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How Paranoid Are You?

Joedel — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:40:45 +0000

Earthquakes, flash floods, strong typhoons and sink holes are just some of the calamities that are making people think that the end of the world is indeed very near. Whether this is true or not, more and more people are thinking of ways on how to prepare for the worst conditions that this world is expected to give us as it slowly dies. For many, being prepared means surviving these conditions. However for some, this means that a new market is about to make them money. In the internet, the owners of 2012thetruth.com, 2012survive.net and 2012supplies.com are just some of the business minded people that has started to take advantage of the 2012 Paranoia.

Is Doom the new Boom in Real Estate?

Though a few websites could now be earning a few dollars, there are those who always think big. In the middle of the Mojave Desert in California, an underground facility is being developed into an underground shelter that offers a safe place to stay in when the Armageddon arrives. The said shelter will be equipped with everything that you need and want to be able to live underground for years. However, staying in this shelter will cost you $50,000. That may be an insane amount to pay for but surprisingly; the units are almost sold out!

Watch the entire video here: In the Lap of Luxury on Doomsday

Hotter than the Uncensored Anne Curtis Swimsuit Malfunction Photos?

Joedel — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:58:59 +0000

Photos and videos of the sexy and alluring pinay actress and model Anne Curtis revealing her right breast after a wardrobe malfunction is now rapidly spreading in the internet. The bikini top of Anne Curtis slid down while performing a dance number in television show (ASAP XV) of ABS-CBN. Anne Curtis was dishonored, disgraced and disheartened by the spreading of her photos and videos and pleads in an interview for people to stop. However, if I were Anne, I wouldn’t count on that specially in this age when people sees the internet as an open media.

Check out the Uncensored Version of Photos and Videos of Anne Curtis Bikini Top Slip.

Now, what could be hotter than the pictures and videos for Anne? Well, it’s publishing your website’s own Privacy Policy! I recently learned that many Google Adsense publishers experience a significant increase in their earnings after they have published a Privacy Policy for their website or blog. After all, it is a requirement to all Adsense publishers to have their own privacy policy. There’s a good possibility that the Google Adsense Program awards those who follows the requirement and publishes a privacy policy while punishes those that don’t by slashing their earnings. Whether these claims are true or not, there’s no harm in having a Privacy Policy for your website. So why not have one?

Here is the privacy policy for joedelsanvictores.com that I recently published. Feel free to copy, edit and use it for your own website or blog. Linking back to this article in return is also much appreciated.

Privacy Policy for joedelsanvictores.com

The privacy of our visitors to joedelsanvictores.com is important to me.

At joedelsanvictores.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit joedelsanvictores.com, and how we safeguard your information. I shall never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, this blog collects and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer, Opera or Firefox), the time you visited this blog and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
This blog does use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features.

I also use third party advertisements on joedelsanvictores.com to support my blog. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Philippines real estate ads to someone in the Philippines, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing “how to make money online” ads to someone who frequently visits “blogging and making money online” websites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. You can also opt out the use of the dart cookie in Google Adsense displayed in the websites that you visit by going to the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy. Please note that disabling our cookies or third-party cookies can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts in this blog and other websites that you visit as well.

Philippine Blog Awards 2009 and Blogging for Filipinos

Joedel — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:15:50 +0000

Blogs are one of the simplest yet most powerful tools in the internet today because it allows anyone to publish his own thoughts, ideas and experiences in the world wide web. Since Blogging has started in the late 90′s, it is now widely used as an online journal by millions of people worldwide. With the development and availability of free and easy to use blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, Movable Type and Live Journal, anyone can easily start his own blog.

Aside from being a public online journal, blogs can also be a good source of income. Full time moms, employees with regular jobs and internet entrepreneurs can earn money from their blogs whether they do it part-time or full time. This can be in the form of sponsored blogpost entries, text links, banner advertisements or Pay Per Click (PPC) ads like adsense. On the other hand, businesses use blogs for marketing purposes because they offer cheaper advertising opportunities.

Though the true value of the internet and blogging is yet to be explored in the Philippines, a good number of Filipinos have already established and maintain their own blogs. Blogging is a good step for Filipinos to start familiarizing themselves with the internet world whether they are looking to socialize, share their thoughts, earn money or just write about anything. For whatever reasons Filipinos blog, I strongly believe that it is the good start in exploring how to make money online whether through blogging or any other ways. This is because through a simple tool like a blog, Filipinos can exchange ideas with other bloggers around the world. I’ve proven this many times already by learning new ideas from blogs of other internet entrepreneurs and increasing my income through these ideas.

The Philippine Blog Awards is a big event for the Philippine blogging community because this is where exceptional Filipino owned blogs are recognized. Since the first PBA in 2007, the number of Filipino bloggers participating in this event has increased to a few hundreds. With the rapid increase of blogging’s popularity in the Philippines, it is expected that more Pinoys will participate in the PBA of the coming years.

If you are a Filipino blogger, what is it in for you if you join the Philippine Blog Awards? Aside from the exciting prices that you can win from this event, you will also have the chance to get your blog known in the Filipino blogging community. Let other bloggers know that your blog exist and that you can offer interesting reads. You can also encourage other Filipinos to set up their own blogs and start blogging. If you attend the awarding ceremony, you might also bump into new blogger friends.

I have been working in the internet industry for more than two years now and blogging for a year and a half but haven’t participated in an event such as the Philippine Blog Awards. This year, I decided to see what it’s like and join the event by nominating my own blog. I’m not actually looking to win any award in this event but I am joining to support it. If you are a Filipino and have a blog, go ahead and join the Philippine Blog Awards. Let’s support a great event that is organized for us, Filipino bloggers, and help it grow.

Global Recession Affects Blogging and Making Money Online

Joedel — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:42:58 +0000

For more than a year, I’ve been decently making money online and my earnings have been increasing at a good rate. I have been really confident that earning through the internet has been and will continuously be stable for me. When the United States government announced a global recession in late 2008, I just smiled and told myself that there’s nothing to worry about because internet has nothing to do with any financial institution.

However, I was definitely wrong! A few weeks after that, I immediately felt the decrease in the demand for my services and earnings. Then I kept on thinking, why would the global recession affect the internet industry?

Well, here’s my simple thought about how the global recession might be affecting the making money online. In a global recession there is a drop in demand or less spending by consumers. This means that the volume of sales of companies will drop and thus decrease their profits. In order to continue earning income, prevent loss or worst, bankruptcy, companies and service providers will implement cost cutting measures. Some of these are laying off jobs, lowering production and trimming down other expenses like marketing and advertising. Internet marketing includes buying and exchanging links, creating buzz using different mediums (which includes blogs) and advertising in other high traffic websites. Cutting costs in advertising causes less money to buy links, pay for article writers, less data entry employees and other common services outsourced through the internet.

The sad truth about global recession is that all industries are affected. The only difference is that some are hit harder than the others. Despite the decrease in the demand for my services in the past weeks, I’m still thankful that I’m not one of those employees who were laid off by their companies and are left jobless. Though my earnings are no longer as good as they used to be, the global recession has taught me to spend my money wisely because no one knows when my earnings will just drop.

For now, I have to keep myself busy, work extra hard and actively look for clients who might be interested in my services. According to the news, current global recession will last around 18 months and until it’s over, we all need to keep our belts buckled tight.

a Busy Month, an Empty Blog

Joedel — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:38:51 +0000

The past 30 days have been crazy for me as I have been really busy with both my online business and my personal life. Because of that, I haven’t been able to update my blog for more than a month! Sad thing is it would probably take another month before I can catch up with the things that I’m scheduled to do. I just hope I can still find time to update my blog once in a while.

On the lighter side, I already have a few useful topics in mind for my future posts that will be helpful for both bloggers and SEO beginners. I’m all excited in writing them and sharing them to fellow bloggers. See you soon!

NuffNang Review Entry – Sweet Success

Joedel — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:25:06 +0000

The official winners of the 68 Nuffnang Reviews contest have just been announced today and I’m very happy that my blog entry about NuffNang is one of them! I know that many Filipino bloggers joined and submitted their entries so I take pride in being one of the chosen ones among those entries.

My thanks to the NuffNang team for choosing my entry. I hope to see more contests from you guys and expect me to join every time.

Though the winners of this contest will be rewarded cash prizes of 500 Philippine Pesos each, it is not what is really important to me. What’s more important to me is that people, especially my fellow Pinoys, get to know that JoedelSanvictores.com does exist in the blogosphere and that it provides good and useful posts especially to other bloggers.

I would also like to extend my greetings to the other 67 winners of this contest. Great job guys!

September 2008 Income – Highest Earnings Ever

Joedel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:16:54 +0000

With my earnings almost reaching the five digit mark, September was indeed a great month for me. However, I have to expect the worst for the coming months because the result of the September pagerank update, the second PR update in the third quarter of this year, was not good for me. I will need to exert extra efforts in building the links of my blogs to increase their pagerank for the next PR update. Anyway, despite of the negative results the last update September was a good month for me in general.

Almost every stat of this blogging tutorials blog has increased in a month. My Alexa rank broke the top 1,000,000 two weeks ago and it is currently on 824,654 with 152 inlinks. There was also a slight increase in my Technorati rank from 30,951 to 29,120 and increase in Technorati authority from 165 to 168. Here are my blog’s stats from the 3 major search engines in the internet:

Google Stats for JoedelSanvictores.com:
Backlinks: 73 (dropped from 83)
Indexed Pages: 241 (increased from 123)

Yahoo! Stats for JoedelSanvictores.com:
Backlinks: 12,967 (dropped from 14,773)
Indexed Pages: 172 (increased from 136)

MSN Stats for JoedelSanvictores.com:
Backlinks: N/A
Indexed Pages: 83 (dropped from 245)

I managed to publish a total of 9 posts for the month of September 2008. This explains the increase in my indexed pages in Google and Yahoo. I don’t know what happened to MSN though. My feed readers and email subscribers count has now increased to 138. The increase in my subscribers is credited to the quality and usefulness of the posts that I have published.

We are now in the fourth and final quarter of this year. Though it is almost impossible to retain my earnings from the previous month, I hope I can still manage to earn anywhere near it.

Life and Adventure from Making Money Online

Joedel — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:34:00 +0000

Everyday, more and more people are becoming interested in making money online. Though the growth of internet’s popularity has been slow in growth in the Philippines, the number of Filipinos getting into online businesses is steadily increasing. I have been in the internet industry for more that 3 years and have been an internet freelancer for more than a year now. So far, making money online allows me to earn enough money to live a comfortable life. Here’s what blogging and other internet money making programs has given me so far:

Blogging saved a life twice. My mom was diagnosed with an ovary problem in December of last year and she had to undergo a minor operation. The result of the biopsy from this operation was not good and she had to undergo total abdominal hysterectomy by early this year. If not for blogging, we wouldn’t have enough money to pay for my mom’s operations.

My First Car (Nissan Sentra):

Six months after quitting my job from an internet company in the Philippines, I also managed to buy my very first car. It was a Nissan Sentra ’97 model Super Saloon. Six more months later, I sold this car to Jeff for his second car and bought a Mitsubishi Adventure 2002 model (the toy for big boys as I call it) for an upgrade. I just bought my Adventure the other day and this is what inspired me to make this post.

My Mitsubishi Adventure… Yeah!!!

Currently, I am also making installment payments for a parcel of land in Tarlac. 3 more years and this land is going to be fully paid and officially become a property under my name.

The internet is a huge virtual world where you can earn real money. If you put your heart and best efforts in finding jobs and programs in the internet that really pay, you will definitely make good amount of money. Though this post is inspired by the recent purchase of my Mitsubishi Adventure, my purpose is not to brag about what I got but instead, to inspire and motivate people, especially my fellow Filipinos, to try their luck and venture the opportunities that the internet offers.

Nuffnang Philippines for Filipino Bloggers

Joedel — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:13:26 +0000

After making my post about my blog’s new wordpress theme yesterday, my new post got a few comments and one of these comments is posted by Jehzeel Laurente. Wanting to return the favor to him for taking time to visit my blog and commenting on my post, I visited his site and searched for a post of his to comment on. Scanning through his blog, his post about a program called NuffNang caught my attention. I read the blogpost, followed the link to Nuff Nang, read about the program and signed up with them.

Nuffnang is the first blog advertising program in Asia which was started in Malaysia by Timothy Tiah and Cheo Ming Shen in February of 2007. After the program’s success in Malaysia and Singapore, Nuffnang finally reached the Philippines last month (August 2008). More than just a blog advertising program that offers opportunities to make money online through blogs, Nuffnang Philippines is a place where we can show that the Filipinos have their place in the blogosphere.

What do I expect with Nuffnang?

This blogging tutorials blog is not really intended to make me tons of dollars and as much as possible, I don’t intend to publish sponsored posts in it. When I joined Nuffnang, my primary purpose was to get to know other Pinoy bloggers and be known to them as well. When I visited the official Nuffnang Philippines website, I noticed that they let the world know who their bloggers are. Well, I certainly want to be included in their list.

Every month, Nuffnang also features bloggers in their site. Of course, I’m also hoping that my name will appear inside this featured box in the near future.

So far, that’s all I have to say about Nuffnang Philippines. I will keep you updated with my thoughts and actual experiences about it.

Do I recommend joining the program?

Sure! Join the program. I don’t see any reason for you not to.

New WordPress Theme for Blogging Tutorials

Joedel — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:05:04 +0000

Not being contented with my weblog’s previous wordpress theme, I spent my whole day searching for a cleaner and more professional theme. My current theme, True Elegance, is a 3- column magazine theme with fully widgetized sidebars. I like this better than my previous theme because it maximizes the spaces in my blog. It is professional looking, customizable and has good advertising spots.

Here are the screen shots of my blog’s previous and current wordpress themes for comparison:

My Previous WordPress Theme (Click to enlarge):

My Current WordPress Theme (Click to enlarge):

Do you like my new theme or do you think my previous theme is better than the current? Do you have any suggestions for me on what features, widgets and plugins to add to my blog? Well, I’d like to hear comments for you about my new wordpress theme.