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The Architect in Bacolod.


If you are looking for an architect in Bacolod City or Iloilo, you can contact Archian Designs Architect Studio.

ARCHIAN DESIGNS ARCHITECT STUDIOS is a collaboration of Interior Designers, Urban Planners, Landscape Professionals and Allied Professionals totally dedicated to deliver timely and excellent Services. This is lea by Architect Ian Jay Bantilan.

If you are situated in Panay or Negros, we can serve you. Whether you are from Iloilo, Guimaras, Capiz, San Jose, Antique in Panay Province or from Silay, Cadiz, Bago, Talisay, San Carlos, Sgay, Kabankalan or anywhere in Negros Occidental or Oriental, like Dumaguete, you should work with Archian Designs Architect Studios. 

Our architect has been educated in University of Santo Tomas and has experience with AIA (American Institute of Architect Companies in Dubai) If you need to work on your building or facility, you wouldn't need to call Manila for people you hardly know.

For further information, email us through archiandesigns@yahoo.com or call to (034)433 3476.

ARCHIAN DESIGNS ARCHITECT STUDIOS believes that  Architecture is an endless search for perfection of artistic and  harmonious arrangement of man and space, with considerations with the  built environment, nature, cost and the latest trend value and  technology will always be considered, now and beyond.

How to Block a Country by IP Address

Nov 1st, 2010 by JadeDragon

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IP Addresses, the numbers that allow other computers to see where you are connected to the internet, can be very useful to geographically target your audience. Try logging into Google.com outside the USA and you will likely be redirected to a localized site like Google.ca (in Canada).

IP Addresses, the numbers that allow other computers to see where you are connected to the internet, can be very useful to geographically target your audience.  Try logging into Google.com outside the USA and you will likely be redirected to a localized site like Google.ca (in Canada).

For this blog readers come from all over the world, and I welcome that because the information on how to build passive or residual income generally works everywhere.  However, for many sites more local traffic is more useful.  If spammers are an issue on your site, and there is no advantage to granting access to all countries, you may want to block access to IP addresses in selected countries.  
The need to exclude China, Russia and some African countries from a coin forum I help run lead to this neat little tool -Block a Country.   With Block a Country, you give some basic info for access and are then presented with a long list of every country in the world (and a few non-countries too).  Select the countries you wish to block with the CTRL key and than hit go to get an IP list that can be uploaded into your server.  Here is how the site describes the process: 
Copy the information from the left textbox (a list of IP Address Ranges, plus a few lines of code) and past it into your .htaccess document. If you do not have a .htaccess document on your server you need to create one.
The easiest way to create an .htaccess document is to create a document in notepad and call it i.e. htaccess.txt. Past the blocking information into this the document. Following you upload htaccess.txt on to your server with your favorite FTP client. Once uploaded you rename the htaccess.txt document to .htaccess. (Note: take care that the dot is kept before htaccess).  
After completing these steps you can say Pakah to the Russian spammers and Zaijian to the Chinese spammers.  Good luck and enjoy the reduced spam.

Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/385409_how-to-block-a-country-by-ip-address#ixzz1DYCp3vTs

SEO Competition and How URL Competition Plays a Role

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If you know a little bit about search engine optimization (SEO) or have seen my free keyword research webinar replay, you’ll know that there are two important factors that determine the viability of a keyword:

1. The amount of search traffic a particular keyword receives; and
2. The competition for that particular keyword.

Both of these factors are what we investigate when performing keyword research because a keyword that isn’t being searched for isn’t worth our time (generally speaking), and also one that has a lot of competition may be too difficult to rank for.
On the competition side of things, there are a lot of factors to consider:

• The total amount of other websites that mention the particular keyword.
• The total amount of other websites that mention the particular keyword specifically in the title.
• The off-page SEO factors of existing websites that are already ranking highly for the particular keyword, including domain age, page rank and quantity & quality of backlinks.
• The on-page SEO factors of existing websites that are already ranking highly for the particular keyword, including having the keyword in the title, url, description and header of those sites.

Luckily, Market Samurai (free trial) has made finding all of this information extremely easy. And yesterday, there was an update to the software that added an additional factor to help us understand the competition surrounding different keywords: the URL Competition.

URL Competition (SEOUC)

This factor goes one step beyond the number of websites that mention a particular keyword and shows us exactly how many other websites exist that have the target keyword specifically in the url, or web address.
This is a better indicator of the amount of existing competition because if you’re building a niche site or creating a blog post, having the targeted keyword in the url is arguably the most important factor for search engine optimization. This can be illustrated by how in many instances, websites with the keyword in the url are ranking higher than sites with much stronger off-page SEO factors, as shown below for the keyword indoor pools:

How to Find URL Competition

In Market Samurai, finding the SEOUC is easy. Just enable SEOUC under the competition factors in the keyword research module, as shown below:
If you don’t have Market Samurai, don’t worry, you can find this number by typing in the following into Google:
inurl:”keyword”
Note: the numbers don’t match exactly because of the different servers and geographical locations that are involved with the searches. The numbers are really close though, so the difference isn’t really a factor.

How to Use URL Competition Data

The URL Competition data is important to understand because like I said, it’ll give us an idea of how many competing pages exist that are also trying to optimize for a specific keyword.
If two keywords, for example, have the exact same on-site and off-site SEO data and one has less SEOUC, then obviously it would be better to choose the one with less SEOUC.
That said, don’t spend too much time trying to analyze these numbers, because the most important aspect of SEO Competition is the strength of the competing pages that exist on the first page of Google.
Period.
There can be a billion webpages that have a target keyword in the URL, but if the top 10 spots in Google are weak, then I know I can overtake them.
It’s always about the quality, not the quantity.
Let’s look at my niche site duel keyword, security guard training, alongside the one we used in the above examples, indoor pools:
As you can see, it would be very easy to assume that the keyword indoor pools is the one that we should target because not only does it have more traffic, but it has an SEOUC factor that is less than half that of security guard training. This means that there are less than half the number of sites that are really optimized for that keyword. But, when we look at the SEO Competition Module for security guard training, we can see that the competition is weaker and there’s a lot more room than there was with indoor pools:
Here, the PRs are much more manageable, as well as the backlinks too (see the Niche Site Duel for more information about how I ranked #1 for this keyword).
So, like I said, the SEOUC factor is good to know, but always make sure you check out the strength of the top 10 in Google first before making any decisions about a particular keyword.
If you don’t have Market Samurai, you can still check the strength of the top 10 in Google without having to input URLs individually in different tools by downloading a firefox extension called Seo Quake, which adds a little toolbar that shows things like the PR, number of backlinks and other information underneath each of your Google search results, like this:
I just wanted to bring all of this to your attention since Market Samurai added the SEOUC factor into their data yesterday.
If you have yet to give Market Samurai a try I highly recommend it, whether you’re looking for niches to build websites for, for keywords to use in your blog posts or what topics to write about for article revenue sharing sites.
You can download a free trial by clicking here, and yes this is an affiliate link so if you do purchase Market Samurai through this link I do earn a commission as a result. Thanks to those of you who have already purchased through my link, I truly appreciate it!

Blogging101:Top 10 Tools for Savvy Bloggers Part 2

Let’s face it: if your blog is your business, you need to treat it that way. You need to have the right tools to make sure your blog grows and makes money. But how do you know what those tools are? It’s simple. You don’t have to. We’ve tried them all, and we are here to tell you what works.

Here's the rest of the Savvy Tools. To read Part 1 Click here.
 

6. Aweber (Email List Server)

Blogging101:Top 10 Tools for Savvy Bloggers Part 1

Let’s face it: if your blog is your business, you need to treat it that way. You need to have the right tools to make sure your blog grows and makes money. But how do you know what those tools are? It’s simple. You don’t have to. We’ve tried them all, and we are here to tell you what works.

1. WordPress

Blogging101: Alexa Site Attraction

Alexa is one of the most widely used “rankings” on the web today.  The lower your Alexa ranking, the better since it indicates a higher-trafficked website.  Below is a list from Alexa's Top Twelve Sites in the Philippines. Take a look at the rankings to better understand Alexa:

Facebook.com                    Social Network Site                      Alexa rank: 1

Yahoo.com                          Search Engine in Philippines    Alexa rank: 2

Google.com.ph                  Search Engine in Philippines    Alexa rank: 3

4 Podcasts That You Should Be Listening

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Should I Produce Podcasts? I only listen to them.

In fact, when I still had my 9 to 5 job I listened to the Internet Business Mastery Podcast every single weekday for a year, sometimes repeating certain episodes 5 or 6 times in a row. I never had any intention of doing business on my own at the

Pat Flynn: From Jobless Architect to Successful Enterpreneur 2

continued from Pat Flynn Part 1

Step By Step – How Do I Podcast

A podcast is what inspired me to get into this business in the first place, so it was always my goal to eventually do one. I had first mentioned that I wanted to host a podcast in November of 2008 but it wasn’t until July of 2010 that my podcast finally went live in iTunes.

Pat Flynn: From Jobless Architect to Successful Enterpreneur 1

How I Started

It all started back in 2008 when I was laid off from my Architectural position. Unlike most, I loved my 9 to 5 job and never really had any desire to leave, but I was forced to because of a bad economy and the company’s downsizing efforts.

At the time, I had one little blog to my name (now at GreenExamAcademy.com) that I used to keep track of my notes for an exam that I was taking, the LEED exam,

Bacolod: Successful Young Entrepreneurs make Life Style Choices

 The Invest or Sacrifice Model For Successful Young Entrepreneurs.

Sitting by my laptop in Bacolod, I remember a Discussion from friends about money. Most of them are not Entrepreneurs and it is interesting how Most Entrepreneurs, they said were making “big sacrifices” to be where they are. Most of these Entrepreneurs they referred to were successful as a young entrepreneur because they made large risks.

Bacolod: Creating Money Online Part 4

This is the Last Part of the Series Bacolod: Making Money Online

Last part in the series on the future of making money online.  Be sure to check out parts one, two and three prior to reading this.

In this part of the series, we’re going to shift gears slightly and look at Google as an investment.  I’ve laid out the case that I believe a shift is occurring in which search is becoming less important (still very important, but less).  Obviously, Google being the global leader in search for years now, this would have a very large impact on their business if indeed this trend is materializing.

Bacolod: Creating Money Online Part 1

 This is the First Part of the Series Bacolod: Creating Money Online

I read an amazing article by Wired Magazine recently called The Web is Dead: Long Live The Internet.  It’s an incredible read for anyone into technology, the internet, and especially making money online.  It’s really a must-read.

Bacolod: Creating Money Online Part 3

This is the Third Part of the Series Bacolod: Creating Money Online

The Future of Making Money Online: Part 3

This is part three in the series discussing the future of making money online.  The inspiration for this series was a Wired article called “The Web is Dead.”  If you haven’t already done so, I’d encourage you to read parts one and two before reading this.

Bacolod: Creating Money Online Part 2

This is the Second Part of the Series Bacolod: Creating Money Online

If you read Part 1 in this series, you read about the Wired article entitled “The Web is Dead” and some of my reactions from it.  In this article, I’m going to go over some big picture take-aways and trends that will impact all types of online businesses.

Trend #1 – A Shift Away From Search

Search has peaked in my opinion.  Search was the most important part of the first phase of the internet.  The internet brought more information at a single person’s

Retire@21: The Making Money Online Primer

This page is a comprehensive resource for everything on building online income.  One of the main features of this page are the detailed data reports from my own online income streams.  In the monthly reports, you will see detailed traffic data and the corresponding revenue levels.

Further down, you will see other information on strategy and tips to help you build revenue and income streams faster utilizing your websites.

How you can be on your way to Online Income: Ᵽ30,000- Ᵽ45,000 per month

Before Facebook was: Wayne Ting, almost a Billionaire

 

I've just met a man who dropped out of college six years ago to work full time on the social network that had grabbed the attention of everyone on his Ivy League campus.

Wayne Ting

No, not Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, but Wayne Ting, the creator of Campus Network. I was fascinated by his insights concerning the small things that meant Facebook became huge while his network faded away.

Wayne has now gone back to college, studying for an MBA at Harvard; I went to meet him after going to have a look at the college dorm where Mark Zuckerberg started thefacebook.com, as it was first known, in 2004. But in 2003 Ting was studying at Columbia, another Ivy League college.

That year, he and another student Adam Goldberg launched a website called CUcommunity. They had seen another early social network, Friendster, but none of their friends was on it:

"We thought you needed a community where people would feel safe and where they had enough social nodes - that was college."

Their network quickly caught on, and soon three quarters of Columbia students were using it. CUcommunity was quite a sophisticated network, offering photo-sharing and blogging, as well as the poking and friend lists that Facebook would later make familiar. "It was the place you would go to if you wanted to find out what was going on," says Wayne.

They had always planned to take it to other Ivy League colleges, and by 2004 the two students were leaving Columbia and heading to Montreal to work full-time on what they were now calling Campus Network.

They hired three software programmers, and got themselves an office which was also their home.

"We used to get up really early and hide the airbeds under the desks because we didn't want our employees to know we were homeless."

They threw themselves into the project, but to no avail. Facebook, which had launched at the beginning of 2004, was soon cleaning up on campuses across the USA. It was when they saw traffic begin to dip on their home territory, Columbia, that Ting and Goldberg decided to throw in the towel.

Why did Facebook, which launched later and was a less sophisticated network, still win the day? Wayne Ting thinks there were two main reasons - the speed at which Facebook moved, and the very simplicity of its early format.

Facebook had 90% of Harvard students using it within days of its launch and then very quickly started moving to other campuses. So when Campus Network turned up at those same colleges it was too late:

"The network effect is incredibly powerful. It takes a lot of time to create and look after a profile - you will always choose the network with more people."

But the Campus Network founders thought back then it was strange that students would choose Facebook:

"Why would you go to a site that only had poking and a photo when you can share photos, share music share your thoughts on a blog?"

Today he concludes that people just weren't ready for that level of sophistication back then - in fact it may have put them off Campus Network.

"A good website should have functionalities that 70 or 80% of users want to use. We had functions that only 10% wanted - nobody blogged, nobody even blogs today."

The result was that the network seemed a little too geeky:

"You started to get folks that were less cool, they weren't the hippest kids on campus - and that had a negative network effect."

Of course, the irony is that Facebook gradually added all those functions that had been on the rival network from the start:

"What Facebook did that was incredibly smart was to hook them with the friending and the poking and then they learned with their users, and added functionality slowly over time as users became more comfortable."

Just a few small details in the execution of a business can make the difference between coming first and coming nowhere. Wayne talked admiringly of Mark Zuckerberg's focus and his ability always to think about the next thing. When I asked him what he thought when he saw how wealthy and powerful his contemporary had become, he admitted: "It's difficult not to feel some sense of envy."

The man who could have been a billionaire, if his network hadn't been just a little too sophisticated for its own good, had that most attractive of American traits, an ability to laugh at and learn from failure. Wayne told me he had been to see The Social Network, the film about Facebook, and had been amused by the bit when the Winkelvoss twins had claimed that it was all their idea. "My thought was - we had it six months before you had it, should we sue?"

And he takes comfort that he's played a small role in the creation of what is now a huge industry:

"I don't know that many people in their entire life who've had a brush with a 40-billion-dollar idea. We didn't capture it - but I'm proud that we are a part of that story, however small."

Blogging101:Installing Wordpress and Start Blogging!

Before we can get started and I can show you how to make money online, we need to sort the essentials out, that means we have to get you online! Today I will show you how to build your first blog, which is surprisingly easy!

Make sure you take action as you read through my emails or you will find yourself a month down the road and you still haven't started! If you do have any troubles with the eCourse, then hit the reply button and I will be happy to respond to your email.

It is fine to host your blog with free hosts like Blogspot or Wordpress. If you are interesnted in creating a serious site, you should consider finding a Domain Name.

I'm always creating blogs because you can literally set them up in a hour, one of the fundamental things you need to have is a good domain name. For those of you are aren't quite sure what a domain is, it's one of those .Com URL's you type in your web browser to visit websites.

It's super important to choose a good domain, I often see long winded domains like, RobertSmith4CentralOregonHomes.com? For a start It's really long, boring and has so many words you will spend so much time just typing the domain that you will give up. When coming up with a domain name I have a little test I use, basically you have to be able to tell someone on the street your domain and then a hour later when they get home they must be able to remember it. This basically means, make it simple, no .Net .Co.Uk .Info domains, no dash's in between words and try to keep it to a 3 word maximum. 

Here's what I do, I put a twist to my domains to make them more interesting, for example, I could of had YoungEntrepreneurs.com instead of Retireat21.com, but the name Retireat21 is really catchy and something no one forgets, its even a speaking point for a lot of people. It's all about being creative and not trying to get every keyword under the sun in your domain. Another way you can come up with new domain names is by putting the benefit and your keyword in a domain. My friend was creating an outsourcing website and was thinking of domains like OutsourcingDistrict.com but it doesn't stand out to you and say what's its about, I advised him to buy the domain, SaveTimeOutsource.com, it tells the reader straight away the benefit of Outsourcing and why you should use the site.

When buying a domain you want to use a big company so that you know they will look after your domain and give you the support you may need

Hosting your Domain

The most important thing about running an Internet Business is that you have a reliable host, without one, you are wasting your time.

Retire@21: The Most Successful Dropouts in History

We are always wondering why college dropouts and/or regular students in high school or college make it big in business. It is a strange phenomenon, and it happens not just in the Philippines or in Bacolod but in most places.

Why do the top people in College usually work for most of these average folks? Well some say that school teaches kids straight answers to questions so that when life throws them a curve-ball, well, they don't know how to respond.

I am not encouraging kids to drop out but show people that these people simple took the risk that allowed them to become great in business even without a college degree. This is a list of the top entrepreneurs who dropped out of college and then went on to make it big in the business world.

Rank

	Name	Business	Dropped Out At	Age	Networth
1	Henry Ford	Ford Motor Company	16	Dead	$188 Billion (in 2009 dollars)
2	Bill Gates	Microsoft	19	53	$59 Billion
3	Larry Ellison	Oracle	20	64	$27 Billion
4	Sheldon Adelson	Las Vegas Sands Corp.	19	77	$26 Billion
5	Larry Page	Google	Graduated University of Michigan	35	$18.5 Billion
6	Kirk Kerkorian	Tracinda	12	91	$18 Billion
7	Michael Dell	Dell	19	43	$17.3 Billion
8	Paul Allen	Microsoft	20	56	$16.0 Billion
9	David Geffen	Geffen Records	21	65	$6.5 Billion
10	Steve Jobs	Apple	18	53	$5.4 Billion
11	Richard Branson	Virgin	16	58	$4.4 Billion
12	Takafumi Horie	Livedoor	22	35	$3.6 Billion
13	Ralph Lauren	Ralph Lauren	20	69	$3.6 Billion
14	Subhash Chandra Goel	Zee TV	12	58	$2.3 Billion
15	Jerry Yang	Yahoo	Graduated Stanford	40	$1.9 Billion
16	Mark Zuckerberg	Facebook	19	23	$700 Million
17	Russell Simmons	DefJam	19	52	$340 Million
18	Matt Mullenweg	WordPress	18	25	$200 Million
19	Mahesh Murthy	PinstormSeedFund &	19	43	$200 Million
20	Jawed Karim	YouTube	21	30	$64 Million
21	Kevin Rose	Digg	21	31	$60 Million
22	Jared Isaacman	United Bank Card	17	26	$50 Million
23	Kevin Sproles	Volusion	18	26	$17 Million
24	Shawn Fanning	Napster	19	28	$7.5 Million
25	Scott Wainner	ResellerRatings	20	26	$7 Million
26	Rob Benwell	Blogging To The Bank	18	23	$5 Million
27	Graham Langdon	Entrecard	19	21	$3.2 Million
28	Kristopher Tate	Zooomr	17	20	$3 Million
29	Aaron Levie	Box.Net	20	23	$3 Million
30	Reed Caldwell	ServInt