I received a courier package this morning.
The book does look a bit familiar.
Guess what? It’s the new book by my friend Gobala - The New Millionaires.
Sheeze. They put my testimonial first. SEO Expert does sound a bit cheesy.
Signature from the author!
Review coming up.
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Mastering the combination of Google Webmaster Tool, Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer will make you the deadliest internet marketing weapon Malaysia ever seen.
This is a webinar by a few fellow Googlers that you really do not want to miss:
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It’s already happening. When? You asked. Well,
Inspired by the cluetrain, allow me to present “The New SEO Manifesto“.
#1. Google is new god - obey her or else.
#2. Blackhat what? If you are doing it and not yet being penalized, congratulate yourself for another lucky day.
#3. Don’t try to beat search engines anymore. The war is over; the search engine has won.
#4. Now, put your crosshair at your visitors. They should be your utmost concern now.
#5. Buying links are not just throwing your money in drain; it’s potentially hurting your search rankings.
#6. Less is more. 1 good (authority) links can beat 1000 average one. Nuff said.
#7. Social bookmarking websites are the new directories. But not for long.
#8. Routine is bad. Even a child could tell if you are building 10 directory links, 10 blog links, 10 social bookmarking links, 10 forum links, per month, pointing to the same sites (or worse, use the same anchor text).
#9. Random is good. Build links as you want and when you want.
#10. If a SEO consultant tells you he’ll build you links through directories, article directories, and link purchasing - RUN.
#11. Making your website multi-lingual will be your best investment, beats hiring SEO any day. Just make sure it’s human work and translated by machine.
#12. Link bait, is not a luxury anymore - it’s a necessity for every websites.
#13. Content Building is old school - introducing Content Packaging.
#14. Most of the contents that could have been written - had been written. Don’t reinvent the wheel. Now put that shiny rims on it. Rewrite the contents in better way.
#15. Lists are not just good, it’s sexy.
#16. If your website is not search engine friendly, you are not even in the game.
#17. The key to search engine friendliness is distinctiveness of each page.
#18. Every page of your sites should have different (descriptive, and relevant) title, meta tags, contents, permalinks (URL).
#19. Sitemap is crucial. It helps your visitors and the spiders.
I’ll only have 19 for now. Let’s keep the list going! Add your ideas in the comments section below.
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Since Google released the wonderful mail fetcher features in Gmail, I’ve been using Gmail ever since for all my mail accounts (my company even run on Google Apps)
And as a person that normally ignores all the advertisements, I find myself couldn’t ignore some of the advertisement there, especially the Web Clip part.
Because they are relevant to what I was looking for.
For my case, Google only displays 2 type of ads (mostly) on my Gmail interface: online marketing related (seo, copywriting, ppc) and technology (gadget and stuffs).
On the other day, I noticed my wife’s Gmail interface was about different kind of ads. And in her case, it’s all about online shopping. Sometimes, she just couldn’t help but to click on it (which happens most of the time - imagine the click-thru rate), especially when it shows the ads about the websites that sell korean/japan/taiwan imported handbags - exactly what she wanted.
Scarily (not that I’m worried about my wallet…actually, I’m a bit worried) relevant. And it can only get better.
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Meet Steve.
He doesn’t read newspaper, doesn’t watch TV and surf the net at least 8 hours a day. Over the years, he developed some kind of ad blindness - his eyes automatically detect and ignore any advertisements on the internet. He loves sharing and connecting to people, especially through online community like facebook, del.icio.us, message boards, twitters and of course, his very own blog.
If you are running a startup, how would you market to Steve?
Coming soon at BarCamp near you, where a lot of brains are better than one, especially the top brains from all over Malaysia.
And seriously (*grin), it’s going to be fun.
Featuring cluetrain, hughtrain, open source and the latest pinko marketing, it’s the end of business, as usual.
See you guys there!
p/s: APPLE GEEK drawings credit to the 56 geeks project.
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There will be a free, 3 and a half hour of free seminar organized by Google in cooperation with FMM at Perai.
The seminar will mainly talk about improving office productivity (using Google’s Tool) and reaching domestic and export market using Adwords.
Date: 29 July 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Venue: FMM Northern Branch, 2767, Mukim 1, Lebuh Tenggiri 2, Bandar Seberang Jaya, 13700 Prai.
If you recently saw your competitors showing up when you are searching on Google or checking your GMail, you probably shouldn’t miss this seminar. And best of all, you’ll get a free adwords coupon to start.
If you are interested, contact Mr Nathan / Ms Evelyn Yeap at tel. no 04-3992057 or fax no. 04-3994863 or e-mail: fmmpng@fmm.jaring.my.
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Things really get busy in the month of July for the web workers community.
Not too long ago (just the last post), we have our usual webmaster gathering. Few weeks later, we got our very own barcamp.
What is a barcamp?
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants.
It’s on this coming weekends (26-27 July). Oh, it’s FULL already :) Those who are lucky enough to make it, see you there!
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Techcult compiled it. I loved it. Especially when among them, there are lots of my personal heroes:
And more. Go read it (Web Cult’s Top 100 Web Celebrities). This inspires my very own Get Found’s Top 50 Malaysia Web Celebrities, on its way :D
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I used the word ‘acquired’ because it feels huge. You know - Google acquired YouTube, Microsoft acquiring Yahoo etc. The word seemingly relates with success and a hell lot of money.
Not exactly my case, not really. 
I still need to work my ass off.
Ok, let’s get straight to the point - one of my side project (P & C for now) has been bought by our local hosting giant - Exabytes.
Even though it is the same company I quit several years ago (if you’ve seen my linkedin), they’ve grew bigger now. A lot more bigger (in terms of their company size, clients served etc..)
I’ll be working under contractual basis. So, don’t be surprised if you see me in Exabytes uniform next time! ;)
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Prior to the gathering, we have a full registration. We increased the food order (10 extra pax), closed the registration (though it breaks my heart doing this, I would love to see everyone go), and hopefully all the people will fit in the space of The Apartment.
Even thought it’s the 3rd time I’m organizing, I was still nervous.
Without going through the whole event (many have blogged about it, check out the links below), here’s what I like about the 3rd Webmaster Malaysia Gathering:
Well, guessed everything turns out just fine. Thank you for all webmasters that attended!
http://blog.exabytes.com.my/index.php/2008/07/07/the-3rd-webmastermalaysia-gathering/
http://kailoon.com/the-3rd-webmastermalaysia-gathering-update/
http://www.dannyfoo.com/blog/dannyfoo-life/my-first-webmaster-malaysia-gathering/
http://www.laweddie.com/wordpress/2008/07/06/malaysia-webmaster-gathering-at-the-curve-5-july-2008/
http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2008/07/liewcf-problogger-talk-webmaster-malaysia-gathering/
http://www.sumardi.net/2008/07/06/webmaster-malaysia-gathering-2008-photos/
http://catzer.com/2008/07/05/webmastermalaysia-forum-gathering/
http://cheehoong.com/entreprenuer/ive-won-a-maxtor-80gb-portable-hard-disk
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It’s ON. After weeks of putting things together, we are going to have our 3rd official Webmaster Malaysia Gathering in KL on this coming 5th of July at The Curve, Mutiara Damansara.
This time, we’ve managed to book a nice and cozy place called “The Apartment” at The Curve. Even better than that, we’ve even managed to get our legendary members like LiewCF and Alang, and few other great webmasters to speak in this event.
The best part is, the admission is FREE. Though, we only have seats for 40 members. To participate, simply reply to this email (limcs@webmastermalaysia.com) with your name and phone number. Act fast ;)
p/s: the above excerpt is copied from the newsletter I’ve just sent to the members of Webmaster Malaysia. What can I say? I’m too excited!
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There is a fine line that separates the great, good, bad and ugly website. I hate to say it, but (the truth is) - web design is a very saturated field in Malaysia, and oh yes, I’ve seen a lot of downright ugly works from web designers (and some of them even dare to charge higher).
Anyone can be a web designers. A few tutorials, with the right tools and you are well on your way to design your uncle’s company website for RM800. But it takes years of experience, hard work, practice and some design sense to become a good or even great web designers.
Hence the list. I’m listing every Malaysia web designers I knew, heard of, and even worked with, whom I think they are really good (Malaysia boleh!). I’m sharing the list with you so that they know who to look for when you need a website done.
Here you go, in no particular order, and I’ll let their best work do the talking:
Well, that’s it. Hope you enjoy the list. And if you think you or someone you know should make the list, drop me an email at ceo@netizensmedia.com with their portfolio URL.
Oh, and you never would have guessed it, I’m not a big fans of flash-based website (you should know why). ;)
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The blog sphere will amuse you once in a while with a post like this:
Hosting on Exabtyes Can Affect Your SEO Ranking . Quoted:
My recent drop of PageRank 3 to PageRank 0 could be directly linked to Exabytes’s hosting, as pointed out here. Asking for a refund would be one thing. As it is now, www.meshio.com could be associated with “Explicit XXX Content”, hmm…
Looking from the brighter side, it came from a very well and passionately written personal finance blog (which rightfully deserved my linkback). Kudos to the owner of the blog, but allow me to clarify your above mentioned post.
Firstly, I’ll look past the obvious truth that page rank has no relation with the search engine ranking or traffic. The page rank dropped (and increased) is due to Google’s usual update their page rank algorithm. And definitely has nothing to do with your web host.
Secondly, the number of websites hosted on the same server would not affect your search engine ranking. A server that host 400++ websites are a norm for web hosting companies.
Thirdly, adult-related websites would not affect your search engine ranking either or associate your websites with it.
Though I do not have any rock solid evidence to support my opinions above, but I would like you to think of this: - Search engines are not retarded. They are in the business because they provide relevant search results to users.
Would they put themselves out of business by associating your website with other websites hosted on the same server? Not likely so.
Think blogspot, Google’s own hosted blogging platform. How many bad apples (as in splogs) are there? Countless. Then how many blogs hosted there have high ranking and high traffic? Countless, too. You get the idea.
All in all, it is too easy to blame your web host when lightning strikes. It happened to me before. But there are times when your web host is really hurting your search engine ranking.
1. Down Time. Downtime is inevitable. Hardware/software upgrade and server restart cause downtime. There are so many web host that promise 100% uptime, but only few (or none) can deliver it. But constant downtime hurts your ranking. Because when search engine bots visit a website and get a 404, the search engine wouldn’t want its user to get the same message too.
2. Constant Migrate of Server. There are web hosting companies that keep changing the server for your website for no obvious reason (they will tell you it is hardware upgrade, but if the server needs to be upgraded every 2 months, it’s something fishy). Every time website changes its IP, the ranking decreases, and it takes time to regain back.
3. Server Crash, Data Loss, Spyware infected. This is the worst nightmares for all webmasters. One of my client’s website got infected by spyware (where the search result shows “visit this website may harm your computer”), then loss weeks of data when performing MS SQL upgrade (from 2000 to 2005) due to the incompetence of technical staffs. That hurts, big time.
When these things happen, then you really need to change your web host.
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This is the summary of my presentation at the internet millionaires mastermind session.
(oh, I was sweating :P )
The topics covered are:
Search engine optimization is maximize the potential of the website to be found by targeted audience through search engines.
1. Who Controls The Search Engine?
2. Build your website for Human or Robot?
1. Black Hat SEO
2. Grey Hat SEO
3. White Hat SEO
These are the simple ‘four steps method’ that I use to perform for my clients for the past years.
Step 1: Research Your Keyword
Step 2: Keyword Mapping
Now that you have a list of relevant keywords, map (’assign’) these keywords to the following tags/section of your website:
Step 3: Content Creation
Make no mistake: content is the king, still is, and will be.
Step 4: Link Building
That’s it ;) Hope it can benefit you guys, and those who came for the mastermind session, thank you for listening and your active participation.
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Readers,
Welcome the new GetFound.com.my ;)
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