Here are the 11 SEO highlights that was mentioned on the post. You may see the link to the post at the bottom of the page.

1. Ranking Penalty Due to Aggressive SEO (JCP & Overstock)

2. Poor Quality Content Penalty: Google’s Series of Panda (Farmer) Updates

3. Google +1 Button

4. Google+, Google takes a shot with Social Media

5. Schema.org: the Rich Snippets Guide

6. Google Sitelinks on Steroids

7. Rel = Prev and Rel = Next Pagination Tags

8. Rel = Alternate Tag Specificity

9. Keyword Data Encryption – Data Not Provided

10. Freshness Update

11. Last Month Algorithm Changes

Among the 11 items in the list, I was not able to do the schema.org, I still need to do some research about that topic. I was also penalized by Panda, and this blog lost almost half of the search engine visitor. I am still struggling on Google+, my visitors seldom shares at their Google+ page, or most of my visitor does not have Google+.

Good and great post will always secure your ranking in the future. Engaging in Black Hat will not secure your SEO effort in the future. You will always have doubt and stress. But I would like to emphasize that Black Hat is different than Automation. Just my belief.

I could say that, I was not able to do something on most of the changes as mentioned above. It only means that I do need to do more research about SEO this 2012. I always remember a saying that “SUCCESS is the greatest enemy of Learning” the moment you meet your success you stop learning, and this is what happen to me last year. I do hope it will not happen this 2012. It should be “Success comes with great responsibility and Continues learning is a must in order to be successful ”. Success will also mean more money online as well as more friends online.

I need to share more about Tech at Hand Dot Net SEO Tips this year 2012.

Here is the Link to the post : 11 SEO Highlights of 2011

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Tech At Hand has been in existence for more than 5 years and ever since, all blog post in this blog was written either by me or by my wife. I also consider blogging as a business and I am making money out of it. This is not my sole source of income but I could say that it also give a fair share of my monthly income. In fact, my blog earning is what I am using for paying the Lot that I bought at Antel Grand Village (site in progress) in Cavite, as I mentioned in my earlier post. I also love to do experiments and do something out of the box to try new idea and make it into action.

I am also busy doing offline job, which is the reason why updates on this blog is usually every other day or sometimes two times a week. But I can say that earning nowadays is better compared before. So to make a steady flow of traffic and engage more visitors, a constant fresh content is needed for a blog to survive in any updates of Google Algorithm. Content is still the King and Marketing is the queen.

I have come to an idea of investing to hire staff for this blog and for my other blogs. If I have staff to do the research for me, I can focus on handling the on site and offsite optimization. I also believe that a business person should try to know their strength and weaknesses. Those weaknesses shall be outsourced and the strength should be further enhanced.

I also believed that there is no successful business person that runs his business alone without any support from anyone. I will let you know how further updates and I hope it will be a successful experiment.

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Lesson Learn While Driving My Car and Applying to Internet Blogging and Marketing

This is just a comparison between Blogging and Driving A Car,

The moment you sit on your car usually the following question gets into the driver’s mind:

1. Which car will you drive? If you have more than One
2. Where are you heading ? What Path ?
3. Does your Car has a fuel ?
4. Did you Check you tires ?
5. What Route will you take? The shortcut with lots of obstacles or the long cut ?
6. Who will be with me ?
7. Do I wear my Sit Belt ?
8. Do I have my Tool at the Tool Box ?
9. Do I have my Spare Tire ?
10. Check the Last Item

Check it out how do I relate them to blogging.

1. Which car will you drive? If you have more than One

A blogger will always asked himself, Which blog will I optimized ? Which blog will be my secondary blog ? In this regards you will be able to know which blog will be helped to be pushed at the Main Page of the SERP. I own two site with almost same niche. One is from Blogspot and the other one is this blog. I usually support this blog from my other site. Because my blogspot site has a more blog juice from this, Since it created a year ago. But now I love WordPress that is why I am using it to promote this blog.

2. Where are you heading ? What Path ?

What niche would you go, Will it be a Technology for Girls Niche, A food niche , a Game Niche and Song Lyrics..or what so ever that pops at your mind that interest you. And what would I suggest is you have to pick a niche that interest you. It in nonsense to make a niche about car in which you don’t even know how to troubleshoot cars. Or you want to blog about dogs but in reality you hate dogs. The thing is you have the blog what you love and will not have a hard time to blog.

3. Does your Car has a fuel ?

A car needs a fuel to run, A blog needs post to be noticed, My question is, Have you ready some post in advance ? So that before you promote your site, it will have contents which is unique and interesting to check by your new visitors.

In time that you like to promote your blog, It would be better to promote it after 20 to 30 post.Your readers will be able to understand the niche that you would like to relay unto them. And remember it should be unique.

4. Where will you buy your Fuel ?

I can relate it to the Social Media , which is one way to advertise your blog. You can also advertise your blog into other blogs.

You may also try to spend and ask some links to other site which has the same theme as your niche. Or you could politely ask for a link exchange. You can also find site that supports nofollow tag so that you could have a link juice from their site.

I would also suggest joining Forum and E-groups.

5. Did you Check you tires ?

What the car needs while moving is its tires. What Blogging need to be in the net is the Host site.

We need to decide on what hosting do we need to go, Will it be Blogspot, WordPress.com or self Hosted WordPress Blog ( Paid or Free ) ?. It is important to decide on this matter since it will be difficult to handle later on when your site is already fully optimized. You can check my post about this two free host.

6. Who will be with me ?

Are you running your blog alone or are you going to invite fellow blogger to have a group blog? This is just a question if you would like to do something like Group Blogging. But like driving your car, You can drive it alone. And sometimes ask for a guest blogger.

7. Do I wear my Sit Belt ?

The sit belt’s purpose is to support the passenger in sudden accident, So the next question is what are the measure you have to do to protect your blog from SPAM. Like an accident Spammers come in time which you don’t expect them to come. So installing application such as Akismet or Spam Karma or any other Spam Protection is a must on starting blog.

8. Do I have my Tools at the Tool Box ?

Have you gather all your resources for making some tweaks at your blog. Do you have the right site that will give you a good theme and Plug in if you are using WordPress or Blogspot Hacks if you are using Blogspot.

9. Do I have my Spare Tire ?

Always have a Plan B when Blogging, If your first attempt failed well check your spare it might help. Having a plan B Always help.In blogging don’t be frustrated if you did not succeed in your first Trial. There is always second chance.

10. I leave the last question to You.. What do you think will it be?

It would be great if you could share it with us here. So next time you drive you will also think of blogging Hope you like it. Any comments ?