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”.
According to the stats from one of my blogs, people are using inSing.com as a search engine. I think this is good news for the inSing.com team and thumb up for choosing Google search engine technology. Yes, I am very tempted to compare inSing.com enhanced by Google search with SPH’s Rednano search but I do not have sufficient evidence to conduct a fair comparison.
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 certain type of products e.g. beauty and weight-loss. Anyway, I am happy that I eventually enrolled into the program.
Some call it digital footprint, digital branding, online reputation management or digital reputation management. I bet you know by now that Google is the online reputation management system. And understanding Applied SEO(search engine optimization) will help you learn how to manage online reputation of your company.
Using the right blog ping services will get your blog post found by major blog search engines such as Google and Technorati in a matter of minutes.
You probably expect SBS Transit to be listed No. 1 in Google search when you search for singapore bus directory. Surprised! www.sbstransit.com.sg is listed in 2nd place.
Rather I would say SPH lost the domain googlereseller.com.sg to Google Inc.
So what happened?
Here’s a blog post that answer your question: “Does PageRank really matter for ranking in Google?”
The short answer is: “Yes, it does.”
The long answer is: “Not all the time, it depends who links to you, how they link to you and the keyword you’re competing.”
To get the full explanation, go visit Jonathan Leger’s blog now.
Kelvin Hui suggested in his blog post “SEO Singapore? Is SEO hot in Singapore?” that those who can rank high for the search terms SEO Singapore should be able to help you to optmize your website for more search engine traffic.
I think there is some truth in that statement.
However, if you search carefully, you will realized that the search terms seo singapore and singapore seo in Google, the results you get are not exactly the same. Why? Because, in our natural use of English, a different use in the sequence of the words gives different meaning. And Google algorithm is smart enough to distinguish that but not smart enough to realize seo singapore and singapore seo actually mean the same thing.