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One Week in Boracay Pictures

I spent an entire week in Boracay last October 2009. While my friends attended the Philippine Nurses Association Convention held in Boracay Eco Village, I was enjoying and going around Boracay Island. One of the highlights of my recent trip to Boracay was renting a bike for a day and a half and venturing outside of White Beach. Here’s what I came up with:

We stayed in a resort in Station 3, which was very very cheap. If you’re going to Boracay anytime soon or just planning, check out this list of where to stay in Boracay.

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Starferry Ride to Central Hong Kong

It’s day 2 of our Hong Kong and Macau Tour, we planned to visit many of Hong Kong’s top tourist spots. First up was the classic Star Ferry Ride across Victoria Harbor from Tsim Sha Tsui to Central in Hong Kong Island.

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My Vote for Visayas Blogger’s Choice Award – Explore Iloilo

My Vote for the 2009 Bloggers’ Choice Award (Visayas)

I vote for Explore Iloilo! for the Bloggers’ Choice Award in the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards.

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Writer of Philippine Star’s The Freeman Newspaper copies off content from byahilo.com blog

These people in the traditional media will stop at nothing! First they feed off and make money out of pictures painstakingly taken by us bloggers, now they are also starting to copy/pasting content from blogs. You can read how a writer for local newspaper in Cebu has copy/pasted from Byahilo.com, a travel blog run by my friend Eric D. here: http://www.byahilo.com/2009/05/31/philippine-stars-the-freeman-newspaper-in-cebu-used-my-blog-content-without-permission/

They can juice us for now if they must but there will come a time that these newspaper will become extinct and blogs will replace their outdated and unethical methods. We’ll be on top of search engine results when that happens.

Guisi and Alubihod | April 2008

I’m at Guisi Point in Brgy. Dolores, Guimaras again! It’s weird why I get to visit this place ever so often, even too often for my liking. The last time I was in Guisi, I was with my college friends. Now, I’m with a different set of people I’ve known over the internet (mainly because of skyscrapercity.com).

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Guimaras Mangoes | April 2008

Finally, after reading and hearing so much about the world famous Mangoes of Guimaras, I got to eat and savor its sinful sweetness. Our first stop in Guimaras was in a market called “Alibhon” in Nueva Valencia town in Guimaras.

 
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Heritage Symmetry Photo Series

This photo series is inspired from simplicity and symmetry. Notice the mono chrome motif and frontal perspective:

Balay Negrense

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Kongkee Siopao saved a girl from hipfracture

I was reading through my technorati subscription to the keyword “Iloilo” when I read about this funny story by Ilongga Cook on how a kongkee siopao saved her friend from hip fracture when she was hit by a motorcycle on the highway. For those who don’t know, Kongkee is one of the popular old restaurants located in downtown Iloilo serving siopao as their specialty.

Explore Iloilo Updates – October 07 2007

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:

• Online Surveys
• Subscribing to more SEO and Monetizing Blogs
• Links Bait
• Making Videos
• Social Networks (friendster, myspace, multiply)
• Create paypal account, which means I have to get a visa/mastercard first.

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.

Promoting Explore Iloilo through Social Networks

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:

• MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/exploreiloilo
• Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/exploreiloilo
• Multiply: http://exploreiloilo.multiply.com

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: