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Another month has past and i haven’t have a decent post in my blog. I am really so busy with my work.

I do not even have time browsing those favorite blogs I frequently go to like RT’s UntwistedVortex, Spuds’ Nice4Rice, and alot more of those guys who have got me started with the traffic I had.

In the next few day, I might now be able to get back into my blog and give out some tutorials which I think would benefit those who wants to customize their blog (using WP) through the creation of themes. I have got alot of experiences off my work as a theme coder for a friend and would be more than happy to share a couple of things i have learned creating some themes that at first I thought wouldn’t be compatible with IE6+ and Firefox.

It was a really great experience working my brains to the limit with those themes. I couldn’t possibly give out those themes since I had sold them to my friend but I would be more that happy to code your wordpress theme for you.

Stay Tuned…

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We may had been inloved in the album of Charlotte Church entitled “Voice of An Angel”. She was a little girl then attractive. However she lost all the admiration for she wasn’t an angel when she became a teenager. She became wild.

There is a singer whose voice I believe is better than of Church’s, the voice of Miss Saigon, the Voice of Aladdin, the voice of Miss Lea Salonga. Her performance have been always outstanding.

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The month of May is just about to end which only means summer is ending and it is now raining here. So help me, share some rice and make me happy for June…

Spud Oregon, has already awarded his golden Rice for the month of May but too bad it wasn’t me who got the award. I got 29 rice and Culture Shiok got 37 and he was already awarded twice already, so I have decided to get the next Golden Rice Bowl off the hands of my fellow Pinoy Culture Shiok! Hehehehe!

I hope that you would support me and share some rice using the golden rice at the sidebar. Help me get my hands one the super golden rice, you also get a free backlink!

Well, here is the result of the May Golden Rice Bowl, Thank you to all of those who shared some rice!

***Off Topic Update***

I have a couple of problems with the theme I am making… but in a couple of days I would be ready to release it into the wild, I hope you would like it.

There are a lot of opportunities to monetize your blog, I have tried a couple of them and is not yet earned any from them, but I am not yet losing hope in earning while blogging.

Yesterday, a friend of mine recommended Bloggerwave to me. I tried signing up for an account and today I received an email telling me that my blog was accepted.

So right now, I am trying out this opportunity to earn while blogging. What I liked about this is that, I could earn while writing about things on the Internet, may it be an opinion or review about a site or product - which I have already been giving for free, so why not earn from it…

Since my friend had already recieved payments from writing, I would also recommend Bloggerwave to of you so you may also enjoy the opportunity of turning your blog into an earner…

You might have heard or read somewhere something about increasing Alexa Traffic Ranking or trains pertaining to Alexa. I have heard about it through a friend saying that I could check my traffic through it.

According to Alexa,

Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users over a rolling 3 month period. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1.

Alexa’s traffic rankings are for top level domains only (e.g. tinysigns.com). We do not provide separate rankings for subpages within a domain (e.g. www.tinysigns.com/about.html) or subdomains (e.g. tinysigns.freehostia.com) unless we are able to automatically identify them as personal home pages or blogs, like those hosted on Geocities and Tripod. If a site is identified as a personal home page or blog, its traffic ranking will have an asterisk (*) next to it: Personal Page Avg. Traffic Rank: 3,456*. Personal pages are ranked on the same scale as a regular domain, so a personal page ranked 3,456* is the 3,456th most popular page among Alexa users.

In 2 weeks time, my ranking is around 1,422,023 - 35% come from the US. But I do not rely on this data alone - since it relies mostly with Alexa Toolbar users (which is commonly installed on computers in Asia) and is getting data from pageviews which can sometime be manipulated (don’t ask me how but I know someone experimenting on it and he doesn’t want to share it to me).

So why is Alexa important?

Well, recently tried signing up for Sponsored Reviews to earn some money and found out that it checks Alexa traffic ranking and a couple of data for the approval of an account. I have no Page Rank at the moment and is have only a couple of days blogging so I could not get other ways of monetizing these blog. I love Google Adsense but I have opted not to put it on the site because I do not want my post be cluttered with alot of ads.

Kucau has invited me to join the Alexa train but as you all know I am too lazy to join those trains and my train experience was a little disaster. And have read about that train already and think that as all other trains, The one mosts benefited with these trains are those on the lowest level on the list or simply the one who started it all. So, I think, it’s one way.

If you are interested in increasing your Alexa Traffic, here is a couple of things you could do:

• Try posting you site links in Asian forums where Alexa users are mostly found.
• Get into an internet cafe, change the homepage for IE to point to your site and install the Alexa toolbar (IE only).
• Try the Alexa redirect trains like the one on Kucau.
• Frequently visit your site using IE with the toolbar.

How to start getting into Alexa…

It’s simple, Alexa needs to know your website exists (You need to have your own domain like tinysigns.com). Then as you would do for other webcrawling robots, your site needs to be crawled so make sure that you have it allowed to get indexed by Alexa too. Here is a simple of a robots.txt that allows Alexa crawler to get to your site:

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow:

Then enter your site URL on their site crawler form that would enable them to know you wanted to get crawled, or if you have Alexa toolbar installed, just simply browse your site with the toolbar turned on.

Well, as for now, I need the Alexa Traffic because I want to get some money off my blogging without having a lot of ads scattered all over my site.

Good luck on driving traffic on your sites and getting your Alexa Traffic ranking into the top 100,000. I too am still wanting a lot of attention…

Your NOT reading a way to boost MY Technorati Ranking, but this is an experiment to see if you could possibly boost YOUR Technorati Rankings with this scheme I have in mind. A Tiny Signs experiment.

As you all noticed, Technorati has included the Technorati Authority for blog listings and search results pages on its recent update. The Technorati Authority is the number of Links your blog is getting in the last six months. The old ranking system has now been changed:

It is important to note that we measure the number of blogs, rather than the number of links. So, if a blog links to your blog many times, it still only count as +1 toward your authority. Of course, new links mean the +1 will last another 180 days.

Technorati Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the highest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. The smaller your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top.

So what does that mean? Well, It could be a better way of ranking blogs since one has only one vote coming from another site. So if I have reviewed you or got you into my links, then you get +1 on your authority.

Getting everyone favorite you on Technorati doesn’t assure you of getting a higher ranking on Technorati - maybe just being favorited by more users. You need their links from their site to get your ranking up!

A test for getting a Technorati rank UP or even higher than UP

Trains has been a good way of getting your rank up, for a six months of ranking and if those you have added on the list would follow with the train. What I have noticed is that, the lower the blog is located on the list, the greater the number of backlinks it would give them, so if I started a fresh train now, and you would ride that train I made (a couple of other bloggers too), I would get the greatest number of backlinks and those who follow after you wouldn’t get any from me. Its a little bit one way, don’t you think?

So here is a proposal. For a simple link from you blogroll to my blog and/or adding me to your Technorati Favorites:

• I would add you to my Technorati Favorites (which automatically gets you to a special blogroll for technorati I have on the site.) I am currently working it out so it would not take all the space of my sidebar. I would have a new theme with 2 sidebars which would give more space for my Technorati Faves listings.
• Review those sites. Check out the reviews made (Links and Kisses),it would be similar to that but not as detailed. Likes those Blog Drive-Bys by Untwisted Vortex.
• and If you have notice, the NOFOLLOW tag is removed, so if you comment, the friendly spider will follow through your site. (I also plan to get a top commenters list plugin working on the homepage.)

SO it would just mean that your link would be forever be embedded into my blog. If those aren’t enough for you to get YOUR Ranking Higher than UP(+1 every 6 months), then tell me what I could do. (a friend of mine told me, hammer those links into my forehead for everyone to know!) /heh

Just leave a comment and I would check if the link/fave got counted. In the meantime, I am going to accept the first 20 links/faves.

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You maybe wondering why I am doing this? Well, this is to try and get a little traffic to my site. I am hungry for traffic and love reviewing/writing about something else aside from programming. If you have already linked/faved me and you don’t see your blog on the favorites on the sidebar, inform me by commenting.

Getting everyone favorite you on Technorati doesn’t assure you of getting a higher ranking on Technorati - maybe just being favorited by more users. You need their links from their site to get your ranking up!

While visiting a couple of blogs, I noticed most of them go into trains to increase their traffic. You may have also done this before, but here are my thoughts about it.

You have those Technorati Favorites, BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog and many more Trains, but I wonder if it really is effective. Well, for me (just my Tiny Signs thoughts) - if your site has an existing nice traffic with frequent visitors, readers who has accounts on those trains you join - you could actually increase your rankings/community on these sites.

A problem I encountered when I jumped into a train is getting run over. I posted my MyBlogLog Link Express train on the same day that I have decided that I am giving out link and reviews for a simple linkback from your site. So readers just read about the details of my newer post than read more about/join the train I just joined.

Another problem was the limitations of MyBlogLog in the number of communities you join, I stopped when I got to 15 - so I had to wait for the day to end before I could continue joining the rest of those listed on the train.

I haven’t tried any other train since my first train ride was a disaster, I almost got run over by the train which carried nice websites that has a nice number of readers and I would assume a couple of thousand Page Views per day. I only get 40~50 in the moment, thanks to a those who helped my start it out. Visit my Links and Kisses for information about them.

I am happy that with a couple of people, I have gotten a couple of traffic. It would be lie if I say that I do not want to be listed as one of your favorite sites, or get into those TOP 100’s of any title that could be associated to my sign, like TOP 100 blogs that sucked (maybe?) but I couldn’t help it but just try to get a little bit attention.

Overall, If you want to get you blog favorited or your community grow, try and learn from my mistakes. Do not just look around, try to get traffic slowly. I am getting little sleep this past few days, thinking about traffic. I almost imagine myself as a traffic aide pointing every single browser to my website. But don’t let me stop you from joining those trains. It may do you some good. In the meantime, I would just love it if you could just add me to your Technorati Favorites - just a couple of clicks wont do you harm, you also have helped me drive a little traffic to the site, join my MyBlogLog Community (another couple of clicks), then you might also want to just join my neighborhood in BlogCatalog.

I think every single train works, I am just so lazy trying them all out and my internet connection would not permit me to say long connected. Maybe, just maybe I could get a thinking cap off the flea market and use it to increase my traffic some more…