For Those Inquiring…

by Mj Ces on October 29, 2009

I have been very busy lately with a couple of projects and also with my upcoming wedding. My girlfriend and I are doing all the work. We did not hire a coordinator because we want to make it very personal for us.

As you may also notice, because of these developments, I have not updated my blog for a month now. Well, if you can consider this as an update.

So in case you would like to send me a message either with regards to my blog or my copy writing work, please use my Contact form and not the comments section of this blog.

Thanks!

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Rankings for Our Target Keywords

by Mj Ces on September 16, 2009

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It has only been a month since I started to optimize this blog for the keywords “freelance copywriter” and now it has started to go up Google’s U.S. search results.

The first time I noticed that it appeared in the results, it was on the 12th page. Now, as of this writing, it is on the 3rd page, ranked 26th overall. All I can say is, I’m satisfied with the way things are going. But of course my target is to be on the first page, which I believe is not that hard to achieve.

Also, my girlfriend’s blog, www.CallCenterGal.com, which is one of the first blogs we ever set up, is now ranked second in the Google U.S. search results for “call center blog”. We started to optimize that blog for that search term about middle of last year so it took us more than a year to get to where it is now in the search results. I guess it is more competitive in the call center search arena.

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How to Make Your Images Searchable

by Mj Ces on August 24, 2009

You probably already know that search engines cannot tell what an image posted on your site is all about. For example, if you post an image like this one:

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…how can a search engine know that the picture is about John Stockton? Even if you put a text saying ‘John Stockton’ within that image, it still can’t be read by the search spiders.

There are a couple of effective ways to make this image searchable.
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control panel

More than a year ago, I didn’t know anything about domain registration and web hosting. So what I did was I looked for a web host that also offered domain registration services. I found one and I was very happy with it because the hosting package was very cheap (I’ll write another post on why you should never go cheap when hosting your site).

It was very easy because the hosting company did everything for me. All I did was I gave them the domain name I wanted and then I signed up for their hosting package. They also installed WordPress on my behalf.

This was a very good setup for me, especially since I was just starting out. But later on I found out that this was not a good idea. [click to continue…]

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WordCamp Philippines 2009

August 3, 2009

WordCamp Philippines is coming on September 19 at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City.
The WordCamp Philippines organizers have set up a new site at WordCamp.ph and if you want to join, just head over there and register. I actually have something to do that day so I’m still waiting for the announcement of [...]

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Does Quality Come Cheap? A Look at How We Value Ourselves

July 28, 2009

Aaron Wall of SeoBook just recently announced he will be increasing the membership fee to his SEO community from $100 a month to $150 starting this August.
Does it seem like a suicidal business move especially since the United States is in recession and the rest of the world isn’t faring any better?
Well, the man said [...]

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Microsoft’s Bing Advertises on Google

July 27, 2009

What do you do when your competitor is so much bigger than you?
You join him. Or at least use him to gain some leverage even though you’re competing in the same field.
In the case of Microsoft’s new (or newly branded) search engine, Bing, they opened their own AdWords account and started advertising on Google’s search [...]

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5 Truths My Former Bosses Taught Me in My Writing Career

July 22, 2009

I have been working as a writer for nearly a decade. Through all those years, I have had my own share of good, bad and weird bosses. But if you look at it from a different perspective, there really is no bad experience working under any superior because you still learn a thing or two [...]

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The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf’s Swirl Rewards Card for Free WiFi Access

July 19, 2009

I am not a coffee drinker; I’m a chocolate drinker so whenever I’m in a coffee shop I always look for chocolate on the menu. With The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf I always go for their Ice Blended drinks. Right now my favorite is Pure Chocolate Ice Blended.
Last weekend, together with my girlfriend, we [...]

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Copyblogger Has Zero Twitter Followers?

July 15, 2009

I was surprised when I visited Copyblogger today. Why?
Would you believe Copyblogger has zero Twitter followers?

I’m sure this is just a technical problem because I’m one of Copyblogger’s Twitter followers. At least one follower should have reflected there.

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