Google Search with Options

May 30, 2009

Now Google Search has options. This is good news for end users and bad news for internet money gurus.

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Written by Binh Nguyen · Filed Under SEO · Leave a Comment

Position 10 for SEO Web Design

July 31, 2008

Now Binh.name is being positioned 10 on both main keywords:

SEO Web Design, and
SEO Web Designer.

In the past it used to have top position for my first name Binh. However, it may be due to Google updating the PR, my site is being listed at position #13 for that.

Mean while, for the same potential reason, my name Binh Nguyen normally placed my site on #3 position, now place it on top position.

If I build links well, I expect in the future my site also have site links like other high PR sites have. However, I'm not seriously doing it yet.

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Tags: binh.name, google, keyword, SEO

Written by Binh Nguyen · Filed Under SEO · 3 Comments

Ranks 54 on SEO Web Design

May 5, 2008

I've been targeting SEO Web Design and SEO Web Designer keywords since March 2008. I haven't officially provide any SEO services, yet. However, I do plan to improve my ranking on those keywords and when I do provide services, I can use this as a case study for my success.

Since Binh.name has increased PR from 3 to 4, here are the changes on placements search engine result page:

SEO web design: #58+ down to #54
SEO web designer: #39+ down to #37
Binh: #3+ down to #1
Binh Nguyen: remain #3

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Tags: Binh, binh.name, keyword, Personal, SEO, SEO web design

Written by Binh Nguyen · Filed Under SEO, Site · 5 Comments

Improve PageRank By Buying High PR Domains

March 15, 2008

Did anyone successfully improve their site's PageRank using old domain names with higher PageRank? I am doing a case study and I bought a few domains with PR of 5. Hopefully that is white hat SEO and Google won't penalize me for that.

Those domains are not in Google index. So I would like to do a test and link to them from this post to see if within the next few days they will be in Google SERP.

The third domain is ModulinePro.com. I believe this to be Moduline Pro product site, which is now under my ownership.

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Tags: domain, link-building, PageRank, SEO

Written by Binh Nguyen · Filed Under SEO · 11 Comments

Surprised PageRank Update in February 2008

March 1, 2008

Did you see the recent PageRank (PR) update? When did it happen? A few days ago my homepage was still at PR 2, now suddently jumped to PR 3 out of thin air without me building any massive amount of links. This is not good. I didn't prepare any new building.

I guess the update just happened because it's end of Febuary in the US, and it's already 1st of March here in Asia. I'm not sure about this, but I'm sure about one thing, my PR increased.

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Tags: blog, google, PageRank, SEO, tools

Written by Binh Nguyen · Filed Under SEO · 8 Comments

Binh.name Positioned 3rd for my Own Name

March 1, 2008

It's a very big surprise for me to see my blog is listed at third position for the following keywords:

So what's the secret behind all this? The answer will be given at the end of this post, for now, allow me to keep on bragging.

Of course those keywords mean nothing for money and keyword ranking, because who would ever search for binh or binh nguyen? But that was my experiment and I'm extremely happy with this result.

What sort of experiment? You may ask. For a while, my blog has been on first position for only the following keywords:

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Tags: binh.name, blog, google, keyword

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How to Leave Comments the Smart Way

November 28, 2007

When you leave comments on a blog post, do you ever concern the benefits beside satisfying your need to say out opinions? Most likely not, and this article may make you change your mind and teach you how to comment the smarter way.

Why comment smartly?

Search engine relies on links to calculate link popularity and hence prioritize pages on the search results. If you have a website or blog you would like to have the search engines to recognize it.

One method of building link popularity is to include your home page address in the comments that you leave on other blogs. However, most of those blogs block search engines from seeing your address.

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Tags: commenting, how-to, PageRank, SEO, tools

Written by Binh Nguyen · Filed Under SEO · 7 Comments

An Introduction to PageRank

November 27, 2007

Many people who first time see the word PageRank in their life after they have been blogging or building their website for years. It has brought into my attention that most of the pages on the Interenet are using too much technical terms in their articles when explaining PageRank, so here is my simple version of explanation. You will find in this article:

What is PageRank?
Why do we need PageRank?
Building PageRank
How to check PageRank

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Tags: PageRank, SEO

Written by Binh Nguyen · Filed Under SEO · 3 Comments

Do You Make These Mistakes With Article Submission?

November 22, 2007

Original content quality article, sound like something normal? Yes, indeed it's too normal for me to recognize the benefit. Look at the snapshot above and tell me, can you believe that article of mine got listed on 1,430 unique external pages?

Introduction

Here is an overview of what happened.

8 months ago I wrote 2 articles and submitted it to EzineArticles.com. Then I forgot about them. 2 months ago I revised the articles and... 1 got rejected, 1 got re-published. I didn't really care. Until... today

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Tags: article, Resources, traffic, writing

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75 URLs for Blog Update Ping Services

November 16, 2007

Thanks to Simon on his recent 35 RSS Feed Sites To Promote Your Site. I also want to contribute some of my findings. I'm listing here the 74 blog pinging services. I have added those ping URLs into my WordPress Update Services.