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Finally another blogger-vs-blogger contest going on two months after the Shoemoney vs JohnChow competition (if you could recall). This time it is between two young Internet entrepreneurs Tyler Cruz of TylerCruz.com and Gyutae Park of WinningTheWeb.com who come head to head to see who gets the most votes from the readers. The loser will pay 3 lucky voters who voted for the winner $100 each (that’s $300 of cold hard cash in total).

I thought it’s gonna be the same old boring contest whereby you’d be required to subscribe to their RSS feed, find clues or enter the contest daily etc, but this time you are only required to write a 300 words blog post about this nasty contest and link to them, and you will stand a chance to win $100 via Paypal and total of 3 winners will be selected. Now, if you think that you’re not gonna be able to win the $100, read on.

On top of $100, you get guaranteed freebies too
For every voter who enters the contest, you will get some freebies from the gunners too:

Tyler Cruz: Anyone who votes for Tyler Cruz will receive 150 Entrecard credits and a link back to your blog from TylerCruz.com.

Gyutae Park: 100 Entrecard credits will be given to 10 voters only and first 50 voters will also get a complimentary Winning The Web t-shirt.

Now if you don’t have an excuse not to take part in the contest, do you? Get the freebies as a belated Christmas gift, will ya?

How to enter
Follow the simple 3 steps mentioned here if you vote for Tyler Cruz, or here for Gyutae Park. However, you will have to act quick, as you only have until Monday, January 14 2008, 9PM ET to submit your vote.

Who I vote for
So, here’s my entry. Who do I vote for? Errr… you can probably tell from the nasty piece of graphic that I photoshopped, yes, my vote goes to Mr.Tyler Cruz.

Why I am Voting for Tyler Cruz
1. The main reason is because, Tyler Cruz is losing at the time of this writing, Gyutae Park is leading with 30 votes while Tyler Cruz stands at 14 votes. I prefer helping someone behind rather than someone ahead. The satisfactory feeling is magnificent when you make a successful strike back, and I wanna be part of the victory.

2. Look at the freebies each of them offering, which one attracts you the most? Of course, Tyler Cruz’s. I wouldn’t know if I’d be guaranteed the 100 Entrecard credits and the complimentary t-shirt offered by Gyutae Park as it’s number limited.

3. Both of them teach you how to make money online from the comfort of your home, without having to wear a business jacket (but Gyutae Park wears one) and pay attention to your posture and gesture. I’m truly inspired by TylerCruz’s cartoon mascot, it clearly delivers a message that you can still enjoy playing your favorite games (although I do not encourage gambling), drinking the finest beverage of your choice, sitting comfortably in whatever position you like while making piles of money online, unlike Gyutae Park. Well, I’ve had enough of 9-5 rat race, I’d very much prefer t-shirt and jeans, no more business wear please, making money online is supposed to be fun and relaxing.

and the list goes on….. other lame excuses that I could think of:
4. I don’t know how to pronouce ‘Gyutae’, but ‘Tyler Cruz’ is so much easier. (DUH!)

5. Tyler Cruz’s feed readers (1129 readers) outnumbers Gyutae Park’s (315 readers). If both side of the feed readers were engaged in a gang fight, Tyler Cruz gang would definitely be able to win the fight. (too much of Facebook fights.. PEACE)

6. WinningTheWeb.com looks like another John Chow dot com. (one or two is enough)

7. Gyutae Park is wearing a business jacket but he’s only giving away t-shirts. ( I want that Gioxxxx Armxxx suit too)

So, guys and girls, let’s vote for Tyler Cruz, that’s it. I’m waiting for the 100 dollars green note. Tyler Cruz, declare me as one of the winners please. I need that $100 to buy the Winning The Web t-shirts please. =p

Sorry for the asskicking graphic and harsh words, no offense, Mr.Gyutae Park.

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Looks like Google is giving an early toolbar PageRank update of the year 2008. In fact, I noticed the data center was reset to zero while I was doing a random check yesterday. I thought it was a system glitch or something, so I didn’t pay much attention to it until I realised today that one of my blogs read a PR of 5 (from PR4) on the Google PageRank extension in my Firefox. I’m not sure if the toolbar PageRank update is confirmed, but there are certainly several reports across webmaster forums about the update.

I then did a PR check on all my blogs, and very much to my surprise that WiseBlogging was also updated to PR4 from PR3, although not much of linking work was done. Whereas, the other two blogs of mine remained at PR4. In conclusion, I’m now having a blog with a more respectable PR5 and 3 blogs with PR4, not a bad start for the year 2008. This early PR update allows me to reorganise my editorial calendar and restrategize to maximize the earning of my blogs.

Remember during the last PR update when many websites had their Google PageRank reduced due to paid links and cloaking, Google also booted them from the index. I’m expecting to see more sites being ripped off their PageRank value in this update. If yours was penalized, I’m sorry to hear that, but PageRank drops doesn’t really mean anything. Who cares what Google thinks about your site quality. It might negatively affect your ad revenue, but hey, who says you can’t make money without Google? Always explore other monetization options that do not require an outdated quality indicator like PageRank. Frankly speaking, most advertisers do not even look at PageRank value of your site, and some of them do not even know what a PageRank is. =p

Has your PageRank been updated? What does it mean to you? Share with us.

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