Once in a while I do post about my blog earnings on this blog. I still do not like to post exact figures although it would give me some credibility with the blog community who seem to put those into higher regard that earn a lot of money with their blogs. Still, you would not tell someone you hardly know how much you earn in your job either, would not you ?
My first 15 days as a Problogger
You might remember that I wrote about quitting my day job to become a professional blogger and Internet consultant and I would like to take the opportunity to write about the first 15 days of December which have been my first two weeks without a “backup” job.
DoFollow for regular commenters
Since today all outgoing links from commenters had the nofollow attribute attached which meant that the link was not used by search engines to determine the rank of that website. It also meant that the Pagerank was not passed to the website that was mentioned in the comments.
Full Time Blogging
After working in a normal job and blogging for the last two years I decided to make the big step and quit my day job and become a full time blogger. This is actually a huge step for me but I think I know all the positive and negative aspects of the decision I made two months ago.
Guest blogging for Ghacks
Hi everyone. I’m Cheryl and I’m going to be one of the guest bloggers here at Ghacks. I’m a zoologist who loves technology almost as much as I love animals. Besides my passion for animals, I’m also crazy about football (soccer, for you North American folks) and my favorite team is Arsenal. I’ve loved sports [...]
Transfer to the new server was successful
I’m happy to announce that the transfer to the new server was successful. We tried to keep the downtime to a minimum by reducing the TTL of the Nameserver to a bare minimum. Some comments have been lost, let me explain why that happened. We made a MySQL database dump on the old server and had to transfer the database to the new one and import it there.
Ghacks is moving servers
Ghacks is running on the same dedicated server for almost two years and I decided that it is time for a change and rent a faster rootserver and move all the domains and files from the old to the new server. The old server was running on an Athlon 64 3000 with 2 Megabytes of RAM while the new server is running AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Dual Core with 4 Gigabyte of RAM.
