Link-building: time-consuming, tedious, but unfortunately for internet marketing practitioners, it’s still one of the best ways to get to the top of search engine results pages.

All those social media and social networking sites you’ve been putting up?  To the average person, they’re great for sharing and tagging pics, poking friends, or harvesting virtual crops.  To bloggers, webmasters and digital entrepreneurs, however, they’re vital tools for networking, building communities and generating traffic.

Link-building is an essential skill set for those into internet marketing.  And a time when more and more users and businesses are going online, proficiency in link-building is becoming only more marketable and highly in-demand.

Important for you to know: yes, there are effective and efficient ways to go about your link-building campaign, just as there are methods that are frowned-upon that can even get your blog or website banned.  Knowing the difference between good and bad techniques, can definitely spell the difference between online life and death.

Fortunately for us all, Janette Toral of Digital Filipino has put together an extensive hands-on online workshop series to discuss tips and techniques to get your site to the top of search engine rankings– Google, Yahoo and Bing -and stay there.

The Digital Filipino Certificate Course for Link-building Techniques is spread out over 3 days:  October 13 (Tuesday), 15 (Thursday) and 17 (Saturday), from 6 to 8pm.   You can plug in from anywhere within the Philippines (or even from anywhere around the world), and take the course, as long as you have a decent PC or laptop, and a fairly stable internet connection.

On the first two sessions– October 13 and 15- it will mostly be about link-building theory, and therefore, lots of discussions and demonstrations.

Topics for this Certificate Course will generally revolve around link-building techniques to improve ranking on search engine results.  Specific topics include touching on link exchange programs, article submission, social bookmarking & tagging, directory submission, links through blog posts, microblogging and social networking.

For the last session– October 17, 2009- the workshop will focus on some more discussions, but will also put more weight on submitted work.  Participants are expected to submit their work before the start of this session, and the submitted work will be shown and discussed for comments and feedback from Janette.

To receive a certificate for this course, participants need to attend all 3 sessions as well as submit their final work based on Janette’s evaluation.

The entire course costs PhP 2,250.00, or alternately, if you wish to attend the sessions separately, you may do so at PhP 750.00 per session.  Go right ahead and register for The Digital Filipino Link-Building Certificate Course today!

Incidentally, Digital Filipino also has a Certificate Course on Search Engine Optimization the week before- something you might also want to check out.

For details and inquiries, interested parties may contact the ProFora Team via email– info@proforamedia.com, or through phone– +632.376.7040.  More information about ProFora Media and its upcoming Lightbulb Sessions are also available on the websites and social media pages also included below.

• (blog) www.philippineonlinetraining.com
• (multiply) www.proforamedia.multiply.com
• (twitter) www.twitter.com/proforamedia
• (facebook) www.facebook.com/ProForaWebinars.
• (youtube)  www.youtube.com/user/proforamedia

Picture above courtesy of  Danard Vincente, which he shared up on Flickr.

See you at the Certificate Course!