About SEOContest2008

What is this website all about?

Ituloy AngSulong — Sun, 13 May 2007 07:39:23 +0000

This was first for Isulong SEOph

This all started as an SEO contest entry from the contest Isulong SEOph. Organized by Marc Macalua which was an idea that sprang up from the old email group SEO Philippines had. It was a contest I participated in as a sponsor representing YDS Web Solution helping out in the prizes along with:

Contest ended, I did not win anything. Ranked number 11 on Google.com.ph when the contest ended. And these were who the Isulong SEOph winners were. For this contest, I was using the domain isulongseoph.com.ph.

Then Ituloy AngSulong comes along

Ituloy AngSulong was the second contest by SEO Philippines. Once again organized well byMarc Macalua, and with bigger prizes. Again sponsored by:

Boris Kerbikov of Lakeside Technologies
Itay Kaul of CPays.com (2,400.00 USD)
Wilson Chua of Philippine WebHosting (20,000.00 PHP)
Benj Arriola of Action Online Technology and Business Blog (10,000.00 PHP)
Junelle Caravana of Intiendes (5,000.00 PHP)
Andrew dela Serna of Dota Allstars Strategy (5,000.00 PHP)
Rhea Ong Yiu of Photography by Rhea Ong Yiu (3,000.00 PHP)
Carlo Roxas of Tech News & Reviews (3,000.00 PHP)
Giovanni Castro of Free Web Content (2,000.00 PHP)

I just got 10th of Google, and two more consolation prizes being in the top 40 in Google. I was then using the domain ituloy-angsulong.com and ituloy-angsulong.info. Check the rest of the Ituloy AngSulong winners.

Then GlobalWarming Awareness2007 SEO Contest comes along

After registering the domain globalwarmingawareness07.com and several other domains for the SEO World Championship, I just thought this website is already a mess. So many domains and all this 301 madness and I keep reoptimizing this site for different keywords try to get some traffic coming to it with some interesting (I hope they interesting) SEO stuff trying to get people to this site and do the best linkbait I can. And it did not work out well with this site. And I was also busy with other stuff. Although I was using the domain globalwarmingwareness07.com, it was just not working well. Although my site was coming out on the list on the top 40, but isulongseoph.com was coming out and the 301s were not kicking in yet. Although I ended up winning the top prize in the SEO World Championship, I won it using my other entry on Global Warming.

Here comes SEO Religion

But with all the work I put into these sites, all these changing domains, and doing nothing but talking about SEO, then I am making this my permanent SEO/SEM Blog. And since I bought the domain SEOReligion.com, which I just thought of out of the blue when making a blog post for the SEORockstars, which is no longer updated, I might as well use that domain as my main SEO domain for this site.

So originally this site was used for the SEO contest, but today it is now mainly my SEO/SEM site. A lot still has to be fixed. But it is really hard to make and maintain a website for yourself if it is one of your paid projects to work on. But at least the site alone pay for itself.

GlobalWarming Awareness2007

Ituloy AngSulong — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:08:26 +0000

As Ituloy AngSulong will conclude in February 23, 2007, the new SEO Contest, GlobalWarming Awareness2007 has just started this January 15, at 1:00pm EST and ends on May 1, 2007 at 6:00pm EST. The entries to every contest must have new domains and no domain registered before January 15, 2007 is accepted. All entries must follow the Google webmaster guidelines. Similar to Ituloy AngSulong, this SEO contest will check the cumulative ranking on Google, Yahoo and MSN. Good luck to all that are joining.

What happens after Ituloy AngSulong?

Ituloy AngSulong — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:28:39 +0000

Since I have invested some time into this entry, and I just did not make it a site for the contest alone, and has been adding in content that would interest SEO/SEM professionals from all over the world, I have decided that this website will be my permanent SEO/SEM website. This website initially started as an entry to the SEO Contest Isulong SEOph, that has ended already. Hence the domain isulongseoph.com.ph, and this SEO contest was made for Google.com.ph and not for Google.com. so a .ph domain was registered. And now, the second contest is Ituloy AngSulong and this time, I got the dashed domains for a .com and .info. But I still kept my home page isulongseoph.com.ph mainly because of the the work I had on that domain. Changing it might just make things worse, and since this site will be my permanent SEO/SEM blog, the work on the site I guess it worth it. The question now is… after these contest, and this will be my permanent SEO/SEM blog, I believe isulongseoph.com.ph is very hard to remember for the non-Filipino. So far all my traffic from all over the world is from some other link or from search results. But to have good return visitors, remembering my URL might be a tough one for them since these words have no meaning to them. So I looked into my box of parked domains, and was going through every park domain that is SEO related. So far I made SEOSearchOptimization.com go to a ranking page, and I think that is still not a good domain name. So I have decided to use SEOReligion.com instead. I think that will have better recall. And it is January, and I estimate this month to be PR update month, so I better do some work on this domain and point it in the right direction. I already actually have the right subdomains prepared already for the About, News, SEO and Downloads.