Bloggers Stress-Illness & Blog Posts Of The Week 22

My battle  with what I have always thought was Sir Malaria/Typhoid Fever continues. Mum scolded me and ordered me to do a complete blood work. She was right anyway. We doctors are fond of asking patients to do a complete blood work BUT when it comes to our own health, we sometimes can be negligent .

Test results came out and all were Negative including HIV (Thank God ) and Malaria/Typhoid (WTF. Something must be wrong somewhere. It’s not normal to have a malaria free blood stream in this part of the world).

Woke up yesterday morning, feeling unwell. My senior colleague takes my BP and it’s a 120/90mmHg. Now he’s placed me on Lexotan and a different kind of anti-malaria drug. He says I might be stressed out and he might be right though I pray he ain’t ’cause that would mean giving this blog a breather.

Wednesday’s blog post, How To Show Adsense To Search Engine Visitors Only Using JavaScript gave rise to an attack by trackback spammers (Over 30 spammy trackbacks) and Hostgator spat another resource alert. Now I’m left wondering if the attack by the spammers, Akismet or WP-Spam Free is to blame. I decided to deactivate trackbacks and pingbacks. Let’s see what happens.

16 year old fast rising blogger, Onibalusi Bamidele, has got a nice compilation of 21 Reasons Why You Are Not Making Any Money Online. TOTALLY worth checking out !

If you’re making money online with Google Adsense for Search, you’re HIGHLY advised to Switch to the new version of AdSense for search as the old search form will soon stop functioning.

Those of you following me on Facebook/Twitter probably know of my obsession with Lady Gaga thus it wasn’t hard for Stanford of Pushing Social to catch my attention with Lady Gaga’s 8-Point Guide to Larger than Life Blogging .

Social Media Strategist and Blogging Tips maestra; Kristi Hines shares a few tips on How to Lower Your Bounce Rate Using Google Analytics. My bounce rate was down below 60% for most of last month then it suddenly started rising again. I’ll really have to sit down and figure out what’s going on.

By now most of us are aware that most MLM schemes are BS despite the fact that some firms still peddle it as being as awesome.. Robert Fitzpatrick, President of Pyramid Scheme Alert blogs about The 10 Big Lies of Multi-Level Marketing.

Udi lays out the good, the bad and the ugly sides to earning online via twitter in a twin post release: Making Money On Twitter: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Part 1 of 2) and Making Money On Twitter: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Part 2 of 2).

The debate on using nofollow on internal links continues as Google’s Matt Cutts Says Again, Don’t Use Nofollow For Internal Links. Some folks strongly believe that using nofollow on pages such as the contact, privacy and disclosure pages is the way to go. I’m sticking with what Matt says as he’s one of Google’s boys .

Gagan Of Creative Blogging Idea was issued a warning by Dream Host ’cause he was exceeding CPU usage limits. They even went as far as upgrading him without notifying him and thus he started a series tagged Internet Fraud. Check out the first post of the series: Unlimited Hosting Truth : Internet Fraud Series Part 1.

While the blogosphere is so obsessed with guest posting (It really doesn’t work for me so I ain’t stressing myself with it), Ann Smarty gives a few reasons Why Guest Blogging is Useless for Link Building.

If you’re interested in making good use of your theme’s footer like I did, Shiva Chettri shows you how to Add Widgetized Sidebar in WordPress Footer.

With regards wordpress security and spam control, please read the following posts:

1.  How to stop your blog comments from being blocked by Akismet
2. 35 Security Plugins to Make Your WordPress Bulletproof
3. Combating Comment Spam/Denying Access

That’s all folks. Have a great weekend.

P.S: All things being equal, I shall be launching a simple contest targeted @ my readers who need help in setting up a wordpress blog. Stay tuned for more info .

Also I finally crossed the 3,000 Unique Visitors mark with a bounce rate of 61.14%. I wonder how far my blog will go this month.

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