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		<title>China B2C website targets for shine-out like real Porsche</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/china-b2c-websites-struggles-for-survival</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/china-b2c-websites-struggles-for-survival#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C2C marketplaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eCommerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alibaba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baidu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating a B2C (Business to Consumers) website in China becomes increasing easy nowadays with free eCommerce web templates being available to start with.  The die is cast, as the first hurdle (basic but usable website platform) has been removed, many small B2C websites spring up in South China region ever since. Product pages on these small B2C [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisit ALT tag for Usability and SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For curiosity, TG revisits the use of  IMG ALT tag for the benefit of usability and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The topic may be years old but I think it&#8217;s relevant and worthwhile to research a bit while optimizing my site. For usability, TG looks up reference from W3C.org nowadays, Web browsers are available in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Speed Optimizer for bloggers</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/site-speed-optimizer-for-bloggers</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/site-speed-optimizer-for-bloggers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our last post about Site Speed Optimizer &#8211; Yahoo YSlow and Google Page Speed surprisingly sets off a fanfare of discussion among ourselves during Lunar New Year of the Tiger. Perhaps my blogger friends in China get more vacations than we do in Hong Kong. Haha!! Some remarks on the usability of the tools, some says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Speed Optimizers: YSlow and Page Speed</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/site-speed-optimizers-yahoo-yslow-and-google-page-speed</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/site-speed-optimizers-yahoo-yslow-and-google-page-speed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China Web 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acquiring web tools to manage or optimize our web sites for better usability is much more easier than a few years ago thanks to the accessibility and availability of open-source plug-ins. Morzilla offers a few user-controlled add-on tools that can enable professional and amateur webmasters to enhance their sites&#8217; usability. Site speed is considered to be a critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Users research tools to improve customers experiences part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/2009-round-up-of-users-research-tools-to-improve-customers-experiences-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/2009-round-up-of-users-research-tools-to-improve-customers-experiences-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Experience Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User experiences]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[User experience and usability are important aspects of web development. They work hand-in-hand to turn surging web sites, blogs, online marketplaces and online applications into a pleasant customer experience. More importantly, it helps making marketing and strategic decision by providing a road-map to management how to run their business from customers/users&#8217; point of view. It&#8217;s about time for Kelikuru.com to review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Users research tools to improve customers experiences part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/2009-round-up-of-users-research-tools-to-improve-customers-experiences-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/2009-round-up-of-users-research-tools-to-improve-customers-experiences-part-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Experience Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how powerful your customer service tool it is, no matter how much user data you have, TG at Kelikuru.com assures you that qualitative research cannot be replaceable.  Facing your users, customers and talk to them one-on-one will build up a formidable relationship that can be long-lasting and rewarding in the long run. Qualitative Research tools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO starter: Google Page Rank check</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/seo-starter-google-page-rank-check</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/seo-starter-google-page-rank-check#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Kelikuru.com page rank?  TG was asked one day while having a mouthful of sandwich during lunch time. Frankly, TG did not check it very often. It was my friend in Shanghai who always reminds me of reviewing Kelikuru.com&#8216;s PR often. He will text me and tell me that it&#8217;s now PR3. How sweet! Google calculates the page rank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tailor-made Google&#8217;s Custom Search Engine</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/kelikuru-customizes-googles-custom-search-engine</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/kelikuru-customizes-googles-custom-search-engine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China Web 2.0]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In certain way, Kelikuru.com is TG&#8217;s laboratory to explore new or semi-new tools before I used it for other real projects. During the Xmas holidays weekend, TG has tried out  Google&#8217;s  Custom Search Engine customization on my homepage. After setting up Google&#8217;s Custom Search Engine, users can notice that a new search bar is placed at the top of  Kelikuru.com HOME PAGE. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hang Seng ebanking enhances usability for branding</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/hang-seng-bank-ebanking-fetches-voices-from-user-usability-is-branding</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/hang-seng-bank-ebanking-fetches-voices-from-user-usability-is-branding#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Experience Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my personal experience. TG at Kelikuru.com is currently an ebanking user of Hong Kong-based Hang Seng Bank, which offers a range of banking services from account management to fund investment, securities trading.  To manage and keep track of my fund investment performance, TG recently spent more time in the past 2 weeks to make use of the ebanking system than before. Hang Seng Bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO starter: Why anchor text can be important to our site ranking?</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/seo-starter-why-anchor-text-can-be-important-to-our-site-ranking</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/seo-starter-why-anchor-text-can-be-important-to-our-site-ranking#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anchor link is no stranger to designers. We use it so often that it is an invisible bridge to guide users tour around website or browse information that is necessary to understand the whole picture. We use them to engage users, making our content-rich site more useful and more readable. In many instances, we may not notice that the anchor text is critical to search engines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Lessons learnt from 5-second Usability Test</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/5-lessons-learn-from-5-second-quick-usability-test</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/5-lessons-learn-from-5-second-quick-usability-test#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Tests and Study]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keywords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Navigation Usability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kelikuru.com/?p=527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TG currently conducted a 5-second usability test in Hong Kong with a couple of user in the hope that we can optimize a landing page, primarily increasing its brand awareness and secondly lifting its conversion rate.  The test case and its result are non-disclosure in nature. Using my own blog as a test environment, TG find a few things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: 5-second Quick Usability Test</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/5-second-test</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/5-second-test#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Tests and Study]]></category>
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		<title>Alibaba taking steps to enhance user research and user-experience design</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/alibaba-taking-steps-to-enhance-user-research-and-user-experience-design</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/alibaba-taking-steps-to-enhance-user-research-and-user-experience-design#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliuser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Experience Design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kelikuru.com/?p=414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreseeing an imminent need to build a user-friendly B2B eCommerce platform to her users, Alibaba is now reaching out to seek collaboration with international buyers and suppliers. The Research Panel is an exclusive community of professional traders who have volunteered to share their knowledge, experience and insight about trade-related issues with Alibaba.com. Panelists periodically participate in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>User-Goals-Oriented Design to keep Homepage afloat</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/apply-user-goals-design-to-keep-home-page-afloat</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/apply-user-goals-design-to-keep-home-page-afloat#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Experience Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TG was giggling while reading a post from 呆聋瞎.  In his Chinese blog, the author questioned who is the culprit causing a chaotic homepage design for China major portal sites. 有过在大型网站设计经验的人，应该会理解什么叫“做加法容易，做减法难”。你在首页添个东西，只要不影响先占位子的相关方，没人管你。好了，你想精简内容，从首页删掉一块儿，相关利益方，就来跟你理论了。“凭什么删掉我们呀，你们不考虑用户习惯么？”（奶奶的，你们占位置的时候，怎么不考虑用户习惯呀？现在又拿用户当挡箭牌）。 The language is hilarious and funny, it does not match with the author I know in person.. Again, we should not judge people by their appearances&#8230;Haha!! For those who can&#8217;t read Simplified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Alibaba and UPA China User Research Event</title>
		<link>http://www.kelikuru.com/upcoming-alibaba-and-upa-china-user-research-event</link>
		<comments>http://www.kelikuru.com/upcoming-alibaba-and-upa-china-user-research-event#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[B2B marketplaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alibaba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alibaba.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPA China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User Experience Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[user tests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TG is asked to delivered two pieces of information to my friends: Alibaba.com is currently conducting an online survey to improve its site usability and faceted search. International buyers are welcome to sign in for the user research and it will be followed by a telephone interview. UPA China will host her User Friendly 2009 on 13 Nov, [...]]]></description>
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