There are many other factors as well, but if you follow these guidelines, you’ll stand a much better chance, and you’ll be off to a good start.

1. Title Meta Tag
The title tag is what displays as the headline in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). It’s also what displays in the top blue band of Internet Explorer when your site is displayed.

Your title tag of your website should be easy to read and designed to bring in traffic. By that, I mean that your main keyword phrase should be used toward the beginning of the tag. True there are websites being found now that do not use the phrase in the title, but the vast majority still do as of this writing.

Don’t make the mistake of putting your company name first, unless you are already a household name, like Nascar or HBO. People are likely searching for what you have to offer, not your name.

Your title tag should be written with a capital letter starting the tag, and followed by all lowercase letters, unless you’re using proper nouns. Some people prefer to capitalize every word, too.

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Addition of Yi-Online to i1Games family will be effective on 27th October 2006.

Yi-Online is a chinese version game published by Iguana mobile and already in the market for sometime. Due to its popularity i1Games are offering Yi-Online points to all thier members.

For more info you may visit Yi-online website or to order just logon to your i1Games account.

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Due to overwhelming request by members to reduce the price of RYL to the same as market price, i1Games finally revised the price of both RYL Merdeka and Anniversary pack to USD 11.00 (formally USD13.3 after applying forex) for all paypal and moneybookers orders while maintaining Malaysian price at RM38 respectively.

The new price effective immediately regardless of our standard forex rate. We want to stay competitive and same time wanting to expose our company to the International that we are the primier online games portal for all your gaming needs. To purchase RYL simply go here. You’ll able to see the price in the gateway currency immediately when you purchase.

Link building has always been a hot topic. In the beginning of the web hyperlinks were virtually the only way to get visitors to a site, because search engines were in their infancy. When search engines grew to be the major source of the web traffic, links didn’t lose their weight, as search algorithms started to rank sites according to the quantity and quality of their incoming links. And today links become increasingly important with the growing significance of the new Web 2.0 social networks.

Link Popularity Building Strategies

Thus, links rule the Internet. Once a routine task of a webmaster, link building has emerged itself into a full scale industry with millions of dollars in turnover. Ranking algorithms perceive links as a proxy for a human judgment, or a user’s positive endorsement of a page. The idea is as follows: a user discovers a page, likes its content, links to the page, and the page gets higher ranking. This is the so-called ‘natural way’ of acquiring links.

The natural way of acquiring link works is too slow and can be pretty unfair. New pages on big and established websites are far more likely to be discovered by web users, and these pages will get the major part of the new links (like 90%); while new pages on fresh sites will get trinkets. This is a serious defect of the link ranking system which is discussed more in details in my article Popularity Ranking Faults.

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Get ready for plenty of action with more tournaments to come.

This weekend Mahjong Time hosts the first online tournaments ever for Hong Kong Mahjong and Chinese Official Mahjong.

Read on to find out more…

WORLD’S FIRST OFFICIAL TOURNAMENTS

MahjongTime is hosting the Worlds First Hong Kong Mahjong (HKMJ) Online Tournament and the Worlds First Chinese Official (COMJ) Online Tournament! The tournament will include hundreds of skilled mahjong players from all over the globe, and a guaranteed grand prize of min $1000 for each tournament!

Also…

Mahjong Time is now hosting “Sit-and-Go” Tournaments! They are free to join and the winning league members will earn Tournament Reward Points that can be converted into cash!

PLAYER PROMOTIONS

100% BONUS In case you haven’t heard, your players will receive a 100% Bonus when they make a deposit of $20 into their account. This means that your players can play double the tournaments, win double the money, and have double the fun! Get on playing and win right away!

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Over the past two years the internet has been changing from a depository of static information to a vibrant, live conversation. Now referred to as Web 2.0, the live web is a very different place. Instead of using online photo albums we now have Flickr and YouTube. Instead of the Encyclopedia Britannica online, we have Wikipedia. And as Fortune Magazine said, we have blogs - for better or worse.

Web 2.0 has given the average person the power of voice. The barriers to online publishing are gone. Anyone can set up a blog in mere minutes and have their say online. In text, images and video. They can podcast and videocast. They can syndicate their thoughts and ideas in an RSS feed, making their comments visible to the entire world. And unlike print, it won’t disappear in a few weeks or months. It’s there for the duration.

What does this mean for public relations? No longer are we crafting one way messages that we can control. We are not doing media relations anymore - it has indeed become public relations. There is a public conversation going on and as a PR practitioner you need to learn how to be a part of this conversation.

What works in traditional PR does not always work in PR 2.0. Of course the basic rules of communication are still the same, but the online world has its own set of rules.

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A brief introduction to the theory: The relationship between social networks, search engines, and blogs mirrors what we already know about the word of mouth function in the real world, except it is much more efficient in cyberspace.

The way people bounce from home to work to lunch with friends to dinner with family and on to the mall is a behavior replicated online. Jointly, an entire system of relationships is a system of influence that directly impacts consumer behavior.

The power the online social network yields, then, is staggering. Expect the next generation of Internet users to embrace social networks the way the present one has embraced search.

Combined, the two magnify their ecommerce power exponentially. Beyond the current hype surrounding the prices Google and News Corp. are willing to pay for these networks should be recognition of that power, as well as careful attention paid to who owns them.

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One important thing I should mention is that I assume you have a website that is SEO friendly. If it is completely designed in flash, it is not. If it contains frames, it is not. If it is made up of images, it is not. This will make things a lot harder. I have seen some websites that are beautifully designed in flash or contained within frames that have been invisible on search engines. Even after 3 years, their sites did not appear anywhere. The content of this article actually assumes that you have appropriately designed your website. If not, then I recommend hiring a company to perform an seo assessment or audit to increase your potential.

One of the main things you need is to start building a network of incoming links. We’ll tackle relevancy later on but for now, let’s focus on ways for getting sites to link to you.

Incoming Links: (external links)
Significant links are those who have a Page Rank in excess of 3/10 (as determined by the popularity of a website). Yahoo.com, for example, has a Page Rank of 10/10, which is very valuable. Consider getting additional links to your site by submitting to directories that have a high page rank like Yahoo! (Page Rank - 10), Superpages.com (Page Rank - 8) or Dmoz.org (Page Rank -9) to take advantage of valuable incoming links. Some of these are free, others charge a nominal fee while Yahoo! charges $299 for submission to their directory. A better place to start is http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php where you can find a list of directories, paid and free, that could be valuable to you.

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This list is not in the order of importance, that means the first one on the list is not the most important and the last one on the list does not mean least important.

This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Indians, etc) who were being racially discriminated.

Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is
government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?

This list cover a period of about 48 years since independence (1957).

List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):*

(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by Malays

(2) 99% of Petronas directors are Malays

(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese

(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by Malays

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