By SiteProNews These are tough times, no doubt. The pinch is on every business to cut unnecessary costs and improve efficiency. Those businesses that were squeaking by to begin with are now in danger of closing their doors. Advertising is usually one of the first items on the chopping block (though it shouldn’t be). You’ve got to [...]

Will the buying text links help your search engine rankings? Does it increase PageRank? Can it get your site banned? Will these links bring valuable traffic to your website? Are there good and reliable brokers out there to do it for you? In essence, there’s nothing wrong with purchasing an ad on a website that [...]

1. Search engines put a lot of weight into keyworded domain names and the older the site is the better. We really should have thought about this ourselves years back and bought webdesignbangkok.com but alas, we didn’t. If you’re launching a new website, you would do well to research the keywords used in your industry [...]

Everybody’s reaction to this headline would surely be a resounding “yes”, but in order to achieve this a website needs to be “optimized” to compete for keywords that people actually search on. This is called search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is a set of methods aimed at improving the ranking of a website on search engine [...]

The Star Rising demand for bandwidth-hogging Internet activities such as swapping music files and watching YouTube videos threatens to outstrip the Web’s infrastructure within three years, creating the spectre of service “brownouts” and potentially thwarting the development of the next Google-sized application, an industry-funded study warns. Despite all the talk about the Internet’s infinite possibilities, a study [...]

Online video and TV streaming are clogging the copper arteries of the information superhighway. It’s generally accepted by anyone and everyone in the know that the internet is growing exponentially. To give you an idea of how much and how fast it is, consider that last year YouTube alone used as much bandwidth as was needed [...]

V9 NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 2007 Vietnam - a surging new market? Vietnam has attracted a record $15 billion in foreign direct investment so far this year, up nearly 40 per cent from the same period last year, an official said. The amount strengthened booming Vietnam’s reputation as the new Asian magnet for investment, thanks to low [...]

When one looks at the SEO industry for services, you will inevitably find packages on offer such as “Basic, Silver and Gold”. These packages are progressively costed according to the “number of keywords targeted” and “guaranteed number of keywords”. This doesn’t make any sense to us; it’s too vague and opaque. In practice, the industry tends [...]

ChaCha is a search engine which brings a fundamentally different kind of intelligence to the problem - human brain power. The current implementation of ChaCha offers a combination of automation and people-powered search. The results can be organized by a vertical, like images or news. Also it has a set of related searches. But by far [...]

No one except Google really knows for sure why PR dropped for these sites but it certainly looks like an extension of September’s paid directory massacre. This time Google targeted some well-known sites in the search marketing world and mainstream news too. Sites include: * Statcounter (from 10 to 6) * Engadget (from 7 to 5) * AutoBlog [...]