The Straits Times published on 1 April 2010 has this title “Forget Google, check out Onemap” when reporting the launch of SLA ‘s OneMap Singapore portal. What an audacious title! Is this an April Fools’ joke. The journalist reported that the newly launched map site, OneMap is “Singapore’s own version of Google Maps”.
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Did you know when you engage a cheap web designer to build your website, it is very likely that the design is not original, but modified from existing ready-made web design templates. Yes, for cheap website design, you get what you pay for – not very original artwork and unique website design.
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About 9 months ago, I received an email invitation to join the Yahoo Search Marketing Southeast Asia affiliate program. I was skeptical and reluctant because promoting products which I did not used personally was not what I like to do. But, I heard from my friends that Yahoo search marketing can convert pretty well for [...]
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$30 Canadian dollars and that is how much my blog is worth! This paltry offer made me sad and angry for 2 seconds. Then I realized that this blog may not worth even 2 cents if no one wanted it! Now, I am happy that someone actually wanted to pay $30 for this 190-page blog [...]
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Does website hosted with GooglePages get indexed quicker and also ranked higher? I don’t think so. I have a couple of GooglePages websies: http://mywebculture.googlepages.com and http://shihengcheong.googlepages.com and they never got indexed and ranked. Maybe they will get indexed now that I put the links here. Anyway, if you think Google give preferential treatment to pages [...]
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I modified the template and made it more SEO friendly. There is the description tag in every post also the tag title is one of a kind – optimized but not too aggressively. I link Singapore Blog by a Singapore Blogger to a couple my other blogs using fancy colorful chicklets. I also made a [...]
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Many have asked me how do I measure the success of a website. You will probably agree that it depends. It depends what you want to achieve with the website in the first place. Ok, ok… Make Money Right? Most of us build websites to make money. And if that is the case, it’ll be [...]
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Google is number 1 and more and more people are using Google – the search engine of choice for nearly half the Internet search population. According to a report on Yahoo! (please see below report), Google’s market share increased by about 6 percentage point while Yahoo and MSN dropped. At the rate Google is growing, [...]
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Found an article on Google Sandbox Effect very interesting and useful. The author first explained what’s Google Sandbox and verified its existence – there are still many webmasters not willing to believe that their websites can be “locked up” for 3 months or more. To the knowing webmasters, the Google Sandbox has been a bane [...]
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Since we are still on the topic of writing search engine optimized articles for better SE visibility, I would recommend that you take a look at a series of articles on Singapore shopping. Several weeks ago, if you checked my previous post, I discussed about Singapore targeted traffic. Just to recap, I mentioned that I [...]
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