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You probably came onto this site, hoping you can find the answer as to when it’s time to quit your job. I’ve been there before.  And i’ve done it. And here’s my story.

After just a month of working at home, i was already earning 20 times my monthly salary when i was still employed!  How did i do it? Find out on my next posts.

A Search Engine Optimization blog to primary focus is to provide information about search engines and to design search engine friendly pages. by Joann M Cabading

I just found a very unfriendly user system today,the pinoycallcenter site. what’s the purpose of having to ask both the username and the email ad when you forget your login info? You are requesting for it because you either lost password or the username, just so stupid, in my opinion.

How do you submit your URL to stumbleupon? It’s simple. Go to your site/page, and click “I like it” on your browser toolbar (assuming you have downloaded and installed the Sumbleupon toolbar) Next question commonly asked is “what can i do to increase my traffic with stumbleupon? Here’s the answer.

1. Rate Websites. Get involved in a community and start rating other people’s websites.
2. Add Friends on your network. This will increase the volume of users that are likely to give you a two thumbs up
3. Submit new pages.
4. Carefully select topic titles.This is important to make sure your webpage is displayed to relevant users
5. Add multiple tags.

That’s all for stumbleupon. gotta get back to work.

Finally, i now see stumbleupon’s contribution on my traffic. Now on the top 5 of my Most referring sites!

I’m posting more things i have read about what was discussed during the 2006 Pubcon in Las Vegas:

1. “Google doesn’t give a lot of weight on directory links”. – by Matt Cutts
My comment. it says “a lot of weight” , that means they still do give importance to it, just not that much.

2. Don’t use link services, link exchanges or buy links. Rely on your good content to get ONE-WAY inbound links.

3. Keep your page titles short and simple (i usually limit my title to 100 characters). Google might look at long titles as if you’re trying to stuff some extra keywords, etc.

4. Unique titles on your pages.

5. Avoid templating pages. Don’t create tons of pages that have very similar content with the exception of a paragraph or two. Most of it will get flagged as duplicate content and will likely de-index most of your pages.

6. Try to keep most of your javascript in includes. Helps keep the source cleaner from a crawlers perspective since they don’t have to look at it.

7. Register your site with Google local and Yahoo yellow pages. Doing so helps boost your rank in local search. A good site description when registering plays an important role in your ranking, so pay attention to it as well.

A google big event held in Las Vegas just happened: “Las Vegas PubCon
2006″. An event where bloggers, SEOs, webmasters, programmers and anyone
who has the passion to know more about Google, gathered together. It’s
just too bad, i wasn’t able to attend but i wish that soon, i could. I
know some filipinos went to this event and i’m hoping that when they come
back to the philippines, they will be organizing a conference here in
manila and share what they have learned during this PubCon. But i’m
keeping my fingers crossed as well that they won’t charge too high (of
course to cover up the expenses they have spent during their travel!)

Here’s the list of google events at pubcon:

Tuesday 14
10:15 – 11:30 SEO and Big Search Adam Lasnik, Search Evangelist
1:30 – 2:45 PPC Search Advertising Programs Frederick Vallaeys, Senior Product Specialist, AdWords
2:45 – 4:00 PPC Tracking and Reconciliation Brett Crosby, Senior Manager, Google Analytics

Wednesday 15
10:15 – 11:30 Contextual Advertising Optimization Tom Pickett, Online Sales and Operations
11:35 – 12:50 Site Structure for Crawlability Vanessa Fox, Product Manager, Google Webmaster Central
1:30 – 3:10 Duplicate Content Issues Vanessa Fox, Product Manager, Google Webmaster Central
5:30 – 7:30 Safe Bets From Google Cocktail party!

Thursday 16
11:35 – 12:50 Spider and DOS Defense Vanessa Fox, Product Manager, Google Webmaster Central
1:30 – 3:10 Interactive Site Reviews Matt Cutts, Software Engineer
3:30 – 5:00 Super Session Matt Cutts, Software Engineer

Here’s the Activity Details:

Oki, so that’s it! I will keep myself updated with these events and will be updating this blog too for others to see. I missed one day by the way. since i’m writing this blog on 15Nov. Sorry!

Cloaking is a way of serving the search engine spiders a different optimized page to what the website visitor sees. So if the Google spider / bot comes along to index your page it will serve it a page specially designed for Google. If the Altavista bot comes along, it will get an Altavista optimized page – etc…

Cloaking software serves the spider bot a ‘content-oriented’ page that is optimized for that specific engine. It is not the same page served to the surfer.

One advantage of cloaking is that people cannot “steal” your code. If you spend time optimizing your pages, it is simple for someone to copy that page and change it slightly if they are competing with you. With cloaking, there is no way they can see the code that got you a high ranking.

However many search engines regard it as “cheating” so if you are going to use it, you have been warned. Some sites register another domain name that will redirect to the main website.

Google was Caught for Keyword Stuffing and Cloaking??

Threadwatch member Adam_C discovered what for all appearances seems to be Google pulling dirty SEO tactics on it’s own pages and thus going against it’s own guidelines in an effort to rank highly within it’s own results.

Cloaking
Cloaking, as stated in Google’s guidelines as something strictly not to do:

• Don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.

Although there are discussions within the SEO realm as to what exactly cloaking is, in it’s simplest form, it is “showing a page to search engines” that is “different to users”. 

Here’s how Google defined it in the Google Webmaster FAQ

The term “cloaking” is used to describe a website that returns altered webpages to search engines crawling the site. In other words, the webserver is programmed to return different content to Google than it returns to regular users, usually in an attempt to distort search engine rankings. This can mislead users about what they’ll find when they click on a search result. To preserve the accuracy and quality of our search results, Google may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking to distort their search rankings.

Keyword stuffing
Keyword stuffing is the practice of stuffing a website page with the terms and phrases you wish to rank for

So what is the issue with Google?

Take a look at this Adwords page on Google  you’ll see the title:

Google AdWords Support: How do I use the Traffic Estimator?

Not take a look at google’s cache of the page and notice the title. It now says
traffic estimator, traffic estimates, traffic tool, estimate traffic Google AdWords Support …

Now tell me what you think.  Do you think they are ranking for the keyword  “traffic estimate”?  I’ll say…i do. If what i think is true. What does this imply? Why are they telling the webmasters to to avoid cloaking and yet they do it on their own websites?  Post your comment, and tell me what you think.

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Google toolbar is sending out private information about your site when installed in your computer. Google toolbar will let google know more about website traffic in general . Though, it may not harm, some of the seo’s prefer not to use this tool. If you enable pagerank, it will start sending anonymous information to google .