Singapore Web Design Company Blog

Have a strong feeling that Google will update its pagerank very soon, maybe within these 2 weeks. (For info, Google pagerank is Google’s method to determine importance of websites). You can download Google toolbar and check up the pagerank of web sites. New web sites will normally have 0 pagerank. This site has a pagerank of 4 at the moment.

We have used some pagerank prediction tools for Edlinkservices.com. This site may go to pagerank 6 after the next update. I wonder if those tools are really useful.

Google pagerank update happens once every 3 to 4 months. If your site has a good pagerank, other webmasters may think highly of your site. There are some other obvious benefits:

• Directory editors often use Google toolbar to determine the reputation of web sites. Its often their 1st impression of a web site.
• When the pagerank bar is green color, it means your site is not a spam in Google’s eyes. Google will slash your pagerank to 0 if you intend to cheat for higher pagerank. Or if you have been using some sneaky techniques to boost pagerank, you may be in danger too.

Since Google only updates its pagerank every few months, there are things we need to do to prepare for the update. This will be a good time to generate content and resources, build links.

There have been clients asking about our search engine optimization services. In the internet marketing industry, we call it SEO for short.

Often, there are many misconceptions about SEO. When we ask our clients whether they are ready for SEO, they always say they are ready, and it is their number 1 priority to be found on Google. But as we probe further, Some are willing to offer $200 to optimize a site.

We can understand the situation, because SEO is still largely unknown in Singapore. So, clients may not know that SEO can cost up to $10k for a site in North America. Companies are killing one another for the top spots.

While we do not charge as high, SEO can still cost up to few thousand dollars, depending on your industry competition. If your site is about gambling, it will naturally cost more to market online. Also, Singapore online search is not as competitive compared to many other countries, maybe due to its small population.

But SEO will not cost as low as few hundred dollars. It is a specialized skills learnt through our years of experience online. If programmers are paid better than web designers, internet marketers should be paid more. After all, they are the ones who can bring results that you can see.

If you are ready to optimize your site and get it listed on Google Top 10, feel free to find out more about our SEO services.

For a few weeks now, edlinkservices.com has been ranked No.1 in MSN for the following keyword phrases:

• Singapore web design
• Singapore web designer

This clearly illustrate to our clients that we are capable of achieving high ranking for even competitive industry like web design. Of course, there are clients asking us about our Google ranking.

For Google, we are ranked Top 10 for “Singapore web designer“. Google normally do not offer high ranking for new web sites. I believe it makes sense, since new players are less likely to offer good quality services. Edlinkservices.com is barely 6 months old (we are confident with our services though).

In the SEO industry, internet marketers will know about this. And we call it the “Google Sandbox Effect”. Hopefully, you can see us on Top 3 of Google search result by the end of February. This is what we hope to achieve.

On Yahoo!, its not so fast. Normally Yahoo! also takes about 4-5 months to give new sites high ranking. We believe you can find us on Top 20 of Yahoo! by the end of this month though.

We are doing all ethical SEO and we do not spam the search engines. Naturally, they recognize our effort for contributing good content online. Search engines are too clever nowadays. So, its really not worth the effort to use dirty tricks. I am aware of all those tricks like smart pages, spider food, cloaking, doorway pages and all the crappy stuff they can think of. We find all these techniques useless.

So if you are one of those spammers, please start doing something productive and generate good content. By the way, some webmasters have been spamming this site today. I seriously hope they can realize that this is not the way to get inbound links. We are not stupid, and we have been online for quite some time.