Archive for December, 2009

Buying into SEO: The What, How and Who

Buying into SEO is a difficult process. Without at least a basic understanding of SEO, it’s really tough to tell the difference between someone who knows their stuff and someone who talks a great game without backing it up with results. Many companies looking for SEO help — even those with a decent understanding of SEO [ READ MORE ]

Why Reputable SEO Firms Don’t Promise Guaranteed Search Engine Rankings

  • December 14th, 2009
  • Posted in SEO
  • By admin

I thought it’s really worth the time to talk about “ethical SEO” and address any unethical SEO marketing strategies that promise “guarantee” of search engine rankings. Ethical SEO firms would never promise to guarantee your search engine rankings. PERIOD! Rather they focus on good content, site design and “white hat” SEO practice to help improve [ READ MORE ]

Does your website have the credibility to attract users?

Website design is important to the success of any business because 46% of Internet users depend on the design of a website to judge the credibility of the company that website represents, according to a Stanford University study on website credibility. In other words, when it comes to your organization’s presence online, people judge the book [ READ MORE ]

The Master SEO and SEM Glossary

advertising network: A service where ads are bought centrally through one company, and displayed on multiple Web sites that contract with that company for a share of revenue generated by ads served on their site. algorithm: The technology that a search engine uses to deliver results to a query. Search engines utilize several algorithms in tandem [ READ MORE ]

How To Share your iPhone’s Internet with a PC or Laptop

At a Starbucks coffee shop, airport or train station with no access to free internet? No problem, if you have an iphone with any unlimited data plan. Now you can have “satellite internet” connection anywhere and everywhere you bring your laptop to with the help of a jailbroken iPhone. First access Cydia ->Search->download PdaNet Then create an ad hoc [ READ MORE ]

Is Google Search Case Sensative? Case Study on Capitalized vs Lower Case

Is Google Search Case Sensitive? NO Does Google treat CAPITALIZED and lower case Search Queries Differently? NO Something  interesting I want to talk about today, and I would like to update my research from last year’s. The gap seems getting much wider now. Basically, through searching, I found that Google was treating queries differently depending on whether or [ READ MORE ]

China Unicom’s Nightmare. only 5 iPhones sold in two weeks.

The iPhone has been available in China through China Unicom for about one month now, but according to PC World, the sales results so far have been, well, abysmal. Popular Chinese online retail store TaoBao sold exactly five iPhones in the first two weeks of sales: two 8GB iPhones and three 16GB iPhones. Since the Chinese [ READ MORE ]

Where have you been?

Douwe Osinga from Google has a great personal project that demonstrates the Google Chart API. Just by clicking a few boxes, you can make an image to show the states or countries that you’ve visited before. Here’s where I’ve been in the United States: Apparently, I’ve only been to 11 States which concludes a 22% tour [ READ MORE ]