Articles for November 2008

SITEX 2008 Pricelist: Your One Stop Price Guide!

SITEX is now on at Singapore Expo! SITEX is the fourth and the last IT and gadgets trade show of the year, after PC show, IT show and Comex. This the trade show will last until Sunday 9pm, but stocks run out very quickly, so go early! Are you heading for SITEX [...]

6 Tips for Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday and the Christmas Holidays

Photo Credit: krisdecurtis Over here in Singapore, we don’t celebrate thanksgiving very much. In fact, for me, life goes on as per normal if not for what I read from my blog RSS subscriptions. In the US, thanksgiving marks the start of the holiday season, and is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November. So starting [...]

Looking for Bargains and Deals at SITEX 2008?

I’ve just read some news about the upcoming SITEX 2008 over on AsiaOne, and it seems that this IT exhibition is going to be bigger than ever, despite the economic crisis and gloomy economy. In fact, this time, the floor space for the exhibition with exceed 2 big halls in the Singapore Expo, and will a [...]

Gmail’s getting colorful!

Over on the official Gmail blog, it was announced yesterday that they will be releasing themes for all Gmail accounts. I’ve got mine and I love it. Here’s what my Gmail inbox looks like now. Pretty. Have you got yours?

How to cut your business expenses in the long run

Some time along your journey as a blogger or Internet marketer, we will be tempted to use “the cheaper alternative” - whether it is for web hosting, for autoresponder services, analytics services, ad servers etc. Don’t. I know you know this, but are you doing it? Cheaper alternatives cause irreparable damage in the long run. [...]

SEO Copywriting Essentials eBook

I’ve just read Ian Lurie’s SEO Copywriting eBook, “The Unscary, Real World Guide to SEO Copywriting” and I must say it is an excellent 30 pages of straight-to-the-point, easy to understand, no fluff content. In his book, Ian explains very clearly 6 principles behind his writing techniques, and the things you need to watch out for [...]

The three homes every webmaster needs to visit

Photo Credit: Jelene As many SEOs may say, search engine optimization is about making you don’t do the wrong things; about making sure that your site is well structured and has all the elements in place so that your website appeals to the three powerful spiders (more powerful and Spiderman!) GoogleBot, Yahoo! Slurp and MSNBot! But how [...]

Bookmarks Explosion 16 November 2008

Its been a long time since I had my bookmarks to explode! Here are some great stuff I’ve seen over this week (some older) to start a brilliant Sunday. Starting a Business Blog? Be careful, don’t let Ian Lurie hit you on the head like he explains in his 15 rules for business bloggers… [...]

Three Column Layouts with CSS

Yesterday I re-watched a module in the StomperNet STSE2 video course, and Leslie Rhodie was recommending this optimized 3 column CSS layout. Optimizing your page HTML order is very important for SEO, to provide search engines the unique content of every page first. This means that if the spiders from the different search engines have [...]

Wanna be an SEO Service Provider?

I read this on SEO Book this morning about being an SEO service provider and it makes sense: Here is why I think some of you might be selling yourself short if you sell your hard won skills to clients. If you can return real value to clients i.e. not just ranking and traffic, but real tangible, [...]