I've been receiving email updates from Philippine National Bank for the past few months. Each time, it was a notification of system downtime in order to make improvements.

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In part one of "The UV SEO Series", I introduced the series. In part two, I wrote about having one website address. In part three, I wrote about internal linking strategies. In part four, I emphasized meta descriptions and meta tags. Today, I'm going to give you some ideas about keywords, keyword density and keyword placement.

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After seeing the image to your left (click it for the full size) pop up on my screen for the umpteenth time, I decided I'd had enough.

When I set up this PC a few months ago, I made sure I installed QuickTime. I didn't install iTunes or Safari. Every so often since then, the download image would pop up on my screen telling me I needed to upgrade it. Until the last two or three times, it only showed QuickTime and iTunes. In all cases, the checkboxes were always checked. I would have to uncheck the boxes for iTunes and Safari in order to update only what I wanted to update. It's ridiculous.

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Before I tell you what this is all about, watch the video (if you can):

I'm not going to use a feedreader anymore. Neither Google Reader nor Bloglines. There are two reasons behind my madness: 1) I don't visit the actual blogs I want to visit and comment on (and that's bad), and 2) the feedreaders don't update properly. I need to go to each blog to see what's actually there. Both of the feedreaders have been lying to me — showing me feeds that haven't been updated in a week when I know they have. Perhaps it's my lousy connection, but I doubt it. I've shut everything down and restarted, loaded up the readers and nothing happens.

Speaking of my lousy connection, I found out on Saturday that I'll have to wait until sometime in January to switch to Globe broadband due to their subscriber capacity being maximized until equipment upgrades have taken place. I'm stuck with this crappy SubicTel DSL connection until then.

My decision to stop using feedreaders goes hand in hand with my master plan: To get more than 1,000 real visitors per day every day, without being stumbled, dugg or zoomed (versus 200 to 300 per day). By visiting and commenting on as many blogs as possible, this goal can be attained. You don't believe me? Sit back and watch as the comment count goes up on my blog in the next couple of weeks. Barring brain freeze on my part, or some other personal complication, my goal should be reached quickly.

What the heck does all this have to do with Spider-Man? Not a damn thing other than the fact that I sometimes feel a great responsibility, but without the power to go with it. By the way, the phrase "…with great power, comes great responsibility" didn't originate with "Spider-Man 2 (2004)". I may be wrong, but I think it was borrowed from "…and with great power, goes a greater responsibility" from "Teen Wolf (1985)".

Starting today sometime, I'll be using the Bookmark Reviewer add-on for Firefox to go through the bookmarks that I set up specifically for blogs. The number of bookmarks is around 115 right now and I know I have some missing that I'll have to add to the list as I go to those blogs.

I just visited Alexa and they have a new extension for the Firefox browser called "Sparky" (it's clearly shown on their pages). I installed it and it shows Alexa stats on the status bar for websites you visit. Right click on it and you can go to specific Alexa pages for the website you're viewing at the time.

I ran Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware, and AVG Anti-Spyware on my PC after installing it to make sure it was a safe extension and it is. The Internet Explorer Alexa toolbar always came up as spyware!

Do me and your fellow Internet users a favor. If you're using Firefox as one of your browsers, install it so that your visits count for both me and them.

(Blog authors: Please write about this and get the word out.)