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Aug112010

Facebook Scared About Google Me Rumors

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Google Me ready to go socially wild!

It has been announced Facebook have recently closed their doors for a period of up to 2 months to enhance their platform totally on the development side as a lead up to rumors that “Google Me” a new social networking platform will change the face of social networking for good.

The Facebook Gossip

CTO Adam D’Angelo former Facebook, claims Google Me is real. Here’s what he had to say about it on Q&A service Quora:
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Google has mentioned that they believe that Facebook will slow down, once Google Me launches and members of Facebook will start moving across.

Of course this is debatable to some extent as there has been other situations where Google has not been totally successful when it comes to social platforms, Google Buzz was one, and Google Wave another.

There has been some gossip that they are going to have certain modules of what Facebook have. So during the 2 month shutdown of their office, perhaps Facebook will remodel and enhance. I know Google advertising has gone through some tough times recently and Facebook Ads are now doing better then ever, so maybe this is some reason why they are going hard in this area to also take advantage of Social advertising.

Are they trying to compete with to many things at once and losing focus? Are they now going to get themselves in a real mess? Or are they going to really change the face of how social marketing future is going to be? What are your thoughts?

Aug42010

HotelORes.com – Launching Off Day

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My Hotel Reservations Website

I have recently launched my own hotel reservations website HotelOres.com. It is officially up and running now, anytime soon I will be adding hotels to the database which is going to be an ongoing duty when I get time apart from my other work which I currently do for momentohs®.

I have always had a dream to have my own hotel reservations website and found that putting this together during my dedicated online years will get this thing moving much faster. Obviously my key strengths with SEO will get our site the type of audience and website traffic we need. I will be lookign forward to any future partners or investors on this project, so do not be shy in getting in contact with me.

I always found that although there are loads of hotel reservations websites out there, but very few good ones.  But we will achieve our own personal targets for the time frame we set.

Our hotel reservations system allows hotel guests the ability to quickly find the hotel they would like to stay at for their desired location and book online immediately, the hotel owner will then have their details on booking confirmation ready for check in.

The site also features reviews and star ratings for each hotel along with photo gallery and prices for weekdays and weekends.

I may have my own little launch party for hotel owners and managers in the next coming months, so stick around for the updates.

Feb182010

GSEO Website Review

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First of all I would like to thank Alan Josef Caceres who recently did a review about the GSEO website.  He gave some good opinion and insight as to what the website has to offer. I am very grateful to have good friends like Alan who support the fast growing community that took me 2 years to build.

Although Alan covered everything very well, I thought I could use this as an opportunity to also elaborate on the membership benefits for GSEO.net as follows:

As a free member you are already getting the following:

FREE MEMBERSHIP (SEO Consultant or SEO Consultant)

# Upload profile image

# Discuss inside Forum

# Blog Commenting

# 2 Forum Signature Links Allowed (Non Hyper)

# Add Profile Website & Links (Viewable by Paid Members)

When you upgrade you will get all of this:

GOLD MEMBERSHIP (SEO Consultant)

# All of FREE account benefits +

# Appear as Featured SEO Consultant

# Personal Messaging to Clients

# 2 Forum Signature Links Allowed (Hyper Links)

# Blog Submission for Self Promotion

# Live Chat System

# Article / News Submission for Self Promotion

# Video Submission for Self Promotion

# Add Profile Website & Links (Viewable by Free & Paid Members)

GOLD MEMBERSHIP (Client)

# All of FREE account benefits +

# Live Chat System

# Appear as Featured Client

# Personal Messaging to SEO Consultants

# Add Profile Website & Links (Viewable by Free & Paid Members)

Jan312010

Australian Online Businesses

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Online businesses in Australia are surely one of the most thriving and profitable. For example Carsales.com.au, Wotif.com, Sitepoint.com and Digitalpoint forum just to name a few are all Australian owned sites and are very well known and profitable.

USA web businesses in my opinion are really overrated. I even know that top UK sites are also leading the market. Look at Wayn.com for example, they are UK founded and are a travel social network site with over 20 million users.

Exploroo has also some similarity to Wayn and was an inspiration for me to get involved as a founder and partner. Although my true passion is being involved with SEO and servicing clients, I am always open minded to different ventures that can bring me success.

If you can get onto a big idea then there is lots of opportunity. Fairfax saw a big opportunity in RSVP.com.au and had scraped this up for AUS$39 million.

As the internet continues to drive towards success local businesses are taking advantage of SEO services to gain maximum exposure as big companies are really stretching the gap between smaller internet businesses.

But there is still alot of success with smaller sites and bigger returns. They are sitting quitely in the background with no need of big noting themselves.

This ranges from any service related companies that use their website as an open door to direct orders. This includes clothing shops, hotels chains and many other smaller businesses.

Overall though as the economy strengthens in Australia so does business. There has not been a decline yet in property and was recently mentioned that Australia is one of the least most affordable places to live in the world, in this report included Sydney and Melbourne.

This again gives much push to RealEstate.com.au, Domain.com.au along with job finding sites such as Seek.com.au which are already one of the top 100 sites in Australia according to Alexa.

What do you think about Australia Online Businesses? Are you one of the few that are being rewarded quietly, or do you need to improve your online presence including SEO alot more before your business reaps the rewards!

Jan232010

Satellite Maps of Haiti Quake from Bing and Google

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As mentioned in my earlier post suggesting Haiti Quake as being one of the most searched keyphrase this month according to Google Trends, I figured it would be an idea to provide something a little more useful and worth looking at.

The devastating earthquake in Haiti recently that killed and injured many thousands was astonishing to see the ruins of before and after shots provided by the Satellite Maps.

Here I have come across a recent video tutorial that shows you how to use the Satellite maps and how to zoom right in on the damage caused by the recent Haiti Earthquake that made thousands homeless and countless people suffering recently.

The Bing mapping system options are very impressive. Although Google Maps still have much better quality, Bing has some nice features in their mapping system, worth playing with. You will also notice in the video CNN have a 360 degree viewing option which is also very impressive.

Here is a donation link provided by Google to support the victims of the earthquake

Jan12010

Happy SEO in 2010

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Happy New Year everyone, and even happier for those who have been involved with SEO for some time. Obviously change is one of the hardest things to work with particularly when one is very set in their ways, but change is good and only for the strong minded. Now has come the time, for many years since 2003 Google had set a patent based on link popularity.

This algorithm structure is based on back links and calculates links, the good from the bad, the popular from the less popular, the authority links from the less authority and weighs up the links from high page rank vs low page rank sites and pages.

For 2010 all this is changing

It has been told recently Google have based their new algorithm on a social platform. For me personally change is good, I get bored easily and concentrating on back linking becomes tiresome and monotonous. Although this will not be totally eradicated there will still be some chance to progress and spend time on other areas. The other areas include:

  • Personalized Search Changes
  • Real Time Search
  • Growth of Android and Personalized Mobile Search
  • Social Search
  • Bing Growing into legitimate option 2

The recent patent is an interesting one as recently summarized. It shows that alot of attention will be focused towards Google Phone, or mobile in general and bookmarking and personalization along with user data information.

This actually tells us that social media is going to play a big role and that Twitter and other Social platform will also be contributing in the data that is shared and will carry weight accordingly.

Those SEO people who are already against social platforms have no option but to turn to this game. It is really a do or die situation. I believe SEO is already changing towards an overall internet marketing platform. To do and adapt in all the ways of marketing on the internet enables you to receive the highest search engine results.

To be successful particularly in 2010 you will need to stay ahead of the game. Working off old SEO ways will be half of the work and sooner or later fade out alltogether. So start getting social, mobile, in the media and above all user friendly becuase this is the way of the future folks!

Best of luck and success for 2010!