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American Idol Top 5 Revealed

Filipino-Mexican Jessica Sanchez hopes of being the 2012 American Idol is still alive.

List of Successful examinees for Chemical Engineering Board Exam for April 2012

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that 199 out of 383 or 51.96% passed the Chemical Engineer Board Exam given last April 18, 2012 and following days:

Here is the complete list of Successful examinees for Chemical Engineering Board Exam for April 2012:

PRC Midwifery Board Exam Results April 2012

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that 1,078 out of 2,382 or 45.26% passed the Midwife Board Examination given last April 15 and 16, 2012.

The Top 10 examineers for Midwifery Board Examination are:

1. Rho Vince Caño Malagueño – Bicol University-Tabaco 89.65
2. Hera Theresa Reola Albaño – University Of Saint Anthony 88.90
3. Iana France Salvador Villania – Bicol University-Tabaco 88.85
4. Imee Mabelle Amante Agonos – Camarines Sur Polytechnic College-Nabua 88.35
5. Venice Iris Ibarreta Awa – Camarines Sur Polytechnic College-Nabua 88.30
6. Mary Lovely Cavite Cate – Bicol University-Tabaco 88.10
7. Ellah Mae Cultivo Bos – Bicol University-Tabaco 88.05
8. Maria Angela Bermundo Bedis – Bicol University-Tabaco 88.00
9. Dominic Dionaldo Pelaez – Iloilo Doctors’ College 87.85
10. Ira Jade Cordero Maneja – Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital School Of Midwifery 87.80

PRC Electronics Engineer Board Exam Results April 2012

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that 1,439 out of 2,687 or 53.55% passed the Electronics Engineer Board Exam given this April 2012. 

The top 10 examinees for Electronics Engineer Board Exam are:

1. Christian Deus Telmo Cayao (Mapua Institute of Technology-Manila) – 96.50%
2. Ria Marie Encabo Palma (Mindanao State University-General Santos City) – 95.10%
3. Josielle Marie Agno Caminong (Mapua Institue of Technology-Manila) – 94%
4. Steffi Kaye Wee Cheong (Mapua Institute of Technology-Manila) – 93.20%
5. Agatha Marie Dela Isla Alarilla (Mapua Institute of Technology-Manila, 92.80%
6. Jose Angelo Ordanez Natividad (De La Salle University-Manila and Alexis Alvin Antolo Undar of The University (Saint La Salle, who both got 92.60%
7. Jeffrey Montanez Castro (UP-Diliman and John Christopher Garcia Ligon (FEU-East Asia College, who both got 92.10%
8. Jose Ricardo Masilang Catane (Mindanao State University Iligan Institute of Technology 92%
9. Miguel Roberto Casuga de Leon (De La Salle University-Manila 91.60%
10. Julius Rommel Masiglat Salud (Mapua Institute of Technology-Manila 91.50%

Roach: We are going to KO Mosley

Five time boxing trainer of the year Freddie Roach is optimistic that they will be victorious on the upcoming Pacquiao vs. Mosley fight. According to coach Freddie, "We are going to KO Shane Mosley to show Floyd Mayweather we are better!"

The Pacquiao vs. Mosley fight is scheduled on May 7, 2011 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Nevada, on the line will be the WBO Welterweight World Title.

Sikat Ang Pinoy SEO Contest

A new SEO Contest has been announced, it the Sikat Ang Pinoy SEO contest. Tagged as the first SEO contest in Filipino Language, the contest aims to promote the Filipino Language in the SEO world.

Pizes is estimated at $2500 in cash & in kind including the $550 cash + items to the site who will end up in top spot of the keyword Sikat Ang Pinoy

For more info check out my Sikat Ang Pinoy contest entry

What is Tnomeralc web design toys

I stumbled upon a new buzz on the world wide web, it's the Tnomeralc web design toys, the title itself is so confusing. Well, actually it's not, it's a race to make it to the top of the Tnomeralc web design toys SERP. Check out more about it from Pinoy Pro Blogger.

Demolition

I had a photo shoot for a guest book of a debutant yesterday near the Bacoor Bay, it was my first time to see the bay since they started Coastal Road 2 project.

Houses are now being demolished to give way to this project, it made me think, what would happen to these people now?

Pacman will face The Hitman

It seems that everything has been ironed out for the Pacquiao - Hatton bout on May 2, 2009. In a news interview yesterday, Manny Pacquiao announced that both camps agreed to a 52-48% pay cuts in favor of course of Manny Pacquiao.

Earlier, Manny's camp was asking for a heftier pay at 60%, they were claiming that Pacman is still the best pound for pound boxer in the world and deserves a better pay cut.

Top Rank's Bob Arum gave Manny's camp until 1st of February to settle or face another fighter, a Mayweather Jr. instead. It was when Pacman & his legal advisers decided to accept the offer.

Well, after much negotiation & talks, as a boxing fan, I just hope that this will be a hell of a fight.

Captivating Capiz: A mini SEO contest by bleuken

Bleuken.com & Kyubz.com announced today a mini-SEO contest entitled Captivating Capiz. The object of the contest is to optimize the keyword "Captivating Capiz" on Google, the prizes are as follows:

1st Prize - P3,000.00 + 1-year domain registration & hosting
2nd Prize - P1,000.00 + 500 E.C. Credits
3rd Prize - P1,000.00 + 500 E.C. Credits

The contest will run from 9th September 2008 to 26th October 2008 (Sunday 3:00 p.m. Capiz Time).

For more info about this contest, you can check out bleuken's announcement here.

WordPress WordCamp Philippines Rocks!

One thing I can say about my WordPress WordCamp Philippines experience is, it rocks!

Read more about my experience here and here, and the aftermath here.

Kudos to all the organizer and thanks to all the sponsors! Looking forward to WordPress WordCamp Philippines 2009!

E-heads reunion concern will push through

Despite the hurdles & controversies, the Eraserheads Reunion Concert will push through.

When Philip Morris backed-out from the sponsoship of this event due to the pressures given by the Department of Health and anti-tobacco advocates, everyone thought that the concert will not push through.

Well listen now folks, the reunion concert will push through!

Last Monday, Raimund Marasigan confirmed that despite the recent developments, the reunion concert will push through. The venue was moved from CCP Complex in Pasay to The Fort in Taguig and it’ll be a paid concert meaning those tickets from the Marlboro website will not be honored.

The date remained unchanged, it will be on August 30, 2008, according to what I read tickets will sell at P800 & P1,300 and will be available to Ticketworld outlets.

I'm going to the WordPress WordCamp Philippines

I am now an official camper to the first WordPress WordCamp Philippines which will happen on September 6, 2008 at the Dela Salle University - College of St. Benilde, Taft Ave., Manila.


Mr. WordPress himself, Matt Mullenweg will be present in the camp, the camp will be sponsored by the following:

• i.PH: the Domain for Individuals


• Free Online Flash Games


• Wazzup Manila Philippines


• Real Estate CRM


• Real Estate Website Designers


• Orange County Real Estate


• Auto Insurance Quotes


• Lane Systems Inc.


• RedMedia


• Orange County Business Lawyer


• Cebu Pacific Air


• Buddy Gancenia Reality TV


• SmartBro Wireless Broadband


• SPOT.ph


• Make Money with Performancing Ads

iPhone to hit the Philippine market on August 22

Apple's iPhone will be available in the Philippines starting August 22, 2008, Globe Philippines will be the official and exclusive distributor of the new Apple iPhone 3G (8GB & 16GB) phones.

The phones will be available for both post-paid and pre-paid users.

iPhone 3G 8GB Plans (Initial Fees)

• Plan 1599: Php15,100


• Plan 2199: Php12,600


• Plan 3299: Php10,100


• Plan 3999: Php2,500


• Plan 4999: FREE

iPhone 3G 16GB Plans (Initial Fees)

• Plan 1599: Php20,600


• Plan 2199: Php18,100


• Plan 3299: Php15,500


• Plan 3999: Php8,000


• Plan 4999: Php2,900

Prepaid prices for iPhone 3G to Php37,599 for 8GB and Php43,799 for 16GB, it comes with Php1,000 load spread over 5 months; that’s P200 per month. Also, the first 1,000 phonekit purchase will get Php1,000 additional off (discount) on Apple iPhone 3G price.

Google Adsense Referrals program will be retired

I've heard this news before that apparently Google will be retiring its Adsense Referral Program, I didn't believe it until I received this email from Adsense. Now it's official, Adsense referral will be retired by the end of August.

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals programme. We will be retiring the AdSense Referrals programme during the last week of August. After that time, AdSense Referrals code will no longer display ads.

If you currently use referrals, either to promote Google products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, we encourage that you take the following steps before the product is retired:

• Remove all referral code from your site(s): Please take a moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last week of August, so that you can continue to effectively monetise your ad space.


• Replace your referral ads with AdSense for content ads: If you have less than three AdSense for content ad units on a page, we recommend replacing referral ad units with standard AFC ad units. This will minimise the risk of decreased AdSense earnings when the Referrals programme is retired.


• Run and save all referrals reports to your desktop: All Referrals reports will no longer be available at the end of October.

It'll definitely affect my current earning with this new development.

Advantages and Disadvantages of SEO's and PPC's.

Both SEO and PPC advertising are the two main methods of online marketing. Both of these are aimed at getting highly targeted visitors to the website by making the website rank on search engine results for the keywords being targeted.

Cost and Budget considerations often result in a business having to make a choice between using organic search optimization or pay per click advertising for their business.

Now as we talk about SEO's vs PPC's there shall also be some explanations about as how the both strategies of marketing go about.

SEO's refer to the search engine results that appear. Ranking can not be bought and ranking is a result of organic non-biased steps taken over a period of time.

Organic listings are the results that appear in the main section of a search engine such as Google when there is a search for something.

In a Pay Per Click results are already paid for and results are almost immediate to achieve. Recent years have seen an exponential rise in competition and steep rise in pay per click costs.

Surveys and studies have suggested that users are more likely to click on organic search results that appear on the main section of the page rather than the paid listings that appear as ads on the right.

Organic listings are non-biased and cannot be bought. As such users trust the results more than the paid listings which are a result of paid advertising. The conversion rate for organic listings is much higher than for paid listings.

Rising cost of pay per click. Pay per click campaigns are becoming more expensive day by day as competition is increasing. It is common now a days to pay as much as £1 or £2 per click for a top 5 position in pay per click campaigns like Google ad words.

The results of organic search engine optimization campaign are more permanent that pay per click. In pay per click the results stop almost immediately at the end of the campaign whereas in organic listings the rank remains.

Pay per click advertising is a much quicker way to get results. It is useful to advertise events other marketing campaigns that cannot be planned months in advance. Organic Search Engine Optimization is a time consuming task and organic listings often takes months to achieve.


Naman Jain is an Online marketing professional, Presently working with Rupiz Media, one of the leading online marketing company offering expert UK web development, search engine optimization services and website designing solutions over the globe.

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Pinoy Pro Blogger made it to the Top 100

After almost a month of hard work, my official entry to the Busby SEO Challenge made it to the top 100. It was on number 94 overall yesterday, at first I can't believe it when I check my rank using seobook.com's Rank Checker so I checked the Busby SEO Challenge leaderboard to confirm, and it's true! I'm on top 100.

Now, I need to double my effort to maintain my current standing.

The Secret to Converting Web Traffic

Copy is absolutely crucial to not only delivering a great customer experience on your website but also converting all that traffic. This is true for traffic that originates from organic search as well as pay per click advertising. In fact, research has shown that organic search visitors tend to convert at a higher rate than visitors from search engine advertising. So how do we make the most of our efforts to attract visitors to our website?

Achieving a good balance between visitors from organic search and search advertising is important as the right mix will bring you more traffic. To maximise the opportunity this presents, I recommend you develop landing pages with "purposeful design". This is critical to the success of your online business.

When a visitor lands on your web properties (pages), their subsequent behaviour is determined to a large extent by what they see and experience within the first few seconds. How do you know what will work and what will not? Well we need to create different versions and test. This is where the science of landing page optimisation begins.

There are two types of tests that I like to apply. One is called AB Testing and the other multivariate testing. Each has its place in the optimisation process. Let me explain.

Let’s use an example to explain each. Let’s assume I have a website that sells products. Should I direct visitors from my pay per click advertising to a page that contains all the products in a category or should I direct them to a single product? Which will convert better? We use AB testing to find out.

AB Testing allows us to test the conversion rates of 2 different pages. So we might direct an equal amount of traffic to each of our pages for a period of time and monitor the conversions rates of each to determine which delivers the better result. Once we have a winner, we adopt that page for all subsequent visitors. We could do sequential testing on this page but that’s a topic for another time.

We can now apply multi variates testing to compare the performance of different elements of the same page to determine what works best. To do this, we select different parts of our page, for example the headline, an image and perhaps the call to action. Then we test each of these with alternative versions.

For example, each time a visitor lands on our website, we can display one of three images of the product. Once we have had a statistically valid sample of visitors through the page, we will begin to learn about which image works best. We can do the same for other elements.

It is important not to get carried away with the testing. I prefer to test perhaps one or 2 elements at a time with 2 to 3 versions of each. If you change too many elements, it is more difficult to assess what really makes the difference.

Once we have the results of our multi variates test, we adopt our highest performing option and then, you guessed it - we do it again!

I hope I have been able to explain how to convert your traffic. As a channel to market, the internet offers a rich source of information that can be used to fine tune your website. Over time, you will know what works and what does not. This really places you at a competitive advantage in a crowded marketplace.

Billy is an internet marketing specialist and writes on various topics such as landing page optimisation.

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How Can I Make More Money With Adsense?

The affiliate program from Google needs no introduction seeing as it is one of the most talked about subjects on the internet. Adsense provides the best solutions for individuals desiring to make money with their sites. The problem is that when most inexperienced users first start using Adsense they are still not familiar with the optimization techniques utilized by professionals to maximize earnings. At times these methods are so simple but very effective and can make a big difference at the end of the month.

The steps covered bellow are intended to be a guiding light that hopefully will help determine the best solutions that in turn will boost earnings.

Bigger is not better:
Having big ads displaying won't always provide the best results even if these banners and link ads are located on what might seem like premium spots. To the frustration of many users such a strategy normally proves fruitless, leaving many unmotivated and in the verge of giving up. Small ad blocks or link units can really make a big difference and shouldn't be neglected. What is important is the number of visitors clicking on the ads and not the space they occupy.

Move ads around:
Ads can transform a site completely by making it look more dynamic and in some ways, somewhat appealing. Site owners tend to look at ads as a mere money making tool and neglect to use them effectively, opting most of the times to have them displayed in the most obvious places. Moving ads around will help determine the most profitable placements which in return will maximize earnings.

Channels are important :
Channels for ads are the single most important tool that should be explored when using Adsense. They will help determine whether a certain ad placement, format, or color will be effective on certain pages. Running various tests and experimenting different possibilities will help determine the most lucrative alternatives for a site.

Link unites:
Inexperienced users will undoubtedly be drawn to the bigger ads over the more reduced alternatives since at first glance they might seem more profitable. Experimenting with various alternatives is the only way to figure which ads are the most lucrative.

Link units are often neglected given their small size and archaic look. These units can increase the earnings of a website considerably because they adapt to content and the interest of the readers. The topics displayed on the ads are normally based on subjects relating to the sites content and when users click on them they are brought to a page full of Adwords ads. Although clicking on the topics won't generate earnings, the publicity displayed on the ads page are very appealing and profitable.

Ads inside content :
Inserting ads in the content is one of the favorite ticks commonly used by more experienced individuals. Most people when visiting a site tend to neglect the information displayed on the sides since what they are looking for is always in the middle or center of a site. When ads are displayed with the content they capture the attention of readers and increase the amount of clicks.

Improving a sites earning potential isn't hard, using these simple techniques will make a big difference. Turning any site into a well oiled machine is the first and most important step to increasing the earnings.

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