February 9th, 2010
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The national campaign for the Philippines election 2010 started today and despite the massive information campaign of the presidential candidates via different infomercials on TV, internet, newspaper and radio, still I am not decided on who among the presidentiable will be the one that I will give my vote. I can’t still choose from any of them. I have watched several presidential forums and listen to their platforms, wise judgments and remarks but still it is enough for me to decide to select them.
Now, the election is set on May and I still got several months to think and analyze the platform and qualifications of the leaders before I finally decide. I embedded a poll here on this post and I hope you could cast your vote.
You can also leave your comments on the form below to explain why you will intend to vote the selected candidate.
February 8th, 2010
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I discovered several sites again today which I will not mention on this post that is infected by the same virus that infected it last year but with slight modification on the malicious code. Some websites I know were also hacked and defaced. The problem is that sometimes, you can’t discover it until you find it out that Google already tagging/marking your site with a disturbing message “This site may harm your computer.” Which will immediately cause a drop on your traffic. The pain is it will take sometime before the “said mark” before Google lifts it.
This infection will really hurt your site in terms of traffic and sales lost which makes your SEO effort become useless. It is because, browsers today like Chrome and Firefox block sites with the said mark preventing users to open it even after you clean it.
This is the reason why you should avoid the infection to happen. It is as always I said, “prevention is always better than cure.” Here’s some of the things that you should consider to avoid this kind of situation (based on the suggestion of StopBadWare.org and my previous tips):
Protect your site
- Ensure that any software you use (e.g., blogging software like WordPress, third party scripts, etc.) is kept up to date with the latest security fixes, either by you (if you installed the software) or by your hosting provider.
- Remove any scripts, services, or other software that you are no longer using.
- Change any default passwords that come with the software you are using.
- Use appropriate file permissions on your web server.
- Limit the access to the site. Remove old users that is not part of the team that should access the site.
February 5th, 2010
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You might be wondering why your backlinks suddenly drop after you check it using backlink checker tools like those simple tool provided by Yahoo Site Explorer (which you can use by typing link:http://yoururl.com). This is not a cause of any penalty nor banning thing but its more on the other website. Here are some of the possibilities that might be the cause of decrease in backlinks:
- Google removes the backlink value when the source site doesn’t exist. This is what the following video of Matt Cutt’s explained about Google’s treatment of Geocities, AOL member pages and other site that vanished in the WWW.
February 1st, 2010
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It’s February and I know that its too late for me to say something about plans for 2010. I should have posted this on January but I will just post it anyway. Now this year, I am planning to increase my earning and will try to reach a 6 digits annual earning (in dollars). Yeah right last year, I think I wasn’t able to reach it yet. Now, how would I do that? Well, I got a plan for that and will share it with you later if it become successful.
Aside from this, I am also planning to deploy a website that will discuss how to earn money online but I will write it in Tagalog. I will try to spread the good news about how money making is possible online using our own dialect. Its for my students and other people who prefer to read articles in our language. Maybe, I will start publishing the tips on my Sikat Ang Pinoy news portal and will build a forum under the same domain.
I will announce it here later when I’m done with the Tagalog make money online tips.
January 27th, 2010
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A new video was produced by Google Webmaster Help but today it is not about search engine optimization (SEO) or stuff about links from Matt Cutt but now its about how to prevent spams on your website. Luis von Ahn, a research scientist at Google introduced a free service called re-CAPTCHA. It is a service that protects your website from possible automated spams via asking your users, visitors or commentators to type a two human readable words or captcha before their comments are accepted.
Aside from that, Luis von Ahn revealed about the story behind the service and the other use of the captcha. Here’s the video containing his explanation:
