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February 24, 2006

End of week round-up

Been a little busy with so many other things since I came back from vacation which made posting on this blog a little slower than usual. However, stories still abound:

Here’s a short note from a SitePoint newsletter: According to ContentBiz, one of MarketingSherpa’s publications, Google paid out $1 billion to Adsense publishers last year.

February 23, 2006

MyAyala: But everybody else is doing it!

From a recent news at Inq7.net, myAyala’s General Manager defended their being de-indexed by Google by pointing fingers at everybody else:

Moya acknowledged that the website’s developers had placed hidden text at the footer of the www.myayala.com. But he said that everybody had been doing this for the past two years until now.

He said that other local e-commerce websites are still using this trick, but apparently myAyala.com was “singled out” since it is currently the popular e-commerce website in the country.

Marc discovered they were out of Google last week and blogged about it at PTB. He even sent an email to myAyala informing them of this violation of the Google webmaster guidelines but no reply was sent.

Apparently, they don’t want to thank the very person who tipped them about it but they’re glad to admit their mistakes on the newspaper. They just feel that they’re too big so Google “singled” them out. *wow*

Update:
http://sureseats.myayala.com still has some hidden and stuffed text in it.

October 10, 2005

What happened to GCPhilippines?

GCPHilippines.com – original, branded gift certificates from over 70 popular retailers in the Philippines. (includes packaging, personalization and nationwide delivery within 48 hours via Aboitiz Express) It was owned and operated by Zero Gravity, Inc. and maintains an office in Makati.

The company started selling gift certificates (GCs) online on January 2000 and ceased operations by late 2002 or early 2003. They were also providing affiliate sales/marketing with 2% commissions.

OFWs were the obvious target for these and during that time, online shops (which are direct competitors) are gaining numbers and sales. Likewise, most of the gift certificates are only available for Metro Manila. The one I got in 2001 was for 30 tickets for Enchanted Kingdom.

I think the slim margins and low sales forced them to close shop. Ten (10%) percent could be the highest commission for GC sales and unless you’re selling them in the millions monthly, that wouldn’t help you survive the tech crunch.

Besides, everyone was going straight to MyAyala.com.