Here’s a recap of the Pinoy Blogosphere for this week! Enjoy!

• If you haven’t heard yet, Google has already updated their Page Rank system. Check out your blog pagerank now through different page rank checkers like prchecker.info.
• SELaplana shares seven characteristics of successful bloggers that you need to know. This post makes me wonder: How can a blog be considered succesful? Seems like I have a new post for next week!
• Didn’t get enough of the Pinoy Blog of the Month? Empress Maruja has her own contest over her blog called the Pinoy Blog Superstar Contest! Check out the nominees and cast your votes!
• The Philosophical Bastard has completely shifted his blog’s focus to making money online and made a new blog for his personal thoughts. I wonder how his adventure into the “make money online world” would turn out.
• Do you have a Favicon for your blog? McBilly helps you in installing a favicon and shares how it could increase loyal readers.
• Looking for keywords that can increase your blogs traffic through search engine traffic? Marghil shares his techniques on looking for those traffic-baiting keywords.
• Pinoy bloggers over at the lower part of the Philippine hemishphere recently held the first ever Mindanao Bloggers Summit! Based on the feedback of the attendees, I bet the had a really good time. If only I could find a way to get to Mindanao for free, then maybe I could be able to attend the next summit!

That’s about it! Happy Blogging!