Wow, all my old forwarding URLs starting Dec 12, 2008 and older are going to:

“lansner.freedomblogging.com/2009/06/14/twitter-hashtag-conversations/25613/“

And the names were changes to:

“Hashtag? How to join those Twitter“

Since I have a lot of cli.gs post, I never really would have noticed this unless I went back to some older cli.gs. Good thing Ann told me about hers and she said she got hacked. I checked mine and the same thing also. Hacked cligs!

Yes! After I have been waiting for this launch, my fingers are shaking, trembling, and I can’t wait to use them when I get a hold of WolframAlpha and let’s see if it pushes G out of it’s spot as the one of the top search engines. For a long time, my typing fingers has always sought after the G spot since it gives more relevant information than Yahoo and MSN/Live.

If you are not familiar with WolframAlpha, check this out.

Just so much power, I feel I am facing StarTrek Technology, talking to a computer giving me pertinent answers.

If WolframAlpha and Google were Helicopters

WolframAlpha would be Airwolf and you are Stringfellow Hawk.

Google would be BlueThunder which was also cool but all it’s power was just that Gatlin Gun.

If WolframAlpha and Google were Motorcycles

WolframAlpha would be StreetHawk and you are Jesse Mark.

Google is just The Dirt Bike Kid, yup it was just for kids.

If WolframAlpha and Google were Cars

WolframAlpha would be the original Trans Am Knight Rider’s KITT and you are Michael Knight.

Google would be the new Mustang Knight Rider, KITT. Come ‘on nobody is going to be cooler than the Hoff!

If WolframAlpha and Google were Ships

Google would be StarBlazers

But WolframAlpha would be way bigger transforming into a robot! That’s Macross!

If WolframAlpha and Google were transforming robot airplanes

WolframAlpha will run on Starscream technology.

Google will just be that Gobot with that cheezy face underneath the plane.

Now the question is… will it really be super cool later? Or will be just see a bunch of 404s, 503s, 500s, 302s… let’s see. WolframAlpha launches today as a webcast!

Sulumits Retsambew Kangaroo and Joey

My first time to see some Kangaroos and Joeys in action!

We all know links help in ranking. And in SEO contest, many are involved in various link building strategies. Whitehat link baiting to the extreme blatant artificial link building. Many competitors like using social bookmarking sites and many keep bookmarking tons of useless content just for the link from a social bookmarking site.

Social bookmarking is a fine way to gain links, but I am noticing in many SEO contest, people submitting useless pages or irrelevant pages to niche social bookmarking sites. And probably the worst place to submit a SEO contest entry in a social bookmarking site is on Sphinn.

I mean c’mon dude, Sphinn is a social bookmarking site of SEO people, PPC people and all other people that revolve in those circles. They see any sort of spamming in anyway, they will remove it.

Even if it does not get remove, gets past moderation because all moderators/admins on Sphinn are also busy and is not reviewed manually that well and you get only 1 Sphinn, sooner or later, someone is going to find out it was only for an SEO contest. Now let’s say they found out after the contest and you benefited from that single Sphinn link in whatever way. Moderators will remove it after the contest. But they will remember you, your username and if you have all your information in there, they will just remember who you are.

In SEO, SEO is a people business. Networking with other SEOs is always beneficial in this industry. And you never want to make a bad impression of yourself to other SEO people.

I know I have used social bookmarking in many ways in my SEO efforts, but I made sure I really had something nice to offer people that they will like what I have to say so it is “bookmark-worthy.” And in the end, even more people bookmark it if it is really that good.

I have personally joined the SEO contest with the keyword Promotional Items Corporate Gifts Srednarb. And I have seen several competitors bookmark left and right in every possible way. This particular contest is a Filipino only SEO competition and was promoted on the SEO Philippines forum. Many of the competitors that join, I personally know in the forum, others I may not yet know that much. I have seen 5 pages submitted on Sphinn by at 3 different people that used Sphinn for promoting their seo contest entries for this particular contest and I just tell it to my Sphinn friends and they report it as spam once they see it. So far 4 previous submissions on Sphinn were already removed and one is already desphunn and was reported as spam just a few hours ago.

Being a part of the SEO Philippines community, my shoutout call to everyone on Sphinn is I hope you do not generalize the whole country as social bookmarking spammers or simply spammers in general. There are many Filipinos who are very good in SEO and many outsource companies also exist there that are the top choice SEO outsource resource, but then again, there are still some that maybe either:

• Misguided and still in their learning process.
• Innocently not knowledgeable.
• Simply blatantly spamming.

The sad news is the great number of people behind the scenes are rarely seen and are covered up as an outsource company and the one that may have done a mistake gets the most attention and is where the stereotype misconception may come out.

I urge also every Filipino, do what you want. Let’s say you really want to spam. Maybe it is really your style, maybe not. But if you are going to spam social bookmarking sites for an SEO Contest like with Promotional Items Corporate Gifts Srednarb, do it elsewhere and not on Sphinn. All the best SEO people in the world checks Sphinn. Whatever you plan on doing, they know your plan once they see it. Even the grandfathers of SEO like Danny Sullivan is on Sphinn. (Errr… hmmm grandfather… maybe not a nice word. That sounds too old. ) He runs Sphinn, you can almost say He IS Sphinn. *LOL* Protect your image and submit good content on Sphinn. Remember Sphinn is all about internet marketing, from SEO, PPC, SMO and all other types of online marketing. SEO Contest may be SEO related but if you are just posting for the link going to your entry, it is not worth it in my opinion and you just give that bad impression of who you are to the SEO community.

For my co-members on the SEO Philippines forum, if you believe I am partly the reason why your entries were removed on Sphinn, sorry about that. I probably am. If that made you mad, I hope you are not. Going to the top 3 bullet points above, I hope you are just misguided and in the learning process or innocently not knowledgeable. But if you are just blatantly spamming Sphinn, sorry again, I will always request Sphinn to remove your entries unless they are relevant in some what to what people want to see on Sphinn. Nothing personal, just helping clean up the results.

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Now that I have enumerated these 3 groups… I would like to point out number 2.

For those that gave me sitewide links near the last minute… some people have different thoughts on this, but with my thoughts, a sitewide link is too fast of a link building technique considering the near closing of this contest. I personally fear the sitewide link when the contest is near it’s ending because I have this belief that the link building will be to fast and may trigger some delay filter. An editorial link still in my opinion works best.

Next is, in the last few weeks, I have see people giving me 301s that I believe were not present before. Although I appreciate your concern in helping out, please be aware that this is a no-301 rule contest. Aside from that, adding your 301s in this last few days is not that effective since it was added at the last minute. I am not fully aware of everyone who did this, but two people I clearly have seen doing this is…

G. Ortiz and M. Rogers

As for Ms. Ortiz, I have spoken with her after one of the people on UK Webmaster World asked me about one site. I saw what you did. I appreciate the help. And thank you for taking off the 301 you added at the last minute.

Now for Mr. Rogers, well what can I say. I never had any plans of talking to you which I believe you already know. And whatever you are doing, which I am not really sure, if you are helping or putting me into disaster. I have seen your site a few weeks back (thanks Eli for telling me about this 301) and it barely had content and now you change it to a 301. Please remove it. It was added too near the end and it will barely help too. Thanks but no thanks.

UPDATE: I posted this at the spur of the moment and was not quite sure how the tone of my blog post is. I did not wish to offend anyone and did not mean I do not appreciate your help. What I meant was simply stick to editorial post. A blog story with a link will do. And no 301s please, it’s too late in the contest day anyway. Same with sitewide links, just stick with editorial links. That’s all. Again thank you and I very much appreciate your concern.

Team SEOSphere is not Stopping

As much as I want to stop to avoid any sudden drops, the SEOContest2008-Sphere.com team seems to keep going on. And it seems like their work is paying off. And whatever I start doing now, may not be enough to stay back at the number 1 spot. Aside from that, doing it too much too fast can drop me down as well. In fact sometimes I do not like changing my site that much when I am already ranking high. But in this case, I saw the need to.

Wild Ride on SEOContest2008!

James kept me on my toes with only 3 days left, I know I can’t do anything about it. My friend from 55 Brownlow Ave. would sure be happy knowing that I am jittered. I have this book I need to photocopy. And I’ve heard that you have a great Xerox machine over there that can do 10,000 copies per minute. I’m losing hope, thanks for giving me some consolation knowing that you are the champ.

I won the SEO World Championship and won my SEO contest car, but for the UK Webmaster World contest, we still don’t know yet who really wins. This contest ends on April 1 and as much as I try to maintain my lead, I know Paul Sanches and Martin Svilenov, current number 2 and number 3 respectively are not stopping in trying to get the top spot.

But even if I won the SEO World Championship, my whole SEO strategy was completely different in these two contest.

SEO World Championship, keyword: GlobalWarming Awareness2007

My main SEO weapon here was relevant content. Well researched content that was all 100% unique. All a product of my own writing which I did not seem to have a hard time to write being a science major (my first profession was being a Chemist). The formula was simple:

1. Come up with good viral link baitable content.
2. Use as much forms of social media I can to promote the content further.
3. Gain link naturally from people that discovery the site.

One of the most successful post was: 5 Good Arguments Why GlobalWarming is NOT due to Man-made Carbon Dioxide. I made a point that what I say was well researched and did my best to show both sides of the story and try not to be one-sided. Try to make it controversial and make it inviting to comment on to get more user interaction. It got 159 Diggs and got some science bloggers and global warming political bloggers to react and comment on, talk about and link to. Some positively, some hated me. Love or hate, the fact that these existed, meant the blog post was effective in getting the attention of people and having people link to it. Having MyBlogLog and looking for Global Warming bloggers helped in getting more target audience and placing all RSS feed reader chicklet links made it more inviting to bookmark.

Although I have used several other techniques, I believe this was the main strength I had to win the contest. I got relevant blogs linking to me mainly because of the content even without soliciting links.

UK Webmaster World’s SEO Contest keyword: SEOContest2008

Applying the same technique I did with GlobalWarming Awareness2008 was not exactly applicable here. Given the keyword, SEOContest2008, I needed to talk about SEO and Contest and try to get links from SEO blogs. That would be hard since one of the most hardest links you can get from link baiting alone is from SEO sites unless you really really have something good to talk about. Which I have attempted to do with the W3C valid code not important in SEO post that still worked as if hit front page of Sphinn and several Diggs when the blog post came out. But it would still be hard to come up with topics like this on a regular basis. So I did a different technique where I invested my initial time in the design of the site. I will quote a friend from SEO Philippines, Abel Quitoriano said this: Design pa lang, link bait na! In English he meant: The design alone is already a link bait! This strategy is not an original one. I must admit this is a copied strategy from Jason Torres, another friend of mine from SEO Philippines after seeing his performance in another previous SEO contest. His design was so popular it was featured on many sites, even in blog post saying the best designed sites of 2006, so thanks to Jason for the idea.

This contest is not over yet and we still don’t know who is going to win. Good luck to all competitors!