I read with interest an article in The Straits Times. It was about SPH Search, the much publicised but yet-to-be launched search engine that “promises to provide high relevant answers and Singapore-focused information to anyone anywhere in the world”.
I think that’s a very ambitious statement! And I really hope SPH will succeed - but it won’t be able to “supplant the big names of Google and Yahoo as the prime tool for sourcing local information”
Has Google started updating the PageRank?
I think so. One of my new domain created in June 2007 has just gained PR when I did check with www.checkpagerank.net this morning.
“I am pessimistic about the long-term prospects for SEO jobs”
- Jakob Nielsen, the web usability expert.
In a special report published by ZDNet, Bright SEO career prospects could dim, two experts gave their views on the career prospect of SEO consultants.
It was reported that SEO is such a fundamental skill that every marketing executive and IT specialist should be SEO-savvy.
I was reading the book, Google Maps Hacks by Rich Gibson & Schuyler Erle, thinking that I might want to mashup one of my site which offers listings online to business. I was at hack #2 and realized that there might be an easier way.
Yes, the easy way is to go Google Local Business Center and add your business.
http://www.google.com/local/add
Log in using your Google account, if you do not have a Google account yet then you can register at the URL above.
It was pretty straight forward and you just need to follow the step-by-step instructions to enter information about your business e.g. business name, location, telephone and URL to your web site. You will be prompted to validate your business listing via telephone or SMS. So you may want to do this at your office.
Here’s an example how it looks like when you search for Cold Storage, Singapore:
“Hey, you don’t have Adsense in this blog!”
That’s what people asked me when they came to this blog.
Here’s what I told them…