This year, Matt Cutts is back with this newest video on Google Webmaster Help – Youtube Channel explaining the ranking values and importance of links gained from Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. Here he explained that there is a possibility that link juice may pass from Facebook if your account on FB is set as public – which mean if it can be crawled by Google without any password restrictions. However, if asked if FB and Twitter has a high ranking value effect on your organic search, Matt said that they treat every source of links the same regardless of platform or domain.
Google give more importance on reputable links rather than the quantity of the said links.
Here is the video of the said discussion:
Pacquiao vs Clottey
Update:
To watch the Pacquiao vs. Clottey online or offline, please GO HERE for instructions.
Top Rank Promotions and Manny Pacquiao’s camp agreed to fight Joshua Clottey on March 13, 2010. This is the result of the failed negotiations of the megafight Pacquiao vs Mayweather. After both camps didn’t agree with the terms of the fight (specifically the method of drug testing), Bob Arum announced that the pound for pound king will be fighting against the Ghana-native boxer. When I read about this news, I really find it to be a very easy fight for the Filipino fighter. This conclusion is just based on Clottey’s fight against Miguel Cotto (who was beaten by Pacman on their last match).
However, this thinking changed when I heard Freddie Roach said that this match will be one of the best boxing event and Pacquiao will surely have a hard time with him compared to Mayweather. It will not be a boring fight – not directly said by him but this is what he is trying to say.
The said fight will be held at the Cowboys Stadium at Dallas but Arum doesn’t confirm yet if it will be featured in HBO or not.
For your comments and reactions, you can leave it on the form below. You can also check on the updates of this post whenever there is an important updates will happen about the fight and I will try later to share the possible different options on where to watch the said anticipated Pacquiao vs Clottey fight online. Be here when the day comes for the said information. You can also go to Clottey vs Pacquiao blog which contains updates and news regarding the fight.
Update (01/21/2010): Pacquiao vs Clottey “The Event” can be watched on HBO PPV after HBO agreed to cover the said mega event of the year in Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Mayweather’s camp also tried to convince the latter to cover his upcoming fight but HBO prefers Pacman’s fight.
Ticket Cost: $50 – $700 (from corner end zone to front near ring on the floor of the Cowboys Stadium).
Update (02/28/2010): As of today, more than 35 thousand tickets were sold.
Pacquiao vs. Clottey undercard named. WBC super featherweight champion Humberto Soto will fight former WBC lightweight champion David Diaz for WBC lightweight title. Other fights are Jose Castillo vs. Alfonso Gomez and John Duddy vs. Michael Medina. The Salvador Sanchez III vs. Roberto Marroquin bout is also part of the undercard will not be televised.
Third-man for the fight was selected and that will be Laurence Cole.
HBO will premiere “Road to Dallas” on March 6, 2010 at 11PM ET/PT, you can watch it at WatchBoxing.Info
Update (03/09/10): Manny Pacquiao is now in Texas for the last leg of his practice/preparation for the upcoming Pacquiao vs. Clottey match on Saturday (Sunday here). He used Air Pacquiao – a chartered 170-seats airplane, to go to Texas with his wife and other Filipino supporters who will be watching his fight in the stadium.
Nexus One = Google Phone
Update: Finally they officially announced it and you can access the official site at http://www.google.com/phone/. However, when I open it I saw a message “Sorry, the Nexus One phone is not available in your country.” 
It is on the news today that Google Phone Nexus One will be officially announced in a scheduled press conference at California today. Rumors said that this phone will be available directly from Google and possibly might cost at about $500 for unlocked phones but $100+ for T-Mobile subscribers. Engadget even reported that the official website of the Nexus One goes live for a moment and then died. They even provided the cached version of the said portal of the phone where interested buyers can place their orders.
I am waiting for it too and want to see the features that it might provide to phone users. Some questions were raised by twitting public regarding the phone, such as “Is it a real iPhone killer?” , “How much it cost in our country (like in the Philippines? – I am one of those who is eager to know about this)” and “Will it be coming and officially announced today?”
More updates about the Nexus One official release to the public later after the conference.
Happy New Year to everyone! As the title says, PageRank on your Google toolbars updated right before 2009 say Goodbye. That is right, some of my PR0 sites gained a PR3 rank after this change. Aside from this, I’ve seen changes on the indexed pages for certain search queries. I have seen the real time search for a couple of times, from the queries regarding the death of the celebrity Britanny Murphy to the current Pacquiao vs. Mayweather super mega fight drama. Twitter is showing a lot from this RTS portion of Google search results and this is the reason why I updated my WordTwit plug-in on this blog to suit to this newest feature from Google.
Right now, my busy year started with dealing with the new Google Algorithm, Caffeine and I will definitely get a lot of sleepless night because of this.
Again, Happy New Year to everyone and have a blessed, prosperous, fruitful and wonderful year ahead of you.
