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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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? […]

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 […]