Miguel Cotto’s Kuto were stunned by the left and right combination released by the Pacman into the head and body of Cotto.

Manny Pacquiao scored the first knockdown on the 3rd round although Cotto did not fall into the canvas completely.  And then another knockdown score at the 4th round of the boxing bout.

Just like what Miguel Cotto said before their fight, he’s really different compared to Ricky Hatton and Oscar De la Hoya. Those two fighters, although both TKO’d by Pacquiao but they failed to survive up to the 12th round, while Miguel Cotto persevere the speed and strength of the jabs and punches of the Filipino Boxing Superstar up to the 12th round even if the referee stopped the fight in the middle of that round.

Miguel Cotto stepped in the ring with a pretty face and left the ring with the face as shown below:

Now, if you are not contended of watching the fight once, watch the video below on how Manny Pacquiao beat off Kuto, I mean, Cotto.

note: photo from www.lvrj.com

Advertisement: Send and Receive Money Safely and Easily without exposing your credit card.

Kindly visit the Teachers Board Exam Result page for the links to the list of new professional teachers by clicking here.

If you couldn’t find your name on the list, kindly check the sequence number. A broken sequence number means that there are names that I missed to type. However, if the sequence number is not broken then we have 2 options to consider: maybe you are included on the list of the top passers or you simply failed to pass.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 8,045 elementary teachers out of 43,086 examinees (18.67%), 26 Accelerated Teacher Education Program (A.T.E.P.) graduates out of 146 examinees (17.81%) and 10,792 secondary teachers out of 38,339 examinees (28.15%) successfully passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (L.E.T) given by the Board for Professional Teachers on October 4, 2009 in 23 testing centers all over the Philippines. The Board for Professional Teachers is composed of Dr. Brenda B. Corpuz, Officer-In-Charge; Dr. Reynaldo T. Peña and Dr. Faith M. Bachiller, Members.

The results of examination with respect to two thousand eight hundred sixteen (2,816) examinees were withheld as per Board Resolution Nos. 34 & 35 (A) dated October 30, 2009, No. 38 dated November 5, 2009 and Nos. 42 & 44 dated November 13, 2009, Series of 2009.

R.A. No. 7836 known as the “Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994” States: “Every registrant shall be required to take his professional oath before practicing as a professional teacher” (Sec. 18). Mass oath taking for the LET passers are organized by the Board.

Oath taking tickets are available at the Office of Professional Teachers, 3rd Floor, PRC Annex Building for NCR and Region IV passers starting November 18, 2009 (Wednesday) and at the PRC regional offices for the passers from the other regions.

REPORTS OF RATING will be distributed to successful examinees on the day of the oath taking ceremonies, except for N.C.R. and Region IV.

Registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration will be announced later. The requirements for the issuance of Certificate of Registration and Professional Identification Card (ID) are the following: 1) duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal; 2) latest Community Tax Certificate (Cedula); 3) 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 4) 2 pieces 2” x 2” picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 5) metered documentary stamp for the Oath Form; and 6) the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2009-2012. Successful examinees should PERSONALLY register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.

Schedule of Mass Oath Taking of New Professional Teachers

If you don’t know yet if you passed the October 2009 LET or not, just check your names on the list of the new teachers who passed the October 2009 LET. click here.

Advertisement: Send and Receive Money Safely and Easily without exposing your credit card.

Some consider this merely as “intriga” or “tsismis” but there are others who believe that this rumor is true considering some materials they used as proof.

Krista – Pacman Scandal Base 1: Video

CelebrityNation uploaded a video showing Manny Pacquiao driving a sports car along with a woman who was believed to be Krista Ranillo. The video was taken after Manny Pacquiao guested a TV show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live”.

Watch the video below (If you are reading this article at your email, just visit the live version of this article for you to be able to watch the video):

Krista Ranillo – Manny Pacquiao Scandal Base 2: Photos

The ABS-CBN News published the photos of Manny Pacquiao in Baguio with Krista Ranillo in a distant.

The above photo is said to be taken in the Camp John Hay Club House and the second photo is allegedly taken outside the Baguio Cathedral.

Jinkee Pacquiao Shed Tears During the Homily

During the thanksgiving mass for the victory of Manny Pacquiao against Miguel Cotto in a 12 round World Championship Boxing Bout, Jinkee, the wife of Manny Pacquiao was caugt by a media camera shedding tears during a homily of the priest about family and love.

With this, some said that Jinkee’s tears was caused by the recent scandal linked to his husband.

My Thoughts About The Scandal

Video and Photos  shown above, even Jinkee’s action caught in camera, couldn’t be used as proof to prove that Manny Pacman and Krista Ranillo are in a relationship other than being friends, especially that Krista denied the allegation, including another allegation that she’s pregnant. And then Manny Pacquiao consider this as a way of showing “crab mentality” those who started the talks.

Rian, the blogger behind “RianTalk” accused Marghil of “Macuha – Make Money Online Philippines” of fooling new bloggers. He wrote this:

If you will simply target localized keywords based on his suggestions, then he has the freedom to choose other international target keywords because statistically, he will have lesser competition thanks to your foolishness.

For him, Brother Macuha is just fooling new bloggers by teaching them SEO technique that will only give advantage to his own blog not to blogs of those who followed his advices.

He also wrote this:

I know hidden and deep inside these bloggers’ hearts, competition is the number one thing. And that reason is enough for you not to listen to expert bloggers, at least to some of them.

It seems that he’s telling his readers that Brother Macuha is just guiding new bloggers to a different route so that Brother Macuha can simply avoid such competitions on particular keywords.

My Thought

I agree that lots of experts are trying to make money online from the new bloggers who want to learn the techniques in getting huge traffic from different sources especially search engines, and on making money online from the traffic their blogs have. Some of these experts offer modules but only those who paid them are the ones who can access the materials. Other bloggers wrote ebook, printed books, and released presentations and sold these materials to those who are interested to learn.

However, I disagree on the thoughts written by Rian on his blog that Brother Macuha was just trying to fool his readers for him to avoid the competition on the international traffic from the SERP on particular searches. In fact, I am one of the bloggers who enjoyed the benefits in applying his tips into this blog.

Of course, I do have my own self-learned techniques in optimizing my blogs for particular keywords, but I did not hesitate to use the technique he shared through his blog.

For example… I was already targeting keywords like “sex scandal“, “sex video“, and other popular and related keywords before Brother Macuha suggested the “pinay scandal” keyword. Since he was calling for Pinoy Bloggers to participate his “pinay scandal” SEO experiment, I immediately participated and successfully gained traffic from it.

If not because of his tips and suggestions, I don’t think I could drive huge traffic into this blog from “pinay scandal” searches.

Link Baiting

However, if you’ll investigate a little about the accusation, it was simply made to get backlink from Brother Macuha’s blog. SEO experts called this technique “Link Baiting” and it’s also one of the techniques in getting natural links from other blogs.

However, Mr. Rian is not that good link-fisher by using his blogpost as bait because when he learned that lots of Pinoy Bloggers reacted against his post and defending Brother Macuha’s side, he immediately admitted that he was just link-fishing.

He already got the backlinks from Brother Macuha’s blog. If he tried to stand and defend his accusation against Brother Macuha, then I think, he will still be getting more backlinks from other bloggers, just like what I did on this post.

But psychologically, he’s not yet ready on this. The heat on the discussion melted his ego, and immediately surrendered by admitting that he’s just link-fishing.

Well, I admired him for what he did. He really knew how to apply the advices of other SEO experts on how to get backlinks by link-fishing or link-baiting.

Advertisement: Send and Receive Money Safely and Easily without exposing your credit card.

Today, I learned through the press release sent to my email by the Admob that Google is now acquiring the Admob technology. Below is part of the press release:

This morning we announced that AdMob has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google. I’m obviously excited, and not only for our customers, partners, and employees. I’m excited because I believe this will be an important moment for everyone involved in producing, consuming, or monetizing engaging products on mobile. The truth is that the mobile industry has had no shortage of creative energy, amazing products, and talented entrepreneurs. But until now, it has always felt like those of us involved in this space played second fiddle to our online brethren. I believe that time is over.

Once the deal closes, what will happen next?

Actually, I am worried that everything in Admob will be changed. I am worried that time will come that my Admob earning will drop.

But I am also hoping that this deal will bring me another chances to earn more money from the mobile traffic of this blog.

Are you an Admob mobile ad publisher? What do you think is the advantage with this deal?

Advertisement: Send and Receive Money Safely and Easily without exposing your credit card.

Hello Sel,

I am confused if PageRank is really important. In your previous post, you said that Page Rank is not that really important because there are pages with low Page Rank yet ranked at the top of the SERP of Google and then there are pages with high Page Rank yet ranked lower at the SERP of Google.

However, I sense in your recent post that you’re quite happy to learn that your blog got the PR2 again.

Can you please explain why is it that you found it important to have higher Page Rank?

Newbie Blogger

Selboy’s Answer

In my article, “Why Does My Blog’s Page Rank Drop to Zero?” I did mention that the owner of the blog that has been slapped by Google with the PR of zero should not be worried. It’s because there are blogs with low page rank that are ranked high at the SERP of Google, and then there are also blogs with high page rank that are ranked low at the SERP of Google.

However, I couldn’t deny the fact that the Page Rank value showed by the Google toolbar is actually based on the actual Page Rank points of every webpage as calculated by Google.

That’s why I wrote this:

A Page Rank of zero (0) may mean that your link-building campaign is a failure, but it doesn’t mean that you’ll lose all the higher positions at SERP in a specific search.

So, if your blog got the PR of zero, then it is true that your link building campaign is a failure.

Please review my article, “Why does my blog’s page rank drop to zero?“. I mentioned few reasons why it happens.

High Page Rank, Ranked High at Google SERP

Now, since the Page Rank value showed by the Google toolbar is based on the actual Page Rank points of every webpage as calculated by Google, then it is also true that webpages with higher Page Rank are most likely be ranked high at the Google SERP, just like what the Google support posted:

Webpages with a higher PageRank are more likely to appear at the top of Google search results. (source)

What has been mentioned is that “higher pagerank are more likely to blah blah blah…” Which means, the webpage with high page rank has the possibility to be ranked high up at the Google SERP than those webpages with low page rank. But not at all the times those webpages with high page rank are actually ranked high up the Google SERP.

To understand what I am trying to tell you, please consider the example below:

Webpage A

• PageRank: 0
• Optimized with keywords: NDS Games, NDS Emulator, NDS Emulator Download

Webpage B

• PageRank: 5
• Optimized with keywords: Make Money Online, Make Money at Home

Webpage C

• PageRank: 2
• Optimized with keyword: Home Based Job, Make Money at Home

Question #1: From that given example, which of the webpages will be ranked at the top of the Google SERP when searching for “Make Money Online”?

My Answer #1: “Webpage B” got the Page Rank of 5. So with this fact, we can say that there is a big possibility that it will be ranked high up the Google SERP compared to the “Webpage A” and “Webpage C”. “Webpage B” and “Webpage C” are related to each other but “Webpage B” is optimized for the keyword “Make Money Online” compared to the “Webpage C”. Now since we are searching Google with the keywords “Make Money Online”, then Website B will be listed at the top of the SERP, next is the “Webpage C” and the last is “Webpage A”.

Question #2: What about if we will google “NDS Games”, how the webpages are being ranked?

My Answer #2: “Webpage B” and “Webpage C” have higher page rank than the “Webpage A“. However, only the “Webpage A” is optimized with the keyword “NDS Games“. Therefore, Webpage A is most likely at the top of the SERP.

Question #3: Which of the 3 webpages is most likely ranked number 1 if we will google “Make Money at Home”?

My Answer #3: “Webpage B” and “Webpage C” are both optimized with the keywords “Make Money at Home”. However, Webpage B has the PR of 5 compared to “Webpage C” which is only PR2. Thus, “Webpage B” is most likely ranked number 1 at the Google SERP.

Conclussion

To make this post short…

1. A webpage with higher Page Rank has the advantage over a webpage with low Page Rank especially when in a competition over a particular keywords or when they are both optimized on the same keywords.
2. Your blog’s ranking at the Google SERP is affected by the Page Rank and how your blog is being optimized.

Advertisement: Send and Receive Money Safely and Easily without exposing your credit card.

However, only this Halloween, when I checked this blog, I noticed a little green thing on the PR bar of the Google Toolbar. Finally, the homepage of this blog has been given a PR2 by Google again.

How about your own blogs?

Advertisement: Send and Receive Money Safely and Easily without exposing your credit card.

Yes! COMELEC has set up an online verification whether your COMELEC registration is still active or not… whether you can still vote (especially on the 2010 election) or not.

But it only works to those who are registered before June 17, 2009  because the data used by the COMELEC Online verification tool is based on the submissions of the COMELEC field election offices as of June 17, 2009.

This is what we can read as the DISCLAIMER of this COMELEC Online Verification facility or tool:

Data is based on the submissions of our field election offices as of June 17 2009. If you think your registration record should be active, and this SEARCH facility gives you a negative result, please verify with the local COMELEC office where you are registered.

Pending submission of data from certain cities/municipalities, data from the 2007 Barangay Elections are still being used for this Search facility.

How to verify online your COMELEC Registration?

Here’s how:

1. Log in to Precinct Finder tool by clicking here or by manually typing this address: http://www.comelec.gov.ph/findprecinct/findprecinct.aspx into your browser.
2. Then fill in the blank field as shown on the image below:
   
   On the “First Name” field, type your first name”… on the “Middle Name” field, type your middle name… and on the “Last Name” field, type your last name. Then choose the month, day and year of your birthday.
3. Make sure that the entries you filled on the form are correct. Then click the “FIND NOW”.
4. After that, the result will be posted just like what you’ve seen on the image below. This image is the screenshot of the result when I tried to verify my own COMELEC Registration
   
   Now, if you’re COMELEC registration status is already inactive, the “Precinct Finder” tool will tell you this message: “Your registration details cannot be found in the COMELEC database. Please make sure that you have entered the correct details.” This is the message that I received when I tried to search my wife’s registration information. My wife is actually registered before but she failed to participate the voting on previous elections. She already had registered again but not before June 17, 2009, just this month.

If you found out that your COMELEC Registration is already inactive (which means you can’t vote for the 2010 election), then just visit the COMELEC offices near you. You still have time to re-register. The COMELEC Registration is open up to October 31, 2009 (even during Saturdays and Sundays).

- Thanks to Macuha.

Advertisement: Send and Receive Money Safely and Easily without exposing your credit card.

It’s actually a question that new bloggers are asking especially that there are established bloggers who advised new bloggers to write a long post. There are others who said blogposts should be short because the internet users tend to read short internet articles.

These bloggers who gave contradicting advices are all successful in blogging and making money online through their blogs.

There are also other bloggers who claimed that the length of post is not really important. What is important is the frequency of posting articles into the blog.

So, if you’re new to blogging and you’ve read both these contradicting advices, you will have the tendency to be confused. And this confusion sometimes will lead you to feel bored and disinterested in blogging.

Observations on Successful Blogs

There are already thousands of blogs that exist today that can be considered successful. Few of these blogs are: Steve Pavlina’s blog, Problogger, and Yugatech.

Below is my observation regarding the length of articles published and the frequency of posting those articles into each of the blogs.

1. Steve Pavlina’s Blog

The blog of Mr. Steve Pavlina at http://stevepavlina.com/blog/ is all about personal development. Articles published on that blog are all long which ranges from 2,000 words to 7,000 words (my estimate). Longer articles are posted 3 to 5 days after the previous article was posted, and shorter articles are posted 1 to 2 days after the previous article was posted.

2. ProBlogger

ProBlogger blog of Darren Rowse at http://www.problogger.net/ is a blog that contains helpful tips on how to blog, and how to make money from blogs.

Articles published on this blog are long but not as longer as those articles posted by Mr. Steve Pavlina. Most of the times, an article is published once a day. But there are also times that 2 to 3 articles are published in just a day.

But not all the articles published are written by Darren Rowse himself. There are guest bloggers who write and publish articles in behalf of Mr. Darren Rowse.

3. YugaTech – Philippine Technology Blog

Yugatech blog is owned and managed by Mr. Abe Olandres. He’s considered as the father of the Philippine Blogging. He’s not the first Filipino blogger but he is the first to promote blogging to his fellow Filipinos.

The Yugatech blog can be accessed at http://yugatech.com/blog/. Articles published on it are short that ranges from 200 words to 500 words.

Yugatech has no guest blogger. In other words, all the posts posted on it are believed to be his own personal writing. He is posting 1 to 2 articles everyday.

Conclusion

In other words, whether you are posting shorter or longer articles that are posted on your preferred frequency, you’ll still be successful in blogging, just like these 3 blogs we reviewed above.

Length of Posts or Frequency of Posting?

Length of posts and the frequency of posting the posts are both important to be considered in blogging. But on how long should your posts be and how often you will publish posts into your blog, all depends on the following:

1. Type of your blog

If you are maintaining a news blog similar to the following Pinoy Blogs:

1. Daily Contributor – “Your Daily Contributor on News, Technology, Sports and Entertainment“
2. Showbiz Intriga, Get it from Boy – “Your total Philippine Showbiz Authority! Philippine and Hollywood celebrities scoop and breaking news.“
3. Starmometer – “Your Total Entertainment Blog! The hottest stars and the latest buzz in the entertainment industry, it’s all here! Now on its 3rd year.“

… You are obliged to post at least 1 (short or long) blogpost daily because your frequent readers, especially your subscribers will be looking for fresh news articles from your blog everyday.

But 1 post a day is actually not enough, considering that most of the news blog is multi-topic blog, from Technology, Sports, Entertainment, to Politics and other news topics.

The Yugatech blog that we reviewed above can be considered a news blog which is focused on technology, gadgets and mobile phones.

However, if you’re maintaining a Tips and Tricks blog just like the blog of Mr. Steve Pavlina and Mr. Darren Rowse (both reviewed above), then there’s a tendency that your articles will be longer than those posted in the news blog, because there are things that you need to explain and demonstrate clearly.

But writing longer articles can be time consuming. So, it is also expected that you can’t post articles in daily basis just like what Mr. Steve Pavlina did at his blog.

In Mr. Darren Rowse case, he managed to post article everyday even if those articles are long because he got guest bloggers on his side. In times he couldn’t write article, his guest bloggers are doing it for him.

You can check the articles of the Filipino Blogs listed below that can be considered as tips and tricks blog. Then examine the length of the articles and the frequency of posting them:

1. Millionare Acts – “The Journey to Financial Freedom.“
2. Father Blogger dot Com – “Useful tips on parenting, marriage and blogging.“

2. Design and Structure of your Blog

If you’ll ask John Chow, why the posts published at his blog are longer than 200 words up to 1,000 words or longer, his answer is this:

The reason I do the 200 words minimum is so I have enough words to wrap my Google box ad. If I make a post that has less than 200 words, like a video post, then I will leave out the Google ad.

In other words, you need to consider your blog’s design in deciding how long should your post be. If you think, short posts can ruin your blog’s design and structure then you need to make your posts longer or just enough to keep the design of your blog.

3. The Number of Visitors and Subscribers

Sometimes, it is wastful to write articles everyday if you only have few visitors and subscribers. It’s like producing more cola drink even if your target consumer is only few. So, more products will just be wasted because only few of them will be consumed.

However, we should not forget also that visitors of our blog is not just human. Search engine bots frequently visit your blog too.

So, if your blog is new and has only few visitors, then why not publish 1 article everyday. it will be advantageous to you if you publish at least 1 article everyday because search engines love fresh daily content. And through the search engines, you can gain more visitors and subscribers for your blog.

4. The number of your blogs

If you have lots of blogs to maintain, then it is also impossible to post content in daily basis, especially if you don’t have guest or paid bloggers who could write blogposts in your behalf.

But which is more Important: Length of Posts or Frequency of Posting?

Just like what I said, both the length of posts and the frequency of posting the posts are important. But the Frequency of Posting the posts is more important.

You can post shorter articles or longer articles into your blog as long they contain useful information. It will be fine for your readers or visitors including bots to read shorter or longer articles.

But failing to post articles based on your established frequency of posting articles into your blog will only frustrate your loyal readers, even the search engine bots.

And while coping the need to publish post in your establish frequency, don’t ever forget to publish quality articles… just like what everyone knows, “Quality is better than Quantity.”

Advertisement: Send and Receive Money Safely and Easily without exposing your credit card.