One of the things that goes into my mind when in the job interview is always the “How much should I state for the salary?”… Years back, I would always talk to a fellow interviewee about how much he would say if he were asked. I will always put in a thousand or more to the price. But I have come to find out that this should not be the case, and I will tell you in a while.

Web design for one thing is a piece of your brain. A piece of the creative juice in your mind. No amount of money can be put into an original idea. Any salesman will say that its easier to sell an idea than a product. Web designers sells or provide ideas using web design masterpiece that they can create. Now, how much should I ask for the salary? I say, if you trust your skills, let them give the offer.

Ok, I will be practical here, not too many people will be willing to risk a job interview. You might not get hired by that answer or might not get the price you’re after, but at least you expressed confidence and people that are confident in their abilities are hard to find. Confident people are easy to train, easy to get along with. How many people do you know will say “bahala na”, most especially if its their first time? I know because I have been one. But being in the web design industry for years, being competitive and confident with your skills will make you survive.

Don’t sound so perfect or make up excuses in an interview, don’t say skills that you don’t know. Say your fuck ups, say your crash and burn. Don’t give a damn thing to anything when it comes to interview, there are a lots of jobs in the country, believe me and a web designer is always a high demand. Just imagine millions of websites are being created every hour in the world. Web designer, that is your market.

Good luck.

Last time I posted about the web design industry in the Philippines. I also talked about SEO in the Philippines. But I would like to take my part in educating future bloggers or SEO specialist and share some things that I have learned so far.

The video that I will show you is a tutorial on how to go about:

• researching for a keyword
• picking the best keyword and
• how to analyze your keyword competition in google searches.

The example that I used in this tutorial is the keyword “pinay scandal“. Though in the end I concluded that there are other keywords that are untapped and has less competition but tons of traffic “free pinay scandal“. It is easy to dominate and I hope to educate people to think differently and not be swayed by the bandwagon.

If I am an adult webmaster, I could easily earn money by the keyword that I have discovered in the tutorial. But I won’t do it because I might get pwnd by the authorities. I hope this would help a lot of people leave me a comment if you liked the video.

Without further ado, here is the video.

Watch SEO Keyword Research Video Tutorial

Featuring Pinay Scandal keyword.

This is how I do my keyword research a few months back. Right now, I’m using some paid tools to help me with tons of keywords that I could make money of. But I hope this could help those that have no money and start their online career.

FREE SEO Tools Mentioned in the tutorial

• Google.com
• Yahoo.com - Yahoo site explorer using the link: command
• freekeywords.wordtracker.com - Check the daily searches from overture

With the rapid growth of internet business in the Philippines. It is most likely that companies would look for skills with regards to the web industry.

Web Design in the Philippines

With regards to web design, I can clearly say that the Philippines is one of the most talented with regards to creativity on the web. I have known tons of web designers that have huge talent in web design that works for companies that pay them 1 / 4 of what they should be earning. Though the skills of web designers are top notch in the country. Some people take advantage of the low price labor in the Philippines to run their web design business. I know because I have been into one.

SEO in the Philippines and Bloggers

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is kind of under rated in the country. And I have not yet found any good ones that really know what they are doing with regards to SEO. Not to mention bloggers that will talk about promoting their site to social networks to get tons of traffic = money. This is a myth and should be changed. For months I have been learning SEO, Affiliate Marketing and Internet Marketing, and I have come to find out that not many people (especially bloggers in the Philippines) know how to optimize their site. How did I know that they don’t know how to optimize their site? Notice when they do not make a post on their blog, their blog dies. I am not saying I’m a guru in this field, but come on, I bet you notice that, everybody is just posting what other sites have already posted. If problogger posted something, it would spread like wild fire. It’s just a rehash of a rehash of a rehash. Nothing new, nothing useful. Optimization is for the long term result, now, why aren’t getting this long term result to traffic that they are talking about? . . . . Because they don’t know how…

Can you see the opportunity here? Not too many people know how to optimize, when offline business take it online, they would need the expertise of an Internet Marketing Specialist in the Philippines. Not just people who know how to optimize pinay sexscandal post.

In reality, SEO Specialist and Internet Marketing in the Philippines would be a lucrative job. I already know someone getting paid 50,000 Pesos (starting) for this job position, and he wants to have an increase next month.

Personally…

I would rather be a specialist in internet marketing and do my own affiliate business than work for a company.