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Friday, 26 March 2010

We Build Your Blog!!!

I write about my experiences on how to make a blog and a blog income. The good thing is, me and my blog will not lie to you. We give it to you straight.

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I just join to become a fan of We Build Your Blog community page on Facebook. I found that it's interesting to join this page to improve with my blogging in long term of my future. I hope that I can learn a lot of stuffs from this page community!!!

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Saturday, 6 March 2010

Two Reasons I May Quit Blogging?

What is Blogging?

Blogging? I simply know that when I have a blog that is hosting on free hosting or prepaid hosting site, I just do posting what I want to post on the blog. So, I think that Blogging is Posting!

Why I Quit Blogging?

As I said previously Blogging is Posting. So, Quitting Blogging means Quitting my posting on my blog. Why do I quit posting?

Some reason that I quit blogging:

1. No Time, Waste Time: Doing something, work, task any jobs we need time to process them. If you are very busy so you may no time to do blogging. Some people may said blogging is wasting time.

2. Nothing to Post: Sometimes I feel that I have nothing to post on my blog so that I stop blogging. Do I think like this, it's correct or not? One more thing, I think that the thing that I prepare to post on my blog, it was already posted on other blogs on the Internet. So, I have nothing to post! Am I wrong thinking like this?

If you friends reading this post, please help me by leaving your comment below!
Please help me answer this question: "Should I quit blogging?"

Thanks very much!

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Thursday, 10 December 2009

What the Issues with microblogging?

The following article includes pertinent information that may cause you to reconsider what you thought you understood. The most important thing is to study with an open mind and be willing to revise your understanding if necessary.

How can you put a limit on learning more? The next section may contain that one little bit of wisdom that changes everything.

The main issues with micro blogging are privacy, security, and integration. Privacy is a major issue due to the concerns of broadcasting social or work information to everyone who follows their feed. About security, people are worried about the public seeing possible sensitive work information on public microblogging like Twitter. Integration could be the hardest issue to overcome because the company and its employees would have to adopt microblogging into the corporate culture. This would take time since companies would need to recognize its value before they could embrace it.

Now you can understand why there's a growing interest in Microblogging. When people start looking for more information about Microblogging, you'll be in a position to meet their needs.

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Why Microblogging

The following paragraphs summarize the work of Microblogging experts who are completely familiar with all the aspects of Microblogging. Heed their advice to avoid any Microblogging surprises.

Microblogging is a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, E-mail, digital audio or the web.

Now that we've covered those aspects of Microblogging, let's turn to some of the other factors that need to be considered.

The content of a microblog differs from a traditional blog in that it is typically smaller in actual size and aggregate file size. A single entry could consist of a single sentence or fragment or an image or a brief, ten second video. But, still, its purpose is similar to that of a traditional blog. Users microblog about particular topics that can range from the simple, such as "what one is doing at a given moment," to the thematic, such as "sports cars," to business topics, such as particular products. Many microblogs provide short commentary on a person-to-person level, share news about a company's products and services, or provide logs of the events of one's life.

This article's coverage of the information is as complete as it can be today. But you should always leave open the possibility that future research could uncover new facts.

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Thursday, 21 May 2009

An Easy Way to Make Recent Posts Widget on Blogger Blog

In my last post I mentioned about the way to Make Recent Comment Widget on Blogger Blog, In this post I'd like write about the way to Make A Recent Posts Widget on Blogger Blog.

Well, before implementing about making the Recent Posts Widget, Please pay attention on some questions below:

-What is Recent Posts Widget?

-> Recent Posts Widget is a kind of Widget to be used to show the recent posts of a blog. It is usually placed at the right/left sidebar on the blog interface.

-Why you need to put the Recent Posts Widget on your blog?

-> The main purpose is that to show the recent posts on your blog. Any reasons more, well, I think it should be more is to care or make the readers pay more attention or to attract your readers to your posts on your blog. Meanwhile, the Widget also make your blog's readers easy to read your blog posts, not waste the time, or spend much time on scrolling up and down to see the recent updated items of your blog posts. Just take a quick look at the Widget, they may get the posts as they are finding to read.

- How to implement the Recent Posts Widget on Blogger Blog?

-> What's I'd like to mention about is on the Blogger blog(blogspot.com), because I'm using this Google blog platform, if you're using this also that means you are on the right place to read more. Well, just follow the 2 steps below, you'll get your Blogger Widget easily:

1. Find your blog's feed URL or blog's Posts(Atom). It's usually with the form of URL like this: http://xxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default where xxxxxx is to be replaced with your correct blog name. Example, with my visablogging blog, the URL will be: http://visablogging.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

2. Add a the Widget: After you got the feed URL, the next step is just go to your blog Layout->Page Elements and click on Add a Gadget, on the Basics Gadget-List scroll down and click on the Feed Gadget, copy and paste your Feed URL above, then Click Continue, then just Rename the Feed to Recent Posts and do any more configuration as you like. Please check more on the screenshot below as I made to my visablogging blog:

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Friday, 15 May 2009

Three Ways To Know Readers Comment on Your Blogger Blog

As my previous post about "Three key points that a blogger should comment on other blogs", Today, I'd like to show you my 3 ways that I've noticed to know the readers comment on my blogger blog.

Here are the three ways:

1. Email Notification: How to get to be notified when the readers comment on the blog? Well, to do this, got to your blogger Settings tab->Comments tab as the image shown below:

On the Comments tab page, scroll down to the "Comment Notification Email" option like the image below:

At this option, you can enter your Email address that you want to receive the Comment Notification Email from blogger.com's comment email: noreply-comment@blogger.com. Any time that your readers comment on any post on your blog, you will immediately receive that Email. Rememer that one comment on that post you will receive one Email,too. Moreover, you can enter upto 10 Email addresses, separated by commas, these addreses will be receive the Comment Notification Email from blogger.com's Email,too.

2. By Checking out Edit Posts:Go to your blog's Posting tab->Edit Posts tab, you will see the list of posts with the number of the readers' comment when they commented on your blog posts.

This is another way to know people comment on each post of your blogger blog. By clicking on the comment links, you will see the readers commented on your blog.

3. By Checking the Recent Comment Widget:

This is also a simple way to check directly on your blog. If you not yet implemented the Recent Coment Widget, please find out with this post!

I'd like to see from you your ways to know your readers comment on your blog, please comment below,thanks!

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A Simple Way to Make Recent Comment Widget on Blogger Blog

As I noticed that about two weeks ago I wanted to see the Resent Comment on my "Visablogging::Daily Blogging" blog. But with the default Recent Comment Widget on my blog, it didn't appear the comments that my friends commented on each post of the blog. Then, I found a simple easy way to create the working Recent Comment Widget by just implementing the Javascript below:

<script style="text/javascript" src="http://www.freewebs.com/filer/blogger/rc.js"></script><script style="text/javascript">var a_rc=5;var m_rc=false;var n_rc=true;var o_rc=50;</script><script src="http://xxxxxxx.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments"></script>

How to implementing the Javascript above?

Just follow the steps below:

1. Go to your blog Layout->Page Elements

2. Click on Add a Gadget

3. Then, choose HTML/JavaScript gadget

4. Copy and paste the code above, then click Save as the image below:

5. Put your new Gadget (Recent Comment) to your prefered sidebar/place.

Note: With the above code

1. a_rc=5: Number of comments listing(5). You can change to your prefered value.

2. o_rc=50: Number of characters of a comment to be shown as a short description of a comment(50). You also can change to your prefered value.

3. src="http://xxxxxxx.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments". Change the source link to your correct blog link by changing to your blog name which xxxxxxx is your blog name. Example for my blog: xxxxxxx will be visablogging, so the link here will be src="http://visablogging.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments"

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Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Google Just Launched Google Ad Planner's Publisher Center

I just read one post on Adsense Blog. It is about Google just launched a great tool called Google Ad Planner's Publisher Center.

Google Ad Planner's Publisher Center enables webmasters to see more stats on their sites by providing the sites to potential advertisers. At this time, the Publisher Center is just only available in English and in Publisher Center's Profile just allow only verified domains (siteexample.com) to be appeared. With Sub-domain (siteexample.blogspot.com) verification isn't currently supported. So poor me as well all bloggers using the Sub-domain!!!

More details, please go to Adsense Blog Post here!

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Watch Video:"Blogging Tips From an Expert Blogger"

The Video is about the interview between a Content Specialist at www.fathomseo.com, PAUL RICHLOVSKY and an Expert Blogger,JIM KUKRAL.

JIM is also an Internet Video Production and Marketing Specialist and he has been blogging since 2001. About the Blogging Tips and what he explained related to blogging, please watch the video below:

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Sunday, 3 May 2009

Three key points that a blogger should comment on other blogs

1.Do you have a blog?

2.Do you ever comment on other blogs?

3.Why you should comment?

Answering "YES" to the first question, that means you are a blogger. As you are a blogger and visiting your friend's blog or other blogs besides your friends, I think a blogger (including me) should do commenting on those blogs while we are visiting, because I found 3 main points to answer the 3rd question above.

The 3 things are:

1. Relationship: Firstly, talking about the first time you visit a new blog, by doing comment on that blog you can make friend with the blog owner, getting to know each other. After being friend, you will often visit your friend's blog and while you are visiting you make some comments on the blog posts to show your idea, your opinion on the topic of the post you interested in. By commenting on your friend's blog, that means you and your friend are getting closer relationship with each other, so that you can find a blog partner to progress each other blog.

2. Traffic: Leaving comment on other blogs can gain more traffic to your blog. When you comment on any post of a blog, you can leave your comment with your blog link that is in the same niche or similar topic with the blog post or make a comment with your blogger profile, so that the blog owner when he/she read your comment they will view your profile or check your blog link to see who you are, what your blog is commenting on their blog. Anyway, Example: when other 10 people read the post and they see your comment on that post, so the 10 people may visit your blog and you will get 10 more visitors to your blog. That is why and where your blog's traffic is.

3. Brainstorm: Well, what you do before you make a comment on any post of a blog? How should you do to be a good commentator, but not a comment spammer? I think, at first, you will read or scan the topic of the post, at least you can know what the post talking about, so that you leave your comment. Before you leave comment and after reading the post, you will use your brain to think about the word you should leave comment on that post. This point, that means you are training your brain to have a quick brainstorm.

Well, this post is just my small idea of the 3 points above. I hope that when you read this post you would add more points by commenting below, thanks!

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Friday, 24 April 2009

How to share your blog's content on Blogger blog

This post I would like to share with you how to place "Addthis.com" button to share your blog's content with social public network. Here are 4 easy steps:

1. Go to http://www.addthis.com/

2. Click on "Get Your Button"

3. Select your appropriate options like image below:

4. Put the code to your blog

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Monday, 20 April 2009

First Page Ranked by Google Search Engine

Today, I just try searching my blogs with the keyword "Daily Blogging, Technology" on Google Search Engine.

Wow, one of my blogs with the title "VISA Blogging::Daily Blogging::Technology" is standing on the 7th of the top 10 sites listing on the first page ranked by Google Search Engine.

Well, As I remember, since 18/03/09, my first post on my blog, that I started blogging, it has been over one month after working hard with my blogs to get my first step of success in the world of blogging.

I'm very happy to see that!!! How about your blog? Could you share with me?

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Thursday, 9 April 2009

13 Useful official Google blog links!

As I have learned from Internet searching, I have collected some useful links of Google blogs which Google uses its own free blog hosting platform known as Blogger.com to host their blogs to provide the information about products, services provided by Google company.

Here are the links that I have collected:

1. Googleblog.blogspot.com : The official Google blog to show the insights from Googlers into Google products, technology, and Google culture.

2. Adwords.blogspot.com : It's also a Google's official blog which was created for news, information, and tips on Google Adwords program.

3. Adsense.blogspot.com : A blog to look inside about Google Adsense program. To use Google Adsense program in a perfect manner to earn revenue on your website/blog, please often check this blog.

4. Adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com : Is a part of Google Adsense program blog to help publishers analyze, publicize, and monetize their RSS feeds.

5. Analytics.blogspot.com : The official Google Analytics blog which gives you the latest news, tips, and resources straight from theGoogle Analytics team.

6. Googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com : The Google Webmaster Central blog, gives you the official news on crawling and indexing sites for the Google index.

7. Websiteoptimizer.blogspot.com : The official Google Website Optimizer blog for the most up-to-date product news, industry insights, and testing strategies.

8. Googlemobile.blogspot.com : The Google Mobile blog for news and views from Google Mobile team.

9. Googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com : The official Google Notebook blog for news and tips from the Notebook team.

10. Googleaffiliatenetwork-blog.blogspot.com : The blog for news, views and product information for Google Affiliate Network advertisers and publishers.

11. Google-tmads.blogspot.com : This blog, "Google Let's Take it Offline", gives you the latest news from the Google TV ads team.

12. Googleretail.blogspot.com : Google Retail Advertising blog, Your one-stop shop for Google Retail Advertising Acumen.

13. Google-cpg.blogspot.com : Google CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) blog for news and notes from Google's CPG Vertical.

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Sunday, 5 April 2009

History of Blog

Well, as you are reading this post, I would like to ask you few following questions:

- Do you have a blog?

- Are you blogging?

- Do you know the history of blog?

Well, as you've already known, a blog, a contraction term of weblog, is a kind of dynamic website, usually created and maintained by an individual, personal or community usage with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics, song or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Who created the term "Blog" or "Weblog"?

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.

Origins of Blog

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software, such as WebEx, created running conversations with "threads." Threads are topical connections between messages on a metaphorical "corkboard."

The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers, as is Jerry Pournelle. Dave Winer's Scripting News is also credited with being one of the oldest and longest running weblogs. Another early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site in 1994. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance, and such journals were also used as evidence in legal matters.

Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Web sites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of Web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, or on regular web hosting services.

Rising in popularity

After a slow start, blogging rapidly gained in popularity. Blog usage spread during 1999 and the years following, being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted blog tools:

Open Diary launched in October 1998, soon growing to thousands of online diaries. Open Diary innovated the reader comment, becoming the first blog community where readers could add comments to other writers' blog entries.

Brad Fitzpatrick, a well-known blogger started LiveJournal in March 1999.

Andrew Smales created Pitas.com in July 1999 as an easier alternative to maintaining a "news page" on a Web site, followed by Diaryland in September 1999, focusing more on a personal diary community.

Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launched blogger.com in August 1999 (purchased by Google in February 2003)

Here's just brief history of Blog which I've learned from Internet. If you have found more information, comment please!

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Thursday, 2 April 2009

Community and cataloging of Blogs

The Blogosphere: The collective community of all blogs is known as the blogosphere. Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and backlinks. Discussions "in the blogosphere" have been used by the media as a gauge of public opinion on various issues. A collection of local blogs is sometimes referred to as a bloghood.

Blog search engines: Several blog search engines are used to search blog contents, such as Bloglines, BlogScope, and Technorati. Technorati, which is among the most popular blog search engines, provides current information on both popular searches and tags used to categorize blog postings. Research community is working on going beyond simple keyword search, by inventing new ways to navigate through huge amounts of information present in the blogosphere, as demonstrated by projects like BlogScope.

Blogging communities and directories: Several online communities exist that connect people to blogs and bloggers to other bloggers, including BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog, and YULBlog, a combination online and offline community for people with blogs based in Montreal.

Blogging and advertising: It is common for blogs to feature advertisements either to financially benefit the blogger or to promote the blogger's favorite causes. The popularity of blogs has also given rise to "fake blogs" in which a company will create a fictional blog as a marketing tool to promote a product.

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What is Blogosphere?

Blogosphere is a collective term collected from all blogs and their interconnections. All the blogs are connected together as a blogs community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network.

A social network is a social structure made of generally individuals or organizations that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, sexual relationships, dislike, conflict or trade.

Sites that tracking Blogosphere,such as Technorati, BlogPulse, Tailrank, Spinn3r and BlogScope track the interconnections between bloggers. Taking advantage of hypertext links which act as markers for the subjects the bloggers are discussing, these sites can follow a piece of conversation as it moves from blog to blog. Sites also exist to track specific blogospheres, such as those related by a certain genre, culture, subject matter or geopolitical location.

Technorati: is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik was the site's Chief Technologist. Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show. It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.

BlogPulse: is a search engine for blogs. It was initially created by IntelliSeek, and was later acquired by the Nielsen Company. More about BlogPulse, you read more here.

Tailrank: is a site that provides a feed of content on the World Wide Web that's being discussed across the blogosphere. The site continuously scans blogs that have been registered with it, and composes an index of "top stories" that have been cited by the various blogs it has scanned.

Spinn3r: built by the same company as Tailrank, is a web service for indexing the blogosphere. It provides raw access to every blog post being published - in real time.

BlogScope: is a search engine for the blogosphere with advanced analysis and visualization technology. BlogScope is outcome of an ongoing research project at the University of Toronto. As of Oct 2007, the system is indexing around 120 million articles from 14 million weblogs.

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Types of Blogs

How many types of blogs?

As I've known, there are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written.

=>3 types of blogs I've noticed are:

1.Personal blogs:

The personal blog is written in the way of an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual. It is the traditional and most common blog. Personal bloggers usually write about their own daily life, their personal interest..,etc. The blogger of such blog often take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art.

2.United blogs:

United blog, known as corporate blog, can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs, either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs.

3.Question blogging:

It is a type of blog that answers questions. Questions can be submitted in the form of a submittal form, or through email or other means such as telephone or VOIP. Many question logs use syndication such as RSS as a means of conveying answers to questions.

I think, there will be many other types of blogs. Please give more types by posting your comments below,thanks!

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Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Free Blog Hosts You Can Start Blogging

FREE BLOG HOSTS

Where you can start blogging?
You are lack of fund to do blogging?
Here are Free blogs that you can start:

WordPress.com: One of the most well known and popular of the blogging hosts. Wordpress is free blog but it also has some paid upgrades available like you want to upgrade to use your more spaces to host your blog, to host your own domain name...

Blogger.com: Is also a free pupular blog hosts owned by Google.com. No any upgrade to be paid from you, but if you want to host your own domain you also spend small money to buy domain name for your blog.

LiveJournal.com: You can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network. You can use LiveJournal for free. It has five account types: Basic, Early Adopter, Plus, Paid, and Permanent....

Blogsome.com: It's also free blog hosting based out of Ireland, this site uses the WordPress MU platform, large choice of themes.

Blog.com: Offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.

Typepad.com: Known as "TypePad Connect" ,TypePad Connect is available free to everyone, it can connect with Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr, and, of course, TypePad itself.

Tumblr.com: Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be.

Windows Live Spaces: Free blogging with your MSN account, only drawback is readers have to have an account also.

Yahoo 360: Part of your Yahoo account and features easy publishing.

These are just some well-known free blog hosts. There are many others!

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Wednesday, 18 March 2009

First day to blog

Today, It's my first day to start blogging on the net after doing some googling on the Internet about blog.

I'm really feel excited to start this blog, because I can show the world about what I am writing, what I can do to share my opinions, as well experience online with my friends as well to all Internet users.

What's a blog?

Well, many people as I have search on the Internet, they actually have different understanding about blog. For me, as I think, blog is like my book note on the Internet, I can write, I can save, I can broadcast, I can share with my friends. And other more, as I know we can earn money with our blog.

So do the blogging is very useful to us.

That's why I start blogging!

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