Many internet marketers know the power of press release marketing, however, not many internet marketers actually practise it or issue press release often enough to make the marketing effort effective.
I did a search on PRWeb.com and discovered that Internet Marketing Center had been using this form of marketing for some years. From the search results at newspad.prweb.com, the earliest press release was dated 2005.
This blog is now ranked PR4! That is, Google has pagerank’ed this blog from PR 0 to PR 4. 
Thank you, thank you… to all those who link to me. I appreciate your reading and citing of what I’m ranting writing here.
I’ve noticed Google dancing over the past 10 days. A couple of my websites suffered a drop in pagerank - from PR4 to PR3. I think it’s because I’ve neglected them(for a long time, maybe more than 9 months) and have not been adding new content and implemented new link building campaign with them. So it’s sort of expected.
The good news is, for those websites that I actively SEO and build links, the pagerank have improved. I have a couple of web pages gained from PR4 to PR5. One point to note is that, these websites are focusing on Singapore-based traffic - in my own jargon, it’s Singapore SEO‘ed!
However, gaining higher pagerank is one thing and actually gaining higher position in the search engine result is more important. Isn’t it?
Yesterday, less than 14 hours ago, I installed Wordpress 2.0.6 to my domain Shi.SG and now they have Wordpress 2.0.7. I guess I’ll have to upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.7. It is uncommon to have a upgrade so soon unless there’s a really urgent need to do so. Right?
I am going to work on Wordpress as my preferred blogging platform. There are just too many benefits with Wordpress for me to adopt this fantastic blog engine despite the hassle of installing and constant upgrading my website so very often.
And here’s just 2 of The Most Important Benefits…
Wordpress is definitely more flexible for me to to SEO optimization. One of the biggest advantages is that you can use search engine friendly URLs e.g.
http://shihengcheong.com/blog/2007/01/predictions-for-2007/
which is preferred by the search engine rather than
http://shihengcheong.com/blog/?p=49
One of the main reasons why this blog did so well, in terms of Alexa ranking, is because of the trackback feature. You see, when I quoted others’ blog posts, Wordpress can automatically create a comment at the post I quoted. And I am getting a lot more visitors to my blog because of these comments.
This is one of the most powerful way to promote your blog. I guess this is also part of social media marketing.
Still on the domain name trading matter because I have been spending a bit more time recently to study the investment potential of domain names.
When we speak of domain name trading, people tend to think of registering a new name and selling it for a profit.
In actual fact, in domain name trading, I am talking about selling used domain names. “Used” in this case means the domain is actually pointing to a website with content and preferably indexed by the major search engines.
When the domain is used and has several backlinks(inbound links), there is a good chance that traffic is already coming to this domain. The more traffic coming to the domain, the more valuable. Because, you can monetize this traffic and also further improve your revenue by search engine optimization.
It is for this reason that savvy domain investors are paying top dollars for expired domain names.
What are the other reasons that people are pay thousands of dollar for an used domain name?
(It was reported that Diamond.com was traded for US$7.5 million)
Surprise! Surprise! My Alexa traffic ranking keeps improving - I mean the Alexa ranking of this site has improved tremendously, from over 5 million to under 280k! [Jan 23 - It’s now ranked at 229,003]
And I want to know where does the traffic come from…
I have been tracking the visitors using MyBlogLog and also my server’s AWstat. But, there is not really such a big jump in the numbers - not so many unique visitors. So it must be repeated visitors and very likely from Kian Ann’s Blog Marketing blog. And this is a good thing. Thank you Kian Ann.
I created this word-cloud site with Kian Ann in early July 2006. It was an experiment to learn how to drive traffic quickly.
So, we thought Singapore blogs is a good niche and we will attract lots of traffic because we know there are plenty of Singapore bloggers - people young and old are blogging or starting to blog. So we started with some famous Singapore blogs such as…
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What a pleasant surprise! I was googling for “singapore seo specialist” last week and discovered that ShiHengCheong.com was ranked Number One. So I thought it was fluke and the ranking would drop after some time. However, it is still No. 1 on Google after 10 days. I think it will stay until some other SEO specialist optimized their web page to claim this position.
My previous post reported that I was researching on building niche sites. However, after some thought, I believed I got a better idea. Why not build a niche articles directory instead. In that way I can load it up with my own articles on various niches and also get interesting articles already available in popular article diretories such as www.goarticles.com, www.ezinearticles.com, www.articlewarehouse.com and etc.
I know there may be already too many of such article directories and the search engines may take drastic action to filter out duplicated contents. But then again, never try never know. One thing is for sure, I will need to contribute my own original articles to make my niche directory unique.
Also, I will need to spend some money on paid directory listing and PPC ads to get other to submit their niche articles to this directory. So stay tuned and I will report my progess here.
I have been encouraging friends who wanted to start making money with the Internet to first start a blog. In many occasions, they were skeptical about using blogs to make money.
My reasoning to them is simple. The Internet is a place where people look for information and when one can provide the sought after information, people will come to the website. And one of the easiest way is to use Google Ads to monetize your blog traffic - I call this type of blogging. Adsense Blogging. As traffic grows, money flows…
Here’s an article that will explain how you can possibly Make Money Writing Blogs:
As we all know, link building is the most important process of off-page search optimization. And directory submission is one of the fundamentals in building backlinks to your website.
Getting listed in DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory will boost your website search engine ranking dramatically. However, both of the directories mentioned are nearly impossible for online home-based business owners. Here’s why…
Googlebot loves DMOZ because it is a human edited web directory and those who made it to DMOZ are considered as high quality web pages. Also submitting to DMOZ is free. However, it takes ages to be listed in DMOZ - 6 months if you are very lucky. So for small online business owners, this may not be a viable solution to gain search engine visibility.
As for Yahoo! Directory, it’s US$299 for a review of your website - there is no guarantee that your website will be listed. Again, US$299 is a lot of money to most of us. And YC will tell you that you could get 60 content rich pages for that much money and it is probably a more effective ways to drive targeted traffic that will make you some money.
So, we are left with no other option to get a link from a reputable web directory - until now.
The good news is: there is a relative new human edited web directory that will review your website for possible listing at US$39! The web directory is pageranked PR8 by Google. And many of the sub-pages are PR5. I just got my Singapore SEO Services & Web Hosting website listed under the Web Hosting section(PR5). It costed me US$39 and took less than 24 hours to get into PR8 web directory. Yes, less than 24 hours - I submitted at 11p.m. last night and at 8 a.m. this morning, my website was already listed on a PR5 web hosting page!
Now I will just have to wait a few weeks and get a better PR and also SE ranking with GYM.