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Changes For 2009

ceblogger — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:51:45 +0000

Change is inevitable for this blog. The first day of 2009 is the best day to implement the change I always wanted to do but never had the time in the past.

New Look

I learned of this free theme from Bloggista. This one is the Blue version of his theme. A new look for a new year. How’s that for a change?

New Direction

I am still a participant of the Busby SEO Test. But with 30 days to go and with my site in search engine limbo, my participation would be reduced to a cheerer, and a link-giver to the leading Filipino participants.

I am sports-lover, whether as a player or as a fan. I play basketball, softball, football, volleyball, chess, badminton, darts, tennis, ping-pong and whatever games played when I was in high school. I can even play “takyan” if you like. Yeah, sports is my other passion and writing about it won’t be a problem for me.

I won’t be posting about SEO anymore. My other blog will take care of that. So it will just be about sports in 2009 and onwards.

Wanted to Buy: Busby SEO Test Link

ceblogger — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:00:47 +0000

Would you be willing to sell a link for $5 or less? For a Busy SEO Test Link? I guess some will. I’m not the buyer here but I actually received an opportunity notice in my email for a Busby SEO Test link. Though I’m done with paid post since many months ago, I’m still registered at some of those websites.

Wow! Someone’s buying links just to win this contest? Isn’t that against the rules in the Busby SEO Test? Nope, the rules didn’t say anything about buying links. I didn’t really check further as to the identity of that buyer. But I’m amazed. The contest’s top prize is $5,000. Even if you invest $2,000 for 10,000 links, it is still not an assurance of winning. If the big G finds out, there would be a bigger problem.

So what if that link-buying is for negative SEO? I mean putting out a competing site in the SERP rankings. Flooding links to a site would alert the big G, and could lead to penalization of that site. But who knows the intention of the buyer.

I am not buying links, and I’m not selling either (unless it is above $50). And because it’s Christmas time, why don’t we just do a little link-giving here. This one’s free.

By the way, my friend Bloggista is also joining Busby SEO Test challenge. The Bizblogger is exhorting us to spend more this Christmas to help ease the global financial crisis. The FatherBlogger is posting some useful food preparation tips for healthier children. My friend Javi is also busy with his promotion of Palawan as one of the best Philippine destinations.

So there. Merry Christmas, everyone!

Born on Christmas Day

ceblogger — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:44:20 +0000

They call him Jose, a namesake of the St. Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus. But instead of acting saintly because he bore a holy name and born on Christmas day, he’s a totally mischievous boy. Jose is our neighbor, and he’s one of the only few people I know whose birthday I won’t ever forget. Yeah, for a very obvious reason.

Now, let’s see who are the famous people born on Christmas day. Here they are:

1642 – Sir Isaac Newton (English physicist and mathematician)
1821 – Clara Barton (nurse and founder of American Red Cross)
1887 – Conrad Hilton (American hotel magnate)
1899 – Humphrey Bogart (American actor)
1907 – Cab (Cabell) Calloway (American bandleader)
1912 – Tony Martin (Alvin Morris) (American singer and actor)
1915 – Pete Rugolo (Italian-born bandleader, composer)
1918 – Anwar Sadat (Egyptian president; Nobel Peace Prize winner)
1924 – Rod Serling (American TV scriptwriter)
1937 – O’Kelly Isley (American singer: The Isley Brothers)
1945 – Ken Stabler (American football player)
1946 – Jimmy Buffett (American singer and songwriter)
1946 – Larry Csonka (American football player)
1948 – Barbara Mandrell (American singer and actress)
1949 – Sissy (Mary) Spacek (American actress)
1950 – Manny Trillo (Venezuela-born American baseball player)
1953 – Dave Wasick (American football player)
1957 – Shane MacGowan (Irish songwriter and singer)
1958 – Ricky Henderson (American baseball player)

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Surprisingly, no one was named after Jesus or some other biblical name except for Sir Isaac. Of course, we all know that Jesus wasn’t born on December 25. That day was only designated by some religious powers in the early times.

In a Christian country like the Philippines, those born on Christmas day are famous in schools, in workplace and in their communities. They’re mostly named, Jose, Jesus, or anything similar to it. Along with fame, they also carry the burden of living a life worthy of the true celebrant of Christmas.

This Busby SEO Test participant was not born on Christmas day. But he’ll readily accept Christmas gifts if offered in good faith.

Busby SEO Test Break

ceblogger — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:17:35 +0000

I need a break! This arduous task of topping the SERP for a keyphrase Busby SEO Test is already taking its toll on me. My more important blogs had been left out. I haven’t played badminton for quite a while. I haven’t really packed up for my trip later this afternoon. I have so many things left undone.

So I’ll take a break. A break from chasing links and keywords, and return to my sane self. I’ll go back to writing poetry and short stories. I’ll read novels and magazines. I don’t even know what had happened to America after Obama won. And what about Erap? Is he running for the 2010 elections? Or will the administration declare a martial law to keep PGMA in office after 2010.

Yes, I’ll take a break. I’ll explore Manila and Laguna this weekend. They say the Caliraya is awesome. I have to see it for myself. I know that without a guide, I’ll get lost in the maze of streets and highways. So I’ll buy a map.

But only in the Busby SEO Test that I’ll take a break. I have so much work to do. Tons of it!

Busby SEO Test News

ceblogger — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:01:23 +0000

Busby SEO Test News: Ceblogger is out of the top 100.

From a previous high of 44, his ranking dipped to an all-time low and is now among the unknowns, as he is also unknown.

In October 3, 2008, Ceblogger registered as a participant to the Busby SEO World Cup 2 upon the invitation of Lhurey of Phblogger.net. Despite his lack of SEO skills, he courageously restructured his blog in order to compete with the elite.

Now, a month and a half had passed, he is still nowhere near the top. And so he prays, pleads, and begs for mercy. And since today is Ceblogger’s birthday, he wishes that Google give him gifts. Not just one, but the two as follows:

1. Restore his other blogs’ PageRank.
2. Restore the top 50 standing in the Busby SEO Test contest.

But while Google still has to think about this, Ceblogger will just have to enjoy his pizza.

Ready for the PageRank Update of 2009

ceblogger — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:05:30 +0000

Are you ready for the PageRank (PR) update of 2009? Or you may ask, will there be any PageRank Update this last quarter of 2008? I saw in the feedjit of my other blog that a lot of people came there searching about page rank updates. Maybe the questions they have in mind revolve around one thing: How to Improve Page Rank.

PageRank

If we are following the trend of these PR updates, we should expect a toolbar update late next month or early next year. Google does it more or less once every three months. The previous update was at the end of September wherein this site got ranked. Yeah, a mere PR1!

If they’ll have another round of update in 2008, then the 2009 round will be towards the end of the first quarter. You may also try predicting you future pagerank. Go to pagerankprediction.com and check your URL. I cannot vouch for its accuracy though because it shows different results for www., http://www., and http://. Even my other blog shows a not so good and inconsistent prediction. And from that prediction (even how inaccurate it is), develop your strategy to improve your page rank.

Given more or less 45 days to improve your PR, what should you do? Two things actually: Gain Backlinks and Save PR juice.

Gain Backlinks

1. Create High Quality Content – When readers talk about the information you give, they usually link you back, and share that useful information to others.

2. Submit your site to web directories – There are free web directories out there. Though they may not be a good source of traffic, the high PR ones can at least give you the backlink you need.

3. Ask friends to link your site in theirs – Ah, this is easy! But they might feel bad if you won’t link theirs.

4. Put a link to your site as a signature in the forums you joined – This is applicable when they allow html in the signature portion. If not, put the link directly in your post, when necessary. But avoid spamming or you’ll get banned.

5. Reward readers to link to you – Did I write bribe? Make a contest and ask participants to link to you. A lot of people are doing this. Participants won’t really care about your ulterior motive as long as you have attractive prizes.

6. Comment on sites with Dofollow – The original intention of this is to reward commenters with a link juice. Take advantage of this, but leave well-thought-of comments. Don’t spam.

7. Persuade sites with high PR to link to you – The persuasion is up to you. Go back to no. 1.

8. Too much link in such a short period of time can backfire – Search engines reward hard work and punish the crafty evildoer. As much as possible, gain natural/organic backlinks.

Save PR Juice

1. Avoid too many outbound links – Google doesn’t want you to give out too many links, lest they suspect your site to be a link farm. If you doubt the site you linked to, add the rel=”nofollow” to your html tag.

2. Don’t link to banned sites – You should know what these banned sites are. Check also the footer of your free themes, as they may contain links to a banned site.

3. Avoid linking to unrelated sites – This could get you banned. Now, I have to think what is an unrelated site to a general blog like this one. If you’ve done paid posts in the past and got spanked, maybe it’s now time to restructure your blog in time for the next page rank update.

It is easy to achieve a PR3 in less than 90 days. I’ve done it twice, but not for this Busby SEO Test site. I got a few people linking to me since I joined the 2nd Busby World Cup, so there is a chance that I’ll get a better page rank come update time.

On the other hand, be careful that your site is up and running when the robot from Mountain View, California visits your site. You might not get an update despite the hard work you’ve put up.

Busby November: Famous People Born In November

ceblogger — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:09:46 +0000

This is just an update of my participation in the Busby SEO Test Challenge. A month had passed, and after some of the overhaul I made in my blog, I noticed some progress: From nowhere to top 50. Will I move further up this month of November? That has yet to be seen. But you can help me by linking to me either sitewide or inside a post using the html code below:

<a href="http://ceblogger.com">Busby SEO Test</a>

Meanwhile, November is my birth month and I share this birth month with some of the famous people in the world. Me famous? In my dreams! Or even if I win this Busby SEO Test, it won’t make me famous.

Here are some famous people born in November (in random order):

1. Miley Cyrus (23)
2. Bryan Adams (5)
3. Evangelist Billy Graham (7)
4. Joni Mitchell (7)
5. Leon Trotsky (7)
6. Mickey Mouse (18)
7. Ethan Hawke (6)
8. Martin Luther (10)
9. Leonardo de Caprio (11)
10. Martin Scrosese (17)
11. Indira Gandhi (19)
12. Bruce Lee (27)
13. Sir Winston Churchill (30)
14. Demi Moore (11)
15. Meg Ryan (19)

Two former Philippine Presidents were also born in the month of November: Carlos P. Garcia (4) and Elpidio Quirino (16).

Now, what has November got to do with fame?

SEO Is Easy

ceblogger — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:09:09 +0000

SEO is Easy

Sometimes we think that SEO is easy if we land in the top spot for a certain keyword or keywords. We might hail it as a success. But hey, look again! Who are you competing with that keyword? Maybe it’s only you who invented that word (e.g. Cjeblaggeer), or it is from some archaic language no longer used today, and you simply highlighted it in one of your post.

SEO is definitely NOT easy. Especially if you are competing with experts, gurus, masters and other hotshots. My Busby SEO Test journey is a steep climb. I used to be in page 10. But now, I slid to page 17. With more participants joining in the next few days, it would be very difficult to climb back. But who knows the mind of Google. What if they catapult me to page 1 with this entry? That, I would claim that SEO is easy.

note: image is plucked from the website of Pogung, in an entry in the previous Busby SEO Challenge. I consider myself one of his fans in the previous contest.

Building Backlinks for Ceblogger [dot] com

ceblogger — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:00:15 +0000

Building backlinks is an arduous task, but it is necessary to push one’s site in the front pages of the search engines. Currently, the total backlinks that this Busby SEO Test participant has is three as per report generated by backlinkwatch.com. Imagine, after 30 posts, I only have 3 sites linking to me!

This SEO contest is an opportunity to change the inner workings of this blog. First it was the Title. Obviously, the blog title plays a vital role in the search engine optimization game. All others had their Busby SEO Test as their blog title (or added to their blog titles). There is almost no difference at all, because these experts recognize the importance of the title. Had it been allowed to use domain names containing the keywords to be optimized, the busbyseotest.com.net.org.whatever would have been sold out immediately, minutes after the announcement.

Then the meta tags. I’ve already done that in my previous post. To check the meta tags of a website, click view, then the page source of the site. Search for whatever meta found on the codes. You add and/or alter the meta tags of your site.

Now, it’s the backlinks. Google considers a link to a site a vote for that site, hence, improving the importance of the linked site in the eyes of Google. So, where do I start with the backlink building?

First, it would come from me. I got a few ranked blogs out there. None of which had linked this site yet using the anchor text: Busby SEO Test. I want it linked to my domain, and not in any single post. That would be my start.

Next are my friends. Friends, please link me in a post or in your sidebar. Use the code here:

<a href="http://ceblogger.com">Busby SEO Test</a>

If you had done so, please let me know so that I can give recognition at a later time.

Then to those who just want to help, you may copy the said code above. I don’t have money to buy links. But if I’d win, I’ll share the winnings, even if it will only be the fifth prize.

Remembering the Meta Tags for SEO

ceblogger — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:54:59 +0000

I used meta tags once in one of my blogspot blogs. I was still learning SEO then when I read it first in an ebook given away for free by Macuha.com. That was the first thing that I applied. Despite not having any page rank at this moment, that blog still rank higher in search engines for specific keywords. I attributed that success to the meta tags.

Now that I entered into this Busby SEO Test contest, I must use all methods necessary. I checked the page source of the leading sites and noticed that most were using meta tags. I checked my own page source but I noticed something different. There is the meta tag, but containing a different keyword. It is no wonder why I can’t find my site in the first 12 pages of Google.

It signaled one thing. I must revise my own meta tags. I will not be using the all-in-one-SEO pack since that one I think is only effective for a single post. But for optimizing the whole website, the meta tags should be at the header. To learn more about SEO, we must not forget the meta tags. I hope this one pulls me up in the search engines.