Archive for April, 2007

Nina Wang leaves behind a huge fortune

I just heard that Nina Wang, who was Asia’s richest woman has passed away, and it is seems rather ironic that when she was alive, she was reknowned as a very “thrifty” person, and now all that enormous fortune will be left behind to others although it’s still a unclear who actually will get most [...]

WordPress vs Blogger? Pros and cons – Part One

If you have been online for awhile now, you would probably have heard of the blog phenomenon OR came across many blogs by now in your daily surfing. Here, I won’t be talking about blogging, but rather about the excellent blogging tools that bloggers have come to love – WordPress and Blogger. Now, I have [...]

Using robots.txt file to prevent search engine spidering

When a search engine spider vists a site, say http://www.YourSite.com/, first of all, it checks for YourSite.com/robots.txt. If the robots.txt file exists (you actually created one) it will look for this code. User-agent: * Disallow: / Sometimes, for certain reasons such as: sales pages site rules disclaimers privacy policies private pages contact pages (prevent spamming) [...]

Redirecting your urls to a www prefix

Here is a sure way to ensure that your site always starts with a http://www. prefix. It doesn’t really matter as far as SEO is concerned whether a www. is better than a non www, but it still appears that at least 90% of all sites on the web start with a www. If you [...]

How to choose a good domain name

Without a doubt, this is the most important step of all. Be sure of what you want to implement on your site, the concept or theme, before you start the process of brainstorming a suitable domain. There is nothing like the satisfaction of owning a domain name that you can call your very own, at [...]

Domain basics

I have something to reveal, I’m a domaining enthusiast. Although I don’t claim to be a pro at it, but domaining is something that got me a lot more fixated with the web a long time ago and instantly gave me a presence on the web. Just register a domain and “voila!” you have an [...]