With hundreds of web hosting companies offering all kinds of hosting plans, it has become challenging to find the best web host company that offers balance between  features, performance and support.

What about Prices? Well, this is relative in one way or the other. Some web host provider will offer you a “cheap” entry for as low as $1 only for your first month but you have to sign-up with them for at least 2 years in order for you to avail of that special price. Other providers, on the other hand, can give you a special prices which are valid for a limited time.

So what is the best web host provider for blogs? For me, no other provider can beat BlueHost in providing the best price-value for blog sites. Alright, maybe I’m lying because Bluehost is not only the best web host for blogs but for any other web site too from simple static page to social networking sites.

How do I know this?

1. I am using BlueHost, our company is using it for our corporate site, support website and in our social networking site. We are using BlueHost even in our business/project websites.  The only drawback is we cannot use BlueHost for our Windows hosting need. BlueHost exclusively provides their hosting plan in Linux only and I’m not aware if they have plans to offer in the future.

2. If you don’t believe on my personal testament, just do a simple Google search for “best web host for blogs”, check some of the sites on the first result page and I assure you that BlueHost is is always mentioned, if not listed within their top 3 choices.

3. Even WordPress,org, on their recommended web hosting page, put BlueHost on their first choice. see http://wordpress.org/hosting/

This is not a pay-per-post review. I’m just one of their satisfied customers but to be perfectly honest with all you my dear readers, the link to BlueHost contained my affiliate ID which may give me some moolah.

Wow…time flies so fast! I’ve been out of town for almost a month…travelling in all directions with my whole family.  Tiring, but a lot of memorable moments were bonded.

My last post was more than a month old already. I’m very sorry for that, but let me tell you that I did not procrastinate nor I’m a  Blogcrastinator.     A  Blogcrastination – the deferment of writing a blog post to a later time; often a mechanism for coping with anxiety.

In fact, all the blogs that I own and most of the sites that I’m maintaining ( I’m not the blog owner) were all updated even if I was on a vacation except for blogdemanila.com. This is of course due to WordPress scheduling techniques. All the articles were set to be posted on a scheduled date.

So how did I earn while traveling? Simple, by just letting my blogs run on their own. To tell you the truth,  my earnings for this past four weeks  where I was mostly offline are more than what I’ve earned  on my first year of blogging.

And here’s the other truth;  I don’t really do ALL the work. It’s all outsourced or automated.

It’s simple really when you already have set-up your “blog empire” and let the soldiers do most of the work. All you have to think about is the strategy you will use in conquering your next loots.

Just like the old English idiom, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, there’s also there’s WAY more to blogs than running a few clunky ads.

Spilling the secret box

My secret box is composed of a mix of revenue streams including:

• Services (setting-up sites and blogs)
• Affiliate products and services
• Ads (such as Adsense and Bidvertiser)

I know that some of you are earning a lot doing product reviews and/or using pay per post networks. Honestly, I’m not good on this. I’m not a good writer and so I shy away from this task as much as possible.

Since I’m not good in writing,there’s another SECRET that I’m going to reveal on my next post.  I just have to schedule the articles that are needed to be posted on all the blogs that I’m maintaining. Don’t worry it won’t take long.

Imagine a world where all of your questions about making money online are addressed one by one, in a series of full-length videos.

Jeremy Schoemaker’s ShoeMoney System is about to be released to the public and he’s got some incredible content to share with students.

Check out his story: http://www.shoemoneysystem.com/its-coming

Jeremy has been releasing great content every week towards the launch.  One of my favorite videos is the one where he talks about the 6 ways to make money online: http://www.shoemoneysystem.com/6ways

I love how Jeremy breaks things down and explains it in a way anyone can follow.

A client of mine is looking for a new webhost but not just any kind of  provider. It should be a Windows hosting provider. There are numerous providers out there but mostly they are offering a Linux webhost only.

My client will not just simply install a blog  but he’s developing an ASP.NET website. He’s actually a Windows guy and it’s just natural for him to look for a reliable windows hosting.

I had a long chat with Jade  of MommaWannabe last week because she was looking for a cheap hosting. While searching for the right hosting provider for her, I’ve found out about this Window hosting company called  Hosting Fest.  They are supporting the classic ASP, ASP.NET,Microsoft SQL Server and other technologies such as ASP.NET Ajax extensions. This is exactly the kind of hosting provider that my client is looking for.

If you know any Windows hosting provider that can beat the offerings of Hosting Fest, please let me know. It would be great if they have affiliates program too

I don’t want to sound bitter against Nuffnang. This is not about the company nor the ads they are running on their network. I just want to rant about their support.

Last Thursday, September 10, 2009, I received an email from Nuffnang with a subject ” SMART is giving away Php 500,000 daily!” Within the body of the message there is this link to Smart’s website on where to get more information, but when I followed the link  I received a “404″ error. It means the page is unreachable or not existing.

I’m a bit curious ( “suspicious” is the right word) because how can Nuffnang broadcast an email to all their publishers where in fact the link to the Smart site is invalid.

I sent a message to Nuffnang using their support page on the same day  I received their email. Below was my first email.

Subject: Please confirm if it\'s true
Date: 11 Sep 2009 12:35 AM 

I received an email today regarding SMART’s BigTym Buddy Promo.
Is this true?
I'm asking this because I cannot find any news on smart.com.ph website.
I'm planning to post about this but I need the confirmation if it's true.
Thanks and God Bless!

And here’s what I received from their support the following day:

We have no projects with Smart at the moment, so we cannot answer that
 question, unfortunately.

Best Regards,
Marcelle T. Fabie

Marketing Sales
Nuffnang Philippines Inc.
http://www.nuffnang.com.ph/

I still could not believe it. How on earth they (Nuffnang) can announced a promo like this if they have no project with Smart?

I was not satisfied with their reply. I searched heaven and earth but I could not find any post on Nuffnang’s site and blog as well. The stubbornness in me was reigning that day so I sent another support email.

Since the staff  replied that they have no project with Smart, I attached an image of the email I received from them together with this message:

Hi Marcelle,

I'm just worried that perhaps somebody is using Nuffnang to send unscrupulous
 email to all bloggers.
See the attachment. This is the email that I received from noreply@nuffnang.com

I hope you can investigate this and update us ASAP.

Thanks.

Regards,
eric

On the next day, September 11, the date of the launching of the promo, I was monitoring Smart’s site if ever the page will come alive. And guess what? Smart’s website did not disappoint me. The promo was launched in the morning of September 11 as announced!

3 days after I sent my last support to Nuffnang, they replied to my “ASAP” inquiry with this:

 Subject: Re: Please confirm if it\'s true
 Date: 14 Sep 2009 03:09 PM  Posted by:  Marcelle Fabie  (Staff) 

All right. I checked, and we launched the e-mail blast on that day itself, and
 was informed about it only afterwards. Yep, it's a legitimate promo. Thanks!
Best Regards,
Marcelle T. Fabie

Marketing Sales
Nuffnang Philippines Inc.
http://www.nuffnang.com.ph/

I don’t know what is happening within Nuffnang. I like their network marketing company even if a lot of bloggers are telling me that they are not earning enough on it. This exchange of emails shows that either that particular staff doesn’t what do they have or perhaps  Nuffnang Philippines doesn’t know what are the projects of their mother company – Nuffnang (Singapore). I was just guessing that it’s Nuffnang Singapore who was able to bagged this promo from SMART and not Nuffnang Philippines.

Lastly, if anybody from Nuffnang is reading this post, kindly update the content of  your page with your current promos.

I received a tip in my email last week stating that “if you want to use your blog to build your list (and you should), then get a new theme”. And this is exactly the reason why BlogDeManila (BDM) is changing it’s theme.

Why Do You Need a List?

If you want to succeed as a blogger, a network marketer or just simply make your online business known, you’ve got to have a system where you can easily communicate with your readers or client. An email auto responder or generally called “LIST”, is the most important tool you will ever need if you want to make money online.

List building can take a lot of time simply because many strategies do not work right away. A perfect example of this is article submissions. You can wait weeks or months for your articles to make their way onto other people’s sites. There are much better methods available to you.

Here are five free strategies that will enable you to build your list much more quickly.

1. Ad swaps involve finding other marketers in your niche, or a complementary niche, who have an equally sizeable list. You provide each other with ads to promote to your lists for mutual benefit. In essence, this doubles the number of your potential buyers and multiplies your chances of enticing people onto your own list.

2. Giveaways enable you to distribute viral materials that contain links to your opt-in form. By encouraging people to pass your giveaway around, you can quickly reach a significant number of prospects. With giveaway events, you can leverage the marketing efforts of the participating marketers.

4. Forum participation is an excellent way to reach out to people who are in your niche. Find niche-related forums, respond to people’s questions with valuable advice, and plug your squeeze page giveaway in your signature file.

5. Social marketing puts you right in front of the people who are most likely to want what you are offering. Visit relevant blogs and add snippets of helpful information in response to posts that refer to the topic of your giveaway. This is key. You want your plug to naturally flow with the topic of the post so that people will be anxious to find out how your product can help them.

When choosing social media sites and forums, make sure they allow do-follow links and that you can add live links in your signature file, as this is the whole purpose of this form of marketing. Not all blogs and forums allow active links.

All of these methods work. It’s a matter of finding the ones best suited to your offer. Forums and social media work best if they have a significant number of visitors or members. If the numbers are small, it will be tougher to get the traffic that you need to build your list quickly.

By utilizing all five methods, you can reach more of the right people faster. Meet their expectations, and you will grow your list.

List building is one activity that you can share with other marketers for your mutual benefit. Not only will you be able to grow your list in record time, but when done correctly, you can see the results of your efforts years down the road.

For a limited time, you can grab a FREE report on a SUPER SECRET viral list building technique. Click here to get it now: Download FREE REPORT Now!

The title of my blog today is correct. I want to win the  46″ Sony BRAVIA LCD HD TV & Sony Blu-ray Home Theater System or any of these items (or the cash equivalent):

• HP TouchSmart Tablet Laptop
• Kindle DX: Amazon’s 9.7″ Wireless Reading Device with Leather Case – the new one with the big screen!
• Wii Fit Ultra Bundle
• 16GB iPod Touch
• Flip Mino HD Camcorder – the world’s smallest (and coolest) HD camcorder
• 1GB LiveScribe SmartPen Bundle
• Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote Control
• Nintendo DS Lite
• The New 4GB iPod Shuffle – it talks!

So how can you help me? It’s very simple.  It won’t cost you a dime.

All you have to do is download this Free Report that Reveals How To Earn Autopilot Income For Life… Starting From Scratch!.

It’s very simple, isn’t?

Did I mention that you can win these fabulous prizes too?

How?… Just download the Free Report that Reveals How To Earn Autopilot Income For Life… Starting From Scratch! and you will see the instruction on how to join.

I’m sure you are all aware what happened to my Twitter account.  As commented by Bingkee and other bloggers, that, indeed Twitter suspended a lot of accounts this week.

I did a search on Google on what really happened and I’d like to know the cause of the suspension.

I want to know the real score.

Lo and behold …Twitter, on it’s status update,  admitted that it was a HUMAN ERROR! Sounds like “pilot error” excuses whenever a plane crashed and the pilot died on the accident too. And since the pilot is gone, there’s nobody to blame anymore.

I wonder what happened to the “human” who accidentally suspended MY account and thousand others.

Here’s what on Twitter’s update status:

Restoring accidentally suspended accounts 3 days ago

Earlier today, we accidentally suspended a number of accounts.

We regret the human error that led to these mistaken suspensions and we are working to restore the affected accounts—we expect this to be completed in the next several hours.

One additional note: some the accounts suspended were using the third-party site Tweetlater . However, Tweetlater is not to blame for these suspensions nor is it in violation of our Terms.

This post update of Twitter really shows that a lot of people with legitimate accounts had their accounts suspended. This is also a justification that Tweetlater , the third party application that I’m using is not at fault.

I’m not sure where it came from that Tweetlater was to blame for this. Was there attacked on Tweetlater? Perhaps, some third party developers are “envy” on Tweetlater‘s accomplishment?  Anyway, these are just my  so-called “conspiracy theories”

One good thing that this exercises equally proved, is that, I did not commit any violation

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.- John C. Maxwell

I registered another new domain today but before I did that, I checked my emails which I got from GoDaddy. They have special promo by way of offering discounts using a promo code when registering or transferring a domain.

As you can see from the picture above the normal price of .COM domain name is $10.69 but currently they’re giving it away for $9.99. The good news is, you can still get MORE Discounts if you will use their discount code. Just like what’s you can see on the image below, but if you read further I’ll show you the hidden supercodes that domain buyers are using and keeping all the profits to themselves.

Here are the two promo codes that I received from them via email:

• fbfDom10 - get 10% OFF* our regular prices on .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, and .US domains.
• fbgdhome20 - get 20% OFF* your order of $75 or more. This special offer expires 7/13/2009, so start shopping now! Based on my experienced, this code actually never expires.

TIP: Most Go Daddy coupons are only valid on NEW domain registrations or on domain transfers. Therefore, buy multiple years upfront to save!

More SUPER Promo Codes

Since GoDaddy is sending emails to their customers regarding their promo, I decided to google around if there are other people out there posting their promo codes. Lo and behold, I’ve found some gems lying around ready to be pick-up.

For Renewals

These codes will give you $6.95 for renewal of your domains.

1. ZINE3
2. goxtgi200c
3. steve
4. gaze3

New Domain and Renewal

Here are the additional promo codes that you can use if you are want to get a better deal from GoDaddy.

1. ZINE5 - will give you 10% off any purchase.
2. ZINE7 -will give you $7.49 for each domain instead of $$9.99
3. ZINE25 - receive instant 25% off any purchase of $100 or more

GoDaddy Super Promo Code

The best promo code that I’ve used in registering a new domain is FACEBOOK5. I only paid $5.20, which translates to $5.00 off on domain registration!

TIP: To make sure you are saving the most amount of money, try all codes in your shopping cart. Use the code which one gives you the cheapest domains.

Whether you want to build a Web site for your business, create your family blog, or share photos online with friends, use GoDaddy promo codes today and get all BIG SAVINGS.

Most of the codes that I’ve posted here are working for years already. Saving money is especially important to people these days. Please feel free to share this code to all your friends, post them in your blog, tweet, write them on your facebook status and share in your other social network.

Update (August 16, 2009): This special offer expires 8/29/2009, so start shopping now! Use source code fbgdhome20 to get 20% OFF* your order of $75 or more when you order online at GoDaddy.com

We were in the country side yesterday checking on a new first class residential community being developed. The sales lady told me that they’re having a price increase soon because they’re project is selling like hotcake.

I believed the sale’s pitch of the agent because the project is really good and I already saw some of their clients paying the reservation fee.

Too bad, I can’t get a piece of that real estate because I just invested my money in another project.

Thinking about the people who lined up yesterday to get a glimpse of this magnificent project, I was also wondering how many really were able to grabbed their names on Facebook on the 13th of June? I’m sure most of you  were aware of this, am I right?

If you haven’t got your username yet, why not?

I was online 5 minutes before the gates were opened on Facebook last June 13 (12 noon here where I live). I opened 4 laptops in our kitchen table so I can get all the names for my family members. When the countdown reached zero, I typed in as fast as I can and…unfortunately, all our first names -my wife and my kids-  were not available, duh! So I opted for some variations instead.

Speculations on that day that Facebook may have “reserved”  some popular names.

On the same day, I called some of my friends whom I know have facebook profile but might not be aware of the “virtual land grab”. Later that night, 6 friends of ours came to our house to set their facebook username.

It was reported that 200,000 usernames were registered within 3 minutes!

Did you know that in the past you have to pay Facebook some large amount in order to get your own username (some says it’s $50,000+ per month) or be a celebrity?

If you are into network marketing, I encourage you to get your name now! It’ll be easier to tell people how to find you on the social network.

The project we visited yesterday.

Some users got generic domain names that are popular in search terms and and high price PPC. For example, Chris Jones registered facebook.com/makemoney and Milan Mirevic nabbed facebook.com/cheapdomains.

If someone else has already has your name, get creative! Remember that you can’t change your username -ever!.

I’m just wondering If someone can sell their username in the future, let’s say it’s a popular brand or a very high demand search term. What do you think? Is your username marketable?