China Business community, II

The results are in! We asked which is your Favorite China Business community? Without further ado, here are the results:

LinkedIn: 35%
XING: 14%
Facebook: 14%
F&B and Fashion business1: 7%
KLM Club China1: 7%
Lenovo1: 6%
Globe Forum Business Network1: 5%
Guanxi1: 4%
China dialogue1: 2%
Tianji1: 3%
Hello World1: 1%
Language1: 1%

1 = Added by a guest

Now I know KLM Club China, we have quite some friends there, but what is F&B and Fashion business? Globe Forum Business Network was new to me as well, I signed up and I must say it looks quite nice! Will do an update on what that does to our on-going Chinese Networking endeavor soon.

That’s it for now, oh and BTW, China Law Blog added us to their Blogroll, do check their site out on http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_sucess_stories_new_blogr.html , it is excellent!

M

PS If XING and LinkedIn is your thing, look me up: find a direct link in the menu on the right.

Facebook’s China traffic killer app?

Imagine having 50 China friends on Facebook (which is not a lot), imagine 10 of them installed the Blog Friends app (which is not a lot) and 10 of their China interested friends did the same thing (trying to make this a simple explanation). Every time you publish a new post to your (China Business or else) blog, a hundred profile-pages (10x10) are updated with your feed! Broadcasting to an audience of like-minded people has never, ever, been easier as far as I'm concerned. Try it! Look me up: my name on Facebook is Michael de Beer, you will recognize me easily by the China-red Puma/Tuna avatar. -> http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=michael+de+beer&n=-1&init=s Whatever you do, do not hesitate to add me as a blog friend. Doing so, your blog will show up on my pages, viewed by many, and my China Business Blog, www.chinasuccessstories.com will show up on yours to return the favor. Forget link exchanging. This will have a way bigger effect in the long run, driving much more high quality traffic to your China site.

China Business SEO / SEM world speed record for Google?

This week China Business Success Stories achieved an important milestone in its effort to become one of the top China Business web sites out there. In what should qualify as an official world speed record, we accomplished one of our short term objectives: reaching the top ten spot in Google, searching for China Business. Big deal? Huge! It means we beat around 700 to 800 million others, leaving but a few to outperform us on this particular search. Forget top 1%. Forget being ranked in the first 1% of the first 1% searching for China Business. If I'm not mistaken, we are now in the first 1%, of the first 1%, of the first 1%, of the first 1%, and then some. Effectively leaving more than 99,999999% other China Business sites behind us!

World record?
Is it a world record? Well if anything, it goes to prove – make sure to discuss this with your online marketer – that within 8 months you can establish amazing results, if you are willing to spend the time and effort (in our case 1FTE of work at least). And it doesn't have to costs half a million dollars, if the web site:

• is on topic with the desired keywords
• actually has to offer benefits to its audience
• is well designed as far as usability is concerned
• content has more than one contributor and offers ways to respond
• is accessible to / optimized for search engine spiders
• gets noticed by some 2.0-type of web sites out there (as long as it is still 2007 when you read this)
  

China Business SEO / SEM stats
Depending on which country you are from (and in what language your OS (Operating System / Windows) is!), you can now find us on: the number Nr. 4 spot on the first Page in Google if you're looking for China Business related sites in Holland/ Dutch language. That is to say, on at least 3 days of the week. Google uses different databases and servers, so half the time you would need to look on the second page of Google's results. As far as I could gather, in the US we are on the third page, in India same thing, etc. Where exactly? Please tell me.

Look for China Business on any search engine of your choice, and let me know where we stand?

Make sure to click our 'organic result' as well, because that is one of many factors Google uses to determine whether our China Business world speed record was good judgment. I think it is. I hope you agree!

PS Any tips, suggestions or comments on how to improve our China Business ranking (or on any given keyword), are highly appreciated. For instance: what on earth do we have to do to get PageRank 7 – in world speed record time obviously – on Google? Is it a matter of waiting, or keep trying?

China crazy!

Two non Chinese words: crazy egg. Much oblige to Johan from www.avblog.nl (excellent Dutch AV review blog). Best thing to happen to my humble China SEM/SEO life in long time. Sounds kinda sorry. Don’t get me wrong though. It’s not because I am in such worse condition, it is just that www.crazyegg.com is in that good shape.

I encourage you to try it. I do not endorse it in the sense that I get paid to do so (wish I was – I’d get rich overnight), let’s be clear on that. It is simply helping my China Business SEO effort in a major way. I’ll make sure to demonstrate how and why in the next post! So go ahead, try it – it is free to try – and if you don’t like it, you must definitively be crazy! Or, as crazyegg.com says: ‘you must be crazy not to try this’. They are right!

Currently I’m running my fourth heat-map-test of my China Business Blog (http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/) and never before – in my ten years of being an Internet stats addict – have I seen such useful feedback; Google Analytics eat your heart out. Whether you are into China, European, American, or global online marketing; I promise you, you are crazy if you do not love crazyegg.com big time!

M

China web 2.0?

Here's PART of a collection of sites and web 2.0 type of communities, blogs and other internet hubs that I use to get the word out on www.chinasuccesstories.com. It is quite a (web 2.0) list, well worth visiting obviously. But does conquering the China Business community really need all this effort, or am I just being impatient? Let's see. You – now that is defining web 2.0 isn't it – be the judge:

• LinkedIn: find me on http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/898/4a7 and our executive editor http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/392/425 and some others linking to www.chinasuccessstories.com
  
• Twitter: I actually like this app. Look me up on http://twitter.com/FishinChina and make sure to press 'follow' to get the short version of updates from www.chinasuccessstories.com
  
• MSN Live Spaces: http://chinabusinesssuccess.spaces.live.com/ (I'm not a big fan of this one)
  
• Facebook: look for Michael De Beer (I will add pictures and high school details soon ok?)
  
• Google(reader): sort of summarizing all the rest on a page at http://www.google.com/reader/shared/03356582014251863994 ("and there's a feed too")
  
• Flickr: the site "that loves me" on http://www.flickr.com/photos/how-to-china/
  
• Del.ico.us: some of my bookmarks http://del.icio.us/MMCDEB
  
• StumbleUpon: this turned out to be great for traffic http://mmmdeman.stumbleupon.com/
  

More China Business promotional sites?

Many! I'll get back on you on communities like http://clubchina.klm.com and http://www.fcclub.com/ sometime later. And on what commenting on blogs does to your ranking. Deal?

Meanwhile I'm making sure that if you can't remember www.chinasuccessstories.com you can find us on:

http://www.myfeedz.com/feed/98728

http://www.bloglines.com/blog/China-business

Among a lot of others.

But let's get back to web 2.0 shall we?

Here is where YOU fit it in. Again more (or less China) web 2.0 sites. Demanding YOUR (2.0!) attention:

Add a positive comment here:

http://www.searchles.com/links/show/chinasuccessstories.com?add_comment=true

Vote for us here:

http://www.bestezines.com/?China-Success-Stories&id=4161

Subscribe to our newsletter here:

http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/free-newsletter-on-how-to-do-business-in-china/

Favorite us on Technorati here:

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/www.chinasuccessstories.com

Digg us here:

http://www.digg.com/business_finance/China_Success_Stories_on_Chinese_Business_and_Commerce

Wiki away on us here:

http://www.chinglish.com/community/show/China+Success+Stories

Check our ranking here:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=chinasuccessstories.com

Recommend us here:

http://topsites.blogflux.com/sitedetails_106368.html

Whatever you do review us here:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.chinasuccessstories.com/

Done yet?

Web 2.0 is starting to cost all of us too much time isn't it?

;-)

M

Del.icio.us in China?

My new friend and much appreciated contributor to China Business Success Stories is Ted Lee. An ambitious, friendly, bright and 100% passionate young guy from Guangzhou, who wanted to bookmark us using del.icio.us only to find out, www.del.ico.us is not accessible in China – or at least from his part of China. Shame because I think these types of sites are getting more and more important for sites like Google to determine whether you are worth a proper ranking. China should reconsider del.icio.us in that respect as far as I'm concerned, would you agree?

M

To send or not to send China newsletter?

Sent out China Business Success Stories newsletter (summary) today. Meantime wanted to check stats. And posted a new China Expert Guest Blog item. That was overdoing it for our server (I think). It shut down. What to do? Ignore: I think it affected less then 20% of our readers, many of whom will read it later again. Or resend? Let's see. I think: do nothing, better luck next week, and after all, Tuesday is the China Business summary of last week, so no harm missing it if you subscribe to our China newsletter to be on top of things (which is every Friday). Agree?

M

Best read Blog in the world is Chinese!

A surprise to me in a way, because it seems China is outperforming already on Internet as well. Best read Blog in the world is Chinese! According to TheGuardian the blog of Chinese actrice and director Xu Jinglei is visited over 100 (!) million (!) times. If you read Chinese, check it out: http://blog.sina.com.cn/xujinglei (I have no clue what it is about, so feel free to let me know what it is she writes about!)

Meanwhile I'm hosting the worst visited blog in the world (it has only been a week, ok?). So I added some widgets today. Please use the del.icio.us one and of course the one provided by Feedburner, which will keep you updated on my Chine Business ventures (for free). Whoever said nothing good in life comes easy?

M