Rocky Fu’s Blog

Whether or not you are in finance industry, you are probably aware of the recent Lehman Brothers and AIG incident; it’s been a turbulent week for them. Yesterday in Singapore, hundreds of anxious policyholders lined up in the hot sun outside the AIG Singapore offices. Hundreds more were already inside the offices of AIG and [...]

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comScore today released its ranking of the top search properties in the Asia-Pacific region based on data from the comScore qSearch 2.0 service, revealing that Google Sites continued to lead the region with 33.5% of the more than 27 billion searches conducted in July. Baidu ranked second with 27.4% search share, followed by Yahoo! Sites [...]

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It’s an old topic; but I often came across some clients who know the importance of search engine optimization always worrying about being penalized. First of all, for most sites, it’s not easy to rank well on competitive terms or to be penalized by search engines.
Being penalized means your site is out of the search [...]

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A very good video from Google talking about some basics of search engine optimization. The video covers the following topics:

Background of search
Enhance your site at every stage of the pipeline

Crawling

Maximize your site’s accessibility to search engines

Implement strong practices for Flash, AJAX, images

Indexing

Promote your quality content, reduce duplicates

Search results

Create pretty results users will click on

Review search [...]

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As you can see in the chart from MarketingSherpa above,
one fifth of respondents called SEO their “strongest tactic” for ROI – up 3 percentage points from 2007 to 21%. Also, “good ROI” jumped 2 points to 38%. More importantly, we see a 6-point drop (28%) in those who call the results of SEO “hard [...]

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Yahoo!’s Search Marketing’s latest iteration, code named Panama, was released early in 2007. It’s now launching in SEA (South East Asia).
Had a meeting last Friday with MJ from Yahoo Search (he was Google Korea’s first employees), who briefed us about the launching of Yahoo Panama in South East Asia. Here are the key takeaways:

Yahoo Panama [...]

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Page not found. But, some colleagues can access at the same time. Weired, isn’t it? Bad user experience; indeed!

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Baidu is the most widely used search engine in China, having more than 60% of the total search market. However, on branding, it doesn’t seem to have an obvious advantage over Google. Interestingly, the less developed a city is, the more popular Baidu is, and the less popular Google is.
I did a presentation internally last [...]

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Always cry for inbound links? But can hardly get one? Hope this video can get you some ideas:

What’s search marketing related to rap? Well, they connected them! Rap video on paid search would definitely entice many bloggers like me to start linking to the video. Tell you what? I just posted their “link building 101 [...]

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In Asia Pacific SEM industry, I kind of prefer working with clients who have no knowledge at all about online. When they know something but not everything, they insist doing the wrong thing or not doing the right thing.
One client from travel industry asked to remove all brand keywords proposed from the paid search campaigns [...]

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