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Showing posts with label Yahoo Search. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Egosurfing "Pinoy Explorer"

10:25 AM  INKBLOTS  1 comment

When I registered my previous travel blog hosted in "ding-explore.blogspot.com" into its own dotcom now called www.thepinoyexplorer.com, I did not realize that there are two other "pinoy explorers" in the net.  One is hosted in blogspot.com and the other one is a Philippine TV program hosted by actor Aga Muhlach.  So this is my disclaimer that this similarities are purely unintentional.  I think the article "the" made the difference when I was registering, and I was the first one who registered my branding as "The Pinoy Explorer".  Besides, the other one is a TV program, and I do not intend to compete with them.

Anyway, worried that my dotcom might suffer from these similarities, it seems the other way around.  Perhaps, I, unintentionally, benefit from the online searches.   So I tried to egosurf. You see this is not for vanity's sake.  I am trying to find out how well www.thepinoyexplorer.com fares in the world wide web.  So here are the results of this egosurfing:

Yahoo search: The Pinoy Explorer places 2nd in page one (1).

Google search: The Pinoy Explorer places 4th, 5th, and 6th in page one (1)


I say, not bad for a start, right?

I think that there are four (4) factors that affect this trend:

  1. My readers - who have been following The Pinoy Explorer over the past months since I resurrected it in May-June last year (2010).
  2. Facebook - in Google search Facebook helped pump up my visibility,
  3. Google Plus - I think a few Google+ it and there you go that made it appear in the search.
  4. Cross-posting it in this blog - this blog is older and definitely has gained residency in SEO and cross-posting some of the articles in this blog is definitely a plus.  Take the article on Batanes' oldest house, for example.

In this regard, "thank you" is not enough, but just the same, I express my gratitude to all my readers and followers for the support!




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