NOTE: To get a better understanding of the different link building strategies available for webmasters, please go to the websites mentioned at the end of the article.

The single most important off page factor in SEO is link popularity, simply defined as the “number and quality of the incoming links that are pointing to your site”. In very basic terms, you need to get as many quality (non-link farm/FFA) links from sites that have the same theme as yours. The old school ways say get links from sites with high PageRanks but this is no longer the case. The more varied your links (PageRank and anchor text) the better it is for your site.
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+AMDG

Heart = eliminations round sweep of UE.

Pic credits: Nono Felipe.

Sorry for the 728×90 leaderboard on top. I’m currently conducting an AdSense placement experiment :)

You’ve just uploaded tons of useful content to your site but Google, or more specifically Googlebot ain’t coming. Worse, a site:www.domain.com check reveals that not one of your pages is in Google’s index. If they’re not in the index, there’s no way your pages, no matter how organically optimized, will appear on search engine result pages (SERPs).

To address this, Google now has the Google Sitemaps service (BETA). The service allows webmasters to submit new/modified URLs to Googlebot’s crawl-list. When you think of the billions of updated pages Googlebot has to crawl daily, using a service such as Google Sitemaps seems like a lifesaver. By telling Google which pages are updated, webmasters can get their fresh content on Google’s index faster and save bandwidth from unnecessary Googlebot spidering of archived content. Google in turn saves processing power and bandwidth because it now knows exactly what and where to crawl.
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Check out my Darkwatch review on PinoyTechBlog.

Some like Darren Rowse of Problogger.com would like to think bloggers can make good money off affiliate marketing. I used to think so too, but my belief in the revenue potential of affiliate marketing and blogs is unraveling fast. With the types of readers I attract, I can’t see how I can make anything substantial through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is not for everyone. Let me tell you why.
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First read this excellent article by Jeff Jarvis over at BuzzMachine.com. The entire article can be shortened to this:

• Content is not king.
• Distribution is not king.
• Trust IS king.

Now let’s apply that to the Filipino blogosphere.
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News that an elderly couple in San Juan were shot at using airsoft toys came as a shock. Condemnation of the act was swift. The Philippine National Airsoft Society (PNAS) released this cleverly worded statement on the incident which was aired during the August 23 episode of Magandang Umaga Bayan (notice that you can’t find one reference to guns).
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The solution: Clickmonkeys :)

Here’s a nice tip from the Optimization Tips section of the AdSense Support website. It deals with section targeting. By adding comment tags to your pages, you can now tell the AdSense bot which page sections to highlight or exclude when it tries to find the contextual relevance of your page.
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