I have wanted to change this WordPress blog URL from year/month/file-name.html to just file-name.html. I could simply change the setting in the WordPress permalink option. But that is not 100% right because all the older posts will lose the inbound link. That’s why I have to use a htaccess 301 redirect to make sure the old URLs are properly redirect to the new URL structure.

After some googling, the solution is simpler than I thought!

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I have been writing about upcoming IT and PC Shows in Singapore since early this year at the MyBlogSG.com blog. These PC shows related posts are attracting some traffic to the blog. It will be interesting to know what are the characteristics of the keywords which giving the most traffic!

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Anyone with basic SEO knowledge will know that incoming links are important to getting higher ranking in search engine results and PageRank(PR). And blog makes it easy for you to get incoming links.

You have a higher change of getting higher PR when you blog. The reason is quite simple, more web pages will link to your pages because blog is designed with that feature from the start. In fact, trackback was invented because of blog. And RSS becomes popular because of blog.

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If you have other ways to make money with your blog, don’t use Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher Network or any other PPC programs. The most obvious reason is that you are giving away your traffic for that few cents. If your readers are aware of this Ads by Google program, you can hardly get clicks from them. Also, many tech-savvy visitors are just blind to such ads.

However, if you still want use Adsense, here’s what you can do to increase your revenue.
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As you can see, this blog has a new look. I have finally ported all my blog posts from Blogger to WordPress.

For my new readers, here’s how the old layout look like.

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