Archive for August, 2009

Join ‘Golden Ticket’ competition and be the first to ride the Dubai Metro

Do you want to part of Dubai Metro’s history? Do you want to be one of the people to ride the Dubai Metro on its first day of operation on 09-09-09? Don’t worry, there is a chance that you could be by participating in the biggest contest in Dubai and win the Golden ticket by [...]

Yahoo Acquires Maktoob

After signing a ten year deal with Microsoft search Bing,  today Yahoo has  agreed to acquire Maktoob.com, the leading online community in the Arab world with more than 16.5 million people unique users. This will be Yahoo!’s biggest geographic expansion in years. Soon Arabic versions of Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Search, and the homepage and then [...]

Search Engine Ranking Factors 2009 Released

Rand Fishkin had announce the release of SEOmoz’s Biennial Search Engine Ranking Factors 2009. There were 72 SEOs who participated in the data gathering process this year. This survey is done every 2 years. Hmm…I hope to be one of the contributors for the 2011 ranking factors. I advise anyone  who’s into SEO to check [...]

Common PPC Mistakes You Must Avoid

Pay Per Click or PPC campaign is no doubt the fastest and easiest way to get an online visibility. It delivers the highest ROI and its benefits supersede the ones offered by other forms of online marketing. Earlier this year I was asked to check for companies that runs a PPC campaign, I was able [...]

Google Caffeine’s Pros and Cons

Google Caffeine is the new version of Google search. Google officially calls this the “next generation architecture for Google’s web search”. Google caffeine as what Matt Cutts says, is a rewriting of their indexing system to be able to crawl, index and serve results faster. “For the last several months, a large team of Googlers [...]