BLOGIOLOGI

The Importance of Link Building For Your Online Business

abbie — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:25:30 +0000

Once you have your website up and online, the next thing you have to figure out is how to find fast and targeted traffic to your site. This is important mainly for those business sites whose success depends on how much traffic or visitors enter their page and do transaction inside the website. For this kind of sites, no traffic equals to no money. That's for sure.

So how can we bring more visitors to our site?

Apart from many ways we can do offline to promote our business site, I would like to write about one thing that many webmasters have been arguing its importance after the last Google Panda update: backlink building. Instead of giving you more arguments whether it's important or not, I want to say my own opinion that it's still very important and getting it correctly built up will absolutely boost your rank in search engine and bringing you more potential buyer traffic. So here are a few tips on how to get backlinks. Should you want to read more, LinkBuildingWiki.com are good place to go.

We're after high quality backlinks. You need to get links to your site from websites with good authority and reputation which attract high volume of visitors. You should not select websites that are in direct competition with you as the site owner will definitely reject your request. There'll likely be a reciprocal link exchange in this situation, unless you make it paid link. Having our site's URL on webpage with high traffic benefits both our site popularity and, in the case of SEO, we get link juice from this website.

The other way to get backlinks is by writing good content. Good content is post that's very unique, sharing useful information and providing solution for people's problems. When you write good content, chances are people or webmasters will voluntarily republish your post on their site giving you more backlinks and site's visibility for search engine crawlers. The more your site gets flagged as good website by search engine, the higher your possibility to rank well on search engine result page.

Now let's take our content to be more powerful

We'll do the article marketing. We want to submit our content (article) to many article directories on the internet. One important thing we should pay attention to before submitting is we have to make our content unique by rewriting or spinning the article. Make it free of grammatical as well as spelling errors and then put it in the appropriate category in the directories. Article that are well written will result quality incoming links to your site and this will grow bigger since most article directories allow bloggers and website owners to repost the article submitted as long as the links inside the article attached.

Those are just a few of how to build backlinks to our site. Blogs, forums, social bookmarkings, website directories are other places on the internet where we can get backlinks from. Read more link building practices on LinkBuildingWiki.com. Good content is yes needed, but without do backlinks, you will put it nowhere on search engine result page and you'll get zero traffic for your sins.

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Apa itu General Public License (GPL)?

abbie — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:14:57 +0000

Sekedar ikut menyebarluaskan informasi tentang GPL license. Bagi anda yang sering download free software, wordpress theme, dll pasti sering mendengar istilah ini. Tapi ternyata belum banyak dari kita yang belum memahaminya, termasuk saya. he..he..

Sekedar ingin berbagi tulisan yang mungkin bermanfaat, berikut adalah sekilas tentang GPL yang saya salin dari gravisware.com.

Jadi apa yang dimaksud dengan GPL?

GPL adalah sebuah lisensi yang menyatakan bahwa sebuah karya intelektual (biasanya software) bebas dipakai, disalin, diedarkan, bahkan dikembangkan oleh siapapun tanpa harus membayar atau ijin terlebih dulu. GPL atau bila diterjemahkan menjadi Lisensi Publik Umum pertama kali dibuat oleh Richard Stallman untuk proyek-proyek pembuatan software di bawah bendera GNU.

Richard Stallman

Bagi penganut GPL, karya intelektual - seperti halnya ilmu pengetahuan - pada dasarnya tidak memiliki hak cipta. Karena ia berasal dari 'Ide Murni' dan sudah sepantasnya dinikmati oleh seluruh umat manusia karena memang sudah menjadi hak alamiah. 'Ide Murni' seperti wahyu, ia datang secara natural langsung dari Sang Maha Pencipta, maka sudah seharusnya jika ia disebarluaskan demi kemajuan bersama. Berbagai ketentuan GPL tersebut dituangkan dalam ayat-ayat GPL. Kesepakatan GPL sendiri hingga saat ini telah mengalami tiga kali penyempurnaan, yang paling akhir adalah ketentuan GPL versi ke 3 (GPLv3).

GNU sendiri adalah sebuah yayasan pembuat software-software gratis termasuk Linux. Seiring perkembangannya, GPL tidak hanya dipakai oleh GNU dan Linux saja. Sekarang telah ada lebih dari 60.000 aplikasi yang menyatakan dirinya berlisensi GPL. Khusus untuk urusan aplikasi, saat ini telah berdiri Free Software Foundation (FSF) yang merupakan perhimpunan pembuat software gratis sedunia.

Lalu bagaimana cara yayasan-yayasan pembuat software tersebut membiayai dirinya?

Biasanya dari dua sumber, yang pertama dari iklan dan yang kedua dari sumbangan, baik oleh pemakai software maupun perusahaan-perusahaan yang merasa diuntungkan oleh adanya software tersebut. Memang, GPL tidak bisa menyulap pembuat software bisa sekaya Bill Gates, tetapi kenyataan membuktikan bahwa mereka ternyata lebih dihargai dan dihormati, baik oleh penggunanya maupun oleh para pengembang ilmu pengetahuan itu sendiri.

Harus diakui pula, tanpa ada kesepakatan GPL perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi informasi tidak akan seperti sekarang. Coba bayangkan, jika PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Apache, Joomla, E-commerce, Wordpress atau Mozzila tidak berada di bawah lisensi GPL, internet tidak akan semaju ini. Online shop akan pincang, website hanya dimonopoli orang-orang tertentu saja, bisnis online hanya menjadi milik mereka yang berduit, bahkan blog ini pun juga tidak akan ada.

Software-Software Berlisensi GPL

GPL adalah gebrakan luar biasa yang sempat membuat perusahaan-perusahaan software raksasa seperti Microsoft dan Adobe kebakaran jenggot. Bagaimana tidak? Sifat program GPL yang terbuka membuat semua orang dapat mengembangkan dan menyempurnakannya secara bebas. Hasilnya pun luar biasa, banyak software-software GPL yang terbukti lebih sempurna dari pada software-software berbayar, contohnya adalah Firefox atau Opera yang saat ini sedang kita pakai (coba bandingkan dengan Internet Explorer). Bandingkan pula tingkat keluwesan PHP & MySQL dengan Ms ASP & Ms SQLServer yang kurang diminati user.

Berbagai komunitas pengguna dan pengembang software GPL pun mulai bermunculan. Biasanya komunitas-komunitas tersebut menolak keras penggunaan software-software komersil. Mereka menggunakan Linux untuk operating system, mengetik dengan OpenOffice, berselancar dengan Firefox, membaca email dengan Thunderbird, ngeblog dengan Wordpress atau Blogspot, bikin website dengan Joomla, mengelola server dengan CPanel, bikin animasi 3D dengan Blender, membuka foto dengan Fastone, mengedit gambar dengan Gimp, dan lain sebagainya.

Jadi GPL mendukung pengguna software untuk lebih merdeka menentukan pilihannya tanpa harus berpikir bagaimana membayarnya. Kalau sudah banyak yang free dan lebih handal daripada yang berbayar, buat apa beli. Ya toh? So.. mari dukung software berlisensi GPL..!

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Error When Upgrading W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.4

abbie — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

W3 Total Cache is great plugin in order to make your (Wordpress) blog loads faster. But last night I found upgrading to the latest version 0.9.2.4 was not as smooth as it used to be. I got the following error after upgrading the plugin from inside the admin panel :

Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::set_prefix() in /home/username/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 287

The error caused this simple Wordpress blog inaccessible both from front-end and back-end.

Now it's really like throwing stone on my face since I haven't been logged-in to monitor my blog for more than a month, and the W3 Total Cache automatic upgrading messed my blog to go down. Last night, my plan to moderate some spam comments was totally changed to seeking how to solve this problem.

What I have done to overcome the problem

After reading forums and blog posts regarding this error, I got this site up and running again by doing the followings:

Log in to cpanel and temporarily rename the db.php file in wp-content folder (I renamed it to db0.php). Doing this made the blog run and allowed me to access the admin panel.
Log in to wp-admin and deactivate the W3 Total Cache plugin.
Back to cpanel. Edit the .htaccess file by deleting the .htaccess rules created by W3 Total Cache.
My next plan was to reinstall the previous version of W3 Total Cache (0.9.2.3) which was working properly on this site. So I downloaded the version 0.9.2.3 from Wordpress.org page.
Upload the downloaded plugin and activate it. At this point, the plugin will generate a new db.php file in wp-content folder and write again its rule in .htaccess file. Next to do is deleting the renamed db.php (db0.php in my case).
After doing all those stuffs above, my site is running back with W3 Total Cache installed in older version.

What to note

I'm not a code hacker. Not at all. What I did was just following what those real hackers told people to do. The forum I visited seems not resolved yet so my to-do list is possibly not the best way to solve the error caused by W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.4 upgrade.

But there's one thing I can advise, though.
If you're about to upgrade your W3TC plugin to version 0.9.2.4, it would be better if you wait until the new version released. Many people believe that there's a bug in W3 Total Cache version 0.9.2.4.

This post is just a sharing and I really hope it helps. Should you find the best way to solve this problem, please share.
Thanks in advance.

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Yahoo and Bing are More Accurate Than Google

abbie — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:26:00 +0000

IS THAT TRUE? Well, that's what research firm Experian Hitwise claimed in their press release: Experian Hitwise reports Google share of searches at 66 percent in July 2011. The press release said that only 67.56 percent of searches executed on Google resulted in a visit to a Web site, compared to 81.36 percent for Yahoo and 80.04 percent for Bing. Though 66.05% search market in July of all U.S. searches was still dominated by Google (compared to 15.07 percent for Yahoo and 12.98 percent for Bing), the 2 latter search engines deliver 13% - 14% better search results. June research also showed similar number.

Hitwise said,

The share of unsuccessful searches highlights the opportunity for both the search engines and marketers to evaluate the search engine result pages to ensure that searchers are finding relevant information.

Could it be the beginning point of change for search engine marketers as well as internet marketers to put more effort on Yahoo and Bing after years and years focusing mainly to Google which has been well known as popular search engine on the net with accurate search result? Should they start to hold Yahoo and Bing closer and pay more attention to them?

I found interesting article that many internet users feel the Hitwise report is flawed because of the following reasons:

The metric is flawed because there is no indicator if a user found the information they needed without clicking on a Web site. Hitwise has determined Yahoo's and Bing's success rate based on not the accuracy of search results but on percent of searches executed that resulted in a visit to a Web site.
The effectiveness or efficiency of a search engine cannot be determined by visits made to a Web site. If one has to click several sites to find the information, it would be considered a search less effective for the user.
In case of Google, you do not even have to visit a page to get what you were looking for as the results are certain to include what you are looking for, including charts, pictures, phone numbers, etc. It presents useful information directly in its results whereas Yahoo and Bing do not.
It makes no sense to use clickthrough to measure search quality. Every ad firm is constantly hitting google just to measure how their clients rank. Every search firm is constantly hitting google to compare results. None of these results in a clickthrough. Hence the results are distorted, and tell us nothing.
Finally, let's not forget Google's accusation (http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0202/Hiybbprqag-Did-Google-catch-Bing-cheating) earlier this year that Bing was caught red-handed copying Google's search results. Bing, of course, has denied the accusations.

I'm not a search engine expert, not even good enough to convey bright messages about those numbers and how those 3 search engine providers will affect many IMers in doing their stuffs. But this Hitwise report somehow is strong enough to put big question mark on my head about how good Google is now.

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No Google Toolbar for Firefox 5+

abbie — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:40:22 +0000

Google claims that Google Toolbar will no longer support the Firefox browser versions 5 and above. The company stated that the Google Toolbar for Firefox only works for Firefox browsers under 5.

As quoted from Pocket-Lint, on Monday (7/25/2011), the Firefox users who have been using Firefox 5 and waiting patiently for the power of Google Toolbar in their latest Firefox version seem to be disappointed because Google no longer supports these features for Firefox.

Google has confirmed that the Google Toolbar for Firefox will no longer be updated and stated the reason that the browser already has its own development as well as extra features.

«As we already know, over the last few years, there have been some great innovations for Internet browsers,» Google wrote the statement, on the Google Toolbar blog.

«For Firefox users, there are many features that were once offered by the Google Toolbar for Firefox, which is now already built in the browser. Google Toolbar for Firefox now only works on Firefox 4 and will not support the Firefox browser versions 5 and above,» they added.

This move clearly indicates that Google is more in favor of their own browser, Chrome. But despite that, Google provides Firefox users links to download the Firefox add-ons that have similar Google toolbar functionality to expand the toolbar feature independently.

Now, you choose: Firefox or Chrome?

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The 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Sold

abbie — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:42:54 +0000

Now who said that nobody will get million dollars from only selling less than 10 letters on the internet? I mean 1 short word. This is about short domain name that someone smart had found it first before everybody else in the world even aware of. Have you read my earlier post about domain sex.com that's sold for $14 million? Imagining how lucky you were if you owned that domain first? Well, it's too late for that sex.com. But if you're kind of inspired by this story, you could start exploring the internet to discover your hidden golden domain(s).

Adding to sex.com, below is a complete list of 10 domains which were the most expensive domain names ever sold in the world. Check it out!

1. Insure.com

Founded in November 1994 and bought by internet marketing firm QuinStreet for $16 million in the year of 2009. You know what? This domain price equals to 666 units of 2011 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Ultra Limited.

Insure.com = 666 Harley Davidson?
This mathematical equation looks odd to me, but it happened.

2. Sex.com

Founded in October 1995, sold for $13 million in 2006 and sold again for $14 million in 2010. Read my post for details.

3. Porn.com

(..now Google bot must be confused a bit why these 2 adult keywords - sex & porn – show up in my blog)

Sold at $9.5 million in 2007 after 12 years it's founded. See? 2 of the top 3 of this list are sex-related domain. No wonder.

4. Fund.com

Fund.com was found in September 1994 and used by a website on the financial services industry and investment funds. It was sold for a price tag of exactly $ 9,999,950 in 2008.

5. Business.com

Shortly after it's founded in April 1998 by former Walt Disney Internet Group chairman Jake Winebaum and Earthlink founder Sky Dayton, Business.com was sold for $7.5 million in 1999 and was considered as the world's most expensive domain name at that moment. The domain retained its record until sex.com was sold for a higher price in 2006.

6. Diamond.com

Founded in March 1993, diamond.com was sold in 1999 for $7.5 million.

7. Beer.com

It's sold for $7 million in 2004 after 11 years it's founded in 1993. Other similar domains like wine.com and vodka.com are also among the top sellers.

8. Israel.com

Hate to see this . It's founded in April 1994 and sold for $5.88 million in 2008 at a domain auction held by Moniker Online Services, a leading domain name registration company located in Florida.

9. Casino.com

( hi, bot. It must be your first time to crawl the word 'casino' in my blog, isn't it? Please don't put it into account. )

Founded in December 1997 and sold in 2008 for $5.5 million. You don't have to play casino and risk the money in your pocket to win million dollars. Really inspiring…

10. Toys.com

The buyer is Toys R Us, a well known toys company. They bought the domain for $5.1 million in 2009 when the domain age was 11 years.

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OK, that's the list (sourced from Rich or Not). And now is my opinion.

Excluding the Israel.com, those 9 domain names are very short and great for branding purposes. And that is the interest of many big companies who will have no worries to spend a crazy amount of money just to get those short domains with popular terms (sex and wealth are the most) in order to easily penetrate their markets.

For SEO purposes?

Here's the fact. Insure.com does not even rank for the keywords it's targeting. I still believe that domain with long-tail-keywords looks like more seo-friendly. Now it's up to you to choose your domain, for branding, or for search engine? Or are you now inspired to make more money online by buying and selling domains?

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Secret SEO Trick by John Chow

abbie — Sat, 21 May 2011 03:50:37 +0000

It's just a quick update for my blog after no posts have been published for almost 3 weeks. Take the recent video post from John Chow.com as the post source, I reposted the video showing John Chow's great SEO trick he uses to control what is displayed in the Google Search Engine Results Page.

Watch the video..

John always tell people to write for reader / visitor and not for Google. Blog posts that are written mainly for a search engine and other SEO purposes are becoming very hard to read because the writer doing keywords stuffing and put less communicating with his readers.

However, there is a way for WordPress blogger to write for both your readers and Google at the same time. And that video shows you how it's done. So if you haven's used WordPress for your blog, start it now!

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Check the Security of Your Free WordPress Themes

abbie — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:21:41 +0000

We WordPress bloggers must already know that many beautiful wp themes out there will charge you tens to hundreds dollars to be available for you to download. Noobs with short pockets that haven't been filled with big bucks like probloggers will absolutely think twice or even more to buy these premium WP themes. However, internet got the 'wrong' solution for this. Premium templates for WordPress are kind of easy to find and available download, FOR FREE.

Freebies vs Security Issues

We all love freebies, don't we? But there's possible security risk on premium stuff that are given for free. Many websites or people are providing free Wordpress themes with encoded script slipped in - some even going as far as to claim that decoding the gibberish constitutes breaking copyright law. The encoded script may contain a variety of undesirable payloads, such as promoting third party sites or even hijack attempts.

Not all of them of course. There are also good guys design free WP themes with no intention of stealing something from you or doing anything harmful. It's just good to be wise to check your free premium WP templates before you have them installed online on your blog. Here I'd like to share a WP plugin that helps me find malicious code on free WP themes.

TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) WP plugin

This plugin is contributed by BuiltBackwards aimed to scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. TAC searches the source files of every installed theme for signs of malicious code. If such code is found, TAC displays the path to the theme file, the line number, and a small snippet of the suspect code. TAC also searches for and displays static links found on theme files.

Installation is as just the same as other WP plugin. You can download it here and upload it to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory from your admin panel. Next is activating the TAC plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. TAC requires WP version 2.2 at least and had been tested up to version 3.0.1.

See how TAC works

I use it on WordPress that is installed offline on my computer. Here are some screenshots after TAC has checked all the themes files and displays the malicious code it found.

I downloaded Odessa for free I can't remember where from. It's originally developed by Camel Graph. See how TAC found encrypted malicious code injected into footer.php on Line 2 in this redistributed free WP theme. This code will be a security hole if you install it online.

And below is the picture when your theme is considered safe by TAC plugin. I got Red Carpet theme for free before Ahmad Fouad on Deluxe Themes change it to premium. TAC said the theme OK and found 1 static link to DeluxeThemes.com on footer.php which is a common link on every blog theme.

Great, isn't it? If you are mad about hunting and downloading premium WP theme for free, for security sake, you should use this plugin if you haven't.

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Saya Sudah Kaya Mendadak dan Berhenti Ngeblog

abbie — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:02:48 +0000

Kalau sebelumnya saya cerita tentang 15 situs yang ditendang Google sama isi-isinya dari index, kali ini saya cuma ingin cerita spam model baru(?). Sering kan dapat email spam yang katanya kita dapat uang warisan -atau apalah- yang jumlahnya jutaan dolar? Entah sudah berapa banyak email semacam itu saya delete dari inbox. Tapi kemarin, spam yang satu ini berbeda. Tidak lagi pakai email, tapi lewat kantor pos!

Senin pagi, security anterin surat buat saya. Saya lihat amplopnya dari Malaysia. Agak heran, soalnya saya lagi nggak ada kerjaan yang ada hubungannya sama negara tetangga ini. Yang ada juga Singapore atau UK. Itupun biasa lewat email. Atau ada yang nggak suka dengan tulisan saya dulu tentang Pulau Jemur? Penasaran, saya segera buka dan baca isinya.

Diprint dalam bahasa Inggris, beberapa kalimat pertama surat ini sangat familiar bagi saya karena tidak jauh beda dengan email-email spam yang 'ngiming-ngimingi' uang jutaan dolar US. Kali ini katanya saya bakal dapat sepertiga dari 152 juta dolar!
Uedann opo?!$@!!
Lho itu kalau di-rate 8700 rupiah per USD, jumlahnya sama dengan 1,3 trilyun lebih!! Apa saya nggak bakal kaya mendadak tuh?!

He..he.. jadi jangan dulu percaya sama judul di atas. Saya aja nggak percaya

Nggak begitu surprise sebenarnya. Yang baru buat saya adalah, alih-alih lewat email, jebakan batman ini dikirim lewat pos. Silahkan lihat amplopnya (maaf cuma pakai kamera HP). Perhatikan juga perangko Malaysia dan cap posnya.

Dibalik amplop ini ada cap pos ketika surat ini diterima di daerah tempat saya bekerja. Saya nggak sempat ambil gambarnya.
Dan ini surat wasiatnya...

Asyik.. jadi milyarder. Nggak usah belajar wordpress lagi atau cari dolar online.

Ada yang senasib dengan saya???
Atau jangan-jangan ini beneran???

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Kompetisi Google, Yahoo dan Bing (lagi)

abbie — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:10:00 +0000

Saya pernah menulis serunya kompetisi 3 search engine ini tahun 2009. Saat itu Yahoo dan Microsoft sebagai pemilik Bing bermain mata untuk menundukkan dominasi Google yang menguasai 71,08 % pangsa pasar pencarian internet di US pada September 2009. Setelah 1,5 tahun, sepertinya usaha keroyokan ini mulai berbuah. Sebagaimana dilansir oleh Experian Hitwise, Yahoo dan Bing pada Maret 2011 telah mengumpulkan 30 persen pasar pencarian di internet. Lumayan...

( image source: nytimages.com )

Jumlah pengguna Google, Yahoo dan Bing di US

Menurut data yang ditulis oleh Experian Hitwise, market share pencarian internet di Amerika Serikat untuk bulan Maret 2011 adalah sebagai berikut :

Google menguasai 64,4 persen, Yahoo 15,69 persen dan Bing kebagian 14,32 persen.
Total 30,01 persen untuk Yahoo plus Bing.
Sisanya yang 5 persen lebih diiris-iris untuk search engine lainnya semisal Ask dan AOL.

Ada versi yang lain tentang pangsa pasar pencarian internet di US untuk Maret 2011 ini. Menurut data yang dirilis comScore tanggal 13 April 2011 :

Google menguasai 65,7 persen, Yahoo 15,7 persen, dan Bing 13,9 persen.
Sementara yang lain, Ask mencatat 3,1 persen, dan AOL hanya menguasai 1,6 persen.

Saya terus terang tidak ingin lebih serius tentang mana yang tepat. Yang menarik adalah angka pertumbuhan Yahoo dan Bing ternyata dianggap cukup baik, mengingat sejak bulan Februari 2011 pasar pencarian Bing tumbuh 6 persen, sementara Yahoo Search naik 5 persen. (Experian Hitwise, 11 April 2011)

Kenapa Yahoo dan Bing bisa menambah usernya?

Masih menurut Experian Hitwise, bulan Agustus tahun 2010 lalu market share Google turun sebesar 10 persen. Agustus 2010 adalah bulan pertama Yahoo Search diperkuat oleh Bing yang saat itu hanya menguasai 9,87 persen pasar. Salah satu alasan mengapa Yahoo dan Bing mampu meningkatkan pangsa pasarnya adalah karena user lebih sukses melakukan pencarian di kedua situs tersebut. Pengguna Yahoo Search mendapat tingkat kesuksesan pencarian sebesar 81,14 persen dan pengguna Bing mendapat 80,32 persen. Sementara pengguna Google hanya mendapat 65,91 persen kesuksesan pencarian internet.

Sekali lagi, saya tidak tertarik untuk mengetahui bagaimana kepuasaan user itu diukur dan metode apa yang dipakai. Yang saya yakin, tim periset pasti sudah bekerja keras mencari angkanya. Saya hanya bisa menyimpulkan sesuatu :

Bisa jadi itu satu sebab mengapa akhir Februari 2011 kemarin Google meng-update algoritmanya.
Dia takut popularitasnya semakin berkurang karena user pada nyasar ke situs-situs dengan content di luar harapan user yang nangkring di halaman satu SERP Google. Terkait dengan program Adwords, kan bisa-bisa Google kehilangan uang dari bisnis iklannya. Belum potential lost dari bisnis simbah lainnya.

Bener nggak ya?

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