Do you use AdSense Filtering service? If you haven’t, Try once. It will be a bit of surprise that you don’t know which IP are using to serve your ads as well as competitive ads filter will enable you to block specific ads, such as competitors’ ads, from appearing on your pages.

Now there are two additional features in Competitive Ads Filter that have been improved now.

I will directly quote from AdSense Blog, so that you will not misunderstand the meaning.

Faster filtering
In the past, the Competitive Ad Filter sometimes took up to several hours to block URLs you’d entered. Knowing you’ve wanted a faster filtering system, we’re excited to let you know that URLs added to your Competitive Ad Filter are now usually blocked within 30 minutes. We hope that this will help you quickly make changes to maintain a positive user experience on your sites.

Increased filter list size
At the same time, a growing number of you have let us know that you’re running out of space in your Competitive Ad Filter. Now, you can add up to 500 sites to your filter list, more than double the previous limit. As you add new sites, please continue to keep the possible revenue impact of filtering in mind.

So, this is actually a big improvement for me, because It is always good to use filter service from AdSense and it will improve and give you safety for your website as well.

I actually learn linux all by myself too. all u need is time and self-study. If you are new to linux.. it’s best you use virtual machine or extra computer that can install stand alone.

there are many virtual machine that can install linux, my favorite one will be virtual box.. So, u can install on your windows computer, and virtual box will run as a mini-computing system. If u r very new to linux.. there are many ways you can get to know them.. First learning in Distrowatch.com and what are the core ingridients in each distribution.. I like Fedora 10 or 11 the best to learn new things, because they have apache, httpd, ftp, database, many scripting, also security and networking setup, I quite like it…

Let’s say, u want dual-boot with computer, not using virtual machine, try ubuntu 9.04, ubuntu is the best linux to install.. they have two version, desktop and server version, u can choose whatever version u want to master it.

Generally learning for Linux, for starter.. you can read through this website to get to know bit by bit.

Free trainings are starting from Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Level. Moreover, you will be able to learn some useful tips and tricks of Linux operating system and its functions. Once you complete the course, it is time to choose a particular distribution and start mastering the Linux one by one. My person choices will be Fedora 11 or Ubuntu 9.04 as of today.. These versions will change time after time as they will release more or less every 6 months to 12 months as a new version.

Thanks for reading.

Hello, I just got an email from AdSense team that they wil be tweaking a few more updates regarding to fonts, so that Ads will look more natural and nicely fit in with AdSense displayed websites.

So, to get more precise information I will quote here..

Currently, most ad units set to the AdSense default font face are displayed in Arial, with a few in Verdana. Here are the new default font faces we’re launching for our ad units:

Arial: 728×90, 336×280, 120×600, 120×240
Verdana: 300×250, 160×600, 468×60, 250×250, 234×60, 125×125, 180×150
Times New Roman: 200×200

So, tweak your AdSense Ads and generate your income better than ever.

Choices of keywords

There are many techniques to plan for keywords in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) world. It is critical to use all the techniques so that search engines can index your site better than others. It is actually called on-page optimization which is important part of SEO.

Typically, the choices of keywords are to target traffic to your site relevant to keywords that internet users will search. However, each page can be optimized for different keywords, but the most important thing is not to focus on search engines, but to focus on the content of your materials. So, here are details keywords that you can actually optimized on page and they should be done on each and every single page of your site. Especially when you have a blog, it is very effective to optimize as blogs are content based and pretty easy to implement your SEO.

Keywords density

Let’s say, if you are writing about SEO, you will probably write more than once on the word, SEO. But too much is never good and always follow your heart to write rather than worrying too much about search engines and how they will index. Sometimes, when you try so hard, it makes visitors not only to feel confused but also not to come back for next time.

Long tailed keywords

Long tailed keywords are usually very long keywords and sometimes it is good to implement on possible long tailed keywords on your site. For example, “how to make a good plan on summer holidays” are long tailed keywords and you can actually optimize for headers, titles and rhetorical questions. It is important to know that generally, search engines will omit more of the conjunction words, but if you include them, they can be searched and match up according to the relevancy of search as well.

Overlapping keywords

This is basically associated with long tailed keywords search, the best way to highlight your keywords are H1, H2, paragraph html, bold, underlined, and italics, but not overkill it, of course. For example, the keywords that can search well on “make money online” could also be searched well in “make money online information”.

Misspelled keywords

They are to avoid at all costs for me, I have some contradictions with some of the SEO masters that you can actually intend to use misspelling, however, I do not follow their suggestions because most of the search engines no longer use meta tags because of keywords spamming and 90% of top search engines have already filtered with spelling checker for search results especially in English language search.

Plural keywords

Some people actually use plural keywords to search. So, it’s sometimes good to construct your site with both singular and plural number for commonly used words. Therefore, you can actually cover both when search is sought.

Localizations of your targeted audience and keywords

If you actually install Google analytics, you can actually geo-target or alternatively know who are your frequent visitors. The selection of words can actually give them easier to understand meaning and more feel like to read it more. For example, use toilet, loo, bathroom, lavatory or restroom according to your visitors to get acquaintance with your site. If you are promoting for products or services focused on particular country, it is vital to use these localizations for your potential buyers/visitors.

Caps and Hyphens

Usually, capital and hyphenated keywords are not mentioned much in on page SEO. But they are actually practical to use. Many people overlook SEO but build millions of web pages and they do not know what they are missing. In addition, capital keywords are not treated for special but it actually looks very professional, however, with good spelling checker website such as Yahoo! and Google actually make use of the importance of capital, because in some cases, capital plays a role, for example, internet and Internet. For hyphens, most search engines consider as a space, however, indexing with or without hyphens are different, so the best thing is to use both intentionally, so that you can cover both. Or you can do some research on what type of usage and search is used on particular keywords and examine whether e-mail or email is used more if there’s a case.

So, there you go, these are fantastic methods for on page optimizations and I am sure you do not miss these, so that you can generate more visitors than your competition. Because once you have started a website, you have millions of competition and the most important thing is to offer uniqueness and attractiveness to your potential visitors. Good Luck.

Reference: SEO Book by Aaron Wall 2006, an e-book which I really like. I am not affiliated with the author and you can actually Google to buy his materials if you want.

About Domain names

The importance of domain name is critically important. Most of the great domain names are taken and I still see them doing little use at all. Some people just bought them for ages and finally they gave up using it because they did not really have a business plan or model to implement it. On the other hand, I saw some people bought unimaginable domain names and also failed with terrible domain names. So, I will discuss a little bit about domain names that comes to my mind.

As long as it takes domain names

Try to avoid it. Some people thought it is extremely important to have keywords in the domain names. It is true in branding, for example, Zytech or Microsoft, they are not really meaningful as a matter of words, but they are meaningful to the brand name. If you are building your brand, it is good to use long domain names, but of course, up to the limit where people can accept, not like cheap-best-reasonable-online-shopping-place.com is too much to remember. The ideal selection is to have not more than 12 letters without the TLD domain names (.com, .net, .tv, .org, .us).

Shorter domains

It is actually good to have shorter domain names, because when you use email promotion or even someone has to email you, you would want comfortable and easy to remember email address. Another tip is to use short form like infomm.com which could actually mean a long meaning, but also fairly easy to remember.

Dashed domains

I do not like dashed domains, be realistic, why do you use dash? The odds are, someone has already registered the name already without dashed, therefore, you need to have to dashed, consequently, that means you will possibly lose your visitors to that domain without dash as well. For example, onebest.com versus one-best.com, the name is fantastic, easy to remember, fits most of the businesses with quality and quantity, unfortunately,  people may not type – (dashed) all the time and it might lead your potential visitors to another website.

Multiple domains

One domain costs basically less than $10, if you are going to do a reputable and good business, why not spend a little bit more for your domain related and use additional parked domain which is now very easy to do so. For example, if you have bestchef.com and someone can actually buy bestchefs.com for your possible traffic and potential income. So, never feel that is not required to spend, perhaps it will be your best $10 spent in the future. Also, if you have several domains that are not used, just parked to the domain that is in full functions, or, you can actually park and display ads with Google AdSense as well. The bottom line is, do not let your domain unused at all.

So, good luck with your domain names, I will write more about domain name and its related topics soon to give you more depth. It is best when you click and read my particular topic rather than just reading through because at the end of the each post, you may find related posts that are very useful and relevant to my main post. Thanks for reading.

Well, I just received payment from Bidvertiser.. They are pretty easy to work with. It’s not much, but it’s a start, and I actually don’t even display their ads on my site.

I just refer members who are willing to use Bidvertiser  as either publisher, advertiser or referrals. It is pretty simple and straight forward to sign up and also easy to get paid. All you need is good website traffic to convert.

So, here’s the payment proof.

Bidvertiser is very popular, because you can get paid with paypal, which is pretty easy to setup.

So, get yourself some earnings today if you haven’t signed up.
If you have blog or website and you can display your ads easily with bidvertiser as a publisher

Or if you want to promote or advertise, you get $20 FREE when you sign up advertising campaign with Bidvertiser. Both awesome deals. Not only you can advertise your website or blog, also your eBay items and many more.

Well, I am not a super blogger and can’t write many blogs anyways. There are actually two reasons regarding this.One, I don’t produce my articles on daily basis and I don’t write much unless there’s something I can definitely deliver to my audience.

I love to visit some websites and blogs just to learn more because there are fantastic people who write absolutely wonderful articles about other things.

Anyway, today, I stumbled across this blog article about domain registration length and SEO (search engine optimization), and it is actually intriguing. The article is actually part of their 30 days SEO training. I am against with duplicate content and love to credit to the original author. So, credit to thekeywordacademy.com, here is the post about Domain name expiry date vs Google SEO.

Extend Your Domain Registration Length For Better SEO

I absolutely love it, what do you think?

Want to get Twitter followers efficiently? These are some of the facts you actually do not be able to find. Because I do experience myself in order to share my knowledge to you. Not to take some points from other people’s work. And yes, I do things slowly, but do it right to make the best out of it.

But you will not definitely find my post short cut or gain 20,000 followers within a week, but you will have steady increase number of followers, let’s say 50-100 members of followers a day if you build a good relationship with your followers.

Things you can’t easily find out on Google search about Twitter?

You can see thousands of blog articles written online, but when you hit 2000 following, not followers, you are stuck.. Why? because twitter put limits on following at 2000, unless your followers are properly ratioed. I am shocked to learn that internet gurus hardly talk about twitter limit. It’s probably one of the most important things you need to know about Twitter, read more here about twitter follow limit.

Twitter marketing?

Twitter is probably one of the hottest tool for internet marketing people. I do little bit of marketing for my websites, but never spam on your status. The point is you have 140 characters to do marketing on your status, the more follower, the better chance that they will see your status quite intriguing and click your URL (your URL can be shorten, meaning, no matter how long your blog post or URL is, it will actually be reduced to 18-20 characters). Moreover, you can actually hide if you are posting affiliate links, so that drives you more possible sales conversion as well. So, be wise for your 140 characters and make use of best possible punch line.

Twitter following and followers?

You will probably see have 15,000 followers in 3 weeks or I make 20k followers in 1 month thing around. My suggestion is not to spend a dime and get consistent and real followers for you. Remember, more than 50% of twitter members follow to get followers consequently can broadcast our status to the followers. It is neither geo-targeted nor niche-targeted. But always keep in mind, people want to build up relationships in Twitter, simple build up your relationship with your followers and following members.

My Motto @ Twitter

Follow me, follow you attitude. I always try to follow anyone who followed me. This is the right way to build up relationship with your followers. Of course, some people cannot follow you back right away because they probably reach twitter limits and stuck with following limits. Some people may not actually follow you permanently too. But that’s okay, you win some, you lose some. But once you build a good relationship to anyone, it does not matter, you will slowly build your Twitter network stronger than ever. Take a look at my follower at Twitter, you will see my total followers. If you want effectively gain twitter follower fast, just follow the people who followed me, because they actually followed me right away and they keep their following permanently. Check out my followers.

Here comes the most important thing, you would want to build your list slowly, so that you will not be stuck with twitter limits. So, make sure you follow like 100 members a day. Next day, you keep your following. Even you have 1000 following limits, you can actually get stuck if your following and follower ratio is not propotionate. So, follow properly, but not aggresively. While following maintain good relationship and RT other tweets, so that people will actually get to know you.

I made a lot of friends in Twitter, I barely know, But If someone Tweet such as “Share me some of your SEO tools”, and I just gave back RT (re-tweet) or DM (direct message).. In a couple of hours, i will get “thanks for the tools”, etc etc.

Nevermind about too many interests?

No, people don’t mind, they want what they want to. Sometimes, I tweet about myself. Once I tweet, This is so boring day, I will definitely get back “same here”, “rainy day and sleepy”, in a couple of minutes. Sometimes, direct to my Twitter login. That’s how you create your relationship, Now, I even search blogs on Twitter rather than Google, because you get more filtered as people would share or announce some good articles. When you focus on marketing alone, I don’t think it gives you real joy of using twitter. I gained heaps of friends in Basketball tweets, but never disappointed in my SEO/SEM discussions too.

Requirements for Twitter Members?

No, I am just being cheesy with the subtopics. There’s no requirement needed, but always treat other people with respect and have fun. Don’t just login to share your blog post with alot of URLs. Because many people check out your profile before they add you and when they see very few updates, they know they cannot do any interactive relationship with you and perhaps will not add you in their list. And some people get annoyed by constantly advertising your URL every single update of yours. So, be involved in community while doing your marketing at the same time.

So, Good luck and hope you get good Twitter campaign for your marketing, social networking, jobs, searches or even fun stuff to read.

I am a big fan of do-follow sites, I also allow do-follow on all my websites because it is actually something we can give back to our valuable visitors for their time. So, if anyone comments, you will get one do-follow backlink to your site as long as they are not spams.

Usually, I like to format my computer every once in a while, because I like my computers fresh and fast. And I normally lost all my bookmarks since I frequently forgot to back up.

Since online social bookmarking websites have started, it’s actually now much easier for me to have it kept. So, with this post, I will share 10 do follow social bookmarking sites I like.

1. Blinklist PR8

2. Mister Wong PR7

3. Backflip PR 6

4. BibSonomy PR 6

5. Spurl PR 6

6. Furl PR 6

7. Connectedy PR 5

8. linkaGoGo PR 5

9. Spotback PR 5

10. MyLinkVault PR 4

So, there you go,  make use of it and make sure your blog/website is visible on these websites, that actually will create good backlinks as well as PR building.

There are a couple of ways to initiate page relevancy for search engines. One could be on page optimization for relevancy.

It involves placing your keywords in tactical locations of the pages on your website. Remember, you always prepare for search engines, but always think of your audience first. I will not crazily use too many keywords but no information. Always keep in mind; human beings are the most important factor in success of your website, at the same time, you would love to get the job done for search engines as well.

So, what are on page relevancy and its optimization?

The significant ones are

• header tags
• internal links
• external links
• headline
• anchor text
• bold, underline, italic text
• image names, image description, ALT tags
• page name, page body, title, description and
• keywords

Well, everytime you create a page, you will probably want to rememer these tips to optimize, for example, as a blogger, you can actually develope a lot of thing in one post, different headers, URL linkages, even different headers and a little bit effort to tag and name image descriptions, of course, carefully considering page name, paragraphs, title and descriptions that can actually become a really good keywords for search engines.

Even bold color is pretty much helpful, so is italic text. These functions are not only available for differentiate, but also point out which part is imperative and what not. As we all actually scan and screen most of the known keywords if entire text is unchanged. For example, placing Ads on left hand side could attract more as people start to read from left to right in majority of languages.

Try them, and search some of your keywords yourself after you optimize, and share your experiences because it works for me.

Thanks for reading.

Some webmasters constantly debate, Page Rank is very important, some argue otherwise. For me, Page Rank is not my type of tea to brag about it. But yes, you can definitely make good income with higher Page Rank, that is no doubt about it. However, SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) are not directly related but relevant with PR although I personally believe higher PR has brought some unique traffic to the site.

InfoMM.com Google Page Rank

How does Google calculate?

The truth is, there are many variables and terms. You can actually view Google’s technology overview here. So, let’s break down a little bit about Page Rank.

PR History: Larry Page started it, hence the Page Rank, LOL. The project started in 1995 and led to a functional prototype, named Google, in 1998. Shortly after, Page and Brin founded Google Inc., the company behind the Google search engine. While just one of many factors which determine the ranking of Google search results, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of Google’s web search tools. (Reference: Google)

PR definition: PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important”. (Reference directly from Google Inc.)

PR how it calculates: Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each web page; Therefore,  PageRank denotes a site’s importance in the eyes of Google (of course, many search engines are more or less very similar actually). PageRank is derived from a theoretical probability value on a logarithmic scale. Here’s the graphical analysis of Page Rank.

How Google calculates PR

“Mathematical PageRanks (out of 100) for a simple network (PageRanks reported by Google are rescaled logarithmically). Page C has a higher PageRank than Page E, even though it has fewer links to it: the link it has is much higher valued. A web surfer who chooses a random link on every page (but with 15% likelihood jumps to a random page on the whole web) is going to be on Page E for 8.1% of the time. (The 15% likelihood of jumping to an arbitrary page corresponds to a damping factor of 85%.) Without damping, all web surfers would eventually end up on Pages A, B, or C, and all other pages would have PageRank zero. Page A is assumed to link to all pages in the web, because it has no outgoing links.”

Above PageRank is directly quoted from Wiki so that I do not make mistakes with explanation and wanted to avoid plagiarism.

okay, The $$$ part.., the most important SEO ideas about PR are…

1. The page rank of the linking page, especially backlinks
2. Relevant linkage – if your site is about home loans and backlinks, outgoing and incoming links are about home loans, you get more votes.
3. Quality of incoming links connected at the website of outgoing links
4. The number and quality of outgoing links on the page – if you put one URL 1 million time on one page, it will not only discount as a spam, also count as no quality link.
5. Get different sources of traffic - such as organic search, direct visits, referral visits. To be honest, direct visits to sub-pages many times will help you rise in PR especially with social bookmarking sites such as digg, reddit, etc. Because the subpage will also contribute the rank of the domain (Overall PageRank).
6. Have more original and unique content so that you will have more page added to your domain consequently creating more votes to your internal linkage. (if you can follow timely manner, it is the best, for example, 1 new page every week or 1 new page a day).
7. Have less dangling links (no internal or outgoing links), in other words, dead end page.
8. Don’t worry about sub-directory, worry about correct internal links.
9. Submit free to article directories (of course high PR ones) and put the direct link to your website.
10. Exchange the link with higher PR sites

There you have excellent 10 tips to build up your PageRank for your SEO jobs, Others will charge you hundreds of dollars for these. If you do it yourself when you have some sparetime, it can be achieved. Please keep in mind that easy ways such as buying links, submitting to no-follow sites, submitting to most of the directories, or spamdexing (spamming on indexing) will not only discount your PageRank, but also have a chance of being penalized. So, do the right way, your PageRank will be up consistently whenever Google updates PR.

Now, we need to consider what is the link popularity for your website(s). It’s imperative to know what are these, so that you will not get confused and the meaning do not become misconceptions.

Link popularity is basically the links pointing to your webpage/websites/domains. So, it is basically called backlinks (the links you received back). For example, I would recommend CNN.com on my website and when search engine bots/spiders crawl my page, they will also note that CNN.com will get one more backlinks from my site, confirming I trust this particular URL to be linked with. Link popularity also determines Page Rank for Google as well.

Like in mid 90s search engine world, it was pretty simple, the total backlinks will give you basically higher search results, but nowadays, all big three (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live) are well-aware and well-constructed  conditions and variables to determine the link popularity in proper manners so that people who take advantages of buying links and submitting to directories compared to those who did not will be adjusted.

Speaking of  Link Popularity, you need to think about your link relevancy, because spiders will also calculate the relevancy of your website and the backlinks to certain level, for example, In this website, I talk about SEO, wordpress, search engines, blogging. Therefore, if I link to websites about SEO, wordpress, etc, those people who received backlinks from my website will get better Page Rank as well as high relevancy. (which is why I allow do-follow commenting on my site, which is massive advantages to those who leave comments on my site especially in same topics/niches.)

Nowadays, search engines do not rely on link popularity alone, however still play a huge role. So, if you have higher link popularity, you have to build quality backlinks which is what many people are seriously building for Google PR. The easiest way to build is to make people known about your website and do not worry so much about search engines’ spiders. Like I have mentioned before, you need to build for massive traffic and let search engine love you.