I was just listening to the radio earlier this morning when I heard this letter and an interview to a certain person named Carlo Cruz. He lost his wife, Leslie Cruz, in the Glorietta blast last October. This is his letter that he planned to send to his employers but sent it first to an e-group.

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Last October 6, 2007, I asked Mr. Sustines Laplana if he can make a review of my blog in which he accepted and made the review. The review was entitled, “Learn Lessons from the SilkenHut Blog“. This post is a summary of what was mentioned in that review plus my personal thoughts and reactions. (The review was written on October 24, 2007)

On Alexa and Technorati Ranking

It was mentioned that I had an Alexa rank of 508,770 and a Technorati rank of 137,861. When I checked it now, I’m happy that my Alexa rank has now increased to 357,205. However, in terms of technorati rank, I was saddened when I saw that my rank was lowered to 155,439.

I decided to do a little investigation on the cause of this drop in technorati rank. My hypothesis is that Technorati looks at “http://silkenhut.com” differently than “http://silkenhut” even if they point to the same blog. So I tried to check the both of their technorati rank and this is what I got.

• http://silkenhut.com - 155,439
• http://silkenhut - 84,045

As you can see from the results, the address with “blog” in it has the higher technorati rank and for me is the correct Technorati rank for this blog. Do note that in Alexa, it does not matter which address I use because I still got the same rank.

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I have officially returned and thanks to the long weekend, I had time to catch up to the things I was not been able to do. So for now, allow me to start with Silkenhut Reaching out Issue 16. Let me share with you the links for this week.

• How to secure wordpress - Jaypee finds a white paper on wordpress security and gives us a brief overview / summary on what to expect on that white paper. ^_^
• Selaplana’s secret on his increase in traffic and feed subscribers - Mr. Sustines was generous enough to teach us his secret.
• Install a favicon and increase loyal readers - This is a good tip on how we can a favicon on our blog and stand out among other blogs and also gain more loyal readers.
• 4 tehniques in researching keywords - Marghil shares with us on how he manages to find keywords to optimize and use on his blog. He is also the on who started the “pinay scandal” search engine optimization trend.
• Jehzlau’s antivirus software reviews - Jehz shares with us his experiences and his personal choice as the best antivirus software.
• Mr. Elizar will be giving away $50 in paypal money soon…Watch out for it.
• Funny epitaphs - In spirit of the all saints / all souls day, here are some funny epitaphs to tickle your funny bone.
• GMail 2.0 review - This is a very informative review of Gmail 2.0. It also has screen shots to help you visualize the changes.

Congratulations to Postcard Headlines for being PinoyBlogero’s Blog of the Month

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Now that I have four days of vacation, I really should be catching up on my blogging life. As of today, here are my plans…

• Read all due posts in my Google Reader
• Schedule future posts for next week (that means that this week will be post-less hehe)
• Relax, enjoy and have fun ^_^

Just three items but I hope that I can finish them all. hehe

Btw, my warmest thanks to Mcbilly, Joiz, Frances and Redlan for their encouragements in this post (Reaching out issue 15). Thank you very much.

Allen

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