Domain names are also important criterias when planning for your search engine optimization strategy. To get free top rankings in Google, Yahoo!, MSN and more, you should do a review of your current website and in some instance, choose to register a domain that is different from your own company name.

Here are some tips for search engine friendly domain names:-

1. Domain name to be .com

- rather than to buy your local domain eg name.com.sg or name.com.hk, it’s better to register a domain .com as this is a worldwide domain and only 1 is available

- check the domain availability at www.FreeDomainsRegistration.com

2. Register the domain based on your product name or keywords

- if you are promoting your own brand, then best to register your own brand rather than having your competitors register it, eg www.SYLJapan.com to sell fresh certified organic skincare from Japan

3. Register plural and singular versions of your keywords

- if you are selling flowers, then you should grab both flower.com and flowers.com and both going to the same 1 website (or 1 goes to the flower site, and another 1 goes to a flower blog)

4. Display your domain in other website pages

- if you have a blog, link back to your own website .com or mention this correctly on all related websites or blogs

- even if you have your personal Facebook, you can list all your website domains below your profile such as www.Facebook.com/eOneNet or www.Facebook.com/FioneTanMayYee

5. Avoid easily misspelt domain names

- if the domain you wish to register is easily misspelt, or have too many sss or rrrs all at one time, then it will jeopardize your future branding too

eg your company name is Bob Business Services and you register the name as Bobbusinessservices.com , then many customers will mistype the “s” in the middle or ignore the addtional b for business.

You should at least register your own .com with your own name such as www.FioneTan.com

This weekend’s SEO workshop in Malaysia was filled with tips on how to get Top rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN Bing and other search engines for FREE! While some of the participants came with their current website, that lacked the good search engine positions, some have just started their idea to make money online.

Leads for sales and your prospects derived from natural search engine ranking via top rankings are the lowest cost compared to other online marketing strategies such as email marketing. How is your website ranking compared to others in your industry?

Basically there are 2 types of Search engine strategies and its benefits:-

a) search engine optimization ( SEO )

- free natural rankings on Google, Yahoo, MSN etc, will make customers’ think more highly of your brand, or product

- however, many competitors so how can you get on the Top 10 for Free? This requires you to learn more about SEO techniques, especially on how to find the best keywords for your website

b) pay per click advertising ( PPC )

- pay for each click received through your advertisement in Google , Yahoo or MSN Bing. Fast results as your ad can be seen in as little as 15 minutes itself

- disadvantage is that you need to continuously pay in order to get traffic, visitors. The minute you stop paying, you get no sale as you are not listed in the Top 10 of search engine results.

Therefore, it does make good sense to have your internal SEO expert for your company website and send your marketing team for proper internet business workshop to learn good SEO techniques to save money for your company, while increasing your website sales!

To see the next search engine optimization workshop dates in Malaysia, visit www.InternetMarketingCoaching.com

Posted by Harrace, Senior SEO Coach

With the Internet users surpassing 57 million as of today, Middle East is another huge market for us online marketers to make money!

This has also benefited us as we have been getting customers from Dubai from time to time, including purchasse of our popular and the top ranked Internet marketing video course, which is one of the “most expensive” Internet marketing DVD course, but if one can see the value and the return on investment (some of our customers are making millions of dollars) by learning and applying proven Internet marketing strategies and Internet marketing tips, from the World’s top Internet marketing coach, this is a great deal!

Not to forget we are now doing a global business, with customers from all around the world!

Social Media Marketing Coaches – Fione & Harrace will be presenting at the Chinese Social Media Marketing Malaysia seminar today from 10am to 5pm. The morning session will bring in tips on doing online business for B2B and B2C, plus the step by step on how to start your Internet Business.

After session focuses on online marketing techniques that will generate sales for websites, including search engine optimization, which is how to get Free Top 10 Rankings in Google, Yahoo. The highlight of the day of course, will be the Facebook marketing, and Blogging strategies for companies.

If you have missed this one, just attend the New Social Media Marketing Malaysia seminar on April 10th, Saturday at our eOneNet newly purchased Grade A office for our Bangsar Internet Marketing Office. Full information is available in chinese at http://www.eonenet.com/c/internet_marketing_malaysia_workshop.htm

Posted by SEO Coach, Fione Tan

Have you checked the rankings of your keywords in search engines? You can either get a natural top 10 ranking for FREE, or pay for search engine marketing to appear on the sponsored links of the search engines.

Here are the TOP 5 Search Engines in the USA and their market share

1. Google search – 67.3%

2. Yahoo search – 14.4%

3. MSN search / Bing – 9.9%

4. AOL search – 2.5%

5. Ask.com search – 1.7%

As rated by Nielsen Megaview report for Dec 2009.

Therefore, you should focus your search engine optimization techniques on the Top 3 search engines – Google, Yahoo & MSN Bing and you will able to target the majority of your USA target market audience.

Posted by Fione Tan, Search Engine Optimization – SEO Coach

Search engine optimization workshop were held at Causeway Bay internet marketing Hong Kong Office of www.eOneNet.com this weekend. Here are the popularly asked questions about how to get top rankings in search engines.

1. Do i choose a specific domain with keywords?

- it is best to choose a domain name with your main keywords eg www.2Sars.com rather than ABCcompanyname.com

- if you are selling a range eg pearl jewelry then it is better to use pearljewelry.com

 2. Do i use english or chinese keywords?

- if your main target is worldwide, then use English language and all your metatags title, description & keywords of the website should be in English too

- if your page is in simplified chinese and will be targetting China, then create your webpage metatags in simplified chinese title, description and keywords.

- if your contents of the webpage shows both english and chinese on the same page, then you can mix in both english and chinese metatags

3. I am already getting free rankings in search engine, eg No.1 in Google and No.1 in Yahoo, but how come the sales are still below average?

- SEO, or search engine optimization is a skill to improve your ranking in the search engines for free, without any advertising fees. However, the way you really make money is to first discover what your customers are using as the keyword and then aim for the correct keywords.

- you need to evaluate your current keywords, sometimes it is a keyword that is not popular or not used by clients when searching eg like your name. Therefore being No.1 for your own name itself will not get you sales unless you are a celebrity or linked directly to your product

Posted by SEO Coach, Fione Tan

This weekend is the Hong Kong Search Engine Optimization Workshop for www.InternetMarketingCoaching.com entrepeneurs. Apart from learning how to get Free No.1 Ranking on Google, Yahoo and even China search engine, Baidu. Why spend time to discover how to get natural top rankings in search engines for your website, online store and blog? Should you just focus on Pay per click advertising on search engines (PPC search marketing)?

We have also covered other important topics including popular online marketing techniques such as blog marketing, email marketing, video marketing and other website automation tools including autoresponders.

Here are some of the more frequently asked questions about search engine optimization

1. Do i need to be very technical to learn SEO?

SEO is not that technical. It’s about understanding the Search Engine Algorithm and see how you can amend or build your website to comply to contents that appeal to the search engines. Therefore, most entrepreneurs in our search engine workshop at http://www.InternetMarketingCoaching.com become amazed at how simple SEO techniques can be learnt.

2. Will having more domain names all forwarded or linked to the same 1 website increase the search engine ranking?

If you have originally purchased a few domains, directly forward each domain name to your websites or even if it is just 1 website. However, it doesn’t help in your search engine position if you forward all the domains to only 1 single website as the contents are still the same and therefore will not get a good ranking on Google

 3. I am a reseller or agent of a brand or company, of which a company agent website has been given to me. Can i just use this 1 webpage to get No.1 ranking on Yahoo!, Google or MSN?

If you are a reseller or agent of that company or product and the company already offers a complimentary website for each of their partner, that means everyone is using the similar website contents and information. Therefore, the search engines will be unlikely to give you a good top ranking position for free. You should create your own blog or website with your own unique contents.

To learn how to get Top 10 rankings in Google, Yahoo, Baidu, MSN Bing and other search engines, check out http://www.InternetMarketingCoaching.com

Here are the SEO workshop students for this weekend.

Posted by Fione Tan, SEO coach

Search engine optimization Malaysia class is on this weekend with entrepreneurs from all over Asian cities including business owners and part-time entrepreneurs from Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Kota Kinabalu, Pulau Pinang, Seremban, and Singapore.

Above is a picture of our internet marketing coaching class for English batch of 907. One of the questions that was posed by my student during our lunch this afternoon was is possible to make money online via Affilite Program selling ebooks only?

What do you think? Definitely yes! The important thing is to get the demand of highly searched products to list down the keywords, shortlist the suitable products / services / ebooks or even softwares to sell, matching that keyword. With good search engine optimization techniques, they can easily get Top 10 rankings in Google & Yahoo! for free.

 Later part of the afternoon will be spent on discussing other online marketing techniques to drive traffic to their website and blogs.

Posted by SEO Coach, Fione Tan

SEO Hong Kong  vs SEO Malaysia vs SEO Singapore or even SEO China…. are there any differences?

Unlike in USA, where you can just target for the main search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN ( recently relaunched as Bing ) and for English keywords, Asia SEO marketing campaign should be targetted by local Asian languages as well.

For instance, SEO Hong Kong will mainly be in Traditional Chinese Keywords (similar to SEO Taiwan language format), followed by English popular searches. While for SEO China, it will mainly target Simplified chinese keywords (similar to chinese seo marketing plan for Malaysia SEO and Singapore SEO )

Which search engine do you think is most popular in Hong Kong ? Yahoo.com.hk is the most popular choice here but in Malaysia, seo techniques are mainly targetting Google.com

Therefore here are 4 simple ideas for your website Asia SEO marketing plan

1. List down the main countries that you want to sell to and prioritise the countries.

2. List out the popular search engines of those countries

3. List out your keywords in the different languages

- SEO marketing keywords for different keywords eg SEO Japan, SEO Korea, or SEO China?

4. Translate your website to the different languages

That reminds me that i have some webpages online that i need to be translated into other languages now. Let’s get working on the ideas now & increase your website income via SEO marketing.

Posted by Fione Tan, Internet Marketing Coach

As more entrepreneurs are eager to start their internet business, and retailers looking forward to improve their ecommerce sales, one of their most commonly asked question is where do i find customers online? Or to be exact, how can customers find my website?

This boils down to the similar internet marketing strategy of Search Engine Optimization ( also commonly known as SEO ) and these popular question will pop up:-

- how to rank No.1 in Google for free

- how to do get Top rankings in Yahoo! without paying

In our Search Engine Optimization Hong Kong Class last weekend, we managed to train a group of entrepreneurs, working professionals, business owners, directors and manufacturers on how to get their websites listed on the popular search engines for FREE.

At the end of our internet marketing coaching session, the overall group agreed as well that search engine optimisation is not so much a technical skill and can easily be learnt. What better way to learn than to attend the hands-on computer lab class with live internet connection, and conduct live research online to study the SEO strategies of your competitors who are now getting Top 10 rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Baidu, or Sina?

To complete the learning process of course, is to direct apply this SEO tactics to your own website or your own blog and see traffic skyrocket!

Search engine optimisation expert companies can charge a very high fee to get top rankings. Can you guess how much are some Hong Kong search engine optimisation companies charging per keyword? Or China SEO firms fees for each search engine optimization campaign?

There is definitely nothing wrong by asking a SEO firm to help you improve your search engine rankings but before deciding on which SEO marketing company to hire, it’ll be good to do a background check on that company. We’ll be coming up with a guide on how to choose a search engine optimization company soon, so be sure to visit our blog again and feel free to share any experience you had dealing with search engine optimization agencies.