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		<title>Retweet List Of The Week No. 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a member of a Retweet Club founded by Daniel Scocco who is also the main faculty at Online Profits where I&#8217;m a student. The goal of  the Club is for the members to help each other in getting more retweets on their Twitter updates. This club is by invitation only. I have learned a [...]]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;m a member of a Retweet Club founded by Daniel Scocco who is also the main faculty at <strong><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/onlineprofits.php">Online Profits</a></strong> where I&#8217;m a student. The goal of  the Club is for the members to help each other in getting more retweets on their Twitter updates. This club is by invitation only.</p>
<p>I have learned a lot from the posts (and retweets) of the members since all of them are of quality content. Meaning, no spam or promotion of commercial stuffs( no affiliate links, sales landing pages , etc).</p>
<p>Starting today, and hopefully every Friday, I will share the Retweets of the members in one post. I may also add some quality retweets which are not necessarily from the Retweet club but nevertheless is beneficial to all you. You may also ReTweet any of these and it will be counted to your number of Tweets on your Twitter statistics.</p>
<p>So here we go.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>170+ Twitter Apps, Tools, Tips and Guides [Ultimate Twitter Resources]</strong><br />
170+ Twitter Apps, Tools, Tips and Guides [Ultimate Twitter Resources]<br />
-  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://su.pr/A6lfCF&amp;usg=AFQjCNGFKQAN2jrAoRvfDv7TB1pO10woVw" target="_blank">http://su.pr/A6lfCF</a> via @madrasgeek</li>
<li><strong>Feedburner is the Canary in the Mine Shaft</strong><br />
RT Feedburner is the Canary in the Mine Shaft &#8211; <a href="http://su.pr/31AMsF" target="_blank">http://su.pr/31AMsF</a><br />
(via @paulcunningham)</li>
<li><strong>173 Tips For A Quality Life While Working From Home</strong><br />
&#8220;RT 173 Tips For A Quality Life While Working From Home <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://bit.ly/c2UTGi&amp;usg=AFQjCNE9Owu8OzuE3JA4GxLIiEGsVh0HgA" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/c2UTGi</a><br />
@andrewrondeau&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Discussion on Seth Godin&#8217;s Tribes</strong><br />
RT @jbennett2020 Tribes by Seth Godin- Key Resource in your Personal<br />
Leadership Development Plan |.. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://bit.ly/d1nMNT&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqlJUQMHXgZe67yGpPcUGfUKw21g" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/d1nMNT</a></li>
<li><strong>Top 10 Websites to Download Music Albums for Free</strong><br />
RT @FreeNuts Top 10 Websites to Download Music Albums for Free<br />
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://is.gd/dQ5ax&amp;usg=AFQjCNG9D7ZIg4HoLtPWqPpnbEBkoybeGQ" target="_blank">http://is.gd/dQ5ax</a></li>
<li><strong>I Don&#8217;t Have Anything to Blog for Today, Help!</strong><br />
RT @melvinblog I Don&#8217;t Have Anything to Blog for Today, Help!<br />
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://bit.ly/a6vzbz&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDVWXqGL2NDjkdGT4miHePJsuJMA" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/a6vzbz</a></li>
<li><strong>Google teaches Negotiation</strong><br />
#Google teaches negotiation, How to handle gatekeepers <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://su.pr/85fEzC&amp;usg=AFQjCNEJHRS_fSDQsuLBkodxLWfI6Jqlkw" target="_blank">http://su.pr/85fEzC</a><br />
RT @himanshuchanda</li>
<li><strong>100 Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic</strong><br />
RT @howtomakeasite 100 Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic -<br />
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://bit.ly/ddSWKe&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTsuH9Wrn92UW7GvVi6V5r-0znjg" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ddSWKe</a></li>
<li><strong>How to Make $10, 000 or More a Year Online Simplified!</strong><span id="more-1199"></span><br />
Pls RT@adesojiadegbulu How to Make $10, 000 or More a Year Online<br />
Simplified! <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://su.pr/2SNHs3&amp;usg=AFQjCNF6NAeVpSiL8YMNxS_I0xfTRcpkcg" target="_blank">http://su.pr/2SNHs3</a></li>
<li><strong>5 Most Popular Twitter Directories That Will Grow Your Personal Brand</strong><br />
5 Most Popular Twitter Directories That Will Grow Your Personal Brand<br />
(@jacobshare) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://su.pr/2AsZ97&amp;usg=AFQjCNGjupQZHwiJOuKhgE_U9giwyAgCog" target="_blank">http://su.pr/2AsZ97</a></li>
<li><strong>50 Must Follow Blogs on Twitter</strong><br />
50 Must Follow Blogs on Twitter &#8211; <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://su.pr/ASMH8U&amp;usg=AFQjCNErKq4KLL4xBQ5junzLIXIu0cGj2w" target="_blank">http://su.pr/ASMH8U</a> via<br />
@dangerdiabolick</li>
<li><strong>ManageWP to Manage Two or More WP Blogs in Single Place</strong><br />
ManageWP to Manage Two or More WP Blogs in Single Place <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://su.pr/2BCq3R&amp;usg=AFQjCNG9phZ2A7AVSK6T7QT9FVSQB4UFFw" target="_blank">http://su.pr/2BCq3R</a><br />
#wordpress #managewp #blogchat #blogging by @pkarunkumar</li>
<li><strong>Tips for Creating a Perfect Business Website</strong><br />
RT @berget Tips for Creating a Perfect Business Website <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://su.pr/1kpO21&amp;usg=AFQjCNFxbhJggmNcJgMj87EhJRmrdvyLAA" target="_blank">http://su.pr/1kpO21</a></li>
<li><strong>10 Common Spelling Mistakes That Haunt Bloggers</strong><br />
RT @ProBlogger 10 Common Spelling Mistakes That Haunt Bloggers<br />
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://bit.ly/c7oSgH&amp;usg=AFQjCNEM8cTUfkT5MHdqu4yg3CcVg9MNww" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/c7oSgH</a></li>
<li><strong>5 Tips To Send Email and Get Noticed by Email Recipient</strong><br />
5 Tips To Send #Email and Get Noticed by Email Recipient &#8211;  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://su.pr/1emgmS&amp;usg=AFQjCNGPdzt4qS1ilE7rZJd82VMtnKcXMA" target="_blank">http://su.pr/1emgmS</a></li>
<li><strong>Top 10 Tools to Test Website Speed</strong><br />
RT @FreeNuts Top 10 Tools to Test Website Speed <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://is.gd/dD0gK&amp;usg=AFQjCNHt1c7K5pnjYfE9Jn7XDfU9F_t5yA" target="_blank">http://is.gd/dD0gK</a></li>
<li><strong>Great post for all SEO professionals: Supersized SEO Checklist</strong><br />
Great post for all SEO professionals: Supersized SEO Checklist<br />
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://is.gd/dBZvd&amp;usg=AFQjCNHHz48nwR7-uMcO2hrbRze6CBCsgg" target="_blank">http://is.gd/dBZvd</a> &lt;- by @portentint (RT @seonewsdaily) #seo</li>
<li><strong>Places To Go For WordPress Help That Are Better Than The WordPress Forum</strong><br />
New Blog Post: Places To Go For #WordPress Help That Are Better Than<br />
The WordPress Forum <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://bit.ly/desYFi&amp;usg=AFQjCNFWwMeNuSgrAWeoYvfI5rPzCt7A9g" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/desYFi</a> (via @gospelrhys)</li>
<li><strong>Signs You Have A Bad Webhost</strong><br />
RT @blogdemanila Signs You Have A Bad Webhost <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&amp;q=http://bit.ly/badwebhost&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4fJDN6huc0F2boQm_rL4hKlRtUQ" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/badwebhost</a></li>
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<p>Enjoy you weekend everyone!</p>
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		<title>Signs You Have a Bad Webhost</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me rant a little bit with my post today. What will you do if you woke up one morning and you can&#8217;t access your blog? You&#8217;ve tried other browser, still your site is inaccessible&#8230; You&#8217;ve tried other internet connection, same problem&#8230; You&#8217;ve asked your colleagues, same result as yours&#8230; You&#8217;ve tried to change the [...]]]></description>
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<p>Let me rant a little bit with my post today.<a rel="attachment wp-att-1154" href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/signs-you-have-a-bad-webhost/worstsupport/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1154" title="worstsupport" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/worstsupport.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" /></a></p>
<p>What will you do if you woke up one morning and you can&#8217;t access your blog?</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve tried other browser, still your site is inaccessible&#8230;</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve tried other internet connection, same problem&#8230;</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve asked your colleagues, same result as yours&#8230;</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve tried to change the DNS of your modem, still no reply&#8230;</p>
<p>You ping, and the reply is &#8220;unknown host&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>Multiply this with 4 blogs and what do you think are you gonna feel?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure most of you will get mad already.</p>
<p>This was exactly what I&#8217;d experienced last Thursday. 4 0f the numerous blogs and websites that I&#8217;m managing went into oblivion.</p>
<p>I sent an email to the technical support of the web host provider where these 4 blogs are hosted and guess what?&#8230;<span id="more-1150"></span></p>
<p>They replied after 11 hours! Wow, that was  too fast wasn&#8217;t? Do you think that&#8217;s a reasonable time to reply to an urgent and critical technical support?</p>
<p>I thought that they are monitoring their servers 24&#215;7? Why is it that I need to ask them what happened before  telling me the real issues? Isn&#8217;t they supposed to be more active in reporting this kind of incidence to their clients?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m working as an I.T. consultant managing webhost servers too and we have a policy in our company that we need to send an incident report to all our clients whenever there&#8217;s a critical network outages.  Aside from this, we are also required to send a report every 30 minutes to lessen the anxiety of our clients.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not expecting the same treatment from this webhost provider but I hope that they&#8217;ll be more pro-active in dealing with their clients.</p>
<p><strong>The  Worst is Yet to Come</strong></p>
<p>Not only that  their technical support is horrible but also on how they managed their web host servers. When I received their email, I was expecting that perhaps the problem is just a simple DNS problem but I was alarmed when they told me that there was a hard disk failure.</p>
<p><em><strong>Hard disk failure???</strong></em> How could it be? I know that webhost hardware are using server grade hard disk, meaning they are configured to recover itself from this kind of failure. This kind of hardware are supposed to be using multiple hard disks. The minimum hard disk for this kind of setup is 2. If one of the two drives should fail, the other will still be available to run applications or recover files.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m giving them the benefit of the doubt but their excuse is really lame.  This is really unbelievable.</p>
<p>Additionally, they told me their weekly backup was corrupted and they can&#8217;t put back all the files,  although they gave an assurance that they&#8217;re doing their best to restore all files as much as they could.</p>
<p><strong>The Resolution</strong></p>
<p>They&#8217;ve sent my account information but telling me nothing on what should I do with this information.  After sending them numerous support tickets, finally they replied that I need to setup all my domains again and start from scratch because their previous backup for the month of June were all gone! I have to setup domains on WHM, make Packages, upload all files, install wordpress, themes, plugins etc..</p>
<p>Can you believe that? Remember, they&#8217;ve mentioned on their first email that only a week time of backup was corrupted? Now here it is, they&#8217;re saying  the whole previous month is corrupted too.</p>
<p>The only consolation that they gave me is they won&#8217;t bill me for one month. Thanks but no thanks. Don&#8217;t know they that my clients lost more than the cost of the free one month they are offering? The lost of traffic, lost of income opportunities such as payperpost, adsense, affiliates and more.</p>
<p>Sadly, one of my clients whom I have been working with since 2007 transferred to another host.</p>
<h3>Signs You Have a Bad Webhost</h3>
<p>Based on my experienced, here are the signs you have a bad webhost and you&#8217;ve better think twice to RUN or stay with them if you see these hints.</p>
<p><strong>1. No 24&#215;7 customer support.</strong> Your online presence is not only limited within your time zone, and if something goes wrong, you need to get it back up no matter what time day  or night it is.</p>
<p><strong>2. Poor or lack of  support. </strong>You pay them good money and it&#8217;s just appropriate that they will treat you like an important customer but if you&#8217;ve noticed that only 1 person is answering your support  tickets then it means that they are understaffed.</p>
<p><strong>3. Hard to get in touch with their customer support service.</strong> This is almost synonymous with no.2, but if the webhost provider isn&#8217;t returning your phone calls or emails then be careful and stay away from them.</p>
<p><strong>4. Your site or blog is down on a frequent basis.</strong> As I&#8217;ve mentioned on no.1, your site or blog must be running  not only on a 24&#215;7 basis but it should be up also for at least 99% all the time. This is what the webhost providers are offering. You need to find a provider that can guarantee you a 99% uptime or more.</p>
<p>I had almost one week of sleepless night trying to recover all  4 blogs of my clients. Some have backups on their local PC but not updated. It&#8217;s been a week also the live chat support of this webhost provider that I&#8217;m using is offline. How can it be &#8220;live&#8221; when it&#8217;s off?</p>
<p>Sorry for this post but I hope you will learn a lesson or two on my experienced. It has a big impact on my clients (financially &#8211; lost of income opportunities, etc.) and to me  as well.  I lost one big client, and it affected my emotional  and physical health too.   I was not able to  ride my bike and play badminton for almost a week since I&#8217;ve spent  sleepless nights to make the 4 blogs work again.</p>
<p>I hope dear readers this won&#8217;t happen to you. I tell you, it&#8217;s costly. So go, find the best and most reliable webhost provider you can afford.</p>
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		<title>Drive Traffic To Your Blog Using YouTube</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-1136" href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/drive-traffic-to-your-blog-using-youtube/youtube-traffic/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1136" title="youtube-traffic" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/youtube-traffic.jpg" alt="youtube-traffic" width="179" height="200" /></a>If you have noticed, I&#8217;m a bit obsessed with driving web traffic  and how to get more quality links in some of my previous posts.  Today, I&#8217;ll be posting another subject on the same direction.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it, your blog or website will not make any money if nobody pay attention to it. Simply means, no traffic=no money.</p>
<p>If you use Google in searching for something, for example the words &#8220;world cup 2010&#8243; , you will notice that YouTube videos are always on top of SERP (Search Engine Rank Page).</p>
<div id="attachment_1143" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 360px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1143" href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/drive-traffic-to-your-blog-using-youtube/youtube_search/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1143" title="youtube_search" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/youtube_search.jpg" alt="Example of a search result with YouTube" width="350" height="212" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Example of a Google search result with YouTube</p></div>
<p>This is not really unusual because Google owned YouTube.</p>
<p>What&#8217;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 &#8220;viral videos&#8221;  was invented. A lot of internet marketers are using this great tool to bring massive traffic to their site.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>How do you create more  YouTube views?</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Don&#8217;t make your video  appear like an Ad.</strong> &#8211; viewers don&#8217;t usually share this kind of videos unless it really amazing. If it&#8217;s an Ad for the television, just upload on YouTube on how it was done. I&#8217;ve seen a lot of  &#8221; the making of&#8230;&#8221; videos in YouTube that are so popular.</p>
<p><strong>2. Try to make convincing(but not misleading) titles to your videos.</strong> <strong>Secret tip</strong>: I&#8217;ve seen a lot of fake videos title and hey&#8230;they have a lot of viewers.</p>
<p><strong>3. Share, share and share. </strong> Take advantage of Facebook, MySpace, Forums and other social networks.</p>
<p><strong>4.Try YouTube&#8217;s promoted videos feature.</strong> 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.</p>
<p>5. Use a third party marketing firm. Try Increaseyoutubeviews.com. Buy YouTube views and let this company do all the hardwork to <a href="“http://www.Increaseyoutubeviews.com”">Increase Youtube  Views.</a></p>
<p>What&#8217;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&#8217;ll be in the perfect place.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>YouTube got a lot of potential to make money, use it to your advantage.</p>
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		<title>Improve PageRank by Linking Automatically</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are not aware, according to some webmasters, Google had a PageRank update last month of June and they are &#8220;predicting&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.automaticbacklinks.com?aid=automaticbacklinks&amp;bid=79f48ce2"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://affiliates.automaticbacklinks.com/accounts/default1/banners/abc-banner-1.jpg" alt="" width="446" height="60" /></a><img style="border: 0;" src="http://affiliates.automaticbacklinks.com/scripts/imp.php?aid=automaticbacklinks&amp;bid=79f48ce2" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
If you are not aware, according to some webmasters, Google had a PageRank update last month of June and they are &#8220;predicting&#8221; the next update could be on September.  Historically, it has been observed that Google updates its PageRank every three months.</p>
<p>Are you ready for the next Google PageRank update?</p>
<p>Do you want your site to improve its rank?</p>
<p>Do you want to increase the current PageRank of your blog?</p>
<p>It&#8217;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!</p>
<p><em><strong>How can you increase the PageRank of your site in 3 months the fastest  way possible?</strong></em></p>
<p>Before I introduce you the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/freebacklinks.php"><strong>fastest way (automatic)</strong></a></span>, let me tell you first the <strong>4 Easy Steps on How To Get Quality Back-links</strong> for your blog.</p>
<p>1. Look for blogs that provide &#8220;do follow&#8221;. Only &#8220;do follow&#8221; blogs will give you the Google PageRank juice.  There&#8217;s a lot of them out there. Of course, BlogDeManila is a DoFollow since 2008.</p>
<p>Most DoFollow blogs are using a badge like this <a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com"><img class="alignnone" title="DoFollow Badge" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/images/ifollowblue.gif" alt="" width="130" height="50" /></a></p>
<p>You can actually locate blogs that allow back-links(dofollow) by using the  free Firefox plugin available from SEO Quake. You can download it  <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/seo-tools">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/seo-tools</a></p>
<p>2. If you want to get PR (Page Rank), start making sensible comment on  DoFollow blogs. &#8220;Drive by&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>3. Instead of using your name (or your blog&#8217;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 &#8220;Car Accessories&#8221;, you may use it like this:</p>
<div id="attachment_1119" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 394px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1119" href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/improve-pagerank-by-linking-automatically/comment-box/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1119" title="comment-box" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/comment-box.jpg" alt="comment-box" width="384" height="309" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sample on using Relevant Anchor Text (Keywords)</p></div>
<p>You can include your back-link within the website URL on your post and  actual comment box as well, just make sure it&#8217;s permitted.</p>
<p>4. The last is easy. Rinse and Repeat 1-3 steps.</p>
<p>The process that I&#8217;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&#8217;m not saying that it doesn&#8217;t work. It does!  In fact, it still being use by a lot of bloggers.</p>
<p><strong>Semi-Automatic BackLinks Strategy</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>What we need is a fully automated process that will auto-link our site to other high-quality pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/freebacklinks.php"><strong>Fully Automatic BackLinks</strong></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s where the fun of of backlinking comes in.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.automaticbacklinks.com?aid=automaticbacklinks&amp;bid=032d9cdc"><img class="alignleft" src="http://affiliates.automaticbacklinks.com/accounts/default1/banners/banner125x125.gif" alt="" width="125" height="125" /></a><img style="border: 0;" src="http://affiliates.automaticbacklinks.com/scripts/imp.php?aid=automaticbacklinks&amp;bid=032d9cdc" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
<strong>Do you want your links be automatically placed on up to  hundreds of sites simply by displaying links on your own page? </strong></p>
<p>If your reply is no, then just contain yourself in manually building your links but <em>if your answer is a <strong>BIG sounding YES</strong></em>, then head on to <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/freebacklinks.php">AUTOMATIC BANKLINKS</a></span>.<span id="more-1113"></span></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>What is <a href="http://www.automaticbacklinks.com/?aid=automaticbacklinks">Automatic BankLinks</a>?</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll sum it up for you. It is a <strong> FREE</strong> 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&#8217;s sites on their own pages.</p>
<p>You can actually see a real-time sample on my page. Just look for the FREE Backlinks section after the Top Commentators widget.</p>
<p>Three of the most common questions  (based on their site) that you may want to ask them also:</p>
<ul>
<li id="li2"><strong>Isn&#8217;t Automatic  Backlinks just another link exchange directory?</strong>
<div id="faq2">Not  exactly. Most link directories work on the principal of having a single  &#8220;Links&#8221; page, that is populated with links that are vaguely related to  your site&#8217;s topic. Automatic Backlinks places links on already existing  content pages that have a minimum of Google PageRank 1.</div>
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<li id="li1"><strong>Are the links  reciprocal?</strong>
<div id="faq1">No. It is widely believed that search  engines place less weight on simple &#8220;you link to me &#8211; I link to you&#8221;  exchanges. Automatic Backlinks uses sophisticated algorithms to create  one-way links between the pages and sites in the system.</div>
</li>
<li id="li1"><strong>How can I be sure of the quality of the backlinks  I get?<br />
</strong>Automatic Backlinks only includes pages  that have earned a Google PageRank of 1 or above in to the system.</li>
</ul>
<p>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 &#8220;set and forget&#8221; system &#8211; the <strong><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/freebacklinks.php">Automatic  BankLinks.</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s your choice on how do you want to boost your search engine ranking. Let me know what way do you want to take.</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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<p>You may have the best website ever created. Your content is superb with correct keywords on the right places.</p>
<p>The question is, <em>how do you attract traffic to your site?</em></p>
<p><strong>Face the fact, getting a good inbound links are very important  if you want to get high search engine  rankings.</strong></p>
<p>The question is, <em>what exactly are good inbound links?</em></p>
<p><strong>Face the fact,  the more organic links you obtain from relevant websites or niches, the better your site will rank on search engine results.</strong></p>
<p>Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and other search engines rank websites according to how many quality backlinks  they can find pointing  back to your site. Let me reiterate this,  <strong>quality is determined by how  relevant the other site is to your site</strong>.</p>
<p>The question is,<em> how to find the OTHER good sites that are relevant to yours.</em></p>
<p>There&#8217;s an old saying, &#8220;Build it and they will come&#8221; is no longer true in a virtual world. You&#8217;ve got to find, run after, chase and if needed beg for other sites to link to your site.</p>
<p>There are various methods that are effective in a getting quality back links  like submitting to a directory, article writing, participate and be active on online forums, blog commenting, social bookmarking and press releases, among others.</p>
<p>Sure, you can do all these methods by yourself manually. You can do this  at no cost whatsoever too. Remember, getting quality and good back links are on-going process if you want to maintain your ranking. I&#8217;m just afraid that you might lose your energy in actively seeking back links year after year.</p>
<p>This is where you need the help of professional firms that are offering this kind of services.It&#8217;s actually easy to find companies that are offering SEO services. Do a  Google search for &#8220;<a href="http://www.submitedge.com/">SEO firm</a>&#8221; and you will find a lot of them</p>
<p>The question is, are they really useful? Will they deliver their promises  ?</p>
<p>Most of these firm will promise you heaven and earth. A lot of them are ensuring that your site will be listed on major search engines and land on top 10!</p>
<p>One firm in particular is <a href="http://www.submitedge.com/">SubmitEdge</a> which is listed no. 5 on Google search engine result page for the &#8220;SEO firm&#8221; keywords. They have what they call &#8220;Guaranteed Google Indexing&#8221; service. It stated on their website that they make sure that your site gets indexed in 10 days or they  will give you a full refund. Wow, what a statement.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t only Google engineers can guarantee top ranking?</p>
<p>For  a company like SubmitEdge that belongs to Top 10 on Google&#8217;s first result page , perhaps they are right. They know the nitty-gritty and methodologies on how to make your site visible on the first page of any search engine.</p>
<p>It took BlogDeManila .com more than a month to be indexed on Google and two months to get a page rank of 2.  This is the reason I want to know the techniques of these SEO firms are using. Are they for real? Are their methods legitimate or are they using black hat techniques?</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Straight, no chaser</strong> &#8211; this is the dictum of the latest version of WordPress.</p>
<p>Just like any drinking session, sometimes a well planned event can lead into some unfavorable consequence. This is what happened when I tried to upgrade BlogDeManila.com from WordPress 2.9.2 to WordPress 3.0 or known as &#8220;Thelonious&#8221;.</p>
<p>Right after I read the email  from Matt (founder of WP) that the latest WP 3.0 is already released, I was excited to install it immediately. Without a second thought, I login on BlogDeManila dashboard and quickly click on the <strong>Please Update Now</strong> link and chose the <strong>Upgrade Automatically</strong> (1)since I&#8217;m used in upgrading WP plugins automatically instead of downloading them manually on my laptop. I even ignored the warning sign -  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Important:</strong> before upgrading, please backup your database and files </em>(3)<em>. </em></span>By the way, I even clicked on bulk Upgrade for my plugins (2).</p>
<div id="attachment_1077" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 395px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1077" href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/do-not-install-wordpress-3-0-until-you-read-this/wp_dashboard_upgrade/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1077" title="wp_dashboard_upgrade" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/wp_dashboard_upgrade.jpg" alt="Blog De Manila WordPress Dashboard" width="385" height="317" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Blog De Manila WordPress Dashboard</p></div>
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<p>The upgrade was a blaze! It was the fastest WP upgrade I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s finished in less than 2 minutes, much faster than the famous 5 minutes fresh installation. Like a shot of whiskey &#8211; straight up.</p>
<p>The difference is visually visible.  I looked around the new Admin dashboard and played with the promised easy and friendly drag-and-drop menus. It&#8217;s so cool!   I&#8217;m very much delighted for being able to organize the navigational menus.</p>
<p>The interface is much lighter than the previous version. It seems it has  more white spaces and lighter menus.</p>
<p>I started to delete some comments but after clicking on the &#8220;spam&#8221; the dashboard turn into a black page. No errors, no warning, just plain blank page. I thought WP 3.0 is still working on the background perhaps trying to mix some vodka.  After some few seconds, <span id="more-1014"></span>I realized there&#8217;s no more activity on my browser. I can&#8217;t logout from the dashboard since everything is gone. I&#8217;m not hallucinating due from this &#8220;drinking&#8221; session. The closest thing to do whenever you are on this situation is escape.</p>
<p>I closed my browser hoping that WP 3.0 will return to it&#8217;s senses. I logged in again and yes, everything seems back to normal and the spam I deleted is gone.  I tried to delete another spam comment and boom&#8230;I got the blank page again.</p>
<p>I called Mr. Google but unfortunately, he&#8217;s not aware WP3.0 is already in town. I searched high and low, gave up and searched again. I was not able to get help from Mr. G.</p>
<p>The reality sinks in.</p>
<p>Finally, I searched from the source of <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WP3.0</a>.  I&#8217;ve found out that plain vodka of WP 3.0 doesn&#8217;t mix well with some flavored plugins. The blank page nausea is called <strong>White Screen of Death</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>The solution to WP 3.0  hallucination </strong>( <em>nice rhyme, isn&#8217;t?</em>).</p>
<p>If you forgot to deactivate the plugins before the upgrade, try to rename the plugins one by one until you find the culprit. Another trick is, rename your <strong>plugins</strong> folder to <strong>plugins-old</strong> through FTP  and see if  that fixes it.  Next, login to your WP admin and see if  the blank page is gone. If yes, make a new <strong>plugins</strong> folder and copy your plugins  back, one at a time, testing each copy after activating them.</p>
<p>Luckily for <a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/">BlogDeManila</a>, the first plugin on the dashboard list is the source of the problem. After renaming it, the blank page is gone. BlogDeManila can live without that particular plugin than a blank Admin page.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the list of some plugins  that can&#8217;t fully mix and match with the latest flavor or Wp3.0, based on other bloggers experience.</p>
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<li>Ajax Comment Posting</li>
<li>W3 Total Cache</li>
<li>Sociable</li>
<li>Ravatars</li>
<li>WP Tuner</li>
<li>HeadSpace 2</li>
<li>Podcasting Plugin by TSG &#8211; <em>an update is provided already</em>.</li>
<li>Nextgen Gallery</li>
</ol>
<p>If you notice, there&#8217;s really nothing wrong with Wp3.0.  The problem is that some plugins developers (and other themes too) were not able to update their source code to work with the latest WP.</p>
<p>If you know any plugins that is making a havoc or if you are having a problem  with  WP 3.0,  just write your comment here so we can update the list.</p>
<p>Even with this hiccup,  I still consider  WP 3.0 the fastest, sexiest and smoothest version ever!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/paypal.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-999" title="paypal" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/paypal.jpg" alt="Paypal" width="225" height="170" /></a>A friend of mine who is into paid surveys called and asked for my help. She wanted to get some of her earnings -  a small amount since she&#8217;s still new in &#8220;<a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/">making money online</a>&#8220;.  She just wanted to test if she can really withdraw money from <a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/paypal.php"><strong>PayPal</strong></a>. She informed me that she seek  my help because she doesn&#8217;t want to make mistake.</p>
<p>I advised her to simply look for the Withdraw on My Account tab on the dashboard of her PayPal page and just follow the succeeding instructions. I coached her until we hit the wall.  For the sake of other <a href="../paypal.php"><strong>PayPal</strong></a> users who are not aware of the withdrawal minimum amount, you may use the table below for your reference.</p>
<h2>Minimum Withdrawal Amounts</h2>
<div id="main">
<table class="basic" summary="Minimum Withdrawal Amounts">
<caption class="accessAid"> </caption>
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<tr>
<th style="text-align: left;">Currency Balance</th>
<th>Minimum Amount</th>
</tr>
</thead>
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<tr>
<td>Australian Dollars</td>
<td>$15.00 AUD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canadian Dollars</td>
<td>$15.00 CAD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Czech Koruna</td>
<td>240.00 CZK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Danish Krone</td>
<td>60.00 DKK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Euros</td>
<td>€10.00 EUR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hong Kong Dollars</td>
<td>$80.00 HKD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hungarian Forint</td>
<td>2,100 HUF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>New Zealand Dollars</td>
<td>$15.00 NZD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norwegian Krone</td>
<td>65.00 NOK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Polish Zloty</td>
<td>30.00 PLN</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pounds Sterling</td>
<td>£6.00 GBP</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Singapore Dollars</td>
<td>$15.00 SGD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Swedish Krona</td>
<td>80.00 SEK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Swiss Francs</td>
<td>13.00 CHF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>U.S. Dollars</td>
<td>$10.00 USD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yen</td>
<td>¥1,000 JPY</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mexican Peso</td>
<td>$110.00 MXN</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Israeli New Shekel</td>
<td>40.00 ILS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brazilian Real (only for Brazilian users)</td>
<td>R$20.00 BRL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Malaysian Ringgits (only for Malaysian users)</td>
<td>RM40.00 MYR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Philippine Pesos</td>
<td>P500.00 PHP</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Taiwan New Dollars</td>
<td>NT$330 TWD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thai Baht</td>
<td>฿360.00 THB</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<p>This table was lifted from Paypal official website and the minimum amounts stated here are valid as of the date of posting.</p>
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		<title>Just Got Back From Hong Kong</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whew! Time flies so fast! I had a great time in Hong Kong with my family and my in-laws.  There were 14 of us in all. My kids really enjoyed the vacation so much that they don&#8217;t want to go home anymore. My 4-year old son even wants to stay in Ocean Park and live [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/kids_disneyland.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-982" title="kids_disneyland" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/kids_disneyland.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="250" /></a>Whew! Time flies so fast! I had a great time in Hong Kong with my family and my in-laws.  There were 14 of us in all. My kids really enjoyed the vacation so much that they don&#8217;t want to go home anymore. My 4-year old son even wants to stay in Ocean Park and live there forever!</p>
<p>The vacation was a blast. Every minute I spent with my wife and kids was unforgettable. I will forever cherish the bonding time and activities we shared together. My wife told me that I was even more &#8220;childlike&#8221; than my kids specially when we were in Hong Kong Disneyland.  I was even singing the song &#8220;It&#8217;s a small world&#8221; when we were inside the pink  castle on Fantasy Land.</p>
<p>My sister-in-law also noticed that I can&#8217;t control myself in grabbing those virtual goodies while we were watching Donald Duck and friends on Mickey&#8217;s Phillar Magic 3-D show.</p>
<p>Oh well, I admit that I was! I enjoyed everything inside the Disneyland including the parade of Disney&#8217;s character  and was even more gamely in getting wet.</p>
<p>Too bad our 4 days of vacation had to end but the memories of course will stay in my hear forever.</p>
<p>Sorry for this too personal post of mine. I&#8217;m still in euphoric mood. I totally shut-off myself from the &#8220;online world&#8221;  during our vacation. I did not check my emails nor log on to the internet. I even switched off my mobile phone.</p>
<p>So no technical blog post for me today or maybe  just an update because I received two great emails this morning which I want to share with you.</p>
<p>First is the <a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/pc98js0ys-FJKPPMIMFHGMLGIHH"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>FREE DOMAIN Name Registration </strong></span></a>of 1and1 Internet is <em><strong>extended until the end of this month of June 2010</strong></em>. You may want to check my <a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/free-domain-registration/">previous post</a> about it or you can go directly to <a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/pc98js0ys-FJKPPMIMFHGMLGIHH"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">1and1 internet website</span></a> and grab your new domain.</p>
<p>The second email was about the new <a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/blogprofitcamp.php">FREE ebook</a> from the ever famous  mogul  blogger JohnChow.  The Book isn&#8217;t going to cost you anything because  he&#8217;s giving it away for free. You may<a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/blogprofitcamp.php"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong> download The Ultimate Blog Profit Model here</strong></span></a>.  I actually read it in just one sitting  this afternoon and it&#8217;s awesome. It details the business model that John used to enable his blog to make over $500,000 last year. I think you will really enjoying read it as well.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all for today. I still have a lot of pictures to upload on my Facebook <img src='http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<div id="attachment_984" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 240px"><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/eric_blogdemanila.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-984" title="eric_blogdemanila" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/eric_blogdemanila.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="346" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">that&#39;s me , wearing a red anime shirt with my new hairdo!</p></div>
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		<title>Do Not Delete SPAM!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not delete SPAM&#8230;yet. What I&#8217;m talking about? This may sound stupid but you&#8217;ve got to submit the spam to the web before hitting the &#8220;delete&#8221; or &#8220;delete all&#8221; button on your WordPress Comment Page dashboard. Well, this post of mine applies only to all who are using Akismet on their site, either a blog [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com"><img class="alignleft" title="Spam Killer" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/images/spam_killer.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="250" /></a>Do not delete SPAM</strong>&#8230;<em>yet</em>.</p>
<p>What I&#8217;m talking about?</p>
<p>This may sound stupid but you&#8217;ve got to submit the spam to the web  before hitting the &#8220;delete&#8221; or &#8220;delete all&#8221; button on your WordPress Comment Page  dashboard.</p>
<p>Well, this post of mine applies only to all who are using <em><strong>Akismet</strong></em> on their site, either a blog or a corporate site.</p>
<p>I believe Akismet is the most useful plug-in/API ever developed for a blog. This is also the reason why it&#8217;s a default plug-in of WordPress, aside from the well known fact that <a href="http://ma.tt/">the man</a> behind Akismet is also the main developer of WordPress.</p>
<p>If you are a big fan of WordPress, you are using your Askimet, are you?  If not, then you are missing the most important tool for your blogging battle.</p>
<p><strong>What is Akismet?</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>In a very straight and simple definition &#8211; <strong>Akismet was developed to kill Spam</strong>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it. No more no less.</p>
<p>Some people call it &#8221; <em>The Silence of the Spams</em>&#8220;. It kills spam in the background automatically without intruding your blog life.</p>
<p><strong>So why did I tell you not to delete Spam?</strong><span id="more-964"></span> Because you have to inform Akismet that you&#8217;ve got a spam on your Comment Pending Page. Akismet cannot kill it unless you or other Akismet users had already submitted the &#8216;specimen&#8217; of the spam.</p>
<p><strong>This is how Akismet works. </strong> When a new comment comes to your site it is  submitted to the Akismet web service which will test the comment if its a friendly comment or just a plain spam. This includes  trackback, or pingback too.</p>
<p>Look at <a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/">BlogDeManila</a> Comment Page. Some comments look genuine but if you check the sites of those submitted URL, you will know that they are just purely <strong>Stupid-Pathetic-Annoying-Message or SPAM</strong>.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 524px"><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com"><img title="BlogDeManila Comment Page" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/images/spam_akismet.jpg" alt="" width="514" height="224" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">BlogDeManila Comment Page</p></div>
<p>If you see this really annoying comments or pingbacks, just mark them as &#8220;SPAM&#8221; to inform Akismet web service. Do not click on trash &#8230;yet.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com"><img class="aligncenter" title="Mark Spam Comment " src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/images/spam_marked.jpg" alt="" width="507" height="205" /></a>Once you marked them as negative comment, they will be transferred to your Comment Spam Page. From here you can delete them permanently or let Akismet do it automatically.  Make sure that you&#8217;ve chosen the option to automatically discard (or delete) spam comments on posts older than a month.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 520px"><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/"><img class=" " title="Akismet Option" src="http://www.blogdemanila.com/images/spam_option.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="186" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Akismet Option to Delete Spam Automatically</p></div>
<p>Akismet becomes more effective and intelligent the more you use it. So use it freely!</p>
<p><strong>Is Akismet FREE?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Yes and No.</strong> <em><strong>Akismet is free for personal use</strong></em> and non-profit organization and educational institution. BUT, yes there&#8217;s a big but here, according to Automaticc ( the maker of Akismet), if your blog is earning more than $500 a month, then are you are encouraged to get a $5/mo pro-blogger Akismet API key.</p>
<p>If you are running a commercial venture in your blog or corporate site, then you must get an enterprise subscription  for your company starting at $50/mo. The last thing that you want to see in your corporate  blog  are good old-fashioned pill, porn and Viagra ad comments, right?</p>
<p>You have a lot of better things to do than fight dozen and dozens of  ever-changing, high-tech spam aliens.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget your best, automatic laser gun is already in your arsenal. All you have to do is  is activate, configure and use it. Forget that spam was ever a problem again. <em>Hasta la vista, spam baby!</em></p>
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		<title>Adgitize Promotion Increases Earnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 06:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.adgitize.com/blog/default.aspx/9/Special-Summer-Promotion-Increases-Earnings?affid=18" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none; width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/Adgitize-Images/AdgitizePromo201006.jpg" alt="Adgitize your web site." width="125" height="125" /></a><br />
<strong>Increase your revenue on <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/recommended/adgitize.php">Adgitize</a></span>!</strong></p>
<p><strong>How?</strong></p>
<p>Simply by scoring more than 300 points a day!</p>
<p><strong>How do you score 300 points a day?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>If you are an advertiser, you get a 100 advertising points automatically.</li>
<li>Visit and click 51 ads on the <a href="http://www.blogdemanila.com/recommended/adgitize.php">Adgitize</a> network to score 100 points</li>
<li>Write a blog each day for an additional 100 points</li>
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<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Earn More through This Special Offer</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>What Else?</strong> Nothing&#8230; You are not required to do any more than be an advertiser and score 300 points a  day.<a href="http://www.adgitize.com/blog/default.aspx/9/Special-Summer-Promotion-Increases-Earnings?affid=18" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" style="border: 0pt none; width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/Adgitize-Images/AdgitizePromo201007BW.jpg" alt="Adgitize your web site." width="125" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for? Advertise now on <a href="../recommended/adgitize.php">Adgitize</a> 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.</p>
<p>This is no joke. &#8216;Been there done that&#8217;, and I&#8217;m still doing it every month.</p>
<p>As of this writing, my <a href="../recommended/adgitize.php">Adgitize</a> earnings for the month of <strong>May is already at $17.88</strong>. I&#8217;m pretty  sure that this will increase because there are still articles that  are unaccounted for. My<strong> biggest earning from <a href="../recommended/adgitize.php">Adgitize</a> was  at $35.81</strong> on January of this  year.</p>
<p>By the way, this promo will run through July 31st, 2010. If the promotion meets <a href="../recommended/adgitize.php">Adgitize</a> sales goals then they will continue the promotion throughout the year.</p>
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