While I was doing my daily blog surfing and social networking routine, I came across my friend Leland’s tweet regarding the Top 32 Best WordPress Related Blogs based on two popular metrics – Google PageRank and Alexa. This list was created by Arthur Kim of The WP Ninja. As an avid fan and advocate of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 4, 2009
This will be the first time for me to do something like this for my blog. I’m not doing this because I’m just following what other bloggers are doing but rather, I’m doing this so I will have something to motivate me to do my best, improve on my strengths and work on the weaknesses [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 9, 2008
Hope everyone had a good and safe weekend. Found some interesting and useful articles the past few days and now sharing it with you in this week's edition of Weekend Roundup. Enjoy!Pinoy BlogosphereHave you decided to ditch your old PC and get a new one? Pinoy Tech Guy's latest article talks about the things you need to consider when upgrading your PC. Blogging Mix has 11 blogging tips on writing for non native English speakers. Good read for bloggers who don't have English as their native tongue or for anyone who are having difficulties with writing in English. PinoyMoneyTalk warns PayPal users about a new type of PayPal email scam. It's always good to be cautious when it comes to these things. If you get an email from someone you don't know and you're not sure about it, then just ignore it. Better safe than sorry! Recently lost PageRank because of paid links? Jam shares this WordPress plugin she recently found that automatically puts a "rel=nofollow" attribute to all paid links. Before you install this plugin, you'll have to make sure you won't be violating any TOS with your affiliate programs.
Continue reading...Thursday, January 3, 2008
Several months back, after my blog’s PageRank dropped after two successive Google PageRank updates I mentioned about my plans of filing for a site reinclusion request at Google Webmaster Tools. One of my readers, Aahz left a comment and asked me how to file a site reinclusion request. I promised him that I would post [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 25, 2007
No matter how busy I am or how hectic my schedule can be, there will always be time for the Weekend Roundup. I hope you enjoy this week’s edition.What could be worse than the recent Google PageRank penalties? How about SERP penalties for link sellers? Lea Woodward gives tips on how to become a happier and [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 18, 2007
Better late than never, right? Here’s the late issue of last week’s weekend roundup. Enjoy!Dougal Campbell just released Easy Gravatars WordPress plugin version 1.1 and it’s also now available at the WordPress Plugin Directory. Lorelle Van Foosen talks about a new breed of spammers and scrapers who steal your blog’s content – Spinning Spammers. Are you a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 8, 2007
Last month, one of the hottest topics in the blogosphere was the Google PageRank updates. Many big time bloggers like ProBlogger, Copyblogger, John Chow, Quick Online Tips and Weblog Tools Collection were penalized and lost pagerank. For Filipino owned blogs, among those that were penalized in the initial update were Yugatech, Retzwerx, Jozzua and Codamon just [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 24, 2007
If you haven’t heard of it yet, Google has already updated the PR or pageranks. Some sites were updated a couple weeks ago while some just got it within the past couple of days. What comes as a surprise though is how several popular websites and blogs got hit with penalties and lost rankings in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 23, 2007
Here’s one tool that I’m sure any webmaster or blogger would definitely love. It’s called Xinu. What is Xinu? It’s a tool that lets you check your website or blog’s PageRank, Alexa rank, backlinks, Technorati rank, feed subscribers, domain validation/diagnostics and many more. Btw, if you haven’t noticed the name comes from Unix spelled backwards. Screenshot:Xinu [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 11, 2007
A blogaholic is someone who’s addicted to blogging. Most of the time, this is true for someone who is new to blogging and for some it’s hasn’t changed a bit even after several years of blogging. What are some of the characteristics of a blogaholic? Checking your blog stats every few minutes, checking for new [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 8, 2007
EDITED: 05/10/07 What is Pagerank? PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and [...]
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