Rick Ong

The number of websites I’m managing keeps growing and it’s getting harder to track their rankings, especially if you track more than one keyword per domain. Imagine having just 10 domains and having to track the search engine result pages (serps) for the 10 keywords for each domain. That would be madness! I’ve used several [...]

Sometimes you want to remove certain characters from your database but can’t use find and replace because you only want to remove the characters at the beginning and end of a table’s column. This is where TRIM() comes in handy. Here’s how to use it. To remove leading character(s): UPDATE `table` set `field` = TRIM( [...]

This is what I got for doing Keyword Research. Apparently Google gets lots of automated queries that force them to block queries now. At one time they was a captcha but now they just block me. I wonder how many queries are allowed? I ran a google search on my other computer, a mac, using [...]

As the internet grows older, it gets more crowded and internet real estate a.k.a. domain names get snapped up left and right. It gets harder and harder to register a short domain name, and even the long ones are taken too! Oftentimes we are faced with a situation on whether to choose a domain with [...]

Before embarking on an SEO campaign or when choosing a niche market to target, keyword research and careful planning should be done so efforts are focused. Here are some steps to get you started Use Google Keyword Tool to gather relevant keywords. Copy results and paste into Google Traffic Estimator to get CPC, Clicks and Revenue data. [...]

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