There is nothing at all wrong with bieng proud Pinoy and writing about the aspects of Pinoy life that make you paaionate . in fact the _only_ way to get anywhere in the blogging world is to write about what you are passionate about. But “Pinoy” is not a subject that attracts anyone to advertise. As an outsider living her … my Pinay wife and I read dozens of Filipino blogs … my advice is, use keywords that are attractive to advertisers, Example … Call centers and Business Outsource Processing are _hot_ right now. You don’t have to like the trends .. writing about how you dislike them is great stuff too … but use some keywords and titles that are in the international.

Also, from personal experience with TLA … their automated process doesn’t work real well. Do _not_ wait months. If you are rejected. write them a short email pf appeal immediately. If you haven’t heard anyhting in two months, get off your butt and write … in most cases they will approve by return mail … write directly to Patrick Gavin, the founder of TLA, he has helped me a lot and he cares about bloggers.

Wauks – If you have a PR most likely they’ll approve your site. But they do this on a monthly basis. Still you could contact them (like what I did) to manually approve your site

Hope this helps
Carl

Just a quick question. What does TLA check for approval for the advertising program? I’ve been waiting for 2 months to get approval from them T_T