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5 ways to handle multiple blogs

Owning a blog is fun, you can earn and learn together with it. But it gets hard when you own not just one but multiple blogs. As for me, I currently own 10 or 12 blogs I try to keep them maintained, updated but that isn’t easy. Are you planning to the same? I wouldn’t recommend it, but if you’re up to it then this will help you.

At first, I had only 3 blogs to handle. And it was fine, but my interest with blogging widened along with my craving for domains. That’s why now I keep getting new ones especially when their are promos that some famous registrars have.

Let me share to you how I keep up with blogging, no matter how many blogs I have and how many posts I need to make within the day (excluding days when I have tons of tasks!)

1. Handydandy Notebook!

Are you familiar with Blue’s clues? It’s an old children show aired at Nickelodeon years ago. Steve, the guy who owns blue always has the Handydandy Notebook so whenever they find clues, they can remember it by drawing it on the notebook. At the end of the show, Steve brings it out to look at the drawings and finally come up with what the clues make up.

Having a handydandy notebook for yourself is really a must. Whenever you have ideas or thoughts that just suddenly pop out your mind – it’s best you write them down so you won’t forget time. You’ll feel guilty the moment you open your wordpress dashboard yet you forgot what to post. And if you have lots and lots of ideas it’s the best thing I can recommend to you!

2. Make Notepad your best friend.

Because I have many blogs, I can’t remember all the passwords. Not to mention, there are also the FTP Details, cPanel accounts and Akismet keys (and all other types of keys). Young or old, if you own tons of blogs you can’t remember all of that – especially if you like to be secured (using different kinds of combinations of letters, symbols and numbers). So for me to remember, I make use of notepad. For every important password, I copy it and paste on my notepad then save. This isn’t advisable if you use a public computer though, because you must keep it in a private place. You can also make sure of your email as a storage for passwords and stuff but make sure you’re the only one who can access it! Yet if you’re young, I’m pretty sure you can handle loads of information all at once (and if you’re a super genius)

4. Have a blogging schedule

I post every other day or every 3 to 5 days. Since I can’t keep up with my personal errands, that’s what I do. But if you can, prepare a plan for your blogs. Choose one or two you will update for Monday, then choose another for the next day until the seventh. If you have more than seven blogs, then make it 3 blogs a day or two! Whatever you think is best.

5. Gather ideas, relax and unwind.

Do not push yourself! If you can’t blog, then don’t. Pushing yourself will just leave you with a gross post or a post that does not really make sense. Take a bit of break from time to time and I’m sure with that you’ll get ideas of what your next post will be about. Chill!

Now I know there a lot more, but I hope these helps! I’m not a pro but it should work and if you learn to discipline yourselves. Stop buying so much domains you don’t use! (Like, I’m telling this to myself too)

Did WHO.IS Update recently?

As a blogger and a hosting website owner one of the best tools I use online is the web page who.is. By simply dropping by their website, typing a url of a domain – I find out the website details: the registrant, registrar, ip of the nameservers and even their current host.

I noticed that the WHO.IS changed, I wonder why?

The new WHO.IS look!

Notice that there’s a tool at the right side that never disappears when you go down and up. And also, the details of the registrant aren’t given all at once, they give a link.

More safe than ever!

Honestly, I like it more than the old one because with the old one people can easily get your details because your address and everything is already stated! And it’s annoying, and scary. But the downside part is that you can no longer see the Alexa Ranking :S

So, how about you? Have you seen the latest look of WHO.IS page? You should!

Blogvertise Problems!

As you all guys know, I am a blogger for Blogvertise with my other blogs. Over the past few days I am very happy they gave me lots of tasks for the new blogs I submitted, but up to know I keep getting this error…

Error 1: Sorry grab bag task has since been taken by another user and is no longer available.

You see, I log in my account, then I have my 5 blogs with a grab bag task and yet I can’t get it. This is the part I hate most with Blogvertise, they should put an indicator or something because other bloggers disappointed especially with this one, the task I can see yet can’t accept is a $20 task!!! How sad for me :(

It happened to me before with 1 blog, and then for that I had 7 tasks I could grab but I couldn’t grab any! It’s so sad for me. I need money badly right now. And they haven’t replied to my question yet, I had a task days ago which I did but was rejected because my blog was pagerank 2 and their required pagerank was pagerank 3. Before I did it I asked the staff if I could work on it and she said yes, then they rejected it!

But I really can’t do anything now. I hope I get more tasks, I need them a lot these days.

3 Important Reminders in Choosing a Website Template

Hi guys! New look for the website! And I so love it. I can’t sleep so instead, I’ll work on this website, get it joined to blog directories and etc. Because then, that would be productive.

Since we have a new layout, I will share to you too the 3 important reminders in choosing a website template. So when you choose your new layout, you’ll have an idea of the template you should go for!

1. Choose a website template that is attractive and simple at the same time

We know for a fact that people go for layouts that are very awesome. Established websites go for customized templates, and some others create their very own layout for their websites. But, always remember that the better if it is both attractive and simple. Simple – in a way that it is easy to edit, widget ready and that it does not have too much complexity so people who will use it won’t have trouble!

2. Use a website template that does not have too much heavy scripts

It may be awesome to have lots of jQuery effects or flash in your website but it’s not if it causes your web pages to load super slow. If it does, your visitors will likely leave your web page before it even finishes to load. Stick with website templates that don’t make loading of your pages take a long time.

3. Choose a template that fits your website theme

Choose a website template that you know fits your website theme – your topics, posts and website content should go along with it. If you like posting formal posts then choose a formal theme and if you are selling muffins of what, choose cute designed templates.

And that’s it! Hope you got something, I know there’s a lot more but it’s up to you, after all it is your website we’re talkig about here. The theme should perfectly go with the flow as long as it is a great one.

Blogging with Opera Mini 5.1

Justquixotic.com live using Opera Mini!

Last night, because our internet was out I was browsing online using my Opera Mini 5.1 installed on my Nokia X6 phone. I also managed to blog in my other WordPress blog because of it but it was kinda hard because I didn’t have a stylus. But overall, it’s superb! Above is a screenshot I had using ScreenSnap on my phone.

So, have you tried Opera Mini 5.1 yet?

The one above there is the .sis one, since my phone is grouped with S60 Version 5 phones of Nokia. I love it’s smooth interface. Some of its features are the following:

  • Multi tabs
  • Easy copy paste
  • Easy Shortcuts
  • Fast browsing

However, it maybe would have been cool if it had Bolt’s (another mobile browser) interface, wherein there’s no need to go to Twitter mobile pages, because it has a built-in plugin to tweet and post in Facebook.