Here’s a unique Christmas gift that you can use as well as promote your website as well. A friend of mine, Jayvee, and a fellow blogger at b5media had this cool cellphone cookies made by Art Cakes.

There’s also a cupcake promoting his abuggedlife.com blog.

This is a very good example of offline advertising for an online venture.

Here’s some more ideas that you can use for offline advertising of your websites.

• caps
• mugs
• t-shirt
• fan
• ballpen
• car shades
• a sticker of your website at the back of your car
• mouse pads

Any other ideas you can think of?

On Dec 11, Danny Sullivan will launch Search Engine Land. Danny is one of the big names in SEO/SEM industry.

Danny along with Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz, will be delivering fresh information about search engine marketing (SEM) and search engines in general. Sullivan and Schwartz will start blogging in on the launching day. Sherman will join them on the first week of January next year.

Check out my post at seo weblog

I’ve written an article about this at searchengine-weblogs.com I am the editor of that SEO blog so please feel free to visit that site and read more about SEO and what it can do for you and your search engine rankings.

As a quick summary of the article, here’s a snippet on what might have caused the drop.

There are numerous reasons why your site dropped in search engine ranking. Reasons include change in search engine ranking algorithm, loss of PageRank or link popularity, bad or broken links, search engine penalty, and the missing www’s syndrome (incorrect url).
Another is that your competitors continue doing SEO on their sites which is why your site is going down the SERPs. Sometimes, there isn’t anything wrong with your site. It is just that your competitors are moving ahead, leaving you behind.

In the recently concluded Business Blogging Summit, Jason Calacanis raised the issue of paid bloggers.

Then we have people who come along – like Payperpost. Now we get into the evil part of me. I care when somebody comes into this beautiful place where trust and authenticity matters. And then these people come in and they get into trickery. If you go selling your posts and not disclosing it, that’s not innovative, thats lying.

“Tim Draper, you put $3 million into a company doing covert marketing. What were you doing? What were you thinking, Tim Draper?

Many people have posted their reactions about this, but here’s one that I like most.

Thanks to our major sponsor lakeside technologies, we again have a nice SEO gathering with good food and drinks.

Migz was there, yuga and his new laptop, jayvee, rico and sasha was also there, of course marc, angelo, and a whole lot more.

There was the speech by Google’s eyes and ears here in the Philippines “Ms. Aileen Apolo”. Got a bar of chocholate and hopefully a google t-shirt soon and of course, the highlight of it is the new SEO contest.

I was surprised when I got home that somebody already got the .com/.net/.org domain. Wow that was fast.

The nice thing about this new contest is the inclusion of the top 3 major search engines, google, yahoo, and msn in the prices. This is going to be an interesting contest.
Lots of prizes.

So paypal is finally in the Philippines huh? But before you jump for joy, there’s just one thing you can do with it and that is

• a. SEND MONEY.

You cannot

• a. Receive money
• b. Load up the account thru credit card
• c. Withdraw funds

So it’s now just a one way street. Money just goes out and not coming in. This only allows you to buy items on internet stores that use paypal as their credit card processor.

Is it just the Philippines or are some of other countries also in the same boat?

[also blogged by yuga, racoma, migz ]