The Php300,000 “Ituloy AngSulong” search engine optimization contest
November 3, 2006
If you have a website, decent traffic, and basic knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO), join the Ituloy AngSulong contest and win cash and other prizes. The Php300,000 "Ituloy AngSulong" SEO contest is a project of SEOPhilippines, an organization dedicated to the growth of the search marketing industry in the country.
Contest Mechanics
Optimize your website to rank high in the search results of Google (www.google.com), Yahoo (http://search.yahoo.com) and MSN (http://search.msn.com) for the contest keyword "Ituloy AngSulong." Contest starts October 28, 2006 8:00 PM and ends February 23, 2007 8:00 PM. You need to register in www.macalua.com/2006/10/29/philippine-seo-contest/ in order to be eligible to win.
Contest Prizes
Triple Jackpot Prize
- Php60,000 for the site entry with the highest cumulative rank
- Php35,000 for the site entry with the second highest cumulative rank
- Php15,000 for the site entry with the third highest cumulative rank
Consolation Prizes
- Best in Design Award - A final winner will be selected from a pre-selected list of three finalists via on-the-spot poll during the awarding ceremonies. Awardee receives Php10,000.
- Google Bonus Prize - Php1,000 each for sites ranked 11th to 40th in Google
Ituloy AngSulong and help advance the Philippine internet marketing industry.
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Filipinos more interested in “sex” than “money” (Part 2)
October 30, 2006
The Hypothesis
Use search terms other than “money” in our preceding “sex-vs.-money” Google search analysis and results would have been different.
Fig 1. Google searches from the Philippines: sex vs. money
The Experiment
In Google Trends (www.google.com/trends), compare the number of Philippine-based searches of the term “sex” with business- and income-related keywords aside from “money” such as “earn online,” “make money online,” “internet income,” “online job,” and “online business.”
The Results
Each of the five terms — “earn online,” “make money online,” “internet income,” “online job,” and “online business” — does not have “enough search volume to show graphs.” In other words, Google Trends is unable create trend graphs because in the Philippines, very few searches of those keywords were made.
Filipinos more interested in “sex” than “money”
October 24, 2006
More Filipinos look for “sex” than “money” — in Google search, that is.
Google Trends (www.google.com/trends), a tool from Google Labs that charts how often a particular term is entered relative to the total number of searches done, has proven that Filipino internet users search for the keyword “sex” more often than the keyword “money.”
Google’s data for Philippine searches from 2004 up to 2006 shows that the number of searches for the term “sex” easily eclipsed the number of searches for the keyword “money,” which remained stagnant since 2004.
Searches for “sex” even experienced several spikes during the two-year horizon. (See Fig. 1)
Fig 1. Google searches from the Philippines: sex vs. money
