Benj’s Busy Blog

I love ZenPhoto, although I also love Wordpress as a CMS platform and mixing these two will have two logins and can be confusing for other people so I am looking for the best photogallery out there that I can use with Wordpress and so far after checking several plugins, I decided to try out altPWA. It pulls the images from any Picasa account. Let’s try it out with some Sea World photos. Read the rest of this entry �

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I remember some old SEO contest that I join, got a domain(s), did nothing until the contest ended. Sometime I guess I get too excited with SEO contest, but ends up too busy to work on them and they remained untouched. I remember joining the hoax contest shopautodotca which I did nothing but get a domain. Filipino SEO Leo Mirabuna did well in that contest along with Ashad Shaikh from India but the prize was never given by this Canadian Car Shop company. Same thing with Paradise Philippines. I guess when SEOContest2008 started, I was fresh again and after that contest, Busby SEO Challenge and the discontinued Kabon Footprint, were also contest that I took no action but get a domain. Now for Promotional Items Corporate Gifts Srednarb contest, well in this case, I thought I will still be lazy working on my site. Read the rest of this entry �

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I join contest in the past mainly to test what I know and in the process learn more. And after doing about 2 or 3 of them, my attitude changed into I am joining SEO Challenges because I want to win! I liked these SEO competitions and worked a great deal into them trying my best to win and so far it paid off. Now it seems that after winning the previous SEO contest I have joined, it has helped promote myself, market myself to the Internet community mainly in the Philippines and other countries outside the US. Then I have seen more and more blog post talking about me (but not linking to me grrrr *LOL*) and I guess with the information out there I have seen a good mash up of information and is pretty accurate with the information about me but this site never contacted me about it. I have a professional profile on the Philippine Government’s National Computer Center. Listed in their Consultants / IT Professionals List. But there is nothing really special about that since they have a pretty long list of Filipino IT Professionals. I am just surprised with the length of info i have that is accurate. But again I am also not surprised since after reading the profile, I know where the information came from, interview blog post, other people I know that blogged about me, I blogged about myself, from my social media profiles, mainly LinkedIn and other stuff. (Wala man lang link papunta sa akin. *LOL*) Read the rest of this entry �

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I have been working on an SEO project, that has a lot of navigations using an HTML <select> tag. Which we all know is not search engine friendly. Because search engine spiders, also called bots cannot crawl this type of navigation. So I decided to redesign one and I made one using plain unordered list tags. <ul>,<li> tags that imitated how a <select> tag would behave. And the additional advantage aside from crawlability is the appearance is more customizable since there are many CSS properties that can change the colors of a <select> element but is not cross-browser compatible. With an ordinary list, you can customize appearance that is sure to look the same across all major browsers. I called this navigation the Busby Select Nav and so far the only problem I have is this is not working well on Safari and Konqueror. So I decided to ask help to get it work. Read the rest of this entry �

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Active SEO contest competitors know that the French SEOSphere team is a team hard to beat in SEO competitions and they are a current competitor at the Busby SEO Challenge. There were a strong team in previous SEO contest such as the SEO World Championship in 2007 that I was fortunate enough to win this contest. I myself must agree that I received a lot of help from many people who were not competing in the contest.

Just a few months back, our industry SEO friends in the UK organized by UK Webmaster World also ran an SEO challenge early this year, 2008 that ended on April Fool’s day although this was no joke. The SEOContest2008 where I won 2nd place, was an SEO challenge won by the French team, SEOSphere. Read the rest of this entry �

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I need help to transfer 75 WHM/cPanel hosting accounts from 1 server to another. I have a PHP1000,00 budget to get it done asap.

Peferrably someone with cPanel/WHM experience. If none, it is kind of procedural as long as you have these skills: Read the rest of this entry �

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This news is not new, and this SEO contest ended last April 1, 2008 and it was not an April Fool’s Day joke. UK Webmaster World held an SEO contest that ran from February 1, 2008 to April 1, 2008 and the winner is who ever ranks highest for the keyword: SEOContest2008 that gave zero results before the contest started and I was fortunate to win the 2nd place prize.

The complete winners are: Read the rest of this entry �

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just 12 more days before the SEOContest2008 will end. It ends on April fools day although this is no joke. UK Webmaster World is giving away $1,000 to the website ranking number 1 on Google for SEOContest2008. Good luck to all the competitors:

• Your’s truly, Benj Arriola – SEOContest2008 .com
• Eligio Tapiador Jr. – SEOContest2008 .org
• Gary Viray – Euro SEOContest2008 .com
• Garry Baybayan – ItsOnMyTV SEOContest2008
• Ed Canape – SEMLaguna SEOContest2008
• Zaldy Dalisay – SEOContest2008 Winner
• Jehzeel H. Laurente – Jehzlau’s SEOContest2008
• Kenneth Mendoza – Sabre9 SEOContest2008
• Dennis Cabase – SEOContest2008 .me.uk
• Mito Pontillas – SEOContest2008 .blogsome
• Moslemen ‘Jun’ Macarambon Jr. – SEOContest2008 .info
• Neil Maranan – My SEOContest2008
• Leo Mirabuna – i SEOContest2008
• Edward Santillan – SEOContest2008 Dubai
• Cheryl Estorgio – SEOContest2008 .SEMTitans
• Philip Tiangson – Philippine SEOContest2008
• IcezOrg – SEOContest2008 .i.ph
• Eric Marantanan – Camaniugan SEOContest2008
• Allan Fernandez Duncan – Try SEOContest2008
• Almer Viloria – AJViloria’s SEOContest2008
• Kojak Eugenio – Kojak’s SEOContest2008
• Ricusa – Ricusa’s SEOContest2008
• Christian Lacsamana – SEOContest2008 Guide
• Francis Gerald Alcala – SEOContest2008 SEOContest2008
• Ronald Allan Mojica – Ronald’s SEOContest2008
• Eric John Tabin – SEOContest2008 .SEOGlobalPro

Everyone listed above are the compiled Pinoy competitors. I am not sure if there are more.

Kung Pinoy ka at gusto mo din tumulong sa mga kababayan, at may mga blog din kayo, paki post na lang ang kwento din na ito kumpleto pati mga links isama ninyo.Mabuhay ang Pinoy SEO!

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After seeing a bunch of photos on my hard drive, most of which I planned to post online, but I never seemed to be able to since 2004 as I have been just busy. I have been using ZenPhoto for some time on other websites and has tried iFoto and Plogger. I did not do a real good comparison of the three but I just did ZenPhoto for a client before and I tried installing iFoto for personal testing which I never did again. And I just tried Plogger for photos uploaded by my sister-in-law and I found it nice but did not take the time to create some good template for it. Read the rest of this entry �

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I started in the hosting business in 1997 and to give you an idea of the hierarchy on how this goes, it runs this way:

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I get several random instant messages from various people from SEO Philippines. Simply asking me, what is my entry in the Bayanihan SEO contest Paradise Philippines. Problem is I am so busy that I can barely work on my SEO contest entry. And even if this is my super honest answer, they tell me something like: “Yeah, you will just try to catch up later and overtake us all.” And actually I honestly do not picture it that way. With so many projects to work on, some web development, some design, some project management, some SEO, I think I can barely work on the SEO contest Paradise Philippines. So if you are all worried I might catch up with everyone, well that will depend if given the time to catch up, but right now, I do not see myself working as hard as I did with GlobalWarming Awareness2007.

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