion of subscribing to the eMoms feed. (Go ahead, you know you want to…)

**Point taken.

5 WordPress Hosting Lessons :: How to Survive the Digg Effect

If you need to find a good WordPress Hosting Company, I can say from experience, don’t go with GoDaddy and DON’T GO WITH YAHOO (probably the worst WordPress hosting out there, actually). Go with Blue Host or one of these companies who offer both great tech support as well as Fantastico, which makes WordPress installation and setup a breeze.

**opsss, time to change hosting.

How to Draw StumbleUpon Users Into Your Blog

4. Be unique, be pretty
While it’s difficult to judge the quality of a blog’s content in just a few seconds, people are much more hasty with aesthetic judgments. A gorgeous or interesting blog design encourages a stumbler to stick around and see whether the content is great too.
Of course, a great design is a lot of work (or quite a bit of money). The next-best thing is a unique logo or header image, an interesting color scheme, and so on. There are a number of small changes you can make to create a blog that looks unique and sets you apart from the crowd.

If You Don’t Place Ads On Your Blog Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later

Whether you want to admit it or not, you care about money. You probably make the majority of your income working nine to five or doing some sort of Internet thing, but why not try and make a few bucks by placing some ads on your blog?

**It’s all about money

My Best Blog Tip EVER Series – Yaro Starak

Most bloggers fail before they reach success for no other reason than giving up too early. There is no more powerful blog-killing force than the blogger themselves giving up due to boredom, despair or lack of results early on.

**Point taken again.

WordPress Version 2.3 “Dexter” is available for download now.

This release includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements, and much more. This release is named for the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.

Here are the new features included:

1. Native tagging support allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your post, if you so choose. We’ve included importers for the Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags, and Bunny’s Technorati Tag plugins so if you’ve already been using a tagging plugin you can bring your data into the new system. The tagging system is also wicked-fast, so your host won’t mind.
2. Our new update notification lets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to our new api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you what the latest and greatest is you can use.
3. We’ve cleaned up URLs a bunch in a feature we call canonical URLs which does things like enforce your no-www preference, redirect posts with changed slugs so a link never goes bad, redirect URLs that get cut off in emails on similar to the correct post, and much more. This helps your users, and it also helps your search engine optimization, as search engines like for each page to be available in one canonical location.
4. Our new pending review feature will be great for multi-author blogs. It allows authors to submit a post for review by an editor or administrator, where before they would just have to save a draft and hope someone noticed it.
5. There is new advanced WYSIWYG functionality (we call it the kitchen sink button) that allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.

With the new features, I still have to wait for my hosting company Godaddy.com, still using Version 2.2.1, to upgrade to Version 2.3. I have read some comments in other blogs that they encounter plugins/plugin incompatibilities. I would love to hear your experience what you encounter If you already have done the upgrade to 2.3.

I have become a member at MyBlogLog community for a week now and I have discovered some popular and great blogs that I did not know about. I joined popular communities and observerd a little increase in traffic to my blog. Some say that Mybloglog become a cheap method of increasing traffic to your site.

As for me, I really like MyBlogLog, because it is where you can make contacts easier. This is a good start for a newbie to have his blog noticed and increase your exposure, and I even like the idea of seeing visitor’s or bloggers pictures who visit on my blog.

I am very much pro MyBlogLog. Try it out, you’ll also probably like it. I was surprised at how much exposure and networking it spurred on on other blogs.

UPDATE: MyBloglog is now part of Yahoo Network.