Smart SEO is Not just about #1 Ranking
Still not convinced that ranking is not everything? At PubCon 2008, Bruce Clay made a claim that “ranking is dead.” And Matt Cutts said ranking is not as important as it used to be.
Keyword Case Study: Online Flower Delivery
The title of the article should be “Keyword Case Study: Online Flower Delivery in Singapore” but I think that would be too long for a blog post title. This article is about keyword selection and fast ranking for longer keyphrase. Yes, I got a 2nd page, #17 listing for online flower delivery in singapore in about 3 hours!
Cheap VPS Hosting
VPS hosting in Singapore is definitely not cheap when compared to similar US-based plans. From my recent research, Singapore VPS hosting costed at least twice as much as the high-end VPS hosting offered by ServInt Internet Services and WiredTree - both of which are highly recommended in WebHostingTalk.com forum.
SMX Singapore 2008
I was invited to speak at the inaugural SMX Singapore on 13 & 14 October 2008 at Suntec City. Frankly, I didn’t know what to expect. I was told majority of the audience were SEM 101 and my presentation was to talk about the fundamentals of Copywriting for Search Engines.
Wordtracker.com Hidden Text HTML
Why did Wordtracker.com, a Google PageRank PR7 website, use CSS to hide text such as: Primary navigation, Help navigation and Secondary navigation? And why Google did not penalize such untrustworthy act?
Benchmarking Your Web Server Performance
I received several email responses to the previous post on Google Apps - Free Business Email Hosting. Some readers were wondering how to know if their e-commerce site is fast enough. Here, I will outline a simple method to benchmark the performance of your web server.
Google Apps - Free Business Email Hosting
Email hosting may seem to have little to do with SEO. However, what I am going to share with you is more than SEO, it will help improve your website performance.
We are not only talking about optimizing your website for search engine robots; we are talking about making better for real human visitors - your potential customers.
Singapore SEO Blogging Community
I conducted the SEO Blogging Workshop on 31 May 2008. There were 8 participants, most of them have already attended the SEO Workshop. Here’s a slide show of photos taken at the SEO Blogging Workshop.
How Fast is Google Indexing Your Site?
How about 50,000 pages in less than 4 weeks! Yes, Google indexing is blazingly fast. It indexed more than 50,000 page of it’s competitor - the new Singapore local search engine Rednano.sg - in less than 4 weeks!
SEO Blogging Workshop
Finally, we decided to organize and hold regular SEO Blogging Workshop from March 2008. This will be a Blogging for Business workshop.
If you are looking for blogging for money and make a quick buck with splogs then you’ve come to the wrong place.
Blogging For Business
This SEO Blogging Workshop will complement the SEO Web Design Course which we have been conducting since November last year. After several runs of the SEO Web Design Course, we are getting requests to help our participants, mainly business owners, to set up blog to promote their main online business sites.
