Comments on: Lessons learned from Isulong SEOPH Contest

By: Isulong SEOph

Isulong SEOph — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:24:45 +0000

great! educational

By: yeepe.com

yeepe.com — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:02:58 +0000

Good luck to all entries..

By: creativefantasies

creativefantasies — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:15:53 +0000

yeah, it’s getting frustrating to see blogs ranking well just for the reason that they are blogs and they have automatic pinging included..

the time it takes for google to cache my site takes so long, that I can’t know if what I did to my site is working.

By: Noemi

Noemi — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:37:22 +0000

I just started June 25. and two days after, my isulong-seoph site is 4 notches below your blog. (on page 4). I know it changes. Who knows I will be on page 100 next time. hehe

By: razhiella

razhiella — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:13:08 +0000

I also noticed blogs using WordPress are dominating the SERP.. you noticed that too?

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:43:58 +0000

Very educational. A lot of thanks from thos eof us who are just beginners in the world of legitimate traffic building. Intersting in particular to me since I’ll be physically in the Philippines sometime soon, and I have several web ideas to work on there. Based on what I’m seeing I can purcahes a .ph domain and still host on my cheap and very convenient US-based provider and Google won’t penalize me for the geographic difference.

Great blog info too … again and again the lesson seems to be that blogs are very commercially viable, even for companies without any pure “blog” interest. With the great open source sofware available there’s hardly an excuse not to have ablog on any company site … even if it’s only a venue for the CEO to give a once amonth per talk. Much simpler than building the whole site as a CMS, and updates to a blog engine like WordPress are simple enough to be almost :CEO-proof”.

By: Isulong SEOPH / To Win Isulong SEOPH, We Need a Gimmick

Isulong SEOPH / To Win Isulong SEOPH, We Need a Gimmick — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:36:17 +0000

[...] So we’re on page two for the Isulong SEOPH contest. Abe Olandres’ post regarding the advantages of having a PH-based domain and/or hosting featured a google.com.ph search with us on #3—yes, the very same results page that we talked about last time. Of course, with the competition being tough (we’re up against seasoned pros, and yeah, some blackhatters maybe), we didn’t expect this position to be sustainable. And now that we’re on page two, we feel dejected and almost on the verge of suicide. [...]

By: jozzua

jozzua — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:38:41 +0000

Quite educational. I’ve also noticed that there is a regular cycle/movement among the websites. One can somewhat already estimate when the website will be moving up or down.

By: Manuel Viloria

Manuel Viloria — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:19:00 +0000

In the case of Yahoo, it appears to favor an automated rss feed, rather than a manually updated one.

I tried to make a manual web site rank high by just adding content, but Yahoo didn’t index the html pages which are not referenced in the rss feed. Unbelievable.

Looks like it’s time to add a WordPress- or blog-powered section to the websites of companies.