Stumbled upon this online survey service, http://www.createsurvey.com. There is a lite version that let you try out for free. I will probably need this service in the near future.

I registered www.kidslearningonline.com 2 days to promote my e-learning franchise business. For this website, I will focus on primary school children learning. And I will optimse (SEO) the page for the following topics:

1. math for kids

2. english for kids
3. chinese for kids
4. tuition online for children

I am already promoting this website using Adwords campaign. However, the response and CTR were not encouraging. Apparently, I did not choose the right keywords. Otherwise, these online learning for children programs are not most people look for online. There must be a way to promote this online tuition to anxious parents who want their children to do welll in school.

I forgot about all those online learning and e-learning websites that I was working on a couple of months ago. In fact, I did not even get this domain spidered by Yahoo search.

http://www.interactiveonlinelearning.com

However, Googlebot and AskJeeves spiders visited this domain but not as frequently as I hope.

A is for Amazon, B is for Best Buy - Google Suggest Feature
By Mike Banks Valentine

The Google Suggest Tool Launched Friday in Beta and it’s AMAZING! How they continue to come up with brilliant, innovative tools that enhance and improve search is beyond me. Having hundreds of genius engineers on staff, LISTENING to their ideas - then IMPLEMENTING those ideas is leading to great leaps in search usability. Try it yourself at: http://labs.google.com/suggest/

The Google Suggest Beta tool not only completes words in a drop-down list that shows ten possible and or likely ways to complete any word you begin to type in the search box, it shows beside each of those possible word combinations - how many times that option is searched at Google!

Even though I was in the middle of working overtime to begin a major client initiative, I couldn’t stop experimenting with the tool from an SEO perspective. The Google Suggest tool allows you to see INSTANTLY how often specific keyword phrases are searched! Check out the competition for keywords

Google Suggest is something that appears to be destined for integration into the standard search page simply because it is far MORE valuable as the similar option some browsers offer to complete words as you begin to type them into web forms. The controversial Gator form completion tool launched a huge advertising company based only on things users with the Gator tool had already typed into web forms.

But the difference here is astounding, in that it shows you things OTHERS have typed into the search box and HOW OFTEN! This means that they must instantly access their database via the search box and instantly return results that change with each keystroke! Though interesting, it is not foolproof. Several times I typed quickly and the feature appears to drop behind and miss letters that I’ve typed, showing results for the first two letters, but missing those letters typed after.

The Google Suggest FAQ answers to frequently asked questions promise that the auto-complete feature is not based on your surfing or search history. An inevitable concern that arises as you type queries and see the javascript function complete words that you wouldn’t otherwise type. A deliberate attempt to search adult terms turns up innocuous word completions and beyond that, appears to filter the MOST commonly searched phrases on the web. Adult phrases appear (necessarily) NOT to be completed as it would show things that children using the feature shouldn’t see. Nice touch that!

The FAQ also tells us that the word completion feature of Google Suggest is based upon the Google Zeitgeist, itself a http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html fascinating look at popular culture that is always available to the curious.

One question asked on the Google Suggest FAQ page addresses an odd issue . . . “How do I get back to normal Google?”. The answer is simply to type the http://www.google.com/ URL in the browser address bar or click http://www.google.com/ Google link, as it appears to lock you into using the feature until you specifically launch a new browser window. Though, personally, I’d rather stick with Google Suggest as it seems that they’ve come up with ANOTHER tool I can’t live without.

Interestingly, the http://www.google.com/googleblog/ Google Blog links to the following URL http://labs.google.com/suggest/ but if you look in your browser address bar, you are redirected to http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en which suggests Google intends full implementation and may offer on/off toggle option from the main page in the near future.

You must use relatively recent browsers in order to use the Google Suggest feature, but it supports Internet Explorer 6.0 (or newer), Netscape 7.1 (or newer), Mozilla 1.4 (or newer), Firefox 0.8 (or newer), Opera 7.54 (or newer), or Apple Safari 1.2.2 (or newer). (Interesting side note here, type the single letter “F” in the text box of Google Suggest text box and the result is “Firefox 20,000,000 results.” Something that will no doubt make Microsoft a bit nervous.)

Google continues to innovate in ways that fascinate me. I’m behind in my work now because I’ve toyed around and analyzed this new Google feature beyond reason. If MSN and Yahoo don’t offer similar tools in their search, I can’t imagine being without it now and will stick to Google for my searching. MSN’s “Search Builder” feature almost had me as a convert. Yahoo’s “My Search” options almost had me setting Yahoo as my home page. Search tools are coming fast and furious over the past couple of months and this industry is a fascinating space to watch these days.

I’ve gotta get back to work. I’ll resist the temptation to experiment further with the Google Suggest tool. New ideas keep popping into my head on fascinating new ways to use it. Like “What is the most commonly searched word beginning with each letter of the alphabet?” “A is for Amazon” “B is for Best Buy” “C is for CNN” etc. Maybe “How is the prefix ‘un’ most often used?” THAT didn’t work, I get United Airlines as a suggestion. Google, I have a suggestion for a new tool! How about Google Prefix or even Google Antonym! Imagine the fascinating tools that developers will build using the Google API if they include this new Suggest feature in the API!

Resource Box:
Mike Banks Valentine practices ethical SEO.
Contact Mike at: http://SEOptimism.com/SEO_Contact.htm.

One of the BIG advantages of writing blog is the benefit of getting the achored text links of new domains in the post to be indexed quickly. I had tried several times and usually, the new website get indexed by major search engines within 48 hours.

Here’s a website on

debt help
refinancing
managing mortgages
and becoming debt-free

which I registered earlier this morning.

I intend to use this website and write about how I became debt-free and started my enterpreneurial journey.

Read about this recent launch of Accoona. An US company targeting the China search engine market.

http://www.accoona.com/

I guess this new company is targeting both the local companies and also foreign multi-national companies. And net users constitute only 7% of the population - imagine the growth potential when China really opens up.

So you may wonder: “How about Google?” Well, don’t even try to type in the domains “google.com.cn” or “www.google.cn” - I suspect it belongs to a squatter. Go check out Accoona website and submit your URL now. It’s supertargeted!

Due to repeated attempts by hackers to access this data, Google updates the PageRank data very infrequently because is it not secure. On average, the PR that is displayed in the Google Toolbar is several months old.

If the toolbar is showing a PR of zero, this is because the user is visiting a new URL that hasn’t been updated in the last update.

The PR that is displayed by the Google Toolbar is not the same PR that is used to rank the webpage results so there is no need to be concerned if your PR is displayed as zero.

If a site is showing up in the search results, it doesn’t not have a real PR of zero, the Toolbar is just out of date.

What does this mean to you?

Of course, PageRank is important to get good rankings on Google. However, the PageRank number that is displayed in the Google Toolbar and the green PageRank bar are not important at all for good Google rankings.

It’s very likely that the PageRank number that can be seen in the Google Toolbar is mainly a marketing instrument for Google that doesn’t have much effect on the search results. Google seems to use an internal PageRank value for its ranking algorithm and a public PageRank value for the toolbar.

That would explain why many web pages with a high ranking on Google have a low (toolbar) PageRank.

When you want to trade links with another web site, don’t look at the PageRank of that site. Instead, ask yourself: Is the web site related to your site? Would it make sense for web surfers if they linked to you and you linked to them? Could visitors of the other web site be interested in your site? If you find a web site that you would want to visit or your visitors would want to visit then link to it and ask for a link back to your site.

Just use common sense. If you like a page, changes are that other people also like that page, no matter what PageRank the Google toolbar displays.

I listened to the recoding of the conference call by Nitroincubator this morning. I was quite surprise to hear that there is this person from Texas who made $5,000 a daily with Adsense. I hope this is real and he sustain his earning.

During the call, the speaker mentioned that you will get most click where you place your ad at the top left hand side of the webpage. The 250×250 square format is the best performing and always made the background same color as your website’s, also do not use border so that the ad does not look like an ad.

I just got an idea. How about place a thought provocative picture side by side with the ad block? Go here to see what I mean:
http://www.singaporegoodfood.com

Arrive at LHK 2 building about 10.05 a.m. Met up with HQ to discuss about the joint venture to provide search engines indexing and ranking services. He has good plan and workable business model. He wrote the strategies on scraps of paper and the partnership was confirmed. He will do the promotion and marketing of the search engine services and I will take care of the technical part.

I will need to prepare some write-up on the