Short note on Registrars, DNS Services, Web Hosting

By admin | Published: August 5, 2010

This is a short note to clarify the current preferred Domain Name Registrar, DNS Server services and Web Hosting for SEO Chiangmai. This may change at any point, as service providers generally go from good to bad to worse, for whatever reason.

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WordPress SEO Content Management and Open Source Theme Frameworks

By admin | Published: August 5, 2010

Content Management System

The three most common, popular, and easy-to-manage content management systems are WordPress, Joomla and Mediawiki. WordPress has its roots in blogging, Joomla in content management and Mediawiki in wikis. WordPress is the preferred choice in terms of ease of use and a vibrant development community. This means it is easy to extend, enhance and manage the WordPress-based website because most of what is needed has already been developed and made available by other users. WordPress is Free and Open Source (as are Joomla and Mediawiki).

Hernando de Soto Bridge HDR
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Relevance and Google Search Algorithm Factors

By admin | Published: May 29, 2010

A recent study showing the power-law effect on Google search ranking traffic is enough to underscore what we already know: the Zipfian distribution (aka Power-Law, Pareto Principle, or 80-20 Rule) of the information economics, nicely formulated in the book Information Rules. (Disclaimer: Hal Varian was the dean of the UC Berkeley Information School when I attended for my Masters degree.)

Power-Law Traffic from Google Result Rankings
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Canonical Address SEO, the Trailing Slash and WordPress

By admin | Published: April 23, 2010

googlebot

Google has a nice post on their Google Webmaster Blog regarding the use of trailing slashes for pages and/or directories, e.g. google.com/blog vs. google.com/blog/. The Fetch-As Googlebot feature in the Google Webmaster Tools Labs is quite helpful in this regard. Note that the slash issue is one of a number of such canonicalization issues which need attention by SEO professionals.

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Wikitravel goes nofollow

By admin | Published: April 22, 2010

Wikitravel

Today I received an email from Wikitravel with the title An important announcement from Wikitravel.org re SEO. It read as follows...

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PageRank Update for April, 2010

By admin | Published: April 12, 2010

It's been over 3 months since the last (December 31, 2009) PageRank update. This time, there were changes in slightly over 25% of our tracked domains.

Sensible Changes to PageRank

The road to success is always under construction

The changes mostly made sense. Two domains lost a page rank (both went from 4 to 3), but with obvious causes as one has been blocking traffic from three countries and another effectively lost all of its content. Another 9 domains increased by 1 PageRank, some from 3 to 4 and some from 2 to 3.

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SEO Chiangmai International SEO Offerings

By admin | Published: February 9, 2010

International SEO Offerings and Experience

SEO Chiangmai is an SEO/SEM/Internet Marketing/Ecommerce consulting company. We've taught marketing, innovation and entrepreneurship, public relations, and organizational communication at the university level for 7 years. We've done IT consulting for 10 years and Internet marketing consulting for 5 years. The point is that this experience and expertise is brought to bear specifically in Internet Marketing where we do SEM (paid search/advertising) and SEO (site optimization and link-building).

Yuanyang Sunset over Rice Terraces

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Price of Web Content, Freelance Writing, SEO

By admin | Published: January 27, 2010

Cost of Web Content and Pay for Freelance Writers

The Letter Writer

How much should we pay for content? There is quite a range out there. How much should writers get paid? In-house, outsource or partnerships? These are strategic as well as tactical questions.

For those of us who want or need to buy content, it is paid for up front, either under exclusive or non-exclusive agreements. It is also possible to find articles to purchase which are ready to go, or propose new articles and wait for writers to bid or submit writing which is then paid for.

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Markdown, Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare - Plugins for WordPress

By admin | Published: January 22, 2010

Markdown WordPress Plugin

Markdown Cheetsheet

Markdown is a fantastic tool for providing document markup that is then transformed into HTML. Storage space is reduced from storing HTML, therefore queries to retrieve are reduced, and most importantly readability is increased.

The Markdown WordPress plugin (v.1.2.2 in any case) works great though in our current template we have trouble with it executing from within certain blocks such as inside of tables, widgets and in shortcode-supported footers.

As stated, Markdown does require learning (and remembering), that is recognition vs. recall. However, once learned the use of Markdown in offline documents (such as email) can be an even better markup than either something made up, or the requirement to use a rich text editor. WordPerfect 5.1 still beats MS Word, in our humble, old-school opinion.

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