Monthly Archives: September 2007

Exchanging Ads with BlogRush Widget

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Blog RushWhen the BlogRush widget was released, I thought I need to write a post about it. But then after learning that this widget works as a way of exchanging ads, I then decided not to write about it.

But the email of Mr. Gonzales urged me to talk about BlogRush since he opened up points for discussion. His email can be read below:

SELaplana… I am one of your followers. I visit your blog daily to read your write-ups. Well, I am thankful for scheduling the publishing of your write-ups, if not I will be wondering when will you publish your write-ups.

… I want to ask you something:

  1. Why didn’t you use BlogRush?
  2. Do you think BlogRush can help our blog boost traffic?
  3. Isn’t it good to use BlogRush as a way of exchanging traffic for our blog with other blogs?
  4. What’s your advice to other bloggers regarding the use of BlogRush widget? …

About BlogRush

First, I want to thank you for following me here at my blog and for reading all my writings published on this blog.

Now, before answering your questions, let’s first understand what BlogRush widget is and how it works.

According to the BlogRush About page, “BlogRush is a free service that helps bloggers gain visitors for their blog“.

Your blog will not gain traffic in a traffic- exchange scheme. BlogRush is actually using the promotion-exchange way of gaining traffic. What I mean is that you advertise at your blog via the BlogRush widget the blogs of other members that are under the same category with your blog, and on the same way, your blog will also be promoted on the blogs of other members on similar category of your blog via the BlogRush widget. The number of impressions of your BlogRush widget earned will be your credit for your blog to be promoted on the other blogs via the BlogRush widget.

BlogRush called this system as “Cooperative Syndication Network”:

BlogRush is a “Cooperative Syndication Network” that rewards its users for their contributions to the network — from the impressions they provide of the BlogRush Widget to the referral of other users through 10 ‘generations’ of activity and the impressions of the widget that they provide. BlogRush was designed to be incredibly viral and to provide its users with tremendous distribution leverage to receive exposure for their blog content (onto related content blogs) that they could never achieve on their own; at least without a massive advertising budget.

BlogRush Really Drives Traffic To Your Blog

BlogRush widget can help your blog gain additional traffic for your blog. However, using the BlogRush widget can’t be the guarantee to gain more traffic but it only gives you the chance to gain traffic.

Gaining traffic through this widget still depends on your blog’s traffic and content. The more traffic you have in your blog means more exposure of your blog at the other blogs on the network, and the more chance to gain traffic via this widget.

With the more or less 2,000 pageviews of this blog daily, that will mean that my blog will be promoted at the other blogs via the BlogRush widget 2,000 times. What if 30 users click and visit this blog… then that will be a good number of additional visitors to this blog which might become our feed subscribers or regular visitors.

However, just like what I said above, gaining traffic through this widget depends on your blog’s traffic and your blog’s content too. Your traffic will be the guarantee that your blog will be promoted at the other blogs via this widget. But the clicks or visits will depend on how you write the title of your post. Remember that it’s the title of your latest post that will be shown on the widgets of the other blogs. Interesting title will really tempt visitors to visit your blog.

But what if your blog got no traffic and you wrote the title of your posts badly… then that will also mean that you will never enjoy the advantages of the BlogRush widget. So, you better not use it.

BlogRush widget for my blog

You already knew that my blog got more or less 2,00o impressions per day. In other words, my blog can be promoted at the other blogs on the BlogRush network 2,000 times. And that will be a good chance.

And at the same time, I can also write interesting title of my posts… if I want. Combining the traffic of my blog and my ability to make the title of my posts interesting will really gain additional visitors for my blog.

I really want to use this widget on this blog. But I just couldn’t find a place for this widget. I tried it once at the sidebar of this blog but BlogRush widget is wider than the sidebar.

Traffic exchange using BlogRush widget

Tons of bloggers thought that BlogRush widget is just a tool for exchanging traffic. Even our fellow Filipino blogger, Yuga, considered that BlogRush is just for the exchange of traffic.

But hey! BlogRush is not for the exchange traffic. If you tried the BlogRush, then you’ll understand that BlogRush widget users are not exchanging traffic here. What has been exchanged is the ad.

Adding this widget into your blog is like buying an ad space at the blogs via an ad network. The impression your widget earned at your blog is like the money you pay for the impression of your ad at the other blogs on the the ad network. So, how can you say that we’re just exchanging traffic using the BlogRush widget?

Now, for the question, “Isn’t it good to use BlogRush as a way of exchanging traffic for our blog with other blogs?”… Well. I don’t think you can exchange traffic using this blog. The visit made by other bloggers via the BlogRush widget can’t be a guarantee that the blogger of the blogs they visited will visit their blog too, except if they drop interesting comments or showed their MyBlogLog face on the MyBlogLog widget.

Again, BlogRush widget is not for exchanging traffic but for exchanging ads or promotion.

Against the Adsense TOS?

As of this date, no one can show us the email response from the Adsense rep that tells us that using BlogRush widget into our blog is against the Adsense TOS.

If you consider it as against the Adsense TOS just because you think that BlogRush widget is for exchange traffic, then you’re wrong. I already told you above that what is exchanged here is not the traffic but the promotion. And if you’ll check the Adsense TOS, it doesn’t forbid us to buy ads for the promotion of our blog, except of course if you buy links to play the Google’s algo.

So, why afraid to use this widget. By the way, if you want to make it clear, then why not email the Adsense rep?

My Advice

You can use the BlogRush widget into your blog. But your blog needs to have its own regular traffic and you need to make your blogpost’s title more interesting so that you’ll enjoy the advantages of this widget.

If you don’t have BlogRush account yet, then take one now. Click here.

Technorati Tags: Blog Rush, Widget, Traffic

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Two Bloggers are Always Different

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Here’s the email sent to me by Angel.

I noticed that your blog is now paginated and I was surprised as I learned that your blog contains 191 pages with 10 posts on every page which means that you have 1,910 posts in your blog published within 1 year and 6 months (estimate).

And from that number of posts and the length of your blog’s existence on the web, your blog receives almost 1,500 visitors and sending feeds to more or less 350 feed subscribers.

This is really a big success considering that your blog is just 1 year and 6 months old.

FYI, I am only new to blog. I already have blog but don’t really blog because I still don’t have idea what to blog even if you gave us some hints about what to write on the blog.

I scanned your posts from the beginning up to the present and I learned that you started writing journal since 1999 same is true with Mr. Olandres. My real question is why is it that Mr. Olandres is much popular and obviously very much successful compared to you?

My Reply

Thank you so much for scanning my blog, noticing my blog’s stats and appreciating some of my successes.

But there’s one thing that I want to tell you with regards to the way you compare me with a fellow blogger: “Please don’t compare 2 different personalities as if they are similar, because 2 different things are different and couldn’t be similar.”

You can of course differentiate the two of us but never compare us as if we are similar.

The Differentiation

Yes, it is true that Sir Abe Olandres and I are both Filipino bloggers but we are too different in terms of personality, even on how we deal with blogging. So, to start the differentiation…

(1) Background in Computer

You already know that I am a graduate of BS Electrical Engineering from a technological institute in Leyte. I knew a little about programming but I’m not really knowledgeable on it compared to him. Remember that he finished a degree in Computer Engineering.

(2) Smartness

During our graduation in College, I received a medal as recognition of my achievement. But this recognition is nothing if compared to those who graduated from a high standard university, just like him.

He is very much smarter compared to me.

(3) Friendly

You already know how friendly he is. If we will both count the friends we have since the year 1999, I think I am nothing compared to him because the truth is, I am a loner.

(4) The Father of Pinoy blogging

And the most important thing that you should consider is that I consider Sir Abe Olandres as the father of Pinoy blogging, while I am just a son.

He might not be the first Filipino blogger but he’s the first to start the blog-evangelization in which until now, he’s doing it through his blog, Yugatech.Com/Blog, and by standing in front of those bloggers and would-be-bloggers during seminars, summit or conference.

Conclusion

In other words, our success in blogging totally depends on our knowledge, personality, and attitudes towards blogging.

So, never compare 2 bloggers as if they are similar, because they can never be similar.

Technorati Tags: Abe Olandres, Yugatech, Blogging

Google, Now Hates DMOZ

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Maybe, Google heard Shoemoney and other bloggers’ cry to stop using the DMOZ (Open Directory Project) as Google’s business directory.

Last Monday, September 24, 2007, Barry Schwartz of the Search Engine Land first noticed the absence of the DMOZ in the Google SERP when searching for “DMOZ“, “Open Directory” or “Open Directory Projects“.

I think, this is part of the Google’s move against buying links. To let you know, ShoeMoney’s blog is removed from the directory by an editor because Schoe failed to pay him $5,000.

A while back I got a email from a guy claiming to be a DMOZ editor saying that I had to pay him $5,000.00 or he would have my site: shoemoney.com removed from the dmoz.

I thought nothing of it…. then today I got a email from him saying it was removed and I might want to rethink not paying him. I thought I would check just for grins.

And then when an editor of the DMOZ reacted against the extortion made by other editors, his account was then suspended.

This weekend I was reading about Shoemoney being extorted by a DMOZ editor. I thought: heck, I’m a DMOZ editor, I don’t want to be associated with stuff like that, let’s see if I can do anything to help. So I posted something like that in the commentthread to the above post, and I added a note to Shoemoney’s URL in DMOZ asking why the URL was removed.

Now pay attention: within 36 hours after doing that, my account was disabled!

We didn’t heard yet the Google’s words about it, but I assumed that burrying the DMOZ at Google SERP is the penalty for extorting money from webmasters in exchange of the DMOZ listing.

Technorati Tags: DMOZ, Open Directory Project

Automate Taxation with AvaTax for Quickbooks

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Have you heard already about Quickbooks? Well, I know tons of you didn’t know yet about it, except if you studied or dealing with business management.

What is Quickbooks, anyway? Quickbooks, according to the Wikipedia, is the most commonly used small-business accounting and management software in the US. It is made by Intuit.

However, our concern on this post is not about Quickbooks but about the add-on for Quickbooks which is used for the automation of compulsory taxation. This product is called the “AvaTax for Quickbooks“.

The AvaTax

AvaTax for Quickbooks

To let you know, the Quickbooks really helps businesses in the US on their accounting concerns. I don’t know if there are businesses here in the Philippines that are using this software. However, using the Quickbooks alone in dealing with taxes for the products and services of these businesses is quite time consuming and is not accurate.

And to eliminate that problems, Avalara created the AvaTax. Just like what I said above, AvaTax is just an add-on or a plugin for the Quickbooks.

In other words, you still need to install the Quickbooks application and integrate the AvaTax for you to enjoy its capability regarding the Tax Compliance functions, such as:

  1. Address validation. AvaTax is capable of verifying customers’ address in the purpose of validating it so that accurate tax rate can be applied into the transaction made.
  2. Tax jurisdiction research. To let you know, the US of America have several and different tax rates depending on the customers’ address. So businesses should have to research what tax rate can be applied to certain customers. With AvaTax, the hassle in researching for tax jurisdiction is eliminated. In your Quickbooks’ field for Tax Jurisdiction, you can just enter the term AVATAX, and everything will be set based on the customers address.
  3. Rate calculation. AvaTax makes tax calculation easier. You just enter the required data such as the quantity and the products, and the system automatically calculates including the additional charges and especially the tax.
  4. Reporting. Avatax is capable of reporting tax details: Sales Tax Details, Sales Tax Details by Invoice and Sales Tax Summary (all states).

To know more about this Quickbooks addon, please visit the demo on the AvaTax for Quickbooks. Please click here. You can also visit the website of the maker of the AvaTax at Avalara.Com.

Be Reminded by the “Say The Time”

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Do you want to have the clock as shown below at your Windows Task bar?

Say The Time

The Clock

That clock is actually called the �Say The Time� clock. From its name alone, you can already tell that this is a talking clock. It talks every time you click on that clock by telling you the current time or will remind you on the time you set for a schedule.

The �Say The Time� clock can be downloaded here� for $24.00 only. However, you can try it for about 30 days without paying anything.

What’s the good things with the “Say The Time” clock?

Just like what I told you above, this clock can be used to remind you the current time. Say for example, you are composing� a write-up for your blog. Because your mind is focused in thinking of ideas for that write-up, you missed your meals.

Now, the “Say the Time” has the ability to remind you your important tasks. For example, at12:00 noon you set it up to remind you for your lunch. So at exactly 12:00 noon, the clock will say, “On <the day>, <date> , the time is <the time>” then a dialogue will popup up wherein the notes are written, just like what’s shown on the screenshot below:

Say The Time

And by default, the system is� set to remind you the time every 15 minutes.

Actually, you can do a lot of things with the “Say The Time”. For example:

  1. You can change the look of the clock on the task bar.
  2. You can change the voice of the clock whether to hear the voice of a lovely lady or of a gentleman.
  3. You can show the calendar and even synchronize the date and time internationally.
  4. �You can use its Countdown clock and Stopwatch features.
  5. You can use it as your alarm clock.

You can take an alarm clock software download here.
Note: This post is sponsored by Say The Time via the ReviewMe.

Quizzes, Polls and Test at Quibblo

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What is Quibblo? The slogan posted on its logo tells us that Quibblo is a world of tons of answers. Why? Well, by just visiting its homepage, you’ll notice immediately that Quibblo contains tons of online quizzes, test and polls. That’s the reason why it is said that it is the world of answers.

To make it clear, Quibblo is a system that allows you to create online quizzes, online tests and online polls (or they call them quibblets) that can easily be posted on your blogs or websites. Quibblo can be accessed at the Quibblo.Com.

Registering

Being the first time user of the Quibblo, I immediately clicked the Register link at its homepage. I created my account and sent the info into their system. After confirming the creation of my account, Quibblo then told me to update my account, entered my personal information like my full name and then sent the details into the Quibblo system. Processing my request is quite slow. After several minutes, Quibblo told me, “An internal server error occurred. Please try again later.”

Since they told me to try again, so I did try again. But did you know what happened next? Well, the system again told to me the same message. I don’t know what’s the problem with the Quibblo system.

However, I checked the site and I found out that I successfully created an account. You can visit my profile page here.

Quibblo Profile

Quibblo is not just a Quizz and Answer site. It is also a social site like Friendster (advert: Friendster Layouts ) or Facbook in which you can share and connect with your friends.

So, to make my profile appealing to other members, I uploaded my own photo into the system but I am not sure if the photo is successfully uploaded because the system told me this:

Quibblet

Creating Quibblet

Their are actually 4 types of quibblets that you can create with the Quibblo. These are the polls, survey, quiz, and personality test.

Quibblet at Quibblo

Creating quibblet with Quibblo is so easy. You only need to enter desired information on the form for creating a quibblet whether a poll, a quizz, a survey or a test, preview it, and then finalize it by clicking the “Ready To Create button” and then click the “Create” link.

The only problem is: after clicking the create link, the system will then tell you, “An internal server error occurred. Please try again later.”

When I created my personal poll, I was wondering where to find it. It took me 10 minutes before finding out where the list of the poll I created is placed. The list can be accessed actually at your profile page at the left side of it.

The poll I created which will ask you if you like my blog can be accessed here.

My Thoughts about Quibblo

Quibblo can be a very useful tool. I like the service.

However, what makes me pissed off is the error or problems that Quibblo system has. I actually want to write more about Quibblo on this review-post but I lost my interest, so I will just end this like this….

Note: This review is sponsored by Quibblo for $5.00 through the ReviewMe campaign. This is the 2nd campaign that I accepted for the month of September 2007.

Feed Subscriber Marks 500

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Finally, I hit my goal on the number of feed subscribers. According to my achievement plan I wrote last August 2007, by the end of October 2007, my feed subscribers’ number should be 500. But it seems that we achieve that too early.

Well, it’s not yet stable, because I know it will again dropped after several days, but at least I already hit that mark and there’s still big possibility that by late October 2007, I will be again hitting the 600 mark of the number of subscribers.

Feed Burner Stats

The Daily Average Subscribers

To let you know, according to the Feedburner’s data, on September 1, 2007 our blog has 301 subscribers only. And after 22 days (September 22, 2007 – date of writing this post) we already have exactly 500 subscribers. It means that in just 22 days, we gained 199 subscribers or 9.045 average daily subscribers.

Feed Burner Stats

Where did these subscribers came from?

Every time I’m online, I always check my MyBlogLog stats of this blog to see if where these subscribers came from. And I am glad to know that my unrelated posts on this blog are not wasted because most of the subscribers of this blog are coming from those posts. Consider the clicks on the FeedBurner’s email subscription button that has been recorded for September 20, 2007′s activities of my blog:

MyBlogLog

According to the stat, there are 116 visitors clicked the email-feed subscription button. And these subscribers are coming from my posts about movies, DVD, entertainment. And take note, no one is coming from my posts about Technology, Money and Internet. We don’t know yet how many of them verified their subscription. However this stat is already quite inspiring.

Worried?

Some of the bloggers will be worried upon learning that their subscribers are actually coming from their unrelated posts because they have this belief that non-relevant subscribers will be lost along the way because the content they are expecting to be delivered into their feed readers or emails are not delivered, in the sense that you’re writing articles that are related to your niche but not related to the posts they’re reading and subscribed from.

However, in my case, I have no reasons to be worried about.

Why? Why shouldn’t I be worried? Well, to let you know, most of these subscribers are email-subscribers. Consider the screenshot below:

Feed Burner Stats

According to the stats, in 500 subscribers 212 of them are email subscribers. Even on the MyBlogLog stats I showed you above, it says that 116 are subscribing via email.

Did you know that:

  1. Most of the email subscribers are lazy enough to click the “unsubscribe” link which is included on the email sent to them?
  2. There is no reason that these subscribers will unsubscribe their subscription because they are receiving informative, inspiring and interesting articles?

In other words, even if these subscribers are coming from my non-relevant posts, they will still be interested to continue the subscription because they’ll benefit positive things from these posts.

The Lessons

From this experience, you should learn that it is not only that you’ll gain subscribers because you consistently post relevant contents, but you can also have much subscribers from those irrelevant posts you posted on your blog.

To let you know, even my posts about porrnns and sexxxx are also gaining feed subscribers.

And if you want to know one of the evil ways of gaining subscribers I did on this blog, consider reading my post, “Looking for updates on Licensure Examination Results?”

Technorati Tags: Feed Burner, Feed Subscribers

Making Money by Blogging

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Ms. Rioveros emailed us this:

Good Morning SELaplana… I’ve subscribed to your page last week to have email subscription of your write-ups and am quite glad to receive it daily. Thanks for that.

Anyway, I just wanna ask something. My fiance would like to blog as well. Ive shown him your email yesterday about WHAT TO BLOG. And he’s asking if how can one earn money through blogging? is it through the advertisements on the site or is it through more and more people visiting the site for the write-upS?

We’re just confused and definitely need an answer. A program in GMA 7 featured internet blogging months ago, and bloggers receive cheques as the form of payment for their blogs. who gave the cheque? where did it come from? these questions are actually the things that confuse us, so please help us answer those. THANKS!!!!

Running your own publication

I am very much thankful for subscribing our feed and for reading my write-ups.

And before I answer your queries, I want first to let you understand that your blog is your personal publication. Owning and maintaining a blog is like running your own newspaper or magazine. The only difference between maintaining your own blog and the magazines and newspapers that exist today is that: you are the only one who write the articles, edit the articles and publish the articles; While in printed magazine or newspapers, writers or journalists write the articles and the editors edit them before publishing the edited write-ups.

Gaining Visitors

There are actually several types of blogs and two of these types are:

  1. Private Personal Blog. This is a blog created for personal and private use of its blogger only. No one can read this blog but its blogger alone or those who have given authority to access the blog.
  2. Public Personal Blog. Most of the personal blog created and are existed on the blogosphere are public type blogs. These are blogs that can be accessed by anyone and anywhere in the world.

Since you are planning to make money by blogging, it’s understood that the blog you are running is a public type. For this kind of blog, it is important that you have tons of visitors visiting your blog daily.

Earning Money from blogs

I am really wondering if you already had configured how the radio stations, TV stations, newspapers and magazines earn money. I want you to be reminded about this or to let you know about this in order for you to understand how will your blog earn money.

  1. Radio and TV stations earn money through advertisements and program sponsorship. Advertisers will buy airing slots, and those who want to sponsor a program will pay a particular sponsor package or will sponsor a particular contest or raffle prize.
  2. The newspapers and magazines earn money in two ways: (1) Sales, and (2) Advertisement and Sponsorship.

Now, in blogging, you will earn money by combining the earning capabilities of Radio and TV Stations, and newspapers and magazines.

  1. Advertisement. Earning money through the advertisement is the easiest way of making money by blogging. You display ads on your blogs and you’ll be paid by advertisers. You should also know that ads can be delivered into your blog in 2 ways: (1) Through the third party ad broker. These ad brokers will be the ones to find advertisers for your blog and will be the ones responsible on what ads will be displayed on your blog. You’ll be paid by them depending on your terms and conditions and maybe by CPM, CPC, or CPA. Examples of these ad brokers are Google Adsense, Text Link Ads, etc. (2) Direct Contact. There are advertisers who want to save money from the advertising charges caused by the third party ad broker. Usually, the advertising price of your blog is much higher when purchasing one from ad broker, but is much lower if you personally priced them. So, advertisers who want to get some discounts in advertising costs, tend to contact you personally.
  2. Sponsorship. There are other advertisers who are actually willing to sponsor a post or a contest you organized. Most of these advertisers are using the PayPerPost, ReviewMe and other similar ad broker in looking for bloggers that they can sponsor with. For example: My post, “Best Web Hosts for Your Best Blogs” is sponsored by Freezone Internet.
  3. Sales. And did you know that my 2nd biggest earner in my July 2007 making money scheme is my associate account of the YesAsia? Yes, and you can really earn money by selling products of YesAsia or Amazon or of any online stores. You will be paid by commission on the products sold in your associate or affiliate account.

How to Earn Money

I know, once you start blogging you also start enjoying the opportunity to earn money from your blog. But I want you to understand it first that making money online through your blog is not that easy. This is not to discourage you but just to give you hint.

Now, if you really want to earn money by blogging, then you need to do these:

  1. Write consistently interesting articles for you blog. If you decided to publish one article everyday, then you must do it. Remember that the content of your blog is the main reason why your visitors visit your blog daily.
  2. Gain more daily visitors. You must not be contented of 10 visitors daily. You should aim higher number of visitors to visit your blog daily because it will be your visitors who will bring you money from the ads displayed on your blog.
  3. Improve your blog’s standing in the blogosphere, search engines, social media and even in real world. What I mean is, make your blog more popular.

I know that there are many things that you should do as an owner of a blog, and a blogger of a blog. But doing the 3 things I suggested above will help you gain more money from your blog. But of course, you need to find advertisers first. Here’s how:

  1. Join advertising network. This is the best thing to do especially if your blog is still at its early days of existence. The most popular and the easiest advertising network to join is the Google Adsense. Then once your blog gain more popularity in terms of daily traffic and feed subscribers, then you can now join the Text Link Ads, ReviewMe and other ad brokers.
  2. Contact Advertisers. You can even directly contact advertisers. You can even mention in your blogposts that you are in need of sponsors who will finance your blogging activities.

Payment

With regards to the payment, advertisers usually pay you either in check (cheque), money transfer or via paypal. But bloggers who are residing in the Philippines prefer to receive payment in check.

And who will send you the check? Well, it is of course the advertisers if they personally contacted you as they purchase a space from your blog. However if you are using ad brokers or advertising network, then it will be the ad brokers or advertising network that will send you your earning in check or via paypal.

Finale

I hope this post helps you understand how bloggers earn money from their blogs. If you still have questions, please feel free to contact me (click here to contact me).

Technorati Tags: Make Money Blogging, Make Money Online

Best Webhost For Your Best Blogs

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Tons of Filipino bloggers today are starting to shift from free-hosted blogs to own-hosted blogs as they started to realize that having their own-hosted blog is much better, advantageous, and looked professional compared to those hosted by free hosts and using their free subdomains.

As proof to this, I am receiving emails daily from fellow Filipino bloggers, asking me for suggestions on what webhosting company should they go to buy accounts.

Well. I knew tons of local webhosting company that exist today. You can even Google it via keywords such as “Pinoy Host”. “Filipino Webhost”, Pinoy Web Hosting” and other similar keyphrases.

However, I can’t refer you to webhosting companies that I haven’t tried first, because I don’t want to blamed for the bad things you encounter with that hosting companies.

Since 1999, I only tried 3 Filipino Webhosting company. But I can’t refer you the third one because I was not satisfied with their services. Below is the list of Pinoy Webhosting companies that can satisfy your needs as they satisfied mine:

  1. NOKIA Webhosting Solution. It is the host of our Pinoy Bloggers Directory, and hosted our previous sites such as the “Pasugo, God’s Message Online” and the “Ka Webspy Network“. The company is owned by Mr. Job and he’s the one who personally manages the company and even cater its clients. You can visit directly the business site here.
  2. PlogHost. Ploghost is another Filipino owned hosting company that currently caters thousands of Filipino-owned blogs. It offers ladderized packages that is very much advantageous to bloggers whose aim is to own a blog that will cater millions of visitors per day.

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The FreeZone Internet offers 4 packages:

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FreezOne Internet, Reviewed

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Just recently, I accepted a ReviewMe campaign to review the FreezOne Internet for only $5.00. The amount is actually too low but this is the only way to earn more from this blog and help me pay my hosting account which is nearly PhP40,000.00.

Introducing the Freezone Internet

Building our dot com websites or blogs is not possible without a hosting company that will host our website or blog. Yes, and that how important a webhost is.

FreeZone Internet is a UK based Web Hosting company which offers you affordable domain registration and hosting accounts. But these are not just the only services that Freezone Internet offers. Originally, this company was formed as an Internet Service Provider providing internet access to individual, organization or companies through out the UK.

FreeZoneWeb Hosting

Freezone Internet web hosting services offers to types of packages: (1) Home; (2) Business. Both types of packages have two packages under them.

For home webhosting packages:

  1. Starter. This package offers 50mb storage space, 1GB bandwidth with free domain name. Starter package cost £1.49 per month.
  2. Essential. Freezone Internet offers with this package 500mb storage space, 10GB bandwidth, 20 subdomains and free domain name that will cost you £3.99 per month.

For Business webhosting packages:

  1. Plus. It can be Linux or Windows server with 2GB storage space,  20GB bandwidth, 250 subdomains and free domain name. It will cost you £6.99 per month.
  2. Advanced. So far, this is the highest available package which contains either a Linux or Windows server, 10GB storage space, 50 GB bandwidth and a lot of features. You will pay £14.99 per month.

However, if your site gain more traffic and eats up bandwidth, you can try requesting the company a special package based on your demand.

And the interesting feature the Feezone Internet offer is the 30 day money back guarantee, which means, if you feel unsatisfied with their service, with in 30 days, you can claim back the money you paid them.

Domain Registration

Just like most of the web hosting companies that exist today, Freezone Internet is a domain name registrar too. You can choose to register different kind of domain with extensions like .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .info, .biz and .eu.

They even advised you to register a domain for 2 to 5 years as a way to protect them from other interested clients. You can even have access to their Advanced DNS Management tool wherein you can easily setup forwarding to any domain in which you haven’t yet prepared a site for them and then forward them again to a hosted site.

Marketing

The Freezone Internet is not just an internet service provider, webhosting company and website designer. It is also an SEO specialist. The Freezone Internet SEO team is knowledgeable enough about website’s SEO and therefore can handle the SEO of your site or blog and can satisfy your real SEO needs.

They offer 3 SEO packages:

  1. SEO Starter. For as low as £199 per year, you will enjoy the SEO for 5 keywords, 5 pages analysis, 5 meta tag creation, and 200 directory submission, plus more features.
  2. SEO Professional. For £299 per year, your site will be optimized for 8 keywords, 15 pages will be analyzed and will be submitted to 500 directory online and more SEO features.
  3. SEO Advanced. If you need more pages to be analyzed and SEO for 15 keywords, you can avail this package for £599 per year.

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