The Philippines having the highest percentage of social network users

I happen to stumble on an article from Inquirer.net that writes a story about the

Philippines having the highest percentage of social network users.

The study is released by New York-based media agency Universal McCann.

What's interesting to note is that according to the report:

*The Philippines have a 15 percent Internet penetration.

*It is estimated that 37 million active Internet users visit online everyday/every other day.

*It is estimated that 83 percent of Internet users in the country have created social network profiles, having the highest percentage ahead of Hungary (80%), Poland (77%) and Mexico (76%).

*It is estimated that 90 percent of the users in the Philippines have Friendster accounts. Versus MySpace and Facebook from the rest of the world.

*It is estimated that 90 percent of the Filipino users reads blogs, second only to South Korea (92 percent).

*The Philippines has the highest percentage of users (86%) that have uploaded photos in these social networks, ahead of China (73 percent), Mexico (72 percent), and Brazil (70 percent).

*It also estimated that 98 percent of Filipino Internet users have watched videos on YouTube, again ranked highest ahead of Mexico and Brazil.

*However, the Philippines was ranked a few notches lower when it comes to downloading podcasts or using RSS feeds.

I believe that the data presented above offers a lot of opportunities. The internet revolution in the country has just began and I'm confident that in the years to come , the Philippines will be a force to be reckon with.

SEO Update II

After almost two weeks from the time since I posted about my first SEO Update entry, I think I fairly managed to successfully achieved my first campaign.

As you can see from my previous post, I stated there wherein I searched for the keyword "bisdak blogger" and sadly, Google result for this particular site gave me none. Well, except for my other site, which is "My Bisdak Lounge" which was ranked at number 18 previously (but now ranked at 42nd --> TOINKZ!).

But lo and behold, after tweaking some stuff, I was amazed that my site now lands at the 2nd spot. Well, as for the moment, I don't intend to be on top since I'm still a newbie and besides I don't think I can beat the www.blogcatalog.com's result.

As for Yahoo's result, from the previous Top 3, it's now up by one notch. I'm now second only to www.bisayabloggers.com. Like I said, I'm not trying to dislodge them.

SEO Update

After realizing that its almost a month now and still no new post, I felt like I was obliged to hurriedly put one.

I was thinking of what to write when I noticed from my Live Traffic Feed in one of my blogs that there were visitors who came from Google.

It really surprised me since although some of my blogs are already three months old but honestly I was up to now too lazy to mind about doing that SEO thing.

Since I think this is a good starting point, to know at present how search engines indexed my blogs without doing any optimizations yet. And to check later after doing the job. I believe I must post an entry out of this.

I searched for the keyword "bisdak blogger" in Google and was amazed to see that my "Bisdak Lounge" blog lands at number 18 spot. Though if the same keyword is searched but without the space in between the words bisdak and blogger, my bisdakblogger site would land at the top spot.

I searched the same keyword at Yahoo but was even more surprised to see that it landed at the Top 3 spot. Haha, lucky me. Top 3 spot without sweat. Heck, I don't know when will it last. As far as I'm concerned I'm not optimizing my site yet.

The Doomed MV Princess of the Stars

Sulpicio Lines' Princess of the Stars
Originally uploaded by b. rahi koh

No, I'll not gonna talk about the latest update about this ill-fated ship nor updates about the fatality. Instead, I'll talk about the number of page views from my photo of the said ship.

Before the tragedy, the number of page views was just around 2,000++, but a day after the news broke, I noticed a sudden surge of views, a 100% increase and five days after, a whopping 479% increase. As of today (28 June 2008, 17:03 Manila Time), it has 11,580 number of views.

Along with the number of views, also came the photo's popularity --> I saw it on YouTube, on a number of blogs, on some european tv news network. Comments also came (including nasty ones on some of the pics from my other photostream), a number of email messages also came, invitations to add as contacts, to join groups etc.

No big deal actually, I'm just happy that a lot of people came to view my pictures. Not to mention the piece of information that I have just shared to everybody.

What I fervently wish is that I hope people will put a little bit of space for the credits, (cause a lot of them never did :-( .. whatever!).

Blogger Template

Probably, one of the next thing that a new blogger must face after setting up his/her new account, aside from the content of course, is on finding ways on how to have the right template that will suit the bloggers personality and on how to have the contents presented.

What I did was googled once again for the available free templates site and was amazed of how plenty they are. It took me several sites and several samples and later on bumped with the site www.eblogtemplates.com.

I was amazed at the available downloadable free templates on the site. And I wasted no time in choosing the best one for me. I settled with their Ads Theme template and after a few hours (upon lots of experimentation on how to modify and set it up), my blog finally is up and running.

What I like about eblogtemplates.com are as follows:
*) Plenty of available free templates. Whether you're from blogspot or from wordpress.
*) The support is considerably good. Courtesy from the members of the community.
*) It offers lots of tips. Especially if you're a newbie like me.
*) Just like what they said: "No BS. Just Free High Quality Blog Templates".

And through this post, I'm awarding eblogtemplates.com the award --> MY PERSONAL CHOICE AWARD!



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