Due to the fact that there are not THAT many (compared to other countries, even Singapore for example) big Malaysian sites competing for space (properly with SEO anyway), it gives new and smaller sites like mine a chance to get moderately good rankings on Google.com.

The best I can figure is that even though you choose search: ‘The Web’, Google still tries its best to find local sites (as long as they are popular enough) to show as their search results.

Google.com.my Result

Google.com Result

Take for example the last result for ‘how to start an online business in malaysia’ using Google.com and Google.com.my (search: ‘The Web’). They’ll give you slightly different results, which I’m assuming is because Google.com is targeted to America.

PR0 and Alexa 3 Million++

It means that even for a hatchling site like my own, with a PR rank of 0 and an Alexa rank of 3 million++, I am still on page 3 for a ‘pages from Malaysia’ search. But I’ve done a little bit of tweaking to help with my SEO ranking, so hopefully I slowly rise on the search placements.

I’d expect to be on something closer to page 10, which shows that even slight SEO optimization of your site really DOES help alot. Google just likes sites like that.

Still learning,

-William Lee