Thursday, 16 October 2008

Gulfnews website blocked by Etisalat

Have seen it? This morning, I thought I gonna check stories in gulfnews about cityscape, while the page loading I started to click the NATION section in the mid top let of the page in Gulfnews, when this page shows up...

Read more...
 

Promotional items corporate gifts srednarb

Promotional items corporate gifts srednarb - A Filipino SEO Contest with PHP 342,000 of total prizes to be given away. Contest runs from September 22,2008 to December 22,2008 (9PM Pacifi). Branders the main sponsor of Promotional items corporate gifts srednarb SEO Contest Branders is a promotional Items by Branders. $50 off on your 1st order. Free Samples. On-time Shipment Guarantee. Buy from the world's largest online seller of promotional products & corporate gifts. Get marketing products, give aways, business gifts, promotional gifts, company shirts, giveaways and logo pens and enjoy great service from Branders.com .

 

Who can Join? 

 

  • Open to All Filipinos all over the world.
  • You can group together as a team, or join as individuals.
  • To Join, Please This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it your NAME, EMAIL, WEBSITE ENTRY, CONFIRMATION URL, REQUIRED LINKS USED and REFERRER (if applicable).
  • You can have as many website entries as want.
  • If you think one contestant is not a Filipino, report it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

 What are the Rules?

 

  1. DOMAIN

    • All domains are in (as long as it is registered within this year and before September 30, 2008)
    • Keywords "Promotional items corporate gifts srednarb" on Domain: You are only allow up to 2 keywords only on the domain name.
    • No subdomains (meaning, this is not allowed: http://entry-keyword.example.com/)
    • Keywords (Promotional items corporate gifts srednarb) on Directories are OK (meaning, this is allowed: http://www.example.com/entry-keyword/index.html)
    • Keywords File Names are OK (meaning, this is allowed: http://www.example.com/entry-keyword.html)
    • Please create a page (name it whois.html) and place your Name, Email and Website.
      For example: Juan De La Cruz, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , http://www.juandelacruz.com/
    • Upload it on your contest domain, For example: http://www.juandelacruz.com/whois.html
    • You must own the domain (meaning, sites like blogspot.com, wordpress.com etc. are not allowed)

  2. LINKS

    • You must place at least 10 of the required keywords on your contest entry page. View the required links here.
    • The required links must not be used twice and keywords and links must be unique.
    • The required links must be immediately visible when viewed on a 800x600 screen resolution.
    • Please follow this link format
    • <a href="http://www.requiredlink.com/required-link.html" title="keyword">keyword</a>
    • There must be no NOFOLLOW on the required links, meta data and robots.txt
    • The required links must be evenly distributed throughout the page, as long at it follows rule #3.
    • The required links must be placed on the contest entry page all thoughout the contest duration.

  3. ALLOWED PAGE DETAILS

    • We will only allow STATIC PAGES (meaning it has no programming backend and it is purely HTML).
    • If a dynamic entry page disguises itself as a static page (like .php changed to .html) please report it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
    • There must be no mention of the word "SEO" or "Contest" on the entry page source code.
    • Please add Google Analytics tracking on your pages. We will use this to determine the site with most traffic.


  4. ALLOWED SEO TECHNIQUES

    • You can use ANY and ALL MEANS NECESSARY to get your site rank on top of the search results. In the real SEO world, we can do anything to get the rank and traffic we want on our sites. It's all a matter of the risks you are willing to take before Search Engines ban your site. Blackhat? Whitehat? Greyhat? Anything goes. Just make sure you don't be penalized by Search Engines or your rank will drop.

  5. DON'T FAKE IT

    • Make sure you create real traffic and real leads. We can check on our end which ones are fake. We encourage all participants to be honest in getting their target results as in the real world, fake traffic and fake leads mean nothing and it will only hurt your business and your clients.

 

 

How is PageRank calculated?

To calculate the PageRank for a page, all of its inbound links are taken into account. These are links from within the site and links from outside the site.

PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn))

That's the equation that calculates a page's PageRank. It's the original one that was published when PageRank was being developed, and it is probable that Google uses a variation of it but they aren't telling us what it is. It doesn't matter though, as this equation is good enough.

In the equation 't1 - tn' are pages linking to page A, 'C' is the number of outbound links that a page has and 'd' is a damping factor, usually set to 0.85.

We can think of it in a simpler way:

Read more...