New Media Philippines

The most asked question during blog conferences and seminars is “how do I drive more traffic to my blog or website?” After blogging for several years now I think that’s no longer the best question to ask. What we should ask is “how do I get loyal visitors to my blog? The ones who come [...]

I found the recording of the video stream of my iBlog 7 presentation, 10 Power Blogging Tips, on JustinTV. This was recorded by Janette using her MacBook Pro so the quality of the video isn’t all that good. I’ll edit this post and embed a higher quality one if ever it becomes available. By the [...]

Ever since we implemented the Facebook Share and Twitter Retweet buttons on this blog the traffic has grown tremendously. To verify this, we compared this month’s traffic to a month where we didn’t have the plug-ins and the results are amazing. There’s +111% growth! We checked Google Analytics and Facebook referrals now account for 35% [...]

I just stumbled upon an awesome tool to embed Tweets on WordPress blog entries. It’s called the Twitter BlackBird Pie. It’s an easy-to-use, creative, and fun way of sharing interesting tweets to your readers. You just have to install the plug-in and then a new icon will be available in your “Add New Post” dashboard. [...]

We consume content everywhere we go. We consume content when we watch television, read the dailies, open a book, listen to music, or talk with people. Originally the people who controlled what content we consume are the traditional media outlets like television networks, radio stations, etc. However because of the internet and social media we [...]

One of the biggest temptations for bloggers is writing unverified articles. We get caught up with the excitement of publishing a big story that the world has yet to know about. Even if we just have 1 source, we go with what he or she says without verifying the veracity of tbe information. Like a [...]

Cornell University recently came out with a report showing that the number of followers doesn’t really make you “influential” in Twitter. Since social media is about sharing, a good metric of influence is if your followers actually re-tweet your updates. Using this as basis they came up with a new ranking which showed which users [...]

The Philippine Blog Awards is one of the most prestigious blog award giving bodies in the country. They’ve been doing this for 4 years now and the live event keeps on getting better and better as the years go by. Anyway, the Philippine Blog Awards 2010 will start accepting nominations on September 12. They have [...]

As most of you know, I’m getting married in 2 weeks time. Preparing for the wedding was definitely hard but I’m sure it will be worth it come the big day. Anyway, while going over my budget, I realized that we’re investing a lot on photography and video. This is probably the same for a [...]

I’m currently mentoring a few new bloggers so I’ll be posting more about blogging in the coming weeks. For today, let me share 3 awesome plug-ins which incorporate your social media accounts to your WordPress blog. Putting social media buttons and badges are very important because it can exponentially multiply the traffic you’re getting especially [...]

Another interesting question this time via e-mail! A reader asked what should she do if she found some people annoying or insulting on their social network in Twitter or Facebook. My answer is pretty straightforward and blunt. Unfollow or Unfriend them. There are too many distractions already in life and the last thing you need [...]

Most of the time internet marketers and bloggers tend to focus on their analytics and their website numbers. We spend hours trying to interpret and analyze where we get our traffic, what page they visit, etc. There’s nothing wrong doing this but it does become troublesome if you focus too much on strategy and forget [...]

Here’s a good tip for bloggers and SEO students. People go to the web not just for information, they go to the web to look for solutions. I’ve been blogging across various niches for the past few years and the entries that get the most views are the ones that offer solutions to specific problems [...]

A lot of Filipinos think that blogging is a form of being “emo” or it’s just a personal online journal. That’s how people in the 1990′s thought about blogging. It’s already 2010 and the opportunities and possibilities blogging offers can literally change lives. It can bring you money, it can put your career on the [...]

I was invited to give a 45-minute talk on how to make money with blogging during the recent Blog World Philippines 2010 conference at Crossroads 77, QC. I was initially expecting around 500 participants but I was really surprised when I saw that the entire auditorium was filled to the brim! According to the organizers, [...]

If you care about your online reputation and your readers you better make sure that you constantly monitor what ads are being displayed on your site through Google Adsense. There’s been a surge of “dating” sites in the past few months and they’ve been advertising regularly via Google. What’s alarming is that even big publishing [...]

My fellow blogger and good friend Brian Ong asked me on Facebook last night how he can remove the Manny Villar ads on his blog. Apparently this is also a concern shared by a lot of bloggers and website owners as well. Having political ads on your site has a lot of implications, the most [...]

I was finally able to watch the movie Julie & Julia last night and I appreciated all the lessons it imparted to me as a blogger. In one of the scenes, Julie is confronted by her husband because she’s been having too many meltdowns and she’s getting to stressed/affected by her blogging. This damages their [...]

Here’s a quick and effective tip for bloggers and website administrators out there who use Google Adsense. I recently doubled the click through rate (CTR) of my anime & gaming blog, Waukster Online, just by changing the ad units and their placements. This was suggested by my good friend and fellow blogger, Francis. Basically I [...]

Viral Marketing rarely happens by accident. As Malcolm Gladwell would say, it has to reach a tipping point first before it gets picked up eventually spreads like wildfire. The same concept applies for Viral Blogging – or the publishing content that gets passed on by different people across various mediums. Note that there is no [...]