It has been a while since I last posted in this blog for various reasons. I have also thought of shutting it down but have decided against it for various reasons too. What is sure right now is that this domain is here to stay for as long as possible as this has a sort of a sentimental value to me being my first blog! So what updates do I have?

First, is that this blog is back. I might not be able to post as frequently as before but I will post on it every now and then. I laid low for a couple of months because something happened to this blog’s search engine rankings. I believe this blog was penalized by the Big G and my SERP fell down considerably. As a result, traffic was down (everything was down). But after a few weeks, the penalty was lifted and this blog is back online! I am not sure of the nature of the penalty but I tried my best to clean this blog of possible offenses Big G might frown upon. Fortunately, it worked.

One reason I wanted to shut this blog down was because it was formerly still using WP 2.5 while the latest version is 2.9.2! Yes it has been a long way and the auto-upgrade feature was absent from version 2.5. So the lazy guy inside me said that I should just shut down this blog. Fortunately I did not do so and stuck with the manual upgrade so that this blog now runs on a WP 2.9.2 . I’ll probably create a blog post on upgrading from a very old version of WP to the latest one since there are not a lot of posts on that around.

I am also planning to update this blog’s WP theme because it simply sucks. Yes, it is better than the first one but hey it still is ugly. I am no great designer so please bear with me. Creating WP themes is actually a way for me to exercise my web programming skills and not my design skills so the next theme will probably more minimalistic.

Okay so that’s it for now. See you soon.

And yes, I did no spell check or grammar check so please forgive me ;p

Most of us addicted to social websites most likely have a facebook account, a myspace account and a twitter account. Of these 3, twitter goes down the most. Someone has taken advantage of this and created a site that would tell us whether twitter is down or not (not sure how helpful this is…but definitely cool)! The site shows you either a “Yes” or a “No” depending on the site’s status.

Check out the site here => istwitterdown.com

Before going to the cash for clunkers car list, let us review what the cash for clunker is all about. This program is officially called CARS or the “Car Allowance Rebate System”. This cash for clunkers bill is a program of the United States that helps consumers lease or buy a more environmentally-friendly vehicles from a participating dealer when they trade in a less fuel-efficient car or truck. This program is designed as a means to boost the economy during the recession and help the environment by having cleaner and more fuel efficient vehicles on the road thus killing two birds with one stone.

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

Consumers will be able to take advantage of this program and receive a $3,500 or $4,500 discount from the car dealer when they trade in their old vehicle and purchase or lease a new one.

Consumers are eligible to receive a $3500 or $4500 discount from the dealer during the trade in of their old vehicle to buy or lease a new one. The question left is, does your car qualify? Here are the qualifications as outlined in cars.gov:

• Your vehicle must be less than 25 years old on the trade-in date
• Generally, trade-in vehicles must get 18 or less MPG (some very large pick-up trucks and cargo vans have different requirements)
• Trade-in vehicles must be registered and insured continuously for the full year preceding the trade-in
• One-year Proof of Insurance. If your insurance card does not cover the entire year preceding the trade in, you will need other proof of insurance. Contact your insurance company to get evidence of one-year worth of insurance. The form must include, at a minimum, the insurance company, policy number, VIN, start and end date of insurance (showing at least 1 year).
• Proof of Registration going back at least one-year.
• “Clear” title. This means the title must be free of any liens or other encumbrances. If you have liens, you need to get these cleared before going to the dealer. This may include evidence on the face of the title showing no lien; that the title has been cleared (signed and stamped accordingly), or with an attached lien release from the lien holder.
• The vehicle manufacturer date found on the driver’s door or door jamb is less than 25 years old when you trade it in.

Now here is the cash for clankers car list that shows which vehicles are eligible. The list can be found here.

So July 2009 has come and pass and many intersting things have happened. The month of July is a memorable month for me as this is the first time the Big G will be paying me! It took 3 months for me to reach the payout threshold and hopefully it would take me less time to do so in the future. Here is proof that the Big G is paying me (as of this writing I have already gotten the payout via Western Union):

So my little sideline has paid off!

Now a little of statistics. I’ll go over my earnings for the month of July for my various earning channels:

Adsense Earnings: $52.53
Infolinks Earnings: $2.75
Chitika Earnings: $9.44 (not bad…)

I am taking the The Keyword Academy course online and am following their system. Using it, I have created 4 sites that have yet to earn some income. This is due to their being new. Let us see next month what happens with this 4 sites.

Last month I said that I will create 5-10 more niche sites and be earning $100/month. I failed on both counts But hopefully I can reach my goals for August by being more realistic. Here are my new goals for August:

• Create 2-3 new sites
• Take care of already created sites by backlinking
• Increase online earnings from $50/month to around $70-$90 /month.

So I’ll write another update next month and hopefully I would have achieved my August goals by then.

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So here we are again, another month has passed by and we are back to looking back to what we have accomplished the past month of June. The month of June is certainly interesting. In this month, I have learned a lot of things and started some things that might lead to something good in our quest to earn online. I have joined several forums that claim to teach you the essentials of doing so. In my first few weeks there, it certainly has proved to be an invaluable source of information.

This is also a significant month for me since this would be the month I have surpassed the $100 Adsense mark! Woot!!! So here are my earnings for various sources of online income:

Adsense Earning to received next month – $142.06
Adsense June Earnings – $60
Chitika June Earnings – $16.21
All-time Chitika Earnings – $20.91
Affiliate June Earnings – $5.74
Infolinks June Earnings – $3
All-time Infolinks Earnings – $5.49

The earnings above come from only 2 sites. So what I am planning to do is add more site and theoretically, the earnings should increase. I have also accomplished the following on the month of June:

• setup 3 niche sites
• create high quality backlinks to one of the niche sites
• took on the hubpages challenge

I know that is not so much of an accomplishment. This is because I still have a day job. But we’ll schedule things and work things out.

As for my blog’s statistics here they are:
7807 Unique Visitors
13476 Page Views

So each passing month this blog takes on a giant leap in terms of traffic. Also, I am planning to make this blog a sort of journal of my online earning endeavor, like what I have already done but in a more active manner. I do not know how yet but I’ll think of something.

So that’s it for June’s statistics update. While here are my goals for the month of July:

• create 5-10 more niche sites
• increase online earnings to around $100/month

Let us keep it simple. So see you again with our next update.

I will be dedicating this post to swine flu updates.

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07/12/2009
Swine flu is expected to make a comeback with rage this winter. That is why swine flu vaccines are being readied before that season of reckoning.

Obese and highly stressed people have a higher probability of mortality based from statistics retrieved from those infected and killed. So better shed off those pounds and start working smartly (to reduce stress…) and you might avoid the A(H1N1) wrath.

06/30/2009
Can getting the mild version of the swine flu immunize you against a stronger version of it? Some people definitely think so and are even discussing holding swine flu parties. Definitely one party I do not want to go to…

06/27/2009
Is the swine flu in the process of mutating into a more lethal virus? First China, now back to New York.

A(H1N1) cases in RP rise to 861.
06/22/2009
First Asian swine flu related casualty is a Filipina. Though she did not die because of the swine flu (she officially died of heart failure, a pre-existing heart disease she had), it seems those at a higher rate of mortality are those who are already sick beforehand.

06/21/2009
A mother loses the battle against swine flu and fails to hold her newborn baby who also died (but not from swine flu).

Some companies are taking advantage of the swine flu pandemic and are selling herbal supplements to ward off the swine flu virus.

06/20/2009
In my last post, A(H1N1) Antigenic Shift, we saw that the current swine flu is a mild one. However, the virus is slowly mutating into a more lethal one as seen in China. This same scenario was last seen in the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 that killed 50-100 million people worldwide.

Possible first swine flu death from the asia pacific region. Man who was diagnosed with multiple serious ailments (including the swine flu) has died. Should we be alarmed?

Good news! As of 06/19/2009, 76% of those afflicted with swine flu in the Philippines are now healthy and fine!