If you have noticed, I’m a bit obsessed with driving web traffic  and how to get more quality links in some of my previous posts.  Today, I’ll be posting another subject on the same direction.

Let’s face it, your blog or website will not make any money if nobody pay attention to it. Simply means, no traffic=no money.

If you use Google in searching for something, for example the words “world cup 2010″ , you will notice that YouTube videos are always on top of SERP (Search Engine Rank Page).

Example of a Google search result with YouTube

This is not really unusual because Google owned YouTube.

What’s so exciting about this feature of Google search engine, is that YouTube is one of the greatest source of traffic of most websites now than ever! This is how the term “viral videos”  was invented. A lot of internet marketers are using this great tool to bring massive traffic to their site.

YouTube is a great way to market your blog or your website, but just like a well written article, you  need to have a  video that draws attention. After this you need to create more views that  will create the link and the position in  the search engine, and therefore the traffic.

How do you create more  YouTube views?

1. Don’t make your video  appear like an Ad. – viewers don’t usually share this kind of videos unless it really amazing. If it’s an Ad for the television, just upload on YouTube on how it was done. I’ve seen a lot of  ” the making of…” videos in YouTube that are so popular.

2. Try to make convincing(but not misleading) titles to your videos. Secret tip: I’ve seen a lot of fake videos title and hey…they have a lot of viewers.

3. Share, share and share. Take advantage of Facebook, MySpace, Forums and other social networks.

4.Try YouTube’s promoted videos feature. YouTube Promoted Videos (ads.youtube.com) is available for users in the USA only and for those Non-USA users, use Google AdWords to create a Promoted Videos ad.

5. Use a third party marketing firm. Try Increaseyoutubeviews.com. Buy YouTube views and let this company do all the hardwork to Increase Youtube Views.

What’s so special with Increaseyoutubeviews.com?  A lot actually. Let me just summarize it in few words. This company will, and can definitely get you on the most viewed list, and make your video go viral!  When it comes to YouTube Video Promotion, just go to Increaseyoutubeviews.com and you’ll be in the perfect place.

If you want to be more popular, you need something to get people interested  in your YouTube videos. Social networks and word of mouth will make you popular over time and so other third party marketing firm whose specialty is making your video viral.

YouTube got a lot of potential to make money, use it to your advantage.

If you are not aware, according to some webmasters, Google had a PageRank update last month of June and they are “predicting” the next update could be on September.  Historically, it has been observed that Google updates its PageRank every three months.

Are you ready for the next Google PageRank update?

Do you want your site to improve its rank?

Do you want to increase the current PageRank of your blog?

It’s just past four days of the month of July. You still have  more or less 90 days to improve or gain Google PageRank. Now is the right time to do it!

How can you increase the PageRank of your site in 3 months the fastest way possible?

Before I introduce you the fastest way (automatic), let me tell you first the 4 Easy Steps on How To Get Quality Back-links for your blog.

1. Look for blogs that provide “do follow”. Only “do follow” blogs will give you the Google PageRank juice.  There’s a lot of them out there. Of course, BlogDeManila is a DoFollow since 2008.

Most DoFollow blogs are using a badge like this

You can actually locate blogs that allow back-links(dofollow) by using the  free Firefox plugin available from SEO Quake. You can download it  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/seo-tools

2. If you want to get PR (Page Rank), start making sensible comment on DoFollow blogs. “Drive by” comments are not effective. Make an insightful, useful or relevant comment to the post that is likely to be approved by the blog’s administrator.

3. Instead of using your name (or your blog’s name),  you can use  relevant anchor text on the blog to include your back-link with. For example if you want to rank on “Car Accessories”, you may use it like this:

Sample on using Relevant Anchor Text (Keywords)

You can include your back-link within the website URL on your post and  actual comment box as well, just make sure it’s permitted.

4. The last is easy. Rinse and Repeat 1-3 steps.

The process that I’ve told you is simply similar to manual link exchange.  The only drawback of this process is -  it is extremely time consuming. You need to do a lot of commenting (and manual link exchange) for you to gain quality PR.  I’m not saying that it doesn’t work. It does!  In fact, it still being use by a lot of bloggers.

Semi-Automatic BackLinks Strategy

With the usage of what is known as Web 2.0 technology, acquiring back-links is easier now than in any time in the history of the internet. Many blogger build back-links for their site using Social Bookmarking websites. All you have to do is  often sign in and create profiles. Still, you need to manually add your link to all the social bookmarking sites.

What we need is a fully automated process that will auto-link our site to other high-quality pages.

Fully Automatic BackLinks

Here’s where the fun of of backlinking comes in.

Do you want your links be automatically placed on up to hundreds of sites simply by displaying links on your own page?

If your reply is no, then just contain yourself in manually building your links but if your answer is a BIG sounding YES, then head on to AUTOMATIC BANKLINKS.

But before you do that, let me give you some background about this new service that is set to revolutionize the concept of link exchanging for web masters and bloggers.

What is Automatic BankLinks?

I’ll sum it up for you. It is a  FREE service that enables webmasters and website owners to quickly and effortlessly build up good quality, relevant backlinks, by agreeing to display a small amount of links to other user’s sites on their own pages.

You can actually see a real-time sample on my page. Just look for the FREE Backlinks section after the Top Commentators widget.

Three of the most common questions  (based on their site) that you may want to ask them also:

• Isn’t Automatic Backlinks just another link exchange directory?
  Not exactly. Most link directories work on the principal of having a single “Links” page, that is populated with links that are vaguely related to your site’s topic. Automatic Backlinks places links on already existing content pages that have a minimum of Google PageRank 1.
• Are the links reciprocal?
  No. It is widely believed that search engines place less weight on simple “you link to me – I link to you” exchanges. Automatic Backlinks uses sophisticated algorithms to create one-way links between the pages and sites in the system.
• How can I be sure of the quality of the backlinks I get?
  Automatic Backlinks only includes pages that have earned a Google PageRank of 1 or above in to the system.

I have given you the two ways on how to improve your PageRank. The ball is in your hand. You can choose either the manual way (time consuming) or the fully automatic “set and forget” system – the Automatic BankLinks.

It’s your choice on how do you want to boost your search engine ranking. Let me know what way do you want to take.

Increase your revenue on Adgitize!

How?

Simply by scoring more than 300 points a day!

How do you score 300 points a day?

• If you are an advertiser, you get a 100 advertising points automatically.
• Visit and click 51 ads on the Adgitize network to score 100 points
• Write a blog each day for an additional 100 points

Doing these  methods will give you a total of 300 points, that is if you do them everyday.  Additionally, you will also gain points from page views and Ad view bonus points each day. These will increase your chances of reaching the 300 points or more.

Earn More through This Special Offer

You will earn a  minimum of 47 cents  for any day that you score over 300 points or an equivalent minimum amount of $14.57 for a full 31 day month.

What Else? Nothing… You are not required to do any more than be an advertiser and score 300 points a day.

So what are you waiting for? Advertise now on Adgitize and recoup your investment at the end of the month! Yes, advertising is an investment with profit and not just a cost. Adgitize will pay you back more on the money you invested  if you will do your assignment.

This is no joke. ‘Been there done that’, and I’m still doing it every month.

As of this writing, my Adgitize earnings for the month of May is already at $17.88. I’m pretty sure that this will increase because there are still articles that are unaccounted for. My biggest earning from Adgitize was at $35.81 on January of this  year.

By the way, this promo will run through July 31st, 2010. If the promotion meets Adgitize sales goals then they will continue the promotion throughout the year.

I received a letter today from Google. I thought it was a letter banning me from their Adsense program or a legal letter letting me know that I’ve done something wrong with my account.

To my surprise, it’s a letter inviting me to be an advertiser on their Google Adwords program. Enclosed on the envelope with the letter is a voucher worth PhP1,500 of free advertising if I sign-up before May 7, 2010. After this date, the value will drop to PhP1,000.

It is written in the letter that there are 3 reasons to advertise your business on Google.

1. PhP1,500. For you. For free. Use it to drive potential customers to your website. For example, if your average cost-per-click was PhP10, PhP1,500 could deliver 150 visitors to your site.
2. Reach your exact customers. Show your ads on Google only when potential customers search for your products and services. Target prospects in Philippines, Asia or the entire world.
3. No risk. No obligation. There’s no contract to sign or minimum spending requirement. Once you use up your free voucher, you’re under no obligation to continue.**

Written under the letter in small print:

** After the promotional credits has been exhausted, your campaigns will continue to accrue clicks for which the costs will be charged to your credit card. If you don’t want to be charged for additional clicks, you can pause your campaigns at anytime.

Not bad at all.

Now, I’m thinking hard on what product or services to advertise.  I’m sure some of you already know that I have my own small software company. I’m developing software for other companies and do consultancy services too. I might use the voucher for this.

Aside from the voucher, inside the envelope is a brochure detailing the step-by-step procedures on how to place an Ad on Google within minutes. See the image below.

The four benefits of Google Adwords are printed at the back of the brochure.

1. Find the people who are searching for you.
2. Pay only when someone clicks on your ad.
3. Show your ad where potential customers can find you.
4. Create your free ad for a successful campaign in just minutes.

I don’t want to waste this free opportunity. I know that Php1,500 is too small for an advertising but I’ve got to start using Google Adwords somehow. And, we all love free don’t we?

Wow…time flies so fast! I’ve been out of town for almost a month…travelling in all directions with my whole family.  Tiring, but a lot of memorable moments were bonded.

My last post was more than a month old already. I’m very sorry for that, but let me tell you that I did not procrastinate nor I’m a  Blogcrastinator.     A  Blogcrastination – the deferment of writing a blog post to a later time; often a mechanism for coping with anxiety.

In fact, all the blogs that I own and most of the sites that I’m maintaining ( I’m not the blog owner) were all updated even if I was on a vacation except for blogdemanila.com. This is of course due to WordPress scheduling techniques. All the articles were set to be posted on a scheduled date.

So how did I earn while traveling? Simple, by just letting my blogs run on their own. To tell you the truth,  my earnings for this past four weeks  where I was mostly offline are more than what I’ve earned  on my first year of blogging.

And here’s the other truth;  I don’t really do ALL the work. It’s all outsourced or automated.

It’s simple really when you already have set-up your “blog empire” and let the soldiers do most of the work. All you have to think about is the strategy you will use in conquering your next loots.

Just like the old English idiom, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, there’s also there’s WAY more to blogs than running a few clunky ads.

Spilling the secret box

My secret box is composed of a mix of revenue streams including:

• Services (setting-up sites and blogs)
• Affiliate products and services
• Ads (such as Adsense and Bidvertiser)

I know that some of you are earning a lot doing product reviews and/or using pay per post networks. Honestly, I’m not good on this. I’m not a good writer and so I shy away from this task as much as possible.

Since I’m not good in writing,there’s another SECRET that I’m going to reveal on my next post.  I just have to schedule the articles that are needed to be posted on all the blogs that I’m maintaining. Don’t worry it won’t take long.

Lately, I’ve been suffering from this syndrome. Unfortunately, I guess there’s no cure for it. If there is, I will vehemently avoid the medication.

Even when I’m in public places (it’s a no-no) , I can’t control myself not to suffer this contagious disease. I’ll always look for the opportunity to do it.

Before you think of any thing gross, let me clear myself.

GASS is a phenomenon that can hit any members of the Adsense Family. You’ve got to be a member in order for you to suffer this addictive syndrome.

GASS is the abbreviation of Google AdSense Stats Syndrome. According to Google Adsense Insider, ” The primary sign of affliction is the compulsive need to check AdSense stats every 15 minutes or so to see how much you’ve earned since your prior login.”

This compulsive disorder will sometimes bring uncontrolled urge for the patient to check their accounts even multiple an hour!

“Sufferers face strong withdrawal when separated from a PC with Internet access and have been known to experience mild abdominal discomfort and general irritability”, according to Rob, AdSense Product Marketing.

In order to minimize the negative effect of this syndrome to all Adsense family members, please let it be known that reports are generally updated every 15 to 30 minutes, but there can sometimes be a delay of up to 24 hours.

Sometimes when you see a “no data available” , don’t rush to your eye doctor. Your eyes are perfectly normal and not making a tricks on you. It can take up to 24 hours for Adsense “robo-accountant-auditor-doctor” to fully verify the internal logs and finalize your reports — as a result, you may sometimes see changes in your earnings during the course of the day.

Are you suffering from this syndrome? How often do you check your account?

Pacquiao and Cotto’s fight is one of the best. A highly considered classic fight! One of the best boxing fight of all time. Both fighters gave all their strength, sweat and blood in the name of boxing. They did not fail their fans.

Cotto is too strong , but Pacquiao put on his dominating performance, utilizing his blazing speed and combination of power from both hands.  Pacquiao knocked Cotto twice and turn his face into a river of blood. On the 55 seconds into the last round, Pacquiao stopped and defeated Cotto via TKO.

But, wait… this post is not about the fight. I want to discuss the tricks (not techniques) that other bloggers used not only to increase their SERP rank (Search Engine Result Page),  but I want to specifically point out how they blatantly violated Adsense guidelines.

Here’s a (not-so) good example.

As you can see from this picture, the only text of this site are those in yellow ellipse. One of Adsense’s policies is for publisher not to “placed on any non-content-based page.” Content drives ads. I don’t know if you can call that page a “content-based” page, tell me.

Another example.

Just like the first example, the only content here is the one you can see on top and that’s it!  It’s more like a sub-header than a content. I guess this 2nd example violated another Adsense policy – “not to : Placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads.” There’s nothing on that site except for Google adsense and Chitika ads on the left sidebar (Red ellipse).

And here’s a very tricky one.

Searching for “manny pacquiao vs miguel cotto live stream” on Google will lead you on this site. It’s actually on Google result page no. 1! Just like the previous examples, the only non-Google Adsense on this blog are those in yellow and blue ellipses. Those links on blue ellipse are very tricky. They really blend on the 3 ad links on top, but don’t you think this site is against Adsense policy – “publishers participating in the AdSense program may not:  Format ads so that they become indistinguishable from other content on that page.”?

While the fight was going on for undercards, I’ve tried to check on some “pacquiao vs cotto free live stream”  and I saw two sites that directly violating Adsense policy. One blog that I saw has a pop-up for survey that obscuring the page. Directly underneath the survey form are Adsense ads! “Google ads, search boxes or search results may not be:Obscured by elements on a page.”

The 2nd blog had a text to this effect ” Watch free live stream on this link” and below it are Adsense ad links! The text was committed with contempt.  .  It blatantly violated the policy – “publishers participating in the AdSense program may not:Encourage users to click the Google ads using phrases such as “click the ads”, “support us”, “visit these links” or other similar language.”" (As of this writing, I think the site has been taken down already because I could not find it anymore!).

The authors of these “tricky”  blogs that I discussed here ( these are actually not  blogs but sites made for Adsense) know what they are doing.  They are well versed on SEO. The know it at heart. They’re applying and practicing the best SEO techniques BUT  they also inviting themselves to get out of Adsense program easily.

I’m not here to ridicule how they’re using SEO but to educate the readers to be careful on how they use the knowledge they are possessing.

Google Adsense  provides a good income source for many bloggers.  Sure there are a lot of gray areas on how to implement some of the rules, and open to interpretation but it is our responsibility to adhere to the program’s policy. You cannot accuse  Google like you are arguing with your school principal  using “I didn’t know it was wrong” lame excuse.

Whenever in doubt,  use your best judgment to determine your site’s compliance. If you suspect that an implementation may violate the spirit of one of Adsense policies, I’d recommend you err on the side of caution and modify the implementation.

If you really don’t know what to do, ask Google Adsense staff, I assure you they are very helpful.

As you may have noticed, I removed the contextual advertising on my post already (Adsense, Bidvertiser, etc).  For the past 5 months or so, this blog earned a less than 10 US dollars! What a pathetic earnings, isn’t?

Contextual advertising doesn’t wok at all (pay-per-click model), at least for this blog.

What went wrong? Are the ads not beautiful enough to attract the readers? Am I not getting enough traffic?

Here are some hard facts about BlogDeManila:

• BlogDeManila’s first time visitors (unique) has an average of  1,929 per month only!
• Yahoo search engine brings more than 50% of my organic visitors.  Organic visitors are what you call natural or traditional visitors who stumbled upon your blog because of the keyword or set of keyword they entered into a search engine.
• MONEY is my topmost keyword! This is the word that people led to my blog when they search the web. Bing.com actually is bringing more visitors due to this keyword. I thought  BlogDeManila is a blogging resources for bloggers? How come “money” is the keyword that search engine are showing? I guess I need to utilize this word on this site …ahem

From these 3 hard facts alone, probloggers like ShoeMoney, Problogger, Jensense – who are earnings thousands if not hundred thousands a month in Google Adsense (in U$ dollars),  are absolutely correct that a blog for blogger should not have a contextual advertising specially Google Adsense!

The Reason?

Bloggers are blind! They don’t see a thing in your blog. Bloggers are reading your content and they can’t see the ads in your site. Their eyes can scan your entire blogs without seeing a single ad. Why?  They have perfectly trained their eyes, subconsciously, to ignore anything beyond your content. Unless you put some pretty and sexy images near your ads

They have this what I call “selective blindness”.

Am I discouraging you to avoid contextual advertising? Not at all. If you’re site is about food, travel, family, gadgets, personal diary and others, except blog for bloggers, then by all means monetize your blog using all the available contextual advertising out there.

Am I not going to use contextual advertising on BDM’s post anymore? I’m currently looking for a good network advertising company that will provide the best CPM (cost per thousand of impressions) instead of PPC (pay per click) model.

I stumbled upon Smowtion which focuses on display ads and banners. They will pay you based on the number of times the ad has been shown on your site. They are still in beta  but I guess it’s worth trying.

Until I can find the best alternative advertising company for this blog’s posts, you won’t see a single PPC ad If you see an advertising link within the post, I assure that it’s either a direct ads that I’m adding or a CPM ad.

I was not able to post my Adgitize earnings last month so here I am reporting  the total amount for June and July. A total of $57.17.  Well, aside from the cash earnings, one blog I advertised on Adgitize (my wife’s blog) have been viewed 361,063 times and a sum of 4,184 ad clicks  which represents the number of times someone has clicked on the ad for the past two months.

I only started to advertise my wife’s blog in the middle of June. The exact date of the ad approval was June 17, 2009. If we divide the investment of $28 which we paid Adgitize for the 2 months ads, we can clearly summarize the results like this:

$28/361,063 ad views= 7.75e-5 or an approximate of $.00007 per Ad views

$28/4,184 ad clicks = 0.0067 per click!

Correct me if I’m wrong. I’m not so good in math.

Isn’t it great? From the marketing perspective, my wife’s blog is getting a traffic for $.00067 per click for the past two months or less since we still have 10 days before the the ads will expire.

A lot of BlogDeManila’s loyal readers are asking me how to earn in Adgitize. I actually received a lot of emails this past two weeks. Some were complaining that they’re not earning while some simply doesn’t know how.

Again, here are the tips on how to earn in Adgitize and don’t forget the last tip I’ll mention below:

I’ll just write again what I’ve posted here on May 2008.

It is actually very easy and there are multiple ways to maximize your earning of points.

• Click on ads within the Adgitize ad network until you see the blue banner at the bottom with the words “Adgitize 100″. For advertiser’s you need to click  51 ads only.

• Write an article on your blog about anything you want (as long as it is safe for work). Make sure you have added your rssfeed to each of your blogs in our system.

• Become an Advertiser ( This actually costs some money. )

• Build up traffic to your blog to score page view points

• Build up traffic to your blog to score Ad View points.

And here’s one more tip that I haven’t shared before: Make your AD pretty! Yes, make it sexy to the eyes of the beholder. You know what I mean, make it attractive! Make sure it will stand out among the 130+ advertiser’s ad! This last tip alone created a big impact on my Adgitize earnings.

For those who haven’t tried Adgitize yet, just click on the image above.

I registered another new domain today but before I did that, I checked my emails which I got from GoDaddy. They have special promo by way of offering discounts using a promo code when registering or transferring a domain.

As you can see from the picture above the normal price of .COM domain name is $10.69 but currently they’re giving it away for $9.99. The good news is, you can still get MORE Discounts if you will use their discount code. Just like what’s you can see on the image below, but if you read further I’ll show you the hidden supercodes that domain buyers are using and keeping all the profits to themselves.

Here are the two promo codes that I received from them via email:

• fbfDom10 - get 10% OFF* our regular prices on .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, and .US domains.
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More SUPER Promo Codes

Since GoDaddy is sending emails to their customers regarding their promo, I decided to google around if there are other people out there posting their promo codes. Lo and behold, I’ve found some gems lying around ready to be pick-up.

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2. goxtgi200c
3. steve
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New Domain and Renewal

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GoDaddy Super Promo Code

The best promo code that I’ve used in registering a new domain is FACEBOOK5. I only paid $5.20, which translates to $5.00 off on domain registration!

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Most of the codes that I’ve posted here are working for years already. Saving money is especially important to people these days. Please feel free to share this code to all your friends, post them in your blog, tweet, write them on your facebook status and share in your other social network.

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