SimplyDunn.net

Today Google is updating the PageRank. This site got its first PageRank, which is PR4. My other site, My Interesting Files up from PR3 to PR4. And Must Read Files drop from PR2 to PR0. Maybe because I’m doing Paid Post over there.

But according to Garry Conn, it’s not the final result. The update process will takes up to a few days. Google has many servers, and the update has to roll across their entire network. So it’s possible if today you found your PageRank increased and couple of days later you found it decreased, or the other way around.

We have to admit that the changes of the PageRank can affect our mood. Some of them are upset and swear at google, some will jump for joy. But there’s nothing we can do to change it but to accept and try our best to increase our PageRank in the next update.

So have you check your site’s PageRank today?

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Here the posts I found these past weeks that I think interesting and I would like to share with you :

How To Triple Your Feedburner Subscription Count in 30 Days
Tips from Garry Conn about increasing your FeedBurner subscriber. I use this trick only when I want to leave comment in the blog that NoFollow.

How To Improve Your Alexa Traffic Rank
An accurate information about Alexa and tips to increase your Alexa rank that came directly from Alexa Internet Customer Service, posted by Rocky John.

Pregnant Man : First Interview
Strange story about a Female person who transformed herself to become a Male, and now he/she is pregnant.

ADster is a Scam?
If you are a publisher, or looking for other option of advertising network, Qumang had posted related posts regarding ADster. Honestly I never heard about it until I stumbled her post.

Jerusalem Virtual Tours
Never ending virtual tour about market place in Jerusalem, which keeps going round and round and round and round…

Check Who is Invisible/Online on Yahoo Messenger
It’s a tutorial about finding out the invisible user in Yahoo Messenger. No more buzz out of nowhere..

The Most Time Saving Firefox Features That We Often Overlook
Useful and time saving feature in Firefox that will help you access your favorite sites faster.

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I woke up this morning, doing my daily routine. When I walked out my bedroom, I found flowers on the table. It’s huge. Checked the card, it’s from my hubby. Thank’s dear! And yes, today is my birthday.

Therefor I would like to share my joy with all of you by giving away the EntreCard credits. All you have to do is :

• Drop your card and leave a comment in this post with your site URL, you will get 100 EC credits.
• Drop your card, write a review about this and leave a comment in this post with your site URL, you will get 200 EC credits.

I will have this giveaway only for 7 days, and limit to 25 droppers only. If you are not a member of EntreCard, sign up now. It’s free.

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Are you a music fan? Do you like to listen to music in computer and sing along with your favorite music stars? If you do, this plugin is for you.

Lyrics Plugin is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. With this plugin, you just start listening to your favorite songs and the lyrics will be displayed automatically. And if the lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself.

No more searching for lyrics. Just download the plugin, then you can sing along with it. If you have any question, you can visit their Feedback Forum.

Lyrics Plugin for WinAmp : Download ver 0.3

Lyrics Plugin for Windows Media Player : Download ver 0.3

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Have you joined Entre Card? It’s been around in this blogsphere for quite some time. This is not my first experience with Entre Card. My other site My Interesting Files has been joining Entre Card for months already. And with this post, I will share my honest opinion about it.

Get traffic? Definitely. But not as much as I expected. Every traffic to our site, that means visitors, we have to appreciate it. I remember when I started my first blog. I would do anything, to get traffic to my site. And I’m sure it happened to you as well. Therefor, I always appreciate every source of traffic, no matter how less I got.

But to be in the good ranking in Entre Card, is not easy. You have to donate almost all of your time to be active in the Entre Card. That means from the time you wake up, until the time before you go to sleep, all you did was just dropping card to every Entre Card member websites. I tried that before. My site was up in the higher level, but I have no time left to concentrate with my post. So now, I just do the dropping whenever I have free time, and my priority are the those who had dropped card to my site.

But still though, Entre Card did send some traffic. That’s why I think it’s time to give it a shot with this site. So, have you joined Entre Card? Give your site some experience with Entre Card, it’s fun! If you did, please drop your card. I will try my best to reciporate.

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After received notification email from Technorati, I decided to upgrade my WordPress to 2.5. Before I go on with the upgrade process, I backed up my database first. I found couple of plugins for backing up database, but all of them don’t have the restore system. You have to restore the back up manually. Until I found WP-DBManager plugin.

WP-DBManager is a WordPress plugin that manages your WordPress database. It allows you to back up database, restore database, repair database, delete back up database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. It also support automatically scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database. All backing up and restore only with one click. So I choose this plugin to backing up my database.

After done with back up, I deactivated all the plugin. This is what you must do before you do the upgrade process. Since I installed the WordPress using Fantastico that provided by my hosting account, I might as well use it to upgrade my WordPress. Upgrading WordPress with Fantastico is one of the easiest way to do it. It tooks only seconds until it showed that the upgrading process is done. But this system only available if you install your WordPress from the first time using Fantastico, and never use the other method of upgrading after that.

Next I checked my WordPress and yes it had been upgraded to WordPress 2.5. I activated all the plugins again. But ups.. I faced error while activating the Popularity Contest Plugin :

“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error“

And the site could not be open either. So I tried to find the solution for this issue in WordPress Support Forum and I found one discussion about it. The solution was found in Blogvaria :

Open popularity-contest.php and scroll down to line 59.
Replace require (’../../wp-blog-header.php’);
with require (’../wp-blog-header.php’);

And the fix worked like a charm. SimplyDunn can be viewed again, and now it officially runs with WordPress 2.5. One new thing that I found in this new version that I like. It’s the one click plugin updater that already included in the plugin panel. So when there’s a new version of plugin released, they will provide you with the link to upgrade. Just click the link and your plugin will be updated already. So no more manually upload via cPanel.

I’m so released that the upgrade process is done. And the error that I found had been solved fast, not like My Interesting Files issue which took weeks to be solved. And the upgrade process itself, not as hard as I thought. Or maybe because I was using the automatic system instead of manual. I’m planning to do the upgrade for my other site as well, soon. So have you upgrade yours?

Popularity: 28%