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For regular readers of Ambot-ah, you might have already noticed some changes in the look and feel of the blog. This is only the first step in my plans of improving Ambot-ah to a whole new level. This is in light of my plans of venturing out of my hometown, Iloilo, this year and traveling to more places around the Philippines starting. I’m very excited on where blogging will lead me in the months to come.
Now that my October travelling spree is over, I’m finally back home … back to blogging. You’ll probably notice my online activity rising because I’ve cleared up my schedule for the next month so that I can do some major work on my blogs (actually, it’s more like I wont be going anywhere because I’ve got no more money left to spend). During the first week of October, I spent a week in Manila to take some pictures for a new blog I’m developing named “Pueblo Philippines (more about this later).” While I was there, I bought a one week MRT/LRT unlimited flash pass (for P250) and visited many spots in Metro Manila. Though, the highlight (and main agenda) of my trip was actually attending the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards, in which Explore Iloilo was nominated under the Best Travel Blog category.
My postings here and Explore Iloilo have been sparse lately. I’ve been busy developing a new website called Everything Boracay (http://www.everythingboracay.com), which was made to help people plan their trip to Boracay. Visitors can find general information about Boracay, insider travel tips and guides, view a list of where to stay in Boracay, and even make online bookings through partner travel sites.
I’m currently on the continual process of improving Explore Iloilo. I’ve just finished some of SEO modifications in the title, meta tags, post tags, and comment pagination of the site. I’m also slowly updating the watermark of most of the pictures at my flickr account to prevent other people from posting them without giving credits.
I’ve also added a Dinagyang 2008 section in the main page to prepare for the said event and is testing if “Text Link Ads” will be able to give me some extra income.
After reading this post, I’ve gained more ideas on how to improve Explore Iloilo such as:
I hope they work, but more important I hope I’ll be able to do all of those in just a short period of time.
I’m trying an experiment: to know if social networks such as friendster, myspace, and multiply can help drive traffic to Explore Iloilo. These online networks pose so much potential when it comes to promoting a website, product, or service (that is of course aside from promoting/selling yourself to millions of other users) and it would be a positive development if it did because it’ll open even new opportunities.
I’ve already opened an account in myspace, friendster, and multiply. I’ll only limit myself to these three because they have the most Ilonggo/Filipino users based on my knowledge. My aim is to have as many contacts/friends/groups as possible.
Here are the individual profile urls to each site:
As you can see it’s not finished yet, I’m still working on it. The email address of the account for these three is: chymera00 [a.t] yahoo [dot] com, I hope that you guys will add these account to your contact/friend list as well.
The aforementioned is of course just the secondary gain of this experiment. The primary gain is the promotion Iloilo. It would be great if more Ilonggos would be able to realize the beauty of their hometown.
Aside from the social networks thinngy, I also am developing an idea for a linkbait. I’ll post an update when its done but here’s a sneak preview of what it is:
Ambot-ah is a blog about my life as a travel blogger, nurse, and freelance photographer. I'm Marcos and I like to post about my travels around the Philippines and South East Asia, blogging pursuits (making money online), photography tutorials, and personal life. Read More | Contact Me »
