The Race for Page Rank

When will be the major Page Rank change? This March 31 will be the end of the 1st quarter of the year 2009. This will be a major day for those online marketer and the companies or blogs they are working with. This is the day set by Google to change the popularity rank of every sites. Last December 31, my blog is just PR 2 when it jump to PR 3. Some of my blog remain still but it would be fine. The good thing is that our company site - the used car sale from Japan got the PR 4 and my friends site got PR 1 in just a month of starting his Singapore jobs site.

In Philippines, blog became a power to communicate people. Politician are being attack through blogs. Corrupt officials and poor practice of government services including the poor service of the Company like internet service provider who promise to have better coverage yet you will be off from live most of the time.

I know India is the world leader in IT service and their sites are rocking the world. Their advantage is not only cheap but also the visitors. You that the visitors is one of the factors in site importance, that is why their sites are very popular.

So how this PR will affect the site specially those business sites that rely on popularity to get traffics live Job Ad Sites. We all know that Google page rank is about popularity rank. The first company site that will display in the browser will have highest PR according to Google criteria. So if you have this higher PR more likely your site is always on the top of the browser page and then more traffics you can get.

So the race for the higher PR start last January and will ended this March 2009. There money to earn and money to lose from this site owner. It is like the Google is now dictating a dance floor.

When it comes to reliable source of Seo advises, come to Filipinos.

Which is better platform in blogging?

Before i start i like to clarify what I mean in the title of this post. Basically, i am discussing the performance of the various CMS or Content management system for web site specially blog.
Yes we are going to elaborate the advantage and disadvantage of various blogging application like the blogspot, wordpress, joomla and ning.

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So what in blogspot? I know regular blogger always see a url like http://singapore-it-jobs.blogspot.com. Any site with the domain name "blogpsot.com" are blogs which is hosted in google server. Yes this is owned by google so you might think that there are some advantage in online marketing if you use this flatform. There are many advantage in using blogspot. First of all it is easy to use, it accept adsense and a lot of plug in specially its html and javascript plugs in. You can also change the design since there are a lot of pre design template for blogspot either from google or from independent website.

Fortunately, blogspot is too difficult to SEO. It is less important in google search engine itself. You need a lot of hard work before you reach your desire ranking.

So what is wordpress blog. This is also a free blog site under http://www.wordpress.com. Like blogspot, wordpress also have various template and features far better than blogspot. Its design maybe equal with blogspot in terms of aesthetic but it has many online marketing tools that can bring more traffics than blogspot. In short it is SEO friendly. Both are best tools for SEO and it can help you in bringing traffic to your regular job site.

Perhaps for me the best flatform although i have little knowledge on configuring this site is the joomla site or joomla blog. This site is so fast in SEO or page ranking. It produce linking within the site. It is nice for company blog. In short it is power for online business and highly recommended for online marketing company. The only problem with joomla is that it is not easy to configure. It requires time to set up. You need to study the way it create pages, set up links and what page will display. There are a lot of programmer that still do not understand the way it works.

In overall, I strongly recommend Joomla over wordpress and blogspot.
Test it to believe or just find a site and its age

Top bookmarking

# Digg
It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control and the most popular and the best social bookmarking site on web.

# Stumbleupon
A web browser plugin that allows its users to rate the webpages, photos, videos, and news articles from web.

# Del.icio.us
The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005 and have the biggest amount of website bookmarks.

# Propeller
Propeller.com is a social news portal of the AOL Network owned and operated by AOL LLC, a Time-Warner company.

# Reddit
Ultimate social bookmarking experience. A great social news site.

# Mybloglog
Again a Yahoo! service

# Zimbio
Members can build wikizines - interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - with coverage of current events, cultural reference points, and niche areas of interest.

# Indianpad
A user edited bookmark of news stories related to South Asia.

# Sphinn
A Social site dedicated to online marketing, Internet marketers and SEO.

# Searchles
Recently, Searchles has begun to add more social networking features to their community-based search, differentiating itself from other similar companies such as del.icio.us, Digg, etc.

# Plime
A pliable tree of interesting links, cultivated and pruned by everyone.

# Mixx
Another great social bookmarking site with all categories.

# Furl
Furl (File Uniform Resource Locators) is a free social bookmarking website that allows members to store searchable copies of webpages and share them with others.

# Sk-rt
A social media platform to submit your cool and best web stuff.

# BlogMarks
BlogMarks is an open and free technology to submit your favourite URLs.

# PlugIm
Really a good source for submitting stories.
# Mybookmarks
Offering a fast and easy way for web surfers to store their favorite sites online.
# Mister-Wong
Europe's largest social bookmarking portal with over 4 million visitors / month, founded by Kai Tietjen in March 2006 and available in Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and French.
# Rambhai
An India-centric link/news sharing website.

Paquiao and Rambo - S-Stallone the movie

Is is true that Paquiao and Rambo - S-Stallone has incoming movie. The talked about the movie being planned by Stallone,something like detective story is on the way according to Pacquiao’s business manager Erik Pineda.

“Everything is in the planning stage but what’s certain is that Sylvester Stallone wants Manny Pacquiao in the movie as one of the co-stars” said Pineda.

Our concern here is that Paquiao may become the first Filipino real holywood action star for in real life he is the action hero of the Phils.

What do you think?

Top 11 Seo Tools to monitor web site

You can’t just put your website on the net with right keywords
and all the right touches and expect your traffic and ranking will
remain constant. As the web is an ever changing landscape, you have to
keep track of your own web results like what is happening with the
competition and also the best and highest ranked sites. There are many
useful tools to help you find out what exactly is happening.

1. A tool which you can use to test your own website links or other websites for broken links:

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

2. With this tool you can check search engines for the number of
back links to your URL i.e. other web pages linking to your site:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/

3. It sometimes becomes important to know where the servers of your
hosting company are physically located. Because, some search engines
like Google have the ability to filter search results based on their
physical location called geotargeting. This could be used to determine
why your site is showing in only a certain country. This link can also
be used to research the country location of a particular
competitor’s website:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/website-country/

4. In order to track the location of the visitor or a customer to your website:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/

5. In order to check the Yahoo! web ranking of your’s or your competitor’s website use :

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/webrank/

6. Here is a link to check the web ranking of a website using a Mac or Apple computer:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/pagerank-mac/

7. You need a Google AdSense account for using this. This link
provides you with charts and reports which will help you analyze
traffic, clicks, and results from your AdSense advertising

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-charts/

8. If you have an AdSense account, you can analyze your website
address or another website address to see what Google ads will be
displayed when the customer selects certain website names or keywords:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/

9. This link will take you to a cooperative advertising network where you can join to display and

share your ads with other website owners:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/

10. You can add the Search Functionality on your website which uses
Google. This works only if your site is listed in the Google Index.

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/search/

11. Here are some links to free website counters which you can use on your website to track your traffic and hits:


http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/counter/


http://www.amazingcounters.com/?ref=gad033


http://www.cyber-counter.com/signup.php


http://www.statcounter.com/free_hit_counter.html


http://www.free-counters.net/

Theories in SEO Practice

We've all done it at some point in our professional lives. We search a keyword that describes our business only to scratch our head as to how our competitor's website shows up on the top of the list instead of ours. If you've gone one step further and read about Search Engine Optimization, then surely you have come across the conflicting information online.

One article tells you to do one thing while another tells you to do the opposite. Which one should you believe?

This gray area of what you should or should not do is much like the modern day "Bat Cave." If you are lucky enough to stumble upon it, chances are you don't quite know how you got there and if you had to go back one day you would probably just find yourself lost in the woods.

So what should you believe? The general rule is to combine what you read or heard with what you have experienced and somewhere in there lies the truth. To get you started, let's debunk some of the more commonly used myths floating around.




1) Use a Keyword Rich Domain Name:

It is widely believed that if you include your keywords in your domain name like www.professional-website-design-in-nj.com it will greatly increase your rankings. This is not true. It is best to choose a domain name that is short, easy to remember and if possible includes your company name.

2) Google Partnership:

If you are ever approached by a company claiming to have a partnership with Google, run in the opposite direction. There is no such thing as a "preferred" relationship with Google and in fact on Google's website it even states: Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google.

3) Meta Keyword Tag:

It used to be that the Meta Keyword Tag was given a lot of weight in the early days of Search Engine Optimization, but people abused it and now it does very little. You may still want to include your keywords here, but know that it will not do much and in fact most search engines won't even check it.

4) Bold or Italicized Text:

Adding emphasis to certain keywords like using bold or italics can make your text easier to scan for the reader if done properly, but has little to no affect on your search engine ranking.

5) Content Length:

There is no search engine rule stating that your content needs to be a specific number of words in order to get indexed. Any recommended length is more to assist the reader in understanding what you do than to aid the search engines.

6) Duplicate Content:

Posting specific content like an article or blog entry on your site and then on another site will not get you penalized. In the search results, Google will recognize that the content is the same and only choose one of the pages to display, but it will not hurt your overall search engine ranking.

7) Avoid Flash:

Any text that you place in Flash will not be readable by a search engine, but this doesn't mean you have to avoid flash altogether. You can still very successfully incorporate Flash into your site through rotating pictures or a header on the page. Just don't have an all Flash site or use a Flash intro if you are interested in increasing your search engine rankings.




8) Pay-Per-Click:

Some say that using Pay-Per-Click will help your organic listing while others say it will hurt. Both are false. The fact is that Google has gone to great lengths to separate the two departments of organic and paid listings to a point where the two departments don't communicate or even sit at the same table for lunch.

9) Update the Site Frequently:

Updating your site often is a good idea if you have something new to say. Just don't change around a few words to accommodate the search engines as that won't help your listing at all. Regularly adding legitimate content like articles, press releases and blog entries will help though.

10) Doorway Pages:

Many companies will sell this idea of increasing your ranking by creating hundreds of one page sites loaded with keywords that link to you from various domains. This is considered spamming the search engine and is not recommended. If you properly optimize your site and focus on the correct way to get listed, you will increase your ranking much quicker than these doorway pages ever could.

Of course there are many other myths out there confusing the general public about what works and what doesn't work. Some of them are spread by people who don't really know the truth and others are spread by SEO companies in an attempt to make search engine optimization confusing... mission accomplished! Regardless of where the myths come from, if you or the SEO Company you hire use common sense and do things the right way, you will have no trouble finding the proverbial Bat Cave?and when you get there please tell them that I want my utility belt back!


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About the Author: Marc D. Ensign is the CEO and Visionary of Sound-n-Vision, a New Jersey web design and Internet marketing company. Marc actively teaches workshops and seminars on web design and search engine optimization throughout the New York Metropolitan area.

Article Submission Tips

Building your list and adding prospects to your sales funnel with article submissions is the hottest sales lead generation trend on the Web today. However, the article submission process is one of the most boring and tedious tasks around. That's why many authors, experts and businesses choose to outsource their article marketing efforts.

How can you choose the best article submission company to handle this important process for you? Follow these tips to avoid being ripped off from unscrupulous merchants.

Here Are My Top 10 Questions to Ask Any Article Marketing & Submission Service Provider So You Can Reach Your Goals:

   1. Are the sites on your company's article submission list well known across the Web, or are they dummy sites that you set up? Some unscrupulous article submission service providers promise to post your article to hundreds or thousands of sites for a very low fee - like $15! What they don't tell you is that these sites are ones they have created for the sole purpose of posting your articles. No one visits these sites. Search engines don't index these sites. So no one will ever see these articles. Ask for a list of sites they submit to. If they don't seem credible, run fast!
   2. Does Google index the sites you submit to? If Google doesn't, then you are wasting your time. Ask them for a list of success stories. By going to Google and typing the headline in quotes, you can check whether or not Google indexes the articles they submit.
   3. Does Alexa index the sites your company submits articles to? Alexa.com is a website that tracks the traffic of all websites. Go there and type your website URL and you'll see where your site ranks among the millions of websites. It's easy and fun to do. Try it! Now, ask the marketing company to provide the names of 10 sites they will submit your article to. See where they rank on Alexa. Do they even rank on Alexa? If not, watch out!
   4. Is this a targeted campaign, or a scattershot approach? Ask the company how well targeted the article submission process is going to be. Can they target specific audiences, like health, or marketing or C-level executives? If they can't, then you are wasting your money reaching audiences that aren't interested in your message.
   5. Does your article submission company submit articles by hand or by software? Most reputable websites that accept articles will not accept articles delivered by software. They want unique content and they know articles submitted by software will be sent to every site imaginable.
   6. Does your article submission company edit your article? I've written six books on marketing and the Internet that have been translated into six different languages, and I write and submit articles on a weekly basis. Yet, I still hire proofreaders to review my articles. Sure, you think you are a great writer, but there's not a person alive who won't benefit from a copy editor giving the article a second look.
   7. Will your article submission service use sound search engine optimization strategies to make my articles search engine friendly? If your hire a good article marketing company, they will not only edit your articles but they will make your articles search engine friendly as well. This way, your articles can be found on Google.
   8. Will your company handle the day-to-day correspondence with site and ezine editors? You can spend hours answering questions from website and ezine editors. The best firms handle the routine correspondence for you. They bring you in only when you need to answer an important question. You should avoid firms that don't respond to editors because your articles will never be published by highly targeted websites. They can say they submitted the article, but you won't have any pickup.
   9. Does your company submit articles in a way that Google respects, or do you blast articles out there? Google hates when people try to manipulate their rankings and will ding your article campaign if you send out too many articles too quickly. Make sure your article marketing company understands this. Otherwise, Google could blackball your article marketing efforts.
  10. What do you charge for article submission? It has been my experience that the article submission process, if performed correctly, can take up to 10 hours or more to submit your article to 100 sites. That doesn't count the proofing, editing, optimizing, consulting and following up. All this work takes time and effort. If the price seems too low, remember the old saying, “You get what you pay for."

You want an article submission service that cares about your success. Many fly-by-night artists just want to take your money and run. Make sure the service you select takes the time to get to know you, your marketing goals and your audience. Follow these tips to ensure you get what you pay for! If not, you could be headed for disaster.