Cebu SEO Contest

There is an ongoing SEO contest called as the Cebu SEO Contest and it is about to end this coming first week of September. I am joining this contest just to have a venue for some SEO and Link Building experiment for learning additional information.

Cebu SEO Contest

This is about the Cebu SEO Contest, a local SEO contest launched in the Philippines and is open to all qualified and bonafide residents of either Luzon, Visayas or Mindanao. This SEO contest has almost no rule existent in the guideline for winning the contest and has only a few requirements in order to join.

There is no specifics at all which means that even black hat technique is allowed. But since this is just a small SEO contest and only a few were able to join, I guess there really is no need to use one. All the participants want is to learn a few good experience on the contest and have them introduced to the SEO community. Most who joined the Cebu SEO Contest are bloggers and not really SEOs and this made the contest even more fun and challenging.

Some of the contestants thought for a while that SEO is just all about blogging and a few link building effort. Well, at least they have a short view of what it is going to be when they become SEOs themselves. Good luck to all those who want to be a truly qualified SEO in the Philippines by winning the Cebu SEO Contest.

Earning Tax - Free Salary and Working in Dubai

Where in the world do you think you can earn a salary that will not be deducted of any form of tax? the answer is Dubai. Yes, a work in Dubai yields tax-free salary and that is based on one of the labor laws in this part of the Emirates.

This could also be one of the reasons why British expats are pouring in this part of the Emirates. We also know that Dubai has one of the best structures in the world and numerous man-made wonders that you cannot see anywhere else like The Palm Jumeirah, a man-made city in the middle of the sea, the Versace Beach Hotel, home of the first ever refrigerated beach in the world and many more.

Proof that Dubai is very rich and surely can afford to give a tax-free salary to its workers. If you have what it takes to get a job and work in Dubai, would you not want to? This year, I promised myself that I will be looking for a job there to get this amenity in a tax-free salary while we are in the middle of the world economic crisis.

The "Nofollow" Theory Opinion

I've got an interesting opinion that might just get you reeling to make that comment here in my blog if you read this post. I'd like to put more emphasis today to one of the most interesting topics today regarding "nofollow" links as used in the Busby SEO Challenge contest. I know that I may not be the proper authority about this but if you would only allow me to discuss an opinion, it might help you a bit in understanding that "nofollow" links do really help in giving your site the authority that Google likes to put when they see the perfect links getting inbound your pages.

First, there are a lot of buzz roaming around that "nofollow" links are totally useless. I say no! Why? Simply because I believe that won't get in the list of links that a site has if it has no value at all. True, Google has put no value at all for these kinds of link especially when we are talking about Google slapping those who go for paid linking. Remember in the old days where in order to gain the interest of search engines you can actually do some buying of links and put it to a web page you want to gain search engine trust.

There is a concrete example at how Google treated nofollow links just right at the opening of this year's results in the PR of sites. Google Slap was implemented on sites that used or use TLA or link buying including those high PR link directories that were found to sell links. They all suffered because of link buying. This prompted Google to favor "nofollow" links to avoid bare selling of links from a high PR site as passively share link juice and page importance to other pages which it links to. To avoid this, Google used the nofollow link relation.

This is the same with the Busby SEO Challenge link building arena where many of the contestants and contenders would rely solely in getting links from blog comment in which in one of my previous experiment is still found to be a reliable source of power in terms of helping a page rank high in a very competitive keyword. A friend who is also in the Busby SEO Challenge arena is looking to get a few link love so I gave some of them the link love that their respective entries needed to help push their entries further up.

Busby SEO Challenge Game Plan

There has to always be a game plan for us but today it is a little bit different when we are talking about the game plan by other SEO who are in the challenge. There are teams who are on top because they are a team of 30 or so but with us here in the Philippines, it's a little bit different.

Anyway, as what the previous world SEOcontest 2008 taught, an SEO is better when alone compared to a team. Imagine it took a whole set of team by numbers to beat and topple a great single person in Benj Arriola - SEO Challenge Champion. Well, that is some kind of an achievement. What a company needs to know is who is the sole SEO handling the job and not the team as a whole.

Link Structure Ideas for Link Building

I found out lately about the old link structure idea while searching for some good link building facts. It is a very good information and even if most of the posts I found were dated back from 2005, I still believe that they can be very useful for all link builders. I decided to make a few more research but since I also found it very interesting, I posted a quick track about it.

I hope to find more about link structure and to be able to see whether there is more to links, link building and link structure than just the ordinary links that we see inside the pages that we read or see. I will be posting anything good here since this is a great idea and I bet it will help all link builders to understand about it. This can also be used in all link building efforts and hopefully, I can include a specific use of it in my manual directory submission services.

I Have a New Busby SEO Challenge Blog

Today I was able to retrieve an old blog who's domain is under my name. I was really lucky to have been allowed by Wordpress to access that blog again and it must be having a hard time getting a post indexed. I haven't posted in that blog for a year now and I ma planning to have it take part in the Busby SEO Challenge contest.

I was surprised that after a half day of posting only one, it is still not indexed but upon checking on the post if it is seen by Google, indeed, it can be found in the results. Time is running out and I cannot find a strong blog that I can use to rank as fast as it can with just a post. Busby SEO Challenge contest is almost half its way finished so I have to really work on it hard. I hope this one post will make a difference because if this does not, I don't know what else there is to do.

How Manual Directory Submission Works

In the early days of the link building process and based on my own early works for so many clients in doing manual directory submission, there is totally no limit whatsoever on the number of submissions that a link builder can make for a client's website. There is no rule of thumb when we are talking about the limits of the the approvals that a link builder can get from a days work combined to all other link building efforts such as blog comments and forum postings.

Today, link building using link directory submission seems to have a dramatic change. Google seems or in some cases have implemented penalties for those who have been able to get as much links as they can just like in the older days. This is very different from what I have known being a little over 4 years in the link building arena. It's also a good chance for me not using automated submissions since and not going for reciprocal links for my clients since.

The Google penalty indeed changed the nature of a link builder's work and it has favored those who use and implement good link building habit like me. I never get in to automated submissions and never got in to reciprocal linking and I have benefited from that process since and my clients got no complaint except for some occasional algorithmic changes to the organic results which is a natural phenomenon.