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Re: How to Reduce Your Under Eye Bags | Adaleta Avdic

Wayne Liew — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:43:18 -0000

I don't have a favorite eye serum. In fact, I don't even use it. Maybe I should start using one because I want to appear in front of the camera more for social media, and my eye bags are going to become more obvious with all the late night hustles. Hahaha...

Re: 10 Free or Cheap Things to Do in Bangkok, Thailand

Wayne Liew — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:16:03 -0000

Hey Vins, thank you for highlighting these things to do in Bangkok.

Royal Barges Museum, Phallus Shrine and Siriraj Medical Museum sound like places that I would like to visit one day. I've been to Bangkok once for the annual Songkran Festival so it wasn't possible to sightsee without getting wet.

Lumphini Park is another free attraction that I would recommend if someone wants to spend their evening watching locals escape from the busy streets of Bangkok. If you are lucky enough, you might even see a monitor lizard lazing around under a tree. Have you visited the park?

I think the places highlighted in this list are must-visits for budget travelers. I may have some friends on Twitter who are planning a trip to Bangkok soon so I'll share this article with them. :)

Re: A Solo Travel Introvert? 7 Tips to Somewhat Social Solo Travel

Wayne Liew — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:27:06 -0000

Hey Janice, these are great tips. Thanks!

I am an introvert and it is my goal to venture on a solo trip after the trip to Taiwan with my girlfriend this year.

I am into slow travel so I am glad that it is going to help with socializing during the upcoming solo trip.

Another tip that I can add is to start practicing all the tips above even when you are not traveling. Becoming a regular at a local cafe or coworking space, join meetups and taking classes are all things an introvert can do in their home city to get social juices flowing.

This blog post resonated with me a lot and I'm gonna share it on Twitter. I'm sure it's gonna help many more travelers who are also introverts out there! :)

Re: Minimalist Anti-Theft Travel Wallet - burger abroad

Wayne Liew — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 19:38:31 -0000

Hey Amanda, thank you for sharing about Convert Clip's minimalist travel wallet.

Nobody is going to get something out of your pants unless they force you to strip with a weapon. Hahaha... But yeah, I guess if you are using a wallet, most people will not be able to tell where the wallet is.

Do you find it cumbersome taking it out and putting back at where it was inside of your pants?

I just got myself a minimalist and RFID-blocking wallet not too long ago. In the next year or so, I'll probably be looking for a wallet that comes with safety features that prevent it from getting stolen when I travel.

I'll be sharing this blog post on Twitter too. I'm sure some of my followers are looking for better wallets to bring with them when they travel, and this will give them another good choice to consider. :)

Re: Adventures and Eats: September 2015

Wayne Liew — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:30:45 -0000

Hi Julia,

Aww, both you and Mustafa look great together!

Yeah, 48 hours are always not enough for me to experience a city, especially if I am visiting it for the first time. But the good thing is, you can always revisit the city if you like it a lot. :)

I'll look forward to your posts about your day trips around Bay Area. As someone who is borned and raised in Asia, I always associate fall to the colorful autumn leaves in Japan. It will be interesting for me to read about what fall is like in San Francisco.

Re: Hello world!

Wayne Liew — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:26:50 -0000

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Re: Hello world!

Wayne Liew — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:25:50 -0000

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Re: Recommended Users Finds Cool & Interesting People To Add To Google+

Wayne Liew — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:57:45 -0000

This is a great site for Google+ first time users. Been recommending this to all Google+ newbies for quite some time now.

Re: 10 Tips on Outsourcing for Consultants

Wayne Liew — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:46:49 -0000

Outsourcing allows both entrepreneurs and consultants to do more faster. A lot of times, we bury ourselves into rote routine tasks that can be done by someone else inexpensively.

Gotta say, once you start outsourcing, you'll get addicted to it.

Re: 10 Great Community Manager Tools Worth Checking Out

Wayne Liew — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:59:06 -0000

A great list of tools for individuals heavily involved in social media out there but I have one more tool to add, Buffer (http://www.bufferapp.com), which I discovered recently through my Twitter connections.

It's time consuming to stay on Twitter all the time, especially if your team consists of, um, you yourself. Smart and consistent tweet scheduling helps community managers and people in the field of social media to focus on more rewarding tasks at hand such as content creation, engaging with followers, building relationships and analytics.

Nevertheless, I discovered some great tools from the list. Thanks!

Re: Crowdfunding Your Startup with MicroVentures

Wayne Liew — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:30:28 -0000

Microventures will be a good addition in the books of entrepreneurs as another place to look for funding in order to start or grow their business. It may be the legal stuffs that are stopping businesses outside the US from participating in the site but as the concept of crowdfunding gets more coverage, sites with concepts similar to Microventures may start to pop up in other parts of the world.

Re: Miles Baker Interview, Affiliate Marketing Expert and Internet Entrepreneur

Wayne Liew — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:40:27 -0000

Yeah, Miles is definitely a great guy to learn from if you are into affiliate marketing. Feel free to get in touch with him.

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:35:19 -0000

I would say that measuring a site's authority from multiple channels such as backlinks, social media mentions and "stars" by users and other potential elements is crucial. Relying on just one source of measurement will definitely lead to abuse down the road by spammers.

Re: Google Cr-48 Chrome laptop preview (update: in-depth impressions!)

Wayne Liew — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:43:49 -0000

You should try the imo.im web app to call and chat with your friends and family who are on Skype.

Re: 10+1 Mobile Application Development Trends for 2010

Wayne Liew — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:49:19 -0000

Definitely. The one thing that sets Android apart from all other mobile operating systems out there such as iOS is the fact that it is open source.

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:51:40 -0000

It is impossible for Google to show only 6 results for the term. My own
Googling shows that Google has over 6 million results for the term.

http://www.google.com/searc...

Back to your question on decreasing number of results. The number of
websites indexed on a particular result page may decrease due to removal of
website by site owners. Google may also, from time to time, remove websites
from certain results page if it finds that they are no longer related to the
particular search term.

I hope my answer helps.

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:16:56 -0000

Thank you for leaving a comment, Chaitanya. First of all, I would like to highlight that you are seeing your site ranked first in the search results under Starred Results is because you might have bookmarked the site within your browser or using many of the Google services out there such as Google Bookmarks, Google Webmaster Tools, etc.

As for the question on whether one should focus on building the website and making it functional prior to marketing it for search engines, I would say that it will be better for you if you focus on making your site functional first rather than focusing on link building now. Search engines do pay attention to quality of content that are on your site and this should be the primary reason why you should focus on making your site functional first.

Also, another thing that I would like to point out is the fact that submitting all your site pages or URLs to social bookmarking sites isn't a good SEO strategy. First of all, social bookmarking sites don't carry much SEO juice nowadays. They play a better role at sending tons of traffic to quality content rather than link juice. Hope you'll get my point here.

Feel free to ask more questions if you have any.

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:10:10 -0000

True. But don't you think that in the long run, Google might use what people have starred as a measurement to rank a site in the search engines simply because sites or pages with the most stars can be said to be more relevant to users?

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:06:47 -0000

I think Google might be testing this feature on and off on random users or
perhaps, it was an experimental feature under Google Labs but it's official
release was in March 2010 (
http://googleblog.blogspot.....

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:48:10 -0000

Glad that you find my article useful, Sheri. Yeah, Google might still be
beta testing it but I do see this staying as a permanent feature. Definitely
a place to keep monitoring for new search features.

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:29:36 -0000

Thank you for the comment. Yup, they are definitely always improving and
work on suggestions based on our feedback as well as, um, our usage.

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:32:31 -0000

Thank you for the comment. Yup, they are definitely always improving and work on suggestions based on our feedback as well as, um, our usage.

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:51:38 -0000

It is very likely that you have the starred sites in your bookmarks or you
might have the sites added to certain Google services, which explains why
they are starred in the Google results.

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:50:11 -0000

Google will automatically star sites that you bookmarked in your browser or
on other Google services such as Bookmark Sync using Google Chrome. Starred
Results will only be seen by you, not the public.

Re: What Google Starred Results Means to Search Engine Optimization?

Wayne Liew — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:59:13 -0000

Hey Andy, not into personalized gifts myself but if you and your customers
believe that what you are offering is truly unique among your competitors,
you should get their testimonials and of course, their help to make your
site and web presence more prominent through business review sites or social
media avenues. All these will contribute to better search rankings as
visitors discover your business and as the web gets social.