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Archive for the 'SEO' Category

PageRank Optimization Campaign Notes

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

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This is just a quick post regarding PageRank crafting as observed from recent results for a few Search Engine Optimization (SEO) projects.

Keyword research with focus on relevancy matters a LOT!
Website URL architecture must be properly and clearly laid out.
For PR0 pages,

QUANTITY of external links matter MORE than quality of external links.
NO FOLLOW external […]


Philippine Florist E-commerce Site Get SEO Makeover.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Florabella is an Philippine Florist e-commerce website that offers flowers and gifts delivery via an Internet store. It has been receiving its fair share of organic traffic in its first two years of operation but its rankings has suffered in recent times due to the increased competition level and SEO sophistication of its rival Philippine […]


Robots.txt revisited. Also, which robots to disallow?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

We’ve been switching servers and web hosting for a lot of web sites in the last 3 weeks. We’ve allotted a healthy dose of bandwidth to these site’s new shared hosting accounts knowing that upload bandwidth can be counted in the traffic even though one of our dedicated server providers don’t count incoming FTP traffic. So we were surprised to find that one of the sites we recently moved had already eaten up the 5Gig of bandwidth assigned to it, this is a 54MB site powered by WordPress where all if not most content are text blobs on the database. A quick look at the Webalizer traffic logs (provided on cPanel) revealed visits from trusted and known web robots as well as a new surprise entry….


The Philippines gets its own Search Engine Marketing Conference

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

The Philippines gets its own Search Engine Marketing Conference via SEMCON 2007, with no less than the SEO guru Aaron Wall of SEOBook fame as the main attraction. Kudos to Marc Macalua for catalyzing this nascent community focused on Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. When I first got here in Feb 2005, not a […]


218 Domain names fetch $10.8 Million in auction

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Million dollar sales of domain names are the stuff of legends in the Internet world - the only system where a few lucky, opportunistic and smart individuals can turn a $10 (or even $100) domain purchase into tens of thousands, hundreds od thousands, and even millions of dollars.
The multi million domain name phenomenon continued last […]


Internet advertising spend continues to rise

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Good news for Internet marketing professionals, Internet marketing spend in the USA continues to rise and is expected to continue chumping at traditional media budgets allocated for television and print ads. Here’s the bit from News.com

Internet advertising: Going up, up, up
More advertising dollars are flowing to the Internet, in a trend that started years ago. […]


Most Outstanding Online Marketing Firm Award

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Today I received a facsimile (yes, we still have a fax - it is needed in Philippines business circles) that first planted a smile on my cheeks but which quickly turned to a nastry grin then a hilarious laughter. What was in the facsimile to have brought out such a chain of reactions and emotions?
Congratulations […]


Saddam Hussein Execution Video Search Ushers in 2007

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

As 2007 crept in, the death by hanging video of deposed Iraq leader Saddam Hussein is the leading topic among Internet searchers - practically ushering in the new year for the Internet search industry (search engines and SEO’s alike). WordTracker’s Top 300 Surge Report counted 30 instances (or ten percent) of popular search terms with […]