Anything mommy blogger related here. This features blog events coverage. This blog also publish press release and write ups. Tips and tutorials on how to be an effective blogger.

This also include a list of top mommy blog in the Philippines.

In addition, here is the 5 SIMPLE STEPS TO BE A MOMMY BLOGGER:

1. Create a blog name that will represent you as a mommy blog. Sometimes it's good to include the noun mommy or mother or nanay.

2. Create an email the same as your blog name for branding purpose, in other words, for identification. After that, you can proceed to step 3 which is actually one of the most challenging part.

3. Open a blog. It has been debated for so many times which is the best blogging platform to use. For starters, I usually recommend blogspot because it is free. On the other han, if you are ready to shell out money, wordpress org is the best.

4. Design your blog. This sound like an easy task to do, it is actually, however, it can be very time consuming. The number of free templates for a blog is endless. To help you decide, set your blog tone and color. Will it be a dark themed blog? Light? What will be the primary colors? And from there, searching will be easier.

5. Lastly and most importantly, Start writing. The best way to start this is to introduce yourself. Likewise, you can also create a list of why you started a mommy blog. Or you can mention top 10 things that you would want your future readers to know about you.

Good Housekeeping and 3M “Get Hooked On DIY” Event

Remember the get hooked event invite I posted a few weeks back?

Too bad I missed the program and the workshop..was late for the workshop and had to leave early before Team Kramer appears. Apparently, I missed a lot.. and here are some of those:

Are You In Command booth that showed how to properly install and remove the Command Hook. Buti na lang the lady manning the booth was nice enough to show me how:

How to correctly install 3M Command Hook and How to correctly remove 3M Command Hook:

In Bathroom Battle booth, attendees had to apply and remove the Command Hook on both wet and dry surface.

A challenge to organize a room based on a photo peg was experience by attendees at the Prep the Dorm booth.

Participants took their best selfie using the Good Housekeeping cover and 3M editorial photo frame at the Hanging the Frames. They were encouraged to upload their photos on social media using the hashtag #3MGHDIY

At the Be a Commando & Do It Yourself booth, attendees did all the tasks assigned to them using 3M products.

Aside from Team Kramer, home improvement expert Coni Tejada also graced the event and share her insight on space management and organization:

Here are some example of the things you can do with 3M Command Hook line:

3M Philippines Consumer and Home Improvement Markets Division Product Manager, Jermits Rabonza shares, ” We, at 3M continue to provide solutions for every Filipino consumer in the managing and making their home spaces a better place for their families. There is a Command product for every part of the home that let’s consumers maximize ther home spaces by utilizing their walls damage- free!”

DAMAGE- FREE. This makes me consider using 3M Command Hook product line. You know we’re just renting our place and as much as possible I don’t want to damage the paint..using 3M Command Hook (specially for my DIY parties) just solved my “wall damage” worries.

3M Command has 7 product categories:

Decorative
Multi -Use
Home and Office Organizers
Cord Management
Picture Hanging Systems
Replacement Strips
Bathroom Solutions

Cord Management seems to be the perfect product for me specially for my parties 🙂

Nofollow Plug In For Unnatural Outbound Links

Last week, some bloggers received an email from Google stating that their blogs have unnatural links, here’s a copy the email received:

And because of unnatural links (which has been tagged as paid links/ sponsored links), Google has applied a manual spam action to their blogs.

What does Google manual spam action means? It has been observe that blogs that received this manual action got penalized with a PR0, this may also mean disappearing from search engine. YIKES! No blogger would want that!

As mentioned on the email, you can submit a reconsideration request provided that you add rel=”nofollow” to paid links.

EASY? yeah if your blog is relatively new and have 100 or less post.. 100 is still a lot no? The best way to do this is to install a NOFOLLOW plug in (if you’re in WordPress of course).

Here’s a tutorial if you’re using Blogger as a platform>> How to Make Nofollow All External Links Automatically in Blogger

The best NOFOLLOW plug in for me is Nofollow for external link. This plug in automatically adds rel=”nofollow” to all external links, while maintaining a dofollow attribute to all internal links.

External links> any links outside your blog (other blogs, website etc)
Internal links> any links inside your blog (old post, etc)

Out of all the NOFOLLOW plugins listed, this one seems to be the most effective. All plugs in have the same problem> it automatically nofollow all links, new and old. I choose this one because of the rating and user reviews.

If you’re creating a new blog post and requires dofollow links, just add rel=”dofollow” to the link.

No Follow vs Do Follow

(from techpehpot.com)

Do follow links are links that is followed. That’s easy. Followed by whom? and where? Example, if your link is here in my blog and if it is a do follow link, the search engines will follow that link and will associate your site to my website.
A no follow link is simply a way of saying that a link should not be associated to your site. This is best done for sites that you think have malicious contents. So if you don’t wanna share your page ranks and all, use rel=no follow on your links.
In human terms, do follow means we’re friends and you know what they say about friends, tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are. And with no follow it means you are not friends.

Advertisers will always ask for dofollow link since they want the PageRank juice from a blog, but this is against Google’s Webmaster Guideline, as PageRank manipulation is a part of search engine optimization (SEO).

Holy Week 2014 Mall Schedules

Here are the mall schedules for Holy Week 2014, complied from Rappler and ABS- CBN news

Holy Week 2014 SM Malls Schedule

All SM Malls are closed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. SM Baguio is open on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday (mall hours: 10 AM to 10 PM). All SM malls will resume regular operating hours (9 AM to 10 PM) on Black Saturday.

Holy Week 2014 Robinsons Malls Schedule

Robinsons Malls are closed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday except for the following Robinsons Malls:

Robinsons Place Luisita (open on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, regular mall hours)
Robinsons Place Malolos (open on Maundy Thursday, 12 PM to 9 PM)
Robinsons Place Palawan (open on Maundy Thursday, regular mall hours, close on Good Friday)
Robinsons Place Santiago (open on Maundy Thursday, regular mall hours, close on Good Friday)
Robinsons Place Pangasinan (open on Maundy Thursday, regular mall hours, close on Go
Summit Ridge Tagaytay (open on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, regular mall hours)

Holy Week 2014 Ayala Malls Schedule

All Ayala Malls (Glorietta, Greenbelt, Alabang Town Center, Market! Market!, Trinoma, Ayala Center Cebu, Marquee, Bonifacio High Street, Abreeza, Harbour Point) closed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. All Ayala malls will resume regular operating hours on Black Saturday.

Metro Gaisaano is open from 9 AM to 6 PM on Maundy Thursday, closed on Friday.

For Bonifacio High Street, most restaurants and cafe will be open.

Holy Week 2014 Megaworld Lifestyle Malls Schedule

All Megaworld Lifetyle Malls (Eastwood Mall, Venice Piaza, Lucky Chinatown, Burgos Circle) are closed on Thursday and Friday except for Newport Mall in Resorts World which is open on Thursday (12 PM to 12 AM), closed on Friday.

Powerplant will be closed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, will resume regular operating hours on Black Saturday.

Shang-La Mall will be closed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, will resume regular operating hours on Black Saturday.

Getway Mall will be closed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, will resume regular operating hours on Black Saturday.