Youtube is Down!!! July 17, 2017 at 8:23pm Manila Time

The most scary part....Youtube is down today!

So what happened?

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New Blog Layout After that Painful Back Injury - blogger production note

Hey guys! I finally changed the layout and theme of my blog site. Check it out yo!  I've been thinking since last month if I will ever change the layout of my blog OR should I leave my blog and transfer to a new url, which is my domain - www.azraelsmerryland.com But I have other plans for it and Im thinking of making my dot com as my portal site and portfolio as a blogger, photographer and social media monster.

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Azrael's Merryland Blog Year End Blog Post 2016

This is the 2016 year end post for my Azrael’s Merryland Blog

I should have posted this blog post before the end of 2016, and its already the half of the 1^st week of January 2017 and you see me blogging these kind of stuff. I’ve think about it for days if ever I need a year end blog post, doing a short chronicle of my success and failure through out 2016.

I will be reading my old post from January 2016-December 2016 to know how I survived that year, what have I learned and also what are the things I should do next this 2017.

Medyo corny noh? But this blog post can be for myself or can be a news to my blog readers.

Kayo ba? What are the awesome things and part you like here in my blog last 2016? Siguro if you mention something below sa comments, it will be a help for me to know it so that I can do better as a blogger this year.

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Inside: YouTube Creator Day Manila 2016

What’s inside the YouTube Creator Manila event?
I’ve been waiting to get invited to this event for so many years, and Im happy to know that I got tapped to cover the YouTube Creator Manila 2016 event at Happy Garden Cafe in Makati. Its my 1^st time to be there and after staying there for hours, I just saw a different and new community, a community of online video producers at YouTube.

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How to detect duplicate content due to scrapers and ways to solve

Few weeks ago, blogger Azrael noticed that there was a spike an increase of traffic going to his blog site azraelsmerryland.blogspot.com when He reviewed his referral traffic in Google Analytics and found out that this blog scraped most of his contents and unfortunately copying his feed for almost 5 months.

After reading his Facebook wall post, I investigate and learned that this blog is showing identical contents from Azrael's blog. I researched on how to report this case to Google and read a lot of stuff making sure on how we are going to fix this issue.

This scenario is pretty common online who tries to scrapes most of your content and publish it on different website, sometimes they try use your traffic to earn money and uses web proxies to redirect your website.

SPAMMER / SCRAPER

ORIGINAL

Here's some few tips I had to determine if your site is a victim of duplicate content and where to find them:

1. Perform a web search using Google Search box. Type in site:yourwebsiteurl.com and know if your website has been indexed by Google. If nothing displayed on search results it means something is wrong and Google might temporarily ban you due to duplicate content or several issues that you violated under their guidelines.

2. If using Google Console / Google Webmaster Tools, check "links to your site" and you'll find incoming links pointing to a website and try to scan them by checking the links column.

3. Run a quick SEO audit on your website. Simply, check your internal links and it should not point to similar websites. Ask someone who has more experience in checking rel=canonical tag and where to implement them.

4. Use duplicate content checker tool like Copyscape and you'll see if someone copied your blog posts

5. Check your RSS feed probably it got compromised or hacked. Or any automatic syndication from Social Networks might be the problem.

How to fight these spammers & scrapers

1. Identify which information you may remove. Read removal policies first before filing a complaint, https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2744324

2. File a removal content report from Google, please make sure you specify your request check this link for additional information, https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905

3. Be specific of the blog posts you reported.

Here's a response from Removal Google team when they requested to be more specific of the pages to remove:

Since your notice concerns more than one copyrighted work from the same copyright holder, please refile the complaint by inputting the URLs for the first infringed work, then click the 'Add a new group' link to input infringing URLs related to another infringed work. 

For example, suppose you would like to report a total of 6 URLs relating to two different copyrightable works. In such a case, you would provide the following information:

Identify and describe work #1: [describe here] 
Authorized example of work #1: www.originalURL1.com 
Location of allegedly infringing work #1:

www.infringingURL1.com
www.infringingURL2.com
www.infringingURL3.com

Identify and describe work #2: [describe here] 
Authorized example of work #2: www.originalURL2.com 
Location of allegedly infringing work #2:

www.infringingURL4.com
www.infringingURL5.com
www.infringingURL6.com

4. If you are using Google Webmaster Tools, you can access this page to know if the pages were removed

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-dashboard

We still have few more left scraped blog posts to report, hoping Google will ban this account permanently. If you encounter the same issues, please investigate and if you can reach out the person who copied you please do not threaten them instead ask them politely to take down the blog posts or tell them you have already filed a case in Google and the contents will be remove soon.

Btw, this also applies to images and videos (Youtube).

Have a great day and hope you've learned something from this :)

If you have questions, email me at admin@glamour-social.com or PM me, you know where to find me -- my_misyel, www.glamourmoments.net 

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Inside AMPR bloggers appreciation night

The night of fun, music, food, raffles and gathering of bloggers at Cuore Bistro & Social Lounge in Jupiter St. Makati. Thanks to AMPR agency for inviting us bloggers for a party. This is not required to blog, but I super enjoyed that night that’s why Im blogging it na din dito sa blog ko.

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“Blog is gone” is an April fools joke but AzraelsMerryland.Com is real

I posted an entry here at http://www.azraelsmerryland.com/2016/03/blog-is-gone.html
last night and I just thought of making it as an April fools day joke and also a way to launch my new blog – www.Azraelsmerryland.com to the public.

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1st meeting of the year!

Last week is a good start for my year, I attended one event and then also a meeting. I was so excited to go back to Manila after several weeks of having a blog vacation. Yeah, I took a break for awhile but during those break was at time for some me-time, time for my family and also I look back on what happened last 2015 and see what I can do more this 2016.

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Veemscasting –a new way of reaching new blog readers via Veems messaging app

For online publishers such as bloggers, vloggers, and social media influencers, we always find a way of reaching and targeting new readers of our blog. The technique of tapping new readers is very common for publishers, we do research and find these targeted readers where they hang out and usually talk about the same topic and interest.

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8th million blog hits for Azrael's Merryland this November 2015

Here's a good news and its  a good news to start my day in the world of blogging. My blog -- Azrael's Merryland blog, just reached its 8th million blog hits. Yes... 8 million hits!!!

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To give talk later about my blogger journey at "Unleash Your Writing Skills the Write Way" workshop

I will share later my blogger journey at the "Unleash Your Writing Skills the Write Way" workshop at Hog’s Breath Cafe – Civic Drive, River Park Festival Mall, Filinvest City, Muntinlupa City.

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12 years of Azrael’s Merryland Blog (2003-2015)

June 19, 2003 was the date for the creation of this blog – Azrael’s Merryland Blog. I posted a short message online about the creation of the blog and also asking myself what do with it. My blog started as an online diary or journal and then it evolves into a pop culture hub and then into a life blog that reports to any of my interest.

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Bloggers Talk Series by Bloggers ng Pinas this June 26 in Freelancer.com office in BGC

Bloggers ng Pinas, a blogging community in the Philippines, is inviting you to attend and listen to the speakers at the Bloggers Talk Series this coming June 26 in Eco Tower, Fort Bonifacio. It’s a first blogging talks and conference organized by Bloggers ng Pinas, the topic to be discussed is about how a blogger can attract advertisers and also what are the general rule and guidelines in the business of pro blogging.

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7 million blog hits reached by Azrael's Merryland Blog

oh wow!!! Azrael's Merryland Blog reached 7 million hits in 9 months!
i'm a bit slow in blogging now, last time was 6 months...I thought I can break in getting 1 million more in 5 months. Okay.. go back to start

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See you all tomorrow at the Professional Blogging Summit

To those who registered for this event, then see you all at 1pm tomorrow in A.Venue Hall in Makati. I will be there to deliver a short talk and also as a panelist here at the Professional Blogging Summit.

Feel free to ask me some questions about blogging. Also our fellow pro bloggers will be there to deliver their own talk in a certain topic assigned to them.

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Blogapalooza 2014 (blog coverage)

coverage and article by Alyzza Sanchez



Finally, the long wait is over. Blogapalooza is celebrating its 3rd year. And of course, it is getting bigger and better. More bloggers came to participate, and more sponsors are giving opportunity to make this event happen. So yes, I am very excited as this is my first time attending the said event, and I have no idea what would really happen. As I enter the SM Aura SMX Convention area, I already saw some bloggers falling in line for the registration. And now this is really happening. I peek on the area and saw lots of booths and that makes me more excited.

 I feel that my adrenaline is pushing me to enter right away!

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Bloggers, freelancers and work at home ninjas vs. Typhoon, flood and long blackout–what should we do?

Hi everyone! It’s been a long time since I wrote an original article, but let me try again and hope this article and tip can help our fellow freelancers, bloggers and work at home ninjas during the aftermath of nature’s wrath and power failure, we experience this many times and it can paralyze our work and online activities for hours or days, The result is that we missed a lot of opportunities, money, projects and even get terminated from our job.

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Hootsuite users and ambassadors meet up at #HootUpMNL 2014 Kick Off

I'm preparing to attend this event later.. to those who registered via Eventbrite, see you all later!
My wife Lace Llanora is one of the speaker as a Hootsuite ambassador and also for Vanilla Digital.

event details:
As we kick off our first (and more to come!) #HootUp for the year, we are inviting Hootsuite Brand Ambassadors for PH as well as Social Media and Digital Marketers for an opportunity to meet, connect, network and share Hootsuite and Social Media tips.

This will be happening on Friday, June 27th at 5:00pm at A_SPACE MANILA at Makati City.
Come as you are as we have prepared a night of fun and exciting activities and of course, some Hootsuite swag! Don't forget to follow and use the hashtag #HootUpMNL for the event!

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Happy 6 million hits to my blog–Azrael’s Merryland

Thanks everyone for another 1 million blog hits, my blog Azrael's Merryland now reached its 6 million blog hits, last year was a 9 month duration to get another 1 million hits, but for now I finally reached my target to get 6 million blog hits! I thought that I can make it to 5 months, but I forgot that I started over again from being 4 months-7 months-9months-6 months.

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My slide presentation at When in Manila blogging summit -- “What I’ve learned from my 11 years of blogging”

Here’s my slide powerpoint that I presented from yesterday’s When in Manila Blogging Summit that was held in Mind Museum in BGC, Taguig City. Thanks to Vince of WheninManila.com for inviting me to be one of their guest speakers.

My topic is about “Azrael’s guide to blogging”, but I changed it to my presentation about what I’ve learned from blogging in 11 years. It’s the things that I learned and some stuff that I realized during my blogging adventure from 2003-2014.

so here it is… tadahhh..


Hi everyone, welcome to my talk here at the When in Manila blogging summit, this is my special presentation for this event, my talk titled “What I’ve learned from my 11 years of blogging” – its all about the things that I learned during the year 2003-2014 in blogging and also social media.

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