Feb 242012
 

Search engines treat singular and plural keywords a bit differently based upon past search history. If there have been a lot more searches on the singular of a keyword or key phrase, Google will present you the singular along with the plurals even though you searched on the plural. The difference in results is very striking when instead of the normal broad search, you do an exact match search, that is in quotation marks. For example, do a search on halal restaurant in San Francisco   halal restaurants in San Francisco   “halal restaurant in San Francisco”   “halal restaurants in San Francisco” Go to Google and do a search on the above. See how different the results are. Also [Read More ...]

Feb 242012
 

Baidu is the biggest search engine in China and is growing by leaps and bounds. Soon, it will start expanding globally. Like any good search engine, it will eventually index your website but if you would like to get ahead of the curve, feel free to submit your site URL for indexing in Baidu. Here is the link: http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html Good Luck!

Feb 192012
 

A new type of search engine DuckDuckgo.com Nobody can compete with Google as far as the sheer volume of accumulated data is concerned. Yahoo has given up and Bing is a very very distant competitor. So you would think why would somebody even try to enter the search engine marketplace – and you are right. However; this has not deterred innovation. People keep coming up with new ideas around search concepts. One new entrant in this area is http://duckduckgo.com. You cannot submit your site to DuckDuckGo because it does not really crawl sites like a traditional search engine. DuckDuckGo’s focus is on taking search results from other search engines and sifting through it to present you with better results, that [Read More ...]

May 232011
 
The amazing reach of the internet

We have been strictly an e-commerce company since 1996 but it never ceases to amaze me how far and wide the reach of the internet is. Look at the graph below. It only lists the top 10 traffic originating countries but they are spread over four continents. Think about all the opportunities we have today. What an amazing world we live in!  

Mar 232011
 

What is GDI – Global Domains International GDI or Global Domains International is an establised Inc. 500 company that manages the .ws domain names on the internet. Domain names are the web addresses that companies have on the internet. For example, google.com is a domain name. eBay.com, interloper.com, verizon.net are all examples of domain names. When you type in ebay.com in your browser, you are taken to that business’s (eBay in this case) address and you can now interact and conduct business with them. GDI handles domain names that end in .ws. What is a .WS and why do we need it? Remember all Toll Free telephone numbers used to be 1-800. Then they started running out and 1-877 was [Read More ...]

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