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Godaddy Promo Codes

I received an expiration notice earlier for my social bookmarking site coming from my domain registrar Godaddy.com which says I only got 5 more days to renew it. I immediately went to Godaddy to renew it, but when I came to the payment page, I noticed that the domain now costs $9.95 then I was reminded of the promo code available all over the web. I used promo code OYH3 and got a $3 off the price making it $6.95. That’s a good deal isn’t it? I’ve got more domains expiring this June and July so this will be very useful.

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New Optional Benchmarking Feature In Google Analytics

I’ve received a mail earlier from Google Analytics announcing their newest feature and the first in the industry, the benchmarking.

Excerpt from the Google Analytics help center:

Benchmarking is an optional Google Analytics service that shows how your website’s statistics compare against other industry verticals. In the beta version of this service, you are able to compare your site’s Visits, Pageviews, Pages per Visit, Bounce Rate, Average Time on Site, and New Visits data against benchmark data from categories of other participating websites. You can use this data to gain broader context for your site so you can identify additional opportunities to improve your site’s metrics.

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What Is XML?

A friend asked me earlier, what is XML? Well, he’s a blogger and he probably met this term most of the time as it’s all over the web that’s why I wonder why he don’t know it’s meaning and the importance of it.

XML is short for Extensible Markup Language made to transport structured data across different systems and platforms.

I remember an article from W3C pointing out the following things:

  • XML is for structuring data
  • XML looks a bit like HTML
  • XML is text, but isn’t meant to be read
  • XML is verbose by design
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Bank Codes Of Major Banks In The Philippines

After the previous announcement that we can now withdraw paypal money to Philippine banks, we’ve been having hard times trying to figure what what really the 9-digit code that paypal asks when we try to add our bank account details. And now, paypal have released the official list.

ALLIED BANKING CORP

010320013

AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND

010700015

ASIA UNITED BANK

011020011

BANGKO SENTRAL NG PILIPINAS

010030015

BANGKOK BANK

010670019

BANK OF AMERICA

010120019

BANK OF CHINA

011140014

BANK OF TOKYO

010460012

BANCO DE ORO (& EPCIB)

010530667

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Withdraw Paypal To Banks In The Philippines

Yes it is confirmed, paypal now allows local users to withdraw your paypal money to a local bank account and in vice versa, add funds to your paypal from a Philippine based bank account.

Paypal To Philippine Bank Account

No charge will be given if the transaction amount is exactly or above Php7000.00 but for transactions of Php6999.99 and lower, a Php50.00 charge will be applied.

All you need to apply is your bank name, bank code and your account number.

Here is the list of 9-digit Philippine bank codes

Thanks to Pinoy Money Talk for the details.

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