Just a little over two days since the Pinkseo WP Theme was lauched and it’s already been downloaded about 450 456 times (at the time of this writing). Pinkseo’s site traffic went up about 700% (would you believe?), coupled with about a hundred backlinks. All in just over a day.

It’s overwhelming to see more and more people using the theme (girls mostly, but heck, some MALES too!!). I’ve been monitoring technorati and found some interesting modifications in some of the sites. Such as this:

and this:

I guess even in ventures such as this, you come to a point where you stop enjoying all the backlinks and traffic and just start loving the fulfillment that comes with providing people something that they can use on their blogs.

Perhaps that’s why girls like her can get away with a PR7 (and gracefully at that) even without having to beg people around to link her. (Maybe she didn’t really care about the backlinks to begin with). And it’s not like she insisted on Matt Cutts to use her theme. Her WP themes are simply.. classic. Which makes girls like moi more… uh, inspired.

Hence, my goals hereforth (not necessarily connected to the WP theme study/discovery):

• Learn CSS. Oddly, I know the principles (from wayback five years ago when I was making all those crappy layouts for my previous blogs, on personal initiative). Sadly, I’m too stubborn and lethargic to actually sit down and work on a table-less layout. My knowledge of webdesign is too uh, table-ish, if you know what I mean.
• Be more SEO Philippines active. Er, let see what I can do about this.
• Work on the domain. Uh, let see what I can do about this TOO.
• Manage my budget responsibly. With The Laptop coming in next month (yay, I’m excitement!! LOL), hence an additional expense worth several hundred dollars on the credit card bill by March, I’ve gota stop all the unnecessary spending (i.e. shopping) and be more responsible with my resources from here on.

Ok. That’s it. I shall stop my list at that coz the longer a list like this goes, the less feasible (or, using my boss’ term, “scalable”) it becomes.

Spread more pink love. Ituloy Angsulong!

These spam comments are killing me.

All these in just a day. I mean, hello? It’s bad enough that I have 119 comments to tag as spam, I have to clean up my mailbox because of the annoying flood of email alerts too.

Click for larger imageYes, I know there’s such a thing as AKISMET, but really now, I’ve wandered far and wide on my WP Dashboard, but I couldn’t find my API key. HELP? ANYONE?

I feel like I semi-failed to be a good girl towards the end of last year, so I didn’t bother sending Santa my Christmas wishlist. But it’s the start of the year now (dont you just love clean slates?) and I’m making this (very) early Grown up Christmas list, just so I know what I have to work hard for this year (and beyond).

Warning: This wishlist is screaming pink.

1. Pink Nokia 7373. My trusty N6630 is still in perfect condition, but the moment I laid eyes on the pinkness of this Barbie-fashionable phone, I knew I’d love to get my hands on it (I only saw the pictures, I’ve not touched the real thing). And no, I don’t care if most of the reviews are negative, thankyouverymuch.

2. Hot Pink 2nd Generation Ipod Nano. Alright, I know I don’t need it (since my computer headset is practically glued to my ears the whole day anyway). But well, this is a wishlist. 3. Pink Chucks. I’ve always wanted to walk down the isle (Fine, fine. Mush mode ON!) wearing pink chucks (yeah, I know, sooo Cinderella-ish). But I couldn’t wait til wedding day anymore!! I have to get a pair of pink chuck taylors NOW.
4. Daisy Rock Wildwood Acoustic Guitar. How can I let go of a year-long (and counting) wish? This one’s still up in the list, I don’t care how long it takes. But take it on the hardest of rock: One of these days, I shall have my own (Daisy Rock) acoustic guitar. Just in case I fail to become a successful SEM-er, maybe I can still be a successful guitarist. (Uh, Right. Dream on, Riz, haha).
5. Laptop. I need one. (Ok, it doesn’t have to be pink). I just.. need one. ‘Nuf said.
6. More Ituloy Angsulong backlinks. And more GOOGLE LOVE. At the rate the rankings are shifting the past few days, no one can really predict who’s gona end up at the top come awarding night. We’ll see whos wheels will turn nonstop til finish line.

Still in the office. On a Saturday night. And while I can’t stop myself from reading SEO stuff (because I woke up this morning not knowing that before the day ends, I’d be facing an urgent need to grow up overnight), a part of me has already gone to some place off for the weekend. So I decided, starting 10 minutes from now, I’ll be taking a break from this Ituloy Angsulong campaign and focus on another equally important campaign. Ehem, ehem.

Help me with my Starbucks stickers?

That’s it. No SEO this weekend. No Ituloy Angsulong optimizing. No WORK, all PLAY. Just you, and me, and some Starbucks stickers on the side. Yep. That’s all I want need. ♥

Happy Weekend Everyone!

The problem with me (us) doing something like this is, lethargy becomes my number one enemy when it comes to updating the site. Plus there’s just so much (office work and rakets) to do. Oh, and I love making excuses.

So here goes my first resolution for this ituloy angsulong project: Given that I don’t have as many backlinks as them competition, I shall target fresh content (and, ideally, quality ones) from now on.

Goodluck to me.