Sponsoring and Monitoring the Paradise Philippines SEO Competition

Last week, I disseminated information about the Paradise Philippines - P600,000 Bayanihan SEO contest where DigitalFilipino is one of the sponsors. From hereon, I will be monitoring developments in the competition.

My motivation in sponsoring the contest and how I'll measure its effectiveness includes:

• increase in search engine ranking of the sites I'm promoting through the competition.
• increase membership in my two communities.
• attract bloggers and content writers to join my ad revenue and content writing programs.
• get my personal site associated with the Filipina keyword.
• sustaining my primary website's campaign as an e-commerce resource.

Whether I will succeed in doing the above remains to be seen in the months to come. Once the contest code generator is up and entries began posting the code in their site, I shall be monitoring its effectiveness and write about my observations.

Those who will blog about the things I post here and provide interesting insights, can expect link love as well. This applies to old and new posts.

Have fun to all Paradise Philippines - P600,000 Bayanihan SEO contest competition participants!

Congratulations to all the winners of Ituloy AngSulong

Congratulations to SEO Philippines and Marc Macalua for the very successful Ituloy AngSulong SEO competition.

Being able to win a prize was very satisfying and well worth the effort of the past 4 months. Of course, what I was able to build and achieve during the contest duration for myself is way beyond the value of the contest prize.

I was able to meet Rhiza Sanchez and Guada “Ada” Lajara who won in the Google and MSN category. After the event, Gwen, Abby, and I catched up at Iceberg to relieve ourselves of the hot weather. Marc announced that they will take a break from organizing an SEO contest to give way for the formal organization of SEO Philippines. We discussed that such break may be a good time to get more women into SEO - by organizing a small contest version for women. That way, by the time the next SEO Philippines contest comes, there'll be more women joining. What do you think? (it is only an idea at this time)

Here are some of the blog coverage we spotted as well: (will regularly update this)

• SEO Philippines Awards night
• Pinkseo, Signing Off
• Ituloy AngSulong awards night
• Ituloy Angsulong Awards
• Curtains Fall on Philippine SEO Contest 2.0
• Ituloy Angsulong Contest - Spoils of War
• E-Services Philippines, Christian Bautista, IMMAP Induction, PTTC Seminar, SEO Ituloy-Angsulong Awards Night, High School Musical and a Party!
• Attending the Ituloy AngSulong Awards Night
• Ituloy Angsulong Awarding Ceremony
• Ituloy Angsulong - What Now?
• My first ever hang-over in six years
• BlueSEO won the 3rd highest cummulative ranking!
• Breaking News: Panalo Tayo!
• My First Seo Winnings

Ituloy AngSulong!