[SiliconBeach] Re: free online presence for aussie businesses

2011-03-01 Thread Uri
Thanks Silvia, What I meant by similar idea is that I also thought it would be great to offer something to small/new businesses for free (some Google love in the form of context link - even if low value) which will allow me to contact them. These businesses are not easy to find as they're just st

Re: [SiliconBeach] free online presence for aussie businesses

2011-03-01 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
Ah bummer, I hate it when large business execute for free what small business thought could be a nice service. If yours is just a directory, then that is actually a different idea and probably more akin to what yellow pages are for street addresses. Though they increasingly put urls and email cont

Re: [SiliconBeach] free online presence for aussie businesses

2011-03-01 Thread Maimon51
Sounds like a great idea, for everyone involved, myob and google especially Both would really love to nurture small businesses to grow into using their offerings, and spending much more than the mere cost of the benefit It's such a good idea that I've tried to do a similar thing on a smaller sca

[SiliconBeach] free online presence for aussie businesses

2011-03-01 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
Hi guys, I just came across this activity by Google and MYOB: http://www.gettingbusinessonline.com.au and thought it relevant to us here. They are offering a free website for 1 year, a free .com.au domain for 2 years and $75 free adwords. I've seen many small businesses - coffee shops etc - not

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Opinion needed - Global (US) or Local

2011-03-01 Thread Roger Kermode
It think latency does matter. I have recollections of Google announcing explicitly that they were including server latency as one of their criteria a few months back, Roger Sent from my iPhone On 02/03/2011, at 10:43 AM, Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli wrote: > I wonder if the location of a server ma

[SiliconBeach] Benchmark your website loading speed for free

2011-03-01 Thread Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli
In a different thread, it was mentioned how the loading speed of your website may impact on its rank in Google. http://www.slowcop.com/ is a website that will run a report on the performance of your website and will give you actionable suggestions. (The fact that you can see your score go up afte

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Opinion needed - Global (US) or Local

2011-03-01 Thread Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli
I wonder if the location of a server matters, I thought it was more whether you have a *com.au* or a *.com* when targetting Google Australia. People say site speed (time to load) is a factor, I am not sure about site latency though, any SEO guru here? On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:51 AM, David Jones

[SiliconBeach] Partnership Opportunity of Tech People/Companies

2011-03-01 Thread Ruchir
Hi all, I've introduced myself earlier - I run a web services and products company called Langoor. I read the digest of this group every evening and enjoy a lot that is posted. Reading last night's digest made me think of posting this here. We have recently created a really easy to use website cr

[SiliconBeach] Re: CDN solutions

2011-03-01 Thread Jeromy Evans
Hi Jindou, I hadn't seen this mentioned yet so I'll say it. There's another school of thought that you should launch any way, before spending money re-architecting for scale. If you redesign now, you're spending money and time on an assumption you'll get outrageous traffic, rather than spending t

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: CDN solutions

2011-03-01 Thread Stephen Young
Stephen Young to silicon-beach-. show details 09:17 (0 minutes ago) > Can I ask why you chose a CDN and not cloud hosting? > (might be a silly qns) Our US servers are virtual - at RackSpace. > I'll need to find more mongrels it seems. :D Sorry, that reference might have bee a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Opinion needed - Global (US) or Local

2011-03-01 Thread David Jones
Perhaps some seo guru can explain to me the following scenario : Friend has a .com hosted in Oz. Search results for his keywords on Google.com.au rank high. Repeat this search on Google.Com or Google.co.uk and his site ranks lower. I concluded that hosting in Oz a .com is punished by google algor

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Opinion needed - Global (US) or Local

2011-03-01 Thread Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli
*Rai*, I believe the .com.au gives you big SEO benefits if you were to target the australian market. *Kelvin*, going global has of course a bigger market but also has a stronger competition (most of the time). It seems that your decision depends on the strength of your competition, the size of th

[SiliconBeach] Re: CDN solutions

2011-03-01 Thread JINDOU
Thanks Steve. Can I ask why you chose a CDN and not cloud hosting? (might be a silly qns) I'll need to find more mongrels it seems. :D On Mar 1, 8:49 am, Stephen Young wrote: > When we architect a site (and I've certainly been guilty of this ;-) ) > I think we often forget that "the web" is desi

[SiliconBeach] Re: CDN solutions

2011-03-01 Thread JINDOU
What a cool site. Is heroku similar to cloud hosting right? Their costs are a bit on the high side? On Mar 1, 8:00 am, Charles Ma wrote: > If you're not comfortable managing the up time of your own VPS, might I > suggest using heroku (http://heroku.com/) with two or more dynos (app > processes ha

[SiliconBeach] Re: CDN solutions

2011-03-01 Thread JINDOU
I just realised your company does cloud hosting? Wow.. I'll need to give you a call as one of our apps has the majority of traffic from Australia. On Mar 1, 12:15 am, Sheng Yeo wrote: > Hi, > > Good luck on the launch! It is always an interesting time.. we are just > about to launch our Cloud in

[SiliconBeach] Re: CDN solutions

2011-03-01 Thread JINDOU
Thank you for the information. I agree with you that perhaps CDN is not what I was looking for. I think Cloud hosting is closer to the mark. How do you feel about http://www.reliacloud.com/ or http://www.gogrid.com/ >From my readings (my head hurts).. CDN is for file streaming such as videos etc.

[SiliconBeach] Re: B2B Deals sites - the next big battle front?

2011-03-01 Thread Jeromy Evans
On Mar 1, 8:43 pm, Brendan Quinn wrote: > also see appsumo.com -- a YC startup that is very close to a B2B-Groupon > site. I hadn't considered appsumo.com as the same business model, but you're right. They've done a great job getting our business to try or buy tools/apps we wouldn't have consid

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: B2B Deals sites - the next big battle front?

2011-03-01 Thread Brendan Quinn
also see appsumo.com -- a YC startup that is very close to a B2B-Groupon site. They cater for startups and often provide discounts for related ebooks, 99designs credits, mailchimp etc etc. Often in "bundles" where you get some great deals (and a bit of crud to go along with it). Interestingly they

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Opinion needed - Global (US) or Local

2011-03-01 Thread David Lyon
Depends too on the budget that you have for marketing and a whole lot of other factors. Generally speaking, Americans prefer buying at home - as so do Europeans. Thats why there is a .com, a .co.uk and .de and .fr on all the ebay sites. On 3/1/11, Kelvin Yip wrote: > Thanks Aymeric. > Althoug