Philippines Internet Review

Bernie Dizon - An Expert Filipino Pomologist

Who is Bernie Dizon? To start off with, I’d like to personally say in my own words about this man, Bernie Dizon, the Pomology expert Filipino who has lived his life doing things about exotic fruits and trees for free. For those who do not know Bernie (if I may call him), he offers free seminars to people who are looking to enter the wide wild word of planting what he calls as exotic fruits and trees.

If you are not an avid fan of planting a pomelo or lanzones or rambutan or jackfruit or mango or guava and other popular tropical exotic fruits, you might not really know Bernie Dizon personally. But for the benefit of those who are in to planting either for fun and excitement or for business, it would be best to go see him personally and allow him to offer you a free coffee or tea in his kingdom of exotic fruit and tree seminar at the Ninoy Aquino Wildlife  Park, formerly Wildlife.

Mr Bernie Dizon also offers people to go see his achievements within the park aside from what he offers in the seminars. He’s also been so busy talking about exotic fruit studd in the radio over at 774 Mhz AM radio station. It was only my cousin who told me about the radio station to this day but I haven’t even tried to hear from him any word yet at all so I don’t really know the name of the radio station.

Bernie Dizon, as part of his quest for educating people all over the Philippines has had numerous occasions of seminar strings for FREE. He is also conducting a lot of field trips in hopes to propagate what he professionally knows regarding his very own world of Pomology. Sometimes and some people would even call Bernie Dizon as the father of miracle grapes and of calamansi for taking time to study these types of exotic fruits and devoting almost half his life to learning how he can improve on everything making the fruit as perfectly capable of making a human lips smile upon tasting it.

With grapes,  Bernie Dizon claims that he can literally dictate when he wants a grape to be harvested or when he wants the vine to bear fruit. He said also that he can turn grapes into seedless variety at any time he wants calling it his miracle grapes. Dizon also grows a vineyard within the Ninoy Aquino Wildlife Park as part of his commitment to teach people how to do grape planting perfectly as it serves as his very own token of achievement if you visit the park on Sundays. Bernie Dizon also claims that he can make his grapes bear fruit whenever he wants it to and program it to have fruit harvested on a set date like birthdays or any occasion which is one of the most important part of his lifetime achievement as a renowned Pomologist in the Philippines. The best of all achievements that he is propagating is that he knows how to make any fruit sweeter than most think.

Bernie Dizon, the Pomologist also has other obsessions on a wide variety of what he calls exotic fruits like chico, citrus, durian, lychee, longan. macopa, mango, mangosteen,  pomelo, rambutan and more. He gives all free information to interested people who are looking to learn more about how he does it with these exotic fruits and has become a very successful planter of countless variesties. Name it and he has it as well as ask and your questions shall be answered. Mr. Bernie Dizon also has his son with him in helping widespread a free source of information through seminars and short talks over a cup of coffe. For those who want to take a hold of him, you can try and visit at the Ninoy Aquino Wildlife Park and you will not miss their small kingdom near the park entrance. You can also ask for him at the entrance guards.

An SEO Challenge Announcement - Cebu SEO Contest

Most of us, Filipinos understand that when we talk about Cebu, we talk about travel or hotel accommodations or nature treks and even the hospitable people. Today it’s a little bit different as I make this review dedicated solely for an SEO contest, the Cebu SEO Contest.

There is nothing much to say about the details here but what I want to do is to sort of have the SEO contest broadcast over the web using this review we have here at Philippines Internet Review. I want to help in my own way the SEO industry to let the world know that we are in a continued effort to develop the SEO industry in the Philippines and I also happen to believe that SEO contest launching can also help in way.

I do not have details of the contest but what I have here is an announcement about the Cebu SEO Contest open to all Filipino webmasters. Everybody is welcome here to join and test their skills as long as they know how to do things right and without the need to use unnecessary tactics against other competitors. This is a once in lifetime SEO chance to prove you have what it takes to be on top of the line.

Congratulations in advance to the people behind this SEO contest and good luck to all the participants.

Paid Survey Online in Canada and Australia

I took a short research on the “paid survey online” jobs that I have seen lately and I failed to see just what I needed to find here in the Philippine job market. The review this time is with a home based business or home based job which is paid survey online, a very popular scheme both in Canada and Australia today.

With paid survey, you only have to work your hours your way. This could mean good news to moms out there who are looking for stay at home jobs using online venue but so far, I didn’t find any reason for the Filipinos to divulge in such activity. Maybe, just maybe, we just lack the resources and the proper knowledge to understand about the subject matter so no one dares to come in.

It could also be because paid survey online is something really new so nobody yet would dare and have the guts to get in it. Also, there is not much time for most stay at home moms and stay at home dads for such. Well, whatever the problem is, I hope if the right people find this post that it gets a little time off from their interest and time if they have the resources at home such an online internet connection which is actually all that it takes.

Philippines Still Zero Gold in the Olympics

The Philippine government including some private businesses have offered at least 15 million to whoever will take home a gold. I believe that there will be more prizes and others are still waiting for the glory but so far, after almost a week of the Olympics, the Philippines is still zero with respect to gold medals.

I am also disappointed at how the coverage got treated here by whoever is covering the worldwide major event for the simple reason that there is nothing to watch out for in the games played by Filipino participants. Up to this day, I never heard anything about the gold hopefuls and bets of the Philippines to this Olympic games.

I wish that the government will change the way that this is in terms of media coverage. I am also sure that I am not alone here. There are literally millions looking to watch how our country’s best bets will play but so far, the network who got the rights to air the games were not able to deliver what the watching and waiting Filipinos are looking for - a live coverage or at least a slightly delayed coverage of the games in the right time where everybody can watch and not in the 2:00 am slots or so.

I feel that somehow the government should update its people in such a historical event as the Olympics and I feel that the government should make sure that every play our fellow participants get in, will be broadcast live or just as I said on a slightly delayed basis and a time which can be watched even by the children.

What could have happened to Harry Tanamor, Eric Go, and others? It is not enough that there is the news. we all want it live as much as possible and I as a sport fanatic would even skip sleep just to give a glance and useless cheer to our best bets in the said world Olympics. I just hope this doesn’t happen again because we only have the event coming once every 4 years.

Becoming Nouveau Riche

I’ve always like hearing stories who belong to Nouveau Riche people in the list of elite few. Their stories serve as an inspiration to all and even if not everybody knew them, in time, their rags to riches stories will ring a bell. There are also those who don’t even need any introduction like Bill Gates. Who doesn’t know Bill Gates anyway?

Aside from the inspiration that they pose to the new generation of people both in the business world and in the common working class, they also become good examples for the youth to follow. These Nouveau Riche people also serve as a monument that all things are possible when we speak of perseverance and determination combined with the will to achieve goals at a certain point in our lives.

Not only Bill Gates can be a very good example of becoming Nouveau Riche people but also the likes of Oprah Winfrey and the former president Bill Clinton. Knowing how their stories were told alone can make one want to become somebody someday and who knows, if they can become on of those Nouveau Riche people, how much more than we, with all the high end technologies available and all the bridges joined together by nations. We all can be great in our own way.

Busby SEO Release

We have a few press releases just the other day and we are looking forward to have it directed to the official entry to the Busby SEO Challenge Entry which is this blog. We believe that offpage and onpage will be a big help to push this entry further up this week so we are constantly making a few adjustments for the onpage of the site and see how it works for us. This is part of our onpage efforts to rush to the top of the Busby SEO Challenge results so we would like to feature here a few links once in a while from our press release.

SEO Press Releases

• Busby SEO Challenge Entry
• Blogger Support for Contest
• Busby Challenge Rules Issue
• Team On Top of Challenge

SEO Resources

This SEO resources page that we have contains some of the best leads to some of the best SEO resources that I know from the everyday life as a link builder and an SEO from the Philippines. I have prepared a few good ones related to the life need of webmasters out there who are constantly looking for great SEO related services, SEO and web solutions and link building tips for the new age of SEO and optimized offpage link building.

I will also be looking forward to update this page as I find more great resources in the web for use and advantage of the internet user and for those who are looking for the perfect resource to help them in their quest for making life in the internet easier.

Please read our SEO Resources disclaimer before proceeding to any of the different tools, services, resources and products we feature here for clarification purposes.

SEO Resources Disclaimer:

• The tools featured here does not necessarily mean that we are promoting then or the products featured therin including the different services offered.
• We are not responsible for any damage that these services, products and resources might bring about, especially in their wrongful use.
• Although most of these products, services, tools and resources, we find would help webmasters in the field of SEO and search engine marketing, we do not encourage them to use it/buy it in any other way around that might cause certain unexpected damages in any way technical, personal or professional.

“Please enjoy using these resources, services and tools.”

• Free PHPLD templates - Good for those who are in to link directory managing and have lots of sites.
• Free Wordpress Themes - Movie themes are also here for your grab.
• Free AdSense-Ready WP Themes -Themes that are adsense-ready and optimized for optimum high clickthrough rate of your blog site.

• All in 1 Social Bookmarking Service - you only have to sign up for one account to do the job of bookmarking your liked pages and from here you will only have to open each bookmarking and sign in and the submission will make everything else automatic for you. Makes the job of bookmarking your liked pages easier and more convenient. This service also saves you a lot of time in doing the bookmarking.
• The Trackback/Ping Explorer - This service is great for sending your trackbacks with a ping.
• Clickfraud Detection Service - We believe that many web masters out there would sooner or later need such service especially if they are in the affiliate marketing arena or for those who take part in Google AdSense Publishing Platform.
• Blog Juice Calculator - This service is pretty easy to use in calculating the overall link juice strength of any blog you have based on certain categories.
• SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool - Perhaps one of the most prestigious resource for webmasters. This tool helps you with keyword data analysis and also good in knowing semantic related phrases metrics.
• The Competition Dominator - This is all about your competition and knowing how to deal with it the right way.
• 301 Redirect Check Tool - This amazing tool check 301.
• SEOMOZ Page Strength Checker -This tool from SEOMoz checks the overall page strength of a site and sees its pages’ ability to rank higher in the search engines.
• Duplicate Content and Plagiarism Check Tool - This checks your pages and the whole site for copied content appearing in the search results so that you can take immediate actions to combat plagiarism.
• Search Tool - This is a search tool with options that you can take advantage of.
• Broken Link Checker - This tool will help you see your broken links and remedy such problems to speed up the spider crawlability of your website and not stop them from seeing dead ends in your website.

Please stand by and visit this page frequently as we update our list of amazing tools and helpers for your daily webmaster use.

A Few Friends Joining the Kabonfootprint

I can see from the results of the kabonfootprint in the Google serps that there are a few friends who joined the new SEO contest, the kabonfootprint. For whatever reason, I don’t know but most would realize that this is second the biggest world SEO contest and this is another venue for taking time to get known in the arena.

I also know that from the Philippines, there are a few fellow Filipinos who joined and succeeded in taking their entries to the top but today, they suddenly disappeared. It’s only the first week of the kabonfootprint and the competition for the challengers seem very stiff already and I am not shocked on this because there are new rules that prevented other participants to use cloaking and so on..you know.

Well, whatever happens, I would like to bid good luck to all fellow Filipino webmasters!

Kabonfootprint - Another SEO Contest

The Busby SEO Challenge is just midway finish and then comes another SEO contest, the Kabonfootprint. The Kabonfootprint is an SEO contest by U.K. Webmasterworld, second to the first SEO contest, the seocontest2008.

Here at the kabonfootprint, it is said that the organizers tried something different from the first one that had so many flaws with respect to the rules. This time, the sponsors made sure by making some special modification to the original rules in the first contest that the flaws and mistakes will be avoided by the participating parties and entries.

First, a new domain, dedicated solely for the kabonfootprint is required. This new domain has to have virtually ZERO link and something like a catched page will be closely and regularly monitored to make sure that everything else is transparent and that no one will escape the rules of no cloaking allowed.

Many entrants to the kabonfootprint are hoping that the organizers, mainly the U.K. Webmasterworld will take this new SEO contest to another level where everybody will change their first impression of the first contest and erase the mistakes. The organizers have their chance this time and so the entrants are hoping that there will be strict compliance to the rules so it is definitely required to have a new domain with no links for a clearer view of who’s doing this and who’s doing that. You will also be required to sign up as a member at the U.K. Webmasterworld forum to be sure you get the updates and the access to their board.

Good luck to all the participants in the kabonfootprint SEO contest as well as all the participants to the Busby SEO Challenge SEO Contest which nears its end!

Blog Comments are Still Effective in SEO

Just the other day, I found out using a little experiment that blog comments do indeed help a lot in SEO efforts to make a webpage rank higher in no time. It took the site I used in my experiment only a few hours and it was propelled to 6 pages higher than it was before knowing that the keyword competition in the experiment I did was stiff. Yes it is stiff because I used the Busby SEO Challenge keyword in the experiment.

The only problem is even if I want to provide it here in this blog, I’m afraid that I cannot do it because I was not able to save a screenshot of the original ranking of the site to the new ranking. That was a mistake I learned from this little experiment. Allow me to tell you about the other details that helped me arrive at the conclusion that blog commenting is still alive and kicking when we talk of SEO advantage and using it as a tactic.

The Details and Specifics I Used

1. I used a 5 year old domain with literally little links (77 to be exact) and rarely updated blog.
2. I changed the title tag and description without updating the template for the purpose of seeing how the blog will react but so far, no result at all after days.
3. I wrote a content exactly a month ago about Busby SEO Challenge which is a very competitive keyword as we all know and it would be good to prove that using such a competitive keyword in an experiment would add up some spice to see the effects of blog commenting to gain rankings.
4. After writing a content on the target keyword, I did a few social bookmarkings and a ping to make the new content easier for search engines to see.
5. After a week, I did a few link building effort using my own blogs. (this time there is still no result on the indexing).
6. Another week and the content I wrote was already starting to appear in some data centers I am using and then I was surprised that after another week, it did rank little by little until it reached on the 4th week up to page # 9.
7. This is where it started to become stagnant (in page 14) and seem to not move and then suddenly fell to the 14 th page on the fourth week (a day short to becoming 1 month) which is its 1 month due using a few blog reviews with no linkback or reciprocal. Hmm…I though I won’t see anything until…
8. Then last night, I tried to use Google Blog Search in looking for blogs with the keyword “challenge“. When all blogs appeared in the result, I tried to see where among those blogs I can make some comment using optimized name and a little optimized content (if I may say) using the keyword “challenge” or sometimes “seo challenge” in each signature that I leave in my blog comments. Note: I did not put into consideration if those blogs I commented on are using nofollow or dofollow.
9. Then I wrote 4 blog posts and continued the commenting spree and then made a ping.
10. So what’s next? After 8 hours…The results started to pop up and from page 14 where that blog appeared stagnant getting only the inner page indexed, it started to appear on the 8th page with the home page as the indexed page.

Now wouldn’t that be great to see how a webpage can get steadfast results in a highly competitive keyword using blog commenting and combining it with blog osting and a ping as a tactic for link building and getting fast results? How about you? What are you doing to learn from your experience as an SEO?