Articles for November 2006
Alexa Rankings Up!
Muahahaa!! Today I woke up to a pleasant surprise. My Alexa ranking is now 108,727! That is a major 50K jump since my last update!
Its great, and it ties in very much with my plan. Yesterday I spent my whole evening planning out exactly what I am going to do [...]
Its time to take action to build my blog marketing empire!
Alright! Over the past few days, I haven’t been posting as ferociously as before, because I took time away from the computer back to get more knowledge at the World Internet Summit.
Its been a wonderful four days and I’ve met people who have done so wonderful things on the net, some of which are [...]
World Internet Summit
Just on Friday night, I was invited by a friend to attend the World Internet Summit, and so I grabbed upon the opportunity to learn from several successful Internet Marketers how they made their fortune online.
I was really impressed how powerful marketers they are… I mean, over the past two days, if you’d ask me [...]
A Blogging Success Study
A Blogging Success Study was done by Northeastern University and Backbone Media, studying 20 cases of successful corporate blogs.
One of the sections of the report was really interesting - its about the recurring factors that help the success of a corporate blog, and in this section, five features were highlighted.
1. Culture
According to the paper, the [...]
Singapore Engineering Portal SEO is flopped!
Just yesterday I received an Google Alert telling me that about a press release on 5 Polytechnics in Singapore Launches Engineering Portal to Attract Students. This issue is very close to me (I was a Temasek Polytechnic student) because it demonstrates that the government related entities in Singapore are finally embracing SEO.
So its good [...]
Blog Thanksgiving
We don’t really celebrate Thanksgiving here in Singapore (at least not for me), but I can feel that from here, reading all the blogs I read, and its a wondrous thing going on in the U.S. today (well, tomorrow, in your time).
Char at Essential Keystrokes has already listed the blogs she was thankful for, and [...]
Are you turned off by excessive posts?
The Blogger’s Blog recently commented that Excessive Posts can Turn Off Readers - and for the past few days, I’m really feeling what he felt. I personally use Google Reader to read the feeds I am subscribed to, and sometimes its overwhelming to see over 100 unread posts.
So what I end up doing is [...]
How to make conversations work for blogs
In order for you to be able to make conversations work for your blog, you need to be updated whenever a new comment has been posted on your blog. While it would be good to respond to comments as and when you see them, nothing really beats the ability to respond to comments immediately!
I’m [...]
Because of the mums in the world, I’m now an SOB!
Haha… really. I took a break from this blog yesterday, going on a short holiday with my parents to Batam, only to come back and realise I’ve been called an SOB!
Liz Strauss was the one who called me an SOB! And its thanks to the post on work at home mums. [...]
Subculture Niches
Darren from Blog Republic has a really nice post - The Dumbest Things are Usually the Biggest Hits… hah! And what he says is so true. Today, you don’t have to know rocket science to make a big hit! All you have to do is to target a niche, and really focus on [...]
Tan Kian Ann is blog marketing coach based in Singapore. He is passionate in helping individuals and small businesses reach out to the world using blogs. 

