Tag Archives: SEO

Poll: My New Business Card Design

Posted on 28. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.

Can you help me? I’m not sure if this new business card design is a good idea. Can you help by letting me know what you think in the poll below? A lot of business cards just end up in the trash. My idea was to make a card that actually get’s the recipient to [...]

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How to Brand Yourself Online with SEO

Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by Brian Wong.

I’d like to share an update on a post I made over a year ago. Its about my on going saga of getting the word “Brian Wong” listed on Google’s search results for personal branding. In my previous post, I talked about how I got the number one spot on Google and then lost it [...]

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FireFox Plugin for Displaying Page Rank

Posted on 28. Jun, 2008 by Brian Wong.

This is and essential SEO tool for FireFox that can help you evaluate the popularity of any web page you visit. It will display the PageRank (higher the number the better), Alexa Rank and Compete Rank (the lower the number the better). If you right click over each of these items, you can view the [...]

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

Posted on 18. May, 2008 by Brian Wong.

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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I Got Google Slammed for Not Paying Attention to SEO!

Posted on 03. May, 2008 by Brian Wong.

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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The 15 Skills You Need To Make It As An Independent Internet Marketer

Posted on 13. Mar, 2008 by Brian Wong.

1. Domain Registration and Hosting If you are serious about starting a business online you really need your own domain name. So you need to know how to register a domain name and get it hosted on a hosting provider. I use NameCheap and HostGator for my websites. 2. Using cPanel You need to know [...]

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