Contrary to what you might see on television, the Philippines typhoon and Philippines flood crisis is going to be an ongoing issue for a considerable amount of time to come.  Hundreds are dead, and more are dying.  Millions have lost everything, and have no idea when they will eat again or sleep in a real bed again, let alone being able to resume their lives with any sense of normalcy.  When you’re not actually in the middle of it, the tendency is to forget about it and move on as though the problem is over.  Dear Reader, the problem is not over!  Millions need your help – any help – today!

So what does any of this have to do with you as a web pro, anyway?

How Internet Pros Can Help Philippines Typhoon & Philippines Flood Victims

As an internet or web marketing pro, what if you could earn some additional “link juice” and online authority and credibility while helping millions of people who have no food, shelter or even clean water get the assistance they so desperately need?

Do you have skills, expertise or services available in any of the areas in the list below?

  • Bookmarking
  • Linkbuilding
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Links to us on your website
  • Any other ideas you might have or methods which would help us achieve our goals

If so, get ready to learn how helping us to any extent you’re able can and will help you in your online goals!

Of course, the other ways mentioned on our “How Can I Help” page would be incredibly helpful, since food, shelter and supplies for these victims are all badly needed (not to mention the money to pay for it all).  However, in addition to (or outside of any financial assistance you may provide after reading this page and others on this site, the only way any critical needs such as food, clothing and shelter are going to be met is:

  • - First, for enough people and the right people to know about the need, and…
  • - Second, to motivate those people to act.

We are working tirelessly to make both of these things happen, but we are only a very small staff of volunteers.  Most days, it’s all we can do just to moderate the comments that come in on our blog posts, and we’re usually behind on even that!  Even so, we have high hopes that the latter goal – motivating people to act – will be taken care of by the updates and videos we are providing in our “News & Updates” section.  However, if any of you have any suggestions about how we can do a better job at achieving this goal, we’d like to invite you to do so by visiting our “Contact Us” page and letting us know!

In any case, we simply need to get the word out.  We need to let more people what’s going on, how bad things really are, and provide the right people with information on honest and ethical avenues through which they can donate the badly needed help the victims so desperately need.  As a website owner, webmaster, SEO, SEM or other internet marketing pro, you know all too well how challenging that can be.  As you well know, on the internet, achieving the first of the two goals mentioned above (making enough people – the right people – aware of the need and how they can help) means getting a top listing in the search engines – especially Google.  When we started this project, there were roughly 32,000 competing pages for our targeted keywords.  As of January 15th, 2010, there are well over 3,000,000 competing pages, and most in the top 10 are sites such as CNN, MSNBC and BBC!  (In spite of this fact, we are ranked #5 as of today’s search).  Since we are only a small force of volunteers with absolutely no budget, and by no means internet experts, we don’t have the skills or resources to keep ourselves solidly in the top 10.  So, even if you don’t have the means or even the desire to help financially, you are in a unique position to help out even if you are not in a position to donate money toward this cause.  You can also help yourself out in the process!

Philippines Typhoon Link Juice = Save Lives

So how is this possible?  You’ve probably already guessed.  Simply getting the word out about this site and what we’re trying to do can and will save lives.  How can we do that?  Let’s look at our goals:

We need to rank in the top 3 on the search engines for our targeted keywords, and hopefully #1!  To this end, we need the following work done on our behalf working with our small volunteer force:

  • - We need articles written about the problem and syndicated through the article directories
  • - We need links out there in as many different places as we can get them, properly formatted with the proper anchor text
  • - We need constant tweets out there that are specfic to our targetted keywords
  • - We need people on the social media sites such as Facebook to be talking about what we’re trying to do, and to link to us, create fan pages for us, and in general just to keep this topic and what we’re trying to do for victims of the Philippines typhoons and resulting Philippines floods fresh on the minds of as many people as possible.

“What’s In It For Me”?

Well, first and most importantly, what’s in it for you is that you get the personal feeling of good will in the knowledge that you contributed to saving lives…literally. We’d like to think that should be enough.  However, in spite of this, there is, in fact, quite a bit of benefit for you.

Consider this quote:

If you help enough other people get where they want to go, you’ll eventually get where you want to go”  -  Zig Ziglar

Following this line of thinking, we’ve come up with ways in which we can help the people or companies willing to help us achieve our online goals in our efforts to help Philippines typhoon and Philippines flood victims.  In short, we’ll do everything we can to make you look as good as we can all over the internet, to the extent that we have the resources to do so.

Specifically, any company or individual providing any assistance in our efforts will receive the following from us:

  • - A listing and a special “thank you” on a “credits” page on this site giving you credit for the work you provided
  • - A whole page on our site dedicated to a profile on you or your company, at your discretion
  • - A posting in our News & Updates section on what you did and how grateful we are to you
  • - Most importantly, at least 2 links from our site to yours so that people can read more about your products, services and/or offers
  • - Tweets about you and what you did with links to your profile page and/or your site
  • - Much more!

Sooner or later, with the help of internet pros from all over the world, this site will be on the first page of every search engine and directory on the internet for our targeted keywords and keyword phrases.  As the links to our site continue to grow, more and more lives will be saved an made whole, and so will our Page Rank!  It’s our understanding that anyone who owns a website needs as many quality incoming links we can find.  Help Philippines typhoon and Philippines flood victims in this way, and we’ll do whatever we can to help you using the online authority you help us build.

Internet Pros Unite

Whether you have a blog on the internet somewhere (even a free one), or a personal website you’re hosting on a server, or a company website of any size, you have it within your power to directly impact the lives of Philippines typhoon and Philippines flood victims without donating a single dime to the cause or sending a single item.  You can do so with just a few minutes of your time, and with just a few clicks of your mouse.  Isn’t saving a life worth at least that?  Please consider helping in whatever way you can.  If you can’t or don’t want to offer financial assistance, please consider offering assistance in this way.  We hope that you’ll find the satisfaction of helping to save lives enough reward, but whether that is enough or not, we hope you’ll accept what we offer above as enough motivation to help.

Again, specifically, these are the specific areas for which we are looking for help:

  • Financial Assistance
  • Bookmarking
  • Linkbuilding
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Links to us on your website
  • Any other ideas you might have or methods which would help us achieve our goals

If you have any of these skills or services (or if you’d like to learn them) while helping us help Philippines typhoon and Philippines flood victims recover from this terrible Philippines disaster, please contact us today using the form on our “Contact Us” page.  Be sure to let us know how we can reach you, and what assistance you’d like to offer.

Thank you in advance for reading this, and for considering our humble request and plea.

Mabuhay!