Why SEO When You Can Pay For Sponsored Links

February 5, 2008

Last week, I spoke with a Web designer from an established Web design and development firm in Singapore to find out why many of these companies have not adopted SEO as part of their offering to their clients. The Web designer questioned the need for SEO when their clients could pay for sponsored links to [...]

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Finggle SEO Workshops Testimonials – Jan 2008

January 25, 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 [...]

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MacBook Air or Mac AirBook?

January 18, 2008

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. I received an email newsletter from Apple yesterday and I saw this super thin MacBook Air. I [...]

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Google PageRank Update January 2008

January 17, 2008

Discovered 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, [...]

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Boon to Graphic Designers Bane to Search Engines

January 12, 2008

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. So, I visited her Web site and very quickly [...]

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Unethical Web Designers in Singapore

January 7, 2008

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 [...]

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Google Serving Different Results for Different Countries

January 4, 2008

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 [...]

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