Thanks Google, for Supporting our Cause.

Colombia is preparing for what is expected to be one of the biggest protest marches in its history against FARC (Colombian Guerrilla).

Youtube Video: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and Shakira singing the Colombian National Anthem.

Large crowds of people in Colombia have taken to the streets, some holding photographs of missing loved ones and marching against FARC, demanding the release of all hostages.

The Farc has waged a 44-year civil war in Colombia and still holds 700 captives.

Colombia, Colombians, friends from all over the world, let’s unite to shout loudly:

NO MORE!
NO MORE KIDNAPPING!
NO MORE LIES!
NO MORE MURDER!
NO MORE FARC!

Let’s commit ourselves to join a million voices in this day (July 20th) so we can make a difference, and let the entire world know that we don’t need that “People’s Army” here in Colombia; that FARC is a terrorist group, led by murderers and enemies of the Colombian and World’s People. This is a cause beyond all political interests or colors. It’s a humanitarian cause, encouraged by a simple sense of solidarity, for the sake and welfare of our citizens.”

I have a “Family Friendly Blog”

Family Friendly Blog

I have been doing a lot of reading lately about search, marketing, usability, landing pages, conversion rates, etc, to keep myself up to date with the latest on SEO/SEM. That’s one of the reasons I have not been posting with frequency, hope to be able to do it again by next January.

Meanwhile I wanted to share with you a fun resource, it’s about a series of quizzes on personal health, finances and a tool to check whether or not you have a family friendly Blog. I had fun, plus found a few great tips to think about and improve my health and my finances.

You can check it at:

(If you find the information at the SEO Practices Blog useful, please help us support it by giving this Blog some “Link Love”: Linking to us or bookmarking our site.)

Living to 100, personal finances and family friendly blog checker quizzes, have fun…

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The SEO Community reaching their hands to Online Charity Associations.

This time is about a Charity Link Meme, started by Skitzzo at SEO Refugee. It’s about posting a link to five of your favorite charities or non profit organizations. These are the rules:

“The rules are simple, copy the list of charities and links (grab it from whomever tags you) and add your 5 favorite charities or non-profit organizations to the end (link to their sites with anchor text of the causes they champion). Of course finish things off by tagging 5 other webmasters/bloggers and then publishing the post or the webpage.”

I was not tagged by anybody, but wanted to become involved and give some link love to these non-profit organizations: My 5 favorite non-profit organizations are:

Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet Foundation): Their goal is to improve the education, nutrition, and the lives of the thousands of displaced children who are living in perilous conditions because of the violent internal conflict in Colombia.

Mi Sangre (My Blood Foundation): Their mission is to contribute to the peace in Colombia, encouragement of education during early and vulnerable childhood and the integral rehabilitation of the victims of landmines.

The people’s movement for human rights learning: A site dedicated to human rights learning for social and economic transformation.

Apreflofas: (Association for the Preservation of the Wild Flora and Fauna) is a private, non-profit, non-governmental organization, established in Costa Rica.

Green Peace: Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.

Here are the people I’m tagging:

Guillermo Zuñiga Dot Com
Hawaii SEO
SEO’Brien
Getting hit by traffic… Not cars
SEO by the Sea

Doing Online Marketing with a Purpose.

(I have used Patrick’s image: seoish.com, for this article, hope he doesn’t mind, thought that it was perfectly connected to the purpose of this article).

I have been noticing quite a few posts from the SEO Community that have to deal with social awareness:

From seoish.com an article inviting us to use our SEO, SEM skills to help making a website of a local charity or non-profit more search engine friendly:

From Rand Fishkin at seomoz.org, an invitation to join World Community Grid and spread the word for helping in the fight against desease, their proyects include:

• Helping to Cure Muscular Dystrophy – Investigating protein-protein interactions for 40,000 proteins whose structures are known, with particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases.
• Fiocruz Genome Comparison – Comparing genomic information to improve the quality and interpretation of biological data and our understanding of biological systems, host-pathogen and environmental interactions.
• Human Proteome Folding – obtain higher resolution structures for specific human proteins and pathogen proteins and further explore the limits of protein structure prediction.
• Fighting AIDS – using computation methods to identify candidate drugs that have the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV protease.

I have done it myself too: Become an Online Activist for Green Peace

It’s great, we can use our online presence to help spread the word and effort of millions of people around the world doing good for humanity, so join seomoz group and start helping today.

Here are a couple resources you can visit if you’re interested in getting involved on this type of activities:

Green Peace, become an online activist. Get involved in the different activities, because this Earth deserves a voice.

Volunteer Match: Where volunteering begins. Find opportunities to volunteer through this online network.

Idealist: Action Without Borders: global network of people who want to change their communities and the world by connecting people

International Earth Day – “SEO Practices is Green”

SEO practices joins the celebration of International Earth Day. We want to use our online presence to help spread the word and effort of millions of people around the world:

“Let’s help to keep our planet green”

We invite you to use your Website or Blog for good. Help spread the word, become an online activist. When we speak in one voice, we can change the world…

Let’s celebrate the wonder of life on our planet.

We will also be green and will be carrying the Green Peace banner to honor those that are taking care of the future home of our Children and Grandchildren.

“Greenpeace exists because this fragile Earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.”

This will be our slogan from now on: “Online Marketing with a Purpose”