Selaplana's Real name is Sustines E. Laplana, A first pinoy Blogger who loves to focus his dot com on blogging and making money online. I am pretty honoured to give a earlier on during the month of June 2007, and now an interview with him personally.
Etienne: Hi there Selaplana, nice to hear that you are willing to do this interview. Maybe you can tell us how you had the idea of starting a Dot com Website?
Selaplana: Hello! It’s a pleasure to answer you questions. I just want to apologize for my late reply. I was on my family-related travel last week in Cebu City (Philippines) when I received the call for an interview.
Anyway, I started a Dot Com website on January 2004 and that was my PASUGO-ONLINE dot COM. But, it only existed for almost 3 months because on March 8, 2004, that was my birthday, one of my online friends hacked, stole, and defaced the site. Soon as I regained the access to the site, I decided to stop it.
Having your own Dot Com website is just like having your own home. You can claim it as yours, and you can do what you want to do with it. That was what I realized after several years of using geocities.com-hosted sites since 1999 and blogspot.com-hosted blogs since 2003.
On the other hand, having your sites hosted for free by someone and using only the sub-domain of that host is just like renting a room from a boarding house. You want to do something on your room but can’t do it because the room is not yours.
Etienne: How do you think SEO can help optimize a website to become better?
Selaplana: Well. We are already at the time where SEO (Search Engine Optimization) became part of a website. Remember that Search Engines today play an important role on our websites’ traffic. Just take a look at my www.selaplana.com wherein almost 95% of site’s visitors are coming from Search Engines, while the remaining 5% are regular visitors who came into our site by directly typing its domain into their browsers.
And since optimization (SEO) became part of the website, so the optimizer (SEO) became part of it too. I know that professional SEO knows tons of things about SEO. So, I can say it will be better if an SEO will deal for your site’s SEO so that your site will gained many visitors through the search engines.
But in my part, I rather optimize the site by my self because by doing it, I don’t only save money but I also learned how to SEO a site. After all, to become better SEO is one of my dreams too.
Etienne: What are your current niches in the Internet right now?
Selaplana: I have lot of sites and blogs on different niches from Technology, Travel, Society, and Products. But I am now more active on Money,Travel and Entertainment.
Etienne: What is the 1 advice you would give to those who are yearning for a better ranking in Google?
Selaplana: Well. I understand that everyone, especially those who understand how important the traffic brought by Google to every websites is, is longing to top on Google SERP. So, what you need to do is to apply SEO into your website. If you really know how to optimize your site for the Search Engine, then do it. But if you think, you don’t have enough knowledge and ability on optimization, and then why not try investing for the SEO. Anyway, you’ll gain much from your sites if they top on Google SERP.
Just imagine what happened during the Isulong SEOPH contest. (Based on my observation) Those who invested for the SEO of their Isulong SEOPH sites were the ones who were really competing for the contest’s prize.
But, if you really want other SEO do the SEO things, choose those white SEO in order for your site to stay on the safe side. Black SEO might be more effective but will oftentimes harm your sites SERP.
Etienne: Offering $100 worth of prize for reviewing your blog is definitely attractive, How is this done, care to explain to those who would wish to review your site?
Selaplana: Actually, the prize is not in cash but in equivalent. I am willing to give you my $100-worth of review of you blog if you will review my blog. You’ll give me comments or whatever your impression to my blog in the form of a review, then I will also give you my $100-worth of review of your blog. You help me spread the words about my promotion, and I will also give you my love links. My blog’s PR might not be good as yours but at least its homepages is already with PR4.
And not only that, by participating into this program, you’ll also earn visitors from my blog’s visitors and more love links in the future. It’s because I’m sure some of my blog’s visitors will visit your blog too soon as I feature your blog at mine. And at the same time, if you blog contains interesting stuffs, I my self will surely became your regular visitors too. And soon as I found new and interesting contents of your site, expect me to feature your blog again on my blog.
Etienne: Given a chance, a company is willing to pay you $4000 a month, will you still be a full time marketer?
Selaplana: (smile) To let you know, I can afford to reject a $4,000/month offer by a company, but can’t afford to stop my own online business. Why? It’s because I believe that I can really make $100,000.00 a month or more if I will continue working full-time as blogger and e-marketer. But if a company offers me $4,000/month and will still allow me to do my online businesses, then I will accept that offer.
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