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One of the best ways to improve your website’s ranking in search engines is by getting backlinks from other websites.

In 2006, some paid links market websites like Text Link Ads (TLA) started to grow. Many webmasters/bloggers received easy money by selling paid links on their blog. Me too.

Then, Google started penalizing those websites which buy/sell paid links. I quit selling paid links that time.

However, there are still many websites are buying/selling paid links. Reason because, for advertisers, it is a fast way to improve search engine rank for their selected keywords. For publishers, it is a easy money that does not require you to do anything but only putting a few links on your website.

People ask Google again and again whether the paid link consider as SPAM or not. Google has reconfirmed by replying using their Google Webmaster Twitter account that they are considering links via sites like Text-Link-Ads as SPAM.

“Since we hear this question again and again: Yes we de consider buying links via http://tinyurl.com/39epw3 and similar services as spam.”

The tinyurl URL links to Text Link Ads homepage.

[via Thats SEO]

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You have a new website and you want it to be popular as soon as possible. So, your website need to be found by people. How? Your website needs to be indexed by search engines, especially Google.

Michael Jensen shared his experience to get a new website indexed by Google in 1 Day, without spending any cent on AdWords. Here are the steps:

1. Create 5 pages of content.
2. Use a simple template with site-wide links. Linked from a relevant site that you owned.
3. Tagged the new site on social bookmarking sites.
4. Commented in forum, put the URL in a specific niche web directory, and submit to Digg.
5. Install Google Analytics
6. Create and submit sitemap to Google Webmaster Central. Ping Google, and put the sitemap URL in “robots.txt”.

Michael checked his new site exactly 24 hours later and it has been indexed!

Tips: For WordPress users, you can use the Google XML Sitemap plugin for the jobs in Step #6

“SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible”

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Here is the good news for search engine optimizer or anyone who wants to get high PageRank incoming links: The New Straits Times Online is accepting text ads order for RM150 (~USD$46.25) a week. The accepted payment method is Maybank fund transfer.

Image: paid text links on The New Straits Time Online

You text ads can have up to 5 words and link to your website. It is a direct text link. *grin* Furthermore, the text ads are shown at almost EVERY pages of the website. That is a great exposure!

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I received an interesting email from a blog visitor. I believe he came from search engine by searching for some AirAsia related keywords. The following is the email message with important information masked.

can you reconfirm our return journey rep to kul on ***
by AK***. BOOKING NO ***.

CAN YOU PL. RING *** OR MY MOBILE OUT SIDE UK*** TO NIGHT YOUR OFFICE AT SIEM REAP NO REPLY. THANK FOR THE HELP.

I didn’t ignore the message but I can’t help him, I ask him to visit AirAsia website for support. I hope he enjoy the journey!

Tip: Do some keyword researches for the keyword phrase used on your post title. It works!

airasia, airline

Over the past week, many webmasters and bloggers got hit by Google by decrease their websites’ PageRank. Many top blogs got slapped as well, such as Engadget.com, tuaw.com, Problogger.net, and CopyBlogger.com (the later two got their PageRank back).

Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team) confirmed that the PageRank update was a penalization against links selling that pass PageRank.

Malaysian blogs are not spared

A few of Malaysia top blogs got their PageRank decreased as well, such as 5xmom(PR5 to PR3), Sabahan(PR5 to PR3), and HongKiat(PR4 to PR2). [list stolen from BytesWired]

Remember, the two PR7 blogs in Malaysia? Zeo still maintains PR7 but his donation page dropped from PR6 to PR5. Ades, on the other hand, is not as lucky. His site lost the precious PR7 and become PR5.

Oh, my LiewCF Tech Blog also lost PR6. It dropped to PR4 from PR5, then climbed up to PR6, now PR5 again.
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