Yep! You’ve read it right, I won 3 prizes in one contest over at Life is Colourful Blog Anniversary Contest. This is why I love joining blog contests – WINNING. LOL. Heck, even if you don’t win anything from these contests, just the experience and socialization you develop with other bloggers are a prize itself, so when you run your own contest in the future you’ll have an idea how to pull it off and you can invite those bloggers you’ve met as sponsors or participants.

Now, I didn’t won any cash prize but I won blogging resources tools and banner links instead which I prefer more because it would help me improve and promote Pinoy Raket Online. Here the list of the prizes I won:

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Have you noticed lately the “Shop” tab over at Entrecard? Haven’t paid much attention to it until last week and it’s nice to know that Entrecarders like us can now spend our credits in more unique ways. Entrecard Credits has now been accepted as a currency in the blogosphere other than credits used to purchase placement for our 125X125 card on other blogs for advertising purpose. Some bloggers have even manage to make money out of their credits by putting up their own Entrecard credit shop in their own blog while others choose to auction their EC’s over at EBay. Now that Entrecard credits has gained more value, this only means that we can benefit more from it. So what does the Entrecard Shop offers? A lot actually, from purchasing domain and hosting service to consultation for your relationship problems. All in exchange for your Entrecard credits.

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I received an email yesterday from a domain name sales agent offering and asking if I’d be interested in buying the domain name “pinoyraket.com”. I know that pinoyraket.com existed even before I came up with Pinoy Raket Online but that was purely unintentional. I only discovered the site pinoyraket.com when I had the urge to Google the keywords “Pinoy Raket” when Pinoy Raket Online was just a week old. I also discovered another site run by a fellow Filipino blogger that bears the word “raket” in her domain name and that is Raket Science.

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I made a post last Saturday about Pinay Scandal as a part of my experiment with SEO. My mission was to play around with that keyword to find out if I can generate traffic from it. It was risky. Honestly, I didn’t knew that my Adsense would be disabled when the Google robot would crawl up my site and find porrnographic words. I kind of freaked out for a couple of days and was planning to devise a comeback post to make up for it. LOL. But it was all worth the risk as I found out today about a group of Pinoy bloggers who were also experimenting with the Pinay Scandal keyword. I came upon macuha.com who made a post last year with an experiment with the Pinay Scandal keyword so he could gain traffic from it. It was crazy idea and a lot of Pinoy bloggers was into it that they even joined his campaign. You can read the rest of his post here.

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Pardon me, I’m in a ridiculous mood. In fact, I can’t help but laugh as I write this yet another controversial post. I just want to indulge myself in a quick orgy with the infamous Pinay Scandal sites as I have always been curious about how much money the administrator of a sex scandal site makes. Must be at least $20-$50 bucks a day from personal ads alone. Hmmm. Sounds interesting. But don’t leave yet, Pinoy Raket Online is not selling out or expanding into a space of filth. LOL. Join me as we take a peak at the most popular Pinay Scandal sites as an experiment to see how it’s like to put up and maintain such sites. First stop, Pinoy Top Sites, a directory listing site of Pinoy owned blogs that features a ranking system of a blog’s popularity based on the number of hits or traffic they receive from the Philippines.

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According to Russ Alfonso in his interview with Entrepreneur magazine, “Internet usage is expected to grow 23 percent annually to reach 21.5 million by [the end] of 2008. Filipino Internet users on average spend 2.3 hours per day checking e-mail, 1.6 hours on online community activities, 2.7 hours on instant messaging, and 3 hours on other Internet activities. Forty-eight percent of Internet users are within 20 to 28 years old and 44 percent are 30-40 years old.” So, what does this figures tells us? It tells us that with the continuous increasing number of internet users, internet business will also continue to rise. And if you noticed, it’s pretty obvious with the constant growth of establishments offering free WiFi access, the ever growing lists of online social networking sites and the growing number of Pinoy bloggers jumping in the field of making money online.

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Just bounced back from a stressful day. I’m still having a hard time dealing with my sinusitis, but I have to update my blog before Saturday comes because Sabado nights is the time for me and my girl to hit the local watering holes here in our humble province of Bulacan. Yes, we do have active social spots here in case you’re wondering. Lots of nice people. Good food and drinks. I love being a Bulakeño! Wohoo! You should come by and visit us and I’ll give you guys a free tour. Yep, I got a little excited. LOL. Now moving on with the topic.

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For Filipinos, crab mentality describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase….“if i can’t have it, neither can you”. It’s a metaphor referring to crabs in a bucket in which, one of them struggles to get to the top but instead is being pulled down by other crabs that are also trying to get to the top.

Now, some may think crab mentality is normal as it implies healthy competition between people. Which is in fact, completely normal. But in more ways than one, it is more destructive than normal, especially if you unintentionally outdo another at the other’s expense. A sad reality it is, as it shows lack of unity among us Pinoys.

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