By Benj Arriola - Posted on Fri Jun 22, 2007
This is already old news for the seasoned SEO professional but still new to many budding SEO noobs out there. The main reason I posted this was because of a thread I found on SEO Philippines’ Forum, where someone was asking why the title on the Google search results were still showing the old titles. And in fact, they were actually being pulled from DMOZ, (www.dmoz.org) also known as ODP or Open Directory Project. (Note: The page on this link is not the Open Directory Project)
Since Google, Yahoo and other search engines consider links from DMOZ and Yahoo Directory as highly trusted links and put some weight on them, sometimes Google, Yahoo or MSN (Live Search) may actually pull titles and descriptions from DMOZ or Yahoo Directory if …continue reading
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By Benj Arriola - Posted on Sun Jun 10, 2007
The drive for me to write this blog post was mainly from a PM from a member of SEO Philippines. His message below and i translated parts of his message in Tagalog to English.
This is Carl of carlocab.com
I have been a fan of you since the start
Your the best in SEO! And, I’m not. hehehehehe…
If you have the time, may I please ask for some tips how you got most of your pages of your globalwarming awareness2007 blog in the supplemental index? Because my blog has 100+ pages in the supplemental index
And based on what I know, the less pages in the supplemental index results of a certain site, the higher the search engine ranking isn’t it?
If you have to chat, you can add me 
********@hotmail.com
********@yahoo.com
Thanks
Carl
Before I do answer this, lets do some definitions first.
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By Benj Arriola - Posted on Sat May 26, 2007
When this came out, SEO bloggers left and right posted stuff about this right away. I was to busy to react and blog about it for any attempt to win any link baiting stuff. But a friend of mine, while chatting just a few minutes ago, she asked my opinion about the Google Universal Search Results. And I decided to just copy and paste a portion of our conversation which was very short. Since I am not sure if I can post her name, I did not use her real name. And I did not ask permission as well to post this conversation.
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