The Search Engine Roundtable blog confirms that the recent PR adjustments where targeting raw paid links. An email response from Google Search Quality Engineer Matt Cutts puts all speculations to rest.
But the question remains…
Continue reading ‘Will you stop selling link ads now?’
permalink
One of the fastest ways of getting feed subscribers is by offering RSS-to-Email subscriptions in your blog. This gives visitors a way to get updates from your blog even if they’re not familiar with feed readers like Bloglines, Netvibes or FeedDemon. However, this option also opens you to accidental or arbitrary subscribers.
Continue reading ‘How to deal with arbitrary feed subscribers?’
permalink
Here’s another way of getting your Paypal funds into one of your credit cards here in the Philippines. I initially thought this method would before but only got confirmation about it from Citibank just yesterday.
Continue reading ‘Withdraw Paypal Money from your Citibank Credit Card’
permalink
Some developers don’t want to wait for February 2008 when Apple opens up the iPod API. So, it’s not a surprise that the new Jailbreak for the iPhone and the iPod Touch now does it all for you in one-click.
Continue reading ‘One-Click Jailbreak your iPod Touch’
permalink
Two of the most recent blog ideas pitched to me have become an almost instant hit in the local webosphere. When the authors of these blogs came up to me and pitched the proposal, I knew right then it would be a success. I’d like to share their stories here so to inspire others.
Continue reading ‘Seeding Blog Ideas and other Links’
permalink
Got back from from Davao City this afternoon. Did some exciting stuff over the week-end there, on top of the partying after the Mindanao Bloggers Summit. See my recent picture after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Scuba Diving along the coast of Samal Island’
permalink
The ever expected launch of Apple’s OS X 10.5 (codenamed Leopard) was met with alot of enthusiasm. On top of that, there have been reports of the new OS flying around some torrent sites.
Continue reading ‘Leopard for PC hacked on Launch Day’
permalink
Published by: yuga under: WiFi.
posted:
October 28th, 2007
Got this from a reliable source and the scoop was Innove is partnering with Intel Philippines to roll out a commercial WiMax service this April 2008.
Continue reading ‘Globe Innove to launch WiMax Service in 2008′
permalink
Published by: yuga under: Events.
posted:
October 27th, 2007
The MBS just started here at the NCC Mall in Davao City. Great crowd. More pictures after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Mindanao Bloggers Summit’
permalink
Been receiving emails in the last 24 hours about the recent and radical changes in Google PageRank. The growing trend is downhill, especially for popular and highly trusted sites. Despite all these, the question remains — does it really matter?
Let me answer several of the more important questions thrown at me.
Continue reading ‘Google PR: Does it really matter?’
permalink
Published by: yuga under: Web 2.0.
posted:
October 25th, 2007
It was a fierce battle between Microsoft and Google in gaining a stake on Facebook. Earlier today, Facebook announced that it has made an agreement with Microsoft for a 1.6% equity stake worth $240 million.
Continue reading ‘Microsoft buys 1.6% of Facebook’
permalink
Published by: yuga under: SEO.
posted:
October 25th, 2007
As in it’s all over the blogosphere now. A lot of popular sites have been slapped with PageRank penalties, some scrambling for their lives. And some though it was just this blog.
Continue reading ‘Google slapping PageRank Penalties’
permalink
This just in — Google Mail (GMail) is now officially supporting IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol. And people thought Google would not give in to the popular demand.
Continue reading ‘GMail opens up IMAP Support’
permalink
Published by: yuga under: AdSense.
posted:
October 24th, 2007
Google just announced an upcoming change in its AdSense Program that allows Publishers to modify their ads without changing the code.
Continue reading ‘Centralized Google AdSense Ad Management’
permalink
PEx is probably the largest and one of the oldest existing forums in the country. Despite the growth and the amount of traffic it gets, the happy problem of making money off of the eyeballs is still a constant challenge. Looks like PEx is squeezing out all it can do to bump up the effective CPM. However, lately, there have been some allegations of spamming though.
Continue reading ‘Spamming at PEx?’
permalink
Published by: yuga under: Curious.
posted:
October 23rd, 2007
This is like walking down memory lane. This YouTube video shows all of the logos, sounds, and start-up screens of Microsoft Windows.
Continue reading ‘MS Windows: Thru the Years’
permalink