While checking the search engine result pages for the contest keyword “Paradise Philippines” earlier, I have noticed several things.
First of all, I do now believe that search engine optimization has taken its place in the Philippines. As you can see, lots of participants have already shown their entries for the contest, even outranking the considered strong .gov pages. This is a success for the whole SEO Philippines organization which aims to the development of the search engine marketing industry in our country. Kudos to all the members of the organization.
Next thing I have noticed, Filipino SEO professionals are really doing great in the field. The contest started last July 1 but within 24 hours, I have already seen changes in the result for the specified keyword. Entries from Philip Tiangson of tiangson.com and a certain Garry Baybayan of ayumanize.com where the first ones to break the first page results in almost half a day. That was really fast and amazing.
Social Bookmarker works. After making a post for my entry, I submitted it in several social bookmarking sites and in less than an hour, I have seen one link wherein my story was submitted and it’s in the top 100 pages for the keyword already. If you will check other strong entries, or even the results for the query, it all shows signs of social bookmark syndication. If you will have a look at the preview I have clipped, it shows a link from wists.com (I have marked it with red) wherein my story was submitted. Take a look on the date which says July 7, the same date I am posting this and the same date my contest blog entry was posted.
One more thing I have noticed is that domain doesn’t really give that much advantage. I am seeing domains that don’t bear the keyword but still proves to be a strong competitor. There are new domains which outranks the old ones and there are even crappy names that shows some potentials.
Though it is too early to give final words for this, seeing this things are something to take note of. It might change tomorrow but still it happened which might give us more things to look out for in our seo practice.
