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Pagerank update on 28th December – Do you notice or care??

Do you know there is another round of pagerank update recently??

If I understand correctly, Matt Cutt said on his blog (and twitter) that the last pagerank (although he say Google toolbar pagerank) update happens on 28th December 08.

Anybody notice drop or increase on their site’s pagerank?? Not even single of my sites got updated.

As of late, it seems like pagerank update has gotten lesser attention from webmasters including me.  Probably pagerank has lost it shine or interest among them, especially after Google drop bombs on sites selling links.

My personal take. I do care about it although the other side of me telling otherwise.

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Admin 5 January 2009 SEO & Webmaster , , , , 4 Comments

Beginner SEO guide – Learn from Google & SEO experts for free

Few weeks ago, I finished assisting a friend of mine setting up a new blog running on Wordpess. He was pretty much excited with the new blog. Just like any typical beginner bloggers (including me), he was ambitious to monetize his blog and earn income from there. Well, I said, go ahead.

A week later, he came back asking why he’s not getting a lot of visitors. So I told him the concept of indexing, SEO and webmaster tools such as Google Webmaster, Yahoo Site Explorer and Live Webmaster. He just nodded his head as usual. I thought it will stop there.

And then he came back again for another help, now he wanted to rank first on Google for certain ‘key phrase’ that his blog is focusing to. Now I almost fainted… lol.. actually  I’m chuckled.

Familiar with this type of people? I bet yes especially if you’re dealing with newbies. Not to turn him away, I ask him to do some homework.

To make the story short, I ask him to read Google’s SEO Started Guide. Sometimes, the best teacher is the inventor himself.

Apart from that,  Aaron Wall’s Blogger’s Guide to SEO is useful too. It’s among the first SEO guides that I read about 2 years ago, so this is a must. At the end of Aaron Wall’s guide above, he has generously put other SEO guide links that’s worth your reading too.

During my early days of doing this stuff, I’ve download a lot of tutorials and free e-book. After sorting out the best (not all),  I had put the collection of SEO tutorials & guides as well as the  keyword tool here, although I seldom use them nowadays.

These tutorials and guides only cover what SEO experts call on-site optimization, which is basically what we (as the website owners or also called webmasters) can control. Off site optimization is much harder (and important too) but that is on another post that I’ll cover for him later.

So before you shop for any SEO tutorials or ebooks, spend sometime googling it. Internet has whole lots of information. Happy SEOing your blog buddy.

Admin 31 December 2008 Internet, SEO & Webmaster , , , , 6 Comments

Google Zeitgeist – Top Queries 2008

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The most wanted list from Google is out today. Google Zeitgeist (having hard time to pronounce it), listing what’s popular, trend, top query or top search for the period of 2008. So here they are…

Fastest Rising (Global)

  1. sarah palin
  2. beijing 2008
  3. facebook login
  4. tuenti
  5. heath ledger
  6. obama
  7. nasza klasa
  8. wer kennt wen
  9. euro 2008
  10. jonas brothers

I know you’re puzzled with some of the phrases here, which you never came across before, so Google it la.

Apart from global list, there are also Google Zeitgeist grouped regionally. As usual, I took a peak of what’s hot in my country, Malaysia.

Malaysia – Generally, Malaysians tend to search on political related news and updates, so Google Zeitgeist is grouped by search of that criteria, mostly. Some that caught my attention:

Anwar Ibrahim topping the local  celebrities list, which I believe you all can guess why. Apparently, Chua Soi Lek has got more queries than our past prime minister, Dr Mahathir.

Perodua Nautica – Given the small numbers of this vehicle on the roads, it is quite surprising to see it topping the list. Perhaps people rarely see this car and are curious how it does look like, or people are anticipating Nautica will be another hit from Perodua when it is proven to be otherwise.

Terengganu is the top local tourist destinations in Malaysia. Yeah, I’m blogging from there, although the real purpose is not for leisure.

Full list

Admin 11 December 2008 SEO & Webmaster , , , 1 Comment

You’re too vulnerable to attack from harmful email via Facebook

Despite Facebook’s victory against spam, on which Facebook won lawsuit against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital, which slapped with massive 800 millions charge, this doesn’t seem to send a tough ‘signal’ to them.

This nut is tough to be cracked right?

It was a ‘historic day’ yesterday, when I’m among the luckiest ones who received spam from them. It’s not me alone actually, but it seems that it spreads among the circle of friends in Facebook.

At a glance, this email looks legit. Yes it does, since this email was sent from legit Facebook email adress, and it was sent by your ‘friend’.

But the truth is, this is not something that they intend to do. The account is being manipulated by ‘unauthorized’ party to fool you and hence trick you to click on the harmful links. No clue how it was done, but it could be due to the carelessness of the users, when accepting/using certain applications that require you to agree on T&C (without reading any further) and then to notify all your friends. This is just my wild guess though.

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But lucky me, Firefox prevents this page from being opened. I’m then certain on what is inside(something bad) but what will happen if I’m using Internet Explorer or Chrome, would it effectively kill this threat like Firefox??

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It is quite troublesome to identify which one is legit or otherwise. You’re vulnerable to any attacks regardless how cautious you are.

In this case, keep yourself reminded not to open any Facebook requests sent via email. And, control which email you want to receive from the setting page.

Admin 26 November 2008 spam , , , , 2 Comments

Identifying spams no longer a big deal

stopforumspam Identifying spams no longer a big deal

I came across stopforumspam from WP-NoSpamUser. No, I’m not using another anti-spam wordpress plugin, since I still have faith on Akismet and Typed Antispam in protecting this blog from spams.

Stopforumspam is like a directory or maybe a yellow page, which ‘lucky’ spammer listing is based on the IP, email, nickname and where it is originated.

I’m using it quite differently though. Recently i got quite a number of emails from my website’s contact form. Some looks legitimate and real. In order not to be fooled again, I’ll compare sender’s information with the one available on stopforumspam. At least I’m not replying to someone that is not in existence.

Admin 10 November 2008 spam , , , 3 Comments
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