It’s good to see that my chess blog is well indexed by Google. Even though there is an official tournament website for the 2nd Philippines Open International, my relatively new blog has taken top 3 spots on Google for the keyword “Philippines Chess Open”.
That’s the advantage of applying a little SEO (Search… Continue reading [...]

Checking through my web logs it’s interesting to see the search terms people use to get to this blog:-1.     patzer winds of change    2.     everyday a sunday                3.     dell chess notebook            4.     gm zhang zhong and wgm    5.     gilachess                            [...]

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I’m a big fan of Chan Lilian’s blog (5xmom.com). She is a Penang housewife who blogs for money. Last month she achieved her USD 5,000 target. That’s pretty impressive for a housewife. I’m sure many chess players who find it hard to balance their career and chess ambitions would like find out exactly how she [...]

GM Zhang Pengxiang emerged champion with an impressive unbeaten 8/11 score from a very strong field in tge Asian Individual Championship that just ended in Cebu, Philippines. 2005 DATMO champ, GM Wang Hao finished with the same points also but dropped one game to GM Susanto Megaranto.
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Found this old picture GM Wang Hao vs Singapore’s FM Goh Wei Ming from last year’s GACC tournament website.GACC is just around the corner too. Check out their official site at gacc-chess.com Continue reading

I know you guys are excited over the latest FIDE rating updates and also the coming National rating list. For me, I’m more interested in the Google PR update which is long overdue. I just had to find out if there is any increase in my ranking.This blog sadly won’t see any increase in PR. [...]

I found out about this tool that gives your website or blog a grade. It’s called the Website SEO Score Tool.Not only does it give you a grade it also highlights the weaknesses your site has from the point of search engines. You also have an option to enter a similiar competing website url so [...]

While still on the subject of Google Page Rank, lets take a look at the top 20 sites based on the search word “Chess”. This is according the to tool provided by SEO Chat. It is interesting to see 6 chess websites actually achieving a high Google PR 7/10. This is significant as there are [...]

Someone commented on this blog that I could use the FireFox plugin called Search Status to improve my Alexa ranking.

Since I visit my own blog very frequently, I guess that has pushed up my Alexa ranking to 232,992 from 457,808. That’s an incredible 100% jumped in ranking.
After 27 days of install Alexa Widget, I see [...]