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I'm All Tied Up

You know, I'm not happy unless I continually bite off more than I can chew. Right now, I'm working on so many different projects, I don't know which way is up.

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Cell Phones in the Philippines

You can find many kinds of cell phones in the Philippines, but I can't tell you what's used where, other than what I've seen here in Olongapo City. I can't tell you exactly what's used in Manila, although I've heard they support the Apple iPhones there along with every other major brand. Here in [...]

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The UV SEO Series - Part Four - Meta

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. Today, I'm going to emphasize meta descriptions and meta tags.

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The UV SEO Series - Part One - Introduction

Before I begin, I'll tell you up front that I'm not a search engine optimization (SEO) expert of any kind. I've tested everything I'll be telling you to do and I've spent more than six months experimenting to find out what works and what doesn't. My blog now ranks on the first page of [...]

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Defeating Bad Scrapers the Free and Easy Way

As a website owner, you should be worried when someone scrapes all or part of the content of one of your pages. If you're not familiar with it, the Copyscape service is one way to find them and start the elimination process. There is a procedure, which you can do for free (Copyscape charges for [...]

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The Philippines and Getting Website Traffic from Offline Sources

Online referrals from other websites and search engines are the usual ways of getting website traffic. Getting website traffic from offline sources is also possible if you associate with the people who control those sources.

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Use the Google AdSense Allowed Sites Publisher Whitelist

A couple of days ago, I logged into my Google AdSense account and added my domains into the textarea box for "Allowed Sites". I was seeing too many impressions versus clicks and couldn't figure out why.

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Mint: My Favorite Analytics Program

It seems everyone has their favorite analytics program or analytics service. After testing and using many of the most popular services, standalone programs and WordPress plugins, my favorite real time analytics program is Mint. The service that comes in second for me is Google Analytics because data retrieval is delayed.

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Necessary Time Off

Do you ever feel like your rowing a boat upstream or climbing a hill that never ends? That's what I feel like sometimes. Well, I took 2 days off from posting anything at all so that I could put things in perspective. Usually when I take time off from posting, it's because I don't [...]

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The Value of Comments in Search Engines

I haven't been keeping any secrets. I've been testing search engine optimizations since January and have been verifying the results. Whenever I find anything of significance, I usually write about it.

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