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Chedet is a blog owned by our former Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and you can find it at chedet.com. This blog has been very famous and popular ever since Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad started publishing on it. When I first visited his website, I found two things. The first thing was Chedet really received a lot of responses from the Malaysians and almost every blog posts there got more than 500 comments. The second thing I found was Chedet at that time was hosted on Blogger.com. Although Chedet had it’s own domain name, it was still using the blogging platform and server of Blogger.com, which is owned by Google.

If you have been following my blog, you should know that I have been recommending Wordpress.org over Blogger.com and even Wordpress.com. You can find out more about this aspect on my previous post named “Why I Host My Blog On Paid Domain And Server“. I strongly advise people to have their blogs on paid domain and hosting. This is because the free hosted blog service like Blogger.com or Wordpress.com can easily shut down your blog without giving you any prior warning if the administrators suspect that your blog infringes their terms and conditions even if your blog doesn’t!

When I first knew that Chedet was hosted on Blogger.com, I was very sure that Chedet would move to another blogging platform soon. Today morning, I just found a newspaper report regarding Chedet was banned by Blogger.com. So I just logged on to the Internet and visited the blog. Then I found the following article posted on his blog and I took the except and pasted it here.

On Friday June 19th, chedet.com was locked by the administration of Bloggers.com for what was termed as “suspected spam blog”. Following that chedet.com has not been able to publish any new posting pending approval by Bloggers.com.

Despite repeated appeals Bloggers.com have yet to “unlock” chedet.com to allow for posting of new comments. Due to this measures have been taken to migrate chedet.com from Bloggers.com in an effort to avoid further disruption, hence the new page set up.

Chedet.com apologises to all readers and commentators for the inconvenience caused. Chedet.com would like to notify readers that comments for previous postings have not been attached currently while the technical team resolves certain matters. As for new postings commentators are only required to follow the simple registration steps accordingly before submitting comments.

(Taken From http://test.chedet.com/che_det/2008/06/special-note.html)

Apparently, Chedet has moved out from Blogger.com. I thought Chedet was moving to Wordpress.org as it is a very popular blogging platform and many politicians are actually using it. Then I found that Chedet is now using the Movable Type blogging software. Movable Type is also a good blogging software but it is not as popular as Wordpress.org.

I can see the difficulty of migrating Chedet from Blogger.com to the Movable Type blogging platform. That’s why I started my blog straight on Wordpress.org with my own domain name and web host. This can save me a lot of hassles in the future.

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After writing few posts about my life, I guess it’s time to return to my favourite topic. In this post, I will be introducing a website called BecomeABlogger. This website is owned by a problogger, Yaro Starak and his partner, Gideon Shalwick. This website provides 100% free video tutorials that teach people how to start a self-hosted blog from scratch. If you do not know what a self-hosted blog is, you may find out more by reading this post here.

Creating a self-hosted blog can be quite technical for some people. However, by following these video tutorials, you can create your own self-hosted Wordpress blog very easily. Frankly speaking, I learnt how to create self-hosted blog by watching all the video tutorials at BecomeABlogger. Yaro and Gideon have made the video tutorials very simple and easy to understand. The video will teach you all the necessary procedures like registering domain name, buying web host, installing Wordpress and themes and creating content.

I have taken one of the video tutorials from BecomeABlogger and embeded it on this blog. 

If you would like to find out more about the video tutorials, please visit BecomeABlogger now!

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Have you tried making money from blogging after reading the Blog Profit Blueprint that I offer on this blog? Frankly speaking, it is pretty hard to earn few bucks from blogging although it is very easy to start a blog. In order to make money blogging, you need to have strong determination and persistence. Otherwise, you can hardly receive any single cents no matter how diligently you blog.

Today, I would like to share a blogging success story with everyone here. The story is about a 16 year old girl who makes $30 per day from blogging. You might say, “$30 per day is so little, nothing special about it.” Well, you better ask yourself, how much money have you made on the Internet so far? If you are already making more than $30 per day when you are just 16 years old or even younger, then that’s fine. But they are so many people out there trying hard to make few hundred dollars online and many of them just fail.

If you multiplies $30 with 30 days, it should be roughtly $900 a month. In addition, you try to convert $900 into Malaysia Ringgit. It is equivalent to RM2880, let the currency conversion rate be 1USD:RM3.2! Can you imagine a 16 year old girl already makes RM2880 per month by just having a blog?

The girl, Chloe Spencer blogs at www.neopetsfanatic.com. Initially, she found out that there was a great demand for information about Neopets. So she started blogging about any tips or cheats that work in Neopets. Her father, Stephan Spencer is good at doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so Chloe’s blog manages to get high ranking in the search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, Msn and so fourth.

The mistake Chole Spenser did was creating her blog at wordpress.com. In fact, wordpress.com does not allow people to monetize the blogs. Therefore, she moved her blog to a self-hosted one. She averages $30 per day from Google Adsense alone and she does not even have to blog everyday. Now, she just has to spend few hours a month maintaining and updating her blog.

The following is a video that shows her speech at a conference. Hopefully, you will like it!

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It is undeniable that blogging can really make a living nowadays. There are many real success stories that you can find either on the Internet or in the newspaper. Personally, I have great interest in blogging and I am very passionate in building online business. Hence, I started searching for mentor and successful entrepreneurs on the Internet since few months ago. One day, I stumbled upon a blog post which was written about the story of a successful problogger- Yaro Starak and his well-know blog at entrepreneurs-journey.com.

So I actually went to Yaro’s blog at entrepreneurs-journey.com to find out more detail about how to make money from blogging. Entrepreneurs-journey.com is a blog aimed at those interested in Internet business and blogging and it really provides a lot of information which are practical and useful. I really love reading his blog. Besides, Yaro is also good at doing podcasting. I feel as if listening to real radio broadcast when listening to his audio podcast. It is really awesome. If you are looking at the picture below, the house behind him and the car beside him are the evidence of his success in Internet business.

What I find really interesting from Yaro Starak is that I actually share the same mindset as him. He started his entrepreneurship and online business since he was still studying in University. Yaro likes doing Internet Business and he treats his blog as an online asset that generates huge income for him. Other than running his blog, Yaro has got other Internet business as well.

In addition, Yaro has released a free special report called “Blog Profit Blueprint” in conjunction with his Blog Mastermind mentoring program. In his report, he teaches people how to make a full time income from part time blogging, which I think is really cool. This report is not another “get-rich-quick” ebook but a true blueprint that explains what it needs to become a successful professional blogger.

You can download the the Blog Profit Blueprint here! (Fill up your name and email address in the form available on that page)

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Many of my friends are surprised when I tell them that I have got a personal blog hosted on my own domain name and web server. In fact, all of them are using the free blogging platform, such as blogger.com and wordpress.com. Well, of course I know that I need to pay few hundred Ringgits for purchasing a domain name and web host. But there are few reasons why I would like to host my blog on my own domain name and web server.

1. I Own The Blog
When I say I own the blog, I do really own it. People might respond to me, “I am also owning my free blog at blogger.com.” In fact, you are not owning that blog. Be more precise, Google OWNS your blog. You register for an account at blogger.com and use its server to host your blog. Do not forget blogger.com is OWNED by Google. Therefore, Google has the right to shut down your blog if you infringe their rules and regulation(whether deliberately or unintentionally). For the free wordpress.com, you cannot even display advertisement on the blog. Why? Because wordpress.com owns your blog, NOT you! By hosting my blog on my own domain and web host, I have absolute right to do anything to my blog, as long as it does not go against the Internet Law.

2. Wordpress.org Is The Best Blogging Software
Wordpress.org is by far the best blogging software and many well-known bloggers are using it. At blogger.com, you have less control over your blog due to its limited features and technical configuration. Please do not get confused between wordpress.org and wordpress.com. While both of them are free, wordpress.org requires you to host on your own server and domain. Besides, wordpress.org has many plugins that can enhance and upgrade the functions of your blog.

3. I Can Brand My Blog
Free blogs only give you subdomain name, for example sushengloong.blogspot.com or sushengloong.wordpress.com. Compared to just sushengloong.com, those two are far less professional. Besides, people tend to perceive that self-hosted blogs have higher status. Even when you look for more expensive advertisement, the advertisers will judge your blog by checking whether you have your own domain name. 

In fact, there are many other reasons why it is better to have a self-hosted blog. However, if you are just blogging for fun or you hate technical stuff, then it might not be suitable for you. In that case, it is better for you to go for the free blogging platform. Anyway, blogger.com is so far the best free blogging tool that I have ever used.

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