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SEMCON 2010 Season

It’s that time of the year! If you’re in South East Asia, and interested in Search Marketing, Social Media and Internet Marketing in general you should not miss this event. This year we’re bringing in Aaron Wall of SEO Book fame (yes he’s that guy on the first page of Google for the keyword “SEO”). Aaron [...]

Thanks PowerReviews But No Thanks

Hate it when somebody broadcasts your dashes-and-keyword-heavy domain list for everyone (including Google) to see… yes all 400 of them! I know PowerReviews is really just helping get the word out and score some marketing points (look at all our clients) but come on. This is risky stuff right here! It’s actually a nice “review raffle” [...]

On Ryan Soriano, djwoblely, Fanny Obias and Stolen Laptops

Here’s a slightly OT post dedicated to one Ryan Soriano or djwoblely, originally from Alaska, USA and currently a DLSU MBA graduate student. The short summary is this: he is in possession of my stolen MacBook Pro and was selling the same in clear violation of the Philippine Anti-fencing law. The story actually starts October of [...]

Questionable Link Building Practice via the Verisign Widget

Not sure what Verisign was thinking. But the massive penetration of the Verisign Secured Verify widget must have tempted their SEOs to use this as a link delivery system. And why not? You get 4,309,470 keyword-rich dofollow links (and counting) in one relatively easy stroke, without the website owner even knowing.

MyAyala Wake Up

Tis a sad, sad day for Philippine SEOs when a notable local dotcom player starts dissing on the value and merits of search engine optimization. SEO’s are costs that do not, for the moment, give any form of worthy results. Our experience in e-commerce with myAyala for the past 8 years has indicated that the cost [...]

Rewrite For Conversions

The year's winding down and for most ecommerce companies are throwing everything they can at the conversion beast. This is make or break season for most companies, and with the fourth quarter/holiday season coming up, now is the perfect time to go implement those conversion-lifting projects you've identified but never really found time to do.

One Big Boooobooo!

One Big Fight!

CLAP - CLAPCLAP - CLAP - CLAP - CLAP - CLAP - FIGHT! This is it. Let’s make this game count. Onwards to victory!

Ohhh Mikey

Mikey for the PBA Blogger's Choice Award!

SEO for E-Commerce Sites

This site threw some e-commerce SEO questions Aaron Wall’s way. Some of the questions were just too close to home, I couldn’t resist not answering…