Designer not paid

Look at this Web Design:

Design for 10 Sikreto ng Mayayaman

This design was by Gail Dela Cruz, but she issued a full refund to the client. Maybe the client did not like the design. Now check this out:

10 Sikreto ng Mayayaman, the book. Original design concept by Gail Dela Cruz with minimal design changes, was unpaid and all payments refunded.

This is the final design that came out. Hmmmm… what do you think? Looks like a free design. So this is the secret of this rich! *LOL* Read the story about the 10 Sikreto ng Mayayaman and you decide yourself if this is a major rip-off.
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What really is PPP?

In the online advertising world, people have been doing this in several ways and one of the most effective ways are ranking high in organic results in search engines. But some how, this has been getting more and more competitive in some markets like in the Pharmaceutical, Porn and Online Gambling industry. And this is where spamming was the last result of these types of companies, from spamming email, spamming forums, spamming blogs, and everything. But spam just does not really work. Nice written write up contents still work best. So the PayPerPost.com that pay bloggers to have ads on blogs is a good way to spread the news, but I have heard from somewhere that PayPerPost.com, PPP is really just a bait for many bloggers to start blogging about Viagra and Porn websites in the future and PPP really meant Porn and Pills for Pharmaceuticals.

Problogger’s first impressions on PayPerPost.com

Problogger Darren Rose thinks PayPerPost.com degrades blog quality.Darren Rowse is an excellent blogger. And he has made a living out of blogging. He blogs for profit. His site is problogger.com. He even provides some consultancy on how to make profits out of blogging and is an authority in the field. But he does not believe in PayPerPost.com. He has cited several websites as well that do not like the idea. And a general pattern I see is getting paid per post decreases the credibility of the post and will just pollute the blogosphere.

I Get Paid to Blog. And I believe it is the same in the real world from face-to-face product endorsments, radio, TV and print. An article in a magazine, an interview on the radio or TV, it is all about promoting yourself or promoting your service, or promoting your product. Many post against PayPerPost.com talk about approval and reviews, that is it not screened. But as for my post, I have had rejected postings and I needed to edit them to get them approved. They also talk about people giving reviews on a product or service without trying them. This is the responsibility of the blogger. I do not want to give reviews personally of something I haven’t tried. But I give my opinions on a product based on what they are offering. And many advertisers give free samples of their product or service for testing purposes.

Web Designers Creativity on the Desktop Computer

Here are photos of some of the desktops of friends I had at work at Einstein Industries, my previous job.

Mook’s Choi Bead Necklace. I know those, those are the ones you throw to girls so they show their stuff during some party.

Sung Mook Choi Flash Developer

Jesse’s Morgan Webb Design sticker.

Jesse Morgan Webb Design

Evan Scheingrosshad a lot going on. He had monsters and a baseball field on his desktop at work. at Einstein Industries

Ewan Scheingross San Diego Padres Baseball Fan - Punk/Rock

Evan’s Scheingross Monitor Monster.

Evan Scheingross Monitor Monsters at Einstein Industries

Evan’s Scheingross baseball field. Which is now owned by Joko Jokosetio Halim at current press time.

Playing Baseball at Work with Evan Scheingross and Jokosetio Halim

More Monitoring Monsters! Monsters on the Monitor. at work at Einstein Industries. Joko’s Jokosetio Halim Halimaw Monsters! It looks like he also enjoys the photo of the old batman type of vintage car tail light.

Jokosetio Halims Monitoring Monsters

Glenn’s Batuyong logos that look like targets. But they remind me of the disc bullets of a toy gun I had before.

Glenn Batuyongs Target Logo Tablessless CSS Designs

Camron Deen likes his world upsidedown like going downhill.

Camron Downhill Deen Web Designer SEO

Camron Deen draws inspiration from this? I remember seeing a big version of this statue while mountain biking in some trail going downhill.

Camron Deen hard wood SEO Statue

Macromedia Flash Expert Ben Sebby did not like his name on top of his monitor.

Ben Sebby Flash Animation Animator at Einstein Industries

Ben Sebby had more important things to place on his monitor.

Ben Sebby Flash Animation Animator at Einstein Industries Lucky Stars

Ben Sebby had lucky stars and pink dumbo flying on top his monitor. Also in view is John’s Kelly Frog.

Flash Animated Dumbo by Ben Sebby

Is this a Webmonkey? Or a Web Gorrilla on top of Edgar’s Karim Zurita Einstein Industries Work monitor? Also in the view is Derek’s Monkey.

Edgar Zurita - aka Karim, Zura -web designer

John ‘Dru’ Kelly decides to have a frog instead.

John Kelly aka Dru Kelly aka Drustar and his frog.

Justin Sepulveda did not like his name on his computer…

Justin Sepulveda Production Engineer? - PBS Alien - like Hula Dancers on his Table

But Justin Sepulveda likes Hula Dancers on his table to arouse him.

Justin Sepulveda's Hot Girl Hula Dancer on his Table

Aron Yu reminding him of what’s coming on the weekend.

Aron Yu Christian Chinese Web Designer

Jason, Kent the web radio voice over voice, likes his bird on top.

Jason Kent's Voice Over Voice Web Designer

Mike Michael McCarthy likes his bird on top too…

Mike McCarthy's Bird on top

And cars below…

Mike McCarthy Web Design Matchboxes

What is Michael McCarthy reading? Readings from the dark side? Blackhat SEO? LOL.

Hagakure

Jimmy Nguyen aka DJ Happee Vietnamese sensation has some Feng Shui fortune plant. Also in view are the monkeys of Edgar Zurita and Derek Ashuer.

Jimmy Nguyen - DJ Happee doing the web design mix

Jimmy Nguyen aka DJ Happee likes to be reminded of the beach…

Jimmy Nguyen Disco Party All Night Long Vacation at the Beach

And his girl…

DJ Happee girl taken

Asian surf chick Cathy Vang loves the beach. Loves surfing. So while designing website, she constantly reminds herself of the waves.

Cathy Vang Hot Surfer Asian Chick Web Designer

Another thing on Cathy’s desk is the book, The Vang.

Cathy Vang Internet Chick Girl Power

Aimee’s Dotts sexy bare monitor, nothing on it but a post it and a sexy fur scarf.

Aimee's Sexy top bare with fur.

Graphic Artist Daniel Huffstutter likes mountain biking, so he keeps a mountain bike trail on his Einstein Industries computer monitor.

Graphic Artist and Mountain Biker of Einstein Industries - Daniel Huffstutter

Using a highlighter in books is to usually highlight keywords that are important. And Eldar Graziev is important.

Eldar Graziev Counter Strike Pro is Important in Einstein Industries

And my monitor. Benj Arriola’s computer monitor at Einstein Industries computer monitoring has an anti-spyware CD right beside it.

Benj Arriola's Computer Monitor at Einstein Industries with Anti-Spyware CD

But leaning right beside the monitor, is my Before and After work done by Dr. Benj on my Liposuction operations. At Einstein Industries.

Dr. Benj Arriola Liposuction Operation on Betty Boop and Big Bird to Tweety

3 SEO Life Stories…

He does SEO?

I attended a seminar on Internet Marketing by Adam Urbanski last July 20. It was a small group, maybe about 10 to 15 people only. And everyone was required to say a few stuff about themselves. I kept my self-description conservative and just said I know technical stuff in making websites, and I came to the class to learn more of the marketing side. How to market well online. Although I could say I have a fair knowledge of Internet marketing, but I was not there to say what I know, but I was there to learn other stuff I may not know yet. Even just a few small tips.

One participant, I can still remember how he introduced himself. He said he was also into Internet marketing, and SEO, I may not remember what he said word for word, but I do remember clearly one line he said, while he was addressing what he was saying to the speaker… he said “…You see, I do what you do too…” So he must know what he is saying.

Right after the seminar, I just did the same thing I did with the Sean Roach Internet Marketing seminar I attended. I SEO’d it. And it was generating traffic and a little more hits that translates to earnings of course for those that know how to make money out of traffic. It was not like an additional really big bucks, but it was still a little more to add to still give it some increase.

Just this afternoon, this participant that also does what Adam Urbanski does, calls me up since we exchanged cards and ask me about some other matters related to the course. And I mentioned that my other blog was ranking 1 for Adam Urbanski Internet Marketing as well other other keyphrases. And he asked how did I do it? Well for me, all I did was just the basics, I did no serious hard core competitive SEO yet, but since no one else was targeting it, it was easy to rank 1 right away. And an experienced SEO guy would have just laughed probably and find it funny I was targetting it. But now that I mentioned the story here. Maybe someone might be trying to beat me at number 1 for this keyphrase and I do not care. This was just for fun anyway. Maybe I will be more competitive if it was a paid SEO client. Uh oh, My SEO clients might have high expectations this time *LOL*. But this is what I have to say to my SEO clients, if you are not ranking number 1 for your general terms, do not worry, let’s target the tail and just keep in mind that our objective is to increase conversions. Not just get the number 1 spot on every term.

Remove Company Name

Every company name has a keyphrase tail to target. And this tail is still related usually to the company’s product or service. I targetted a keyphrase in this format: company name blog. It just took 2 days to get the number 1 spot. But the company talked to me and asked if I can remove the company name on my blog. And you know, these people are really nice guys and I have no intention in going to battle with them just over a simple search term. Actually I personally know how to over throw my own entry by the official company site and get the number 1 spot. But I guess it is also a matter of other legal issues that I cannot place the company name. Well ok, I took it out, although I still rank number 1 for it even if I took it out, Google should reindex soon and see the changes.

SEO Contest, SEO Contest, SEO Contest

I am getting tired of Isulong SEOph SEO Contest. Comparing it with Ambatchdotcom and Vogermilten that has $4k and $10k respectively with not even half of the people in the SERPs in Isulong SEOph that has already 800,000+ pages in the SERPs all battling for that number 1 spot with a prize less than $2k. I find it funny. But the reason why Isulong SEOph just has so many entries, is because of the SEOPhilippines community as well. The group just interacts so well with each other that everyone is having fun, sharing, talking about SEO, and website monetizations. We have seen several non-Filipinos in the list already because maybe also of the popularity, but predominantly, they are still all Filipinos. I did an IP change on one of my Isulong SEOph entries not only for a new class-C IP, but for a regional advantage as well. I think I am just going to mildly play around with Ambatchdotcom and consider to seriouly work on Vogermilten. But there is still a lot time for that. In this contest I joined, I have been in and out of page 1 with the highest rank i reached was 7, but I still get pushed back to page 2 or even page 3 sometimes. I once had a rank 3, but it just looked like Google glitch or someting, and only lasted a few hours when the other sites were missing. Oh well, let’s see how it goes. At least get into the final 7 sites, and hopefully I can ask for a vacation for the awarding if ever I do get in. Oh well, let’s see. I am a bit lazy compared to the other competitors. But maybe, actually hopefully I will get some second wind by mid-August.

First time high blogging traffic!

One of my blogs gets some good amount of traffic, although I am not that great of a high profit problogger. But what my blogs earn helps pay the bills. I was surprised that one of my blogs. Action Online which just gets about 1000+ unique IP hits every month suddenly hit 3000+ for this month. It was mainly because of the Friendster Embassy VIP Boob Flash Story Bulletin Hack Worm. Wow I finally got a number on the PinoyTopBlogs.com on the graphic on the sidebar. I think only the top 100 gets a number. And finally got to number 70. But if I have no good story nex time, I can be gone next month. I wonder how Rickey and BryanBoy stays on top, they have such large followings.

Google Maps Updates More Places in the Philippines

I have been using Google Maps and Google Earth ever since they came out I think. Images of places in the Philippines were still low resolution. But more and more higher resolution photos are coming out. And I just had a nice time “flying” over home while I am away from home.

I grew up here in Teresa Heights, Novaliches, QC

Home where I grew up, Where my Mom, Sis' Family are. Walang nag swiswiming? Buy Coke here. Pag ubos na, dito na lang. Buy Halohalo here during summer.Where I live in the Philippines, in North Olympus, Novaliches QC

Janet and Harry's New Home. Home where my family is. Buy Softdrinks here. Hindi po ito lugar ng mayayaman at mahahaba ang bubong. Mga townhouses po ito.One of the BMX flatland freestyle spots me and my friends go to.

Freestyle Area Cul-de-sac. We called it 'the circle'Teresa Heights Park Area

Parish of Mary the Queen, Pasong Putik Barangay Hall, Basketball and Tennis Courts, Teresa Heights Golf Driving Range, Mga concrete tiles binebenta dito. Skatepark ni Erlan, nagbabaha dito. May misa nung kinuha ang photo. Daming Cars.A quick swimming spot that you can actually walk to coming from Teresa Heights.

Neopolitan Brittany Subdivision ClubhouseAnother walking distance from Teresa Heights. It is like Teresa Height’s residents’ second home. Hahaha

Robinson's Place Novaliches SM City Fairview Mall