After arriving from our 10-day vacation, I saw myself running to and fro from all sorts of activities.

We arrived slightly right after midnight  of  Saturday and just less than 2 hours of sleep later on, I ran with my wife and son for the 5KM race of Adidas King of the Road. It was supposed to be a race but it turned out to be a fun run for all of us because we ran following our son’s phase.

Last Tuesday, my wife and I watched the concert of Black Eyed Peas. I almost lost my voice in singing and shouting with the crowds. From a quiet blogger, I was converted into a party animal in just few hours. It’s was also my wife’s birthday so the concert was sort of a treat for her. We both enjoyed the concerts together with some of our friends.

And last night, Wednesday, my whole family rushed to Alaminos, Pangasinan (250KM from Manila) to attend to our friend’s wake. He died of stroke at a young age of 43. We left Manila by 6PM, and reached Alaminos by 12:30AM after traveling for more than 6 hours. Alaminos is the home of the famous Hundred Islands. We only stayed on the wake for 2 hours and left by 3:30AM to be on time in my work at 9AM.

I’ve spent the whole day trying to finish a project and at the same time getting in touch with different resorts near Hundred Island where we will spend the long weekend next week. Actually our long weekend will start on early morning of Sunday until Tuesday because we also have a scheduled Mask-A-Ride – a bike fun ride where bikers are don with different colorful costumes and their bikes decorated with different lights and other bling-bling.

I think you can already imagine how busy I am including my family as well. And so tonight, my wife called for a message therapist so we can have a home message which both of us badly needed.

Please bear with me if I can’t post regularly. I hope I can go back to my regular programming by next week, but I’ll do my best to write one post by tomorrow about SEO. Some of our sites and blogs were slapped by Google Panda recently and I’ll tell you on how to avoid being a victim or how to recover from it.

Until then.

Detour
noun

1. a roundabout way; deviation from a direct way
2. a route used when the direct or regular route is closed to traffic
3. departure from an established ideology or party line

Yes, my dear readers, BlogDeManila is deviating from it’s mission.

BlogDeManila was established on September 2008. After 3 long years of” blogging for bloggers,” I decided to deviate from it’s original mission of “helping other people blog smartly”. It has been a journey of ups and downs, full of adventure quests.

I personally  believe (unless you will disagree with me), that I’ve been successful in the mission that I’d planned to accomplish 3 year ago. I shared my knowledge to my loyal readers and in return I’ve learned a lot from them as well.

I’ve told my wife that I want to put a personal blog. A different one from the way I’m presenting my posts here at BlogDeManila. Unfortunately, she did not agree  on my plan. She told me that I’m already managing different niches of blogs and I don’t have the time anymore to put up a personal blog. Instead, she told me to turn BlogDeManila into a personal blog. I don’t want to argue with her so I agreed on her plan. I think she’s right. All I have to do is to write more personal post here instead of putting another blog.

And so, I decided (no, my wife decided for me) to inject  more post with personal touch  here. Note that BlogDeManil is only on a detour and not a complete turn around. I’m still going to write post blog for bloggers like SEO, make money online, web hosting, affiliate marketing, adsense, wordpress and more. I also decided to put additional monetizing methods here, perhaps pay per post or Adsense. I hope you don’t mind me earning from my post,do you?

Please continue to support me in this adventure. Give me a big clap if you agree on my new route or frown if you don’t agree.

Is it possible to get a backlinks for a 1 day old blog or website without…

- Submitting your site to directory?

- Exchanging links?

- Commenting on other blogs?

- Press release?

You might be wondering, how can it get backlinks if it’s not even indexed by the search engines such as Yahoo, Bing and Google?

Yes, it’s very possible and I did it with the latest niche blog that I’ve just setup containing one post only!

And now I want to turn this into case study. Don’t worry, I’ll tell you the secrets as time goes by. Promise, I won’t bore you with technical details. If you  are curios on how I did it, keep reading.

To start with, I bought a new domain a month ago which I’m planning to sell later on,  but I decided instead to a make a mini-niche site out of it instead. Since I was able to make one of my niche site to be listed on page 1 of Google and got a PR in less than 3 months, I decided to try it on a new domain and applying all the SEO and other tricks I’ve learned over the years. Mind you, these are white hat SEO tricks, no gray nor black hat or any other magic voodo here.

BUT, that’s a big BUT here,  I’m using cheat sheets which I’ve documented and planning to share in this case study that I’m doing. Let me know if you are interested and I’ll tell you everything all the tricks I’ve under my sleeve. If you are, I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed so you’ll get the latest update from me.

Of course, just like any blog that I’ve set up for my own personal consumptions, my main goal is to monetize it. Come on, doesn’t most bloggers wants to earn? However, for this journey, I want all BlogDeManila readers to learn from these tips ((Warning: if you already know them – just don’t read any further), and I’ll write in a procedural way so you can follow step by step.

Again, the lessons you will learn here might be too basics for some but I hope you will still learn one trick or two. You can always unsubscribe from my RSS, if you think that you are not learning anything and if you feel I’m wasting your time. I’m sorry there’s no money back guarantee here, because I’m not selling you anything.

And again, the succeeding posts on this case study, although I’ve tried to be as accurate and complete as possible, I don’t guarantee that the contents are accurate due to very fast changing of SEO landscape. The tricks that I’ve applied today might not be permissible tomorrow. Like anything else, there are no guarantees whatsoever, including increase in traffic and SERP, and of course the most important thing – in monetary value. Results may vary according to your background, willingness to learn and passion on what you are doing.

I encourage you to leave your comments here if you are really interested,  so I’ll be encourage as well in writing my succeeding post. If you have any questions, you can already start to ask them now. And, don’t forget to subscribe to RSS.

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.

Learn The Top 3 Major Components That Is Important To The Search Engines Like Google

That should have been the title of my post today. Unfortunately, based on my previous post, a lot of bloggers were cautious if their blog or site will be banned by Google for using some tricks in their back link building efforts. I guess a lot of my readers are aware of what happened to JCPenney being banned or sandboxed by Google for using black hat tactics.

Afraid of Google Ban? Read for more information

According to the news,as reported by New York Times, JCPenney created a lot of buzz in time for the 2010 holiday season. Unfortunately, it was found out that thousands of unrelated web sites were sending link juices to JCPenney.com. This is a broad day light cheating, at least to the eyes of search engines.  As I’ve mentioned in my last post, linking strategies takes time and lot of efforts. If you will hire an SEO company or a professional to do it for you, make it a point that company or individual is not using black hat SEO tactics. This is a crucial step in choosing for the right SEO company if you don’t want Google to de-listed your website.

Now, instead of looking for the negative aspect of back link buildings or linking strategies, let’s concentrate our focus on the major components that are relevant not only for the search engine but for the readers as well.

1. Great and Relevant Content. By having a great content and relevant, you are not attracting the readers but the search engine as well. Make sure you contents are unique and don’t just stuff it with keywords. Create content the users and the search engines would grow to love.
2. Build Natural Backlinks. Don’t ever participate in any linking schemes.  If you remember, I promoted a backlink tool where you can submit your URLs and they will be automatically submitted on their own network. There’s nothing wrong in using an automated software in building back links. The tool that I’ve mentioned, even though it is a legal way to build natural links,  I suggest that you be cautious in using it. Don’t be greedy in submitting your sites. Take it slowly, make it natural by pacing it over time rather than getting 200 or more links in one month and nothing on the following.
3. Submit Site Map. This is one of the requirements of most search engines if you want your site to get index and rank. Submitting a site map will help the search engine spider to craw your site properly. It can identify easily the pages that belonged to your site. If you want to know how to submit your site to Yahoo and Google, you may want to check the instructions here: Submitting your Sitemap file to Search Engines

The three major components that I’ve mentioned here are just some of the things that you can D-I-Y SEO for your site or blog. They are not hard to implement but please take not that optimization is just one of the tools that you can use in promoting your site. I hope that you will see an improvement in your traffic from the major search engines after applying the  major components described above.  The only thing that I can assure you is, if you follow them then expect a great result.

For more information, I encourage you to check the following:

1. SEO Tips – All you need to do to have a site optimized for SEO

2. SEO Tools to Help you Rank Higher

3. SEO Services Firm you can count on

I’m managing 10 blogs already and part of my task every single day is building backlinks. As you (my regular readers) already  know building backlinks to your pages is a very important of SEO (short for Search Engine Optimization) for two reasons.

1. It helps your pages get indexed faster, which is very important because you want the search engines to find them as soon as possible and crawl them regularly.

2. It helps your pages get higher search engine rankings for the keywords of your choice.

The more backlinks you have, the better. Period.

I’ve been building backlinks for more than three years now and I can personally tell you that it’s a time-consuming, boring process.

If you are a member of any outsourcing companies like PeoplePerHour or GetFreeLancer, you will notice that one of the most sought job there is an SEO specialist and/or a Backlink builders. If you own a blog or website  you can outsource the process to an agency like the two that I’ve mentioned, and pay a lot of money… Or you can do it yourself with SocialMonkee!

SocialMonkee is an instant backlink builder allowing you to build 25 unique backlinks, every day, FREE! All links are on unique C-Class IP addresses and domains. Imagine being able to create 25 unique backlinks every day, with the click of a button, FREE! Well, you can stop imagining…

What are C-Class IP addresses and domains? I’m planning to put up another post for this one, but for the benefits of this post, let me simply define C-Class IP addresses and domains as unrelated IP addresses that allows you (as a user, blogger or webmaster) to create a fleet of websites that interlink without being red-flagged by Google or other search engines.

So, 25 unique backlinks every day… That’s a total of 175 backlinks every week, 750 every month.

SocialMonkee is still relatively new. In fact, this was launched only this month!

If you’re 100% serious about getting your website to the top of Google and the other major search engines, don’t read any further. Join SocialMonkee now while it’s still free!

My wife is so happy to know that her blog’s Google PageRank is finally back. She doesn’t have any idea why she lost it last year. The only reason we assumed is because of the local host provider she was using which was always downtime. It’s good that she transferred it to a better host already.

The rumors of Google PageRank is already all over the place. It’s the buzz among the webmasters. The Unofficial date Google updated the PR was on the 19th of January. Why unofficial? According to some webmasters, there’s still no announcement from Google itself.Google’s engineers are still silent on the update. So as of this time, it still not confirmed.

Confirmed or not, I’m sure a lot of bloggers are already happy to know that their hard labor of building links paid off. It took 9 months this time for Google PageRank update. Unlike in the previous years,  it is being updated almost every 4 months.

How to Increase Your Google PageRank

If you are not satisfied with your Google PageRank or simply wants to improve it, I suggest that you review the following posts. I assure you these tips will make wonders on your blog or site.

1. Secrets and Tips on How to Generate Traffic Like a Pro
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.

Christmas is almost around the corner and a lot of bloggers in this time of the year either buying new domains or looking for new webhosting.  I’m not promoting any specific web hosting provider in this post of mine but if, yes if you’ll gonna find for another reliable but cheap webhosting, I encourage you to check Top Cheap Web Hosting site. It’s a web site where in you will see the best rated affordable web hosting packages available online. It’s not just a simple list of web host providers but also a review site.

From here you can search, decide and choose the best available packages for your needs.

If you don’t understand any of the terms that you are reading in their site, you can always check their hosting glossary. The terms are arranged in alphabetical order and with a search function too.

Their webhosting tutorial site is a gem too. They talk about setting up your website and how to promote it as well. They also have articles on SEO and how to get more links if you want your site to be popular. Being visible on a search engine like Google, and popular of course has a big advantage if you are running a business website.

So don’t forget  to check Top Cheap Web Hosting if you want to be guided in choosing the right web host provider.

Have a nice weekend every one!

I’ll be on leave for 12 days.  This is  another much needed vacation that I’ve been waiting for. Not only for me but for my whole  family and ahemm… my new mistress.

Therefore, you won’t see any update on my blog until October 4 but please  do me a big favor.

Keep visiting my blog while I’m gone, will you? I just love the fact that somebody is watching over my “house” while I’m gone. At least I feel secured.

And in doing so, I’ll be giving you a big FAVOR too:

1. Grab this FREE Search Engine Optimization EBOOK. – It is a free search engine optimization ebook that tells you all you need to know about search engine optimization and search engine marketing. Grab it NOW by downloading it HERE – FREE SEO EBOOK.

Get it only if you want to  improve the ranking of your website on Google and other search engines

2. Get a FREE 1 month Ad from Adgitize. Yes, I’m giving away 1 month worth of Adgitize ad. If you are not a a member of this fabulous social network, then be a member now. If you want more information about Adgitize, you can read my previous posts HERE, HERE and HERE.

How can you get the free 1 month Adgitize Ad?

Simply leave a comment on any post here at BlogDeManila. I will use Random.org to choose the winner.  Just leave a sensible comment and that’s all. No need to spam. Make sure you are already a member or publisher of Adgitize, if not just visit their site and sign-up.

Click the image to sign-up

Only Adgitize members are qualified to get the free 1 month Ad coupon.

I’m actually leaving tonight with my family and new mistress. I’ll post about my honeymoon with my new mistress when I come back.

Talk soon…

Yesterday, I wrote a 3 tips for creating a Google -friendly site and today I’ll be posting another quick but very important tips to make your site visible to the search engine.

Search Engine Visibility

If you haven’t read my previous post, I encourage you to review it and find the answer to the question: why do you need your site be easily accessible and visible  to the search engines?

After reading that, then go back here to implement the action plan that I’m going to tell you. Sort of a check list. There are actually a lot of ways but I’m just giving you 3 today.

3 Tips To Make Your Site Visible

1. Article Marketing. Don’t take my word for it but ask any internet marketing gurus and they surely will tell you that this method is one of most effective tool to bring a lot of traffic to your site. Write a few articles and submit them to article directories.

You need to create unique content for your article marketing and not just copy-paste from other sites in the web. Before you submit your article make sure that you apply SEO techniques on it. SEO is very easy. I’ve written a lot of this topic here in BlogDeManila or you can always search for do it yourself seo on the net.

After writing  your article, submit them to at least top 10 article directories with a link back to your site and watch the traffic roll in.

2. Register and participate at Yahoo Answers. Try to answer questions and put a link to the source part while answering. To make it natural to the search engine,  point  the source to your website and the article that you’ve submitted to article directories alternately.

Once again, try as much as possible to use the right keywords in making a backlink because people who are asking questions are in reality searching. And they’re searching for answers. Using the right keywords for your answers will added a lot of search engine visibility to your site.

3. Find forums in your niche, register and be an active member. Try to fine these related niche forum to your site and be a resource person. Answer as much as questions too and put a link of your blog or site to your signature.

Use Google  to look  for forums that are related to your site. Just search as you normally would and on the result page click on “Discussion” label which you can find on the left side.  Further down, you will see “Forums ” right after “All discussions”.   You may also use specialized seo software tool to help you analyze automatically your site for keywords and it will return a result where to find the forums that are related to those keywords.

Making your site visible  to the search engines and to the world is an easy task but you have to do it constantly if you want to maintain your rank on the result page.