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Marc Macalua of SEO Philippines has just sent word that the SEO Philippines Yahoogroup has reached another milestone of having 500 members and continues to grow everyday.

SEO Philippines @ YahooGroups, is a mailing list for those interested in learning more about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) in general.

Membership is open to bloggers, webmasters, and Internet enthusiasts.

Here is what Marc sent to the group:

We’ve recently broken 500! Many thanks for all the support. Special shout outs to our moderators:

• Benj Arriola
• Carmelo Diaz
• J. Angelo Racoma
• Manuel Viloria
• Andrew dela Serna
• Andre Marcelo-Tanner
• Anton Sheker
• Migs Paraz
• Abe Olandres

I’d like to announce new additions to the moderator pool

• Elymar Apao
• Mike Lopez
• Dennis Agulo

Congratulations!

Marc

SEO Philippines is currently running the Philippines’ 2nd SEO Contest — Ituloy AngSulong!

Stay tuned for more details on the 2nd Philippine SEO Contest which promises to give the participants more twists and turns and even a bigger total cash prize. This time the total cash prize amounts to 300,000 Pesos or even more!

Ituloy AngSulong! The 2nd Philippine SEO Contest

DigitalFilipino.com’s Philippine Software Process Improvement Network (http://www.cmmiphilippines.com) will be having its 1st annual Lessons Learned in Software Process Improvement (SPI) Forum this

November 17, 2006
1:15 pm to 5:00 pm
Microsoft Philippines
16th floor, 6750
Ayala Avenue, Makati City
(beside Makati Shangri-la Hotel)

Our sincerest thanks to Microsoft Philippines for supporting this event.

This gathering is exclusive to PH-SPIN individual and corporate members only and are requested to confirm attendance for food count purposes. DigitalFilipino.com Club members are welcome to attend as well.

Agenda shall be as follows:

• 12:00 - 1:15 registration
• 1:15 - 1:30 Welcome to PH-SPIN
• 1:30 - 2:00 Lessons learned in SPI using the Microsoft Solutions Framework (Microsoft Philippines)
• 2:00 - 2:30 Lessons learned in Process Documentation: Business Process Management perspective (Carlo Doran, Core Synergy Inc.)
• 2:30 - 3:00 Lessons learned in Software Requirements Management and Development (Olive Garcia, Isuzu Alabang)
• 3:00 - 3:30 Lessons learned in Software Project Management (Jan Pabellon, Ecommsite)
  3:30 - 4:00 Lessons learned in Software Coding and Integration (Rodney Jao, Lane Systems)
• 4:00 - 4:30 Lessons learned in Software Quality Assurance
• 4:30 - 5:00 Lessons learned in Software Metrics

Interested non-members are requested to sign up as a member prior to November 17 and confirm attendance for food count purposes.

The updated Metro Manila Online Shopper Report is now online and available for download at http://www.e-commercephilippines.com

To all SME and Corporate members of the DigitalFilipino.com Club, we shall be having a Website Marketing hands-on tutorial session this November 4, Saturday, from 9 am to 12 noon. This will be held at Alfox Internet Cafe (beside Chowking), Kamuning Road, corner Edsa, Quezon City.

Topics include:
1. Writing good page titles
2. Meta tags
3. Proper text formatting
4. Search engine registration
5. Blog marketing
6. Creating a sitemap
7. Website traffic monitoring

SME members can send 2 reps while Corporate members can send 3 reps. Please confirm for food count purposes.

Interested non-members and individual members are requested to sign up as a SME or Corporate member prior to November 4 and confirm attendance for food count purposes.

Here are the links:

SME
http://www.e-commercephilippines.com/ModShop/ShowProduct/21290/

Corporate
http://www.e-commercephilippines.com/x.pro/ModShop/ShowProduct/7324/

Through October 31, over thirty Brainbench certifications are available to you at no cost through sponsorships made by Brainbench’s partners.

These tests include:

• C#
• ASP.NET
• Computer Forensics
• RDBMS
• J2EE
• Computer Technical Support
• MS Office 2003
• Project Management

Typically $49.95, these tests are available to you absolutely free! Upgrade your resume - impress your boss - show off to your friends - and it will cost you nothing but your own time investment.

Mozilla is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Firefox 2, a major update of the Firefox browser. The product is now available for download from www.getfirefox.com for Windows, Mac or Linux operating systems in 35+ languages.

Mozilla strongly recommends that all users upgrade to this latest release.

What’s New in Firefox 2 Visual Refresh:
Firefox 2’s theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience.
Built-in phishing protection:
Phishing Protection warns users when they encounter suspected Web forgeries, and offers to return the user to their home page. Phishing Protection is turned on by default, and works by checking sites against either a local or online list of known phishing sites. This list is automatically downloaded and regularly updated when the Phishing Protection feature is enabled.

Enhanced search capabilities:
Search term suggestions will now appear as users type in the integrated search box when using the Google, Yahoo! or Answers.com search engines. A new search engine manager makes it easier to add, remove and re-order search engines, and users will be alerted when Firefox encounters a website that offers new search engines that the user may wish to install.

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