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I was bloghopping around the blogosphere just now and found this post, Scam=Scum at joey maggie. He was posting about someone called Ashwin Kanna, which owns two blogs, 30 Gigabytes Dot Com and Ashwin Kanna Dot Com (I am not generous by giving links to a scum) had made a false claim about his “USD2,500 Blogging Extravaganza” by saying that his own blog actually won his own competition after making so many bloggers link to his blog!

Why I am so upset about this is that he had many similarities with me and he is one of the first few bloggers I met on the Internet since I get into blogging. He let the all the dot com moguls (bloggers that use their own names as a domain, which is me) down. People label this scam as the “Rise and fall of a dot com mogul”! He made himself a total of 400+ free backlinks just by setting up this false competition!

I think from the beginning he already gave me a bad impression as he remove my links (set up as an agreement of link exchange) after he get an PR3 for his 30 Gigabytes blog when my old Simple Life of YP is just PR0. I didn’t take much attention of it and removed the link as his 30gigabytes Dot Com is just full of ads and it is starting to turn into something like a splog! I think Steven from Steven’s Expressions knows experienced this as well. He is already showing signs of “not-so-good” personality by the time he started blogging. Lessons learnt: Don’t break your promise in the blogosphere!

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It’s been one week and I am going through a hard time, I am all stressed up doing all the stuffs over again, just because to get more respect from advertisers and a more professional look. I am paying USD6.95 per month to do all the hard work again! For an instance, I thought of moving my blog back to the old Blogger-hosted Simple Life of YP but it will sound stupid, really stupid…

My old blog have an astounding PR5 (which is the same as Kennysia.com), which gains me a lot of opportunities to write ads which many bloggers don’t. I’ve made this my benchmark, WayneLiew.com must reach PR5 in the next Google PR update and the best is to become better! This is my objective but this is what that made me have the pressure and this pressure if combined with the pressure of studies, it will be immense enough to crush me into mashed meat.

It’s hard to forget the times that I blog on Blogger. It is at there I get the most precious blogging friends, gained the most knowledge on blogging and internet. After I left there, I think there are some friends of mine out there that still doesn’t know that Simple Life of YP will not be updated any more. I have gone back to Simple Life of YP a few times and there’s still people leaving comments for me there. I have no way of contacting them about the link change and thus, I left them unattended.

Now, I am starting to realise the importance of what most of the blogging gurus (one of them will be John Chow) says:

It’s better to get the domain name at the start than down the road. The last thing yo want to do is build up a blog with blogspot, get a tonnes of backlinks, Page Rank, Alexa and Technorati rankings, and then have to move on to its own domain and start all over.

Although I am sweating because of this now, I do learn a lot from my previous blogspot experience and because I started blogging young and with no capital ($), this is just the right path for me I guess.

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