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Nostalgic Memories of the South

Thanks to Friendster, I was led to this blog with a lot of great content. Several weeks ago Rico and I wanted to start a BF Homes Binge Blog that talked about the food and beverage scene in BF Homes in Paranaque, which by far is the biggest subdivision in Asia stretching across three cities.

We scrapped that idea due to lack of time. Thankfully, someone else thought of the same thing. Though it is still new, the blog has a heapload of content about the BF Homes nostalgia of the 80’s, the current bar scene as well features of the other fun stuff you can do in the South of Manila, Philippines.

Say hello to Southbound.ph!

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A Bugged Life Cupcakes by Art Cakes

Since it is the season, I decided to have these cute cupcakes made as Christmas gifts for my friends. Thing is, I have to give these out in five days to the first people I see because the shelf life isn’t very long.

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I’ve been exploring other nontraditional ways of getting more pageviews into ABL. It turns out that these nontraditional methods are actually traditional ways of promoting your own businesses. Like these cupcakes.

The logo was designed by Marc and Gail Villanueva and the pastries were made by Art Cakes. If you want to have your own custom cakes made, do send an SMS to their company phone at +63922-5070269.

If you read my mobile phone blog at Cellphone9, you may also want to check out these cute cellphone cookies:

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Aren’t they cute? These last for about a month, also made by Art Cakes. The text says “Cellphone9.com by b5media.”

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Mobile Philippines Portal Sneak Peek

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This isn’t really a sneak peek. The site is actually live, and has been for the past several weeks. As soon as the Inquirer technicians inserted the RSS feeds from our blog, it has been deemed presentable to the public. What you will see here are the following:

  • RSS feeds from the Mobile Philippines blog
  • A lot of ads (hehe)
  • Archives of previous issues of Mobile Philippines Magazine

You can view the site at http://technology.inquirer.net/mph

Do you want to guest blog for Mobile Philippines? If you are a blogger, we may not be able to pay you cash, but we know that money is worth nothing compared to trickle traffic from INQ7 right? 🙂

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Hitting the “1,000 readers a day” mark!

I’m finally hitting the monumental 1,000+ unique readers per day mark. In the olden days, ancient bloggers used to commemorate this breakthrough by sacrificing a vestal virgin to the AdSense god. With the advent of civilized practices and the humane society, all we do now is post about it.

One thousand unique readers isn’t a lot if you consider how much traffic other local bloggers get. But it has gone a long way from my 50+ readers / day back in 2004.

This breakthrough isn’t on a consistent basis yet, but my weekend stats (usually the lowest in the week) have me at over 1,000 unique visitors. It may even be amazing to know that A Bugged Life’s multiplier is much higher (around 3.92 pages per visit) than that of Cellphone9. Does this mean that there’s a lot more juicy stuff here? Thank you to all my readers that keep on coming back at least 3.92 times a day. I actually don’t know what it is that incites you to read my thoughts, but thanks anyway!

I should really start that “blind item blog…”

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Blog Tip: Sometimes it is good to spell wrong

A few months ago I had written about the Motorola KRZR on my mobile phone blog. That thread dominated my top post lists for more than 60 days. A few weeks later, I get a comment from MobileBurn’s Brad Kellet saying that I had spelled KRZR wrong – I checked my post and tadah – the “Motorola KRAZR” had me in a bad spot with a wrong product name. I had forgotten that the “A” in KRZR was silent.

But if you do a search for “Motorola KRAZR” in Google, I’m number one! What does this mean? If you have weirdly spelled product names, it may be cute to spell it like the way it sounds so that the masses get the more search-friendly term!

And that my friends, is my original SEO tip for you!