October 14th, 2007
PPC blogs that are focused and provide great insights are rare. However, below are 10 blogs that you should read:
Inside Adwords
Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog
Adcenter Blog
PPC Hero
PPC lab
PPC Discussions
PPC Super Affiliate
The PPC Book
PPC Search Engine Marketing
PPC Blog by Gordon Choi
The first 3 blogs on the list are certainly the [...]
Posted in: Blogging, PPC | 1 Comment
April 30th, 2007
I have been tagged by Chris of Search Anyway, so I’m going to list 5 reasons I blog about PPC and SEO.
Reason #1: Refreshing my memories on updates
As both PPC and SEO are ever-changing techniques, I need to always keep up-to-update with the latest changes. Just to name a few in the past year.
* Google [...]
Posted in: Blogging, PPC, SEO | 3 Comments
April 1st, 2007
Matt Cutts’s SEO Blog was hacked by the so-called Dark SEO Team today, as you can see from the screenshot below. His blog is one of the SEO blogs I love reading, so I guess I have no other options but will have to come back later.
Whether it is an April Fool’s joke by Matt [...]
Posted in: Blogging, SEO | 1 Comment
March 13th, 2007
Link popularity is the fundamental concept of how major search engines rank sites in their SERP. This led to the abuse of this concept by the so-called link spammers in which blog comments are mostly targeted. To prevent the abuse, just over two years ago Google introduced the nofollow attribute. This is what Matt Cutts [...]
Posted in: Blogging, Google, Link Building, SEO | 6 Comments
December 16th, 2006
I was blog tagged by Vinny Lingham in a viral game. Basically, I have to tell 5 things you probably did not know about me. I believe it all first started on 10 December. If you’re really curious about who originated this game, then have fun hunting him down by going through some blog posts! [...]
Posted in: Blogging | 1 Comment
September 13th, 2006
Bokee, Chinese Blogging service provider, launched Bokee Bank, a click-based advertising service on 23 August. The new click-based advertising platform was also launched with a new version of its blogging service, version 3.1. This new version of blogging service includes blog search and chatting capabilities.
Chinese bloggers can now sign up on Bokee Bank and choose [...]
Posted in: Blogging, China | No Comments
September 2nd, 2006
Souyo, a Chinese blog search engine, has its homepage redesigned and some features upgraded, though many bloggers or blog searchers believe Souyo is already the Chinese blog search engine which offers the most features.
Evidences on how ambitious Souyo wants to be the number one blog search engine in China can easily be spotted. One of [...]
Posted in: Blogging, China, Web 2.0 | No Comments
August 30th, 2006
I have successfully moved my blog from the MovableType platform to Wordpress platform, though the job is not yet complete. There are 2 reasons that I made this change.
* I was so impressed by the high quantity of free Wordpress addons (or plugins) which are available all over the Internet.
* In terms of customization, MovableType [...]
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July 10th, 2006
Ask has about 6% in US market share in terms of search volume and is currently the 4th largest search engine to serve its own search results, behind the 3 giants Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
Ask, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, was initially founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California and was the first commercial question-answering search [...]
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June 29th, 2006
Baidu, the number 1 search engine in China, is to launch Baidu Space which many predicted it would be similar to MSN Space and Google Personalized Home Page.
International search engine giants Google, Yahoo! and MSN are all already offering blogging services in China. Bokee, BlogCN, and BlogBus are other blog services in the local Chinese [...]
Posted in: Baidu, Blogging, China | No Comments