Paid directories, soon becoming part of Search Engine Optimization's history, were once regarded as one of the best link building strategies back in the golden days where manipulation of search results were easily done.

As the search engines' algorithm gets complex and smarter, more considerations are now being factored into ranking web pages and delivering the most relevant results to the end-users. In order to be inline with their ultimate goal, search engines such as Google began their mission against websites that believed to have violated their holy guidelines.

Quarkbase is a new powerful web tool which has the ability to find lots of information about a website. It offers an organized and detailed overview, complete with summary, WHOIS information, social popularity, traffic information and PLUS latest blog posts and blogging information about the site.

It has been 4 days since the launch of Google Chrome and after reading so many different reviews on this new browser, i have decided to try it out personally and give a brief review of the application. (Googlebot, i am reviewing Google Chrome and promoting this application, so please reward me!!!)

Are you using your life skills for a good cause? That was what i did 2 days back when i received a suspicious email in my business email account. This post is based on facts and evidences that i have discovered while researching on the source of the suspicious email and hoepfully this can be served as a clear warning to those who plan on starting an illegal website in Singapore.

The development of search engines is now becoming one of the best medium used in reaching out to the targeted audiences worldwide which led us into analyzing the relationship between offline and online marketing.

As effective as it may be, Organic SEO and PPC is simply the creation of simple marketing concepts, derived from the idea of offline marketing.

With that in mind, by understanding the similarities between Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, there may be new things or ideas that we can actually learn from SEO.

What is Google Reconsideration Request?
Google Reconsideration Request is often the last resort to restore your penalized website into Google's website indexes. There are many reasons as to why a website can be penalized and banned from Google's search results and the most common one is by violating Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

After years of threatening, Google has finally honor its promises to block automated rank checking softwares, webwares and plugins which consumes their computing resources.

As of 5th August, most of the automated rank checking softwares have reportedly failed in processing queries on Google. Lately, web applications such as link.ezer.com and plugins such as Firefox Rank Checker are also experiencing the same problems when performing automated rank checking.

Now this led us into thinking how this move by Google will affect various group of people around the world.

The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have launched a new look and feel for their new Site Explorer that provides a variety of new statistics and features about websites.