Busby SEO Challenge - Blog With No Name

April 1 is fast approaching and let’s see if this is a joke of not. UK Webmaster World is giving away $1,000 to the competitor that ranking number 1 in Google for SEOContest2008. Below are our best bets for the contest:

Allan Fernandez Duncan - Try SEOContest2008, Almer Viloria - AJViloria’s SEOContest2008, Benj Arriola - SEOContest2008 .com, Cheryl Estorgio - SEOContest2008 .SEMTitans, Christian Lacsamana - SEOContest2008 Guide, Dennis Cabase - SEOContest2008 .me.uk, Ed Canape - SEMLaguna SEOContest2008, Edward Santillan - SEOContest2008 Dubai, Eligio Tapiador Jr. - SEOContest2008 .org, Eric John Tabin - SEOContest2008 .SEOGlobalPro, Eric Marantanan - Camaniugan SEOContest2008, Francis Gerald Alcala - SEOContest2008 SEOContest2008, Garry Baybayan - ItsOnMyTV SEOContest2008, Gary Viray - Euro SEOContest2008 .com, IcezOrg - SEOContest2008 .i.ph, Jehzeel H. Laurente - Jehzlau’s SEOContest2008, Kenneth Mendoza - Sabre9 SEOContest2008, Kojak Eugenio - Kojak’s SEOContest2008, Leo Mirabuna - i SEOContest2008, Mito Pontillas - SEOContest2008 .blogsome, Moslemen ‘Jun’ Macarambon Jr. - SEOContest2008 .info, Neil Maranan - My SEOContest2008, Philip Tiangson - Philippine SEOContest2008, Ricusa - Ricusa’s SEOContest2008, Ronald Allan Mojica - Ronald’s SEOContest2008, Zaldy Dalisay - SEOContest2008 Winner

Good luck to these competitors! We support you all the way!

After being tired of SEO contest and busy with work, I barely have the time to work on my GlobalWarming Awareness2007 contest entry. And just yesterday I decided to fix up my site. SEO is actually not that simple and I have do spend quite some time just on my on-page optimization stuff and I am barely finished. But after working on the site, where the site was unknown and not in the top 100 in all Google, Yahoo and MSN, and today is the 2nd day for my optimization… Iam now indexed by all search engines and MSN puts me on Page 5. Now still along way to go, and the contest ends soon, hopefully there is still enough time.

Ok, this blog is all about various things. But where did this all start off with? Isulong SEOph. How well did this site do? Hmm not so good. My other site did better. Vorgemilten, I won that fake contest. Too bad it was a fake. Ituloy AngSulong, just number 10 on Google on the final day. So now GlobalWarming Awareness2007 comes. So what am I going to do?

First is, I cannot use this website. *LOL* Domains should be a new domain not registered on the day before the contest.  And mostly every keyword rich domain was already taken. I don’t know what’s else left to use. But I still got 1 domain and let’s see how that goes.

Now I just installed wordpress basically for the ease of use. I started making the theme for the site as well and will concentrate on onpage stuff site,  and domain canonicalization issues and avoiding duplicate content issues and lets see how it goes. I will devote this week to onpage optimization. I can’t do this full time since I have a full time job too as well as a full time sideline job. But fortunately all jobs are still all SEO related. Next week after seeing the effects of onpage optimization, I will probably work on developing content, and then link building then.

Since the Ituloy AngSulong SEO Contest is over, and the Ituloy AngSulong Winners were declared already. I need to clean up my blogs. As in a real big backend clean up. So many sites I modified I cannot even remember what I have been doing to every site. All these bot and ip detections and redirects left and right. I got to take them out right now before big brother G. finds out and kicks me in the butt. So it’s clean up time one site at a time, one by one. SEO contest are damn tiring.

Who approves for my PayPerPost postings? I think he/she is stupid. This is the 3rd time My post was disapproved. And they sent me this:

Thank you for your post! While the content is fine, your blog does not match the description of the Opportunity and fails to meet this requirement as specified by the Advertiser: Review Poker Site - Minimum PR4 Currently, your page rank is 3/10. We check PR rankings at www.urltrends.com Thank you! LM

The post for that was posted here on my Action Online blog. Now anyone that goes to my ActionOnline.biz Business and Technology blog, knows that the homepage is: http://www.actiononline.biz and not http://biznizjizm.actiononline.biz.

My Pagerank for http://www.actiononline.biz is obviously 4, it has been for a very long time. And this PayPerPost PR checking system either has a:

• Stupid system that it just truncates the URLs keeping the subdomains, which is a good reason to do so. Also a good reason to have some manual checking. Or…
• A stupid person is approving without even looking at the homepage of the site. Because they are checking the Pagerank of the subdomain http://biznizjizm.actiononline.biz only.

Do they know what they are doing? The reason why their client wants the post on a PR4+ blog is because all articles are posted on the homepage for some amount of time, thus benefiting from the PR4+ pagerank while it is still on the homepage. They will also get a link on the archives page, the pagination page and the article permalink which most probably is PR0 when it is brand new. On ActionOnline.biz, the pagerank is 4 and each blog’s categories are in subdomains which are all PR3. The client will get homepage pagination and subdomain pagination, archives, homepage and permalinks link love. Aside from me giving the client PR4 link, I am giving them even some more PR3 links as well. And this problem of PPP can continue to exist as long as they will not identify blogs with subdomain topic categories. Usually people that may have this problems are using Wordpress with the subdomain plugin and enabling wildcard DNS on the server.

Now also in my efforts to tell them about it, I have replied to them by email twice. And since I have not been receiving any reply, I posted also in their forum. Well I do not care about it anymore and will just repost the article in another blog of mine since it may take some time before they even realize they have a problem like this when Wordpress blogs are used with the subdomain plugin. Funny thing is, their clients will actually benefit more from it, but it is the stupid person approving the post that just rejects it, and is forcing me to move my post to a less ideal location. But actually their client might even be happier since I am not removing the old post as well as posting it here on my PR6 blog.

Latest Update, Just in Today:

Dear Benj,

Thank you for your interest in PayPerPost! Unfortunately, we are unable to approve your post because your blog fails to meet the advertisers PR requirement.

To qualify for this opportunity, you must have a blog with a minimum of a PR4.

Your current page rank is: 3/10

Please visit www.urltrends.com for this info.

Thank you!

AEL

Now here is another one. He claims my post is PR3. Well he can be right. But you see, if you use URLTrend.com, it randomly connects to a Google Datacenter. And some datacenters are not updated, I checked the PR of this blog on several datacenters here, and see the majority of datacenters. Here is a recent check on random 50 datacenters, only 7 have PR3.

You can check the PR of this site also here. But just to get passed through by their ignorance, I will just disable the subdomain plugin on http://www.actiononline.biz, get this post approve and show it is PR4, then enable the subdomain plug and any permalink errors with 301 redirects.