Chewy Chong - Developer Evangelist Singapore

Subfolders vs Sub-domain for SEO

Chewy's Blog — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:52:58 GMT

Many times when we are developing the site structure, we are given the options of running different part of the site on either sub domain or sub folder. An example will be: sub-domain – http://career.microsoft.com sub-folder – http://www.microsoft.com/career/...(...(read more)

How to identify good keyword for your website?

Chewy's Blog — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:16:58 GMT

In SEO, one of the main thing to perform before any activity is to do keyword analysis. Keyword analysis will determine the route you take for future SEO actions and also how you model the type of content you want to publish on your website. The first...(...(read more)

Running mini - campaign does help in terms of getting more visitors to your site!

Chewy's Blog — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:11:12 GMT

Follow up to the blog post I’ve made here: http://cloudfex.com/cs/blogs/cloud/archive/2009/03/30/start-with-seo-in-mind-to-get-more-traffic-to-your-blog.aspx The blog is started on the 19th March and I’ve been tracking the progress closely for the past...(...(read more)

Start with SEO in mind to get more traffic to your blog

Chewy's Blog — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:24:25 GMT

Recently, I started a blog at ( http://cloudfex.com ) to blog on topics like Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, .NET and any interesting technology news I receive in my mailbox. Before setting off to start this blog, I wanted to make sure I started off with...(...(read more)

SEO for Web Developers

Chewy's Blog — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:45:12 GMT

For those who are interested to learn more about Search Engine Optimization from a web developer perspective, MIX09 has a session on that which you can download now at : T86M Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Web Developers (Thomas Deml) WMV WMV (High)...(...(read more)

Learn more about SEO and news related to web technologies

Chewy's Blog — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:04:19 GMT

Want to learn more about SEO and news related to search and web technologies as a whole? Check out my technical blog: http://www.cloudfex.com which I am using to post technical guide on how to boost your SEO ranking on your web asset and other cool technologies...(...(read more)

Location Aware Apps (cool but is it really?)

Chewy's Blog — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:44:39 GMT

Location aware applications are great! But then… there is a scary side. One of our interns in the Singapore MIC sent me a great article in Wired. http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_guineapig?currentPage=1 We are working...(read more)

When reaching out to an audience… don’t forget word of mouth!

Chewy's Blog — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:57:42 GMT

The folks from BzzAgent (an agency focused on word of mouth marketing) released a really interesting e-book about word of mouth. This book gives some great examples of it but does not go much into the “how to” except maybe to hire them. None the less,...(...(read more)

ISO Recorder now for Windows 7

Chewy's Blog — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:59:09 GMT

We get a lot of ISOs (typically through MSDN) and getting them on DVD/CD is a painful process given all the reinstalls I do on my machine. Recently found a great (and FREE) tool to burn ISO images. AND IT WORKS WITH WINDOWS 7. Yeah!...(read more)

Understanding Power Management with Windows Mobile

Chewy's Blog — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:51:46 GMT

I’ve been working with the interns in our Microsoft Innovation Center (Singapore) on some cool Windows Mobile demos. One of the biggies we encounter is how aggressive Windows Mobile manages power. Not a bad thing for end users wanting to use...(read more)

The difference between [-] dash and [_] underscore in asset naming

Chewy's Blog — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:05:58 GMT

Over the weekend, I receive a few questions about naming convention that will help improve SEO. Although correct naming doesn’t have too much of an impact in SEO, it does help in certain situation when the crawler needs to infer the content of your page....(...(read more)

Introducing your site structure to a search engine

Chewy's Blog — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:57:22 GMT

In order for the crawler to know which page to crawl, the crawler will try to infer the site structure either using sitemap or simply crawling the links on the main page. You can generate a sitemap XML based on specification located at http://www.sitemaps.org/...(...(read more)

Hello World from the SEO Specialist

Chewy's Blog — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:52:06 GMT

Hi everyone! My name is Yizhe and I’m taking care of SEO related activities in the MSN family for SEA. I’m very passionate in technology – coming from a developer background and live search is my latest love. My primary job scope is to produce SEO best...(...(read more)

Where the “Live” Magic Happens

Chewy's Blog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:24:08 GMT

Have you seen Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs? Super cool. Honey made a quick “synth” of the Online Services Group – Southeast Asia office area. Check out other cool photosynths (and even create YOUR OWN) here… http://photosynth.net/default.aspx...(...(read more)

Don't Know Where You Are? Maybe our "WhereAmI" Project Can Help...

Chewy's Blog — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:51:00 GMT

Drum roll please.... After many months of hard work, we would to introduce the people of Southeast Asia to our "WhereAmI" project ( http://locationpinpoint.com ). The goal of the project is to help facilitate location based services through...(...(read more)