Wel­come to Noel360.com. My name is Noel Chingcuangco, a com­puter and IT tech­ni­cian with a pen­chant for SEO and web pub­lish­ing, and this is my blog.

I have been in the com­puter and IT field for the past 14 years, work­ing for com­pa­nies such as Helix Soft­ware, PGP, and Net­work Asso­ciates (McAfee). I’ve also done IT con­sult­ing work for com­pa­nies such as Cit­i­group and Mor­gan Stanley.

I may blog on per­sonal mat­ters once in a while but mostly, this blog will be about Com­put­ers, SEO, Web Pub­lish­ing, and Tech­nol­ogy in general.

I have been dab­bling in web pub­lish­ing since 1997. This par­tic­u­lar hobby of mine started after pick­ing up a book on HTML. The rest as they say is history.

Since then, I’ve cre­ated web­sites for friends, fam­ily, and other small businesses.

In 2006, as I was look­ing for shops that would accept my pay­pal money (from an old iPod I sold on eBay), I real­ized there were no good places out there for this type of infor­ma­tion. Pay­pal had its own direc­tory but it was out of date and rid­dled with links to eBay stores. It is then that I  decided to cre­ate my own and called it PaypalDirectory.com.

The name of the web­site went into a few rein­car­na­tions before finally set­tling down on the name Shop With­out Credit Cards. I decided to change the theme of the web­site from a Pay­pal Direc­tory to a direc­tory of shops that offers alter­na­tives to credit card payments.

As I ham­mered away on life, got mar­ried in 07 and had a daugh­ter in 09 – My lit­tle side project began to take on a life of its own.

Work­ing on my web­site in my spare time, Shop With­out Credit Cards evolved from a short list of my favorite Pay­pal Shops to a direc­tory of over 500 mer­chants that accept Pay­pal, eBillme, or Ama­zon Payments.

Today, Shop With­out Credit Cards gets over 3,000 unique hits a month and still grow­ing. More impor­tantly, this direc­tory had taught me a lot about nat­ural SEO and marketing.

In Feb­ru­ary of 2010, I decided to try my hands on com­mu­nity web­sites and launched Tam­bayan USA along with another direc­tory, Mabuhay Direc­tory.

Shortly after, I decided to cre­ate this blog, noel360 to put a face behind my web­sites. I may blog on per­sonal mat­ters once in a while but mostly, this blog will be about Com­put­ers, SEO, Web Pub­lish­ing, and Tech­nol­ogy in gen­eral. As such, is prob­a­bly best for indi­vid­u­als with sim­i­lar hobbies.

I hope that you’ll like my blog and con­tinue to visit in the future. Feel free to com­ment on any of my post, con­tact me, or ask questions.

Thanks again for stop­ping by.