Jordan rugby 1st test match that was held in Dubai 14th of May 2010 vs Lebanon, Total Rugby TV was there to cover this major step for Jordan Rugby. to view total rugby episode you can visit Jordan rugby website

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finally here are the final results of Kish Island Rugby sevens 2009 as of Jordan Rugby News page

Final
Kish	7 – 15	Iran
Plate Final
Georgia	18 – 19	Jordan
Day 1 Results
Georgia	0 – 24	Iran
Kish	15 – 7	Jordan
Georgia	5 – 19	Kish
Iran	26 – 0	Jordan
Georgia	14 – 0	Jordan
Iran	26 – 7	Kish

As you can see Jordan was unlucky in this tournament due to the fact that we didn't have any subs therefore our players had to play all games without resting, while other teams had fresh players coming into the game every 2-3 minutes! But i was proud of my team performance we showed great commitment and played very well.

The Middle East and North Africa, where Internet usage is relatively low compared to Europe and the US, could see a large growth in Internet penetration rates in 2010, said members of a Google delegation touring the region Thursday.

The four-member delegation is on a fact-finding mission in the Arab world to gauge business opportunities. They have already visited the West Bank and are currently in Lebanon in a tour that will also take them to Jordan, Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

"The Middle East and North Africa hold a very high possibility to be the largest growth region in 2010" when it comes to Internet penetration, said Mohammad Gawdat, Google's managing director for emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa, during an interview in Beirut.

Despite being a relatively heavily populated and oil-rich region, Internet penetration in the Middle East is still small compared to European countries or the United States where penetration rates are as high as 90 per cent.

In the past, telecommunication infrastructure was not very developed in the Arab world, and until recently dial-up service was the only way to access the Internet. Recently, Arab countries have begun offering DSL and ADSL services at cheaper prices making the Internet more widely accessible.

Ahmad S. Hamzawi, Google's engineering manager in the Middle East and North Africa, said Internet usage grew more than 1,000 per cent in the Middle East between 2000 and 2007. But he said it varied widely by country. For example, only about 12 per cent of Egypt's population has Internet access while Internet penetration in the UAE is about 55 per cent.

Gawdat would not give figures on how much money the Mountain View, California-based company plans to invest in the region. Google currently has offices in Egypt, United Arab Emirate and Saudi Arabia, he said.

Gawdat said one of the main problems in the Arab world, or Arabia as its called at Google, is that the region has not traditionally been on the forefront of developing new technologies, but that is beginning to change.

"The biggest challenge that needs to be overcome is for people here to do it [new technologies] first, and some entrepreneurs are beginning to do this," he said.

Another challenge is the lack of information in Arabic on the Internet, said Hamzawi. Less than one per cent of all the information on the web is available in Arabic while Arabic-language users of the Internet account for about 5 per cent of people using the web. He said this shows there is a "thirst for information in Arabic". The delegation members were optimistic about the future of the region.

"There are more 320 million Arabic speakers around the world. It is a significant market by all means," Gawdat said.

 

Source: Jordan Times

Internet users are thriving in the Middle East with very big percentages in Growth Rate; I believe it’s now time to invest Dinars in there!

According to Internet World Stats the top gainers in terms of growth are Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia with growth rate/population 11466.70%, 9100.00%, 3090.00% respectively, Syrians were open to internet in 2000 and they are working on expanding their networks throughout the country. Jordan were placed in the middle of the 13 countries list with 785.1% Growth from 2007 – 2008 where number of internet users in Jordan were estimated in 2008 around 1,126,700 while in 2007 they were 796,900 also its worth to mention that back in 2000 number of internet users in Jordan was "127,300" so well DONE JORDAN!

Having these great growth percentages makes the Middle East a great developing region in the field of Internet but where they are compared to the world? From the same website a pie chart shows the percentages of Middle East internet users who form only 2.9% of the rest of the world! Never the less in comparison of world's growth to Middle East the development in Middle East region is way ahead with 1,296.2% User Growth (2000-2008) while 327.3 for the rest of the world.

I am still in the process of formulating a decent report about the viability of E-Commerce websites in Middle East Region and the effect of Social Media as key success factors for such websites to strive.

In my previous post I have set the initial values of JordanRugby website and now I want to list the new updates in regard of its popularity:

According to Alexa.com in the last post our rugby team website PageRank was ranked 12,700,000 today it is its 8,222,694 with a 35% improvement in its PageRank, this improvement was after having the website listed in several directories & most importantly dmoz.org which has the major effect in this improvement to reach this growth rate.

The next step after having it listed in several directories I have used a bunch of tags those were the same in each page in order to test the effectiveness of similar tags for each page, let's see after a week from now if the PageRank will be affected?

The current numbers for the website are:

	Date
	August 15, 2008	September 22, 2008	Difference
Visits	391	581	32%
Unique Visitors	195	327	40%
Page Views	2,090	2,930	28%

Still working on increasing the website's popularity will display the new results soon.

While working on my thesis and going thru SEO (Search Engine Optimization) SMO (Social Media Optimization) and PageRanks i went to look up the PageRank of our team's website! To tell the truth i was shocked to see that it was ZERO ;) because i am the webmaster of those websites (Jordanrugby.com, jrfc.org).

JordanRugby.com is pretty new website launched May this year. So i have decided once i am done from my thesis in mid September i have to start working on raising Jordan Rugby website to a higher PageRanks, as for today Jordan Rugby stats are:

• 391 Visits
• 195 Unique Visitors
• 2,090 Page views

I asked myself would you want the new PageRank to be 9 as i have checked the rank of Facebook's today? Definitely not! i am not that crazy so below is the list of websites that we share same interests’, and we are in the same region all together therefore am going to decide our magic number based on that.


As what the results shows it seems that we as Jordan Rugby are inactive in the web sphere just like our friends in Syria the zenobians, but unlike our mates across our neighboring continent Cairo & Alexandria's team they have a pretty high page rank compared with us.

i have included two important websites: AGRFU the governing body of rugby in the region and IRB the International Rugby Board to help me decide where we should go, for sure i would love to hit the 9 as Facebook but to benchmark i looked around us.

That’s why i have decided to go for (5), a very reasonable number in regard of the surrounding websites, we mostly win each and every game we play now our game is online ;)
To get over there am thinking now that we have to get more active in social network sites from which we will be able to generate more traffic into our website plus having a youtube channel for our rugby team does not sound like a bad idea since ppl spend most of their time over there!
In 3 months time I will go back to review where we will be and let us hope its much more than ZERO !!!
Cheers… & Long Live Jordan Rugby

Photos of Jordan Rugby players holding the Arabian 7s Challenge Cup were on every player profile on facebook last week. Unfortunatly i wasnt able to join their happiness winning this trophy but i have celibrated this win from my dormitory room #2 here in Greece!!!

News has been posted about this big win in AGRFU web site; check the News here.

Great job guys enjoy the win.