Archive for the 'SEO' Category

Stop Blogging? Never!!

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

So, some people are asking my why I haven’t posted a new blog post in two months now.
Good question, and not one easily answered.
I would recommend Jungle Jil’s Blog for updates about ex-pat life in the CdO area and Northern Mindanao. I found a great link on his blog to a [...]

SEO Wanted

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Move to beautiful Cagayan de Oro:
Our company prides itself on delivering exceptional results to clients and to our own websites. As a multi-faceted company we embrace versatility in our employees and are looking for innovators.
We are seeking a highly-motivated individual to manage search engine optimization analysis and best-practice implementations, as well as monthly campaigns [...]

SEMCON Search Engine Marketing Conference Philippines 2007

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

I am excited about leaving in the morning for Manila to attend SEMCON, the first Philippines, International SEO-SEM conference, and I was proud to be invited to be one of the speakers.
It doesn’t look like Danny Sullivan or Brett Tabke will be there, there are some notable other speakers such as Aaron Wall, Benj Arriola, [...]

Reciprocal Links Still Count! Imagine That

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Matt Cutts said this, or Matt Cutts said that, I heard it so many times I tend to just ignore it. Granted, Matt is in a position to know more about how a search engine works than just about anyone else, and he does cavort a bit with SEO sorts from time to time, [...]

Five Indented Listings at Google

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

I have never seen five indented results at Goolge before.

The top indented return is a Supplemental Result as is the fourth one.  I must guess Google was just trying to fill the page.

TrustRank as an inverse, or back-propagation, of PageRank

Monday, September 25th, 2006

I’ve read a lot on TrustRank, but I’ve yet to see an analysis of it that I felt confident in because it seems each explanation is more complicated than it needs to be.  If Google asked me to design a TrustRank algorithm, here’s how I would do it:
First, PageRank is not as much an invention [...]

An SEO who does not blog about SEO. Why?

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Friends, employees and clients ask me why I don’t blog about SEO. The easiest answer to that would be that the answer is a trade secret, but that’s also a cop-out.
I don’t blog about SEO because:

I do SEO on a daily basis, it’s a grind.
While SEO is very much my life, I have a life.
I [...]

Lost Horizon Beach Resort, Panglao Island, Bohol

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Kirk, the photo masking king of The Philippines recommended Lost Horizon Beach Resort in Bohol, on Panglao Island, good advice I’m happy to share.

Lost Horizon is a small hotel on Panglao Island, Alona Beach, and they offer free WiFi to their guest, scoring beaucoup bonus points with me. The room [...]