Ok I’ve stopped by the blog of former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr. Mahatir Mohamad and I’ve noticed that some of his pages have very high page rank.
Also, if you do a simple trackback, a link to your blog will be displayed under the respective post.
I will trackback to his post and see if it leaves a do-follow link right back here…
A little sneaky, but that’s Internet Marketing right?
If you came from his blog to here, please don’t be angry 
And let me know if it worked..
Thanks,
-William
I’m not sure if some of you know, but I actually studied Engineering in Melbourne, Australia. One of the things I noticed about the country was that there was a very keen innovative spirit amongst the people.
I guess the ‘innovative spirit’ is contagious, because it was due to some of the businesses I saw while studying there that made me resign from my job in Malaysia and go full time into Internet Marketing, creating websites and Web Design in general…
Although America probably has the most well known entrepreneurs in the world, Australia has its fair share too. One of these entrepreneurs is a man by the name of Brad Sugars.
Brad Sugars is the founder of a World wide franchise called ActionCOACH (formerly known as Action International) when he was in his early twenties.
One of the things he did in his younger years (which some of us don’t even do now) is that he attended seminars, even if he had to pay for them just for the learning experience. I encourage people to do this, in fact there are plenty of seminars which are being offered free for you to learn from.
Brad Sugars started up Australia’s first self-serve photocopy center while he was still studying in University, from which he built up a mailing list (it’s all in the list!) and sent out a regular newsletter to his customers. These were primarily small business owners whom he targeted for his coaching services.
If you’ve read Rich Dad Poor Dad (and I did, when I was 16) you’ll be familiar with Robert Kiyosaki. Robert and Brad share somewhat similar concepts in terms of business development and concepts and perhaps the main reason for this is in 1993, Sugars teamed up with author and entrepreneur, Robert Kiyosaki to teach marketing and business development strategies to Kiyosaki’s students.
I follow the same belief that Brad follows when it comes to formal education, although a great experience:
“When you go to university or college,” Brad says “You are not being educated, you are being schooled.”
“Rather than drawing out from people in the learning process, education is about pummeling information in and hoping some of it sticks.”
Which is why when people come into the working world, they can struggle, because you have to think for yourself, you aren’t spoon fed information by your lecturers anymore.
In that case, being an Entrepreneur must seem like a nightmare huh?
Brad shares alot more of his mindset and some of the interesting stories of his business growing up at his website http://www.aboutbradsugars.com. I encourage you to pay it a visit and read about his story, more so for his mindset rather than tips on how to start a photocopy shop…
Brad Sugars
After all, it’s your mindset that helps you succeed in business, more so than anything else.
Cheers,
-William Lee
It seems that Google has updated page rank again, I’m not sure how often they do it but it looks as if it’s once every 2 or 3 months.
And the results?
Well this blog has gone from PR2 to PR3 woohoo!
And my Malaysia Food Blog has also gone from PR2 to PR3, another woohoo!
Unfortunately, one of my niche sites went from PR2 to PR1 while the others all maintained their PR2 ranking (if any).
So, this round, Google gave me a nice pat on the back for my Internet Marketing efforts. Let’s hope the next time it’s not a slap in the face =P
-William Lee
A pillar article is basically a really long, informative and content packed article that is chock full of keywords, is useful to your audience and helps drive traffic to your site.
My first attempt at a pillar article came in the form of my ‘How To Register Online with SSM‘ post which was an informative how-to on registering your business online using the ssm.com.my site.
To date, it brings in the most traffic, and ranks the best amongst the search engine keywords, along side ‘online business malaysia’.
I first read about pillar articles from Yaro Starak’s blog post, ‘How To Write Great Blog Content – Pillar Articles‘
In his words:
Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice.
Ideally you don’t want to fill it with affiliate links, as you’re meant to be providing good content with no ulterior motive right? But since it’s going to bring it a good amount of traffic, ‘useful’ affiliate links are allowed.
What are useful affiliate links? Maybe a link to a good web host your readers can use? Or even a useful product that might enhance your subject matter? Use your common sense, don’t go overboard and you’ll probably make a little from it as well.
But the main aim is to drive traffic.
I’m working on my pillar article as we speak and you’ll be able to spot it when I’m done. I’ll make it at least 1000 words, probably broken up into multiple parts with as much useful information as I can put in it.
My idea is to put it in public view as a sticky post or perhaps a page on this site, as I think I’ll gain more from SEO and indexing that compiling it as a free product and asking people to sign up for my newsletter.
After all, I’ve already got one of those anyway.
Well better get started, lots of work to do.
-William Lee
Here’s a short tutorial on how to use the All in One SEO wordpress plugin after you’ve written your posts.
By default, just having the plugin installed is a good thing because it rewrites your web page titles and helps restructure your URLs to be more search engine friendly.
1) Login to WordPress
2) Add a New Post
3) Write Your Post
4) Copy and paste your post title and select roughly 160 characters of text that you would like to appear in your ‘description’ when Google indexes your site into the All in One SEO Pack
Your Site Title and Your Google 'Description'
5) Paste it in the All in One SEO Pack plugin that is located below your text input window like so (remember to add a few tags you would like to include in your meta tags of your page):
6) Click ‘publish’ or ‘update post’ to save your changes and add these descriptions to your page.
It seems like posting about politics is a sure-fre way of getting traffic to your blog. Well here in Malaysia anyway.
Political news is always a hot topic, maybe because of its gossip like appeal. And particularly in Malaysia, because such a large amount of the population are fed up with politicians and the government in general.
Politics stirs up the most emotions, mostly anger I’ve noticed. And it’s the easiest for people to comment on, as they want to vent and let their frustrations be known.
What better place than the anonymity (typo?) of the Internet?
I’m going to do a few posts on political news to see if it does bring in traffic… but how targeted will that traffic be?
Then again, making money is an evergreen topic, so I think any traffic is targeted traffic.
What do you think?
The PayPal withdrawl that I mentioned in an earlier post finally managed to get through to my account. PayPal took USD5 as a transaction fee and then 2 transactions of RM1 from my Al Rajhi account. The staff at the bank told me that this was a verification charge.
All in all, my withdrawl of USD 208.66 from PayPal returned me RM720.54. Which gives an exchange rate of 1USD to RM3.45 which is a bit lower than the current rate of RM3.51 to USD1.
So all in all not bad. Now I just need to increase PayPal income, it seems to be the most convenient way to get foreign currency to your local account. Cashing a cheque takes much longer and also has much higher clearing fees.
You know, after reading the Rich Dad Poor Dad series, as well as a whole set of other books, I’ve never been happy with the ‘Rat Race’.
Faithfully giving your company 8 hours or more a day so that some time in the future, you’ll become one of the bosses, where you’ll then start working 12 hours a day. haha.
But you know what? Alot of people are content with that way of life. Especially here in Malaysia.
We’re pretty content with working and working, getting a regular pay check and one day retiring. One day very very far away that is.
But that’s pretty normal in alot of other countries as well.
In Malaysia however, I feel we are guilty of one more thing, which is alot of people are scared to voice out their opinions, especially in the work place.
In most peoples’ minds, they think ‘why bother?’ or ‘nothing’s going to change anyway’ or ‘I’ll just accept it like that’.
There’s an intimidation factor that Malaysian executives have against their bosses which gets me and some of my friends pretty angry.
What they don’t realize is that if they keep quiet, their superiors are just going to get away with it over and over again.
And seeing as most people don’t stand up for themselves, when someone eventually does (and these are the people who are worth something to the company… because they have a voice) they seem like someone shouting in a library – loud and completely out of place.
So remember, if your boss is treating you like shit, instead of taking it, stand up for yourself. Sometimes, if your boss deserves to eat shit, then you should tell him to eat shit.
Hey, who else is gonna do it?
-William
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