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If there’s one campaign I can do SEO, I would love to do online casino. I mean, online gambling is on the top 3 most competitive online business beside porn and pills. These kind of SEO work are more focused. Look sideways for a second and your lead in the race are suddenly taken by SERPs position hungry SEOs.

Anyway, I’m reviewing this site that ranks popular online casinos. Online Casino Bluebook ranks online casinos by bonus size, payout percentage, customer service, game features, number of games, software graphics and ease of use. The next time you play online blackjack, you know where to go.

Their list are reviewed by experienced online gamblers. As a result, you will most likely find the perfect online casino. I haven’t tried using their list yet but I will as soon as I find time. I was itching to play online poker. I always have this feeling that I can bluff and judging from what I see in World Poker Tournament in TV, I think I can dig the game. My problem is that nobody around me knows how to play poker so my best bet is playing it online. I think I’m going to check the list now.

If you think that Adsense has become too restrictive for your online marketing campaign, chances are you’re going to love the new text advertising system that’s in the works by Super Affiliate Marketing Blog. Well, for starters, it allows a lot of what Google Adsense has cracked down over the past few months like arbitration. What’s more interesting is that they’ll allow you to format however you want the ads to look like as long as they can send traffic to the advertiser. I’m not sure whether it’s purely PPC but they claim to have the anti-fraud system in place.

Not convinced? Read the long list of features/benefits:

1. Arbitrage traffic (buy low and sell high!) is ALLOWED.
2. Get paid via PayPal, e-gold or ACH/Wire.
3. BH SEO traffic accepted! I know people treat you guys like dirt and give you a bad rep, but I also know there is nothing wrong with your traffic, so screw the other guys and stop having to explain yourself to everyone else (unlike in the US, everything banned there is legal in the UK/EU — more advertisers paying a hell of a lot more per click!).
4. Get paid per click. We only care about clean and real traffic, and you get paid in Euros, GBP or USD.
5. 100% customizable. Break out of the barrier of boxed in or bordered ads. Customizing no longer means just limited to changing the colors. You can change the shape of the text ads, put approved images next to them for higher CTR’s, put them inside videos, etc..
6. Webmasters and site owners from around the world are allowed to participate, but we ONLY want traffic from the UK, and Western European countries right now.
7. Bid price tools that tell you EXACTLY how much you get paid. So if the cpc says “$2.22″ per click, that’s what you get, $2.22, no more trying to factor in your percentages and our cut and blah blah.
8. Stats you can read and learn from. Hate using other add-on services like heatmaps or ROI converters, well now, you’re in luck, because those tools all come standard in our reporting module. Including automated tips on how to change around your content and templates so that you can increase your CTR’s.
9. Use XML feeds to display results, either in 1 or 2 click format, it’s your choice! Display search results for the advertisers inside text ads, instead of making people search first and then click, they can click straight away and you get credited right away.
10. Domainer traffic welcomed. Stop getting only $0.08 a click from all of the parking page services, come over to a place where you’re appreciated and respected.

That’s only 10 but they are good enough reason to try. However, only UK and EU are definite to be serviced when the system goes live.

SEO Philippines founder, Marc Macalua, announced the launching of his latest SEO contest, the Bayanihan SEO contest. Bayanihan in Filipino roughly means “cooperation”. And true to its meaning, the contest is all about cooperation. Contestants will be competing in teams which they themselves form. So watch out for teams of superstars. The prizes are not too shabby at Php 600,000 (roughly $13,300).

Marc and the rest of the contest organizers are still accepting sponsors. Being one of the sponsors mean you get tons of linkbacks from competing sites. And judging from the previous SEO contest by Marc, the number of competing sites linking to yours is not to be underestimated.

I run a couple of niche blogs. They’re MFA‘s. Most of the time I use articles from article directories like EzineArticles or Go Articles as content fillers when I hit a blank wall for topics. The contents from these article directories (with link backs, of course) has yielded positive results so far. I was thinking it’s better to have something fresh to publish than nothing at all.

But, up to this day, the duplicate content penalty that search engines warns about is still not clear to me. Blaming myself partly for not reading popular webmaster’s forum like Digital Point or WebmasterWorld as I’m not a big fan of forums.

So, is it just a myth or there are really penalties for having duplicate content? From my previous project maintaining pretty popular co-op blogging site (Alexa 4K), my boss was very worried his bloggers was copying content from everywhere I had to code a parser to check for duplicate contents.

If duplicate content are being punished, are popular article directories spared from duplicate content penalties? I tried searching for a couple niche topics and I found the top directories having the same content from the same author dominating the SERPs.

Two years ago, I was going to give up on making money online. I was new with blogging then and adsense was my only source of revenue online. Luckily, for me, a fellow blogger who’s into search engine marketing affirmed that money can be made online. That’s when I started looking for ways to monetize my personal blog.

I’ve tried every possible ways to earn. Affiliate marketing, CPM banners and a whole lot of other schemes that was unsuccessful at that time. Until I stumbled upon Linkworth. Linkworth is a text link advertising marketplace where people buy and sell links. At that time, Linkworth was relatively new. There were fewer advertisers but I sold my first text link within a month after joining. I’ve added a couple more after that and I never looked back.

I’ve joined other text link advertising sites but my Linkworth links are by far the biggest earner.

Who wouldn’t want to be a super affiliate? These people earn so much money on their own time. But beware, so many newcomers to affiliate marketing are getting scammed by the so called gurus. So where can you find which affiliate technique/strategy to follow? I’ve been reading the Super Affiliate Marketing blog lately and it’s the only affiliate marketing I’ve read so far that makes sense.

Are you planning to buy the guru ebooks? Before you do that, check out the Super Affiliate Marketing blog first because he might already have the links to free downloads of some popular guru ebooks. For free.

With their relentless growth in popularity, blogs are the next big thing for search. I find more useful and relevant information in blogs than article sites. So the battle now is who’s going to dominate in blog indexers like Google Blogsearch?

Problogger.net has an article on how Google Blogsearch rank blogs. Things to remember: Feed subscription count, social media tagging and blogrolls.

I would love to explain each one but it’s better if you read it directly from the source.

I don’t know if it’s my host or the script itself is the problem but the Pagerank updater for PHPLD is broken. None of the sites submitted has a pagerank. Although, it’s not necessary, it’s way cooler to see which sites listed have good ranks.

If time permits, I might fix the issue myself or just write a whole new script for it. In my previous project, I integrated a script that fetches toolbar pagerank. And by the looks of it, they were based on the same public domain script I found in a forum.

OT: My directory project is slowly getting new listings daily. It may take a little more time before monetization of the directory is considered. First on the list: get a decent pagerank. To be able to do that, get some reciprocal links or promote the directory in other directory. Another stumbling block for monetization (not only for the directory but for other sites) is that I’m in a country that can’t receive paypal. Yeah, it sucks.

Ask anybody who calls themselves SEO whether reciprocal linking is good or bad and you’ll get almost instantaneously a “it’s bad” response. Yes, reciprocal linking is considered bad. I’m not talking one or two reciprocal links. It’s somewhere around tens to hundreds of links.

Try getting 100 reciprocal links and search engines will flag you as link farming. But what about those big network blogs. Say, B5 Media or Gawker Media. Visit one of their member blog and take a look at their sidebar. Count how many links to their other member sites/blog are there. Is that link farming?

They’re all interlinking with each other. They’re reciprocal links. Now wonder, it’s easy for them to get to PR 7. But should they be penalized? Of course. Are they? I don’t know. Now, if they can get away with it with their uber popular blogs, maybe we can too. Hmmm. I would like to experiment on this one.

I have a couple of sites listed in DMOZ. I was ecstatic when I learned one of my site was approved for listing in DMOZ. Two other sites follow, thereafter. Even my personal site is listed in DMOZ even though I didn’t remember submitting it for listing in the popular engine.

Does DMOZ still has that X-factor that made it hugely popular and most sought-after web directory? Google has recently took away Pagerank from their homepage. I’m not sure if it’s the same story with their inside pages. Not that pagerank is all that important. Google could still be giving them special treatment sans the pagerank but it’s the pagerank that sells them most, followed by exclusivity.