Archive for May, 2008

My Home Office [PIC]

Posted on 27. May, 2008 by .

*UPDATED: Hi guys, the post below is now outdated. To see my latest home office visit this new post: http://brianwong.com/blog/my-home-office/ For fun on this post, I thought I’d take you on a tour of my home office as it currently stands. As some of you might know, I will be moving to my permanent home/ [...]

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Make Money Online Myth or Fact? – A Quick Case Study

Posted on 26. May, 2008 by .

On this post I want to share one of my personal experiences with Resell Rights products. While there is no doubt that you can make a lot of money online, the question I want to address is – “can someone starting from scratch with no list and no experience do it too?”. And…is it as [...]

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Email Confirmed! Here’s a Free Gift For You

Posted on 20. May, 2008 by .

Over the years (more than 10 years now), I’ve started many independent businesses.  I’ve also evaluated countless others while working as a corporate finance analyst. I’ve had many successful ventures and also a lot of unsuccessful startups. Funny enough, I think I’ve had more non-starters than successful ventures. But the end result is that I have under [...]

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Thank You For Subscribing to My Blog

Posted on 20. May, 2008 by .

You’re Almost Done…Please Check Your Email Now. For your protection, you’ve just been sent an email that contains a confirmation link. Clicking this link will ensure that your email was not submitted by someone else resulting in spam. So in order to activate your subscription, just check your email and click on the link in that [...]

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“Brian Wong” Back on #1 in Google’s Index Database

Posted on 18. May, 2008 by .

Here’s a link to the post: http://brianwong.com/blog/i-got-google-slammed-for-not-paying-attention-to-seo/ I listed the mistakes I made that got me de-listed and I also outlined a 5-Point plan to get my site back into Google’s good graces. … (I used “brian wong in the footer of each page as an anchor text) I admit that I have an advantage because the domain name itself contains the keywords “Brian Wong” In bound links makes a big difference too. … Submitting a site-map to Google helps too I use meta tags on each page and ensure my permalinks contain keywords too Ok, that’s it for this week cos I just got back from a holiday in Phuket and am a little burnt from playing with my son in the pool for 2 hours everyday!!!

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Bah! WordPress 2.5.1 RSS Bug!

Posted on 13. May, 2008 by .

However, each time I upgrade I end up spending an hour trying to fix the bugs that make Wordpress work EXACTLY the way I wanted it to work BEFORE I upgraded! … If you go to my original feed at www.brianwong.com/blog/rss2.php you will see that the feed reports ZERO posts on my blog despite all my posts! … So this is what I had to do to get back online: Disable the FeedSmith plugin Edit my RSS source in Feedburner from www.brianwong.com/blog/rss2.php to www.brianwong.com/blog/feed So the next time Wordpress comes up with the message ” “there’s a new version of Wordpress, please update!”

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I Got Google Slammed for Not Paying Attention to SEO!

Posted on 03. May, 2008 by .

The reason for this introduction is that I just realized that my Google page rank and search engine ranking for this blog dropped significantly after I changed over from a RapidWeaver blog to a self-hosted Wordpress blog . … I spent the last month reading all about SEO for my marketing sites and when I re-looked at my new Wordpress blog, I realized that I was just very careless in not optimizing my site. … Here are some resources that I used to optimize my site this week: This link checks if your redirect script is SEO friendly: Free Redirect Checker This is a very useful SEO optimization and analysis tool (check out their tutorial videos): Brad Callen’s SEO Elite

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