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The PHP130,000 Philippine SEO Contest May 31, 2006

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To help promote search engine marketing (SEM) in the country, SEO Philippines is launching a keyword ranking contest with over PHP 130,000 in prizes.

Tips on Choosing a Profitable Niche April 19, 2006

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One fellow asked one of the most relevant questions during the recently concluded iBlog2 summit: Is there money to be made targeting Filipino topics?

I can see the PR everywhere!

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Before I start, even if I was not at the iBlog event, I got some people there that told me a bunch of stuff about it, and just want to congratulate Marc again for a good job and I will quote what my buddie Mike lopez said to me via IM: “Although Marc Macalua’s talk was 15 minutes only, it was very good.”

Ok, now let’s talk about PR, and why this title I can see PR everywhere! I know there are a lot of PR tools left and right. …

Beginner’s SEO Corner - I want to SEE! (Search Engine Eyes) March 25, 2006

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The search engines index your website by using their bots which are also called crawlers or spiders. And these bots do nothing but visits the URLs and check your links and visits those links too. The keywords on the pages are indexed and recording all keywords it can find* and including it in the indexed information.

When someone visits a website, the browser used to visit the website is sent to the website’s server which is known as the User Agent. There are several ways to know the User Agent either by using plain Javascript or using your favorite server-side …

What SEM Professionals are Paid March 16, 2006

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Interesting acticle on SEM salaries found on the ClickZ website, but does not seem to be the case everywhere.

Details about this article are on the SERoundatable website.

Importance of SEO for Pinoy Businesses February 27, 2006

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Jozzua.com has a lengthy essay on the importance of SEO for Filipino entrepreneurs. Jozzua does a good job integrating SEO/SEM into his site’s Philippine entrepreneurship theme.

CSS Image Replacement February 26, 2006

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I guess we all know, Search Engines cannot read the letters on a jpg file. If on the mast head of your website you have some image that uses a really nice font saying:

“My Company Name - My Unique Selling Proposition Why You Should Get My Service.”

Search engines cannot see that. That is one reason why the Alt Attribute supposed to be used, but if you want to use purely text, you can do a CSS Image Replacement technique.

In your HTML File:
div id=”myimage”
span
My Company Name - My Unique Selling Proposition Why You Should Get My Service
/span
/div

In your CSS File:

#myimage …

Job Opening: 2 SEM Specialists (Ortigas, Pasig) February 23, 2006

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Got this email from Michael Bitanga, President & CEO of The Design People, Inc. They’re looking for 2 SEM Specialists for their Ortigas office.

Based in Los Angeles, California, with an office in Manila, Philippines, The Design People, Inc. is a web consulting and design firm that serves fresh ideas daily. We create compelling websites that deliver the digital solutions our clients demand.

We’re committed to service, collaboration, and communication throughout each step of the web development and design process. Our team specializes in custom website design and hosting, database development, Flash animation, online branding, search engine placement, mini-disc authoring, and Internet …

With or Without You WWW February 19, 2006

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Dupe (duplicate) content found on several pages just makes your page lower in ranking than actually making it higher in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). Duplicate content is like diluting the focus on a single page since there are many other similar pages. So if you have been doing this with multiple domains, do not do it and better have them redirected using a redirect 301. If you do not know how to do this, there are several ways to do it, doing in the httpd.conf file in Apache, doing a couple of lines in .htaccess, or using headers in …

SEO Jobs 2/16/2006 February 15, 2006

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Found three SEO-related jobs posted at Jobstreet Philippines:

  • Search Engine Optimizer
  • Web Developer with SEO experience
  • Experienced Copywriter (SEO knowledge a plus)
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