First WORDPRESS meetup in Dubai

Posted on 31. Dec, 2008 by Jon Edward Santillan in Wordpress

Yes it’s true there will be a first wordpress meetup in Dubai and it will be on friday January 2nd at Montgomery Golf Course. Matthew Mullenweg founding developer of WordPress is in town right now and WP fanatic like us :) will meet him. It will be exciting and interesting to have a conversation with Matt and of course with the other fellow internet geeky people that will come in the event.

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Client who is lurking, learning or looking for SEO Consultant

Posted on 11. Dec, 2008 by Jon Edward Santillan in SEO, Website

A few weeks ago,I had a meeting with one of the Real Estate Software Company in Dubai to do freelance SEO for their product which is property management software. Not mentioning the company name, it is one of the leading property management companies in Dubai. The meeting lasted for almost 45 minutes and some of the discussions we tackled were mostly about search engine marketing and web analytics. The questions that were asked were mostly regarding SEO and samples of my work, which were: (more…)

SEO UAE community in Google groups

Posted on 08. Dec, 2008 by Jon Edward Santillan in SEO, SEO News, Website

SEO UAE community is now on Google groups. If you are interested in search engine marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and PPC you can join us in SEO UAE google groups. You can share your ideas and stratetegies then sit back and learn the latest SEO with the other SEO’ers in the UAE. Please don’t be hesitate to ask questions as we all started somewhere.

You can also join us in our SEO Dubai Forum and register to start the thread. SEO Dubai Forum is an open discussion of all seo techniques and methods. An SEO Dubai community is anyone looking to learn more about search marketing. For beginner SEOs through advanced. Come and hang out with some of the best search marketers in the UAE.

SEO Abu Dhabi

Posted on 04. Dec, 2008 by Jon Edward Santillan in SEO Abu Dhabi

How difficult to optimize a website locally? We already know that meta’s like title tags, keywords, usability design, and original content is one of the important in search engine optimization concerns, but have you think optimizing your website to target local business companies?

Let say for example if you are a customer and you are looking for a SEO company in Abu Dhabi. As a SEO company choosing a right keyword is part of local search engine marketing like optimizing the keyword of “SEO Abu Dhabi” & “Abu Dhabi SEO” to target the companies who are looking for search engine optimization company in Abu Dhabi. There are few things that needs to be consider for optimizing a website locally and some of this are: (more…)

$20 Billion Microsoft-Yahoo deal

Posted on 03. Dec, 2008 by Allan Duncan in MSN, Yahoo

Microsoft is said to pay $20 billion to acquire the second’ top search engine Yahoo. The proposal forms the centerpiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of Yahoo. But there is no plan of Microsoft tabling another takeover bid for the web giant, after its aborted $47.5-billion offer this summer,”

A report from Sunday Times says that ex-chairman and chief executive of AOL and a former president of Fox Interactive Media, have been lined up to lead the new management team.

The Sunday Times said that under the terms of the proposed transaction, Microsoft would provide a $5billion facility to the Miller and Levinsohn management team. The duo would raise an additional $5-billion from external investors. (more…)