BLOGGING

Content reorganization in my blogs

Update July 2019: I have decided to resume this blog to publish my personal reflections and thoughts. However topic with regards to subjects below have been transferred out to new blogs. You may notice that there has not been new articles being published on this site for sometime. I am still blogging actively, but I [...]

When Adsense is better than Affiliate marketing

About 10 years ago, the top bloggers relied on Adsense as the main income source for their blogs. Then slowly many bloggers moved towards affiliate marketing and a few became very rich through selling their own products. Today when you search around for blog monetization, most bloggers would talk about either affiliate or selling your [...]

Why a general/ multi-topic blog may be better than a niche blog

UPDATE October 2018: I’ve since decided that for user experience, it is better to have a more specific or niche blog compare to general blogs. It is just better for your readers to access to specific topics. The new site does take time to get indexed as you are starting from scratch- however once the [...]

Your pages would show 404 (page not found) in search results if you disabled AMP

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are a great tool for many blogs and sites to consider. Popular sites like CNN.com and Pinterest are already on AMP. With a few clicks, ie by downloading the AMP plugin, your site would be on its way to being AMP enabled. Indexing your sites to AMP would be in stages- [...]

Pro and Cons of AMP pages- and why I decided to convert to AMP

If you are enabling your site for AMP, your site would load very quickly….which is great…. but AMP would impact the following: your email signup rate it does not support pop up, javascript or any fancy html that you use on your subscription box your earnings from advertising ….the usual banners, videos and flash ads [...]