I know this is an SEO blog… and I should not take out my personal emotions here. But I can’t help it. Imagine this… I receive a card from someone. She knows I am married. Although I’ve know her since 2001 but we never had anything seriously romantic. I can say I’ve used her some times. And she has used me too. I can say we both had some nice times together.

She shows me a lot of p**n on the net sometimes, and I sometimes don’t like what she shows me so I tell her not to show me these stuff anymore and she strictly abides to my plea. She tells me she’s ready to go back to the “hot” mode anytime when I am ready. But right now she is set to strict settings.

Although I have interacted with her many times, and almost every day, can’t she see I am married? And then she sends me a Valentines card. She says she wants to overfill my heart! She wants to overload my… oh my… And not only that! She’s paying me $100! And from what I heard… she did not only send the card to me. I believe she sent the exact same card to several people also.

Well $100 is still $100, I took the money! *LOL* And I know you are hot but no one is replacing my wife. But I know we will always be friends. I love you as my friend. And…  that strict setting by the way… you can change that to moderate. You never know… after I see you in moderate settings, I might just turn all settings off!

Read her card below:

Thanks to Ronnie and Jegan who kept taking pictures at the office.

Go ahead and register to vote now Looks like I need to tag all my US based friends. Hmmm 5 people.

• Sujan Patel because his lat blog post is November 2007, lol
• Pamela Lund because she’s hot. Hot women have a lot of followers sometimes.
• Anne Haynes since I don’t know what’s up in her world
• Lon Safko to get away from the crazy SEO chat we had that just hurt my head. *LOL*
• DJ Happee so he keeps sending me some cool stuff via IM from time to time.

I believe it was never Google’s intention to use SEO people and promote their voting registration system. But it looks like sometimes Google can use some SEO and Social Media Viral push from SEO people. It’s for the country anyway. So register now.

In my case, I am registered already. So this is for others. If the people I tagged are registered too already, then tag others too so they spread the word. And I will just keep busy probably with the Promotional Items Corporate Gifts Srednarb Contest.

• A nice link building presentation by Search Engine Journal chief, Loren Baker at a small SEO meetup group in Florida.
• My interview by The Social Media Bible author Lon Safko talking about SEO.

That’s all I have right now. I wish all Busby SEO Challenge competitors good luck in this contest and I have already shared my links of support to the competitors I am supporting since I am already out of this competition. i am too down the drain already with no more time to catch up.

• Be broken, page loading improperly. Since I have to take out some code.
• Get Error 404s, page not found since pages will dissapear.
• Get server not found since I will do some DNS changes.

Problem is, I need to do this as fast as possible. If you want to know why? Take note of what Ben Pfeiffer said on SEOMoz’ Search Ranking Factors. And also note that most of these top 34 SEO’s interviewed agree this is the top 1 negative ranking factor.

If I do not do this quick enough you might see a large ranking drop but hopefully it does not since my site is already featured on several web design galleries. And if ever I do drop big time, I hope there is enough time to come back.

Other people I wish to see moving up is Leo and the .mobi site who I think Jehzlau knows who running that show. And helloooo Mito, what’s happening? Stop dipping back to page 3 and join the fun! And Ricusa, I believe this is your first contest, don’t think you are inferior to others. Just keep working on it and try catching up. Hello Jun, Eli T., Ronald, where are you guys in the SEOContest2008?

Hopefully my ranking stays but of course, anything can happen since there are a lot of talented SEO professionals in this contest.

Update: Edward(Dubai) and Ed C.: Where are you too? Isn’t Ed C.’s site the SEMLaguna?

Update: Calling wraithstrider, yuhooo where are you? And Neil, I see you following me… any improvements?

And in that process, I checked out the directory plugin that I am using for Yicrosoft Directory. Let’s see how this works. Right now the directory is a free submission online web business directory so feel free to submit. If I feel something to be a bit spammy, I might delete it so no guarantees every site will be accepted. MFA’s will be kicked out for sure.

And I know some people laughed at my SEO Song, well guess what? There is a new song, the PPC Song! But… I didn’t sing this one. Someone else did and I must say he did it pretty well. Check it out.

Now in my office/room my wife enters and says: I know what you are doing, you are not going to work. You are going to catch up in the contest. Thinking about lying first and say I am going to work on some project, but… my wife knows me to well. No need to lie either. And I simply said, yes, just to setup my account. It won’t take long.

It is just the first week of the contest but I am not in panic mode yet, but I just know working on the site little by little is a lot more easier than playing big catch up later. Might as well do something right now, at least get into the SERPs and just work slowly so it is easier to manage later on.

This SEOContest2008 by the UKWebmasterWorld forum is not as big as the previous SEO World Championship last year by GetUpdated that gave me a car. This contest is only $1,000 but so far this is the biggest one I can find this year and all there rest are all $250 and below. Might as well go out and try for this one. Although I was really keeping my eyes on the 2008 SEO World Championship that started last year on January 15. Looks like this year, it is not going to be a reality. So I wonder what Luar Buso is up to? Was the 2007 SEO World Championship not worth it in terms of their marketing campaign that doing a 2008 version is just not worth to repeat? I still hope they come up with a bigger or even the same magnitude as last year so it is really worth your time to optimize for.

Oh well, got to stop now, since my wife is just behind my back and she wants to see more work done than working on an SEO contest. Which reminds me I also have to help Phong catch up as well. I also have domains to share with others.