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Ok so this is the first time I’m going to write about SEO and website marketing or any of that stuff. I don’t really like talking about it since I’m not an SEO expert.

A couple of weeks ago I just noticed that after my experience in the SEO team; every time I create or design a website, I always make sure it is “SEO friendly”. It is somewhat important if you want your site to be visible on the Internet. Remember there are millions of websites on the information superhighway.

My previous work (which I left last year) started my awareness regarding SEO. I was a web developer there, but with my inclusion on the SEO team, I started to learn more about the trade.

SEO is important in most websites specially on sites that sell something, either a service or a product. Let me give you a basic example situation, where SEO is best applied.

Example you are looking for a particular product on the Internet, let’s say a bouquet of flowers. But not just an ordinary bunch of flowers, you want tulips that are red. So what do you do to find a place where you can get it from. You search…

You go to a search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN Live), then type in your keywords and keyphrases… flowers bouquet tulips red… and then after you hit search, you see the search engines result pages (SERPs).

You found a couple of links (websites), and visited each one on the first page. And then you found a good website that sells and delivers a bouquet of red tulips. You ordered some at their website and have it delivered. And the owner of the website profited.

You see, websites that appear on the first few pages of SERPs are the ones often visited by web surfers. If you are running a business and want people to find your site, your page should show up at least on the first few pages of SERPs. If you’ve tried doing a search on the Internet, you may notice that most people don’t usually go past the first 3 to 5 pages of the results. They usually end up on websites that appear on the first or second page. So the question is how will your website appear near the top results? Do SEO on your website.
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Category: Net Escape, Think Talk by Ryman
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I’ve already posted this at Tambayan.ph last October 2007 with the title “Are you right-brained or left-brained?” Initially, I was planning on posting it here, but since my other blog is more popular (more visitors) I posted it there to get comments from readers.

The image below is an animated GIF image, so it is actually moving. The image moves faster when viewed using Firefox browser, and slower if using Internet Explorer.

Ok here it is… just stare at the image.

To know which side of your brain is more dominant, just look at the moving picture. If you see her going clockwise, then you are using the creative side of your brain which is the right. If she moves counter-clockwise, then the logical part of your brain is working, which is the left side.

My first impression on the image is that she was moving clockwise, I was surprised since I know that I have a balanced-brain (according to the PHD test I took last year), or I use my brain’s left side the most. But then after a few seconds of staring at the picture, it gradually turned direction. I don’t know how that happened, but I know one thing, I suck at creativity.

The animation contains 34 still images But when I look at the arrangement (sort order) of the image, it looks like it is going clockwise halfway, then going anti-clockwise halfway.

You can read other people comments at my original post at Tambayan.ph. Some only saw it moving in one direction, while others have seen it moving in both directions. Now I can actually see it move in both directions, and switch its direction at will.

How about you, what is the initial direction of rotation do you see the image?

Category: Analyze Self, Think Talk by Ryman
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The much awaited Wordpress 2.5 will be released in a couple of days, but will you upgrade your Wordpress blogs immediately after its release?

Since it skipped 2.4 we can expect a major overhaul for our blogging software. New features will be added, old features will be enhanced, and bugs sorted out. Of course, most of us (Wordpress users) like to try out these exciting new changes as soon as possible.

But not for me.

The same reason why I’m still using WinXP instead of upgrading to WinVista. Most programs I regularly use are still not usable in Vista. And Vista contains lots of bugs than XP.

The moment you immediately upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 to more chances your plugins are going to break.

I usually wait after a couple of days (weeks) before upgrading anything. I look out for news, blog posts, comments, etc. about the software I’m going to upgrade to. If I see a lot of negative feedbacks, like this not working or that breaking, then I think twice before upgrading.

I don’t want my blog to be running in WP 2.5 with half the plugins not working or the theme I use breaking.

So I’ll wait, till the dust settles…

Category: Random Rants, Think Talk by Ryman
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Here are some interesting things worth reading…

• If you’ve been reading my blog since last year, you’ve might came across my post regarding lucid dreams. Well, for a dream to become lucid, you’ll just have to realize in your dream that you are dreaming. Your conscious should kick in telling you that this is not real and you can pretty much do what you want. Here is an interesting article regarding lucid dreams.
• I’ve been trying this for a couple of times, and with different kinds of person. It is called ‘eye language‘ and it will tell you what the person’s intentions are or what they are actually trying to say. It’s not only about how the eyes move from left to right, or up and down, but also how the pupil resizes. You can either tell if the person is lying or telling the truth, or in the case of pupil size, if he/she is interested in you.
• In the early 90’s there was actually a breakthrough invention that could have been used generally today, it was called Starlite. The substance is a plastic that can withstand up to 10,000°C so virtually it’s heatproof. Plastic that don’t melt quickly? Well there are a lot of ‘conspiracy’ stories about it. It has been said that the US and UK government deemed Starlite classified. Whatever the reason, a heatproof plastic is quite interesting.
• Lichens. It is one organism that can survive almost anywhere, even outer space. Lichens is a parasite that uses other organism as a host to survive. Although when you hear the word parasite, you think of something negative. But lichens actually cooperate and form a bong with the host it is attached to.
• A person needs at least 8 hours of sleep a day, that’s what most people believe. Most people think of this as sleeping for 8 hours straight through the night (day, if you work on night shift). Although it’s not a common practice, more and more people try polyphasic sleep. You sleep for a couple of hours per day, at regular intervals, while still keeping you alert. It also gives you additional hours awake. One form of this is the Uberman’s sleep wherein a person sleeps 20 minutes every 4 hours. For example, one might take naps at 2:00, 6:00, and 10:00 (a.m. and p.m.). If the naps each last 20 minutes, you get 2 hours of sleep per day; if they last 30 minutes, you get 3 hours of sleep. If you want longer working hours throughout the day, you could try practicing having naps at specific intervals. It will still keep you awake, and it will just adjust your 8 hours straight into short naps.

Read more interesting things at Interesting Thing of the Day.

Category: Think Talk by Ryman
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Every four years, an added day on February appears. When there’s a 29th day on February, the year is called a leap year.

A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year.

A person born on February 29 may be called a “leapling“. In common years they usually celebrate their birthdays on 28 February or 1 March. For legal purposes, their legal birthdays depend on how different laws count time intervals. In some situations, March 1 is used as the birthday in a non-leap year since it then is the day just after February 28.

In Japanese, leap year translates to the word uruudoshi.

Uruudoshi is composed of 閏（uruu)+年（toshi)=year. The kanji “uruu” is structured of two kanji 門（mon)=gate and 王（ou)=king, it ’s an deogram. [In leap year the king would stay inside the gate, never go out, it's not regular thing.] That is to say “urudoshi” has the meaning of an irregular year.

In short.

uruu = leap
doshi = toshi = year

‘uruu bi’ = leap day (=bi)
‘uruu byou’ = leap second (=byou)
‘uruu zuki’ = leap year’s feb.

Sources: Wiki, Yahoo! Answers

Category: Real World, Think Talk by Ryman
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