Jack of all Trades

We always call him jack of all trades. He just knows how to fix things. Since my parents came to Malaysia, he has been fixing things. He fixed the water hose nozzle which my son broke. He fixed some electrical stuff in the house. He's just a "fixer." Hehehe. I am so blessed to have my father around. He can fix just about anything. I think he can fix car grills as well. He knows a lot of mechanical and electrical work. There's no need to hire an electrician or a plumber when he's around. My mom, on the other hand is a good cook.

So yes, I'm having a blast. And I always thank God for this blessing of having my parents around.

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Having My Parents

This trip was supposed to be a birthday treat for my dad last February early this year. But because of my emergency trip to Manila to process my passport, I had it postponed and moved the trip to July.

This was one of the reasons also why we had to rush in moving out of the old house. We wanna get settled before they came.

It's nice to be able to bring my parents here. They have been here a few times already but this is going to be their longest stay here.

I'm glad because my kids could get a chance to bond with their grandparents. And it's going to be a good break for my parents. Break from their normal routine, break from staying in the same environment everyday. And sometimes when they're away and at their home in the Philippines, sometimes, phone calls are not enough. And our family cannot always make a trip to the Philippines.

I also thank God for budget airlines such as Air Asia. When I bought the tickets, Air Asia was on promotion so it was not that expensive. Air Asia is indeed a blessing. Now everyone can fly - Hehehe( that's their motto by the way).

I am just happy that my parents are here.

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My Domains

I have been blogging for more than two years now. After a few months of blogging, I started monetizing my blogs. I was chatting with a friend and he was so encouraged to know that I have been earning through blogging. He asked how many blogs I have. I told him I have 6 blogs that I use for paid blogging. He was so surprised. So I told him that if you start earning with your one blog, you would definitely be encouraged to start another blog. Owning a domain is a plus point.

So how do we actually choose a domain name? When I chose my domain name, I didn't really give it much thought. But I just discovered that in choosing a domain name, you have to taken into consideration the search engine optimization.

In the world of paid blogging, we bloggers want traffic. Meaning, we want people to come and visit our blogs. But if we only have a few friends, only few people could come and visit our blogs. So what do we do to increase our traffic? We use certain keywords so that when people search for some words in their browser, i.e., janet, work-at-home mom, brand names like loui vuitton, coach, etc., they would end up in our sites.

Same goes with domain names. We have to choose a good name that would bring people to our site. Sadly, like I said, when I chose my domain names, I didn't give it much thought. So I end up having my names all over my domains. Talk about vanity and all. However, when people search a keyword like Janet (Jackson), they would end up in my site, because of the name Janet.

So how many domain names I have? So far, I have 6. I have a friend that has almost 20 domains. How she maintains it I dun know. Must ask her one day.

Also, I have discovered that if you have a website, you can have as many domain names as you can and all those point to one website. It helps a lot if you have a business and you want to maximize your search engine optimization.

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2 Blogs Down

I have now exported my other blog (which I didn't make public) to my wordpress blog at Jan Writes. So now my blogs are down to 6. These 6 blogs are the blogs I try to update because I'm using them for paid blogging.

But of course, I have 3 other blogs which is still free hosted. 2 of which are my blogs for my kids... mainly my letters to them... These two were the first blogs I have created two years ago (in Blogspot) which I haven't been updating for awhile now.. And the other free hosted blog is an outlet for my other photos (i'm a professional photographer wannabe, btw). Too.

I have changed templates for Our Family Story blog too. You might wanna visit if you have time. I am actually working on my blog list there because I lost my list when I changed templates.

My apologies also for not visiting your blogs for a while now. I will have to make it a priority once we are already settled.

For now I'm off to feeding my kids their lunch. Ciao!

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My Blogs

Everybody knows I have a million blogs. Hehehe. I actually set them up for my paid blogging business. But I realized I can't keep up with all of them. So now I am re-structuring and merging. LOL.

So what have I been doing? I deleted some of my blogs but imported the contents to the other blog.

My Janet Speaks blog which talks about women stuff at http://www.janetspeaks.com is no longer existing. However, I have exported all the contents to my other blog, Mom Writes. Both of them have almost the same niche. So I thought to better merge them together.

Also, I have been hosting a food meme called Yummy Sunday at my other blog. I found there are other existing food memes available. So I just decided to give it up. If you think it's a waste to give it up and you would like to host it, please let me know so I can change and pass the codes to you.

I am now keeping my Our Family Story blog to our family's updates.

So there goes. I feel so relieved after doing all these. I need to work on exporting my other blog as well. For the meantime, I'm off to cooking dinner for my kids.

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