After 11 weeks since the release of Joomla 1.5.9, another security release is now available. Joomla 1.5.10 [Wohmamni]. This release contains 66 bug fixes, one low-level security fix, and one moderate-level security fix.

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I have been managing PPC accounts for a while now. Some are small and some have big budgets. Managing PPC sometimes though is like a cat and mouse play. Very time consuming if you want good results. Not to mention Google’s very vague explanations on the factors of a good PPC campaign.

Just recently though, one of my favorite SEO/SEM blogs posted a very good view on Google’s Ad Auction factors as they call it. Here are the links to their posts:

Google Quality Score
Google Ad Rank

A lot of people are turning into SEO. In relation to this, a new challenge has come up, and that is international geo-targeting. How would one get on with geo-targeting specially the international SEO? Here’s a rundown of the things to consider when doing international SEO geo-targeting.

I once posted about website visitor’s bounce rate, a few months ago. I think it’s time for a refresher on the significance of bounce rate. How analyzing it would help you make decisions for your website. Here’s a good post from the Official Google Blog.

In my more than 2 years of doing SEO, I have heard a lot of times about the risk of using paid links. It has been said that Search Engines especially Google don’t like paid links, when they are used to manipulate rankings rather than just boosting traffic. The question though would be, how accurate are their algorithms that track what these kind of links are being used for?

Here’s a good article about paid links.

It’s been 2 years since I started using WordPress. In the process, I have used a number of plug-ins, some I’m still using today while others I discarded right away. Been wanting to make a list of those plugins but never got a chance to compile one. Luckily I stumbles on an article about WordPress plugins.

Joomla 1.5.9 [Vatani], the Security Release. Here’s a run of what’s in the release:

Statistics for the 1.5.9 release period:

• Joomla 1.5.9 contains:
  • 81 issues fixed in SVN
  • 55 commits
• Tracker activity resulted in a net decrease of 1 active issue:
  • 169 new reports
  • 92 closed
  • 81 fixed in SVN
• At the time the 1.5.9 release was packaged, the tracker had 113 active issues:
  • 63 open
  • 47 confirmed
  • 3 pending

I have been reading about bounce rate before the end of the year 2008, and there are some notable discussions on the subject matter. The question still remains though. Is bounce rate an important ranking signal? Could it affect your search rankings?

Here are notable posts and discussions in the web:

Bounce Rate as Ranking Signals
Google Says, Bounce Rates For Search Rankings “Spammable” & “Noisy
Bounce Rate SEO Fallacies

2008 is soon to pass. What does the coming year hold for all Search Engine Optimization practitioners? What algorithm updates will the search engines implement? Will Google continue to dominate the Search Market? Will there be a massive effect from the Google SearchWiki? Personalized Search in 2009? Will Yahoo increase its search market share? Microsoft and Yahoo merger?

We will soon find out…

I’m now using Google Chrome… a few days after they went out of Beta. And so far the user experience is so good. I think they live up to their promise of faster browsing. I’m not sure yet if the bugs of some time ago are gone now. We’ll see…

Now this is fast. Just a few days after the release of RC1, comes WordPress 2.7 RC2. According to the developers, this would almost be the final release of 2.7 barring any bugs and glitches. Or maybe a little tweaking or polishing as they say