The global financial crisis has affected many Overseas Filipino Workers and Professionals, with fears of massive layoffs in Macau, Taiwan, the United States, Europe and in many other countries. Due to the unavailability of jobs in the Philippines that gives “decent pay” to its citizenry, Filipinos have been known to be one of the large groups of people looking for jobs in other countries.

This exodus of professionals have benefited the host countries since Filipinos are known to be skilled, diligent and effective at what they do. But on the other hand, it has benefited the country whose economy have been partly dependent on the inflow of cash remitted from overseas foreign workers.

But a few days ago, while I was checking for the Nov 2008 Nursing Board Exam results in Google, I spotted a news over at ABS-CBN online reporting that Queensland, the second-biggest state in Australia is needing 120,000 skilled workers.

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Well, the previous post on Autoblogging, as expected, have generated “mixed” reactions from my blogging friends, visitors and guests. But it was cool - since we get to know the thoughts of different bloggers when it comes to the ethical issue on autoblogging, or automatically posting contents to blogs using other people’s articles.

Actually, there are autoblogging communities where members submit their articles for syndication in other blogs - using autoblogging tools. Its a good strategy to actually get lots of backlinks, and probably traffic as well. If you haven’t tried SyndicateKahuna, this one won’t cost you a cent and a ’sense’ of guilt, since the articles that get autoposted in your blog were intended for such purpose.

The only problem with SyndicateKahuna is the quality of some articles. Some were as poorly written as mine (LOL). But you can always delete them, or perhaps, edit them for grammar and spelling errors.

Now let’s talk about other uses of Autoblogging tools. Other autoblogging plugins for Wordpress can also grab contents using datafeeds, mostly in .CSV, or XML format. This is helpful if you are an Affiliate of known Affiliate Programs like Commission Junction, LInkshare, e-Bay, ShareaSale, Clickbank, etc. These types of autoblogging plugins are great for building your Affiliate Website or eCommerce Stores populated with products linked directly to your affiliate account.

This is probably the best way to populate your blog store with Contents, rather than posting them one by one manually. If you do some SEO work, there could be a huge potential to earn big - since we all know the revenue potential of affiliate marketing or selling.

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Might not be a conventional way to blog, but Autoblogging is certainly the most convenient way to get contents from different sources and automatically post those articles into your blog. Talk about easy and lazy blogging. You can virtually grab any content - text articles, music, videos, youtube videos from any RSS/Atom source and auto post it into your blog. It’s possible to create a dozen or even a hundred of new posts per day with autoblogging.

Autoblogging is simply getting contents from someone else’s articles - taking advantage of individual RSS/Atom Feeds or aggregate feeds called OPML. The setup is simple - you install a plugin, select your desired content Categories, or type the RSS/Atom URL Feeds you want to fetch contents. It can even autodiscover a site’s RSS feeds if its template has appropriate meta tags for RSS feeds autodiscovery.

Wordpress Plugins/Add-ons for Autoblogging

There are quite a number of Wordpress plugins and add-ons for autoblogging, some are free while others can be purchased for a single site or multisite use. I am featuring only the following as I have experimented on them - no, not on this blog. For full functionality and features description, follow the links (Note: Some links are actually affiliate links):

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Another Google Page Rank Update in December? Most probably. Sometime in April of this year, they call it Operation Dewey. So are we expecting another Operation Dewey in the next few days?

The last time Google made a Page Rank Update was in September - and following the pattern, Google implements its Page Rank algorithm every 3 months. For some a Google Page Rank isn’t that important. But noticeably quite a number is looking forward to a higher Page Rank, including yours truly.

So we all still have a few days left to at least improve our chances to gain a favorable Google Page Rank - that is, if you are after a higher Google Page Rank.

How to Avoid being Penalized by the Almighty Google? Here are some “Simple Guidelines” to follow and “hopefully” earn a Google reward for being obedient.

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So you finally decided after some deep thoughts, that one of the best ways to achieve greater financial independence is to start your own Passive Income Business while you still have the luxury of time, strength and brains to spare.

During the first few days into your Passive Income business, you probably are busy learning the products and services, attend to some orientation meetings either online or offline, and is probably spending most of the time talking about it to your family and friends. You don’t start a business and keep it a secret right?

So how about telling everyone you’re doing it and invite interested people to join as well? You can try tapping all your family members, friends, relatives and co-workers, but most often than not, you’ll be frustrated and disappointed of the fact that only a few will be interested. It’s a reality that friends and relatives only start taking you seriously when they see you become successful in what you do.

So what are your options? You probably put your ads on local free ads paper, invest in some paid advertising on magazines, and community papers. Will you even consider buying radio and tv airtime? That will cost you a fortune, and sooner, you’ll end up frustrated, disappointed and broke.

You may consider joining and posting in forums, join hundreds of social networks and advertise your product - getting risked  of being branded a spammer in most instances. Or you may want to consider building yourself your own website - be it on a free blog site like Blogger.com or Bloggista.net, or self-hosted website or blog using Wordpress or Joomla or just a plain website.

Why building your own website is essential to your Passive Income Business? Here’s my 6 reasons why your Passive Income Business needs a website:

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