Pinoy Blogosphere News

• A new Google Adsense rule has been rolled out a few days ago by Google stating that Adsense Ads are now not allowed to be placed under misleading titles. Read more about it here.
• A segment entitled “Beware of the Blog” on the Korina Today TV Show raised a number of interesting, and in my opinion, misguided views of the world of blogging. Some of the points that were discussed were:
  

  - Blogs are not a viable source of information unless the blogger behind them are “respectable” bloggers.
  - There are two types of bloggers, a legitimate and a illegitimate blogger. A guest defined the latter as a blogger who hides behind anonymity.
  - Read more about it on Noemi’s blog.

• Just after its relaunch, PinoyTopBlogs turned TopBlogs.com.ph is now under scrutiny by a number of bloggers. One issue was caused by the discovery that the ranking system can be easily cheated in-spite of claims that it is cheat-protected (Enthropia’s response to the cheating issue can be found here). Basapa, on the other hand, points out his reasons why he thinks that PinoyTopBlogs is not for everybody.

Blogging Tips 

• Feeling less motivated to blog? Rocky of BloggingMix shares some tips on how to stay motivated in Blogging.
• Jehzlau has a good and solid tip on how you could increase the pageviews on your blog. Increased pageviews means increased AdSense Earnings!
• Manuel Viloria shares the story of Mike and how he managed to increase his AdSense earnings from $0 to $33 a day in just 60 days!

Writing Jobs

(courtesy of Connie Luayon of Write Life Guide)

• Readers Digest Asia are looking for amusing and challenging personal experiences to be included in their issues. Accepted works pay $500 each. Read more here.
• The Medical Observer is looking for freelance writers who can write feature stories on both health and medical issues and cover medical conventions and symposiums. Get more details here.

Happy weekend and Happy blogging!