Blogging News

• Google listens to the pleas of their publishers and retracts their referral system.
• Wordpress skips the release of version 2.4 and heads on over to version 2.5 to be released on March of this year.
• Bloggers Kapihan held the 3rd-installment of Bloggers Kapihan as a tribute to People Power 2.

Pinoy Blogging Tips

• Eugene gives out a great tip to make your blogging life easier, he says that bloggers should organize feed subscriptions by priority, not by topic.
• Noemi gives her readers a crash course about the concepts of blogging with her post, “What is a Blog?“. The videos along with the post greatly helps with the learning.

• Another blog tip for those new to blogging, what makes a blog make money by Blogging Mix.
• Macuha gives out some points on why Google Adsense is NOT for everybody, Manuel Viloria says otherwise. I’d have to agree with the latter.
• Manila Freelancer shares that you can actually make your blog popular by hosting a blog contest. This is true. My Pinoy Blog of the Month contest last October gave my traffic a huge boost.
• YuwonCedric shares how you could exclude a certain category on your feeds. It’s a simple hack to hide the posts that you don’t want to show your feed subscribers.

Interesting Posts

• We all know that Google hates Paid links. PinoyMoneyTalk says that it isn’t just paid links that it hates but Text-Link-Ads in particular. Google hates Text-Link-Ads.
• According to a poll, 36% of bloggers say that most of their traffic comes from search engines. Sly shares his thoughts on the matter.
• AJ Matela, Kring Elenzano, Poyt Salazar, Joe Datinguinoo, and Coy Caballes cooks up a spoof of the Trinoma Video shown to the attendees of the Trinoma Blogger Food Tour.
• Fellow Pinoy blogger, evilwoobie, got into a little bump with JohnCow with her post The Cow Doesn’t Like Getting Passed.

Happy blogging everyone!

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