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Pause From Easter Bunny Tracker – 2nd PR Update of 2010 Falls on Black Saturday

Joedel — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:27:05 +0000

The Easter Sunday or Celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection could either be good or bad for internet people depending on the results of the latest PR update for their websites or blogs. Now it’s time to pause playing with your Easter bunny tracker application and check the results.

Website owners, link brokers and SEO people have been anticipating the second pagerank update of 2010. Some are looking forward to increasing their website’s pagerank to benefit from selling links, while it’s time to check and evaluate the links that they bought for some.

Google updates PR every three months from the last pagerank update (at least that was the trend for the past few PR updates) so many have been expecting it to have occurred on April Fools’ Day which fell on Maundy Thursday. However, Google decides to run the PR update on Black Saturday instead.

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.

Backup, Restore, Import or Export Saved Passwords in Firefox

Joedel — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:36:44 +0000

The easiest way to maintain accounts, usernames and passwords in different websites and programs is by saving your passwords in your Firefox browser. This way, you can just go to a specific website’s login page and Firefox will automatically fill the username and password fields.

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But what if you need to format your PC, reinstall your Firefox browser or you just decided to upgrade your laptop to a better one? Will you have to manually transfer hundreds of usernames and passwords to your newly installed Firefox? I recently experienced a similar situation when I had to use a start using a desktop computer for web designing while my account details for several site are saved in my laptop.

Good thing I learned about the Password Exporter 1.2 Firefox Add-on. In a few simple steps, you can export and import all your usernames and passwords in your Firefox browser…

Install the Add-on then open your firefox options menu. Under the security tab, click the Import/Export Passwords button. After that, click the Export Passwords button then choose the location where you want to save the file in your computer. You can save the file in either XML (Extended Markup Language) or CSV (Comma Separated Values) format.

You will also need to install the same add-on to your Firefox in your new computer if you want to import or transfer your account details to your new Firefox browser. Do the same steps as exporting your passwords only this time, click the Import Passwords button as your last step and open your saved file earlier.

That’s it! I think it only took me around 5 minutes to export then import my passwords from my laptop to my desktop.

What’s to Blame? Change in Trend or Economic Crisis?

Joedel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:19:28 +0000

The internet is probably one of the most dynamic industries in the world of business. Trends can change without warning and before you know it, there’s suddenly a lot of catching up to do. Search engines, competitors and people’s preferences are just some of the many factors that affect these trends. This fact made me confused and got me thinking on what is the real reason behind the continuous drop in internet earnings. Has there been a recent change in trend in the online industry or is this just still the effect of the economic recession?

New clients that require services are rare and existing clients demand lower prices. There is also a significant decrease in the orders and jobs from clients. The quality of my work hasn’t change so I’m pretty sure that it has nothing to do with the drop in my earnings. Other freelancers that I personally know, including my sister Judy, is also experiencing the same situation.

Whether it’s the change in trend or the economic crisis that is causing this, I sure hope that my earnings soon pick up. Otherwise, there’s a good chance that I will again be applying for a job soon.

Brand New Yahoo! Homepage Launched!

Joedel — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:54:01 +0000

Over the past years, Yahoo! has been a consistent contender in being the top search engine used world wide. Though Google takes the most share of internet users and searchers, Yahoo! continues to strive and offer more and better search experience. Recently, an all new Yahoo! homepage with improved layout, design, features and overall usability has been launched.

Yahoo! still has everything that we love about it plus more! The Yahoo! engineers that worked on the new design tells their story in this video:

Video About New Homepage of Yahoo!

The new Yahoo! is designed to serve as the only website that you’ll ever need. First of all, Yahoo! takes a step in being a social website by allowing its users to set a status and share it to their friends. Your details are not only visible to other people but you are also searchable through them. You can now also add other websites that you love to your favorites whether it’s from Yahoo! or not.

Yahoo! claims that their new homepage is specifically designed for the people with a great improvement in usability and functions that allow them to personalize it. Above all improvements, the main focus of their redesign has been on the speed of their website. Now you can have access to everything that you need on one page in a blazing speed! If you want access to your favorite websites, breaking news, videos or photos, Yahoo is now your ideal homepage.

Blog Listed on DMOZ and Google Directory

Joedel — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:38:08 +0000

Getting a link from authority websites is powerful in SEO because links from such websites are given more weight by search engines. This will give a boost to the website that they are linking to and help in improving SERPs and increasing its pagerank. Nowadays, backlinks from link directories are already discounted and given less weight. However, authority link directories still provide the link juice that is needed for search engine optimization. Some of the most reputed link directories on the web are DMOZ Open Project, Google Directory and Yahoo! Directory.

Because of the impact that the said authority link directories can bring in optimizing websites, many webmasters and SEO specialists try to get listed on them. Submitting your websites to be listed in these directories is free (except for Yahoo! Directory) but not all websites are accepted. Directory editors follow strict website submission and quality standards and guidelines to maintain their reliability and good reputation.

Today I just found out that this make money online blog was accepted to both DMOZ and Google directories. The listings are under deep categories but nevertheless, getting listed on both of these directories is a great achievement for me. Though I am not actually looking to optimize this blog for search engines, being listed on authority directories proves that the content of blog is recognized for its good quality. Ever since I had this blog set up, my focus was never to earn lots of money from it but instead, share useful information to my readers and friends.

So far, I can say that my goal of sharing knowledge to the internet community is slowly paying off. This also inspired me to continue blogging about SEO, internet news and ways how to make money through the internet. So stay tuned and check out this blog regularly because more useful articles and interesting internet news are coming soon.

Paypal Starts to Charge Fees to Personal Accounts

Joedel — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:36:37 +0000

Receiving payments through personal Paypal accounts are no longer free! Yup! It’s true and it has been a few days since Paypal implemented these new fees structure for personal Paypal accounts.

Last Friday on the fifth of June, my sister Judy was surprised that a payment that she received in her personal Paypal account had charges. Of course, her initial reaction was this is clearly a mistake. She immediately contacted Paypal support through email, stated her case and demanded to get a refund for fees that were mistakenly deducted. Well, what did we expect? The response was to visit the fees page of Paypal. Not contented with the response that she got, I advised my sister to call support and so we can hear answers to our questions directly from a customer service representative. Curious about my sister’s case, I stayed beside her throughout the conversation.

We were both surprised to learn that there was no mistake at all. Paypal has really started to charge fees to personal account. According to the support person, the fees page of Paypal isn’t updated yet but they have definitely started charging fees. I checked my recent Paypal transactions and found out that fees were deducted from all the payments that I received starting June 5, 2009.

You can try and visit the send money page in your Paypal account and you will see the new “Purchase” and “Personal” tabs. The receiver of the Paypal money will incur fees if you send money and selected “Purchase”. However, if transactions are made under “Personal”, no fees will be charged.

Damn! Where did that come from? No email notifications, no updates in Paypal’s Policy Updates page and just nothing to let us know about this. Oh well, I guess there’s no longer anything that we can do about this.

This is not good at all especially for internet entrepreneurs like me. I’m sure there are many people out there who used to provide two Paypal email addresses, one personal and one premier, to their clients to avoid fees. I’m guilty of doing this too. Imposing fees to personal accounts just means that our revenues will be reduced by a few hundred dollars.

OSI – a Powerful Affiliate Software

Joedel — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:34:22 +0000

The internet opens a big opportunity for both online and offline businesses. Through it, you can reach more people and increase your businesses’ popularity and sales. This is why many businesses are allotting some of their marketing and advertising budgets in building corporate websites and online shops. These websites are cost effective marketing tools that has already been proven effective by many business organizations in the past years.

Being a graduate of a business course, I know how much your marketing strategy can affect the growth of your business. For some businesses, particularly those which are in the sales industry, their growth are determined through the increase in their sales. Using third party sellers or referrer which are better known as affiliates is a better way to increase your sales. The main reason for this is that you don’t have to spend a penny if you don’t make a sale. You will only have to pay commissions to your affiliates if their referrals result to actual sales.

Though using affiliates to market your business and generate sales is a great strategy, implementing and tracking such campaign is not easy without the right resources. Such task will require you a powerful software to manage and organize your affiliates, sales and reports. However, hiring an experienced programmer to create such program will be expensive. If you want this kind of software that is already proven to help you manage your affiliate program, try out the OSI affiliate software.

This PHP software will help you manage your affiliate program with ease. Here are the key feautures of the OSI affiliate software:

Create Unlimited Affiliate Programs and Users
Works with ALL Gateway Companies
Multi-tier Affiliate System
Duplicate Sale Protection
Advertiser Tracker System
Advanced Reporting
Create Custom Email Campaigns
Password Protected Backend
Mange Thousands of Affiliates

What’s best about the OSI affiliate is that you can have this affiliate tracking software for less than a hundred dollars. That’s as cheap as it can get for a software that is this powerful. Whether you are just starting an affiliate program to increase your sales or you want to better manage your existing affiliate program, the OSI Affiliate is your ideal software.

Internet Marketing – More Than Just High Search Engine Rankings

Joedel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:56:47 +0000

When the term “internet marketing” is read or heard, the first thing that comes to mind is high search engine rankings. Though search engine optimization is an important part of internet marketing, SEO should not be your only focus. More than just building your backlinks, targeting the right keywords and stuffing your website with good content, marketing your products, services and websites in the internet requires a deeper and more comprehensive approach.

So your website has finally reached the first page of SERP’s (Search Engine Results Page) and you started to drive a good volume of organic and targeted traffic to your website. What’s next? Does this mean that we’ve crossed the finished line and achieved a successful internet marketing campaign? Well, I’m afraid not. Driving visitors to your website does not mean that your are actually capturing the interest and satisfying the needs of people but merely having them look at your site. Just think about this – How many of your visitors actually stay on your website for more than one minute and how many of them are going to visit your site again in the future?

Knowing, Understanding, Communicating and Predicting are the basic steps in a good internet marketing strategy. Tools like online surveys, analytics and other reports on trends can help you gather more data and analyze them to come up with good marketing approach.

If you are serious about optimizing your business potential by promoting it through the internet, don’t just do SEO! Give it everything you have – know the needs of your target audiences, understand these needs, provide them and reach out to say that “hey, I got just what you need”. But don’t forget that everything in the business world is dynamic so learn to predict trends based on reliable data.

Keywords Research and Helpful Tools for SEO

Joedel — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:00:20 +0000

Keywords Research is one of the pillars of SEO or search engine optimization. Without sufficient research on what keywords to target, all efforts to optimize your websites through search engines will be put to waste. Researching for target keywords needs to be done to determine the proper keywords that we will use for article or content creation, link building, onsite optimization and other related SEO tasks. In other words, you cannot successfully promote your website through search engines if you don’t execute a proper SEO keywords research.

Through keyword research, we will identify which keywords that are related to your website are used by most internet users and use them to optimize our websites. After all, there’s no sense in ranking number one for a search term or keyword that no one uses when searching through search engines. So the main concern in keywords research is to determine which keywords receive high to moderate search volume and using them in optimizing our websites.

There are a good number of free keywords suggestion and research tools in the internet that you can use in researching for key words or key phrases with high search volume. Here are some tools that I have used and I can recommend:

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

The keyword suggestion tool by Google Adwords is meant to help advertisers in generating keywords for their PPC or Pay Per Click campaign. However, the tool is open for everyone to use and that is something that internet marketers can take advantage of. Through this free tool, you can see the most searched keywords in the most popular and widely used search engine in the internet today – Google. Details like approximate average number of searches per month, search volume from the previous month and the volume of competition from other Adwords advertisers will help you choose the right keywords to target. For future use and reference, you can also download the generated keywords in text or CSV format.

Forensics by Searchers.co.uk
Searchers.co.uk is a popular search engine in the United Kingdom which receives millions of users per month. If your target audience is primarily the UK, then Searchers.co.uk’s keyword research tool called Forensics is something that you could use. Searchers.co.uk is similar to other search engines but with more emphasis to indexing UK specific websites. This is the reason why this tool is helpful for SEO people looking to promote their websites in the UK. The information provided by Forensics is very similar that of Google Adword’s keyword tool but with a couple others added which are the Local Rank and Growth or change in search volume. These additional information can help you see and anticipate changes in trends in volumes of searches for particular keywords.

Wordtracker Keywords Suggestion Tool
Wordtracker is one of the first keyword research and suggestion tools in the internet. The free version of this tool can suggest you up to 100 most searched keywords and their number of searches made using them. Wordtracker uses metacrawlers to collect information about keywords and their search volumes. Unlike other keyword tools, wordtracker updates their databases weekly so you are sure to always get the latest, most searched and hottest keywords.

iWeb Tool Keyword Suggestion Tool
The keyword suggestion tool is just one of the free SEO and web tools offered by iWebTool.com. This tool returns up to 10 keyword suggestions based on your main keyword and allows a maximum of 5 searches in an hour for free. You can click the results to search for further similar keywords or click the icons of the top three major search engines to see the actual websites ranking for particular keywords. The tool is simple and is good for basic keyword research.

The purpose of keyword research is to identify which keywords that are related to your sites are likely to be used by internet users and deliver traffic to your websites. These tools can help us analyze what keywords currently have high search volumes and are frequently used by people in search engines. No one knows what search terms, keywords or key phrases are going to be popularly used in search engine queries by people in the future so periodic and constant keyword research is a must for optimizing websites