It's my late father's birthday today. It has been 9 years since he passed away and he could have turned 62 already should he be around.
So like the usual we went to visit, lighted some candles, offered flowers and prayers for him earlier today. We've had lunch together after at home. Thanks God for the gift of memory and compassion. It has been 9 years but he is still remembered in exactly the same way as we did in the past.
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Today also marks the 3rd year of this blog's custom domain - onlinememorylane.com. This was the very first and the only custom domain I bought through Google Apps - that's before I've learned about Godaddy.com where I bought all the rest of my domains.
I quite have issues remembering important dates like blog anniversaries. That's why buying custom domains is much easier for me when done during significant dates like birthdays or the country's official holidays like Labor Day, Philippine Independence Day, etc... So three years ago today, on my dad's birthday came also the dawn of Onlinememorylane.com [the former onlinememorylane.blogspot.com] in the blogosphere.
It's not only customizing blog themes (and I'm not done with that yet by the way) that consumed most of my time for the week but domain shopping as well. Four days ago I bought and registered one dot info domain for a suggested
travel/photo blog. It was pretty much great of a deal for only $1.99 for its first year. The page is now up under Blogger platform though it is still empty as of now because I am still on the process of looking for a theme and will probably do some customizing again before I do the official launching. I am actually considering today to make the counting easier since it is the beginning of the month but I am not quite sure about that now. Hope I still can make it.
I am a certified Godaddy.com customer and yes, a happy one. However, I wish I didn't have to indulge so much too. But seriously, who would say no to dot com for $1? Yea, yea, yea, you've guessed it right. I went for one yesterday. I had to park it yet though till I can figure a good idea for a niche. Do it right the first time, they say so hmm... we shall see...
For more than a good deal of $0.89
[$11.49, reg. price], I got this new domain name from Godaddy.com the other day. I intended to use this domain for my blog
Peaceful Mind which will soon be hosted by
Moms-Hosting.com on a Wordpress platform. I was hoping to get the same name [peaceful mind] but someone's got it before me already. Right now I am still contemplating whether to give my blog a new name or not. I want both [blog title & the domain name] to go together although I still have enough time to decide on that. As per my account, the name servers have been modified already and for now I am just waiting for a GO signal from my host.
I'm seriously crossing my fingers tight for this new online adventure. I'm definitely clueless on what's gonna happen next. However, on the brighter side, I know I'm doing this to educate myself and to hopefully reap some worthwhile benefits along the way.
When carried out, this is going to be very my first self-hosted site on the World Wide Web.
Finally renewed my domain here. It's term ended yesterday and I have been contemplating whether to give it another shot or not seeing how it suffered real good without the page rank within the entire year from the time of the domain purchase. In less than half a month I effortlessly gained rank of 3 but losing it all the way especially just when I'm at the peak of enjoying sweet juices from monetizing was like a disaster to me.
I admittedly know less about SEO and so as how Google exactly comes up with their ranking decisions. I barely understand magic formulas, optimization schemes and how they work. Only little did I know that switching from sub-domain (free like blogspot or wordpress) to a custom domain would downgrade one site's traffic and page rank, primarily because it involves a change of URL. But now I know and it has been a year. This is my very first blog and I'm surprised how I was able to keep it running despite the (sometimes) mind blowing struggles. I must have been so deeply drawn that I just can't let go of it... more so now that I can call it "my own".
I definitely could ask nothing more for this blog than to gain my page rank back. Any figure would do just not a big fat zero, please!!!
ouchhhh!!!!!!
Anyway, I'm keeping my faith for it... with fingers crossed of course, hehe. Wish I'm not too lazy to help myself with SEO nourishment.
