SEO Pinoy - Search Engine Optimization and Online Marketing

Finally, I bought my first car. It was really a dream come true. If you still remember I’ve bought my laptop because of blogging and SEO last August.After few months of hardwork on optimizing my site and blogging, part of my dream came true. I’m very excited to drive my first car today. I’m just waiting for few more hours and the former owner of 1991 Mitsubishi Gallant will give the key to me today. I have few more plans before Christmas that I’m looking to purchase. And my next target is to buy an iphone or a digital camera.I’m currently looking for a digital camera and iphone review in order to guide me on my purchase. Reviews are very important in purchasing a product. Don’t forget to read all the reviews you can read before buying a product.

Search Engine Optimization plays a major role in order to get more advertiser in your blog. It is very important to know atleast the basic of SEO if you’re a blogger. Some of the advertiser are looking for website’s link popularity and some of them are also looking for high pagerank. If you want to increase your link popularity and Pagerank search for my previous post and hopefully it will help you in increasing your backlinks ( link popularity ) and Google PageRank as well.

Everybody in SEOPhilippines.com is asking for the updates of the said seo contest. Still no updates from contest organizer, especially the SEOPhilippines.com founder Marc Hil Macalua. I’ve suspected that this contest will be moved or will not continue few weeks ago because their contest code is still not working properly. I’ve tried to register with the contest few weeks ago, oct 29 and I remember when I’m looking for people who want a Babysitting Jobs, that was 2 days ago, I received the Bayanihan SEO confirmation link. Attached on this email is the contest code. From this instance it made me realize that the contest code is still manually distributed for anyone who wants to join the contest. And also I saw the leaderboard page of this SEO contest, it’s not automatic.

I know there are lot of individual put hard work on their site just to rank on this said SEO contest. It’s really frustrating for some individual that they haven’t heard anything from the contest organizer. I think they deserve some explanations why there are no first checkpoint of this SEO contest. I think it’s a not a good gesture for a gentleman to stay quiet on this situation. There are lot of people counting on you and don’t let them loose their respect to you. This is just my point of view of this “ongoing SEO contest”. Let’s see if the contest organizer will came up with an official statement on this issue. I think the contest organizer don’t really like this to happen but they still have an obligation to their contestant for an explanation atleast before the first checkpoint. Nevertheless there is still time for the explanation. Regards to the contest organizer and to the contestant.

Another popular search engine/webmaster seminar will be held in the next couple of weeks, PubCon Las Vegas 2007. The said event will be held at Las Vegas Convention Center on Dec 4-7. I would love to attend this seminar because I would love to hear new knowledge from people like Matt Cutts, and Guy Kawasaki. I really admire this two guy on how they spread knowledge to the people. Both are very intelligent. For the second time, I cannot attend PubCon again because I want to attend on game development class http://www.gamedesignprograms.com/ which is conflict on my schedule. I will try my best to fix my schedule, besides there is still time left.

The event will be highlighted by keynotes from Craig Newmark(craiglist.org founder), and Matt Cutts(Google’s quality control engineer). In case you haven’t attended any PubCon event, you will learn the personal experience of successful webmasters and some tips on how to be successful. It’s a good start if you want to learn how to be a winner and learn new things around the web. I’ll give more information about the event on my next post, till then.

I just want to greet all SEO and Webmaster in the United States a Happy Thanksgiving Day. We also celebrated this occasion today. We had a great dinner together with my loved ones. Also during thanksgiving day, we also exchange gifts. I received a PC Security Cameras. I’ve always wanted to have this camera to be able to protect myself and our house. What I like about this camera is they have night vision to be able to see intruders even at night.

I think I would upgrade this security cameras into 4 security cameras to be able to monitor the four corners of our house. I also wanted to have a security alarm that is attached this security camera. Also I would like to have a software that can broadcast what is happening outside our house even where outside the house.

I hope you all enjoy your Thanks giving day. Till my next post.

I’ve been away from the SEO world for couple of months now. That is why I haven’t updated this blog often. I’ve been travelling a lot lately and just bought my new Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi which is one of the gadget on my wish list. This digital camera has 10.1 megapixel CMOS sensor. Perfect for taking pictures of outdoor sports activities.

Ok, going back to the topic. Almost 3 months ago, when I’ve decided to leave my day job and become a freelancer again. I’ve spent 1 year and 3 months on my previous day job as an SEO Specialist before leaving my former company. I can say that most of the time is I’m happy with my previous company because I’ve met lot of talented people that helps me grow and learned a lot from them. I left my former company because the working environment suddenly became unhealthy because of some personal issues that afterwards became the spark plug of a quarrel. Although I’m not involve on this quarelling, but I cannot work efficiently with these people around me. Too much for that.

Now, as a freelancer I’m back again for looking for my own clients, sleeping late at night, and not so stable income. But what I really like as a freelancer is

1. Sleep as long as you want.
2. No boss. Only if you will take jobs per project not per hour
3. You don’t have to travel via PUV. No traffic and fare increase.
4. You don’t have to work atleast 8 hours per day straight and 5 days a week. Ofcourse it’s still depend on you on how long you want to work.
5. Your salary is depends on your effort and hardwork.

Right now I can say that I won’t go back as an employee again. I received few offer from other company looking for an SEO specialist but I decline them. I’m still considering their offers though but not now. Maybe if I got bored again as a freelancer.

While browsing a Business Directory, my friend Joe told me that he experienced a Google ToolBarPageRank (TBPR) and BackLinks (BL) update. And this made many webmasters angry (I guess) because some of the most respected blogs in blogosphere like problogger.net for instance which is somewhat very frustrated on the recent PR update. And according to andy this update was updated again and he made a table on the update.

This update has threatened lot of bloggers and webmaster regarding selling links. Google gave penalty to big time bloggers so that others will follow. And I don’t think this will stop webmaster from buying/selling links just my opinion. Anyway, I need to research about Small Business Credit Cards today. And thats it for now.

In the last 4 days, I’m having a problem with Godaddy domain registration services. And by far the worst customer service I’ve experienced in my 3 years in webmaster business. First I register a domain then I’ve changed the nameservers of the domain. After that I’ve wait for atleast 24 hours. After 24 hours, I tried to email their customer support asking about the status of my domain and what do I get in return, I received a f*cking ready made answer about changing the nameserver. What the f*ck, I said in my mind. I’ve tried to be nice to them and still reply to their email explaining that I’m not stupid that I don’t know how to change the nameserver. Again they replied to my email and they told me that to contact my hosting company regarding the issue. I know for a fact that it’s not my hosting that has problem but their domain service because my namecheap account is working perfectly on my host. I just input my nameserver and it works after few hours. In my part I don’t recommend Godaddy domain registration service.

Too much about the rant on Godaddy’s domain registration service. So what I’ve done is to find an alternative. While searching for similar service I’ve found DomainExpress.co.uk. DomainExpress.co.uk offers Domain Name registration service. Here’s their Price List if you’re interested to register a domain. Just don’t forget to read it’s Terms if you want to use their service. It’s very important that you have other alternatives because if things went bad, you still have other domain registrar that you can transfer your domain.

Server I.P. according to some SEO experts it is important that your server I.P. is important in order to rank in SERPs to specific location. If you want to target UK Search Engine traffic it is important to have a Hosting UK. My client is trying to target UK visitors, and I want to find a Cheap Web Hosting without sacrificing the reliability and the quality.

I’ve found freezone.co.uk while searching for a good UK host. According to testimonials I’ve read in webmaster forums according to their services. And they gave really positive ratings about their services. They even recommend it’s Web Design services. I will introduce this UK Webhost to my client and I’ll give you more testimonials after a month or so.

First, I would like to mention the new Paypal layout today, and it looks nice. And going back to the topic, you can earn as much as $1,000 through their referral program. It’s another opportunity to earn money online. Since according to Charles you can now withdraw your Paypal Philippines money through Unionbank EON. You can now start exploiting the window of opportunity that Paypal offers. By just referring someone to signup for Paypal Business, or Merchant account you can 0.5% of their payment volume.

With these opportunity given by Paypal, I can now do some business in Ebay or other affiliate program of jewelry store. I heard that selling jewelry online is a good resource of income. That is why I’ve already reserch about jewelry tips online. Paypal Philippines is now fully working and you can withdraw your Paypal money now directly to your bank account. Although I still haven’t used my EON card but my VISA credit card works for withdrawal, in this way I can pay for my credit card bills from my Paypal Philippines Account because HSBC doesn’t issue overpayment check according to their agent which I recently talked to via phone.

To learn more about Paypal Affiliate Program, click here.

While browsing the internet, looking for SEO Los Angeles website, I received an email from one of the domain registrar company that I’m using to register my website. And I thought their only the one increased their prices. But I’m wrong, all of the domain registrar company that I’m using to register my website increases their price as well. Now I regret that I didn’t renew some of my domains earlier when the domains only cost max of $7.95. For webmaster who have 5-10 blogs this is not a problem but for domain owner like me who have atleast 100 domains on their portfolio that would cost me atleast $200/year. But that doesn’t stop there because I’m planning to buy another 100+ domain next year and on the later year.

What will happen next? I guess this might be a trend in the next few years. So if ever I’ve experienced another price increase in the next few months or years, I would probably renew all my domains maybe extend it for 5-10 years. Also I noticed that a .info increased it’s registration price as well. Luckily I’m not a fan of .info TLD. Maybe this implementation happened because sometimes there are lot of spammers using a .info domain to spam the internet and make money out of it. I guess it’s a good move, agree?