Friday, August 25, 2006

10’s of Tons of SEO Bloggers

Bloggers have always been the king of the game when it comes to marketing. Reasons? Well, they’ve got a lot of it. For one thing, bloggers have always enjoyed natural liberties through rankings and traffic and this is the main reason why many SEO bloggers are using their most creative ways to implement them in marketing. Blog Adsense Affiliates as an example is one field where you can find many successes attained by the best bloggers in the community.

An article i have read a few days ago caught up my attention. This is regarding the indexing limits of major search engines like Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Contradictory to what most SEO bloggers have always been made to believe,”the more content a blog provides, the more chances of getting indexed as quickly with better chances of rankings and crawlablity by the said major search engines.”

The latest information i got is that the three major search engines have always had some limits in terms of content of pages in order for the whole page’s importance to be indexed and read as a whole article by search engine crawlers and bots. Now, why haven’t we thought about it after all?

Maybe because most of us are so busy promoting the sites that we have and we tend to really leave it all up to the search engine spiders and bots to crawl. All we do is just to be content in providing useful informations about our blog site in order to get indexed as easy and fast as possible never bothering about certain facts on chances that our sites get indexed through a basis only the search engines themselves know ( as to the exact figure in byte) to really get the most of the content that we write.

This factual information is done through a series of experiments using three different dummy sites for the purpose of the three major search engines to crawl and to determine who among the three has the fastest, most reliable, accurate, complete, and also to come up with such exact figures as to where the exact limits those search engines really stop indexing (in terms of content).

The three sites were put up to have each a different amount in terms of bytes in its contents to arrive at the most possible accurate details and data.This is done also to be able to make clear the hypothesis that search engines really do have limits in content indexing and therefore to inform the 10’s of tons of bloggers there is in SEO that the old fashioned way of over populating writing contents becomes obsolete with the belief that the more content we provide, the better.

In the experiment, it turned out that MSN truly is the most reliable with its 1kb limit when it comes to indexing pages. Google has the lowest limit in indexing contents with 500 bytes and Yahoo played it safe by turning itself at the middle.

So, as the old fashion way of thinking that too much relevant keyword stuffing has become obsolete, so does the common thinking that Google has the crown when it comes to being the biggest (in terms of crawling ability) and brightest star among the search engine titans.
For the benefit of the amused, baffled, wondering, questioning, truth-hungry, specific type technically inclined and nobody's out there, this information i may some other time provide to you through the article i was able to read it from originally. Thanks anyway for the extra knowledge i learned from him because saves me time to writing my contents. I believe he will soon be named for his accomplishment.

Offshore Search Engine Marketing Quality in the Philippines

Search Engine Marketing quality has never been outdated and overrun by rivals from other Asian countries like India. An article i read attests that the Philippines can actually become the next hub for offshore search engine marketing jobs.

Another Korean blogger who travels around the world and makes documentaries of his many visits through his blogs says that he is lucky that english proficiency in the Philippines did not bring him much trouble throughout his travels in the country asking for directions and conversing with people he met.

Search Engine Marketing, a steadfast booming industry in it’s own field converts web traffic into revenues for different companies both big and small. Knowledge-wise with regards to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), as said by a British Isle company outsourcing talents in the Philippines that it has the potentials of becoming a major revenue earning field by the many professionals in the said country as they have become more and more knowledgeable in the different techniques to increase web traffic and visibility in the most popular search engines like MSN, Google, and Yahoo.

“Hiring more than 30 Filipinos to develop a “holistic approach” to search engine marketing, Zulberti said that Directwithhotels.com expects to double its headcount in the country with new deals coming in from Europe this year.”
“In the area of creativity, the Philippines is way ahead of other countries in the region,” he said, noting the reasons why Directwithhotels.com has decided to put its back office operations in the country.”

Many large companies in the U.S. alone takes the advantage of the lower costs while increasing profit margins due to offshore locations. The best venue they say is the Philippines. America Online for example goes for offshore services and can afford employing 1,000 people or more because of the relative cost factor which in return gives them the market advantage in America where they can lower their prices as well as come up with a significant increase in their profit margins. In fact, outsourcing has become such an important part of their business that they cannot afford to be without it.

Outsourcing talents simply leaves the smaller companies that does not have the know-how or the resources to comfortably absorb the risk of such a venture. I would personally suggest companies therefore to come up as early as possible with their own outsourcing strategies and go for the Philippines because if they cannot take advantage of the availability and gap with their competing business with competitors, then they’d be left out without chances of ever growing and providing for themselves such significant profits needed to grow and prosper in their choice of field.

Outsourcing greatly embarks any business in a new revolutionary way of eliminating the risk of losing potential clients and profits and at the same time generating traffic with virtual conversions and not just clicks. To experience positive effects of outsourcing works, any company must really feel the need to venture into this new way of growing any business.

The greatest, most professional workforce i believe is available in the offshore venues like the Philippines. You can not just try out but find an elite set of firms all at the same time that offers the best quality outsourced jobs and professionally dedicated employees required by your type of business.

Highly qualified outsourcing jobs and personnel that identify with your needs not just because of costs which is the primary advantage but also of the qualifications where you can choose from the array of many professionals available. You are just a click away from your destiny through offshore solutions and therefore any waste of time should be out of the question.

Indulge now or never get the chance at all. Go for the offshore search engine marketing outsourcing needs of your business here in the Philippines.

“Lukayo” Ritual Docu Had a TV Show Suspended, Featured by a Blogger

I have been stalking lately some blogs that i find interesting a few days now and i found this treasure from a post made by a local blogger (Cyberbaguioboy). It’s quite a long story to tell about how i came to find this post that he made. I really found so much interest in it as a side of my persona shouts out the beauty in his blog post.

It was actually a documentary made by Howie Severino, a known journalist turned to be working lately for GMA network. I admit it was one of the most enjoyable moments i had in my life since i visited the firefly-infested freezing-waters of the “Majayjay Falls“ with my wife and daughter just before the summer ended last May 2006. The smile that it left on my face never ceased to end until my hands found its way to make a post also about it.

It is one of natures best if i may describe it my way and many artists i believe would share the same thought with me. Featuring such a beauty and an art rolled down in one is indeed a very rare case and in this particular blog post a rare treasure. Right after having posted some comments on Cyberbaguioboy’s interesting blog posts, i at once had my wordpress dashboard open and got my itchy fingers typing about his story and the archived video he found in YouTube (this link featured all the videos of the lukayo ritual).

I adored the comment made by a national artist Ramon Obusan. What he said is very true not only to himself but to the beauty of the human anatomy. Likewise, i pity father Rudy Carabuena’s concept of the male penis as he relates to be ”bastos”, “immoral”… i’m sorry for him about his concept and i cannot blame him for it because he serves for the interest of the catholic church and for the catholics as a whole.

You can view the whole video footage that is kindly uploaded through YouTube by some concerned citizen. It could be viewed from the link i provided somewhere along this post paragraphs-(YouTube) link above

Website Traffic Analysis for Small Business

Most people who invest in small business have their own websites to do their marketing strategies with. This is one way of treating marketing campaigns as the major point or reason any small business owner is able to make it. A good example of this is having your own blog site to discuss and promote the website of your business. But what happens is that maintaining this small business that you have people tends to devote so much in marketing strategies and oftentimes forget about or spend little effort to analyzing the return on investment?

Most often, people do not take time or spend even just a little amount of it looking at the traffic trends and web log files which I consider very important. Funny how but even big investments on on-line advertising where we spend so much money, we don’t even bother to put importance to specific requirement for any business to grow and see where it leads. This may be attributed to the fact that most small businesses are relatively new in the web and therefore the owner is not familiar to the ways and means that it works for them.

There are of course some who bother to look at trends but have trouble on interpreting the data as to how to use them to their benefit because of difficulty in understanding on how they are presented and compiled. The barrier that hinders this problem can be of course remedied through different Web Tools that are easy to understand and at the same time affordable for small business owners like you. These web tools are provided to be able to easily understand and analyze your site traffic and hopefully understand also the workflow and relation of the said data to your business.

Try Microsoft’s FastCounter Pro, a web based tool used to monitor the site traffic in real time and help you improve design and efficiency of your website. Of course there are other tools for the same purpose available in the web, but it’s all up to you to explore and get one. I’m sure you will find out that it is necessary and would do you favors unimaginably great and convincing as you go along with your business. This tool will not only help you keep track of the your site’s traffic but also assess the types of visitors who visit including their behaviors which will lately help you make the necessary changes to your business site whenever it is needed. This certain factor is called “Web Analytics” and most professionals in the Search Engine Marketing Business knows how to just deploy tactics upon seeing your site. If you cannot afford to hire a Professional Search Engine Marketing Consultant, then let me just at least provide you with some basics on how to do it the right way using the right tool and lots of common sense.

Evaluation of Marketing Efforts:
Search Engine Marketing is very vague in nature and so are its processes. If you only have a small business, it would likely make you wonder where to get the right cost-effective service doing the marketing strategies for you. Take note that business owners do spend a great deal of money on ads alone and you’re not planning to become one of them, but the other way around. Web analytics tools lets you see which search engines are actually sending you traffics at all such as Google Web Analytics. Some tools enable you to search for such target keywords which are readily optimized for your pickings to be used in your site like the Google Adwords Selector Tool or the Overture Keyword Selector Tool. It is very critical and important in learning how they can be applied in your small business. If you are not planning to spend on on-line marketing, then, a web monitoring tool will do such as what I have mentioned above. All you need is the right knowledge on how to use them vastly available through help topics in the web. It will show you the gaps and holes in your search engine rankings and results allowing you to at least pool those relative keywords out for use in your submissions and what they call keyword buys.

Checking Traffic Sources:
As they say, “life is a two - way traffic”, this holds true also in having a business and having a web site to promote it. After knowing which keywords to target in promoting your business through a web site, the next step I guess is to check out the traffic sources of your business web site. For the record, there are at the least two distinct ways that traffic is attracted to your web site, one is through search engines and the other is through referrals from other web site that you have virtual links with. Although at some cases which are very rare and very few it comes from direct clicks. Synthesizing it to just two, we concentrate on efforts to generate traffic and new or potential customers and sales leads using what I have mentioned before as FastCounter Pro. This software enables you to keep track of who is sending you the actual traffic through categories such as 1. by specific web page, 2. by domain and 3. by domain type (.ph, .com, .gov, .edu, etc.)

Analyzing Types of Users That Come and Go:

There is of course many other website - monitoring tools available in the vast array in the web that you can choose from, but what is important most of all is that you learn how they can be effectively explored to the maximum and apply them in your business. This way, you can be very effective in your marketing campaign and would therefore give a significant return of investment later on enough to make you earn a living while tasting the fruits of your labor and afford to sit down during the holidays.

Using monitoring tools that enable you to determine and identify which page or pages of your website is most visited by potential customers and which are the entry and exit pages. This is very critical in web site optimization because if you know which page or pages are working well for your business, then you can optimize the site or page to provide more of it. On the other way around, it is also very important to know the exit pages of your web site because it is a good indicator that you might be losing potential customers because of the content or aesthetic aspect of that page that is creating the problem. This way, you can at an instant eliminate the cause of such problem and possibly make it more juicy, interesting, intriguing, or compelling to make visitors stay and possibly convert them into customers.

The “Versus Effect”:
I have mentioned earlier monitoring tools that help you see the entry and exit pages where visitors and potential customers come and go. Also tools that keep you informed on tracking who is sending you the actual traffic through categories by web page, domain, and domain types and how you can achieve optimized keywords to be used in your website through keyword selector tools.

This time, allow me to introduce what I can only describe as the “versus effect”. This effect enables you to know such defects in your site. How? Have you ever heard of a web monitoring tool that helps you see the operating systems and type of browsers that your visitors have? This will help you on your quest to professionally handle the business you have, small or big. Again, FastCounter Pro helps the web masters a great deal when it comes to knowing which percentage of your visitors and customers have Mac systems versus Windows, and browsers like Internet Explorer versus Netscape. These descripancies causes a bad image on your website if it hasn’t occurred to you. What I’m talking about is the 404 error pages. These pages provide a negative image to your business site and worse, they become identical to your business as a bad reflection making potential customers and visitors draw conclusions related to the kind of customer service that you provide. This tool enable you to see the details on customers who attempt to link or view 404 pages. Quite convincing, it is because if you loose customers this way, you can be sure they’ll never come back again for another visit or second thought and you very well know that “whatever works for customers works for your business as well”.
Understanding Customers:
I have finished discussing technical ways and means of tracking website traffic and provided some tips for you to observe in managing your small business (or big business). Assessing overall, the importance of this post, let me generalize it in terms of customers.

All this is actually about and how these customers that we call behave in the internet and gives life to the business as a whole process spoken of. It is of course up to you to make your own choices and considerations on how you could provide a better customer satisfaction, be it through the products that you sell or services you render. By reading this post I hope you have become smarter in terms of handling your business because there are lots of other possibilities and ways in the on-line world especially today.

Analysis:

Although I have discussed plainly what I know about web monitoring tools that you can use in improving the overall sales and revenue of your business, I cannot of course set aside the fact that not all available web monitoring tools are as effective as you believe. This is just in attempt to make clear that there are of course some rare cases that some data are hard to analyze like the humongous amounts of numbers and coded words used to describe data in some web monitoring tools available for free in the web. Special thanks to Microsoft’s “Small Business Center” that I have explored in this post as basis.

Nevertheless, I believe in the saying that “it only takes the right tool for the right job and the right knowledge for the right information for webmasters to overwhelmingly soar sky high in the on-line business world” (by: Sam Casuncad – SEO).

Saturday, August 12, 2006

A Blogger's PR and Blog Concept

I'm never really much of a PR (page rank) guy but i believe that it helps a lot seeing the green bar in your tool bar everytime you click your browser and go on-line. Makes me psyche up and do more great posts for my blog and be more inspired to write relevant posts in my blogs.

I admit that at first, i never really expected to allot this much interest in blogging but since it was introduced to me by my brother Atan, i knew right there and then that i'm gonna make it big somehow through this. Making it bit in this industry does not necessarily mean earning big bucks but for me it just as simple as earning friends and knowledge.

Of course i never close the book at all because i also welcome the possibilities of providing myself a little of the portion in terms of investment if possible because it helps bloggers to be more eager of their works through earnings. It sort of pushes us a notch of a bit everytime we open our desktops.

For me, the green bar means that you have worked hard enough depending on its level because it indicates the fruits of your labor and hard work. It serves as the return of your investment (ROI). It also serves as the significant amount of income that you are able to provide for yourself though not in terms on monetary form but instead a sort of a trophy.

Yes, a trophy to look at everytime you indulge in your daily internet life. Having to read more and more and more link building blogs is a good habit and a great source of food for the soul and the mind at the same time.

The blogging community has so much to offer for all sort of people from all walks of life for the countless purposes in life be it personal or business. Blogs have helped many a bloggers to change the way the internet savvy looks at the web.

'PR' on the other hand is a sort of an instrument that pushes bloggers to another stage in business and in their personal life. Maybe, just maybe this is the reason why most bloggers like the "ME" topics because it mirrors their own personalities and somehow it a way by which we blurt out our ideas and concepts and thoughts and us as a whole.

Search engines are their one true best friend because blogs has that natural organic character of being search engine-friendly. They are the most used and abused form of advertising in the web at the same time.

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