Archive for January, 2008

Finggle SEO Workshops Testimonials - Jan 2008

Here’s a couple of testimonials I got from participants of my recent SEO Workshop organized by Finggle.

After conducting numerous(more than 15, I think) SEO Workshops and SEO Web Design Courses over the past 2 years, I found that foreigners were more forthcoming in giving testimonials.


Kala Nehete - www.aromahomespa.com

And the following one by a Search Marketing Analyst with Fairfax Digital, Sydney, Australia. Watch the video below and find out why he came to Singapore to attend the SEO Workshops…

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MacBook Air or Mac AirBook?

Steve Jobs did it again and this time, out of an envelope.

Yes, I think the MacBook Air is magic. It has the magic to make me say “I want” when I first laid my eyes on it.

MacBook Air

I received an email newsletter from Apple yesterday and I saw this super thin MacBook Air. I clicked at the photo and was taken to the new MacBook Air - Thinovation.

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Google PageRank Update January 2008

Google PageRankDiscovered that several of the new domains I launched since in Nov/Dec 2007 have increased in PageRank over the past 2 days. So, this time round, Google is pretty prompt in updating the PR ranking.

The last Google PR update was in late Oct 2007 after a long wait of 6 months. During that update, Google penalized many of the sites that sell or buy text links.

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Boon to Graphic Designers Bane to Search Engines

Earlier today, I met with a graphic designer from Fly Design. We had a brief discussion on search engine ranking.

She wants to learn more about search engine optimization and hopefully get her company site ranked in Google and Yahoo for graphic design related search terms.

Boon to Graphic Designers Bane to Search Engines

So, I visited her Web site and very quickly discovered what was preventing it from being found in the search engine result listing.

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Unethical Web Designers in Singapore

I had just made a short video on the use of IMG ALT tag at my other SEO blog and was pondering what to write at this blog. Then I saw an earlier post on how an unethical Web designer in Singapore hijacked his client’s Web page. So I did a quick search on Google for the unethical web designers in singapore and guess what I found…

Unethical Web Designers in Singapore #1 on Google

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Google Serving Different Results for Different Countries

Did you notice that when you typed in “google.com” into your Internet Explorer or Firefox, you would be automatically re-directed to the appropriate google.ccTLD unless you were in the USA or your internet connection was re-routed from a USA ISP.

Since I am situated in Singapore accessing the internet using Singnet, Google.com.sg is my default gateway which serves results relevant to Singapore.

Google.com.sg

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Why my HDTV is a White Elephant?

white elephantNow that I will receive my HD-Ready Sony BRAVIA V Series 46″ LCD TV in 2 days’ time, I am getting all excited about HDTV broadcast.

BUT, it seems that I will not be able to watch any programme in HD after all. Here’s why?

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