I still have some ways to go for the more general terms like ‘make money online’ or ‘Internet marketing Malaysia’.

But I’ve got an idea what I need to do to get those – just research keywords, write articles based on the long tail keywords with medium-high search traffic and publish.

Unfortunately not many people are looking for ‘Internet marketing blog Malaysia’, either that or my position is not high up enough on the search rankings just yet.

I’ll make a short tutorial on how I optimized my page to get this search ranking in a later post. For now I’ll just take the small victory that my search engine optimization strategies are working to an extent.

Thanks for listening,

-William Lee

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