How to solve “Another blog is already hosted at this address”

Sometime when you try to publish a custom domain like chengsoongiap.com on Blogger, you may get the message “Another blog is already hosted at this address.”

Most of the time, this is due to your DNS setting. Anyway make sure that you stop the web service of Google Apps if you happen to use this service.

One way to overcome this problem which I did with my sites was to configure my DNS as:

mydomain.com.          3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
www.mydomain.com. 3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

With this configuration, you have a “CNAME” referral which points directly to a Google server. When the Blogger script verifies that the domain URLs both point to Google, it can proceed with confidence.
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How to RSS feed into your WordPress post

In Blogger, it is quite easy to add content from an RSS or Atom feed to your blog. I used this feature in Blogger so far. However, I can’t find it in WordPress.

FirstRSS is a simple RSS aggregator plugins for WordPress which I found recently. I have used FirstRSS plugin in my main homepage – ChengSoonGiap.com to insert RSS feed of all my related blogs.

How to have Adsense appear under the first post in WordPress blog?

Following is what I learned recently on having Adsense codes only appear after the first post in WordPress blog and nowhere else.

Open the index.php file and search for the following lines:

<!–p if (have_posts()) –>
<!–p $postCount=0;–>
<!–p while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $loopcounter++–>
<!–p $postCount++–>

Add the following above these lines:

<?php
$postnum = 1;
$showadsense1 = 1;
?>

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One of my blog is detected as spam blog …

One of my site at Blogger was detected as spam blog …

Hello,

Your blog at: http://soongiap.blogspot.com/ has been identified as a potential spam blog.  To correct this, please request a review by filling out the form at …..   Your blog will be deleted within 20 days if it isn’t reviewed, and you’ll be unable to publish posts during this time. After we receive your request, we’ll review your blog and unlock it within two business days. If this blog doesn’t belong to you, you don’t have to do anything, and any other blogs you may have won’t be affected.

We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog like yours is flagged incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this error. By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to bloggers like you instead of to spammers. For more information, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577

Thank you for your understanding and for your help with our spam-fighting efforts.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

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Learning Chinese blogging

Chinese language is my mother tongue. I speak Chinese (Mandarin, Teochew, Hokkien and so on). I write Chinese, I read Chinese. All these are natural to me. However, when come to Chinse computing, it is not something natural to me. I have been avoiding writing Chinese language using my computer for years … It is not really something that I can write easily using computer.

However, when I like to communicate with my friends from China, it is not so natural to write my email in English as English is still not a language that is commonly use in China.

After some thought and also encouragement of my friends, I have decided to start a Chinese blog and hope by maintaining a iTeochew I will write more often Chinese character using my computer. Hopefully by doing so, my Chinese writing using computer will improve gradually.

Joojen introduced Sogou pinyin input to me. This is really a very fast and good free Chinese pinyin software system. You may like to download and give it a try.

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Exploring Twitter

Have just joined Twitter – a social networking & micro-blogging service.

Still not sure how it works, but hopefully I can learn something from this tool. Probably some of my friends are already there, hopefully.

There are just too many social networking service available in the Internet.

ps: I am here in Twitter…

Blog using Email

If you are using Blogger for your blog, you may publish blog from your email program!

Select Setting of your blog from Dashboard, click Email. Choose a secret code to your Mail-to-Blogger Address. This will create a special email address for you to mail your blog entries.

Select “Publish email immediately” if you want your entries to be published as soon as they are received by Blogger.Finally click “Save Setting”. That’s it!
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Making money online through Adsense really work!

I was skeptical about the possibility of making money online so far.

Few days ago I was working on a very simple experiment on Google Adsense.

Surprisingly it really work!! It earned me 10 cents so far! It is really happening. Never really believe it so far

It is really nice to know that we can make money from the Internet through blogging. It is not not unreal. Not bad an experiment! I think I should do more experiments on utilizing this technology which I use everyday so far.

AdSense …

Heard about Google AdSense for a while and also already have an Google Adsense account for years, however never really take any action in using it. Will try to implement it in this blog to see how the result is …

Hope to see that it is working!

Blogging …

Still in the process of learning how to blog. Have searched for some books & tutorials on blogging recently. Few options found so far for hosting of my blogs:

1. Blogger.com
2. WordPress.com
3. Typepad.com
4. LiveJournal.com

I have been using Blogger for few times previously – so far so good. But understand that there are more options that I can use if using WordPress. Anyway, for the time being, Blogger will be my first choice.