I came across this site, tree-nation.com over my browsing of some blogs of friends after seeing a very colorful animated and cool widget on their web pages. I got intrigued by this, I must say, beautiful widget, and so just found myself signing up and copying the code to my own blog.

Tree Nation according to its site “is an ecological project with a focused objective: To plant 8 million trees in Niger, Africa to fight desertification! Large-scale plantation of trees will increase the land’s productivity and re-generate the soil.” This is such a noble act therefore. Their very campaign is founded on the reason that “desertification is potentially the most threatening ecosystem change impacting livelihoods of the poor.” (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification www.unccd.int). Desertification is not about advancing deserts, it is about land degradation caused by climate change and humaninduced factors. That’s right, US! By planting your tree, you can help combat this process and regenerate the productivity of the land.”

Their goal is to plant 8 million trees in the desert using sophisticated mapping out systems technology (GPRS). Through donations and maximizing the power of the internet technology, Tree Nation is not only focused on increasing financial assistance from its members and other kind-hearted individuals, but more than that, increased awareness and knowledge on how to further protect our environment is of equal importance. One can choose among a wide array of tree species that could survive the desert atmosphere and even personalize it! Wow! I can have a tree named after me in a far away desert miles away from me just by just clicking through the net!

For now, I cannot donate yet, but my participation in their noble goal by increasing the awareness of millions of bloggers throughout our globe about their work (and also posting their widget on my blog…lower left part) is something I can realistically do now.

Take a visit of their site at http://www.tree-nation.com/, sign up and get a widget too! and maybe, even donate a tree and name it after you.

Good luck guys! Kudos!

Dialogue of some members of pinopoet yohoogroup on the issue of police harassing and stopping protesters on their way to Makati…and their commentaris on the different opinions of people regarding the incident.

(visit their site at pinoypoets.com and if your a poet, be a member. logo from pinoypoets.com)

How does really search engines rank your sites? The system with which search engines work is not really known, but there are some pointers that could help all of those who really want to make their site land in the upper strata of search engine results. Here are some of the pointers and in maximizing these, surely, the visibility of your site via the search engines will boosts.

1. Very important is the relevance of the content of your site. Finding a niche is a good pointer for starters.

2. The coherence of the topics and subject is also very important. Coherence of content gives focus to the site with which gives also a focus for search engines. A scattered and sporadic content will just steer away the search engine from your site. Focus is in the site is important.

3. The content are also evaluated according to its relevance. Put relevance to your site’s content and try to go away from having generic content.

4. Have the design, and inter-linking of the site well-organized.

5. Have lots of incoming and inbound links from other websites relevant to your sites. More importantly, these sites should have a well-established credibility in the field.

6. Put a focused label and tags on your site. Repetitive tag words in the content also maximizes its visibility and ranking in the search engines, but of course, do not overdo.

7. Put relevant outgoing links to your site