Recently, as part of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experiment (inspired by the SEO experiments of the great SEO Teacher over at Mapiles.com), I experienced what big time bloggers and webmasters probably experienced on their blogs and websites when they regularly get high volume of traffic.

The Nursing Board Exam 2008 Results posted on Bloggista.org (my new blog site where I intend to blog about the buzz in blogosphere including current events, news - anything that a passionate blogger, or a bloggista finds interesting) generated more than 50,000 page views within the first 24-hours, and reached my personal milestone of 100,000 page views in less than a week.

I got to admit, I am still a newbie on blogging and driving traffic. I’m still learning how to write good articles - and drive regular traffic to my sites. And experiencing such traffic which is normal or even less for some was already awesome. That was more than 6 months worth of page views I got for Bloggista.com and was just achieved by Bloggista.org in just one day! Fairly unfair wasn’t it?

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It’s All Geek To Me! is this year’s slogan for the 2nd Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit organized by the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP). This event will happen on August 13-15, 2008 at the Grand Ballroom, Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City, Philippines. Looking at the roster of presenters, speakers and sponsors, this event is a powerhouse!
I learned this as I was browsing the Facebook pages of Ms. Janette Toral of Digital Filipino and Influential Blogger blog after I accepted her friendship invite - and it is very fortunate that there is such an event like this. Lately, I have been very busy (and very excited) about this new project that I will be launching very soon, together with some bloggers and friends. And it has something to do with Web Marketing - which is Geek to me. This project is quiet big and there is so much potential with it.

There is much I need to know about the strategies and programs to launch effective Marketing campaigns utilizing the internet and mobile media. And this Summit is the right avenue for me to learn, and at the same time, find potential Partners who will be interested on my current Project, and perhaps sign-up first Customers as well.

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Still on Google. The official Google Blog announced an eye-popping, mind-boggling milestone recently that left their search engineers in awe - they have indexed a trillion unique URL’s on the world wide web at once!

Well they explained that they were not indexing all those trillion pages, as some of them are “duplicates” but still, the unique links they processed reach a trillion mark even after removing those duplicates. And in fact, its even more - they do not intend to count all, but only those links that are relevant to every search made on Google.

And by how many webpages the internet is growing everyday? Google estimates it to several billion pages a day! So its look like the world wide web is going to be a universe in itself for a few years from now.

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July 26, 2008 (Manila Time).

Although this have not been verified yet, but there seems to be some Page Rank Update in progress today. My 3-month old Wordpress-powered Free blog site, Bloggista.net, suddenly displayed a page rank of 1. I went over PRChecker.info to verify and indeed it has a Page Rank of 1 from N/A. You can check the Page Rank of any website using the Page Rank (PR) Checker below:

Further checking of several new sites of my blog friends, they got some changes too. So perhaps the much anticipated Google Page Rank update is imminent and for sure it will bring joy to some, heartbreak to others.

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The other day, while I was doing my usual blog hopping, I came to Michael’s blog and found something cool in his sidebar - it’s an animated featured posts widget.

This simple (although about 8MB plugin) enables you to display your featured posts or popular posts in an animated flash presentation. As stated in its website - “Featurific is a FREE website plugin that displays featured items in a beautiful and professional looking flash gallery. Those who are serious about blogging, e-commerce, and web design can’t afford to miss out on this hot new trend in web presentation.“

The Featurific Featured Post Plugin for Wordpress Blogs includes several presentation designs and widget templates - in various color schemes and sizes. Installation is easy. Just upload all files to your Wordpress Plugin folder. It makes use of your Post Images as image thumbnails - and it also has built-in well designed images for additional thumbnail displays on the widget. You can select which posts, or categories you want to be featured, and control how many posts are included in the featured post widget.

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