I’m on Manila Bulletin! Thanks to Annalyn of Blog-O-Rama for the interview. You can catch it here. Hurry grab a copy before my mom buys them all.
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With all the press generated so far, the first SEO milestone for 2006 may well be the V7N SEO contest. The pot’s huge and people are talking about it. In this interview, we feature Dan Freakley aka googl3r, the proud sponsor of the 30GB iPod for the winner of the V7N contest.
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I came to know Randy Escalada while getting the ODP profile of a domain I was interested in. Randy is one of the editors of the Open Directory Project (ODP), one of the most sought after directories by SEOs.

You can contact Randy via his ODP Profile page here. His personal site can be found here.

Marc: For the benefit of the uninitiated, can you give us a short background on ODP?

Randy: ODP is the largest human edited directory with content licensed for open distribution. The collective work of the 70,000+ editors is released weekly as RDF dumps are which may be freely downloaded. Hundreds of directories use the ODP data and some of the most popular sites are Google (for Google Directory), Netscape Search, AOL Search and Opera Search. To get listed in ODP, you submit your site to an appropriate category just like in Yahoo! but the difference is your submission gets reviewed by a volunteer and no fee is charged to get listed right away.
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I think I met Abe Olandres (aka Yuga of Yugatech.com) in college. When we met during the first Pinoy Tech Blog EB, I then remembered seeing him play Magic: The Gathering in the hallowed halls of the Chemistry Building at the Ateneo.

My first impression of Abe was that he genuinely likes what he does and it shows. His enthusiasm for all things Net is contagious. You seldom see veterans displaying the same wonder, the same gusto to evangelize and convert. Perhaps Abe’s most intriguing trait is his genuine desire to make technology work for the Filipino.
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Can one man build a blog empire? After my interview with Rickey, I’m tempted to think yes. If there’s one thing Rickey’s good at, it’s that he knows what his readers want and he delivers.

Rickey is the blogger behind Rickey.org. His blog has that reality talent show vibe to it and on any given day, you can see over 500 blog comments, and that’s just for 1 post. Pair that traffic with a deft marketing mind (think Cafepress, Amazon Associates and Google AdSense) and you’ve got the recipe for a very successful blog.

I asked Rickey to share his insights on the Internet, niche marketing and blogging in general.
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This will the first of many interviews with the movers and shakers of the Pinoy Internet marketing scene. Through these interviews, it is hoped bloggers can pick up practical tips and pointers to effectively monetize their blog traffic.

Pinoy megablogger Connie Veneracion a.k.a. The Sassy Lawyer is considered by many as the queen of Pinoy blog royalty. Her two successful blogs HouseOnaHill.net and PinoyCook.net command considerable attention from both local and international readers.

From an Internet marketer’s point of view, this is the prototype for a critically and commercially successful blog.
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