Monthly Archives: April 2010

Is Google SEOing Its Own Webpages?

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I just want to share you the video of Matt Cutts, the Google Guy, taken during his presentation at the SMX West Search Conference.

From this video, you’ll find out whether Google SEO’ed its own webpages for them to top its own SERPs. If Google SEO’ed its own webpages, how does Google does do SEO for google.com?

As the Google Guy discussed how Google SEO’ed its own webpages, you also need to take note some points on how to optimize your sites or blogs.

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Labor Day on May 3

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Philippines – President Arroyo declared May 3 as regular holiday for the observance of the Labor Day, through the Proclamation 2043.

Labor Day is actually on May 1. But since May 1 is Saturday, the President declared May 3 as it is the nearest Monday as provided by the law rationalizing the country’s holidays that was passed on 2007.

According to the Republic Act 9492, Labor Day would be observed on the Monday nearest May 1.

What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

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Robert T. Kiyosaki wrote a book that tells us the things that the rich dad teaches his kids about money and that the poor dad doesn’t. This book is just one of the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” collection of books written by Mr. Kiyosaki.

About the Book

I haven’t yet bought and read the content of the book. But I am planning to buy it. I first heard about the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” books of Mr. Kiyosaki through the blog of Tyrone.

Here’s a review of a satisfied buyer of this book through Amazon.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a life changing book that is why this incredible book has been a best seller now for over 8 years and is still in the top 20 of all books being sold right now.

Kiyosaki will tell you some things you don’t want to hear. He is controversial. So is Donald Trump. Rich people are always controversial, but who are the people that make Kiyosaki and others controversial? Certaintly it’s not the wealthy. The wealthy agree with Kiysosaki becuase that is how they became rich.

Kiyosaki tells us that a house is not an asset. I have to admit that I had a problem with that one myself. I a lways felt that real estate was the one safe have out there and like most, was taught by parents and other early mentors that a house is an asset. Then I got a house and found out that Kiyosaki is absolutely right and so were my mentors. A house is not an asset for the buyers, people like you and me but it certaintly is an asset for the banks, real estate agents, insurance people, the local government who wack you with high city taxes and so on.

The biggest problem is that many people think that a big house is a symbol of wealth. It is a symbol of wealth to the bank. Most people typically take out 30 year mortgages. How much do you think banks make on that while you are paying for the equalivent of three house payments over time?

Conventional wisdom tells us to get a great education and you’ll get a great job. Well it started in the Clinton era and has been escalating ever since – downsizing. People who spent tons of $$$ on a college education, invested years in their jobs being servants to their employers and for what, to be downsized?

And then there is the typical way that people invest. Conventional wisdom tries to tell us that we can’t do it on our own. We need brokers (so named because they make us broker with their advice) or other financial advice. Those who do try it on their own usually get bad advice and go to deep, deep discount brokers looking for the lowest commissions or on the other end pay fees for loaded mutual funds which are supposed to be better managed (HINT: They are not!)

Kiyosaki offers a newer, better, more effective way. Unfortunately like some others who have come before him, Kiyosaki has stepped on some toes, the very people who are using your ignorance for their bliss.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a life changing book. It is highly recommend for anyone who really wants to survive the new millennium.

I highly recommend Rich Dad Poor Dad, Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing and Rich Dad’s Success Stories (proves that Kiyosaki’s naysayers are wrong as usual)

Good luck!

My wife told me that above review is not really a review but a promotional piece. So, I will just share another review of a satisfied buyer of the book:

I bought this book earlier tonite and read it in a few hours. It is an easy read. Fun. Enjoyable and educational. It made me realize that I threw away many years of commonality, of doing what felt good. What Uncle George and Aunt Martha and cousin Billy and brother Jim told me was the right thing to do, but really wasn’t.

I am now setting up a plan of action to go into real estate, the Rich Dad way. Yeah, I know everybody thinks that the real estate game is over and that is because like me they are getting the wrong information from the wrong people. How in the world can you expect people making $50,000-$75,000 year, chained to their employers coat tails to tell you how to become financially independent and earn over $100,000 a year? It doesn’t make sense.

This book was very enlightening for me. I highly recommend it. Regarding my real estate plans, I’ll let you know how I make out!

Why should you buy this book?

You see, I am one of those fools who are dreaming of becoming rich. And I think, I am already on the right track heading to my richness. But I know that there are still things that I should checked with in me to ensure that I will reach my aim .

In other words, I need to know the secrets of becoming rich. And I think, this book can help me.

But if you know other books about getting rich without doing any scams, kindly share them to us by posting comments at our comment section.

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Eggs and Smoke in Ukraine’s Parliament

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Ukraine’s Parliament became a battlefield between the pro-Yanukovych and the opposition on Tuesday wherein eggs and smoke dominates the whole parliament during the ratification of the deal on the stay of Russia’s Navy.

The clash started when the deal to extend by 25 years the stay of the Russia’s Black Sea Fleet at the port of Sevastopol, in exchange for a cheaper natural gas import, was controversially approved through the 236 votes in a 450-member Supreme Rada.

The majority of the lawmakers canceled the debate and blocked access to the podium in order to secure order. But the opposition did not stop the protest, instead they started throwing eggs, igniting smoke bombs and trading punches.

Losses on Local Tourism, the Result of EU Ban

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Philippines – Local Tourism experienced loss as the result after the European authorities banned local airlines in flying to the European airspace.

Travel agencies lost 10% of revenue after the banning has been imposed last month.  The president of the Philippine Travel Agencies Association,  Ma. Paz R. Alberto said in a statement: “The ban on local airlines by European authorities is another major blow to the operations of travel agencies who are also currently battling online promos by airlines and hotels…”

The banning also made the European tourists and travelers became cautious to visit Philippines since European agencies will not issue insurance benefits in travel packages to the Philippines.

The local travel agencies and the depart of tourism are calling the government to do something before the EU authorities will inspect the aviation sector next month so that the blacklisting will be lifted.

Why Avoid Using the Global Translator WordPress Plugin?

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I already stopped using the Global Translator plugin for WordPress. For several days already, this Make Money Online blog was running without that plugin.

The Global Translator plugin for WordPress was actually generating pages of the blog by saving the translated pages into the server. Everyday, the blog automatically got more hundreds of pages. Most of these pages were indexed by Google and other search engines.

Some of the translated pages actually topped the several SERPs of Google. And from these SERPs our blog got more traffic and also it earned money through Adsense.

In other words, Global Translator plugin for WordPress has helped our blog earn money and increase our blog’s alexa ranking from 100,000  to its current ranking which is 58,200 (current as of writing this post).

However, of these advantages of the said plugin, it also brought problems into our blog that might end up to a penalty from Google that would also lead to the lost of income, or it might end up being banned by the webhost or anything else.

Here are the problems caused by the said WordPress plugin:

Eats Up Server’s Space

The Global Translator plugin normally generate hundreds (thousands) of pages for your blog depending on how large is your blog. And those pages generated are being saved by the plugin into your server’s disk. In my blog’s case, each of the pages is about 1 MB in size.

For an account that only has limited disk space, saving hundreds of files of 1MB each could really mean a problem.

I was just fortunate that my webhost, the DreamHost, offer unlimited disk space to my account. That’s why I haven’t seen it yet as a threat to my webhosting account.

But who knows if  one day, DreamHost will change their mind and ban me from their webhosting service just because my account is eating up too much disk space.

Slowed Down the Site or Blog

On Friday, April 9, 2010, Google revealed that the speed of loading of a site is now being considered by Google when ranking websites at the Google SERP. It’s not actually the only one signal used by Google but it’s one of the 200 signals considered by Google in deciding which website or webpage should be ranked first, then next, and so on.

Because of this new development in Google Search Engine algo, I immediately checked the loading speed of the blog. And I found out that the flags (images of different flags) of different nations displayed on the blog by the Global Translator plugin contributed the slowing down of the blog.

Now if I will allow this plugin to slow down the loading speed of this blog, then I might lose important SERPs that will lead to the decrease of the blog’s traffic. And losing traffic would also mean losing blog’s income.

Google Search Engine Penalty

It’s not yet proven that the continued use of the Global Translator plugin leads to the penalty imposed by the Google search engine to the blog that is using it. But I think, time will come that that it will really happen.

To let you know, through my Google Webmasters account, I found out that Google discovered at least 56,000 “404 error” that have been caused by this plugin. It happens when Google followed a link generated by this plugin leading to the untranslated page.

But this huge number of “404 error” was not just my problem that made me worry that Google might penalized my blog. Last April 14, 2010 Google emailed me through my Google Webmasters account telling that the Googlebot experienced problem in following a large number of links within the site.

Here’s the email that I received:

Googlebot encountered problems while crawling your site http://www.selaplana.com/.

Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site. This may indicate a problem with your site’s URL structure. Googlebot may unnecessarily be crawling a large number of distinct URLs that point to identical or similar content, or crawling parts of your site that are not intended to be crawled by Googlebot. As a result Googlebot may consume much more bandwidth than necessary, or may be unable to completely index all of the content on your site.

Google provided me the list of pages that Google thought are not necessarily be crawled. And all the pages listed are those generated by the Global Translator plugin.

Conclusion

There are other two issues that have talked by bloggers around the world regarding this plugin.

  1. The terms and conditions provided by the Google’s Language API prohibit anyone to save translations into the disk or any form or device more than a certain period.
  2. Some languages are not supported by Google Adsense.

But these two didn’t worry me because I made sure that the settings I set for the Global Translator plugin are in accordance with the Google terms.

Only the three problems caused by the plugin that I have discussed above really made me decide to stop using the said plugin.

Search Ends for 11 Oil Rig’s Workers

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United States – The Coast Guard ended, Friday, the search and rescue operation for the 11 missing workers of the sunk oil rig. The oil that spread across the Gulf of Mexico has made them decide that the 11 missing workers might not survive.

Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, said that the crews had spent three days searching for the workers and had gone to the point that the reasonable expectations of survival is impossible.

Rig Explosion, A Test To Obama’s Offshore Drilling Plan

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United States – The semi-submersible Transocean Deepwater Horizon $600 million platform 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana sank in 5,000 feet of water, Thursday morning.

It was learned that Tuesday night, there was an explosion inside the rig. It was not yet known what’s the cause of the explosion. Then intense fire burned the spewing oil which caused the sinking of the rig.

There are 126 crews rescued and among them there are 17 injured. Some of these people jumped almost 100 feet from the platform into the water. And as of writing this news, 11 persons are still missing.

This incident could be a test to the plans of president Obama to allow more offshore drilling to lessen the US dependence on the oil products coming from the middle East.

Floyd Mayweather Jr to Win vs Mosley

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Floyd Mayweather Jr makes sure that the WBA Welterweight champion Shane Mosley couldn’t defeat him because he knew one thing: “when Shane punches, a lot of times he closes his eyes.”

Shane Mosley’s title will remains Shane’s title even if he will be defeated by Floyd. What Floyd will be after is enhancing his legacy. He doesn’t need any title at this time. What he need is to prove that no one can defeat him, even the current welterweight champion.

Hmm… I smell something fishy.

I just wish the title of Shane will be placed on line for us to know that the Mosley vs Mayweather Jr is really a clean fight. I was thinking actually that Mayweather Jr might pay Mosley so that Floyd will become winner on this fight. Remember that Floyd is just after of his legacy not the title that Mosley is holding.

McAfee Update Killed Thousands of Windows XP PC

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Thousands of computers running with Windows XP were sabotaged by the McAfee’s 5958 update.

McAfee Antivirus updated with 5958 definition erroneously identified the Windows svchost.exe as Wecorl.A virus and then quarantined it. Because of the absense of the svchost.exe, Windows XP keeps on restarting.

McAfee immediately apologized and responded by taking back the DAT 5958 and releasing the clean version of the definition. They also published the instruction on how to fix the problem.

Trivia

Wecorl.A virus will replace an existing svchost file with its own version to help it take over a machine.