“Sikat ang Pinoy” is the keyword to be use for this new emering SEO Contest in the Philippines.

This Tagalog SEO competition of the year will run from November 30, 2009 to February 14, 2010. The competition requires all participants to promote a particular “keyword”, and the winning participant is entitled to rank one of the first page of Google.com the mentioned date of last year.

Furthermore, the contest comes to a heart because it aims to help the victims of Typhoon Ondoy Philippines last September 26, 2009. Participants are required to advertise a page posted on Google.com notify where readers to make secure online and offline donations.

Every detail is important here to disclose Official www.palarongseo.com page. The knowledge and importance of Search Engine Marketing will open minds of everyone in the field of online promotion for the industry today.

Contest Rules

1. Please register first to join the contest.
2. Keyword “sikat ang pinoy”
3. The games will start November 30, 2009 and will end on February 14, 2010 during the Philippines Philippine Time = GMT +8
4. No Keyword Domain, sub domains, sub directory or page. (eg. www.domain.com / prohibited / prohibited.html)
5. Domain name should only Tagalog. The following words were excluded: Palaro, Palarong SEO, SEO, Pinoy, SEO, Sikat, sikat ang pinoy, Laruan.
6. Registered domain must be up dated November 2009, domains and pages submitted must be new, no back links and no cached version.
7. All pages of the participants (content) MUST be in Filipino Language (Tagalog).
8. We compare the url entry to their cached version to see the works of cloakers and blackhat., So we ask that you to avoid using any type of meta tag and archive whois guard.
9. Additional pages or indented list does not count – only one domain and can win only one prize.
10. Wordpress CMS platform and a WP Theme only be used. WP Theme used here can be downloaded here, the sponsors must simulate the Official blog SEO Summer 2009, the location WP Settings> Links and Link Category with name. Sponsors, must also simulate the “Anchor text or hyperlink and the following URLs in the said Official Blog. Some additional sponsors will be added in the next day, so you should always visit the Olympic SEO Website.
11. The results of the winners are announced here on the official website of the date mentioned and can be viewed http://www.google.com/search?q=sikat+ang+pinoy

Always just look to the official website for more rules or visit the official forum.

This is my entry for Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation Challenge. Busby invite SEO specialists, guru’s, masters and hot shots to compete over a 4 month period to gain the highest position they can achieve on Google (USA Google Data Center).

Busby SEO Test is the keyword for the contest, all you have to do is register your own website and optimise it with the said key phrase. Prices will be awarded to the contenstants whose site is ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th on the finish date on Google.

Do you know how much is the prize for this contest? $5,000 for the first prize, $2,000 for second, $500 for third, $250 for fourth and $100 for fifth. Midway prize – $1000 to the entrant who has the highest Average ranking on Google (USA Google Data Center – http://72.14.207.99) this can be measured on Monday 5th January 2009 (12:00 midday), Perth, Western Australia. They also give iPod Touch for those who invites the most friends who register and compete for the competition.

• Start date is 1st June 2008, 12:00midday, Perth, Western Australia at which point the phrase will be posted on the Busby website.
• End date of 31st August 2008, 12:00 midday, Perth, Western Australia.
• Only ethical SEO techniques may be engaged and the judges reserve the right to review the techniques engaged by the winner to ensure they comply.
• No pornography, no discrimination and no illegal behaviour is permitted.
• The competition is only open to domain and sub domain names that do not include the key phrase in any form
• Only registered entrants are eligible to compete and win the prize. Busby will maintain a list of entrants which can be view on the Entrants List page.
• Registration is free, open to anyone of any age, gender, race and domicile and can only be made through Registration Process.
• All entrants pages must have a visible link back to www.busbywebsolutions.com with the following text (including the hyperlink) in black Arial 10 font: Participant in the Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation Challenge
• Only one prize per person.
• Employees, franchisees and licensees of Busby (and each of their family members) are eligible to enter but are not eligible to win any prizes.

Entrants will be given 3 months to use their best endeavours to optimise a key phrase so that it appears as high as possible on www.google.com, when that particular key phrase is searched for. The winner will be the person whose site is ranked the highest, when that particular key phrase is searched for, on 31st August 2008, 12:00 midday, Perth, Western Australia. The runner up 2nd and 3rd place prizes will be awarded to those two entrants whose site is ranked the second and third highest.

Here are the contest rewards:

First prize: $5,000
Second prize: $2,000
Third prize: $500

seocontest2008 – Benj
seocontest2008 – Eli
seocontest2008 – Genkied
seocontest2008 – Icezorg
seocontest2008 – Major
seocontest2008 – Mito
seocontest2008 – Ronald
seocontest2008 – Jehzlau
seocontest2008 – Almer

For those who are not in my list yet, please let me know thru SEOph private message.

Goodluck guys.

Pinoy Money Talk Contest #1: Valentine’s Day Message Contest
Create the most sweetest and romantic Valentine’s Day message and win 1,000 php or $25 thru Paypal. Contest runs from February 4 until February 13. Post your entry here.

Pinoy Money Talk Contest #2: PMT Stock Price Prediction Game
Predict the closing price of a PMT-related Nasdaq stock (huh? what is Nasdaq stock?) and win 2,000 php or $50. Contest runs from February 18 until March 5.

Pinoy Money Talk Contest #3: Google my PMT
PMT $75 mini SEO Contest with “pinoy money talk” keyword. Contest runs from February 4 until March 21.

This is my entry for the “Google my PMT” contest. For more information about the contest, visit the pinoy money talk blog.

Here are the screenshots:

http://www.google.com/search?…10&sa=N

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=alibata…1&b=11

Baybayin or Alibata (known in Unicode as the Tagalog script) is a pre-Hispanic Philippine writing system that originated from the Javanese script Old Kawi. The writing system is a member of the Brahmic family (and an offshoot of the Vatteluttu alphabet) and is believed to be in use as early as the 14th century. It continued to be in use during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines up until the late 19th Century. The term baybayin literally means spelling. Closely related scripts are Hanunoo, Buhid, and Tagbanwa.

The writing system is an abugida system using consonant-vowel combinations. Each character, written in its basic form, is a consonant ending with the vowel “A”. To produce consonants ending with the other vowel sounds, a mark is placed either above the consonant (to produce an “E” or “I” sound) or below the consonant (to produce an “O” or “U” sound). The mark is called a kudlit. The kudlit does not apply to stand-alone vowels. Vowels themselves have their own glyphs. There is only one symbol for D or R as they were allophones in most languages of the Philippines, wherein D fell in initial, final, pre-consonantal or post-consonatal positions and R in intervocalic positions.

In its original form however, a stand-alone consonant (consonants not ending with any vowel sound) cannot be produced, in which case these were simply not written and the reader would fill in the missing consonants through context. This method, however, was particularly hard for the Spanish priests who were translating books into the native language. Because of this Father Francisco Lopez introduced his own kudlit in 1620 that eliminated the vowel sound. The kudlit was in the form of a “+” sign, in reference to Christianity. This cross-shaped kudlit functions exactly the same as the virama in the Devanagari script of India. In fact, Unicode calls this kudlit the Tagalog Sign Virama.