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My site’s worth what?!?!?

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Ha … A few years ago I set up Google alerts for all of my husband and I’s websites and blogs. An alert just came in for this blog – Feverishthoughts.com from a website called Yandalo.com estimating this domains worth at $110,486.36!

Hmmm I’m not quite sure I believe that. I have six subdomains on this domain which means there are seven sites associated with this domain in all and while they all have page rank, and very good site traffic as well as a combined low Alexa score I’m not sure the domain is worth that much.

Still it’s kind of cool to see an estimated value like that.

Maybe I’d better start taking my daily multivitamin and work harder on my sites so that someday they really might be worth that much!

Have you ever checked any of the sites that estimate the value of a domain out to see how much your site is worth? If you have do you think the site under or over estimated the value of your site?





I can’t wait for WordPress 3.0 to come out

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I can’t wait for the new WordPress version to come out. WordPress 3.0 is apparently due to come out sometime in May and if everything I’ve read about it is true it’s going to make my life a lot easier!

The feature I’m most looking forward to is the ability to update multiple blogs at once. They’re incorporating WordPress MU into the new WP 3.0 which means, I believe, if you have more than one WordPress blog you’ll be able to update all your blogs to the latest WP version at the same time, and you’ll also be able to update all of your plugins across your blogs at once as well. It’ll be like WordPress on enzyte LOL.

At least I hope it works the way I’ve explained above. It sounds like it will, but I guess I’ll have to wait and see when it comes out.

As usual I won’t be updating all of our blogs to the newest version until it’s been out for at least two weeks. I made the mistake about a year ago of doing a big update on all my blogs to a new version of WordPress the day it came out and whichever version that was (2.8 I think ) it was kind of buggy and it messed up my sites until the next update came along.

Do you have more than one blog using WordPress? If so, are you looking forward to WordPress 3.0 as well?

Our power if flickering on and off

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Ahh! What’s up with all the power outages today! It’s making it hard for me to get any work done.

My husband called me from work about an hour ago to ask if the power was out here at the house. I guess it’s out at the hospital just down the street where he is (thank god for emergency power). I told him that it was fine.

I think I spoke too soon. Shortly after he called our power flicked on and off and then a few minutes later it did it again. It’s happened about five times now. It keeps knocking out my router too, so if I want to use the internet I have to keeping going over to our router and modem, unplug them for a few minutes and plug them back in to get connect.

If this keeps up I’ll have to put the router on disability insurance LOL.

It’s raining and kind of windy here in Toronto this afternoon … maybe that’s messing up some transformer? Or maybe our power is flicking on and off now due to whatever the problem is a few blocks away at the hospital.

Don’t you just hate it when the power keeps going on and off?

PC Mac and online games for Christmas

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My husband and I will be starting our Christmas shopping this week. We aren’t going to be going all out this year, simply because we can’t afford it, but we’ll still get some gifts for the kids in the family and a few close relatives. One idea that we came up with was to possibly buy some PC, Mac or online games as gifts.

I haven’t played many online or PC games in the last few years, well, with the exception of an online puzzle and a Mahjong game that I play every once in a while. So I’m trying to figure out which games would be good for teenagers and younger kids? Any suggestions?

I was looking online and games such as Princess Isabella – a Witch’s Curse, City Lights, Zuma’s Revenge, Luxor Adventures, Trapped and Campfire Legends seem to be interesting games that I think my nieces and nephews might like. They’d certainly make good stocking stuffers!

Another idea that I had was to possibly buy some memberships at an online game website, that way the recipients could easily play online games or buy games that they like for a discounted price. They could even download games right to their computer – games like Amazing Adventures The Caribbean Secret, Avenue Flo or Big City Adventure.

Have you ever thought of gifting someone an online gaming membership? I think at least two of our nephews would love that as a gift.

Keeping our websites up to date is becoming quite the chore

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Keeping my websites up to date is becoming a pain!

I have one very large HTML based website that I’m working on updating today and it’s taking forever. Yes I’m using an HTML program to do it … but it’s still pretty much manual work.

Then .. it seems like a lot of the plugins that I use on our WordPress blogs are being updated every few days … anyone that uses the All in one SEO plugin will know what I mean. LOL Not to mention the fact that there’s yet another WordPress update. At least WordPress and plugin updates have gotten a lot easier in the last year or so … but still, when you have 17 blogs to manage it’s still a lot of work.

I have one plugin that I used to love, but lately it isn’t working well on half my blogs. It’s the WordPress Database backup plugin. It sends me scheduled backups for about half my sites, but doesn’t email me the backups for the rest. Now that’s frustrating! The worst part is that I can’t find a good replacement for this plugin (even though it still works fine for manual backups).

Speaking of backups … I’m thinking of not only backing up my websites on a regular basis to my computer or a storage device, but also looking into an online backup service.

I’ve had problems in the past (long long ago) where some of my sites were hacked … so I’m a real stickler for keeping things up to date and backed up just in case something happens again.

Do you get tired of doing the constant updates on your WordPress website? (and possible any other type of CMS or HTML website) And … Do you make backup copies of your sites on a regular basis? If not – why not?

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