<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497</id><updated>2024-02-09T00:07:53.904+08:00</updated><title type='text'>SEO Marketing Blog by TIMMGuru</title><subtitle type='html'>Just my thoughts on the Singapore SEO and Search Engine Marketing industry</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default?alt=atom'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-114137530243837455</id><published>2006-03-03T16:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-04T00:02:24.106+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Google-Yahoo-MSN Meta Search Engine</title><summary type="text">This is a new discovery for me. And I found a very useful service. In fact, I think it is the best meta search engine and I am not the only person who thinks so. I have been looking for such meta crawler with comparative search results for a long time - finally it&#39;s here.Imagine how much easier can it get to make just 1 mouse click and you have a comparative search results on your keywords. This </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/114137530243837455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/114137530243837455' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/114137530243837455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/114137530243837455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-yahoo-msn-meta-search-engine.html' title='Google-Yahoo-MSN Meta Search Engine'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-114109043938376375</id><published>2006-02-28T09:14:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-28T09:42:32.166+08:00</updated><title type='text'>SEOMart 25 Guaranteed Directory Listings</title><summary type="text">After getting satisfactory service from SEOMart, I was ready to spend more money. So I ask about their 25  Guaranteed Listings service at US$99. It is quite a sum of money. So I got to be careful. I emailed to as what directories my link will be listed in. No direct answer to my first email. I re-phrase my question and ask again. This time I got a list of the directories, I listed 3 of them </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/114109043938376375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/114109043938376375' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/114109043938376375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/114109043938376375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2006/02/seomart-25-guaranteed-directory.html' title='SEOMart 25 Guaranteed Directory Listings'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-114070652400584499</id><published>2006-02-23T22:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-24T00:12:56.193+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Outsourcing to India SEO companies</title><summary type="text">Two days ago, I tried a SEO company based in India, SEOMart.com. This company offers link s building service. As you know, the quantity of inbound links(IBL&#39;s) determine your website PR ranking. The more IBL&#39;s  the better.  So I tested their service with a purchase on some one-way IBL&#39;s. They provide very prompt service and I got a response withing 30 minutes of placing the order. The order was </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/114070652400584499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/114070652400584499' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/114070652400584499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/114070652400584499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2006/02/outsourcing-to-india-seo-companies.html' title='Outsourcing to India SEO companies'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-113124985460995128</id><published>2005-11-06T11:43:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-11-06T12:04:14.620+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Singaporeans among Asia biggest online shoppers</title><summary type="text">It was reported in the Sunday Times that web users from Singapore are among Asia&#39;s biggest and most frequent shoppers on the Internet. From the report, I gather that most Singaporeans use the Internet to shop for bargain items. Whereas in the USA, Canada, UK and Australia, people use the Internet to shop because of convenience - lower price is a bonus considering the additional delivery </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/113124985460995128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/113124985460995128' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/113124985460995128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/113124985460995128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/11/singaporeans-among-asia-biggest-online.html' title='Singaporeans among Asia biggest online shoppers'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-112769684304663312</id><published>2005-09-26T08:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-26T09:19:04.696+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tips on writing text ad copy</title><summary type="text">Initially I was frustrated with my inability to write a PPC text ad copy that would win clicks. I have spent hundreds of dollars on Google and Yahoo pay-per-click advertisement. However, I had little success.I read several articles by Perry Marshall on Google Adwords and spent hours in selecting and compiling big lists of keywords. I used a combination of keyword selector tools from Google and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/112769684304663312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/112769684304663312' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112769684304663312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112769684304663312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/09/tips-on-writing-text-ad-copy.html' title='Tips on writing text ad copy'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-112200570065510709</id><published>2005-07-22T11:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-22T12:15:00.660+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Delisted by Search Engines</title><summary type="text">Why did the Search Engine delisted my website?As far as Google is concerned,  links from rule-bending and pseudo-directory sites may be the cause. Your incoming links may have negative effect on your website if they belong to the category mentioned above.  Sites that are short on content but have too many outbound links covering a multitude of topics might be deemed untrusted. Sites where it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/112200570065510709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/112200570065510709' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112200570065510709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112200570065510709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/07/delisted-by-search-engines.html' title='Delisted by Search Engines'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-112187194086400711</id><published>2005-07-20T22:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-20T23:05:40.870+08:00</updated><title type='text'>SEO and Adsense</title><summary type="text">This is a speculation and may not have any truth about the actual search engine optimization practice and putting up Adsense for Content. The cause for my suspicion arose from not only my own experience but also a joint venture partner&#39;s.Here&#39;s the story...In May 2005, I&#39;d got 2 high ranking websites been removed from Yahoo search database. Together, they pull in more than 10,000 impressions </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/112187194086400711/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/112187194086400711' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112187194086400711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112187194086400711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/07/seo-and-adsense.html' title='SEO and Adsense'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-112141803368589402</id><published>2005-07-15T16:30:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-15T17:00:33.690+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Internet Marketing Trick - Pseudo Directory</title><summary type="text">One of the Internet Marketing Tricks that has failed recently is pseudo directory. This is a directory consisted of software generated pages with targeted keywords. And because ten of thousands pages flooding the cyberspace and clotting up search engine results, Yahoo has been delisting majoring of these Web sites from its database since April/May 2005.The page mill programs in question is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/112141803368589402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/112141803368589402' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112141803368589402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112141803368589402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/07/internet-marketing-trick-pseudo.html' title='Internet Marketing Trick - Pseudo Directory'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-112114158135951070</id><published>2005-07-12T12:07:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-12T12:19:55.453+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Internet Marketing Seminar</title><summary type="text">There are quite a number of Internet marketing seminars available in Singapore. Some are conducted locally and other in KL, i.e. you travel to KL, stay in a hotel and attend the seminar. One of the reason for the seminar to be conducted in KL instead of Singapore is the lower cost in renting hotel conference room - it is at least 50% less costly in KL.However, I was told there are at least 2 </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/112114158135951070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/112114158135951070' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112114158135951070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112114158135951070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/07/internet-marketing-seminar.html' title='Internet Marketing Seminar'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-112105817412928732</id><published>2005-07-11T13:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-11T13:13:33.486+08:00</updated><title type='text'>SEO and Internet marketing</title><summary type="text">When you add SEO to Internet marketing, you will eventually end up with search marketing. As you are aware that many Internet marketers do not optimize their Web sites for search engines. However, search engine optimization mandatory for effective Internet marketing campaign.I observed that over the last 6 months or so, more and more webmasters in Singapore are using SEO on their web pages. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/112105817412928732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/112105817412928732' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112105817412928732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112105817412928732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/07/seo-and-internet-marketing.html' title='SEO and Internet marketing'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-112098518801027347</id><published>2005-07-10T16:15:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-10T16:46:28.013+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Search Engine Algorithm</title><summary type="text">If you have been trying to optimize your Web site so as to get ranked well in the major search engines, you must have heard about the notoriery of SE changing their algorithm and then the top ranked web sites got kicked and even delisted.It really happened. And it happened to me just a few months ago. One of my Web site was removed from Yahoo search database and I lost a big chunk of Adsense </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/112098518801027347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/112098518801027347' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112098518801027347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112098518801027347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/07/search-engine-algorithm.html' title='Search Engine Algorithm'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-112089284506140423</id><published>2005-07-09T14:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-09T15:12:38.110+08:00</updated><title type='text'>SEO and Google Indexing</title><summary type="text">Just read an article by John Fowler on SEO and Google Indexing. He said that SEO is not easy and getting in the top 10 results of Google search results is not trivial so you should hire an expert to help you.And I agree with that.Well, this seems to contradict with what I said in my earlier post on Easy SEO. That was an easy one because I was help my friend to optimize for a keyword that is not </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/112089284506140423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/112089284506140423' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112089284506140423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112089284506140423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/07/seo-and-google-indexing.html' title='SEO and Google Indexing'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14290497.post-112078273539551573</id><published>2005-07-08T08:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-09T13:31:54.146+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Easy Search Engine Optimization</title><summary type="text">I just realized that SEO is getting easier! I was enlightened by an incident while trying to help fellow forum member to opimize his website for search engine visibility.One of the best ways to get into GYM search databases is by bloggin. I suggested to my friend to start a blog on Internet marketing since he was trying to put togather a group and help them to start some home-based online </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/feeds/112078273539551573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/14290497/112078273539551573' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112078273539551573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14290497/posts/default/112078273539551573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timmguru.blogspot.com/2005/07/easy-search-engine-optimization.html' title='Easy Search Engine Optimization'/><author><name>TIMMGuru</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18396276861188407683</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>