I have been trying to reverify my Blogger blog after upgrading it from the old Blogger to new Blogger with a new XML layout but I keep getting the error message on Google Webmaster Central that my blog could not be verified.

I swear that I have copied the code exactly and pasted it just after the HEAD tag but still, I have not been successful and it is stressing me out. Before you ask me to check if I have my blog address right, yes it is correct since this blog was verified before I upgraded it to Blogger XML.

Also, yes, I copied the right code and pasted it in the right place. I know, I have a few other Blogger XML blogs that have been verified successfully. It’s just this one blog that is giving me a headache.

Well, I don’t know if it’s such a big deal to not be verified since many people don’t even know of the existence of Google Webmaster Central, right? Still, I hate it when something doesn’t work out as it should. GGGrrrrrrr

Somebody, please help me!!!!!

Those of us who are making a living off the web would know how important search engine optimization is. It does not matter if you have a website, ecommerce site or a blog; I read that if your site is on the first page of the major search engine, you will receive as much as an extra 70% of traffic. Think how much more sales you will enjoy if you have a niche product to sell to your targeted traffic just from the search engines.

Frankly, although I have been a webmistress for about four years now, I am still learning the ropes. It’s an ever evolving industry. For people who could not spare the time to read and research and implement their new knowledge; testing new grounds by trial and error, they should just engage the services of reputable companies that offer search engine optimization and provide unparalleled SEO management services.

This would ensure that the website in question is always optimized. Like I said, it’s always evolving so it could be tough for us to keep up with all the changes.

Living up to his manifesto of “Change”, Barack Obama steps into White House 2.0 in January and one of the things that will be changing is that now, not only will Americans get to listen to the President of the United States weekly on radio, they will get to see him weekly on the internet as well.

Although it is not a bad idea, many of my friends in America, especially the web-savvy ones, concur that once a week online is way too excessive. How about a monthly address or even just once every six months? Heck, as the President of the United States, he should just address the people online when something really major has happened, like 911.

The first such address will be live on YouTube this Saturday, reaching out to millions of YouTube users, Americans and non-Americans alike. Obama’s “Change” website, will then embed the YouTube video on its website www.change.gov.

With a conservative period of four years in office, I have to wonder how long he could keep up with his weekly YouTube addresses. LOL

Google has extended its lead on search engine use for October, 2008, gaining on Yahoo! and MSN. Well, I certainly am not surprised. In my household, most of us are using Google search exclusively, even if I HATE it for dinging my PageRank.

I think that for 99% of the time, I use Google search. I only use MSN and/or Yahoo! if I could not find what I want using Google, which rarely happens, unfortunately for Yahoo! and MSN.

I think that most web users my generation are the same as well. From the search engine war results that I see from my stats tracker, most browsers who land on my blogs and websites from search used Google as well.

I think that Google is the preferred search engine not because of its accurate results but because of its clean homepage and easy to load results page. Yahoo! and MSN come with plenty of frills that only distract me from the information that I would like to search for.