SEOContest2008 The judgement day

seocontest2208 just a gameSEOcontest2008 is in the last day. Contestants must be in a busy hard work today. I think its time for me to say congratulation to “>the winner. Should I give up and keep my worst position? My seocontest2008 blog is not listed as contestant also due to an unknown reason. And I have not much time to focus myself in this seocontest2008. Thank you for all support !

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SEOContest2008 Winner

seocontest2008 winner

The above badge is just example for seocontest2008 winner. Badges/shield for the winner is designed by Fashion Unplug a member of UK Webmaster World Forum. There’s a polling on forum for member to vote some different designs of badges that will display on winner’s site. I wish the badge could display on this blog sidebar …. hmmm …

SEOcontest2008 and WordPress 2.5

wordpress 2.5

SEOcontest2008 will end on 1st of April and wordpress has just released a new version to fix some bugs and new look launching. I’ve upgraded this seocontest2008 blog to this 2.5 version. Looks great and clean. Some features added. New look at dashboard seems more complex than previous version. It’s time to say Hello World with a new look of WordPress.

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Black Hat SEO Techniques

black hat seo brokencodeThese black hat SEO techniques usually include one or more of the following characteristics:

  • breaks search engine rules and regulations
  • creates a poor user experience directly because of the black hat SEO techniques utilized on the Web site
  • unethically presents content in a different visual or non-visual way to search engine spiders and search engine users.

Some old-style Black Hat SEO techniques that still do work currently but temporarily :

  • Keyword stuffing: Packing long lists of keywords and nothing else onto your site will get you penalized eventually by search engines. Learn how to find and place keywords and phrases the right way on your Web site with my article titled Learn Where And How To Put Keywords In Your Site Pages.
  • Invisible text: This is putting lists of keywords in white text on a white background in hopes of attracting more search engine spiders. Again, not a good way to attract searchers or search engine crawlers.
  • Doorway Pages: A doorway page is basically a “fake” page that the user will never see. It is purely for search engine spiders, and attempts to trick them into indexing the site higher.

Controversial video sharing

fitna the movie

Just visit Detik and found in some Indonesian Forum, talking about another controversial sharing movie in YouTube and LiveLeak. Anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders released the film over the Internet late Thursday after publicizing its release for months. Mostly Muslim Indonesia has strongly condemned a film by a Dutch lawmaker that is critical of Islam, saying Friday that it was misleading and would hurt efforts at interfaith dialogue. The Dutch government had warned Wilders that the film could spark a violent backlash in the Islamic world similar to the one that occurred two years ago following publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The 15-minute film intersperses verses from the Quran that apparently condone attacks on non-Muslims with bloody scenes of recent terrorist attacks and hateful speeches by extremists. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation. It saw large, mostly peaceful protests against the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Reaction to the Muhammad cartoons was muted compared to other Muslim nations.

Black-hat vs White-hat

blackhat seoThis type of contest is controversial because it often leads to massive amounts of link spamming as participants try to boost the rankings of their pages by any means available. … The organizing body of an SEO competition may hold the activity without promotion of a product or service in mind; or they may organize a contest in order to market something on the Internet. Participants can showcase their skills and potentially discover and share new techniques for promoting websites. ~wikipedia

For your information, I’m using no black-hat techniques at all in this seocontest2008. Some participants that have a good position in this seocontest2008 seem using some black-hat techniques. Will a white-hat beats those black-hatter ? Just wait and see !

Seoharto2008 - Supersemar found guilty

seocontest2008 - seoharto2008In 1975, the government established the Supersemar Foundation to provide scholarships for poor students, athletes and foster children across the country.

During its development, Soeharto and his cronies misused the funds by diverting them to several of their companies, such as Kosgoro, Sempati, PT Bank Duta, PT Kiani Sakti and PT Kiani Lestari.

Soeharto’s death on Jan. 27 saw a transfer of some of the legal rights to five of his children: Siti Hardijanti Rukmana, Sigit Harjojudanto, Bambang Trihatmodjo, Siti Hediati Hariyadi and Siti Hutami Endang Adiningsih. Soeharto’s youngest son Hutomo Mandala Putra was not among the heirs.

The South Jakarta District Court found Thursday the Supersemar Foundation guilty of misusing scholarship funds, but ordered it to repay only one fourth of the losses it caused to the state.

The foundation, set up by late former president Soeharto, was said to have caused state losses of US$420.6 million and Rp 186.1 billion (US$20.2 million).

The court asked for compensation of $105 million and Rp 46.4 billion and discharged it from paying the further compensation of a total of Rp 10 trillion for immaterial losses as demanded by the prosecutors.

Presiding judge Wahyono said the civil court was only able to declare the $105 million and Rp 46.4 billion as the government’s money, while the sources of the remaining $314.4 million and Rp 139.7 billion were undetectable.

~Jakarta Post

Finally listed in SEOContest2008 entries

Thanks to Temi and SkinnerW that have listed my blog as registered participant in SEOContest2008. Counting down to the end of this month, I should give this blog more power to get a higher position.  Now I’m thinking what next should do ? :LOL:

Meta myths on SEOContest2008

seocontest2008I just visit Smackdown’s blog and found an information that WordPress 2.3.3 have a vulner that possible attacker exploit the blog and create a new directory. Currently I am still searching more information due to this matter over the net.

On the Web, meta information (description, keywords, objecttype, etc.) is used to classify information about the content of a document to aid in searching. A meta tag, however, does not affect how a Web page is displayed on a browser. For online marketing, the most common uses for meta tags are the keyword, description, and robots exclusion attributes.

Realistically speaking, the only meta-tag that the major search engines use is the meta-tag description. The meta-tag description has two uses: relevancy and display. Currently, Inktomi is the only search engine that uses meta-description content to determine relevancy. The content in the title tag, visible body text, and anchor text carries far more weight than the meta-tag description.

The other meta-tag attribute that SEOs like to use is the revisit attribute. Too many people mistakenly believe that they can instruct the search engine spiders to revisit their sites within a specified amount of time. Now honestly, do you think that a single line of HTML code is going to override the crawling process at every major search engine?

Unfortunately, many people still fall prey to this myth. Do not hire any search engine marketing firm that states that the meta-revisit attribute works on their sites.

Jump position while Government banning online p0rn

seocontest2008 positionYesterday my blog still so far away from a position called better :) Just check it out, surprise, I am already in 12th.So, what is relationship between this blog and online porn ? Nothing! Just would like to inform that Indonesia Government via The House of Representatives is set to pass a bill today that would jail users and providers of pornographic websites, despite fears the legislation could victimize receivers of unsolicited email containing adult content. When the bill comes into effect, providers and users of pornographic sites will face a maximum of three years in prison or a fine of up to Rp 1 billion (around US$107 million). Uhmmm …

The Information and Communications Ministry has made available software to block websites with adult content. The software can be downloaded from the ministry’s website. (Do you smell something here ? It is a big project with a lot of expense !)

It also includes provisions criminalizing computer hackers and any activities that use others’ Internet domains or change and delete information on certain sites.

Police are entitled to confiscate evidence from people suspected of violating the law, including their computers.

Those violating the provisions will face a maximum eight years in jail or a fine of up to Rp 2 billion.

Legislators said the bill was necessary to prevent Internet abuse and help meet the public demand for goods and services bought electronically. It will also help secure the trust of foreign investors and generate more inter-market transactions.

Would it kill our freedom ? Stop writing something harm your self in your blog if you don’t wanna go to jail or spend your money worthless.