UPDATE: Yes it’s official – I won! π Thanks to GetUpdated/EastPoint for the contest. Here are the official list of winners.
Previous post below, before winners were declared….
Although my GlobalWarming Awareness2007 entry was the current number 1 site when the contest ended, they say they will come up with the final results after 24 hours. So to make it official, I guess we will have to wait.
A few things I can say about this contest in my own opinion:
- Content is still king! Good content keep people stay, come back and spread the news in a natural manner.
- Design is still important. Not that it has to be really superb, but at least it does not look bad that people will not trust you nor trust the content of your website. Make it clean and presentable to help drive more traffic, world-of-mouth promotion and more effective website link baiting.
- And SEO is a pay-it-forward type of industry. The more help you give out to other people, the more help you receive when you need it.
SEO contest is a test of oneΓ’β¬β’s skill to rank for a certain keyphrase in search engines. But the real SEO work is really much more than that. I happy I was able to showcase my skills in this contest and was victorious, but I have high respect for all the other competitors since it was not an easy win. I was still worried and nervous up to the last minute of a come-from-behind win from the other competitors. I would like to add that 20% of my efforts in getting the top spot in this contest were through the help of the many SEO professionals in the Philippines. This win is not completely my win. It is a win of SEOPhilippines. Where competent and skilled SEO professionals are, SEO professionals in the Philippines have high reliability in off-shore SEO outsourcing.
While waiting for the official winner announcement, in the meantime, I have prepared my long list of thank you’s already and tried to make sure I left no one out. Arranged in no particular order, but trying to do it chronological as how I remember it.
SEO Philippines Community
- Jason Torres – RoR,AJAX,PHP,MySQL,XHTML,CSS rich talent.
- Mike Lopez – PHP,MySQL expert
- Whin Clores – Internet Marketing Consultant, On-page Optimization Expert
- Mia Carmel – SEO Cebu, but seems to love programming more.
- Riz Sanchez – SEM, Guitarchic, PinkSEO
- Alfredo Palconit, Jr. – Filipino Web Designer
- Mae Paulino – Designer/Blogger
- Gio Castro – SEO, Link Builder
- Abel Quitoriano – SEO/Designer
- Rostom Hernandez – Expert Domainer
- Eli Tapiador – WickedWP, up and rising SEO.
- Neil Maranan – Kapeng Barako Viral Videos/Website Joker
- Leo Mirabuna – SEO for Newbies
- Philip Tiangson – Monetize Blogger
- Almer Viloria – SEO Blogger, LinkHealer, with an Article Directory and talks about Mayon.
- Jun Macarambon – Our brother from the South, Wyzemoro.
- Andrew Dela Serna – Alleba Blog DotA Allstars Strategy Darn Slick Gadgets
- Roland Lacre – Naypi
- Muller Tambis – IT Consultant
- Zaldy Dalisay – Major Kontrapelo – Online Money Maker
- Mito Pontillas – SEO, Link Building Expert
- Marvin Arceo – SEO Pinoy
- Marhgil Macuha – SEO contest winner, blogger
- Marc Macalua – Mr. SEO Philippines
- Elimar Apao – Jozzua on Pinoy Entrepenuershi
SEO Friends in San Diego
- Mikhail Tuknov – SEO/PPC/New Media Manager – Astone Agency
- Jesse Morgan – Web Designer/Developer
- Mike McCarthy – Web Designer
- Shawn Hilt – Web Designer
Marko Nikolic, Dru Kelly, Glen Batuyong did not help me in this contest but they did in the past in another SEO contest. Maybe this is still a nice time to say thanks to them also.
Services I got from our friends on Digital Point
- Mas Dini Muzammal – Blog Poster from Malayasia
- Arvind Srivastava – Manual Directory Sumissions from India
- Col Crawford – Blog Poster, SEO
I did not ask for the services of other friends in India Robin Gupta’s Directory Submission, Sunil Submitshop in this contest but these two guys are cool tool. They helped me out in earlier contest I joined with their services.
Clients
If ever this list is incomplete and I failed to remember you, sorry, I’m just human, it’s sometimes hard to remember everyone.
I did a backlink check as well to help remember some people. I will not mention diggers and people that fell for my link baits since I really don’t know you anyway. *LOL* And for those that added my site to the Cialis and Viagra sites all on different domains that all looked the same, I don’t know if you were helping me or doing the opposite. *LOL* Peace out guys. I understand that competitions are really like that.
Of course thanks to my family and people in my company who were patient with me as I went through the contest as well. I love you all.
Benj,
congratulation to you, you deserve to be the champion, as you on quote”And for those that added my site to the Cialis and Viagra sites all on different domains that all looked the same,”, when I was at the top for a almost 2 weeks, then check my backlinks, i have also seen several my entry on different viagra, spam casinos, link farms, etc, LOL, anyway it is just part of the game!
It’s people like you that make the Internets a better place. What could be a better use of one’s time than polluting the internet with more useless websites? Way to go, Benj!
Benj, you are my Hero! I am proud to have such an intelligent, kind and friendly friend like you! You treat every person equally, that’s why you are getting respect and support from the people. Excellent job with the First World SEO Championship contest! We are very proud of you my friend. I am glad Pilipino community is willing to help you in the times when you need it. I personally want to thank everyone from Pilipino community myself. You guys are very intelligent in any way including our favorite thing which called Search Engine Marketing world!
Benj,
Congratulation! Its very well deserved. Pasalamat ka at di ako sumali..hahahhah..joke lang..
Congratulations Kuya Benj! Truly you are a world class Filipino. We are so proud of you! π
Iba ka talaga Benj, Pa-kanton ka naman kuya(Mia). hahah..
Congratulations my friend, a well deserved and hard-fought win.
I’m looking forward to seeing how you’re getting your car into the united states. haha
π
Oi! Gusto ko ng Sushi? Congrats man!!!!!!
yaaaay benj! Bamtastic is right π
Glad I could help. So when are we goin for a ride? I’ve never been in a Citroen, but they’re so cool; AWD I think. Let’s rally it! π
wow.. good job Benj.. We are very proud and happy for you. π pasakay sa Citroen mo ha π
Congratulations BenJ!
good job…. congrats! love u. π
Congrats, Benj! Don’t forget the “small people” as you keep rising to the top! π Keep up the great work!
Congrats to you, for the 1st winner SEO Champioship 2007, I hope you can give us picture of the prize Citoren beside you.
thx
Congrats Benj! We’re all proud of your achievement! π
“My car is not that problematic that it becomes too expensive to maintain. And having cars just to look cool is far from my personality. I just need a good fast car to bring me from point a to point b.”
Your wish is my command bosing! Im giving you a Brand New Citroen C2!
Arbor ko na lang yung Paseo mo ha! π
Sana pinost man lang dun sa seoworldchampionship yung names ng winners, hindi puro URL lang.
CNN interview coming up!
Congrats! Astig! π
benj,
i may not know you dude, but surely iam proud for you being the champ, you really have proven that pinoys are world class. idol na tuloy kita in terms of SEO (iam just a newbie to this). keep it up.
Congrats Benj! Though we now have a SEOPH forum, I miss your yahoogroups post. You are a fun guy and deserve the car. I think you will sponsor the next SEOPH contest. =)
Congrats Benj! Wooohooo!!!!! Galing galing mo talaga! Pasakay sa bago mong kotse ha. π
hi ben,
im melvin from the infotech section of the manila bulletin. i’d like to make a story on your recent win. what’s your email ad? thanks.
Congratulations benj! Ang galing mo! woohoo. idol!!! π
Not sure if you received my email Melvin. I might try sending it again to be sure.
congrats Benj!
you make our SEO PH Community proud! w00t! pasakay! hehe.
Wow! You definitely made Pinoys proud! Congratulations! May kotse pa na premyo.
Congrats Benj. Well deserved win. Cheers
Congrats man. Good Stuff!!
Congratulations tukayo!
π
Congratulations Benj. You just made an important mark in Philippine Internet history. May your accomplishment inspire others to do great things.
Hi, Benj! You may not know me, but I’ve officially become of your biggest fans (effective ito last week when I heard the news about your victory – haha!) Congratulations! I don’t know how you do it.. I’m in awe. 0.0
hi..just blog hopping and chanced on your site. Congrats and hope a link back to your site…
congrats benj and everyone else!
Congrats Benj! Akin na lang lumang kotse mo, lolz.
Congratulation Benji! Great job, hope to meet you in another SEO contest!
Hi Benj,
Arshad here Congrats for putting such good efforts !!
I am India’s or may be world’s youngest seo (age 18) and will complete my 19 yrs of age on 25th November.
Let me discuss with you something about my seo contest Era.
I was alone working on my seo contest website, i was searching for the good people (SEO Experts) to do work on my site but no one knows about seo.
So, i found very difficult to work alone and there was exams of BSCIT (first year) in my college for 2 weeks. That was a key jerk made my site down very bad from 4th position to 16th in google. And i was finding very hard to retain my place, than i worked for last 12 days for my seo contest i.e.18th,April….which boost my ranking to 8th position on google on last day of contest !…….
I think we both can become good friends…please let me know when you are free to have chat with my id ******@gmail.com or we can have email communications
Regards,
Arshad
Seo/Sem Analyst
9198205*****
Mumbai,India
Wowee, a Filipino won? Congratulations on your achievement!
Regards,
Massa P
fruityoaty.com
You left this comment on Aaron Roselo’s blog. Hehe. I don’t know SEO. Weird talaga.
Whenever I feel down or depressed, I go to this post and read all the comments. wahahahahaha
Hi Benj, I congratulate you on spreading far and wide the light of the Filipino nation…Taas noo kami sa iyong pagkapanalo. By this way our nation will not only be known as sources of DH but also of venerable talents able to compete head on with the best of the world.
Congratulations! You make me more proud to be a filipino. sorry for the late greetings. i just started my blog last march and i had not much idea about blogging and the filipino bloggers. again congratulations..
i hope you can give my blogs a visit and tell me how to improve them. i got the top spot for the keyword “legitimate earning sites” in google, but i don’t even know for sure how i did it.
well, just visit my blogs and ill be super honored.thanks and Go Pinoy!!!
While content is the king,sometimes you can’t have it..
I am a photographer and I think google should really ease up on flash sites. I need to have my site in flash,in order to show style and make my site look presentable. I can’t have content on it. Google should make content important for informational sites,such as blogs and articles. Media/entertainment sites are not suppose to have a lot of content
may mga upcoming seo contest paba?
Congratulations sa pagkapanalo mo… add ko link ng blog mo sa http://www.pagodkanaba.blogspot.com at http://www.broodonline.com … paki add din naman if pwede.. Thanks and congrats ulit!
Hi. You’re invited to attend the 14 hour internet marketing hands on workshop at the Mall of Asia on March 28-29,2008.
Details at http://internetmarketingphilippines.blogspot.com.
-Marie for Jomar Hilario
congratulations…you did it again! whoah..!!!i wish you can give some tips how the blog more traffic and to be successful in all search engine.
This is a cool championship.. But this is over i hope they could make another Championship this year 2011
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Wow! I would love have to participated. Actually, I’m running a brazilian SEO contest: “comprovandoseonavip” haha. This is my site: http://www.choraconcorrencia.com