Last weekend, I gave my parents a treat in one of the finest restaurants in my place. While having our lunch, I saw an old friend and glad that we had the chance to have a little chat. I was surprised when he told me that he owns the restaurant. He became a successful entrepreneur. And because of the success of his restaurant, he is planning to renovate it and expand a little. I recommended the site which offers restaurant furniture, bar stools and aluminum chairs. It actually specializes restaurant chairs. Our administration manager was the one who discovered it when they renovate our department. And indeed, the ambiance of our office turned-out well. I told him that I’ve seen wood bar stools which I believe are what he needs since he is planning to add a bar in the restaurant. The ladder back bar stool is very durable since it has been crafted in Europe and features reinforced joints and overall cutting edge construction. This will definitely make the bar area more sophisticated. He was so glad when he heard about it especially when I mentioned to him the low wholesale prices that they offer. Most probably he will take a look at that furniture this coming weekend. And as I have expected my parents did enjoy their lunch and told me that I should treat them every weekend to that restaurant.

Like a fine dining restaurant placement financier gives you the full service when it comes to your online banking needs. From assurance on you and your loved ones travels to your properties and wealth they got you covered. Not to mention the attractive and highly flexible offer for pret immobilier, which many may find interesting and affordable.

The Christmas party at Pier One, Mall of Asia was a blast!

I had a chance to meet the best of the ES-E-O-dot-P-H members and moderators last night and I had a real good chat with no less than the legendary Rostum (NetPh), the charitable Zaldy Dalisay (majorkontrapelo), the outspoken Neil (KapengBarako), the rich Arnold Alvarez, the young Kenneth, the unassuming Eric Marantan (my kabaleyan), the ES-E-O-dot-P-H only GurlAlien, maldita (not maldita at all), the silent Icezorg, the simple masterbetong, The active Kiddie and the Pastor Jeff himself.

Based on the chats I had, they have created a community that made a real good impression to the global audience making it a community that is larger than life. They know they are the life of it. Nothing more, nothing less.

Search Engine Marketing grew and mushroomed in the Philippines primarily because many of these members were real kickers and mentors for others to learn the craft. I myself, benefited from it just to set things straight although I may have long been into the realm of online marketing technically but when I found the group surging ranks and keywords right into the very heart of the search engines’ databases, my perspective changed.

Honestly, like I said before SEO is not a rocket science at all. But the heroine-like addiction to learn the ever-changing SE algorithms is real outstanding. Sleepless nights and money cannot equal the passion we all have to learn and grow our basics.

But then last night was a real awakening to most of us(or maybe just for me). It was one of the fruitful discussions with them. These are a few things that each and every member (I guess) present last night said. I believed it.

1. The  main objective of the forum is to create awareness in the Philippines about SEO/SEM and to profound every member’s knowledge in terms of SEM and Online Marketing through discussions and all.

2. It is clear to them that they are the life force of the forum. Without them, it is useless.

3. The credit should include every member of it.

4. IT SHOULD BE A NON-PROFIT forum.

5. It is a forum of real people with the passion to succeed.

When I conversed with these online moguls last night, I felt like I was at home. These are the kind of people that can dent a change to our country. Passionate and honest people.

Question is, Do we need another forum for us to move on with our real objectives?

In case the new forum pushes through, I would suggest that there should be a certain quorum we must reach first before we go for an election of officers to (SEC) register it for incorporation.

A clear policy is needed.

I guess this all-about it for now. I better go back to my Busby SEO Test contest strategy.

I hope you support my entry.

Anyone?

Related:

• Policy Suggestion for New SEO Community (version 1.0)

Recently, I was not able to build consistently my Busby SEO Test entry because of my recently concluded project which was presented during the Annual Planning Conference held at Le Salon Hyatt Manila last Thursday, December 11, 2008.

I am happy that the presentation went well and the project is now poised to embark on its higher stage/level. I am glad that I really have that attitude to focus really good with whatever endeavor I am into or else that said project will never be finished at all.

Imagine the “no hardware” scenario and that I have to manage everything and everyone remotely. Whew! sleepless nights I tell you. . But then that ” giving all you got” and that “unwillingness to quit” mantras (if you may consider them as mantras) guided me to deliver excellently well.

Is that what a green one or a Scorpio is all about? Oh well, it is about time to focus on the Busby SEO Test contest and this time, with that killer instinct to conquer them all.

Will that be possible? Let’s see.

Free internet advertising is one very important method for promoting your products and services to thousands of free classified ads.

Most of these free classified ads web sites give you the power to facilitate marketing with features such as classified ads submitter forms. Features like this give free Internet advertising an extremely fast way of getting your products or services on line. It is accessible 24/7 allowing you access anytime, it’s very effective and efficient and most of it comes free. No downloads. No sign-up fees. No hidden charges. No annual or monthly fees. No sales fees. It is absolutely free.

Free internet advertising makes it easy for you to put free ads on several of the premier quality web sites whenever you want, for free. This kind of benefit you get from free internet advertising can only do, to say the least, miracles for your business. Most of these free internet advertising companies give you 3 slots to advertise any product or service for free.

Free internet advertising is the perfect way and best way to make your products or services known to the millions of prospective consumers in the Internet and make your web site start producing money. There is an enormous audience for free internet advertising that is present in the Internet, that the probability of anyone needing your services or wanting to buy your products is very high. There are free services out there that may suit your services, products and web site.  Browse the internet for the best free internet advertising for assessment on their amenities and features how to advertise or join your web site for free internet advertising.

Most web sites promoting free internet advertising have features like classified ads submitter – where you can get a enormous exposure with instant results and expand your sales by large volumes over night,  opt-in email lists – non spam bulk emailing program, guaranteed 100% legal. Opt-in email lists are created by people who have volunteered or ‘opted-in’ their email addresses to these lists. These lists are very effective for creating personalized email to prospective clients.

Free internet advertising provides a great technique for building traffic. People constantly search on online free internet advertising ads for specific services or products. Free internet advertising target clients inclined to buying a particular kind of product or service in mind.

And the best reason to advertise in free internet advertising is because it is absolutely free.

It’s been years since blogging has been practiced. But it’s just recently that it has been considered as one of the addicting fads. Many teenagers have resorted to blogging as an outlet for their emotions, a little online nook where they can blurt out whatever just bugs them or whatever makes them feel elated. Savvy marketers have discovered that blogging is one of the best Internet marketing methods that won’t cost you a cent.

What exactly is blogging? Blog is the widely used term that refers to web log. Basically, a blog is an online journal. A blog could be set up to no cost at all, and can be used for just for the fun of it or for business reasons.

Blogging for your Internet business is one surefire way to boost the visibility of your products and services. Here are a few ways to boost your internet advertising with the help of a blog:

1. Make your clients or customers abreast on your website’s alterations. Your new products and affiliate websites could also be announced through your blog.

2. Keep track of your business objectives and plans through open writing. Your blog content can be easily stored through archives. What could be better than searchable information that could be easily accessed by anyone browsing the web, right?

3. Air your opinions, advice or reviews on specific services or products that are related to your business. Publishing is a very easy process with blogging.

4. Include links that will fetch back links and subsequently improve your ranking on search engines. This could be better executed through putting well-written articles in your website. Affiliate links could also be included in your blog to earn more extra income.

5. Collect response through the ability of blogs to fetch comments from your blog readers. You can learn and improve your products and services through with the feedback from your readers.

6. Connect easily with other bloggers. When other bloggers notice that you have something good in your blog, they will put you in their favorite lists that will automatically link you to their blogs.

So, how do you set up a blog? Here are some of the options you can make use of to take advantage of this fun way to advertise your Internet business.

Either you load a blogging software or let a blogging hosting service do it for you. Host services such as LiveJournal and Blogger.com are the most popular in this field. Those hosts will provide you with easy instructions on how to put up your blog.

One way of promoting your website and product can be achieved for free. As an additional bonus, this “free” method can boost your sites and sales, doubling and even tripling your income.

Articles. One of the easiest ways to promote your website in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings.

How does this work?

Write articles relating to your website and submit them to “free content” submission sites. Easy to do, takes little time and can increase your website traffic, sales and of course, your income.

How can article writing boost traffic and income?

The article on the free content site contains a link to your own website. Readers, after reading your articles, may choose to click on the link and pay you an unexpected visit. Having them on the free content sites is also making these articles available to other webmasters who may wish to publish that article on their site.

If they do, your article will include a link back to your site. And anyone who reads the article on that site can still click on the link to visit your site.

As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your site increases also. Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so they can determine the importance of a certain site.

The more incoming links the website has, the more importance search engines attaches to it. This will then increase your website’s placement in the search results.

If you site is into promoting a product or service, the links that your articles have achieved will mean more potential customers for you. Even if visitors only browse through, you never know if they might be in need of what you are offering in the future.

There are also those who already have specific things they need on their mind but cannot decide yet between the many choices online. Chances are, they may stumble upon one of your articles, gets interested by the contents you wrote, go to your site and became enticed by your promotions. See how easy that is?

Search engines do not just index the websites, they also index published articles. They also index any article that is written about your own website’s topic. So once someone searches for that same topic, the list of results will have your site or may even show the articles that you have written.

And to think, no effort on your part was used to bring them to your site. Just your published articles and the search engines.

It is no wonder why many webmasters are suddenly reviving their old writing styles and taking time to write more articles about their site than doing other means of promotion.

Getting their site known is easier if they have articles increasing their links and traffic and making it accessible for visitors searching the internet. Since many people are now taking their buying needs online, having your site on the search engines through your articles is one way of letting them know about you and your business.

The good thing with articles is that you can write about things that people would want to know about. This can be achieved in the lightest mood but professional manner, with a little not-so-obvious sales pitch added.

If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent on writing one article and submitting to free content site. In the shortest span of time also, those are distributed to more sites than you can think of. Even before you know what is happening, you are getting more visitors than you previously had.

If you think you are wasting your time writing these articles, fast forward to the time when you will see them printed and wide-spread on the internet. Not to mention the sudden attention and interest that people are giving your website and your products or services.

Try writing some articles and you will be assured of the sudden surge in site traffic, link popularity and interest. Before you know it, you will be doubling and even tripling your earnings.

Nothing like getting benefits for something you got for free.