Dumb Blogger’s blog

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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While doing some blog hopping at the web. I came to a post regarding a site that will give my site a review whenever I reviewed him. And as part of my advertising Objective and increasing my visitor this month I am doing review to Dumb Blogger’s Blog

What is Dumb Blogger’s blog all about

The Dumb Blogger’s blog is a blog that will help you make money online. He will also help you gain traffic to your blog. Currently, he sponsored a online program that will help you earn $100 by writing a review.

His about page tells what kind of blogs you will see at this site.

The blog focuses on Technology, Products and Entertainment in general. You’ll find tips on making money, blogging, SEO, Adsense optimization, Product Reviews, product promotions and sales (DVD, Gadgets, Books, Software, Computers…).

What could I say about his Blog

I think he is good in the niche that he is blogging. He knows what he is saying. In fact he is the one who made his own wordpress theme.

Conclusion

If you wanna know more on Technology blogging, and updates in the blogosphere I suggest you to visit his site from time to time for more updates in Philippine Blogging and Making Money online.

My New Windows Live Writer

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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Thanks to Amit for posting about the updated Writer . There are lot of changes from the previous WLW. Below are just some of the highlights.

New Authoring Capabilities

Inline spell checking
Table editing
Ability to add categories
Page authoring for WordPress and TypePad
Support for excerpts and extended entries
Improved hyperlinking and image insertion
Paste Special ( Ctrl+Shift+V )

The other add-ons that is included which was not mentioned in the above list is the capabilities to provide the label for the Blogger user.

Thanks to the group of Programmer of this writer who makes my blogging life easier. I May say that the updated version of WLW is great. First of all the looks is cool with light blue color. There are more options. The best changes I like most is the capability to make label for blogspot since most of my blog is hosted there. And the other one is the Paste Special which let me post the same format as the source. Which is really suitable with my blogging requirements.

Amit tips also helps me a lot to understand how this new WLW works. Thanks to him.

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Dedicated Server do I need this?

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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This is an sponsored review

This site is now hosted through Blogger.com with free domain by google. Lots of Problogger in the Industry tells that if you use a free blog the chance of gaining much more income is very less compared to those which have their own domain and host.

There are lots of factors need to consider in having your own Domain and Server. One thing is the Budget. Ofcourse if you are using a free hosting that will only mean that you will not pay anything as long as you are using the name ( i.e XXXX.blogspot.com, XXXX.wordpress.com ). If you are having a low budget by you want to get away those free blogs you can use and apply for a shared server. But if you have a good budget and want full control for your site you will then go to a Dedicated Servers.

Why do you need to have a dedicated server?

If you want Total control allowing you to install, configure, and manage your web applications the way you want and without interference. If you need flexibility and control of your hosting environment, a Dedicated Servers is an excellent choice for you.

And since this is an sponsored review by ServePath I migh as well do some comment / reviews for their site.

My Review for ServePath

If you want to know more about Dedicated Server you might visit their home Page. The Site is well design and full of information that you are looking. With a 6 years experience in the industry and still running the site seem to be dependable. You will never be lost on site. The site will also gives you an impression on what service they are giving.

Their service amount ranges from US$ 99 to US$ 599 + setup which depend the suitability of your requirements.

So i think this is it. Although I still have to save some more money to be able to get a Shared server or a dedicated server in the future. But I have to start saving now..

This is an sponsored review

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Could Viral ViralTags increase our PR and Ranking

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

Ok Since this is an SEO month for me and I am increasing my ranking and gathering some new found friends I have received a request from Jimmy to try his Viral Tags, And so I am now riding in this viral tag. You could see different Experiment I am doing for this pas few days in here. So just follow the below Instruction and let us all benefit from this.

==== Copy and Paste below this line ===

Instructions:

1.) Copy and paste the matrix of “ViralTags” below.

2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “Viral Tags” in the matrix with your anchor text of choice with your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.

3.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their “Viral Tags”, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Tag’s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your “Viral Tags” below.

4.) Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.

Host Tag: Technology At Hand

Important: Once I get a ping back from you, I will add your anchor text and the associated link you designate as “Host Tag” here, replacing one of the “ViralTags” from the matrix above. As more and more bloggers copy and paste this matrix, the more backlinks you will have with your anchor text. If everybody who copy and paste from your blog does the same, pretty soon this will spread and go viral. So, the sooner you participate, the more links with anchor text you will receive.

=== Copy and Paste from Above this line ===

So what are you waiting for.. Copy and Link.. There are still lots of tags in here..

Viral Link, Let me try this

Posted on June 6, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

I have seen this post from bobmeetsworld.com as the saying goes thereis no harm in trying. This month is what I called link building and increasing different friends on the net. I have also blogged about the do follow and seems it works great since the comments increase and my technorati rank increases also. From 94,444 to 81,068 in two days. Nice changes..so let us see what will this viral link do on my site..

———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions below this line———

Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog or website and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same! You also may want to change or edit the first few paragraphs, and the last paragraph to suit your blogging style.

Viralink

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When I receive a ping back once you have added the Viralink to your site I will add your link to this grid, and each person who copies the grid from this blog will also link to your site!

Rules
No Porn Sites
One link per person only! (do not hog the viralink!)
DO NOT change or tamper with other individual url’s
Enjoy!

Here are how the numbers add up, I will use the term saturation to describe the spread of the Viralink with Zero being your blog 1 being 1 link down, 2 being 2 links down and so on.

Saturation – Backlinks

0 – 0
1 – 3
2 – 12
3 – 39
4 – 93
5 – 336
6 – 1065
7 – 3252
8 – 9813
9 – 29,496
10 – 88,545

The above numbers rely on 3 people copying and pasting the Viralink onto their blog and that being replicated 3 times continuously 10 times. The numbers are quite staggering, there are 119 spaces left on the Viralink from this page and I expect that there will be allot of clones which begin to pop up. The best strategy with this is to start early and tell all of your blog and online friends!

You may be wondering what happens if you are at the end of the chain when the Viralink is full ? What would be the benefit to me? Well there is no reason why you can’t add another line of dots to the bottom and keep the process going. You also can start another form, but please retain a link to this site.

———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions above this line—

Go viral

Janette Toral Writing Project Participants

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

I have been following the writing project that janette did on her blog. Well It is Amazing that she has received lots of participants since her start last 3 weeks. And I think Janette have lots of work to do.. Because she is really checking all the links that the participants made. Most of the time she will quote”

” Your entry was not created from August 2006 “

Well I think it is really hard to do that. But of course she need to know that her US $1,000.00 will only go to the right blogger in the blogosphere. As a show of support to Janettes Writing Project and having some Link love to those who participated and to meet new bloggers in the net. I am listing those blogger who participated linking to their Top 10 Emerging bloggers.

Week 1 ( 21 entries ) C5, Rexted, Aileen Apolo, Radueriel, Leyteño, Em Dy, Stephanie Caragos, Zubli Zainordin, Ryan Shamus, Ja Kel Daily, Hoop, Chris, Damsel_SEO, Andoy, ChrisH, Manuel Viloria, Blogie, BetShopBoy, Jonathan Phillips, Sorren Galiza, and AbbyLim.

Week 2 ( 23 entries ) thegrapebunch, lateralus, this eclectic life, Dennis Rito, ww-success, Shari, pusa, David Ledoux, Happy Lizzette, Fjordan Allego, the philosophical bastard, Noemi, Agent Grey, Cliff, Johnny, Ross, Blogbastic, Peachy, Joan Pinon, Iva, fruityoaty, ApplesH, and Jake the Miserable.

Week 3 ( 22 entries ) Lei, LJ, Rhey, Alohapenny, Diogenes, Honey, Baklang AJ, Free Willy, Trex, Passing Through, Little Khalifah, Samut Sari, Zen, Apu, Dan F., Leovy, Abet, Judith G. Santos, Claudia, Archeia, Gibo, and Arbet.

I must admit I have not gone to all of them yet. but I ll find some time in the following days.. The Writing Project will end on Last week of July..

Mathematically Speaking I have 15.15% Percent chance of winning the Writing Ptoject and 100% chance of having new found friends, readers, Link Love and etc…Love it..

Final review of posts on July 29 to 31

So what are you doing for, Why don’t you vist those links and for your to know what i am talking here.

Update : Janettes Writing Project Updates

week 1, week 2, week 3 and week 4

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Site with "Do follow" Tag in Comments

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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I am doing some experiment if this below links that has a do follow on their comments will push up my Technorati ranks or PR. “Do follow” means that when you comment on their blogs, Google spider will go to your blog also.. Sounds great huh.. I have also made this blog a do follow blog

From my search on Google.

Additional List

Technology at Hand ( oopppsss it’s my blog’s name )

List that I found out from randaclay Site

A link back from this site will be highly appreciated. But if you don’t have time. ( Find some time !!!) >>> oopppss, it’s a joke. Anyway this is an experiments let’s see what will happen..Here is my present Technorati Ranking ..

Authority: 54

Rank: 94,444

Let’s see what will happen. I advise you to put some comments on the above mentioned blog for you to have a folow from a google spider.

Myblolog Community

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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After reading post at fingertalks it gives me an idea how to increase my bloglog community and perhaps get a backlink from those links that I will make in here.( I hope so ) Here is the deal just be a member of my community and I will make a post perhaps every week to report my new members who will join my community. You may leave a comments in here so that I will know what particular blogs that you author you want me to link here. I have made the 10 links of my community members.

Hope this works..

Site Search Tags: Mybloglog, SEO, Community

Adsense and SEO Tips

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

Adsense Tips

Don’t forget to guide the Google spider to your site.
Content is still the king of Adsense since your Adsense advertiser will based on the keywords that is available at your site.
Use the keywords that is likely to be searchable in your blog : ( You may check this keywords tool )
Blog Niche ( Blogs with particular topics an example is Philippine Election 2007 ( niche is Philippine Election )and others.
Mixed the color of your Adsense into the color of your blog
If possible do not use borders in you adsense code.
The best location of search box is on the upper right corner
Monetize your blog if you have about 100 or more visitors a day
Don’t Monetize those blogs that there is no visitors since as per my experience whenever I put the code in those site without good amount of Visitors the adsense ecpm un other blogs is not performing well.
Do not click your own ads or get banned. ( very important )
Do not bring your adsense in an area where there is danger in clicks. Adsense might banned you for this
Put your adsense code in an area wherein if somebody landed on your page they can easily see them.
Use Firepox as your browser
Predict the keywords that your possible reader will look in the future. For example in my Philippine Election 2007 site I have predicted that after the election date, most of Filipinos will look for ” Election Result ” and therefore the next post that I made mentioned about the ” election result “, “proclaimed Winner” etc.
Make good use of the Ad Channels,this will give you information on what adsense type is giving good convertion
If your blogs is having a very high traffic I would suggest you have to use picture ads but if not you better use text only and not combine. Based on my experiment text gives a higher CTR ( Click Through Rate ) than Pictures.
Put some Link Text at the upper portion of your blog under the header pictures
Stop MFA at your site! Although it has been reported that adsense is stopping this MFA ( Made for Adsense ) Site.
I turned off my onsite advertiser sign up . Some says that it might increase your CTR ( No hard evidence but it is worth trying )
Hold your payment until it reaches your desired amount then use the DHL service in receiving the cheque.
Keep on reading my blog entry for adsense
Last but not the list subscribe to my RSS and Email.. ( nice huh )

SEO Tips

I may only speak for those using blogspot free blog services because this is what I am using.

Always put tags on your post
I use Site Search Tags in my post with format as follows format as follows ( Applicable to blogspot only ) . As per my experience
- <a href=http://techathand.blogspot.com/search?q=Tips+and+Tricks rel=”tag”>Tips and Tricks</a>
- Resulting link = Tips and Tricks
I am putting Google Analytics code in my blog to monitor the areas in which I need to improve my blog
Comment !!! comment !!!! to any site that relates to yours. The tendency is the visitor of the site might visit your site and stay if they find your site interesting.
Participate in contest to have link from other site ( like Jannete Toral’s Contest & Other Contest)
Do some speed linking to others site, Tipping your visitor about the good information you have seen while browsing.
Look for a good post in the net and blog about it. The tendency, a possible link back will be done.
Avoid broken link
Join the Social website like Mybloglog & blogcatalog.com to increase visibility of your site.
Go to the known site among your niche who is using Mybloglog & blogcatalog.com then try to contact their recent visitor and inform them about your blog and add them as your contact.
Join site that allows you to can post and you direct your readers to your site. an example is pinoyblogosphere.com , pinoyblog.com , promote your site ( If you have others let me know thru comments )
Join Technorati.com in order for you to monitor who’s linking to you and don’t forget to fave me.
If possible make a contest that will direct some visitor to your site. It is recommended to make contest after your site reach a sufficient number of post so that any visitor will have lots of option to go at your site. It is useless to drive traffic on your site if you don’t have sufficient amount of post.

Other Tips

I use Blogging authoring tool which makes my life easier.
I use Photobucket to host my pictures of this blog and my other blogs.
Some says that pictures for your post gives more attraction to the readers. You may see how Techcrunch & Doshdosh makes the post.

Hope you like this post. Why don’t you digg it and share to others.

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Technorati tags: Adsense, SEO, Tips

New Domain of Kumiko

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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Well me I am planning to get my own domain but this might come true before the end of this year. Maybe after earning some bucks from the adsense on my other site,then this dream shall come true.

A blogger who is using blogspot.com as her domain has decided to have her own domain. In relation to this decided to start a Cash Quest Competition . Her blogs deals with how to make money online . The Prize is about $100.00 to the lucky winner who will participate on her new Competition.

I think Kumiko’s blog is still hosted by blogspot.com using her own domain name. This is the advantage of Blogspot.com compared to WordPress.com. Since if you are using WordPress.com You have to pay US $10 in Domain redirecting. but in Blogspot.com it is free.

Didi I told you that this post is equivalent to 150 Tickets on her Competition.

The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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A blog post at Pinoy Tech Blog regarding a contest made by Janette Toral caught my attention regarding The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007 since I love joining contest like this, not to mention the possibility of winning $100.00 just by telling to the public your favorite blog which has the potential of having an influence to the readers and my choices are this blogs:

Philippine Eleksyon 2007 - Well actually it is one of my blogs and i do believed with the present trend of my readers I have gained the trust of my readers in which i believed that in some sort i just have influenced some of my readers on whom to vote during the election.
Philippine Elections 2007 – Site also deals with the Philippine Election and has gain a reputation from her readers also.
Culture Shiok - An ordinary Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) going for his 3rd not-so-ordinary year in Singapore. And a very active blogger.
Carlo Roxas Blog - Since almost all myjournal.ph subscriber is linking to his blog, ofcourse there is lot of possibility that this guy will be known in the future specially when their subscriber goes to the max.

I am planning to give it a try to complete it to 10, Since most of my favorite blogs are more than a year ago from August 2006. Maybe some of you wanna be included in this list. WHy don’t you leave a comment and let me see your blog.

Who knows I might win this contest.. Just think of the number of visitors that will come here. So what are you waiting for. Let me know your blog and help me complete this till 10.

Update : 16 May 2007

This is my other 6 blogs in the list

The D Spot – Sexy Mom calls herself a Young Retiree. She has recreated herself, now a Freelance Writer, Researcher, Problogger, and New Media Consultant.
Make Money Online with a 13 Year old – A blog that gives other people a helping hand with their daily online problems on how to make money online. Carlocab.com gives other people new ideas on how to make money online by giving easy to understand tips and tricks.
Doshdosh.com – This site gives you lot of information regarding techniques on how to increase your visitors and earn from blogging
An Apple a Day - A personal blog which has interesting right ups and her thoughts
Blogging Tips – Giving lot of tips regarding blogging.
Technology at Hand - I may say love your own.. But the reality is this blog gives good information on Technology at hand. Just like on my first pick it was before no visitor at all but when the perfect time comes my election site got a 30,000 page views each day starting on the election day. Who knows this blog might get 50,000 page views or more in the future..

Hope this satisfies the requirement of janette.

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I-mate PDAL Technical Review

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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I just had an i-mate PDAL 2 mos ago and here is my review for it.

Cellphone

As a phone I may say that i-mate PDAL is not really good compared to Nokia Cellphone Since sometimes I am having a hard time to hear what others person is saying. It is sometimes hard to stop or hung up the phone.

PDA

I think as a PDA, i-mate PDAL is great in my 2 mos of usage it hungs only once, during my early usage of this phone. I have installed my bible thru e-sword site and it performs ok.

Office Tools

I have some problem with its excel since whenever I work with excel and tried to edit my previous work I have to rename and save us the document or else if you save it on the same documents it will tell you an error.

Alarm Clock

I may say that this is not design as an alarm clock since the sound is very low while alarming

Internet Usage

You can use it thru Internet but the problem you have to use the built in explorer or else you have to purchase Opera mini but in comparison with Nokia, Windows mobile phone is much more like a deskstop.

If you are subscribe in the Internet which is being paid per kb, this is not advisable but if you are using the net that is being payed per hour I think this is perfect.

The best thing here is you can also use thru Wi Fi connection.

Reminder

This is a very good tool for reminding since the next reminder even if it is before 3 days you can see the list and keep on reminding you what to do.

Typing

Since there is no keypad for this mobile there are 4 option for you to choose

Block recognizer

Keyboard

Letter Recognizer

Transcriber

Battery

The battery is ok,It may stand till 3 days if you are not using heavily. But if you will use it on a heavy usage It will only last a day. The best thing here is the data is not being lost when the battery is drain not unlike other PDA where when the battery is out the data is out also.

Sound

If you will by this just to here music, I recommend no to buy, The sound system is not that sophisticated not like Nokia.

Email

You can view your office email and gmail thru this phone using POP3. I will post later how you could do it.

In general I may say that this phone is perfect for business purpose but if you are looking for a phone for pleasure purpose, you will just waist your money buying i-mate PDAL I suggest by a NOKIA brand model.

This is the review that I could share to you. I am using the i-mate PDAL for about 2 mos and I am satisfied in General on Its perfromance. This is not a paid review.

Technorati tags: PDA, Windows Mobile, Wifi, Cellphone, Review

I got my first Cheque from Google

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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Oh how wonderful !! I got my first cheque for google adsense and at the moment I am waiting for Cheque clearing, in which as per bank it will take about 3 days to clear it.

I do hope all goes fine. I posted the details here . It is mainly from Praise and Worship Song Lyrics and Halalan-2007 Blog earnings. I stop using Adsense in this site since the Page Views at the moment is not that High and according to my experiment if one of your site that is being monetized by adsense is not performing with good amount of Page Impression it will affect the Page eCPM of other site. I just don’t know how.

Anyway that is just my opinion. I hope you got your first Cheque too.

Site Search Tags: Adsense, Cheque, Page eCPM, Page Views

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80+ Tools for Successful Blogging

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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I just wanna share you 80+ Tools for Successful Blogging from makeuseof.com that I think is very useful, Specially to starting blogger like me. I just copied the General Blog Tools but there are lots of list on the site.

Here comes another list, all-in-one manual and how-to for any blogger regardless of blog’s size and purpose. Here you’ll find almost all necessary blogging tools and most of the top articles published in the last couple of years covering successful blogging, blog SEO, monetarization, maintenance and so on. Enjoy!

GENERAL BLOG TOOLS:

Backupmyblog – remote, automatic daily back of your blog’s entire database. Will work only with MySQL based blogs

Feedburner – one of the best tools to manage your feeds. Keeps you updated on the number subscribed users both through feeds and email, and provides lots of feed optimization options.

Feedblitz – email subscription service for your readers

Search Engine for WordPress Plugins – custom rollyo search engine for wordpress plugins(incl. add to firefox search). More custom search engines for makeuseof users here

MyBloglog – social network for bloggers and blog readers. Not only lets you get to know your readers but also works as blog promo tool(we have it on our sidebar)

Performancing – full featured blog editor that sits right in your firefox browser and lets you easily post to your blog from any page

Dijjer | Redswoosh | Pando – 3 free, easy-to-use tools for reducing your bandwidth consumption, especially handy for blogs with large media files(ex; podcasts, vlogs)

Dead-Links – web based, site-wide broken link checker

Pingomatic – free and comprehensive ping tool. Lets you ping all major blog search engines at once. WordPress users get it by default, not sure about others.

RSS Re-mixers – combine several feeds into one and publish it on your blog

Feedostyle – add RSS and Atom content from any feed to your website

Webshotspro – free instant thumbnails for your blog

SiteTimer – find out how long does it take for your website to load. If you want people to read your stuff or ateast see it make sure your blog should load in reasonable time, preferably in less then 4s.

Web based image resizing and editing tools – quick and powerful tools to work with images

Flock -blogging friendly browser (Although, combine firefox with above mentioned Performancing and you’ll get something even better)

Copyblogger – copywriting tips for your blog

I do hope that this links will be useful to my fellow bloggers out there.

This blog is nominated in Philippine Blog Awards

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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The list of all nominees for Philippine Blog Awards has been released and this site is nominated under Technology category . This is my frst time to join this kind of award. I do hope I made it through the finals . The backlinks from other bloggers makes me happy. And so therefore i am doing it also for my fellow Filipino Bloggers.

Below are the official entries for the Technology category

Site Search Tags: Philippine Blog Awards

Technorati tags: Philippine Blog Awards, Contest

Anything Tech

Anything About Technology

Tag Archives: Wordpress

Dumb Blogger’s blog

What is Dumb Blogger’s blog all about

What could I say about his Blog

Conclusion

My New Windows Live Writer

Site Search Tags: WLW, Blogging, Blogging Tools

Dedicated Server do I need this?

Why do you need to have a dedicated server?

My Review for ServePath

Could Viral ViralTags increase our PR and Ranking

Viral Link, Let me try this

Janette Toral Writing Project Participants

Site Search Tags: Janette Toral, Contest, Bloggers, Participant

Technorati tags: Janette Toral, Contest, Bloggers, Participant

Site with "Do follow" Tag in Comments

Myblolog Community

New Domain of Kumiko

The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007

I-mate PDAL Technical Review

80+ Tools for Successful Blogging

This blog is nominated in Philippine Blog Awards