Andrew Ooi

PetalingStreet,org “blogtal” is like a drug to blog newbies like me as it’s the fastest way to get local traffic.
Going Cold Turkey
I’m going on a 1 week trial (13 March - 19 March) to see if I can hit 50 visitors without any pings to Petaling Street. Traffic have been steadily going down since the […]

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Took time off to think about my other blogs and website.
I’ve neglected my other more established blog for a long time. Fighting just to get 100 visitors a day on this relatively new blog has taught me to appreciate the other 3 chess blogs I have which averages 100-200 visitors daily. The traffic from […]

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Besides getting your content indexed, I think it’s also good to try to get your pictures indexed to get some traffic to your websites.
I’m trying to get more of my Cameron Highland pictures indexed so I can rank higher on image searches such as images.google.com and images.yahoo.com.
So is Flickr or Picasa Web albums better? As […]

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I created 2 new Cameron Highlands just for fun and to challenge myself to see if I can create some authentic looking blog in 30 minutes. It took me 2 hours to create the two blogs with only free tools such as Blogspot and all it’s widget. Most of my time was spent on looking […]

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I may have won the first round of competition vs the 2superheroes in November last year (3000 to 2789 visits) but the 2superheroes have really gained many regular blog readers since then. Their traffic is pretty solid and it looks like I’m going to have an uphill battle against them this month.
Have to be […]

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Sometimes cheap doesn’t mean low quality. I’ve been very happy with GoDaddy’s domain hosting as I’ve bought many domain names from this company. Now I’m curious to see how good is their web hosting service. I’ve never tried that before with all my website hosted on Exabytes.
So, today I registered a chess related domain (ChessAsia.net) […]

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The biggest highlight for this blog last year was the one-month blog competition between AndrewOoi.com and TwoSuperheroes in November. Somehow looking through my old posts I forgot to mention that I won in the end. However, that’s not the reason for this post.
LessonsIt was the competition itself that actually pushed me into overdrive and search […]

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Oh where, oh where is my Glitterati status ?
I’ve already removed all other ads to qualify to be an exclusive ‘Glitteratian’ but it’s still not updated yet. I’m still a “non-exclusive” member according to my Nuffnang dashboard.

It’s now 13 days since I received that reassuring email.
The two tickets I sent to Michelle […]

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It’s been a long time since I’ve installed any PHP script other than Wordpress. So a few days ago I installed a new script called Pligg which is an opens source Digg clone on my inactive domain, MyMuka.com. I tried Pligg 2 years ago and it was terribly not stable and raw. But when I […]

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Sometimes when I try to explain to friends or relatives that I blog for money, I feel kind of guilty because it sounds like I’m a lazy person making money doing nothing but blogging. It sounds all too easy but it’s not! It takes lots of hard work and effort as any other regular 9 […]

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After I’ve turned off all the plugins that may have been CPU intensive and shutting down another blog, it’s indeed stressful to get another warning email such as this from Exabytes, my webhosting company:-
Hello Andrew,
Please be informed that the domain maribelajar.com which is hosted under our Linux server has been again found to overload the […]

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I’m now number 2 on Google. You are dead Professor Andrew Ooi !!

Andrew Ooi the Hollywood director is a close 3rd. My strategy now is to write more posts with more or less som quality and get more pages indexed by Google. Another thing that made me happy is that 6 out of […]

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I’m sure many have noticed the potential for MyBlogLog as a traffic generating tool for websites. You leave your face here and there and curious blog owners will want to see who you are or at least what your blog is about.
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Now that I’ve got several blogs with new PR rankings, I have to figure out what to do with them.
Wayne Liew listed down some of the biggest mistakes he made while blogging. Well my biggest mistake when I started blogging 6 years ago was that I never documented the blogs I created. I created so […]

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One thing I find surprising is that Wikis can earn money too. Since two of my chess websites has the highest traffic among all my other websites, it’s not surprising that the same two sites are also my top 2 highest Google Adsense earners. I don’t earn much from Adsense but it’s enough […]

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Besides writing sponsored post and blogging, I’m also making sure I do some programming. After all I used to be a full time web programmer.
The challenge is to find some direction to what I’m going to do. In my previous job, I just had to wait for instructions from my immediate superiors on […]

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After climbing out of the 9-5 job grind a month ago, I’m glad to say I’m still surviving.
Online money is not as much as I’d hoped but with my work done as bulletin boy combined with my online revenues, I’ve just managed to match my former full time salary for last month.
The challenge now […]

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