Archive for July, 2007
« Previous EntriesGoogle’s Bid for DoubleClick to Be Reviewed by EU
Monday, July 16th, 2007European Union regulators will review Google Inc.’s plans to buy DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion after national authorities declined to take the case. Google, owner of the most-popular Internet search engine, asked the European Commission whether the deal should get an EU review. The EU examines mergers with more than 250 million euros ($341 million) [...]
One-way links, reciprocal links, three-way-links. What’s best?
Monday, July 16th, 2007There are a lot of rumors about one-way links, reciprocal links and three-way links on the Internet. Which of these links work best for your business and which links do you need to get higher search engine rankings?
What are one-way links?
A one way link is a simple link from one website to the [...]
Singapore Internet Landscape
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Every other few weeks or so, i would go to Alexa’s Singapore Top 100 website to take a look, to see if there are any new up and coming website. But sadly - no.
Is it because Singaporeans are not enterprising enough? Are we too small as a country? Or simply not enough creative people? Appears [...]
PPC vs SEO
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Many times during an Internet Marketing sales talk with my clients, they have a hard time understanding Pay Per Click vs Search Engine Optimisation. Let’s say you are taking your first step into Internet Marketing, which will you choose? Here’s some info:
Pay per click (PPC) Advertising
Advantages:
Instant results - instant traffic. For SEO, you will have [...]
Over Optimising Website Can Lead To A Penalty On Google
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007As an internet marketing company, clients asked us: “Let’s go all out and get that high ranking”.
Terribly wrong…
Optimising your website is one thing, OVER-doing it is another.
And overdoing it can lead to a ranking penalty by Google.
Check out this video by Google’s anti-spam engineer Matt [...]
Web Designer Alert!
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 The next time you determine what to use for an image file name or the alt text, remember: it probably IS going to affect your site’s ranking in Google.
The [...]
Google: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Backed with such a big warchest of cold hard cash, instead of asking what’s Google going to do next? Perhaps it should be :What CAN’T Google do?
GoogleTel? GoogTel?
-From Canada.com-
Forget iPhone, BlackBerry, Bell and Telus. Google is preparing to be the next giant of telecommunications
Anyone can get the Web on their cellphone these days. But now [...]
Can She Turn Yahoo Into, Well, Google?
Monday, July 2nd, 2007IN early May, a little more than a month before she became president of Yahoo, Susan L. Decker found herself dining at Gorat’s Steak House in Omaha along with her husband and two of the restaurant’s most famous regulars: Warren E. Buffett and Bill Gates.
She was in town to join the board of Mr. Buffett’s [...]
MySpace to follow rival’s lead
Monday, July 2nd, 2007MySpace is likely to change its technology strategy to allow other online companies to “plug” their web services directly into its social networking site, according to Chris DeWolfe, one of its founders.
The move would mark a new step in the evolution of social networks into fully fledged internet platforms, while opening a new front in [...]
YouTube Carries More Traffic Than Next 64 Video Sites Combined
Monday, July 2nd, 2007In a survey published Wednesday, online audience measurement firm Hitwise Inc. announced that YouTube.com increased its U.S market share of visits by 70% between January and May 2007.
The popular video sharing website has enjoyed dominance of the online video market despite increasing competition, most publicly from MySpace Videos, which recently announced plans to redouble their [...]