Posted by danny on February 14, 2009 in
Search Engine Optimisation,
Web Development
I promised Hong Yi’s mum that I would write a social bookmarking widget for her blog on Google‘s Blogger so I’ve spent part of my valentine’s day writing this widget for her. The purpose of utilising social bookmarking widgets is to allow you to expand your reach of readership to literally hundred and thousands to [...]
Tags: blogger, javascript, link baiting, link building, seo, social bookmarking, widgets
Posted by danny on November 9, 2008 in
Search Engine Optimisation
In my line of work, there has been a widespread belief that Google is unable to crawl “unoptimised” URLs and that ideally all URLs should be in a directory structure. This is totally untrue as mentioned by Google’s blog post. In fact, Google actually says that they might have problems crawling and ranking your dynamic [...]
Tags: google, seo, url structure
Posted by danny on October 28, 2008 in
Search Engine Optimisation,
Web Development
You may have read my previous entry on performing a 301 redirect from Blogger to WordPress, where I wrote a script that will capture all traffic to your old Blogger site and redirect it to your new WordPress site. Ideally you’d want to do the 301 redirects from the web server, but unfortunately Blogger doesn’t [...]
Tags: 301/302 redirects, blogger, javascript, meta refresh, search engine crawlers, search engines, seo, wordpress
Posted by danny on October 23, 2008 in
Search Engine Optimisation
The 80/20 Rule You may have heard of the common business principle of the 80/20 rule, such as 20% of employees do 80% of an organisation’s work, or 80% of your sales come from 20% of your customers. The list goes on. Well, this post is meant to address the issue of “when is too much, too much”? [...]
Tags: 80-20-rule, page optimisation, seo
Posted by danny on September 16, 2008 in
Search Engine Optimisation
I’ve had this domain for less than 3 months now and I’ve been testing how fast I can get in the 1st page of Google and Yahoo’s search engine results page (SERP) for the term “danny ng”. As of today, my blog is ranked #7 on Google AU and #5 on Google US. On Yahoo [...]
Tags: seo