Oct 31 2008

WordPress and SEO

Category: SEO - SEM & Online AdvertisingHieu Trung @ 11:51 pm

There is a big bunch of resources on optimizing your blog for search engines. I have tried to collect the best tips and plugins in this article.

These tips won’t flood your blog with visitors – no SEO tips will. Use these tips to improve your site, and fight for a lot of backlinks and visitors by writing quality content and putting a lot of work into it. It has never been easy to run a website, and it for sure isn’t getting easier.

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Oct 31 2008

Title tags in SEO

Category: SEO - SEM & Online AdvertisingHieu Trung @ 11:42 pm

I’ve been wondering if I’m using a good title format for my sites and which format is the best. Then I found a useful article on ProBlogger that talks about the formats. As a result, there is no best format for your page title, it depends on your needs of business and branding. Check out the analytic article:

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Oct 31 2008

Myths about Google

Category: SEO - SEM & Online AdvertisingHieu Trung @ 11:24 pm

Due to some problems with the computer, I was a bit late to the 3rd Google Webmaster Chat. They were making an exciting presentation about the myths that shouldn’t be believed about Google. All I could have was its last slide :( Anyway, it’s better than nothing. And here are some of the myths:

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Oct 31 2008

Common questions at 3rd Google Webmaster Chat

Category: SEO - SEM & Online AdvertisingHieu Trung @ 10:54 pm

The following are useful question that have been answered by Googlers from the 3rd Google Webmaster Chat. Thanks Du Nguyen for collecting them, I did ask for his approval and would like to take some of them from his page, which I pay much attention to.

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Oct 25 2008

Deny directory listing on your blog/site

Category: Web DevelopmentHieu Trung @ 2:04 pm

Directory listing might be harmful to your site because others can browse and download all files in your directories. Preventing this problem is less than easy with 2 basic ways:

  1. Use blank index file: In most case, your web server will load the file named index.html in a directory by default when it’s called by the browser. So just upload a blank index.html to the directories which you don’t want to be listed. After that, your server will response a blank page instead of listing that directory when it’s called.
  2. Use .htaccess file: upload a file named .htaccess which contains only: Options -Indexes on your root directory. If you already have a .htaccess with other contents in it, simply edit and add 1 more row like above. All your directories are inaccessible from now on, a 403 page will be shown instead.

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Oct 25 2008

Advanced Google Search Operators

Category: SEO - SEM & Online AdvertisingHieu Trung @ 1:00 am

We all know Google is great, but it’s much greater if you know how to use its advanced search operators to explore the WWW. I make a summary of useful and popular search operators here for reference. Most of them serve the SEO purpose very well. You know, I’m not gonna try to remember everything but just remember where to find it when I need (to save space in my “hard disk”), so I’ll post every necessary things on my site. If you are a pro Googler, just skip it.

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Oct 17 2008

Usability trunk test

Category: Usability AnalysisHieu Trung @ 10:48 pm

Imagine that you’ve been bindfolded and locked insite a trunk of a car, then driven around for a while and dumped on a strange street. Could you look around the place and tell exactly where you are? If you ask your site users something like that while giving them a random link on your site, how would the answer be? Do you expect them to tell exactly where they are and what your site is about? If yes, firstly check if your have a user-friendly site by this simple but useful test.

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Oct 16 2008

Online Advertising Courses

Category: SEO - SEM & Online AdvertisingHieu Trung @ 9:17 pm

As the “online” industry is not really popular in Vietnam, you can hardly find some training courses about SEO, SEM or Online Advertising. So I’ve been looking for some online courses that help us out and found some good choices till now:

I’m also looking for some BA courses. Hope to find them soon.

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Oct 13 2008

Becoming a BA

Category: Business AnalysisHieu Trung @ 11:07 pm

What is a Business Analyst?

A Business Analyst (BA) is an organizer, listener, investigator, facilitator, communicator, collaborator, innovator, and much more!

A business analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. The business analyst understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

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Oct 12 2008

What is Usability?

Category: Usability AnalysisHieu Trung @ 12:20 pm

From UPA in the ISO 9241 standard:

Usability is an approach to product development that incorporates direct user feedback throughout the development cycle in order to reduce costs and create products and tools that meet user needs. There are many definitions of usability from books by usability professionals.

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