Stefan Chan

Microsoft recently announced that its search engine Bing will soon go live with some major changes. A few of the more noteworthy updates for what Microsoft has dubbed “the New Bing” include a new sidebar, a snapshot of related information, and improved search results. The Sidebar A collapsible right sidebar shows looping social results. From here you’re able to [...]

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Late last year Google announced Hangouts on Air for a limited number of Google + users, allowing them to broadcast live video to friends and fans worldwide. This week it was announced that this feature is now available to all Google+ users around the globe.  You’re able to broadcast publicly via Google+, YouTube or directly from your website. [...]

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How can you ensure that your website’s SEO rankings and organic traffic aren’t lost when you’re getting a new website developed? It’s a question we get often from clients, and with valid reason – nobody wants to see their hard-won SEO gains get wiped away. So we’ve come up with a list of essentials that [...]

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Google has just launched (albeit quietly) another initiative aimed at further delving into web users’ browing habits, with the introduction of Screenwise. This is what the search engine company has to say to would-be participants in this new opt-in program: You’ll add a browser extension that will share with Google the sites you visit and [...]

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Google recently updated the Sitemaps section of Webmaster Tools to be more user-friendly and provide clearer, more detailed information. If you haven’t heard of  Webmaster Tools before, it is a free platform that identifies and suggests solutions for technical problems on your website, reporting on aspects like page speed, search engine rankings, and duplicate content. This [...]

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Last Thursday, about a dozen or so E-Webbers had the privilege of  heading down to Triple Care Farm to volunteer for their yearly graduation day. It was about a 2 hour drive from our offices to the location (just near Jamberoo) with an awesome view from the farm overlooking Wollongong. What is Triple Care Farm? [...]

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Last week the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for the Asia Pacific region awards ceremony was held at the world’s tallest hotel, the Ritz Carton in Hong Kong. This prestigious award recognises technology companies that have achieved the fastest rates of annual revenue growth over the past 3 years. With companies spanning from all around the Asia Pacific, [...]

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Over the last 6 months, Google has slowly added features to the new version of Google Analytics, and after finally allowing users to export report files into PDF format, there aren’t many arguments left for staying with the old version. The question on the minds of many frequent users has been: When do I make the switch? Well, [...]

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Last year Google announced the completion of their Caffeine indexing system, which basically crawls and indexes the web for ‘fresher search results’  such as a news stories, blog or forum posts and today have improved the algorithm system even further: “…our ranking algorithm impacts roughly 35 percent of searches and better determines when to give [...]

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Google has just announced a nifty new feature: Non-Interaction Event Tracking, which allows you to track events without it affecting the bounce rate of the targeted page. Normally adding event tracking (such as clicking a link) affects the bounce rate of a page, which in some scenarios can potentially skew your web statistics (see below). Now, adding the [...]

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