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The Joke Continues

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

As we have been out for quite sometime due to personal matters but here we are again and back for more lively and juicy topics. First of all we want to greet everyone a very prosperous New Year ahead. Second we wanted to wish all the Overseas Filipino Communities the best of 2008.

Last article we took was the joke of Philippine Politics and today we would further that topic by taking up some recent events of the country. This topic is about the OMB or the Optical Media Board chaired by Mr. Edu Manzano, a showbiz personality and the host of the popular game show Pilipinas Game Ka Na Ba. Mr. Manzano or Chairman Edu has done wonderful things to the people of the country through his shows and contributions and is contiuously doing so through his works. Mabuhay ka Edu.

Sometime ago there was a rotten exploit by Mr. Chairman of illegal activities concerning the reproduction and sale of pirated discs which he told a senator and a showbiz personality himself Senator Ramon”Bong” Revilla. Unfortunately the said senator has acted ahead of time concerning the raid of a place which did not prosper. The surprising thing is that the senator has media and photographers swarming his Ahead of Time Act. This is such a shame and selfish act coming from a senator of the Philippines so desperately looking for more achievements and “POGI POINTS“. Well, to the dumb and corrupt afficionados of the Philippines it might be nothing but for us here in the US its a showboat. Puros kaplastikan ang pinapakita nitong ating senador na ito. Unfortunately the senate has sided with this SOB in stopping the funds for the OMB.

Well Mr. Bong Revilla, we know that Mr. Manzano is doing his job so let him do it properly. What can we say is the Filipino American community here in Maryland will do its very best to support the people who really helps the country regardless of politics. You have lost the credibility from us. No pogi points for you and we will see to it and in our capacity that we will continuously support the people who helps the Philippines. Tama na ang plastikan and its time for our country to move to a place of respect and development towards the betterment of the Filipino people.

Immigration Proposals - Time To Act

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

The big issue in the US Senate about illegal immigration in the United States have so far produced nothing in results. While most of these bills are pending or scrapped, the wave influx at the US Mexican border still continues to grow daily with hundreds or even thousands of people from South America trying to get a shot for the opportunity to live and work in the United States. Could we blame these people ? I guess so. But who can stop people from going to the Land of Opportunity when the system of its immigration policy is broken and its borders are open. Its an open invitation plain and simple. Unless the US Government reforms its present system and provides strategic plan of strengthening its borders there will be no stop for this exodus.

The Amnesty

There are about 12 million undocumented aliens inside the US and the government is not doing anything about this. The Democrat Senators have been proposing bills to find a solution to the existing problems while the Republican Senators have been killing it again and again. I have to agree that these undocumented people that are already here should be legalized. There can be regulations to regulate their legalization and I can’t see a reason why it can’t be implemented. There are a lot of good proposals from the democratic side but the republicans, especially Mr. Jeff Sessions, is so actively against. Try working at one of the Mcdonalds chain for a month or better at any construction company or landscaping firm and work with them. Find it out for yourself. In some places take the illegal aliens off from work and you’ll see a dead economy in just 1 month.

 

The Taxes

These illegal aliens work and get their pay checks on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Let us say Juan is working in a fast food chain as a dish washer earning $7.50/hour on an 8 hour shift coming to work daily as given on his schedule. He gets paid on a bi-weekly basis. Let us see his payroll and its deduction. (Note: This is not an accurate payroll it is just meant to show details)

Juans Payroll

Per Hour Rate - $7.50

Hours Worked - 80

Gross Amount - $600

Federal Tax Deduction - $108

State Deduction - $56

Medicare - $9.76

Social Security - $87

Net Income After Deductions - $339.24

 

 

Ask yourself where does this taxes go since Juan is an undocumented illegal alien and cannot file a year end Income Tax Return ? Does the IRS Federal, State Taxes and Social Security accounting can’t suddenly use a calculator that an overflow of lets say out of the 12 million illegal aliens, the workforce is 8 million heads multiplied by the figure shown above. Geez !!! Where does that money go.

I guess its time to resolve this immigration issue once and for all. The democrats are continuously finding ways to make an implementation. We hope the US House of Senate could get their butts together and make this working as well as the US Congress. Both Democrats and Republicans should stop party politics for a while and look at some avenues to make this bill working. It will be beneficial for the US economy as a whole.

Rand Fishkin Talks of Aviva, SEOMOZ, Dirsensei and More

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog contacted Rand Fishkin a couple of weeks ago about some remaining issues that are happening or ongoing. Their group went to San Marcos and Rand needed a vacation. After that much needed rest and a quality time spent, he immediately replied and sent this to us in a very timely manner. He also made an unbiased review of Dirsensei Web Directory and gave me some hints about editorial integrity that I surely would keep in mind. Thank You Rand and SEOMOZ for that time and I certainly appreciate it.

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog: Thanks for accepting an interview from Dirsensei Web Directory Blog. We hope we could clarify some issues clearly between you and the directory industry but first of all let me ask about your recent trip, Was it for business or about that much needed holiday?

Rand Fishkin: I took off with my fiancèe for Vegas, met up with my grandparents and drove out to Arizona and Utah to see and hike some canyons - it was a terrific time, and a well needed vacation. Next week I’m off to Montrèal to keynote a conference.

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog: To clarify some top issues, when you gave Aviva Directory as an example at your Whiteboard Friday, Why did Aviva came to mind and not some other web directory and what are the search terms that Aviva should rank ?

Rand Fishkin: Aviva’s done a great job of branding themselves and they’ve sent SEOmoz some traffic recently, so I had seen them in our referrals. In terms of specific phrases that Aviva really should be ranking for, I had ID’d a bunch, but here’s a few of them - Go to Avivadirectory, choose something like http://www.avivadirectory.com/Recreation/Motorcycles/ - it’s linked to on the home page. Do some searches:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q…irectory+aviva
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q…ory+racewayatv

Here’s a page that got tons of links - http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/

Now look at its rankings:
http://www.google.com/search?q=aviva…+needs+to+know

Here’s another one:
http://www.google.com/search?q=aviva+information

and another
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q…ory+blog+aviva

and another
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q…ectories+aviva
(targeting this page - http://www.avivadirectory.com/strongest-directories/)

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog: Do you still believe that in spite of the fact that Aviva Web Directory, who has close to a million links and have an authority status, does the search engines has less trust on it ?

Rand Fishkin: Since Aviva was grouped in with many of the 60+ directories who lost rankings, traffic and pages in Google last week, I’d say that absolutely, the search engines have a trust issue with those domains and Aviva specifically.

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog: As an SEO professional who has attended a lot of SEO conferences do you think Aviva should reconsider on doing some more work for its optimization ?

Rand Fishkin: I’m not sure that it’s optimization that’s a problem for them. From what I can see, Jeff has done a great job building a very good site. The problem is how Google, specifically, perceives directories that sell links - and also how they perceive some of the link building tactics Aviva has used to get PR into its own site. I’m not speaking of the social media work, which is terrific, but of some of the other avenues they’ve used for link acquisition.

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog: We go now on another topic which is web directories that floats around and more popping out daily. You know very well that there are some quality directories out there that are worthy for end users or submitters, In your opinion how would you determine a site if its quality or not. Would content be an issue? Do you still think the methodology you choose to judge a quality of a directory is correct? There are lots of directories which are blazing in SERPs for every imaginable keyword and have little content. Are they quality directories? This question is also asked by our dear friend John Rang of Best Internet Resource.

Rand Fishkin: I’d tell John that a directory can be incredibly valuable as a link and as a website. Look at sites like Librarian’s Internet Index, the Salt Lake County Library Resource Links Directory, or the resources directory on Education World . These have a very different feel to them than many of the SEO-targeted, junk directories that you see marketed on Digitalpoint or in other SEO arenas. The quality of the sites they link to, the process for application, the staff who’s considering them, the content on the rest of the site - all of these factor contribute to how they’ll be perceived by the engines.

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog: What’s your opinion about bidding directories and how does Google in your own opinion view this since it is a relatively new phenomenon in the directory market. By checking some listings in a bid directory yourself, does it have useful content or are these primarily aimed at paid links only as any gambling site or a non content site can be included as long as they have the necessary amount to place a bid. Do you think that Google is aware of this?

Rand Fishkin: I actually don’t have much experience with bidding directories, so I’m probably not a good resource to ask about this topic. However, I would say that if you’re considering a purchase on one of them, ask yourself if Matt Cutts, were he to personally visit the site, want to count links from it in the ranking algorithm. If you can solidly answer yes, go for it. If you’ve got reservations, it might not be the best investment.

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog: Matt Cutts says - backlinks from .edu & .gov are treated like any other links from a trusted site by Google. But it seems you and Bob Mutch consider them as having special values . Can you please explain why is it so? Also, Matt and his Google SE team has taken the feed-back on Paid links seriously and there is a major over-haul of Algorithm looming. I guess they will discount the flow of links juice on paid links and they would no longer affect SERPs. As most SEOs rely on those type of links - do you think this would affect the majority of the SEO community? Question by John Rang.

Rand Fishkin: I would say that almost without exception, links from .edu and .gov sites provide more value than most other links. The problem is that folks assume it’s “because” they’re on .edu and .gov domains - that’s not why Bob and myself recommend them. Rather, it’s because nearly every .edu and .gov domain is well-trusted, well-ranked and provides good link value. The same can’t be said of any other commercially available domain extensions.

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog: Why is SEOMOZ’s quality directory list private? If it is public-then other directory owners could look up to them and try to improve their own directories. This would in turn help everyone in a broader perspective. Also, are there any improvements for SEOMOZ Page Strength Tool now or in the future ?

Rand Fishkin: The link directory is one of the services that we felt added a lot of value to premium content. I agree that if it were out in the open, it might have more of a community benefit - we’ll certainly consider that going forward. As for Page Strength - we made a recent upgrade about 35 days ago, and reports coming through now have an average accuracy of above 80% - while that’s not great, and we’re always trying to get better, it’s a good step up from the 60% accuracies we were seeing back in June & July. We’ve recently made an investment in more hardware and data-capture abilities, and we’ll probably have another large upgrade sometime in October or November that I hope will bring us close to 95% accuracy.

Dirsensei Web Directory Blog: There are sites I will pick randomly from Aviva’s Strongest Directory List. Would you take the time to review each one and give yuor view on them ? In just a few words or a sentence. Sorry for the long list but I asked for 25 originally and limited it to 20.

Rand Fishkin: Sadly, I don’t have the time to go through these, but I will check out DirSensei.

My first take is that the design is spiffy - I’m a fan of the samurai theme :) Checking out the new links page, the sites that have been added recently certainly look to be of very high quality, with the possible exception of something like the Peak Level Directory (which looks at first glance like it might be a bit fishy, but I didn’t dig deep, so that’s just a gut feeling).

I checked out a few of the categories linked-to on the home page like relationships - I found this site - active relationships - linked to from that page, and that got me a little concerned, because it looks like pure spam. One of the big ways that engines devalue and penalize directories is by looking at who they link to, and if this site is an indication of other bad stuff that might be in the directory, I’d be a bit worried.

The last thing I’ll check is some rankings - searches like this, this and this make me think that Google is giving a healthy amount of respect to the directory. I don’t think there’s any penalty on it as of right now.

Internet Warp Speed

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

The Japanese are taking over again the market and this time its Warp Speed for the Internet.

Americans may have invented the internet but the Japanese are running away with the technology according to a Foreign Service Post I have read. Broadband Services in Japan is 8 to 30 times faster than in the US and most of all offer cheaper rates. Imagine that. Broadband speed acceleration in Japan, South Korea, other parts of Asia and much of Europe is pushing its technology to the next level to innovations that are likely to remain closed for some years in the United States. (monopoly and politics I guess)

The speed allows the Japanese to watch broadcast quality, full screen high definition television programs over the internet while mocking the low quality images the American firms offer. With its ultra high speed applications being rolled out, for teleconferencing on medical fields which allows urban doctors to diagnose disease from a distance or telecommuting in distances, by 2010 Japan can meet its goal for most professional people to work at home.

Why ? Japan has made it possible to manage and have a good relationship with the government in terms of regulations while the US is pumping it out at Capitol Hill. The facts are the copper wires in Japan are newer and has shorter loops. Competition among phone companies have been awarded a tax break and most launched a nationwide build out campaign of new wires making the lower capacity wires obsolete. Nippon Telegraph and Telecommunication (NTT) now offers speeds of fiber optic 17 times as fast from a cable company in the US and the ratio are about 8.8 million homes have this fiber optic lines installed that is roughly 9 times the number comparable in US homes.

Japan also has tested a telepathology system and will be implemented next spring. This allows pathologists to use remote controlled microscopes using high definition conferencing to examine tissue samples from hospital patients in rural areas without access to major hospitals. They only need a clinic with the right microscope and a phone line with fiber optic connection. (Wow !! What a development)

Google’s vice president Vinton G. Serf, has said that sometimes regulatory commission has to have a strong federal regulatory framework to ensure a competitive framework happens in a constructive way. There are many laws pending at Capitol Hill and legislators need to speed up some of it in order to catch up.

Here are facts provided by ITU and WTI Database in 2006:

Broadband Subscribers in Industrialized Nations:

(per 100 inhabitants)

South Korea - 24.9

Canada - 17.6

Switzerland - 17.0

Sweden - 15.1

Norway - 15.0

Israel - 14.3

Japan - 14.1

Finland - 12.8

US - 11.4

France - 11.2

Britain - 10.3

Monthly Rates in Japan for fiber optic connections are often lower than that for slower connections in the US; Price and download speed in megabits per second.

Japan

Fiber Optic - $ 36.58/100 mbps by NTT

Fiber Optic - $ 39.22/100 mbps by Yahoo

Cable - $98.20/30 mbps by J-Com

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Washington DC

Fiber Optic - $39.9/ 5 mbps by Verizon

DSL - $29.99/ 3 mbps by Verizon

Cable - $52.95/8 mbps by Comcast

Cable - $41.99/ 5 mbps by Cox

In Japan the the regulatory wars are far from over. Speed is always a valuable asset for companies offering communication services. The US has to be more watchful of this or they might lose the market share.

Rand Fishkin A Howard Stern Wannabe

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

We have been following this Rand Fishkin and his SEOMOZ blog. More lies and more self publicity. His attacks on web directories especially Aviva has brought a popular debate on the internet and somewhat a war between SEO’s and Web Directory Owners. His latest publications of lies, deceit, self promotion ala Howard Stern and published at Smackdown Blog of Michael Vandemar had me puking. This Circus Clown Rand Fishkin is so great at making up excuses after excuses and would not stop. Just a simple “I am very sorry to Aviva Web Directory Owner” or an “I apologize to the Directory Industry” for creating this whole mess would be ok. But no he wants to create MORE popularity for himself and plays it like Howard Stern to go BIGTIME. A smart move that only a manipulative Street Mart Vendor in Asia can do this.

Here are his latest….by Rand Fishkin

So many points to try to address in this post, but I’ll do my best.

1) You are totally correct that I wrote a post marketing our list of directories addition to the premium content, but I’m not sure what’s wrong with that. I wasn’t attacking directories to make people sign up for membership - I was doing it because all our testing and link building over the past few years has been showing me that there really is a very, very tiny amount of value in general directory link building.

Give it a try! Go to a list like StrongestDirectories.com and buy links at all of those low-mid range general directories that market in people’s signatures at Digitalpoint and V7N. Make it for a moderately competitive market like “hvac training school” or similar. Let me know if buying all those directory links gets you any ranking - my experience has been that it just doesn’t provide good ranks, but if your experience is different and you want to champion the value of those general directories, I’d love to see some examples and would be happy to blog about the value if you can show it.

2) Is rankings a fair way to value links for rankings? In my opinion it is. We disagree on that, and that’s OK - John Scott, who’s a very smart SEO, and many other folks disagree as well. There are plenty of people on both sides of this issue, but my experience puts me heavily on the “good rankings = generally high value from links.” Poor rankings for many unique terms in a title tag and on a page can also often spell a penalty or dampening of some type. For directories, this has always set off red flags to me that Google doesn’t trust them because they’re linking out to some shady sites.

3) Is it inaccurate to say that directory owners got upset with us? I’m pretty sure they did… Was there a lot of comment from non-directory owners in those threads? If so, I do apologize for my generalization - I just saw a bunch of links to directories in the signatures of the criticizing members.

4) Honestly there’s not a lot of “spin” going on. These are just topics that were on my mind. In fact, believe it or not, I had no idea that Jane was making a follow-up post on the subject. She’s had her own criticism aimed at some of her private projects on sites like Digg, so I think it was an issue close to her heart. In either case, I can say honestly that there’s no intention to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes - they were just subjects that were interesting to us (independently).

5) RealEstateWebmasters from 3.5 years ago - yeah, that was a total wrong-headed move. I think it was actually the start of my decision to go white hat. I hated the idea that I was hiding something and overall, I think it made me a better SEO. I do still apologize to anyone who was part of that (I think we got 3-4 links out of that and I tried to personally address all of those folks). After a couple months and some apologies, REWebmasters let me back in, which was very nice of them.

6) SOCEngine - you’re totally right on this. I think it provides no value - it’s a general directory with almost no value. I’ll ask the crew to shut it down - it has been barely operating the last couple years. We’ll just keep it in existence but kill the submissions so anyone who is listed now will continue to be listed.

As you’ll note, I haven’t promoted it at all in 3 years. It’s certainly not an income source for us in any meaningful way.

7) The personal attack seems very, very harsh here. I think the message is “don’t trust Rand or SEOmoz - they’re trying to pull a fast one on the SEO world.” I work really, really hard to try to do just the opposite, so obviously, I’m heartbroken to see this kind of post. I guess we can always work harder, though, and I’ll try to do that when I return from vacation.

In the meantime, please do consider responding to my email.

Best,
Rand

Sure Rand whatever Floats your Boat. But attacking web directories and not looking at your face if there are dirt in it and could look at others dirt is a prime example of HYPOCRISY at its BEST.

Barry Bonds Sets 756 Home Run Record

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

The number seven fifty five is gone which lived a long good noble life of 30 years. It was spawned from the powerful bat of an aging slugger named Hank Aaron on July 20,1976. It was occasionally challenged but was never beaten till a cool evening in August in San Francisco Bay. The record of 755 finally perished at the hands of a relentless, most of the time controversial player from the west named Barry Lamar Bonds. Tuesday night PDT 8:51 PM when Barry swinged a 3-2 pitch from Washington Nationals Mike Backsic driving the ball in right-center field in the fifth inning, giving him his 756 career home runs. There was a sell out crowd at the stadium with mostly documenting the bright moment. Flashes of camera and video shots from the crowd, Bonds hitting the ball immediately dropped his bat and raised both his arms in the air as he watched the ball fly with the crowd exploding in unambiguous ecstasy and the game stopping for some minutes.

Bonds circled the bases accompanied by fireworks over the San Francisco Bay and with pointed hands in the sky as he touched home plate. He hugged his teammates with his family brought in the field to wish him of what has been the beginning of a new record to beat in Major League Baseball. Then a surprise for everyone in a stunning twist of the moment when Hank Aaron showed himself in the big screen to congratulate Barry of the record breaking homerun. The tribute left an indication that with no doubt Aaron has given Bond’s record his support and unqualified endorsement. Only 3 players in the Major League and in the last 86 years has held this feat. Babe Ruth first captured the record and surrendered it posthumously to Hank Aaron in 1974 and now it belongs to Barry Bonds.

Bed and Breakfast

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Summer is almost over and we have not yet spent our time vacationing. Plans have been made already and hopefully we could accommodate ourselves. The hectic work schedule had prevented us for our usual summer get away. The children are ok though spending time with friends and in the local community pool and recreation facility in Piney Orchard. There is a tentative schedule that we planned at the end of August but we still have to confirm it at the second quarter of this month. We have viewed some destinations but decided we would spend it if we can with my wife’s friends’ in Chicago and we used a Chicago Travel Guide to view what’s there in store for us. We also tried to see some nice places to stay but most are booked and quite expensive for this time. So I have found out this new site of Travel Accommodation that surely would be of handy now and the future days to come if we decide on going to any destination as it has a lot of useful resources as I can say.

Hopefully our plans should be definitely decided by August 15. If all are well we would be spending our week long vacation at the Windy City with friends and family. The children are already excited about the plans and they might be skipping a few days off from school since that will be the start of classes this year here at Odenton.

SEOMOZ - Rand Fishkin Directory Revenge

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Seomoz Rand Fishkin owner of a Seattle based search engine optimization company has been attacking the directory industry lately with his mild mannered antics. According to his statements at his White Board Friday Show, web directories are a waste of money that he gave an advice to one of his posters. So where does this all started ? How come Mr. Fishkin suddenly came out of the blue doing this outrageous attacks on web directory ? It all started on late May or early June when most of the directory owners were dissatisfied when Rand, without an announcement, made the tool from FREE to PAID. Its ok when something in advance should be announced after all he has made the tool free for some time already and announcing it would not be of much a difference since many people would really purchase it at a reasonable price. More story can be read Here. That tool by the way was popularized by Jeff Behrendt of Aviva Web Directory of his Strongest Directories List . Now let me ask you this, how many directory owners helped Mr. Fishkin popularized his SEOMOZ Tool Page. Does an average or normal website owner care about page strength of their website ? Is it right for Mr. Fishkin to attack the people who have helped him dearly promoting his tool ?The problem with Rand Fishkin, the revenge plot is very open and visible. He attacked Aviva and Jeff without even considering that the guy has helped a lot in promoting his tool even though its inaccurate. There is a fine line between quality directory and crap and I don’t disagree with that term but taking Aviva out as an example, whip it and say it lacks the credibility to rank in its own keyword search term just because an SEO expert has been published as a QBC is totally wrong. A follow up on this is telling the public that he is in constant contact with Jeff, indirectly telling the public that they are cool with each other while openly whipping Aviva and Kwik Goblin is definitely a poor show of a stand up comic for an SEO expert. In fact the term should be a Modern Day Backstabber.

However, there are always people who believe in justice. It is an honorable thing and a very friendly gesture that John Scott of V7N has defended Jeff in his absence. See other posts of Rand Fishkin and some followers in this Section of V7N Forums. In my opinion Rand should have taken his own site as an example rather than others. That is a noble thing to do. It is like in a party and you are the host, have invited some guest and openly you shoot the certain invited guest with an arrow in the limb then you say now we can have a toast.

Relevant & Quality Links

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Base on an article by John Rang of Best Internet Resource the subject also should cover what web directories should suppose to be like. Most web directories are primarily aimed at gaining attention through irrelevant modules, content or worse lacking QUALITY INFORMATIVE LISTINGS. So what are web directories definition in particular ? Most of the Top 50 in ranking SERPS for individual keywords for directories in general are mainly focused on gaining popularity through SEO and link building (buying high pr irrelevant sites) but lacking INSIDE INFORMATIVE CONTENT. If anybody has to look it up slowly and figure out what I mean, these web directories have highly huge categories gaining so much pages indexed without even having a single listing. Blank and Nada. Some of them populate it with NEWS FEEDS which in my opinion is very deceiving and these directories are primarily aimed at profiteering instead of the usual authentic ones who takes the real invested time adding quality content. While their site description says the best, quality, high standards or whatever BALONEY they can think of I find it amusing that when I visit an important category such as Reference, Health or Kids and Teens there are NO LISTINGS that an end user can benefit from. But wait, look at the most popular categories such as Internet, Computers, or Shopping and you will find the huge amount of sites that are listed. These people don’t take the time to improve their contents but rather take the time for them to appear in SERPS and TRAFFIC as they claim. Matt Cutts should know this too.

John Scott of V7N and Jeff Behrendt of Aviva has some perfect examples of web directories when it comes to adding quality content. Not mentioning the pioneers of quality sites such as Best of the Web, Clush, Alive, Uncover the Net, Wow Directory, Joe Ant, Romow and more. Special mention goes to C Reed of eWebPages who cooks Japanese Food perfectly while his directory is one prime example of a well edited and useful content web directory.

The other sites in the Top 50 genre ? Well they are just primarily aimed at gaining SERPS, PR and TRAFFIC for the purpose of selling links and profiting like vultures with no intention of nothing and yet they announce their directories as the GREATEST of THEM ALL and placing descriptions such as……. WELL WHATEVER. So Matt Cutts there are some here in this industry as well that needs your attention. Get the axe and chop them off to make way for those that are really deserving in that GENRE.

Real Estate Market

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Last week we were looking around our community and saw quite a number of houses for sale. Most of our neighbors have either relocated to another state with some of them went as far as going overseas. Land prices has really declined making it hard to sell your house on your terms right now. We have talked to many of the homeowners and most are dis satisfied with their piece of investment. It seems that they bought it and the price depreciated a lot. So we went ahead and see whats going on and viewed some of the properties for sale and we were surprised that they are selling it for less than the amount of what they purchased making it a total loss. I understand that there are many expenses incurred but it seems that one must be ready before jumping to a purchase since no one knows exactly how every business goes up and down from time to time. It is the same concept though that each must be ready for that rainy season ahead. Anticipation alone is not the brightest of the brightest idea. A very well executed plan at the same time some financial savings could be the best especially during these time of land depreciation you can hold on till the prices gets to a more favorable one.

A look around the neighborhood most of the eye catching property that sold quickly are the mobile homes. Especially fitted for small families and low budget, these are the most bought properties right now since savings is imminent. We looked for a couple mobile homes and we were impressed on their value and at the same time the interiors and land location. The community tenants are so friendly and amenities are of quality. I think this would be the proper investment right now for small families and small budgeted individuals. We are looking also to purchase one and might decide to rent our home. We like it a lot.