Nothing much can do today so I have check my gmail account to check some mails. Obviously, we always receive this spam emails from all kinds of products from pharma products to adult sites. Before clicking the link “delete all spam mail”, just notice this text ads at the top (usual ads displayed on google mail).

Look at the ads highlighted in red box at the left and at the text ads. Now that’s ad relevancy!!!

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It is all over the news about Microsoft dropping their bid to Yahoo for $42.3 Billion or $31 per share. Press release have be out for both big gunners about the dismantled deal.

On Yahoo News.

Microsoft Corp. withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc. on Saturday, scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google Inc.
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The decision to walk away from the deal came after last-ditch efforts to negotiate a mutually acceptable sale price proved unsuccessful.But Yahoo’s board demanded at least $53 billion, or $37 per share, according to Ballmer. That would have been nearly double Yahoo’s stock price of $19.18 at the time Microsoft first made its bid a little over three months ago

What do you think? I know someone who is happy with this turnaround! You know who? Google!!!!

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Well just roaming around the corner of webmaster forums and see this contest along the line at webmaster talk. A merging contest between webmaster-talk and earners forum. You might want to take a look at the contest details here at webmaster talk. Prizes are listed below copied from the forum.

If you want to register, you can use my referral link Here!

Each of the 5 Winners will Receive the COMPLETE package below!

1. A beautiful new Macbook Air laptop from ClickBooth valued at $1,800.00!
2. A Copy of Interspire Shopping Cart (Professional Edition) valued at $995!
3. $500 cash in a Max Bounty affiliate network account awaits you!
4. Another $500 in the form of a Text Link Ads gift certificate should help with your marketing efforts!
5.How about another Apple product, the iPod Touch from Rocket Profit….wow!
6. Another $250 cash in a Pepperjam Network account will make you smile!
7. Sure would be nice to have some custom T-shirts printed for your headline website, right? Well, Ndesigns is going to do that for you! This is 24 Custom Printed Shirts (color T’s, 3-4 color printing, one-sided).
8. The hottest new camera for blogging, The Flip, is provided by Advaliant!
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11. 3 Free months of Aaron Wall’s SEO Training can only be good for business!

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If you will notice on the sidebar, I have removed google ads to replace other network serving ads. Slowly depleting those adsense ads on this blog. It is seems not worth anymore and cannot sustain what this blog is generating through adsense ads due to server fees and maintenance.

I am trying out some ad serving network and check how effective or calculating the difference in terms of revenue this blog can get without including adsense. Though I am still running adsense on other sites and still generating enough to sustain all of my sites, in the end it might migrate to others who can provide the sustainability of all my sites and not from my own benefit.

Te only drawback is the effort I am placing on all the sites, but that is not important now since I just enjoy having a site checking what people are searching and how can we improve it.

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Google rolled out again its pagerank system to most of their data centers including the toolbar. This blog just got lowered from its previous PR of 4 to PR3. History comes when this was PR0 -> PR2->PR5->PR3-PR4-PR3. Been on the ups and down on this blog regarding PR. But not is not in question for me now. The question lies on how much traffic are you receiving even if you have this low PR.

But some of my internal pages have their PR ranked up. My PR 0 sites went up on the range of PR3 to PR5 and some with already have PR dropped by -1 including this blog.

So we need again links pointing to us to gain that search engine trust again on this search engine optimization blog. Oh no, not for PR, but we need traffic, so best case is to create content.

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Wordpress just released its first update on wordpress 2.5 series. This is a security release for wordpress. Some of my wordpress blog are now updated with this release.

Some features added and fixes.According to the wordpress development blog.

It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix.

* Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.

* Better performance for those who have many categories

* Media Uploader fixes

* An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7

* Widget Administration fixes

* Various usability improvements

* Layout fixes for IE

So it is advisable to update to this version. Wordpress 2.5 is quite an experience over the other version of the wordpress and more secure as they say.

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Just to give you some awareness of the massive spam about adwords that you might fall if you are using the service. This is not actually coming from google adwords itself but to a certain site trying to steal your information and even money out of it.

Letter might go this way,

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Dear AdWords Customer,

Your ads have stopped running because we were unable to process your billing information.
To activate your account and start running your ads, enter your billing information.

In order to activate your account and start running your ads, enter your billing information.
Pease sign into your account at http://adwords.google.com/select/login, and update
your billing information.

Once your account is reactivated and your billing information has been processed,
any your ads and campaigns can begin running immediately on Google.

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The Google-AdWords Team

Look at the sign-in, but hovering your mouse to the link will give a different url pointing to a .cn site. http://adwords.google.avantisbank.cn/select/Login/. Don’t click the link you might end up broke. I received many of these and maybe you too, just to stay alert.

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Sorry about not posting quite often on this blog, pretty much occupied on my day job and don’t have that luxury of time even on the evening to post. Anyway, back to our topic.

If you are using wordpress 2.3 or 2.5, you don’t need to have an .htaccess code to redirect your non-www site to www to avoid duplicate urls. the latest version of wordpress is already doing this and already incorporated on the code of WP. This is far that I have seen when i have implemented it on my of my blog.

What are the consequences of this if you again redirect the latest wordpress that is already redirecting the site to www version? Remember DMOZ? when their main page was out of the google index. They are redirecting permanently the www version to their own www version of the site, 301 redirect. That means if bot is going into the site www version it is again being redirected to its www version leaving bot to give up on an infinite loop of redirection.

This scenario happened to me and only then I have noticed when I checked and removed the www but still redirecting it to www version.

Resolution: Removed the line on .htaccess permanent redirect (301) to www and let the  alone the hardcode piece on Wordpress. The site now back to index.

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