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 [...]

PageRank is a numeric value from 1-10 that represents how important a page is on the web. When one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. The importance of each [...]

By Mark Daoust If you pay any attention to the search engine optimization community, you have probably heard about Google’s sandbox. Knowing exactly what the sandbox is might be a little confusing, but it is an important concept to know if you hope to eventually be successful with Google. What is the Sandbox? Before we get too far [...]

Coming from a London-based background, where the cost of running a web design agency was huge in comparison to the wage differentials in this part of Asia, V9 Design & Build is a leading web design agency based in Bangok, Thailand, providing web design outsourcing solutions for our overseas clients. We focus on developing websites and [...]

Feed Reader The best way to learn about blogs and blogging is to read, or at least scan, lots of blogs. One of the wonders of blogs is that you can have every new post from every blog you want to read delivered to your desktop or to online location via RSS, so you can easily [...]

How do I start using RSS feeds? The first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are [...]