A Day In The Life Of An SEO Guru

8:09am
Decides to wake up after a couple of alarm clock snoozes. Realizes that he’s late for work, he decides to skip breakfast and just had quick shower, brush his teeth, dress up and zoom to work.

8:48am
Reaches his desk and turns on his PC which was left on the whole night. The reason: Advanced Web Ranking has been measuring ranking of his client’s keywords. Quickly glances at the report and shrugs his shoulders when he doesn’t notice anything exciting on the rankings. He closes the application. Opens his Google Reader and quickly glances at Search Engine Marketing related articles. Marks a few of them for reference later.

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Hotmail: Firefox IS a Bad Browser

Checking Hotmail in Firefox generates an error.

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Reference #7.b983963f.1238459334.0

Does this mean Hotmail wants us to use Internet Explorer and keep its market share? D’oh! Internet Explorer too. Hotmail has a problem.

Weird & Strange Google Search Results

How many times do you use search engines every time you go online? And during such occurrences, how many times do you notice that search results you find look strange, funny, if not outright weird?
Here are some of those you might have come across already.

1. search engine
When you talk about search engine, what comes to my mind first? (Hint, hint: it’s now even a verb at Oxford English Dictionary.) I know Altavista is also a search engine, but why is it ahead of Google, Live Search or Yahoo!?

Weird & Strange Google Search Results: search engine

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Google Australia Allows Searching Tomorrow, Today

I actually hate April Fools Day because my cousin April and my father (may he rest in peace) celebrate their birthdays on April first and it’s not meant for a day of jokes but for the sake of everyone else, let’s see what the web has to offer on this day full of hoaxes. Google Australia is proud to introduce gDay™ with MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation).

Developed by Google’s Sydney office, this product allows users to determine tomorrow as if it happened today using Google’s robots to scan the web for public contents.

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Long Tail: The Funny Search Phrases

Looking at my Living in Hong Kong blog’s web analytics data, here are some quirky terms I scooped out.

126,923 are you kidding me
I guess it’s one of those who read my blog about the price of a square foot in Causeway Bay property, and s/he vividly remembers the “are you kidding me” part.

“indians”"urinate”"floor”"india”
I don’t think so. They should have their toilets where they urinate and it’s derogatory to think that Indians urinate on the floor.

mongkok fake
Yes, it’s well known to everyone. In fact, piracy and faking is rising worldwide.

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