Blackhat Fish.Just to test some seo skills by trying to rank in google for “blackhat fish”. Checking the term in google with quotes yields one result. This is actually sponsored by Shouting Zone Community to rank a term in 18 days. Some advantages if google indexed your blog post or content fast by the time [...]

I am not encouraging to do blackhat stuff but if you are into search engine optimization, you might be interested on how this stuff are being done. A reason? Well, pretty much self explanatory. Know your competitors if they are doing an unethical method to your site. Competitor can really hurt your site using blackhat technique. [...]

The era and war on social networking is in place and now Google trying to have it down by bringing in friends fromthis social network to their application called Friend Connect. There are already users who was invited to take part and implement the said code snippets on their own sites. Google Friend Connect lets you grow [...]

Got this information from techcrunch.com about Google as a malware site on Yahoo search results. That is when you search for the term Astalavista on Yahoo. Astalavista Yahoo Result. I have tried it myself and it was on the second page. This warning is powered by SearchScan by McAfee. Truly Google is dangerous, lol! google as malware

Nothing much can do today so I have check my gmail account to check some mails. Obviously, we always receive this spam emails from all kinds of products from pharma products to adult sites. Before clicking the link “delete all spam mail”, just notice this text ads at the top (usual ads displayed on google [...]

It is all over the news about Microsoft dropping their bid to Yahoo for $42.3 Billion or $31 per share. Press release have be out for both big gunners about the dismantled deal. On Yahoo News. Microsoft Corp. withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc. on Saturday, scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished [...]

Well just roaming around the corner of webmaster forums and see this contest along the line at webmaster talk. A merging contest between webmaster-talk and earners forum. You might want to take a look at the contest details here at webmaster talk. Prizes are listed below copied from the forum. If you want to register, you [...]

If you will notice on the sidebar, I have removed google ads to replace other network serving ads. Slowly depleting those adsense ads on this blog. It is seems not worth anymore and cannot sustain what this blog is generating through adsense ads due to server fees and maintenance. I am trying out some ad serving [...]

Google rolled out again its pagerank system to most of their data centers including the toolbar. This blog just got lowered from its previous PR of 4 to PR3. History comes when this was PR0 -> PR2->PR5->PR3-PR4-PR3. Been on the ups and down on this blog regarding PR. But not is not in question for [...]

Wordpress just released its first update on wordpress 2.5 series. This is a security release for wordpress. Some of my wordpress blog are now updated with this release. Some features added and fixes.According to the wordpress development blog. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. * Performance improvements for the [...]

Just to give you some awareness of the massive spam about adwords that you might fall if you are using the service. This is not actually coming from google adwords itself but to a certain site trying to steal your information and even money out of it. Letter might go this way, ———————————————————————————- Dear AdWords Customer, Your ads [...]

Sorry about not posting quite often on this blog, pretty much occupied on my day job and don’t have that luxury of time even on the evening to post. Anyway, back to our topic. If you are using wordpress 2.3 or 2.5, you don’t need to have an .htaccess code to redirect your non-www site to [...]

Just installed wordpress 2.5 on one of my blog to upgrade the RC2 version. Looks good on the admin side, I have seen some feed issue on rc1 and rc2 on IE6 where the feed in not loading correctly. It might be a theme issue or wordpress 2.5 itself. I cannot verify this latest version [...]

Happy Easter everyone! No post for almost a month in terms of search engine optimization on this blog. I will continue to write some seo contest this coming weeks so stay tuned. I am just caught  on some business matters so the time was not on me. Please expect some posting on this blog for the [...]

Just giving my support to my SEO friends on SEOCOntest2008 battle. Below are the list and to my readers, hope you can also give some link love to them. Leo Mirabuna - SEOContest2008 (this is my entry on google penalty, lol) Jehzeel H. Laurente - Jehzlau’s SEOContest2008 Benj Arriola - SEOContest2008.com Eligio Tapiador Jr. - SEOContest2008.org Chairell Winston Almendras - [...]

A sneak peek on wordpress 2.5 rc1 is finally out for beta testing. Accordint to Mark of WebToolsCollections, A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times You can download the release here http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.5-RC1.zip if you want to test it and find bugs for better [...]

Dougal Gunters blog just posted some information and plug-in compatibility issues on Wordpress 2.5. And some plug-ins don’t work yet on the system. And with the upcoming release on March 10, 2008 with wordpress 2.5, will you upgrade? Another area to focus is the roadmap posted on the wordpress roadmap or planned version release of the [...]

Jotspot has been re-launch now sitting on Google sites. Google Sites is the latest offering from Google Apps, a suite of products designed to improve communication and collaboration amongst employees, students, and groups. Google Sites makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — [...]

Would you like your client call you through your blog? An enhancement though in private beta stage GrandCentral through blogger buzz made another addition to its features by having a webcall feature that can be added to your blog and visitors can call you right at your site. With GrandCentral, a free service from Google, you [...]

My normal work to check the site I am working with was to check if the site was indexed on different search engine. And one caught my attention to see that it is well rank on google and yahoo but no where to see on MSN on showing sites mentioning it. Have the necessary files, [...]

Blogger now have a Filipino version of its freely hosted blogs. I know this is just a local news for us Filipinos but it is good to see that blogger is expanding to reach common language to popularize and engage in reaching individual to use the service on it’s own language. According to the Buzz Blog, There [...]

Live Search Team now improving its engine by improving its live search bot from crawling site pages. They are focusing on helping webmasters to do and improve site indexing on Live Search. Live Search as regards to traffic I have on this site yields second to Google. According to their site blog. Here the improvements they [...]

Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft bid of 44.6 billion dollars that is amounting to $31 per share according to Yahoo Finance press release. In a bid to remain independent, Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited takeover offer.Quoting sources familiar with the situation, the Journal reports that Yahoo’s board feels the offer of $31 per share [...]

As I regularly check my adsense account, today when I’m about to log-in they have prompt me to update my log-in information to use or associate my gmail account to be used for adsense log-in as well. They are about to migrate all google accounts to use the same account on all services powered by Google [...]

The time I heard about this new feature on Paypal Philippines to add or withdraw to a local bank account, I immediately check and add my bank account and tried to withdraw the funds sitting on my paypal account. All I need was my bank account information including bank code that was posted by paypal [...]

Wordpress 2.3.3 security release is out to public addressing issues and minor fixes. A vulnerability that will allow users to edit post of any other users of a wordpress blog. According to Wordpress Development Blog. A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit [...]

With the recent news for Search industry about the proposal of Microsoft to buy Yahoo, and the immediate meeting of Yahoo executive to discuss the unsolicited letter from Microsoft, I wonder how it will go far with this news. Microsoft already proposes $44.6 Billion on the letter dated January 31, 2008. The offer might increase up [...]

Microsoft openly proposed Yahoo! a 31$ per share of its common stock with a total value of $44.6 Billion!!! According to the press release of Microsoft. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for [...]

Pay-per-play just announced its slow release of its audio ads to the public with caution. They officially launching it according to their blog. NetAudioAds will begin pushing live ads out to their audio ad distribution network.Audio ads will NOT begin playing everywhere at the same time. This will be a slow, methodical ramp up until NaetAudioAds [...]

Do you want to test your seo skills? Or maybe not that much clients bugging you of their site? Then, you can try out this seocontest2008 for your chance and bringing another step to your seo knowledge. Learn how seocontest2008 contestants do their trick to rank high on the search. It’s been almost 2 years since [...]

I am not actually fond of recommending an article from a blog unless it is from an update or an important search engine news or seo. Sometimes some blog got my attention and decided to post it here. But don’t take my word on it, it is just my personal opinion and strongly recommending [...]

With the update of Yahoo on its algorithm and rankings, it seems most of my sites have gain some more places on its search engine while some retained its position. Good for me that this update made some significant change on the ranking system. We will see in the next couple of days if my [...]

Have experienced a 24-hour downtime due to server maintenance on the server that this blog is hosted. Emailed immediately the admin to inform what is going on that I thought would be gone forever for good. The good thing is all my DB has been backed-up just before the outage. It seems is back now to [...]

Oftentimes we ask on how can we market our new blog? How can we get new backlinks for us to be recognized on the niche we are targeting? Checking on the some blogs, well i just need to summarize what could help you achieve what you want. If you will ask me, why not use [...]

Triggit - a web application allowing you to place media and ads with simple clicks and drags without embedding code on your page now launching it application by invitation. You just place a snippet of code and you are set to go. You can make money out of different affiliate system like amazon, shopping [...]

Yahoo embraces OpenID system with beta availability on January 30th.  This simply log you in to any site using OpenID system using Yahoo account. But you still needs to verify your yahoo identity by logging back in to yahoo. Seems SE’s are slowly moving on to OpenID like before when all search engine accepts and joined [...]

This blog has reached 16K+ subscriber in 1 day! Amazing! I mean WOW! Well, I just hope that its true. What another feedburner glitch. Got confused and run over feedburner stats and see my actual subscriber count and it doesn’t even reach to a hundred. feedburner, feedburner count error

A pligg powered backbone Ximmy now live and running a Digg like site. It has created a buzz on webmasters by offering an incentive to submit stories and participate in their site. The idea to compensate members is a good thing but on the long run can just end up closing the program due to [...]

I normally check webmaster live blog about some updates their webmaster portal has to offer. But the post dated January 11, have slipped through my eye. It is SEO 101. And they are now talking SEO for their Live Search Engine. Interesting, but I will have take a further look on some points mentioned. Good Content Good [...]

I’ve heard about pay per play a service similar to adsense but on an audio based advertising. You place a code unto your site and your site will then display an audio ads to be played per unique visitor to your page. According to Wall Street Journal article quoted Starting Feb. 1, San Diego-based V2P Communications [...]

Almost finished getting back one of my site after being hacked. All files have been deleted, all database have been lost. I have contacted the support of the site where one of my site was hosted and immediately they have responded and re-gain back my hosting account and my cpanel information. Unfortunately, my hosting provider [...]

It seems I need to find another company or ad serving sites to relieve adsense on my sites it has been a low conversion for me on the last few month. I have also seen a trend of some webmasters taking out slowly their adsense ads being rotated on their sites. Previously adsense announced its referral [...]

This was already been set for large companies and businesses way back mid-year ( I believe) but for individual like us (small time) should think what can be the best marketing plan for this coming year of 2008. Good marketing means traffic means more revenue. Or just are planning to retire? Yay, too early [...]

Probably this will be my last post this year for this blog and looking for another year round of copying from websites err! blogging (quoting some of those). It is good to see or foresee what will happen in the next year events on search engine optimization and search engine news and update and how [...]

I am doing my routine on on freelancing site where I have started to do some freelancing work and start earning money online with some data entry jobs, email grabbing and etc. Then decided to check some projects concerning search engine optimization or SEO. I know that the system was to bid and get [...]

For almost a week I have not posted on this blog for several reasons. One it the connection that I am experiencing to my ISP. This keeps on resetting and annoying that it losses connection every time I was in the middle of surfing. That is basically the primary reason why not posted on this [...]

If you are dealing with a holiday site, what can you do about it? What ways you will have to employ on your seo or search engine optimization venture in crowded and competitive keyword you want your site to optimize? Here are some tips you can do to your holiday site. Content Make sure content listing is [...]

Share you knowledge. Primary aim of this new Google project going into beta stage called “knol” stands for unit of knowledge. The have announced it on their blog. The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything [...]

If you are regularly checking your sites performance using google webmaster tools, you will probably notice an addition to the feature called Content Analysis. This show information meta on your site. It basically shows  if you have a missing title tags on any of you site pages, descriptions (long and short) or non-informative title tags??? If you [...]

Movable Type - a blogging platform similar to wordpress now on opened its door to the public for modification, enhancements as an open source blogging system. They have recently posted on their blog about the move with reason indicated that will surely encouraged competition. As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This [...]

Just notice a new changes on the adsense ads being displayed on the publishers sites that includes the Word “Show More” beside a “ads by google” on a horizontal ads and below on the vertical ads. An if you are using that rectangular ads like 300×250 then you will see this post Up and Down Arrow [...]

Got an email from widgetbucks about the official release of their international cpm ads included in their widgets. Ads can now be shown on your sites for visitors outside US and Canada that formerly was only limited to those countries. You can now earn on those international visitors on per click or impression based ads. We [...]

Google just made some modification on how many links from your sites to be displayed on search results “if” you site qualifies to have one. According to their blog, We’ve also been tweaking things here and there so that Sitelinks will appear for many more websites, and with more descriptive names. These improvements should help get [...]

Yahoo just rolling out again its search engine for another update on its algorithm and additional directive on its search according to their blog about adding tags and page level exclusion tag like NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, NOSNIPPET, NOFOLLOW. Previously, these page level tags could only be expressed within html pages through the META directive (for e.g. [...]

Live search is enhancing their search even more digging into cloaking stuff. According to them, One of the biggest challenges with relevancy is how to distinguish legitimate information from various forms of search spam. This is one area that we’ve made especially good progress in over the last 8 months through a suite of tools that [...]

Yahoo released it’s preview application of its own messenger for Vista users giving its application a shiny look and limited features application. Though they have the ability to chat and the other pre-historic features, they lack the major ones being accustomed now by users on using messenger. One of those is video call and free [...]

Installed the iWPhone Wordpress plug-in this blog to allow iPhone users to browse my blog without the need to resize it or scroll to view the page or text. It actually have its own theme to be used specifically to iPhone and iPod touch with its browser. previously I have installed also the mobile plug-in to [...]

If you are recieving an adsense check rather than those EFT or Western Union, then you might have noticed this printed text on the paystub. CREDIT NOTE -VAT OVERCHARGE BETW. 1 JAN 2004 & 22/11/07 IF YOU NEED DETAILS OF THIS VAT PLEASE EMAIL GOOGLE@BDOSX.IE WITH CUSTOMER REF Adsense team have explained this error on their blog. November checks If you were issued [...]

Maybe you will will be surprised when you logged on your Gmail account to chat to your friends and see that you can also chat on your AIM friends. Gmail blog have an explanation about this on their new feature. Today we are happy to tell you about a new feature we’ve started to roll out [...]

Google officially announced its stand on buying and selling links via their google webmaster blog, If, however, a webmaster chooses to buy or sell links for the purpose of manipulating search engine rankings, we reserve the right to protect the quality of our index. Buying or selling links that pass PageRank violates our webmaster guidelines. Such [...]

At the dashboard seen this blog post on akismet and lorelle about turning off the defense on spam for a day which was originated on the post from Jesper Rønn-Jensen spam filter free day. Will defensio spam protector will join the fun? I have installed defensio the time they launch their own plug-in for wordpress [...]

Well the major search engines now have its own ranking name of its engine or how they classify a certain site or page on their search. Google have Pagerank in scale of 1-10, Yahoo have also WebRank with a ranking of 1-10 and MSN/Live now have its own DomainRank. So which is better? Most of the [...]

I have tested myself the effect of rapid increase of site wide incoming links to a website to check what will be the actual effect on search engines crawling my sites. Note that this is no way a method of rapid incoming links via a script that will auto generate links or any doorway pages [...]

You know it? The answer is Yedda. AOL just acquired Yedda - an Israel based Question and Answer service company where people or users can ask and answer question. It is similar in nature on Yahoo answers and other QA sites. Does AOL really need their service? Will it be the answer to AOL’s internet visibility [...]

It seems that automated comment from spam bots can break the defense of defensio sometimes with this statistics. Recent accuracy: 99.86% 5735 spam 14 legitimate comments 6 false negatives (undetected spam) 2 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam) So I decided to use another plug-in in conjunction with defensio that promise to blog this automated spam bots from commenting. Let [...]

Finally, Live Search Webmaster Center is out for public beta. You can now use the service of what live search has to offer to check your website statistics on their own search engine. According to their blog, We want the center and the blog to be a place for two way communication between Live Search and [...]

You create site to inform your visitors what is going on to your product, your service or even an announcement or news. But then search engines didn’t find or crawled the page you have created. There comes an issue of spiderability. So what you do is optimize your site not just for your visitors but also [...]

Google adsense seems to streamline the clickable space of the showed ads on websites. Formerly you can click on the ads (not your own ads) anywhere within your specified ad box. For example, check this ads having 728×90 ad box. On that ad above I cannot highlight the text below the title of the ad and [...]

So far so good on this new anti-spam plug-in called defensio. I have already posted about this on my earlier post versus akismet. The result going pretty well. But still wondering, how about if those spammers have overcome the barriers and have spotted a hole on this new anti-spam system? There are still spam that able [...]

A new emerging anti spam service is on the town called Defensio - a spam filtering web service protecting blogs and web applications for comment spam and the like. It also offers plug-ins to most of the blogging platform to control spam like the infamous wordpress. Some features you can expect as a wordpress plug-in Features [...]

I was wondering how webmaster’s responded to the recent pagerank update. Did you remove your paid links? Or did you add no follow on your “friends” links? Getting into the topic, on this blog, I still have those links as follow and never responded to that google pagerank decreasing update. As long as I get those [...]

I am publishing this blog feed in full via feedburner and thinking it will help and will not annoyed my feed subscribers to check the full post on this blog. But unfortunately, I was wrong. Here is the reason why. 1. Feed scraper individual keeps on posting or copying the blog content via feeds. 2. The snippet [...]

I have already mentioned about planning to install this plug-in to enhance comment on my blog and offering a free backlinks to show when you are the top commenter for the month. And here it is, I have just activated it and as you can see at the sidebar. Hope to see some comments and get [...]

I was doing an seo to one of my clients about used cars to an specific country result page and still surprised that google still not fixed this result. I have already seen this few months back about double results but don’t know if I am only the one saw this results. I don’t like to [...]

Nah, not actually a ship, though this blog also hit by those PR decrease from PR5 to PR3 and the directory from PR4 to PR3 but this blog is not sinking as Google trying to play. In fact, it is still on the first page of the key phrase I am targetting. Traffic is going strong [...]

Yahoo is updating again its search algorithm and some modification or changes on their crawling and indexing process. We are expecting some changes on the ranking on the next few days. I think it will also include its fix to the siteexplorer inlinks inconsistency. I will be testing out some ranking changes to the sites I [...]

This is to give way and maybe my visitors might have the heart to give a little support to all who have been affected by the wildfire occurred in Southern California. You can have a little donation to for some relief. You can donate via google checkout at http://www.google.com/checkout/wildfires.html or go directly to [...]

If you regularly search for different search engine you probably know what search operators you want to include on the search box to limit to find and exact match to your query. Google has a lot of it, but other search engine do have that operators also. If you own a site or probably a [...]

What’s the most important thing when you’re running a huge PPC (Pay-Per-Click) campaign or even a small site promotion? We take into account or disregard the issue of money or the budget of running the campaign, instead we look into the site or page we are promoting and how it responds to user or visitors [...]

With the recent pagerank update hitting large websites or shall we say popular websites, will google finally made up their mind to eradicate its patented Pagerank? Post have been circulated already in the industry about Pagerank dropping on some popular site. Search Engine Land Post, focusing on hitting the sites who sells links, Aaron Wall [...]

Just for awareness of my readers and visitors about this new phishing email being circulated into the internet using paypal as target. There are actually lots of this phishing emails so don’t be caught on this kind of emails. Better go directly to your payment processor page in this case paypal. New email address added to [...]

Google adsense team just announced its forthcoming feature on all publishers - Managing Ads. This will enable publishers to change the styles including colors on their adsense ads if they want to modify the colors appearing to their site without even logging or modifying the site files. Good thing, this will prevent publishers from accidentally modifying [...]

I have just redirected all feeds and subscriber to my feedburner feed. So all subscriber that is not listed before on my feedburner tracking will be redirected now to my feedburner. So anyone will not miss any new post. Don’t worry, feeds in feedburner are also set to full text so you need to click [...]

Email marketing is still the best so far until today on promoting your product or business. By history tracked, it is one of the best way for a good conversion rate applied on online marketing. That is the good right? But how about if you receive those emails hundreds time promoting similar product or business. [...]

Recently Live webmaster announced its ability to search using your phone by dialing 1-800-CALL-411 as posted on their blog. Some excerpts We’ve built Live Search 411 to go beyond just finding business information. Because our goal is to help you complete your task, we’ve included features like: * Connect to any business [...]

If you are a webmaster and really cares about your site status and ranking on search engines especially google you will probably know google webmaster tools and probably visiting quite often to check some errors those robots are trying to check. You will also notice some improvements on its google webmaster area. Here is some [...]

The first maintenance release for Wordpress 2.3 line is out for beta test using wordpress 2.3.1 version. Got this information from Boren Blog, Some information on bug fixes * Tagging support for Windows Live Writer * A login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than [...]

The day I have heard about wordpress mobile plug-in, i immediately check if this can be done on this site and implement it and check how it will look like in my mobile phone. And decided to install it together with some company providing an additional revenue schemes to mobile sites as a publisher of mobile [...]

Did you receive an amount generated by your google referral ads less than what is expected to be the price of conversion? If yes, then don’t blame google about it. They have actually announce it on their adsense blog. We’ve recently made a change to help make sure that the conversions generated by referral ads are [...]

After three (3) days of vacation with no way to access the net and just logged today and check my referral and other logs on the server, I have seen a huge traffic drop from google referrals. It dropped to almost 50% of the traffic coming from google compared to the last weeks traffic that this [...]

The time I have been waiting for. A rest finally for at least three (3) days. It is not only for search engine optimization work for some clients but also for my day job not an seo but as an employee of an electronics manufacturing company. Well 3 days of no PC, no internet or any [...]

If you are into advertising you probably know that Google Have their Google Adwords Professional accreditation. You should be using their system and spend some amount of cash in advertising before taking in the examination for you to be certified by them. Now Microsoft just launch a beta stage with the similar in platform they called [...]

Many webmasters have already understood that nowadays it is not enough just to create a web-site and start to gain revenue from it. This is only an initial step of penetrating onto the WWW-market that has its rules and peculiarities. Alongside with professional web design, web development or dedicated hosting the necessity of promotion is a [...]

Another google acquisition called Jaiku - an activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones. An FAQ is set about this acquisition. Jaiku is joining Google. While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months [...]

Although I have already installed Akismet plug-in in this blog and still moderating the comments still receiving different kinds of blog comment spam. There is one called Blog Comment Auto poster that in fact akismet is also caught this auto generated comment as spam. There are also other comments also that is legit that is [...]

Was surprised when I see this news from Newsvine about MSNBC acquisition of Newsvine itself. Link to the news. MSNBC Interactive News LLC said it acquired Newsvine Inc., a small Seattle startup that lets visitors read and comment on news stories from mainstream media outlets.Newsvine launched in 2006 and employs six people. Mike Davidson, its co-founder [...]

As a member of digitalpoint and other webmaster and seo websites I normally see blogs being advertised in the market. Specially on Buy, sell and trade section or in the marketplace of every webmaster or seo forum. I am also aware that there are  issues on directories being created today in terms on arguments and [...]

I was caught sleeping by the plug-in installed on my blog called the Global Translator wordpress plug-in that is located here. That is whenever visitors comes to my blog and check the flags corresponding to their language they will get an error 403 response from google translation. Checking in the plug-in gets me to an [...]

Microsoft Affiliate System is rolling out to public as I was just approved from their system upon receiving an email about the approval. There is actually only three available product that is accepted but still should be located in either Canada or US. Here is an excerpt of the mail I have received. The Microsoft Affiliate Network [...]

A close deal on acquisition of Google to Postini finally made into public and work around of implementing to Google Apps including gmail in terms of security has been made. This will surely increase Google App users security on accessing and using service provided by Google. More on press release here. But competition is there so [...]