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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Picasa 3 for photo editing

Few photos start out perfectly. One of the software I use frequently in editing photos taken by digital camera is Picasa. Picasa is Google’s freeware for photo management.

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Important Search Site

Five of the most important search site are:

1. Google
2. Yahoo!
3. MSN
4. Ask.com
5. Open Directory Project

Majority of other search sites are being fed by some of these search engines.
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The Study of Search Engine

Search engine like Google, Yahoo! and MSN looks at many factors. They look for the words through the page, both in the visible page and in the HTML code for the page.

SEO give your site the best possible chance by optimizing (making small changes to your site) that make it to rank well in the search engine.

It is useful to learn how to pick the keywords that people are using to find your business. As such, one of the most important first step in web site creation is to carry out a detailed keyword analysis. Keyword analysis is important in SEO.
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Search Engine is powerful!

I use search engine in my work at least more than ten times a day.

Many web site visits begin at a search engine. Some by either typing a URL into web browser and going directly or by clicking a link on another site that take them there. However, any new visit are mainly come through the search engine. Search engine is still important in bringing visitor to your site.

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Have your page listed in Google Search System

You may submit your website to Google at Add your URL to Google.

This will help Google to be awared of the existence of your site. Anyway, this will not guarantee a listing in the search result. It depends.

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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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Google Advertising Tools

Google Advertising Tools from O’Reilly examines the business and technology behind making money with content and advertising on the web. This easy-to-read guide shows you how to use Google’s advertising services to make it happen. You’ll find all the background information you need to work with Google AdSense, which automatically delivers text and image ads that are precisely targeted to your site, and Google AdWords, which lets you generate text ads that accompany specific search term results.

This book has specific and detailed sections on:
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Why Redirect all post feed traffic to FeedBurner?

The RSS/Atom feed offered in blogger will let your readers know the timing of your new post. However, no statistic for tracking your RSS/Atom is available.

Once you redirect your feed through Google FeedBurner, you will be able to know how many visitors subscribed to your feed. It is good to know this number as it is quite high possibilities that these subscribers will come back to visit your sites.

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Web Hosting

Have been experiencing with web hosting for quite a number of years. Due to budget constraint, I have tried most of the free webhosting so far like Geocities, T35, AngelFire, Tripod and so on. There are sites which review and rate these services like FREE-WEBHOSTS.com. Overall it was a good start for any beginner to try to park their contents in the Internet. It is very valuable especially you do not have any budget for this. However, as you may know, there are some limitation on these free web hosting services. Most of the free them limit the size of disk space available to users. Some may have force advertisements. There is no free lunch so far

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