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The Internet Society today announced the formal opening of its regional office in Singapore, which will be headed by Rajnesh Singh, Regional Director for the Internet Societys Asia-Pacific Bureau. A global, mission-based organisation, the Internet Society is the leading advocate for the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for everyone.

The Internet Societys Regional Bureaus are vital conduits to connecting its Chapters, members, and staff, and are central to the success of the organisations mission to ensure the Internet continues to evolve as a platform for innovation, collaboration, creativity, and economic development. The Singapore regional office and Asia-Pacific Bureau is focused on key initiatives, including enhancing Internet access and networks across Asia-Pacific, driving Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) adoption to support the transition from IPv4, encouraging participation in the Internet standards development process, and working with regional forums such as APEC TEL and the OECD on Internet-related policy matters, such as privacy, broadband access for rural communities, and the security and stability of Internet infrastructure.

Internet Society President and CEO Lynn St. Amour explained, Our new office in Singapore reinforces our strong commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, the worlds largest and most dynamic Internet market. We have an active membership in Asia-Pacific of more than 16,000 members, and some of this region's greatest innovators and leaders are our members. Our expanded presence here will enable us to strengthen our engagement with regional partners and build stronger programmes in furtherance of our mission.

We work collaboratively with our Chapters, members, and regional community organisations to drive initiatives focused on the continuation of an open Internet, which is fundamental to innovation and business growth, commented Singh. The Internet Society also empowers people and communities with capacity building initiatives in developing countries to build technical skills that enable better Internet networks, and in partnership with area organisations, projects that bring Internet connectivity to rural communities to enable holistic socio-economic development.

The Internet Society joins the vibrant ecosystem of more than 135 international non-profit organisations (INPOs) making Singapore their home for the region and beyond, commented Kelvin Wong, Executive Director of the International Organisations Programme Office (IOPO), a whole-of-government initiative located within the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Their leading work in international standard setting and in increasing Internet access to communities in Asia further affirms Singapores proposition as a trusted, neutral, and connected base through which INPOs can further their social, economic, and development causes in a wide variety of fields. The Internet Society will also value-add to Singapores infocomm and media sector through working with infocomm companies to share best practices and co-create content with regards to Internet architecture.

The Internet Society has five Regional Bureaus Africa and MENA, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America. These bureaus are instrumental in addressing Internet-related issues, mobilising local support to impact global efforts, and developing policy, technology, membership, Chapter, and regional educational awareness.

Rajnesh Singh has been with the Internet Society since 2008 helping establish its Asian Regional Bureau, and has also played founding and leading roles in several technology and private equity investment firms. Prior to joining the Internet Society, he was a consultant to numerous organisations in the region, including non-profit, development, and private sector organisations. He has previously served as the Founding Chair of ICANN's Asia-Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO).

About the Internet Society

The Internet Society is the trusted independent source for Internet information and thought leadership from around the world. With its principled vision and substantial technological foundation, the Internet Society promotes open dialogue on Internet policy, technology, and future development among users, companies, governments, and other organisations. Working with its members and Chapters around the world, the Internet Society enables the continued evolution and growth of the Internet for everyone. For more information, see http://www.internetsociety.org.

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Googles Matt Cutts has put out hundreds of videos as part of his webmaster help series. Ill assure you that nothing like what youre about to hear has ever appeared in any of them.

Call it the anti-SEO help video of the decade, and if youre a webmaster you can call it site suicide. You can laugh at this Matts Cutts parody video all you want, just dont take any of its advice seriously.

In addition to keyword stuffing, we look at links to porn sites. Not that many people tend to link that much to sites within the porn industry. Thats the sort of thing thats going to be really rewarding for users, so link to porn sites. Could it be annoying? Yes, it could be annoying, but thats perfectly fine.

Thats one of the gems from this clever mashup from SEO guy Sam Applegate. He took (probably way to much) time to organize and analyze Cutts many videos and came up with this video on how to rank #1 in Google search. Except, as you may have derived from the last quote, this guide wont have you ranking anywhere near #1.

I do think that Bing or Blekko or Duck Duck Go are potentially doing illegal things like hacking sites, says Cutts in fragments. Check it out below:

For his part, Cutts is aware of the video and his concern was with how much time it had to have taken its creator:

[h/t Search Engine Roundtable]

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Google Webmaster Tools has a slightly different look. The new look augments the new functionality Webmaster Tools added last month. The changes include a new look to the dashboard, redesigned menus and a style that more tightly integrates with other Google properties.

The Google Webmaster Tools home page lists all the sites you're authorized to manage in Webmaster Tools.

The large gray and white interface recently adopted by search, Gmail and other properties is very prevalent.

When viewing your list of sites, you can select a "Comfortable" or "Compact" view modes for controlling the how compact the lines appear on your screen. Google calls this the "Display Density" settings.

You also now have the ability to sort sites not only alphabetically, but also "By site health." Meaning, you can view the sites that have the most issues first. With all the recent concerns over link profiles and notes Google has left for Webmasters, this is a very helpful feature. It also might underscore the importance of the recent algorithm changes.

The dashboard is the first page you typically see when you click through to manage a site. The new Webmaster Tools dashboard looks more like a dashboard rather than a bunch of textual information. Crawl errors have been expanded to be more visually appealing, as have search queries and site map URLs.

Most prevalent is the top message center labeled "New and Important" so you can notice those nastigrams from the Webmaster Tools spam team when you get them.

Lastly, the left column menus have been redesigned to include groupings that are more meaningful. Each of the groups have tasks or reports that have more related functionality.

What are your thoughts on the new look and reports? Let us know in the comments below.

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13-05-2012 20:26 The HubShout web grader is free to the SEO community. Use the data from the HubShout web grader to prove to your prospective clients that they need your SEO services.

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Majestic SEO announced a new set of link metrics they came up with that should give Googles PageRank metric and SEOmozs MozRank a run for their money.

Majestic SEOs new metrics are named Flow Metrics and are grouped into two categories; trust flow and citation flow.

Lets compare Search Engine Land to Search Engine Roundtable to Google:

Keep in mind, the values for citation and trust flow are between 0 and 100, where Google is a 99 on both, Search Engine Land has a citation flow of 75 and trust flow of 64 and Search Engine Roundtable has a citation flow of 69 and trust flow of 43.

Lets visualize how this looks on a chart. Majestic SEO explains that links with high Citation flow end up more to the right and links with more Trust flow end up higher on the chart.

Search Engine Land:

Search Engine Roundtable:

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Majestic SEO Announces New Link Metrics: Trust Flow & Citation Flow