Some time ago, I wrote a blog post on How Much is My Blog Worth. Today, I am revisiting the topic to show you a couple of different formulae to calculate “How Much is My Website Worth”.

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If you have been pondering about the low visitor number and no sale on your thousand dollar web page, you need to learn more about link building. This is not some SEO tricks to get number 1 ranking or to pay for unqualified traffic.

Link Building: Tested and Proven SEO Technique

This is an SEO technique that has been proven to work for a blog which is now ranked number 2 for the keyword blog marketing.

Link building is the most effective SEO technique to promote your web page visibility.

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I can’t help it but to use very very strong words to show my anger with such unscrupulous, deceitful and devious Singapore web design company in the pursuit of search engine ranking for the keywords web design and content management system using black-hat SEO tricks.

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What’s CMS?

CMS is Content Management System. If you have not heard about it, then it’s time.

I think one of the biggest advantage of using a CMS is the ease of updating your pages and creating new one.

So I am already using a CMS if you consider Wordpress to be one. However, I mean CMS CMS e.g. Drupal or Joomla.

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It was announced in the Straits Times that ST701 online classified portal was revamped (again) featuring… “the portal’s popular search engine is now in an easy-to-locate spot”.

But, I think the journalist mention of “easy-to-locate” is not referring to the search box you see at ST701 homepage.

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I was angry, very angry when my ex-colleague asked me to take a look at his revamped website(www.ottegroup.com) done by some Flash web designers in Singapore.

Here’s snippets of what he said to me:

“I have finally received my new web pages but feel that it is really a bad choice with the web designer. He is using Flash and I cannot refer to any link or pages.”

“It looks good but not very functional.”

“Can you help me take a look and see how bad is the website?”

So, I looked at his website and got angry because it was beyond bad.

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I thought I was overly harsh when I commented that the rollover navigation box was a stupid idea. However, I am not alone using the “stupid” word.

Jakob Nielsen, the web usability expert, commented in the special report published at ZDNet that “Web sites need SEO consultants to save themselves from their own stupidities”.

After 10 years of telling people what not to do with their web sites, Jakob is still facing an uphill task. Most web site owners don’t listen.

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I’ve finally completed the new web design and layout for this blog. Don’t you think it looks better than the previous design? The last time I fiddled with Blogger template was at least 6 months ago and it took me nearly a week to customise a design template. (more…)