August 2009

Have you read or heard of these words: Utube, Yotube, Yutube, Yu tube, Youtude videos? those words at first glance looks like a derivative of the word “Youtube”. If that is what you think, then maybe you are right because when you type these words on Google search, the first website on the search list is Youtube. I don’t want to make my own judgment that those words are misspellings because those words originate in different countries. Who knows, maybe those are correct spellings depending  on the country where the search terms originate. Also, these keywords can be a good opportunity for keyword hijacking if you want your site to have many visitors because those keywords have a lot of traffic.

But just beware that keyword hijacking is not a good practice if your intention is just to have all kinds of traffic under the sun but not suited to your site’s theme or niche. It might do you more harm than good. For example, if you have a website about the latest gadgets and most the visitors that came to your site were looking for the latest celebrity gossips, then I think those visitors will be turned off and never visit your site again. Also, you are lucky if the visitor will read even the first paragraph of your post and not leave is a split second.

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Again PTTC will conduct a free seminar this coming August 22, 2009. Last month, the seminars were conducted two days but this month it was only one day seminar. Maybe because August 21 was holiday ( Ninoy Aquino’s death anniversary) so only saturday August 22 was available for the seminar. Too bad I didn’t have a chance to attend the seminar conducted last month because I was too busy (e.g. busy finding money for transportation and lunch  )  and there was a typhoon. So to those who have a chance to attend despite of the typhoon, congrats! Without much ado below are the courses offered on that day (Whole Day Seminars):

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When I saw the movie Love Guru, the idea came up to me the similarity between a blogger and a guru. Why The Love Guru? if you have a chance to watch it, it’s a comedy movie and the actor who portrayed role of Guru Pitka was Mike Myers. There are many funny scenes although most of it are kinda corny. One of those scenes is when Guru Pitka was conducting a sort of seminar. He differentiate the word “NOWHERE” to “NOW” “HERE” and the attendees were amazed on that moment. Kinda funny because I never thought there was a big difference between the two words. Then he explains and interpret an abbreviation of the word BIBLE, which is Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth. Also there is a book I saw that looks like authored by him with the title “Does It Hurt When You Do That? Don’t Do That”. Also, on that movie Guru Pitka was trying to fix a broken marriage but he himself haven’t experienced marriage (or maybe sex?) because he was wearing a chastity belt.

Then how is Guru Pitka similar to a blogger? most of the blogger which hoards a lot of visitors and subscribers are those guru type that writes “how to’s” or the “ten things a blogger should avoid” posts. But come to think of it, why should I believe a write up from a blogger even if he or she is famous? Do I have a mental telephathy that I will know that the blogger is telling the truth? or do I have a time machine that I will know the result when I follow his instructions and I’ll be as successful as he claims to be? So why sometimes when we read a post we immediately gave our trust and assume that we will become successful? Simple. Because those bloggers writes good, if not, excellent thought provoking posts. It’s as simple as that. We don’t have an idea if it’s true or effective, doesn’t it?

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