For those who are into SEO, webmasters and bloggers who simply want to know the latest Google page rank of their blog, here’s a good news for all of you. Google rolled out a major Page Rank update yesterday, 27th June 2011. I’m not expecting a major update for this month not even for the next two months because of Google’s late roll out in their previous update. So this latest Page Rank update is unexpected.

Bad news is, blogdemanila was demoted by 1 PR.  The good news is almost all my niche sites were  upgraded! I’m aware that I haven’t promoted BlogDeManila for the past few months because I’m busy in promoting my other blogs and I know this is the only reason why it was demoted. No hurt feelings, this is still a good news for me, considering the fact that I don’t earn much here (based Ad networks).  4 of my niche sites were upgraded and 2 remain the same. So, for overall performance, the latest Google PageRank update is still favorable and I’m glad my sites were not affected by Google Panda.

What about you? Have you checked the latest Google PageRank of your site? Let me  know the results.

And for those who did not benefit from the Google Page Rank, don’t lose hope. PageRank is important in the eyes of Google but it’s not the end of everything. I have one niche site with Page Rank of 0 but I’m earning more on it than my other 3 sites combined.

You may want to read some tips on how to make your Google PageRank increase:

1. Build high quality sites using Google standards.
2. Make Your Site Visible To Google And Other Search Engines
3. 3 Tips For Creating a Google-Friendly Site
4. Improve PageRank by Linking Automatically
5. SEO Here, SEO There, SEO Everywhere: The Secret – Revealed!
6. WordPress SEO Secrets
7. Use Drag and Drop WordPress Theme – a Super Optimized wordpress theme.

Just a quick post today because I still have to finish another project which involve file and data encryption.

For my Friday quick post,  (if you haven’t noticed yet, all my Friday posts were mostly short tips) I would like to answer a question that I repeatedly receiving on my Inbox.

The question is: How To Embed Google Adsense Ad Unit in Left  Corner of Post Content?

If you are aware, a lot of WordPress blogs with Adsense on them have mostly Ads embedded on top left corner of their post.
The answer is very simple, you don’t need a computer science diploma for this. It only requires some coding on your part, or a simple copy-paste will do. Here’s the code:

<div style=”display:block;float:left;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;”>

Your Google Adsense  Script here

</div>

If you are using Twenty Ten theme of WordPress , here’s the step on how to do it:
1. Make sure you have the Google Adsense script already. Save it on a notepad just to make sure.
2. Login to your WordPress Dashboard and Go to Appearance > Editor and open the Single.php
3. Look for this code:

4. Insert the code directly below the

 <div class = "entry-content">

5.  It should look something like this:

6. Finally, don’t forget to SAVE or UPDATE the Single.php

If you want the Adsense  to show on the right, just change the float:left to float: right

You can also us the code not only for Adsense but for other contextual advertising providers too such as Bidvertiser.

Have a nice weekend everyone! By the way, don’t forget it’s Earthday 2011 tomorrow night!

Are you one of those who are waiting and waiting…and waiting for the next Google PageRank update?

Are you concerned that your site has gone down because of the paid links?

or…Are you excited to find out the result of your website optimization?

The official and confirmed latest Google PageRank update was on April 2 of this years. There has been an update of PageRank, sometime in June 3 and June 29 but those were a minor update only.

Historically, Google updates or published its PageRank four (4) times a year usually with an interval of 3-4 months. If you have noticed, there’s no PR update for the last four months already. I’m not a prophet but I’m predicting that Google PR is on it’s way …soon.

While waiting, I’m suggesting to all bloggers and website owners not to focus much on Google PR. Don’t be obsess with it. Try to get as much as quality back links  and keep on building the right high ranking keywords instead. What matters most is your SERP and not PR.

If you don’t have Google Toolbar installed on your browser, you can use the tool below to check on your Google’s PR.

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.

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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?