Autobiography of The SEO Flea

Christmas is good for us not just because we, me and my team won a SEO contest and we finished 6th in Google search engine and 9th in MSN but failed to be in the top 10 in Yahoo. This is good and Jeff Manese, my partner gave me the chance to learn more. I also learned to be a little bit more perfect in doing SEO and link building for our entry site. This contest, the "promotional items corporate gifts srednarb" gave us both the opportunity to be more than what we thought we can be.

On the other hand, family is also good because we just celebrated our reunion and I on the other hand had celebrated reunion with a few college mates and friends in college. This is what I always wanted and it happened all here in 2009. I had a lot more to thank myself and people who love me for being there all the way in all my success and failure although failure is very few.

The only lacking achievement I want to experience is to learn more on my coding and web design. This year, I am looking to do that without needing to spit out money. If I can do this, I will be the happiest webmaster ever in the Philippines. I am not sure why this blog came to be the diary for this concern but I must admit it's been a long time since I treated this blog as my pet blog. 2009 will be witness to aggressive blogging and SEO in a well planned use of resources.

Thank you 2008 and welcome 2009.

Latent semantic indexing, a term rarely discussed, a topic never opened. Although most of the SEO personalities today, doesn't know much about the latent semantic indexing and its effects in SEO and keyword optimization (also known as the semantic analysis in terms of SEO technique use) many have wondered and tried to see if this theory analysis is actually being used by Google in their indexing standards.

Today, Google as per observations that i noticed, is constantly changing their algorithms in their engine. To what reason, no one really knows and that is the reason why i am talking about it as a theory that Google is possibly using this method of indexing (latent semantic indexing) for providing the search results that they are displaying in their SERPs. Another thing i noticed while observing the algorithms that Google is displaying is that the leading engine is actually making it hard for link building efforts and SEO, therefore turning everything into the hard life for most webmasters this year. Before, i used to use my blogs with building up links to clients vying for my link building services through having them on my home page's blogroll and it only took about 2-3 days for the engines to crawl the links and have then put on their engine results for their "link:domain" query. But while doing it this time, i noticed that Google is making it even harder for link building efforts to hail on building up links using the old and new blogger accounts and wordpress accounts that i have. It is now under countdown for 4 consecutive days and still no result for the links that i have put on my blogroll even up to this time. Question is, could this be the time for the major search engines to turn the tide for spam link building and irrelevant link building and conserve on the thrash links being systematically achieved through link building by many SEO and SEO personalities? Could be possible and who knows...

As of this very moment, I still haven't seen any change to the links that i built up for 4 sites that i am taking care of for the clients i have in link building. I'll just play wait and see for the moment and see if something comes up with this new latent semantic indexing experiment.

And now, the end is near for the second SEOPhilippines SEO contest. Tonight, the winners will be announced at the Metro Phi Resto Bar in Ortigas, Meralco Avenue. I was hoping that MSN would try and consider lifting the sandboxing of the site of a good friend. Sure, MSN did their part in the sandboxing of some entry sites for the Ituloy AngSulong contest proper but is it not enough that they have just implemented it right on time for the awards night where we were hoping for the win.

The site that i am talking about is the http://www.palconit.com that used to rank in MSN's engine even days before the contest is bound to end. Just right in time for the last minute of the contest. I would like to thank Lakeside Technologies also for giving a chance those SEO struggling to be some of the best in the SEO umbrella to join and experience joining and taking part on the many link building tactics used and implemented in the contest. It's a pleasure to be one part of it all.

I have also learned so much about it although i did not really join in because that time i was busy with my own life trying to take part in the success of many clients handed over to me
by a prestigious SEM company here in the Philippines. Also that i am busy working out and learning AdSense and html at the same time.

So the most awaited Philippine SEO contest is nearing its end. Conquistadors have numbered from the latest to the oldest styles and techniques to do in their quest for emerging the best of the best in the industry. Somewhere along the way, i never really imagined that some of the neophytes and veterans of the black hatter and spammer legion have gone up from the brink of the underground to the pool of the contest in the open.

I will not, nor is there a need to pinpoint people that have joined in the contest to win using the black hat ways and spammers techniques. You know yourselves and we all deserve our own share of the pie as i have mentioned in my previous posts about a black hatter and a spammer conversation going on in the web. As Marc Macalua mentioned in the announcement of the contest start that all domains are in meaning all are welcome. Black or white, spammer or not, SEOs or SEO wanna be's everybody is in as long as they pass the initial needs to get in. The most important thing we all learn in this matter is to go beyond our ordinary thinking and be able to achieve meaningful milestones somewhere in our SEO life in the world wide web.

This is just a point of view and not a criticism of some sort for anybody and there is no need to magnify things so as just to make things more clearer in the beholder's eye. Whatever art any contestant is implementing in this most prestigious so far of all contests held here in the Philippines for the boost of the Philippine SEO and SEM community he will later on be held liable for himself. I heard one complaining that his site got banned by its host because of no reason or something he doesn't know of. This is bull****!!! No one ever gets banned by anyone specially by a host server unless he did something wrong these days. I don't know what's the cause and i am not interested in it anyway. One thing is for sure, he knows what he did wrong to get the pits for his site that used to rank so well in the SERPs and in the contest of Ituloy Angsulong keyword.

Well well, you just didn't do it right and you know pretty well who you are. I suggest that the next time you use your black hatter and spammer ways, you ought to first consider things and be more careful about it and be sensitive to your time frame. Although it is true that time is always of an essence you should be careful, really careful about it because if it is the most important consideration of both white hats and most black hatters and spammers too, it is also the most dreaded and should be sensitively handled and manipulated to reach your goal. The essence of using technologies that have helped many and have earned big bucks for most black hatters and spammers and white hats alike, is to be able to carefully implement them in a manner that you could first achieve your goal and get something out of your labor before the mangoes get dried and the fishes rot.

What could be worse than feeling helpless while wanting to do more for your site and finding out that you cannot and does not have any access at all to your account anymore. It's sad seeing your efforts go to waste and this should be the best lesson to learn in this situation. This is bliss to most, happiness to some and worst to any of us under the SEO umbrella. This is just some tip and not to be taken seriously for the sake of harmony and code of ethics by natural considerations of fellow SEO be it a black hatter, spammer, white hat or no hat.

I have heard so many myths about black hats and one got my curiosity ranging from the ordinary to the extreme. I found out that there's been a discussion about the black hat and a white hat in the net so i decided to go looking for it. Upon finding about the actual topic of discussion on the boards, i decided that i would go for the juice and not for the lesson. Lessons from a white hat or a black hat does not necessarily mean changing for the terms but getting the actual picture's details and getting them to be part of your learning. It does not necessarily mean that you can become either a black hat or a white hat after all the storms that you have had in your SEO life.

As one black hat quotes-" Man will always beat machine because there will always be someone smarter than the one that built the machine in the first place." and i believe that this is true in all aspects and angles we look in to.and because man built machines, wherever there is one, there is also a loophole in it ready and waiting for the big man of the hour. He who has the power to do and tweak everything that his playful mind would work in to his advantage always has the power and the fun in his hands.

On the other hand, there was what this one white hat quote that " true that black hats do give the search engines those algorithms that we white hats and black hats alike happen to undergo and yield in and at times fear to affect our online businesses but it still has to do a more devastating effect on white hats because they do not have the technologies to cope up with those changes." Now where does that certain quote leave us all? If one would just analyze things and take a closer look at the picture, it's as simple as this, which ever side we choose to be in, we all get the kicks and the share of the pie. But is it just enough to see the picture that way? Would you be content at just seeing things as it is? Well it's all up to you of course. Me, i always got content at going and riding along where the tide takes me, but now, everything has changed, I found out that it is sometimes necessary to do things the easy way because we humans have that within us, the tendency to go look for things to doing things the easy way to ease up on the burden. This is where technology comes in and this is also where great inventions and innovations have come to our world.

Take this other quote from a SEO, " I hope it does get harder to cheat the search engines because that will sort the wheat from the chaff and leave me more room to take a bigger market share." Isn't it true from anybody's point of view that the harder it is to cheat the search engines, the bigger the market share any white hat SEO has? Or is it the other way around? But getting the juice from the quote itself, i have seen so many times and was made to believe that it is always true that in the long run, it is always the white hat that wins until the inevitable happens that a black hat takes over the SERPs that one white hat has been inkling and working hard for to get his sites to rank high on. Where would that leave white hats and where would that take black hats. Since there is no end to all this, i would say that whatever i need to know i would take the challenge from now on.

It's all about having fun after all without having to blame anybody else for your fate and the resulting outcome of your actions. The greatest part of the juice in the picture is that you get to learn every aspect of the whole juice and not just limit yourself by looking at the picture not the art itself. Black hat or white hat, it's the art that counts that certain pictures or masterpiece has which nobody else sees but the beholder. It has always been that way which goes on and on and is responsible for all the great learnings and inventions in the world. Experimenting, motivation, innovation and finding ways to outsmart machines with the use of great technologies, that for me is fun and most of all achievement.

Search engines are getting worse for everybody these days and it is tiring and boring just to watch our fruits of labor go to waste and our sites get sandboxed, dropped or get outdated and outrunned by the technologies that those authorities implement. This thought makes those black hats thank that they are not trying to do things the hard way.